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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
SOIL SURVEY IN PERRY.

From the Marion Standard.
 The Standard prints a special from Washington stating that Congressman Oscar W. Underwood has secured from the Agricultural Department an appro- priation of $1O,OOo for a soil survey of Perry County
 This will be the first survey of the kind the government has made in the State and the report will be very valuable to farmers. It Is well known that Perry has not only a diversity of soil but by practical test 1t has been proven that commercial fertilizers are yalueless on some lands. Less manipulated fertilizers, perhaps, are used in this section. than any other section of the State. While true the lands could and should be made to produce better crops by the use of ferti- lizers the proper formula has not yet been found. Cotton 8, GU, cotton seed meal and sraole fertilizers produce good re- sults but the quantity required makes 1t too costly for general use, and large acreage Is planted that have been In cul- tivation half century on which no feru- lizer whatever is used. Even these lands produce better crops than that in many parts of the hill country where fertilizers are extravagantly used.
 Again the cultivation of cotton for many years has been engaged in almost to the exclusion of all other crops, where the forefathers raised the cereals in pro- fusion. In fact as late as the war be- tween the states this section was known as the grainery of the Confectionery and furnished a large supply for the South ern army, and even the Federals found food stuff in abundance here at the close of the war ia# <HH#
 The truth Is these lands are susceptible to the production of any and everything from the usual American crops even to some fruits of the tropics-easy to i'm prove, lies well and has a sub-soil equal to any in America.
 The Standard cannot ina zine anything MT. Underwood could have done for this people that promises greater good. It Is the very thing needed Let the world know the agricultural advantages of Per ry and land now offered at five and ten dollars per acre will jump at one bound to fifty and one hundred dollars per acre, other advantages considered, and as the Standard has argued on divers occasions this section will become not only the home of the cotton factory but the smoke house and grainery of Ala bama. and will compete with any other section, north, south, east and west, in any and everything conducive to prosperf- ty and on which both man and beast can feed and feast r--a-7 f-+44-f.
 There is not a local citizen more popu- lar with the masses than MT. Underwood. and as he grows in age and experience his worth is more and more felt and ap- preciated He Is broad and learned in statesmanship, conservative in tempera- ment, frugal in his habits and appre- ciates the needs and the demands of the people he represents Knows his State and sees the position she is destined to take in the sisterhood, with an eye to the material advancement rather than political achievements. &
 The Ninth district has never had cause but to praise her able young congress man and the people have learned to love as we'll as honor him. .e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
WHERE TO CARRY A SPEECH

Washington Correspondence New York
 World
 Representative Dalzell was sitting gloomily in corner of the ways and means committee room
 Whats the matter, John?" asked Rep- resentatve Mcclellan. You look as though you were in much distress"
 ''f am," replied Dalzell. T have got to make speech on this Philippines civil government bill, and 1 am as nervous as a cat. I always have stage fright before I make a speech.
 And that reminds me- he continued. Years ago President Mckinley and were waiting at hotel to be driven to d hall where we were both announced to speak MT. Mckinley sat calmly smoking his cigar, while was pacing up and down just as l am now. t 4. tt4l#
 Major I said, don't you ever get nervous before speaking? You are as cool as cucumber, and I'm as nervous as the valedictorian of a young ladies' semin- ary.' rr.t4
 .. My dear Dalzel,,' he replied, the difference between us is this: You have got your speech in your heed and I've got mine in my pocket.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Meador Talks of His Candidacy.

Hon. D. J. Meador of Marengo is at the Metropolitan MT Meador is the president of the Alabama State Senate a position under provision of the new constitution equivalent to lieutenant governor. He is a candidate for this latter position, sub ject to the action of the Democratic pri- maries
 In speaking of his candidacy yesterday Mir. Meador said he was much gratified with assurances of support coming from all sections of Alabama. 'I am merely asking an endorsement of my brief ad- ministration, the same as Governor Jelks | Is doing" said MT. Meador. When by virtue of being president of the Senate MT. Jelks succeeded to the governorship. I was unanimously chosen to succeed him as president of the Senate. | The recent constitutional convention | changed the title of my office to that of lieutenant governor. and at the same time 1t adopted an ordinance in effect naming me as lieutenant governor, for 1t provides that in case of the death of the president governor I shall be his success sor.
 q, therefore, claim that have even stronger rights to ask the people of the State for a second term than has Cover nor Jelks."
 MT Meador said he was not forming combinations with any other candidates for State office. and neither was he tot | ing his own skillet as the people of Ma rengo were with practical unanimity tot ing" it for him.
 MT. Meador was returning from Decatur where he was delegate to the Alabama
 Baptist State Convention. Te stopped | over here to see some friends, but he added that he did not expect to solicit a single vote in Jefferson as he comedies this county to it's noble son, who is his opponent-Dr R. M Cunningham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
REPUBLICAN PARTY IN SOUTH.
Presence of Negroes Not Desired, Ac-
 cording to Federal Official.

Special Dispatch to the Evening Post
 Washington, June A.-United States District Attorney Reese of Montgomery, Ala, who is now in Washington, in speaking of party prospects in that state from a southern Republican point of view, says: l .fi..t 9 srr
 The young Republicans are ambitious to build up clean and vigorous party which shall prove attractive to the white people. In their efforts they do not wish to be handicapped by the presence on the executive committee of negroes, who are not able to register under our new law, and who. could not, therefore, vote The election laws that Alabama has adopted were framed chiefly to keep the negroes from voting; If the ultimate re- suit be not the building up of a Repub- lican party that the voters will eventually prefer to Democracy. am greatly mis- taken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
Cholera in the Philippines.

Among the ills We have accumulated in the Philippines is that of cholera, and the type of the disease is the most malignant perhaps ever known. There are nearly as many deaths as cases, fully 90 per cent of those attacked dying Such a percentage of fatality has rarely if ever, been known.
 The army escapes its ravages through stringent quarantine regula- tions and on account of the fact that they are quartered to great extent in the country and the men are not allowed to visit the towns. But the natives refuse to submit to needful regulations, and the danger of a sweep ing epidemic is thus becoming alarm ing.
 No doubt the natives will be com pelled to obey rules dictated by scien- tific experience. and house-to-house inspection in Manila at least will sure ly become necessary and be adopted. Care against contamination and isola- tion are needed, and the natives will be made to practice these if they will not voluntarily adopt them. The dis ease is readily kept under in modern towns in Western countries, and it can be controlled in the Philippines. The army medical department is doing good work in and about Manila, and the authorities in those islands will doubtless take steps to bring the na- tiyes to the rules of selfpreservation.
 There is of course some danger that the transports will bring the seeds of the disease to this country, particu- larly to San Francisco. No disease is more easily disseminated, but isolation of every case soon stamps it out It does not float in the air as the germs of yellow fever seem to do. It is a disease that calls first for the transfer of the disease germs to the bowels, San Francisco is no doubt well warned, and the soldier transports will no doubt be closely inspected before landing is permitted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

great body of horsemen is still an element of power in war and always will Oe perhaps. It is the galloping horse rather than the arms of it's rider that does the effective work. This was shown, too, that cavalry can be readily massed and concealed in a country that is not treeless and flat.
 The Boers did not possess large booes of troops, and the value of great forts like Metz was not tested in the course of the war Ladysmith was not fully assaulted, and the Boers made no stand at Pretoria. This fea- ture of war remains to be settled when two great and evenly matched nations fall out. At any rate it was not set tied in South Africa.
 The length of the modern range serves to lessen rather than increase the losses in battle. Machine guns are valuable as range finders. They serve to conceal artillery. But the magazine rife in the hands of the expert Boers has lost some of it's terrors. It does create, however, a zone that no one can cross in safety, thus preventing the bringing up in many cases of reserves, ammunition and the like. The Boer war very fully exemplified the uses of .ne modern rife, but generally speak ing it comes out ot the struggle less dreadful than it went into it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 It is curious thing about being fooled at the marriage game but either every body has or wants to be-
 It is mighty hard these days for the lady of the house to be able to furnish references that are satisfactory to the cook -s- .+a.s--
 The first month he is married he thinks everybody is looking at him in envy; af- ter that a horrible suspicion grows on him that it is in pity. ..s.
 Married men who don't care Tor the desserts their wives give them will find 1t stills great deal of anguish to say the doctor doesn't want them to eat sweet things
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
ezl's SONNET TO HELEN,
 Acknowledging Her Photograph.)

By A. Uataday. aAe When I bethink me my allotted days
 Have 'reahced their zenith and mus
 now decline,
 And that mine eyes more fondly seek tn, = rays Of light that lumines my departed
 time 7i I fondly search my lengthening horizon
 For hopes that say I shall not be for fI7F got, +' isa3 Since heaven has given no sweeter ben
 ison s-ni s ara Than that memory may outiive a los. So, when I view the image you've Hbe. s slowed, s g- a4ft aisres eaA Ii Of ,.your sweet self, to newborn ttrns F. a-twin, HHs tfi aA4t~1fa E. as q I fancy that your heart is an abode gg, Where my poor memory may finger in. Saving my wortha,beyond itsatlue aIfar.! : As trifies oft in gems, preserved are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
THE GRASS.

By Emily Dickinson. The grass so little has to dc-- A sphere of simple green. With only butterflies to brood. And bees to entertain, And stir all day to pretty tunes {. The breezes fetch along, And hold the sunshine in It's lap And bow to everything; -ss htA And thread the dews all night, like
 pearls, Hi .if# eHa sH And make itself so fine-- -lss A duchess were too common For such a noticing. i..i-,# And even when 1t dies, to pass Tn odors so divine As lowly spices gone to sleep, Or amulets of pine. r5..- And then to dwell in sovereign barns, And dream the days away The grass so little has to do, I wish I were the hay!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
Patrick,s Father Dead.

Austin, Tex, June 26.-Capt. H. D. Patrick, father of Albert T. Patrick, who is convicted of the murder of Millionaire Rice in New York, died here today of heart failure. MT. Pat rick was 70 years of age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
From the Mobile Herald.

Rebecca Taylor though a sister-in- law to congressman, was dismissed be- cause she "sassed' the administration Birmingham Age Herald.
 It Is getting to be a nice state of af- fairs in this country when woman can't sass" who she pleases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
About Persons.

 J. J. Atkinson of Atlanta is at the Metropolitan.
 S. A. Fawlkes of Selma is registered at the Hillman. Thomas T. Quarles of Eutaw is at the Hilman.
 Judge A. J. Driver is registered at the Metropolitan.
 D. O. Daugherty of Atlanta is stopping at the Hillman.
 Robert c. Patrick of Marion is regis tered at the Metropolitan c. c. P,fgh of Lafayette is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 Arthur L. Ware of Huntsville is at the Morris.
 Rev. H. c. Risner of Roanoke Is at the Metropolitan.
 pr. E. S. Cox of Bangor is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 Gerald Ware of Montgomery Is at the Morris.
 C. S. Ellis of Lafayette is at the Met ropolitaa.
 M. o. Dunlap of Mobile is registered at the Morris
 I J. R. White of Columbiana is at the Metropolitan. w. S. Turner of Columbus, Miss, Is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
From the scottsboro Citizen.

From the Scottsboro Citizen
 The papers say that Tom Garner editor of the Tuscaloosa Gazette recently lost twelve dollars by a robbery. The story sounds a little bit fishy. Tom was never accused of having that much cash on hand at one time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

King OXnard is King Morgan's only rival in this country, and the other countries are not worth the counting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Henry Watterson has two years in which to name his choices for Presi- dent, and he is taking his full time allowance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

The Panama bill should be accepted in order to prevent the Panama ring in the Senate from securing what they covet-no canal at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Wyeth, the Western colt that won the Chicago Derby, is but three years old, and he is worth his weight in gold. He won a purse of 100000 at Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
For eovernor of New York.

Former President Grover Cleveland is not a candidate for another Presidential nomination, but he is evidently going to be more or less active in politics for the next two years" said New York Dem ocrat at the Morris.
 MT. Cleveland wants Dan Lamont to be the next Governor of New York and the next President of the United States. He Is ready to lead a movement in La monts behalf and if the former secre- tary of war sees a show of winning he will probably try for the Governorship.
 Lamont is now vice president of the Northern Pacific Railroad He has been out of politics ever since 1S9l but he is a naturai-born politician, and would find no trouble in getting back in harness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
From the Montgomery Advertiser

The papers are still sympathizing with the editor of The Elba Clipper on his loss of s72. Some of them even intimate that he might have made a first pay ment on a real Panama hat with that money
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Reggie Vanderbilt is to get his de gree at Yale very soon, and then he will be turned loose on a poker-playing world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

The Pope is too old to select a wife for boy of sixteen, and yet that is what Spain expects him to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

The advocates of the Nicaragua route now propose to cram the Panama route down the throats of the no-canal crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
ALABAMA EDITORS.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 Atlanta is to have a new depot. Now when Montgomery gets a hotel and Huntsville an opera house every body will be happy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Hoboes are wanted in the Kansas wheat fields, where they can earn good wages by the sweat of their alleged brOWs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

England has more square miles of territory, but this country has more English-speaking people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

ing lumber manufacturing corporation of Chiffon County Ala, and a most ex- cefent authority. and he doubtless gives the situation thoroughly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Whitelaw Reids original legs now resume business at the old stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Webster Davis and Macrum-how fast we are forgotten in this busy world,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

The moths will now proceed to in- habit discarded coronation clothes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Grover Cleveland will now expend his phrases on the fishes of Buzzard's Bay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
rom the Huntsville Tribune.

From the Huntsville Tribune
 A Kansas editor remarks: When you see three women with breakfast shawls over their heads standing together in a back alley they've heard something.8
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

The summer solstice is still arriving in goou order and ardor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27
From the Mobile Item.

From the Mobile Item.
 As a man gains prominence in these later days he is kept lodging to avoid becoming entangled in some college de- gree that he does not even know the meaning of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

The Democratic party stands fully advised. What it needs now is votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Harmony of the Hill- Cleveland sort is a kind that does not harmonize.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

This is not coronation week, and all the world grfeves thereat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

Those who want no canal are the ones who will go home disappointed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

As real estate agent Governor Taft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

All Panama articles come high, be they hats or canals.
 The one great sin of bachelor is a sin of omission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-27

is not blooming success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-30

clatter of flashing shuttles, breathing i'm
pure air and inhaling sickening odors,
hundreds of thousands of loyal men and
women and children are wearing ther
lives away that we may have the things
which go to supply our innumerable
In front of flaming furnaces heroic and
powerful men, stripped almost to naked
ness. brave the white and whitening heat
striving though wrestling with de-
mons, puddle and pelt and thrust and
manipulate the molten metal which comes
to us in countless useful and lndlspens-
on the great highways of commerce, of
travel and of traffic. vast armies of able
and courageous men eonsecrate their lives
to duty. Night ard day. from year to
through cold and heat and dust and
flood, these men face dangers as great
and as constant as the perils of war and
pour upon the altar Of service mighty
stream of their strong rich blood Thou
sands perish every year, while thousands
more, INITIATED ana Manned are SEM
abroad over the wide wide world to buffet
its cold and cruel currents as best they
may, to live or to die, as fortune may
The appeal which labor makes for jus
tice is irresistible. The cause of the sons
of toll can not be ignored. The dangers
they brave. the laborS they perform, the
burdens they bear the privations they
and the pittance they receive, extort from
US the poets despairing cry, "Oh; Sod,
and blood so cheap
Today the price of every staple COM
modify is arbitrarily fixed at rulnOuS
figure by a criminal conspiracy, a pam
pered banditti called a trust. Not only
the poor, but the entire public is abso-
lutely at the mercy OF this modern mon
ster which with ludicrous conceit and
coarse audacity poses as not only exempt
from popular control and immune from
popular criticism but lays claim to the
gratitude of its victims Well may TheO-
dore Roosevelt say, as he did in his Min
neapolis speech on last Labor day The
vast individual and corporate fortunes,
the vast combinations of capital that
have marked the development of our in
dustrial system, create new conditions
and necessitate a change from the old at
titude of the state. and nation toward
Again I say, truer words were never
spoken.
Once knowledge was monopOlized. Now
it is the common property of all Once
conscience was monopolized; now it is
the right of the individual. Once political
power was monopolized. and over
great portion of the world it is still so;
but here under our free institutions it be-
longs theoretically to all Of the people.
In America the laity is admitted to the
inner circle, or to speak more accurately,
according to our theory of government
there is no inner circle.
AS mystery has ripened into philosophy,
as the miraculous has been found to be
scientific, as the right of the individual
conscience has been established, as the
divine right of kings to rule has been
supplanted by the doctrine that all politi-
cal power is inherent III the people, so the
forces are forming swiftly. yet irresistibly
and silently, as the earth revOlves in its
orbit which shall demand and achieve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-30

for the masses such a wide and funda-
N entail ameliOratiOn as has never yet
been recorded in history We are pressing
uncOnsciously into age which shall be
the flower and the fruitage of all the
past. We are entering the whitening
fields which bear the ripening harvest
which has sprung from the blood Of every
martyr for Justice. From the eloquence
every poet who has sung for righteous
ness from the toll and blood and battle
of every patient patriot, hogh or low; from
the sacrifices of every moral hero who
has striven and suffered for right, from
the brain Of every lofty thinker, from
the reason of every unanSW cred reasoner,
from the philosophers and sages and
saints, and some who have not been
saints, from the ever widening streams of
light illuminating the minds and soften
ing the threats of men, from the gathered
wisdom of the ages, and from that better
view of life in which men shall see that
if they would be happy they must be in
harmony with the eternal of which they
are part. from a realization at last
Of the living God: In that good time
which believe is near at hand, not the
man of physical prOwess simply, not the
conqueror of other men, not the pOliti-
clan or even the statesman shall be as
teemed fittest, but the teacher who can
best interpret the book of nature and con-
vince man that by its immutabie de-
crees the path of happiness is the path
of duty. and by the discharge of duty
alone can he attain to his highest des-
tinV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-30
THE MORAL
David Overmyer's Eloquent Adj
dress to Students.
Delivered Last Night at Went
worth Military Academy.
HE TALKS OF WAR.
Calls Doctrine That War is a
Civilizer a False One.
Shows the Effect of COmbina-
tiOns of Capital.
HE TALKS OF WAR.

Lexington, No, May 3o.-David Over
myer of Topeka delivered the address to
the graduating class at the Wentw
Military academy last night. His sub
ject was 1.-The Moral Lava Plea for
Justice" He said.
War is not my theme. but rather
peace. Having no knowledge of the sci
ence of war, you will not, Of course, ex-
pect me to discuss It. What I shall say,
therefore upon the subject of war will
have reference to its relations to condi-
lions, to its effects upon men and ma
tons. and to the different types of men
who favor war and their morlves ana
reasons therefor.
There are two extreme views of war,
but in this as in other matters, truth
lies between extremes. It is held by some