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The Athletic Association.

Il think the Birmingham Athletic As
ISOLATION will begin to erect its building
before the summer is ended" remarked
an active member yesterday.
Our finances are ir good shape and we
will be able to go ahead without much
delay. I understand that the proposed
Issue Of $4,000 second mortgage bonds
has been subscribed for and that the
subscription books are being called in.
THE site for the clubhouse on Twenti-
eth street adjoining the Southern Club
has been paid for. 1t cost $4,000, and the
money was raised by the sale of 100 life
memberships at $1OO each Inc building,
which will be large, handsome and fitted
up in modern style, will cost $4,000. First
mortgage bonds to the extent of $4,000
will be in demand by the big. financial
institutions. 1t may be that $4,000 will be
iaised by the sale of fifty additional life
memberships. This would be applied to
the building fund and would be used to
reduce the first mortgage to $4,000. II
this is done the first mortgage bonds
could be placed at a lower rate of inter
est than II the amount were $4,000, which
would result In a considerable saving.
THE Birmii CHAM Athletic Association
has a membership of about 400. including
life members"
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American and European.

The fact that the Hillman. which has
been conducted on both the American
and European plans. will be run only
on the latter plan during the months of
July August and September, led i hotel
man of experience and wide travel to
say: THE so-called American plan is
generally Improbable IN high-priced ho-
tells, that is. In hotels with rates from
3.5c or 81 up, and is being discontinued
In sll large cities. Among the first-class
hotels OF Chicago. the Sherman is the
only one that holds on to the old Amer
lean system. And If this American plan
does not pay we'll in New York and Chi
cago, 1t is even more difficult to make
it pay in cities the size of Birmingham.
The advantage that the Chicago and New
York hosteres have is in pe.ng able to
sell what is left on the table by the
guests to cheap eating houses. In Birm-
ingham that cannot be done. What the
guests leave here goes into the waste
barrel
Some persons sit down to table in
an American plan dinjng-room and order
everything on the bill of fare. They
haven't appetite enough to eat every
thing, but they do 1t because they are
green or because they imagine they will
not get the worth of their money unless
they try everything in sight. On the
other hand, persons who are used to fine
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wincheIps interest in Chickens.

"Do you know that Ben Winchell of the
Frisco system is one of the best fellows in
the world to recognize business advan-
tages and boom them7" said a traveller
yesterday
"A few years ago he was general traffic
manager of the Colorado and Southern
Railway and was located at Denver. He
became a member of the Chamber of
Commerce and was appointed chairman
of the committee on industries. When he
made q report a few months later 1t was
a surprise Instead of sticking close to
railroad matters he took up the poultry
industry and showed by statistics that IL
Colorado people would turn their attention
partially to raising chickens they would
make almost as much out of 1t as from
their gold mines.
LAS Winchell was as popular with the
newspaper men there as he is everywhere
the report was very widely circulated in
the press and cartoons appeared showing
the railroad man as an admirer of the
chicken. He didn't stop at that, but re-
ported on other lines of development and
showed the way the various lines of work
should be approached. All of which goes
to show that he is a good all round man
as we'll as an able railroad official and
will try to do good for any community in
which he has any interest"
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the subject OF an address delivered by
Miss Florence Stephenson, principal Of
the Home Industrial School. Asheville.
N. C.
There was no afternoon session, tho
time being given to departmental work.
At o'clock tonight the convention re-
assembled, DR.. Raorke, professor of ped
agcgy in the Kentucky State College at
Lexington, being the first speaker down
on the programme. his subject being.
The Larger View of Education" The
paper was exhaustive and reviewed from
scientific standpoint the relations of
the whole people to the teachers: the re-
iations of the teacher to the pupil and
the duties of each. He spoke for an hour
In behalf of higher education and the
kingdom Of God infused in the school
life OF children. He spoke of the encour-
aging outlook for education as shown by
recent large endowments of schools of
research and learning and urged the
southern educators to persist and perse-
we're in the good work which he believed
before long would be crowned with sue
cess
Following Raorke, the Rev. Lyman
Hall, president of the Georgia School of
Technology delivered a lecture, illustrate
ed with stereoptican views. his subject
being chronological education in the
Georgia school of technology
At the conclusion of Mr.. Halls adj
dress 1t was announced that DR.. s. A.
Alderman president of Tulane Unver-
sity of New Orleans, who was on the
programme for address on Certain
practical duties of the educated Citizen
was not present and after formal an
nouncements for tomorrow's programme
made by the president and the local
committee, the convention adjourned un-
til tomorrow.
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"HuMAN BOMB" WILL DIE.
Explosion Came at Wrong Time and
Death Will Result.

Louisville, July 2.-In the presence of
five thousand spectators witnessing an
open air performance of the Last Days
of Pompeii' on the commons opposite
Churchill Downs tonight, James Dull,
known as the human bomb" received
injuries, which probably will result in his
death.
1t is Duils part of the performance to
be hurled high in the air by bomb which
explodes releasing parachute by which
the performer returns to earth Tonight
the bomb was shot into the air as usual.
but when 1t reached its great height, it
failed to explode and started to the earth
with the victim unable to release him.
self AS the missile was within 100 feet
of the ground 1t suddenly exploded and
to the horror of the spectators Dull was
dashed to the earth and the perform
ance brought to close. When the vic
tim was picked up 1t was found that his
back was broken. He was taken to the
city hospital
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Alabama a Drv State.

The dryest State in the union is the
river State. Texas was the dryest
State, but rainfall lasting three days
and aggregating three inches, has rem
dered that State very moist. And SO
it has been in Arkansas and Oklahoma,
and to great extent in Louisiana. The
Atlantic States have also had copious
rains, but the two Gulf States, Missis-
sippi and Alabama, were not favored
by the great wet wave that deluged the
Atlantic States, nor by the Gulf storm
that saved the Mississippi crops.
The gentle and copiDus rains went by
us on either side, and the two States
stand today unrelieved except in oc-
casional spots where local showers
have fallen.
The New Orleans Times-Demecrat
reports the prospect in Alabama as
.1ess roseate by far" and says Mis-
sissippi has distinctly gone backward,
the drouth having stunted the plant"
The New York Journal of Commerce
has also received a large number of
reports, 1850 in number, and it puts
the deterioration in June in Alabama
at SIS points, and in Mississippi at %
points.
The condition of the crop on July
/ as a whole is put by the Journal of
Commerce at S6.5, as against n one
year ago. The crop Is therefore 10
points better off than it was one year
ago, and it is still regarded as in prom
Using condition. II Alabama and Mis-
sissippi were not drouthy the crop sit
uation would be regarded as very
promising, for these two States pre-
sent about the only drawbacks. They
are the two dry States of the union at
the present time. In nue. the greater
I.arts OF tho two States there has not
leon general AMI drenching rain in
two months, ana those who know what
the winds and sun can do in this lati-
tude will appreciate the general con-
dition of the two States.
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these primaries candidates for all State
offices shall be voted for. 3. That at
these primaries there shall also be vote
For Primary and Against Primary"
4That the vote for candidates for State
offices and the vote for and against a
primary shall be returned to the chair
man Of the executive committee to be by
him delivered to the permanent chairman
Of the convention. 5. That the convention
shall first count the votes for and against
a primary and If the vote for a primary
Is greater than the vote against pri-
mary. the convention shall then count
the votes for candidates for State offices,
and announce the nomination of those
who have received a plurality of the votes;
but If the vote against primary Is great
er than the vote for a primary. the con-
vention shall proceed to nominate candi-
dates for State offices as usual
This plan has been clearly thought
out, but it overlooks the creation Of
new State Committee This, however,
could be safely handed over to a con-
vention coming directly from the peo-
pie. In fact. the dread of further IN
reference with the people by the al
legged bosses is passed in this State,
as it has been in the States west, south
and east of us.
And all reflections upon the thirty
six excellent Democrats who are mem
bers of the State Committee are wholly
uncalled for. There is to be a State
primary, and we should to a man aid
to the utmost the State Committee in
finding satisfactory transfer of politi-
cal power to the people, as Mr.. Satter-
field has done. His plan would wrench
at the outset our methods less than
any that has been presented, and yet
1t would satisfy the rank and file. I'm
der his plan it matters little what the
bases of apportionment of delegates
be, and 1t may as well in that case be
based on population.
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hotels order intelligently. that Is to say,
what their appetite calls for.
"A person who known how 10 order
finds The a Ia carte dining room less
expensive and more satisfactory In every
respect than the table d'hote room. Meals
prepared as special orders are certainly
fresh. IN the American plan room the
meals are fresh, of course, when the
neal time begins, but no amount Of mod
ern ingenuity in kitchen devices will en-
able hotels to make meals taste quite as
good two hours after they are cooked as
VIXEN they are served on time"
"Speaking of the difference between the
way some men order when they pay for
everything on the menu card and when
they pay only for what is prepared for
them. l remember travelling In a party
in which one of the members was blessed
with a large appetite and large MEANS
but cursed, so to say, with close Inst.
Whenever we struck table d'hote hotel
this man was powerfully hungry and or
dered something of everything on the bill
of fare, and he cleared the dishes. But
when we took meal at a cafe this
stingy fellow was always indisposed and
ordered accordingly. And what he or
dered rarely footed up over IS or 40 cents.
It takes all sorts of people to make
world; but coming back to tho question
of the American plan, it will soon go out
of fashion almost altogether IN Southern
cities, just as It has gone out in the
North and East"
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The COST OF A pEeurANrE.

From the Chicago Tribune.
A court in New York has increased the
allowance of a minor heiress from $4,000
to $4,000 year. The mother of the young
lady claimed that the former sum was in
sufficient to maintain her daughter in the
manner of living to which she was accus-
toned and to which she was entitled by
her station in life. Her frocks alone cost
$500 a year and would eventually cost
more
A number of Chicago women have ex-
pressed their horror at such extravaganza.
Some say a debutante can be dressed on
$500 a year. while others place the amount
at $1,000. Still another is of the opinion
that there is a set in Chicago In which
girl must spend $500 year on clothes If
she would not be disagreeably conspicu-
Gus among her fellows. They all agree
that the cost OF girls is increasing. 1t
would be interesting to know also II the
cost of boys is also on the increase and
If the profit is proportionate to the in
creased investment
There will be some people who will be
inclined to illuminate against the judge
who lent himself to such extravaganza.
Some of the matrons of Chicago limited
that social order was endangered by the
increasing cost of living for debutantes
The young lady In question Is coheiress
with her mother to considerable property.
The mother doubtless felt that 1t would
only be fair for the girl to bear her share
of the common expenses. If the husband
and father had been alive he would have
paid for the trips to Europe, the teachers
of music languages and the dance; for
the food and drink and carriages. The
young lady's education and clothes proba-
bly, form only small part of her expendi-
ture The trips and the houses and SER
wants are what cost. 1t seems reasonable
enough that she should spend the income
she inherited from her latner in paying
her share of the household expenses and
the price of steamer and railroad tickets.
Her best friend may live on $4,000 a year
and her dearest enemy may spend $4,000.
The cost of the young lady's living must
be gagged by the income which her IA
Their spent and that which he left his
wife. She is lucky young lady to have
$4,000 to spend. 1t is to be hoped she re-
Allies the responsibilities of wealth. but,
in any event. it seems that the judge. who
probably has daughters himself, decided
discreetly in permitting her to Spend her
own money.
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culIman County.

"A great many people have an idea that
Cullman County is inhabited mostly by
Germans. said u prominent politician
who is familiar with every beat in Ala
bama, hut the fact is Germans are
found only In considerable numbers with
in q radius Of about two miles of the
toy Of Cullman.
out of a population or eighteen or
nineteen thousand, not more thar three
or four thousand are of Teutonic stock.
The rest of the population is made up
largely Of AlabamiaDs and Georgians.
Soon after Cullman County was estab-
lished several Thousand Confederate vet
Grams settled there and bought little
farms for so cents an acre, and on credit
at that. From time to time other south
ern farmers joined the pioneer colonies,
and today Cullman is the most thickly
populated of any Of the agricultural
counties of he state. The f1nest cotton
in Alabama is raised in Culiman on the
top of Sand Mountain, and the farm
lands arc now worth from SIS to 500 an
acre. In the development OF that county
we have an object lesson in thrift 1t just
shows what industry will accomplish.
The Germans form highly desirable ele-
ment in The population Of Cullman. They
are law abiding, hard working and frugal
and are adding always to the wealth of
the state. They are raturai-born truck
ers, AMI when it comes to the cultivation
of tho strictly agricultural crops, the
southerner to the manner born hasn't
his equal. This combination is sure to
make Cullman one OF the richest coun-
ties in the south"
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Civil Government in the Philippines

Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and
the administration has decided, it is
said. to issue a royal proclamation
after the royal manner, granting to our
Philippine dependencies or colonies a
certain amount of civil government.
Amnesty is also to be granted to all
political prisoners, including the es-
teemed Aguinaldo. This also smacks
of royalty. This is to be done by Sec
rotary of War Root, who has an office
in Washington, D. C.
Much noise will be made on the
stump this fall to the effect that mill
tary rule has ceased In the Philippines,
but civil rule by means of carpetbag-
gers from the other side of the globe
is not more promising or Democratic
than military rule, especially when
General Chaffee and his soldiers stand
just behind the new civil machine.
The new civil machine is strictly
autocratic and foreign, at least until
a census can be taken and peace and
good order have prevailed two years.
These conditions, when translated into
plain English, simply mean never. In
the meanwhile there will be no Legis-
lature. and particularly no House
elected by the natives, and the carpet
baggers will be in full control, and
matters and things will be exploited in
the accustomed manner.
Congress, too, left the coinage ques-
ton out of the Philippine bill. The
House wanted a gold standard, and
the Senate a silver standard. No stand
ard at all was agreed upon, and pre-
Eumably the machine on the spot will
adopt whatever the spectators de-
sire. The entire Philippine bill looks
more to the exploiting of the islands
than to anything else. Bonds are
freely authorized, and no doubt the
little brown people will soon appear
well loaded with those adjuncts OF
arpetbaggerism.
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Tariff Reform and CONGRESS.

The session just ended praised itself
freely, but after all it passed but eight
general bills, namely, an isthmian ca
nal bill. a Philippine tariff BILL a Phil
ippine civil government bill, an irriga-
tion bill, a bill taxing oleomargarine
heavily, permanent census office bill,
bill repeating war taxes, and a
Chinese exclusion bill. This is very
good showing, but it by no means
justifies an unusual amount of crow
ing by Republicans even on the stump
Let us see what it did not pass. The
Cuban reciprocity bill, the Babcock low
tariff bill, the anti-anarchy bill, the
Foster currency bill, the army re-
organization bill, the revenue cutter
service bill, the antitrust bills, the bill
defining conspiracies and injunctions,
the bill admitting three territories, the
pure food bill, the immigration bill,
the ship subsidy bill, the bill creating
department Of commerce, the popu-
lar election of Senators bill, the frac-
tional currency bill--all these were
either lodged, pigeon-holed or de-
feated
In this list Of bills are many propo-
sitions that President Roosevelt had
recommended in his annual message.
His suggestions were disregarded as
to army reorganization, anarchy, the
trusts immigration, Cuban reciprocity,
ship aid, the militia, the civil service,
department of commerce, and the
reorganization Of the consular service.
None of these recommendation were
carried into law. Public sentiment
sustains the President as a rule in all
the recommendations he made, and yet
Congress, Republican though it be in
both branches, refused to sustain him.
A parallel case can scarcely be found,
and it doubtless means that the party
bosses in Congress do not propose to
accept Mr.. Roosevelt as the party
leader. But these bosses have hurt
themselves much more than they have
hurt the President. 1t is no secret
that President Roosevelt is at heart
in favor of tariff reform, and a general
tariff revision by the Fifty-eighth Con-
gress may be said to be inevitable. If
the House is Democratic it will pass
a tariff reform bill, and If the Senate
rejects it, the question in all its
breadth and depth will go to the peo-
pie in 1904.
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TO BUILD WARsHIPs.
Navy Department Has Its Plans Prac.
ticalIy complete to Garry Out Law.

Washington, July 2-Tne navy depart
ment has its plans practically complete
for the four big warships Just author
lied by the new naval law, and to bear
the names of Louisiana, Connecticut,
Tennessee and Washington.
The distinctive features of the new
ships are the strength and the arrange
ment of their batteries, and a greater
thickness in armor. The battleships are
to have a displacement of 5000 tons, and
will be built for speed Of IS knots. Their
batteries will consist of four Pinch
guns, eight S-inch guns, twelve Finch and
twenty 3-inoh guns. and a large number
CT smaller weapons scattered over the
ship.
The armored cruisers are to have a
displacement of IA 500 tons and a speed
CT % knots. Their batteries will consist
of four 10-inch guns three 16-inch and
twenty 3-inch guns, and a large number
of smaller ones.
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KENTUCKY MINE. RS FIRM.
VIII Not Sanction the Calling of a
Sympathetic Strike.

Louisville. July 2-The Courier-Journai
tomorrow will nay
1.-The United Mine Workers of Ken
lucky will not sanction the calling of a
sympathetic strike. Reliable information
was obtained yesterday that a secret
vote had been taken on the matter, with
the result that the men declared that
they must regard their contracts with
the operators. Word of the result has
been sent to the Illinois miners, who are
understood to have taken the same stand.
1t should be remembered that the West
ern Kentucky Operators Association and
many of the operators have an agree
ment with the union which fixes a reg
ular scale of wages, and which goes into
effect On April l and Is renewed yearly.
This agreement is drawn jointly and
signed by the operators and likewise by
the United Mine Workers officials
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His Summer Work.

Mr. E. G. Powell, voice teacher at the
Church of the Advent, left on Tuesday
for the east and will be gone until Sep
TENDER He will spend the greater part of
July and August In Marthas Vineyard.
where his old teacher, Fred Bristol, has
his summer home. He will have an ex-
cellent opportunity of doing special study
himself of it. Mr.. Powell is a progress
i've musician and is always quick to adopt
the newest approved methods in musical
pedagogy.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
The Retail Trade.

THE retail trade Of Birmingham was
quite brisk IN June but 1t is quiet now,
said one Of the largest and most success
full merchants Of First avenue last night.
My business has not been affected by
the suspension Ct work at the mines, but
of course It will be little later on. Bush
ness always flags as the first Of July
approaches and 1t has always been light
pending a consideration of the miners
Wage scale. My sales today and Tuesday
were about the same as they were on the
corresponding DAYS of last year.
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MILK BY MACHINE.

From the London Express.
In the colonies cows are often MIXED by
machinery. The practice is spreading and
in a little while the milkmaid will be no
more. The contrivance consists of can
with an air pump attachment.
1t has suggested this revision OF the old
rhyme:
Where are you going, my pretty maid?"
I'm going a-milking. SIR she said.
May I go with you, my pretty maid?'
You may work the air pump, sir" she
said
do you milk with an air pump, my pref
ty maid?'
by partial vacuum, sir" she said.
Then I'll not join you, my pretty maid"
Nobody axed you, SIR" she said
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Texan Kills Wife and Self While q
Funeral Takes Place.

Fort Worth, Tex, July 2. = A double
tragedy occurred at Bowie. county seat
of Montague county, this afternoon. as a
result of which J. T. Kilgore and wife are
both dead.
Kilgore shot his wife in the rear of
their dwelling at the time that the flu
neral of their family physician, DR.. d. C.
Mitchell, was going on across the street.
The shots called crowd to the scene
and the body of the woman was found
lying between two bales of cotton with
husband was lying between a couple of
boxes. He had shot himself in the mouth.
No cause can be assigned for the
double killing.
Mr.. Kilgore was formerly chief of po-
lice of Chattanooga Tenn.