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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
No Work at the Mines.

Neither the miners nor the opera
tors seem to have stopped to consider
the effect of their joint action in re-
spect to the public who buy coal. They
are killing the goose that lays the
golden eggs, and they have not even
asked themselves as to their moral
right to do this.
They will, if the stoppage or strike
call it what you will be prolonged,
check the splendid growth of this
town and district. Once the wheels OF
progress are reversed or even stilled
| it is not easy to start them again and
regain the momentum of the past
three years. The loss on this account
will be heavy indeed If the present
ndeadlock is long maintained.
Then there are the individual and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01

Romance has woven a charm about the
names of Dick Turpin. Captain Hawk.
Paul Clifford. Rob Roy, and many other
bandits Of the old world, who live In
sorg and story. They are pictured a.
worthy OF the poets pen and minstreI's
lay. In roseate colors they are repre-
scented wildly as being brave. generous.
and magnanimous; as ever ready to de-
feLd the weak and confront the strong;
but as they held no law In awe, they
persisted by the law" They were angels
of heavenly light In comparison with the
train robbers Of recent years, like Jesse
James, RUDE Burroughs. and those Of
that ilix
The newspapers generally throughout
the Countrywide influential, fearless and
aggressive leaders Of public thought
have given earnest consideration of this
important subject with the result that
there is today everywhere throughout our
borders, from Maine to California, from
ocean to ocean. from the Great Lakes OF
the north to the Gulf of Mexico. an al
most universal demand that Congress
shall Immediately adopt some adequate
measure of relief Our leading southern
newspapers with scarcely an exception.
are urging Congress to take prompt ac-
ton and to confer on the federal courts
with the state tribunals, TO apprehend.
try and punish these desperadoes and
cutthroats.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01

viii operate between New Orleans and
Tuscaloosa. Ala.
The OFFICERS Of the concern are ]. S.
Riegel. president: Ex-Governor Waller,
treasurer: J. Harrison Wagner. secre-
tary. Kelly Bros. are said to own one
half OF the stock but hold no offices.
The company holds an option on the
Lake Borgne canal, which It is intended
to purchase for about s5OO,oOO. The COM
pany will not only handle ccal. but also
timber. cotton and other products that
pass between the two states These
cargoes will be transferred at New Or
leans to the steamboat lines. The output
of the Tidewater mines has been 1000
tons a month. It is intended to increase
this to 1000 tons day and several other
mines will be opened. It is probable, too,
Mr.. vaux says. that the company will
handle steel for the Central Furnace
Company, which is now being construct
ed on the Warrior river. just below Tide
water.
The company is now having 500 barges
constructed. A large contract has just
been closed for the regular transportation
Of lumber to New Orleans from the Ala
bama district
Beside the main office, which will be
located here, the Alabama Barge Com
pany will have an office also in Tusca-
Iofsa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
Chance in the First National

1t is deeply regretted in Birming-
ham that President N. E. Barker of
Tie First National Bank has seen fit 70
resign his position as president of the
leading bank of Birmingham to ac-
cept the appointment as vice presi-
dent of the Continental National
Bank of CA.cago. Mr.. Barker has
been of valuable service to the fnan-
cial and commercial interests of Bir-
mingham. He is a trained banking man
of much ability and of excellent judg
ment. He will undoubtedly make
great success in Chicago as he has
in Birmingham.
w. P. G. Harding, who succeeds
to the presidency of the First National
Bank of Birmingham, is one of the
ablest fnanciers in the south. He
has been trained from boyhood in the
banking business. A man of extern
sive education, cool judgment and
wonderful executive ability, he is a
worthy successor to the retiring pres
ident. Witt Mr. Harding as president
and Mr. John H. Barr, who has here
tofore been cashier of the First Ma
tional, as vice president, and Mr.. Webb
w. Crawford, who has been assistant
cashier, as cashier, the bank will con-
tinue as formerly. Indeed, there Is
practically no change in the First Ma
tional, because the men who have
been trained for years under Mr. Bar
ker are each advanced one Number
and the bank will continue as in for
mer days, one of the great financial in
situations of the south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
ne ONLY DAILY newspaper IN AlAsAaa
Up to the State Committee.

When the thirty-six State commit
teemen meet in Montgomery on July
10, the Age-Herald assumes they will
order a State primary. and If they or.
der one of the Georgia sort, involving
a convention, they will at once be con-
fronted by the necessity of an ap-
portionment of delegates. There are
at least four plans open to them, as
follows:
l. The population OF 1890 as a basis.
2. The trebling or quadrupling of
the lower house of the legislature, as
is done In Georgia.
8. The registration lists, which will
be practically complete on August 1.
4. The votes cast in the primary It.
self, for under the Georgia law the del
egates are not balloted for, but they
are chosen by the successful candi-
dates a week or two later-a delegate,
say, to every $50 votes cast.
Upon the nature of the apportion-
ment will depend the acceptability Of
the Georgia plan, which is a combina-
ton of direct action and convention.
The Age-Herald is well aware that
the Georgia plan is not ideal-that it
Is not what the idealists have been
hoping for. But what it lacks in
ideality it may make up in harmony
and In Cancellation all around. This
is the time for concessions and for
getting together. The one live ques-
ton before the State committee is
this: What plan will best bring the
party together? A solid party is
much needed while steps are being
AIKEN to put the new constitution into
full operation, and IL the State com
mittee can draw an apportionment plan
that will do this, they will deserve
and assuredly will receive the thanks
of all intelligent and patriotic Demo
Gratis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
Rains In Texas.

A Gulf storm has swept over Texas
and the cotton crop of that great State
has been rescued from serious deter
ioration, and failure OF the crop is
rendered well nigh impossible. The
size of the crop is. of course, problem
atical, and will remain in that con-
dition until the last bale is packed, but
there are now good grounds for antici-
pating liberal crop.
Texas grows nearly third of the
entire crop of the country, and heavy
rains have fallen In every cotton
growing county The moisture did not
come In the form of thunder showers,
but as a general rain lasting two or
three days. Many counties had much
more than they needed. These rains
will not rescue from loss the corn crop
of the State, which had become i'm
paired beyond the possibility of recov-
cry, but they did lift the cotton plants
our of trouble, and good crop of cot.
IN in Texas is now a reasonable ex-
pectation.
Stocks of cotton will be very small
at the close of the present cotton year
on August 81. and good crop will be
needed. A crop of 100000 bales
will be none too much. and such a
crop will not create prices below the
cost of production, or even near it..
The world needs large American
crop and will pay fair price for it.
1t is far too early to say what the
crop will be, but reasonable guest
as conditions stand would be eleven
million bales. or about 100000 more
bales than the output of the present
crop will prove to be. If possible
drawbacks should reduce the new crop
to the figures of the present crop,
high prices would be inevitable, for
stocks are low and the demands of a
naked world strong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
The STATE PRIMARY.
From the Huntsville Herald.

From the Huntsville Herald.
There is some discussion now as to the
kind of primary we will have in the
event one is called by the committee. If
the object of the committee is to call
a primary that will be satisfactory to
the people they won't have any trouble
settling the details. All the people want
is a primary IN which they can vote for
the candidate of their choice and have
their votes counted and the strongest
candidate for each office to get the nom
ination. A primary to attain this result
can be very easily provided for. But If
any politicians are planning to throw out
bait in the shape of so-called pri-
mary which has the look of being ION
the square, but hedged about with such
qualifications and restrictions that the
choice of candidates will under any cir
cumstances be thrown on a convention
they have tackled difficult job.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01

corporate losers ranging from the rail-
road systems to the humblest toiler in
the district. Everyone will suffer loss
and not one is an offender either in
the eyes Of the miners 0 rof the opera
tors. The general public have moral
and equitable rights in such con-
tention as the present one, and yet
neither Of the active sides to It seem
to have considered the public at all
At any rate the published speeches
and proceedings show no such regard.
The Age-Herald insists that some
consideration be shown the general
public in this matter. The breaking
off of the negotiations without further
recourse to peaceable procedure
goes to show that the innocent third
party is ignored. The miners and op-
orators. one or both, cannot afford to
cripple and injure and perhaps wreck
their own customers. This is the
poorest of policies, and yet this is just
what the active participants are pre-
pairing to do. This should not be. Ne
gotiations should be resumed on some
basis. Any basis will answer that
promises a peaceful settlement of the
trouble, and the party that first opens
the way to a settlement is the party
that will win support and sympathy
from the consumers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
The heading Room Question.

Few questions are of more interest to
educators and public spirited citizens than
that concerning public libraries and read
Ing rooms. especially reading rooms for
boys. The last number of the Book
Worm, edited by Mr.. G. C. Earle, contains
this discussion.
THE Bookworm," interested In books,
is consequently interested in the twin
thought-reading rooms. and particularly
a reading room for boys.
A movement to utilize one of the rooms
in the new city hall as place where the
boys of the street may go to read has the
earnest support of Judge Feagin. DR..
Phillips, Mrs. Johnston and others.
There is a peculiar significance in the
support of the plan by a triumvirate
whose life work is in education or re-
claiming the youth.
Knowing the needs of the young as do
Judge Feagin, DIR. Phillips and Mrs.
Johnston, there is no such thing as turn
ing deaf ear to their plea as II to mere
theorists fancies; yet the movement
meets with encouragement from some OF
the gentlemen whose offices are in the
building. They say the boys would be
noisy, mark on the wall. and they must
not desecrate the hallowed chambers by
their presence.
Surely such sentiments are centuries
behind the times. VIII the city fathers
deny the lads the right to enter decorous-
~ the city hall by the way of Nineteenth
street? Is the only welcomed entrance
for the Arab by the way of Third alley
and the bridge of sighs?l
Every lad that gees into the city hall
via Austin's alley costs the city IS; and
where is the rule which will measure the
cumulative evil?
Give the boys a reading room in the
city hall; it will make them reverent OF
law and order, instill in them civil pride
and lay a great moral foundation for Bir-
mingham to le
AS 1t is, the latchstring hangs on tho
outside of the wrong door.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
nEAvY RAIN IN ARKANSAS.
Farmers Who Were Elated Are Now
Greatly Detected.

Hot Springs. Ark. June so-one Of the
heayicst rain st,,rms IN this section has
prevei lied here during tho past forty-eight
hnurs. Qdachita riysr bottom farms in
this and adjoining conntiss have been
completely inundated AID in many in
stances ruined. Farms IN the upland
country have been injuied slightly.
Garland and Saline County farmers.
who two weeks ago were elated over their
crop prospects, are much detected over
the situation. The Cue cl,iia river IL hign-
or than 1t has been for . IL inter OF years
and all the mountain streams are swoi-
len lie, ord their banks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
Achievements Of the Century.

II was much interested In reading In
The Age-Herald list of the sixteen
great achievements of the nineteenth
had recently made up" said lawyer
last night, land 1 suppose the majority
of educated men and women will agree
that the list has been wisely selected.
at would be interesting. 1 think. If
high school seniors and graduates would
write from his or her own knowledge a
short paper on these achievements.
School studies have made the older pupils
familiar with most of the subjects, and
1t would be improving for them to dis
cuss these topics on paper without look
ing up the encyclopedias for fresh in
formation.
"Beethoven's ninth symphony would
stump all of them. perhaps, because they
have had no opportunity of hearing or
studying it. And there is where the Ger
mans have an advantage over the English
and the Americans, No one Is considered
educate ed or half educated In Germany
unless one is able to read music and ap-
preciate the master composers. In Ger
many music is just as much part of a
common school education as arithmetic,
algebra, history. or natural philosophy
Beethoven's choral symphony-the ninth
is to music what Hamlet is to literature.
No high school graduate can be entirely
Ignorant of Hamlet and no high school
graduate should be entirely ignorant of
Beethoven's subliment work. But allow
ances must be made. 1t Is only within
the past few years that music In its
elemental form has been made a part of
the public school curriculum. Progress
is being made and within the next TWEEN
ty-f1ve years Beethoven. as well as the
lighter composers, will be known to the
average young man and young woman.
Omitting the ninth symphony the list can
be inteligently discussed by the high
school students and I hope that DR..
Phillips or Principal Cunningham will see
fit to draw them out on fifteen great
achievements"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
NOT A PoP-eUN WAR.

From the Washington Times.
A clerk in the Pension Office, who halls
from the State of Alabama, tells a good
story on certain politician. who -four
ished in the State during the Civil War
ana the period imr edlately following
those troublous times.
When the tocsn of war first sounded
through the Southland no more rabid
fire-eater could be found from the Po-
tomac to the Rio Grande than this par
ticular politician. He raved and charged
about the country, making speeches to
fire the breasts of the boys, and urging
them to join the military companies then
forming In every county. In his argu-
ment he used to say:
Gentlemen, this war is going to be
mere chiids play. Those Yankees are
not going to fight worth a cent. The
fact. is gentlemen, we can whip them
with pop-guns."
The armies of the Confederacy moved
Northward, and the politician, feeling
that his health had been seriously i'm
paired by reason of his strenuous efforts
toward firing the hearts of his neighbors
with patriotism, sought the genial eli
mate of Nassau to recuperate. Not
being improved in health during the next
four years, he made his visit prolonged
one. However, the news of Appomattox
caused a speedy recovery, and he took
the first boat home Arriving at his ma
tive town, he cast his eyes around the
political horizon and allied himself with
the ascendent party.
Shortly after this he was making
stump speeches in the interest of his
newly-adopted political faith and was
most vehement in his denunciation of the
hair-brained policy that had plunged the
South into hopeless war. Upon one of
these occasions he was interrupted by a
man in the audience who recalled to him
his fervid speech in advocacy of war,
and his assertion that the armies of the
North could be put to route with pop
guns; also alluding to the absence of the
politician from the conflict. Brstling up
he at once hurled back at the man who
had dared to interrupt him this answer:
Yes, sab. l did say we could whip
the Yankees with pop-guns, and 1 say
1t yet; but, sab, after l made that speech
| found out it was not going to be a
pop-gun wah. As l could not have the
choosing of weapons, sab, / did not pro-
pose to enter the combat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01

Washington, June 30.-Acting Secretary
of State Hill was in consultation with the
President for some time today regarding
the rival asphalt claims in Venezuela.
AS result 1t may be stated that the
President has decided to protect the pres
ent occupants of the asphalt property,
the National Asphalt Company, from dis
possession until the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Venezuela has been rem
dered and reviewed by the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
RETURN TO WORK.
Pump Men and Engineers in Plttsburg
Go Back.

Pittsburg, June 30.-All the striking en-
gineers and pump men in this city, about
thirty-five In number, reported for duty
today. The majority of them were given
employment, but number of them were
stood aside until the imported men now
at work could be provided for In other
directions. The firemen refused to join
the movement This action, it was said
was determined upon a meeting held
Saturday night.
In this district there are about forty
engineers and pump runners still out
but 1t is believed that before the end Of
the week. they will be at work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
BARGE LINE TO NEW ORLEANS.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
The Alabama Barge Company which
was recently organized with capital
of 100000. will open offices here in a
very short time and will make New Or
leans the headquarters for operations in
this section.
Mr.. James K. vaux of Tuscaloosa, who
arrived in the city yesterday, said 1t
was not likely that active work would
begin before fall. but that the prelimin-
airy arrangements are now under way.
John Kelly and w. J. Kelly, who have
been operating the Tidewater Coal Com
pany, are at the head of the new enter
prise. The company, as stated at the
time in a special dispatch to the Picayune
was organized in New Haven. Con. and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
! the New York Press

From the New York Press.
The more times man measures a
woman's logic the shorter it gets.
The quarrelsome man is mad with you
If you quarrel with him, but madden IL
you won't.
One reason a woman likes to go home
to visit her family is so she can speak of
her chore boy as her butler or coachman.
The good thing about women is that
they can do SO many things without
knowing how, while the men of the fam
lily know how but can't.
Pretty girls wear stockings when they
go in swimming-not because they are
afraid of getting sunburn on their legs,
but of showing corns.
When a man Is getting in seven hours
of sound, sweet sleep every night is the
time wnen his wife begins to worry for
fear he ought to be getting seven and a
half
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
The Weather.

Most people who complain of hot
weather do so from habit" said a Vir-
Birmingham for two weeks and have
not suffered at all from the heat
Il have not watched the thermometer,
but l would say the temperature here
is no higher than 1t is in northern cities,
If as high. The days, are not excessively
warm and as for the nights in Birming-
ham, they are decidedly pleasant.
Men and women who fret about south
ern summers would probably fret over
any sort of summer. If people would
discipline themselves on the lines of
serenity they would be happier, and more
comfortable
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
A DECISIVE BATTLE
Will Probably Decide the Fate Of
President Castro.

Washington, June SO.-The State De-
partment received cablegram today
from United States Minister Bowan at
Caracas, confirming the Associated Press
dispatches of today, in regard to the
blockade established by the Venezuelan
government at a number of points.
The officials declined to make the text
of Mr.. Bowans message public, but 1t
Is understood 1t indicates a decisive bat
tie and one that probably will decide the
fate of the Castro administration is
eminent Mr. Bowan did not request any
additional protection from this govern
ment in the shape of either warship or
marines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
DEFRAupED INSURANCE CO.
Mexican confesses to Creating Belief
That He Was Dead.

Mexico City, June 30-Joseph Madeido
has been arrested as a principal In an
alleged conspiracy against the Equitable
Insurance Society of New York which
has a branch In this country. 1t is said
that Madeido was insured for a consider
able sum and fraud entered into. Madeido
was arrested and is alleged to have made
full confession, duplicating several
other persons to the plot.
Madeido said that after his assumed
death he went to the State of Michoacan,
found employment under an assumed
name on a hacienda, and thought all trou-
Bile was over until he saw In the paper
reports of the elimination of his suppos-
ed corpse which was stuffed dummy
gotten up carefully to simulate a corpse.
Madeido is now In prison and 1t is said
other arrests have been made In this city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
QUIETLY NOTIFY FOREMAN.
Do This When You Wish to Return to
Work, Says Company.

Hazleton. Pa. June 9O.-Notices have
been distributed by Pardee & Company Of
the Hardwood coliiery, notifying the
strikers that when a majority of the
adult outside and inside men formerly
employed there signify their desire to re-
turn to work the colliery will be started.
The men are instructed to quietly notify
the foremen of their intentions.
Several hundred strikers stationed
along the roads leading to the Drifton
colliery Of Coke Brothers & Company
this morning turned back all men who
reported for work with the exception OF
the clerks and passenger crew of the
Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill
Railroad. When Sheriff Jacobs arrived
the men dispersed.