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Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-27
PROMOTIONS.
ond grades

PROMOTIONS.
 From Ninth to Tenth grade-Effe McCollum and Lettie McLain.
 From Eighth to Ninth grade-Della Bernstein, Lillie Randy, Blanche Stal- lings, Cora West, Hattie Kimberlin, Rina Price, Lizzie Irby, Imogene Randy, Grace Ross, Tommie Thorn ton, w. c. Wallace, Jesse Mcdonald.
 From Seventh to Eighth grade Bessie Buford, Mary Sprigg, Ethel Doyle, Emma Drummond, Lulu An schutz, Minnie Lee Jago, Katie Har- der, Annie Bridger, Perla Best, Ruth Wallace, Hilda Bailey, John Younger, Clee Campbell, Clarence Crook, Clyde Croft, Harry Stephens, Anschutz Lockard, Tom Duffer.
 From Sixth to Seventh grade-Elvie McLain Marie Younger, Ida hNicken, Laura Mosby, Ida Parrish, Carl Hawk, Billie Mcclure, Walton Brooks.
 From Fifth to Sixth Grade-Carrie Garrison, Lucien Daugherty, Jennie Jones, Leah Jones, Beatrice McHugh, Lillian Stallings, Willie Howell, Idella Johnson, Leelon Stewart, John War ner, Charles Sprigg, Charles Brewer, Philip Lockard, Willie Bandy, Leo Volkmer, Bennie Brasch, Ellwood Neal.
 From Fourth to Fifth grade-Clara Brooks, Blanche Ferguson, Lutie Mae Stephens, Hazel Jones, Ethel Dean, Arkie Dean, Madie Stephens, Jennie Stuckey, Rina Wallace, Ada West, Bertha Hirsch, Doris Carpenter, Bessie Harland, Pearl Byrum, Grace Ferguson, Mae York, Herschel Me- Cauley, Harry Pettet, Robert Rob- inson, Leslie O'Neal, Bee Robinson, Henry Davidson, Harry Davis, Ed ward Doherty, Charles O'Neal, Eu- gene Wallace, Roy Wallace, Ike Stephens, Charles Ross.
 From Third to Fourth grade-Ruth Egan, Nora Randy, Pauline Davis, Leona Baker, Duke Kelly, Charley Randy, Dottis Joyce, Glen Maynard, Sam Taggart, Charley Hite, Willie Campbell, Eva Harland, Ethel John- son, Meta Woodel, Hattie West, Ellen Jones, Daisy Bayles, Katchie Dean, Mary Kelly, Willie Huffman.
 From Second to Third grade-Ralph Hirsch, Preston Finley, Elise Hooker, Jennie Martin, Lola Boillotte, Pearl West, Corinne Mosby, Marguerite Gregg, Cleo Jackson, Wesley Bengel, George Yeast, Boyce Drummond, Luther White, Frank Humbert, Charles Snetzer, Russell Warner, Nell Brooks.
 From First to Second Grade-Louise Wallace, Charley Holder, Ignatius Sprigg, Gran Stephens.
 From Class B of First grade to Class A of First grade-Ursel Coffman, Clara White, Marguerite Morrison, Claude Foushee, Walker and Walter Stallings, Herbert Brune.
 All students holding promotion cards must file the same with their teachers upon entering school. No student who failed to be examined can be enrolled in higher grade without examination. It is a matter of importance that each student en- ters school the first day and attends regularly, not even to be absent from any examination. All excuses for ab- sence from examinations will prove unavailing.
 Respectfully,
 A. WOODS.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-27
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.

superintendent Woods Announces Names of Pupils Successful In Examinations And Places Teachers For The
 Year.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-27
SUMMER TOURIST RATES.

Choctaw Route will sell excursion tickets daily Newport to Mt. Mag azine, Ark, at rate of $750 for round trip, good returning Sep. 30, 1902.
 51btf. w. R. THOMPSON, Agt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
MT. BaItOur,s Education Bill.

Parliament is not in session, but the known determination of Premier Balfour to press his education bill as a government measure keeps it be- fore the English people, and a dis cussion of it goes on with increasing bitterness.
 The trouble over the bill arises be- cause 1t provides that the church schools are to be supported by public taxation. The none 1nformists and most liberals resent the proposed change. Instead of disestablishment. this is an attempt to rivet the church upon the state and particularly upon public education.
 England's public school system is confined to elementary education, and students desiring a better education are now compelled to resort to the church schools or other voluntary" institutions. MT. Balfour aims to pro- vide secondary education, but in doing this he sweeps into the public sys tenn the church schools while leaving their control in church hands. Here is where the trouble comes in, for one half of England is outside the estab- hshed church. He provides, in other words, for denominational public schools, and the people who are to be taxed-the ratepayers-are up in arms if they are not members of the established church. All liberals are summoned to opposition to church control; all conservatives are expect ed to rally to a measure that aggran- dizes the church, whether they like or dislike public schools. Church control of public schools supported by the taxpayers, is the issue, and the war over it goes bitterly on. The oppo- nents of church control refuse to be conciliated by any property conces- sions of school advantages. It is in fact war among churches. and is as bit ter and unrelenting as such wars in- yariably are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
Slump in Stock Speculation.

The administration of which Sec retary Shaw is a member, is doing its best to retain the prosperity the crea- tion of which it so loudly boasts. This prosperity has been in momentary danger, but it may be tided over, for Secretary Shaw is dumping the public revenue into the banks, issuing na- tional bank notes by the ream, antici- pating interest payments, and buying bonds. Let us see what the possible extent ot the relief he offers is:
 Redemption of 5s of 1904. ......... .s19 40, $50 Anticipation of interest to Oct. 1. 100000 New circulation ssued by banks... ............ ........ 4,OOO,OOO First deposits in national de-
 positories.. .... .... 100000 Second deposits in national de-
 positories -. ......,..... 10000 900 Anticipation of interest to July l, 1905 .... ........... 20, $50 GOO New circulation anticipated...... s,0OO 900 Total .... ........ ...............$ SIC, ,260 $50
 Just how far this programme will be possible depends upon the holders of bonds and the action of the banks, but Secretary Shaw offers at any rate to disburse the public money to the ex- tent named in order to relieve the stringency of the money market in the present crop-moving period. There is money enough for all legitimate pur- poses, and it is indeed questionable how far the government should go in promoting or at least maintaining stock speculations ana party campaign ing. In this connection we cannot do better than give Russell Sage's analy- sis Of the situation. He says:
 There are just three causes for the present stringency which has cost the spectators so many millions of profits in such a short time:
 ''They are:
 "First-Demands from the interior for money to get the crops to market. It al- ways comes at this time of the year and causes a pressure on New York for any where from s5O,OOO,OOO to s75. .coO,oOO ex- tra money.
 'Second-The heavy and the ill-judged speculative fever which caused stocks to be sent up beyond a reasonable level and without anything but speculative booms to justify 1t.
 "Third-The reluctance of Europe to part witt- any of its gold unless forced to, and the heavy drain on our resources from the sub-treasury and the custom house receipts.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

little volume of poems just issued from the Gorham press of Boston en- titled Apollo and Keats, Poems by Cliff ford Lanier," has an interest aside from the exquisite verses themselves. The au- thor is the only brother of the 1amented poet, Sidney Lanier, and several of the most delightful poems in the book are the joint production of the two brothers, ap- bearing under their names.
 This Is Clifford Banier's first book, and includes a collection of the poems which he has written during a long and active career-for Clifford Lanier has been a successful man of business in Montgom- cry, where he settled on returning from the war between the states, and has earned a well won competency. Yet al- most in the prime of life, he has prac- tically retired from business, and de- votes most of his time to literature and the study of civic questions, taking a prominent part in all the progress move ments of the town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
A Serious Mistake.

Under the title given at the head of this article the organ of the lily whites in this district, the Birming- ham Times, says:
 .'The nomination of Captain J. Clyde Millar for congress by the republican district convention of the ninth district on last Wednesday was a serious mis- take, one calculated to do the party in the district much harm. We do not say this for the purpose of casting any re- ilections upon Captain Millar. for so far as we know, and we have known him for number of years, he is an upright and honest gentleman whose allegiance to the republican party cannot be questioned, but he is not well kncan to the voters throughout the district and will not be able to secure such support as will be necessary to ensure success"
 It proceeds to condemn MT. Under wood because he does not love the Dingley tariff and like measures, and then it returns to the Millar nomi- nation. Its opinion of that nomina- tion is very positive. "We unhesi- tatingly say" it adds, that in our opinion Captain Millar cannot defeat Mir Underwood" You are eminently correct, o, Times. You have an eagle eye, and your judgment is A No. |, or better.
 The Times adds by way of informa- tion these lines:
 We are informed that when the com mittee appointed by the convention to select a candidate reported to the con- vention that all except three of the dele gates had left the convention hall, thus only seven delegates were left to make the nomination.
 This is distressing, and the Times warns the district delegates in the re- cent convention that they will be held responsible for the reelection of MT. Underwood The Age-Herald appre- ciates the sad situation, and extends its heartfelt sympathy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
BY ROBERT CHISHOLM

too for he kept out of the way. He sen. a general named Burnside to take Peters, burg, for in the night we captured a courier from one to the other of those generals with a dispatch on his person that he would be in Petersburg within half an hour. This thing got noised abroad and the consequence was that none of us got any sleep that night; we did not know until next winter that the half was not to commence until April, 1865.
 We circled around Petersburg, that Is Longstreets. corps did, and 1t was an understood thing that Longstreet had nothing to give. Early could go off into the valley and have nice time play ing with Sheridan CD and Hill could look around for comfortable places around the city, for Longstreet was be- tween Grant and Petersburg with only one way to get there and that one over his splendid corps, and I am not strain- ing the truth when say, that had MT. Davis sent Longstreet as many men as Mir. Lincoln sent Grant we would be there now.
 In the Age-Herald of August 31, ap- pears an account of how the federals captured Battery Harrison, on the north side of the James river and in doing so broke seriously into the lines of pro- tection around Richmond. We had as I have above stated been very much en- gagged all the summer in the defense of Petersburg, but here was Richmond now threatened. We were sent there and to get there had another terrible march; when about two miles from the fort we had to wade shallow, but rather wide stream. had the rear guard and just as my guard had about reached the side of the stream up rode my brigadler. sup pose he was tireu though he had been riding while had been walking all night, at any rate he was cross and not know ing how else to vent his ill-temper, used some very nasty words to me for letting the men in my front cross the stream on the logs that the aborigines had placed there to cross in times of peace.
 What I had had to do with letting any one walk over the logs instead of wad- ing through the water l did not then, nor do l now know but all the same, he could not curse the men at that dis tance so he cursed at me. He made me go on one of the logs and order the men jump of into the water. did so to the sense but not as fact for while I would holler very loud. Get off men," I would say in lower voice, Don't do a d-m thing of the sort" While trying to perform this double sort of duty I slipped and fell into the stream and the order of my fall was such that I struck the stream sideways. Hungry. tired, foot sore, sleepy and now wet from head to foot I turned to my brigadier and said, 'If you want the men to wade you do 1t yourself" I suppose he was so glad to see me get the ducking that he was satisfied. He is in purgatory now so I have ceased to blame him. But any man that thinks a confederate brigadier was an angel never had my experience with them.
 About a. m., we faced Battery Har-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

General Grant on his new route to Richmond found himself about July, 1864 at Cold Harbor, some fifteen or twenty miles from his objective point. Between him and that historic city stood General Lee, with an army that knew what hard fighting meant. Grant had lost in get ting there near 80, GOO in killed and wound ed but still had on hand an army nearly double in numbers that of Lee, well fed, well equipped, and hardened by the long march south.
 On the southern side we had for food one onion, about the size of small egg, one-third of a pound of bacon, dirty to make it weigh more. and something un- der a pint of coarse ground corn meal; in addition however, we had all the wa ter we could use. For ten days General Grant tried every afternoon to break General Lees lines; was there and that is the way I happened to know it. The federal soldiers would charge us every al ,ernoon, and every afternoon they would hope to do better next day; some few succeeded in actually getting into our lines but they were intoxicated as a rule and did not, at first, seem to know where they were. They found out after wards, but too late to regain their places.
 General Grant was stubborn man, but stubbornness could not break Gen. eral Lees lines. so after trying for fully ten days he concluded to try Richmond from the Petersburg side. His army took up its line of march in the night time; we did not know he had gone until day. light, then about 9 a. m. we followed him on line parallel to his march and some half mile on his west. We were so close during that march that his men would constantly struggle in with us
 Having command of the rear guard, to whatever was in front of us. I had knowing that these fellows would pre- fer to be captured, I refused to take any prisoners. and would order them to go at once back to their commands under fear of injury if they stayed with us. It was an awful march, the heat was intense and the food light. We halted once ev- cry hour and rested sev.n minutes. To appreciate what that march meant, just put on thickiy padded woolen coat, button it well up to the throat and march  in hot July sun and you can find out what it was. We finally reached Peters burg about 10 a. m. next day-were the first of eLe's army to do so. We were part of Longstreets corps, so the good people of ePtersburg knew there was business of a serious kind just ahead,
 rant knew it too. Grant and Longstreet were schoo.mates and had been introduce ed to each other long before the form CT had sold wood in St. Louis.
 As we marched through the streets of Petersburg we passed through a street densely packed with women; they cheer ed us to the echo, gave us flowers, patted us on our sweat-laden shoulders and begged us to save their city. Meeting an old friend, a Dr. kennedy from Balti- more. I managed under his authority and by his assistance to get a drink of Ap- pie Jack, this set me up wonderfully, and for the next half hour I felt that Grants fate would be soon sealed Grant must have had a drink of the same stuff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
THE LAM P.
lrah Pratt Mclean

By Sarah Pratt Mclean. Hast thou lamp, a little lamp.
 Put in that hand of thine? And did He say, who gave it thee. The world hath need this light should be,
 Now, therefore, let it shine? And dost thou say, with bated breath.
 It Is a little flame; I'll let the lamps of broader wick Seek out the lost and cheer the sick,
 While I seek wealth and fame? But on the shore where thy small house
 Stands dark, stands dark, this night, Full many a wanderer, thither tossed, Is driven on that rock and lost,
 Where thou hast hid thy light. Though but candle thou dldst have.
 Its trimmed and glowing ray Is infinite With God, no light Is great CT small, but only bright.
 As Is His perfect day. The world hath sorrow. nothing more
 To give or keep for thee; Duty Is in that hidden flame. And soaring joy; then rise for shame
 That thou so dark shouldst be. Rise, trim thy lamp; the feeble past
 Behind thee put and spurn. With God it is not soon or late, So that thy light. now flaming great
 Doth ever fiercar burn. Fierce with It's love. and flaming great
 Tn its humility; Summing no soul in sinful need, Fearing no path where He may lead,
 Glowing consumingly. Thou shalt not want for light enough,
 When earthly moons grow dim; The dawn Is but begun for thee When thou shalt hand. so trcmblingly. i.
 Thy empty lamp to Him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
About Persona.

J. L. MeDavid of New York is at the Metropolitan.
 F. II. Parsons of New Orleans is at the Metropolitan.
 Prof Eugene A. Smith of the Universi- ty of Alabama is at the Metropolitan. R. B. Evans of Greensboro is at the Metropolitan.
 c. S. Watson of Boston is at the Nor ris.
 R. L. Little of Jasper is at the Morris. c. w. Williams of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 w. H. Powell of North Carolina is at the Morris
 C. B. Ryan. general passenger agent of the Seaboard Air Line will arrive in Birmingham tomorrow. It will be his first visit to this city since he accepted his present position with the Seaboard
 c. B. Hunter of Memphis is at the Hillman.
 P. M. Rrundey of Boston is a. the Hill man.
 J. R. Ryan of Corona is at the Hill man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
Prooress of Music.

For several years past Birmingham has had the reputation of being a very musical city, said a piano teacher, but I am afraid that some of the concert artists who appeared here last season will not testify to high degree of musi- cal culture or appreciation on the part of Birmingham society.
 Tt is a fact, however, that Birming- ham Is making steady progress in musi- cal art. This Is evidenced by the inereas- ing number of pupils who study intelli- gently, not only sight reading and technic but theory. I can remember when girls who took piano lessons or voice lessons, had positive aversion to lessons in har- mony. Now the rule is for every girl with any ambition to take up music se- riously and learn theory as well as prac- tice. This will tell in the long run and result in a decided improvement in taste and culture.e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
Southern Cotton Mills.

The cotton mills in the south, com plete and incomplete, number 716, and they are distributed as follows: North Carolina, 254; South Carolina, 153; Georgia, 132; Alabama, 65; Tennes- see, 34; Mississippi, 20; Texas. 19; Virginia, Is; Kentucky, s; Louisiana, '; Arkansas, 6; Missouri, 2.
 The mills of this country spin but 3S per cent of the country's cotton crop, and the mills located in the cot ton belt spin but 4S.59 per cent of this 2S per cent There is therefore much room for mill building in this section. In 1890 there were 3S6 mills in the south; now there are TIC. There is every reason for expecting another
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
1aJ05oea

The attachment of the Lanier brothers was of tenderness and fidelity amount ing to romance. They went to the war to- gether, belonged to the same company. slept under the same blanket, and shared everything. Afterward their tender asso- citations were maintained, and when the
 rk clouds lowered over the elder broth er the younger was his stay and friend in need Two of the poems in the little volume just out are tributes from Cliff ford to Sidney at the time of the lat ter's untimely death.
 The younger Lanier's tastes and tall ents remind one of the elder. His verses have the exquisite lightness and delicacy and the same devotion to the music of language as well as of thought. While his taste for music is cultivated, he is not a performer of note on any instru- ment, as was Sidney. He is an artist in every fibre of his being, but he is also the practical man of affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
THE MURDEROUS GRADE CROSSING.

VIII the mayor quescent citizens killed crossnss7
 Again freight through crowded with apparently either of the In the There The mar in the fact that the eeauon been taken protect human life Birmingham the railroads the necessary peauton protect human lives the city should grade required every Brmlngham
 Let the board of aldermen Birmingham immediately has protecting citizens from grade crossing accidents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28
MED BRACE TALKS ABOUT GRADE CROSSING
 HORRORS AND OTHER LOCAL MATTERS

and churches and schools. All other well regulated cities in the country have such laws and enforce them.
 Birmingham is getting to be a big city and it should have laws for the thorough protection of the lives of its citizens and visitors. All these things are compar- atively inexpensive. There are too many accidents in and about Birmingham. Hu- man life is too cheap here. Grade cross ings and pistol toting lead to the sac rifce of too many lives in Birmingham annually. The town has gotten to the point where all things should be regulat- ed decently and properly, and it is up to the mayor and board of aldermen to act emphatically and at once.
 Tennessee company, because of the fact that the company will not forcibly col- lect from miners for the support of the strikers in the anthracite region, appears to me to be a great mistake on the part of the mine workers organization. MT Bacon, as president of the Tennessee company. has no right to deduct a sum of money from the wages which one of his employees has earned without the con- sent of that employe. The United Mine Workers organization is demanding too much when 1t makes such a demand of the president of the Tennessee company If 1t persists in this demand it will weak en the organization with the public at large. The public is inclined towards labor organzations. but it Is not inclined towards any organization or individual when unjust demands are made.
 The fact that the miners are on a, strike, so to speak, at this time. is cost ing the Tennessee company a large amount of money. Coal is high and in great demand. and yet the miners refuse to work because the company's officials will not aid them in disciplining a few of their own men. The company has neither legal nor moral right to do this, and the leaders of the mine workers organization will be wise to call this strike off at once.
 The transfer of the Louisville and Nashville railroad to the Atlantic Coast Line seems to be a step in the direction of southern securities company to con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

rison, with nothing between us but about a half mile of an old field, and the pros- poets were not inviting. I had never chewed tobacco before without unpleas- ant sensations, but begged a friend for a piece and in ten minutes I begged him for another and that is how 1 learn ed to chew tobacco. We uld not take that fort though a great many men were the worse off for our attempt to take it and the land about it has been fertilized with much southern blood.
 When one thinks, in the still hours of the night, of all that war means-that every man in either army has some dear one at home, some mother some sister, or daughter. or wife praying to the great God to preserve and protect and bring back safe to the home the loved one and you know 1t, how can you de- liberately take aim on that poor fellow and kill him2 And yet so long as the women dote on brass buttons and men esteem the glory of a soldier to be be- yond all other and perhaps the e-sly glory what are we to do?