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The Steel Trust.

1.-THE Engineering and Mining Journal
compliments the United States Steel COR
poration on the full and clear information
it gives its stockholders. which is in con-
trast with what some other combina-
tons do" remarked corporation Off
cial.
1.-THE recent report shows, says the
Journal, that the company now makes
approximately two-thirds of the output
of finished iron and steel Of this country.
1t controls probably even a greater pro-
portion of the raw material-iron ore
from which that product comes. 1t has
had an extremely prosperous year and
has taken advantage of 1t to accumulate
a great working capital and to lay aside
a large surplus for necessary improve
ments, thus indicating the adoption of a
very prudent policy.
Every effort seems to be made to be
strong enough to ward off every blow
that adverse fortune can possibly bring
But the great monopoly-the greatest the
world ever saw, perhaps-is not invulner-
able. The Journal directs attention to the
fact that the corporation. though in a
period of unprecedented prosperity, has
never paid over per cent on its common
stock while 6 per cent is set aside for
improvements and additions. This, the
Journal suggests, seems too small a
margin for trade which has shown such
wide fluctuations in the past and will
DOUBTLESS show them again in the future.
The amount of capitalization is the weak
point, as may be realized hereafter"
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route to Montgomery to attend the SUI
preme court.
Charles G. Waller OF Greensboro Is
registered at the Metropolitan.
E. L. Hanson of Leaf, Miss is at the
st. Nicholas.
S. A. waxman of New York is stopping
at the Hillman.
NJ. B. Neece of Huntsville is at the
Morris.
F. r. Osborne of Admission is registered
at the Metropolitan.
C. NJ. Faulkner of Cedartown, 5. c., is
at the St. Nicholas.
George Carr of Detroit is stopping at
the Hillman.
]. A. Higgins of Corona is registered
at the Morris.
George L. Green of Baltimore is at the
Metropolitan.
Charles w Snow of Boston is at the
Morris.
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BRYAN AND HILL AGREE.
Report That Bryan Named His Terms
of CapItuIatIon.

Special to the New Orleans Picayune.
New York, April 22.-Is Col william
Jennings Bryan negotiating compro-
mise with ex-senator D. B. Hill?
1t is said by friend and political ally
Of ex-senator Hill that Colonel Bryan
has not only instituted such negotiations
through State Committeeman ]. w. Cox.
of New York, but that he has specified
the terms upon which he will lay down
arms.
Shortly after Colonel Bryans last visit
to New York friend of Mr. Hill was an
preached in the Manhattan club by Com
mitteeman Cox and two other friends of
Mr.. Bryan, who proposed discussion of
methods for bringing the Bryan and anti
Bryan interests In the democracy to-
gether.
In the conversation which ensued Mr..
COX said that Colonel Bryan did not wish
to be candidate for President in 1904:
that he had no personal ambitions to
crafty in the next campaign, and that
he wished to promote, by every means
within his power, the success of the de-
mocracy. As contributing to that end.
Mr.. Cox suggested that Mr.. Bryan might
very properly be offered the chairmanship
either temporarily or permanently. of
the national convention 1t was Mr.. Cox's
idea, as expressed at that time. that there
would not be nearly so much difficulty
as is generally apprehended. In reaching
an agreement on the platform.
1t was then and is still the opinion Of
the friend of Mr.. Hill. who took part in
this conversation, that Mr.. Bryan intend
ed to convey through his friends his will
ingness to acquiesce, under the indicated
| circumstances. in the nomination of
Chief Justice Alton B. Parker for Presi-
| dent.
In due time the conversation was all
repeated to Mr.. Hill. 1t is stated that
Mr.. Hill has already personally Yached
/ the conclusion that 1t will be inadvisab BILE
! to intrust Mr.. Bryan with the tempor-
airy Craftsmanship of the convention.
which carries with 1t the powers of or
ganization, but that he will consent to
his selection permanent chairman
State Committeeman Cox said this
evening:
Il have suggested that 1t would be a
very good idea to make Mr.. Bryan chair
man of the national convention.
II have never talked for Mr.. BRYAN.
nor assumed to talk for him. however,
much less to enter into any negotiations
in his name with the persons who are
opposed to him politically Mr.. Bryan
does not authorize others to speak for
him. He speaks for himself"
do you think there is any prospect
of Mr. Bryan and the re-organizers get
ting together on the basis you suggest?"
Mr.. Cox was asked
1T do. / think Mr.. Bryan will control
the national convention, and that the
eastern democrats who have formerly
opposed him will fall In line"
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state Exhibit at 81. Louis.

w. K. P. Wilson's plan for securing
a fund with which to make a salts
factory exhibit at st. Louis, has been
endorsed and accepted by the Com
mercial club of Mobile, and no doubt
the action OF the Commercial club of
Mobile will be followed by similar ac-
ton in other sections OF the state.
Mr. Wilson, in brief, proposes to or
ganize a Worlds Fair Fund associa-
ton in every town in the state, big or
little, and each association is to solicit
individual subscriptions of one dollar
each. 1t is hoped in this way to secure
$4,000 without imposing a burden on
the state treasury or any one individ-
ual. Governor Jelks will be asked to
issue a proclamation naming a Fund
Day, on which contributions will be
made. To add interest to this method
eighteen round-trip tickets TO the 1alr
will be distributed among the con-
tributors, the manner of drawing the
names of the eighteen to be devised
and published later on. Each county
would have to secure about 600 sub
scriptions. Some of the counties could
not quite do so much, but the deficien-
cies could perhaps be made good in the
larger counties of the state.
The task of procuring the needful
money In this popular manner is not
an easy one, but If all persons, and
especially all newspapers, will take
hold of the matter in earnest 1t can be
accomplished, and the state will never
regret the effort or the investment.
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Athletic Relations.

THE announcement that ashletic re-
lations between West Point and An
napolis have been suspended, and that
there will be no baseball nor football
game this year is bad news" said man
who loves sport. Annapolis admits
youths to the academy fro mthe ages of
10 to 20. and West Point from II to %.
with the result that college graduates,
old seasoned football players. have been
on the West Point football eleven, and
have for the past two at least, been i'm
portant If not determining factors in
wrestling victory from the midshipmen.
Annapolis thinks eligibility rules should
be adopted excluding these players, so
that the two academies should be placed
on something like equal terms. That is
the general feeling about the matter, but
the athletic representative of the army
makes a good point when he says that in
the service" there should be no eligibili-
ty rules which bring with them detectives
to see that the rules are obeyed and the
tiresome and rather disgraceful inter-
collegiate 'wranglng and diplomacy. Every
man in West Point should be on an equal
ity in football and everything else, he
thinks and If there is nothing against
the player he should be permitted to play,
even IL he has had experience. These are
subtle questions which we cannot I'M
dertake to decide. but there is ope thing
we know, the army and the navy should
get together without any more debate
and play football Never let 1t be said
that the men at Annapolis or West Point
were afraid of the fray because the odds
seemed to be against them
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DR.. o. j. Stafford.

IT do not know what arrangements
have been made for reserving seats for
DR.. D. ]. Staffords lecture on the Flo
quence of Shakespeare, which is to be
an event at the Jefferson theatre next
Wednesday night, but hope they will be
placed on sale day or two in advance,
said citizen who formerly lived in
Washington. 'Dr. Stafford Is a great or
ator, the greatest in the United States,
perhaps, and the theatre will be packed.
OF all the favorable comments on STAFF
ford that l have noticed recently this
from a northern paper strikes me as be-
ing slngularly fitting:
=" He has robust physique with splen-
did features, a clear, strong and resonant
voice. His readings from the bard's inn
mortal lines are worthy of Booth or Bar
rett. Indeed in many respects he sur
passes either. His intonations and en-
phass evince breadth, and comprehen-
sion and subtleness of penetration such
as is rarely met with .
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WAITING.
Y John Burroughs.

BY John Burroughs.
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea,
l rave no more 'gainst time or fatA
For lol my own shall come to me.
I stay my haste, make delays,
For what avails this eager PAGER
/ stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep. awake, by night or day,
The friends l seek are seeking me.
No wind can drive my bark astray.
Nor change the tide of destiny.
What matter If l stand alone?
/ wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it has sown.
And garner up its fruit of tears.
The waters know their own, and draw
The brooks that spring in yonder heights
So flows the good with equal law,
Unto the soul of pure delights.
The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal wave unto the sea,
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high
Cnn keen own AWAY from
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Immigration Records.

The immigration arrivals of the
present month will exceed 10000, thus
outdolng the arrivals of last May,
when $4,000 came in. May of last year
is now the record month, but the pres
ent April will eclipse it, and the ad-
vices from sailing ports show that the
arrivals of next month will exceed 100,-
600. immigration Commissioner Sar-
gent estimates the years arrivals at
one million, or about 250,0 900 more than
ever before came over seeking new
homes in a single year.
Suppose the arrivals, not of single
year, but of single month, were put
down in Alabama, and set at work
growing strawberries and garden truck
and wheat, and dairy and poultry pro-
ducts, what a commotion and revolu-
ton there would be in old Alabama!
Land values would jump up, and pros
perity would reign from High Jackson
to jumping off place on the gulf. A
boom would be established, all because
a single months arrivals of home
seekers had come to Alabama, 100000
strong. But instead of 100000 in the
month of May, Alabama will be for
tunate If she secures one hundred, and
this is why some states grow and
prosper faster than Alabama does.
This is why Minnesota will pass Ala
bama in the next census, and we will
be left to fight for the retention of
our relative rank by passing sleepy
YirsS,ia.
We can change some OF the proper
lions by organizing an immigration
bureau and by doing systematic work
among the immigrants we desire. We
cannot gain immigrants by sitting still
and doing nothing. We must be up
and doing.
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From the Kansas city Star.


K1N ISIS MYRTLE DERRICK of
zI\Vf Dallas. Tex. who recently
married Charles Featherstone.
a millionaire banker and cattle owner,
was telephone girl This simple state
ment seems to carry with. 1t tremend-
Gus significance and opens up an inviting
vista of possibilities to class of work.
women who have hitherto been hedged
about by serious obstacles to marital pre-
ferment
Stenographers without number get
married every year to their employers,
and they appear to display talent for
making fairly good matches But the
stenographers enjoy the important adj
vantage of personal contact with their
principals. This means everything if
the mistress of shorthand and the delft
operator of the writing machine is
amiable and ingratiating A comedy and
agreeable young woman lends at once a
welcome aid and relief to the tedium
of business and the influence of such a
factor in encouraging serious attach
ments has been proven much too often
to be denied.
1t is quite different with the poor tele-
phone girl. She has nothing but her voice
and her good nature-where she possesses
these gifts-to plead for her. When a
man calls up central" and is answered
by an operator at the other end of the
line he has nothing but his intuition-and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
OF VITAL IMPORTANCE.
Editors of Papers In Colombia to Con-
slider Panama Canal Question.

Washington, April 23.-Aristides Fer
nandez. minister of the interior for Co
lombia through the governors of the
states has addressed editors OF newspapers
throughout Colombia directing their at
tention to the Importance Of the fullest
consideration in the newspapers of the
subject of the Panama canal. Copies of
the address have been received in Wash
ington. In substance it is as follows
THE matter of the gravest Importance
which should occupy the attention of the
coming congress to the exclusion of all
else Is the matter of the Panama canal
and to decide this important business
with proper and mature judgment 1t is
necessary that all patriots should use
their best talents to show to the people
the many complicated questions involved
in the case.
1T is not enough for the government
and congress to study the matter: 1t is
necessary that all the people. the mass
of the population, should be advised fully
of the interest the nation has In the mat
ter, as well as the many difficulties and
problems which the different projects
present
Therefore, the minister calls upon ali
newspapers and editors to publish all
they can obtain on the subject, as it is
matter of the gravest Importance to the
future well being of the country as we'll
as to the commercial interests of the
world.
In private letters received In Washing
ton it is said that the opponents of the
canal complain because the Colombian
government permitted the soldiers to
vote at the elections held for members
of congress.
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TO BUILD OIL REFINERY.
Committee of Alabama and Georgia
Cotton Oil Men Looking for Ground.

Columbus, Ca, April pa committee
of five representing twenty independent
cotton oil plants in Georgia and Ala
bama, were looking over sites for large
cotton oil refinery here today to cost a
hall million dollars. They were shown
several desirable sites.
1t has been settled that either Columbus
or Albany, Ca, will get the refinery. AL
bany has offered ten acres of land as a
site. Columbus will offer inducements.
The refinery will work some four hundred
people.
Mayor Chappell states that Columbus
will give ten acres and offer more induce
ments if necessary.
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cOIombia's Action Upon the Treaty

No newspaper has seen fit to send
a special representative to Bogota, al
though there final action on the big
gest piece of business before the
world, or any part of it, will soon come
up. No one in this country seems to
know when the Colombian congress
will be convened. The most that is
known is that President, or rather
Dictator, Marroquin can call 1t to-
gether at any time, and he has not as
yet issued a call. The presumption is
that he is fixing" or trying to Fix
a majority of the upper house, before
which the treaty will come. 1t is known
that the president of the republic is
warmly in favor of the ratification Of
the treaty, and as 1t will hand over
to the Colombians at once $10,000,000,
the presumption all along has been,
and still is, that it will be ratified, for
such an opportunity never before came
to Colombia, and perhaps never will
again.
II the treaty should be rejected, the
clear belief it would be that there is
another bidder in the field, and that
that bidder has raised the bid for
Colombia's rights across the isthmus.
The rejection of the treaty would in
deed create a commotion, and specula-
ton would be rife. Some have thought
the international railroads would make
their final fight at Bogota, but as they
would have to put up about ten million
dollars this theory is not considered
tenable.
The Colombian charge d affaires at
Washington says the opposition to the
treaty is quite strong, and this is prob
ably the reason that the Colombian
congress has not been convened. The
people of Colombia must, however,
know that If they reject the treaty
the United States will at once proceed
to build a canal on the Nicaragua
route, which is, after all, the better Of
the two routes. This country will
lose nothing through the rejection of
the treaty at Bogota.
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GOLF CHAMPION A BRIDE.
Miss Hecker's Marriage Is Romance
of the Links.

From the New York Times.
Miss Genevieve Hecker, the woman golf
champion of America, was married yes
terday to Charles 7. Stout of Staten Is
land. The ceremony took place at noon
at the residence of the brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John " Hecker, at 81 East
Eighty-fourth street The Rev. Edward
S. Travers offciated.
1t was a very quiet affair. only the
immediate family and a few relatives be-
ing present. The bride was dressed In
a gown of white satin with point lace.
Her younger sister acted as maid of
served a wedding breakfast, attended by
twenty-five or thirty guests.
Mr.. Stout first saw Miss Hecker dur
ing the play for the women's national
golf championship at the BaltusroI Golf
club two years ago. and 1t was her bril-
liant play which first attracted him to
her. He is captain of the team of the
Richmond County Country club and
chairman of the Greens committee, and
has been notable figure in the big golf
tournaments of the east for a number of
years. He is son of John W. Stout, one
of the old-time leather merchants of New
York.
Miss Hecker first came into prominence
in 1899, when, as a fifteen-year-old school,
girl she entered the national woman's
championship, and although beaten in the
first round showed such remarkable
style that she was hailed as COM
ing champion. and the next spring she
won the Womens Metropolitan Golf as :.
ISOLATION championship with ease, defeat
ing the heretofore peerless Miss Beatrix
Hoyt. Miss Maud X. Wetmore, and in
the final round Miss Ruth Underhill, the
then national champion, by up and 8
to play, the largest score ever recorded
in a championship match. That year
she was beaten in the national champion
ship, owing to prostration from the heat
but in 1901 she won both the national and
womens metropolitan CHAMPIONSHIPS
with ease.
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cHAuNcEY,s CHANCES.
he New York World.

From the New York World.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew always a
friend in need has made affidavit that
Mr.. William K. Vanderbilt has been good
for the past eight years No doubt this
is true, but Mr. Depew takes some risk
In swearing to it. He Is living in New
York and Mr.. Vanderbilt in Paris. Things
might happen over there without Mr..
Depew's knowledge even If Paris were
an easier place to be good in than 1t is.
Besides while Mr.. Depew is doubtless a
Judge of goodness he is not a Judge Of
wickedness, and to be able to give certi-
ficates Of this sort with confidence one
must know little of both.
The senator went to Albany the other
day to give one of his famous certificates
of good character to the assembly, and
never saw a lobbyist while there. al
though the corridors of the capitol were
blocked with them. He thought they were
all farmers come to see Mr.. Raines vote
for high license. So even IL he were in
Paris and saw anything out Of the way
he would never know It,
Fortunately, there is no reason to sup
pose that his affidavit about Mr. Van
derbilt is incorrect, but when he testifes
In his breezy way to things beyond his
knowledge he is certainly taking chances
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HANNA APPLAUDED FOR
HIS ANSWER TO PARRY
BY JAMES A. MAckNleHT.

asked on all sides: ''wi1l 1t now advance
to the state of a true democracy, or will
aristocratic tendencies prevail and DOM
mate its future history?"
This query is salient, vital. No previous
lesson of history supplies an exact coun-
terpart. We face a new chapter in hui
man experience, and the moral world is
sweeping onward at a pace resembling
that of a planet in it's orbit. Mr.. Parry
and his kind might as well try to curb
the sweep of the gulf stream or an At
lantic tidal wave as to check the course
of mankind in this epoch. They are like
the men who bucked against the intro
duction of steam engines, and who tried
to Illustrate the establishment of the
public schools and free education in the
republic. 1t has become fashionable all
over the union for men of wealth and
standing to say openly they have ceased
to believe in republican institutions, and
that some form of Imperialism would
suit them much better. The labor unions
are an effectual check of this spirit, and
it is through them and their supporters,
as against Parry and his ilk, that real
democracy must be brought about If
that dream of the fathers of liberty Is
ever to be realized. Senator Hanna sees
the handwriting on the wall and makes
haste to get top seat on the band
wagon.
The howl about "class hatreds," which
has been raised in the last few years,
should be taken to heart and pondered
carefully by the esteemed Parry and the
Manufacturers association. Also by the
merchants of Omaha. who seem to have
been inspired to their recent action by
the Parry pronunciamento. The antago-
nism aroused by this sort of thing will
not be readily allayed; and if any man
imagnes that such policy is wise or
safe let him read the history of Europe
in the last quarter of the eighteenth
and the first half of the nineteenth CEN
turtles.
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n /$AA I1il[A1 lllO idpOA PCObiC Az nay
NAU ing alive the man who ma
w lgned them the other day at
the manufacturers convention in New
Orleans. the senator from Ohio, Marcus
A. Hanna, has given him a rebuke which
is likely to touch his solor plexus in its
weakest spot
1t is an open secret that Mr. Parry did
not voice the sentiment of at least a
respectable minority of the Manufac-
turers' association, but the fact that he
was reelected president is sufficient
proof that his ideas were acceptable to
the majority.
A great deal has been said in certain
quarters about "Labor's fool leaders"
etc, and Mr.. Parry may be singled out
as a nice sample of capitals fool lead
ers." Mr.. Hanna has SO dubbed him, al
though in more polite terms. The sena-
tors ardor may have a political string
to 1t, but 1t serves the purpose of de-
horning Parry and making him a decid-
eddy harmless agitator. The depth of the
obscurity to which he will now gravitate
could scarcely be sounded even by the
deep sea apparatus of the challenger.
Mr.. Parry's words, however, indicate
more by their spirit than by the actual
utterance. They show that some men
are willing to lose sight of the fact that
the world Is progressing in spite of them,
and that If their power equalled their
will they would prohibit the onward
march of the human race. The organiza-
ton and uniication of the wage earners
In this country is simply one indication
of the general trend Whether democracy
can survive or not remains to be seen. 1t
is yet extremely imperfect and inchoate,
and labor unionism. from the political
point of view is, undoubtedly, its most
healthful symptom at this time. The re-
public is in a phase of Its growth and
development and the question is being