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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
Lumber is Recominn scarce.

Lumber has again been advanced, and the upward movement is not a matter of trust manipulation. It sim ply means that the immense store of trees with which Nature blessed this new country is beginning to be ex- hausted. It will taper out fifty years, but already some varieties Of woods have been exhausted, and each recur- ring year will emphasize the trend of demand and supply The immense white pine forests of Wisconsin, Mich igan and Minnesota have nearly dis appeared. They are nine-tenths gone, and the remaining one-tenth will be held at higher and still higher prices. What has occurred in the northwest will occur in the southwest. It has all ready been felt in the southeast. In much less than fifty years timbered tracts of land will be not only scarce but high-priceu in Alabama. They are held at higher figures this year than they were last year, and they will go still higher next year.
 It is a pity that forestry cannot be extensively practiced in this state, where there will long be vast tracts of uncultivated lands. Yellow pine renews itself in thirty years, and the Kirby Lumber company of Texas proposes to grow as much timber a year as 1t cuts, thus ensuring perpetual supply Why would not the policy pay in Alabama, where timbered lands will soon be worth fifty dollars an acre? Forestry alone can save us from a heavy tax whenever we build houses, even if brick or stone be used in the walls. Forestry consistently and generally practiced would speedily renew our wooded wealth, and the second crop would be worth at least ten times the crop that Nature planted and nourish-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
Judge Gray Not a Candidate.

'I can state positively that Judge Gray is not a candidate for the presidency in any sense of the term,' said a man who has known the jurist intimately for some time past 'Judge Gray Is not only not seeking a nomination. but he has not the least idea that his name will be consid- cred when the democratic national con- vention meets. He was naturally pain ed at insinuations which appeared ir cer- tain papers to the effect that he would give the miners the best of the arbitra- ton for political effect. Nothing Is more unjust or cruel than to impugn improper motives to a man of exalted character. I am glad to believe that no right think ing man regards Judge Gray in any light but that of fair, square, high minded man. People who would accuse him of being swerved by selfish or sinister mo tives belong to the class that accuse Grover Cleveland of making money in Wall street while he was President"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
Enqlish Politics.

The South African question has been settled by war, the Irish issue by legislation, but still MT. Balfours min istry is not happy. Its achievements In South africa and Ireland are val uable in the present time, and historic in the future, but MT. Chamberlain hac revived the issue of imperial pro- lection, and this hangs over the cabi- net a dark and threatening cloud. It Is called "the colonial preference tar
 iff," because under it the colonies would secure preferential rates, thus cementing together, says MT. Cham bc-lain, the empire. It thus takes on U form of imperialism. MT. Cham berlain believes the policy of strength ening the empire by means of tariff schedules-o1 binding it with a tariff belt-is destined to win the approba- ton of the voters in the long run, and so he boldly faces free trade under which England has been wonderfully prosperous, hoping to consolidate the scattered states into an empire, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
TO LEGALIZE STRIKES.
Law for the Purpose Is Now in Pre-.
 paraiion.

St. Petersburg. August 2S.-A law legal izing strikes is in preparation.
 general strike began August 20 at Ekaterinostav The troops summoned to restore order met with a hostile reception, but dispersed the crowd after firing a few shots. Next day the tramway and railroad traffic was stopped the news papers did not appear, and the factories were surrounded by troops Thousands of strikers gathered in the market places. and collision with the military occur red. Eleven strikers were killed and twelve wounded before order was re- stored. Before evening the street cars resumed and work started again In some private work shops. The governor has since announced that work will be gen orally resumed on the railroads and in the factories tomorrow, special measures being taken to protect the workmen from violence on the part of the strikers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
PORT OF NEW ORLEANS
 AS A RIVAL OF NEW YORK

From the New York Times.
 Grain circles in this city are represented as regarding with concern the figures showing the exports of wheat and corn from this port and from New Orleans for the year 1903 as compared with those of a succession of fiscal years, which show and particularly in the latest compari- son-that New York is in danger of losing its distinction as the leading point of ex- port for these breadstuffs. There may be some satisfaction to be derived from the fact that the loss of position is as yet only a menace, and that when all classes of breadstuffs are considered New York is still the port from which the exportation of those products Is greatest. But during the fiscal year the exports of wheat and corn together from New Orleans amounted to 2,257,273 bushels. while the aggregate of those two articles exported from New York was 3l,15o.0sS.
 This Is not the result of whim or acci- dent. but the response to an energetic ef- fort to build up New Orleans as a port of export for corn and wheat. In order that the city may become a local grain port as we'll as one through which grain passes on through bills of lading. New Orleans is to establish a market for grain futures. In order to enjoy the benefits of the ex- perience of other ports committee of representative business men is about to visit a number of cities, including New York, with the object of making a report that may be used as a basis for grain futures market in New Orleans The con- cern excited by this information proceeds from the fact that very large part of the grain business of New Orleans is now conducted through New York. With a substantial backing the opening of New Orleans as grain futures market might be expected to still further increase its importance in the statistical tables.
 Whatever may be the result of this new venture by the business men of New Or leans, it ought to have the effect upon New York of stimulating the development of all the advantages that nature has lav- ished upon this port to make it the lead ing market for both exports and imports It is not without good reasons that the shippers favor New Orleans. If the En- pire State, by lessening its terminal charges, decreasing at every practicable point the expense of moving breadstuffs and other products. can meet the menace from New Orleans, it's business men ought to find the ways to meet it. Undoubtedly one of the ways by which New York can be made more attractive to shippers of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
DREAM OF THE fUTuRE.

James Russell Lowell. The miller dreams not at what cost The quivering millstones hum and whirl Nor how for every turn are lost
 Armfuls of diamond and of pearl. But summer cleared my happier eyes By drops of some celestial juice To see how beauty underlies
 Forevermore each form of use. And more; methought saw that flood Which now so dull and darkling steals. Thick, here and there, with human blood, To turn the worlds laborious wheels No more than doth the miller there,
 Shut in our several cells, do we Know with what waste of beauty rare Moves every days machinery. Surely the wiser time shall come
 When the fine overplus of might, No longer sullen, slow and dumb,
 Shall leap to music and to light. In that new childhood of the Earth
 Life of itself shall dance and play. Fresh blood in Times shrunk veins mako
 mirth
 And labor meet delight half way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
California Peaches.

"All the peaches that are now in the well known Greek fruit dealer. We handled the Georgia peaches up until about the 18th of this month, but there are no more of them left Usually at this season of the year we get very fine variety of peaches from Missouri. but they were all killed this year and we have not had any of them at all. The California peach is very fine, although its flavor is hardly as good as that of the Georgia article
 We will be supplied with peaches from California from now until about the first of November''-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

to secure a continuance of power to his party at home. Imperialism is no doubt a clever subject to juggle with in Englaa1, bus a tariff wall crosses all the traditions of modern Englishmen.
 Empire for empires sake is really l4e issue, and a preferential tariff is but an incident in the long fight. This long fight will be courageously led by MT. Chamberlain, but it un- doubtedly means a new parliamentary election within a year. and the return of the liberals led by MT. Morley to power. Premier Balfour declines as yet to accept the Chamberlain pro gramme, but he will have to declare himself this fall, an. if he rejects protectionist policy a disruption of thu ministry will follow and probably a new election. The liberal unionists will leave the tories, and a dissolution of parliament will speedily follow. MT. Chamberlain will soon begin a prolonged speaking tour in which the policy of restricting the imports of meats, grain, dairy products and many other products to the colonies will be advocated. Cotton for obvious reas- ons will not be included in the list, but lumber will be- Canada lumber would be given a preferential rate And so on to the end of the chapter In this way the Chamberlain pro- gramme has an American side, or at least side of deep interest to pro- ducers and shippers in this country, especially in the lumber districts of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Next to having pearl necklace herself woman gets the most joy out of her best friend not having one.
 When a woman isn't jealous about a man she loves it is because he is sick abed, where he can't see anybody.
 What makes a woman specially happy is to do something for loves sake that she would be ashamed to do for duty's.
 You can tell girl who isn't engaged by the way she pretends to be and man who is by the way he pretends not to be.
 It is hard to make some people under stand that you can't pour water into an income as you can into teapot to make it go further.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Our vaults have wept
MuIattoes as Leaders.

Alfred H. Stone, a Mississippian by birth, presents the race issue, which is always with us, in the Atlantic Monthly for September, in a new form. He says in substance that we have no negro problem; that the ne- gro of full blood is not aggressive or ambitious, wanting neither official ease nor social position, but that he prefers to live in his own way among his own race. content to be what his forefathers had been. Such per sons present no problem at all. But while we have no negro problem, we have, Mir. Stone goes on to say, "a mulatto problem" and that problem will not down" The more mulattoes the more problem, and the more dis content, and the more trouble all around. Says MT. Stone:
 Such Is our looseness of expression in discussing this question that to challenge either the wisdom or correctness of such views is to hear as their sole support recital of the achievements of famous men of the negro race'-while, as mat ter of fact, the names brought forward are merely those of well-known mulat- toes--from MlHillo's favorite pupil down to Crispus Attuclrs. Benjamin Banneker, Douglass, Bruce. Lynch, the late Sir Conrad Reeves, Du Bois, Washington. Chestnut and others. am we'll &C., quainted with the exceptions that may be urged here. but this is plea for greater scientific precision in laying the foundations of race problem study and treatment. and the student of negro ethnology knows that these exceptions are more apparent than real
 No doubt MT. Stone is correct when he says the leaders in race troubles are persons who have Caucasian blood in African veins, but he is not correct when he says that these leaders are the entire problem. With every lead CT goes the led. and 1t is the Seader and the led that constitute the race problem as 1t exists today. There are enough mulattoes to lead the great mass of negroes. Some are teachers, some preachers, and some are office holders and professional agitators. Some are good citizens and producers. MT. Stone has defined the nature of the leadership without touching the rest of the question. There is all the more problem becaese of the passive characteristics of the full bloded ne- gro. He easily becomes the rank and file, to be moulded and worked upon b. his mulatto brother. No doubt MT. Stone is correct in ascribing leader ship to the mulatto, but what of the mass he leads? They too are here, and they are clay in the hands of the mulatto potter. This leaves the pro- blem where MT. Stone found it, and 1t leaves education the only solution of it-more education for the whites and fo- those in whom the two races are blended, and more too for the full bloods. It Is the slow but only solu- ton of a difficult and almost inter- minable problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
A BRoNcHo CLUB.

From the Dodge City Globe.
 The Broncho club had some great times last year. The boys held one meeting a week and rode all of the bad horses they could find When a member of the club was thrown he had to pay fine. That was last year. and the boys were anna teurs, and they were thrown occasionally. This year there are not many fines paid. The leading members are Doudy, Pearl Mandy, John Shagrue and Harper Sitler. The latter has had more bumps than all the others combined. A ''bronch'' fell all in heap with Sitler one day last season. Sitler clinched with the beast and tried to hold it down. The other boys were having a good time watching the perform ance. Sitler didn't convince the broncho, but he made himself solid with he boys. Doudy has the reputation of being the best rider in the crowd. and he now ranks second to Matt Imel in the county. The horses that these boys ride just for ex- ercise would not be mounted by the aver age person for any amount of money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
POWERS WILL SPEAK.
Alleged Slayer of GoebeI Permitted to
 Defend Himself.

Georgetown. Ky. August 23.-The attor- neys for Caleb Powers today gave their consent to their clients making a speech to the jury In his own defense. There will be three arguments on side, each speech to be of three hours. and Powers will make the closing argument on his side. Jere R. Martin and D. K. Rawlings, brother in-law of the defendant will be the other speakers on that side. Col. J. E. Hen dricks. T. c. Campbell and Common wealths Attorney Robert Franklin will speak for the state.
 The defense will close tomorrow at noon and the jury will be taken to Franklin in the afternoon. The rebuttal testimony of the state will be presented Tuesday and the argument begun Wednesday morning. The case will go to the jury late Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
Busness Outlook.

"Now that prices of structural mate rial are coming to a comparatively low level I expect to see great activity in the building trades within the next twelve months," said a practical man. Prices had got so high that building operations were naturally checked. see no reason why building in all lines should not be good next year. The old idea that trade was necessarily dull in presidential years no longer prevails If German or Cleve- land should head the democratic ticket, capital would feel safe, because if the democrats or republicans won sound mo- ney would be maintained"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Compliment to pr. Phillips.

A Boston correspo. lent says: .Dr. J. H. Phillips. superintendent of schools, Bir- mingham, has been greatly honored by the Boston Congregationalist, the chief organ of the Congregational churches of the United States. which, in it's last issue, prints his portrait on its cover page.
 "A sketch of the career of Dr. Phillips is also given, and he is considered one of the leaders among public school workers in this country. His contributions to the solution of educational problems are rec ognized as of considerable importance. Dr. Phillips, besides being a graduate of Marietta college. received his education in part at the University of Chicago and Edinburgh university"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
A BIT OF A LAUGH
Might be Worse.

Mlgnt De worse. From the Indianapolis Journal Hobson-IIow is your brother doing at college?
 Dobson-Fine. He's singing first tenor and playing second base.
 One View of It. San Francisco Wasp. If you don't get married youn be sorry some day" Well, I'd rather not be married and be sorry I wasn't than to be married and be sorry l was!"
 A Summer Estimate. Detroit Free Press. Martha-Well. how was the missionary meeting?
 Mary-O. I never tasted such good sherbet and angel cake in all my days.
 Automobile Racins. From the Philadelphia Ledger. Did you ever engage in an automo- bile racer" 'Yes, once" How did you come out?' "On crutches. two months later"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
MILITARY WASHINGTON.
he Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
 Washington is gay with army uniforms these days. but this does not mean that there is a larger number of carpet knights than usual represented by them at the na- tional capital. But a few things have happened during the past six years. and conspicuous among them are the changes in army organization and methods. It may be that officers welcome the new arrangement that brings so many of them into the nations social life. but that is not the object of the new plan. The gen. eral public probably as yet hardly realizes the fact that Washington has become in a larger sense than ever before the army he headquarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

At present the republican leaders are much perplexed in their efforts to find a currency expansion scheme that will fit alike Wall street and the rest of the country, ant even Mir. Can non's district What suits the one does not suit the other, and it is said the republican conferees have not been able to agree upon a bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24
MASSACHUSETTS, ARRIVES.
Will be Dry Docked at New York
 Navy Yard.

New York, August 2s.--The United States battleship Massachusetts. which was considerably damaged on August 12 by striking a ledge of rock during fog off the Maine coast. reached New York harbor tonight. She was conveyed by the battleship Indiana and the navy tug Potomac.
 The Massachusetts will go in dry dock at the New York navy yard, Brooklyn. for repairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

Huntsville is agitated over prospec- tive issue of bonds
 It required 900 cars to transport the machinery for the new Merrimack mills at Huntsville.
 Twenty Alabama ri1emen will parti- cipate in the interstate shoot which will be held in Savannah
 The citizens of Girard and Phenix are in favor of consolidating the two towns. and the question is now being discussed
 It is rumored in Tuscaloosa that Hon. W. B. Oliver may enter the race next year for congressman from the Sixth dis trict
 It Is possible that Huntsville may se- cure a weather station i- .. ear future. Congressman Richardson interesting himself in the matter.
 From present indications Alabama Weekly Publishers associati- will have large attendance at it's organization in Montgomery next month.
 Hon. J. Thomas Hefiin addressed large crowd at Radsfordsville last Thurs day. He handled the peonage question in a vigorous manner and received an ovation.
 A. J. Crawford, a former resident of Gadsden, and chief owner of the Gads- den Iron company, which built the old coosa furnace, died recently in Terre Haute, Ind.
 The papers of the state are anxious to hear former Senator Pugh voice his sem timents on national politics In the meantime the astute politician is lying low and saying nothing at all.
 The Rome Petroleum and Iron com office of the secretary of state that it will do business in Alabama. The state office is at Bluffton. John Campbell Forbes is state agent.
 Papers of incorporation of the Buice Sectional Bookcase company have been filed in Montgomery. A factory will be established for the manufacture of file cases and office furniture. The stock holders reside in Montgomery.
 Young boys in Huntsville have been seized with the gambling fever as a re- suit of the ball games and 1t is said to be often remarked by strangers that lit- tie fellows 10 years old can be seen in the lobby of the Huntsville hotel stalk ing their dollars with all the daring of old plungers.
 Three Egyptians named Assam Alec, Alia Hassen and Mohammed Achim, were arrested on the streets of Mobile as suspicious characters. When exam ined it was found that the Orientals were nearly starved. They said that they had been living on dry corn for a week and an ear was found in the pocket of one of the men. They ravenously de- voured the good food which was imme- diately. provided.
 reunion was held in Brachias, Mont gomery county, of Company D, Third battalion, Hilliards legion. afterwards known as Company of the Sixteenth Alabama regiment. Of the eighteen sur vvors eight were present and the griz- zled old veterans had a great time re- newing their experiences during the civil war. Col John w. A. Sanford, commander of the Sixteenth Alabama regiment, was present. The original number of the company was 113 men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

breadstuffs and provisions is the improve ment of the Erie canal. With that im- provement effected. there is reason to be- lieve that New Orleans, Baltimore. Gal weston, Philadelphia and Boston would resume the relation of importance to New York which they occupied until very re- cent period
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

The name of the new capital of Australia is 1umut It is small, but it hopes to grow if federal appropria- tions are well maintained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

The Turkish sultan stands high as getter out of holes, anu he may yet climb out of the Macedonian hole that has been dug for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

The British loss in South Africa was 22,000 men, but the murderers in the Urited States every two years destroy as many.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

Yesterdays baseball columns in this unhappy town should have had mourning borders and the blackest of ink, with dirge accompaniment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

Carrie Nation Is going on the stage, but not in the ballet department. She is not eligible for the latter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

The Mobile Register thinks Prof. Langley should rechristen his bird, and call it the "Didapper."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

The death of ex-Premier Salisbury carries the world still farther away from the nineteenth century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

Both candidates for governor in Ohio own automobiles, and the ma chine cannot be made an issue in that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

Between the slumps in stocks and the slumps In the wind off Sandy San dy Hook New York Is not happy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

Everybody was made happy last week except the baseball fans, and they are wearing crepe yard wide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

Secretary Root is said to be slated for president in 1908, subject of course to a democratic veto.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

The Bogota lobby will now go to Paris and havo good time on Ameri- can railroad honey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

Arbitration in the interest of all is an established institution in this dis trict, and udge Gray did 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-24

MT. Corbett could not depress Big Jim Jeffries, but he will try to do as much for the stage.