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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-15
Labor Dissatisfaction.


What this particular criticism ISL
do not know" said Copmissioner
Wright, this morning. Il am frequently
criticised by labor unions because I
compile and present facts to the Gov
ernment and TO the public, instead OF
presenting arguments.
Il have always maintained that it is
not the province of government officer
to argue cases. The Bureau of Labor
is primarily an institution for the col
lection of data showing the exact con-
dition of labor in the United States
and at times to compare these condi-
tions with those CT foreign countries.
The conclusions to be drawn from such
data must be left to legislative bodies
and 10 the public.
Will Resign Next Year.
But the labor unions need not worry
themselves about me- added the Com
missioner. "as I expect to resign NV
present position next year, as soon as
can put the work of the bureau into
such shape that a new man can readily
take it up and continue it." =,
When Colonel Wright resigns his office
as commissioner he will Immediately go
to Clark University at Worcester. Mass
to take up the active work of president
of the academic department of that mi
vers!tY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-15

Thousands suffer from 9 short. hacking cough
who might be cured by Pisos Cure.-Ady.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-15
TEMPERATURE.
THE SIN
TIDE TABLE

High tide today 5:07 p. m.
High tide tomorrow 5:11 a. ~. 5:48 p. N.
Low tide tomorrow .I1:00 a. M. i1;24 pm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
Emotions of Honey Bee.

T believe the common honey bee ex- hibits in his every day life longer range of emotions than any other animal ex- oept man himself" said a man interested in apiaries.
 He is an example of patriotism, loy- alty, industry and frugality that most men would improve themselves by fol- lowing. Bees live in colonies, each of which contains one queen dozen or more male bees, known as dronea' and hundreds of the workers who make the honey It is the workers who possess the finer instincts.
 "They show their patriotism by their devotion to tho best interest of their own hive. Whenever they use their ating 1t costs them their life and yet they are ready to make the sacrifice any time They show loyalty to the queen and will. drive out all bees who refuse to acknowl- edge her as ruler. Their industry is shown by the fact that they net only work all day carrying nectar from the flowers to the hive, but they sleep at night with their wings buzzing to keep the air in motion and eyaporate the nec- tar, making it into honey.
 For a man to be busy as a bee he would have to work day and night
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30

bitrate" until public sentiment con- pelled them to have something, will however reap no honors or rewards from it.
 When two parties differ over a com plex business matter, it is simply inn prudent in one side to declare that it has nothing to arbitrate." Those Who have nothing to arbitrate" are men or corporations to enforce their views and plans and purposes regard less of all others. the consumers in ehded. At the most nothing to arbi- trate" is a bluff, as the report of the hard coal commission amply illus trates.
 It is scarcely likely that hereafter any party in an industrial quarrel will declare it has nothing to arbitrate," for arbitration is now we'll establish ed as a method of settling any and all industrial disputes. True, arbitra ton in a complex case involves com promise, but compromise is the best road to equity and justice in nine Cases out of ten-in all complex cases.
 Not only did arbitration settle the lresent differences, but it introduced and inaugurated boards of conciliation -foards that are to last three years, which is long enough to test their efficiency and practicability. These boards will interpret and enforce the award of the commission, and the ap- continent of these boards of concilia- tion is obligatory upon both miners and operators. The commission does not favor compulsory arbitration, but il faHGrs almost every other sort of al bitl ration during the life of their award. Perhaps the most valuable portion of the commissions award re- latea 10 the promotion of arbitration, wlich may now be considered fairly well established in the public mind, whatever the monopolies and other autecratic institutions may think con cernlng it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
Taxing Mortgages in New York.

Governor Odell has recommended and the legislature is about to pass mortgage tax of four-tenths of 1 per centum on each dollar of every mort gage on real estate. This is equivalent to a tax of forty cents on each $100 of the principal sum named in the mort gage, as against a tax of fifteen cents on like sum in this state The Ala bama law includes mortgages on per sonal property-in fact all evidences of debt in the nature of a mortgage, while the New York proposition is confined to real estate.
 But the New York plan is very faul- ty. It is not self-collecting as the Ala bama tax is-that is to say, the pro- posed tax is collected in New York as other taxes are, and if it is not paid by the first of December then the mort gage security shall be liable to seizure and sale. In Alabama on the other hand the collection of the tax is made a prerequisite of record and validity. and the tax may thereafter be said to be self-collecting. It will in every case be paid, and that too very promptly. But in New York the col lection will be difficult, tiresome and bothersome. If it is not paid, the mort. gage can be recorded and it is valid. and the holder of it may delay pay. Ament of the tax until proceedings of collection are actually begun.
 Under the New York bill a mort. gage may provide for the payment of B rate of interest and four-tenths of l per centum in addition, for the New York mortgage tax is an affair, where as the Alabama tax is paid once for all, even if the mortgage is to cover 99 years. All in all the mortgagors in Alabama have escaped with light tax, and the proposed tax in New York will be considerable burden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
TOO MANY DOGS.

From the New York Mail and Express.
 The common eur has had his exuberant day little too long In this free hearted and easy-going metropolis. The multipli- cation of cases of hydrophobla here-thir- teen deaths have been attributed rightly or wrongly to that cause in the last six months-is pretty good proof that there mas been far too much liberty allowed to the species. The streets in certain sec lions of the city are infested by totally unrestrained mongrels which, though they may be less numerous, are certainly lot less ignoble than those which play the role of scayengers at Constantinople. The biting of children by these animals Is a common occurrence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
FOR MILLION DOLLAR CHURCH.
Rich Mining Shares Sold to Further a
 Peoples Temple In Chicago.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 The Rev. J. S. Bitler, well known evangelist, who has held revival meetings at various Indiana points in the last ten years, is now in Wabash. Ind, in the in terest of a novel scheme to raise funds for q s5OOO,O GOO dollar peoples church at Chicage
 The Rev MT. Bitter says it has been the ambition of his life to secure the erection of a great temple on State street, Chicago with seating capacity of at least 1O,o00, and which should be used ex- clusively for the poor.
 He never had a promising plan for raising the money until year ago, when he occupied the pulpit of church in Missouri and fell in with an agnostlc, with whom he labored and who at last professed religion. This man owned q large tract in the center of the Cripple Creek, Colo, mining region. and in the enthusiasm following his conversion he deeded to MT. Biter 100 acres of the choicest part of his holdings with the condition that 1t was to be developed for the purpose of furthering the Chicago temple project.
 MT. Bitler, not caring to take the re- sponsibility of realizing on the property, formed joint stock company, and so great is his confidence in the enterprise that he is now travelling through In- diana presenting the matter to the people to whom he appealed years ago and offer ing them the shares. He carries fine spec imens of the gold taken from the tract. including many large nuggets and large quantities of gold dust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
Volume of Business.

Outside of the stock market" says Henry Clews in his circular letter of Sat urday, the situation while somewhat confused Is not unfavorabe. The crop outlook thus far is satisfactory, and the agricultural classes are known to be en- toying prosperity. The same Is true ot the industrial classes, which are well em- ployed and well paid. This means that consumption is proceeding at a rapid pace The volume of business, therefore con- tinues large in spite of high prices, and there are yet no signs of reaction. The chief complaints come from manufaetur- ing and transportation interests where the costs of production or of conducting business have been so seriously increased as to cause a sharp dimnution of profits
 This tendency is increasingly apparent in the returns of net earnings for rail- roads and industrials; In fact from all quarters the chief complaint Is the in- creased cost of doing business and the falling away of profits Should this con tinue, it will enforce new economics and possibly a reduction of dividends in some quarters where premature increases had been established The business situation however, as whole, is sound and while there are certainly tendencies that require close watching, still the outlook is for another good year if those who control keep on conservative lines"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlAs MA
Cleveland and Roosevelt.

Our only living President and our only living ex-President are going west, and their respective itineraries will soon be published. But why should these great public leaders go to double expense and trouble, when by starring together they could create deep i'm pression before immense audiences?
 True, they would have to divide time, but there would be time enough for both, and perhaps they could eX- pose each other as they go along, thus serving the public, even if they did not serve each other.
 There is no reason why these two distinguished citizens-the one In of flee and the other out of it-should not star together. MT. Cleveland says he is not candidate for the succession, and Mir Roosevelt says he keeps Duty with a big D always before him. He may mistake it at times, especially in southern appointments, but it is still his guiding star and destiny. Why then should not these two great men travel together-the one. neither desir- ing nor expecting office, and the other having an eye single to Duty?
 The two men are so superior to ordi- nary mortals that they would together serve as object lessons to wondering world. In five minute speeches they could recall the indifferent and re- prove the wayward, although to tell thu truth MT. Cleveland would need more than five minutes in which to unwind one of his peculiarly involved sentences In uiction Mr. Roosevelt would have the advantage, but when it comes to weight and impressiVeness MT. Cleveland would be the winner.
 Far be it from us to call such con- bination a circus. It would be flippant to speak in that manner of the consti- tuted authorities of the country, but the two men would be a stellar combi- nation of unsurpassed popularity. MT. Roosevelt's teeth would offset MT. Cleveland's twenty-one inch collar, and altogether it would be a pair worth going miles to see and hear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The New industries Reported in the
 South and West.

Chattanooga. March 29.-The progress in southern industrial development for the week just closed as reported by The Tradesman, includes the following new organizations as among the most impor- tant:
 Alabama = Gadsden, bottling works; brick works. Birmingham, grist mill. Huntsville, stave factory; spoke and han dle factory. Montgomery, lumber com pany. Mobile, real estate company.
 Arkansas-Rector cotton gin; cotton gin. Stamps, s20OCo ice and fuel company. Clarksville $3OOOO coal company. Little Rock s25,OoO oil and mining company. Junction, telephone company. Antimony' mining and milling company. Grand View canning factory. Newport s1ooO land company.
 Tiortda-weir Park. saw mill. Wiscon. saw mill.
 Georgia-Ocilla, cotton gin. Atlanta, box company; $10000O mining company Win der. lumber company. Baxley, lumber mill. Savannah, s9O,OOO saw mill. Rock mart. s1, ,5O0.OoO cement company. Tallulah Falls silk mill. Appling, telephone sys- tenn.
 Kentucky-Lexington, s5oo,oOO oil and gas comnany; s40,O00 brick works. Louisa, s25,0OO hardware company. Sturgis, min ing company.
 Louisiana-Gueydan, sl50,000 land com many. Clinton, s20,000 electric light ana ice plant. Lake Charles, s250,O0O oil com pany.
 Missssippi-Heidleberg s1OOO0 furniture factory. Greenville, $50. 000 wagon com pany. Yazoo City, waterworks Collins, canning factory. Jackson, s20,00O furniture company.
 North Carolina-Red Springs, $50O coo oil and fertilizer company. Dallas, $150.000 cotton mill s20,0OO water and power com pany. Authorization S20, 900 lumber com pany. Wilson, tobacco factory. Winston Salem. $25,000 fuel and ice company.
 South Carolina-Ninety-s cotton mill. Allendale, oil mill and cotton gin. En- cree. S625,0oo telephone company. Char lotte, cotton mill.
 Tennessee-Lebanon. s10oN00 coal com- pany. Memphis. s100,000 button company; wood and handle company: s50.0o0 coal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Greater Birmingham.

There are a great many arguments in favor of Greater Birmingham said Leo K. Steiner. but one of the greatest is the fire protection a suburb would get from the city.
 T noticed a few days ago where a church was burned just outside the limits of a certian city because the mayor of the suburb refused to let the fremen of tN' city extinguish the flames He said that a community which consistently refused to come into the city ought not to reap benefits from such city.
 T am of the opinion that Birmingham should do likewise under like eireum- stances and that the city should not go out of the limits to give fire or any other kind of protection if the outsiders decline positively to come into the municipality and share it's burdens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
OBSERVATIONS ON TWO
 SCHOOLS OF JUDAISM

he once thought it would be best to have only one great institution of Jewish learn Ing, he had now made up his mind, that considering the character of our time and the development of individuality in men. it Is well to have at least two ths- ological seminaries, one standing for all that is traditional and historical of our race and the other for ideas little more advanced in the reform movement" This Is a very significant acknowledgement It might be called, rather, a graceful ac- ceptance of the inevitable, of the con- tinued and permanent division of Ameri- can Jewry into two camps.
 At present, the Orthodox school Is great ly in the ascendency numerically. Prac- tically all of the additions to the Jewish population which immigration is now bringing of from thirty to fifty thous- and annually, are recruits for the Ortho- dox party the party to which belong all most exclusively the 4000OO Jews already established in the East Side Ghetto of New York. Whether they, too, will be liberalized in the course of time by the American influences which have tended to break down tbe strict conservatism of so many of the older Jewish settlers has yet to be demonstrated. The old were chiefly of German origin; these newcomers are of Russian or Eastern European origin and are the most unchangeable in their traditional orthodoxy.
 One other remark by Dr. Schechter was noteworthy. It was an outburst of pride in the Jewish race because i've gave to the world the Bible" That, he said. "is our whole justification for existence; the Bible is our patent of nobility" and 't is this that the higher anti-Semitism seeks to destroy" This intellectual per- secution," he declared, must be met in an intellectual battle" In the fight over the Bible which has now begun the Jews will take a foremost part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
THE CHEMISTRY OF CHARACTER

By an unknown poet. John, and Peter, and Robert. and Paul. God in His wisdom created them all John was a statesman, and Peter a slave Robert a preacher, and Paul-was a
 knave. Evil or good, as the case may be, White or eolored or bond or free John, and Peter and Robert and Paul, God in His wisdom created them all Out of earths clements, mingled with
 flame. Out of lifes compound of glory and
 shame, Fashioned and shaped by no will of their
 own And helplessly into life's history thrown; Born by the law that compels men to be- Born to conditions they could not fore John, and Peter, and Robert and Paul. God in His wisdom created them all. John was the head and heart of his state, Was trusted and honored, and noble and
 great Peter was made meath life's burdens to
 groan, And never once dreamed that his soul was
 his own. Robert great glory and honor received. For zealously preaching what no one be-
 lieved, While Paul of the pleasure of sin took
 his fill And gave up his life to the service of i'll. It chanced that these men, in their pass
 ing away From earth and it's conflicts. all died the
 same day. John was mourned through the length
 and breadth of the land; Peter fell meath the lash in merciless
 hand; Robert died with the praise of the Lord
 on his tongue, While Paul was convicted of murder and
 hung. John and Peter, and Robert, and Paul, The purpose of life was fulfilled in them
 all Men said of the statesman. How noble
 and bravev' But Peter, alasl The was only a slave" Or Robert. "'tis well with his soul-it is
 well'' While Paul they consigned to the tor
 ments of hell. Born by one law through all nature the
 sama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
Old Men to ihe Front.

Grover Cleveland was born March Is, 1897, and if he should be nominat- ed by the democrats he would be in his sixty-eighth year. but he would be inaugurated, if elected, before he be- came fully sixty.eight years old Will. liam Henry Harrison was sixty-eight years old when he was inaugurated aud Samuel J. Tilden was practically offered the democratic nomination in 1851, when he was seventy years old. John Adams was sixty-two years old when he became president, and so was Andrew Jackson, and when Zachary Taylor was inaugurated he was sixty five years old, and James Buchanan was sixty-six years old when he step. ped into power and an overwhelming crisis.
 The fayorite age for service in the presidency is from fifty to sixty. Three men were elected to the great office under the age of fifty, and five over the age of sixty, not including Samuel J. I',ldeI-and the remainder were be- tween fifty and sixty years of age Mr. Roosevelt is by far the youngest man who ever reached the high posi- ton, and General Grant, Grover Cleye- iand and James A. Garfield were each under fifty years of age.
 Washington died at the age of sixty seven, soon after leaving the presi- dency, but his successor lived a pri- vate citizen twenty-five years, dying at the age of ninety years. Madison lived to be eighty-fiye years old, and Jeffer- son was eighty-three years old at the time of his death, but none of the lat CT lived to four score.
 The office has become eXacting and laborious, and it really demands man in full vigor, especially if that man de- sres to live long after the cares of office are finished, Grover Cleveland was but forty-eight when he was first inaugurated, and he is living in excel lent health after serving two terms, and with undiminished thirst for power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
Maj. w. w. Screws.
the Editor of The Age-HeraId.

To the Editor of The Age Herald.
 notice with regret an article in todavs Age-Herald written by Mir Joseph Pep perman of Montgomery that Maj. w. W. Screws of the Montgomery Advertiser would not permit the use of his name for president of the National Editorial asso- ciation at Omaha on July 8. Major Screws is one of the ablest, oldest and most popular newspaper men of Alabama and the south, and his long and useful experience at the helm thoroughly qual- flies him for every duty. requirement and responsibility of the office. And then again this would be a fit recognition of the work of one whose life has been given to the promotion and elevation of the press. Major Screws not only occu- pies warm spot in the hearts of the people of Montgomery and the entire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 H HE dinner in honor of pr. Kauf- 9 man Kohler of Temple Beth-El
 situated at seventy-sixth street and Fifth avenue. on Thursday evening. and to celebrate his election to the pres ideney of the Hebrew Union college at Cincinnati, was significant because 1t brought together in friendly intercourse leading representatives of the two schools of Judaism, the liberal, or reform and the orthodox, or conservative.
 Dr. Kohler will succeed the late Dr. Isaae Mayer Wise, the founder of the Cincinnati institution for the training of rabb.s, in 1875, so distinguished as a leader in reform Judaism; yet one of the principal speakers at the dinner was Dr. solomon Schechter, the president of the Jewish Theological seminary in New York, who is now the most learned rep. resentative of the orthodox school in this country At the New York seminary every student who is a candidate for A degree must be a strict observer of the Jewish ritual, must keep the Sabbath ana conform to the Jewish dietary laws.
 
 Dr. Sohechter referred humorously to his theological battles with Dr. Kohler and there may have been a suggestion of playful irony in his remark that he thought 'it a great thing that Dr. Kohler Is relieved of the ministry in order that he may devote his time to scientific re- search" It had been the hope of con- servative Jewry that the New York Theo- logical seminary, at the head of which Dr. s' nechter is. might he made the one great American institution for the train ing of rabbis, and therefore his presence at this dinner was notable as an indica- tion that that dream Is now dispelled in his mind and in the minds of the school of Judaism represented by him.
 This change of sentiment was express ed directly by Dr. Leipsiger, who presided at the dinner, in the remark that though
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Most women would rather be married unhappily than be not married happily.
 Eve started the deceptions of her sex when she began the custom of putting on clothes.
 Maybe the early bird s4at caught the worm was going home after playing poker all night.
 Women expect their husbands to live up to the heroes of their favorite novels and their sons to those of the Bible.
 When man forgets to find fault with the way the cook made the coffee his wife begins to suspect he has something on his conscience he is afraid she will dis cover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30
Municipal Notes.
From Life

FfOm IlfPi
 Boston is its own reward. The wicked flea, whom San Francisco pursueth.
 Chicago Is paved with good intentions. An ancient and a fish-like Gloucester. Every Pittsburg has a silver e.ning. Washington makes strange bed-fellows AIS Philadelphia on the Potomac. New Orleans Is a lottery.
 The race is to the New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-30

power company. Waverly. s6OOO stave and tie company. Murfreesboro. mining com pany. Nashville, $3O.000 tie and lumber company. Chattanooga, bottling com pany, Bristol. $5o,OO0 lumber company.
 Texas-Arcola, s750, 900 sugar mills. La- redo, mining company. Greenville, $100, 600 telephone company. Waco. $5O00 brick and tile works; $2000O mining company. Junc- ton, $50,000 milling and irrigation com pany. Beaumont, s2O0,000 asphalt and re- fining company; telegraph system s10, GOO oil company
 virginia-Portsmouth $6O.0OO steel door and blind plant
 West Virgnia-Milton, $2l,000 Touring mill. Charlestown $150,0O0 coal company.