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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Mascaqni's Further Troubles.

Mascagni, the popular composer, is hav- ing more troubles in Italy than he had even in this country. The Musical Lead CT and Concert Goer says:
 "Mascagni had plenty of scornful epi thets to explain his American difficulties; now that the decree removing him from the directorship of the Conservatory at Pesaro is upheld by the courts, he is intending to shake the dust of Italy from his feet. The proceedings in Italy have been somewhat complicated.
 After the city authorities of Pesaro had removed him from his position, he appealed to the minister of public instruc- ton. who upheld the city authorities. Then he appealed again to the privy council, which has also decided against him. He had three lawyers to represent his interests, The reply of the govern ment authorities was overwhelming in it's severity. Mascagni was charged with incredible violations of the regulations. making impossible proper management of the institution, and to all these he added rough abuse of all the public officials of Pesaro. Mascagnis pupils  could learn nothing, because he had no regular plan of studies, no progressive order. no individual instruction. For whole terms at a time he would go off on concert tours, for months the pu- pills remained without instruction, and many went home.
 "When these things came to light, Mas cagni wrote them brilliant certificates. in which he extravaganty praised them for the very things in which they were deficient. This unscrupulousness Is char acterized by the government speaker as nothing short of a crime, for such grant ing of certificates contrary to the truth was little better than forging public doc uments. It is said that Mascagni will try one more appeal to the King himself before he gives up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
THE RIVER OF LIFE.

By Thomas Campbell. The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth Ere passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along it's grassy borders. But as the careworn cheek grows wan. And sorrows shafts fly thicker, Ye Stars that measure life to man, Why seem your courses quicker? When joys have lost their bloom and
 breath
 And life itself is vapid. Why. as we reach the falls of death, Feel we it's tide more rapid? It may be strange-yet, who would
 change
 Timss course to slower speeding, When one by one our friends have gone And left our bosoms bleeding? Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fieetness; And those of youth. seeming length. Proportioned to their sweetness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Liked Birminqhan1.

General Benjamin F. Tracy, ex-secre- tary of the navy and a director in the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany, who spent ten days here in atten- dance on the session of the arbitration commission as one of the counsel for the operators, left for New York yesterday. It was his second visit to Birmingham, his first visit having been early last year.
 While General Tracy was at the union station waiting for train time he said that he was agreeably surprised in Bir- mingham as a place of summer residence. "The climate here is delightful" he re- marked, and I have not suffered from the heat a single day during my stay. Not many of the famous summer resorts are pleasanter."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Mr. WiIIett's Bomb.

The Hon. J. J. Willett, the we'll known lawyer of Anniston, has thrown what some of the newspapers describe as "bomb," into the camp of those in Anniston who are endeavoring to land there the proposed industrial col lege of the Freedmens Aid society. MT. Willett's illumination may be a bomb, but if so it is one filled with sawdust and other soft stuff There is no harm in 1t, and not much logic.
 In substance, MT. Willett objects to tte location of a negro college in An niston, because the handsome little city already has one such college, and two such institutions would drive away its prosperous schools for girls, and they would drive away also all white seekers for homes, because, says MT. Willett, no one would like to live in a Tuskegee.
 Congressman Thompson finds Tus- kegee a pleasant place to live in, and so do hundreds of other excellent white people No one objects to negroes on plantations, and in the delta country of Mississippi they cannot get enough of them. Atlanta and Nashville have large colleges for negroes, and each would be glad to get more of the same sort. MT. Willett has overdrawn his picture, and he forgets the fact that there are nearly ten million negroes in this country, nine millions of whom live in the south, and that they are needed here, and that they must live, learn and die here. The south would lie prostrate indeed if its negro labor were taken away or driven away. In order to keep it there must be public schools open to negroes, with here and there a college. MT. Willett may rep resent public sentiment in Anniston, but he certainly doesn't represent it as it exists here in Birmingham, which desires the location of the college and is doing all it can to secure it. It will do this town no harm, whatever deso- lation it might create in Anniston if MT. Willett be permitted to draw the picture from his own vivid imagina' tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Nicaraqua and Costa RIca.

It does not matter whether the canal treaty was rejected because of the stupidity of backward people-most- ly of mixed negro and Indian blood-or whether it was the net product of the money distributed in the form of bribes by our transcontinental railroads. Probably both contributed to the re- jection of the treaty. Stupid people are easily bribed. They are naturally rotten and Colombia has long been distinguished in this respect even be- yond the adjoining states. No cleo tions in that country are real elections, and no votes are honest if money is in the air.
 1t does not matter to the people of this country what led up to the rejec- tion of the treaty It stands rejected by little seven-by-nino country, and tat is enough. Every American should now demand that the President turn at once, a5 congress has author ized him to do, to the Nicaragua route Every southern paper should do its utmost to make the matter plain, for this district is deeply interested in the digging of canal on the route nearer to us, and here in Alabama all will a1suredly be loyal to Senator Morgan and his long and able advocacy of the Nicaragua route as to the better of the two. He predicted the present out come in Colombia, and his prediction was based on an accurate knowledge of the makeup of parties in Darkest America.
 Some republican papers are advo- eating the promotion of a revolution In Panama, or a forcible seizure of a route across the isthmus, but all such plans are but helping tho transconti- mental railroads in this country to se-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Transportation Cheap.

Do you know that you can have 2GG7 pounds of freight transported one mile for one cent? The statement sounds like bit of fiction, but it is as true as fig ures that don't lie can make any state ment. As we have more railways and more freight and the ingenuity of inven- tors and wisdom of financiers are work ing together, the cost of transportation is being gradually and no less surely de- scribed
 A dozen years ago the railways of this country carried annually S0.000 100000 tons of freight one mile and charged nine- tenth of cent per ton for the service In 19oO-for which we have authentic figures the increased quantity of goods and mer- chandse has brought the figures up to 14O'OOO O0O,000 tons one mile and the' charge for that service down to seven and one- half tenths of one cent for each ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
About Persons.

Prof and Mrs. Charles Clifton Terrell of the University of Mississippi, arrived in Birmingham yesterday and are the guests of Mrs. Ferrelrs parents, Mir. and Mrs. F. T. Taliaferro. on Nineteenth street. Mrs Terrell was very i'll for several weeks.
 P R. Rahm of Philadelphia is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 Charles F. Howard of St. Louis is at the Morris.
 at the Hillman.
 Robert l.. Hipp of Cullman is registered at the Metropolitan.
 B. F. Giles of Tuscaloosa is stopping at the Morris.
 o. L. Schuller of Pittston. Pa. is at the IIillman.
 c. B. Johnson of New York is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 B. I. Hughes of Rome, Ga., is stopping at the Morris.
 s. L. Tyson of Montgomery is stopping at the Hillman.
 G. G. Fltecher of Chattanooga is at the Morris.
 c. R. Browder. division freight agent of the Southern railway. has returned from a vacation spent in the north.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
COREYS SALARY IS $75,ooo.
Steel Trust Pays the New President $25,o0o Less Than Schwab Received.

From the New York World.
 The salary of William E. Corey, president of the United States Steel Corporation, who was elected on Tues day to succeed Charles M. Schwab, has been fixed at $75,O00 year. This is $25,00O less than the salary which MT. Schwab received
 A high official of the steel corpora ton yesterday said that the current stories that Charles M. Schwab re- ceived between SS00,000 and $1,000 900 a year sa.ary had always caused a great deal of amusement among the directors, but that the story was never denied until it was discovered that it was doing possible harm. It created an impression among the. stockholders that the management had been profli- gate in it's expenditures, and it was thought best to give out semi-official statement on the subject.
 The reduction in the salary of pres ident is not intended to be any reflec- ton upon the ability and value of the services of MT. Corey. In the first
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Corrosive Ink.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the PhlIadelphia Record.
 With an impatient grunt the bookkeeper threw away his pen and put new one in the holder. Its terrible" he said, how ink corrodes pens In six or seven hours a new pen will begin to scratch It keeps me busy changing the blamed things, let alone the expense There's money in 1t for the man who will invent non-corros- i've ink" And old mana bill collector remarked to him: My young friend, I'll tell you sure way to stop your ink from corroding your pen. Take a few rusty iron rails, and put them In your inkwell. The inks corrosive acid will play itself out on the nails, and In consequence your pen will escape. A pen that only lasts you a day now should, with my method. last at least a week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Able Violinist.

The latest acquisition to Birminghams s musical circles is William Gussen, vio- linist of marked ability. He will be a member of the faculty of the Conserva- tory of music and will devote his entire time to teaching.
 MT. Gussen studied for years in Ger many dividing his time between Cologne and Berlin. He was recently member .sf the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and at the convention of the National Music Teachers association at Asheville, N C., this summer won great applause lin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Model Rector.

The Rev. P. G. Sears of Meridian, who has been called to the rectorship of the Church of the Advent in this city, is one of the most highly esteemed clergy men of Mississippi He is about forty years old and has a wife and three ehil- dren He is said to be a good solid preacher and tireless worker. It is under stood that he will accept the call and the vestrymen of the Advent are con fdent that he will prove to be model rector.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

to burn that bill-it happened in Santiago but many a good man before him has burned the same i.nperishable piece of pa- per. If American expansion continues, future incineratons await it.
 The press agents calling, as it has been elaborated in this generation, may be de- fined in the large as an attempt to abduct familiar. but still unplaced, stories, and forcibly reincarnate them for box office purposes. But traditional jest has pre- scriptivc rights and prejudices of its own. and resents unlawful seizure by the cack- ling and skeptical note it projects into the laughter it excites. Certain men fitted by nature to become its hosts. Just to name a few-there are Sunset Cox, Tom Ochiltree, Tim Campbell and little Judge Duffy"
 Nowadays the sheeted ghosts of veteran jocularities are most at home we should say nj Simeon Ford's hotel, Joseph H. Choate's law office and Chauncey Depew's native town of Peekskill There never was such round up of the dead of yes- ter-year." by the way, as in '"rhe Choate Jest Book" which the ambassador prompt ly had suppressed. It was a veritable or phan asylum and clearing house of as yet untagged reincarnations.
 
 place, according to this official, under the profit-sharing plan which the con- pany has arranged, MT. Corey will re- ceive handsome dividend every year in addition to his salary. This divi- dend, however, will not be over $25,000 year. In the second place, MT. Schwab's duties have been divided be- tween MT. Corey and E. H. Gary, who becomes chairman of the board of directors, position which MT. Schwab occupied ex-off1cio, although the duties of this position had never before been defined.
 At the office of J. P. Morgan & Go. yesterday member of the firm de- clined to discuss the question of Mr Corey's salary, but it was intimated that the sum named, $75,000, was cor rect.
 MT. Schwab left the city for Atlantic City in his private car attached to a regular train on the Pennsylvania rail- road. Before leaving he said: 'I shall take no part in any active business, but shall devote all my time to resting and recovering my health. If shoul1 at any time get back into harness, if l can find the time to spare from my personal affairs to devote to business, it will be in the interest of the United States Steel Corporation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
GORMAN TALK.

From the Kansas City Journal
 Nothing could more forcibly illustrate the democracy's utter want of good presidential timber than the renewed se- rious talk of the nomination of Senator German.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Will the President tucl down the transcontinental railroads, defeating their Colombian hold-up, by proceed ing to dig Nicaraguan canal? It IS up to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
GOOD MAN WORKS BOTH WAYS.

From the Detroit Free Press. MT. Schwab is a very useful person. Only few months ago he was used as an object lesson to every young Ameri- can, and now he is serving as an awful example.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

The editor of the Salina, Kan, Jour nal was not graduated from the school of journalism, and yet he recently said None of them don't seem to be mak ing any fuss about it.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Price of Piu Iron.

The associated and leading pig iron companies in this district have reduced the price of No. 2 foundry at the fur mace to twelve dollars. This is an ap- proach to the cost of production, even when the producer owns all the raw material he needs in the making of iron. MT. Mcqueen stated before the arbitration commission that No. 2 could be made at $8.50 ton, but Col onel Bush stated that he could not make it at that price and secure a profit. He intimated that the producer who has to buy his raw materials could not make No. 2 at more than three dollars cheaper than Pittsburg can make it, and this would carry the pro- duction price up to at least ten dol lars. MT. Bacons statements were more explicit and definite. He showed from the books of the Tennessee com pany that from July 1, 1901, to July 1, 1902, the company made 542, ,703 tons of iron at an average cost in the first six months of $9.45 a ton, and in the second six months at an average cost of $9.92 ton. From July 1, 1902, to July 1, 1903, it made 516,475 tons at in hn civ he. of $9.S2 a ton, and in the second six months of $1087 ton. These figures of cost include a royalty on coal and ore mined and also charges for furnace replacement, and they may be re- garded as the fair full cost of iron production in this district.
 It will be noticed that the cost of production is steadily increasing, as the following table shows at glance: Second half of 1901. 1..................,..$ 9, 45 First half of 1902. ....................... 9.92 Second half of 1902. 02..................... 9.S2 First half of 1903 ....................... 10.S
 This shows that the cost of produc- tion is tending upwards, and if it is to go still higher the price of iron cannot go much lower, and leave q profit behind in the hands of pro- ducers.
 It is not possible to take the figures presented to the commission, and gather therefrom the cost of producing any particular grade. There are eight grades of iron quoted in this district, four of foundry iron, gray forge, two grades of soft iron, and mottled iron. No. 2 foundry, now held at SIP ton, is listed next to the top, with six grades below it. If the average cost of producing all iron in this district is $10.S7 ton, the cost of making No. foundry must be in the neighborhood of the present selling price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

The Ototen railway, 40 miles long, extending from the Norwegian seaport of Narvick to the rich mines of north ern Sweden, has been opened. It is wholly within the arctic circle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

Y 4NtW IItbS
 Mormons must worry a good deal over the life insurance problem.
 It's queer that people should expect a woman to be honest with others when she can't be honest with herself.
 Next to discovering that some woman was introduced to her husband when she wasn't present a woman can worry most over not being sure whether the neigh bors envy her the new plumbing in her bathroom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Washington does not yet complain that its air is darkened by Professor Langley's flying machine, which cost S60,0O0 of the peoples money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
NOT ONLY IN CHINA.

From the Shanghai Times.
 The trouble with a great many of Shanghais young men is that they don't like to work between meals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

General Youngs lieutenant generals uniform was worn but a week, and is as good as new. Apply at the war office, Washington, D. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
FEELS SLlGHTED.

From the New York Mail and Expres.
 Wall street may be real mad by and by if the business of the country keeps on ignoring it in this scornful manner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
ENCOURAGEMENT.

From the Chicago News.
 Prof. Langley should not be discourag ed. If his machinery will not fly perhaps it will be asuccess as a submarine boat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Grover Cleveland is no Moses.
HMM A CkEDI

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 Senator Tilman denounces the trusts with his pockets full of railroad passes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Pennypacl1er is no longer regulating cartoons, although he is still nominally governor or Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Parry is an anarchist at the other end of the line-a radical with a ridic- ulous tongue. He should be yoked up with John Most.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Cossack and Turk are about to meet, and the rest of the world will say, Go it, Cossack; go it, Turk"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

It is prudent to be not over-critical when speaking of Catcher Millerick. He has a record on other fields, and also a sound stomach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

The list of the snubbed is extend ing. It is headed by Dewey, Schley and Miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

New York considers the expenditure of $101, 100000 upon the Erie canal as no more than dogtax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Gentleman Jim no longer has any stomach for fighting. He needs a new one as much as Rockefeller does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
ALABAMA

completion and will soon be ready to be- gin operations.
 James Knox. brother of the Hon. John B. Knox died Friday at sumpterville' 1 Ala. and was buried ut Talladega. | Col Ed. Williams of Montgomery has entered the race for railroad commission CT and has begun an active campaign.
 Shelby Springs is crowded with Ala bamians just now The popular resort has done fine bushes during the sea- son.
 The first bale of cotton has been recev- ed in Eufaula but the staple came from Georgia It was sold for IS cents per pound.
 Governor Jelks is now rusticating at Blount Springs and Private Secretary Jackson is doing the honors of the office gubernatorial
 Alabama boasts of ten legal hanglngs and only one lynching this year. Thanks to Governor Jelks this is rot so bad when compared to Indiana.
 Lieutenant Hamilton Bowie of Alaba- ma will shortly return from the Philip pines, where he has made a fine record in the Ninth United States cavalry. It is reported in Tuaeumbia that Super intendent J. M Gray of the Sheffield Coal and Iron companys furnaces at Sheffield has rendered his resignation.
 It is rumored that Judge Thomas A. Gillespie of New Jersey may lease the plants of the Southern Car and Foundry company and operate them in the future.
 The Geneva Reaper will issue a hand some trade and souvenir edition on Sep tember 10. The agricultural and indus trial advantages of the section will be treated in detail.
 Dr, J. II. Vandiver, an old and hon ored citizen of Talladega, died Monday at his home in that city. Dr. 9vandiver | stood high among the medical praction- CTS of Alabama.
 General William C. Oates has written letter to the Confederates of Alabama calling for a reunion of the Fourth, Eff teenth Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth regiments in November.
 Secretary of State J. Thomas Hefin is receiving numerous invitations to de-
  make an address at Prattville on tomor. row, and has other invitations not yet accepted
 Ministers of Montgomery were crit icized because none of them officiated at the grave of Marie Gordon, the adventur- ess who committed suicide in Chicago. In defense they state that no pastor In the city was invited to conduct the fun eral ceremonies.
 Rittenhouse Moore of Mobile has closed contract with the United States gov ernment for procuring a depth of 30 feet on the bar in the harbor of Mobile. Mr. Moore agrees to give deep water within six months, and a new future for Mo- bile will be opened.
 picture of Cupid and Psyche in the window of an Anniston bookseller shock ed the sensibilities of a local policeman who ordered the work of art removed When the bookman refused he was haled to court The judge was evidently en- dowed with some artistic perception, for the case was dismissed and the picture undisturbed.
 Peonage may now develop in J county. A negro from Trio came to Montgomery in search of the district att torney. He had been advised by cti- zens of the county to have a legal in- vestigation made of the cases of his two brothers Low confined for breaking la Dor contracts. The warrants were sworn 1xaf,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

The Massachusetts has but fifteen holes in her bottom. She should have eighteen to match Bar Harbor's golf links.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Salute now the general staff, which  never has it's picture took"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Judge Grosscup defines trust pro motors as high-up rascals, intimating that they belong in body in the pen itentiary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

October cotton issselllng at 10 cents, and many farmers are selling their prospective crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Mme Humbert's audacity brings to her support nearly all the men of Paris, but the women of Paris are different.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Money will talk during the extra ses- sion of congress, especially if Father ir-Law Aldrich's currency bill is brought up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20
Salisbury Not Improved.

London. August 19.-The condition oi Lord Salisbury today is unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-20

Montgomery met the enemy and was taken in.