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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
Senior Bishop.

"The Right Rev. Daniel s. Futile of Missouri succeeds the late Bishop Thomas March Clark of Rhode Island as the senior bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States and as such the presiding digntary of the house of blshops," said a prominent lay man.
 Bishop Clark was the oldest bishop If the Episcopal communion in the world. He was born in Newburyport, Mass, July 4, 1S12 and was consecrated Decem- Der 6, 1854. He attended the Theological seminary at Princeton with a view of be- coming a Presbyterian minister His father was a Presbyterian elder. Bishop Clark preached in the old South church, Boston, for short while as a Congrega- tionalist, but in 1886 he was ordained priest of the Episcopal church. Cam bridge university conferred the degree of doctor of laws on the distinguished prelate in 1867.
 "The new presiding bishop is 67 years old. He was born in New York and was educated at Columbia college and at the GeGneral Astrological seminary of New York
 "On account of Bishop Tuttes i'll health it Is believed that he will delegate the duty of his office in the house of bishops to the Right Rev. William Croswell Doane, Bishop of Albany This was done by Bishop Clark of late years, owing to his i'll health.
 "The Right Rev. William NJ. McVickar, bishop coadjutor of Rhode Island, will succeed Bishop Clark"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
.Injurious Aqitation."

Under the foregoing title our evening contemporary, the News, pulls down the Cleveland flag without hesitation or qualification. It says that Grover Cleveland does not desire a fourth nomination, and that he could not be o.ccted if nominated. It goes on to say
 The continued agitation of MT. Cleve- lands nomination is an impediment to harmony. It stirs up almost extinguished prejudices and rcvives bitterness which would soon die if it were not for the ill- advised suggestions of extremists. Those who advocate MT. Cleveland mean well but they are neither doing him nor their party a service They adopting the surest means of melting the party to a re-affirmation of the principles of radl- calism which Cleveland opposed and which are fraught with defeat. The recent recrudescence of Bryansm may be logl- cally attributed to the over-zealous ad- mirers of MT. Cleveland. There can be no democratic harmony until both MT. Cleveland and MT. Bryan are eliminated as Presidential possibilities.
 The News also says the democratic party is not poverty-stricken. It has plenty of good men, one of whom should and will be selected as a stan dard bearer-broad-gu -guaged men who would adorn the Presidential office. Possibly it has MT. German in view.
 This confines injurious agitation in this state to the Montgomery Adver- tiser, the Wedowee Star and John H. Wallace, Jr., and the squad of three has nailed its colors to the mast and will demand four years more for Grover to the last possible minute. The Advertiser contains a screed near ly a column long, showing that a third term for Grant and third term for Cleveland are two wholly different things-that while the one was denied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
WHAT THE TEXAN MEANS TO DO.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 The capabilities of the modern freighter are shown by the fact that the huge steamer Texan, on her trip direct from Puget sound to New York, will traverse 1S,s00 miles, or a distance equivalent to more than half way around the globe. carrying a cargo equal to two or three shiploads. and arriving at her destina- ton on the day she is due, if her pre- vious record .s to be taken as a criterion. The Texan. according to her engineers. will not even have to put into Coronel or any other port to replenish her coal supply. Through calm or hurricane, the bulky Texan. with her powerful engines and twin screws, is confidently depended upon to make schedule time that even a railroad train could not do for such a vast distance. The steamer is now en route from this city to Puget sound ports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
Increase of Population.

The census bureau has issued bull letin consisting of 63 broad pages, all relating to questions connected with the increase of population in this country between 1890 and 1900
 The bulletin shows that the high est rate of increase east of the Rockies was in the south central division, of which Alabama Is part It grew 26.1 per cent, as against a growth of 20.7 per cent in the entire country. All the figures go to show that the south is increasing faster than the north. This is the more remarkable because the former gains but little from immigra- tion. Alabama's growth was 20.S per cent, or a trif1e more than the national growth. Alabama grew faster in the last decade than Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Iowa, the two Carollnas, Arkansas, Missouri, Michigan, and fourteen other states, including Ohio, Kansas and Indiana Only one state, Nevada, showed a decrease, but Nebraska, Kansas, Vermont and Maine were nearly stationary during the de- cade. Alabama is the seventeenth state in order of population, and the sixteenth in order of increase. As a rule growth in the southern states is more evenly distributed than in the northern states. The lumber and the mining districts show the most growth. Growth as a rule favors cities. The country districts hold, however two thirds of the countrys population.
 In Alabama 21, ,19S square miles are increasing more rapidly than the coun- try as a whole, while 3O,342 square miles are increasing less rapidly than the country. This state has twenty seven cities, as against nineteen ten years before. There are all told 1,82S,- 697 inhabitants in this state, all of whom live in country districts except 216,714. Ten years before the urban population of this state was but 152.- 235 The town population has increased from 5.4 per cent in 1880 to 11.9 per cent in 1900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
UNCLE sAM's TASK IS A BIG oNE

From the St Louis Republic.
 The undertaking of the United States government to transform the sand hills of Nebraska into pine forest seems vis- onary. It is proposed that the govern ment plant 1OO,oO0,0O0 trees where now is desert Scientists are certain that these trees will grow and that the sand hills can nourish a forest.
 The idea is staggering. At first blush the thing appears impossible, but 1t may be rational. Gradually the great forests of North America are being destroyed in the interests of the lumber business. Time will come when the supply will fail unless steps are taken to reinforce it from arti- ficial sources The area to be used in Ne- braska is now a waste of sand Yet it is declared that a few feet below ground is a rich soil. in which the roots of the bull pine, yellow pine or red cedar can find the nourishment necessary to produce a large tree Beneath the shade of trees the character of the surface soil would slowly change, until eventually, it is be- leved the entire area would become rich and productive.
 Ten years will be required to plant 1Oo- GOO, GOO trees Many more years must elapse before the forest can become a reality. But if it be true, as the professors or forestry say, that trees will grow on the sand hills, such an artificial forest will be great boon to the second or third generation. Try it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
Staue Humor.

"of all the comedians on the American stage today there Is none I like to watch better than Tim Murphy" said a regular theatre goer last night. There Is more dry humor to his work than in that of any other actor I know, 7rd then he inva- riably plays high class of comedy.
 His interpretation of "A Capitol Come dy' was one of the best things he ever did, but people who have seen The Man from Missouri, which he is playing this year say it equals anything the veteran ever did.
 Another interesting feature in the ap- pearance of Tim Murphy will be that Miss Louise Whitfield. who was a social favorite here. will appear in the produc- tion as Darling. She has many friends here who will watch her work with in- terest,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
TEMPERANCE IN THE SOUTH.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 It is curious feature of the prohibition movement that while it is rapidly being abandoned in the north, after nearly half century of trial which proved prohibi- ton to be imperative, in the south it is making great headway. The New Voice. the western prohibition organ, finds that in Texas 1S6 counties have total prohibi- ton, 62 partial prohibition, and 46 unre- stricted sale of liquor. In Tennessee liquor can be sold legally in only twelve of the ninety-six counties. In Kentucky forty-seven counties have total prohibi- ton, fifty-four partial. and eighteen unre- stricted sale. In Arkansas fifty-four counties have total prohibition, two par tial, and twenty nine unrestricted sale In Mississippi sixty-five out of seventy five counties. and in Georgia 1os out of l37 have prohibition. It is claimed that the whole south has fewer saloons than the state of New York.
 It is another peculiar feature of the situation that the prohibition laws are much better and more generally enforced in the south than in the north. and that while drunkenness is increasing in the north, owing to the nonenforcement of laws and the curse of can rushing. which is playing havoc among boys and making them hoodlums. 1t is decreasing in the south If this be the case it will work to the great advantage of the south in every way It is curious fact, however, that while the south seems to be able to en- force prohibition laws. which shows that the majority of the people are in favor of sobriety. it is not yet able to check law lessness in some other directions, and that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11

were received only two days ago. and the change was unexpected He had a num- Der of friends here.
 Congressman John H Bankhead of Fayette, is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 
 D. B. Smith, Jr., of opelika, is register ed at the Florence.
 John W A. Sanford. Jr.. Montgomery, S. NJ. Caudle of Anniston, William E. Wren of Gadsden and B. F. Giles or Tusealosa, are at the Morris.
 
 R. D. Garrison of Virginia is at the St Nicholas.
 Redd Lawson of Tuscaloosa, W. J. Boy kin and L. H. Lee of Gadsden, M M. Av- cry of Montgomery, B. F. Weakley, Florence. are registered at the Metropoli- tan.
 c. H. Denhard, 'traveling auditor of the Louisville and Nashville railroad is stop- ping at the Metropolitan. W. B. Patton of Montgomery, T. M. Hewitt of Scottsboro and Nat J. Max well of Tuscaloosa are at the Florence. ]. Well, one of the leading merchants of Montgomery, is at the Metropolitan
  Reed Lawson of Greensboro is stopping at the Metropolitan. A. A Mabson of Tuscaloosa, is register ed at the Morris.
 R. r. Johnston of the Ledger, has re- turned from trip to the far west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
Montreal's Trade.

'The New York Journal of Commerce laments Montreafs rapid progress, at New Yorks expense. in the exportation of grain" said business man. "Ac- cording to the Journals figures in the open season from May 1 to August 3l Montreal exported 1s.O4O.214 bushels of wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley, while New York exported but 16,341, 519 bushels. In the like period in 1902 Montreal was but 10000 bushels ahead, but its stride is rapid. The moral of it all. of course, is the necessity of digging a $10O0O0, GOO canal to restore New Yorlks export trade. The people of New York state are soon to vote on the canal proposition, and every argument is made to do duty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

will now be able to enjoy their pipes in comfort without having to dodge the sharp eye of the officers. Colonel Mills. superintendent at the military academy. hopes to finally drive out cigarette smok- ing. With pipes easy to be obtained and cigarettes very difficult 1t would naturally seem that the cadets would soon drift into smoking pipes altogether. The regu- lations against smoking at West Point have been extremely irksome to the stu dents. and breaches of discipline in this respect have been numerous. In the case of ineorrigible smokers nearly all their time has been spent walking tours to serve out sentence of punishment for be- ing caught while indulging in the soldce of the weed If smoking cannot be stopped the pipe is certainly the best compromise that could be effected between the ca dets and the authorities.
 The simplicity of Lord salisbury's fu- neral is being cited as a splendid example for all classes to follow. The dead pre- mier lead an exemplary life that was un- marked by worldly display, and the ob- sequies were an index of his character. Many poor families bankrupt themselves by trying to impress their neighbors with a costly funeral, when they are frequent ly compelled to deny themselves neces- saries of life in order to pay the bills. It is poor policy to shower attention on a corpse that can no longer appreciate this worlds pomp. More often it is not so much desire to do honor to the dead as a prompting of vanity in the minds of the living The rich can afford such displays, but usually it Is the poverty stricken widow who makes the most strenuous efforts to give her dead spouse a stylish "sendoff." A $70 funeral would be disdained by most families who could afford one more expensive, but if it did no dishonor to Lord Salisbury 1t is cer- tainly good enough for people who are far less important than the dead statesman.
 The death of a man who over-exerted himself in trying to catch train reminds us again that American people are too prone to rush through life as if every thing were run on schedule time We have long been noted as the greatest people to hurry in the world, and are the wonder of less progressive nations. It cannot be denied that we gain many things by our strenuousness, but then we also lose many pleasures that are perhaps more desirable. The man who is wrapped up in his business affairs from morning to night and spends the evening in rushing about to social affairs has scant time to appre- ciate the beauties of life He seldom does. It has Leen said that most of our business men are the dryest class of people to be found when 1t is a ques- tion of anything else than the almighty dollar. Of course there are exceptions. There are men who have amassed wealth in early life, and have had time to develop the artistic side of their na- lures. The average broker is an automa- ton whose mind Is trained to figures and is seldom occupied with anything else than schemes for making dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
Banishing the Negro.

It is scarcely probable that any one will pay much heed to Mir Woods bill to cut off the small appropriations made to Booker Washington's school at Tuskegee, or the school of Prof. Paterson in Montgomery. The appro- priations in each case are but $500, and 1t is not likely in answer to a pass ing wave of ti-Rooseyeltism they will be cut off.
 The times are full of racial non sense. It may be harmless, but still 1t is hairbrained. John Temple Graves has recently exploited scheme that promises to boon his own fortunes at any rate, and that would if carried in- to operation put the ship trust and even the shipbuildi1 2, trust on their re- spective feet. He proposes to carry away to some land all the negroes in the south. It would be necessary to
 
 catch the negroes before transporting them, and Mr Graves has not yet selected land to place them in. De tails do not work in well in his hot-air scheme.
 Senator Morgan favors deportation but he comes down to actualities. He rroposes to send them to the Philip not propose to consult the negroes or not propose to ansult the negroes or the Filipinos, but his plan has the ad. vantage of dennitenesa over anything would leave the south without labor but both no doubt hope substitutes would flow in to fill all gaps.
 But all this is mere talk. The negro is here to stay, and all schemes of V holesale deportation are idle dreams There Is no fact better established than that the negro is here to stay. What he will beeome-what he will do for himself-what we can do for and with him-are each and all unknown quantities or problems, and no man can foresee the end. They are problems hat must be left to generations, ana
 that each generation can do is 4 ptribute it's part to their solutjfm oone-not even John Temple Graves --aan -decipher the ontcome and each generation as it comes along must take up the problem and do it's part. We are doing our part now, and that is all we can do. Dreams of the Graves sort may be harmless-they certainly are not helpful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11

stance, where the Goelet millions were amassed, gets out of it the chance of
 sometime possessing the power of having
 Duke of Roxburghe, as we'll as a Duke
 or Marlborough, collect the rents on large number of it's dwellings, offices,
 hotels and other structures. Instead of paying this tribute to men or women who live at least part of their time in this city, it will pay it to one who is alto gether foreigner. The marriage simply increases the number of Europeans to whom the new world pays taxes A consideration remains which may be deemed one of value bv those who
 look at the matter in a certain way If we are 10 have an aristocracy, perhaps It may be better to have it allied with
 the princes and ducal families of the old w0@ld than to have it merely an aristoc-
 racy of money. There is no particular tendency on the part of our millionaires to ally themselves by marriage with the old American colonial stock-the descend- ants of royal governors, revolutionary generals, the dominant divines of the
 eighteenth and seventeenth centuries and
 the like These are too poor. marriage now and then to British duke or earl
 or to a prince or marquis of the conti-
 nent establishes an elegant connection
 which may react favorably upon our
 moneyed society with certain aristocrat-
 ic distinction.
 In this sense we may gain-a little. A
 lew ducal relatives may do much to re-
 deem family from the imputation of
 having nothing but money; it may help
 to leaven the lump.
 But the people? They do not figure in the calculation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
GEoRGlA'S WAR ON LOAFERS.

From the New York Commercial
 Georgia Is having an exciting time. A >vagrancy law is being actively enforced all over the state. The effect of 1t is both curious and laughable. Men are going to work who never worked before, a press report says, and many negro women are getting married to escape the law. Ne groes who have been loafng a whole year have gone to work! Strikingly nov el, isn't it? A law that drives male loaf CTS to work and female loafers to matri- mony! And the law is a great success that is the press report version.
 The Atlanta newspapers tell a slightly different story. Since the law became operative idle negroes have been hocking to Atlanta from the small towns of the state where the peace officers made 1t too warm for their comfort. It was a case of work or get out, and the negroes got-they got to Atlanta, where they hoped to lose themselves in the laby- rinth of the slums. So many idle negroes must live, and as they will not work the question becomes serious Atlanta will have accomplished a wonder if it can solve the problem.
 In every village there exist few loaf CTS who are content to take an occasional term in jail to conciliate justice as ap- piled in this form of law These are the petty criminals usually harmless as a rule, but when put to 1t they develop into thugs and highwaymen. Such must be maintained at the expense of the state the greater part of the time. Meantime Georgias war on the loafers serves to keep them from utter stagnatinn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
About Persons.

J. C. Schroeder of Atlanta is at the Hillman.
 George P. Ides of Jacksonville, Ala, is at the Hillman.
 P. T, Quinn of Atlanta, is at the Hill man.
 Graham B. Hobson of Richmond, was among the late arrivals at the Hillman last night
 James P. Ferrall. wife and four child ren of Montgomery are registered at the Hilman.
 W. l.. Beasley of Montgomery is at the Hillman.
 Congressman Oscar W. Underwood left yesterday for Savannah. He will sail this morning on the City of Augusta of the Ocean Steamship line from Savan- nah for New York.
 H. H. Avis. a member of the engineer ing corps of Ford. Bacon tS Davis left yesterday for Kansas City. where he has been ordered to work. His instructions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
PROFIT AND LOSS FOR
 AMERICANS TO FIGURE

From the New York Mall and Express. May Goelet has nothing to gain in worldly sense' from her marriage with the Duke of Roxburghe. To this writ CTS mind there are evidently no worldly considerations beyond those of money. To Miss Goelet the duchy of Roxburghe was certainly not financially an object. Her fortune is not only very much more than sufficient for her own needs, but 1t more than matches the noble dukes, though his Is quite respectable. But there was something more than the consideration of financial resources. doubtless, in this mar riage. even if one were to deny to it the element of love.
 In the first place, it is something for woman of the commonalty to get into the Peerage, even with the letter m in italics before her maiden name. faumor ran that Miss Goelet might have been a princess instead of a duchess, but the title of prince has been chea pened on the continent, until that of an English duke seems quite as much of an asset. The honors paid to a duchess in Britain are certainly bewildering enough to an Amer ican girl.
 As worldly proposition. there is cer- tainly more than the young dukes for tune in this alliance. The lady has "done we'll" as the country wives say. What about the country of her birth? Has that done well. too. exchanging another American girl for ducal title?
 
 apparent, inasmuch as the country not only gives the lady outright. but her es- tates. The city of New York, for in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
oraanlst and Director.

Rienzi Thomas, one of the most &C., complished organists and experienced di- rectors in the country, who has been mak- ing his home in Montgomery for the past two years, has decided to locate in Bir- mingham Music lovers and chorus singers will read this announcement with more than ordinary interest, for musician of Mir. Thomas all round training is needed here.
 MT Thomas has accepted the position Of organist and choir masteli7t the South Highlands Presbyterian chrSch. and will begin his services there just as soon as the big pipe organ is installed which will be about November l. He will organize and train festival chorus with a view of giving grand music festival in the spring of 1904. He will set to work at once to gather his singers
 Mir. Thomas was born in Wales but came to the United States when he was only seven years old He was sent abroad to study music. In Stuttgart he had in- structions in theory, composition and score reading, and it was there that he mastered the technique of the piano forte. From Stuttgart he went to Liverpool, where he was a pupil of the late Dr. Best who ranked as the greatest organ ist in the world.
 MT. Thomas is at the present time or ganist at St. Johns Episcopal church in Montgomery, and previous to his accept ance of that position he was organist at St. Peters Catholic church, and later at the Court Street Methodist church. He once filled a choir position in Congrega- tional church in Portland. Me, and few years ago he was organist in a large church in Cincinnati. He has been in de- mand for organ recitals, and only a few weeks ago gave a recital the $15O0O organ in the new Jesuit church at Ma con, Ga. That organ, by the way, Is the costliest and the noblest in the south without any exception.