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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
PRIEST TO ENTER VALE.
Has Parish In New Haven VIII Grad.
 uate With 19o4 Next June.

New Haven, Conn. June 16.-The Rev. Francis D. Acshane, one of the Domini- can fathers connected with St. Mary's church in this city. has just completed ar engagements with the officials of Yale Uni- versity by which he Is to become a mem ber of the senior academic class for 'o4 He will begin his studies with the seniors next fall for the degree of bachelor of arts.
 This is the first case of Catholic priest with parish appointment entering Yale forla degree or for study of any kind The Rev. Father McShane was born in New York city and is a graduate of the priesthood in the Dominican seminary in Ohio and later went to Belgium to study A month ago he obtained permission from his superiors in the Dominican order to go to Yale. and the Yale faculty has just informed him that he can enter with the 'o4 seniors next September. The priest will take part in the classroom work, just the same as any of the seniors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
HOSIERY MEN ADJOURN.
Important Matters Disposed of In the Final Meeting-Prices Advanced.


 Asheville, N. O., June 17.-Important matters were disposed of this after noon at the final meeting of the South ern Association of Hosiery Manufactur- CTS. It was agreed to advance the price on all products of hosiery estab- lishments, irrespective of grade, 10 per cent, and 1t was the concensus of the association that further advance in prices will follow in the near future.
 A speech on trade conditions was nude by Charles Chipman, who repre- sented mills in Pennsylvania and Can ada. He declared in favor of raising the standard of age limit for children to fourteen years, and said the south had been fortunate in escaping many of the troubles which have arisen be- tween capital and labor in the north.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
TO CONSIDER COTTON MERGER.

Special Dispatch to the Atlanta y-"rnal.
 Charlotte, N. C., June 17.-A call has been issued for a meeting of southern cot ton yarn spinners to be held in Charlotte Thursday for the purpose of considering another proposition for forming mill merger. So far but little has been heard of the project and the few mill men who have discussed the matter at all have been seeking Information rather than ex- pressing an opinion or committing them selves to any proposition that might be submitted Apparently there is very little interest in the third attempt to form a merger of southern cotton mills
 The present project Is backed by Spen- cer, Turner & Co.,, well known yarn com mission merchants of Philadelphia. The details of the preliminary arrangements for the meeting are in charge of Mir. Harry Sewing, a representative of the firm, who Is well known to many mill men In this section. It is understood that Mir. Sewing has associated with him a practi- cal manufacturer from New England.
 It is not surprising that there is an ab- sence of enthusiasm on the part of mill men in the present instance. when 1t is re- membered that two previous attempts to form mergers in the south failed. Al though there were repeated statements that success was in sight. both the Un- derwood and Fries mergers vanished into thin air, even after options had been se- cured on many mills. It is said that Spen- cer, Turner & O. will attempt to or ganize on new lines, but the details of their proposition will not be made known until the meeting is held here on Thurs day of this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
THE MILLIONAIRE MANIA.

From the Century,
 Men who have sacrificed youth and health, scrimped their families and in- iured their digesfons in the requirement. of pile" often think they are public benefactors, and that humanity in general owes them debt of gratitude for being so rich. In consequence they resent as a cruel injustice the fatigue, chagrin and newspaper notoriety that money invari- ably brings in it's trail It would be about as consistent for a little boy who had gorged himself upon purloined apples to feel injured when an averaging stomach ache followed gluttony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
COMMENTS CULLED FROM
 PAPERS HERE AND THERE

i women look like frogs. Altogether the world our blind friend saw in his dreams was very nightmare of a world"
 At last Elsinore, the scene of Shake speake's Hamlet" is to be adorned by al monument to the great dramatist and poet. Next to stratford-on-Avon prob- ably no more ftting spot could be se- lected Many scholars consider Ham let the playwright's masterpiece, and monument erected on the spot made famous by the gloomy adventures of the Danish prince is singularly appropriate. A Copenhagen letter to the London Lead- CT says:
 A national monument to Shakespeare is to be erected in the town of Elsinore, the scene of the great dramatists Ham, let"
 A committee composed of leading Dam ish poets, scientists, actors and other prominent men. has recently issued an appeal and Queen Alexandra has not only given her full approval of the idea, but she has also been the first subscriber to the fund for the monument.
 The next subscriber was the czar's un- cle, the Grand Duke Constantine, who has translated Hamlet" into the Rus sian language.
 The monument will be the work of the Danish sculptor, Professor Hasselrus, who was the designer of the Heine mon- ument in the late Empress Elizabeths villa at Corfu and of another Heine monument over the poets tomb at Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
 It shows Shakespeare seated, with pa- pers in his left hand and a pencil in the right. meditating over Hamlet" The statue is to be placed on high pedestal, on which will appear designs .emblematic of Denmark and England.
 The appeal for the monument mentions that Queen Alexandra has consented to an inscription stating that the year of the crowning of the Danish princess as Engiand's queen was just 300 years later than the date on which Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"
 The only structure of It's kind in Ameri- ca is the Greek theatre of the University of California. President Roosevelt spoke there when on his Pacific slope tour. This structure is exactly similar in it's propor- tions to the famous theatre of Dionysius. The building stands in a grove of fine trees. Exclusive of the collonade its ex- I treme dimensions are: Breadth 225 feet. length 19i feet. The stage is S5 by 15A feet. The material is concrete and the seating capacity 5000. The roof will be of tiles and the stage will be colored ac- cording to classic conditions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
TerrapIn Becoming ExtInct.

Even the very rich are in danger of be- ing deprived of terrapin," said New York man. Many years ago the tooth- some meat of the diamond-baek turtle used to be carelessly tossed to the negro slave, along with cornbread, but even be- fore the war the effects of this careless ness became. in prospect, so alarming that, the story goes, the Maryland legis- lature passed a law forbidding planters to feed their slaves terrapin more than twice a week. If such law ever existed it be- came a superfuty long since. as the price of terrapin advanced toward it's present rate of s35 to $60 a dozen.
 These figures, to be sure, are not ab- solutely prohibitive for those who are pre- pared to give a really Epicurean dinner. but there is no surety that the delicacy can be much longer obtained with regu- larity at any price. Practically there are no longer any wild terrapin on the Chesa- peake; and the terrapin farmers say that raising them for the market in ponds is such a slow process, requiring eight or ten years to bring a turtle to marketable age, that even at $60 dozen there is no money in the business. Unless some cheaper and more expeditions way of rais- ing them is soon discovered the famous diamondbacks must become as obsolete as nightingales' tongues on the tables of the wealthest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
Three Important Meetlnas.

There are at present three very impor- tant meetings being held in Birmingham. The miners are in session to arrange the wage scale which probably effects this district and city more than anything else. They are meeting daily at Fox's hall at the corner of Fourth avenue and Nine- teenth street.
 The Alabama Educational association Is in session in the city hall, just across the street from Foxs hall. Their meeting Is of great importance, as the teachers are among the most influential people of the state, and represent one of the most in- telligent classes.
 The third meeting Is that of the negro Masons, who are in the hall over the ne- gro bank on Twentieth street. between Third and Fourth avenues. This is an intelligent looking body of men and is thoroughly representative of the better class of negroes of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

@ EW people in Birmingham remem- T0 bered that last Monday was the birthday of the American flag. The Stars and Stripes hoisted on the flagpole at the city hall. Loveman. Joseph & Loeb's. and one or two other places at tracted scant attention. People were too busy or else lacking in patriotic senti- ment.
 On June 14, TIT, congress adopted res- olution that the has of the thirteen Uni- ted States be thirteen stripes. alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen etars. white on blue field. representing the new constellation" It has been 12e years since this flag was adopted. and mot stripe has been polluted nor a single star erased" Flag day Is not a legal holiday, but 1t ought to be- In the gulf states two-thirds of the people do not know when the day arrives.
 The striking cooks and walters in Chi cago are receiving very little sympathy in their struggle against their employers There has seldom been such a lack of support from outside sources. Even the members of other labor unions in Chicago are refusing to help, and coldly advise the "hash-sllnging' fraternity to submit their differences to arbitration. One req son for this state of affairs Is that the strike is causing the general public a vast amount of trouble and inconvenience. Public opinion is quick to speak out in a case of this kind and when a man is deprived of his meals he is not apt to have a kindly feeling for the person who causes this state of affairs.
 Then another thing, the walters are looked on with some contempt because they receive tips It is true that they are rather the victims of the system than the beneficiaries, and public dislike should be directed against the employers who allow such a practice to flourish.
 In some recent interesting investfga- tions regarding tho dreams of the blind 1t has been proved that those who are born sightless never dream anything in which sight figures. Those who go blind at the age of six or over dream just as a normal person does. A curious example is man who lost his sight at the age of three and recently recovered 1t. He has made drawings of things as he saw them in his blind dreams, and they are strange ly distorted from the real objects which he Is now able to see. "The sky, the color of grass hangs, in these drawings, as low as the ceiling of a room. Streams are as red biOod The f,aoon l,fo ft aifs half the heavens, Is brown. Men and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
ADVICE OF A SUCCESSFUL BELLE
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the PhlIadeIphla Inqulrer.
 ''Yes, my dear, one could lay down rules for the charming of the other sex said an old but very successful belle to a de- butante who In spite of beautiful face is, 1t must be admitted, a failure as far as popularity goes. (Ardent adorers she has, but of temperate admirers and men friends she has none3 "One could lay down rules-one hundred and three of them all good rules too. But there are two that I'd remember if I were you. and you can afford to let the others take care of themselves. The first is when talking to a man never run down another wo- man. The secondhand even if you forget the first please remember the second-is never praise another man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
THE popEs CONDITION.

Special Gable Dispatch to the N. Y. Sun.
 Rome, June 16.-The health of the Pope is rapidly declining. He is extremely feeble and grief over the prosecution of the French Catholic associations by the government in undermining his vitality
 Dr. Lapponi was suddenly summoned on Saturday to examine the Pope's legs, which were somewhat swollen. This is regarded as an nnfavorable symptom, in view of the Pontiffs great age. No im- mediate danger is apprehended by the physicians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
RIO oRANDE ON A RAMPAGE.
Lewlands Are Flooded and Men Are at
 Work on the Levees.

Dallas, Tex, June 17.-A special to the News from Fl Paso, Tex, says:
 Tie Rio Grande rose a foot here to- day, and the upward tendency con tinues. The levee is still holding out, but large forces of men are working constantly to mend the weak places with bugs of sand. The lowlands are being flooded on both sides of the river for more than a hundred miles and great damage has resulted
 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad is washed out at White Spur and Mesquite, and at Eartham the water covers the tracks. Trains are delaved indefinitely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
A Birmingham seedsman.

G. B. McVay will leave for Atlantic City today to attend the international seed trade convention. He has been se- lected by the executive committee of the international association to read a paper on southern forage plants This Is a high compliment to MT. McYay, for 1t shows that he is regarded as a recognized au- thority
 The convention will be attended by rep resentative seedsmen and horticulturists of the United States, South America, Canada, Europe, India and Japan.
 MT. Mcvay will be accompanied to Att lantic City by his wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
TRUTH AND FICTION.

From the Boston Herald.
 Here Is a timely confab between Ed mond Rostand and sardou:
 why said Rostand, If you or I had dared put scene on the stage as bloodthirsty as that which ias taken place at Belgrade the dramatic critics would have called us blood and thunder braggadocios."
 But. my dear Sardou. you have al- ready put the Servian drama in one of your plays. Brush up your memory in regard to .Theodora.' Col. Naumovitch. the officers who led the conspirators into King Alexander's sleepinx room. Is your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The butterfly of pleasure becomes the worm of penitence.
 When woman takes an interest in children 1t is sign they are her own.
 Nature designed men to be parents; their selfishness fits them to be only chil- dren.
 It's discouraging what a lot of brilliant sarcasm one can think of on a subject of conversation after it has been dropped and it is too late to use it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
New York's Cotton Ambition.

For the sake of manipulating the entire cotton business of the country the New York cotton exchange has de- vised a warehouse system that it pro- poses to put into effect before the new cotton year is opened. The New York CTS propose to begin with five ware house districts-one for Norfolk and Wilmington; one for Charleston, Sa- vannah and Augusta; one for Mobile ana New Orleans; one for Galveston Snd Houston, and one for Memphis and surrounding cities. There is to be an inspectorin-chief, living of course in New York, and each district is to have a deputy inspector.
 The rules that govern classification in New York are to be applied in the south in all warehouses which apply to the New York cotton exchange for a license to do business. Cotton received at any of them will be sampled and the samples will be shipped to New York for inspection and classification. Every town that receives 100000 bales 8 year will be entitled to the privilege of adding a representative to the classi- fication committee of the New York cotton excnange.
 If the southern exchanges accept tbis form of servitude to New York, they will deserve all the hardships that may ensue. It takes away all independence of action in the south, and makes New York the arbiter of all cotton, especially of all export cotton, and such cotton does net pass as a rule within thousand miles of New York. No southern exchange should accept the New York scheme, no matter how gilded 1t may be, simply because 1t takes away from the south freedom of action that by all laws of trade and COlulHOn bCu5O DClO-65 WhSlO SObbOh shooVers When the south puts on the ,1 u,th "a at have been forged for it, it cgnnoc kick or protest. Once adopted, the chains will be made more burden some and fastened ncre tightly as the needs of the New York dealers and brokers may demand. It is, in short, a scheme to enrich New York at the expense of, or at least regardless, of the south.
 Under the New York plan for the certification of cotton 1t is claimed the factor or farmer can use his cotton as a basis of credit and not be compelled to sell it. Cotton can now be stored Tn any town and credit obtained upon + The scheme is simply scheme tc aggrandize New York, which is to be made, if the scheme succeed, the cot ton center of the country, whereas the center or centers of the trade should be in the land where the cotton grows and is chiefly exported from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Truck Farming.

Alabama produces fully twice as much farm truck in the way of vegetables and melons as it did five years ago." said a commission merchant, and the trucking interest will double again. believe with in the next four or five years There is a demand right here in Birmingham for a large part of the yield of the vegetable farms and this demand will increase, of course, as Birmingham grows.
 Few investments pay better than truck farming. where the soil Is adapted for this industry and where the men who cultivate the soil understand their business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
From the Chicago 1nter-oeean.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 I MESS the law abiding majority kON of Breathitt county--if such ma- e jority subsequently, get to- gether and put down the lawless, it would seem in order for the state of Kentucky to declare that county legal and moral bankrupt and put in the hands of re- ceiver.
 For years Breathitt county has been the scene of faction feud so violent and bloody that It's people now seem to have come to the social condition where few of them dare even attempt to en- force the laws lest they fall victims to the vengeance of the faction against whom the laws are enforced.
 Not long ago Breathitt county law yer was assassinated in broad daylight in the courthouse because he had pre- sumed to conduct a legal contest for a county office for member of one fac- ton against a member of the other. AL though the crime was witnessed by many none dared denounce the criminal. much lees arrest him. until troops were sent from other districts to serve the writ.
 Now one of the few witnesses who dared to testify to this crime has had all his property destroyed because he so tes- tihed. and is kept alive by military protec- ton alone. So completely has private vengeance overridden public law in Brea- thitt county that the acquittal of the al- legged murderer is openly predicted not because evidence of his guilt will be lack ing, but because the jury will not dare convict him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

Deacon Baer accepts as representa- tlyes of the operatives in the board of conciliation the same mer that he had rejected. He is great when 1t comes to tweedledum and tweedledee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

The automobile is too strenuous to suit even our strenuous President, and Miss Alice will have to get over the ground without one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
WHY BREATHITT COUNTY
 SHOULD HAVE RECEIVER

When any association or community work it was created to perform cannot be carried on by its natural administra- tors, the state Is wont to interpose through its courts and put in charge an administrator called receiver. This pro- cess has been applied to political commu- mites as well as to business corporations. The city of Memphis, Tenn, affords a well-known illustration of the process and of its successful use
 What Breathitt county plainly needs is legal and moral receiver-an adminis- trator from the outside backed by suffi- cient force to keep order and execute the laws, and thus supply a center of law and government about which law-abiding residents can rally and be safe and gradually acquire strength to repress and suppress the county's lawless clans.
 The people of Breathitt county have plainly reached the social condition where they will not or cannot preserve law and l order among themselves. Therefore the proper course would seem to be for the Kentucky legislature to wipe out the county government and put Breathitt in the hands of an administrator represent ing tt whole state, With strong police force, enlisted so as to be free from local influences.
 This would be a drastic measure, but it is not easy to see what can be done with a community that cannot or will not enforce even elementary justice, and which has permitted all the usual agen- cies of the law to be subverted by mur- derous factions.
 ]s-e->-&-<-e-e>>-e->-%->- Marcellus, the Centurion of the Guard,
 and Draga is nothing else than. Theo- l dora,
 Very true" replied Sardou. abut with
 this difference; my play is terrible
 enough, but far less ferocious than the
 real tragedy at Belgrade. In all my
 five acts I killed off only the Centurion.
 the Empress and her lover, while at
 Belgrade there is an orgie of cruelty
 even a young girl of IS being slaughtered :, like kitten. And yet some of the crit
 les call me @ playwright intoxicated with blood. Remember, also, that the
 action of my play is at Byzance, in the | sixth century"
 1 "Unfortunately for humanity. the slice l of life that you have given us in Theo- l dora is contemporaneous, and even ultra
 modern" said Rostand.
 l And thus Is truth again shown to be
 more horrible than the drama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
AN EXPLANATION.

From the Denver Republican.
 St. Louis scientists have discovered a new bug Probably its sting inspires man with greet longing for $1O0o bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

The past tense of the verb "to standpat" is much like the future state of the man who invented the verb confused and uncertain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18
AeovE THE DANGER LINE.

From the Kansas City Star
 In St. Louis the flood is slowly receding but the grand jury Is again up to a97 feet above the danger line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

King Leopold Is willing to come to this country if he can come ineognito and be left to enjoy the society of the chorus ladies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

In servia assassination has sup planted both elections and revolutions. All the Americas are at a discount in Servia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

The June bridegroom is but knot on a log when the June bride is in evidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

The man who has not $29.64 in his pocket has not his share of the coun- try's circulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

Republican politicians can aspire to the vice-presidency only, the other having been pre-empted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

The get-rich-quick people are not dealing with the postottice department at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

The Kentucky mountaineers should emigrate to servia, where their spe- cialty is publicly prac iced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

Grover Cleveland declined the presi- dency the other day, but it was the presidency of the University of vir- ginia. He wants the one he is ac- quainted with.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

Law is no more supreme in Jackson, Ky, than it is in Servia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

Synbomir Zsixkovits was one of the leaders in the Servian outbreak. His name pushed him into it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

The man who buys watered stocks always finds that more water can drip out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-18

The Sunday school picnics in Chi cago are held up by the weather bu- reau.