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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
Money for Moving Crops.

The Financial Age of yesterdays date says:
 There is a strong probability that the demands of the crop moving period will not be made as early this year as they were last. Indications are that the grain will be moved more slowly than usual. Last years wheat was not only limited in quantity but it was of poor quality and unfit for long storage. Hence the new crop came to empty bins, which will hold more than has been the usual con dition. For this reason the west will be able to manage its finances with less assistance than customary. Another reason Is that the western farmer Is holding back his wheat in the hope of commanding a higher price. Of course in the end he will have to let go, as he has before but in the meanwhile there will have been a dimlnution of the cur rency need and a lessening of the ship ments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
The Circus.

''Barnum & Bailey's circus Is coming to Birmingham in October and the child ren are happy" said a gentleman yes terday. "Nothing fills the hearts of young folks with more pleasure than the circus, with it's lions, tigers. clowns and horses. It has been quite a while since this big show came south and since their last visit the management has scored a decided success in Europe, where im- mense crowds attended every perform ance.
 "The Barnum X Bailey show has al- ways been considered the largest amuse- ment enterprise in the world, and age has not diminished it's size nor time its many excellencies. Birmingham is noted for sending large crowds to the thea tres. but when the circus comes multi tudes from all parts of this district will no doubt throng the streets."'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
A New Hiun School.

It seems that there Is ample law under which to proceed to hold an election over a bond issue for the pur- pose of building a High school Such a building should be put up with an eye to the future. It should be as large as the City hall, and that build ing cost, furnished, $2Oo.0oO.
 Two hundred thousand dollars or possibly fifty thousand more is as much as the city can afford to spend for a High school building. A palace is not needed, especially when there is a deficiency of school accommoda- tions for primary or grammar-grade scholars. But one-half of the children of school age are now registered in the schools, and this fact should re- strain us from an extravagant expen- diture in erecting a High school build ing
 t, A plain, good building Of the City hall class is what is needed, and a quarter of million dollars would put up a building that would last a gener- aiion at least, and be ample all that time for the purposes it was designed to serve. A building that will suffice a generation hence is needed, and a building not much unlike the City hall would fill the bill
 The Age-Herald desires to see a good building erected, one of fine and ample proportions. It simply asks that no undue extravaganza be allowed to creep in; that all things be considered when a bond vote is invited, and that good sense shall be permitted to have voice when the decision Is made. We must have High school building, because the old rookery on Twenty first street is outgrown, but we do not need and should not build, palace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
DRAWING THE COLOR LINE
 IN UNITED STATES NAVY

it certain that a sufficient number Of ne- eroes could be obtained. The proposi- tion may, therefore, be regarded as en- tirely impracticable, and if the race feel- ing becomes much more pronounced It may be that the negro will have to be excluded Australia has gone so far as to refuse any contract to ships Whicn employ Lascars, and serious compnca- tions with the imperial postoffce arrange ments are threatened But the Australian government stands firm and Is deter mined to keep Australia white mans country. free from race problems and race riots.
 In the United States army negro sol- diers are put in regiments to themselves and are kept entirely separate from the white soldiers. But in the naval service this is plainly impracticable. You can not have white ships and negro ships, and white sailors and negro sailors must come together within the narrow confines of the forecastle upon terms of absolute equality. both social and otherwise. In the wardroom it has been the policy of the administration, or, rather the off, cials to protect the naval officers from negro associates. There is no admission to the ranks of the line of the navy ex- cept through the Naval Academy. and, although several negro boys have in the past been appointed to the academy not one of them ever graduated. Nor has negro, as far as we are aware, ever been appointed to staff position, such as pay master, surgeon or chaplain. This Is wise policy, if it is policy, because there is at present great demand for naval officers and the number would probably be sadly diminished by the introduction of a negro into the wardroom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Y.HE drawing of a color line in the (CD navy may have serious results;
 A few weeks ago open warfare took place between the white and negro sailors on United States war vessel The fracas took place not on the ship but ashore at Bar Harbor, where the white sailors chased the negro sailors belonging to the same ship and beat many of them severely. On one of the ships a colored seaman was made petty officer and the other petty officers refused to mess with him. The navy department will not or course, recognize the right of white sail DTS to prescribe the colored ones. The President is bent upon keeping all the doors of hope wide open to the negro man. But nevertheless, the President will find this different proposition rom closing a southern postoffce or appoint ing negroes to high official positions in the south The Inducements held out to get men to enlist In the navy are not brilliant nor alluring, and there has been from time to time difficulty in obtaining the requisite number of blue-jackets There is no law in this country for the impressment of sailors. and it is not like ly that congress would ever enact such a law in time of peace, even if 1t has the power to do so Therefore the navy is dependent upon voluntary enlistments, and if the race feeling is to continue white men finding that they have to associate upon equal social terms with negroes in the close quarters of ship at sea may refuse to enlist Then, in such case, the President may find himself face to face with this proposition-either close the door of hope in the navy to the ne gro, or else to undertake to have the sail ors and marines of the navy an exclu- sively negro force. With such an altern- ative, it seems more than probable that the doors of hope" would close.
 There are now and have been all along, for many years, negro sailors in the navy, but no petty officers, we believe, until now In the forecastle there has never been any acute trouble between the races, except, perhaps, fracas from time to time. But the sudden flaming out of a fierce race feeling all over the country at this time has caused this serious condi- tion, and it Is just possible that the ad- mnistration may before long have to ex- clude the negro race from the ships or else be reduced to negro sailors alto- gether. Under certain conditions negroes <aake good fighters, but that a navy, with all the complicated machinery which has to be handled. having it's entire force of enlisted men and petty officers negroes would be efficient Is not believed Nor is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Humanlzine Work.

'If the people of Birmingham could just understand the immense amount of good we are doing with the Boys club and reading room at the city hall,a said Judge N. B. Feagin, T am sure we would have no cause to worry from lack of finances to carry on the work
 Every two weeks we have plunge day. when the boys are all taken down to the Natatorium and treated to a good swim. Last Wednesday afternoon about sixty urchins went along and if people could have seen the way those boys enjoyed themselves l believe they would be willing to assist us in having a plunge day every week instead of every two weeks.
 Did you ever stop to think what boy is worth in a community? Some of the boys that come to the reading room make as much as fifteen dollars a month in various ways. but chiefly by selling papers. Fifteen dollars a month is SlSo a year. One hundred and eighty dollars a year is six per cent interest on 5000. So that each of these boys represent as a financial investment in the city $3oo0 a year. Fifty of them represent S1500O0 cap ital annually
 Even putting aside then the humani- tartan motive in looking after them, they deserve care and attention as purely business proposition.
 'The boys of this city were simply hun gry for some such thing as the reading room, located as it is, conveniently where they could go to pass the time away and I hope the public will soon come to ap- preciate 1t at it's true value"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
Iron and Steel Hereafter.

Long before this century is well ad- vanced the economic supply of iron in the Lake Superior district will have been exhausted. At the present rate of consumption it Will last but sixty. six years, and as much as that rate Is increased--and it may be trebled-- just that much quicker will the sup ply be exhausted. And when the Lake Superior ores can no longer be profita- ply mined, the chief source of the country's supply will be in the south, and this district will become the head and front of the iron and steel industries of the country. Other ores may be discovered, but this is scarce. ly probable hereafter. as every part
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

of the country has been ransaeked by prospectors trained to detect such de- posits. Small deposits, no doubt, ex- ist here and there, but that an addi- tional great adequate supply can be found hereafter is not probable, and upon this district will fall the task of keeping up the country's supply. This will happen not later than 1850, or in the lifetime of young men who are now voters.
 The supply of iron ore in this dis trict is practically inexhaustible. No one knows how far into the bowels of the earth the great twenty-two foot extends, but it would not have to ex- tend many miles towards China, or whatever other country it is headed for, to give the world a suppl.e that is exhaustless to all intents and pur- poses. This is mere speculation, per haps, but fifty years from now it will be very real, and forty years hence the situation will be understood and appreciated There will not be so much talk then about the leanness of Red mountain ores. Any iron-bearing ores will be good enough when the world is demanding a vast amount of the great commercial metal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
A CANNON OF t777 FOUND.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
 A ten-foot cannon weighing 4520 pounds, a relic of the revolution, was discovered on the farm of Ephraim K. Kaufman, near Warwick Furnace. Chester county. The recent freshet in the south branch of French creek exposed this cannon.
 Mir. Kaufman had the relic hauled to his home at Friedensburg. Berks county. where 1t will be mounted and placed in his front yard
 At the time of the revolution cannon were made at the Warwick furnace for the American army. When the British invad- ed this part of Pennsylvania in TIT some of the cannon were buried and others were sunk in French creek
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A widows coldness is like an ice cream freezer that won't freeze.
 The red hair of parents is visited even unto the third and fourth generation.
 It's wonderful how crazy a man can be over most any woman till they are mar ried.
 It's funny how the woman who will trust her instinct to pick out a husband will always make angel cake by recipe.
 A man who will take no end of risks with other women is always afraid when his wife wants him to sit in a hammock with her it will break down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
Street Begging.

T never Saw beggar on the streets of Carlsbad, and yet I was born and raised there" said Birmingham man who has been in this country for three years.
 "Carlsbad Is among the most beanti- full cities of Europe, and the authori- ties will not permit beggars of any kind to impose on the visitors who come there. They realize that their city is largely maintained by the influx of tour ists in the summer. and they don't want these tourists annoyed
 Since I came to Birmingham l have been nearly worried to death by street beggars and if I should give to all that ask. I wouldn't have anything left for myself. There ought to be some way provided for these people to make live ing without imposing on the public"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
CHILDREN.

By Henry Wadsyorth Longfellow. Come to me, o ye children!
 For hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows.
 That look toward the sun, Where thoughts are singing swallows, And the brooks of morning run. In your hearts are the birds and the
 sunshine, In your thoughts the brooklet flow; But in mine is the wind of autumn And the first fall of the snow. An. what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood That to the world are childreni
 Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me. O ye children!
 And whisper in my ear What the birds and the w1nd are sing
 ing
 In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better than all the ballads
 That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems.
 And all the rest are dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
HAPPY JOHN.

From the Kansas City JoWnal,
 John Wyman, clerk of the court In Reno county. Is spending a season in Boston T was in swimming with 5000 women this afternoon" he writes. "Solo- mon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these" In his haste MT. Wyman has abbreviated somewhat. What he meant to say, no doubt, was that Solo, mon in all his glory was never disar- rayed like one of these.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

tering here in Atlanta of large amount of the administrative and con- struction work of this elephantine sys- tenn" This would be carried to Pres ident Yoakum, who may not have heard of it. A marked copy of the Constitution should be mailed him forthwith, so that he may know where he is to plant his administrative and construction center-pole. He may not have heard of Atlanta at all, busy man that he is, and it is important tlat his attention be called to it at once. The 4.ge-Herald has no desire to dispute Atlanta's tonnageless prop ositions. It frankly admits that it is the center-pole of the universe, and our only purpose is to awake President Yoakum to the situation. He may be mapping on the other side of the big river, and his center-pole may be going up in the wrong place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
Assumption of the Virgin.

Yesterday was observed in the Catholic churches as the festival of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, in commemoration
 of the resurrection and miraculous ascent of Mary to Heaven. The assumption is not a dogma of the Latin and Greek churchesas many people suppose but only a pious belief. The feast Is, however, one of the greatest days of the Catholic world and the faithful are required to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

Blrmingham's weather bureau is keeping It's weather eye on that hur- ricane. It is high enough up to see it as soon as It lands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

Russell Sage considers himself too young to begin giving away his for tune after the fashion set by MT. A. Carnegie of Skibo Castle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

The Humberts stole too much to get heavy sentences now. The bigger the theft the lighter the punishment in all countries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

While the farmers of New England harvest their hay crop, the hotel keep CTS of that section harvest their hay fever crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

The Corbett-Jeffries fight was bru- tality tempered by the weakness of Gentleman Jim" The boilermaker had all of his accustomed brutality with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

With hurricane coming from cne gulf, and the Massachusetts and the home team crippled, these be indeed parlous times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

Attorney deneral Knox is thinking more about succeeding Pennypacker than he is about suppressing the trusts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

The lodging-house vote is what con trols elections in New York city-the great unwashed of a former genera ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

Governor Durbin of Indiana Is not a boy senator, but he has the get-there faculty, and is fast becoming favor ite son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

Admiral Dewey and w. c. Whitney are very chummy, but the former de- clines to accept the latter's tips.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

The home team will begin its final struggle for 8 place in the first divis- ion tomorrow on its own grounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

The religious costumes of the Douk- hobor ladies near Winnipeg are much too simple for acceptance anywhere outside the comic opera stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

MT. Carnegie should have begun his benevolence career by endowing his private secretary, who knew too much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

MT. Carnegie's opinion of the new History of the Carnegie steel compa- n.y. Is awaited with interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

The navy in pajamas will have free dom of movement at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

Mme Humbert seems to be Mother Jones and Psi Au combined in one package,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

If Professor Langley proposes to take his airship to St. Louis, he should begin to study Chicago microbes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

On the subject of lynchings Presi- dent Roosevelt has the country be. hind him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

Never before had there been a full public exposition of coal mining in this district with all its advantages and drawbacks. The miners side will increase the public education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

The President and the war depart ment overdid the snubbing act, and boomed General Miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

The negro should not be uplifted by a rope in the hands of mob.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
About Persons.


 Robert G. Patrick of Marion is stopping at the Hillman.
 S. J. Bayne of Montgomery is regis tered at the Morris L. Friedman of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan.
 Tom Johnson of Cleveland is stopping at the Hillman.
 J. E. Taylor of Mobile is registered at the Morris
 A. J. Abrahams of Cincinnati is at the Metropolitan.
 Louis Schneider of Baltimore is stop ping at the IIillman. J. c. McCloud of Huntsville is regis tered at the Morris. John s. Coxe of Baltimore is at the Metropolitan.
 R. Walter Hawthorne, formerly of Montgomery but now of Padueah, and Ed l., Rolls of Paducah are stopping at the Morris. They have just returned from a trip through the southwest, GOV erlng three months. Both think that the future of Indian Territory is unequalled by any section of the United States.
 
 Hon. J. H. Somerville of Pickens Is wis iting relatives at Woodlawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
Tom Heflin.

Secretary of State J. Thomas Hefiin seems much in demand for a reunion speaker" remarked q lawyer. "The gifted son of Jefferson possesses just that fire and turbid eloquence the Confederate veterans need to warm their hearts, and many of the old fellows delight in hear
 ing him discuss the north, or the latest phase of the peonage question: As a mimic Mr. Heflin has few superiors, and his plantation wit has frightened many half hours for his friends in Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

No republican is safe from charge of e-presidentiallsm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

For the first time since the republic was organized the army mas no com mander, other than the constitutional one, and his military experience was confined to a months campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16
The Difficulty.

From the Baltimore News
 The trouble with Wall street is that somebody's been squeezing tEe sponge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

Professor Langley may be another submarine artist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

hear mass on that day, the same as on Sunday.
 Tn Antwerp the festival of the Assump- tion is celebrated on a grand scale," said a layman who visited that city several summers ago. During the octave of the feast the sweet tones of the Carillon in the great cathedral tower are heard every fifteen minutes, day and night. and at certain hours the famous bell. which is really gong, peals out solemnly.
 'The most splendid rendition of Gounod's Magnihcat that I ever heard was in the Antwerp cathedral in the after noon of the assumption. finely trained chorus of 125 voices was supported by a symphony orchestra of fifty pieces. It was a memorable festival performance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-02-12
Lost fountain.

Omer Pickens and wife spent
Saturday and Sunday at Smyrna.
The new road bosses will GER
family have a good opportunity to
try their hand improving the pub
llc roads. Some of them are we'll
nigh impossible.
Some repairing was done on
Midway church last Friday, a
new sill was put in and the side
ellis were bolted together to keep
the house from spreading. The
members contemplate building a
new church in about three years.
We think one of the highest
marks of a young mans character
is how he behaves at church or at
public places, he who knows how
to behave, respect and reverence
the house Of God certainly shows
the mark of a gentleman.
Our Farmers Club will meet
next Saturday afternoon at 9
O'Clock at W A McDonald's.
Allen.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-02-12
Post Oak.

Some rain has fallen but it is
nice weather at this writing.
We are glad to learn that Mrs.
Calvle Tritt Is improving.
We notice that L N Lassiter has
purchased fine young mule at
Roswell stable.
N E Gunnin visited relatives in
Post Oak Sunday. He was driv-
ing a fine pair of young mules.
The citizens of this community
are dissatisfied from some cause.
They think there is too much dis
turbance about the roads and the
commissioners being too old and
that the road law ought to go
back like it was. | think it would
be better both for the people and
community. Huck.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-02-12
Due West.

Glad to say that DR. Waddell is
able to take up his school again
after an absence of one week hav-
ing been sick with la grip.
Viii Warren sick for two weeks
with pneumonia is improving.
We extend sympathy to the
family of J G Hardy in the death
of a kind husband and father.
Don't forget the singing at Mt
Olivet next Sunday.
The baby of J J Leavell who
has been sick is getting on nicely.
Glad to hear that Carl Kemp is
getting on all right in Atlanta,
the small pox did not hurt him
very much Amor.