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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

tenn from this city to Birmingham, ought to be instructive as well as suggestive not only to the shippers but to all the bus mess people of the city.
 It appears very clearly from Mfr Hol- brooks statement that the real reason for the removal lies in the increasing competition for the heavy freight-coal and iron-from the Birmingham region. It is not a question of the most suitable and central location from which the bus mess of the department can be most readily and promptly executed. but it Is more bid for patronage from Birming- ham shippers. As we understand 1t. the superintendent's department is not a so- lieiting force and. as indicated by an- other official of the road who talked to Mr. Holbrool. Chattanooga is the proper and logical location for it. Hence, we do not believe it is treating this city fairly or justly to make the change.
 As we have pointed out. 1t Is not al- together the loss to the people of the of flee although that is something-but it is the prestige we lose as a city and the injury inflicted by indirection. In other words, Chattanooga is to be abandoned in order to build up Birmingham. There would be no objection to the establish ment of a soliciting bureau at Birming- ham; in fact, that would seem to be the best business solution, if mere competi- tion was to be met. but it appears to be necessary in order to make a show for the business at that point that Chatta- nooga be humiliated and that the little ''bone" once given us be thrown to the Birmingham shipper.
 The board of councilmen took a very sensible view of the matter, and very frankly announces to Mr. Finley that if this change is to be made wantonly and simply for the purpose of placating Bir- mingham, 1t will most assuredly strain the pleasant relations hitherto existing between the people of this city and the great corporation he serves If it Is not too late we believe MT. Finley would be best serving all concerned by reconsider ing the proposal to have MT. McManus leave here-at least. until better reason for it can be shown than is at this time apparent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
FIDELITY OF THE NEGRO
 TO HIS FORMER MASTER

lived either in that county or It's im- mediate neighborhood practically all my life. except while at college Many of the former slaves of my family. with their descendants. still reside there. large proportion of them are land owners. and almost without exception they are pros porous. law-abidng and respected by their neighbors. black and white. Their relations with members of my own fam fly are not merely cordial. but affection ate-and knsmen of mine to the number of more than eighteen are employers of negroes in the county. So far as I know. no white woman has ever been assault ed In the county by a negro. have sat as special judge in the Circuit court of that county In the trial of an action be- tween a white man and negro. depen- dent upon the disputed testimony of the parties. in which jury composed entirely of white men promptly gave a verdict for the negro"
 What significance attaches to this con dition of affairs we shall not at this time undertake to consider. The fact remains, however, and we believe that nine out of every ten descendants of the old slave holding class resident in the thickly pop ulated "black districts of the south will testify to the same effect. and tell the simple truth in doing so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
Cotton on Auuust 1.

The New Orleans Times-Deinocra prints letters from all parts of the cot ton belt, showing, or aiming to show, the condition of the crop at the end of July. It sums up the situation in these words: "The crop has great possibili- ties in either direction. With absence of bollweeyil, and late frost, large outturn may be had: with serious in- jury from the little pest and early kill ing temperature, an immense disaster must be reckoned with" The rains have been general, and the crop is coming on finely, but still there will not be free movement before the fifteenth day of September. The crop is unmistakably late, although the summer months as a whole have been favorable
 In this state correspondents of the Times Democrat report generally fa- 
 last year Is anticipated. There is no rust and no yellow leaves, and the cul- tiyation has been unusually thorough. One correspondent puts the improve ment at 30 per cent over last years condition. Gadsden anticipates Q larger crop. Livingston considers the situation satisfactory. Prospects are very bright in Tuscaloosa, the weather having been ideal. The plant is branching finely in Limestone. The weed is fruiting we'll around Green ville Bottoms are grassy in Dallas. Tallapoosa has had a nne season. Cot ton in the clay lands is good near Troy. A full average yield is expected at Huntsville. No insects at Evergreen. A good crop is expected at Opelika. Too much rain is damaging sandy land cotton near Abbe--'''
 Not a single corresl
 state mentions dry ws
 has in fact been a all parts of the state. .1oreseen disasters co' crop it will be one O apama has ever picked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
MILL COMBINE A MYSTERY.
Reticent About It's Plans and the Peo-
 pie Concerned In 1t.

Special to the New York Commercial:
 Boston. August 3--The fact that a cer- tihcate of organization has been filed with the commissioner of corporations by the United States Cotton Manufacturing company of Boston. with a capital stock of $40000.000, has excited much comment in the trade, but no one outside appears to know much about 1t. Henry c. Bacon is given as president and Sumner Hol- brook as treasurer. with John P. Rogers as director. It Is claimed that the com pany will conduct business of manu- featuring cotton goods of all kinds, but as yet the organization appears to be in embryo.
 Prominent treasurers of cotton mills with offices located in Boston have ab- solutely no knowledge of the proposed combination as covered by the new cor poration, and are able to make only guesses as to what the new company in tends to do Treasurer Holbrook of the new corporation would make no state ment or give out any line on the con- duct of the organization. He said that the company was not In shape to make any statement and admitted that the charter was obtained July S1 in order to take advantage of the old law, which would save the corporation about 5000 in fees. the new law, which went into effect on August l. increasing the fees about that amount. The charter says that the business is to be located in Bos- ton.
 Theophilus Parsons, who represents A. P. Leyman's interests, says that he never heard of any plan to combine the cotton industry, and does not know the men. Clarence Lowering. at the offices of the Massachusetts mills of Lowell and Geor- gia. said;
 ''They have capital enough on paper to take up all the mills of the country the way business is now. do not know of any such plan and do not know the men,
 | Treasurer Silsbee of the Pacific mills | of Lawrence said that he had not heard | of the proposed combination and knew absolutely nothing about 1t. Other mill l treasurers stated that so far as they knew none of the principal companies was affected. One agent suggested that | it might include some of the Fall River mills. Andrew J. Borden of Fall River | says that he never heard of a proposi- | tion to combine the Fall River cotton mills or of the newly incorporated United
 States Cotton Manufacturing company. l He is confident that none of the Fall River mills is in any way interested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
From the Washington Post.

From the WaShington POSI-.
 ONE years ago, discussing the re- NY lations between the whites and 0 the blacks.in the southern states, the Post had occasion to refer to the fact well known in that part of the country that the crime which was the original pro- vocation of lynching very rarely. if ever, occurred in districts where the negro population was heaviest. What we wished to suggest by that assertion was the fdel- ity of the blacks to the old slave-holding class--simply that.
 During the civil war when the great landed proprietors and their grown sons were, almost without exception. far away from home, serving in the southern arm ies, and only women. children and non combatants left in the "big houses" the conduct of the slaves was beyond the power of words for praise Such as re- mained upon the place-and most of them did remain-continued their faithful ser vice; maintained spontaneously their old attitude of respect, devotion and attach ment worked for the owners, guarded their families and their interests alike, so
 
 ample of a beautiful and simple loyalty without a parallel in history.
 It was our belief at the time referred to Ut Is our belief today, based upon care full inquiry and observation-that the sen- timent of the former slaves toward their former proprietors was inspired by the same genuine devotion that ruled them .4o~ ~Ir dox of ho Qix seemed to us then, as 1t seems to us now, that the outrages, the horrors, the lynch ings, and the like, were not outgrowths of any animosity between the negroes and the old slave-holding aristocracy, but the result of conditions entirely dissociated from the ante-bellum institution of slav- cry Neither forty years ago, nor twenty years ago, nor five years ago, nor at any subsequent period, so far as we can see or hear. do we find that women of the class in question were or have been crim- inaily molested by the negro no matter how slight their apparent protection or how overwhelmingly superior the negro population On the contrary. the infamies and their attendant horrors occur, almost without exception, in districts where the blacks are in the minority and where slavery on the large feudal scale was never known. And here comes a witness in corroboration-Judge Francis G. Caf- fey, of the Alabama black belt-who writes to the New York Evening Post as | follows:
 'I myself was born and reared in that county in Alabama which has the great ct proportional excess of negro over | white population in the state, have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
chattanoo aa Is Not Loaded.

Chattanoogans are kicking like brinde steers against the removal of the general offices of the western dis trict of the Southern railway from
 Chattanooga, and their transfer to Birmingham. They forget that rail roads seek tonnage as flies do sugar. They sent Secretary Holbrook of their chamber of commerce to Washington, and he saw Vice President Finley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
The State Fair.

'I am glad to see the officers and actively at work on plans for next falls exhibition said a merchant. There is every reason to believe that the fair in October will be the best ever held here. Some of our citizens sheer at Birming- hams fairs, but I do not recall one of these exhibitions that was not more or less creditable. All fairs draw crowds of visitors, and they certainly benefit the merchants and many other classes. With a good fair this year the crowds will be larger than ever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
MY BOAT IS ON THE SHORE.

By Lord Byron.
 My boat is on the shore.
 And my bark Is on the sea: But before I go, Tom Moore.
 Here's a double health to theel Here's a sigh l. those who love me. And a smile to those who hate; And. whatever sky's above me.
 Here's a heart for every fate Though the ocean roar around me. Yet it still shall bear me on; Though desert should surround me. It hath springs that may be won. weret the last drop in the well, As I gasped upon the brink. Ere my fainting spirit fell.
 TT Is to thee that I would drink. With that water. as this wine.
 The libation I would pour Should be-Peace with thine and mine And a health to thee. Tom Moore!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
A Boom for Lawyer Folk.

The determined campaign that Cir cult Attorney Folk of St. Louis has waged against municipal and state boodlers is resulting in a public senti- ment that promises to carry him into the governors chair despite all that the political rings can do against him. Corruption has run riot in Missouri, and it's ramifications were everywhere. MT. Folk met it boldly and unflinch- ingly, and he has pretty well un- earthed 1t, so that all can see what the scope of it's villainy has been, and he is sending some of the boodlers to the penitentiary. He has no intention of stopping his work until the rings and rottenness stand fully exposed, and he will send as many of the ras-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
RIrmlnaham,s Growth.

Birmingham is growing at a much fas- ter rate than any other city in the south and it is only question of a few years when it will outrank in size Atlanta and Memphis" said commercial traveller.
 Memphis grows fast and Atlanta Is not standing still but by 1910 Greater Bir- mingham will have a population of 2OO,- GOO and perhaps more. This will be even tually the chief railroad center of the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
Cream to Burn.

From August Lippincott's.
 Two little girls were engaged in an ami mated discussion as to the merits Of their respective homes.
 Well" anyway" said one little maiden in a triumphant tone, you may have more bedrooms than we have. but we have more cream than you do. We have enough for our cereal every single morn. ing"
 .Poohr' said the other, that's noth- ing. We own Jersey COW, and we gel a whole eowful of cream twice every day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Street Sweeping.

T notice that the city authorities still permit the sweeping of the streets in the downtown district early in the evening ' said a man interested in public health.
 Steps should be taken to stop the sweeping of these streets until after i2 o'clock at night Although the streets are sprinkled before being swept, there is always a large amount of dust raised by the sweepers Many pedestrians are on the streets during the early part of the evening and even up until midnight, to whom the clouds of dust are very offen- sive
 Aside from the fact that it is offensive, consider 1t actually injurious to public health. There is always more or less filth along the pavements which may contain the expeetorations of consumptives. and when this is stirred up in the form of dust and waited in clouds to the nostrils and into the lungs of passersby. I con sider 1t dangerous.
 Those sweepers should not begin their work before midnight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
Good Business.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 If there's one thing I hate" declared the passenger who had trouble with the conductor, tits to be contradicted,"
 Well" replied the man who. shared his seat 'I like to have people talk back to me-
 You dor"
 ''Yes. I'm an auctioneer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

The newly-elected pontiff is well re- ceived throughout the world, and there is a general feeling that he will not prove disappointing even when con trusted with Pope Leo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
suPr. M'MANus' OFFICE AGAIN

From the Chattanooga Times.
 The account given by Secretary Hol- brook. of the chamber of commerce, in yesterday mornings Chattanooga Times of his interview with President Finley, of the Southern railroad. with reference to the proposed removal of the headqulrters of the general ssuperinten- dent oft he western district of that sys-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
Two Things Needed.

''The mayor and the board of aldermen of Birmingham need more money. but if they only knew 1t they could save the city a nice little sum by erecting a stockade," said man prominent in poli- tics yesterday
 Take for Instance the three deliveries from the southside Jail in the past two years. Each one of them have cost the city over $500 in the time of the men who escaped. Would 1t not have been cheaper to have built stockade which would hold the prisoners? It might cost $5OOO but then there would have been no es- eapes.
 Another thing badly needed here is a farm where women could do light work. This is a crying need, and one that the mayor and board of aldermen should remedy. Now women are arrested, and if they are sentenced to work for the city they lie in idleness in the city jail and eat up the city's money without any return. If there was a farm they could do good work. Negro women and de- prayed white women do not mind stay ing for few days in the jail, as they get fed for nothing. It Is cheaper than stay ing out If the police could get about 100 acres out of town 1t would to a large extent clear the city of negro and white jail birds, of which there are a supera- bundance at present. In fact there are more here than any city of the size in the world, and all because the police have no way to get rid of them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
OFFSETS IN FRANCE.

From the Kansas City Journal
 The population of France may be on a decline, but there are some onsets' A Paris statisticlan estimates that there are 40,0OO,OoO rats in that country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

For many years the Southern Pacific railway system has made efforts to in duce white immigration to the south, and especially to the great southwest, which this road traverses. This year the pas senger officials are trying to secure a large number of immigrants to work in the rice and tobacco fields of Texas and Louisiana. There seems to be a desire among the white people of the south to see more white laborers come into this section. Quite a number of Boers have already settled in parts of Texas and Mexico. These people buy land and do not become tenants. They are in many respects the most desirable settlers that the southern states could have, but the climatic conditions are not favorable in the lowlands of the gulf states. and they are unused to cultivating the staple crops of rice and tobacco. After all the black man is the best laborer for the sunny fields of the south, ana when he works there is no labor that is cheaper or more satisfactory for the planters.
 The great excursions of the Southern Pacific every year are looked upon with much interest in the southwest. Mag nificent trains are chartered from Chica- go. Cincinnati and other large cities which leisurely traverse the entire dis trict. Sometimes the excursionists num- Der four or five hundred people. and they are received with great consideration wherever they go, as the people are very anxious to sell them real estate. One ex- cursion will consist of a magnihcently equipped train filled with forty jolly bankers, who leave golden trail be- hind them, while another will be com posed of the middle classes of farmers, merchants and tradesmen.
 The New York World suggests that great deal of mental energy might be saved by presenting some of the great plays of the past instead of wasting time in concocting the effusions which now burden the statge. The demand for dramatizations of the famous novels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
SHUT HIM UP.

From the Louisville Times.
 Grover Cleveland, Jr., being condition and not theory. MT. Bryan has not chirped since the news of his appear anea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
A BIT OF A LAUGH
Intellect Wanted.

From the Chicago Journal.
 cholly chumpleigh-No: the woman I marry must be of fine intellect
 Miss caustique-I should think you'd rather have a wife who would think you a great man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
6efittine a Waitress

From the Philadelphia Press.
 Polk-She took part in your amateur play. didn't she?
 Jolk-oh. yes; she took the part of waitress.
 Polk-What sort of costume did she wear?
 Jolk-A fetching one, of course
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
SOMETHING ELSE AT PRESENT.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 Even the Brooklyn Eagle will hesitate to say that MT. Cleveland is nursing a presidential boom now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
ONE GOOD FEATURE.

From the Louisville Times.
 A good feature about radium as cure for cancer is that no druggist has anything "1ust as good'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
cLEReYMEN AND POLITICIANS,

From the Chicago News
 The average clergyman knows as much about politics as the average politician knows about piety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

Bourke Cochran denies the allega tion even if ne does not defy the ale gator. He says he will continue to be an adopted American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06
The Tiara.

Among the most many costly tokens presented to the late pope the tiara sent by Emperor William on the occasion of the great jubilee last March is perhaps one of the most highly valued" said a prominent layman "The tiara cost $780, GOO. It may be that Plus x. will use it at his coronation, but more than likely he will choose one that has been handed down from the medieval times. These o.4 tiaras are lighter in weight than the modern ones and really not uncomfortable on the head.
 Tn the ceremony of investiture one of the cardinal deacons places the triple crown on the pontih head and says: Receive the tiara surmounted by three crowns and know that thou art father of princes and kings ruler of the world and vicar of our Saviour Jesus Christi"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

The new pope is a great scholar, but IS not fluent linguist, and this is re- garded as a slgn that he will not talk too much
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

The captains of finance are sitting in the shadows, and even the bull-necked captains of industry-see the illus trated papers-are keeping very quiet, while the farmer is having an inning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

From the Chicago News.
 Speech" remarked the female philoso- pher, lis often quicker than thought"
 Yes" rejoined the masculine animal, I'm reminded of that fact every time I hear a woman talk"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

James Hamilton Lewis is about to dlg a tunnel under Bering's straits. l.e knows no such word as fail"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

MT. schwab has made his final bow, firing a shot at the newspapers as he went off the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

The weather prophets are looking for "a crisis of summer heat" Any old day in August fills the bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

Gen. John B. Gordon stands firmly against peonage in all its forms. He wants free men only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

St. Louis begins to fear that Patti will rake in all the spare show money before it's fair is opened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

The water-logged stocks are again on the toboggan slide, which seems to be their natural position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

All the monopolists are standing pat on the tariff that shelters and pro tects them in their daily acts of rob, bery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

Egypt knows nothing of the sins committed in her name in midways. Th9 midway Egyptians come from Chl- cage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

Pope Plus X comes from the people as did the president of France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

Some of the comets numerous tail may be whisked into the dipper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

The disabled captains of finance be- gin to wish they hadn't. They are weak and deserted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

King Cotton is Wy dear to some of the mills just at present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

The silk worm begins to be an eco nomical necessity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-06

Democrats in all sections are turn ing to Senator Gofman as the one safe leader in a crisis.