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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
Business Conditions.

Instead of the fear of an unhealthy
boom, we now have the calm peace of
convalescence. Conservatism, in other
words, has supplanted wild combina-
tions and hazardous enterprises of all
sorts, and the professional promoter
has disappeared from the scene alto
gether.
Crops are reasonably good, and a
good fall trade has been inaugurated.
In all legitimate enterprises there is
no lack of business, but prices are not
tending upward; no wild demands for
quick delivery are heard, and the vol
ume of orders is no larger than can be
conveniently handled. This is, 1t is
true, change from the conditions
existing one year ago, or two years
ago.
All business, be it financial or COM
mercial, is now transacted on con-
servative lines. To a great extent the
indigestible securities have been elm
mated, and no one proposes to form
any more trusts. The change Is a
happy one, and 1t has been brought
about without involving a panic or
other serious check. Prices of securi-
ties have simply fallen to figures
nearer true value, and business goes
forward as before.
Nearly all mills are in operation, the
chief exception being the cotton mills,
and their troubles will soon be ad-
justed by advances in the prices Of
manufactured goods. All furnaces that
do not need repairs are in blast, al
though the price of iron has fallen, and
the demand for 1t is not strong. But
rails and structural material and pipe
are freely moved, and this goes to
show that pig iron will soon follow
suit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
THE WEST. GETTING TAME.

From the Spokogee Journal.
why don't somebody get born, get
married or die or run off with some 9TH
er mans wife, kiss the hired girl, get
drunk and shoot up the town, kill one of
the valuable town dogs, burn out some
places of business so as to get the insur-
ance, or commit suicide-or, in fact, do
any goldurned old thing so as to liven up
matters-be metropolitan. the same as in
cities, as elsewhere-gosh! but this Is a
dry old burg, no excitement of any kind
hasn't been fst-to-skull encounter for
so long that the boys have almost forgot
ten the manly art of self-protection. If
we go on behaving in this manner, what
do you suppose our dear friends in the
effete east will think of such conduct out
here among the wilds of the great Ameri-
can desert?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
COLLEGE BOYS.

II notice that a large number of pros
pective college students are arriving on
the incoming trains tonight for the pur-
pose of entering Howard or North Ala
bama Conference college tomorrow when
these institutions will throw open their
doors for the coming session." said an old
college man last night.
when l was a boy, we Howard fellows
met all the new boys with paddles and
with vigorous yells of rats, but l see 1t
seems to be the custom to meet new stu
dents with a hearty welcome and Wig
orous handshake. While the old barba-
rous custom was a source of much delight
to uncouth boys, still, I must admit that
the new way Is far better.
1.-THE naturalization at college Is the
most important and the most critical time
of a youths life. When the boy leaves
his loved ones and friends and starts out
in pursuit of knowledge 1t takes strong
nerve to stand the test. l have seen
many fall just from pure inconsistencies,
brought on by so-ealled hazing. At this
crisis in his life the boy needs every kind
word that he can get. 1 observe that a
large number of the boys this session
are from the country and this being their
first visit to the city. they were viewing
the sights with open-eyed amazement.
But this is splendid omen for Howard
and Owenton, for 1t will be on the Shout
ders of just such boys that the bulwark
of our citizenship, In the generation to
come, will rest. l would leave this one
injunction with these boys: Tread always
in the path that has been blazed out for
you by your good old parents at home and
success will be yours
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
Special Terms of Court.

The delay in passing a comprehen-
sive and authoritative primary bill Is
even exceeded by the neglect OF Gov
ernor Jelks' recommendation in favor
OF giving the executive of the state
mower to summon in fragrant cases
special term of the circuit court. A
hill has not, SO far as reports have
stated been introduced to carry the
governors recommendation into ef-
feet.
And yet no one has presented
single sound objection to the power
ked for. The cost of it as compared
with the gain to the cause of law and
order is not worth considering. The
'tate's reputation would be immeasur-
.bly advanced, because it would take
away the sole excuse of lynching bees.
Il would render action by the courts
in fragrant cases speedy and swift and
sure. lnere Woulu pS III Aah6ihS "a
innocent persons. Anarchy would be
abolished
Why then should not the chief ex-
ecutive Of the state, chosen by the
people, be given the power asked for?
No one has as yet formulated rea-
sonable objection, and yet the legisla-
turo hesitates. Does it really prefer
to see lynching bees in the state?
Does 1t prefer lyncn law to statute
law? These are questions that the
legislature will decide by its action or
non-action over Governor jerks
thoughtful, needful and sensible rec
Dmmendation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Jesuits at Worlds Fair.

THE Very Reverend Louis Martin, SUI
perior general of the Society of Jesus, has
granted the American Jesuits permission
to have an exhibit at the worlds fair in
st. Louis next year." remarked st.
Louis man. "Ex- Congressman Glynn,
who has charge of the Catholic educa
tional exhibit; the Rev. DIR. William
Banks Rogers. S. J., president of the st.
Louis University and Father O'Gorman,
project of studies in st. Francis Xaviers
college, are preparing maps, histories of
the early explorations of the Jesuits in
the northwest and southwest. led by Mar
quette, and an illustrated catalogue of the
entire exhibit
According to the present plan, the ex-
hibit is to be entirely separate from the
one which the government has requested
from the Jesuits concerning their work In
the Philippine islands.
The first group will occupy three sec
lions, the exhibit being furnished by the
seven Jesuit institutions In the province
of st. Louis. The first section will deal
with the labors in this country of the
Jesuit missionaries and teachers from as
sion will represent the work of the TWEEN
ty-four Jesuit colleges In this country. In
Guiding st. Francis Xavier's of New York
and Springhill. near Mobile. Father Gan
non, provincial of the New York-Mary-
land province, will shortly appoint several
members of the order to assist Father
OGorman In preparing the local institu-
TONS exhibit. This will include maps,
sketches designs, paintings and every
thing of historic interest bearing on the
slabors of the Jesuit missionaries in the
Hudson Bay region and scenes from the
old Jesuit missions. The third division is
to be devoted entirely to the work of ST.
Louis University and Its associate insti-
buttons, Milwaukee, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Omaha. Detroit and st. Marys, Kan.
by far the most striking feature of
the exhibit will be the gallery of i'm
mortals, containing sculptured busts, old
paintings, etchings and drawings of cele-
brated men who received their early train
ing from Jesuit teachers. Among the not
ables will be the poets Tasso, Calderon,
Moliere and Corneille; scholars such as
Calico, Describes. Vico and Muratori;
such distinguished generals as lilly, Con-
de, Wallensten and score or more of
Roman pontiffs, including the late Pope
Leo Kill
'Ex-Congressman Glynn, who will take
the exhibits to the fair says that the
Jesuit exhibit will prove to be one of
the marvellous educational features of
the exposition
Here are men, he continued, whose
missionaries have tramped through the
virgin forests of America from Hudson
Bay to the remotest districts of the re-
glon along the Mississippi. We have not
lived yet to see Marquette given that
honor which he deserves of this country
The Jesuit exhibit will teach this lesson
that this notable body of religious men
have been a great factor In the upbuild-
ing of the American republic"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
A Hopeless Case.
Hard on His Friends.
THE SoUTH'S DAZZLING DREAM.

From the New York World.
If the coming cotton crop realizes the
largest anticipations and amounts to
even i, 100000 bales, there is no reason to
suppose that the worlds demand will not
still outrun it's supply.
Editor Edmonds, of the Manufacturers
Record, points out in the current Re-
view of Reviews that American spindles
have increased much faster of late years
than those of other cotton-raising coun-
tries. He raises the question whether
as the south continues to use more of her
great staple in her own mills, we shall
not greatly curtail our cotton exports,
leaving British and European manufac-
turers to find new cotton fields or go out
of business. The south already counts
5000, coo spindles in operation, represent
ing an invested capital of 5000, 900, 600,
whereas in 1880 they numbered but 667,-
GOO spindles, representing an investment
of only s21, 0,0O0
If instead of shipping to Europe 60 per
cent of our cotton crop we should so
multiply our spindles as to consume the
whole of it at home. it would mean the
employment of a million more operatives
the investemnt of about $1,000, 100000 more
capital and the annual production of
about s1,5OO 600, 600 more of finished cotton
goods. The cotton fields of the SOUTH
counting cotton, seed and cotton-seed oil,
now adds to the wealth of the nation
about s65oQOo,Ooo per year. If American
mills consumed the entire crop this hand
some figure would be enlarged to the daz-
zing total Of s2,25O, 100000. This. Editor
Edmonds declars, is the prize which the
SOUTH by natural advantages, has the
right to claim and the certainty of even
tually winning"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
Action Needed in the House.

1t is contended that five published
statements year of the business of
state and private banks would be ex-
ceedingly hurtful and in the summer
time ruinous This raises broad
moral question, Has bank that re-
ceives deposits right to stand in the
good old summer time on the brink
of a precipice? If it persists in stand
ing there in the glad summer time or
any other time, should it not in all
honesty be compelled to let its de-
positors and the rest Of the people
know what 1t is doing?
State banks now voluntarily make
reports of their condition, and every
sound state bank in this state is in
favor of the passage of the senate re-
cess bill. 1t is a ring of private banks,
acting upon and through Chairman
Glover OF the house banking commit
tee, that is holding up the pending
bill. Mr.. Cornwell of Bessemer, it is
said, did like work in the previous
legislature He is now in Mexico, and
will not return in time to head an OPP
position movement to bank inspection
in the present legislature, and his op-
position mantle has fallen upon Chair
man Glover and he has able assistants
in the ring of private bankers.
The case is a very plain one-shall
wildcat banking be encouraged in Ala
bama? Shall eleven million OF de-
posits go unguarded by the state, open
to individual speculation or pecula-
ton? The legislature must choose be-
tween honest banking and Wildcat
banking. Chairman Glover apparently
favors the latter, but he is not the
whole thing, and the Will of the people
should be heard and needed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16

ern railroad, who has been sick for three
weeks. is at the Florence. and will go
back on his run from Birmingham to
Selma tomorrow.
W. H. Bell, of Hargrove, was a late
arrival at the Hillman last night
w. w Wood Of Jasper is at the Flor
enee.
The Rev. t. v. Neal, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Tuscumbia, Is
in the city. attending the opening OF
Howard college.
A. C. Abbott and Charles r. Cox Of Al
lanta are stopping at the Hillman.
John w. Powell, one of Montgomery's
most distinguished citizens, is at the
Morris.
E. T. Glenn Of Coal City, is registered
at the st. Nicholas.
James Fancher of Montevallo, is at the
Metropolitan.
Senator B. H. Craig of Selma came up
from Montgomery last night and is stop
ping at the Morris.
]. Hunt Of Atlanta, w. T. Kidd OF
Vincent and w. o. Barefield are regis
tered at the Morris.
C. S. Rabb, prominent lawyer of Ever
green. is stopping at the Metropolitan.
He is accompanied by his son, Leslie,
who will enter Howard, and his daughter,
who will enter the A. f. C. at Tusca-
loosa.
]. C. Stanley of Russellville, ]. s.
Graves of Talladega and Ed Lane Of
Sylacauga are at the Metropolitan.
J. Alex Moore, a professor in the Girls
Normal and Industrial school at Monte
vallo, is stopping at the Metropolitan.
large number of boys came in on all
incoming trains last night preparatory to
entering Howard and Owenton colleges
today and quite number Of young
ladies on the way to Tuscaloosa, where
the female institutions of that city open
today.
Walter Smith. a prominent attorney Of
Vernon, is registered at the Metropolitan.
C. s. Phohlman, auditor for the South
ern Express company. with headquarters
at Nashville, is at the Metropolitan.
L. s. Wright, an extensive furniture
dealer of Macon, Ca, is at the Metropoli-
tan.
DIR. ]. w. Lowery, pastor of the Warrior
Baptist church, is in the city.
A Birmingham party. including DIR.
Lewis Coleman Morris, VIII Walker Miss
Louise Walker, Miss Annie and Miss Bes-
sic Jemison, and Miss Gelders. who spent
ten weeks in Europe. have landed in New
York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
Good BYE. Mosquitoes.

The mosquitoes, tossed by brisk
winds and rendered rheumatic by
damp airs and cold rains, have packed
their trunks and departed. A few de-
crepit specimens Of the species may
Ginger behind, but they lack the power
10 torment human being in the night
season.
II is not necessary to inquire where
The mosquitoes have gone to. They
may have gone back to their ancestral
haunts in Montgomery, but no one
cares where they have gone. All thai
my reasonable human being wants to
NOW is that theJ have departed. They
vent away with cool. sharp wind at
heir heels, pushing them on and out.
Full OF intelligence and voracity and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
HIGHER EDUCATION IN SIBERIA

George Frederick Wright in the Chau-
tauquan.
The University of Tomsk is well sup
piled with buildings, including very
large one for clinics. The museum Is
amply stocked in every department, be-
Ing specially rich in its archaeological
relics and its anatomical specimens. The
library of over one hundred thousand
volumes, received at the outset most
valuable collection of books, engravings
and originals designs and sketches, con-
tributed by Count Stroganoff. Some of
these volumes would be counted rare
treasures in any European capital. The
chemical and physical laboratories are
specially fitted up to meet the demands
of the numerous mining industries of the
region, while the botanical garden is
scarcely excelled in Europe in the vari-
ETY. and completeness of its collections.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH
HAS NOT BEEN STOPPED

three times. Since 1880. too, it has de-
veloped the value of it's manufactured
and mineral products from $47400O.OOO to
about $1,7O0,0O0,O0O.
A region which has made such marve-
lous progress in less than quarter of
century cannot be described as disas-
trously halted in its growth by the
Shadow of an unsolved problem" In
many respects. the labor problem at the
south is less disturbing and is less re-
tarding to development than it is in any
other part of the union, IL not of the CIV
ilized world; yet Mr.. Graves would get
rid of the negroes who furnish the vast
bulk of southern labor!
The truth is that the south is now on
a solder basis of prosperity than ever
before in it's history. and in no other
part of the union is its good fortune ex-
celled, even If 1t is equalled, relatively.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
Mr.. CulIom.

E. N. Cullom has resigned the presi-
dency of the North Birmingham Land
company and will devote his entire atten-
ton to the business of the Alabama
Trust company, of which he is president
Mr.. Cullom is one of the most far-sight-
ed. puolic-spirited and successful bust
ness men in this section, and the North
Birmingham Land company will be for
tunate indeed if it finds a man who can
at all fill his shoes
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
From the New York Sun.


STN r. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES,
I(pl the Atlanta editor who recently
advocated, at Chicago, the re-
moval of the negroes from the south and
their transportation to some territory or
insular possession of the United States,
is severely rebuked for his folly and for
his Misrepresentation of the southern in
dustrial situation. The rebuke, too, comes
from a southerner and a man who is far
better informed on the subject-Mr Rich
ard II. Edmonds, the editor of the Man.
ufacturers Record at Baltimore.
To the lamentations of Mr. Graves over
the "halted development" of the south,
Mr.. Edmonds responds by presenting sta
tistics to show that actually there have
been amazing progress" and "a redemp-
ton from the poverty following the wreck
and ruin of the war unparalleled in his
tory. Nor is there any exaggeration III
the words. The negro problem" said Mr..
Graves. ''halts our growth" largely de-
ters capital from investment" makes a
standard of labor that prejudices all our
southern poor against mental but honor
able service" ''depresses agriculture"
and "the free movement of men and mon
ey is hindered toward the inviting field
of opportunity"
Now, what are the facts? A conserva-
tive estimate by Mr.. Edmonds of the
value of this years cotton crop is $780,
600, 900, and the average for the last three
years has been about $500, 100000 OF this
cotton, the south will consume in it's own
mills about $4,000, 900 bales, and thus add
about 100000, 900 to the value of the raw
staple and the value of the various cot
tonseed products will be $1,000 1900.
That is, 1.-The south will this year have
poured into it, entirely from other Sec
lions and other countries, for cotton
products alone about $500 100000" and its
other agricultural products will be worth
S9OO.0000000 more.
Do these statistics afford any evidence
of the shalted development Mr.. Graves
talks about?
1t is true that only very trifling part
Of the great foreign immigration since
1880 has gone to the south; yet its popu-
lation increased from 16,5l65ss In 1880 to
"a, 523, 527 in 1900. At the period Of the
civil war it's population was /nly n,iss-
ssl. But the percentage off increase in
the value of it's agricultural products has
exceeded that in the population nearly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
President Diaz.

Outside of Mexico there is a general i'm
preston that because President Daz Is
new seventy-three years old he must be
failing and that at best he can last but
a little time longer. ION the contrary"
says a man who has just returned from
a business trip to the sister republic.
half minutes talk with the general
will dispel any such notion. He is of OAK
AGA Indian blood. tribe noted for longe-
witty and physical prowess. He sits his
saddle with old time ease and from all
appearances can stand as much fatigue
as when he rode into Puebla conqueror of
the French thirty-five years ago. His SON.
Porf1rio Diaz, Jr., is now a man of at
fairs in the Mexican financial world"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
CROSSING THE BAR.

By Alfred Tennyson.
Sunset and evening star.
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When l put out to sea.
Il
But such tide as moving seems asleep.
Too full for sound and foam.
When that which drew from out the
boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell.
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell.
When I embark.
For tho from out our bourne of Time
and Place
The flood may bear me far.
hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar. /.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
Birminoham's Health.

Health conditions have been remark
ably good this year" said a prominent
physician. There has been compare
lively little typhoid fever. l attribute
this fact to improved drainage Last
year there was much typhoid on the
South Highlands, but this year the cases
in that section were few and far be-
tween.
1.-THE idea which obtains among some
people that the Southside is not as salu-
brious as the Northsde is absolutely fall
lacious The history of families living
on the Southside of valley goes to
show that such families are decidedly
healthy and long-lived."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
PROTECTION OF WOMEN.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
There is no question that in America we
are more given to personal violence than
they are in the old world, although most
of the offenders are newcomers among
u.s. But we hold violence against women
in greater adherence than it is held
abroad, where women are often no more
than the farm and household drudges to
be treated hardly better than the live
stock. And in our punshments we are
more just and impartial than are the En-
glish judges. Property here is less sacred
a possession than the right to live and
maintain physical integrity. Trespass on
private ground Is seldom considered ac-
tionable, and rarely punished.
The English idea of sparing men who
injure women seems to be an outgrowth
OF the old savage notion Of the right of
physical supremacy. To s"let him take
who has the strength and let him keep
who cam Is an axiom which expresses
the like sentiment yet 1t is oddly refuted
in court action all over the kingdom. And
the fact that the health and continuance
of the race require consideration for the
woman as well as the man appears also
to be overlooked If these are Anglo
Saxon ideas that London magistrates hold
then 1t is well that we are outgrowing
them. though in the fashion of our trials
and punishments the Anglo-Saxon influ-
ence is more strongly instanced than in
any other Of our inheritances. Nay, we
have bettered the example for our courts
have become probably the slowest in the
world, and the most frequent obstruc-
tions to justice Is 1t not time that we
ceased to model ourselves upon the En-
glish pattern and asserted sturdier legal
independence?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
A BIRMINGHAM Need.

THE most surprising fact about Bir-
mingham. with its metropolitan push and
style, is the absence of am apartment
house." said a new conner. II know of
few better paying investments in cities
of Birmingham's size and character than
frst-class apartment buildings. capt.
talist might invest 100000 in flats and
earn good dividend"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
AN OBJECT oE SYMPATHY.

From the Boston Globe.
Much sympathy is felt for the pitcher
on the Pittsburg baseball team who had
been released because he didn't come up
to expectations, and who will therefore
become a mere college professor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-16
Desianates a Holiday.

indianapolis. Ind, Sept. 15.-State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction Cotton
has designated Friday. October %. as
Arbor and Bird day in the schools of the
state. and Governor Durbin will soon is
sue proclamation asking a general OBJ
servance of the day.