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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
SLAUGHTER or CHRISTIANS

London. Sept. l2.-,rhc Salonica cor
respondent Of the Times. after visiting
Aionastir. sends a detailed history OF
the Insurrection and the Turkish oper.
ations for its suppression. He says:
NO details have yet been received as
to the result OF the more remote mill
tary drives. but from information en-
anating from trustworthy sources not
usually friendly 10 the Turks there is
reason to fear that the country has
been absolutely deyasted and all the
Christians OF botk sexes and all ages.
who have failed TO find refuge in the
woods. have been put TO the sword"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH.

Chicago, Sept, 12.-In the presence of
her blind mother, Mrs, Clara Costello
last night saturated her dress with
kerosene and touched a match to it.,
She was so badly burned that she died
a short time later in the hospital, Her
mother made desperate efforts to save
the woman. but because of her blind
ness was not able to accomplish any
thing. Family troubles and illness are
supposed to have unhinged her mind.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
THUG GETS TWENTY YEARS.

Seattle. Sept. i2.-George vanhorst
who robbed and beat T. S. Llppey, the
Klondyke millionaire at his home sew
eral weeks ago, was today sentenced by
Judge Bell to imprisonment for 20 years
in the penitentiary. Vanhorst this
morning changed his plea to guilty
In passing sentence Judge Bell said
that there were no mitigating circum-
stances and that thugs of Seattle need
ed a lesson.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
pEccrS ESTATE TO BE DIVIDED.


Rome, Sept. 12,--When Cardinal Giu-
seppe Pecci. the brother of the late
pope died, Leo had all the cardinals
heirs renounce their claims to the In
heritanee, assuring them that they
would be adequately compensated Not
having received anything, the cardi-
nails nephews have now presented a
request to the executors of Peope Leo's
will that they enter into possession of
the cardinals estate and receive COM
pensatlon. 1t seems that among the
objects found in the late pope's adart-
ments there were four large baskets
full of silver belonging to Giuseppe and
which had never been opened since the
latter's death. 1t is supposed that they
were forgotten by Pope Leo.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
ROBBERS MAKE LARGE HAUL
Blow Open a Bank Safe and Ge
Away With $4,000.

Sioux Falls. S. D., Sept. IA band
If eight masked men blew open the
safe in the Minnehaha County bank at
Valley Springs this morning and Sc
cured about $4,000. The residents of
of the town were aroused shortly before
daybreak by several explosions. When
the citizens appeared on the street to
ascertain the cause they discovered
that the town was picketed by seven or
eight armed men who drove them from
the streets on pain of instant death.
The robbers then completed their work
and left town.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
TO CONVENE IN NOVEMBER
President Fixes Date for Extra
Session OF Congress.

oyster Bay, Sept. 12.--President
Roosevelt has abandoned the sugges-
ton that congress be called in extraor-
binary session in October. The extra
ordinary session which he announced
many months ago would be held this
fall will be called, according to present
plans, to meet November 9.
The original suggestion was not re-
ceived with favor by members of con7
gress generally. An october session
was opposed because it would oblige
congressman to leave their states and
districts In the midst of campaigns.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13

Turkish and Albanian forces, women
and girls being nialtreated In an un-
spcakable manner, The innocent VIC
Tins Of the barbarous soldiers are said
to have been subjected to the most
frightful tortures, and to have pleaded
with their torturers to be put to death
instantly.
Official circles are so far without in
formation Of the reported massacre.
but. In view Of he character of the lat
est advIces from Macedonia, 1t is fear
ed the report is only too true.
This last massacre has greatly excit-
ed the people, and the situation Is now
more alarming than ever before.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
TRYING 70 UNDO ST. PATRICws WORK.

London, Sept. 12,--The Times prints
an extraordinary letter dated from the
Midland hotel, at Manchester, In which
the writer announces that he arrived
from America ON the White star line
steamer Celtic and went to Cork. He
then visited Blarney castle where he
liberated IA fairly good-sized rattle
snakes. The letter concludes; Time
win tell il st. Patrick's edict is myth
or not, Yours for science,
&c. r. WARWICK"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
1GNITER MAKES REcoRp.

New York. Sept. 12.--Before crowd
of $4,000 people, Igniter won the $4,000
annual champion stakes, two miles and
quarter. at Sheepshead Bay today.
Igniler was quoted at to /. Duro, the
favorite in betting, finished second, six
lengths in front of Major Daingerfield.
record held by David Garrick. by 2-5
Time 1858 3-5. This breaks the track
seconds
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-13
SNOW FALLS IN MONTANA.

Butte, Mont, Sept. 12.-Reports to-
night from various points indicate
heavy snowstorms generally throughout
Montana. In portion of the state
from two to four feet of snow is report
ed and the damage to crops will
amount to thousands Of dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
An Unsavory Congress.

The Fifty-seventh congress went out
Of existence by constitutional limita-
ton yesterday, and it's record is made
up. 1t will be apt to be known as the
Panama canal congress, because it
authorized the construction of a great
worlds work that had been the subject
of agitation of fifty years. This con-
gress went SO far as to make a bar
gain for all French rights at Panama,
and to provide money for the entire
construction of the canal 1t is there
fore the canal congress, and as such
it will be known in history.
The antitrust legislation of the dead
congress is mostly moonshine, and it
was devised as such and for just such
purposes. 1t will not give any trust
any trouble whatever. The object of
the publicity and lantirebate measures
was to appease public sentiment with
out offending the trusts, and this OBJ
ject was skillfully accomplished SO far
as the trusts are concerned.
The shortcomings of the dead con-
gress are too numerous to mention. 1t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05

of 1887 scattered the state banks, and
in President Van Buren's time the in
dependent treaz.ry was installed,
which has lasted with some encroach-
ments only down to the present time.
The Aldrich bill aims to destroy the
independent treasury to a great ex-
tent, for it authorizes the secretary
of the treasury to deposit in national
banks the surplus moneys of the
United States. In 1864 the govern
ment was permitted to deposit in ma
tional banks surplus funds derived
from internal revenue, and the Aldrich
bill proposed to extend this permission
to money derived from customs or
other sources. The distinction in 1864
was based upon the fact that the GUS
toms were payable in gold and the
revenue taxes in currency. Specie
payments were resumed in. 1879, and
this distinction lost it's basis.
Many think the Aldrich bill is faulty,
because it calls for the deposit of col
laterals by the national banks to off
set the deposits of government funds,
and requires interest on deposits at
~ per cent. Such persons think no
collateral should be required and a
higher rate of interest demanded, the
government having a prior lien on q
national bank anyway. Others object
to the use of collaterals other than
government bonds, and altogether the
bill had many critics, il not oppo-
nents
The treasury deposits in the ma
tional banks now stand at about $780,,
100000 The working balance in the
treasury is $50, 900, 900, and beyond
that there is only about $22 1000 900. If
100000 is paid out this spring on
account of the Panama canal there
will not be much money to be de-
posted under any bill, and perhaps
congress may conclude that after all
the best way is to reduce tariff taxa
ton to the real needs of the govern
ment, so that there will be no surplus
whatever to quarrel over.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
Work for the September Session.

The Mobile Register fairly presents
the. general sentiment of the state as
to the first session, when it says
The legislature has made generally
favorable impression upon the state. 1t
has been working and not talking
legislature. 1t has reflected the new and
serious order of things brought In by the
new constitution.
1t was certainly devoted to hard
work, for out of 923 bills introduced.
$50 were passed in thirty-eight work
ing days and sent to the governor
This is a good record, and thus far no
complaint has been made that any of
the $50 bills passed was unjust or un-
satisfactory.
But the general election law, the
stock law, the redistricting of the
judiciary circuits, and dozen or more
general bills to bring the constitution
into good working order, besides TAB
bills brought over from the first ses-
sion, are all to be acted on in the Sep
TENDER session. The danger is that this
mass Of business cannot be satlsfac-
torily disposed of in twenty-five work
ing days. The senate committee of
nine lawyers will sit during the re-
cess, and the hope is that they will
be able to facilitate the work that will
press upon the second session. This
committee consists of Senators Colds
by, Hipp, Blackmon. Morrow, Craig,
Castleberry, Nesmith, Hall and Powell
young lawyers, who will do their
best to get bills ready for considera-
tion at the September session. This
committee is equipped with clerks and
stenographers, and the disposal of the
public business in September depends
to no little extent upon the extent of
their efforts during the recess.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
DISCRIMINATION Invited.

The primary Is ended, and the re-
citizen finds in them some things that
are not comforting. For example, the
race for chief of police. In that case
a night captain ran against the head
of the force, and the force itself be-
came partisan, divided against itself.
A house divided against itself cannot
prosper, and this is eminently true in
the police house.
If we desire to maintain discipline
in the police department of the city
such contest as that of last Monday
should be avoided. The police and
politics should be divorced. Fortunate
ly, the voters had the good sense to
say on Monday that the police COM
mission should be perpendicular
other words, that the police depart
ment should not be handed over to
the board of aldermen and ward poll
| tics.
Let us now go one step further by
declaring that never again shall chief
of police be balloted for. Let him be
appointed by the police commission,
whose members are balloted for. This
preserves the rule of the majority, and
yet keeps out of politics the head of
the force, and prevents such demon
alizing races as that of last Monday.
The public schools are kept out of
politics through the operation of the
board of education, and there is no
reason why the police cannot be. If
the people will elect as police COM
missioners good citizens, 1t can be
readily done. and thus far there has
been no lack of good citizens in that
board. At any rate it Is better to
trust to them than to have a repeti-
ton Of Mondays race. Such a specta-
Gle should never be repeated. We can
not afford to drag the head of the force
through the mire of politics, and every
thoughtful citizen should demand that
the entire police force from the chief
to the latest supernumerary should be
selected and controlled by the COM
mission that is responsible to the peo-
pie for their discipline and efficiency.
The responsibility should, in other
words, be brought home to the police
commission. At present we are by
such primaries as that of Monday re-
lieving them of their proper response
bility, while we are disorganizing the
entire force.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
WAR AND WOMEN WAS
DR.. A. G. VOGELER'S THEME

a calm and superior expression. st had
war enough to get my husband and have
had a good deal of war since" said this
admirable and courageous person. war
isn't hurting people, Mrs. Loomis was
astonished and deeply regretted that
there vas "even one woman who could
make such a choice" as this advocate
of the warrior made. It is no business
of Mere Mans, perhaps. but we can't
help liking that advocate Was the vote
a fair one? Did all the women present
really prefer sad-garbed peace? Fine
feathers make fine birds. Look at the
luck of the West Pointers and the Ann
apolitans in Irritation and in marriage.
There are not soldiers enough to go
round" II there were. what would the
civilian do then, poor thing?
But all this was and is beside the mark.
This is the question: Is woman the cause
of war? The effect of gold lace upon the
female aesthetic sense has nothing to do
with the case. Do women rule the world,
as DR.. Vogeler says calamity and as we
think. truly? Then, they can stop what
they choose to stop. To hear them is to
obey we might treat the matter his
torically, beginning with Helen and the
Trojan war, but 1t is not necessary to re-
sort to concrete argument. We hold it to
be an axiom that woman Is the cause OF
everything that's good. War was origin
ally good, Indispensable; and is still the
principal exercise of the world. What was
the first fight about? Undoubtedly about
a woman. Why is man strong? Why has
he attained in some instances a certain
amount of beauty, male efflorescence,"
as the sociologists say? Why is there any
wealth, art. music, poetry in the world?
You don't have to study anthropology or
read about 'woman's share in primitive
culture to know the answer. Woman ID
the cause of everything that deserves to
have one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
Surplus Treasury Notes.

Congress adjourned without passing
the Aldrich bill, and this has operated
to depress prices in the stock market
and to prevent the rise of another
boom. The bill encountered in the
last days of the session determined
opposition from interests that Senator
Aldrich had opposed, and his financial
bill was readily defeated.
1t was bill in brief to place the
treasury surplus in the national bank
repositories. The deposit system was
in successful use down to General
Jackson's successful war upon the
Bank OF the United States. At that
time the government had no vaults of
its own, and it was compelled to use
those Of the state banks. The panic
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
WE HAVE 1000 cENTENARIANs.

Syracuse Telegram to the New York Sun.
Joseph II. Perkins, the veteran coin
collector and relic hunter, will publish a
work of eight volumes, containing the
biographies of nearly $4,000 centenarians
and photographs of 600. He has been col
lecting them all his life. He says that
there are at present 1000 centenarians in
the United States. The oldest man IN
the world, he says, is Manuel del Vale,
a Mexican, living near San Francisco,
who is 157 All parts of the world are in
cluded in this collection
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
MY SPRINGS.

by oiuHey l1dnler.
In the hearts of the Hills of Life I know
TWO springs that with unbroken flow
Forever pour their lucent streams
Into my souls far Lake of Dreams
Not larger than two eyes, they lie
Beneath the many changing sky
And mirror all of life and time,
Serene and dainty pantomime
Shot through with lights of stars and
dawns,
And Swallowed sweet by ferns and fawns.
Thus heaven and earth together vie
Their shining depths to sanctify.
o Love. o Wife, thine eyes are they,
My springs from out whose shining gray
Issue the sweet celestial streams
That feed my life's bright Lake of
Dreams
Oval and large and passion-pure
And gray and wise and honor-sure;
Soft as dying violet breath
Yet calmly unafraid of DEATH
Thronged. like two dovecotes of gray
doves
With wife's and mothers and poor-folks
loves,
And home-loves and high glory loves,
And science-loves and story-loves.
And love for all that God and man
In art and nature make or plan,
And lady-loves for spidery lace
And broideries and supple grace.
And diamonds and the whole sweet round
OF Titles that large life compound,
And love for God and Gods bare truth,
And loves for Magdalen and Ruth.
Dear eyes, dear eyes. and rare complete
Being heavenly sweet and earthly sweet
l marvel that God made you mine,
For when He frovns It's when ye shinei
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
Carnations.

"Carnation growing in southern Cali
fornia means something very different,
indeed, from that enterprise in any other
state of the union, or even country of the
world" said an amateur florist who has
Travelled far and wide.
For the past twenty-five years the
carnatlon has steadily grown in the ia
vor OF the people, as the florists have
improved their methods of hybridzation
and propagation and especially have
great strides been made In the perfec-
ton of the flower on the Pacific coast,
where the climatic conditions are so IA
vorable to the most difficult expert
ments.
I'm all countries save California and
possibly some portions or France the
culture of carnations for commerce is a
matter which involves large capital since
all the best plants must be nurtured I'M
der glass This means OF course, In the
eastern states, out-oi-doors growing in
the summer months but all propagating
under cover during the long winter sea-
son.
Visitors to California know the famous
Redondo gardens, with theis acres of fine
carnations, and they are a sight worth
travelling miles to see in the season. Ly-
ing close to the beach, the salt spray of
the surf fairly mingles with the spicy
odors of the flowers, and one need not be
specially susceptible to secure an impress
sion which will last for years and bring
back at any moment with slight sug-
gestion, an unexcelled memory of beauty
and sweet scents.
1.-THE original carnation was a five
petalled bloom native in the south of
Italy. 1t was imported into England
about the time of the Norman Conquest
AS early as 1919 horticultural works gave
minute directions for the cultivation of
the flowers in winter. The carnation in
dustry has risen to considerable impor-
lance during the last ten years, accord
ing to Town and Country. AS 2,5O0,00O
young carnation plants are sold each
year and florists produce an equal amount
grown by themselves which are not sold,
the entire production of young earnation
plants approximates 100000 and upward
a year. These plants are grown under
glass during the winter time for cut
flower purposes, producing an annual
average of more than 1OO,0oO0OO blooms.
What becomes of this enormous number
of flowers is somewhat of a myster."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05

did nothing at all towards lessening
the robberies of the many by the few
under the Dingley bill. 1t refused to
ratify even the Cuban reciprocity
treaty, to which the nation is in I'll
honor committed. All other reciprocity
treaties were pigeonholed. 1t refused,
too. to admit to statehood Oklahoma,
the Indian territory, New Mexico and
Arizona, although each and every one
of them has more population than any
one of the last dozen states brought
into the union. The fear that the four
territories would become democratic
states kept them out The unseating
OF Congressman Butler of Missouri,
who was elected by over 5000 major
ity was another outrageous piece of
partisanship, and The house fizzled out
in a general wrangle under a rule that
outdid Mr. Reed in the height of his
arbitrary power.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
About Peraona


large number of the Minnesota and
North Dakota Implement. Harware and
Grocery Dealers association were reg
istered at the Morris yesterday
J. W. Graves of Uniontown is at the
Morris.
DIR. W. S. DuBose of Columbiana is
stopping at the Metropolitan.
T. E. Parchan of Gadsden is at the
Morris.
James L. Ralph of Tuscaloosa is reg
istered at the Metropolitan.
John 7. Bradford of Tuscaloosa is stop
ping at the Morris.
S. Kirkwood Of oakman is at the Metro
politan.
The Rev. Father Kerrigan, assistant
priest at St Paurs. has returned from a
visit to Mobile and Montgomery.
r. s. Memshell of Philadelphia Is at
the Hillman.
w. B. Chase of Boston is at the Hill
man.
w. N. Pratt of Savannah is at the HILL
man.
DR.. Eugene Jacobs. manager of the
Jacobs Pharmacy. returned yesterday
from the east, after a months absence.
He reports the drug trade active and
business in New York in a most flourish
ing condition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05
Local Excursions.

1.-THE dry goods and millinery mer.
chants may not find 1t practicable to
have their spring openings on the same
day, but it should not be difficult thing
for the Board of Trade to induce the
railroad companies to run cheap excur-
sions to Birmingham every month or
two for the benefit of shoppers who live
within a radius of 100 miles of this city"
remarked business man.
ATLANTA is flied up from time to time
with shopping excursionists, and that
city reaps a great benefit. AS was said
at the Board of Trade meeting, the rail-
roads centering here should certainly run
two such excursions every year, as has
been suggested-one in the spring and
one in the fall. The merchants would be
glad no doubt, to decorate their stores
and make excursion shopping day some-
thing of a carnival"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-05

In many of these states there are
enough negro voters--and they always
vote-to turn the scale. AS a rule they
vote the republican ticket, but there
are rank Independents among them,
and if they should decide to vote
against the republican ticket there
would be trouble ahead for that party,
especially in New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Indiana and West Vir-
ginia.
1t is plain the republican politicians
are careful not to drive away the ne
gro vote, and this vote probably goes
a long ways in explaining the action
of republican leaders and of the pres
ent administration on all color-line
questions, like that of Indianola The
problem is a complicated one, and the
use of it in politics does not in the
least simplify it.