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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
Indian Land Scandal.

President Grants administration has heretofore held the blue ribbon for scandals and rottenness, but if in- vestigations are pushed 1t is thought there will be unearthed scandals that exceeded those of Grants administra- tion. True, these scandals did not all arise during the present administra- tion. Those in the postoffice depart ment cover period of twenty years, but they havo been continuous, grow ing worse as the years went by.
 The new scandals arose in recent years in the interior department, and they relate to the government of the Indians, and more particularly to the disposition of public lands. The com plainant Is MT. Brosius, who was sent to the Indian territory by the Indian Rights association, and it is much easier to state the rottenness he did not find than to state the rottenness he did find. -
 He found that trust companies or ganized and officered by members of the Dawes commission, and other of ficials entrusted with the care of the Indians, were securing lands from the Indians at ridiculously low prices, and were engaged in reselling them at high prices. District attorneys and all sorts of territorial officials had fin gers in the pie, and the Indians were mercilessly robbed at every turn.
 Secretary Hitchcock claims that he hss been Investigating the charges since May, but not single official has been removed or admonished or punished. Not trust company or g;.nized by them has been disbanded, aId "the gentlemen" of the Dawes commission are going ahead uncheck- ed.
 Congress will soon meet and if the democrats do not see that these wards of the nation are protected, and as far as possible that restitution is made, they will not do their duty. The scandals in the Indian territory are far the most scandalous that have been unearthed, because they pertain tc our duties as guardians of the remnant or original inhabitants. To rob the first settlers is indeed a grave offense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
scientifi, Barber Shops.

i've been very much interested,' said a man sitting next to me in the barber shop waiting his turn. reading of the new regulations passed by the New York board of health regarding barber shops. They require barbers to wash their hands thoroughly in hot water before touching each patron, to sterilze their razors and scissors after each cutting. to use towels only once and in fact to use such care and cleanliness in their work as a surgeon would in performing minor operation.
 Shaving is to d certain extent a sur gical operation, as the sharp blade cuts off not only the hairs but small particles of the cuticle, and the face is then pecu- liarly subject to the infection of various skin diseases.
 Tt may be lots of trouble. but I believe some Birmingham barber would make a big hit by voluntarily adopting these regulations of the New York barber shops"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
A Right, Not a Favor.

Congressman Underwood spoke un- reservedly in favor of primary law which would cut off dishonesty and cut off all would limit popular action, and Congressman Richardson now takes similar stand. The lat ter says: For the legislature, under present political conditions in Ala bama, to fail to pass a satisfactory primary law, would create distrust among the people, anu place the dem- ocratic party of this state at great disadvantage. I have absolute faith that such law will be passed by the present legislature"
 But something more than a bill au- thorizing the holding of fair and just primaries is needed. The Springville Item shows that the people of St. Clair are bat, with the politicians of that county for the right to hold a primary at all. The Springville Item, like the Ashvile Aegis, deman1s a primary, but it is plain they have d good deal to contend with. The coun- ty executive committee consists of county politicians, and as things stand tl.ey are the Gictators of the situation. The people are at their mercy. A law drawn on the advanced lines of Mississippi and other progressive states, giving the people the right at all times to transact rneir own public business, without the necessity of pe- titioning any committee to grant them such favor, is what is needed. What is now a f,vor they desire as a right, especially in view of the fact that t. ere is but one working party in the state. and nomination is the real election. The Springville Item and Ashville Aegis are struggling to win what the lav should assure the people of St. Clalr as full and perfect right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
Government by Injunction.

Dean Triclett of the Dickinson law school in Pennsylvania takes up Jus tice Brewer and his views in favor of government by injunction, and gives them a good sitting and shaking. When he gets through with the Kan san who is trying to magnify his own importance, there is not much left of hlm, and he writes as a lawyer, and not as publicist or theorist.
 He especially objects to the em- ployment O. the injunction in strug- gles between class aI.i class and In quarters that may fairly be termed political. Dean Trickett's own words are the best. He says: ''In the in- junction one man legislates an act to bo penal when the legislature has not made it penal; the legislation is di- reeted to particular individual and So is partial, when that of the legisla- ture must apply to class; the judge legislator who says thou shalt not also acts as a judge to determine whether the person commanded has or has not obeyed, whereas the legis- lature cannot; the legislature must In advance of the violation, define the penalty, but the judge-legislator de- fines the penalty after violation. It is the concentration of the legislative and the judicial work in one man, and his power of defining the penalty ex post facto that forms the chief objec- tion to the free use of the injunction. The chancellor who has issued the rescript sits in judgment on it's vio- ation. He calls the disobedience a contempt of himself. He is exasper- ated and made vindictive by this con tempt and the vindictiveness enters, in an unascertainable proportion, into the motive and guides him in the selection of the degree of punish ment"
 The assumption of all injunction judges is that they are not like other men. They quickly assume infallibil- ity, end they proceed to make it hot for all who cross thoir will. They proceed to make themselves legisla- tors as well as judges, and through their marshals to usurp also executive powers. When the three branches of government are concentrated in one man we have but to wait for a despot or trickster on the bench to get all the blessings of the Russian form of government here in presumably and theoretically Free America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Passing of weathermaker Jacobs.

Tt is matter of sincere regret to me" said a Birmingham man who recently returned from a prolonged trip east. ito hear that Jacobs, our first weathermaker' Is no more; had his head ruthlessly chopped off by the powers that be at Washington, and now there is a new weathermaker, comfortably enseonced in a beautiful weathermaking plant on top of the new Title Guarantee building.
 "Weathermaker Jacobs may have de- served to have his head chopped off for some of the vile stuff he's been turning out, but on the whole, charity says he de- served a better fate. It was not malicious ness on his part. just a plain case of ignorance and inability to dish up the kind of weather Birmingham wanted. The government argued, though that an otherwise intelligent man who has worked so hard on the weather for exactly d decade and has accomplished so little, must have been deficient in weathermak- ing qualities.
 "Requiescat in pace.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31

be driven out of Havana and Santiago it certainly can be driven out of our own gulf ports and districts. and al though there is no danger of an out bteak of the yellow scourge this year, it is well to begin a campaign against the one germs of mosquito at any rate. Let us become accustomed to raids upon it.
 Now that the source and nature of yellow fever epidemics has been ascer- tained, the scientists should turn their attention to the plague which has broken out in san Francisco. That city has never been free from it since the appearance of the first cases in Chinatown, and it will never be free from it until more radical steps are taken against it. San Franeisco's care lessness endangers the entire country, fo plague knows no latitude or weather conditions. New Orleans should fight shy of it, and all Texas is exposed to fleeing cases. Of the two scourges the plague is the more to be dreaded, because it's dissemina- tion is more mysterious, and it's eradi- cation muc.- more difficult
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
 O MUCH adverse comment was NN evoked by Alfred Russell Wal " lace's utterances last winter in regard to mans place in the universe that he has felt himself called upon to reply to his critics, and does so in the latest issue of "The Independent" He quietly ignores the hint that he has travelled outside his own domain of sci ence biology. Still. he writes with in- telligence and candor, and takes note of what were really the most important ob- jections to his belief that on the earth alone have the conditions been adequate to the development of life
 The first point to which Mir Wallace now gives his attention is the extent of the universe. It has been suggested that unless he could prove that 1t was not infinite he was not justified in any as- sumptions as to it's position. Logically. perhaps. that may be true. but such talk is uubbling. On this question the ven- erable evoutionist Is in practical agree ment with those who differ with him on others. The general tendency of opinion among iut icddiH6 OioSatS oA Sfef'"A '~' ence is to the view that the universe has it's limits and that the sun is near Its centre. MT. Wallace thinks so. too. So long as there is no serious disagreement between the patries to the present dis cussion therefore. 1t is needless to ask for demonstrations
 When it Is asked whether the sun and ifs satellites have always been situated relatively to the other celestical bodies as they are now. however. there Is less accord Apparently the solar system is moving with velocity which would carry it entirely across the universe if time enough were granted and its course were in straight line. Any demand on the former score would be conceded by MT. Wallace, no doubt. but he questions the directness of the suns progress through space. He cites excellent authority for believing that circular movement is possible. In a number of groups of stars there is some evidence that several of the members are moving with special refer ence to one another, and not independ- ently It Is conceivable, therefore. that the sun may be only one of cluster of stars. and that its motion Is system attic" While 1t now seems to be cross ing the Milky Way, from one side to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
TRANSVAAL GOLD OUTPUT.
he Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 The output of gold from the Trans vaal mines in June last. according to South Africa, was $5.O6l,6lO. against $s.- S2S,575 in June. 1899, the record year. In other words, the product within a year of the close of the war is one-half as great as 1t was before the war. The product in the first half of 1898 was worth about $io.O0O000: in the first half of 1903, $27, GOO, 000 But for the lack of labor in the mines the output would have in- creased still faster. The new employments developed during and since the war have absorbed many of the native laborers others, enriched by the war, have pro- vided themselves with wives, upon whose labor they rely for support. South Africa is still in that golden age when to be much married is to be rich and possessed of leisure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
BORDER BALLAD.

By Sir Walter Scott. March, march. Ettrick and Teviotdale, Why the deil dinna ye march forward in order? March, march, Eskdale and Liddesdale. All the Blue Bonnets are bound for the border.
 Many a banner spread
 FIutters above your head, Many crest that is famous in story.
 Mount and make ready then,
 Sons of the mountain glen, Fight for the queen and our old Scot tish glory. Come from the hills where your hirsels are grazing. Come from the glen of the buck and the roe; Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing. Come with the buckler, the lance. and ths bow.
 Trumpets are sounding.
 War steeds are bounding: Stand to your arms. then, and march in good order,
 England shall many day
 Tell of the bloody fray. When the Blue Bonnets came over the Border.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
WAR AND ITS BIG MEN.
From the New York Tribune.
 The President and the country ar

From the New York Tribune.
 The President and the country are ex- ceedingly fortunate in having at this critical period in the history of the war department man of the ability of Sec retary Root in control of it's affairs, and then in being able to replace him at need with a man of Judge Taft's character and peculiar qualifications. With the exception of the civil war period. the war department never before occupied so important a place In the United States government as it has in the last five years. cabinet office which was long considered comparatively unimpor- tant has become one of the first rank with duties almost as multifarious as those of the treasury. and problems of statesmanship more difficult and deli cate. Happily men have been found measuring up to the requirements of the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Some men are not fit even for them- selves to associate with.
 1t would be a terrible temptation to take out insurance on ones mother-in- law.
 It takes a widow to act as if she was puzzled to death over what being married is like.
 You can always tell by how ripe wo- mans lips are how much a man would like to see if any of it will come off.
 After a woman makes up her mind that a thing isn't so terrible as she thought 1t was before she knew all about it. generally she begins to look for some thing else that is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
Concerning Spelling.

T never have high opinion of the scholarship of those educators who min- imize the value of spelling" said a law yer. "A document or a letter containing a single misspelIed word is certainly marred. Bad spelling is quite as indica- tive of a poor education as bad gram mar''
 Touching this point here is a letter cut from the New York Sun. which is of decided interest: have read the letters of your correspondents. in reference to spelling, and I judge that some think that one is not entitled to consider him. self good speller until he can get along without making use of a dictionary
 Now. the fact is that no one is able to spell all the words of the English language correctly without the aid of a dictionary, and no one realizes the truth of this statement so much as the well educated do.
 The dictionary is a wade mecum to the intelligent man and woman. The busi- ness man should have 1t in his office.
 :" 'To be a ready speller of the English language requires that one should have a knowledge of some foreign languages. preferably Latin. for. without any such knowledge spelling becomes mere mat ter of memory. and subject to all the un- certainties of memory. for then you lack a guide, or basis, to direct you as to the etymology of the English. l would ask what excuse there was for the mistake of the Yale man referred to by one of your correspondents in spelling the word aqueduct "acqueduct?''
 That was certainly a very clumsy error for man to make who would be presumed to know the origin of that word.
 "The memory can can often be assisted In fixing in ones mind the correct spell ing of words by associating them with others easy to remember, or with ideas. For instance, I knew a gentleman who was always bothered, when drawing checks. as to the proper spelling of the number forty. He was inclined to write it 'fourty" I said to him: Associate it with Hold the fort and you will never have any further trouble with it."
 |" The proper time to lay the founda- ton for correct spelling Is in childhood Old Noah Webster's spelling book was one of the most valuable books ever pub- lished in this country, and in old times boys and girls were drilled in spelling fai more than they are at the present day.
 ITO be good speller. able to write ones letters correctly, is very great ac- complishment.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
Yellow Jack and the Plaque.

Havana and Santiago are free from yellow fever, thanks not so much to sanitation as to continuous raid against the Gisease-bearing mosquito. There is some fever at San Luis Po- tosi, port near the Rio Grande, and Vera Cruz is rarely without cases of it. But the disease is no longer con sidered either mysterious or uncon- uuerable. The marine hospital ser vice surgeons have continued their Cuban investigations at Vera Cruz, and they have practically demonstrat- ed these propo- ions:
 First-That the cause of yellow fever is an animal parasite and not a vegetable germ or bacterum.
 Second-That the disease is communi- cated only by the bite of mosquitoes.
 Third-That only one genus of mos auitoes. which is classified as Stegomyia fasciata. is the host of the yellow fever parasite.
 The doctors of the marine hospital service no longer consider the problem complex. They say the mosquito is tho only conference.-the only dissem- inator of yellow fe,er germs. Their investigations at Vera Cruz fastens the entire crime of propagation upon say that the little insect is the only intermediary that can, or does, dissem- ilats yellow fever germs.
 If the dfsease-breeding mosquito can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31

in favor of such a school are as follows:
 T. Alabama has over 5000 white public school teachers. 90 per cent of whom have received no special training for their work. The specially trained teacher is the best teacher.
 '2. A large majority of the teachers hold low-grade certificates. Under the law they must take higher grade certificates in limited time or quit the work. Every opportunity for advancement should be given.
 "3. At the season when most teachers are unemployed and could continue their work of preparation. the summer months, the colleges are not open. Hence the im- perative need of summer school for teachers.
 "A. It is estimated that such school To- cated at the university would enroll an- nually from three to six hundred Alabama teachers. Over two hundred of them att tended summer schools this year at the universities of Georgia and Tennessee. They should not be forced to leave the state to secure such advantages.
 ''5. The proposed summer school has been endorsed by the Alabama Educa- tional association and by the South Ala bama Educational association"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
Need of Summer School.

President John W. Abercrombie of the university calls attention to the fact
 that at the request of the board of trus- tees. . bill raising s5O00 appropriation for the establishment and maintenance at the university of a summer school for teachers will be introduced in the legis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
A eodsend for orummers.

Speaking of great schemes for travel ing men," said a drummer at the Hillman who was spending Sunday in Blrmlng- ham, ''you should see the new Travellers Guaranteed Draft checks just put on the market by one of the big Baltimore bond companess-the United States Fidelity company, I believe
 For five dollars they sell a fellow a book containing ffty-two drafts or checks. only one of which can be used each week. This gives a travelling man a years supply and by a patented dat ing arrangement prevents a sharper from eashing in all his checks at once.
 'The backbone of the whole scheme is the company's endorsement on each check guaranteeing any bank or hotel in the country that the check is all right and when they cash one that they will be protected against loss in any event. The checks are drawn on your house, or on your own bank account if you have one
 Thank goodness, we can at last get around that sign no checks cashed for drummers' and neither do we have to hunt up our friends and customers to endorse and introduce us. Even the little country banks and hotels are taking these draft checks as if they were greenbacl<s It's only fair though. for why shouldn' t the bond companies guarantee our hon. esty on the road as well as at home? The greatest disadvantage of the new system is we'll have no excuse for laying over two or three days in Birmingham or some other pleasant town waiting for check from the house!
 My old friend Louis Clark. who. by the way, is himself an inveterate traveller for an insurance man. is pushing the scheme in this territory. It's a godsend to us poor devils on the road. and I hope he'll make big success of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
THE FREE SEED SYSTEM.

From the Dallas News.
 Congress will continue to make appro- priations for seeds, and 1t need not sur prise one if the appropriation is greatly increased. Undoubtedly, free seed dis tribution is chiefly for electioneering purposes, but the farmers seem to like the system, notwithstanding the patent fact that they have to foot the bill them selves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA

Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: But he that fllches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enrlches him, And makes me poor indeed.
 -Othelio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
DlAz AND THE INDIANS.
le Louisville Herald.

From the Louisville Herald.
 President Diaz is B years old. but Is yet in vigorous health. He is an Oaxaca In- dian. Q tribe noted for longevity and prowess He sits in his saddle with old time ease. and from all appearances can stand as much fatigue as when. thirty five years ago. he rode into Pueblo. con queror of the French.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
MAY REQUIRE DIPLOMAS.

From the Omaha Bee.
 After all the big universities put in new schools of journalism we may ex- pect the legislatures to be importuned to enact laws to prevent any one from prac- ticing in the newspapers without first showing a diploma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
AN OPINION FROM THE NORTH.

From the Flickertail Flicker.
 A Texas reyivalist warns us that hell has a temperature of 453 degrees Fahren- heit. There's no place like home. after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31

The sultan is still waiting for the clouds to pass by. The Russian cloud is no longer threatening and the American cloud was premature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31

It seems ange that we got along nearly one hundred and fifty years without a school for journalism Even ole Ben Franklin took hand at news paper WorK untrained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31
About Persons.

J. M stayman of Richmond is stop- ping at the Hillman.
 O. c. Houland of Chicago is at the St. Nicholas.
 N. B. Tichenor of Indianapolis is regis tered at the Morris
 
 George A. searcy of Tuscaloosa is stopping at the Metropolitan w. W. Johnson of Montgomery is at the Hillman.
 s. R. Davis and wife ef Jasper are at the St. Nicholas.
 II. D. Money of Carrolton is stopping al the Morris.
 R. J. Guards of Montgomery is regis tered at the Metropolitan
 George A. Hill of Sylacauga is stop ping at the Hillman. at the Morris.
 II. S. Daniels of Selma is at the Metro politan.
 John F. Rogers of New Orleans is stop ping at the Morris.
 T. B. Horton, night clerk at the Nor ris hotel. returned last night from vacation of two weeks to Macon. Bruns- wick and other points in Georgia. R. Walter Hawthorne and sisters. Miss Mae E. Hawthorne and Miss Ada Sue Hawthorne of Paducah. accompanied by Miss Sallie Arnall of Birmingham will leave this morning for an extended trip through the east. They will be joined in Greenville. s. C., by E. L. Rall and wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-31

The Pulitzer school of journalism may prove boomerang in the World office itself.