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THE AGE-HERALD.
Birmingham, Ala
THToHLniiAariiEws^^
This unwholesome humidity, this
gross pumplon.
—Merry Wives of Windsor.
Damage to Com Crop.
So great has been the damage by
drought and heat to the corn crop of
the chief corn States that the prices of J
the granger railroad stocks have been
greatly depreciated, and the entire
stock market brought to the verge of
a panic. Strong measures were taken
by the banks anu capitalists, and a
panic was averted.
The scorching winds of the last ten
days have seriously damaged the corn
crop of all the great corn States, and
.-is damage has been peculiarly heavy
In Kansas and Missouri. The Kansas
crop, which had promised an outturn
of 247,000,000 bushels, will not, It is
reported, exceed 100,000.000 bushels,
and some experts put the crop of that
State still lower. Missouri will have no
corn to sell, and the crops in Arkansas
and Texas are greatly Injured. In Illi
nois, Iowa and Nebraska the damage
has thus far been light, but there are
apprehensions even as to those States.
u is nopea, nowever, mat. inese re
ports are exaggerated. If relief comes
at once in rains and cooler weather,
they will certainly prove over-estim
ates. On July 1 the Department of
Agriculture anticipated a crop of 2,
098,000,000 oushels, or a crop well up
to that of last year. The corn acreage
is conceded to be less than it was last
year, and if besides that has come
l>_ damage by scorching winds to the ex
*tent reported the loss to the country
will be very heavy. Some put it as
' 'eh as $350,000,000.
' jast year’s exports of corn were
*1K 809,000,000 bushels, and there are
doubts as to wecner any amount can
be spared this year for export. But
even if none can be, the wheat crop
will fill the gap, for a crop of 700,000,
000 bushels is now anticipated. The
crops of all Europe nearly are very
deficient. Some observers say Russia
will export one from this year's wheat
crop. Only Spain and Italy have good
wheat crops, and their productions are
relatively small. Europe will need all
the wheat we can spare, and we have a
great crop, and if the corn crop is cor
respondingly injured, wheat will have
to take the place of corn in exports
this year. The wheat crop is beyond
damage, and will soon be harvested in
even the extreme northwest.
Louisiana Test Case.
A case has been made up and pre
sented to the civil district court of
Ptew Orleans by a negro, and eminent
counsel has been .engaged, both in
' .^iew Orleans and in Washington,
where the case is to go.
The plaintiff sets forth in his peti
tion that he was refused registration.
He admits that neither his father nor
his granufather were entitled to vote
under the constitution and laws of the
State where they then resided on the
first day of January, 1867, and he goes
on to state that the Louisiana consti
tution deprives nim of rights confer
red by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
uroendments of the constitution of the
United States. Armand Romain, a well
known lawyer of New Orleans, ap
pears for the plaintiff or relator, whose
name is David J. Ryanes. The suit
Is in the form of a mandamus pro
ceeding against the registrars, who
had refused to register Ryanes.
The petition is lengthy. We give in
full the real substance of the case, as
follows:
“First—That said article 197 of the con
^-■aHtnttnn and said sections 3, 4 and 5
thereof, as well as the act of the legta
U- lature passed In pursuance thereof, col
■1 lectlvely constitute one unlawful plan of
| suffrage qualification based upon discrtm
r lnatlon on account of race, color or pre
I vlous condition of servitude, and Is, there
fore, in violation of the fifteenth amend
ment of the federal constitution.
“IJecond—That said article 197 of the
constitution and the various sections
thereof, as well as the sections of act
No. 199 of 1898, were Intended to affect
poor and Ignorant negroes only, and act
ually disfranchise only poor and Ignorant
negroes, situated similarly to the relator
herein, thereby denying to said poor and
Ignorant negroes the equal protection of
the laws to which they are entitled, and.
therefore, the said article and the said
sections, collectively and separately, are
la violation of the fourteenth amendment
of the constitution of the United States.
“Tour relator now specially alleges that
under the authority of tbs said fourteenth
and fifteen amendments to the constttu
tlon of the United Staites, the protection
of which he now Invokes, he Is entitled to
be registered as a qualified voter of the
Ninth precinct of the Eleventh ward of
the parish of Orleans, and that the duty
of the said Jeremiah M. Gleason, registrar
of voters, defendant herein, is clearly a
simple ministerial duty, and that the said
relator is entitled to a certificate of regis
tration from the defendant herein.
This brings the grandfather clause
and the entire suffrage scheme of
Louisiana Into court, and the court in
which the case will be finally heard
and determined consists of six Republi
cans and three Democrats, sitting far
from the scene of the alleged offense,
and wholly insensible to the reasons
that led to its adoption. The case will
be fully presented to this far-away
court. This much is assured, for the
money needed has been raised, and
eminent counsel will present the case
of the illiterate negro, who is but a
tool of the strong association formed
to test the constitutionality of the suf
frage article of the Louisiana consti
tution, and through it, of a like article
of the North Carolina constitution, and,
if the committee's scheme goes
through, of the suffrage article of the
A.aoama constitution also. On their
face non^ of them discriminate against
negroes, but what the Supreme Court
will decide is fully as problematical as
the insular cases were. Out of its nine
members only one is Southern by birth
or association, Justice White of Louis
iana. Justice Harlan lives on the Ken
tucky side of the Ohio river, but he is
a Republican. The other seven jus
tices are men' of Northern training,
associations and ideas. The case goes
for decision to adverse hands.
Senator Morgan’s Position.
The Mobile Herald's assault upon
Senator Morgan is farfetched and un
called for. Senator Morgan thinks a
suffrage system based on Inherited
privilege is out of place in a popular
government, and the Herald attacks
Alabama’s great Senator in these
words:
"As for heredity, white supremacy and
white rule In the South rest on heredity,
on the right of white men to rule and
govern a country that white men settled,
and for which white men fought and bled.
If white supremacy In the South does
not rest on our descent from a great and
conquering race, on what does It rest?
We think the 8enator had best leave
fine spun theories, and get down to prac
tical common sense."
This is rot of the veriest sort. Sen
ator Morgan does not discuss nor dis
pute white supremacy. That ques
tion is not an open one. What
Senator Morgan objects to is discrim
ination among whites. All unjust dis
criminations against whites are or
should be foreign to a government
based on the consent of the governed,
Senator Morgan sees, for example, twc
white families living side by side, both
alike poor in literature and in this
world’s gcods. The head of one, how
ever, is the son of a soldier, although
he himself never smelt hostile gunpow
der. Now, why should the head of one
of these families be granted electoral
privileges for life, while the head of
the other family is forever disfran
chised !
This is what Senator Morgan objects
to. The question of white supremacy
exists only in the Herald’s distorted
brain.
Senator Pettus’ Position.
When Senator Pettus, living in the
heart of the Black Belt, raises his
voice against the grandfather clause,
it would seem to be time for the Cole
manites to call a halt.
"If I were a delegate in the constitu
tional convention," says Senator Pet
tus, "I should vote against the grand
father clause.”
The frankness and rugged honesty
of the veteran statesman are well
known. Both the Senators of the
State are now on record as opponents
of the clause that Chairman Coleman
has reported. Neither of them speaks
from impulses of the moment, but both
speak from studies made when Louis
iana adopted heredity as a suffrage
test, and both say it is unwise.
Senator Pettus does not favor, it is
plain, the registration sections of the
committee report, for he frankly says
he is “in favor of the people of every
beat controlling their own affairs in
every possible or practicable particu
lar. The people themselves know best
what they want.”
This is home rule, which is the very
essence of popular government. Sena
tor Pettus did not enter into particu
lars, but his broad declaration in favor
of home rule condemns the appoint
ment at Montgomery of registrars for
the sixty-six counties of the State, and
it also is an endorsement of local taxa
tion for schools.
The trouble Is Chairman Coleman
and Chairman Browne and the es
teemed Montgomery Advertiser have
done more than their share of consti
tution making, and have made a mess
of it.
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The pleasant news comes from Ha
vana that not a single yellow fever
death has occurred there. This is a
kind of Americanism that Havana will
endorse.
The Rough Klder Is up against the
Odell machine In New York, and even
at u-.s early day sparks are flying.
Peary and his relief expeditions are
becoming numerous.
The wound men dare not go to the
summer resorts lest the girls apply for
thtlr places while they are gone. The
summer girl 1b the loser.
Uncle Sam Is winning fame as a col
lector of slow accounts. When he col
lected that bill from Turkey he sur
passed all records.
The worst treatment the bulls of
Omaha receive in bull fights Is to have
the flies brushed oft by sheets.
Speaker Henderson hopes to live
down his intimacy with royalty, espe
cially before Congress meets.
It has been decided In New York
that only tramps may use public prop
erty for private purposes.
The Wall street brokers are now
shearing the lambs on account of their
own vacation expenses.
Senator Burton says the globe trot
ter is overlooked when the time comes
to select a President.
China will not mind this new out
break of the plague if she can get rid
of the allied li oters.
After the recent experience of dry,
hot winds no one has a word to say
against humidity.
The young King of Spain has at
tended his first bull fight, but It was
not in Omaha.
The bull fights of Omaha are less
tei rifle than the every-day dog fight.
Old Sol is putting in too much time
and is altogther too strenuous.
Bread may be cheap, but corn
whisky will be dear this year.
The water is oozing out of stocks in
Wall street.
Hot waves in the corn States are
expensive.
LENGTH OF SUITS.
j From th» Cincinnati Tlmes-Star.
\ Health authorities aay that bathing
I suits should not be worn too long. Do
the medical gentlemen refer to mtnuites
or Inches?
I _
CARNEGIE’S PROFITS.
From the Boston Record.
Carnegie reports $28,000,000 more to give
away. It sounds magnificent. But how
much more real good it would have done
this country If Carnegie had been readier
to pay his men larger wages and let them
work fewer hours. To be sure, he might
not have had within $10,000,000 so great a
fund as he is now ready to give away;
but how much more happiness, progress,
health, and development there would have
been among the hundreds of families that
were dependent on the industry of which
he was the head.
TOM L. JOHNSON'S INVENTION.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Tom L. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland,
and brother of Albert Johnson, the Met
ropolitan street railway promoter, who
died near New York on Tuesday night, is
said to be still drawing a royalty of $1,200
a year from the Louisville Street Railway
Company for the use of his patent carfare
collection box with its inclined run
aways and glass compartments. The box
bears Tom Johnson’s name and gives the
date of the patent as 1873. That was when
the Cleveland mayor was superintendent
of the Louisville street railway under B.
DuPont. Strangers in Louisville never
cease to find the custom of collecting fares
in this manner amusing.
“Doesn’t the company lose by the dis
honesty of passengers?” is asked. And
another will inquire how the poor mo-tor
man can watch both ends without missing
a fare in the rear or killing some one in
front. But the motorman does it, and the
people are honest even in a crowded car.
It speaks well for Louisville. The com
pany that tried such a system in Chicago
or New York would be making assess
ments on the stockholders in less than a
year.
KING EDWARD AT A JEWEL SALE.
From the New York Herald.
London, Wednesday.—Some rare Jewels
and gems, the property of a French lady
of rank, whose name was not given,
realised remarkably high prices at Chris
tie's rooms yesterday.
Among those who viewed the Jewels
were His Majesty, the King, Lord Nor
ton, Lord Bradford, Lady Leconfleld,
Lady Gosfort, Lord Currie, Sir Samuel
Montagu and Sir James Blyth with
many others.
The sensational event of the after
noon came when a magnificent pearl
necklace, composed of six rows of 424
finely matched graduated pearls, was
put up.
The pearls were of the highest quality
and had a circular open clasp set with
emeralds and small brilliants and a One,
large rose diamond in the center.
The weight in the pearls was about
4050 grammes.
The bidding started at flO.OOO ($50,000)
and went up by bids of £60 till £20.000
($100,000) was reached, when the necklace
was knocked down to Robinson & Co.
of Hatton Garden.
Next in Importance was a beautiful
rope of 291 graduated pearls, a fine
Orient, which was secured by Mr. E. J.
Arbid for £3160 ($15,760.)
Then for £2360 ($11,760) went a tour de
corsage of open festoon form, with a
row of even large graduated collet bril
liants and three large emeralds down the
center of two rowes of closely set bril
liants, secured at the end by open knots
of a riband with pendants, each set with
two large emeralds. The purchaser was
Mr. Wilson.
The toatl proceeds of the sale were
£38,879 11s ($194,397.76.)
REFLEGTION8 Oh A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
Some people gamble in love on a mighty
small margin.
The only successful way a woman can
chase a man is for him to chase her.
Romantic love has been put away in
camphor along with the rest of our grand
mothers’ things.
Boys could grow up to be pretty sensi
ble. on the average, If their mothers
didn't have such queer notions about
What a boy ought not to be. i
A man can grind himself to fine powder
doing things for a woman, bt\unless he
tells her about it she doesn't t^ke any
stock In It. and if he tells her Stout it
he needn’t do any grinding. %
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for ithis
day, Tuesday, July 16, 1901:
“Travel, deal, and seek work before 2
o’clock In the afternoon."
“Thou wilt be Inclined for pleasure and
company, and the society of women."
(Any man who isn’t so inclined is no
man at all, at all, as we say in Oireland—
Raphael's Reporter.)
“Active, generous and full of business
will be the child born on this day, and It
will be a great favorite with *ts opposite
sex."
The Governor and His Chief City.
Yesterday, for the first time, the peo
ple of Alabama's chief city saw Governor
Jelks as Governor, though Mr. Jelks
dwelt here a few months in the "boom
days" that are dead.
And Birmingham Is mightily pleased
with Governor Jelks! His great honor
hasn't changed the man In any degree.
He is still the sensible, genial and happy
good fellow he has always been In the
past. Perhaps he Is a trifle stouter, cor
poreally, and that becomes well, as his
honors do.
The burdens of State have not robbed
him of his merry laughter or his saving
grace of humor.
He still laughs, still sees the humorous
side of things. How many a good-natured
and charitable chuckle he must enjoy be
hind the veil of his high dignity! Yet, in
some relations, one may not peep behind
that veil where the tender and stout heart
of the man ever beats in broad humaji
sympathy.
General Rhodes declared yesterday that
all the people of Alabama had come to
love Governor Jelks. That was a true
speech, and gracefully said, as became a
man accustomed to^saying graceful things
and, above all, meaning them!
A charming gentlewoman said she
thought Governor Jelks ought to part with
his historic mustache and be clean
shaven, or wear the properest of all, a full
beard. Doubtless he will appreciate the
suggestion, for she said that she and
Governor Jelks “were good fellows to
gether In days gone by."
Governor Jelks charmed and delighted
his chief city. Birmingham hopes he will
come again soon and stay long!
A Staff Officer.
A former Eufalian said last night:
"Colonel Edward B. Young of Governor
Jelk.s* staff is, like the Governor himself,
a Eufaullan. He is perhaps less known
to the Alabama public than any man of
State importance within the State, for
there is not in Alabama so manly a man
who is at the same time so modest, un
pretentious, unassuming as Colonel
Young. He is a man of courage in the
truest and widest sense—he is both
morally and physically courageous.
"Colonel Young is physically a little
man grown round and good looking, a
rare type, and all the better for being
rare. In truth, he has assumed mild al
dermanic proportiona Imagine Colonel
Robert Patton McD&vid fifteen years
older and weighing forty pounds more,
and you have Colonel Young; for Colonel
Young is quite as comely as Colonel Mc
David, which Is eaylng a great deal in
deed for Colonel Young’s comeliness!
"Colonel Young has beenv a banker
ever since he was a boy, and a remarka
bly successful banker at that. When
the Eufaula National Bank of Eufaula
was chartered by the government, back
in the 70s, Colonel Young was made cash
ier; his distinguished brother-in-law, the
Hon. S. Hubert Dent, now a delegate
In the Alabama Constitutional Conven
tion, and always one of the best men in
the world, having been chosen president.
"From the beginning the Eufaula Na
tional Bank of Eufaula was remarkably
successful, and it continues to be so; a
condition fortunate for the stockholders
and for Eufaula, and which is largely due
to the foresight, wisdom and skill of
Colonel Young.
"The Youngs are amongst the best of
all the real Southerners; they have been
always so; and the Dents, with whom
the Youngs have happily Intermarried,
have been social and political leaders on
Eastern Shore of Maryland for two cen
turies, and longer.
"The Alabama branch of this family,
of which Hon. S. Hubert Dent is the
head, came to Alabama five and thirty
years ago, and ever since then they have
been amongst the foremost of Alabama’s
citizens. A younger member of the
family, Hon. George H. Dent, is mayor
of Eufaula, and a still younger, Mr.
Warren F. Dent, is a druggist well
known in Birmingham and throughout
the State. A brother-in-law of the Dents
is Dr. Hamilton M. Weedon, retired
druggist, a noted citizen of Eufaula.
"Colonel Young and General Chester Al
lan Arthur, sometime President of the
United States, together with Hla Royal
and Imperial Majesty King Edward VII
as Prince of Wales, are perhaps the
only men on record for whom really good
cigars have been named;the average cigar
with a man's name being mean enough to
make a smoker strike his grandmother!
Many years ago Weedon & Dent, the Eu
faula druggists and capitalists, whose
names are familiar as owners of large
real estate properties In Birmingham,
brought out the 'E. B. Young Cigar,'
price ten cents, and It was equally as
good as the 'General Arthur,’ which Is
saying much praise.
"Then, there was organized the ‘E. B.
Young’ Fire Company of Eufaula, which
had the handsomest Are engine In the
State and which could 'put out a fire be
fore It began to burn,’ as Colonel Young's
friend, the great-hearted, royal-souled
Pat O’Byrne, ever beloved citizen of Eu
faula, might say.
"Colonel Young Is one of the best and
worthiest of all of Alabama’s best citi
zens. Yet Eufaula has many of the best
citizens. There Is the first citizen of the
Alabama of today, Governor Jelks him
self. for example!"
Great Cathedral for Richmond.
"Richmond Is to have a new cathedral,
which will probably surpass In size and
architectural beauty any ecclesiastical
edifice In the south,” said a formertresl
dent of the Virginia Capital.
"Many years ago, while the Most Rev
erend J. J. Keane, Archbishop of Du
buque, was Bishop of Richmond, he start
ed a fund for the erection of a grand ca
thedral, but he got only as far as the
purchase of a suitable site when he was
transferred to the rectorship of the Cath
olic University at Washington. Dr.
Keane's successor In Richmond, Bishop
A. Van de Vyver, kept the cathedral
scheme In abeyance, his policy having
been to use the revenues at his disposal
for assisting the poor parishes In the dio
cese. But now comes Thomas J. Ryan,
the prominent railroad man and capital
1st, and donates *260,000 for a cathedral,
which the bishop gratefully accepts. The
design for the building was made some
time since and the contract for the foun
dation work will soon be let. The cathe
dral will be cruciform and Romanesque
In style.
“The site Is In Laurel street, facing
Monroe Park—a fashionable section—and
Is valued at *75,000. It Is estimated that
the cathedral, decorated and furnished,
together with the episcopal residence, will
cost at least a half-million dollars, and
Mr. Ryan offers to pay all the bills. Mr.
Ryan's wife has already been most gen
erous In her gifts to the Catholics of the
Richmond diocese. She has recently com
pleted a church at a cost of *35,000 and a
parochial school at a cost of *35,000, and
has donated *26,000 to *30,000 for other
Catholic causes."
Some American* Abroad.
"A Tammany politician who writes of
New York society, about which he does
not and cannot personally know any
thing, Is quoted In today's Age-Herald
as saying many foolish things about
Americans In Europe, a subject of which
he clearly knows nothing," a Birming
ham man who has traveled and resided
abroad said yesterday.
“This politician, society writer who
knows nothing about society says, while
three thousand miles from London, that
the Americans are the ‘distinguished
foreigners' In England, and that ‘no mat
ter what their social status In the United
States, and provided they are wellbred
and presentable, they are welcomed by
the greatest people in England on a foot
ing of social equality.'
“That Is snobbery of the very worst
kind, and moreover there isn't a word of
truth In It, as every honest American
who has visited England knows. The
simple truth Is, Americans are never
called 'foreigners' in England; they are
universally referred to as 'Yankees' or
'Yanks.' Even on the stock exchanges all
American securities are ‘Yankees.’ And
In America-loving Ireland our country
men who visit that Island are every
where called ‘Yanks,' and often derisive
ly so. The jarvies of Queenstown, Cork,
and Dublin see In every once of or
countrymen a ‘Yank.’
"The average individual American
makes himself very disagreeable abroad
and he Is very cordially disliked, partic
ularly in London and Paris, though
tradesmen fawn upon him for the dollars
he so ostentatiously displays.
"There is a case of this fawning tolera
tion In point. At Queenstown there Is a
porter nick-named 'Tommy Dods,’ doubt
less remembered by thousands of Ameri
cans who have gone ashore there while
the great steamships waited for tho
malls. He has a giant’s head and body
and strength, but his legs are as short
as those of a ten-year-old boy. One day
a party of four or five Americans, who
had evidently been drinking and were
very boisterous, were at the railway sta
tion quay watching the malls trasferred
from the train to the boat to be taken
to the ship down the harbor. As Tommy
Hods' rushed back and forth In carrying
bags of mail the Americans began In
boisterous mirth to kick him In the rear,
although a hundred American women
were present. ‘Tommy’ made no protest,
but seemed to work all the more energet
ically. In the end the Americans each
gave him fifty cental He got drunk that
day, and swore he could 'lick any Yan
kee,’ and I believe he could.
"The great hotels in London, like the
Metropole and the Victoria, adjoining,
and the Langhqm, which are largely
patronized by Americans, are deserted by
the English. American patronage keeps
these hotels going. The Grand hotel,
Trafalgar Square, within a few hundred
feet of the Americanized Metropole and
Victoria, formerly advertised, 'No Ameri
cans entertained.’ The reason given for
not entertaining our countrymen was,
’They talk loud, they buy no wine, and
they smoke and spit all over the house.’
"Old Donald MacGregor's famous flotel
In Princes’ street, Edinburgh, The Royal,
Is patronized almost exclusively by Amer
icans. You may on any summer day
search the hotel register—The Royal, like
the London hotels mentioned, Is amongst
the few hotels abroad which have regis
ters as we know that term—and you won't
find the names of six persons who are not
from America. And this Is a general rule
applying to hotels throughout Europe fre
quented by Americans; and the prices In
such hotels are double the prices In simi
lar hotels which do not enjoy American
patronage. The Grand hotel In Brussels
Is an example. No experienced traveler
will put up at the Grand; he will go to the
Hotel de Saxe.
“In Amsterdam such a traveler would
put up a»t the Bible hotel, and shun .the
Dutch Grand. The Americans run up the
prices. In the London Metropole you pay
sixty cents for a dish of strawberries
which may be purchased outside for six
cents!
"And the average American ‘doing’
Europe strives to make himself obnoxious.
On the battlefield of Waterloo I heard a
Chicago man. In hot argument with two
Englishmen, declare that there were
’more people In one ward of Chicago than
were engaged In’ that most momentous
battle of modern times. Once I was re
clining reverently before Rubens’ master
piece. The Descent From the Cross. In
Antwrep Cathedral when a panty of Mil
waukee tourists clattered in and up to
the holy altar, and In a moment declared
they didn't ‘see much in that picture.
Similarly an American declared of the
glorious monuments of Rome’s temporal
greatness, 'If them ruins was In Chicago
we'd mighty quick repair 'em.' Sailing
down Loch Lomond one perfect August
day, I ventured to direct the attention of
an elderly compatriot of mine to the
mountain peak of Ben Lomond, and he
replied: 'Yes; t'aint a patch ito Pikes
Peak.’ It is a common thing to hear in
London the American opinion that St.
James' palace ‘ain’t a circumstance to
Vanderbilt’s Fifth avenee palace.’ And
that Is the way the American makes him
self heartily detested In ’Yurup.'
"I’d like to know what we Americans
have got to do with Europe or Its ’great
est people.’ That sort T>! rot makes me
mighty tired!"
Cool Breezes at Last.
Yesterday was the thirty-eighth day of
unbroken heat In Birmingham; that Is to
say that, It was the thirty-eighth day of
hot weather as weather goes In Birming
ham, which Isn't hot at all compared
with Montgomery and the great cities
of the torrid Blast and West! “All pre
vious records have been broken," as the
phrase goes.
The temperature yesterday was five or
six degrees lower than it had been on
the hottest previous days, but it was
easily the most oppressive of aJI the days
of heat In this valley. Beginning Sunday
afternoon, we had the killing quality of
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Kneaded Bread for His Mother.
President Loubet of France is quite up
to the level of his high functions, relates
the Saturday Evening Post. He receives
kings and reporters with the dignity and
grace peculiarly his own. He smokes a
pipe and does not know the meaning cf
snobbery. Once when he was prime minis
ter he made a flying visit—it was between
two stormy sessions of the Chamber of
Deputies—to^Jjis old mother at the farm
in Dauphiny. The old dame was in the
kitchen kneading the bread for the fort
nightly baking, which is still a custom In
the old families of the Midi. She put her
floury arms around his neck and kissed
him.
"Ah, mother,you should give over this
heavy work," said the prime minister.
"And sit with folded hands on baking
day!" the good old housewife cried indig
nantly. "No, no; but I admit it is not so
easy as it was.”
“Well, today you shall fold your hands
—sit down, mother, and talk to me," said
the first minister of France, and he took
off his coat, rolled up his shirt sleeves and
kneaded the bread. When he had finished
and heard all the gossip of the farm he
kissed the good old mother and went
back to the more conspicuous duties of
statesman.
This simplicity is the chief characteris
tic of his Presidential administration. He
has no love for emply splendor. He had
made the Elysee palace as reasonably
democratic as the White House. Like
most hard-working men, he gets early to
his work. In winter he rises at 6, in sum
mer at 6 o’clock; he drinks a cup of cof
fee and reads the newspapers and the re
ports prepared by his secretaries. Every
day from 8 to 10 he walks abroad, follow
ing the avenue of the Champs Elysees
and the boulevards. He marches briskly,
a cane in hand—for he has a peculiar an
tipathy to the umbrella "I’d rather be
rained on than carry such a ridiculous
object over my head," he said once.
A Synonym for Mystery.
"Ask M. Walsh” is the stock saying at
the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy
Department when anything is missing
or hard to find; and as is usual with
stock sayings there is a story behind it
says the New York Tlmea One day the
bureau sent a telegram to the Com
mandant of a certain navy yard instruct
ing him about an important matter, and
ordering him to acknowledge the receipt
of the instructions by wire. There was
no answer, but several days after the
acknowledgment was received—by mall.
Admiral Crownlnshield, the Chief of the
Bureau, was indignant, and a hot mes
sage was sent to the Commandant, de
manding to know why he had not obeyed
the order of the department on such an
Important matter. Back came a pretty
tart reply announcing that a telegram
had been sent promptly on receipt of the
Inst ructions.
The bureau instituted a search, and
finally found that a telegram had been
sent through the Western Union to Act
ing Secretary Hackett and receipted for
by "M. Walsh." No such man was
known, and no one could be found who
knew him. Finally Mr. Hackett was ap
pealed to.
"Why, yes," said he, "that’s my coach
man."
Thereupon Mr. Hackett was adjured to
call up his coachman on the telephone
and solve the mystery. He rang up his
house and directed that "Mike" be sum
moned to the ’phone.
"Mike," said he, "have you any tele
grams for me?"
"No, sir," was the answer. "Hold on
faith, mebbe I have. WaiJt till I search
me coat."
Mr. Hackett held the ’phone, and pres
ently Mike’s voice said: "Hello!, Is that
you, sir? Yes, I found a telygram. It
come f’r ye three weeks ago."
It was the commandant’s telegram.
Now "M. Walsh” is the department
synonym for disappearance or mystery.
Mr. Barrie’s Thirst for Fame.
James M. Barrie has Just passed his
forty-first birthday, relates the Chicago
News. Twenty-five years ago he was
scrawling on a bit of paper at Dumfries
Acamedy something like this: "When
you read the following article I think I
hear you exklaim: “Who is this grate
litterary genus appearing before our eyes
and takin’ our hearts by storm?" Wheth
er the article in the school magazine ever
took anybody by storm or not is not
known. Mr. Barrie seemed a long way
from fame and fortune then. But he
found an inspiring friend in the village
tailor, who taught him to repeat the lines:
"What can I do to be forever known, and
make the age to come my own?" Mr.
Barrie made up his mind that the .thing
for him to do was to write, and he took
up his pen and wrote himself into fame.
But Barrie did not find fame, like Byron
in a night. It was a slow growth. It be
gan in a garret. His first efTort, while
yet a mere lad, reached the publisher in
a three volume novel. The publisher
thought the writer a "clever lady," and
was ready to publish the book for £100;
but Barrie’s autograph was not worth
£100 to him in those days, and his first
book remained wrapped up some where
in brown paper in the obscurity ot his
Kirriemuir home.
His French Not Appreciated.
John Drew, the actor, speaks French
with an excellent accent, of which he is
pardonably proud, and hence he was im
mensely pleased when Mme. Bernhardt
said to him recently:
"You must really come to Paris and ap
pear in a Parisian theatre; yes in my
theatre and play with me."
Mr. Drew was naturally flattered to
have his French so greatly appreciated.
He felt several inches taller as he -
swered:
"Really, Mme. Bernhardt, this is most
gratifying. What sort of a part would
you like to have me play?"
"Oh," said Mme. Bernhardt, with her
sweetest smile, "naturally, the part of an
Englishman."
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THE GRANDF^JHER CLAUSE--*
From the Sheffield Standard. (
The grandfather clause will prove^
veritable millstone about the neck of t
franchise article of the new constfu'
tion. 1
From the Athens Courier. §
The convention is making haste v%*
slowly and there are some people wS|C
are bold enough to say that the reason
they do not get on is that there are too
many men In the convention who never
made four dollars a day before, and who
like their Job. Be this as it may. the
convention should have done more work
and less talking. The people who are
paying the bills are simply sick and dis
gusted with the whole push.
From the Jackson South Alabamian.
On the suffrage question we would make
the following suggestion:
Leave our election laws Just as they
are now except that every voter be requir
ed to fill out his own ticket without the
aid of any other person and no ticket to
be counted unless properly filled out. And
make It a misdemeanor, with heavy pen
alty, for any person to aid or furnish in
structions in any form. This would be
an educational qualification, for we all
know that it takes a man of considerable
intelligence to fill out the tickets voted
under our present election law. This
would cover white and black alike, and,
therefore, not carry out the ^pledges of
the party, but this is one of the instances
in which we contend" the ‘'party” has no
right to dictate.
We are opposed to the poll tax plan,
because it furnishes opportunity for can
didates to buy votes. If a candidate de
sired the vote of a delinquent tax payer,
perhaps he could secure it by paying his
poll tax, and no law that could be passed
would deter candidates from securing
this way. We are .opposed, to
the educiwPtJSA'O^ualificatlon when regis
trars, managers of elections, or any oth
er set of men, are to pass upon the mat
ter, for it would leave an opening and
furnish opportunity for them to practice
injustice and fraud, which, in politics,
most men are prone to do.
From the Tuscaloosa Sun.
The Constitutional Convention is still
dragging along. It seems that the time
allotted them for their work is too short,
and it is doubtful whether they can finish
their labors in that time. The action of
the convention in postponing action on
the suftrago clause is of doubtful wis
dom. The convention was called for the
purpose of passing a new suffrage law, so
it would seem that they should finish
work on this before going any further.
The result of the postponement may be
that in the rush of the last few days,
any old kind of law will be rushed with
out half of the members knowing what
is going on.
“humidity,” which In New York killed
nearly nine hundred'persons In one week,
and that humidity was appalling all day
yesterday, down to 7 p. m.
At 10 o'clock last night the mercury
registered 80 degrees. It then began fall
ing, and before midnight we had the only
cool and comforting breezes felt here In
more than five weeks.
About Person*.
Dr. G. B. Mobley of Eutaw, one of the
leading men of Western Alabama, Is at
the Metropolitan.
• • •
Ripley F. Beasley, a former Birming
ham man of wide popularity, Is amongst
his old friends In this city.
• • •
J. T. Banks of Columbus, Miss., is at
the Metropolitan.
• • •
W. D. Jones of Chicago Is at the Mor
ris.
• • •
A. Y. Glover of Mobile Is at the Metro
politan.
» • •
A. M. Lynn of Pittsburg, who was form
erly connected with the Birmingham
Waterworks Company, Is at the Morris.
. V *
George A. Sorrell of Alexander .City Is
at the Florence.
• • •
W. W. Lavender of Centreville Is at the
Florence.
• • •
Joseph Pryor of St. Louis Is at the Mor
ris.
• • •
Men whose names cannot be deciphered
are at the various hotels. They probably
think bad handwriting Is “distinguished.*
• • •
H. S. Boykin of New York'and A. R.
Scott of Calera are at the Florence.
• • •
J. B. Given and W. Thompson of Selma
are at the Metropolitan.
ICE CREAM 18 NOT A LUXURY.
From Collier’s Weekly.
Newport Is the millionaires' playground,
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the aggregate wealth of the summer col
onist* amounting to over a billion dol
lars. Thus, In July and August, Newport
Is the richest town In America. Six hun
dred thousand dollars Is spent In the town
Itself, among the tradespeople, during the
season, and the town has more banks
than any other place of Its size In New
England. Not more than a thousand per
sons make up the personnel of this stately
colony—and 2000 servants. A small boy re
cently summed up Newport In theso
words: "They eat Ice cream three times
a day.”
TOO LATE.
From the Housekeeper.
What silences we keep year after year
With those who are most near to us and
dear;
We live beside each other day by day.
And speak of myriad things, but seldom
say
The full sweet word that lies Just In our
reach.
Beneath the commonplace of common
speech.
Then out of sight and out of reach they
go— .
These close, familiar friends who loved
us so!
And sitting in the shadow they have left,
Alone with loneliness and sore bereft,
We think, with vain regret, of some fond
word
That once we might have said and they
have heard.
i
For weak and poor the love that we ex
pressed
Now seems, beBtde the vast sweet uncon
fessed;
And slight the deeds we did to those un
done;
And small the service spent to treasure
won,
And undeserved the prcftse for word and
deed
That should have overflowed the simple
need. aft,
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This Is the cruel cross of life, to be
Full-visloned only when the ministry
Of death has been fulfilled, and In tl
place
Of soma dear presence Is but empty I
What recollected services can then
Give consolation for the "might
bean?"