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You are gentlemen of brave mettle;
you would lift the moon out of her
sphere.
—Tempest.
Attendance at Buffalo.
Not enough are put off at Buffalo to
satisfy the managers of the Pan-Amer
ican expos.ion. There Is no lack of
advertising In the management; It Is
confessedly excellent, and yet the at
tendance is disappointing. Even re
duced rates on Sunday do not induce
the people to get off at Buffalo. The
average daily attendance Is now about
70,000 on week days. Heretofore It
has been below 50,000. Unless the
daily attendance becomes fully 100,
000 a day In t..is and the next month,
a large oeuclt will occur.
Much is expected in the way of at
tendance in October, a delightful
month . at Buffalo. At Chicago's
world's fair the average attendance
In October was 280,000, rising on one
day to 716,!k -.
The Buffalo fair Is the more artistic
of the two, ana In electrical effects
Is may not soon be excelled. It has,
too, ivlagara at Its doors, and It may
well be tnat October will gratify and
satisfy the expectations of the man
agement which have not thus far been
mei:-r
Through New England Spectacles.
With characteristic thoroughness,
accuracy and comprehensiveness the
Springfield Republican reviews the
Alabama suffrage plan. At the out
set it says:
The suffrage plan which was finally
adopted by tho convention Is almost a
marvel of tortuous Ingenuity. Somethin?
of that nature was to be expected In view
of ths objects the convention had In view,
which were to disfranchise the bulk of
the negroes, while permitting all white
men. literate and illiterate, to retain the
right to vote, and, at the same time,
frame a suffrage scheme not In violation
of the constitution of the United States.
It were as If a constitutional convention
In Massachusetts were to attempt to dis
franchise all men whose names began
with letters running from A to K. with
out violating the supreme la.w of the
land. The success of the Alabamans In
this enterprise. In which other southern
states are Joined, will finally be deter
mined by the federal Supreme Tour*,
whose verdict ought not to be doubtful.
It seems to take a long time, however,
for cases testing these laws to reach that
tribunal. The Louisiana “grandfather
clause" has been In operation about three
years, yet Its validity has not been
brought In question thus far before our
highest court. The Alabama plan, there
fore, seems likely to be In full operation
long before Its legality will be tested,
and, as It Is a very curious piece of Join
ery, It might as well be exhibited to our
readers now as at any time.
ihe Republican proceeds to review
the temporary plan, finding in it
much room for dispraise and none for
praise, but it admits the permanent
plan is proof against criticism. It
holds that in the course of time the
\ negro will uecome a factor in Ala
bama. _
Prosperous Mexico.
Mexico's population increased 7.43
per cent in the last five years, bring
ing her aggregate up to 13,570,545.
Canada on the other hand grew but
S.7 per cent in ten years, her popula
tion being 5,300,000. Our Latin neigh
bors to the souia of us are growing
and prospering faster than our Anglo
Saxon neighbors to the north of us.
To tell the whole truth, it is not
strictly a matter of race or blood, for
the Latin element in Mexico is incon
siderable, and the most prolific in the
Dominion is almost wholly Latin.
President Idas told in his last inau
gural the story of Mexico in a single
sentence, when he said: “Those na
tions that deserve to be called happy
In the only intelligible sense of the
word, far from being without a his
tory, have a very gorious and inter
esting one if Besides being peaceful
and laborious they are also progres
sive." Th»s is the story under Pres
ident Dias, who has served twenty
five years. Instead of wars and revo
lutions peace and security of life and
property have ueen fully established.
Railroads and telegraph lines are
better than anarchy and swashbuck
lng. Good flnanoes have succeeded a
treasury chronically empty. The
country Is, In a word wsll governed.
Nor Is this all. It is progressive on
the best lines—on lines that look to
continuous development. Schools
have been opened in every part of
the republic, an'a a compulsory edu
cation law Keeps those schools busy.
These schools are conducted In ac
cordance with high standards, and It
is believed the illiteracy that has long
prevailed in the country will soo dis
appear.
interstate taxes have been abolish
ed, for Mexico had long suffered from
them very much as China does today
in her ‘ liking” taxes. They checked
trade and prevented t».e development
of the country. Fortunately they have
been aboished. The great basin in
which the capital is located has been
drained at a cost of $20,000,000, and
the government has appropriated $15,
000,000 toward port improvements
and the Tehnantepec railway. The
rise of the Spanish-Indlan republic
Is really as great a wonder as the
rapid changes In Japan has been, but
they have not attracted equal atten
tion throughout the world.
Marroquin and the Clericals.
The South American war seems
uow to be chiefly confined to the
United States of Colombia, where
Dictator Marroquin has a formidable
revolution on his hands. Marroquin
Is bacKeu by the conservatives or
rlericals, Including 5000, more or less,
jf priests and friars expelled from the
Philippines. These priests and friars
ire Spaniards, but instead of going
to Spain they went to the only South
American country that the liberals
lo not control.
The sympathies of the liberals in
Venezuela ana Ecquador are with the
revolutionists in Colombia, but It does
not clearly appear that any efforts
have been made that go beyond sym
pathy, although come aid has no
doubt come to tne forces led by Gen
eral Uribe-Uribe from the neighbor
ing republics.
The revolution in Colombia will not
be speedily settled, but it no longer
mreatens the Panama railroad, and
this country and no other has any
reason for becoming a participant in
it. The Colombians should be left to
settle their own troubles, and so for
that matter should thethreerepublics.
Marroquin’s overthrow would lead to
another dispersion of the friars from
the Philippines, for the feeling
against tnem is bitter in revolution
ary circles.
Professor Triggs has again had a
think soiree, and he has declared Mr.
Dooley and George Ade superior to
Oliver Wendeii Holmes and Hosea
Bigelow.
Governor Stanley is a candidate for
the United States senate, and his
friends are supporting him for he is
every thing Senator Burton is not.
Mark Hanna and the patronage bu
reau are the only ones that can safely
count Southern delegates before they
are hatched.
Hungary has decreed that Budapest
barmaids must hereafter be forty
years old, and the Hungarians feel
aggrieved.
Boston Is congratulating itself upon
the fact that J. P. Morgan came and
went without trying to buy Boston
common.
The mosquito will miss some of his
accustomed swamps when he returns
next summer. We mean when she
returns.
The Hanna boom has grown so fast
it will not listen to arbitration in be
half of New York or Indiana Inter
lopers.
It is up to Professor Triggs to
write a new ode on the occusion of
the marriage of the son of his patron
saint.
Another slip between the cup and
Sir Thomas Lipton may not occur, for
Shamrock II is considered very slick.
Swimmer McNally is going leisure
ly by water from Boston to New York.
He does not like cinders and dust.
Beginning with this week the steel
strikers will receive strike pay at the
rate of about $40,000 a week.
Bernhardt is studying English, and
then she and Maude Adams will to
gether try to cast a shadow.
Fireworks prematurely touched off
will not be permitted to cast a cloud
on Labor Day In this town.
The closing of trolley parks has be
gun along the Canada border, and
tended southward.
Prince Chun Is going to Germany to
apologize in Chinese for the death of
uaron Ketteler.
Sampson has also hired a lawyer,
and this must mean that he, too, is to
be tried.
No one has yet been able to solve
the Chinese puzzle, not even the
looters.
Chicago is wealthy but freakish, es
pecially In her professional depart
ment.
The sultan uas one advantage—he
has no credit that can be Injured.
Boer defiance is based on tempera
ment instead of resources.
Tsl An no longer poses as the
Chinese Queen Bess.
JOHNSON AND HANNA.
Prom the New York Journal.
Tom Johnson Is fat and determined and
hails from Ohio.
Mark Hanna will be nominated tor
President by the Republicans, according
to the very beet opinion*.
Mark Hanna is of the opinion that he
will be nominated, and his opinion Is ihe
very best In all matters concerning the
Republican party.
How amusing—should Tom Johnson be
nominated by the Democratic party to
run against Mark Hanna.
Two successful business men would light
with their pocketbooks, with thick necks
md with desperate earnestness to get the
people to give them an office—and neither
would know what to do with it when he
tot it.
Tom Johnson, if elected, would try to
change things around suddenly,and would
Recover that you can’t change the course
>f events ahead of time. The difference
between Tom Johnson at large and Tom
lohnson In the White House, as a wise
nan once remarked, would be the dlf
'erence between a mule kicking up his
leeis defiantly In an open lot and a mule
utehed to WOO pounds of sand — WOO
sounds of sand or 4000 pounds 6f tespon
dbility will sober any man and any mule.
Mark Hanna. If elected—and we are ln
illned to think that he will be elected,
inless his present government should
ihocrt too many strikers between now and
[904—would be like a frog that was elected
^resident of the stream.
He would sit on the edge of the stream
md watch It ruh along in its plutocratic
course toward the natural and inevitable
ocean of government ownership.
The contest between Hanna and John
son would be a pretty struggle to witness.
But we shall never witness that strug
gle for this very Interesting reason:
Tom Johnson possesses one good idea.
That one good Idea alone makes him in
eligible for the Presidency.
At the bottom of one of the deepest
folds of Johnson’s cerebrum—and It Is
not so deep—resides a belief In Henry
George’s theory that the earth should be
long to all the people on It, and not to
any Individual.
Tom Johnson has repeatedly confessed
his adherence to this belief.
He has persistently taught that Wil
liam Waldorf ABtor, who never comes to
America, should not be permitted to own
150,000,000 worth of New York’s real estate.
He believes — perhaps without quite
knowing why—that the mother who brings
five children Into the world In a New York
tenement should not scrub or wash five
times as hard in order to satisfy William
Waldorf Astor, who “owns” the land and
spends the scrub woman’s money In Eng
land.
This is Tom Johnson’s one conviction,
and we do not see how he can possibly
get rid of It or cause people to forget It
before 1904.
And this one conviction, this one honest
Idea, bars him from all Presidential as
piruuuuB.
To be President you must be a great
man. and all the people must know It—
you must be a Washington, Jackson or
Grant.
Or you must be an absolutely colorless
man and people must know nothing about
you; and, above all, you must not have
one single good idea.
The small, selfish creatures who think
they own land, and who are really owned
by the worms, who are watting In the land
for them, would beat Tom Johnson If ho
should run for the Presidency Just as
surely as the sun would melt a small Icicle
If the Icicle should come against It.
And that Is a fact that Is really amus
ing and worth thinking about, consider
ing that the American people delude
themselves Into the Idea that they really
think for themselves—that they really ad
mire radical, honest opinions.
WHERE ARE WE ATT
I^rom the Montgomery Journal.
Just a word right here before we go
another Inch further. The Palmer and
Buckner papers tell us that the platform
of the Chicago national Democratic con
vention, or the Kansas City national plat
form Is not binding upon the party. If this
argument is correct. If the past utterance
of the party Is not binding upon the party
the last declaration of Its principles Is of
no force and effect, can any future utter
ance he binding? If one declaration of the
party In convention assembled should not
be binding upon the party, why should
another be, binding? If on* faction of th*
party can declare at will that 1t feels
under no obligations to stand by the party
or Its platform at one time, why should
not the other faction have the same prlv.
liege to repudiate the nominees and the
platform at another time? If one faction
of the party can declare a platform a
nulity today, cannot the other do so
tomorrow? If the logic of the gold bug
press Is good, we can have no organisa
tion and no party. Of course the gold
crowd have all the sense and wisdom of
the party. There Is no Issue on that point.
There can he no questioning their wis
dom. They have told us so, and what they
so say 1s of course true. But the Journal
and Its kind of Democrats would like to
know If the platforms of 1890 and 1900 are
not binding upon Democrats, can the plat
form of 1904, which we are now assured
will be framed by the bolters, be any the
more binding because framed by bolters?
We merely rise to a question of Inquiry.
We don’t want to disturb anybody’s
dreams of triumph In 1904, but we mere
ly wish to know where We are at.
DR. KASKA HONORED.
Austrian Emperor Confer* Upon Him
a Title.
Mexico Clity, Mex., September 1.—The
Austrian Emperor has conferred the title
of herldltary baron free from taxes on
Dr. Francisco Kaska of this city. Dr.
Kaska, who came to Mexico In the en
tourage of Maxmllllan, has since remain
ed hare in business, and through his
sterling qualities has won universal es
teem. When Austria desired to erect a
memorial chaper on the spot where Mt*X
mlllan and his Mexican generals, Mora
mon and Mejia were executed, Dr. Kas
ka was the intermediary through whom
permission was asked and obtained. The
erection of this chapel led to a visit to
Mexico of Prince Khevlhueler as repre
sentative of the royal family of Austria.
reflections of a bachelor.
From the New York Press.
With some women it Is find a baby and
lose a husband.
When a couple are In love the only thing
that is sillier than their conversation Is
their letters.
When a man has won the approval of
her father and mother he has made a
good start toward not winning the ap
proval of the girl.
When a girl forgets herself and speAks
of something that happened a dosen years
ago she always adds hastily that even as
the tiniest little thing she had a marvel
ous memory.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for
this day, Wednesday, September 2, 1901:
"Much uncertainty exists as to this
day.”
"Thou wilt quarrel change, and go to
law, this being thy birthday; thou wilt
travel and remove and meet but poor suc
cess: attend to thy business, else It will
fall. Those In employ should be careful.
"Of very sharp temper and always ready
for a quarrel will be the child born on
this day. If a female, she will marry an
elderly man who will be very mean and
miserable.”
An Idyll of the Trolley Car.
"Just twenty-four days from now I
shall he married, and T am the happiest
man In the whole world—being so far
ahead of you that you’ll never catch up
with me in the procession of Joy!”
He was a trolley car motorman who
spoke, and he expects promotion In h!a
work as well as In the sense of quitting
single misery for wedded blessedness—,v
sunny-haired, sunny-faced, blue-eyed
young fellow, ready to cry with the
Count of Monte Cristo.
“The world Is mine!”
There Is only one Joy In the world like
that which Illumined his bronsed, hand
some face, and that Is that same kind
of Joy.
“I am very happy," he said to the toll
er of the bight who sat near him on the
front seat of the trolley car. "I saw her
last night, and I said to her, 'Do you
know this is the first day of September,
and It's Just twenty-five days till we get
married? Are you getting scared?’
•* ’Not a bit scared,’ she said, Imput
slvely—Hhe twenty-fifth day from now
will be a day of happiness for me!' She
spoke It out straight, and. do you know,
I believe I could Jump over that tele
graph pole, I am so happy. Say! I’ll swear
to you I am the happiest man In the
valley, because she's mine, she’s mine,
she’s mine!"
He looked ahead along the long straight
lines of steel that gleamed like ribbons
of sliver In the softened sunshine of the
first breath of autumn of that perfect
yesterday. Looking back at hll friend, one
who long years ago knew him In child
hood and loved him for his father’s sake,
he said:
"I love her ao—and she's mine! I call her
'Jack', for love's sake; and all day long
as I have been running this car I have
been humming that thing of the 'Mur
murs’, that ends with 'Roses, roses, I love
you so,’ for she—well, she’s everything
that was said of the roses!”
One who heard the manly and happv
young motorman talking of the supreme
Joy coming to him, and who was himself
less fortunate, handed to the motorman’s
friend these lines to "'Woman" In the ab
stract:
“She’s warm, she’s cool, she s pleasing,
vexing,
An open book and a thing perplexing:
She will give you Joy, she will cause you
sorrow
With a smile today and a frown tomor
She’ll bring despair, then hope restore
SheMl be your slave and she’ll lord It
o’er you
Responsive, shy, forgiving, spiteful,
An Inconsistency delightful;
Repelling, now. anon, caressing.
Man's greatest plague, his chlefest blesa
AndTliough beneath himself he’s classed
licr
And calls himself her lord and tnaster.
She casts him off and closer binds him,.
And ’round her little finger winds him.
A Cradle of a Race.
A Birmingham historian and traveler
said last night:
"With the compliments of the Kigni
Worshipful the Mayor of Winchester
comes the ’Programme of the Commem
oration of the Millenary of King Alfred
the Great—901-1901. Patron: His Majesty
King Edward VII.’
“This celebration, which Is unexampled
In the stories of the nations and their
kings, will begin in the British Museum
Tuesday, September 17th. The next day
the scene will be Royal Winchester, and
the celebration will be ended September
21st with a visit to St. Cross.
"He Is a dullard or a blockhead who.
being of English or Anglo-Saxon extrac
tion. Is not Stirred by the story that
comes from the Mayor of Winchester, the
very cradle of our American liberty of
todayt
"Listen!
"Visit to the site of Hyde Abbey, the
burial place of King Alfred.
"Visit to the Castle Hall, where King
Arthur's Round Table Is still preserved,
and to the underground passage.
"Visit to the ancient Westgate, which
contains many relics of great Interest, ln
the Winchester standard weights and
measures—the beginning of the standards
whereby every housewife in our Alabama
Birmingham of today buys groceries and
dry goods!
"Visit to the Cathedral, which, though
diverted from its original purpose of Ro
man Catholic worship, still contains holy
relics of blessed saints and is of profound
religious significance to every one.
"Visit to Wolversey, Including the old
palace of the Roman Catholic bishops,
and the ruins of De Blois’ castle.
"Parade on the Castle Square, where
Great Alfred reviewed his knights more
than a thousand years ago, and whence
King Arthur saw Lancelot and all the
rest depart.
"The unveiling by King Edward VII of
the colossal bronse statue of the Most
Catholic King Alfred the Great; the
statue being Mr. Thomycroft's best work.
“The roasting of an ox on historic St.
Giles' Hill.
"Is there any man or woman who can
read that brief outline of this month's
celebration at Winchester and not feel
his blood run hotter In the glory of a
glorious race?
"Is there a man or woman who has not
read of that Round Table or laughed and
wept over Tennyson's Imperishable
Idylls of the King?
"Is not the very name of Winchester
and the names of King Alfred and King
Arthur inspiration to worthier and nobler
lives for us allf
"Is there not In the miraculous preser
vation of Arthur's sword as he cast It
Into the lake when death was come a les
son to us all that brave deeds are after
all writ In brass, not In the Shifting sands
of slnT
"And isn't there many a wordless heart
that Would long to cry out with Geraint
In Immortal Tennyson's Immortal story
of Enid and the rest:
" ‘A thousand pips *at up your sparrow
hawk!
Tits, wrens, and all wing'd nothings peck
him dead! .
Te think the rustic cackle of your bourg
The murmur of the world! What Is !t to
me?
O wretched set of sparrows, one and all,
Who pipe of nothing but of sparrow
hawks.'
"The unarmed and weary Geraint rid
ing down the village street and hearing
of nothing save only one man, the nlok
named "Sparrowhawk; his coming by ac
cident to Enid, and his victory for her
over the Sparrowhawk at last, IS One of
the noblest lessons ever given to weary
or oppressed man. And this and a thou
sand noble deeds ahd lessons are sug
gested by 'this thousandth year Celebra
tion in honor of Great Alfred, which lh
spirit la but an offering upon the attar
of the nation whose 'flag hae for a thou
sand years braved the battle aqd the
breeze,'
"In happy days that are dead I used to
haunt Winchester, and wherever 1 went
about that quaint and marvellously en*.
trancing home of still strong great ones
for ever gone, I had Impulse to carry
my cap In my hand and In certain places
to kneel In the scholar's reverence for
that which Is of supreme historic Inter
est. I thought of St. Augustine who
came there nearly a thousand years be
fore Orest Alfred's birth, of St. Giles, S«.
Ives, and the long live of holy men and
women who made Winchester a sanctu
ary for the oppressed thirteen centuries
before America was discovered!"
Ars Accidents Hereditary?
"There is so much superfluous genius
abroad among Insurance men that the
discovery of unsuspected 'mare’s nests' Is
amusingly common,” said an Insurance
man yesterday.
"Not long since some'genius discovered
that liability to accident was hereditary,
and IIk4 red hair or grey eyes runs In
families.
"In view of this new and extraordin
ary theory, the deplorable trolley car ae.
cldent In Twentieth street assumes an
added Interest."
Hon. John B. Weakley.
Speaking of the removal of Hon. John
B. Weakley, Mayor of Florence, to Birm
ingham. notice of which appepared In this
place yesterday, Mr. 8. D. Weakley said;
"I have strongly advised and urged my
brother to come to Birmingham, as a
place which affords a larger field than
Florence for the exercise of his business
qualities and legal attainments, and he
has decided to do so at the end of his
present term as Mayor of Florence, In
December next.
"While the details or nts Dusinese con
nection here have not been perfected, he
will probably be associated in legal prac
tice with our younger brother, Turner R
Weakley. He does not expect or desire
his coming to alter the business relations
so long existing between Mr. E. H. Ca
banlss and myself, and the firm of Ca
baniss A Weakley, now In the twelfth
year, will continue as in the past.”
Hon. John B. Weakley Is a high ofricer
of the American Deague of Municipalities.
Is one of the best known Mayor# of the
south, Is a member of the Alabama con
stitutional convention, and Is one of the
ablest young public men of this state.
Amos Ward.
Amos Ward, who was for many year#
a well known and esteemed citizen of
Birmingham, and who successfully con
ducted Ward’s Business College here, was
In Birmingham yesterday on his way
from New York to his present home In
Dallas, Tex. He was accompanied by his
bright little son, Master Mike Stinson
Ward, who in fifteen minutes made
friends of all the lobby loungers at the
Morris. Mr. Ward married, some ten
years ago, Miss Stinson, a belle of Wood
lawn and granddaughter of Christian
Enslen. He Is now a commercial traveler
In Texae. Mr. Ward left town for his
home last night
About Persons.
Hon. Wlleon L. Brown is In New York.
• • •
P. H. Seabrook of Charleston Is at the
Morris.
• • •
Q. H. Wilson of Chattanooga Is at the
Morris. '
e e s
William C. Booth of Chicago Is at the
Morris.
• • •
William F. Feagln of Opelika Is at the
Morris.
• • •
J. C. Keith of Nashville Is at the Ar
lington.
• e s
Thomas F. Shepherd of Mobile Is at the
Florence.
• • *
M. P. Buchanan of Chicago Is at the
Florence.
• • •
S. J. O'Neill of Bavannah la at the Met
ropolitan.
• • •
S. H. March of New York Is at the
Metropolitan.
• s s
Dr. B. C. Duncan of Dadeville la at the
Metropolitan.
• • •
W. D. Richey of Augusta, Ga., Is at
the Florence.
• as
Samuel H. Parke of Montgomery Is at
the Arlington.
R. M. Cary and &. C. Blount, Jr., of
Pensacola are at the Morris.
• • •
Former State Senator William M. Lack
ey of Dadevllle Is at the Morris.
« * m
Samuel Hartley, Jr., and Carl Hartley
of Hargrove are at the'Metropolitan.
• • •
Benjamin Ogle and C. A. Robson, well
known Baltimoreans, are at the Morris.
• * •
Austin 81ms has returned from an ex
tended visit to Pike's Peak and further
West.
* • •
Major T. T. Wright of Nashville, for
merly or Birmingham, and widely known
for many years as a leading Southern de
veloper, Is at the Morris.
Arkansas Cotton Figures.
Little Rock, September 1.—The close of
the commercial year 1900-1901 shows the
total cotton receipts at Little Rock for
the season to be 206,219 bales, the average
price being 8 9-10 cents, aggregating *s,
982.135.C1 for the season’s crop. The total
receipts the season before were 1M.550
bales, at an average price of 7 8-15 cents
per pound, amounting to $4,484,187.50.
Girl Killed.
Philadelphia, September 1.—Lucy Par
quel, a 15-year-old girl, was shot and
Instantly killed today at her home In
the northern section of the city, by a
young man whose name Is not yet known
and who afterwards killed himself. Jeal
ousy IS supposed to be the cause of the
crime.
214 Jlecrultt.
Knoxville, Tenn., September 1.—Captain
Vogdes, In charge of the Knoxville re
cruiting station, reports that dur
ing the month just Closed he has sworn
in 214 men'for army service. THts is the
banner record except during progress of
the war and will eclipse records .made by
many If not all of the larger cftles.
\
The Midnight Sun is Rarely
Seen More Than Four Times Year
Writing from North Cape, Norway, the
northernmost point of Europe and known
as the tip end of the world, Wm. E. Cur
tis says in the Record-Herald:
I now approach a delicate topic. The
principal object of visiting the North Cape
Is to see the midnight sun, and the Itine
raries of the steamers are timed so that
they will arrive there about 10 o'clock In
the evening and give the passengers time
enough to climb to the top and express
their emotions by such demonstrations as
they consider appropriate before mid
night. Then they are free to observe the
great phenomenon. But the great ma
jority of tourists are disappointed In this
respect, because the sun Is seldom seen
from the North Cape after 4 o'clock in
the afternoon. Of course, people who have
traveled all that distance and have made
that long and tedious climb cannot be ex
pected to express their failure and disap
pointment. In fact I have never met any
body who was gone to the North Cape
without seeing the midnight sun. General
absolution Is granted to tourists to lie
about It to other travelers and to the folk
at home, but the captain admitted to me
that they only saw It twice last year, and
that when they saw it four times In a
season It Was considered a remarkable
triumph.
We sailed through the famous mael
strom Which the ancients believed guards
the entrance to the sublimest beauty of
the fjords of the Lofoden Islands, and
has furnished so much material for the
Imagination of the author* of Norwegian
legendlary and modem novelists. It Is a
reality—not one, but several maelstroms
actually exist, and any of them will
answer the descriptions given by Victor
Hugo, Jules 'Verne, Edgar A. Poe and
writers of lesser fame. The chief and most
dangerous Is an extraordinary whirlpool
between the Islands of Moskene and
Roest, near the southern extremity or
Hofoden archipelago. It Is called Mosk
naes-8trommen. Another by the Island of
Vaero, called the Saelstrom, Is almost as
dangerous. There are many narrow chan
nels between the mountains where great
volumes of water, coming from opposite
directions, meet as the tide flows In and
out. Thoy form temperary whirlpool
twice a day, and during the aprlng tides,
or when the natural currents are acceler
ated by heavy western gales, passage Is
Impossible. No vessel could survive them.
Even whales have been caught and
whirled around until they were dead. Be
tween times these channels look innocent
enough. Even small boats oan pass safely
through them at the proper time each
day, and the departure of the mall boats
is regulated accordingly, but they have
Caused the loss of many lives. Boats
have actuallly disappeared, being sucked
Into the vortex and carried to the bot
tom to whirl and whirl and whirl until
the waters are tired and flow away, car
rying the wrecks and the bodies of the
dead with them on the undercurrent, to
emerge miles and miles distant.
It Is not strange that the ignorant and
superstitious sailors of the middle ages
attributed this mighty and mysterious ac
tion of the waters to supernatural power,
and their Imaginative minds, always cre
ating monsters and miracles out of nat
ural phenomena which they cannot un
derstand, placed In them an octopus
whose awful arms were always extended
to grasp unwary mariners who were so
unfortunate as to Come within Its reach.
Later and more Intelligent writers repre
sented the maelstrom as a vast cauldron.
In which the waters revolve with terrific
speed, their centrifugal force extending a
long distance and gradually drawing to
ward the center all who venture within
their power. The mariners struggle and
shriek In vain. The monster Is Inexorable,
and when the crisis comes the vessel
springs out of the water and then shoots
suddenly down into the vortex, while the
shrieks of terror and despair are drowned
In the rushing of the hungry torrent and
the howling of the winds.
The straits are very dangerous and all
vessels are warned to keep out of them.
The notea upon the chart Issued by the
Norwegian hydrographic office say that
"when the wind Is steady at flood and ebb
tide each day the whirlpool Is still for
half an hour or more, when boats may
then pass through; but half-way between
flood and ebb tide the passage becomes
dangerous, although It can be used by
steamers and large vessels when there Is
no wind for several hours a day. Toward
the height of the tide or when a gale Is
blowing the water revolves with a speed
of twenty-six miles an hour In mighty
whirlpools. In which the largest steamers
would be helpless.”
WITH THE EDITORS OF
THE STATE PRESS
New Mill at Huntsville.
The Chattanooga Times locates the
Ashcraft cotton mill at Huntsville anil
says 8000 spindles and 100 looms are to be
added.
New Bridge.
From the Lawrence County News:
The Board of Revenue let the contract
for a new steel suspension bridge over
Bib Nance creek at this place to the Con
verse Bridge Company of Chattanooga,
Tenn. Mr. J. L McClure, their represen
tative, secured the contract.
A Rival to Birmingham.
From the Tuscaloosa Gasette.
Tuscaloosa county and city are undoubt
edly oomtng to the front and in the course
of time our town will be a rival of Bir
mingham, for we have the same natural
advantages, with the advantage of the
Warrior river thrown In for good meas
ure.
New Hotel at Geneva.
From the Demopolls Dispatch.
The cltisens of Geneva held a public
meeting Saturday in order to discuss the
proposed building of a big hotel at that
place. The matter was thoroughly dis
cussed, and it was decided to build and
equip such a structure at once. It is
said that work on the building will begin
in a very short time.
Gored by a Steer.
From the Florence Times.
On Thursday of last week, while Mr. W.
P. Campbell was selling some cattle at
Ballna, Miss., an angry steer gored him
seriously in the face, and otherwise
bruised him. The wounds were not dan
gerous, but they were painful. The steer's
horns cut a deep bash in his face from
near the eye to the ear.
Oil at Prattville.
From the Prattville Progress.
Mr. H. Barclay says he has found oil
In Prattville and has looked over Chilton
county and found a rich vein of gold near
Fort DeSoto and the finest ochre bed in
the United States and also the best oil
stones, a mountain of each, and he is
pretty certain he has discovered emery.
About four miles from Prattville, he has
the best clay for making fire brick that
can be found.
Big Freight Shipments.
From the West Alabamian.
We are gratified to see the large amount
of freight now being hauled over the
Carrollton Short Line railroad. The cars
are Jammed dally, and President Coch
rane will be compelled by the time the
fall sets in to furnish more coaches for
the accommodation of the road’s accumu
lated business. Mr. Cochrane's judgment
was not wrong In believing that the
Bhot Line Would prove a splendid financial
investment.
Claims Forfeiture.
From the Demopolls Dispatch.
The people of Lauderdale county are
having trouble about their court house at
Florence, which has Just been completed.
It Is said that the contract with the
builders necessitated the building being
completed by a certain time under for
feiture of J10 for every extra day. The
county now claims *4.000 forfeiture under
the contract, together with other expenses
made necessary by the failure of the con
tractors to finish the court house In time.
The matter will probably be settled tiy
the United States Court.
Immigration.to Alabama.
From the Tuscaloosa Sun.
The question of Immigration la one of
the most Important questions before the
people of Alabama. The Western States
have added so much to their wealth and
prosperity through encouraging dealrable
Immigration that the Southern States are
tempted to follow their example.
The Germane have several Important
colonies In this Stats, all of which are In
a flourishing condition. The German Im
migration Society will meet In Birming
ham next month for the purpose of con
sidering these questions. -
The move Is a good one, there Is not a
oounty In the State that will not be bene
fited by an addition to its wealth pro
ducers.
The Immigrants will all live In the coun
try where they will cultivate the soil by
kthe most approved methods. This will
raise the price of farming lands, and if
enough settlers can be secured It will
finally solve the labor question.
Meat Cutters’ Proposition,
Kansas City, September 1.—Michael
nelly, president of the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters' and Butchers' Association
Donnelly, president of the Amalgamated
ment today explaining the movement
started in Chicago and Omaha for an in
crease in the wages of the skilled union
butchers at all the principal packing Cen
ters.
Mr. Donnelly said that the proposition
had been laid before the packers In the
form of a request and they would not
be asked for a reply until after Labor
Day.
Mr. Donnelly said the relations with the
packers were pleasant and they will be
given ample time to consider the request.
Mr. Donnelly Insists that it is not a de
mand and declares that reports of a
threatened strike are misleading.
New Mexico for Roosevelt.
Chicago, September 1.—Oov. Miguel
A. Otero of New Mexico, who is in Chi
cago, says the territory over which he
is the head, is enthusiastic in its support
of Vice President Roosevelt for the
Presidency in 1904. In the opinion of
Governor Otero Vice President Roose
velt, even at the early date, can feel rea
sonably sure that the united votes of
the New Mexican delegation will be given
to him when his name comes up in the
next Republican convention.
Tr'-iont Hotel Closed.
Chicago, September 1.—The existence of
the Tremont House as a hotel ended at
midnight last night. After a career as one
of the leading hotels of the city for sixty
eight years the structure passes into the
possession of the Northwestern Univer
sity, which will turn it into a pharmacy,
dentistry and law school, a branch of the
parent institution at Evanston.
The university purchased the property
a few months ago from the Couch’estate
for 1500,000.
THE BATTLEFIELD.
By Bryant.
(William Cullen Bryant was born in Cum.
mington, Mass., November 3, 1794, and
died in New York June 12, 1878. His fath
er was a physician. The poet studied at
Williams College; became first a law
yer, then an editor of a magazine, fin
ally editor of the 'New York Evening
Post.)
Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands,
Were trampled by a hurrying crowd.
And fiery hearts and arm-ed hands
Encountered In the battle-cloud.
Ah! never shall the land forget
How gushed the life-blood of her
brave—
Gushed, warmed with hope and courage
yet
Upon the soil they fought to save.
Now all Is calm and fresh snd still;
Alone the chirp of flitting bird
And talk of children on the hill
And bell of wandering klne are heard.
No solemn host goes trailing by
The black-mouthed gun and staggering
wain;
Men start not at the battle-cry—
Oh, be it never heard again 1
Boon rested those who fought; but thou
Who mlnglest In the harder strife
For truths which men receive not now.
Thy warefare only ends with life!
A friendless warfare! lingering long
Through weary day and weary year—
A wild and many-weanoned throng
Hang on thy from uud flank and rear.
Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof.
And blench not at thy chosen let:
The timid good may stand a!o*f,
The sage may frown—yet faint thou
not.
Nor heed the shaft too surely eagt.
The foul and hissing bolt of scorn!
For with thy side shall dwell, at last,
Ths victory of endurance born.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again—^
The eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes with pal*, ,
And dies among his worshippers.
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Yea. though thou lie upon the dust
When they who helped thee flee In fear,.
Die full ot hope ••"<! manly truet
Like those who battle here!
Another hand -tlf shall wield,
Another hand 1 ard wave. j
Till from the tru louth Is pealed
The blast M trl cr thy grave.