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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05


Not one of the new dailies recently
talked about has mate1Galized. Every
time a faker is hard up for news he
starts story about a new paper and
connects the Howells with 1T, or says
that Hoke Smith is going to sell out.
There is no truth in these reports. The
Howells are satisfied with the situation
and so is Smith. If any new men start
a paper here they will have a hard road
to travel. Still they may succeed df
they will spend money and give the
people a first-class daily, with some dash
and independence about it.
They cannot do this, however, if they
employ hack newspaper writers and kids
to do the kind of work which can only be
done by brainy, well-equipped, well-paid
men,
Some newspapers are getting down to
such a cheap basis that the people feel
a contempt for them and will not patron
ize them.
The trouble is that some men start
newspapers with the idea of cutting a
big figure in politics. This is a mis-
take. Only one editor in a Thousand
ever gets anything in politics. The other
great men out of little men and boosting
them Into Office.
If you want to succeed In politics. stay
out of journalism. Jolly few editors
and get them ito work for you.
If were going to start a good daily in
this section I would put the subscription
price ait $40 a year, and double the pres
emit average rates Of advertising. There
l. toIr H.. 4
there would be more profit ait those rates
than papers make now with their low
prices.
They say that the next candidates for
mayor of Atlanta will be Jim English,
banker; Alderman Jim Woodward; w. P.
Hill, lawyer, and a dark horse.
Jack Cohen, of the Atlanta Journal,
is spoken of for the legislature, next
year, and he can be elected, If he is will
ing to make the race. Jack is a bright
fellow, with legion of friends, and he
can get anything he wants
Livingston may hold his Atlanta con-
s1tituents by promising ITO induce con-
gress to build a new custom house and
sell the old one to the city for a cityhall.
He lis a slick one.
Col. B. r. Sawyer is doing some edi-
tor.al work on Col B. NJ Blackburn's
paper, the Commercial Sawyer lis an
Alabamiam and a brave one. He
equipped a company at his own expense
in the late war, and he and his men
fought like tigers. He was also in the
Mexican war and in THE Lopez expedf-
ltion to Cuba.
He yields a pen as vigorously as he
used to handle a sword. Thousands of
Birmingham people know and like him.
THE COLONEL.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Camille D'Arville will reappear in "Pef
Wellington" at the Garden theater, New
York, the latter part of the month.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

1t is said that Cleo de Merode has
no tender remembrances of American
newspapers, which she declares marred
the pleasure of her visit here.
1.-THE papers," she says, STATED that
I was a failure, but they lied. I pleased
the Americans vastly. The papers pre-
tended that danced badly, as if Amen-
cans could tell. They know nothing
about dancing and don't like ballets.
They said we lived on the sixth floor
and did not drink wine. 1t is true we
lived ON the fifth floor, but there was
life"
The Paris Figaro published a letter
from Cleo's mamma filled with mistakes
of photography. The remembrance of
this will bring signs to Cleo, for many a
day.
Mamma, does not make mistakes"
she. explains, "but she writes very ra-
pidly and then where the same letter
comes twice in a word she puts 1t in only
once, but she draws a line above to
show she knows there should be two"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Lillian Clanvelt the prima donna, has
been granted absolute divorce from her
husband, Royal Stone Smith, on the
ground of non-support. The separation
is said to have been unconditional there
having been no question of alimony or
other collateral issues raised. She stat
ed before the court that she did net de-
sire to be forced ito depend upon her
public singing for support, that she was
anxious to study and to sing only when
she desired ito do so for amusement or
charitable purposes and that she did
not care to be bound always by pressure
of public engagements, which called her
from place to place. Her husband. she
said, insisted upon her public singing in
order that the family purse might be
swelled by her earnings.
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Tie FAyQERS > sl.

of Miranda, has realized an immense for
tune by means of her glorious voice. Her
mansion at Madrid, as well as her Ylila-
at Nice is equipped with every form
of luxury. One of the most peculiar
apartments of the blonde and statuesque
ex-diva is her music room at Madrid,
which is papered entirely with the pro-
grammes of all the concerts ait which
she has taken part during her profess
sional career. Another apartment Is
papered in a similar manner with old
hotel bills relating to the same epoch
in her life.
Cristine Neilsson merely married the
count on account of his daughter. The
latter is a lovely girl of the brunette
type. Cristine made the girls acquainlt-
ance at Nice, became passionaltely att
tached to her and finally declaring she
could not bear the idea of separation,
proposed to adopt her. The pennlless
count gave his consent STIMULATING, how
ever, that the singer should likewise
adopt him as a husband and provide for
his financial welfare. The count ds net
an altogether unknown man, and is prob
ably the only diplomatist who can boast
of having got the better of Bismarck
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Herbert Kelcey has purchased a new
play by Clyde Fitch upon the strong
lines of Jim the Penman- 1t will bt
produced this season.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Anthony Hopes new play for MIR. Soth
ern will be known as 1.-THE Adventure 0
Lady Ursula
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

300 beautiful characteristic Millinery
We lucky in getting from New York Pattern Hat maker S
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Nat Goodwin will probably bring GU
at an early day drama based upol
the life of Nathan Hale, written b.
Clyde Fitch.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Charles Hoyt is at Old Point Comfol
whittier he went to complete his me-
play "a Day and a Night.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Denman Thompson will collaboralte
with Chas. H. Hoyt in riting "a New Eng
land play for production next season.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Troubles have not come singly for Os-
car Hammerstein. There has been a
recent foreclosure of mortgage of
$4,000 on some lots which he owns in
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street,
near his Harlan opera house.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05


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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

Anne Sutherland has won unbounded
praise as leading lady with Joseph JEFF
ferson Mr.. Jefferson said the other
day that the newspapers were wrong
when they state that he is to retire
from the stage. my advancing years
will soon undoubtedly compel me to
give up the profession that l love. But
when 1 do so 1T will be final retire
ment, and 1 hope 1 can do 1t gracefully
and quietly like we'll bred dog who
takes his departure from the room
when he sees preparations made to kick
him into the street."
ANNIE KENDRICK WALKER.
The herald., 1897-02-11
A COMPLAINT TMENT-
WHY NOT?

While The Herald believes not in the
multiplicity of offices, nor vet in an
increase of expenditures at this time Of
public funds, yet it would not look with
an unfavorabe eye upon the creation
of a complaint department in one of the
city hall Offices. There are abundant
things happening daily which the aver
age citizen sees and which he believes
could be remedied, but which he hesi-
tates to say anything about because he
has neither the time nor patience TO
travel from Dan to Beersheba in an ef-
fort to secure that equilibrium which he
believes should be found in mundane
things.
A case in point will illustrate: 4 citi-
zen recently found it absolutely neces-
sary to complain about a leaking FIR.
hydrant, which insisted in making a
mud puddle in front of his door to tn >
great damage of his own brogans and
his family's patent feathers He went to
the city clerk and related his story, and
was referred to the city attorney. who
promptly asked him to go to the water
company, from whence he was sent Il
the street department. and there he was
asked to go to the fire department, from
which place he was told to go to place
paved with good intentions, and lie
finally induced the health department
to declare the leak nuisance, and then
it was quickly dried up.
a printed blank form, kept in the Office
of the city clerk, on v hich any citizen
could write out complaint giving par
ticulars and his address could easily be
referred by clerk to the proper depart
nent for investigation, and thus many
petty little wrongs which the citizen and
tax payer now endures in silence coull
be set right at trifing expense to the
city, and would result in a great saving
of groWls from the average citizen.
The herald., 1897-02-11
AS TO CIVIL SERVICE

| Mr.. Mckinley insists that civil SER
| Speaker Reed Is equally determined that
there shall be a complete reorganiza-
tion of the civil service as soon as the
| Republican party comes into power"
To fully appreciate the meaning Of Mr..
| Reeds pronunciamento, it must be re-
membered that Mr. Reed waited until
Mr.. Mckinley had his say before he
issued his own proclamation. No doubt
Mr. Reed wishes the president-elect to
understand that the speaker of the
house considers himself a more power
full factor in legislation than the presi-
dent, and that he proposes to have his
own way in a good many things.
Theoretically, Mr.. McKinley's posi-
tion is right, and as matter of senti-
ment the people are with him, for there
is no doubt at all that Mr.. Reeds theory
that to the victors belong the spoils
has been in the past and would be again,
if put into practical operation, the most
damaging and dangerous influence in
the nations life; but, on the other hand
it is equally true that there is danger
in building up an office-h holding aris-
tocracy. Naturally, long service gives
efficiency, which in turn insures
thoroughness in the conduct Of the af-
fa ire of the goyarr,,,apt. l,,,t - oppaors
to be human nature to grow insolent,
dictatorial and disgustingly disagree
able when an official is made to feel that
heads of departments may come and
heads of departments may go, but he
abides and draws his salary forever.
1t is fact which has become notorious,
that, in the interior department more
especially, the railway influence is all
powerful, and that thousands of acres of
government land have been patented to
railways under circumstances that
would not bear critical investigation.
The secretary of the interior is obliged
to depend upon such information and
data as the chiefs of the several de-
partments furnish, and that sort of
thing has been running so long that
precedent" is at once forthcoming
when the secretary appears to hesitate.
1t is said a railway president once OBJ
to the land grant roads how often they
made a new secretary of the interior if
the heads of the several departments
were held down or the civil service
plan"
However, there should be no revision
of the civil service law until a Demo-
cratic administration is in control of the
government.
The herald., 1897-02-11
Pasadena, Feb. Q.
Stronger Than Ever

The Democratic party today Is more
aggressive and buoyant than any defeat
ed pnrty ever was before. Without in
timiGa ton, coercion or corruption a
vast majority of the voters of this coun-
try today are in accord with it. Having
divorced itself from the present admin
istration, it is building near the affec-
tions and the interests of the masses.
The Democratic party must and will
continue its aggressive fight for both
gold and silver as legal tender money,
and against special privileges to trusts.
combines and rations.-Porterville
Enterprise.
Referring to tie above the Fresno Ex-
postor says: 1t only requires enough
such brave ard earnest encouragement
as the foregoing to mould the uncounted
millions of those who are protesting
against an American aristocracy, into a
patriotic host of ballot-wielders more
powerful than the world has ever known.
The struggling and long-abused masses
need not expect succor from the columns
of the great eastern metropolitan press,
which is owned and controlled by the
money power. The modest but independ-
ent country press, which stands near the
fireside of the peoples homes, is the
weapon for public agitation and the ex-
ample Of our Porterville friend is an ex-
cellent one to emulate.
The herald., 1897-02-11
there was a senegambian in the wood

there was Senegambian in the wood
pile.
The fact is, recent investigation of the
printing department revealed good
deal of what looked like crooked work.
1t was shown to the satisfaction of the
governor by the investigation that just
prior to the last election the force in the
department was largely increased with
out there being any demand for extra
men, and the governor could come to no
conclusion other than that the state
terest of certain candidates, and that
the appropriation asked for was to cover
the extra expenses then incurred.
But had there been a legitimate de-
mand for an increase of the payroll the
state printer had no right to increase 1t
beyond the sum of money in hand for the
maintenance of his department, and
hence he not only exceeded his author
ity when he increased the expense ac-
count, but in Withdrawing his claim
when under the fire of crosS-examina-
tion he admitted as much. 1t is very
evident that the governors vigilance in
the premises will not only save the state
a large sum of money, but reveal very
rotten condition of things in the print
ing bureau. The friends of the steal,
e. hot to-
declaring war against the governor all
along the line, but it will avail them
nothing, for the veto message reveals
too much contemplated corruption to
make opposition to it popular with the
people.
The herald., 1897-02-11
THE REWARD OF INTEGRITY

The career of the late George B. Rob
erts is an object lesson in honesty of
purpose and business integrity which
the youth of the United States might
study to great advantage to themselves
and their country. For sixteen years
prior to his death Mr.. Roberts was
president OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, the largest corporation in the
United States, but he had been identi-
fled with the company in active service
from his youth up.
The actual mileage of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad is 9O17, with a total nile
age of 1900 miles and its entire length
is crowded with mining, agricultural and
Industrial enterprises. There is not an
other such a system of railways in the
world either in earning power and op-
portunity. or in geographical location
with reference to the natural currents
Of traffic movements. This is evidenced
by the capitalization of the company.
which was at its last annual report the
enormous sum of 5000 900 900, bonds and
stock, representing actual value. The
same report, 1895, shows that $50 900. 900
was disbursed under the item of wages,
and that the total gross earnings
amounted to s135,000,0O0. The rolling
stock equipment of the system includes
over 300 locomotives and 100. 600
cars, and the daily coal consumption is
nearly 10000 tons. In addition to the
immense car and locomotive equipment
the company employs 240 water craft
of various kinds.
1t was with this wonderful system
Of transportation lines that George Is.
Roberts began his business career in
his youth as a rodman in the engineer
ing department, and by his own worth.
Integrity and faithfulness, he advanced
through practically every department
xf traffic, operation and mana cement
.sil he reached the top. is said that
The herald., 1897-02-11
Opposed to an Orange Tariff

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her.
aid: There are orange growers opposed
to protective tariff on their industry.
One of them writes this note to be on rec
ord as a Democrat steadfast to Demo-
cratic principles and opposed to using
the great power of taxation for private
enrichment, even though he be a bene-
ficiary. There are citizens here who
will not stand in on a robber tax, even
though promised part of the plunder.
The exercise of the power to tax is only
justified when the good of all Is to be
served. A public tax is just only when
levied for public use. A public tax for
private enrichment is robbery 1t is
worse than ordinary robbery. for 1t is
the forceful transfer of one citizens S
property to another under the cover of
law, backed by the whole national power.
1t is. in fact, prostitution of govern
mental forces to private ends. Any ma
ton or people in the world long subjected
to so demoralizing scheme must dete-
riorate. 1t will lose strength indus
trially and morally. The American peo-
pie have lost strength under the system.
Free men make country. A nation OF
dollars and slaves. of bullies and thieves
too cowardly to steal openly and seeking
their plunder under the forms of law
can not remain great nation.
ONE TRUE TO THE FAITH.
Los Angeles, Feb. 10.
The herald., 1897-02-11

Mr.. Roberts never owned share more
of the stock than was necessary to per-
NIT him to be director. The stocks and
bonds of the company are held as an in
vestment in nearly every country in the
world.
But Mr.. Frank Thomson, who sue
ceeds Mr.. Roberts, furnishes an exam
pie quite as valuable. Mr.. Thomson
entered the service as an apprentice
in the machine shops thirty-nine years
ago. The rule Of life that Mr.. Roberts
and Mr.. Thomson adopted in their
youth, and to which they rigidly ad-
hered, was to do right for rights sake.
There is always room at the top for
those who will climb thither by honest
effort
The herald., 1897-02-11
The Sermon That Never Came

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
aid: For the last few weeks l have
looked at each Monday morning paper
to find in the sermons preached the day
before some words of commentator and
rejoicing over the great peace treaty
between our government and that of
Great Britain, which if it shall be ratified
by the United States senate will be the
crowning glory of the century.
But while l have found sermons upon
almost every imaginable subject under
the sun. l have not seen the slightest
alluson to this greatest landmark of real
human progress-this practical achieve
ment and illustration of that gospel of
peace on earth and good will to men"
which the humble Nazarene carpenter
spent his life in teaching.
Suppose all the ministers of Los An
geles, and Pasadena too, should devote
one Sunday to showing how good it
would be for all the nations of the earth
to dwell together in peace. What do
you say, gentlemen?
c. F. H.
The herald., 1897-02-11
SOkN I

o leaves that crimson lie upon the ground
As If the blood of all the year was shec.
Although the sun shines golden over
head.
Ye sigh as if some new-made grave ye
crowned:
Ye cannot sweep to signing more profound
Than shakes my soul, whose every JOY is
fled:
Nor sighs nor weeping can arouse the
dead.
For my beloved hears no falntest sound.
Sigh on for sighs or music. 1t is one.
If autumn withers or if spring shoots
start.
The year to me was dead when just begun.
And not a ray of light has reached my
heart,
Though I have challenged every morn
ing's sun.
Mrs. Wilton Stone in the Boston Even
ing Transcript.
The herald., 1897-02-11
THE GOVERNOR DID RIGHT

Nothing more is needed to justify
Governor Budd's veto of the bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the state printing de-
partment than the withdrawal by the
state printer himself of the claim that
meet the expense account of his bureau.
1t is very evident that had State Printer
Johnson believed he could make it ap-
pear there was a necessity for so large
a sum, he would have urged the claim,
but by withdrawing it when pressed for
reasons for such an extravagant appro-
priauon, he practically admitted that
The herald., 1897-02-11
High Tariff No Longer In Favor

While the Republican orators and or.
,gans breathe out denunciations of the
Wilson tariff law, as they are expected
to do, they are at the same time conced-
ing the force and logic of the Democratic
position concerning commercial free
dom by their silence regarding a renew
al of McKinleyism. for the rejection OF
which the Democracy twice appealed tc
the people, and neither time in vain. The
coming of Mckinley is now hailed with
acclaim. but no peans split the air in ia
vor Of the a-protective doctrine with
which his name was formerly so closely
linked that in the public mind the one
meant the other.-Detroit Free Press.
The herald., 1897-02-11
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II. 1897.
HARRISON'S MISTAKE RE.
PEATED

In the makeup of his cabinet Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley is paying very lit
tie attention to the politicians who
nominated him at St. Louis. In other
words. it will be the Harrison admins
tration repeated as far as practice pol
itics and appointments are concerned.
Harrison is said to have broken faith
with PIatt and other prominent politi-
clans in choosing his cabinet, and as
a result he had hard fight for renom-
ination, only to be badly defeated at the
polls. May history not repeat itself
With possibly two exceptions the men
already chosen for cabinet portfolios did
little, if anything, toward contributing
to McKinley's nomination and election.
Five of the members so far named are
millionaires of the most pronouncei
gold standard type, which is hardly IN
keeping with what many Republicans of
the west claimed for Mckinley before
the St Louis convention, i. e., that the
president-elect was friendly to silver
Lyman ]. Gage, a Chicago banker, as
secretary of the treasury, will voice the
sentiments of the next administration
on the money question, and it is scarcely
necessary to mention that he has no use
for silver or any one friendly to the
white metal. The prospects for silve"
for the next four years are, to say the
least, not favorable, and the Re
publican ante-election talk about bimee-
allism will prove, as The Herald pre-
dicted. a campaign scheme to hoodwink
x-ofare
The herald., 1897-02-11
Lyman ]. Gage. the next secretary of

Lyman ]. Gage, the next secretary os
the treasury. is mugwump of the old
school who left the Republican party
when Blaine was nominated for presi-
dent in 1884 The Republican press
made considerable sport of the Democ-
racy when Cleveland appointed Gresh-
am secretary Of state, but the tables are
turned now and the fact that an anti
Blaine man will have charge of the most
important branch of the new cabinet
must be bitter pill for the average
Republican to swallow.
The herald., 1897-02-11

The Los Angeles chamber of COM
merce voiced the sentiments of every
thinking man yesterday when it passed
a resolution condemning a bill now
pending in the legislature to reduce
street car fares to 21s cents. Such re
duction on the Los Angeles lines would
simply bankrupt the corporations de-
stroy or restrict a valuable service and
throw hundreds of worthy people out
of employment.