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Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
THE CONNECTS.

The Labor Advocate, of this city, con- tains the following able editorial on the employment of convicts on farms: ,.....
 We have read some very interesting accounts of the employment of convicts on farms, recently, and the more we see of the practical workings of the convicts in this way the more we are impressed with the idea that the example is worthy of emulation. It has been clearly dem- onstrated in other states that the. con- victs have not only been made self-sus- taining on farms. but that they have been made a source of revenue to the states in which they have been thus em- ployed. We have expatiated upon this subject at various times in the past, and now we wish to produce the following from an exchange as to the success of the farm method in Texas. We invoke the careful perusal of the excerpt and invite the especial attention of our gen. eral assembly to the business proposi- tion contained therein. Listen:
 Texas, some years ago, bought for state farm 2,7SS acres of fertile land in the town of Harlem, and over 2.200 acres are now in a high state of cultivation. The chief products are cotton and sugar. and the crops of the past two years have been very fine. Sufficient forage is also raised for the live stock, which now con sists of nine horses, eighty-six mules. seventy cows, forty calves and 33O hogs. The farm was purchased ten years ago. and the value of the crops raised on it has risen from $35 900 to $S1 ,3S2 All off, cials in Texas who have had anything to do with the state farm experiment at Harlen are earnest advocates of an ex
 tension of the policy. The financial agent declares that he is strongly convinced that the state would derive great ad- vantage from buying other agricultural land, improved and unimproved, to be worked on state account, placing the me- groes along the rich river bottoms, and the white forces on the black lands.''
 The convict question is no small mat ter. In fact, it is the most troublesome question that our legislators have to deal with. In Georgia, the convicts are being utilized very successfully on the public roads and the cost, it has been proven, is very moderate as. compared with the benefits. Good public highways are necessity and we know of nothing that would contribute more to locating thrifty farmers from the north and west upon our fertile lainds than to belt our state from center to circumference with
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

has for several months been advocating and agltating this question, published large number of letters from prominent and influential citizens in all sections or the state favoring the calling of con stitutional convention, and it is quite prclba ble that the question will be sub mitted to the people.-Evergreen Cour- ant.
 The state legislature is moving in the right direction With a new constitution framed upon right lines, biennial ses- sions of fifty days would be often enough and long enough for the legislature to meet.-Conecuh Record. A constitutional convention we believe to be inevitable. If fair and honest expression of the will of the people can be obtained, we are in favor of 1t. Under existing conditions, however, we are somewhat dubious of the intentions Of those manipulating the movement. A bill is now under consideration in the house, providing for an election to be held on Tuesday, August g. 1897, when vote will be taken whether the convention shall be held or not. At the same time delegates are to be elected to the convention. or course, if the vote is against the con vention the delegates will not be re- quired. But can we depend upon the vote being counted as it is cast? There's the rub. The intention of holding the con- vention at any cost is so palpaDle we more than half fear it.--Clanton Banner.
 
 The Times has been in favor of con- stitutional convention. It has been outI spoken for it in season and out of season. We believe the present legislature pro- poses to order a vote on that question. It looks as if such bill will pass easily and by a great majority. It ought to. We would like to see it pass both houses unanimously The vote should be taken and the members elected without any delay whatever. Instead of September for the vote, as a bill now in the legis- lature proposes. the vote should be taken in March or April and the convention meet in June. Let's have constitutional convention without delay! The present instrument has long since outgrown its usefulness.
 When the fight comes up for delegates in Barbour the Times proposes that the recent warning factions shall get together and unite on the ablest men in the coun- ty for the work. Let's have no politics in it. We can't afford to mess up so great an opportunity over incompetents. The best we have will be none too good for the labor they will be called upon to perform. In this connection Capt. Dent would be good man, as would be Judge Aston, Col. Merrill H. c. Glenn, A. A. Evans and there are others, dozen others, who would fill the place accepta- bly, all around. This too, would be a favorable opportunity for all good citi- zens to get together.
 We appreciate the work the State Her aid is doing in this connection.-Eufaula Times
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

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Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
BRYAN'S FIDUS ACHATES.

G. E. Hatcher, in the Nashville Ameri- can Washington correspondence, says:
 An erudite editor who thirsts, how ever, for greater knowledge of men, asks the identity of John W. Tomlinson, of Alabama, whom ye editor dubs the 'fidus Achates" of Bryan.
 MT. Tomlinson is one of the most prom ising men of the south. He lives at Bir- mingham, and he stoutly believes in Ala bama, but he has a fondness still for Tennessee, his native state.
 At Chicago. during the democratic na- tional convention, MT Tomlinson was one of the biggest men there, both mentally and physically, and when he stood up as one of the delegates from Alabama, or when he spoke in convention or caucus, everybody always looked and listened. Immediately upon MT. Bryan's nomina- ton MT. Tomlinsen appeared with him at various times, at various places of note, during the campaign. He has been a consistent and ardent advocate of bi- metallism for many years. and continues to insist upon that principle being main tained by the Birmingham State Herald. of which he is one of the owners. Had MT. BryaA been elected, MT. Tomlinson would have undoubtedly got a good thing. What that good thing would have been is matter of conjecture, but I have heard that Bryan wanted him at the White House as his private secretary.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Expressions of the Press on the Impor- tance of the Bill-State Herald
 Complimented.

Let the general assembly order the vote for the constitutional convention early in the year so that the dullness of the summertime will allow our ablest and wisest citizens the needed time to serve with as little loss to their business as possible. We think the vote could be taken in April better than in September. -Eufaula Times.
 Time changes all things. Compare the Alabama of today with the Alabama of twenty years ago. The conditions have materially changed as we readily see, and still we are hampered by state con- stitution that has outlived it's usefulness. Alexander City Outlook.
 That was a good paper the State Her aid handed to the national committee on rivers and harbors last Wednesday morning. For that matter, it is good every day; but this special occasion en- titles it to especial mention.-Labor Ad- vocate.
 The Birmingham State Hera1d's stroke of enterprise in getting out an extra edi- tion giving the opinions of many promi- nent Alabamians in regard to holding a constitutional convention was appreciat- ed by the reading public. The concen- sus of opinion is that we need immediate changes in the organic 1aw.-Aiexander City Outlook.
 The Birmingham State Herald pub fishes replies from two hundred and twenty-seven prominent citizens. repre- senting every section of the state, em- phatically indorsing a constitutional con- vention.-Selma Journal.
 
 The State Herald of yesterday made a fine showing in favor of a new constitu- tion for Alabama. The Record believes that it is a work that should have been done ten years ago, and one that is inn peratively demanded at the present time @Conecuh Record.
 ! On Wednesday, the State Herald. which
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
THE STEEL PLANT ASSURED.

Al last Birmingham can announce to the world that she has entered the age of steel. Within six months steel mill of mammoth proportions will be in op- eration here, and the markets of the world can be supplied with this invalua- hle material at cost which will startle the world.
 All honor to Messrs. Barker, Midner and Joseph, the efficient committee of the Commercial club who, by unstinted efforts, have succeeded in gaining the prize so long coveted for this city
 President Caldwell, of the Birmingham Rolling Mill company, submitted propo- sition to the Commercial club. which that body placed in the hands of the above named gentlemen. How well they have succeeded is proclaimed in another col unn of this issue.
 To you. gentlemen. Birmingham Is vast ly indtbtei,. and your work shall not go nnrewars-sL
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION.

The State Herald believes fully with Gov Johnston in the necessity of a bu- reau of immigration, through which, un- der the management of the commissioner Of said bureau, with the governor of Ala bama as an advisory member, shall in an economic and business like method, he worked up immigration to our state.
 It is a fact that the almighty dollar is the moving factor in the matter of immigration, from the parties desiring to change to where they can better their condition, to the people desiring their presence in their locality as respected and valued citizens
 We have been allowed the privilege of copying the following letter and printing the same as a fair illustra ton of the ideas, etc., of the people of the better sections of the north, in the matter of immigratio to Alabama, 1t being from one of the most intelligent editors and newspaper proprietors of southeastern Illinois:
 MT Jas. F. Slater, Birmingham, Ala.
 Dear Sir:-Your favor of the 2d inst. is duly received, for which accept my thanks. I appreciate your suggestions very highly, and have filed your letter for future use, and shall follow your advice, and will soon publish your letter with local notes.
 I also received a letter from MT. P. Sid Jones making suggestions as to proper course to pursue, which course shall take. Before beginning special ad- vertising I wish to have some arrange ments made little more definitely. Random shots rarely ever hit and when they do, often hit the wrong object. I would like to make a trip over the Louis vile and Nashville, stopping off at vari- ous points, looking over the country to some extent, and making local arrange ments with real estate dealers or owners before beginning active advertising. I wish to do this so that my advertising would be more definite, and I could also make more definite replies to direct en- quiries. The general unrest and dissat- isfaction prevailing all over this country at this time, makes 1t an opportune time for action. There are hundreds of mid dle class farmers here (men who either own small farms or are what we term we'll ll-to-do-renters'), who are anxious to change their condition. There is no pos siblei outlook here for any better condi- tion, when ordinary land averages $30 to $40 per acre and good land from $50 to SIS A.es -aa~A n'ba ".AAf'' is nnw too far
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
LOADED TO THE GUARDS.

The State Herald regrets that the riv- CT and harbor committee were not at Mobile Thursday to see the finishing of the loading of the steamship Ethiope. Her cargo consisted of 1,200 tons of Bir- nlingham pig iron, 594,9S6 feet of lumber, 25,000 bushels of corn and 2.267 bales of cotton. value being in round numbers s147 00o with which the Eithiope sailed Feb. for Liverpool Such a shipment of pig iron would certainly have been a first-class object lesson to them of the excellence of the resources of Alabama, to place before their colleagues and the ~people of the entire United States.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

borders; therefore we should make em- ployment for our conyicts instead of pushing them into the places of men en- ployed who must be forced to join the large army of idlers in consequence and become drones upon the people of Ala bama. It would be easy to settle 5000 profitable farms in few years in this state if we would only apply our facili- ties in the right direction. There is no profit to the state or the people in gen. eral to send one man to take another mans place. The paramount idea should be to keep at work all who are employed and work to the end that we employ as many more as possible.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

The Birmingham State Herald says Bob Moseley has an eye on the Birm- ingham postoffice. We can inform our Birmingham contemporary that Bob Moseley and Bill Stevens have buried the hatchet and are pulling together. So you need not be surprised at Moseley hand ling the Birmingham mail-Anniston Hot Blast.
 We'll there is another settlement in or der. Mr. Youngblood has scared up a nest of. snakes and pistols and coffee for two" have been ordered.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

macadamized roads There are thous- ands upon thousands of acres of good farm lands in this state which have never known the touch of the hoe or the furrow of the blow, but which could be readily converted into prosperous farms if they were only made accessible to our railroads and markets by good and substantial roads. Why, then, would it not be a good Idea to put hree-fourths of our convicts to farming and the re- maining one-fourth to building good roads. so that the products of the farm CTS can be marketed to advantage?
 To make our state prosperous we must employ the idle labor within it's
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
BETTER ENTER THE PASTURE

Canebrake Herald
 The bars are now down, and all good intentioned citizens are required to walk right over into the democratic pasture and make themselves at home. You will find 1t very nice and pleasant here. Plenty of good company. lots of fun, and not great deal of work. The boys will treat you right here. and make you forget your little escapade with F. & B.. Come on: don't wait. The bars will not always be left down. In all prdba bility they will be put up again after the next gubernatorial election, and then all who persist in re- maining outside will have to be content with looking wistfully through the cracks in the fence. If you want to play in our pasture, come on. As sure as you hold off to see how this thing of letting down the bars is going to prosper, you will be shut out.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

The Alabama Monitor. Editor Baltzeli's s paper, uses Gov. Johnston's name thirty four times in its last issue. This is the first real evidence yet evinced that the governor is being thought well of by the members of the particular party MT. Balszell's paper claims to represent. With the Monitor and the Advertiser both to oppose the administration it's popularity with the masses will grow like a mushroom.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

The Montgomery Advertiser spoke out on the railroad bill after it saw it was defeated, and now since the fight is all over will the Birmingham State Herald and the Mobile Register please tell us in their choicest English how they stood on the bill?-Anniston Hot Blast.
 To answer for both, the Register claims that it never crosses the bridge until it gets to it, and the State Herald never goes back after it gets across.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
LITTLE VERSES.

I like the high-hat woman, and Her air of proud insouciance; But should I wear the hat and air, They'd fine me as a nu-i-sancei Cleveland Plain Dealer. Her chestnut hair in massive waves Is hanging OCT her ears, And in her big, deep, dreamy eyes A distant look appears. Her features are Madonna-lilxe, But, oh. I grieve to say, That you'd be disenchanted if That hair was brushed away.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

The cold wave certainly covered every section of Alabama. The ink on nearly every weekly paper received at this office shows either that the ink used was frozen or the lye brush has worn out
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

The Morgan County Herald offers the following true statement:
 Tn no other state perhaps does the farmer enjoy so many advantages and so few disadvantages as he does in Ala bama.'T
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

Rheumatism attacks the back and shoulders, and the joints. It is cured by Hoods SarSaDarilla
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07

Whenever you see man defending his political position you may feel sure that he voted for either Mckinley or Palmer.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
BROWN BILL PASSES THE HOUSE.

 the capital not the anD invested in cotton mill enterprises from taxa
  majority, members against It.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-02
Ancient Printing

Recent Investigations in Egypt prove
almost beyond question that the won.
derful people of the Nile actually print
ed with movable types as early as the
ninth century of our era. Two panvri
of that time have been found. and
twenty-seven paintings on paper of the
century following. Indications point
to all the printing being done by
priests, and the perfection of it indi-
Gates that it was then no new expert
ment with the clever craftsmen. II
has also been learned that printed pa
per money was issued in northern Syria
during the second crusade, and as
early as 794 the government Of the ca
liph OF Bagdad owned and operated a
paper factory in the town named
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-02

before she could reach the KIondyke.
was already beginning to show signs Of
floating ice, and she knew it would be
only short time before it would be
completely frozen over. So she worked
with will, and soon got everything
packed and started on the steamer
Arctic for the new land of gold. Her
husband and his party joined her on.
the way up the river,
1t was Dec. 6, 1896, when this devoted
and daring couple struck their first.
gold OF any consequence Then it came
In a torrent. All through the winter,
Clarence Berry was piling up wealth.
His wife was at the mines every day.
and as the great chunks of frozen earth
were dumped on the ground her fair
fingers were busily at work picking
out the nuggets. During the season she
picked up in this way about 100000
worth of golden pebbles.
With sharp stick she would dig
into the frozen clods until they broke
apart and gave up their treasure. The"
largest nugget Mrs. Berry found in this
way was worth 1921, and it turned out
to be the best Individual prize found in.
the diggings.
Mrs. Berry enjoyed good health
through all her experiences in the
frozen northwest and weighs twenty
two pounds more than when she left
Fresno on her wedding day in March,
1895. Undaunted by her hard and per-
llous journey, she says she is ready to-
return to Alaska with her husband
next spring if he decides to go back
there. But Clarence Berry is many
times a millionaire now, and it is not.
probable that he and his p1ucky wife
will ever repeat their romantic, pic
turesque, but perilous bridal tour.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-02

be sought and found, hand in hand,
they two together, in the frozen will
derness Of the northwest.
Rumors Of wealth beyond the
dreams OF avarice'' had been floating
down from there for many year. So
when they stood up before the minister
and pledged themselves for life they
had already agreed to start for that
unknown country. And. they did.
Over the White Deserts.
From Fresno, where they were mar
ried, they took with them four fine
dogs TO help pull them and their outfit
over the white deserts that lay between
them and the Yukon. They purchased
provisions enough to last them twelve
months, and they set out with the de-
termination to stay in the Yukon dis
trict and hunt for the auriferous earth
at least five years. Theirs was to be no
short holiday outing, but carefully
planned campaign-a long and per-
sistent search for the coveted gold.
Few women would care to face the
trials and privations of that long Jour-
ney from Juneau to Forty-Mile Camp.
1t was full of exciting. incidents, and
more than once death seemed to be
quite near. Mrs. Berry, who is now in
San francisco, furnishes many graphic
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-02

the case might be, and while it was
considerably better than walking there
was always an uncertainty about my
position which made it uncomfortable.
At first it was very, very cold, but
after time got used to it. One Of
the greatest difficulties we had to en-
counter was the indistinctness of the
trail. The snow fell so heavily and the
winds blew so high that it frequently
happened we were able only to follow
the trail with the greatest difficulty.
II think the most remarkable ex-
perience I had during the overland
journey was the trip over Lake La
barge. When we reached that point
We found the lake broken up in the
daytime, though at night there was a
thin ice which made travel possible. We
saw that it would be impracticable to
make the portage from there to the
river, so We determined to make the
trip during the night. I am sure I
don't know just how it happened, for
I was asleep most of the time. One
night in May retired to my berth on
a scow which we had built and woke
up the next morning thirty-six miles
away. We had crossed the lake in one
night, an undertaking which I do not
think had ever been accomplished be-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-09-02
again would be able to resume her for

again would be able to resume her for
mer life. The poor child was lame,
and instead of the wild, active life
which had been hers, she saw herself
forced to drag out weary existence.
"A slow walk through the garden and
then the long rest in the reclining chair
were now her only modes of distrac-
tion.
Pierre had been advised of the sad
accident to his former playmate, and
while he dreaded meeting, he knew he
would be expected to come at such
time.
Alice from her favorite nook in the
garden heard some unusual commotion
through the house; her heart beat; she
felt 1t must be Pierre's arrival that
caused such excitement. She would
nave flown but that she realized her
helplessness. Another instant and she
saw him appear in the doorway. Now
he comes down the steps and advances
toward Alice. She rises and he looks
fondly on the pale face and bent form
SO unlike that of the Alice in former
days.
Poor children, they are on a level
now. Pierre takes in his hands the
head he loves SO much and kisses her
forehead, she stretches out her arms
and as he clasps her in a loving en-
brace whispers:
You see-there is a God for lovers,
we are matched now-my dearest-my
wife"