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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
WILL MAKE BETTER TIME
Burlington Officials Decide to Cut Trans.
Continental Schedule.

Chicago, February 11.-Burlington officials
today decided to make a big cut in trans
continental time east of the Rocky Noun
tains. Only one night on the train between
Chicago and Denver is the new rule.
1t will be arraged that the train now leay-
ing Chicago for Denver at 10 a. m. should
not leave until p. m, and a running
schedule was arranged so that the train
will arrive in Denver at Tbs the next even
ing. This allows twenty-five hours and
fifteen minutes as the schedule running
time of the train, but owing to the differ
ence in time, 1t is actually twenty-six hours
and fifteen minutes. 1t was also arranged
that the train now leaving Chicago at $3.50
p. m. and arriving in Omaha next morning
at sos, should not leave Chicago till D. M
1t will nevertheless arrive in Omoha at s
a. m. That Is the run to Omaha will actual
ly be made in two hours and fifteen minutes
less time than 1t Is now. These changes
will be put into effect February 10. Impor-
tant points of the changes are that train
No. /, instead of leaving Chicago at 10 a. m
as at present will not leave until D. M.
connecting with the important trains from
the east one night on the road between
Chicago and Denver and train No. instead
of leaving at $40 as at present will not
leave until p. m.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

1t is safe to say that the head of that gov
eminent viii not be Aguinaldo.
The true policy of this government is pre-
sented in the McEnery resolution. which
will doubtless be adopted by the senate.
The resolution reads:
by the ratification of the treaty of peace
with Spain 1t is not intended to incorporate
the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands
into citizenship of the United States, nor is
1t intended to permanently annex said
islands as an integral part of the territory
of the United States. But it is the inten-
ton of the United States to establish on
said islands a government suitable to the
wants and conditions of the inhabitants of
said islands, to prepare them for local self
government and in due time to make such
disposition of said islands as will best pro-
mote the interests of the citizens of the
United States and the inhabitants of said
islands"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
The Railroad COmmissionership

1t Is Governor Johnston's duty to the DEM
ocratic party, to the state of Alabama, and
to the great interests of the Birmingham
district to appoint John w. Tomlinson to
one of the vacancies on the railroad COM
mission. No man whose name appears be-
fore the governor for any appointment has
so many and so strong Endorsements from
the men who have made the party what it
is In the state Mr.. Tomlinsons. Tho
newspapers of the state, as will be seen in
another column, are strongly united in urg-
ing him. They not only recognize his abl-
ity and his services to the party, but all
the state comedies that Birmingham is en-
titled to one of the railroad commissioners.
about 70 ger cent. of that of the entire
state, shown by the reports of the rail-
road commission. There is every reason for
and none against Birmingham having a rail-
road commissioner.
That Birmingham has the governor and
the encouragement of the state is no argu-
ment against it. Birmingham has railroad
commissioner now, and had one when the
last state convention, the supreme power
of the party, gave Birmingham the attor-
ney-general. To now give Birmingham a
commissioner in the place of Mr.. Ross c.
Smith, the present incumbent, who is not
an applicant, would only be allowing Bir-
mingham to retain what she has and what
the business interests of this district re-
quire.
On account of Mr.. Tomlinson's continuous
identification with business and political in
terests of Birmingham and of the state, on
account of the part he has taken and is
taking in national politics, no just criticism
can be made of his appointment; but, on
the contrary, it would have universal APP
proval Throughout the state, and would be
especially gratifying to the people of his
own home county.
Governor Johnston, you owe it to the best
interests of your state and the party you
represent to make this appointment.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
KIPLING AS A REPORTER.
His First Assignment Was a Failure Two
Ways.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
II see the papers are reviving the story
of Rudyard Kiplings San Francisco expe-
rience in Journalism remarked a re-
porter who is familiar with the traditions
of the coast, "but they have it all wrong.
The facts We're simply these "Kipling
struck Frisco when he was overburdened
with neither money nor fame and applied
at one of the morning papers for a job
The city editor was not much impressed
with his appearance. but he happened to
need help and gave him a chance ON the
force The first assignment he got was to
write up a mercantile failure which he did
in his own peculiar style. He made no ref
erence to the assets or liabilities or any of
the other essential facts. but confined him
self chiefly to a striking pen portrait of the
bankrupt, whom he depicted as an oleagin-
Gus rascal. ripe for cell. When the city
editor read the copy he came near having
a fit. Here, you man with spectaclesp he
bawled, whoever told you you was a jour-
nalist must have been joking. Go and try
shoemaking' That was the way the crea-
tor of Mulvaney came to be fired, and 1
was never able to see exactly where the
joke came in. There are plenty of great
literary artists who wouldn't be worth
their salt on a daily paper, and Kipling
belongs to that category. He was bounced
and ought to have been bounced, and
would be bounced again if he turned up
'incog,' and took a staff assignment. Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson bad almost the same
experience in San Francisco in his youth
fuI davs He sent some of Ills manusorjnt
to one of the papers and 1t was promptly
turned down as unmitigated rot. He used
to say afterward that the episode gave
him great respect for the sagacity of Cali
fornia editors.''
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
A New Machine.

The census bill that the house passed
while the eyes of the nation were riveted
on the closed doors of the senate Is beauty
OF the true Hanna type. 1t provides for an
assistant director, who must be an expert
statlstician, and also for a general boss,
clan. AT least no qualifications or limita-
tions are named in the appointment of a
director. The director is to examine all
applicants for places in the census bureau
himself. In other words, he is to be his own
civil service board. This convenient plan
will enable an influential senator or repre-
sentative to saddle on the country his in
competent brothers-in-law, or hayward
sons, either of his own family or of the
families of campaign subscribers. The plan
is one of the finest" ever devised.
Then again there is to be, as the campaign
advances, a supervisor for each congress-
ional district, and the supervisor of each
district is to select the districts enumera-
tors. and these enumerators are to work
among the people when the campaign Is
"on," getting hotter and hotter. The su-
pervisor will, of course, be the political
hustler of the district, and what the SUPER
visor is the enumerators will be, only in
less degree.
That is the scheme in brief. 1t means
business in 1900, and the hand of Hanna
can be discerned 1t may be the hand Of
Hopkins, but it is the voice of Hanna. The
senate has passed a more equitable and
reasonable bill-one which has for its chief
object the enumeration of the people in
stead of the reelection of Mr.. Mckinley,
and If the senate will stand firmly by IS
bill, despite all bargains that Mr.. Hanna
may offer to opposition senators, non
partisan measure may yet be secured
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
Jefferson Sets the PACE.

The county executive committee has
wisely decided that the people themselves
should select their own delegates to the
constitutional convention. Heretofore a
small clique has done such work, but the
later conventions have not been satsfac-
tory, and the people desire to select by
direct action their own delegates.
It is an impertinence and genuine usur-
patton to cut off the people when they can
conveniently meet in their respective beats.
Direct action is always preferable when
the people can exercise it without undue
expense or inconvenience. 1t should al
ways be imperative when the people desire
to exercise their undoubted privilege, as
they plainly do in the present instance.
The example set in Jefferson should be fol-
lowed in every other county. Not a dele
gate should go up to Montgomery who
owes his selection to a ring or clique or
machine.
OF all things in this world a constitu-
tional convention should be free from ma
nipulation. 1t should come straight from
the people, and the delegates should be
men who are not in office, and who are not
closely connected with party management.
Let the lawyers and politicians acquire
modesty in this matter in order that the
great majority may have a chance in a
convention that is the people in their origi-
nal oaDapitU
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
JEFFERSON,S BAD BOYS

From the Sulligent Lightning.
In message to both houses of the state
legislature, Governor Johnston amply justi-
fies his appointment of James G. Cowan 10
investigate and report on certain charges
which had been made against the commits
sloners' court of Jefferson county in regard
to its conduct of affairs and expenditure of
funds. AS a remedy for the unbusiness-
like state of affairs and reckless extrava-
gance which the report of the examiner has
brought to light the governor recommends
that the legislature 'at once abolish this
court and establish a board of revenue;
permitting the voters at the next general
election to elect the members thereof" In
this matter the governor has rendered the
whole state a most signal service; and it
is to be hoped that the legislature will lose
no time in doing what it conceives to be its
duty for the protection of the tax payers
of Jefferson county and the state of Ala
bama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
THE SOAP TRUSA.

w. ]. L., in New York Sun
And now they've formed a SOAP trust
Soap trust soap trust;
And it will populist hope bust,
Hope bust, hope bust.
High up the lather of prices
See the bold octopus climb,
Till he reaches the sky
On the strength of his lye,
The while luxurious time
Responds to his pressing demands:
He washes his buds
In the whitest of suds,
And he lives on the fat of the land.
Clean gone on himself
His power and his pef,
He revels In what he has done;
And swears by the name,
The glory and fame
And SO forth Of G. Washington.
But the poor old populist groans and signs,
As he sadly wipes his weeping eyes;
He yearns to feed the octopus dope,
And doubts that while there is life, there
is soap"
He breads the octopus monster. grim,
But he cannot wash his hands OF him;
He tells his party to arm and fight
The terrible octopus, day and night:
He yells in his thunder tones, does he,
That soap is not to be trusted. See? I
Good gosh,
What o josh,
When all Of US know that tho Pops. don't
wash
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
A Question That Will Not Down.

There is a question before the people of
momentous than any other What is Ala
bama doing for her children? 1.-THE prob
lem of the children" in the words of a re-
cent writer, lis the problem of the state.
blame for bad government to come rests
upon u.s." Illiteracy is in state of con-
gestion at the bottom, and purblindness at
the top. Such condition in any COM
munity spells danger and disaster in the
future.
What have the authorities of the state
done to remove the stigma of ignorance?
The promises made to the people were
rich in words, but beggarly and niggardly
in deeds. Shame! Shame!! Imperishable
shame!!! Cruel indifference to the welfare
of Alabamas children is the rule, relieved
only by an occasional spasmodic and spirit
less effort made now and then by the pow
ers that be to lull patient and long-suffer-
ing people.
The few children of the well-to-do are
given an opportunity for an education,
while the children of the masses are starv-
ing for the rudiments of an education.
Toiers at the plow, at the loom at the
forge, at the mine how long will you suffer
this state of affairs to last?
Shall the threat of a deficit deter the
state from giving 10000 children an oppor-
| tunity to acquire an elementary education?
Is the fear of a loss of a selfish vote here
and there the guide by which our repre-
sentatives align themselves? If this be the
case the people will teach their so-called
representatives lesson they will not soon
forget.
| stronger statement, burning with more
| alarming or distressing truth, than that
made by Prof. J. B. Cunningham, principal
| of the Birmingham High School, could not
| richest in ignorance is the poorest in
wealth, and the weakest in moral force. A
| failure to give the children the three RS
fastens upon the state the three rs
Hdihtly, lihhSioSyt i6HoiohSc anu LII
morality. There is nothing the legislature
can do which will more promote the well
fare of the state than the opening of the
schools in every township and hamlet.
The neighboring states, Georgia, MissIs-
sfppi Louisiana and Arkansas are practi-
| cally In conditions and character like Ala
| bama. The ratio of the colored to the en-
tire population is in Georgia 40 per cent,
| in Alabama a per cent, in Mississippi IS
| per cent, in Louisiana 4s per cent, and In
| Arkansas "a per cent. These states, in the
| order named, expend for school purposes
per capita of population these amounts:
| Georgia, slSS; Alabama, 5000; Mississippi,
$3.50; Louisiana. s1.O2; Arkansas. s1sA
| If figures are truthful-and these
were taken from the latest reports,
then Alabama should bow her head In
shame. These figures and comparisons.
| published in the educational reports of the
| country, tell the world story with dis
| tinctness and simplicity that renders con-
| tradiction impossible.
] The fxed policy of the state government
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
Next SUNDAY.

On next Sunday-the 19th-The Age-Her-
aid will issue Midwinter Prosperity Num-
Der in celebration of the growth and sue
cess of the manufacturing and transporta-
ton concerns of the Birmingham district.
1t will set forth the complete transporta-
tion facilities of Birmingham, exhibiting in
detail its railroad facilities, its extensive
street railroad lines trayersing all sections
of the city and suburbs. and it will graphi-
cally describe the wonderful growth of
manufactures within this district during
the past year.
1t will be newspaper of interest to the
manufacturing world.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
The only word that fits more occasions
than don't" is damn"
A woman's last resource is to refer to
another one as that woman
A man will generally be just as big a
brute as some one woman will let him be-
Next to his wife, mans views about
other women are the best test of her taste
Every girl, when she is trying to look
mad at man, has an idea that he. eyes
are flashing.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
From the Clanton Banner.

The dispensary bill, having been warped
and twisted to suit various parties, and adj
versely reported by the committee to which
it had been referred, was finally placed up
on the calendar, and will again come before
the house on Saturday AS Chiffon county
is already protected by special prohibition
legislation, this bill does not directly con-
Germ us whether it passes or not. But
whether legislation of the patchwork varie-
ty is good for the whole state is altogether
another question, and may well be con-
sidered in the coming constitutional conven-
ton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
WILL REWARD FAITHFUL SERVICES

From the Suligent Lightning.
To appropriate money for our public
schools and neglect to make the necessary
arrangements for insuring that 1.-THE STUFF
will be available is a method of legislation
which the people of Alabama will critic.se
in no uncertain terms. Do your duty gen.
tlemen, and the people will see to it that
you don't get hurt.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
THE DIsPENsARY BILL

From the Selma Times.
The dispensary bill has been placed on the
house calendar and made the special order
for Saturday morning at 10 o'clock Tomor-
row. then, we may look for some very ex-
citing times in the house proceedings. No
matter how it terminates the dispensary
question will take precedence over every
other issue in the campaign of 1900.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

President Mckinley has decided to COM
enjoying a vacation covering six years.
Discipline in the army will take vacation
at the same time.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
1T SHOULD COME EVERY DAY

From the Florence Herald.
The Age-Herald arrives at Florence quite
irreguarly. 1t has grown to be one of the
very best dailies in the south, and it's read
ers want it regularly-the day of publica-
ton, If possible. 1t comes some times that
way. Why not every day SO?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

The whitewash board shows it's Algerine
and General Breckenridge, cad excuses all
who took the other side of the war Depart
ment quarrel
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Women vote in New York at school cleo
tions, but women are unselfishly striving to
secure the establishment of public schools
in Alabama with no expectation of having
a voice in their management.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

The Pennsylvania senatorial fight has
reached the mass-meeting stage Those
mass meetings should resolve that senate
rial elections by legislatures should be abol-
ished.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

-Four great festivals occur this month,
Washingtons birthday, grounding day,
Lincolns birthday and st. Valentines day.
The two birthdays suffer alongside the
other two
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Rudyard Kipling brought eighteen trunks
mediately became the white mans burden.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

If Mr.. Hoar still desires to defeat rati1ca-
tion, he should sail at once for Madrid,
where this work will be perhaps better APP
preciated.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
wHOOP UP THE SCHOOLS

From the Oneonta Democrat.
Get up wave of educational enthusiasm
in your community, and see your schools
move upwards.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Mark Hanna Is confident that he can re-
elect Mr.. Mckinley and crowd through the
next congress his one-cent-a-ton subsidy
scheme.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
THE CHURCH AND THE SALOONS

From the Luverne Journal.
And our own representative in the legisla-
ture voted against putting the dispensary
bill on the calendar. An unenviable position
for a church leader to occupy.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

No ex-private soldiers were called before
the whitewash board, although the embaln-
ed beef was chiefly issued to them. 10
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
THIS REMAINS TO BE SEEN

From the Brewton Standard Guage.
The rank and file of the democratic party.
not little clique, will name the democratic
candidate for next year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Balotting and bluffing are daily maintain
ed in the deadlock states, but the hour for
dickering has not arrived.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

The twenty-seven observation-disclosures
may as well organize themselves into a
club that will celebrate themselves, for no
one else will.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

There is little dispensary in the alleged
dispensary bill which passed the house, at
Montgomery yesterday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

General Eagan has one redeeming virtue
he Is not fighting his battles over in the
magazines.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Agoncilo shadows the detectives who are
shadowing him. The whole outfit Is a mat
ter of shadows
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Agoncillo is trying to brace up his nerves
in the invigorating Canadian air.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Aggie is fleeing to the mountains out of
the range of George Deweys guns.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

senator-elect Clark, of New York, is
about to build palace in his adopted city.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Birmingham is out of the dispensary
fight, but it crawled out by but small
margin.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

The New York Times calls attention to
the fact that the farther the volunteer sol
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

The weather is no longer responsive to tho
weather bureau.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Senator-elect Clark, of New York, has
taken the palace formerly held by Mr..
Brice.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Senator Hoar will now subside, and so
will Aguinaldo, and his unevenly clad war
riors.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Five deadlocked states are daily demand
ing direct elections of senators by the peo-
pie.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Agoncillo is following in the footsteps of
Senior Dubosc.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Mr.. U. S. Grants senatorial campaign is
a reflection upon an honored name.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

The whitewash board should go off and
hide itself.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

diers get away from Alger the better they
fight
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

Congressman-e,ect John L. Burnett, of the
Seventh district, was in town yesterday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-12

When all Of US know that the Pops. don't
wash.