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The age-herald., 1899-03-24
A SINGULAR OMIssIUN.

From the Washington Post.
 "One of the most significant acts of omls- sion by the Confederate States government was its failure to organize a supreme court" said MT. A. '. Holman, of New Orleans, at the Shoreham.
 Tn all respects the Confederacy was fully equipped nation, and the leaving cut of the highest legal tribunal was, Of course, not intended by the southern law makers. In the first congress held an at tempt to create supreme court was made, but from the outset such radical differ ences developed between the two houses that it was clearly seen no bill could pass, and the matter thus left in abeyance was never conSummated.
 Il have always understood that the en- counter between Yancey, of Alabama, and hiii, of Georgia, had it's origin in differ ences on this very measure The bill which Senator Yancey introduced passed the senate but it was vehementy opposed by Mr. Hill."
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
DECAY OF TIE PROPHETS

From the Memphis Commercial-Appea1.
 Uncle Henry Watterson of the Courier Journal has been in eruption again, and has sent forth paragraph several columns in length pointing out the way and the light for the benighted democratic forces. The article looks very well in all the al turing majesty of double leads, and there was time when people would have read it. But Uncle Henry's announcements have fallen into disfavor of late years, and they do not carry with them the same weight which they formerly did. Time was when the spasmodically sapient and sem piternally brilliant Kentuckian could pro- mulgate eX cathedra plans doctrines which the most orthodox would accept without question. That time is past. Whether it be the degeneracy of the times or that multiplicity of advisers have caused people to become more reckful mat ters little; the fact remains that while Uncle Henry may, as of yore go up In ti1e mountain to pray, when he returns with his tables of stone, the multitude refuse to read them, so engrossed are they in wor- shipping gods of their own fashioning It Is not that Uncle Henry Is not as wise now as he ever was. He suffers because of the universal decay of the prophets in thesei The daily newspaper which made uncle what he is and which he made what 1t is, has worked his undoing. People nowadays think for themselves.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
M'KINLEY's SURE THING.
he New York World.

From the NeW 1Ork NOrlu
 Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, a veteran and shrewd politician, agrees with the Worlds demonstration of last week week that President McKinley's renomina- tion is a mathematical certainty" MT. Chandler says there is no possibility that the president will not be renominated."
 The World showed that MT. Mckinley will have to start with the 307 delegates from the southern states and the 9 from the territories. His use Of the patronage has fixed that This will leave him only 130 short of the bare majority required to nominate. under the republican rule.
 How easily these can be secured a glance at the list will show Ohio, with 46 votes, never goes back on a favorite son with postoffices at his disposal. Alger is bound to give him the 2S from M .chigan-he would indeed be an unspeakable ingrate if he did not do much more. Hobart and Griggs will turn in the 20 delegates from New Jersey. It will be easy as organizing a trust in their state. And Quay, with whom the truly good MT. Mckinley has made himself particularly solid, will deliver the 64 from Pennsylvania as though they were so many sheep
 These four states together will have 15S delegates, or 2S more than enough to nomi- nate with the solid south and the territo- ries. Of course MT. Platt will line up the 72 delegates from this state. He knows an irresistible tendency when he Sees it. and Is not looking for cold quarters in tonal politics any more.
 MT. Mckinley is not only the logical can- didate of his party, but the inevitable can- dfdate as matters stand.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
American Coal Production.

Few outside the coal trade are aware how fast coal production is increasing in this country. In 1S0 the output was only 32,SS,OO0 tons; in 1899 1t had risen to 14,S5OOOO tons. The annual average of Great Britain is about O,OOO tons, but the rate of in- crease is so rapid in this country that first place will doubtless be taken by the United States within less than ten years.
 The three great coal producing countries are Great Britain, the United States and little Belgium. The last-named is not an exporting country, and the world, it is plain. is to be supplied with fuel in the m- mediate future by the two great English speaking nations. Our exports are rising rapidly. In 1880 we sent out only 615OO0 tons; last year we sent to other lands A. 0OS,996 tons. If the government could be induced to speedily open the Warrior to slackwater navigation that amount alone could be laid down at tide for export uses at prices that would simply defy competi- tion. Steam coal could then be had at Mo- bile at just about one dollar a 1ton, and English coals would simply be driven out of the Americas.
 The present average price of bituminous coal at Baltimore or Norfolk or Newport News is $1.6O a ton, and even at that price American coal is making headway against English coal. If the government wishes to enlarge its export coal trade; if the Pitts burg people desire to turn the energies of Alabama operators away from the Missis- sppi valley, then all will unite in helping Alabama next winter to secure an appro- priation large enough to speedily give the mineral district of the state a waterway to the sea. What is to be done may as well be done quickly. Senator Frye's ob- jection to the smallness of the Warrior ap- propriation should be overcome. The Maine senator, 1t will be remembered, thought that such a small matter should not be put in the continuing-contra class The defect can be cured by letting con- tract foir every dam and lock needed in the Warrior line straight through to Mc- Adory, and also to the Kansas City bridge The extension up Village creek to Five Mile creek need not be pushed unless indeed 1t is needed in order to satisfy Senator Fryes objection.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
The People Must First Say Yes.

No fewer than sixteen counties demanded on Wednesday the submission of the work of the proposed convention to the people for ratification or rejection. These coun- ties are Jefferson, Montgomery, Tallapoo- sa, Autauga, Henry Randolph, Calhoun, Escambia, Shelby, Baker, Fillmore, Maren- go, Macon Pike and Russell. Possibly as many more counties, from which reports have not been received, took similar action. Enough Is known to justify the statement that if the thirty-three nominees of the state convention be instructed to favor the submission of the completed work of the convention to the people, it will be submit- ted beyond reasonable doubt or question.
 This matter should be made so plain that no demagogue can instill doubts on that point in the minds of honest people; and action by the state convention, which meets on the ninth day of next month, will go farther to lend assurance to hesitating minds than anything else As soon as the list of nominees is perfected The Age
 
 mission, and no one need be surprised if the nominees are found to be practically an unit in their trust and confidence in the great body of the people,
 Thus far the fear-mongers have had their way; but as soon as the nominees of the democracy begin to make themselves felt, many foolish fears will be dissipated. and all will begin to see that the state has much to gain from conservative and pru- dent convention, and not much to lose. At any rate, nothing can be adopted that does not bear the peoples approval at the ballot box, and this is surely enough to satisfy the most timid and hesitating. There is practically no opposition to a submission of the proposed constitution to the people. Not a paper. nor @ nominee, has thus far presented contrary expression, and not | one will be apt to do so. The state is solid on that point, and so in all probability will the convention be-
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
THE EASY FARMER
The Most Palpable swindles Perpetrated in
 Alabama.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 Postoffice Inspector Williams is in re- ceipt of several reports from field inspec- tors working in Alabama, in which they re- late and give evidence of certain astound- ing and amusing swindles perpetrated in that state during the past several weeks.
 About week ago in small ton of North Alabama, a shrewd swmdler went to the postof1ce and secured a blank money-order application. He filed out this application in the customary manner for $60 but instead of presenting same with the sum applied for to the postmaster, he folded it up and went out on the street, where he met an unsophistocated and witless farmer. He then produced the application and passed it on on the farmer as money-order draft In a trade of some sort, receiving in re- turn for the worthless paper $60 in good hard cash. When the farmer went to the postoffice to cash what he thought was money-order, and was told by the clerk that it was nothing more than a worthless application, his feelings may be better im- agined than described.
 Inspector Williams Is in possession of the appicition by which this ignoramus was swindled in manner so preposterous as to be almost past belief, if the proofs of it's occurrence were not at hand.
 
 that within the past several months large number of Alabama farmers have been swindled by means of confederate money, sharpers having found that 1t is an easy matter to pass confederate bills stupid person in a nasty transaction.
 Inspector Williams also has proofs of another swindle, equally preposterous. When the war revenue law went into effect last July, several swindlers had no difficult ty in persuading farmers in certain quar- ter of the Chattanooga district into beloev- ing that blank check with nothing on 1t save figures denoting certain sum, and a documentary stamp, was valid instrument, and could be cashed at any postofflce or na- tional bank. The victims were told that the war revenue law made all blank checks good that bore a government stamp, the stamp being a certificate that the passer of the check had paid certain sum into the United States treasury. A large number of people were victimized by this dodge.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
THE NEW S.HUOL SYSTEM.

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 State Superintendent of Education Aber- crombie, in deciding to inaugurate a new school system and reorganize the educa- tonl forces of Alabama, unfurls the ban ner of true progress and hangs it on the outer wall. Our state has been a close sisterhood for several years, and no time is so opportune now for removing that blot from her shield.
 In Talladega county we have, as every one knows, for superintendent one of the foremost and ablest minds in the state. Ia consequence our schools have been kept up to the highest grade of excellence that the public fund and the provisions of the law would permit. But in many counties of the state complaint is made of the too frequent inefficiency of the teachers and their grade of scholarship; in few of in- competency of the county Superintendents themselves, and in all, Talladega county included, of the brief terms of rural schools The doors of learning are ajar for so short a time, especially inl the county townships, for many who can ill afford to bear the burden of supplementary tuition, as to become almost .barrier, D as The Age-Herald defines it, instead of a furtherance to the cause, until the system of public instruction in Alabama, as a state has been pronounced farce, and it is high time the scenes were being shifted for a new caste.
 This is the work MT. Abercrombie has set himself to inaugurate, or at least take the initiatory; Herculean task, and he is equal to the undertaking, but to make it a success, he must have the ungrudging and unstinted cooperation of the press. and people of Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
Suffraue in North Carolina.

Even in North Carolina, which contains comparatively small percentage only of blacks, there are racial troubles; and the of the state have prepared constitutional proposition hich is to be submitted to the people in August, 1900. The proposed con- stitutional amendments are as follows:
 Section 4. Every person presenting him. self for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the constitution in the English language; and before he shall be entitled to vote he shall have paid, on or before the first day of March of the year in the year in which he proposes to vote, his poll tax, prescribed by law, for the previous year. Poll taxes shall be lien only on assessed property, and no process shall issue to enforce the collection of the same except against assessed prop erty.
 Section 5. No male person who was on January l, 1867, at any time prior there to, entitled to vote under the laws of any state in the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such person shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this state by reason of his failure to possess the educational qualification prescribed in section of this article; provided. he shall
 
 terms of this section prior to December 1, 190S The general assembly shall provide for a permanent record of all persons who register under this section on or before November l. 1908; and all such persons shall be entitled to register and vote in all elections by the people in this state unless disqualified under section 2 of this article; provided, such persons shall have paid their poll tax as required by law.
 Section T. Every voter in North Caro- lina except as in this article disqualified, shall be eligible to office.
 This Is the Louisiana plan with some va riations. An alternative educational and property qualification was rejected by the legislature, and an educational qualification alone adopted. The objection in North Car oiina to the proposed amendment relates largely to the backward condition of the public schools In the state, North Carolina being In truth the most backward state in the union, educationally speaking. The schools of the state are not kept open more than two months in the year. For obvious reasons an educa tional qualifica- tion should always be accompanied by lib- crai school provisions. It is cruel and most unjust to demand intelligence. when the means of intelligence are withheld by the state from the great mass of the children who are fast growing into citizenship.
 But there are 5000 negro voters in the
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
POINT FOR THEATER-GoERs.

From the New York Sun.
 The fact that ticket bought for a thea. ter and not used on the date stamped on it is always good for an admittance is not generally known, and probably theater managers would take little trouble to spread knowledge of the fact, but it is nevertheless true. "A man who buys a re- served seat for theater." said a theater treasurer who handles more tickets every season than any other in New York, may not use it on the evening for which he bought it. Good for this date only may be stamped on the pasteboard. That would seem to mean that the ticket could be used at no other time. Probably most of tEs public accept that as proving the impossi- bility of making use of the ticket, and therefore few make any attempt to get. the worth of their money when using the ticket on the date marked on It. But it could be presented at any time and would be good for an admission. Any theater manager would have to recognize the hold ers right to enter the theater, although that would, of course, carry with 1t no right to the seat. it is that right which is limited by the printed dats. For all other purposes the ticket is quite as good as if used on the date it bears.''
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
REFLECTIONs OF A BAoHELoR

From the New York Press.
 You can most always tell a girl by what she doesn't drink.
 The only sin that good many women fear Is getting caught at it.
 It Is only when a girl is getting interested in a man that she takes particular pains to let him know she isn't.
 The husband who begins by resolving to let his wife have her own way in every thing generally ends by letting her have it in nothing.
 When . man ceases to covet one neigh bor's wife and turns to coveting another's, the second one explains it to- her own satis- faction by saying he Is repenting.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
THEY ALL SAID AMEN.

From the Roanoke Collegian.
 negro student at one of the great mis- sionary colleges was conducting a prayer service, and in outburst of enthus asm he prayed; "Give us all pure hearts, give us all clean hearts, give us all sweet hearts," to which the congregation re- sponded Amen"
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

There was nothing. 1t seems. the matter eept that it was not fit to eat. It was good enough, however, to earn great profits for it's senders. A'
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
WORK OF TnE CUBAN ASSEMBLY

From the Havana Advertiser
 It seems that a considerable portion of the time during the secret sessions of the Cuban assembly is spent in insulting Amer jeans and General Gomez and in personal collisions between the members.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The fashionable church that the late Dr. John Hall preached to has succeeded in catching another Englishman, the Rev. Alexander Connell of London. This great Englishman is 31 years old.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

If Speaker Reed had any remarks to of fer at Jelkyl Island as to the pay of the esteemed MT. Eagan. they did not reach the ears of the newspaper correspondents.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

If the fashion of refusing to elect United States senators become epidemic, the Louisville Courier-Journal thinks the Cu- ban assembly, could be utilized to good ad- vantage.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

removal. Birmingham would prefer one iorn furnace to a dozen oapitols. No man in this city would subscribe to a fund to remove the capital"
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
HE'S ALL RIGHT.

From the St. Louis Republic.
 You can't convince the dons and the Fill pinos that there is anything the matter with your Cousin George Dewey.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24
CAN BE GOVERNOR

From the Rome (Ga.) Tribune.
 John ". Tomlinson of Birmingham will b governor of Alabama if he so desires
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

Mir. Croker appears to have overlooked the lone fisherman of Princeton, near the trust factory.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

It begins to look as if enbalming would have improved the beef that was sent to the army by the war department.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

Political complications have now extend ed from Chicago mayoralty candidates to New York dinner-giving.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The president and Full Pay Eagan are trying to get away from beef disclosures This is the rest they need.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The recent rains have rescued from harm the endangered wheat crop of the great California valleys
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The Oregon is a ship of the true Dewey style. She is always ready.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The late Mrs. Place, it Is agreed, had an abundance of nerve in her last appearance before the public.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

MT. Perry Belmont is the complete letter writer of the period. sat.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The Jekyl Island conferences are ended, and the question as to who was MT. Hyde remains unsettled.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

MT. Croker's plate rates are not Jef- fersonian, to say the least.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The inflated trust stocks are beginning to sway and sag in every breeze Of spscu-
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The Jeffersonian hners will agree in one thing-the absence from the menus oi embalmed beef.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The New York Jeffersonian dinners have certainly been well advertised.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The rival Jeffersonians will lay down the platforms of 1900, but only one of them will be democratic.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The Jefferson banquet business in Ne1 York is booming if nothing else is.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

General Joe Wheeler's book is not in great demand in regular army circles.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The two Jeffersonian dinners hold the center of the stage, and lap over into the wings.
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

The administration is squirming more than the worms did in the army beef
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

came 10 greet NIT. 6fydn yeSterudy was Congressman John L. Burnett, of the Sev-
 enth district. Singularly enough MT. Bur-
 nett was the only member of the Alabama congressional delegation who was in Bir-
 mingham to take part in the extraordinary
 welcome to the democratic leader. Gov
 ernor Johnston was conspicuous by his ab-
 sence. Indeed, no representative of the state government was in the city, except the attorney general who was unavoida-
 ply prevented from taking part in any pub
 lie function.
 Representative William Henry Seymour,
 of Sumter is in the city, and will probably
 visit the city High School this forenoon.
 MT Seymour is widely recognized as one
 of the strongest friends of the cause of general education.
 Thomas Arlington, of Montgomery,
 the young presiding officer of the turbulent but interesting county convention which assembled in that town on Wednesday. came to Birmingham to take part in the
 Bryan welcome. What no Birmingham man can understand is the frightful panic that sets in whenever Birmingham and
 ''state capital are uttered with the same breath at Montgomery. Some day, per- haps thousand years from now the good people of that beautiful and treasured city
 will comprehend that there is no sentiment here in favor of removing the state capital. Nobody in Birmingham desires any such
The age-herald., 1899-03-24

it's senders. ks If Speaker Reed had any remarks to of fer at Jekyl Island as to the pay of the esteemed MT. Eagan. they did not reach the ears of the newspaper correspondents. It begins to look as if enbalming would have improved the beef that was sent to the army by the war department. The president and Full Pay Eagan are trying to get away from beef disclosures. This is the rest they need. Political complications have now extend ed from Chicago mayoralty candidates to New York dinner-giving.
 The recent rains have rescued from harm the endangered wheat crop of the great California valleys
 The late Mrs. Place. it Is agreed, had an abundance of nerve in her last appearance before the public.
 The Jekyl Island conferences are ended, anu lHe queSllOn as lO WHO was MT. ttyue remains unsettled.
 
 The Jeffersonian C hners will agree in one thing-the absence from the menus of embalmed beef.
 The rival Jeffersonians will lay down the platforms of 1900, but only one of them will be democratic.
 The two Jeffersonian dinners hold the center of the stage, and lap over into the wings.
 General Joe Wheelers book is not in great demand in regular army circles.  The administration is squirming more than the worms did in the army beef. The Jefferson banquet business in New York is booming if nothing else is.  The New York Jeffersonian dinners have certainly been well advertised  MT. Croker'S plate rates are not Jef- fersonian, to say the least. The oregon is a ship of the true Dewey style. She is always ready. MT. Perry Belmont is the complete letter writer of the period r.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1899-12-14
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