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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
COTTON MILLS AGAIN

From the Eutaw Mirror.
Seriously, we would suggest that few of
our leading citizens take the initiative in the
matter and find out from North and South
Carolina men the modus operandi of getting
up those cooperative mills and report to the
people here, SO that proper steps can be
taken to improve the situation. To 90 this
we should recommend that such rich and
prominent citizens as Judge I. w. Coleman,
who Is jurist out of a job; David Nc
Meg ifert, J. P. Clark, w. A. Pyles, Walton
Glover, Is. +. Bouchelle, T. j.. Patten, Amos
Horton, William ScearS and numerous otn-
ers, have a conference and get up cotton
factory on the cooperative principle and
do some thing to benefit the people of the
country. Politics don't help any except
the office-hoders who can best trade, traffic
and win. We are tired of that. Let's have
a deal which will benefit the many-the toll
ers, the clodhoppers, the men who follow
the pillow, and handle the hoe-who are in
the cold and the heat, the wet and the dry,
to make living. Do something for that
class, and not give all the time to pap-suck-
ers and dead beats, who are always on the
hunt for office and salaries, while they sit
in the shade and drink ice-water and live
on the fat of the land.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
LET THE STATES STAND UP

From the New York Sun.
Each state of the union, through its legis-
lature, should be recorded on the great ma
tional question of ratifying the treaty of
Paris. 1t is subject on which they have
all a right to speak and duty to speak.
and they should all make known exactly
where they stand with regard to it.
The question is not upon expansion, which
must be settled by congress. 1t is upon the
ratification of the treaty solely, and all
resolutions Of state legislatures should be
confined to that subject.
Let every state legislature declare at ONE,
fatty and forcibly, whether it is for pro-
longation Of the war, or for a peace that
trusts the American people to make such
disposition Of the territories coded by the
treaty as seems to them wise.
1t will be we'll also to know what states
will sustain the senate In an attempt to
usurp the place of congress as the arbiter of
our foreign policies.
Stand up ALL and be counted Don't shirk
this tremendous issue, or hide it under i'm
pertinent deliYerances over expansion or
nom pansion.
What state at this crisis Of tho national
affairs, will sink from a square declaration
of its sentiments for or against ratification?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
2irminqhsm at Montgomery.

Never perhaps since legislation by repre-
sentative bodies was established in the state
has the people had more at stake in legisla-
tive action than the people of Birmingham
have this week. There Is, first, the Greater
Birmingham bill, which pertains to the rank
of the city in the list of cities, and to its
health and drainage, and to its government
generally And there is the commissioners
court BILL which relates to the affairs OF
the entire county And last, but not least,
there is the overshadowing all-engrossing
Moody bill. The application Of the bill to
Jefferson county is rightly considered big
questioning to the city ITSELF and big as
an object lesson to all the state, and per-
haps to other states.
Every one of the the three bills has two
sides to it, and each of the TWO SIDES of each
bill is strongly and ably supported. The
legislature will not have much spare time
or peace of mind until the three big Biz
mingham bills are disposed Of The people
of the city are practically an unit in asking
the passage of the Greater Birmingham
bill, however much they may be divided
over the two other bills.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
A Checker-BOard System.

Twenty-one counties in the state have
adopted the prohibitive plan in regulating
the use of strong drinks. Under the Moody
bill twenty-five more would be left to the
wlde-open license plan, leaving twenty
three in which the dispensary system must
be applied If the bill become law. One
third of the state would. roundly stated,
be dry, one-third officially and moderately
wet, and one-third individually very wet.
If these thirds represented sections of the
state, as, for example, upper, middle and
lower Alabama, then there would be little
cause for wonder complaint; but the
truth is the three classes of counties would
be capriciously intermingled-a checker
board arrangement without sense reason.
The county press has not had time to
speak out freely, but all the press comment
that has come to hand is averse to the
checker-board plan. The Athens Demo-
crat commends the bill, and expresses the
hope that Limestone may even yet get the
benefit of the BILL The Talladega News
county is in the list of counties to which the
bill is not to be applied. The Admission In
dex plainly intimates that the bill should be
applied to Selma and Montgomery as we'll
as to Admission and Birmingham What IS
good for the one is good for the other. More
comment of this nature may safely be ex-
comment of this nature may safely be ex-
pected.
The truth is, the members of the legisla-
Nture were not elected on the dspensary is
sue, and they have proceeded to put their
personal whims, or rather like and dis
likes, into the bill. The list of excepted
counties. it is safe to say, in nowise rep
resents the sentiment of the counties
named Alabama is a homogeneous state
and what suits one county Is apt to suit
all.
A general bill that permits each County to
vote on the dispensary proposition at the
ton proposition is to be voted on, would be
wiser and more republican legislation. 1t
would also bring out full vote, and thus
lessen a danger to which the convention
proposition is exposed. If the checker
board plan must be maintained, let it at
least have the sanction of the people.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

control in the state again. from their dis
like Of the negroes. They expect the demo-
Gratis now to disfranchise the negroes, and
the democrats want to do this, but how to
achieve 1t without DISTINGUISHING the poor
whites also. is the difficulty. To attempt
the latter will never do; 1t will only send
the democrats into a minority again. A
strict educational basis for voting, there
fore, will not answer at ALL 1t is necessary
to take the suffrage from the eolored litter
ate man, while it is preserved to the white
iillterate man. Yet this would be distinction
of color in the voter and therefore uncon-
stitutional. A perplexing dilemma has been
created, and ingenuity has thus far failed
to be equal to the task of successfully eyad-
ing it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
WHY We Axe uNEpUCATEp

From the Columb1ana Chronicle.
We have often wondered why so many
of our people are uneducated, especially in
these late days of progress along lines of
increasing knowledge. We have recently
discovered one of the causes. Two weeks
ago We published a form of petition to the
legislature of Alabama in behalf Of certain
bills now pending which have for their OBJ
ject three very essential things-a provision
for a six months term of the common
schools, the selecting of more competent
teachers and of more competent superin-
tendents of education. We requested a pc
tition to be circulated in each precinct in
the country and offered to forward them to
the proper source at Montgomery. The re-
suit SO far has been that we have one Pc
tition-from Harpersville-and have one at
this place with twelve names 1t. The
young lady who has it in charge here in
forms US that many people actually refuse
TO sign it.
Now here are two conditions actually op-
posing the education OF the masses-one
passive and the other active. One class of
people are too Indifferent to circulate petit
ton and another actually opposed TO provid-
ing a beneficial change in the common
school system OF the state. 1t is hard to
tell which is deserving OF the more CEN
sure.
Those people who are too Indifferent to the
welfare of the rising generation to even cir
culate a petition in their behalf are to be
pitied, or rather their posterity are to be
pitied. The class who openly oppose public
education on the ground of increasing taxa
ton are more to be pitied. The co-opera-
tives and non-residents pay at least rs per
cent. of the taxes of the county, while the
resident merchants and business men pay
not less than 10 per cent. so that the farmer
ana labor1ng man pay but 10 per cent. of
the tax Those perhaps furnish F5 per cent.
of the school patronage. Thus would a slight
increase in their taxes be met by a tenfoId
advantage from other sources to their chill
dren.
Those few who oppose these necessary
changes in the educational system on politi-
cal grounds are too far down in the scale
10 be noticed. Under such conditions as
these we think it a duty which the state
owes to Its children to force their parents
to support compulsory system If the
people nave not the interest of their chill
dren at heart they ought to be forced to a
sense Of their neglect.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
PRosPHRlrX IN ri,H SOUTH

From the New York Sun.
The general rise in the price OF spot cot
ton came too late to benefit the planters
to any great extent. Most Of the crop had
been gathered and marketed beforo the rise,
that which was left being the blue, or last
picking, which never realizes much. Dut
Notwithstanding the fact that cotton had
for tho most part sold for less than tho
cos of production, the cotton growing
states are in better financial condition than
since 1882. Naval stores, tobacco. espec-
tally the cheaper grades, iron and timber
have shared in the better prices, and south
ern banks show larger deposits, loans and
discounts than ever before.
The most remarkable advance in prices
has been due to the war. Lumber, upon
which there is a good profit at sl2 a thou
sand feet delivered at any of the sothern or
southeastern ports, readily sells for $50 in
the West Indies. Large sawmills have
been established everywhere, and the UNI
employed have secured employment at good
wages as cutters, loggers and mill men.
The price of timber lands is from 100 TO
1000 per cent higher than a year ago The
system employed by the lumber concerns
is to purchase the timber alone, thus leav-
ing the land practically cleared, and pine
that has formerly been burned as so much
rubbish in order to clear the land is proving
a Klondike to the landowners.
Shipping is busy and wharfage and wharf
labor have been benefited in proportion.
Some idea of the magnitude of the trade
can be had from the contract recently let
to Florida concern by the government to
deliver 16,GO0,0O0 feet of sawed lumber in
Havana
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

All through the bill are provisions of a
searching nature. the object being. no
doubt. to make all kinds of property bear
its proportion of the public burdens. Tho
nature of the oath taken by the property
holder when he returns his property for
taxation is changed. Under the proposed
code he will swear to what he will sell his
property for The market value STANDARD
is abolished and the Mississippi oath is to
take the place of the old form.
Each transaction of real estate is to be
taxed as transaction at the rate of one dol
lar per one thousand dollars Of consideration;
and every mortgage that contains a clause
imposing all taxation on its account on the
mortgagor is declared null and void. There
must be as many mortgage deeds as there
are counties of location. The holders OF
bank shares, too. are given much atten-
ton in the pending bill. Every share must
be assessed at its market value, and bank
officials must assist the public authorities
in determining that value.
Aho jill - luli VI hilei SS'iS PAS
many of them new. and these will, doubt
less receive attention as the bill is pro-
crossed The time left for its considera-
ton is however, short, and there are l88
pages to be passed upon. Fortunately great
care has already been expended upon the
bill, and the two houses will, doubtless,
accept it substantially as it has been re-
norfed
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
GROSS ECCENTRICIT1ES.
Chicago Millionaire Applies for Admis-
sion in Press Club.

Chicago, January 30.-S. E. Gross, the
Chicago millionaire who brought suit for
damages against Edmond Rostrand, author
OF Cyrano De Bergerac, for alleged plagar-
ism, has made application for membership
in the Chicago Press club.
The application gives the occupation of
the applicant as real estate,' and men,
lions that he is author of the play "Mer-
chant of Cornville.' The application is en-
dorsed by Charles Eugene Banks formerly
editor of 1.-THE Banner of Gold" the official
organ of the gold cure institute at Dwight.
ILL.,, and by Stanley Waterloo, author of
1.-THE Story of Art" and other books.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
The queerest thing is the new ideas q
girl gets about modesty after she is
married.
A womans logic is all right; it's her way
of treating it as if it were stomach-ache
Half the time when a woman pretends
she is jealous about you it's because she
is mad because you aren't Jealous about
her.
When a woman gets an Invitation to go
on a visit the first thing she does before
accepting it is to sort out all her stockings.
When man gets up in the night he
would rather step on lacks than have his
wife tell him to put his slippers or he
will catch cold
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
Explosion of Nitro-Glycerine

Portland, Ind, January 30.-While thaw-
fng nitro-glycerine, preparatory to shooting
a we'll on the Rice and Emerson lease. near
West Liberty. this county, the compound
exploded. James Thompson and Glib Good
en-, experienced men, who were overseeing
the work, were hurled to their death, being
almost torn to pieces. The force of the ex.
posion was felt for several miles, and the
shock was distinctly noticeable in this CITY.
The dead men were well known among the
oil workers. Everything In the neighbour
hood of the we'll about to he shot was de-
rnolished
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
one OF TIE HEST

From the Troy Messenger.
Governor Johnston has been one of the
best governors Alabama ever had. When
he sets his head on anything, it is almost
always the correct way. He has now rec
commended the removal Of the commission
ers Of his own county, Jefferson, on account
of their crooked dealings.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
A NORTH CAROLINA PROBLEM

From the Boston Herald.
The democrats of North Carolina are
struggling with difficult problem. They
were put out of power in the state some
years ago by the uprising Of its poor white
population against them These are tire
voters who joined the populists and went
into coalition with the republicans to take
the state out OF democratic banda They
came back to that party last year, giving It
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
Left for the Philippin es

Columbus, o., January accompanies H,
d and l., of thee Seventeenth United States
infantry 412 men and nine officers, left Co.
lumbus today for the Philippines. They go
on February l. Captain Brus was in COM
mand. The regiment made but short
march to reach the railroad station, but
they were given hearty send-off despite
the cold weather.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

Evidence is accommodating in relation to
the embalming of army beef. Men who
saw the embalming fluid put. in by means
of canua are coming forward. 1he name
of the man who should be tried for the act
is Russell A. Alger.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

eering practice with his brother. 5.
Lea, Jr.. who is county surveyor of Jeffer-
son county.
Judge w. 2. WiIkerson, of Autauga, is in
the city.
Former Senator Cecil Browne, of ITALIA
dega, is In Birmingham.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

Boracic and salicylic acids were pumped
into the army beef, and in that way into the
stomachs of American soldiers, and set
Alger is kept in place by Mr.. Mckinley.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

1t will not do to trust to any presidents
discretion the size of the army. The pres
sure for commissions is too strong for any
man to overcome.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

Texas wool is selling at s to S1k cents a
pound. This is worse than scent cotton
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

The Hanna snore is again heard in the
white house, where 1t is fast becoming a
feature of government.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

1t was not, says the Washington Star, a
case of emotional insanity, but an attack of
emotional vocabulary.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

Embalmed beef is now attested by sixty
three army officers, who saw it but did not
appreciate it's peculiar taste and smell.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

From the Sheaeld Reaper.
II Alabama would build more school
houses she would haze less need for prison
houses.
Alabama as a state is eighty years old,
and is decrepit with ilhteraey and mean
politics.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

The output of Paris chimneys is closely
watched from the Eiffel tower Any over
production is quickly noted and checked,
but the scheme is not feasible in this city.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

The ratification of the treaty will be more
influential in the disturbed districts of the
new possessions than many battalions
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

The list of senatorial abettors of Aguin
aldo is growing shorter.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

The emotional insanity plea did not save
Eagan, and it will not save Alger when he
is placed on trial.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

Executive sessions are reported from day
to day as fully as are the open sessions, and
yet the farce is maintained.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

Hon. Buck Grant, of California, is now
hunting for some politicians who will stay
bought.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

General Eagan's vocabulary should be fu-
migated, even If executive clemency inter-
venes in his behalf.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

Bishop Potter, like General Eagan, is
trying to explain some of his recent vocabu-
larry.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

The Montana legislators went home loaded
with thousand dollar bills and guilty con-
sciences.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

The Filipinos are armed with brickbats or
any other old thing, but they can yell to
beat the band.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
THE DIsPENsARY ISSUE
From the Sheffield Standard.

n
Among the counties exempted under the
dispensary bill appears the name of Lauder
dale. This is most surprising but there is
Just one thing to be said about tiff Laud-
erdale prefers the open saloons to the
wishes of her good women, and if, futher-
more, she prefers such notorious places of
temptation and of evil to the State Normal
school now located within her borders,
there is just one of two things the state
ought to do-she ought to abolish the school
or to remove 1t to some other site, where
the pupils will be free from any contact
with such demoralizing institutions. There
is already talk of petitioning the legisla-
ture to allow it's removal There are several
ant-saloon localities in the state that are
ready to make bids for 1t.
From the Selma Times.
The dispensary question is In politics in
Alabama and it is here to stay. 1 am
rather inclined to be against the bill for
various reasons. but if as many as a half
dozen counties in Alabama get dispensaries
and they are run with profit to the state
and without friction, other counties will be
added each year until finally the entire
state will be practically under the workings
of the dispensary system. The members of
the legislature two years from now will be
elected on the dispensary issue. 1t will not
down. Dealers in the ardent might as well
make up their minds that this is q live issue
and that it as come to stay
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

Mr.. Alger and Mr.. Mckinley will now
have to name the punishment of their tear
full mouthpiece.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

The pernicious activity of Agoncillo will
be materially lessened next Monday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

From tho Piedmont Inquirer.
Moro schools and better schools should
be Alabama motto.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31
Ex-senator Garland fell at his post.

The Hobson practice is unknown in Spain
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-31

detrimental artesian well at Gate City, bored
by order of Baltimore and Richmond invest
ors, shows flow of 100000 gallons daily.
with it's enterprises there, which include
great water works for Birmingham and
the district, two big iron furnaces, glass
works, and other industries. The intentions
of the company at the moment have not
been given out, but the prospects for great
things at Gate City are the brightest.
s.. Hill Lea, son of Colonel Sumter Lea,
of this city, arrived in birmingham yester-
headquarters for the last year as engineer
in charge of the construction of a railroad
through the mountains of Western Penn
sylvania- Mr.. Lea was in charge of the
division west Of the Allegheny river, COM
prising some of the heaviest and most diff
cult railroad building that has been done in
the United States in recent years. The
out intermission, and new records were
made in rapid and scientific railway con-
struction.
Just before leaving Pittsburg Mr. Lea
was presented by the members of his en-
cheering staff with a beautiful pair al
diamond cuff buttons as a tokeS OF their
esteem. Mr.. Lea is a member of the Amer
lean Society of Civil Engineers. and has had
extensive experience as a civil engineer. He
expects to make Birmingham his residence
and will be associated In general engin-