The age-herald., 1899-03-23

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 chairman of the county convention. And | the entire state will readily perceive the | full significance of the honor conferred | upon Hon. John w. Tomlinson by the as- sembled democracy of his own county in | unanimously making him permanent chair man of the convention. This Is notice to all the people that Jefferson county stands | by MT Tomlinson as steadfastly now as It | did before the adjournment of the recent | session of the general assembly. His own | people decline to turn him down." as the | phrase goes Jefferson stands where she | stood in respect to MT. Tomlinson, and is | likely to so stand as long as MT. Tomlnson l is before the public. Peculiarly gratifying | is this tribute to Mir. Tomlinson's merits as | a good democrat and progressive business man.
 The conventions hearty endorsement of | State and County Chairman Robert J. | Lowe was most enimently deserved and most appropriate. It has been said in poli- | tics, as in most other affairs of life, that "whosoever bloweth not his own horn the same shall not be blown." That scarcely applies to MT. Lowe, for he doesn't know | how to blow his own horn and doesn't 1 know how to get anybody else to blow 1t | for him. His modesty and extraordinary sense of self-denial places upon his friends | the genial burden of telling the truth about Bob" Lowe. Newspaper reporters are not particularly fond of him, chiefly for the | reason that he will never give them any news or gossip about himself. He never yet sought to be interviewed or to 'get his name in the paper" and never talked for publication without reluctance.
 home aacy mtf woldw dafrmf ami wmf It is a fact of much local interest that 1 five out of six of the delegates from Jeff ferson county to the constitutional con- yention reside on the South Highlands, all | most within a stones throw of each other. | John P. Tilman, Hugh Morrow, Reuben | F. Kolb, Lee Bradley and Robert J. Lowe | are South Highanders. Frank S. White, 1 the distinguished leader of the ticket, re- sides on the northside. Senator Russell M. | Cunningham, who will be a delegate from | the state at large, as representing the Jef- ferson senatorial district, resides in Sev- | enth avenue, north Probably in the en- tire south there is no city possessed of so beautiful residential district as Birming- | ham has in the South Highlands. Certain iy there is none that can surpass the South Highlands in culture, refinement, and broad intelligence. All the valley is proud of the Highlands; and it is not going too far in spirit of admiratio to assume that every one of our Highlanders feels that he can say:
 If thou sayest am not the peer Of any Lord of Scotland here, Highland, Lowland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou has lied!
 Well, everybody cannot be a South High lander Some of us must needs reside in First avenue, for example.
 Perhaps the most remarkable tribute to the genius of Rudyard Kipling is the place his phrase, 1.-The White Mans Bur- den," has taken in the everyday speech of men, Yesterday in the county democratic convention Senator Cunningham observed that the time was come "for us to take up the white mans burden" He had refer ence to the negro vote. More broadly the negro is burden the white men of Ala bama have been bearing for thirty-four years. But that has got nothing to do with Kipling's famous phrase, which one hears nowadays in all sorts of places and III COHutCllOn Wltn dH SoilS ol SubJSSlS from toothache to pressing debts, and from street noises to street dust.
 There is a woman bootblack in town, and she begins business today. She Is Miss Marie Petticrew, of Chicago, and it is not | too much to say that Miss Petticrew is pretty and winsome. She has been black | ing boots all over the country and in her scrap book are scores of friendly newspa- per notices. The way she starts out Is by going about town selling tickets for "a shine'' at ten cents each. The purchaser | of a ticket calls at her stand" and gets
 his boots polished. Miss Petticrew will be at Collins, in First avenue, and she ex-
 poets to spend several days polishing Rr- | mingham boots and shoes She Is very | bright and vivacious, and enjoys this
 | method of earning a living.
 Jim Pearce, the famous Jim Pearce of l Pearce's Mill, Marion county, Is in the city
 and is cordially welcomed by his many ad-
 | mirers and friends here He is a genial
 | good fellow of wide popularity: one who
 | makes friends and keeps them. | '-TeulC IS uue to tho HIGH ol tHe lHiIu | Alebama regiment for the quiet and per-
 | fectly orderly manner in which they have proceeded to their homes after the dis
 | bandment of the regiment at Anniston a | few days ago. No word has been received
 | of any disorderly or indecent conduct on | the part of any of the men; and behind that | it is said that 1t was the most orderly reg
 iment stationed at Anniston. This Is com forting. in view of the frightful rioting in- dulged in by some of the negro regiments recently dlsbanded. The praise~orthy con duct of the men of the Third Alabama is due very largely to the fact that their off, acers were southern eentlemen who instIll-