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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

lima. West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
and Utah. over one-half Of the states
have memorialized congress on this sub
ject. but it is really labor lost
An amendment of the constitution in this
respect, or in any other respect, is diff
flcult matter, and it is considered doubtful
whether one will ever be secured. A two
thirds vote in each house is first requisite,
and the senate as now constituted, with
its fool ideas of state representation in,
stead of popular representation, would
never cast sixty out of ninety votes in
favor of a constitutional amendment. No
doubt affirmative action could be secured
in thirty-six of the forty-flve state legisla-
lures but the senate will not pass a reso-
luton submitting to the states an amend
ment of the nature named
But an amendment is not at all neces-
sary. In Georgia, South Carolina and ILL
nois the people have shelved the constitu-
tional provision, Just as they shelved 100
years ago the absurd electoral scheme that
the original constitution makers evolved
from their profound distrust of the plain
people. Let the Constitution stand as it is;
it is harmless, and let the people in primar-
les select their senators by direct vote.
Senator McLaurin. of South Carolina, was
selected in that way, and the Georgia sena-
tors will hereafter be selected in a similar
manner. The legislature simply ratifes
the public will. just as the electoral col
leges ratify the will of the people in the
selection of a president and vice-presdent.
There are no deadocks or deals or sales
or chickering's in South Carolina. The
senator is named long before the legisa-
ture meets. Such disgraceful scenes as
Gas Addicks in Delaware, Quay in Penn
sylvania, and Buck Grant in California
have created are altogether unknown in
South Carolina, and they will disappear
in all of the states when the people assume
control of senatorial elections by saying
to the politicians, "hands off,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

From the New York Sum-
In the early hours of Monday morning."
said an old citizen of Washington, 81 saw
the Hon. Hoke Smith coming from C. &c
.. train in the b. & P. station at Wash
ington. His face was as smooth, his manner
as suave and his silk has as immaculate
as in the old days when his arrival in the
capital city of the nation made it turn and
wonder what lit SO hard. AS he walked
along the hard concrete fiooor between the
gates there was no echo In the great iron
arches overhead, yet his tread was state
ly as of yore and his manly bosom jutted
out into the atmosphere as IL strong emo
lions were contending for mastery within.
AS he passed the tall steel gates he hest
tated moment, as Caesar of old hesitated
on the banks of the Rubicon, and with
wave of his hand to the little party accom-
panying him, he said in a suppressed Tone
This is the nearest way OUT and then led
the way to the sidewalk where the car
riages stand waiting for whom they may
devour. Slowly he moved out into the mist,
his tall back looming up like a mighty shad-
ow, and he was lost in the memories of
what used to be. Not man in the station
seemed to know the greatness of what was
passing, and not a hackman on the side
walk fell to the earth before the stranger
and buried his face in the concrete at his
feet. Sic transit gloria Monday"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
BOOM IN COTTON GOODS.

From the New York Sun.
The boom in the cotton goods business
is getting bigger all the time, and the cot
ton goods men say that the outlook is fine
for long time to come There has been a
general advance in the price of goods of
all grades since the first of the year, and
further advances are announced. AS was
predicted in the Sun on Sunday week ago,
there is an advance in the price of print
cloths, the chief product of the big mills
manufacturers declared that business had
gone to the dogs and that there was nothing
but darkness ahead. They had then nearly
a million pieces of cloth on their hands and
the market price was actually less than
it cost to make the cloth. Since that time
the selling syndicate has got rid Of every
yard of the goods at a profit, and for a
week now buyers have been running around
trying to get more goods at the price, 23s
cents a yard. What goods the selling syn
dictate had on hand it has let go at the
price for spot cash. Then the demand in
creased, and yesterday the syndicate an
nounced an advance of one-sixteenth Of a
cent yard. To the ordinary consumer, of
course, such an advance is infinitesimal. 1t
means less than one-half cent on a whole
calico dress, but to the manufacturer it
means a great deal.
Cotton goods men in New York said yes
terday that their information from Fall
River was that there should be a further
advance in print cloths, probably within a
week, to 212 cents a yard. The only thing
in the situation which looks bad from the
manufa cturers' standpoint is that the labor
unions in Fall River have begun an agita-
ton for an increase in wages. The wages
OF the operatives were reduced a year ago,
and the operatives say that they accepted
the reduction only to tide over the hard
times. Now that good times are at hand,
they want the old scale put in force again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
The Convict Bill in the Senate.

The Age-Herald refuses to believe that
the reform legislature of 1SsS-9s, clearly the
most intelligent and the most progressive
one in the political history of the state
intends to defeat Senator Cunningham's
bill in relation to the employment of con-
viets. Such action would be wholly incon-
sistent with it's action in other matters,
notably in Connection with education and
constitutional reform. The eloquence Of
Montgomery's senator may have turned the
bill aside for moment, but the Age-Her-
aid declines to think that even eloquence
can altogether change the spirit of pro-
gress and humanity that has pervaded the
present legislature. The time for legisla-
ton is short, but there should be time for
a bill as meritorious as the bill in question.
There are two provisions in the bill that
demand it's passage. The first provides for
inspections OF the county jails, nearly all
of which are below grade and some of
which are so far below as to be untenable.
The inhumanities and filth of some of the
jails of the state can only be stopped by
official inspections under the direction of
the governor. Surely, Colonel Wiley is not
opposed to jail inspection, for as lawyer
he knows full well the condition of the
jails of the state
Another provision of the impending bill
is even more important. We refer to the
provisions that forbid the hiring to coal
mining contractors of county or short term
or misdemeanor prisoners. This provision,
would put an end to the employment of
mere boys in the mines under circum-
stances that turn them into hardened GRIM
inals. This provision, together with the
one limiting the number of prisoners at the
mines to fifty per cent would keep all boy
prisoners from coming into direct contact
with the worst criminals In prison.
The senator from Montgomery cannot af-
ford to defeat so just and SO humane bill
The bill is not drawn OH radical lines. 1t
does not go far enough in the direction Of
limiting the nuplber of prisoners at the coal
mines 1t is throughout a conservative
measure-a measure that has grown out
of DR.. Cunningham's wide and deep expert
ence at the mines. Let us hope that oppor-
tunity will be found in the senate to con-
slider the bill, and that it will be sent to tho
house, where it's fate is not uncertain.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

test Is that Atlantic City Is to honor itself
by naming one of its streets Alabama"
''I see that Frank Pettus and H. L. Nc
Kee are both candidates for delegates to
the constitutional convention from Dallas
county, and hope both of them will be
elected" said a friend of constitutional re-
vision. '"There ought not to be any doubt
about the selection of either. Everybody
knows Mr.. Pettus and everybody ought to
know how faithfully, energeticaIly, and
persistently Mr.. Mckee worked to bring
about the call for the convention. He has
done more in that direction than any other
one man In the state, and Dallas should in
common fairness elect him as one of her
delegates"
Hon. William II. Skaggs is quite i'll in
Chicago, though yesterdays reports were
to the effect that he had taken a turn for
the better. Mr.. Skaggs is suffering from
the grip.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
THE DISPENSARY BILL.
erouS.

Camden New Era:-Senators Moody and
Cunningham don't know whether they are
making themselves a name or grave by
fighting for the dispensary bill.
Fort Payne Times:-The dispensary bill is
paramount in interest to anything else be-
fore the house just now. 1t has passed the
senate; let it pass the house, including the
proposed amendment. to have counties
excepted.
Tuscaloosa Gazette;-Give the people
few days longer to Indicate their wishes,
and some of the politicians in Montgomery
who have been waiting to see which band
wagon to get on will lvote for the dispensary
bill and it will pass
Guntersville Democrat:-The dispensary
bill is a good law and it ought to pass, in
Guiding every county in the state. Where
so many counties are withdrawn from it's
operation, it is thereby weakened in its
practical application.
Marion Standard: The dispensary bill ap-
pears to be one of those spontaneous hap
penings that come along occasionally in leg
islation. The Montgomery Journal says it
was defeated before the last legislature,
and was not an issue in single county
at the last election.
Huntsville Mercury:-The dispensary bill
should include all or none. The entire state
should palss on the measure, not as local
measure, but state measure. We believe
it a failure as local measure. But if the
Of "a a ta hQnOmp n
state and party measure.
Athens Courier:-Twenty counties, Lime
stone among the number, were exempted
from the bill; hence we will have no dis
pensaries But it is evident that if the bill
passes the lower house that the working
of the measure will prove so beneficial and
so praiseworthy that in two years Lime
stone will ask to be added to the list of
counties having the blessing.
Huntsville Mercury:-The Birmingham
Age-Herald says the dispensary bill is ian
effort on the part of twenty-five counties
to gain the trade of boozers from the other
forty-four COUNTIES" The criticism appears
just from a comercial standpoint. 1t is
equally true that If the dispensary law is
state, and if a bad thing it should not APP
ply anywhere
Tuscumbia Dspatch:-If the Dispatch
thought for one moment that the dispen-
sary bill was for the good of the people,
then it would cheerfully agitate and favor
the bill If the law would embrace every
county in the state, then a different opinion
might be advanced, but If operated as it
passed the senate, twenty-three counties
are exempt. Is this proper? If the law
would reap such wonderful change for the
better in one section of the state, we can
not understand why it should not be made
universal
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
THE LIBEL BILL.
From the Mobile News.

rom the MODllt news.
Commenting on the bill pending in the
general assembly of Alabama to amend the
libel law of the state, the Richmond (ya)
Times says: mo honest newspaper will
naliciously do any man a wrong, and every
such paper is ready and willing, as far as 1t
is able, to repair any wrong that it may
Internationally have done. Convince a Vir-
ginia editor that any publication in his
paper has done fellow-man an injustice,
and he will not rest until he has made re-
traction, and made it as conspicuous as the
publication complained of. In nine cases
out of ten such apology were all that were
necessary TO ample reparation." The Ala
bama editors are quite as willing to correct
a wrong as the Virginia editors are. The
trouble with the newspapers In both states
is that they are often victims of litigation
that is suggested by shysters.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
Jefferson in the Convention.

The county executive committee will meet
on Saturday week for the purpose of taking
steps towards the naming of democratic
candidates for delegates to the constitu-
tional convention The business that will
come before them will be carried out in pur-
suance of the action of the state executive
committee, and it is business of the highest
Importance to every interest in this city
and county.
This county constitutes a senatorial dis
trict and the county as whole is therefore
entitled to seven delegates in the constitu-
tional convention. There is nothing what
ever in the resolutions of the state execu-
tive committee that prevents direct action
of the people in the selection Of their own
representatives. If primaries be held in the
beats for the selection of the six county del
egates proper, the same primaries can be
empowered TO select a senatorial delegate,
and then the county committee can name
delegates who will carry out the will Of
the people. Nothing is easier, if the politi-
S-eA+AS
their own business without intervention of
any sort.
Primaries should everywhere be held for
the selection of delegates, for the indirect
method of selecting would surely lead to
bitterness and opposition, and that bitter
ness and opposition might find vent in
votes cast against the constitutional propo-
sition itself. The indirect method of con-
Quoting the peoples business should never
be resorted to when the direct method Is
feasible. as it certainly is in the selection
of delegates to the constitutional conven-
ton.
Jefferson county should select delegates
who are not professional politicians, and
not more than two of its delegates should
be lawyers. The constitutional convention
will be crammed with lawyers, anyway, and
Jefferson should add a little leaven in the
shape of manufacturers, business men and
practical educators. The great industrial
scented in the delegation of the leading
county OF the state, and SO should its edu-
cational interests, which pertain to the
present welfare of thousands of children,
| and the future welfare of the district and
state. Through direct selection all this is
| feasible, and the county committee should
give the people full, free opportunity in
a matter that is above and beyond party
politics and party machinery and party
management. a constitutional convention
is the people and it should be made up,
| for them.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
Direct Election of Senafnrs

The North Carolina legislature recently
asked congress to present an amendment
authorizing the election of senators by
popular vote. Twenty-four states have
now spoken aflirmatvely on this question.
namely. California, Colorado, Florida.
i..ann. Illinois. Indiana, Iowa. Kansas,
~a,u hy Louizlana. Michigan. Missouri,
tsa. Nciliasiia. Nevada, New York,
t5i.ii.. Ohio, Oregon, South Caro-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Talladega, February 2.-(Special. This
morning at 2:SO the Baptist parsonag &c, was
destroyed by fire. The house was OH fire
all over the roof and the kitchen and dining
room, which were extended out from the
body of the house, had burned down before
the occupants, Rev. T. NJ. Galloway, his
vie and two children. discovered the fire,
they barely escaping with their lives. The
house and household furniture were total
loss. Mr.. and Mrs. Galloway were both of
a literary and artistic taste. and POSSESSED a
fine library and number Of valuable paint
ings.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Cupid is like money; easy come, easy go.
A mans hardest trial is preserving faith
in his wifes faith in his faith
woman can love the love of man q
good deal longer than a man can love the
woman of love-
After her children womans greatest
pride is in her dressmaker; husbands come
way down the list
When Eve went out of the Garden OF
Eden with her new clothes she had the
joy of looking forward to making calls.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
THE REST OF THE STATE.

From the Camden New Era
The legislature seems to be sitting mostly
for the accommodation of Birmngh II
birmingham gets all its work finished, and
Governor Johnston thinks of nothing else
that his city needs, the rest of the state
may be heard from.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

The millionaire statesman is becoming
paase; it is the multimilionaire nowadays
who is grabbing senatorial seats. When one
OF them reaches out for the white house,
then look out for squalls.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
DIR HOME EXPANSION,

The government statisticians have just
completed their estimates of this country's
crops in $685.
The value of the five chief crops is as
follows:
Corn. ...$ 2O25 AIS
Wheat. -. -. -. -. -. -. 80. 392 III, 800
Hay. $50 OoV,o4i
Cotton. -. -. ... zooUoO'VVo
Total for these five crops. 81 ,779 PSI ,759
These do not include any of the myriad
garden, the enormous production of pork,
mutton, beef, butter cheese, milk, tobacco,
minerals, timber. and so on. The figures
give out a scant suggestion of the product
i've wealth of the country.
The official figures of our exports, if wise
ly considered, give a better suggestion of
the country's prosperity. Besides all that
we have consumed at home in the support
of 10000 600 of well-fed, well-clothed and
well-housed people, We exported during
1898 as follows
Agricultural products. -. ...Ss51 ,922, 451
Manufactures. -. 5Od ,92i,99i
Minerals. -. -. -. -. q, S51 1922
Forest products. -. S9.05O,313
Fishery products...... 5,S19,2S
Miscellaneous. 3,0l6,71
This is an increase of nearly 2Gi0O0,000
over the exports of domestic products dur
ing 1897.
1t is great country that we live in, and.
to borrow Mr.. Carnegies thought, its com
mercial Expansion" is going on at an al
most embarrassing rate without any colo.
NAL extension to aid it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

A contribution to q New York paper sug
gests to President Mckinley that white
house dinner TO all the governors of states
would have a happy effect in the way of
uuifying all sections.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Senatorial seats, like seats in the New
York stock exchange, are going at high
rates this season. Senator-elect Clark, of
Montana, paid, it is said, 100000 for a seat
Gas Addicks' figures have not been pub
lisIad
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Alabama has received only sixty-seven
per cent. of the appointments she is en-
titled to under the civil service act, while
Ohio has received 12O per cent.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

II the senatorial deadlock be maintained
until March. Mr.. Quay will either be a
freeman or the occupant of a cell in the
peuitentiary.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

The Elgin COW yielded last year 42,579, 139
pounds of butter and 6,S41.71S pounds of
cheese The Elgin COW beats the Kansas
hen
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Deadlocks are opened by golden keys only
although thousand dollar notes sometimes
answer the purpose.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

interrupt crop making, for his crops of 1893
were the biggest in the worlds history.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

The new sanitary regulations at Santiago
are driving the vultures to desperation,
and their protests are emphatic and num-
erouS.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

The no-quorum policy will be maintained
in the Pennsylvania legislature until an
election becomes possible.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

New York has legalized the sale of horse
meat as food, thus smoothing the way of
the Croker-Leiter automobile speculation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

The present congress Is receiving anti
Roberts petitions, with all the solemnity
and wisdom of owls possessing full juris-
tiction.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

If the kaiser acquired on his fortieth
birthday horse sense, the cartoonists will
lose their most fruitful subject.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

The copper king won out in Montana
but the gas king of Delaware and the plum
tree shaker of Pennsylvania are still in the
tolls.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Beauty in the Toombs still languishes in
the winsome person of Fayne Moore, the
Admission charmer.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Mr.. Quay daily claims that he knows the
combination of the Pennsylvania deadlock,
and that he is biding his time.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

The copper statesmen are coming to the
front.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Agunaldo is one of the statesmen who
do not stay bought. He should locate in
California.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Spain has more reasons for supporting the
100000.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

There are apprehensions that the Eagan
vocabulary will become epidemic ii The SEN
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

The senatorial gabverein will be wound
up next Monday, to the great relief of the
people.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
Gavin

An rs thinkin' OATS dc trouble
Wiv lots OF fancy ways
Dress up, liz you haid UP pow'ful
Proud, an s,nle of tiesc yer days
Fin you ain ma use faw muffin;
Pcttah icf' sech true alone
AZ he 8; t-sat' SIZED wiz stufIin'
AVN &c
Ole
Gavin
rOna-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

ate does not dispose of the treaty next Mon
day.
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Gavin

HOMES. don yo' fet an worry
Kase ger minnew am cut shawl
Lawd Sskes. dem fine fSns berry
Awfton DON; ac' IS dev ought
Yes, dey's sweet. but look out 70 UNI
Err day mex 70 weep an groan:
Clean plum ruin 20 dgestum
Faw de
Ole
Gavin
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
")E OLE CAWS pONE."

Chilluns, S been westigatin'-
Faw de Lawd Is done hit brown
Some of dat queer truck dey's eatin'
Up dab in dat mons'us town,
An dey's got some Gurus coxions-
Mex yo' poor haht tu'n to stone.
But dey's muffin strek my conscience
Iaik dc
Ole
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Tuscaloosa Gazette:-Give the people a
few days longer to indicate their wishes,
and some of the politicians in Montgomery
who have been waiting to see which band
wagon to get on will lvote for the dispensary
bill and it will pass.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03

Guntersville Democrat:-The dispensary
bill is a good law and it ought to pass, in
Guiding every county in the state. Where
so many counties are withdrawn from its
operation, it is thereby weakened in its
practical application.