The age-herald., 1900-04-25

l iidN0it anu push bi9 "AhoiAS A-A
 D. m"
 Thou hast a shockingly bad birthday,
 and wilt have changes and losses in abun-
 dance: see that thou dost not speculate; | keep thy money safe"
 | "A child born on this day will be care-
 less and prodigal, and poor all the days
 of it's life; it will throw away many golden | opportunities"
 | 'rhe eyes of the state are upon Mont | eomervs today. and that is a condition of | such frequent occurrence as to make the | long suffering state cross-eyed living pol
 itics never at rest. as this poor earth's pale | history runs: what is it all of it worth?
 trouble of ants in the gleam of million
 million of sunsi" The state enjoys one ad-
 vantage in having it's worn old cross-eyes
 on Montgomery. instead of on Birmng-
 ham: the eyes are not so liable to suffer i from dust. Montgomery is dusty enough perhaps, but Birmingham simply riots in | the dustiest dust under the sun, and makes
 no intelligent effort to better it's condition l in that particular. The eyes of the state ] will not be red because of Montgomery
 dust but otherwise the capital has as
 great a variety of villainous eye-reddeners | an any other place upon which the eyes | of Alabama are ever likely to rest, ex- | cepting always the prohibition districts | like Wylam, for instance. The eyes Of the l state have never reposed upon fair wy | lam, but that's not Wylam's fault. As for | Montgomery, to get down to basic steel | facts that beautiful and beloved capital or | Alabama needn't to be so allfiredstuckup because there are ''in it's midst" this day | thousand or two politicians and | one or two statesmen. Here in Bir-
 mingham ere the midnight hour strikes | and the sheeted dead sLail walk the tur- 1 bulent streets of Linn's Crossing, there | shall be large and enthusiastic meeting | of the Stepdaughters of the Rebellion | Against Doggone Chewinggum. What care 1 Tho & R A D. C. and their vast host of | supporters for the little political sideshow l al Montgomery? Ay! what, indeed? There | are in the cherished round numbers of political statisticians, two million persons | in Alabama. Of these there are one million | nine hundred and ninety thousand who are l absolutely unaware that the eyes of the | state are on Montgomery, or anything else | in particular Probably million or so or | the latter are by Montgomery like Zans- | will was by Birmingham-"Never ara or | it." The president of an Alabama natiofai | bank asked yesterday as to the exact oaS | when the eyes of the state would De on | Montgomery. That fact points the morai' | it likewise adorns the caudal appendage' | o vanity of vanities, avast! Also, as here- | inbefore set forth by intimation, skee- daddle.
 | .Ua had to leave Underwood al Wash | ineton for he is the democratic party whip l in the house, and therefore he Will be de- | nied the pleasure of meeting the party ieao- | CTS at Montgomery this week, said con 1 gressman Bankhead. 'I understood also | that Burnett would be unable to come to l Alabama al this time owing to some press l ing public duties. It is sort of on-Week | in inc house and several members of the l Alabama delegation are thereby enabled 10 | be at Montgomery during the meeting or | the state democratic convention. It IS very | proper and necessary for us to meet the 1 immediate representatives of the party: we | ascertain in that way directly the imme- 1 diate sentiments and wishes of the people l we represent in congress. Underwood IS l especially sorry that he cant come to the | state at this particular moment; but his l work as party whip makes his presence | in Washington imperative.
 Congressman Underwood now enjoys the distinction of being cartooned by republi- I can newspapers. This is gratifying proof | that he is doing good for his party and country in Washington. Pretty soon they'll | lampoon him, and then his star will be | high in the ascendent.
 Speaking of MT. Underwood as whip | the use of the word whip in its parliament ary sense in the United States is new, as | it dates from the beginning of the present l session of congress, and consequently most | of our newspapers ignorantly print 1t in 1 quotation marks. There is just as little l excuse for marking whip as a quotation | as there is for so marking speaker, door | keeper, sergeant-at-arms, secretary, mister, | or any other designation of men. A whip is
 a member of a parliamentary body charged
 with maintaining party discipline and
 bringing up the party vote on party ques- l tions. The notices he sends to members
 calling upon them to be present also | called whips, as, for example, a two-line
 whip, three-line whip, and so on, accord ing to the degree of urgency, the word line
 referring to the printed lines the whip.
 
 | English, and has been so used in the | "Mother of Parliaments' for generations. ] The whipship is a distinction conferred | upon members of known integrity, court l esy, diplomacy, sobriety, and vigiance l and in England it has been frequently the l honored passport to the peerage. There is l one chief whip for each party, but the | whip is given assistants who are desig- | mated not whips, but assistant whips | If a pember of congress be absent from | Washington he is presumably absent by | the consent of the house and the whip of
 his party. Should his vote be unexpectedly
 required a telegram is dispatched to him. 1 If he fail to respond messages are sent
 to his family If this proves unavailing l the chairmen of his county committees are appealed to. Oftentimes it requires 1 large number of telegrams to trace one l member The whips were remarkably sue