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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
THROUGH THE MEsHEs OF, WINTER

Alice Katherine FNallows in Hampers Bazaar
Through the meshes of winter she slipped
"a day
From out some radiant south;
She brea,thed a spell from her flower-shaps
ed mouth,
And the round world dreamed of May.
The birds dreamed softly of nesting-time.
The bare earth dreamed of flowers.
The brooks glad dream was merry
rhyme,
But the best of the dream was ours.
For the song of the wind swept into our
ken,
From the first pink dawn 1t blew,
And we dreamed We laughed in the sun
shine then,
When joy and the world were new.
But the day passed by on folded wing,
And our dream is ashes of rose,
Till over the threshold of winter SHOWS
Shall smile from the heart OF Spring.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Payne-Hanna Bill to be Pushed.

A big lobby is in Washington for the pur-
pose of promoting the ship subsidy bin that
Mr.. Hanna caused President Mckinley to
commend In his annual message. This bill
is to be pushed through the house, very
much as the gold standard bill was passed,
and as the standing-army bill will be when
the leaders think they can command party
vote for 1t. The three measures are dis
tinctly and Enthusiastically republican.
A big army is needed by all the trusts and
combines, for use, not in the Philippines.
but at home. Labor is to be taught its
proper place. The ship subsidy bill is the
logical corallary of the tariff bill, the one
being as defensible as theother, both being
off one piece. The gold standard bill rounds
out the plutooratic Big Three. On these
three the republican party goes to the coun-
try For the purpose of deeeiving some of
the people, it may postpone its army bill!
to the short session; but If it becomes con-
fident of success, it will crowd all three
measures through the house to the senate.
where all three will be delayed at least
The senate has thus become the sole bull
walk of the people against the combined
plutooratic forces of the country, and a
battle will take place here over each and
every one of the three measures that bear
the administration stamp.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
LYNCHING RECORD Ir0c 500,

FROM the Chicago Tribune.
The work of lynchers ACCOMPLISHMENTS =,
some instances of special barbaritv An
Georgia Louisiana and Kentucky has do
creased during 1899, being much smaller
thah IN any year since and including 1905
Ihere We're 1O7 lynched during the wear
line following figures show the nnmhe,. 90
iyhchings through a series of years: 1895
1884, 1886, 1885, 1887. 1922 1888. 142; 1889 17e. 1900
III 1891, 1o2; 1892 235; 1893, 200; 1894 1eo 1sos
III; 1896, 1Sl; 1897, 166; sos, 127; 1899. 1O7.
Lyhchings occurred only in the follov,in =,
STATES; Alabama. g. Arkansas, II: Florida
b; Georgia, 2S; Kansas. 3; North Carol;n.
o. pennsylvania, l.; South Carolina. /. Ten.
nessee, 4; Texas, s; Kentucky. 3: Louisiana
lo' mississippi, II; Missouri, 81 Virginia. /:
west Virginia, 1; Oklahoma, l.
or these lynchings, 1O3 occurred in +be
south and four in the north OF the total
NUMBER eighty-four were negroes and tvan-
ty-three whites The alleged crimes for
Whlch they We're lynched were as follows.
Murder, 40; completely in murder n. a..
sauit, II; bad reputation, 5; arson &. race
preJudlce, .; robbery, s. unknown offenses
q aldlng criminals to escape, 8; susnectad
arson l; mistaken identity, 1; highway roh-
perry, l; arson and murder, l.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

previous condition of servitude, and the
act Is valid against the power of congress
TO interfere with it"
/ This view of the case Is amply fortified
by decisions. The entire question is left
by the constitution in the hands of con-
gress as a political matter. Congress can
say when and how far negro suffrage shall
be modified or how far 1t shall be sus-
tanned. This power of congress is not
mandatory, and no man. says Senator
ereises the power if he feels that it would
impefil the country" The chief point
should not be lost sight of. namely, the
legislative power is poiitlcal. not judicial,
and congress- which is public opinion, can
exercise it or not, or modify it, as 1t sees
fit The supreme court mas expressly de-
clared, in several cases, that neither the
fourteenth nor the fifteenth amendment
gives the negro any vested right to the
ballot. This right rests III the states, with
supervisory powers in congress that can be
exercised or not within certain specified
limitations.
In the last analysis the question of negro
suffrage is up to the American people.
They and they alone are to decide whether
or no unlimited negro suffrage is to be es-
tablished in this country; and the closing
half of Senator Morgan's mastery and
comprehensive speech is devoted to an APP
peal to the American people against a ia
tai evil as he terms it. He appeals to all
IN the interest of progress, peace-soclal
order, ballot reform, and dangerous electo-
raj contests. of which the Hayes-Tilden
case is type. He hopes that home can
elsewhere be found for the African race
of this country, and until 1t can be. he ap-
peals to all sections to rate this a white
mans country
The speech should be widely distributed
as an unanswerable presentation of the
white mans side of the difficult problem
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
Not a Lean Year.

,rhe last lean year occurred in 1896, when
q dav was added to the month of Fe5ru-
ary. This has been done every fourth
year throughout the century now near ITS
end, because a year consists of $50 days.
and about hours. The addition of day
on every fourth February served to reform
the calendar, but the reform was not thor
ough enough.
Pope Gregory XIII. added a new feature
when he took up the Julian calendar for
the purpose of making 1t conform ito the
actual passage of time. He found that a
solar year really consists of S65 days, .
hours, 40 minutes and u seconds. 1t will
be seen that the continuous leap-year or
Julian plan overworks the calendar bust
ness, and so Pope Gregory ordered that
the INTERPOLATION of day should be omit
ted all centenary years except those
that are multiples of four hundred. The
year 1000 will be a leap year, and so was
the year 1000 The years 1900 1900 and 1900
Rre common years The calendar year and
the solar year are thus kept very nearly
In harmony.
The Russian government still clings to
the Julian calendar. When Gregor correct
ed it in 1882, it was ten days out of solar
time, and in the next century it will be
thirteen days too. slow. Russia has just
celebrated its Christmas. If Russia aban-
lions its Anticipated and unscientif1c calen-
aar, the lesser nations that have kept step
with her will probably abandon the Julian
Ealendar, and that ancient method of not
ing time will pass into history. The Gre
gorian system is vastly preferable, and
nearly all the world has adopted 1t. The
Russian government is slow, but 1T is in
the long run sensible, and 1t is reported
that a change IN the calendar is under
consideration there.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
Coal and Iron Production.

In 1898 this country gained leadership in
the production Of IRON rising above Great
Britain. and of course above Germany and
France. The difference between this coun-
try's iron production and that of Great
Britain, the next in the list. was increased
last year, and it will be still farther in
creased this year. There is no reason for
believing that any country will overtake
the United States in the production of The
great commercial metal. We have become
the premier iron country and will remain
at the head of the list probably to the end
of the republic.
Up to last year Great Britain held first
place in the list of coal-pro lucing states;
but the production of the Un.t ID States was
carried last year to 245. 900 coo tons a gain of
about 50,oOO,OOO tons over the production of
1898. This great production places the Unit
ed States ahead of Great Britain, and far
ahead of any other nation. AS in the case
of iron there is no reason for believing that
the coal output of this country will ever
again relatively lose ground. This country
will continue to be the chief coal and iron
means that the supremacy of this country
in manufactures will soon be established.
The chief coal and iron producing country
of the world has ever been its chief manu-
featuring country, and history will assured
ly repeat itself here. The undeveloped
mineral resources of this country are very
great, and it is scarcely possible that a sue
cessful rival will appear to crowd us out
of first place. The United States has ar
rived at the top to stay there indefinitely.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
- -
AN FXAMINER NEEDED
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register
The governor is negocting brilliant
opportunity 10 demonstrate the skill OF his
corps of examiners of accounts. There is
little matter of the sale of sale of Uni
versity lands that Tie does not seem abe
to explain He has been called on for the
explana ton, but up to this date he has
been content to tell the public mat his
part in the business was all correct. But
the public is still putting questions to him.
Let the governor order examiner to
take the puzzle in hand and give us a re-
port upon it. 1t would be a ten strike for
HIM If it showed what he claims for it,
but at any rate it would .be fine opening
for an examiner, and go far to help sus-
tain the general claim tuat the administra-
ton is a business one
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
sh,pbuilders Given a Hearing

Washington, January, 1o.-The reports of
the shipping and ship-building interest
were giving hearing today by the house
committee on merchant marine and fish
cries, and the measures generally known as
the shipping bill and entitled "A bill to pro-
mote the commerce and increase the for
eign trade of the United States, and to pro-
vide auxiliary cruisers, Transports and sea-
men for government use when necessary"
Many of those prominent in the shipping
were present Ex-senator Edmunds, on be-
half of the shipping interests. submitted
the report
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
SHORT STORIES
OF TIE DAY
Best Labor Laws in the World

The labor legislation in New Zealand Is,
in some of its provisions. the most enlight-
ened in the world. There is no eighf-hour
law, but the eight-hour day is general as
custom, writes II. ID. Lloyd, In Ainslee's
Magazine. The factories are under sani-
universal Saturday half holiday. The
tradesmen can choose his own day for clos
ing, but close half a day each week he
must and the practice is that the stores
remain open on the day on which the fac
tories and workshops close. so that arti-
sans may do their shopping.
New Zealand showed the same good
sense, with the same good results, in its
dealing with arbitration. It's compulsory
arbitration" law is, on the whole, the most
remarkable legislative novelty which New
Zealand has to show us. Its author, the
Hon. William Pember Reeves, has recent
ly been in America, whittier he came as
tine agent of the government to attend the
great Commercial congress in Philadelphia.
There had never been any compulsory ar
bitration law anywhere else in the world.
nor any state arbitration of any sort in
New Zealand when Mr. Reeves, then minis
ter for labor, succeeded in inducing parlia-
ment, in 1894, to pass the bill which he had
prepared. New Zealand was still sore from
the shock of a terrible strike in 1890, and
was trembling with apprehensions of
threatened strikes.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Women are never as dangerous as men.
because they always talk SO much
The average woman doesn't wash her
hands near so often in the winiter, because
then she wears gloves.
When a woman is married to a man who
can't hold his temper, she always says her
husband is so nigh strung"
The woman who is as proud of her wed.
ding ring as she was of her engagement
ring is about as rare as the man who pays
more for it.
When a girl throws herself at man
who doesn't want her so hard that he feels
ashamed, 1t Is said by the other women
that she takes an interest" In him
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
STORING A sAwED-OFF LEG. SO ,45o
From a Concord IN. H Special

From Concord IN. h Special.
The executors of the eccentric millionaire,
John H. Pearson of this city, the contest
over whose will was settled this week,
have been called upon to pay many pecu-
liar claims from creditors. One of these
was for storing an amputated leg of Mr..
Pearson. Eleven years ago Mr.. Pearson
had to have one of his legs amputated. He
decided to keep the leg and have it buried
with him. He accordingly handed it over
to Concord druggist with orders to pre-
serve it and produce it for burial at the
proper time. This the druggist did. One
of the bills presented to the executors is
for 1.-The storage and care of John II. Pear
sons amputated leg" the charge being 49,
$50, or about dollar day. not including
Sundays.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
Pensions for Aged workingmen

1t Is not the unemployed alone that-the
government gives land. 1t has entered up
on a deliberate policy of breaking up the
large estates which were formed in the
early days. 1t purchases these estates If
the owners are willing to sell, If not, it con-
dennis them. The land is then improved
with roads, properly surveyed, and is re-
sold in small farms.
New Zealand's latest experiment is not
ets least important. 1t now treats its worm
out workingmen and women not as paupers,
but as pensioners. Every one who has been
i'm the colony twenty-five years and Is a
citizen and has an income of less than $40
a. year is entitled to a pension OF a smiling
a tenderer form of'charity than that which
obtains in other countries; 1t is distinct
recognition of the honest toiler's right to
share in the wealth he has created.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
Daughter of General Miles Marries

Washington, January 10.-Miss Cecilia
Sherman Miles, daughter of general COM
manding the army, and Capt. Samuel Re-
Der, U. g. A., were married at noon today
at st. Johns church. A breakfast at which
several hundred guests were present fol-
lowed at the residence of Genral and Mrs.
Niles, after which Captain and Mrs Reber
left for a southern trip. They will go later
to Governors Island, where the forme is
stationed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
EXECUTION OF GENERAL LAWS
Governor Brady of Alaska Before the
House Committee

Washington, January 10.-Governor Bra
dy, of Alaska, and a delegation of Cape
Nomee were before the house committee
on public lands today to urge the execution
of the general laws to the territory. Mem
bers of the delegation pointed out the pc
culiar land conditions in the new country.
In some cases pipes are run down half a
mile out from the shore and the rich sand
brought up, making it likely that the land
laws will have to be made Ito apply to wa
ter privileges. The committee took no ac-
ton except on private bills.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
Large Contracts Are Now Possible

Mr.. Reeves study of the efforts at arbi.
tration in other countries had convinced
him that voluntary arbitration was a
SHAM and that compulsory arbitration
was tho only possible solution. The law.
which was passed after three years off
struggle, has been brilliant success. For
five years New Zealand has been free from
strikes and lockouts, which have destroy
ed so much property, done such injury to
business and created such ineradicable> So
cial rancor everywhere else in Christendom.
The law is becoming as popular with
manufacturers and employers of labor as
with the workingmen. Business men find
themselves now able to make contracts
for two years ahead without fear of
strikes. 1t is one of the essential provi.
sions of the law that, pending the settle-
ment of a dispute, the workingmen shall
not strike and the employers shall nos
lockout. In fact, compulsory arbitration
proves 10 be not so much weapon in the
hands of one side against the other, either
of the yoykingmen against the employers
or the employers against the worklngmen
as means for carrying out the will of the
majority of both employers and employees.
These desire arbitration, and by means OF
the compulsory arbitration law they Cam
get 1t.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
WEEKS RESOLUTION
Recites the Unsettled Condition ofthe
People of Our Islands

Washington, January 10-Representative
Weeks, of Michigan, has introduced joint
resolution reciting the unsettled status OF
the people in the islands acquired from
Spain, and providing that Tor five years the
president as commanderAn-chief of the
army and navy shall continue military au-
thor1ty in said islands, and that congress
shall deal with this subject at the expira-
tion OF this period.
In the meantime it is provided that reci-
procfty regula tions not exceeding rs per
cent may be made on the products on the
islands brought to this country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
SMITH INAUGURATED
Democrats from All Over Maryland
Witness the Ceremony

Annapolis. Md, January 10.-Governor
John Walter Smith was inaugurated as
governor at noon. The occasion was one
of enthusiasm for the thousands of demo-
Gratis from all parts of the state who came
to participate in tho ceremonies.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
nha Roherfs Committee

washington, January lo.-The Roperts
committee was in executive session today to
determine upon the general features OF the
report and. If possible, reach final agree
ment. The facts which had been developed
were gone over and a pretty general UNDER
standing reached in the fact involved.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
A REGULAR PFRFoRMANcE

From the Providence Journal.
Mr.. Carnegie has offered $4,000 to Daven-
pert, Iowa, for a public library. 1t might
be well for all newspapers to keep this line
set up in the composing room: Another
Carnegie Library"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

Clark of Montana knows that his case
is not considered fragrant in the body that
he is trying to- secure a seat in. He is not
a bit alaSmed by the toothers startling
evidence
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

Simpsons fleet seized British, French
and German ships without mourning any
clustering talk Each case was tried on
its merits and justice was done. So it
will be in the Delagoa Bay cases.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

All the English actors and actresses are
coming over in order to secure share of
our prosperity. The latest arrival is the
JERSEY Lily.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

The rescued American prisoners in Luz
zon are coming home to lecture or to write
magazine articles.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

Winston Churchill had enough American
blood in him to get away from Pretoria
Many Englishmen have gone there since
the war was begun, but this half-American
is the only one who got away.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

A Payne-Hanna subsidy senate cannot
afford to unseat Clark because he INDUCED
in a commercial transaction.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

Missouri is now inclined to think she has
not got another Vest. She has been look
ing over her stock of statesmen.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

The builders of the Oregon in, California
is to have the biggest guns in the navy.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

This country mined more coal last yea
than Great Britain did-something- tina
never before occurred.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

Pingree can be put down. but he viii not
stay down. a,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

The Pressed Steel Car company is send
ing steel gondola cars to France. French
men will not know what they are good for.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

The spelling Is to be "Habana"-at leas
the official government board has so de-
cided.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

Butler will soon try to retrieve his frontal
error. If he win. he will deserve all praise.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

magazine squad, asking each time top
prices.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
GUAMs GoOD-HUMoRED DEspo1

From the New York Times.
Never, probably, did great humorist
have such an opportunity for the free ex-
ercise OF his talents as that which the
fortunes OF war have brought to Richard
F. Leary. captain in the United States
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11
WHAT HAPPENED TO the RIVER

From the Minneapolis Journal.
When the Chicago river fell into the new
canal it sounded like lumber pile tumbling
down.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

The Lawton fund is approaching 100000,
and it will get there before Mrs. Lawton
arrives at San Francisco on her sad mis-
Sinn.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

Roberts talked six hours before the cleo
tons committee-two hours for each wife.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

If this weather holds out the first gobin
and the first straw hat viii be heard from.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

An irreconcilable minority no longer has
the power that it had under the regime of
voluntary arbitration to upset the whole
basis of settlement Time and time again.
under the voluntary system, a majority of
the workingmen and of the employers of
New Zealand in important trades would
agree upon the terms of settlement as to
wages and hours and conditions of labor,
only to have the whole fabric of their
arduously negotiated peace shivered to
atoms by the greed or folly of some en-
ployer who wanted to retain the privilege
of cutting down the wages of his men.
1t did not take the business men of New
Zealand long to see that to leave it thus
in the power of a few to cut down wages
was to leave it in their power to cut down
prices. Arbitration, therefore, protects de-
cent business men from reckless competi-
ton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-11

New Zealand is far ahead of the other
colonies of Australasia, and, in fact, of any
other country in the world in its treatment
of the unemployed. 1t has a wel-consider-
ed plan in actual operation, by which the
unemployed are gathered up in the cities,
at government labor bureaus, and are for
warded to one point or another, where they
are wanted on government railroads or
other public works. At these points they
are not kept in camps to be scattered again
when the work is through but they are
assigned farms, and their work is so ar
ranged that they work alternately for tho
government and on their own land. The
government advances them funds to clear
their lands and to build themselves homes
In all parts of the colony the penniless-out-
of-work is by this system being converted
into a thrifty land owner.