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The age-herald., 1900-10-21
Steel Rail Protection.

In another column appears card from MT. James Bowron whose technical and praetlca! knowledge of iron and steel mak- ing is respected by the Age-Herald and all who know him, but on political questions th= Age-Herald differs widely from his views
 In his article MT. Bowron proves too much. He shows that Sweden, country without coal has to pay a high price for rails; that in England. country with lean ores only, good price is paid for rails, and that foreign rails could not be laid down in this country at less than $40 ton. What excuse has MT. Bowron, an avowed Dingley- Mckinley Republican, to make then for the duty on rails, or for the iron and steel schedule as whole? All his facts go to show that the Dingley- Mckinley tar if is not needed. It may be needed when a combine wishes to shove up prices, but MT.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21
New City Hall.

The ambition and the faith of the city in it's future will be put into the new city hall. Decaying or stagnant towns do not build new city halls@ Such towns make old buildings answer, and they go to pieces to- gether.
 This town looks to the future, and confl- dently proceeds to build a .roomy, hand some and appropriate city capitol Its cost complete and furnished will be about $250,- GOO, and if any one thinks a fine building cannot be built in these days of low prices for that sum, they will be pleasingly dis appointed. The new building will be a credit not only to the city, but to the State It will be in street of fine buildings, and it will not suffer from comparison with any of them.
 The new building will stand for Birming- hams faith in itself. When the city of fees are. appropriately lodged, men will begin to have an ambition to lodge them selves and their respective businesses In better buildings. In this respect the new building will be an object lesson, as good architecture always is. The Mayor and City Council have acted wisely in deter mining to replace the present headquarters of the city with fine building, and every body will approve their action when they see in brick and stone the plans that have been accepted and adopted. The building will be satisfactory in every respect.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21
NJ oplY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
No Presidents Need Apply.

Four ex-Presidents were assigned tablets in the Hall of Fame-Washington Jeffer- son, Lincoln and Grant; but not one of them would have secured such an honor on his political or civic record. Not one was honored because of the manner in which he filled the first executive office
 Washinstons career as President was not noteworthy, but his career in the Revolu- tionary War was beyond praise. His stead fastness and common sense at every turn of the long struggle of the young republic entitled him to first place in the Hall of Fame and his memory will thus be hon. ored
 Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses $. Grant conducted to it's end a gigantic civil war Lincoln was not military man, but his term of office was overwhelmingly military War gave his great name tablet. War made necessary the emancipation procla- nation. Grants name is honored, not at all on account of his services in the Presi- dental office, but solely because of his
  mander in chief, and the two tables in question grew out of civil strife
 Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Inde- pendenee. which was, strictly speaking, a war document. It was a declaration of war IL placed his name in the Hall of Fame He was 8 man of many services. He steered through the Louisiana purchase without knowing the value of the goods transferred; he founded the Democratic party; but if he had not drawn up the fla nous war declaration he would not have been assigned a tablet. Jackson, who se- cured Florida, and Seward, who bought Alaska, were not thus honored. The au- thor of, the Declaration of Independence was
 No President as such in times of peace, serving his country faithfully and devoted ly, was a great American in the minds or the jury of 100, and the jury did not miss the truth very far. Great Americans do not live in the White House.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE
 POLITICAL OUTLOOK AND OTHER THINGS

cheap coal, we can't have gas as low as any other city in the world
 
 Few people. seem to know if, but Coni gress last winter passed a law making it unlawful to sell or hold in possession birds and animals that were killed in violation of the law in other States. and forbidding common carriers to transport birds or ani- mals killed in violation of State laws. In other words, miliners in Birmingham can be punished for using or selling or keeping on hand birds killed in States where the killing of birds for plumage is forbidden. Women who wear them can also be pun ished
 Enforcement of this law is entrusted 10 the Secretary of Agriculture, and in New York and Chicago milliners and dealers in millinery supplies are already aroused over the danger of punishment for handling bird skins Only the other day twenty-six hun dred sea-guils were seized at Baltimore, and the firm having them on hand was arrest ed. Under the laws of Maryland, women are forbidden to wear the plumage of birds. From Baltimore the news comes that over two million sea-gulls skins were sold for the adornment of hats and bonnets last year All of these were killed along the Chesapeake bay, and this in violation of the present law.
 During last year s2SS4. 491 was collected by the United States government as taxes up- on legacies The amount collected from the Cornelius Vanderbilt estate alone was $26O,- GOO, and it is said that over $l00.000 will be collected as a legacy tax from the C. F. Huntington estate.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

city has been awarded the contract for all the interior wood work, the doors, sashes, blinds and lumber, for the new St. Vim cents Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, which is now being built at Nashville, Tenn. This contract amounts to some thing like $2O,0O0, and shows that Birming ham merchants are extending their busi- ness throughout the South.
 It is no longer true that prophets have no honor in their own countries. The young daughter of Birmingham, Carrie Bridewell, is discovering the change in the drift of public conception and faith. It is the prac- tice of the hour to talk about this one, and it is a worthy and happy practice of which there cannot be too much. We all of us are talking about her. praising her. We are doing so because we believe in her and are proud that she is of ourselves; she is of our valley, is our home Pearl of Savoy, and we have got perfect right to fling our caps sunward and shout her praises.
 The other year she was an obscure. unno- ticed little girl of the public schools not differing apparently from thousands of other little girls of the public schools: cer- tainly no more petted or praised or loved than most of her multitude of sister-pupils. If she dropped her books, maybe there wasn't so much as one little sweetheart there to pick them up, not to mention carry ing them all the way for her. She didn't t have any costlier frocks or playthings than thousands of other little girls had But this girl worked, labored, toiied, what you may. She was dilgent in the high calling of good ness and learning. By and by the gods were good, and she went to far countries.
 This child of the public schools came back yesterday-came back like an Empress! Travels in state, is received In state, is well comed in regal way. She Is more than the same as when she went away--vastiy more. She who had nobody to pick up her school books the other year, hath the world to
The age-herald., 1900-10-21
Birminqham's Real Population.

The population of Birmingham, as given out by the Census Bureau some time ago, is 3S,415. The population of the territory within six miles of the center of the city, and which is connected with the city by electric car lines, which was given out yes terday, is 64,723, or nearly double the fig ures the city is given credit for. The peo- pie in the suburban towns embraced in the area designated work in the city and claim Birmingham as their home They are to all practical purposes and intents, except for taxation, residents of the city of Birmingham and are dependent upon the success and the thrift of the city for their livelihood. The population of the towns and districts situated within the area referred to is as follows:
 Elyton... '.' '...' ''''. a'-3' .o East Lake,. -. =. .... 240o Beat 21 outside of Birmingham. l,Oo4 Avondale and WoodlawE.... ............ S,gS9 Beat 37 outside of Birmingham. l,tl6 North Birmingham..... ... ''''. 4'l=o
 Total... Zo'ol-
 East Birmingham is in Beat Il, which has a population of 1897. Divide this by and it gives 79S, which added to 25,5l2 makes 26,376 Add 26.37O to SS, i15, the popu- lation of the city of Birmingham, and it gives 6i, i,725, which is the correct population of Birmingham, and for which credit should be given the city. Take the distance from the Union Passenger Station to each of the suburbs, and 1t will be seen that not one of these is as far removed as is the out skirts of the average city of 50000 popula- ton. For instance, East Lake is but six miles from the Union Station; Woodlawn is but four; Avondale, one and one-half; East Birmingham, two, North Birming ham, two miles, and the farthest part of Elyton beat only about four miles. Thus it will be seen that within six miles of the who should be classed as residents of Bir- mngham.
 If the boundary limits of the city were extended so as to include these suburbs, Birmingham would rank seventh among the cities of the South, being exceeded in population only by New Orleans, Louis vile, Memphis, Atlanta, Richmond and Nashville As it is there are thirteen cities in the South each of whose pop ulation is reported by the Census Bureau to be greater than that of Birmingham
The age-herald., 1900-10-21
LyCeum Course.

The fourth annual season of the Bir sningham Lyceum is open As last seasons course closed so early in the spring = in tertainments of the course in the spring, prior to warm weather and the remaining numbers this fall and winter. The course was begun May with an address by Web ster Davis on the Transvaal war, but as many who had subscribed for season tick cts did not then take them, the course was postponed to this fall.
 The next entertainment will occur on Tuesday next, an excellent concert com pany, and it is proposed. to have dozen
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

No other county in the South can exhibit such a phenomenal record. The growth has been practically within the past three years, and unless all signs fail the next five years will bring double the population of today.
 Charlie Thompson goes to Congress from the Fifth District A gallant fight he has made and a splendid victory won. It does me good to see the young men of other sec- tions of alabama, like in the Birmingham district, forging to the front. Thompson is young, ambitious and energetic He will not spend his time whiting sticks and telling ancient stories in the cloakrooms about the Capitol a Washington but, like our own young MT. Underwood, will dis play activity and seek to accomplish good for his State and district. Young blood in Congress occasionally does no harm.
 So Mel Drennen wants to be Mayor again. I can't see why but it is evident that he wants it, because he says so, and when he goes after anything he has the reputa- ton of meaning business Nobody else has spoken for the job yet, and Drennen seems in line to pre-empt the claim. In Birming hams financial condition it is rather a diff ficult problem to be thoroughly successful as Mayor. Drennen has not made failure by any means. There may be others who could have done better but his record com pares favorably with any of his predecess- ors.
 The gas fight in Chicago has been settled by combination of the different gas com .,.;e a,d .ha r,it, coI7,3-,ii 6s,s =. cod .. :, ordinance fixing the price of gas in that city al not exceeding 75 cents a thousand cubic feet. It is an old story here, but very few people can understand why, with
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Bowron's facts go to show that 1t is not needed for protection purposes, and that 1t is not revenue producer-in fact. that it is delusion and a snare, particularly the latter.
 The real pith and point of the matter is this: What is an honest, just price for rails, not in Sweden, but in this country? The prices of billets in Pittsburg range from ST to s175O No railmaker will pre- tend that there is not a profit, and good one in rolling bilets into rails and selling the product at $21. Not one The difference of S is tax upon consumers made possi- ble by the Dingley- Mckinley tariff. It is a tax of millions taken by the accursed indi- rect methods of taxation from the many for the benefit of six rail mills
 Let Mr. Bowron and his party associates strike down the schedule that he shows IS unnecessary, and rail mills could be set up al Port Arthur, or across the river from Buffalo, or in Nova Scotia, and the price of rails could be brought down to cost and a legitimate profit, or what is more likely, the home mills would cut prices to prevent the building of such mills. As things stand the railroads of this country, not of Sweden, are taxed, or robbed rather, to the extent of at least $5 ton for the benefit of a combine that is upheld in such unrighteous- ness by the Dingley- Mckinley tariff, and this combine pays for this privilege of le-
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

made apparent, and whom we love sting us with worthless offense.
 Carelessness cries everywhere, and behind it crawls reptile willfulness. Back of mat tention to the gentler courtesies and minor civilities is the serpent's trail of sin and grief; beyond that, perdition.
 The breaking of every friendship and ev- cry love and every trust since mans first . betrayal found it's first little rent in little wrong. It may have been lack of courtesy, lack of sincerity, or lack of thoughtful con- sideration; whatever its character, 1t was small as the sigh of lover.
 A kiss too few, a sigh too many, and love was not the same. One swift impression, fleeting as the glancing shadow flung from the tip of white doves speedy wing, and life's sweetest melody is broken out of tune.
 Eternal vigilance of word and work and conduct in gentle spirit of forgiveness, is the price of happiness in this life, my be- loved.
 It is best to pray without ceasing, that we be led not into temptation to do wrong to ourselves or to any child of earth!
 
 
 itations of the faithful, my beloved, but it is for you to straightway forgive and be glad of heart that it is yours to so love as to increase the worlds store of human hap piness.
 Dare to be great without being wrong great in goodness, sweetness, gentleness, forgiveness; in real womanliness and man. Illness. True girlshness and true boyish- ness lead to true womanhood and manhood. Habit is the citadel of the strong; it is the valley of skulls for such as will not be strong. Habitual gentleness and habitual rule of the spirit of forgiveness fit men and young create true greatness; not that mis- named greatness which sometimes faunts itself in barbaric vulgarity and scarlet splendor in the Seats of the Mighty, but the quality of humanity which loves and la bors, and does good because of devotion to goodness, giving joy, joy, joy!
 Other ambition than to be great in the gentler and braver virtues is an inglorious cheat which can bring nothing but grief. Be good, let who may be Senators, misers, vulgar-voiced fools of fashion, writers of sewer-slush, and blatant buffoons In high places,
 Guard well your speech, beloved of this life. Guard well your speech, and forgive whomsoever affront or offend you. For give the rude, the uncivil the diseourteous, even the liars and the slanderers.
 Forgive those whom you love and like wise those who love you: and this, alas. is oftenest hardest to do. Forgive all, and
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

bear her upon it's broad and steadfast shoulders, shouting exultantly the while. She is royal in a palace of fiowers-howers of hearts and minds and garden and field. She is the pride of the valley-the pride of unnumbered valleys and hills far away.
 It is all very romantic, this homecoming of Carrie Brdewell; it is all very beautiful; wonderfully thrilling. It is all so very true to life, of life, of the great big-hearted, jolly just old world! Miss Bridewell-no; Carrie Birmingham is mighty glad to see ye.
 Thomas G. Hewlett has returned from an extended visit to Washington, New York, and the West.
 George II. Walker of Union Springs was in Birmingham yesterday.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21
AN ENGLIsHMAN's VOTES

From the New York Journal.
 London-The laws of England permit one man to have many votes in different coun- ties owing to property qualifications. Joseph Baxendale, a London business man, leads with forty-three in various parts of the kingdom where he possesses private estates and owns businesses Baxendale did not vote at all this election, as he is hunt ing in the wilds of Scotland.
 Sir Thomas Lipton could claim nearly a score of votes, but he doesn't
The age-herald., 1900-10-21
sOLILOQUIES OF AN OLD MAID

The pugilistic hook has caught many big suckers.
 Because a girl sneezcs Is no sign she is up to snuff.
 An egotist Is person who doesn't give you a chance to talk about yourself.
 A hsir-raising incidsnt-a youth with his first growth of mustache. # In Ireland a belt of woS,aTs hair around a child keeps away harm. In this country a womans hair around mans neck brings trouble.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

New York was never so well governed as she has been this summer and fall when she had no executive head. Governors are no longer needed.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

The difference between an actor and a spellbnder is that the first listens while others talk, and the other talks while his victims sleep.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Duke Henry of MecklenburgSchweri is 24 and Queen Wilhelmina of Holland 20. These are the true age proportions.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Encouraged by the recent rise in Stand ard Oil stock John D. Rockefeller has placed an order for his winter coal.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Mules are still going forward from New Orleans to South Africa, and while this is kept up one may know the war is not over
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Between loafng and endeavors to keep away from London Mark Twain expects to have his hands full this winter.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Atlanta has a descendant of Shakespeare, but Birmingham goes it several better by presenting a linea1 descendant of Colonel Adam.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

The miners wife and children do not ap- preciate the delays that well-fed men put in the way of d settlement of the hard coal strike
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

President Eliot of Harvard is another man who proposes to vote the Mckinley ticket while he holds his nose.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

The French propose to treat Dom Paul better in his journey through France than his countrymen did at home.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Sir Thomas is in dead earnest in the mat ter of lifting that cup, and there Is no fool ishness in his pork corner
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Havana has many yellow fever cases, but not many deaths on account of it. The dis ease Is prevalent but mild.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Ham,
 let: Mira and my fathers death come not upon
 thee, Nor thine on me. Dare to be great without a guilty crown View it, and lay the bright temptation
 down.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

All the candidates have been heard from except the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Men who attend political banquets are ex- pected to vote the way they eat
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

John Sherman whom Mark Hanna brut- ally squeezed out of the Senate is peacefully awaiting the end of life.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

The hard coal strike should be called off when the first frost comes.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

A ballot at least will not need war stamp.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

The Boers are warriors who do not knov when they have had enough of war.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

i4O iOIStI IttuSu
 The difference between an actor and a spelbinder is that the first listens while others talk and the other talks while his victims sleep.
 Atlanta has descendant of Shakespeare but Birmingham goes it several better by presenting a linea1 descendant of Colonel Adam.
 The miners wife and children do not ap- preciate the delays that well-fed men put in the way of d settlement of the hard coal strike
 Mules are still going forward from New Orleans to South Africa, and while this is kept up one may know the war is not over. Duke Henry of Mecklenburg- -Schwerin is 24, and Queen Wilhelmina of Holland 20. These are the true age proportions.
 Encouraged by the recent rise in Stand ard Oil stock John D. Rockefeller has placed an order for his winter coal.
 Between loafing and endeavors to keep away from London Mark Twain expects to have his hands full this winter.
 President Eliot of Harvard is another man who proposes to vote the Mckinley ticket while he holds his nose.
 The French propose to treat Dom Paul better in his journey through France than his countrymen did at home.
  Sir Thomas is in dead earnest in the mat ter of lifting that cup, and there Is no fool ishness in his pork corner. Havana has many yellow fever cases, but not many deaths on account of it. The dis ease Is prevalent but mild John Sherman whom Mark Hanna brut- ally squeezed out of the Senate is peacefully awaiting the end of life. Rewards are offered in some Northern towns for a man who has not registered. Three cheers and d tiger was the proper thing in the Bryan reception in New York. There will be no frost tonight, but there will be one for somebody on November G. 
 The Boers are warriors who do not know when they have had enough of war
 Men who attend political banquets are ex- pected to vote the way they eat. All the candidates have been heard from except the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly.
 The hard coal strike should be called off when the first frost comes.
 A ballot at least will not need a war stamp
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Rewards are offered in some Northern towns for man who has not registered.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

There will be no frost tonight, but there will be one for somebody on November G.
The age-herald., 1900-10-21

Three cheers and tiger was the proper
 thing in the Bryan reception in New York.
The daily sentinel., 1900-02-23
THE BATTLE Is RAGING.

London, Friday, A a. m--General
Cronje seemingly is making his last
stand.
He is dying hard, hemmed in by the
British infantry, and with shells from 60
guns falling into his camp.
On the third day of the fight the Boer
chief asked for an armistice to bury his
dead.
Eight to finish or surrender uncon.
ditionally," was Lord Kitchener's reply.
General Cropje Immediately sent back
word that his request for truce had
been misunderstood and that his deter
mination then, as before, was to fight to
the death.
The battle went on.
This was the situation Of CroDje on
Tuesday evening, as stated in scanty tel
egrams that emerged from the semi
silence of South Africa.
Officially Lord Roberts wires that he
has scattered the advance commanders
OF reinforcements that were striving to
reach Cronie.
1t is regarded as singular that Lord
Roberts, wiring on Wednesday, SHOULD
not mention the appeal for armistice on
the previous day, and also that the war
Office should withhold good news il it has
any.
Without trying to conceal even the
scanty materials at hand it seems plain
that Cronje is in bad and even desper-
ate situation aud the British are press
ing their advantage
While the attack on Cronje proceeds
there is a race for concentration between
the Beers and British.
Separate factions OF the Boer power
are rapidly drawing together to attack
Roberts.
The British are facing the Beers on
ground where the arms, tactics and
training Of the British are expected to
give them the advantage.