The age-herald., 1900-11-20

citizen of the State by name to be Cover nor, or to hold any other office whatever.
 "A constitutional convention could be called by the present Legislature, could be elected, and be actually in session at Montgomery within comparatively a few days, and if the Legislature take this all- important step now it would be merely torestalling it's ultimate acton by few weeks or months at most, and 1t would settle finally and with absolute authority all probable possible dispute as to which particular citizen shall be Governor of A1d- bama. The present Legislature was elected with the clearly expressed understanding that it should call constitutional con vention. Why not call that convention now-instantly? Why not take immediate steps to avert in the only possible way the now probable row over the governorship? The people didn't elect the present Gov ernor to succeed himself. But in a speci- fled contingency now unhappily probable he will continue to perform the duties of the governorshp."
 We read of railroad wrecks, with the consequent loss of life. and shudder at it all" said a student of current events, but the president of the London Institute of Civil Engineers reaches the conclusion, In recent address, that a good seat in first-class train is about the safest place in the world. In the same period, he says, in which twenty-four persons were killed on the railroad by accidents for which they were not responsible, 1,S00 people were suffocated in bed, 14S were choked by food in dining-rooms and 925 fatalities resulted from falling downstairs.
 Certainly seat in a grst-clsss passen- ger train is far safer than walking space in the streets of Birmingham or anywhere in Jefferson County. A far greater percent age of the residents of Jefferson County are killed by deadly weapons unlawfuly carried by lawless men than are killed as passengers on the railroads. Yet as on an average probably every resident of this county makes ten railroad journeys in a year; that is to say that the number of Jeff ferson County railroad passengers Is more than one million four hundred thousand year, whereas the actual number of res- idents in the county Is slightly over 40, 0O0 Clearly the best way of escaping acciden- tai death is to travel on the railroads!"
 
 "I am going to Gadsden this afternoon to met the river and harbor committee of the lower house of Congress, and proceed with them down the Coosa river to it's mouth below Wetumpka," said Dr. Eugene 4. Smith, the famous State geologist of Ala bama, yesterday.
 Ut was my purpose to meet the commit tee at Rome and accompany the members down the Coosa to Gadsden, but I was un- avoidably detained. After joining the vis- itors at Gadsden I shall remain with them until they have concluded their inspection of the Coosa, and shall give them all the information I have"
 'T shall join the committee at Gadsden," said Hon. Frank H. Lathrop, land accom- pany them throughout their inspection of the Coosa. I have the improvement of that river very much at heart, for it means a great deal for my district and for the en- tire State We shall be able to demonstrate to the river and harbor committee the feas- ibillty and urgent necessity of the Coosa improvement, and have strong hope that much good will result"
 Walter Nesmith, a leading lawyer Of La- mar County, is in Birmingham.
 
 It is now announced that Mir Teddy Haas is really suffering from typhoid fever at the Morris Sanitarium, as was intimated in this place several days ago.
 Major Pat Kirkland Is i'll of typhoid fever at his room over Wise's in Nineteenth street
 Hon. Jake w Weiss of Mobile, speaker of the third house of the Alabama Legisla- ture, is in Birmingham. He says that the present General Assembly is composed very largely of able and conservative law makers.
 P. P. Watson, tobacco manufacturer of Martinsville, Va, and w M. Whtely, to- bacco manufacturer of Winston N C., are in Birmingham.
 Capt Gus Wright, the veteran keeper of the main exit from the Union Passenger Station, a genial and courteous Confeder- ate Veteran to whom millions of passen- gers have given kindly greeting during long years, is again on duty after painful att tack of rheumatism" said a traveller. "Cap- tain Wrights physical pains never lessen the full measure of his unfailng civility."