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The suburban citizen., 1901-10-26
A Palace Of prsnm,

An interesting discovery has been
made at Paris in the course of the
removal of the Exhibition buildings,
says the Westminster Gazette. This
is nothing less than the foundation
of the great palace which Napoleon
began to build for the King Of Rome
in the neighbOrhood of the present
Trocadero. The palace was to have
been like the Kremlin. only larger and
more magnificent. Every member Of
the imperial family was to have Il
luxurious suite there; apartments were
to be prepared for the use Of the great
literary and scientific institutions, and
the Bois de Boulogne was to be the
palace park. Such was the dream
of 1911. The plans were drawn and
the laying of the foundations was be-
gun. But the era Of disaster also
began soon afterward and the founda-
tions were neglected built over and
forgotten.
The suburban citizen., 1901-10-26

A Woman Has Fifty-five Miles of Hair.
The total length Of hair on an aver
age woman's head is flfty-hve miles.
The suburban citizen., 1901-10-26
agitation For Good Roads.


Some sage has said that the civili-
cation OF a country Is shown by its
roads. This being true, 1t Is to be
hoped that the agitation now making
head in different parts Of the country
Will not cease until we are well pro-
vlded for in this way as the best Of
the ancients. or course our railroads
surpass all their facilities for transit,
but II our ordinary roads were to be
left as long without care as some OF
the prehistoric highways that have
been discovered in various parts of the
world, they would look like "the roads
in Scotland before they were made"
But there has already been progress,
and the methods Of Macadam, whom
Scott referred to as the Colossus Of
Roads," are being applied in a modi-
fed form in every part of the country
that boasts of gravel-pits Road
building has become a science worthy
the attention Of the most skilled en-
gineers, and experts are already
abroad in the land. The Province Of
Ontario has for some years past been
setting an example that might be fol-
lowed with profit in all our States.
The government employs an engineer
to oversee bodybuilding and to teach
the art to all municipalities willing to
learn. In this country the agitation
has been left largely to interested
parties the blcyclists and automobile
interests, but the good work Is grow.
ing, as shown by the convention re-
Gently held in Buffalo.-The Observer,
in Harper's Weekly.
The suburban citizen., 1901-10-26
A Commanding Figure.

'Your friend is a commanding fig.
ure in the politics of your State"
II should say So" answered Sena.
tor Sorghum. HE stands for at least
q billion Of dollars"
The suburban citizen., 1901-10-26

The annual produce of currants in
Greece is about 100000 tons
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
A Virginia Rule.

"The Democrats of Virginia haven't been so much stirred in recent years as they are now over the gubernatorial fight" said a Lynchburg man yesterday.
 'The victory seems to lie between Mon tague and Swanson, but there is talk of dark horse. Some say that Taylor El- Tyson of Richmond chairman of the State Committee, who was an aspirant for the gubernatorial nomination four years ago. has a chance of coming in this time as the surprise candidate. But persons who speak of Eilyson as a possibility are not familiar with Virginia politics. for there is an unwritten law that no Richmond man can be either Governor or United States Senator. No man from Richmond has ever been Governor or Senator and 1t will be long while before there is a change in the rule. An ex-Confederate would have a better show of reaching the Presidential office than a Richmond man of being nominated even for the Governorship. It is matter of jealousy the country against the big city. It Is not so in many states. but the Virgin fans take particular delight in keeping it's chief city from receiving high honors.
 ''Fitzhugh Lee was elected Governor in 1ss5. but even so non''lar man as he
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
Y. M. c. A. Jubilee.

A notable religious convention will be held in Boston June Il to 16 in commem- , oration of the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Y. M. c. A. work in America. Many distinguished delegates will come from Europe-two from Russia, two from Finland and a large number from Great Britain. One of the Russian delegates Is Father Vassil!eff. priest of the Greek church, who has been granted permission by the Holy Synod. O.
 The United States and Canada will be represented at the jubilee by about 2,2Ot accredited delegates. the list including a number of railroad presidents, bank presi- dents and other men of large business af- fairs. The South will be ably represented.
 The opening service will be held in Trinity church. Among those who will address the convention are }Admirals Sampson, Barker and Watson, General Wheeler, Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Rev. Dr. Patton of Princeton University, and Booker T. Washington.
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
Governor Jones' Paper.

No better, broader or more philo- sophical presentation of the difficulties that beset the suffrage problem has been made, or is likely to be made, than that from the pen of Governor Jones, printed in yesterdays Age-Her- aid. In 1t one can see the problem stripped of racial prejudice. One can see what federal perplexities surround us, for Alabama is a part of the fed erated union, with duties and obliga- tions, moral and legal, in it. One can see from that paper what economic questions are bound up in the suffrage question.
 Governor Jones prefers to present lAe case in all its breadth and fullness rather than to push forward his own plan. He does, however, in two or three closing paragraphs defend his grand-jury plan. He depends in the main upon a poll tax provision, supple mented by grand jury action. If poll tax needs a supplement, Governor Jones' is the best that has been de- vised and proposed-much the best.
 But when Georgia and Tennessee, and really Mississippi and Louisiana for in the two last-named States the understanding" and grandfather clauses have proven inoperative-when in these States poll tax paid at least year previous, is ample for all suf- frage reform purposes, why would 1t not be ample in Alabama? Is Ala bama worse off than Mississippi, or Louisiana, or Georgia? Or is the Black Belt more exacting than circumstances justify?
The age-herald., 1901-06-05

gogues would extend the Democratic pledge to individual remissness in the support of the State, which Is the plain ana bounden duty of every citizen. al- though the pledge does not refer or relate to any regulation that every citizen could and should comply with. And then they would turn about and disfranchise the entire electorate in order that they in the capacity of local bosses may filter them back into citi- zenship. To this complexion has dem agogry come at last. Instead of frauds at the ballot box, we would have frauds in the registration rooms. In stead of few disfranchised temper arily, all would be disfranchised by the plain and unmistakable terms of the organic law. This is backwoods or country courthouse statesmanship.
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
The Best Cocktails.

Every drinking man enjoys cocktail now and then and the best judges say that the cocktail improves with age" re- marked a moderate drinker in the lobby.
 And yet I have heard bartenders as- sert that the fresh cocktail was just as good, if not better, than that which had stood for six hours or six months One thing Is certain: The bottled cocktail one gets on railway trains has better taste and less headache attached to it than that which one gets fresh at the bar. But the bottled article is made without lemon rind. Lemon imparts T nice flavor to the fresh milk, while 1t gives a bitter twang to the mixture that has stood for any length of time.
 ''The packaged cocktail has gained great commercial importance in recent years. It is advertised extensively In high grade magazines and family papers, and seems to be almost as much a part of the buffet stock as beer"
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
EACH SHARE ONE CENT.
[. Letter in Kansas City Star.

N. Y. Letter in Kansas City Star.
 Some curiosity was excited today by the announcement of the incorporation in New Jersey of the Federal Development Company, with capital stock of $2OO, ,0OO divided into 10000 900 shares of par value of one cent each. The person who filed the articles in the Essex County clerks office at Newark was Joseph P Barrick- low, who arrived from Arcola, H.. a few days ago, and returned West immedi- ately after settling the incorporation business. The amount paid in with which to begin business was 5000, and the oh- jects set forth as the business of the company included the purchase and con- trol of lands. power sites. water sites, transportation, telegraph and telephone provisions, the construction and sale of railroads, and the requirement of naviga- tion privileges.
 Exactly what Mir. Barricklow proposed doing with 900 shares was not made known. It was suggested that he might be acting in the interest of big concern which intended using the shares as ad- vertisements or cash coupons Also that he intended starting a penny in the slot stock brokerage business to help out the newsboys and bootblacks of Arcola.
 At the office of the New Jersey Regis tration and Trust Company in East Orr ange, the company given as the Eastern representative of the Federal Develop ment Company, it was said that nothing was known as to the purpose of the new concern or the idea of issuing the shares.
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
IN COUNTRY LANES.

Florence A. Jones. in the Criterion. O country lanes. white-starred with
 bloom,
 Where wild things nestle, shy and
 sweet, IT. Where all your waving grasses laugh And part before my eager feet Could forever dwell with you. !, Letting the mad old world rush by, And just be glad of wind and sun, Of rocking nest and brooding sky! How often, in the crowded streets dream of you, sweet country lane. And feel once more your soft breeze
 soothe
 My sordid breast and weary brain. Ever above the city's din.
 Above the clink of yellow gold. hear wild birds ringing call. catch the scent of leaf-strewn mold. Your grasses kiss my fevered cheek. Your hawthorn drops her scented rain, I am child again. and dream
 That Heaven bides here, o hower-star-
 red lane!
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
PROF. STAR DEeENERATEs.

From the Kansas City World.
 Prof. Starr, anthropologist, author of First Steps in Human Progress" hold ing a doctorate degree in German university. but now compelled to earn his bread by filling the scions of the first families of Chicago with the knowl- edge that shall in other days make 1t easy for them to secure the sausage, says that if male person parts his hair in the middle, or tattooes his body, or wears shirt waist, it is pretty good evidence that there is degenerate streak in him..
 Whereby he gets himself in the same class with that other Chicago professor who never kissed-and incidentally he gets himself talked about
 The professor might use Tom Reed as subject to prove the degeneracy of the man who parts his hair in the mid dle, or Hawthorne. or Holmes or d'Is- raeli or Sitting Bull, or Gall, the Sioux warrior. The savage men almost in variably part their hair in the middle. or nature does it for them. Ingalls, of Kansas parted his hair in the middle, Walcott of Colorado does so still. And to these men a supply of cigarettes was not the limit of life.
 As to tatooing, as that Is practically limited to the savages of the isles of the Pacific and the Indies, and sailors, the professor may know something of their degeneracy. But if he had to push a hoiystone with some of the tattooed sailors on man-of-war he might get other ideas of physical degeneracy.
 The professor has apparently limited his later researches in the field of an- thropology to the stock yards and the leyee and he Is viewing the human race through a crack in the door of Hlnky Dink's joint. He might explain by what right Chicago professor as- sumes to indicate degeneracy by specific signs-and his researches would be more valuable if he should broaden his field and make study of the question: Why does a rabbit wobble his nose?''
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
Free Delivery in Jefferson.

Congressman Underwood Is in Wash ington engaged in pushing plans for covering the large anu populous county of Jefferson with free delivery routes. He hopes to secure this great convent ence for 140,420 people by about July 1, and if he succeeds, as he doubtless will, he will bring a postoffice on wheels to the very doors of nearly 100000 people in this county.
 These travelling postofi1ces are real postoffices, for the carrier inside will not only deliver and collect letters and other mailable matter, but he will sell postage stamps, and issue money or ders. Each carrier will travel about twenty-five miles a day, which he can readily do over the excellent cherted roads of this county.
 MT. Underwood's effort would not be confined to Jefferson if the other coun- ties of the Ninth district had equally good roads. Ordinary dirt roads will not satisfy the requirements of the postoffice department, and if Blount, Bibb and Perry Counties want free delivery they must put their roads in good condition.
 Beginning with July 1 an appropria- tion of s3.5O0.000 will be available for rural free delivery purposes, and MT. Underwooo will have the honor of first covering an entire county in the South with free delivery routes. There will soon be others, but Jefferson will lead the way, as indeed it should, for it has better roads than any other Southern county, and also a better friend at court in these imperial days. MT. Un- derwood may not fancy the role of courier, but he will not mind that if ne can secure for the people of his home county a postoffice at their own doors. And this is what he proposes to do in the next thirty days.
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
Looklnu to 1904.

The Kansas City Star is an inde- pendent paper much more given to lit erature and practical affairs than to politics, but it's leanings have never been Democratic. It is an independ- ent Republican paper of very high class, being the best afternoon paper west of the Mississippi, and there are few as good anywhere. Because of its position and hign standing. The Age Herald gives here one of its recent articles, believing it has been reading the handwriting on the wall:
 "The discussion of Presidential candi- only premature, but 1t is getting the cart before the horse. In the next national campaign issues will count for much more than men. The first thing for both Republicans and Democrats to do is to agree on platform. If the Republicans affirm their allegiance to the tariff and thus declare themselves the champions of the trusts. it will not make much difference who their candidate may be, unless. indeed. the Democrats should de- eide, with characteristic stupidity, to put another declaration of faith. like the one 1t adopted at Kansas City In 1900.
 With all due respect to the genius of Democracy for doing the wrong thing at the right time. third trial of Bryan ism is hardly conceivable. This alone could give the Republicans the shadow of a hope of succeeding on protection platfqzYn. If the Democrats should con tiBue their fight on the flag In 1904. and renew their clamor for silver. and the Republicans should align themselves with the trusts. 1t is difficult to predict what would happen. It would be tough lines for the country and rational and pa triotic voters would be driven to the remedy of an independent movement.
 It is almost past belief. though, that the Democrats have learned nothing by their two successive defeats. as the advo- cates of negation. and the prospects of a reorganization of the parry on orthodox lines are sufficiently promising to cause the Republicans to turn their attention to the limitations and weakness of their organization and the elimination of the heresies which make 1t vulnerable.
 Until that is done the discussion of candidates may be properly postponed since it is doubtful whether William Jennings Bryan himself could land a high tariff Republican In the White House at the next national election"
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
SUGGESTION TO DALLAS.

New Orleans. La, June At a meeting of Confederate Veterans at Memorial hall today the late policy of making the annual reunions great social affairs was roundly denounced. It was said that the veterans had no show in the practice of making the occasion one for maids of honor, sponsors and distinguished person. ages. The idea of making 1t a Confeder- ate reunion was entirely lost sight of. Indirectly the Memphis reunion was term ed good example of the social event In this connection the Louisiana veterans will strongly urge that a new policy be pursued at Dallas next year. It was sug- gested that Dallas be requested to take the money which she will raise for the reunion and with that sum build tempor- ary cottages and quarters on the State fair grounds. where the old veterans can go into camp for a week and sleep and eat by the campfires, tell their stories and hold a genuine soldiers reunion This would be the veterans part of the meeting. and 1t would occupy the fair grounds The social events could take place in the city, and the one would not interfere with the other.
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE.

The Mobile Weekly Press, paper edit ed and published by two negro preachers, thus discusses the suffrage problem:
 '-The Press believes W. H. Council has about the biggest and broadest soul of any man living. Certainly no man who knows him can think otherwise. We have tha highest opinion also of Booker T. Washington, and believe him to be one of the best men ever lived and we think the men who signed those two letters to the constitutional convention are conscienti- ous men and mean well; but we are of a different mind. We'd rather die than seemingly beg for our rights. We are citizens and not slaves. We are men and half man and half slave. We are entitled to every right and privilege any man has in America, no matter how rich or how white or how learned. A Republican of the people and for the people. and of the people and for the ptopie, and to be a republic. These men ask If we were beggars and that fawning spirit, the brand mark of little souls. which sacrifices its manhood for the smiles of power. has ever been and still is. one of the greatest Instructions to human progress; and the broad base in society upon which all des- potisms. religious and political, rear their crushing thrones.
 '4The negro Is a factor here md he knows 1t, and he not only asks for fair play but demands 1t. There is no use in making these folks believe they don't give the negro justice he will feel sad. etc.. when the negro will do anything he can to free him from this thraldom If the negro is treated right he will do all he can. in every way he can to make this southland prosperous and happy. If t,a to |. Il. he can to weaken 1t so that he can de- stroy this system of semi- -barbaric slavery. This country cannot live In peace and hap piness with one law for one class of its citizens and another for the other class and these men know it. They know they are not satisfied and that the masses are not satisfied and that all of us submit only because we are physically powerless to help ourselves. We ought to be frank about It. We ought to tell the truth We don't believe these people think we are satisfied nor that we will be unless we are treated fairly and honestly. There is no code of morals for us. but that 1t is good for the other race. There can be no two systems of government for one people in one country. We are either citizens or slaves and the country Is only making trouble for itself in the distant future The race cannot help itself now, conscious discontent. and discontent multitude of evils which will endanger the existence of the republic.
 There are too many millions of ne- groes in these United States to make them believe, they exist free and part slave. The negro submits now. but that submission is by force with discomfort, cancerous sore which will come to the surface In an eruption in years to come. Give the negro justice and he will give his life to make the south happy and pros perous."
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
CONSTITUTION BY BROWN.
n the Chlcago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 Justice Brown does not help his position as judicial Hopper very much by the ex- plantations of his opinion which he Is giv- ing on Newspaper Row in Washington. A judge who holds that the constitution follows the flag in one case and in another case lays down the proposition that only a part of the constitution follows the flag is likely in a third case to declare that no part of the constitution follows the flag. Under the British system the power of Parliament extends wherever the British army and navy are able to control matters. Under the Brown de- cision the constitution of the United States extends to all American territories except as the tariff-supported combina- tions may desire to nullify certain feat ures of 1t.
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
TEXAS LOOKS TO A NEW YORKER

James B. Dill, in Lesle's Weekly.
 The Texas of today is not the Texas of yesterday. The prosperity of Texas. her business growth, has brought the busi- ness man in the ascendancy and has negatived the argument of the calamity howler and downed the ultra-Populist Men engaged in profitable. legitimate business pursuits have no time to waste on theories or theorists Prosperity is having a tendency to conduct Into ob- scurity the mere politician who needs the financial support of an office, because otherwise he is not self-supporting. This class of man. in Texas as well as else- where. is being understood by the think ing public and is being retired according
The age-herald., 1901-06-05
Herne, the Actor.

Janx6 A. Herne, the actor and play wright. who died at his home in New York Sunday, was quite favorite with Birmingham theatre goers He had been on the stage for more than forty years. As playwright Herne had his best suc- cess in Hearts of Oak" but his drama of most merit was "Shore-Acres.' which was written originally for the purpose of exploring single tax theories. He was especially interested in, social and polit- ical problems and was an ardent admirer of Henry Ibsen and Hery George.
 Two years ago he staged Zangwill 8 Children of the Ghetto" and made a great hit with 1t.
 Herne was an apostle of naturalism in acting, and while he was not a star of the first rank he was always excellent and pleasing