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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-12

Mrs William F. Aldrich and Mrs. Lii
Ian Aldrich Pratt. OF Alabama, viii be
at home to their friends this afternoon
from to 6 o'clock At 1871 New Hampshire
Avenue. and on Tuesday February % for
the last time this season as they viii re-
turn to Alabama early in March.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-12

Miss Mary Osborne Condit Smith. who
was a guest at the American Legation at
Pekin during last summers siege, was
| married yesterday at noon to Lieut. Rich
| ard Stewart Hooker, United States Marine
| Corps. and grandson of Senator and Mrs.
William VI. Stewart of Nevada
An assemblage made up of diplomatic
and official society. together with n con-
spicuous showing from army and navy
circles. filled historic old Epiphany Church
from the chancel to the doors. The cere-
mony was performed according to the
rites of the Episcopal church by the bishop
of Washington, the Right Rev Henry
Yates Satterlee, assisted by the rector OF
Epiphany Rev. DR.. McKim.
The brides imported gown of white lib
erty satin was founced with point lace
and the bodice glittered with silver and
lace. Orange blossoms caught the tulle
veil that fell about her figure in misty
folds and she carried bouquet of bride
roses and lilies OF the valley.
The conventional train of maids were
dispensed with. the bride choosing tie pass
up the aisle with her brother. Mr.. ]. Con-
dit-Smith, unattended except by the eight
ushers who walked before They were
Mr. Zelenoy of the Russian Embassy Mr.
Algernon Sartoris. MIR. George Howard
Mr.. Joseph Patterson of Chicago. Major
Charles McCawley, Captain Delano, Lieu
tenant Coyle and Lieut.. Clellan Davis.
The groom and his brother officers wore
the full uniform of their rank. Mr.. Harry
Hooker acted as his brothers best man.
At the conclusion of the service wedding
breakfast for the family, 0ut-of-tow
guests and a few girl friends of the bride
was served at the residence OF Mrs. John
COIuit- Smith on Lanier Place. The house
is historically interesting from the fact
that it was part of the old Capitol prison
during the civil war. II is comfortable
spacious mansion set high on a green
terrace and shows no evidence of its
gloomy past.
The bride is the youngest OF a group OF
handsome sisters, all of whom are we'll
married. One is the wife of Lieutenant
Key. naval attache at Yokohama; another
is Mrs. Cyrus Field Judson, of New York
who. with Mr.. Judson, is among the we'd
ding guests, and another is Mrs. Leonard
Wood, wife of the Governor General OF
Cuba.
Lieutenant Hooker is stationed at the
Brooklyn navy yard and has prepared a
home at his post for his bride.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-12
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Purihes the blood. Hoods Pills cure all
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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-12

The following ladies Of the Congress
sIonal families at the Dewey Will receive
this afternoon for the last time this sea
son: Mrs. Lybrand. Mrs. Reeves, Mrs
Moudell. Mrs Spaldng, Mrs Weaver, Mrs
Brosius. Mrs. Thomas and Miss Thomas
Mrs Gardner and Miss Gardner, Mrs
Graf and Miss Crane, Mrs. Smith. Mrs
Vreeland and Mrs. Kerr and Miss Kerr
Mrs. Hearst entertained Secretary and
Mrs. Gage at dinner of twenty-four COW
prS last night
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
Representation Based on Population.

New York City elects seventeen Congressmen. and in the State Senate 1t has nearly that number of Senators, and yet the Huntsville Mercury would say that New York County should have but one Senator and Kings County tBrooklyn) one. Representa- tion in New York is not based upon county divisions, but upon population It is representation that represents, instead of representation that misrep- resents, giving small counties undue representation, and large counties only partial representation.
 When the negro vote Is eliminated representation will be very uneven and unjust at the best-that is to say, a white man in a county filled with negroes will have excessive political power, because he will have repre- sentation both for himself and for two or even three negroes. To aggravate this by robbing the large counties and adding to the small ones would be very unjust, and it is scarcely probable that the convention will do this, keeping in view the long future.
 The absurdity of confining county to one State Senator, regardless of population, is/a device without rhyme or reason. It is unknown in other States, and it would be arbitrary and unjust if 1t were known there. rep resentation in both branches in the Legislature based as nearly as may be on population is good Democracy and good sense and justice, and that is what all should accept and even in vite. Robbery is never good policy. Growth in Alabama should not be penalized. !
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
Orators of fTodaY..

Said a volunteer of 1861 yesterday:
 "It is Memorial, not Decoration Day. The South keeps fresh the memory of the vanquished. while the North decorates the graves of the vanquisher.
 Gen. George D. Johnston. the chief orator of today, was young lawyer of Marion, Perry County, when the war opened. He was one of the first to vol- unteer as a private. He was elected Sec ond Lieutenant of an infantry company of which pr. Richard II. Clarke of Union- town was Captain. At Knoxville. Tenn, the renowned Fourth Alabama Infantry was organized and Captain ciarke's com pany became Company ID in this regi- ment
 Lieutenant Johnston had jet black hair and moustache and a soldierly bearing. He was in the midst of the battle or Manassas, July 2l. 1881. His sword knot was cut away by a hostile bullet but he was not wounded there. He was pro- noted on his merits Colonel and next Brigadier General. In command of his brigade, in Gen. Joseph F. Johnston's s Army of the Tennessee in the Atlanta campaign. he was badly wounded in one leg. He commanded his brigade with dis tinction at the battles of Atlanta, Frank lin and Nashville under General Hood and at Bentonville, North Carolina, under General Johnston.
 This orator of today was indeed among the best of the younger Brisadiers of the greatest army. in respect to valor yd ecfa nf UaF world ever knew. Like many others of that army, he had no previous military education He was a young man of independent for tune. but practiced law both for occupa- ton and for revenue At twenty-one he was a member of the Legislature.
 'Maoaulay says a people who refuse to honor their ancestors will not rear up an honorable posterity, or words to that eff feet The flowers of today fall upon sod that covers the most heroic defenders of country whose deeds the annals of all time record.
 "In the hurry and grasping spirit of this respenlendent age of commerce, we fail perhaps to understand the valor of the age of homes and serener happiness It may be questioned If a single man in Gen. George D. Johnston's Alabama Bri- gade had not a happy home in Alabama to inspire his military prowess. The world never saw an army. 600.000 strong, of free and independent landholders until the army of the Southern Confederacy marched out to meet the invader. The rebel yell was the one note fresh from every heart that a common love inspired. It was a note that will never be heard aqaiul't
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
ENGLAND STILL TALKS
 OF THE BIG COAL TAX

New York, April 25.-A dispatch to the Tribune from London says the deceased wife's sister Is one of the stock figures at every session of Parliament and she had Wednesday a matinee performance for her benefit without the special patron age of royalty. A languid and artificial debate on a matter often threshed out served to fill the pauses in the more excit- ing controversy in progress throughout the country over the sugar duties and the coal tax.
 Colonial opposition to 8 sugar schedule which is not converted into weapon against beet bounties is having consider able effect and may involve trouble some debate over the amendment in favor of countervaling duties. The West In- dian planters won't have a fresh griev ance; they will not be worse off under revenue duties than they have been under free trade. The ministers can assert that determinations of colonial cane would be ill-timed when there is an area of good feeling between England and Germany. They may also add under their breath that the American government had been good natured enough to discriminate against bounty fed sugars and render sub- stantial aid to the British West Indies.
 The agitation of the shipping interests against the coal export duty is steadily increasing and finds strong advocates among government supporters like Lord Londonderry. Shippers and middlemen who have made contracts for long periods are crying aloud against the injustice of compelling them to pay this export duty There are indications of weakening on the part of Sir Michael TIicks-Beach. with strong probability that he will exempt
The age-herald., 1901-04-26

car returning to Woodlawn in the after noon, and they were still radiantty happy. Their innocence was as beautiful as 1t was extraordinary. In their hearts they had committed no indiscretion, had vlo- lated no convention. for in their hearts they were abso1utetIy pure. And the glorious reclEIessness of that beautiful youth and exquisite maiden. They had left their homes with one little package containing some of her little things and with no money relying upon the bank check that never was receivsd-goins out hand in hand to face the world with noth- ing but love and youth and the everyday clothes they worel
 They were summoned before a solemn conference of gwybeards and wise moth CTS last night. and lectured with un- bending severity But they smiled all the while, the happiest young lovers in all the valley, and he stoutiy maintained that he would marry her at the first op- portunity and she assured the assembled wisdom that it should be so inevitably. We were all charmed. Yet she has been put under strictest surveillance and watch has been set upon hin!''
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
NEGRO DisFRANcHIsEMENT.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 Alabama is following the course which Mississippi. South Carolina, Louisiana, North Carolina and Maryland marked out, and which Virginia is also to take By large majority Alabama has decided in favor of holding constitutional conven- tion, which Is to meet on May 21 Many things are intended to be done in that convention, but the chief work which 1t will do will be to devise plan by which 1t can efface the negro vote and keep the Democratic party dominant. This ob- ject, indeed. Is openly avowcd by the Democratic leaders. Moreover they prom ise to abolish the great bulk of the black voters without disfranchsing any of the whites. eAt
 It Is the one-sidedness of these south ern disfranchising laws which makes them objectionable. Ostensibly they treat both races alike. They pretend to set up an educational standard which does not recognize color. In reality they are in tended to hit the black men only. The least objectionable of these restrictions are those provided by Maryland. which has them In statute merely. The rest of the states which have been assailing the negro have done 1t through their con- stitutions. German who wants to get back to the Senate, and who thinks that he can accomplish his object by knocking out most of the negro voters in the ap- proaching election. did not have time to do this by constitutional convention, and, hence. he accomplished his purpose. or att
 There was an urgsnt necessity, in the opinion of the Democratic bosses of Ala bama. to cut off a few thousand of the Republican votes. Alabama Is one of the lower tier of southern states which has Republican organization in at least rudimentary form. The Republicans of Alabama polled vote of 5000 for Presi- dent Mckinley last November. but were beaten i1.0000 by the Democrats. As the Republicans are making headway all over the south in which they have any organ f1ation. the Alabamians saw that this was d perfiousiy narrow margin which their party has at this moment Hence, they attempt to broaden it by dfsfranchisng 23.0Q0 or 5000 negro voters. This plan is easy, and promises to be effective. They imagine that by this means they can aid in keeping the south solid. They are un- wise The Republican party can win with out the votes of the south. So long as solid south remains solid north will be on hand to combat 1t. Patriotic persons want to abolish sectional politics.
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
Cheap Oil May Not Last.

Admitting" says the Mobile Reg ister, that no man can tell what the future of the Texas oil flow will be, we, nevertheless, cannot agree with The Birmingham Age-Herald that the flow will be of brief duration or that manufacturers, fearing It's duration will be brief, will not utilize it as a fuel. Six wells are now flowing at Beaumont, and the last we'll flows as generously as the first one; and Texas manufacturers are preparing to use the oil. Expert oil men say that the sup ply of oil in Texas is apparently in exhaustible-which means, of course, that 1t will last generation or more" |"
 Experience in this country goes to show that a given oil producing dis trict does not last beyond ten years. By extending the district production may be carried further in time, but prolongation to generation of ex-  cessive production is not probable. Towns rise and fade in oil districts iu the course of few years. If the s,axas field should prove to be very widc and Iong--if 1t should cover twenty counties more or less-no doubt there will be an abundance of . ell there long after Beaumont has ceased to be point of central inter- est; but thus-far in the history of American oil it has been found in linn fled districts. It is much too early to sty how long the Texas fuel oil will last. If the supply be confined to Jef. ferson County, Texas, it will not last long. No we'll has been drilled out side of that county, and no one there fore knows how extensive the deposit is. Until the field is fully tested the Register cannot safely anticipate many years of cheap oil, for the gush- CTS will soon cease to gush, and fuel oil that can compete with cheap oil will become memory.
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
Porto Rico in the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court will take on Monday next a recess until May 13, and final adjournment for the term will occur May 27. No new cases will be heard after today. And yet the Porto Rican tax cases are not decided. It is believed this will be considered on the first Saturday of the recess, and if unanimity is found to exist in the minds of the justices a decision may follow before final adjournment. Tn case of a diversity of opinion, they will go over until fall. That there will be diversity of opinion is altogether probable.
 Some lawyers think the court will escape from a decision that would not promote the plans of the administra- tion, by throwing all the cases out of court on the ground of want of 1ur- isdiction. It is said that they were improperly and prematurely brought before the court in order to test the constitutional questions involved.
 The robber tariffites, who are in the saddle in Washington at present, do not care what the court says as to duties collected in Porto Rico or the Philippines, but in order to preserve their robber rights they desire it to declare that goods from those islands brought to the mainland are imports and subject to taxation. This Is the crucial point. They are not concerned over the revenues of Porto Rico and the Philippines, but they are concerned in maintaining at the top and in the fullest the tariff barriers that enable them to rob consumers in this coun- try ad libitum.
 It is difficult to see how the court can hold that duties collected in Porto Rico on goods from the United States are unconstitutional, while duties on goods coming into the United States from Porto Rico are constitutional, but that is exactly what the robber tarifites demand and expect at the hands of the court. which consists of six Republicans and three Democrats.
 The court is either perplexed and very much divided over the colonial constitutional questions, or else it is waiting for more favorable time in which to announce an unpopular de- c:sion. Such a time will not come, and the sooner the fate of Porto Rico and the Philippines becomes known the better. Let us hopo decision will be handed down before the ad- journment in May.
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
A CLIFF RUIN PARK IS
 PROVIDED FOR BY U. s.

other regions or were exterminated by the Utes or other tribes.
 The most imports.ss- af all the ruins from the archaeological stas----oint, the remains of large villages situated on the fiat bottoms of the canons. have been but little disturbed so far, as they are inconspicuous and have not attracted the attention of the vandals Systematic ex- cavation in them would undoubtedly yield largo returns. The cIiff ruins proper, pie turesque dwellings perched high up in the canon walls. have been pretty we'll cleaned out but the walls remain, and one can still form an adequate idea of the conditions under which the former inhab- itants of that strange region lived.
 One of the distinctive features of the Mesa verda region Is the large number of ruins of circular towers found there. These are not seen anywhere else in the same abundance. There is hardly a half mile in the whole region without one or more of them. What their use was is stil1 a mystery the most plausible idea being that they were watch towers, from which the harassed cliff-dwellers kept watch against the foes of whom they were ap- parentiy in constant dread.
 These towers are the most portentious structures of that old race, being often as much as 45 feet in diameter and in many cases having double or triple walls. Some examples are still standing to height of several stories. They are built solidly, of hewn stone. dressed on the out side to the curve and laid neatly in mud mortar. How old they are and what part they played in the life of the ancient peo- pie Of that region is yet to be determined: That they had some purpose in addition to their use as watch towers Is apparent from the ground plans, or arrangement of rooms, which can be made out even now.
 In the larger towers the space between the circular walls is always divided by heavy partitions into a number of small rooms, while the centre of the structure shows, depression circular in form, like a well partly filled up. The extraordinary care shown in the construction of these towers indicates that they were not de- signed for dwellings, and as among nearly all races the grandest and most imposing works of art are the offspring of religious feeling, 1t Is probable that the towers had an important place in the stl- perstitious practices or ceremonies of the people that built them.
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
From the New rork Times.

From the Nev Fork Times.
 The Sundry Civil bill, which became a law on the 4th of March, contains pro- vision for Ciiff Ruin Park. in Colorado, the purpose of which is to preserve the wonderful ruins of that region from fur ther spoIiation by relic hunters and col lectors The Colorado Cliff Ruin Asso- ciation is authorized to lease from the Wi-minuchi Ute Indians, for a term of ten years, the whole of the Mesa Verde tract, which is part of the reservation of that tribe the lease to include and cover all ruins and prehisto toric remains situated therein. The association Is authorized to occupy the tract and to preserve and pro tect the ruins.
 This action by Congress, although a little late in the day, will preserve what remains of the best cliff ruin region in the United States The Mesa Verde, in the Southwestern corner of Colorado, is an irregular table land comprising some TOO square miles. Through it's center runs the canon of the Mancos river. about thirty miles long and between 1000 and 2000 feet deep. with enumerable branch canons and gorges jutting off from either side into the body of the mesa Tn these canons and on the flat table land above them there are hundreds of ruins of houses ranging in size from mere cubby holes in the cliffs to extensive villages on the canon bottom. Practically every type found in other regions is represented in the Mancos Canon.
 The Mancos and the Mesa Verde region were first visited by W. H. Jackson of the then Geological Survey, In 1874, and year later by w. H. Holmes of the same or sanization. The region is difficult of ac- cess, however, and even up to this time has not been thoroughly explored. Some of the largest and finest ruins were en- tirely overlooked by the first investigat- OTIS. Within recent years a family of ranchmen living in the vicinity has taken up the exploitation of the country, both as a source of revenue from tourists and as mine for archaeological collections. Many of the ruins have been completely gutted in the search for specimens, of which several large collections have been sold in Denver and other Western cities, but hundreds of others still remain in the condition In which they were left by the old cliff dwellers when they departed for
The age-herald., 1901-04-26
An IdyII of Birmingham.

"I am come to tell you that the most exquisite idyIl in real life that I have ever observed or read has just transpired within my own view and with my full sympathy said d gifted and lovable matron yesterday.
 They are mere children. he and she, and each comes of distinguished fam fly. They do not dwell in Birmingham, but are simple soiourners here, he a col legian and she pupil in a private school of high grade for little gentlewomen. They met little while ago and loved one another. at first in a kind of tentative way, and then in the glorious abandon of youths first mad fancy. Some of us discovered the beginning of the beautiful attachment and viewed it's rapid develop ment with keenest interest and most cor dial good will; for 1t brought our own youth back to us with the first buds of tho springtime.
 "The loving of the tender lovers was perfectly seemly and decorus. both being well-bred and gentle; but the riot of inn measurable joy In their hearts bore rad iant and gorified reflection in their pure young faces and their wide and wonder ing. eyes. It was quite the most beautiful thing had seen in life, and I enjoyed it, even encouraged it, as only q woman who has loved could so do.
 Finally, only the other day. we saw that the crisis was approaching. Young hearts, turbulent in their abounding love, could no longer submit tamely to the just and inexorable laws of society which kept tue Iii rca ality apart, though in sen tirnent and devotion they were joined to one another before all their world. They determined to marry forthwith to run away and seek kindhearted minister or a magistrate and laughngly and joyousy assume the grave duties of marital obl- gation. Those of us who looked on fancied that we realized the very moment when the young hearts resolved upon this mo- mentous undertaking and we actually retoiced in their courageous joy.
 Yesterday the young lovers made the leap into the wide world of real and stern life. With one little package containing some little things of her own he and she secreteIy left woodlawn for the city de- termined to get married. She is an or- phan and has been under the care of an uncle. An hour after the lovers had left the suburb for the city the uncle heard of their departure and at once suspect ing their purpose he gave pursuit.
 Wandering about the city the uncle came upon the lovers and found them still unwedded. Being eagerly questioned they admitted regretfully that they had tenn porarily abandoned their matrimonial purpose, the reason being that they had failed to receive a bank check which the hero expected to secure upon their arrival in the city. check to him from his home in Mobile. This left them without money, and so they were going back to school to await more favorable condi- tions.
 T was with the lovers on tho electric