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The age-herald., 1901-02-02
Consul General MoseIey's Funeral.

A special train, connecting with the early mingham, will be run tomorrow from Pell City to Talladega to enable everybody in Birmingham who desires to do so to at tend the funeral of Hon. Robert A. Nose ley, late Consul-G General of the United States to Singapore, and sometime past grand master of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Ala bama.
 Dr. Moseley's funeral will take place at the Baptist Church in Talladega at 2:3O o'clock Sunday afternoon, and his burial will be with the highest honors of Odd Fellowship. The public is respectfully in vited
 A telegram was received last night by MT. J. Burger of Birmingham from Prof. J. s. Graves of Talladega giving notice that all arrangements for the special train between Pell City and Talladega, going to Talladega in the morning and returning to Pell City in the evening, had been perfect ed; and all persons attending the funeral from Birmingham can leave the city at 6 o'clock in the morning, and attend the funeral, and returning, reach Birmingham at 10 o'clock at night. It is understood that there will be large attendance from Bir- mingham. It is especially desired that all Odd Fellows attend
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
EPISCOPALIAN CATHOLICS.
High Church Against Low Church in
 This Country.


 New York, February At meeting of the Catholic" Club of New York an or. ganization of High Church Episcopalians, yesterday afternoon, at which the Rev, Harry Wilson of London and Clifford Kel- way of 'The Church Review" the organ of the "Catholic" party in the Church of England, were present, it was decided to publish an American edition of the English Catholic organ in Philadelphia, with an office in New York, and to join the Cath olic' parties in England-and America for a war on Protestantism, and especially on the Low Church Episcopalians. It was decided that the Catholic" movement in England would be much helped if the lord bishop of Rochester should be made bishop of Lon don.
 Haley Fiske, a leading laymen in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, has under- taken to raise $25, GOO for the movement. The Rev. Robert Ritchie, the rector of the church at the Falls of Schuylkill, is to be in nominal charge of the new paper, which. it is said will absorb several now in the field.
 Mir. Kelway said yesterday after the meeting that he thought the accession of Edward VII would be to the advantage of the Catholic party in England MT Kel- way and the Rev. Harry Wilson expect to sail for England today.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
@----- CONDITIONS IN PORTO RICO.
Governor Alien Says Poverty and Dis
 tress Have Disappeared

Washington, February 1.-The Secretary of the Navy has received an interesting let ter from Governor Allen of Porto Rico for merly Assistant Secretary of the Navy and warm personal friend of the Secre- tary. The communication is most import ant, in that it sets at naught the alarming reports that come to hand telling of dis tress and poverty among the islanders, and chronicles a constantly growing measure of prosperity in Porto Rico. In part the letter is as follows:
 "The anti-American sentiment which was prevalent at the beginning of the civil gov ernment has entirely disappeared and the masses of the people were never more con- tented, am sure, than at the present time More employed than ever before and at better wages and indeed, there is a scarcity of labor in certain sections, and contractors complain that they are unable to secure sufficient help, although they are paying 50 cents in gold, where ten months ago they paid 30 cents in pesetas. This, you sec is a great advantage for them The crops are abnormally large and of excel- lent quality.
 "Our customs receipts are constantly in- creasing, well as the internal revenue collections. All our bills are promptly paid We have always surplus in the treasury and we shall finish the fiscal year, which expires on June 90, entirely within our bud get allowance, so feel sure that the Prcsi- dent can have reason for great satisfaction in Porto Rico. Civil government in Porto Rico has not cost the people of the United States one penny. It has been self-sustain- ing from the beginning.
 ''The island is rich and is sure to prove a valuable asset of the United States
 'As to Restitution and starvation in Porto Rico. they do not exist and with the abundant crops and plenty of labor at hand if there should be case of starva- tio here it might be properly called case of Suicide.'
The age-herald., 1901-02-02

where the probes and drills failed to strike any rock at all. On either side of this space were huge rock formations of unknown di- mensions, the permanent bedrock of the val ley. and this rock, which was as hard as flint, we cut into shape to serve on each side as the base of an arch of thirty. feet span. and this arch we sprung across the space of sand, making an absolutely unshakable foundation.
 And in addition to all this we have had to deal with floods from many rainstorms, in some instances entirely filling our ex- cavations with water There have been nu- merous caves-in, one city sewer having been broken several times. As may be under stood, the work has cost far more than we anticipated perhaps $1O,OOO more.
 "But our troubles are all over now, and within few months we shall have mag nifcent hotel, and I warrant you the Hotel Hillman will be worthy of Birmingham?
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlABsm
Pay Schools Voted Down.

-ThB Gunnels bill which passed the House by a vote of 73 to will, if it become law, as it assurredly should abolish the "pay" school, which has been a reflection upon the State, and an insult to the poorer children of the school districts. Under it's terms trustees must hereafter contract for an absolutely free school open to all children five months in each year.
 This bill is credit to State that is determined to reduce illiteracy. It puts the school system abreast that of other States, and it takes away from the bare foot boys and girls the stigma of .pau- per-" for all-are to be on one footing : if the Gunnels bill become law.
 Care should be taken to weed out the pay" school altogether. They should not be connected in any manner what soever. The free school should run it's course of five months, and the pay should follow, separated from the for mer by vacation, or better still, it should be held in another building. The two should be divorced utterly and completely. The first step has been taken in the Gunnels Ill, and the other steps will naturally follow.
 Only one other provision is needed >in order to make the public schools of Ai,ehama all that they should be, and may readily be, namely, local taxation for public schools. Not compulsory taxation, but the right in each com munity to tax itself for better schools. The Legislature cannot grant this great privilege, but the constitutional con vention can, and the friends of public education should be very wide-awake in these days when the selection of dele gates to that convention is going on.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
The Lady and the Law.

Mrs. E. R. Bailey of Washington, D. C., a sister of the late Consul-General Robert A. Moseley of Singapore. was in Birmingham yesterday on her way to Tal- ladega to attend Dr. Moseleys funeral, which will take place in the Talladega Baptist church tomorrow-Sunday-af noon at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Bailey has held for many years a clerical position in one of the great governmental departments at Washington, and during that time she took law lessons to such good purpose that she has been admitted to the bar and is now a practicing lawyer in Washington. Mrs. Bailey is a woman of strong intellectual qualities and evident force of character, and Alabamians will wish her much suc- in the law. She resides at the Metro politan Hotel, Washington. Robert A Bailey of Birmingham, young man of much promise, is Mrs. Baileys son.
 Upon her sorrowful journey south Mrs Bailey is accompanied by her daughter Mrs Schraeder, the wife of a well-known newspaper correspondent of Washington.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
CABINET MEETING.
Secretary Hay Discussed at Length the
 Chinese Situation.

Washington, February 1-At the Cabinet meeting today Secretary Hay spoke at some length upon the situation in China. It de- veloped that the plenipotentaries of the powers not making rapid progress towards a settlement as was hoped and that many disturbing questions have arisen in consequence. Whether our forces in China should be increased and the question to whether it would be necessary to make ar engagements for more permanent quarters for those who are now there than had been thought proper were among the questions touched upon.
 The Cuban constitution also a subject of discussion Much regret was expressed at the seeming deadlock in the constitutional convention by which the adoption of con- stitution may long be delayed.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
NOTED SCULPTOR DEAD.
Finally Succumbs to Injuries Received
 During Worlds Fair.

St Louis February 1.-John Leoni, noted sculptor, who was brought from Rome by the management of the Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chicago to do some of the finest statuary work there, died today at the City Hospital the result of an injury received in 1893. He was at work on the administration building, when a fall from a scaffold fractured his skull and caused insanity.
 Leoni was admitted to the iCty Hospital March 16 1900. It was thought that the in jury sustained at Chicago had resulted in cancer from which he died today. He claimed the distinction of having been born in Ajaccio Corsica, the birthplace of Ma poleon Bonaparte Leoni had no relatives in this country but the remains will be given a burial befitting his former station in life.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02

although they have not been very prompt in showing allegiance them selves.
 All this is of course pretense. An extra session is wanted simply and solely for the purpose of putting through the ship looters bill that Mar GUS Hanna had promised them. All else is pretense. No one will be, or at least need be, deceived by the calling of an extra session. It means the passage of the looters' bill under cover of other measures. President Mckinley may as say as much, for the country under stands the situation, and will interpret an extra session correctly.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
PROFESSIONAL.
By Rudyard Kipling.


 God of our fathers, known of old Lord of our far-flung battle-lne- Beneath Whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget, The tumult and the shouting dies The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice. An humble and q contrite heart Lord God of Hosts, he with us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget Far-called our navies melt away On dune and headland sinks the fire Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
 Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget, If drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in ave- Such boastng as the Gentiles use Or lesser breeds without the law. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet Let we forget-lest we forget, For beathen heart that puts her trust In Reeking tzbe and iron shard- All valiant dust that builds on dust, - And guarding calls not Thee to gilard- For frantic boast and foolish ward, Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord! Amen.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
Uniform Text Book Law

From the Oneonta Southern Democrat
 Alabama needs a uniform standard of text books for the common schools. There is hardly thing to be mentioned that re- tafds the educational progress of the State as does the text book question: Nearly every change of teachers mean a change of books, in part at least This with the ex- orbitant prices paid for books puts a fnan- eial strain upon the school patrons Be- sides, under existing conditions, the books of different authors on the same subject often get into our schools. We think there should be general law passed at this ses- sion of the Legislature, giving the State a uniform standard of text books. Our sister State, Tennessee, has a uniform text book law, and why not Alabama?
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
Cows and Fences.

What is most needed to accelerate the downfall of the hideous front fences is the Legislative enactment of proper stock laws for the beats of Jefferson county covered in part or in whole by the city of Birming- ham, or directly contiguous thereto! de- clared the Hon. Walter Melville Drennen, Mayor of Birmingham.
 Mayor Drennen is right, as he generally is," said a listener to whom the disreput- able front fences of Birmingham are as an ever-present nightmare.
 Enlightened citizens who have removed the forbidding signs of barberic mistrust from the fronts of their residences are not unfrequently molested by family cows, each COW with angles that would warrant light ming rods on her four corners These cows, which have for their owners no more right to depredate on other folks property than the owners have to depredate upon stocks of goods in downtown stores, range from street to street, from yard to yard, and lend certain districts of metropolitan Birming- ham the air of rural hilsides dozen miles from a railroad This is a public scandal and an outrage upon property owners, who certainly have some few rights beside the cherished privilege of paying taxes. MT. Cowherd, who may have no pastures of his own, has no more right to pasture his COW my land, though I had million acres, than he has to send his servant to my kitchen for dinner! That is the justice, the law, the equity of it all. By that same token of the COW feeding on my property, the cows owner would have equal right to the shelter of my roof.
 Stand in front of the costiest residence in Birmingham at sunset and you shall hear full and clear the monotonous clang of the cowbell, not lulling the distant fold, but beating hideously in somebody's private property, maybe feeding on flowers which some good woman with soul of tidness has planted to make brighter a humble home of toll! That is outrage The law should put such cows in the pound. I may be my brothers keeper, but I don't have to keep my brothers COW!
 Let the depredating cows and the disra- putable front fences go together! Take the front fences and build a pen big enough to contain every loafing COW in Birmingham" <"
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
Big Hotel Foundations.

'1 shall breathe easier now" said MT. Ben F. Roden yesterday afternoon with evident satisfaction.
 ment and foundations of the Hotel Hillman. at Fourth avenue and Nineteenth street, completed and will deliver the work to the contractors for the building, a Louisville firm, who will rush the construction forward night and day to completion. So the hotel company have at last completed their part of construction, that was to prepare the foundations and complete them practically to the level of the ground around. Now the contractors take up the work.
 We have had a terrible time with our part of the work, and you may imagine it is great relief to us to get finally quit of it. Our purpose and plans were to have the foundations completed and ready for the contractors not later than January l. but almost at the outset of excavations un- expected difficulties presented themselves. Sand and huge detached boulders and more or less bold springs of water were discov- cred, and to deal properly with these re- quired a great deal of time, patience skill, and money as well. At one point, the north west corner we had to go down lower than thirty feet before reaching the solid rock and then we found it of a trough-like form alton which required the laying of cement 0 a depth of over nine feet before we could p.ace brick
 ''' "--r sr- ''o'r'--c-' To Hey near Nine tecnah street. We discovered wide space
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
Affairs in the Philippines.

It is plain that General MaeArthur, 1 who is military governor of the Philip | pines, and ,-e Taft commission are not | geuCing on well together. The Taft | commission is becoming tired of mili- | tary domination, and General MacAr- l thur does not admire the fussiness of
 the commission. The Filipinos them 1 selves do not know which is master | the military machine or the nondescript Taft machine. The most that is known is that they are not pulling together
 ssThe Taft machine now demands the passage of the Spooner bill, which has been before the Senate long time. The Spooner bill provides that the presi- dent whenever the instruction should
 be ended, may establish civil govern
 ment in the Philippines. The Taftites sailed away in the expectation that this
 bill would speedily become a law. It
 has not become one, and the Taft com mission now asks that it be amended so that the President can set up a civil government in the Philippines without waiting for the suppression of the in- surrection.
 The truth is, the Taftites desire to take charge of the Philippines, instead of playing second fiddle to General Macarthur, who has not expressed his views on the subject, so far as the pub lie knows, or Congress knows. It might be well to first ascertain what the situ- ation is before complying with the ca- bled demand of the Taft commission. The case is eminently one that calls for either further investigation or fur ther delay. The Filipinos have been subject to foreign rule three or four hundred years, and ,-iey can wait until next winter without any great strain upon their habits or traditions. The Taft commissioners are drawing their salaries regularly and are not in dis CreSS, anu UeHeTdi MdcArluuT IS udSIeI- ing, or trying to master the insurrec- tion. Let well enough alone until next winter when the situation may be plainly seen. AS for lne promoters and spectators who are behind the Taft movement, the longer they are com pelled to wait the better for all honest men in or out of the Philippines.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
The Festival of the Candles.

This is the day of Candlemas. an ancient festival of the church celebrated on the second day of February throughout many centuries that are past in commemoration of the purification of the Blessed Virgin. The name of the feast, Candlemas, is de- rived from the great number of candles burned on the atars to the Blessed Virgin and on high altars of the Catholic churches throughout the world. Candles have ever represented a large element of history sanctity symbolism and poetry of the Catholic Church from the time of St. Peter.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
Still After Human Hoqs."

Let the arrest and punishment of car spitters be continued. A few lessons along this line will have a tremendous effect in improving the comfort and healthfulness of travelling in this city"
 Lawsy massy lawsy massy-if that could be written of Birmingham-the arrest of 'car spitters'! But it can't be. The quo tation is an editorial paragraph in the New York Tribune. Birmingham has good law against human hogs', who expectorate everywhere, even in the churches; but Birmingham's law-but-lawsy massy, lawSy massy!
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
The -Henpecked Husband.
Anniston Hot Blast

From the Anniston Hot Blast.
 The DOT, downtrodden, henpecked hus- band has found a champion in the Delaware Legislature, in the person of Represent tative Ewing. It Is the law in Delaware that wife-beaters shall be f1ogged at the whipping post. MT. Ewing has introduced bill extending the operations of the law to husband-beaters as well. He proposes that the woman who beats her husband shall be fiogged at the post, and that the aggrieved husband shall have the privilege of welding the lash =
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
New Yarn Mill.

From the Annston Star
 The work of erecting the machinery in the new Anniston Yarn Mill will commence Monday and it will require probably five weeks to get all the machinery in position and in working order
 A great quantity of machinery for the new mill has been received about twelve carloads having been received thus far. The work of erecting the machinery is a tedious one, and requires much care and skill but within six weeks the mill, it is thought, will be in readiness for active operations
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 One woman can't be together an hour without plotting something.
 woman begins to be an old maid when she begins to be afraid she is going to be ore.
 After girl gets to be twenty-five withou' getting married her heart looks like tn second day of rummage sale.
 When a girl once makes up her mind tr get married. even the sight of n whole pro cession of twins in baby carriages would1 move her.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
Eighty Years Old.
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 Today the Mobile Register enters upon it's eighty-first year, having with yesterdays issue completed eighty years of it's exist ence as a newspaper. Unlike a thing of flesh and blood, 1t does not feel the effect of this great age save in the daily renewal of it's strength and it's ever blooming confi- dence in the future of Mobile. The Register and the city have grown up together, and those who love both will wish them long continuance of the companionshp
The age-herald., 1901-02-02

skirts of that town. He is to put in a side track and quite an extensive plant will be put up for the manufacture of 'skitawa- hoo" Now, what is 'skita%ahoo'' and why should an extensive plant be necessary for it's manufacture? There are probably Georgians in Chicago who can tell whether this outlandish word is simply another name for corn whisky or whether it is some new beverage known only to that region.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
Circulating Music.

From the Clarke County Democrat.
 A few of the larger libraries in the coun- try have added music to their circulation departments, and with marked success. The idea is spreading now to the libraries in the smaller cities. Seattle has just adopted it, beginning with 200 books of vocal and in- strumental music. In the Seattle, as in the other libraries, which have adopted this feature, the aim is to encourage the taste for good music.
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
A New Paper.

From the Maplesville Reflector.
 The Reflector makes it's bow to you as pulling infant but if the people of Chiffon County will only furnish a sufficient supply of nourishing pap it will soon throw aside its swaddling clothes and rapidly develop into vigorous youth and manhood, able and ever ready to battle for education, morality, justice and the development of our coun- try. We ask the people of Maplesville to give us their hearty support
The age-herald., 1901-02-02
BARNARD RETURNS.
Missing Bank Teller is Not Dead, But
 Ready For Business.

Chicago, February 1.-Arthur Barnard, the paying teller of Dowie's second bank, who had been missing for over a week and who was believed to have met with foul play or an accident, walked into the bank today and announced himself ready to resume his duties. Barnard, according to his story, left Chicago because, of an encouragement with his sweetheart going to St. Louis and thence to Pensacola, Fla.