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The age-herald., 1901-06-02
SKILLED LABOR IN THE SOUTH.

From the Philadelphia North American.
 The needs of the South were brif1y cpl tomized to the staff correspondent of The North American last Wednesday by the business men of Birmingham, Ala. More money with which to develop the natural resources more experienced men and more skilled labor. It is to the North that the Southern people look to be sup piled in all these respects.
 No point in the South has attracted greater attention by its rapid develop ment than Birmingham, but it's progress has been along special lines. The steel and iron industry has thrived wonderful ly, but companion industries have Jagged behind. It has not yet mastered the problem of utilizing it's products to the fullest extent, and is still contributing to the support of less advantageously To- cated centers of manufacture. With 100 coal mines in the district and steel and iron mills capable of indefinite extension. it lacks the smaller industrial plants which, for economic reasons, naturally gravitate to their bases of. supply.
 The negro population furnishes the Southern states with more common labor than it can employ, but there are few skilled negro laborers. This condition may remedy itself in time. It would be a good thing for all classes in the South if such should prove to be the case. for nothing would tend more to the elevation of the colorcd people. In the meantime the demand for immigration of the high CT classes of labor must increase as op- portunfties are created by the diversifi- cation of the industries of the South. It has required years for Northern manu- lecturers to gather about them the
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

Among wealthy men there are really mora college graduates than those who started to work without education. I have been told that 30 per cent of the millionaires residing In New York city are collega graduates. I doubt if there is presiderk of bank or a trust company or a great life insurance company or a railroad with headquarters in New York. Boston of Philadelphia, and I might add Chicago. who Is not man of education, whether he obtained such education by A college course or in some other manner. Success full men must be educated. It is a mis- I take to advise the youth of this country to forego educational facilities. fl
 Of course, men are more tractable and easily managed who are not educated. Of the uneducated few demand their rights indeed. few know what their rights arel intelligent, educated men Is usually more profitable and produces better mechanical results than those operated by the unedu- cated and ignorant.
 Had there been more and better schools in Alabama twenty years ago this State today would have been far ahead of what 1t is at present.
 Governor McSweeney of South Carolina Is apparently a very sensible fhan. He declines to permit Senators Tillman and McLaurin to resign from the United States Senate for the purpose of run ming over again against one another. He argues that such contest would create an unnecessary furor in South Carolina, tending to detract from the material pro- gross of the State.
 As a matter of fact South Carolina, like many other States, has had too much personal and acrimonious politics It is therefore we'll in these days of industrial progress to relegate politics of a personal nature as much as possible.
 Andrew Carnegie has offered s10, 900 to the Scottish universities to pay for the tuition of all students He volunteers to make the tuition in these universities free Over this offer the London Review of the Week" grows indignant and ex- presses itself in this wise:
 We trust in Scottish pride to rise in ,
 its wrath against this invasion of the
 almighty dollar Many of the oldest
 ana pest families In Scotland send
 their sons to Scottish universities,
 where they pay fees like the sons of
 their humblest neighbors, neither more
 nor less. Is it to be believed that this
 will continue if the fees are paid for
 them by MT. Carnegie? Imagine the
 Duke of Hamilton, Cameron or Lochiel,
 or Macdonald of the Isles allowing
 their heirs to get educated at the cost
 of an American ironmongerr'
 I have no doubt but that Mir Carnegie could make use of his 5000 900 among the universities of Alabama and other Southern States, and the gift would be welcomed with joyous acclaim.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
Mercantile ProsperltY.

Birmingham is making good stride In the jobbing trade. Four or five years ago the jobbing business here was insignifi- cant, but today 1t Is reckoned of much importance. In the hardware line, Birm- ingham is ahead of any city in the south, and in groceries, dry goods and drugs it is a lively competitor of Nashville and Atlanta The only wholesale line In which Birmingham is backward is that of shoes. There is room here for three or four large shoe jobbers.
 Thrift has characterized the retail merchants for the past two years. Busi- ness is good now, and there is every promise of continued prosperity" said a First avenue merchant yesterday.
 Birmingham is an attractive shopping center. The merchants here carry large and elegant stocks, and they are satis- fled with small profits. This is certainly a great bargain town. Hence shoppers are seen here in throngs not only from the Birmingham district, but from remote parts of Alabama and Mississippi"
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
High School Building.


 Birmingham should own it's high school building" said John L. Parker of the board of education.
 We are soon to have three new school buildings-one in the rolling mill district. one at Lakeview and one on the North Highlands. The contractors will push the work of construction and all three of the buildings should be ready for occupancy in the fall.
 Then In the winter the board of edu- cation, the press and the other friends of the public schools should unite in an eff fort to induce the Board of Aldermen to erect high school building commensur- ate with the city's needs.
 Birmingham leads all the cities in the south in the excellence of its public school system. Our high school is better than many of the southern colleges. The rented building used for the high school Is much too small. We should erect a handsome and spacious structure before another year rolls round. The right sort of building would cost $100,00 but the finance committee of the Aldermen should be able to find way to raise the mon- eyh A
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
Poll Tax Proposition.
Tn advocating Governor Jones' grand jury proposition the Montgomery Ad- xra,tfOoy l

In advocating Governor Jones' grand jury proposition the Montgomery Ad- vertiser says:
 While Governor Jones' plan as to the ad- ssion of voters to the electorate, is, as The Age-Herald says. liable to great abuse. it is the only one suggested so far which seems to furnish constitution al means of redeeming the pledge in the platform not to disfranchising any white man. Under it, the voters permitted to vote when the constitution first goes Into effect. can afterwards, by the mode sug- gested, relieve such white men as may be unable to comply with the general qualification. If the limit to the number admitted each year were reduced to five per cent of the present voting strength of the counties as shown by the cen sus. instead of ten per cent. as proposed, the increase of voters from the operation of that plan could not be very dangerous or be the source of any great abuse. The delegates have not only to frame a con- stitution, but they must get votes to adopt it.
 There are two propositions in this paragraph that need attention. In the first place, the assertion is made that a poll-tax provision Is outside the pledges of the Democratic party. This we deny. A poll tax provision simply declares that voter shall first pay small sum towards the support of the State that he proposes to control and direct If this is not a reasonable proposition. then we do not know where to find one. Every man should support the State that protects him and those dear to him and his property. It is but fair play.
 If poll-tax provision be unreason- able and disfranchising, then the pro- visicn requiring the voter to go to the polls in order to vote is unreasonable and disfranchising. As a matter of fact this requirement. does disfran- chise great many. Some voters are unable to go to the polls, distant per haps several miles; some forget to go, and still more simply disregard their public duty. And yet the requirement stands unchallenged. The payment of = poll tax is not one whit more unrea- sonable or disfranchising than the re- quired attendance at the polls on elec- tion day, and if the latter is within the Democratic pledge, so is the former. The attempt to extend the Democratic pledge so that it will include the neg ligent and the men who disqualify themselves is not justified. A provis- ion that any man can meet is all the Democratic pledge calls for. The Ad- vertiser's extension of 1t to individual remissness is uncalled for.
 The Advertiser then intimates that unless the Jones plan be adopted the instrument of the convention will not be ratified. It assumes that this State is in the hands of hoboes-that the tax payers have no voice in it--that the timfd can be driven into acceptance of Governor Jones' grand-jury scheme,
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
THE HILLTOP.
By Clinton Scollard.

By Clinton Scollard. Wonder the hilltop rises; were you there How opulent a prospect would unfold Forest and field beneath the morn out
 rolled, And sunmits climbing skyward like a
 stairl About you and above you lucent air; Around your feet the gleaming kingcup
 gold
 And little vestal violets. owy-stoled; And near, in shadowy hooks, the maiden
 hair. In the adjacent boughs the boon of song Bird-harmonies with leafy interludes. Guides to content and calm. sequeo-
 tered moods; And far, so faint and far you cannot ken. The oppressive city with it's moiling
 throng. : The clamor. and the ceaseless surge of
 men.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A mans best friend is his most foolish enemy.
 Probably the real trouble was that Jonah had been giving tracts out to the sailors.
 Marriage to a woman is the dividing line between the suppression of express sion and the expression of suppression.
 If every couple really went crazy when they first fell in love with each other, none of their friends would ever know the difference.
 What a horrible thing it would have been for the world If the Lord had made Eve first and had let her go ahead and create her ideal of man.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
THE THIRp-TERM NONSENSE.
3 Omaha World-Herald.

From the Omaha World-Herald.
 When Conkling. and his cohorts planned for the third election of Grant to the Pres idency they did not pay high compliment to the intelligence of the American peo- pie The talk of a third term for Mo- Kinley is even less of a compliment. Ger tainly what Grant could not accomplish would not be easy of accomplishment by Mckinley. If it has come to such a pass that we must elect man to third term in order to sustain business or carry out defined policies. then it is high time to change our form of government
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
ONE VIEW OF THE MOSQUITO.

From the Boston Herald.
 Good news comes from Washington that the Division of Entomology of the Agri- cultural Department is to make war on the mosquitoes of Long Island, with con- fident prediction that the result will be their practical extinction" That word practical pleases us. To the theoretical extinction of mosquitoes we have long been accustomed. but have never discov- cred that it contributed materially to per- sonal comfort. Their practical extinction would be another matter. This is a truly human itarian scheme. and we shall watch its progress with deep interest.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

which Is eonfessedly open to great abuse. The Advertiser should regain it's customary courage. A straight out and-out poll tax provision, paid about 8 year in advance of election, is in fact strong with the people. is wholly and clearly within the terms of the federal constitution, and Is the easiest and simplest and altogether soundest solution of the suffrage problem.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
HANNA IMPOSSIBLE.
m the Minneapolis Times

From the Minneapolis Times.
 It is not necessary to believe that Mir Hanna Is either an ogre, an octopus. or an opossum to feel satisfied that he is not the right man for President Were he ever so we'll fitted. were he ever so honest were he ever so patriotic, the people would not have him. The Times very much doubts if there is anything serious in the alleged plan to nominate Mir, Hanna. If it is put forward in seriousness someone is
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

There has been enough of this talk about Memphis not taking care of the Confederate Veterans and people within her gates last week. Nobody in Memphis expected one hundred thousand visitors. The Memphis people had prepared for some twenty thousand. Few expected that number. When five guests for every one expected crowded in there was noth- Ing the Memphis people could do but give what they had and let it be scrambled for. The slow movers got left.
 Memphis invited the Confederate veter- ans. But five other fellows, uninvited, came along and crowded in with every veteran. It was like unto Chinese Minis ter Wu's reception when he first took up his abode in Washington. He invited the diplomatic corps and one hundred others in Washington official life. One thousanS others. uninvited, donned full dress gar n1ents and crowded in. They knew full well that they would not be turned away. They packed the house, made foot ball rushes upon the viands and wines and turned what would have been a dignified diplomatic reception into a circus. Min ister Wu has never given another.
 Memphis didn't know any more about what was coming than did Minister Wu.
 No Southern town could take care of such crowd as the enterprising railroads hauled into Memphis Louisville failed. Why not Memphis? Even Washington would have failed to handle the crowd which went to Memphis.
 Memphis tried its best It fed thousands free in great tents, but an hundred thous- and is too many for any town to feed and handle.
 Whenever I hear of anyone being fed my thoughts revert to my experiences in far off Japan where my ambitions once led me as an alleged war correspondent. After chasing after Japanese and Chinese armies in the spring of 1895, found myself in Tokio. A Japanese of the Royalty, a count, gave me dinner at the famous Maple Club of Tokio. I was instructed by my valet-a Japanese boy who had far better knowledge of English than had of the Japanese language-how I should dress. A Prince Albert coat, dark trous- CTS and silk socks. Why silk socks7'' I asked. "Who will know?''
 The boy looked me full in the face and laughed. "No can wear shoe. dinner. Nice stockings. No must have hole in sock like American much have. see."
 did not see But at any rate my socks were new and complete and In that respect might have differed from what "Ameri- can much have"
 To make long story short several Japanese maid servants halted me at the club door and in a jiffy without my con- sent, had removed my shoes and were pushing me along through sweet scented and exquisitely mattinged halls to the dining room where my host and Japanese friends awaited, The cute little maids talked much in their language. respond
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
At Dallas Next Year.

The eleventh annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans has come and gone. and again it is made plain that the occasion has outgrown the capac. ity of the town in which it is held. Again complaints are heard that vis- itors were not properly fed and lodged that all places were overcrowded- that discomfort was supreme where comfort was expected.
 And yet no blame properly attaches to Memphis. That city did all and more than any other city had done. It expended $100,000. obtained by public subscription, for the entertainment of the people who came to the reunion. It built great hall for their accom- modation. It provided fine spectacles "a flower parade, fireworks, great military display, great balls, and the like. Memphis was not lacking in any respect; on the other hand, that fine city deserves praise for what it did, with no dispraise on any score what soever.
 There are simply too many Sons and Daughters of Veterans who desire to participate in the annual reunions. We do not mean that there are too many sponsors and their maids--not that; but there are too many of the younger friends of both sexes of the Veterans present. Not too many to recall the days of struggle and suffering; not too many who desire to do honor to the Confederacy or to those who heroi- cally defended it-not that. But just too many for the size of the town-too many to be fed and lodged in com fortable manner Each year adds to the interest taken in these reunions. and no town is equal to the task, and there is danger indeed that soon no town will undertake It.
 The remedy is not plainly in sight. For surely no one will say that the Lost Cause shall not be commemorated once a year. Surely no one will say the sons and daughters of the South shall cease to honor the Veterans. We see but one feasible remedy. Let there be a tented city erected equal to all possible demands. People can be housed in tents three days in May without a bit of harm to themselves. A .city af- -tents rlaced on dry ground, well drained, well supplied wlrn water, with dining tents in abundance-all placed near the Reunion Hall, and near the city itself-this certainly would be the more economical and comfortable method of housing the tens of thous- ands who attend resent reunions. Let Dallas try it. Dallas, town of 42,000 people, will be called upon to enter tain 100000 visitors next May, and It's capacity is not one-half that of Mem phis, but by means of well regulated city of tents it can provide for all and make all comfortable.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
Postoffice Business.

Very few cities of forty thousand do any thing like the post office business of Birmingham. Postmater Hughes salary was recently increased to $s400 on the gross receipts of s12o,0o0 for the last fiscal year.
 Brocton, Mass, with a population of 40,0o0 reports only $59. 900 gross receipts in its post office. Augusta. Ga., with 39,000 population had only $62 900 gross receipts Other cities the size of Birmingham are below it in postal gross receipts. The Mobile office reported less than $100,000 Little Rock reported only $7,000 and Wheeling, W. Va, reported only s91, 900.
 The post office business is an unfailing
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
Liked Memphis.

Capt. J. T. Brooks of Gadsden stopped In Birmingham on his way home from Memphis
 The reunion was a grand affair, accord ing to Captain Brooks. There was a great crowd in> Memphis, crowd larger by 10,- 900 than gathered at Louisville last year; and yet the vets were well taken care of. The arrangements for comfort and an orderly conduct of the business of the camp were in most respects admirable. Captain Brooks said he would never for get the hospitality of memphis.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
About Persons.

MT. Robert Perry. general representa- tive of the Everett Piano Company, gave an elegant dinner at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday to his associates in the trade. MT. J. H. Holcombe, manager for E. E. Forbes, and sixteen other at taches of the house of Forbes enjoyed MT Perry's hospitality.
 It was splendid dinner-one of the finest ever served by Paul.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

Astrologer Raphaels prophecies fofi this day, Sunday, June 2, 1901:
 Beware of law and quarrelling, other wise thy birthday is good one for busi- ness success, and thy money will in- crease fast; those in employ will meet promotion.
 "A child born on this day will be clever and fortunate in all that it under takes, but it should avoid dealings with public companies"
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
The RequIar Army.

Capt. A. Mitchell, U. S. Army, in charge of the recruiting stations in Ala bama, did not enlist as many men in May as in April, but the average for the year will be about thirty per month.
 We want only good men for the army, and of all that apply here In Birmingham and in Montgomery two-thirds. 1t is safe to say, are rejected" said Captain Mitchell.
 ''Our soldiers should be morally as we'll
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

Professor Heron divorced his first wife, and married rich woman freak fashion. He is a trife worse than fool Chicago professor.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

behind it who hopes to benefit as MT. Hanna's legatee when the nomination of the Ohio Senator is seen to be impossible.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

( Chief Bushyhead used to say the ne groes should be sent back to Africa, and the whites to Europe, so that his own red men could come into their own again.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

John Marshall has been dead long time, but it is believed he turned his face away when he heard of the Brown White decision.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

Perry Heath stands firmly by his Hanna boom, and he will soon appeal to the faithful to rally to the subsidy candidate.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

The Supreme Court decides that Porto Rico and the Philippines are parts of the United States until Con- gress alienates them.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

The Uncle Toms Cabin. revival in Chicago is no doubt largely due to the deep influence of the Chicago pro- lessor
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

Governor McSweeney has lifted Sen ator McLaurin out of a hole by refus- ing to accept his resignation, and that of Senator Tillman.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

President Mckinley is now tariff maker for the Philippines, and general autocrat. The empire arrived prompt ly on time.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

The weeding out of Filipino jurists is progressing, and the appointment of Ohfoans in their places who under stand neither Spanish nor Tagalag. is progressing also.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

The little brown men in the Philip pines will soon do their fighting as office seekers and office holders.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

The Northern Pacific train that hit a cart on a crossing loaded with dyna- mite simply tackled the wrong tomcat.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

School boys can now go around the world in thirty-three days.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

John Marshall, who was celebrated in February, was overruled in May in the Brown-W White decision.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

[ The Supreme Court has taken until
 October in which to adjust it's compli- ,eated flag scheme to the Philippines.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

Cuba does not want flag that has no constitution attached to it.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

It is recognized fact that the tariff is at the bottom of the Supreme Court muddle.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

where she can seek restoration to health under favoring circumstances.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

The Republican party has been de. clared bigger than the constitution.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

AS a fog producer the Brown-white decision is unequalled.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

Goose eggs are not favorite fruits among baseball men.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
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sign of the commercial activity of any community.
The age-herald., 1901-06-02

All are glad to know that Mrs. Mo Kinley rests safely in quiet rooms now,
The age-herald., 1901-06-02
HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA

To be honest, as this world goes, Is 10 be one man picked out of ten thous- and.
 Hamlet