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The age-herald., 1901-12-03
TWO PARrlEs lN ALABAMA.

From the Washington Evening Star Qnd
 Rep)
 There Is the promise again of two poiit- ioal parties in Alabama. The Republi cans have cut no figure in the state for many years. For time the Populist5 showed some force and fight and 1t looked ss if they might control the situation But the Democrats held on to the reins and have continued to guide the coh- veyance. But now they are divided, and two organizations are the result
 This division was caused by the recent election held to ratify the new state con- stitution. The constitution was ratified by large majority. but the methods by which that end was reached were round ly denounced by many of the Democratic leaders. who charge that the votes were not counted as cast The majority of the white people, they assert, voted against | ratification, while the negro vote was used to make up the majority for rati- ficution.' Those Democrats. therefore, who opposed the constitution are in re- volt against those who carried 1t through, and they are preparing to contest for control of the state at the next state
 - election.
 - At the head of the new organization are ex-Governor Johnston and ex-Con. gressnan Shelley, two able, aggressive men. who know the people of the State and all the ropes. and ought to be in position to give the other fellows a run for their money. They are instantly re- minded by the opposition that they have in years past accepted office by the meth ods of doing business in Alabama, and that 1t Is hardly in order for them to ap- pear now in protest against a bridge which once carried them over That is a little tart, and for the moment may be confusing, but 1t does not reach the point. and it should not discourage the new movement Probably 1t will not. If affairs have come to such a. pass in Ala bama that the constitution of the State represents the grossest frauds upon the suffrage. it Is time for a new order of things to show itself, not in the interest of any particular organization, but for the common welfare.
 Two parties in Alabama, both we'll led and both in dead earnest will help the State. They will encourage discussion. ! They will hold men in office to account They will advertise the State. They will bring the strongest men to the front, and keep them there For campaign or two there may be mighty washing of dirty party linen in public; but the result of that will be good. Anything, indeed, will be an improvement on conditions of machine tyranny by bosses and indif- ference among many of the people, in- separable from one-party domination. If new day really Is dawning Alabama is to be congratulated
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
GREAT WILD HORSE HUNT.
An Expedition Sent to Central Asia
 By Dealer in Wild Beasts.

In recent years the catching of wild animals for geological parks and cirs cuses has by no means deteriorated as an industry. In July of last year Carl Ha- genbeck of Hamburg, the wild animal dealer, sent an expedition to Mongolia for specimens of the wild horse to be found there.
 The special kind of wild horse that MT. Hagenbeck was after was more than usually swift and elusive, and to over come the difficulties in the way of it's capture his men hired seven troops of Kirghiz horsemen, numbering about E0O0 in all. and mounted on animals almost as sws> as the wild horses
 The latest reports received here are that the agents have secured forty-six colts, nearly equally divided between males and females. Brood mares had to be taken along. one for each colt, to serve as adopted mothers for the young captives.
 When the expedition gets out of Mon golia it will have to travel more than two months through rough country, be- fore it reaches the nearest station on the Central Siberian Railway. After that the captive horses will have to travel by rail nearly 2S00 miles to reach Hamburg
 Several of the captives have been sold already. it is said, at about S2500 pair, price that will buy pretty gvod blood ed horse of almost the best domestic stock.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
Great Byltasn ond hhe Monroe D0efr7ue

for themselves as independent goyerfl- ments. The Holy Alliance. 1t was be- lieved. contemplated the affording of aid to her to regain control over them. Then came the declaration of Monroe Tn a message to Congress that enterprises of that character, on the part of the European nations could not be regarded in any other light than that of unfriend- illness to our government. The intima- ton was plain that. if necessary, we should go to war to protect the young sister republics to the south of us. and the Holy Alliance conspiracy, if 1t exist ed was frustrated. Again, if Canada should decide to seek admission to the Union. as she was invited to do in the old articles of confederation between the thirteen colonies the Monroe Doctrine could not be appealed to by Great Brit ain to restrain her If Spain had accept ed the doctrine 1t could not have been invoked by her to prevent the Cubans from rising in rebellion against her. In the same way 1t was not operative when Brazil threw off the rule of the Bragan- gas and changed from the monarch to the republic
 The Spectator wisely and judiciously advises England to accept the doctrine as a part of international law and the arguments on which 1t justifies that course that 1t would be the means of bringing England and ourselves closer together. are at once statesmenliker and patriotic Nothing should be left un- done toward cementing the ties of friend ship between the two nations. for their interests, commercially and financially, may be said to be i1separable. It is not, however, matter of very great impor- tance whether 1t is embedded in the code or not. It has stood the test of eighty years and will stand as the law for this continent through all the future.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
Better Days for Alabama.

A man who had been several days at Montgomery and about the capitol said yesterday: 'I am impressed with the evil dences of upward social life in Alabama at this time kind of resurrection known in our wider social existence Everybody expects good effects from the purification of the suffrage and from the ment of the State than we have seen in office for some time. Governor Jelks Is every day growing in public confidence, although he Is an accident to a degree in the Governors seat. It is more in- stinct than experience in the competent man, anyhow. Experience in office work Is useful to office work in the routine, but the individual man, young or not young, is inferior timber in civil or mli- tary life without the instinct for his place and It's duties.
 'I had been for several months observ- ing in a casual way notices in the news- papers of the enterprise of the new Department of Archives and History, so I called at the headquarters in the capi- toll I found considerable number of portraits of eminent Alabamians, thirty to forty perhaps, on the walls and a number of these were portraits In oil worthy of place as works of great mas ters in any collection whatsoever. The director, who Is the official head, MT. Owen, showed me besides the pictures on the Senate chamber walls. a large number of very valuable and indlspensa- ble archives, such as bound volumes of newspapers, private journals, letters, army rolls, relics of numerous descrip- tions and hundreds of books touching wide field of science and literature as well as Alabama history. Among the books is one had never seen before. the Letters of John c. Calhoun, numbering hundreds, and the letters of various people to Mr. Calhoun. a large volume recently published by the federal govern ment. Along by the side of this was the book of Miss Leila Herbert, giving some history of Washington In all periods of his life, very interesting. I cannot now enumerate even the books of most in- trest. but they are every one essential to the Alabama library. The tout en semble Is very creditable to the energy of the director. He is. in fact, the founder of the institation and supports 1t with a vim that is highly promising of the best results. There is now in lnanuscript much history of Alabama prepared and awaiting publication by the department, and am informed biography of wide scope, covering the last forty years of Alabama political history, of Governor Sam ford is in course of preparation for the press.
 'As soon as the State comes to under stand the scope of the work of this new department 1t will grow in public faith and will deserve it's growth.
 .'The work offices are too small and crowded in the old capitol. I cannot doubt but that we shali soon see the building enlarged and the grounds also.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
HENDERSON AND THE TARIFF.

Walter weiimari in the Chicago Record
 Herald.
 Mr. Henderson has made a fair. though not an ideal Speaker. but there Is no quarter any disposition to deprive him of his second term. Mf. Henderson. though haiiing from the low tariff West, is a high protectionist and already the ukase has gone forth from his lips that there is to be no revision Of reduction of the tariff, no reciprocity so far as the House is concerned. no concessions to Cuban sugar, nothing that wifi disturb bust ness or modify tho high protection sys- tenn
 Under Mfr. Rfchardson's leadership the Democratic policy will be to advocate tarifr reform at every opportunity, and thus to define the issue between the two parties for the coming Congressional and Presidential campaigns.
 TO a Republican member from the West MT. Henderson said this morningi
 ''Why should we send for the doctor while we are well? Time enough for that when we get ili."
 We should try to prevent, not simply to cure a disease" replied the Westerner. If you wait too long the people will call in Democratic doctor"
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
HI oElY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
MobiIe's Llquor Licenses.

"As long" says the Huntsville Mer- cury, "as Mobile enjoys special school fund not allowed other Alabama coun- ties and cities, just that long will bick- erings arise from other sections of the State. The Legislature, therefore, should either compel the liquor license money of Mobile to be paid into the State treasury, or allow other Ala bama cities to retain their liquor money for the benefit of the public schools. The Mercury would not be unfair to Mobile. The losses that city has sustained by reason of the com promise upon which the special legis- lation was based should be made good, but an end should be put to the pres ent apparent favoritism."
 This is about the size of an issue that wifi not down while such favor itism exists. Either the liquor licenses Ol Ine oIner SlAIy-Hfe counIieS Shouiu be voted to their respective schools, or else the liquor licenses of Mobile County should be turned into the treasury. The city of Mobile at least is two hundred years old, and the plea of infancy cannot be set up in It's be- half, while the rest of the State can cry out for fair play. In the long run fair play and justice will win.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
In the Black Belt.

The State vent to much expense and much effort to gain white cleo torate, especially in the Black Belt counties, and we cannot believe that in any county any white man will be so selfish and so unpatriotic as to re. fuse to qualify for voting by neglect ing to pay poll tax of one dollar and fifty cents. These remarks are called out by the timely warning of the Selma Times in these words:
 "A great many voters are giving the new constitution a more careful study siEce its ratification than they did be- fore and, if reports are true, they are finding some things about the suffrage provision that are not so comfor ting as they we're led to expect. And they don't like it, and the opinion is that it will in- ttifere with their thanksgiving mood on the day set apart by the government for it to take effect. A great many of the younger generation Of voters are earn.. estly questioning themselves as to whether it will ray to invest a dollar and a half in making their rogiEtratitn n cer- tificate good at the polls, and they are almost persuaded to give thu whole thing registration, poll tax and all--the go-by. That should not be the case. Dallas Coun- ty nes1s every white voter. and every ono should register and perform every act necessary to permit the to vote in the November election The poll tax has to be paid on or before the. first day of February next. That is a condition precedent for all voters between the ages of pl and 45 to exercise their privilege of voting at the state election next Septem- Der. A payment after that time won't do"
 If the white voters of Dallas or of any other Black Belt county are 50 lacking in public spirit as to adopt such course, they deserve to suffer black domination indefinitely. The Age-Herald refuses to believe that any Alabamian will throw away all cleo toral rights in order to save one dollar and fifty cents, especially when that small sum is much needed by the
The age-herald., 1901-12-03

us fn AfaUah1a fs to be commended. Tho section that forbids disfrahchised voters from participating in party conventions and primary elections will result in good. Heretofore a great many good citizens who wanted to act with the Republicans, Kept away from conventions and prima- ries because of the dislike they had to mixing with an ignorant rabble, mostly colored. that was fin the party for tho offices only.
 Although the Democratic ffatners of the new organic law intended no benefit to our side. am certain that under it the Republican party down our way will be in future more compact. better organ- ized, and on a higher plane. President Rooseteit's policy will also strengthen tho hands of Southern Republicans. It will put to the front men of brains and char aeter. and make the spoiisfnan taEe 8 back seat"
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
ParIs to New York oxerIand.

New York. December 2.-According to the Tribune's London representative, Harry Dewindt will leave Paris on Sun day on his overland trip to New York. The Express states that the explorer proposes to cross Behring Strait Oh the ice from Nigi Colmsok in Siberia to Cape Prince of Wales, but should the ice con ditions not be favorable an American revenue cutter will convey him across the Straits. He hopes to reach New York in June
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
Fin. old southern, Etc.

From the New York Evening Sun.
 The story came from South Carolina. A student at the Tar Heel University was surrounded by group of old college mates at hotel in New York the other night. They were welcoming him to the metropolis and incidenta.iy plying him with questions.
 ,'what has become of old Dawson?" some one asked.
 ''Oh. he's back studying law. Did you bear how he escaped being expelled? No? Well, he was hauled up before the fac ulty for playing poker. It looked like a cold deal for Dawson untn old 'Prexy'- you know how a soft answer turns his wrath-asked: Mir. Dawson, what would you think of me if were to engage here in friendly little game of poker with the other members of the faculty? What would you think of me. Mir. DawsonT he thundered.
 Without cracking a smile Dawson spoke up: 'welL doctor, I think you would skin 'em'
 And Dawson escaped expufsion?'' ], ''Of course. 'Prexy' was highly pleased at Dawson's attribute to his ahilitv. '
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press. { Even the janitor Is polite around Christm as time.
 Everybody's memory is awfully short about the favors other people do for him.
 2 Experience would always be worth what we pay for 1t if we didn't 20 and run up the same sort of bill again.
 A woman likes to send for the doctor once In a while, even if nobody is i'll. to make him see that her trade Is worth having
 A womnn's Idea Of sn honest butcher is one who weighs the meat before cut ting out all the bones and then weighs 1t again. no matter which weight he charges for.
 An engaged girl always has some part of her trousscau lying around handy, so that, whenever he comes she can grab it up and be surprised to get caught work ing on It.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
Americans May Buy Ships.

New York. December 2.-Accordine to the Tribune's correspondent rumor is current in Liverpool to the effect that another immense shipping deal. involv- ing the sum of as,oOoooO, is under nego- tiation. American interests. 1t is said, is about to take over the large shipping business of Samuel 6 Company, of the Shell Line of steamers. The Burnoe and eastern oil interests held by Samuel 6 Co. are stated to be included.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03

public schools. The new constitution does not increase the poll tax. It stands at the sum named in the com stitution of 1875, and the man who will not pay it Is not good citizehi A man who will thus disfranchise him self should not call himself an Ala bamian. He becomes by his own act political eunueh. and he should bs classed as such in the future life of the State.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
WRECK A HOUSE.
Home of Non-union Miner Is Dyna.
 n1lted.

Knoxville, December 3.--A special to the Sentinel from Coal Creek says house at Bricevijle, occupied by a non-union miner naned Emmitt. was almost entirely de. stroyed in an effort to excite sympathy for non-union n en. The house was owned by tho Knoxville Iron Company, at whose mines it Is reported trouble was recently had, on account of the reported orsaniz- alton of brs nch of the Unior. Mine workers Of America.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
Platform BuiIdIro in Washlnutou.

Tn the early days of the republic Congress acted by parties as national conventions, naming Presidential can didates, making platforms, and plan ming campaigns. But after Jackson's time this practice was abolished and in it's stead popular conventions were periodically called to do such work The attempt of the New York Demo cratic delegation and of the Hon. Al bert Sidney Burleson fresh from the wire-grass district of Texas to lay down a platform for Democrats to fol low, is but an attempt to revive pre- Jackson praotices--to make members of Congress dictators of party policy to abolish popular rule and set up clique rule.
 The Democratic members of Con- gress were not sent to Washington charged to do anything of the sort, and all resolutions were finally refer red to a committee of twelve to be appointed by Chairman Richardson, with instructions to report to caucus to be held on Friday of next week. The handful of New York Democrats and the remarkable MT. Burleson will now have time to think 1t over. and what they do not think of the commit tee of twelve doubtless will. The New York-Burleson resolutions will rest quietly in the party's pigeon holes.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
SURPRISES AN AID. Customs Inspector Had Never Heard of the King of Abyssinla.

New York, December 2.-Lieutenant Renito sylvian V as. one of the arrivals on the LaGascogre, which has just reached fere. He is a'd-de- .amp to the King of Abyssinia. end is an active officer in the Abyssinian army, The customs in- spector informed him that he had never heard of the King of Abyssinia.
 he lieutenant expIained to the ir spec tor that King Meneiik was great war rior and had slaugttcred sooV Italian sol dieis in single morning without losing a men on his own side. Lieutenant syivian said that he vas on his way to 1rayti. end that he might visit other countries before his return hone.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
WAS IT PAT GROVE?
Man Shot Thinks He Was the AssaII
 ant.

Butte, Mont, December 2--A special to the Miner from Cascade, Mont, says: Fred DawlSins. a ranchman. was shot and probably fatally wounded by man who he claims is Pat Grove, the al- legged abductor of young Cudahy of Omaha. The man who did the shooting was arrested later. He gives the names of J. B. Mcbride. Henry Livingston and J. B. McGuire. ts,
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
WILL BUILD COTTON MILL. PeII City Will Be the Site of a New
 Enterprise.

Fell City December 2.Ttspecial.)--A cot ton mill for the manufacture of denims will be built at Pell City, St. Clair Coun- ty. The site for the mill is midway be- tween the tracks Of the Southern Railway ard the East and West Railroad.
 This mill will employ 750 operators. and consume 12,OOO bales of cotton year. It will do its own bleaching and dying, something unusual in the south. St. Clair County is one of the original counties iE Alabama, but owing to its lack of a large town 1t has, notwithstanding its vast areas of coal and iron. Jagged behind in the march of prosperity. Pell City will be at the head of the newly awakened prosperity. and the whole county will feel the impetus of Its growth. The peo- pie of the Coosa valley will be benefited by this enterprise.
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
MY NATIVE LAND.

By John Boyle O'Reilly. It chanced to me upon a time to sail Across the southern ocean to and fro; And, landing at fair isles, by streams and vale or sensuous blessings did we ofttlmes go. And months of dreamy joys, like joys in sleep,
 Or like clear calm stream OCT messy stone, is.s Unnoted passed our hearts with voiceiess sweep.
 And left us yearning still for lands and
 unknown.
 And when we found one-for 'tis soon to find, Tn thousand-isled Cathay another isle-4 For one short noon It's treasures filled the mind
 And then again we yearned, and ceased to smile. s And so 1t was, from isle to Isle we passed, Like wanton bees or boys on flowers or And when that all was tasted. then lat last
 We thirsted still for draughts instead of sips. t.t I learned from this there Is no Southern land
 Can fil with love the hearts of North ern men, 2. Sick minds need change; but. when in health they stand Meath foreign skies, their love ffies home again. e And thus with me it wss' the yearniAs From laden airs of cinnamon away And stretched far westward, while the full heart burned
 With love for Ireland. looking on Cathay ts My first dear love, all dearer for thy grief! =a My land. that has no peer in all the sea ..t.f For verdure, vale or river flower or leaf If first to man else. thou'-t first to me.
 .aRp ~ r New loves may come with duties. but the first Is deepest yet-the mothers breath and smiles Like that kind face and breast where I was nursed, ..s :se- -.,.-ss: Is my poor land. the Niobe of isles. .
The age-herald., 1901-12-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
bsailn6 of the Orator.

Several AIabaa1ians vest terday were dis- eusstng the effeet of public speeches on moulding sentiment and 1t was the unan- irnous opinion of little party sa1hei ee in the Morris Hotel that the power ol the public speaker Is fast dWinullhs away.
 Tn former days" said General Charles M. Shelley, the people relied on stump speakers to inform them on the issues involved in political campaigns, and there was practically no other way or reaching the voters. The force of those addresses swayed publis sentiment and many an or ator won his spiirs oh his voice. put things are different now.
 "In those days" continued the general we had no daily papers to chronicle events from every part of the world, the telegraph service was not general ana the mails were slow. I remember well now we formerly went out to the gate 10 nan every man who had been out Of the set- clement to get the news of the outside world.
 "In those days a Congressman came home like a conauering hero, and the people flocked around him to learn what he had done and what he had heard in the national capital. and who had made the great speeches.
 Back in the 5Os Clay. Calhoun ana Webster were startling the country by their powerful speeches ir1 Congress and the vote of that body was swayed by the voice and brain of such orators
 "1n the present era, 1 would venture to say, there has not been vote changed in Congress by a speech in ten years. Men now have opportunities to inform themselves and their minds arc made up to how they will vote.
 "The pt ople arc getting the same way said General Shelley. "and stump speeches amount to very little. Take the last cam paign, for instance. The other side had practically all the speakers and still we made a great fight Of course we had some speakers, but I don't believe any of them did much good. The people want facts, and with the present opportuni- ties they arc going to get them.
 Newspapers keep the people informed these days, and I had rather have them than all of the public speeches"