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The age-herald., 1901-05-30
Jefferson Davis Monument.

The ashes of Jefferson Davis rest in Richmond, where he served through out four trying years as the President of the Confederate States, and the head and front of the effort to estab- fish a new republic based on the sov- ereignty of the States and on the will of the people. The effort failed, but the principles which Jefferson Davis stood for stand, and in the ages to come those principles will shine out very distinctly. The men who fail are often vindicated in history after the passions of the time have disappeared. So it will be with Jefferson Davis, and the effort to erect a suitable monu- ment to his memory should be carried into fact.
 Up to this time $31 300 has been gathered in. The sum of $100,000 is needed. The United Daughters of the Confectionery have taken hold of the subject, and it is hoped that the pres ent reunion at Memphis VIII give such shape and form to this matter that the amount needed can be collected. It may be that the entire subject will be assumed by the ladies of the two organizations that have raised the greater part of the money now in hand. If so, a monument to Jefferson Davis will speedily be erected. That such a monument should be built goes with out the saying, and the way to build it is to go at it as cotton business en- terprises are carried out. We must shoulder it as duty not only to lief ferson Davis, but to all he represented to the latest generation. We must take hold of 1t in earnest, each State doing its part, and the result will not be long postponed.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
STEEL KING AcHwAB's CAR.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 By December 1 Charles M Scbwab h president or the billibn-dollar steel trust, VIII own the finest pyivate car ever built by the Pullman Conpany The car will De designed Tor the Accommodation of MT Schwab and his family. and it's ulans aro now being drawn hete under the suner- vision of Joseph l.. Fay, young colored man, who is said to stand nearer to MT Schwab than any onf else in the United States Steel Company
 For several days Mr. Ray has been fin. specting the various modes for private palace cars in the offices of the Pullman company. He also Hade several trips to Pullman. After through investigation or plans or cars now In the service of the miliionaires he decidd that what MT. schwab wanted was something a trife superior to and moracomplete than any yet made The usuat price of a palace car is, roughly speakig, $ls,0oo. MT. Ray was empowered to naT{e double that sum or even more. provide4 the car was con- structed just exactly MT. Schwab de- sired. No set price ha&been fixed as yet, but Mir. Ray said toda6 the cost would be at least s35.0o0.
 The car will be thssregulation ienkth. 70 feet. and will contsjp two staterooms, dressing-room, diSng-room. a bath room and kitchen. e n,
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
MR. HILL NoT A sPEcuLAroR.

Who is MT. J. J. Hill? {? asks Henry Loomis Nelson in Harper's Weekly. He Is not a figure known in Wall street. He is not a been inside the New York Stock Ex- change When he buys stocks and bonds it is for the purpose of gaining the owner ship of a property which he desires to own and manage as a business enterprise and fellow shareholders, To those who are associated with him in the railroad busi- ness he seems to be the greatest railroad manager of his times. He began life in the West forty-five years ago as a clerk in Mississippi river transportation busi- ness at St. Paul, and then went back into Canada, whence he came, and into the service of the Hudson Bay company. He was regarded as an intruder by the old Northern Pacific managers, and he was not popular with them. But he kept on building and operating his own road. until eventually it became the Great Northern railroad. It was built as a private enter prise. It Is the only trans-continental road constructed without a dollar of govern ment money. Its bonded debt is small It has never missed paying a dividend. Tn the panic years. 1893. 1884. 1895, when rail- road wrecks were tun1bling all about, the Great Northern not only paid Its divi- dends. but increased thenls
 MT. Hill is a commanding personality who wins loyalty and devotion from his associates. He is possessed of a warm imagination, restrained by thorough lrt1nu nf6 6afa T., 1r. Ii. road costs. the cost of operation, the cost of wear and tear. Every dollar that his road earns belongs to the stockholders No one connected with his road. officially, makes money out of it from patents or any of the devices by which some rail- roads are bled. MT Hill knows thoroughly the country through which his road passes, its products. its capacity. its peo- pie and their capacity. He knows also the promise of each season and his imagina- tion walks into the future as sure-footed as it is permitted the imagination to do
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
rHE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlAsAm.
More faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
SuIu Islanders All Riaht.

A bare majority of one in the Su- preme Court has made the Philippines an American possession subject to the terms or regulations of Congress only. In other words Congress, not the con- stitution, follows the flag. This sets up the Spooner resolution as the su- preme authority in the Philippines, and the Spooner resolution makes President Mckinley the sole judge of what is best among the ten million of subjects-not citizens--in those isl ands.
 The administration has negotiated a treaty with the Sultan of Sulu in which those twin relics of barbarism," slavery and harems, are recognized as lawful institutions, and this treaty will of course be reafirmed. Slavery ex- ists therefore by the consent and CO., operation of this country, acting through the President and Congress.
 If the constitution had followed the flag instead of Congress and the Presi- dent the thirteenth amendment would have been very embarrassing to our Sultan of Sulu, for it reads as follows:
 'Neither slavery nor involuntary servi- tude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convinced, shall exist within the United States. or any place subject to their juris- dictiop."
 Tie Bates treaty with our Sultan of Sulu stands. because the constitution does not follow the flag, and Justices Brown, White, Gray, Shiras and Mo Kenna have said it. The harem is now an American as well as Moslem insti- tuition, and slavery is re-established within American jurisdiction. Bates and his Sulus are vindicated, as well as the administration. A subseryient court has builded farther than it knew.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
The Acreaqe Report.

Cotton factors and speculators are looking eagerly for the governments acreage report promised on the 31st in- stant.'' said man who watches the mar ket closely.
 With favorable weather conditions we will certainly have twelve million bale crop. I would not be surprised to see Texas make six million bales. Those fig ures are much higher than most esti- mates, but when 1t is known that the wheat in northern Texas died from the winters drought and that the wheat fields are now planted in cotton, if the Empire State does not turn out six million it will be close on to 1t.
 A twelve-million-bale crop wll not be too much for the worlds needs. China will be taking cotton goods again in less than a year from now, and that will mean demand for not less than one mill lion bales. I do not expect to see cotton as low as six cents next fall. I think It will range between 61s and 7.''
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
No Y. M. c. A. RuiIdinn.

Birmingham is the only city in the United States of any size or importance that is without r. M. c. A. building of some sort" said an active church worker yesterday.
 What reflection on the Christian philanthropy and public spirit of this community! It seems that our people are too intent upon the things of this world-either upon material gain or upon the frivolities of life-to build a home for the association There is no city in the south that needs the moral influence of Y. M. c. A. work so much as Birming- ham. It shouldn't be difficult matter to raise $50,O00 for suitable building; but if the association cannot own a home of its own, 1t should rent suitable quar- ters in order to keep the organization from going to pieces''
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
THE END OF FIX PRoPRIo vIeoRE,

From the New York Sun, Rep.
 The Supreme Court rendered today it's long expected and far-reaching decisions in the insular tariff cases.
 The several cases turned on different questions of fact, and at first sight the homogenity of the decisions was not ap- parent. The fundamental principle was reached in the opinion on the cases direct ly involving the constitutionality of the Porto Rican tariff act. In upholding that law. and in affirming the power of Con- gress to iegislate for Porto Rico regard less of the limitations of the constitution that are applicable to the states of the union, the court put an end forever to the old Calhoun doctrine recently invoked by the opponents of national expansion
 The constitution does not extend itself by its own force into all territory &C., quired and held by this government.
 The constitution does not follow the flag, until such time as Congress sends the constitution after the flag.
 Territory may be part of the United States in the geographical sense without being an integrel part of the United States in the constitutional sense.
 The area covered by the flag of the United States may consist of states or ganized territories on the way to state hood and other territories subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States. Citi- zenship in American possessions is not necessarily citizenship of the United States.
 Notwithstanding constitutional require ments as to uniformity of Legislation. Congress can legislate for different terri tories according to their varying condi- tions and requirements.
 These principles follow inevitably from the declaration of the validity of the Porto Rican tariff under the Foraker act In the most pregnant decision rendered by the Supreme Court since the period of the civil war that tribunal has now re- fused to grant an injunction against American progress during the twentieth century along the lines indicated by the events of 1897 and pursued up to this time by the American Congress and the American executive.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
Presbyterian Revision.

Dr. Moffatt's amendment was adopt ed-Dr. Moffatt, president of Washing ton and Jefferson University and the entire programme reads as follows:
 "B We recommend that this committee be instructed to prepare and to submit to the General Assembly for such dispo- sition as may be judged wise, a brief statement of the reformed faith, ex- pressed, as far as possible. in untechnical terms. The said statement is to be pre- pared with view to Its being employed to give information and better under standing of our doctrinal beliefs and not with a view to its becoming a substitute for or an alternative of our Confession of Faith.
 "C. We further recommend that thls committee be instructed to prepare amendments of chapter 3. chapter 10, sec tion g. chapter 16, section '; chapter t22 section 8. and chapter 9. section 6. of our Confession of Faith, either by modif- cation of the text or by declarato-y statement but so far as possible by de- claratory statement, so as to more clear ly express the mind of the church. with additional statements concerning the love of God for all men, missions and the Holy Spirit; 1t being understood that the re- vision shall in no way impair the in- tegrity of the system of doctrine set forth in our Confession and taught by the Holy Scripture,'
 While some old-time Calvinists as- sert that the Blue Flag has not been lowered, and all Presbyterians assert that they have not changed positions, yet when the committee of twenty-one report next May in the Fifth Avenue Church in New York, it will be found that the Presbyterians do move as well as the rest of the world. It will be found that they no longer declare the Pope a man of sin and son of perdi- ton; that infants who die without baptism are no longer doomed to the hot place; that the love of God will be made to men more manifest than &he terrors of the Almighty; that fore ordination has been relegated to the rear; that in short all the hard tenets of Calvinism have been so softened by research and new lights that some of them have disappeared and the rest are greatly modified.
 The Northern Presbyterians consti- tute grand body, and the adoption of the Moffatt amendment by prac. tically an unanimous vote IS very satisfactory settlement of a problem that has long distracted and perplexed them. The twenty-one commissioners will pave the way for a long career of usefulness unyexed by disputes that are neither profitable nor comforting. If they do their work we'll the Presby- terian Church will be brought into line with modern research, and there will be peace and harmony within the ex- tensiye membership.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT
 MACHEN AND PULLMAN

l met E. c. Machen up in North Caro- lima Tuesday. He was en route to Bruns- wick, Ga. from which place he is build ing a railroad in the direction of Bir- mingham. He has built some thirty miles of his road already and says he expects to have it into Birmingham within a year and a half
 Machen is a genius. He is not a man of wealth himself but he seems to have the full confidence of men of wealth. He started with nothing few years ago and built railroad from Macon, Ga. to Athens. Ga, more than one hundred miles in length. It Is now operated by the Central of Georgia Railroad He built another railroad in Georgia later, and has since built one in Virginia Men who know him say he Is certain to succeed in completing the Brunswick and Birmingham road.
 MT. NIachen himself is enthusiastic and confident. He says he has had no trouble in placing bonds, and that he Is paying cash as he goes. When ques- toned as to who is behind him he sim ply laughs and says '.Mr. Cash.''
 He has bought thirty thousand tons of steel rails from the United States Steel Company's mill at Sparrow's Point, Md, and is shipping them in schooners to Brunswick, thereby saving about two dollars per in freight charges.
 In talking about conditions in New York MT. Machen said that Wall street looks like a deserted village compared to it's appearance few weeks ago. The lambs have disappeared. There is no speculation. The brokers are doing nothing. The bankers are mad because there Is little demand for money. All the little fellows, he says, went broke in the recent panic. and those who did not go broke are afraid to speculate any more.
 Mir Machen says the panic was brought about by jealousy between the millionaires of Wall street. The Gould and Hartman people were jealous of J. P. Morgan. They got to fighting among
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
Governor Jones' Plan.

The suffrage plan laid before the convention by Governor Jones is by far th6 most intricate scheme that has been given to the public. It steers clear, however. of the understand ing clause of Mississippi, and also of the heredity or grandfather" scheme of Louisiana-both bad; and it also provides for the selection by the people of United States Senators, and it strikes at corrupt legislative deals. The entire plan steers clear of consti- tutional snags, showing at all points the hand of the experienced legisla- tor, and learned lawyer.
 But it is much too intricate, much too cumbersome. It calls, first for a poll tax provision of s4, paid in the January preceding an election, or else the intending voter must have paid in the preceding year other taxes to the amount of s5. or shall have served in
 
 war, or shall have been admitted to the electorate by a grand jury of the county.
 The last-named provision is wholly unnecessary. and it would be abused % much so that the convention will surely steer clear of it. It is open to all possible favoritism in a heated contest In Populist or Republican county it would be utilized to the utter defeat of the Democrats, and vice versa. It is plan that offers the widest possible field for politics and politicians. No such provision should 90 into the new constitution. The convention should say that man who pays nothing towards the support of the State should not be permitted to vote. And the clause permitting all soldiers to vote should not be retained because they. too, should contribute towards the support of the State. Ala bama would have precious little reve- nue if all soldiers in it were exempted from taxation. The man who did his duty in war will readily do hls part towards the support of the State.
 Governor Jones proposes in addition q legislative educational qualification after 1903, but this educational qualif- cation is not to apply to old soldiers or those admitted by grand juries. Un- der these exceptions 1t would prove a lame qualification. fitting very few and probably applied to none.
 The truth is, all of Governor Jones' plan is superfiuous after the exaction
The age-herald., 1901-05-30

themselves and played havoc. The 'eom- munity of interest" plan, he says, has been smashed.
 However much certain elements may abuse Senator Ben Tillman of South Caro- lima, he is a man of political convictions and courage It takes an honest man to voluntarily abandon a Senatorship, ae- cured to him until 1907, in order to try conclusions with another Senator, who, in his opinion, misrepresents the Demo- cratic party. Tillman will either lose or indefinitely perpetuate his public career.
 The people of South Carolina have but recently reelected Senator Tillman. Till- man made the statement in a recent speech that if Senator McLaurln was the kind of Democrat the South Carolina peo- pie wanted in the Senate of the United States then he (Tillman) is the kind they don't want. He declared that if McLau- rin was a Democrat he was something else. He declares that both cannot be the choice of the party-one or the other must be an impostor.
 Tillman declares that he does not wish to keep his seat in the United States Sem ate if the South Carolina voters want McIsaurin to keep his. Therefore thsy both resigned and will run over before the voters of South Carolina this fall. Tillman has challenged McLaurin for fair and honest fight to the finish.
 However much we may dislike Till- mans manners and his rough and ready language, we cannot but admire his rug ged honesty, his straightforward meth ods and his political courage He mani fests his courage by asking the Demo- cratic organization of South Carolina to pronounce again upon their desire to have him represent them in the Senate. He says the people want men of his type or of the McLaurin stamp. They don't want both types. The contest will be watched with much interest and much admiration for Tillman's nerve.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
Financing Our California Line.

"The St. Louis and San Francisco Rail- road company, which now includes the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham road, is readjusting and refunding its bonded indebtedness for the purpose of reducing interest charges and thus ena- bling it to finance more advantageously any extension of its system by the sale of bonds having an established market value," said a prominent fnancier
 The company will create a fifty-year gold refunding mortgage to total of $65.- O0o.OoO. Of this sum sS25O0OOO bonds are to be issued and reserved for refunding purposes. and the bonds not required for refunding are to be used for betterments and extensions. It certainly looks as if the St. Louis and San Francisco is to be a great trunk line in the near future"
The age-herald., 1901-05-30

of a s4 poll tax. That alone would meet the case, so far as the obtaining of an intelligent electorate and the elimina- ton of the negro are concerned. If Governor Jones would lessen the size of the proposed poll tax, he would cer- tainly reform the suffrage, and he would shut no one out. Some might temporarily shut themselves out, but all experience in Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina goes to show that no one worthy of the voting privilege is shut out by moderate poll tax.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
OUR TREATMENT OF NEGROES.

From the Springfield Republican
 The Danish Islands, in the West Indies, contain considerable number of pros- porous and educated negroes, and they are just waking up to the fact that black men are not welcomed in the United States in white mems hotels. We are anxious to know what our status will be, D some of them are saying. apropos of the talk of the purchase of the islands by the United States government. It is a disa- greeable fact that negroes are much better treated socially in effete and monarchicai Europe than in the land of the free and the home of the lynchers.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The modesty that man has is only bashfulness in woman.
 Kisses are like mushrooms: they all look alike, but some of them aren't.
 The average girl judges a novel by whether it is incest to read in hammock or in bed.
 A 'womanly'' man is probably one that doesn't like a sponge as hsell as he does a washrag.
 You can make any woman like you by being gentle with her, but you have to be brute to make her love yo9. much.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
Sam Jones a shriner.

''The Rev Sam Jones took the Shrine degree in Alec Temple at Savannah few nights ago. and it Is said he made lively candidate," remarked an Atlanta Shriner in the lobby last night.
 ''The Nobles gave the noted preacher the benefit of all the latest devices in ceremonial work. But after the Temple was closed and the Nobles sat down to supper MT. Jones declined to join them until the beer bottles were removed. He said he never took part in any social fea- ture of Masonry where anything stronger than lemonade or coffee was served. He always insists on having his own way"
The age-herald., 1901-05-30

most cordially greeted by his Birmins- ham friends. No young man has ever dwelt temporarily in Birmingham who made quite so many friends as MT. War ner made during his stay here, and none ever deserved friendships more.
 Charles P. Jackson of Montgomery was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Judge James A. Lapsiey of Anniston passed through Birmingham yesterday on his way home from Montgomery.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
The University of Alabama.

The catalogue number of the Alabama University Bulletin. containing the Catalogue of the officers and students" for the academic year 1900-1901 makes an elegant appearance and is full of in terest.
 The academic department of the uni- versity includes the following schools:
 Latin, Greek, English, German, Chem istry and Metallurgy, Mineralogy and Geology, Physics and Astronomy. Mathe- matics. History and Political Economy Engineering. Biology, Romance Lan- guages, Pedagogy and Psychology. Mill tary Science and Tactics.
 There are two undergraduate courses of study-the classical and the scien- tifc
 The professional education embraces engineering, law, medicine and pharma- cy. The school of mines, established in 1887. is said to have done good work, and as its scope has been recently en- larged even more practical results may be expected in the future.
 Young women are admitted to all the privileges of the university, and many of the fair sex are acquitting themselves with high credit there.
 Persons who think of applying for ad- mission to the State University should obtain a copy of this number of the Bull letin. The information which it contains is complete in every respect.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30

The revival of the fact that Stephen A. Douglass started Chicago University is repelled by the institution itself lest John D. may be offended and close his barrel.
The age-herald., 1901-05-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Thursday. May 90, 1901;
 Travel and sign writings in the fore noon."
 My affairs will prosper, and thou Wilt have good year for thy business" "A child born on this day will be active, of good business habits, and will rise in life