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The age-herald., 1901-02-08
School LeQisIati0n,

The Gunnels bill hangs fire in the Senate but this surely is not an indica- tion that the coteries of selfish teachers outrank the barefoot boys and girls of the State in the minds of Senators. All in all the Gunnells bill is the most important bill before the Legislature, for it is bill to give the children of the State the benefit of the States in- creased school apportionments, instead of letting the teachers hog 1t while de. roanding fees from parents for their services.
 It is a bill that will abolish the vicious pay" school altogether, thus bringing Alabama into the list of States that really have free public schools. Thus far Alabama has been content with hybrid schools that the self respecting poor would not attend The Senate will say whether the schools of lie State are to become free schools, or are to remain pay schools. The dcfeat of the Gunnells bill will mean tat the teachers are free to exploit the State to the limit of their greed They will be free tc gouble the States money and to get in addition as much from in- dividualH as they can secure, all the while turning cold shoulder to "pau- per- scholsrs, whose only crime con s'sts in the inability of their parents to pay fees.
 The people of this State desire the passage of the Gunnells bill, which re- qrires trustees to contract for five months of absolutely free schools in es oh year. Under the magnificent ap- Iropriations of the State this is what the children should have, and if a teacher is not willing to teach five months for the districts share of the money let him go elsewhere, thus en- ahling the trustee to look for one who
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
One Great Mans Eioouence.

'It was in 1S49-50 perhaps that Commo- dore Ingraham of the United States Navy went 10 Constantinople, and brought Louis -Sossuth to this country. In the sum mer of 1850 Kossuth made many speeches in the United States, and such speeches! Liberty was the exles theme, but where did a Hungarian learn such English! The like of this foreigners soul stirring diction on the stump we had never heard before. KosSuth (pronounced Ko-shute) explained when behind Austrian prison bars, for seven years, he had been allowed to make choice of two books which should be bis whole library. He chose the Bible, in Eng fish, and Shakespeare. Thus he learned the English we so coveted him.
 Roscoe Conklng and John T. Morgan were contemporary Senators. Neither man had been 'educat ted Both men were the word painters of the Senate always listen ed to with intense interest Conkling had memor:zed Young's Night Thoughts while Morgan had memorized Shakespeare, each in his youth
 Neither Shakespeare nor Dickens was educated There is too much to learn now to make stuffing of much practical value in education. Learn words to communicate thought and thought will do the rest. Thomas A. Edison is not educated
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
RILEYs LONG WAIT FOR FAME.

James w. Riley, in the February Success
 "A friend came to me once completely heartbroken, saying that his manuscripts were constantly returned, and that he was the most miserable wretch alive. I asked him how long he had been trying. Three years, he said My dear man. I answered. laughing, go on keep on trying till you have spent as many years at it as l did As many as you did" he exclaimed. Yes, as long as I did What, you-James Whit comb Riley-struggled for years?' Yes, sir through years, through seepless nights. through almost hopeless days. For twenty years tried to get into one magazine; back came my manuscripts eternally. I kept on. In the twentieth year that magazine accept ed one of my articles.
 ''I was not believer in the theory that one man does thing much easier than any other man. Continuous, unflagging effort persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these"
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
SOLDIER FALLEN IN PHILIPPINES.

William Vaughn Moody, in February At lantic.
 Streets of the roaring town, Hush for him, hush, be still! He comes, who was stricken down Doing the word of our will Hush! Let him have his state, Give him his sodiers's crown, The grists of trade can wait Their grinding at the mill. Put he cannot wait for his honor, now the trumpet has been blown. f.ei pride now for his granite brow, lay
 Jr his breast of stone. lUl t the great bells toll
 .e clashing air Is dim.
 we wrong this parted souI2
 ; will make it up to him.
 oil! Let him never guess What work we set him to. Laurel, laurel, yes;
 He did what we bade him do Praise, and never a whispered hint but the fight he fought was good; Never word that the blood on his sword was his country's own hearts blood. A flag for the soldiers bier Who dies that his land may live; Oh. banners. banners here. That he doubt not nor missive. That he had not from the tomb The evil days draw near When the nation, robed in gloom, With it's faithless past shall strive. Let him never dream that his buiie,: scream went wide of its island mar. Home to the heart of his darling land where she stumbled and slnned in he dark
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
The Story of Mary.

"A case in point: One of the most gra- cious of Birmingham women, one most to be reverenced and adored suddenly de- handed of me in the street the other day certain information respecting Mary Queen of Scots, in the eyes of all women the most intensely interesting figure in all history.
 This day Is the 414th anniversary of Mary's execution, that political crime hay ing been consummated at Fotheringay Cas- tie, February s, 1887, seven days after Queen Elizabeth signed the death warrant of her beautiful Queen-cousn. Mary's father King James V. of Scotland and her mother Mary of Guise, granddaugh- ter of King Henry VII. of England, by his daughter Margaret Tudor Henry VIII, the second Tudor King, was the son and successor of Henry VII, and was the father of Queen Elizabeth. Therefore. the mother of the Mary of Scots was the niece of Elizabeths father, and thus we arrive at the cousnship of Mary and Elizabeth, a fact which the fair Birmingham woman de- sired especially to have elucidated, and concerning which there is endless conten- tion outside of the higher class schools. In considering the execution of Maryland almost everybody in the world is partisan
 
 the fact, disputed though 1t be- that Mary threatened to arouse the Catholics and de- pose the pretentious Protestant Elizabeth Mary herself was a devout Catholic, brought up in a convent, and was for eighteen months Queen of Most Catholic France. Her King. Francis H., died and left her childless therefore not the Queen-mother, and so she returned to Scotland within eight months, August, 1861. Five years later she married Henry Stuart, Lord Darn ley, who next to herself was Queen Eliza beths heir, Mary and Darnley being next of kin to Elizabeth which was the true cause of Queen ElzabCth's insane jealousy more especially as Mary was one of the worlds most beautiful women and Eliza beth was excessively homely. Three months after Darnley was blown up with gum powder and killed, Mary married Bothwell, believed to have been the chief conspirator against Darnley, and then the storm burst and Mary fled to England. The rest is told. Mary's son by Darnley became King James I. of England, succeeding Elizabeth
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Kent; third son Of George III: son of Frederick Lewis. Prince of Wales: son of George II; son of George I; son of Princess Sophia, who married the elector of Han over; daughter of James I; son of Mary Queen of Scots; daughter of James of Scotland; son of Princess Margaret; daugh- ter of Henry VII: son of Margaret. wife of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond; i; daughter of John de Beauford, Marquis of Somerset and Dorset; son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and King of Cas- tile and Leon; son of Edward III; son Of Edward II; son of Edward I: son of Henry III; son of John of Magma Charta fame; son of Henry II; son of Matilda, wife of Godfrey Plantaganet daughter of Henry l; son of William the Conqueror.
 "rhe Queen throughout the Georges was a Guelph. This family was founded in 4S9 by Anulphus Hunulphus, or Guelph, the first of the northern kings of Italy. He subsequently, obtained possession of Ba- varia, and the Guelphs ruled there for many centuries, and afterward held sway in Saxory. One of the Guephs, William, founder of the house of Lunenburg, had seven sons and eight daughters. The sons agreed among themselves not to divide the dukedom. One, to be selected by lot, was to marry, and he. and his children after him, were to rule. The agreement was ob- served to the letter, and George, the sixth brother, won the matrimonial prize. His youngest son, Ernest Augustus, succeeded him, marrying the Electress Sophia daugh- ter of the King of Bohemia, whose wife was the daughter of our James I. The Electress Sophia, granddaughter of James l, would have succeeded to the British crown on the death of Queen Anne. But she died seven weeks before that monarch. and her son, George I, ascended the throne. By way of James I and his daughter the Queen was connected to the Guelphs. She was also united in the same way to the royal line of Scotland. James I of England and the sixth of Scotland was the son of Mary Queen of Scots, whose lineage is traceabe back to Elizabeth, Duncan and Malcom of tragic fame. The Scotch line, the Norman line and the Hanoverian or Guelph line all unite in the new King Ed ward VII and the present royal family. It is claimed that one branch of the family tree reaches to Alfred the Great and Egg bert"
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
Ignorant Legislators.

"The public resents with no little indig- nation the daily action of the Legisla- ture in spending a large part of it's time amending or repeating acts passed and ap- proved before Christmas" said business man.
 "Hasty glancing at the columns of news paper reports of legislative proceedings en- ables the befooled taxpayer to see that dozens of acts passed by the two houses and approved by the Governor six or eight weeks ago are now being changed or re- pealed altogether, thus showing inexcusa- ble csrelessness in framing bills and indf- ference on the part of members and Sem ators as to what they vote for This doubt less comes from log rolling, I tickle you you tickle me, and it constitutes a grave scandal.
 Tn the general run of such bills the State at large is not interested except as to the cost, which is probably $S00 to s5OO each, and which is dragged out of the pockets of all taxpayers.
 But it would seem that grave harm is being done all the people by the reckless, irresponsible, and apparently foolish amendments now being made to the wise laws regulating the operations of mutual  benefit associations and protective organ izations secret otherwise, which became law before Christmas.
 These laws were framed by the ablest and most popular high class official of the great secret societies in Alabama, and at the instance of the head men Of all the great and useful societies of that class which the people prize, and the laws were enacted to protect these societies and the general public from the operations of wild cat swindling schemes protesting to pro- tect guarantee the humber and more ig norant clas of the community.
 ''It it believed that swindlng protective associations and thieving mutual aid socie- ties have within ten years robbed the work ing negroes of Jefferson County of half million dollars!
 Yet there are members of the Legisla- ture who are willing to allow this wholesale robbery of ignorant people to go on. It is outrageous It can be due to nothing more than ignorance on the part of legislators, for there is no lawmaker of Alabama who would knowingly favor fraud
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
Happy Birthday Party.

The Girls Auxiliary to charity will give a birthday party for the poor, at St. Paurs Hall, by St. Pauls church, in Third ave- nue, Tuesday evening, February F. The good-hearted fair lovers of sweet charity are sending out many tiny sacks or bags, daintily made and having parti-colored drawstrings for closing them, and accom- panied by these lines: Accept this card remember, too, A Birthday Party is given to you" We send to each a little sack: Please either send or bring it back
 With as many pennies
 As years you are old. We promise your age will never be told, Girls Auxiliary with greetings most
 hearty,
 Feel sure you'll attend your own Birthday
 Party.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
Illinois Coal and New Orlea. s.

Three barges, holding 1000 tons each, have been lowed to New Orleans loaded at Thebes in the Egypt region of Hi nois with Illinois coal. This coal was mined at Gainesville, about sixty miles by rail from Thebes. It is "steam" coal and is intended for steamship purposes only. This shipment is, it is stated, the beginning of mighty move ment, and New Orleans seems destined to have variety, as well as an abund- ance, of coal. Pennsylvania, Illinois and Alabama will each contest that market, and the survival of the fittest may well be predicted
 Alabama will not be quite herself until the Warrior river Is opened, when she will have uninterrupted inland water communication with New Or leans. The Lake Borgue Canal is near ly ready for traffic, and the Warrior will be opened soon up to the mines nearest Tuscaloosa. When these improvements are completed, Alabama coal will be able to undersell all others at New Or leans, and as the quality of the one is fully equal to that of the others, price will decide the contest.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
A MAINE SNOW WORTH s1,ooo, ,ooo

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 Bangor, Me.-The snowstorm that the lumbermen of Maine have so long and anx- iously awaited has come, and it is regarded as worth one million dollars to the State Before this storm there was no snow to speak of in the cities or anywhere in the southern part of Maine, and not nearly enough for hauling in the lumber regions Now there is depth of between twenty two and twenty-three inches on the level and operations in all sections will proceed with all haste, as the season Is well ad- vanced and thus far but few logs have been hauled from the yards to the landings There is now no doubt that the market will be fully supplied next spring and sum- mer.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
4 Textile School Needed.

Instead of building or promoting an- other agricultural school, it would seem to be best to take steps to establish a textile or technical school in the State particularly a textile school There are nearly 100000 spindles in the State, and the number will soon exceed a mil lion. It is indeed important. that Ala bama should have a textile school.
 An agricultural school is a school that does not know agriculture at all Such school is simply local high school, end the State has too many of these schools at present The time is fast coming when it will have fewer such
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
THE WHIPPING POST,

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 Something may be said on both sides of this question. Whipping post and pilory are survivals from brutal age and public exhibitions of them are not promotive of the finer threads of human sentiment On the other hand there are crimes to which no other punishment is quite so well suited. The whipping post is most generally advo- cated for wife-beaters. Imprisonment of those brutes only deprives their families of support for the term of imprisonment. It is doubtful whether it does them much good A fogging brings home to them their brutality and involves little loss of time from their labor.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for this day, Friday February s, 190l
 Travel, remove, ask favors, seek work, and push thy affairs in the afternoon and evening""
 Beware of speculation, this being thy birthday. Thou art in danger of sickness and disappointment; with care thy business will succeed. Those in employ will meet promotion.
 The child that is born on this day will be quick and clever. and fortunate in the employ of others. If female, her husband will be one of the unlueky ones"
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
A HANNA MEASURE.

From the Springfield Republican.
 The ship subsidy bill is Hanna or Ad- ministration measure rather than the measure of a united Republican party. Republican Senators like Allison, Aldrich, Spooner and McMillan are quietly opposed to the pending bill and not enthusiastic over the subsidy principle in any form.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
A STRONG CONTRAST.

From the Boston Herald.
 Helen Goulds $4cO coo gift for the hall for the benefit of the sailors and marines of the Brooklyn navy yard contrasts rather favorably with the Castellaae investment in Wertheimer bric-a-brac.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
The Queens Ancestors.

Fair women request to know the rela- ton which the great Queen Victoria, whom all the world now mourns. to Mary and Elizabeth, and this historic family line, traced backward makes it all very plain and establishes the absurdity of many chss filings from the buffoons of newspaperdam
 Victoria; daughter of Edward, Duke ef
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
METHOD IN IT.

From the New York Weekly.
 Friend-Why do you wear those fearfully old fashioned collars?
 Winkers Ca man of affairs) = Because when the waSsherwoman sends them to any body else they send them back.
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the trust, they may order ther papers di-. rect from Lincoln, but they pay trust prices, and, in addition. their papers ar rive in this city one day after they are re- ceived here by the news company.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
WAITING FOR END OF THE WAR.

South African News.
 It is estimated that the number of pas- sengers booked for South Africas as soon as the war ends by the various steamship lines is 10000.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
EVIDENTLY IN BAD oDoR.

From the Washington Post.
 The man who trains the skunks for the Boston dinner parties must have delight ful training quarters.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
IN THE GRASP OF TIE TRUST.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
 Those 10000 colored residents of Washing ton, D. C., who believe implicitly in the groundhog's forecast, probably imagine that the woodchuck has been subsidized by the fuel sellers
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be welcomed in The Age-Herald office with hospitable hands to a hospitable grave He will never be permitted to eat the office oat
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
sTATIcTIcAL INDICATIONS.

From the Detroit Journal.
 sucker is born every minutes, and mar riage statistics indicate that he usually lives to grow up.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Queen Alexandra is now a colonel of Prus- sian dragoons, but there is no reason to believe that she has the courage to lead a charge on joint
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Ohio is trying to draw the line between a boxing match and prize fight, and Gov ernor Nash seems to think they are one and the same.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

The Duke of Roxburgh is outranked in time by any daughter of the revolution. His dukedom was created by Victoria the Good.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

The Kansas saloonists fully appreci- ated the fact that they were living in glass houses, or rather in houses having glass
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
ORTHODOX IN KA s.

From the New York The liuuor men are ort s4.#
 In Kar They are bro lPla Ht Hlets knocks
 Ir KaH In every class an8 station They believe D you4 Hesatiau In the doctri of Dam-A1t l. And they'ro praying for saI4s.H4E
 Out in Kaus4s.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

The new King of England is expected to read all of Alfred Austin's alleged poetry, even if he has to stay away from the mu- sic halls.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Strawberries are selling at 10 cents a box in California, but that fact does not gratify an appetitite on the Atlantic coast
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The grade crossing will bob up again when a new horror occurs, and this town will know where to put the blame.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
MRS. NATloN's otnPAIeN.

From tts Chicago Reeoea
 That no builets i sped Kansas ffeis self lucky shoe the ladY ey dread
 Lad her star in Kentucky.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

The hatchet may become the national em- blem as we'll as utensil. The Kansans have already adopted it.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Four Senatorial deadlocks demand new method of electing Senators.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

The male mosquito is both a singer and a bter He has escaped censure without due warrant.
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Mime. Sarah Bernhardt outranks Mrs. Ma ton as a mirror smasher.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08
About Persons.

George A. Beauchamp of Eufaula, recent ly appointed Grand Secretary of the Ma sonic grand lodge of Alabama, is in Bir- mingham.
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Marcus Aurelius Hanna is now chiefly en- gagged in making quorum at his night soirees.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

John Marshall was forgotten of4 hundred years and remembered one day.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

MT. and Mrs. Lease will not invest any money in volcanoes this year.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Congressman-elect Sidney J. Bowie of Anniston was in Birmingham yesterday.
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The mountain lion pictures should be SUI ported by affidavits.
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In northern cities the man behind the snow shovel now outranks the man witt a hoe.
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Mrs Nation has made Topeka dry town, something the State could not do.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Charles H. Greer, editor of the M7ria Standard, which his skill and energy, ha made a most excellent and profi newspaper, is in Birmingham His 5H people are going to send hi'a to Iha sya stitutional convention. Go' ii
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Young Rockefeller omitted one of hi wealth-getting rules-have monopoly fe ia ther.
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

John Marshalps boom came one hundred years too late.
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Pistol shots do not intimidate Mrs Ma ton, who was bred in old Kentucky.
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DeWet and Governor Nash and Mrs. Ma ton hold the public ear with firm grip
The age-herald., 1901-02-08

Strawberries are selling at 10 cents box in California, but that fact does not gratify an appetitte on the Atlantic coast The grade crossing will bob up again when a new horror occurs, and this town will know where to put the blame. The hatchet may become the national em- blem as well as utensil The Kansans have already adopted it.
 The male mosquito is both a singer and a bitter. He has escaped censure without due warrant.
 Marcus Aurelus Hanna is now chiefly en- gagged in making a quorum at his night soirees.
 In northern cities the man behind the snow shovel now outranks the man with a hoe.
 Young Rockefeller omitted one of his wealth-getting rules-have monopoly fed father.
 DeWet and Governor Nash and Mrs. Ma ton hold the puDllc ear WILL Silp.
 
 Pistol shots do not intmidate Mrs. Ma ton, who was bred in old Kentucky.
 ---~- Mrs Nation has made Topeka dry town, something the State could not do. John Marshall was forgotten ot., hundred years and remembered one day.
  MT and Mrs. Lease will not invest any money in volcanoes this year. Four Senatorial deadlocks demand new method of electing Senators.
 Mme Sarah Bernhardt outranks Mrs. Ma ton as a mirror smasher The mountain lion pictures should be sup ported by affidavits. John Marshalrs boom came one hundred
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