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The age-herald., 1901-11-08
TO A HIGHER coURr.
Dairymen Will continue to Fight City
 Ordinance.

The Dairymen's Association will proba- ply make test case in the matter of the Mayor and Aldermen vs. Smith. a dairyman. Judge Feagin of the Inferior Criminal Court has decided that the law which the City Council passed sometime ago placing a license of sl on each COW owned by dairymen selling their product in Birmingham was constitutional.
 Attorney A. 0. Lane, representing the Dairymen's Association said yesterday that the case had already been carried to the Criminal Court The claim of the galiy passed. 'iT
 If the Criminal Court sutains Judge Feagin the case will probably be taken to the Supreme Court.
The age-herald., 1901-11-08
SHELLEY CLAIMS
 STATE BY 25,OOO Antl-Ratificatlonlsts Say They VIII Carry Jefferson DEMOCRATS NOT UNEASY Claim the County By 2,5oo-ceneraI Shelley Speaks at Woodlawn and
 Hon. R. H. Clarke at
 Bessemer.
DEMOCRATS NOT UNEASY

While the members of the Democratic Campaign Committee are taking things easy and expressing the utmost confidence in the result of Mondays election the op- position has come to the front with a claim of 25OO0 majority against ratifica- tion of the new constitution.
 General Charles M. Shelley. chairman of the movement against ratification said yesterday that he expected a majority of about 50,000 but on account of the threats to tamper with the returns he thought he would be safe in saying Ala bafna would vote against the the new constitution by majority of at least 25,- 900. The general said he was receiving most encouraging reports from every sec ton of the state and if the members of MT. Underwood's committee were real ly in earnest about their claims he pre- dicted a great surprise.
 Out of the twenty counties which vot- ed for the call of constitutional conven- ton General Shelley says he expects to carry every one of them and probably Jefferson county and said yesterday that the labor vote was almost soiidiy against the new constitution.
 Speaks at Woodlswn.
 The general spoke at Woodlawn last night to crowd of about seventy-five persons, majority of whom were ne- groes He made conservative argument and attacked the registrar system pro- vided for in the temporary plan of the new constitution, though he made very little reference to the suffrage clause.
 There is much activity at the county Democratic headquarters and Chairman Gray and Secretary Parkes say they will make the last few days of the campaign among the most interesting. They claim a majority of 2,50O in Jefferson county but Secretary Parkes says he would like to make 1t unanimous and will continue to pour shot into the enemy's ranks until the polls have closed Monday.
 MT. Clarke at Bessemer. Hon. Richard H. Clarke spoke to a large audience at Bessefner last night and deliverd a forcible argument In favor of ratification. Both sides are claiming that beat and the result Is problemati- cal.
 At the county courthouse a poll of two jui-cs In the city court was taken yester-. day afternoon and resulted in vote of twenty to four against ratification of the new constitution. The men who com posed the juries were principally farmers and they explained their objection by saying they were afraid some of them would be tiisfranchised. Several men who are strongly advocating adoption of the new organic law said the vote of the two juries emphasized the necessity of explaining the constitution to the peo- pie.
The age-herald., 1901-11-08
ODETTE TYLER ILL AT THE H|LLMAN Her Engagement at Jefferson
 Was Cancelled UNWELL FOR SEVERAL DAYS Engagements In Other clties Of the MeLean.TyIer Company Were
 Not FilIed--A We'll
 Known Actress.
UNWELL FOR SEVERAL DAYS

She who Is known and admired all over the country by her stage name of odettc Tyler, and who Is the wife of R. D. Me- Lean, the actor lies very i'll in the Hotel IIfllman in Birmingham.
 The engagement of Miss Tyier's compa- ny at the Jefferson Theatre was canceil- ed for yesterday and last night. The bright partioular star of the company had fallen fiji, and physicians were at- tending her in her hotel apartments.
 Miss Taylor hasn't been well in many days. Her theatrical engagements in Nashville, Chattanooga and Anniston had been cancelled on account of her indis- position. resulting in very serious losses to her company. It was hoped that she would be sufficiently recovered to take her part in the play and gratify her great number of admirers in Birmingham.
 But yesterday noon it became evident that she would not appear in the play at night. Physicians were summoned and thC5 AouhN Nhfbo lSiCt to B0 NtTy Thus there was no performance at the Jeffer. son Theatre last night. At. midnight 1t was said that she was resting comfort ably, but it was impossible to ascertain whether she would be strong enough to- day to proceed upon the tour fixed for her company.
 Odette Tyler, the daughter of General Kirkland of North Carolina, Is South ern gentiewoman and is a great favorite of the stage throughout the country, es- pecially in the South, where in many cities, more particularly Birmingham. she is personally well known and greatly ad- mired.
 The play billed for yesterday afternoon was "The School for Scandal" and for last night 1t was Shakespeare's difficult "Coriolanus." In these plays Miss Tyler is especially good. As for ''The School for ScandaI.' she is one of the best rep resentatives of Lady Teazle yet seen on the American stage.
 Miss Tyler is a very heartfui woman and very gifted actress.
The age-herald., 1901-11-08
TO PAVE TWENTY-FIRsT STREET. Work Will Soon Begin-street Rail.
 ways to Relay Track.

The work of paving Twenty-first street. from First avenue to Eight avenue, with vitrified brick, will begin shortly. Mayor Drennen said yesterday that he had been advised by the Southern Paving and Construction comany of Chattanooga. the contractors. that the brick are now being loaded.
 The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, which operates the Pow derly car line along this thoroughfare, from Second avenue to Sixth avenue. will begin immediately to relay their tracks. The new rails will be what are known as the seven-inch "T'' rail and weigh seventy pounds.
 The contract for the new improve ments was let some time ago. The price to be paid for the work is 2s,5sS.
The age-herald., 1901-11-08
GOT HIs PockETeook.
Piekpoekets at Work Around the Cir
 GUS Grounds.

Yesterday afternoon J. E. Englewood reported to the police that he had been relieved of @ and railroad ticket on the Louisville and Nashville railroad from Englewood. Ala. to Caiera, issued in favor of his wife, Mrs. J. E. Engle- wood. He said he was relieved of his pocketbook at the ticket wagon of the Wallace shows yesterday afternoon.
 Last night Mail Carrier Douglas re- ported to Captain Weir that he had found the ticket issued to Mrs. Engie- wood in the mail box at the corner of First avenue and Twentieth street.
 The ticket is now at the office of the chief of police. awaiting the owner.
The age-herald., 1901-11-08

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The age-herald., 1901-11-08

Only . limited number Of maps left Subscribers snould avail themselves of this opportunity fo secure house hold, office and schsol room necessity
The age-herald., 1901-11-08
A KENTUcKY coIoNEI

says: There's lickers and lickers, but somes better than others" He was thinking of ours when he spoke. It's the best liquor made, and in purity and flavor stands tinrivailed. For this time of year we suggest for your palate and digestion OUT "Samuels'' or Oscar Pepper" whis- kies You have Uncle Sam's'' guarantes of purity when you buy our "5amuels'' or "oscar Pepper whiskies.
 SOLOMON 6 LEVI. Bell and Peoples Phones No. 1o1s.
The age-herald., 1901-11-08
COKE! OOKE!

COKE! COKE! For the next ten days we will quote q special price on coke in 5-ton lots.
 B. R. l.. & P. Go.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
Give Him Time.

With respect to some very absurd
or Northumberland to Senator Dill
lingham's brief first service in the Sem
ate, which none of his supporters in the
late canvass had deemed it necessary
to notice, the st. Adams Messenger,
which was opposed to Mr.. Dillingham;
in the circumstance that the paper was
not for him, candidly and pertinently
says:
Let US be perfectly fair with Senator
Dillingham;. He is expected to prove
his ability to succeed Senator Morrill, in
the United States Senate. He should
have time to do it in. Then if he does
not succeed, the people can take the
matter into their own hands. Mean
while, it must not be forgotten that
no man is going from Vermont into
that great marble pile at Washington
and create any profound sensation
upon his first appearance. Washing
ton is very wise and very experienced.
1t has seen the rise, progress, glory,
and decline OF all the great statesmen
the country has produced since the
Congress first met on the banks of the
Potomac. Washington merely smiles
pitifully upon the efforts of new legis-
lators to set the world e-ire. He is
discreet legislator who devotes his early
days in the Capitol to Clearing the
ropes" making acquaintance, and pre-
pairing himself to give his constituents
the best service that is in him. Sena-
tor Dillingham; has been given time
enough, by his election to serve for the
unexpired term of Senator Morrill,, to
make some progress at this and to
prove his worth. 1t will be time to
judge him later.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

again been his, and success at the polls
unquestionably would have followed
the nomination. Mr.. Sherman of Ohio,
also, was a determined candidate and
there were supporters of Depew of
of New York, Allison of Iowa and
Gresham of indiana. In the stormy
sessions of the convention the YER
mont delegation, under the leadership
of Redfield Proctor, had steadfastly
voted for Benjamin Harrison, and the
long deadlock was finally resolved by a
break of the delegates to the man whose
candidacy the Vermonters had been
upholding. On tho occasion OF the
Presidents visit to the Capital, in 1891,
at the time the Legislature was in spe-
cial session, the representatives. and
people expressed their appreciation of
the rock-ribbed stand of tn ir delegates.
As President, Harrison's administre-
ton was marked by great ability, by
perfect integrity and eminent rectitude
Of purpose. No opportunity for special
distinction came to him, with the ex-
ception, 10 the last days of his tenure
of power, the chance OF adding the Ha-
waiian islands to the possessions of the
United States, and this came too late
for realization. An unfriendly hand
undid the work he had begun and
robbed him of contamination of the in
evitable. As man and public off,
cial General Harrison was respected
and admired rather than loved. He did
things from sense OF duty, and made
appointments because of convic-
ton, and friends and personal graft
tude were not always-aud rarely ever
the issues of fidelity to strict con-
struction of duty or rigid adherence to
conviction. And therein President
Harrison deserved higher consideration
than the majority of his contemporaries
accorded him, but with which history
must inevitably crown him. He was
one of the Presidents who have given
dignity, stability and honor to his
country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
Heaviest Frank,

Says a Washington postal clerk in
Providence Journal ''Probably the
worst job ever had to tackle was when
a retiring Senator ranked home safe.
In his committee room at the Capitol
he had very fine and large safe which
had been purchased for the use of his
committee, but which had been con-
demned and sold to him at an inhnites-
imal price. 1t weighed about 5000
pounds. All the Senator did was to
place an address and frank upon it
and notify the officers of the Senate
postotfice to come and get it. They got
it all right, but the getting was accom-
panied by much swearing and many
cusswords. What the clerks in the
postofflce where it was shipped said
when it landed have never heard. l
don't think it was delivered by letter
carrier"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
Tolerance and Temperance.

The people of Vermont are comfort
ably assured by it's newspaper mouth
pieces that the "local option cause will
be conducted by self respecting men in
a self respecting way" that its "leagae
will appeal to the intelligent and res-
soning voters of Vermont" that among
many other good things it will try to
"uproot the frauds that for fifty years
have been nurtured by the prohibitory
law" At the same time the wise SER
pent of the league recognizes the need
of crawling "tactfully and discreetly"
into the confidence of the people, it
does not expect to get there at one fu-
rious vault and land on the other side,
it especially deprecates what it calls "a
bull-for-a-gate policy"-and 30 forth
and so on-and all this is preceded by
this preachment against "a fatal folly"
that twill be a too radical policy" this
'appeal to the reason and intelligence
of the voters of Vermont"-and it is a
gem, if not of ''purest ray SERENE" still
gem, a sort of black diamond which,
like decaying mackerel that "shines
as it smells and smells as it Shines"
glitters in the coronet of the Messenger
of s.. Adams:
Will the Burlington Free Press kind
] ly tell us who on earth could "Want
more rum" than is flowing into the
State Of Vermont today? Who could
swami more rum" than is deluging
"prohibition" Vermont after fifty years
of prohibition? With town liquor
agencies doing a retail business all
over the State, furnishing the hypo-
critics who vote for prohibition and
drink for themselves with all the liq-
uor they want year in and year out
under the sanctimonious fraud of
"medicine," with the distillers and
Wholesale liquor houses sending car
loads of liquor into the State daily
through the mail order trade, with
hundreds of shoot leggers," hip pocket
peddlers, and all-arouud sneaks die
pensing liquid poison in dives, cellars,
horse sheds, and anywhere-who, in
the name OF common sesne, "wants
more rum'?.
For truth, candor and moderation this
is the Kohinoor of the League, a
mountain of light illustrating the I'M
DERIVING purpose and character of its
whoopers, who, after all, should not be
taken too seriously.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

lock is very satisfactory to the dele
gates, and especially 80 to the Vermont
delegation, who have from the first
earnestly and persistently supported
General Harrison for the nomination.
Vermont is the only State that cast a
solid vote for Harrison on every ballot,
aud the candidates. friends fully appre-
ciate the support given their favorite
by Vermont.
The delegation made pilgrimage to
Indianapolis after the adjournment of
the convention and carried to Gen.
Harrison this letter from r. W. Thomp
son, ex secretary of the navy:
CHICAGO, June 26, 1888.
General Benjamin Harrison:-I beg
leave to introduce to you General j.
G.. Mccullough and his colleagues OF
the Vermont delegation. They have
voted for you solid on every ballot and
you owe your nomination to that fact.
RICHARD w. THOMPSON.
General Harrison was called cold and
unresponsive but he showed warm
side to the Vermonters. Redfeld
Proctor was made secretary of war in
his cabinet, and he came to Vermont
in the summer OF 1891 and received a
royal welcome from the people at the
capital of the State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
Fact and Fiction, Truth and Poetry

Here is an example of the fiction
that is stranger than truth, poetry
that transcends the facts:
They are taking tribute of the rich
life Of the maple, these men of the
push" They are turning it's hydraul-
les to their own uses. The tread of
heavy cowhide boots is heard these
days on the drifted leaves of naked
woods that have rustled only to the
light foot Of the rabbit and whirrinp
flight of the partridge. The confused
clashing of innumerable tin pals, the
shouts of boys driving the oxen to and
from the camp, the cracking of the
logs under the great kettle, and the
steady drip-drip-drip of the plaintively
compliant sap announce TO the groves
that the long silence of winter is over.
and that they must pour freely from
their full beakers the generous liquor
that the dryads have been brewing in
the alembics of the sun and snow.
But the tribute taken, the tread of
the cowhide boots, the drifted leaves
OF the naked woods, the clashing of
tin pals and the shouts of the boys
guiding the oxen, the cracking of the
logs under the great kettle will all have
to be sought in the editorial office of
the New York Mail and Cypress, or in
prehistoric records. If there is any
'drip-drip-drip" up here in the "bush''
it is the product of influenza, and for
the "full beakers of generous liquor'
search must be made in the town agen.
cies or in the "dryads brewing in the
alembics' of the editorial Uranium Of
st. Adams! Messenger, rather than in
the maple woods.
The Record of Boston directs public
meditation on this subject, at this time,
into another channel in which may be
discovered a great deal of sober fact
and mighty little poetry. In this con-
nection the Record says:
Think, too, of the hundreds of cell
lars where the biting acids in the dark
corners are eating into starchy COM
pounds and under the spasmodic stir
ring of grimy-handed helper, fusing
into swedish brown mass that is Ia
beled "Real Vermont Maple Sugar" in
even larger letters than the genuine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

counter with Hendricks at Rockville.
Harrison was then in his twenty-sev-
enth year, and rather boyish in appear
aDce. He was, however, gifted with
that fluenc, of speech which comes to
even young lawyers after few years
of modera e success. AT Rockville
Harrison was advertised to speak at
the court house. Wi en- he arrived
there, be found that Hendricks, who
was then one of the most notable of the
Democratic leaders of the State, was
billed to- speak at nearly the same time
and place. The Republicans of Rock
vile were very anxious to counteract
the effect of Hendricks speech. They
came to Harrison and asked him if he
would undertake joint discussion
with Hendricks This was a large IN
dertaking for young campaign speak
err, but Harrison pluckily said that he
would cheerfully undertake it if it was
thought best by the Republicans.
The matter was submitted to Hen
bricks; but he would not dignity his
youthful opponent by engaging in
Joint discussion with him. He said he
would speak two hours first himself,
and then young Mr.. Harrison might
say what he pleased in the two hours
following.
The court house was crowded, and :,
from the applause and approval which
followed nearly every sentence of Hen
bricks speech, Harrison at times feared
that there was not single Republican
in the building.
The issues were largely local with
which Harrison was thoroughly faml-
lar, The swamp land frauds were then
subjects of eager inquiry among the
people. This was subject that the
young lawyer had carefully studied
He had with him all the official docu-
ments bearing upon these fraude.
These papers had been carefully d.
gested by him, and appropriate places
mari ed, so that he had with him an
arsenal Of ready weapons.
He began with such a sharp reply to
Hendricks that before he had uttered
half a dozen sentences Voorhees, who
was seated in the front row of spectA-
tors, arose to interrupt. But the blood
of young Harrison was up. He came
back to Voorhees, go savagely that 1.-THE
tall sycamore OF the Wabash" was quite
willing to subside. The cheers and ap-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
Let 1t Come.

1t is gratifying to know that, in the
words of license exchange, "there
will be more light diffused through the
State during the next year than for a
long time past" on the subject of the
liquor traffic, and that "the question is
to have freer discussion" The sup
porters OF free rum have been 30 long
muzzled "good people of every belief"
will, indeed, "rejoice" to have the gag
removed from the hitherto speechess
opponents of the existing system of
regulating the liquor traffic. Poor,
long suffering souls! How will they
rejoice in the new found freedom of
rant; they may have seemed sufi-
GENTLY vociferous hitherto, but the pub
lie has their word for it that "the ques-
ton is to have free discussion" which,
the inference is, it has not had hereto
fore.
The local option league proposes, also,
"to appeal to the people without pas
sion, in spirit of tolerance and tenn
perance" to people who "know that
the general intelligence of the Yer
mont people will not fool with prohibi-
ton long when they know the results
produced by this Infamous law" This
of course is not intended as specimen
of "the tolerance and temperance that
will be practced in the canvass the
league will open, but is simply an ex-
cusable burst of exuberant rhetoric on
the first enjoyment of long-suppressed
'freedom of discussion" When the
ecstatic scribes settle down to serious
business they will probably eschew
such pleasantries as these, and cease to
refer to law and policy of fifty years
standing as ga hypocritical old farce,
and incite the public to disregard it and
spit upon it, and to characterize the
supporters of that law as hypocrites
and impute to it everything that goes
wrong on this mundane sphere, in the
earth beneath or the heavens above.
But the Mark Tapleys of the license
press must school themselves in the Les
sons of adversely so that if, in the sap
peal to the intelligent and reasoning
voters for reconsideration of the liq
uor question" prohibition is not "wipet
out" but is made more decisively thC
settled policy of the State, they will no
in their disappointment and despair bt
driven to drink to drown their sorrows
Let the campaign of the local option
league come-and the people of Yer
mont repeat, "Let it come" The
league will need the bishops in it's trair
to shrive it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20

plause which marked this aggressive
beginning convinced Harrison that he
had plenty of friends in the audience.
This inspired him to make an espe-
cially vigorous effort. His powers of
sarcasm and invective we're great He
punished Hendricks with such severity
that that gentleman afterward said to
Harrison that he would never again
agree to similar discussion and give
Harrison the opportunity of an uninter-
rupted closing argument.
This episode at Rockville did much to
establish Harrison's reputation as po-
litical speaker. From that day he took
part in every campaign in the State,
and was regarded as one of the most
effective pillars of his party in Indiana.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
Harrison and Vermont.

Vermont made General Harrison the
nominee of the Republican national
convention in 1888, and hence the
President of the United States. Yer
monts delegates voted solidly for Har-
rison ON the first and every succeeding
ballot. AS the sold Brigade" stand
ing like a rock amid the rout and con-
fusion of Early's attack at Cedar Creek,
was the point around which Sheridan
rallied his scattered and fleeing army,
so the solid Vermont delegation was
the body which held the straggl-
ing Harrison delegates together. Red
field Proctor's fog horn tones, an
nouncing at every roll call that ever
mont casts her eight votes for Benja-
min Harrison" rose far above the con
vention din, and from the first were "a
sign OF hope and triumph high" And
on the eighth ballot, after week of
arduous strife, the triumph came, Har-
rison receiving 544 of the $50 votes
cast. A Chicago dispatch of the times
said:
lnThe outcome of the prolonged dead