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Arizona daily citizen. (Tucson, Ariz. Territory [i.e. Ariz.]) 1884-1901, 1901-02-08

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The age-herald., 1901-11-27
Pay Your Poll lax.

Let no one think that if he neglects on or before February next to pay his poll taxes he is simply disfran- chising himself so far as the election of State officers Is concerned. He com pletely disfranchises himself if he neg lects or refuses to pay the poll tax assessed against him on or before Feb ruary 1 next. He may pay this par ticular poll tax after February 1, but such a payment will not permit him to vote for Mayor or other city officers at an election in May, or for county officers or for State officers at an cleo tion to be held November next. Tn or der to vote he must have paid Ion or lNfore the first day of February next preceding the date of the election at which he offers to vote all poll taxes due from him for the year nineteen hundred and one and for each subse- Quent year" So that payments be- come cumulative, and no poll tax can be omitted by voter. He must pay all hereafter, or stop voting for any one from President down to a con- stable.
 Nor is this all. He is barred out of all caucuses and conventions of his party. "No person shall be qualified" so runs section 183 of the new consti- tuition, Ito vote or participate in any primary election, party convention, mass meeting or other method of party action" who is not an elector, and one of the qualifications prescribed is the payment of poll taxes on or before February 1 of each year. Poll taxes are not due from men over 45 years of age, but all others should walk up to the collectors office and settle, and procure a receipt to that effect, or else forever hold their peace and also their votes, for all such have disfranchised themselves. They have deprived them selves of their electoral and political privileges. It will be their own act.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
----T-T7---a-----=------- MOBILES PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
l the Gadsden Times

From the Gadsden Times.
 The present constitution has a provis- ion in it, section Il in article xiii. which provides as follows:
 And all special incomes and powers of taxation as now authorized by law for the benefit of public schools in said county (Mobile) shall remain undisturb- ed until otherwise provided by the Gen eral Assembly"
 The provision referred to is to allow Mobile County to draw from the state treasury. in. addition to her pro rata share of the public school appropriation and her share of the 18th section fund, and poll tax, all the money collected in Mobile County from liquor license, amounting this year to over $44000, add to this amount her pro rata of general school appropriation amounting to s3O,- 900, and the 18th section fund and poll tax, and Mobile County has a public school fund amounting to near ss0OO0 per annum giving to her school child ren per capita more than double the amount received for public school pur- poses by children in any other county in the state. This special privilege Is given to no other county in the state.
 Our immediate representative, Col R. B. Kyle. when the report of the con- mittee on education was under consid- eration, moved to strike out section 27O, which Is a re-enactment of the provision in the old constitution. unless the section could be amended so as to give all liquor licenses to the public schools of the state. His resolution was voted down. as members of the convention feared such action would antagonize Mobile County and cause the people to vote against the adoption of the new consti- tuition. claiming that 1t would be in the power of the Legislature after the adop- tion of the new constitution to repeal the Mobile special privilege whisky school law.
 Now that Mobile County has voted against the new constitution every county in the state should make the repeal of a measure by which Mobile County has in the last forty-seven years drawn more than one and half million dollars from the state treasury in excess of any county in the state, a question as to the election of delegates to the Legislature.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
By Way of the Stomach.

Out in Iowa the State Board of Health is pursuing a homeopathic phy- sician who has been vaccinating school children by giving them immune pills. He vaccinates them in the stomach, and he gives them certificates that enable them to attend the public schools under the laws of Iowa.
 The State Board of Health, made up of alIopathic physicians, say that that vaccine virus thus administered is neutralized by the juices of the stom- ach, and the youthful pill taker does not become an immune when small pox germs are being handed out. It is we'll known, they say. that the poison of a serpent can be taken into the stomach with impunity. The action of the gastric juices neutralizes 1t. Why may not the vaccine virus in pill be neutralized also?
 So it may. But this sort of reason
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
COMPLIMENTS AMERICANS.
Sir Thomas Upton Pleased With His
 Treatment.

New York, November 26-A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Lon don quotes Sir Thomas Lipton. comment ing upon his treatment in America upon the occasion of his address at the dinner of the Hotel Cecil in the following lan- guage:
 "No words of mine can exaggerate the admirable manner in which the course was kept clear in the yacht race or the Bentlemanly. sportsman-like treatment meted out to me by the New York Yacht Club. American yachtmen and American people did everything for me except give me the cup.
 Tt is gratifying to me to think per- haps the races have done something to increase good feeling between the people of the Unitd States of America and this country.
 q am well able to say, from personal experience, that nowhere in the world can there be found people so hospitable and generous. The kindness of the Americans proved to me beyond doubt that Englishmen and Americans are of the same hith and kin"
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
ALLEN SAYS FUSION IS DEAD. Former Senator From Nebraska Finds
 the Lines Sharply Drawn.

Omaha, November 26--As a factor in the national campaigns of the future, fu- sion has received a deadly blow In Ne braska. In the state where its rise was first heralded Populism is calling together it's scanty remnant to move, unallied, along original lines. It has had enough of fusion, which has brought it in the past the labor of carrying Nebraska with none of the fruits. Former Senator Will liam V. Allen, Populist whose influ- ence for fusion Tn Nebraska has e1ualed that of w J. Bryan, has lost his zeal in promoting fusion.
 There Is well-defined line of demarca- tion between fhe>two parties, says Mir Allen, which will rfst permit them to. be brought together. The, ,difserence must bf necessity keep the tyo' parties separate, though locally they may work along certain agreed lines1 in cooperation. The faith of the Popul6ts is too clear and strong and well-fouhded to allow them to be absorbed by anE other organization. The Democratic and Populist parties do not agree upon mahy essential points of political faith
The age-herald., 1901-11-27

ing proves a good deal too much. It strikes at the drug store habit. If the poison of serpents and vaccine virus are neutralized in the stomach, why not good share of the other drug articles that are marshaled Into the youthful stomach be also neutralized? In other words, why retain the drug store habit if the stomach is going to change all into one common pulp? The time has come then to throw physic to the dogs, for not poppy, nor man. dragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world will then be of avail. None of them can minister to body if the
 gastric juices are working up to the
 iowa standard. The chances are, how ever, that the allopathic doctors of
 Iowa have put altogether too much work on the gastric juices. They have overworked the serpent business. But it is not for us to say where the line should be drawn. The Iowa allopaths are endeavoring to draw it against the Iowa homeopaths, and all the rest of us can do Is to let this war of the pathies go on to the bitter end, while We keep away from drugs and germs to the best of our respective abilities.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
" ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
One Cent Postaqe.

A bill will be introduced in the con- ing Congress to reduce letter postage from two cents to one cent an ounce. But it is not believed that such bill will become a law. It does not bear the endorsement of the Postmaster General, and it would strike 6 heavy blow at the revenues of the postal service. which is not self-sustaining.
 England has always been a leader in cheap postage, but letter postage in that small country stands at penny, which Is equivalent to two cents in our currency. We take letter in Boston, collecting it from street box, and carry it to San Francisco, where we hand 1t to the man addressed, and the charge is but two cents. England does not do as much for any one, nor does any other country.
 The revenue in the postal service in the last fiscal year fell about s4,0O0,000 below it's income. and there will be few thoughtful men that will demand one-cent letter postage before the service Is self-sustaining. Possibly this point will be reached very soon if a reform in second-class postage can be carried out. There are great abuses in that direction, as well as in the pay allowed to some railroads.
 One-cent postage is. however, very Rlluring subject among the politicians, and all demagogues readily accept and support 1t, and as Congress is full of such people 1t is possible that the proposition may be adopted wholly re- gardless of the question of revenue or of anything else except votes at home.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
Aza6omo Has Onkv One Per Cent sa
 Of Foreign Born P0bulatson

United States now as there were in 1sso In the United States proper the number fell from 107.500 in 1890 to g9,9OO in 1900 During the same period the Chinese popu- lation has been greatly scattered through out the country. every division except the western having a larger Chinese pop ulation than it had ten years ago.
 There are more than ten times as many Japanese in the United States now than there were ten years ago. In 1890 the total number of people from the Mikado's land in this country was 2O3s. Now the number is practically 25,OOO Only 4 per cent of this number live out side the Pacific coast.
 Most people hold to the Idea that the American Indians are fast dying out. It Is true that they are decreasing but the rate of decrease Is so slow that it might almost be saio to be stationary, Accord ing to the census figures for 1900 the de- crease for ten years was only 6847, or 25 per cent for the decade. Excluding Alas ka, the total number of Indians within the United States is 237,0Oo, us against PAS, 900 in 1890. 4A-....
 In 1900 as the census shows, a greater proportion of the total population was women and girls than ten years pre- viously. In other words, out of every 10000 people in the country last year 5118 were males and 1882 were females. In 1890 out of every 10000 the males num- bered 5124 and the females 4S76. The fe- males have, therefore, increased at a slightly greater proportionate rate than have the males
 Among the states Massachusetts leads In having the greatest propotionate num- Der of women, the female majority be- ing more than 70,0OO In New York state the females outnumber the males by more than 4O.OOO.while Maine, Vermont and Connecticut, contrary to the gener- al impression, have a majority of the male sex. In Pennsylvania there are more than 100000 more me, +han women, due largely to the large Ii. iph z popula- tion. In all the states west o1 the Alle- ganies there are more men than women, the largest proportion being in Montana. Wyoming and Idaho, where the mascu- line population is more than 60 per cent of the total.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
Tn Mannlsh Girl.

''The mannish girl has disappeared!' said the bright girl who is up to date.
 '.She is no more seen than is the man. moth. Her stiff white collar has given way to a huffy boa, and her cuffs are hid in an enormous frilly huff, while her little. white shirt front. if she had one, would be concealed by the rosette of chiffon that she wears under her chin
 "On rainy days the costume of the up- to-date girl is plain. almost to severity, tut still it lacks that masculine air that was once fondly cherished by young women who felt sure they had a mission in life. It was too unbeautiful to last. To- day the tailor skirt is often worn with a velvet coat. Gainsborough hat and the ubiquitous boa.
 Even the tailored coat has fallen into disfavor for anything but morning wear.
 .aThe woman of business does not don
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
BIG COAL SHIPMENT.
Boatmen Expect to Clear the Harbor
 at Pittsburg.

Pittsburg, November 26.-Heavy and continuous rains for the past thirty-six hours here and at every point along the Allegheny and Monopgahela rivers, as- sures good eoalboat stage in the Ohio by tomorrow night or Tuesday morning. The stage of water at the dam tonight is six feet and rising, and experienced river men say boating stage of at least twelve feet is certain to result.
 Coal men and manufacturers are con- fident of being able to practically clear the harbor on this rise of the vast amount of freight accumulated during the past four or five months, thus reliev- ing greatly the congestion on the rail- roads.
 Fully thirty million bushels of coal are awaiting shipm ent, and the movement of manufactured iron and steel will be greater than ever before known Be- tween 30,000 and 40000 tons of steel rails will go out, destined for the Gould lines, the Missouri Pacific. the Texas and Pa- cifc and the Iron Mountain roads, In addition about 12,0O0 tons of cotton ties and heavy shipment of tniscellaneous merchandise are expected to be sent South. To transport this9nnnsual ton- mage 1t is estimated that ssventy steamers and from 900 to 1000 boats and barges will be required.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
NORDlCA AND RAGTlME.
The Singer Says Her "coon" Song
 Makes the Biggest Hit.

Chicago, November 6-"Syncopations, rag-time, coon songs. that's the natural sequence. Just think that Wagner. Beethoven and Strauss were the real originators of the latter day ditties that make such frequent use of Babe and Honey and Nanny"
 This is what Mme Nordica said last night when asked if it were true that her latest repertoire includes .coon" song.
 ITO be serious" she continued, rag time Is only an exaggeration of the syncopation movement. It's flavor is dis tinctly American. Exaggeration is a nation trait. That's what makes our American wits so much funnier than those of anywhere else It is a cultiva- ton Of a sense of the ridiculous. It is true that l am singing negro melody l sing it as an encore, and it has made the biggest kind of a hit"
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
FAvoRs cuRFEW LAW.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 The astonishing fact is made known that fin more than a thousand towns and villages of the United States curfew ordi- nances are in force. Their general pro- vision Is that boys and girls must be off the streets by g o'clock except when out with parents or guardians" The really astonishing thing Is that any city or town should be without such a law.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
More Foreigners Needed.

The Chicago News calls attention to the fact that six Southern States have each less than one per cent of foreign born population, whereas, in North Dakota a majority of the population was born on foreign soil. North Da- kota stands at one extreme in this re- spect, and the six cotton states at the other. One of the latter is Alabama.
 Out of 1,s2S.697 people in this State only 14.592 are of foreign birth. It would be more accurate to say that out of 1,OO1,152 white persons in this State 14,592 were born in foreign countries. Besides these there are 3O,- 156 native whites whose parents were born in other lands. These figures show that Alabama has quite sprink- ling of foreigners, but their number seems small when compared with those of Northern States-with Con- necticut, for example, which has 23S,- 900 people of foreign birth out of a total population of 670,000, or with California, which holds 367,000 for eigners in a total population slightly exceeding eleven hundred thousand.
 Of the foreign-born in Alabama S,949 are males. and 5,389 females. Jeffer- son County has 6,194 of the total, or nearly 40 per cent. Mobile has about 20 per cent. No other county in this State holds a thousand foreigners. The other leading counties in this respect are in order Cullman, Montgomery, Bibb, Walker, Morgan. Calhoun, Bald win, Dallas, Madison and Tuscaloosa. There are 190 foreigners in the last named county.
 There are but five. persons of for eign birth in Crenshaw; six in Clay; eight in Coosa six in Dale; five in Fayette; ten in Lamar, and eight in Randolph. Here are seven counties that hold but 4a persons all told of foreign birth.
 In Cullman there are 464 males and 353 females, of foreign birth, or BIT all told, thus showing that less than one thousand foreigners can revolu- tionize the methods of a county. If every county in the State held one thousand grape-growing truck-farming foreigners, as Cullman does, the changes that would be wrought in a few years would be remarkable. We need in short Just about 50,000 German farmers evenly distributed over the State, so that each county that has less than 1000 will be brought up to that number. This is the task the German Immigration Society has in hand, and if the next Legislature will aid it properly this great boon to the State can be turned into fact.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
THE BRIDGE OF CLOUD.

By Henry w. Longfellow. Burn, O, evening hearth. and awaken Pleasant visions, as of old; Though the house by winds be shaken. Safe keep this room of gold! An, no longer wizard Fancy
 Builds her castles in the air. Luring me by necromancy
 Up the ever-winding stairsi But, instead, she builds me bridges
 Over many dark ravine, Where beneath the gusty ridges
 Cataracts dash and roar unseen. And cross them, little needing
 Blast of wind or torrents roar. As l follow the receding
 Footsteps that have gone before. Naught avails the imploring gesture.
 Naught avails the cry of painl When I touch the flying vesture,
 Iris the gray robe of the rain. Baffled, return. and, leaning a
 Der the parapets of cloud, Watch the mist that, intervening.
 Wraps the valley in the shroud, And the sounds of life ascending
 Faintly, vaguely, meet the ear, Murmur of bells and voices blending
 With the rush of waters near. We'll I know what there lies hidden.
 Every tower and town and farm, And again the loud forbidden q
 Reassumes its vanished charm. We'll know the secret places.
 And the nests in hedge ana tree; At what doors are friendly faces,
 In what hearts are thoughts of me. Through the mist and darkness sinking.
 Blown bv wind and beaten by shower, Down I fling the thought I'm thinkine Down toss this Alpine flower.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Generally the new woman is an old dame.
 The only thing a girl minds about being engaged several times is that gives her 0 reputation of being old.
 When man Is known to be so good that he doesn't need watching. woman doesn't take second look at him.
 When a woman knows her husband de- serves to be punished. she thinks any one who tries to do it except herself de- serves a worse punishment
 When a married woman in play gets tangled up in scandal all the wives in the audience wait patiently for the last act when ahe explains it all away: but when it's a man, they know he's guilty before the first slow music stops.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
Balfour Has Influenza.

London. November 2e.-In consequence of alarming reports concerning the illness of A. J. Balfour. first lord of the treasury and government leader of the House of Commons, his doctors havs issued bulle tin to the effa,t that their patient is suf- fering from iHfuenxl and cannot keep his engagements fer this week.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
Gag Operator and Rob Safe.

zanesville, O.. November 26-At New Lexington shortly after 12 o'clock this morning the night operator of the Gin cinnati and Washington Valley Railroad Company was bound and gagged by masked burglars who dynamited the safes of the company. the Adams Ex- press Company and the United Express Company The burglars secured but lit- tie money and made their escape The sheriff of Perry county is trailing them with bloodhounds.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
eEoReIA's RELATED HoNoRs.

From the Louisville Post.
 The Georgia Legislature has authorized the erection in the capitol at Washing ton of statues of two of Georgia's notable citizens, the expenses to be met by popu- lar subscription, Twenty years or so ago, when the Legislature of the same state was considering this matter. James Ogle- thorpe. the founder of the state, and Dr. Crawford W. Long, asserted to be the discoverer of anaesthesia, were named as the two to be honored, but that was as far as it went.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
A FORTUNE IN TIPS.
rom Pearson's Weekly.

From Pearsons Weekly.
 An objector to the tipping system in ho- tells states that there is a certain hotel in Manchester where the head boots pays the managers $100O per annum for his job, and that he Is able to clear between $35OO and $5O0O each year,
The age-herald., 1901-11-27

Senator Platt says he will support Mayor Low. He is also supporting President Roosevelt, but he is bossing neither. He is in fact a member of the Order of ex-Bosses.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27

a costume these days that sets her apart from her feliow-wonian. A quiet little lady who entered street car yesterday morning was as much a thing Of fluff and feathers as her neighbors Her smart skirt just escaped the floor, her jacket fitted her plump figure perfectly. and her hat was as stylish a production as ever came out of Paris. She wore a collar of Persian lamb and chinchilla, and carried a chinehilla muff and a small leather bag. Directly she opened the bag and such an odor of carbolic acid and other dislnfectants sprang from it as to attract the attention of the other passengers. She had absorbent cotton in it, too, and bottles of medicine.
 "she was a physician. evidently. but even the greatest anti in the country could not have found fault with her ap- pearance. Why, she would have been an inspiration to any patient to get up and try to dress likewise. Her hat itself would have acted as cure to an hys- terical person, taking her mind off her self and leading it to dreams of Paris ian maryels. N,#4
 "once feminine physicians were pie tured as angular females wearing out landish costumes. But the mannish woman has passed; everything is fluff and feathers today"
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
Dies From ApopIexy.

St. Paul November 26.-H. L. Stillman, a prominent Minneapolis attorney. died in a suburban street car late last night. Coroner Miller decided that apoplexy was the cause of death. He was a prominent member of the Royal Arcanum and well known politician.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH.

From the Richmond Times.
 Snow in the south in November Well, the south is bound to keep up with the north, She's making progress every day.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27

The Governor of Indiana and the Governor of Kentucky do not speak as they pass by, and they have alto gether forgotten what the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina
The age-herald., 1901-11-27
cRANeERRIEs BETTER.

From the Boston Herald.
 Calumet and Hecla dividends are scarcely in 1t with those of a Cape Cod cranberry bog nowadays.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27

President Roosevelt and Mayor Low are trying to revolutionize American politics, and 1t remains to be seen how they will come out of their re- spective tussle with pelf.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27

The contributors to the valued Con- gressional Record are hurrying to Washington by every train well loaded with articles for that excellent journal.
The age-herald., 1901-11-27

Chicago's new transatlantic line has been abandoned, because 1t persist ently insisted in running aground.