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The age-herald., 1901-10-17
For night owls shrlek where mount sng Iarks should sing.
 --KIna Richard II.
At inc Jefferson Tonight.

Every citizen who desires to hear clear expositions of the terms of the New constitution should go to the lief ferson Theatre tonight. Those who desire to laugh at the grimaces of an oratorical monkey need not go, for there will be no monkeys on the stage. John B. Knox watched, as president of the convention, every step taken in it, and he will give the reasons that induced 155 earnest men to adopt its various provisions. He is always logical and clear, and his phrases will be such that any layman can understand what he discusses. There Is no one else In the State that can present better analysis of an important instrument. The Age-Her- aid urges every man, therefore, who desires to understand the New com stitution to go to the Jefferson tonight. Crowd 1t full to the doors, and two thousand people can be seated in it.
 Governor Jelks will preside, and he will also discuss in a shorter address the constitution that the State is plain ly destined to work under for a gen eration at least. The business in hand is of the highest character, and the voters of this town have an oppor- tunity to hear it discussed by two very capable men. Neither will present it in partisan manner, but both will set forth it's advantages in clear phrases, and make known its value to the we'll being of all.
 Let us give the Governor of the State and the ex-president of the con vention a rousing welcome. Let all turn out that they may hear how the constitution was framed and what it means. It has been very much dis torted and traduced. It's provisions have been twisted out of all truth. The speakers of this evening will frankly and fully explain it's provisions. Hear them both for themselves and for the cause they advocate.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17

Senators and Representatives will in the future as in the past be influential in naming appointees, but if they Hug- gest the name of man who is lack ing in any moral or intellectual sense, that man will not be appointed. The task of finding the best man for given place is not an easy one, but that seems to be the work that the President has assigned himself. Just how he proposes to sift the men named by Congressman does not appear, but that they are to be sifted by one who believes in sitting is fully determined
 The great majority of men who do not hold and do not expect to hold office also want the best men In the public service, and President Roose- welt has three years and a half in which to show what he can do in that direction. The tussle that he has ap- pointed with the office seekers and the cliques behind them is very inter- esting one, and the people will watch it with no little interest. It Is very plain that the suzerain rights of MT. Hanna over the South has received a death blow and 1t Is almost as plain that only the best" applicants have an assurance of success, no matter what their endorsements may be. This plan will give the South better office holders, even if they are Republicans.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
BECAUSE OF WAR ON LYNcHINo,

Washington Correspondence of Chicago
 Tribune.
 President Roosevelt appointed ex-Gov- ernor Jones of Alabama as a federal judge as a reward for the latter's strong stand against lynching, according to Bishop Grant of the African Methodist Episcopal church. Bishop Grant had a conference with the President today, and the bishop quotes the President as say ing: My answer to lynching in some places was the appointment of Governor Jones'"
 Bishop Grant told the President: "Such appointments as that will guarantee jus tice to all and will give the colored man a greater sense of security than any thing else"
 Then the President said the reading of Governor Jones' language against lynch ings had as much to do with Jones' ap- pointment as anything else.
 Bishop Grant asked the President to confer with some conservative and intel ligent colored leaders before definitely fixing upon a policy In southern affairs
 "Whatever is best to strengthen the friendship of the white and colored peo- pie of the south I will favor," said Bishop Grant. "The white people and the negro must settle down and live together in peace. Our interests in the south arc much greater than in the remainder of the country. and the President can and will do much to solve the problem that confront every President"
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
LITTLE ETHEL
Makes Things Lively About the White
 House.

From the New York Journal.
 Ethel Roosevelt Is the terror of the White House policemen. She and her wheel cut such capers in the grounds around the Executive Mansion that the officers are constantly in fear lest the Presidents little daughter will be harmed or bring them to grief.
 She comes out of the main door of the mansion. mounts her wheel on the por- tico and rides down the three steps be- tween porch and pavement as deftly as stage performer.
 Her star performance was done one evening just as 1t was getting dusk. The lamp-lighter came along and propped his ladder against one of the big pillars in front of the White House, on tho top of which Is large gas lamp The lamp proper is about the same distance from the top of the pillar as the ordinary street lamp is from the ground.
 Ethel arrived on the scene just as the man was about to ascend. She jumped on the rounds before him, clambered to the marble landing and then shinned up the iron post, tomboy fashion. She had a match, and. striking 1t, lighted the jet Sliding down the pole she grabbed tho ladder and tried to make off with 1t, but the lamplighter captured 1t.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
President RooseyeIt's Plan.

President Roosevelt recently said to a South Carolinian--an office-holder- that, while he would seek in his own party and through the customary Con- gressional channels, men to fill places that become vacant, yet he would de- mand first of all fitness in the ap- pointee. We give his exact words as telegraphed to the Chicago Tribune last Saturday. He said to Dr. Clayton, marshal of South Carolina:
 T am going to select the very best men for public positions. Men appointed to public places must be high fin morals and in every other respect. If the American people care to show their approval of my course as President during the three years and half that I have to serve by placing me at the head of the Repub- Iican tisket in 1904 I should feel deeply grateful. But If have to pander to any cliques. combinations or movements for their approyaI, I would not give snap of my finger for 1t or for a nomination under such circumstances. Ny indorse- ment must come from the people of tho country"
 The understanding seems to be that
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
THE sNoWsToRM.

By Emerson. t@i,r Announced by all the trumpets of the
 sky, Arrives the snow. and, driving OCT the Seems nowhere to alight; the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the
 heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the gardens
 end. Tho sled and traveller stopp'd. the
 courier's feet Delay'd, all friends shut out, the house.
 mates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In tumultuous privacy of storm. Come see the north-wind's masonry. Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnishd with tile. the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected
 roof Round every windward stake, or tree. or Speeding, the myraid handed. his wild
 work So fanciful, so savage. naught cares he For number or proportion. Mocbingly, On coop or kennel he hangs Parian
 wreaths; A swan-like form invests the hidden Fills up the farmers lane from wall to
 wall, Maugre the farmers slghs; and at the gate A tapering turret overtops the work. And when his hours are number'd, and
 the world Is all his own, retiring as he were not, Leaves. when the sun appears. astonish'd
 art To mimic in slow structures, stone by
 stone, Built in an age, the mad winds night
 work, The frollc architecture of the snow.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
ROOSEVELT
The Only President Without an "A"
 In His Name.

From Leslie's Weekly.
 He Is the first occupant of the White House in whose name the letter 'A'' does not appear. Not only has that letter ap- peared in the names of all previous Presi- dents, but also in the names of nearly every one of the sixty-one Americans who have received votes for President in the electoral college down to William J. Bryan~ There arc only eight excep- tions to this rule.
 President Roosevelt Is one of a very few American President to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth" The ma jority of our Presidents thus far have been farmers boys. and nearly all have had to work their own way up from poverty and lowly station. MT. Roose- welt has had every opportunity which wealth and high social position could give a young man. and he has made the most and the best of his opportunities.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
S cRokER's GIFT TO PLATr.
From the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal
 That political antagonism does not pre- vent exchanges of courtesies was exempli- fled yesterday when Thomas c. Platt re- eeiyed gift from Richard Croker. The gift was large. handsomely bound vol ume, containing cartoons of the two lead CTS (Croker and PlatD which have ap- peared during the past five years or more. The card of the Tammany chief accom- panied the book.
 There were pictures of the Easy Boss" and of the Squire of Vantage galore. As Senator Platt looked them over he forgot that he ever indorsed the plan for an anti-cartoon law, and seemed as amused as If he had never been the victim of caricature.
 Senator Platt said: "Inasmuch as only the face of MT. Croker and myself appear in many of the cartoons, presume that MT. Croker, being proud of being in such good company, concluded to send the book to me as an earnest of his delight" Then Senator Piatt threw himself back in his chair and laughed long and heartily. MT. Croker made you the issue of last nights Tammany convention"
 ''So see. Well, am good issue am I not?' asked the Senator. 'But every body knows that the real issue is whether we shall have honest government under Low or maiadministration under Tam rnanvn
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
Telephones Population

The full tables of the Electrical World and Engineer show that of the large cities In the country San Fran cisco has the most telephones and Jer- sey City the fewest to population. The former has one telephone to every 16 people. and the latter but one to every 108 inhabitants. The general average in the cities of the country may be said to be one telephone to every 50 individuals, big and little, black and white.
 But Birmingham, with population last year of 38,415, has 3,126 tele- phones, or one to every 12 inhabitants. As one-third of the population of this town consists of negroes, and they have few telephones-not over dozen all told-the telephone population Is about 25,000, thus showing that there is here one telephone to about 8 white persons, as against one to every 16 whites in San Francisco.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
Bishops and Divorce.

'I have seen hundreds of people who, regardless of individual church prefer ences. have been most cordial and em- phatic in their praise of the Episcopal bishops in the national convention in San Francisco for their action in respect to divorce" said a Christian man yesterday.
 "But now that the delegates constitut- ing the second or lower house of the con- vention have thrown out the wise work of the bishops there will be general dis appointment and regret. It seems that Pierpont Morgan, representing the wife swapping codfsh aristocracy of New York, was in favor of the divorce-seeking crowd, and naturally perhaps a great many of the delegates from the provinces wished to align themselves on the side of Brother Morgan, the Rich Man. It is reasonable to suppose that the elect of the 400 of New York hinted to Brother Morgan that 1t would break up much fun in swell divorce sassiety suckles or that wife-swappers and husband-swappers would be driven out of the Episcopal Church if the bishops were allowed to have their way in the cause of morality and decency.
 What are we to expect of a society that is ever open to money when it ap- plauds a wife and mother for quitting a Vanderbilt in a divorce court to join Belmont in Christian church? That is a society which rejoices in scandal and dog-luncheons. and which finds its proud est privilege to be the purchase of titled husbands for its young women.
 
 The action of the Episcopal bishops in San Francisco wins the abiding gratitude of all the moral people in the United States. but the backward and immoral action of those delegates who turned their bishops down will be universally re- gretted."
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
HIGHLAND MARY.

By Robert Burns. Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle O Montgomery. Green be your woods and fair your
 flowers,
 Your waters never drumlie! There Simmer first unfald her robes.
 And there the largest tarry; F Tor there 1 took the last farewell
 O my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorns blossoml As underneath their fragrant shade
 I clasped her to my bosom, The golden hours, on angel wings T Flew OCT me and my dearie, sf For dear to me as light and life .-' Was my sweet Highland Mary. \ Our parting was flu tender; s. And. pledging aft to meet again. We tore oursefs asunder; But oh fell Deaths untimely froet.
 That nipt my flower sac earlyi -4 Now green's the sod and caulds the clay That wraps my Highland Mary. Ohl pale, pale now those rosy lips, m I aft hae kissed so fondly! And closed for aye the sparkling glano< That dwelt on me sac kindly; And mouldering now in silent dust
 The heart that lo'ed me deariyi But still within my bosom's core
 Shall live my Highland Mary.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
Zmbresssons N0de on Colzers
 By President RoosegeA

party In the Senate, which has no notion of ratifying the reciprocity treaties? The situation is much the same in regard to the trusts. Roosevelt's last notable speech as vice-President, delivered at the Minnesota State fair took strong grounds in favor of some government regulation of great industrial combinations. Pub licity of accounts Is believed to be the thing which he regards as most im- portant, and yet how far can he go in any such movement without running into Nelson W. Aldrich, chairman Of the finance committee of the Senate, and the real leader of that bodyf If our new President could content himself to sit back in his executive chair, endorsing senatorial appointments and writing Thanksgiving proclamations, but leaving public questions to adjust themselves. he would undoubtedly succeed in holding the politicians in his support; but if he en- deavors to be an aggressive leader he must expect to encounter antagonism.
 Already the lines of a possible cleavage are apparent The public feels very warm- ly towards Mir. Roosevelt. The news papers represented in this city were never so nearly unanimous In their en- couragement for any president in health and vigor as they are today. Even cor respondents of stanch Democratic news papers have seriously tested the liberality of their journals by writing in commen- datlon of his acts. Such things both guide and reflect popular feeling In these cir cumstanoes 1t is conceivable that the pol itlcians may come to dislike MT. Roose- welt, but at the same time find it mex pedient to say so. Such things have hap pened before. MT. Cleveland was nomin- ated in 1892 by popular demand, and against the practically unanimous senti- ment of the Democratic Senators and professional politicians. Mir. Roosevelt's nomination as Vice President was re- sponsiYe to the same sort of popular im- pulse. Politicians who attempted to aid 1t or stand in it's way were like Mrs. Par tington with her broom. It may be so again. As soon as the public learns that a man desires the right thing and is cour- ageous enough to try to do it, they rally to his support, and the politicians have either to make the best of it or take a whipping.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
Arrival of lack Frost.

In the cotton belt frosts are class flied. There are light frosts, heavy frosts and killing frosts. The frosts tof this week belong to the first-named class. The mercury in the early morn ing registered from about forty de- grees in Tennessee to fifty-two de grees in New Orleans, and forty-eight degrees in Mobile. These frosts have not damaged any kind of vegetation in the easterly sections of the cotton belt. whatever may have been the case in Texas. Cold waves usually come down the Mississippi before they move eastwardly, and 1t may be that Texas and Oklahoma had heavier frosts than the States east of them had.
 Killing frosts are by no means im- possible in October. In 1865 one oc- cured on October 20, and in 1863 on October "A. The earliest killing frost since records have been kept occurred on October 8, 1860.
 As rule killing frost is not due in October, but 1t is to be expected at almost any time in November. The present wave promises to pass away without doing any damage, but the next one will doubtless strike at all vegetation, although occasionally there are years in which no killing frost oc- CUTS until December. In 1883 there was not a killing frost throughout the cotton belt until December 12.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17

of Amelia County. In 1887 he entered IIampden Sidney College, and in 1901 se- cured his A. B. degree. with the distinc- ton of first horror man. Tn 1892 he took his M. degree During tre session Of 1ssi-s2 he was fellow of Latin and Greek at tha- college. From 1899 tc 1896 fe was assistant master at Pantops Academy, near Charlottesville. He is a graduate student of the University of Virginia. which accorded him the degree of Ph. D. in 1897. From 1896 to 1899 he was profes- sor of Latin and German at Hampden Sidney, and in July, 1899, he was elected to the chair of Latin ut Washington and Lee University.
 The board of trustees of this universi- ty last June selected him as acting pres- ident, to hold the guiding reins of a uni- versity over which some of the best known men in the country have presided among them Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. G. W. c. Lee, and Hon. William Lyme Wilson,"
 President Wyman of the University of Alabama had been college professor ten years when President Denny was bornl
 About Persons.
 1T. W. Ward of Winfield and Dr. John P. Randolph of Fayette are at the Metropolitan
 J. H. colvin of Ethelville is at the Metropolitan.
 Robert Campbell of eadsden is at the Metropolitan
 Tyler Goodwin of Montgomery Is at the Morris.
 A. F. McGhee of Anniston is at the Morris.
 John H. Prichard of Ft. Scott, Kas., Is at the Morris.
 w. M. Calhoun of New York is at the Morris.
 L. G. Daniel of Tuscaloosa is at the Morris.
 D. W. Day. Robert Sobotxa, and J. M Simpson Of Hartselle are at the Florence, c. L. o'Neal of Calera is at the Flor ence.
 D. J. N. Buchanan and J. B. Hamilton of Woodstock are at the Florence.
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 J. F. Webb and Mrs. Webb of Talladega are at the Florence
 J. L. Mccaa of Anniston Is at the Hill man.
 A. c. Miller of Dadeville is at the Hillman.
 Former Congressman Thomas s. Flow man of Talladega is at the Hillman. L. W. Riddle of Gadsden is at the Hillman.
 H. H. Constantine and D. F. Constan- tine of Anniston are at the IIillman.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 You can convince a woman. but you can never change her opinion.
 When a man Is down on his luck he can keep on dropping forever. and 1t will be still further down.
 Farmers are not superstitious They would rather have the price of plain. ordinary hay $40 ton than to have nine barns full of four-leafed clover.
 There are lectures and lectures. Some people pay good money to hear one from public platform and they would pay ten times as much not to hear one from their wives.
 Women could be just as different from what they are as you can imagine and they wouldn't be any nearer to mans idea of what he thinks they are before he learns enough to know they arn't.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
'Possum and chick'ns.

A dusky inhabitant of one of the Birm- ingham suburbs has been accustomed of late to leave home every night, presum- ably to hunt possums.
 Sens de fust col spell de possums is sho flne-da sho is-and Ise gwineter cetch one eff 1t takes me t'e'rside Christ mus" he has been saying to his wife every day and night; but still he never brought home a possum.
 'Yer didn't git no possum ergin las night. Ephum?' she asked with some concern yesterday morning.
 NO; nebber seed none no whar-neb- Der heerd none. Mighty strange" the old man said.
 'Huccum?" she asked.
 Cause hits de fustest time nebber got no possum Ten I sho went out fur i'm" he answered.
 'Ephumg'
 "W'at yer want?'
 ''Huccum I see all desc strange chick ms roun' de house ebery mornin wen yer ain't got no possum?' l.
 ''Da des nachilly come here" he haz- ard answer.
 ''EphumT'
 ''W'at yer want. 'oman?'
 ''Yer ain't been ter hunt no possum. ain't yer?"
 ''Shet yer mouf and eat dem chick ms, yer or fooi-yer Is de beatenest oman to ax questions I ebber seedp'
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
WILL SPEND s1o,ooo,ooo.
Plans Completed for Reorganization of
 Mexican National Railroad.

Mexico City. October 16.-The Mexican Herald announces on good authority that plans for the reorganization of the Mexi- can National Railroad Company have been completed and that $10OO0 coo gold will be spent in widening the gauge and buying new rolling stock. The road will be placed in most substantial condition to meet an expected heavy traffic
 The plans for the reorganization were entirely matured in New York by the two great banking houses of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Speyer & Go. They consulted with directors who had long been con- sidering the widening of the gauge but did not have at their disposal money with which to carry out this great improve ment The result is that the two banking houses were given authority to, arrange plans for reorganization and place them before the public.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
SAW AoUINALpo.
His Efforts to Maintain Truce Were
 Unavailinq.

Manila, October 16.-The party of Sena- tors and Representatives that has been visiting the Philippine Islands left here today for home on board the United States transport Sheridan. Before leaving the members of the party had an inter view with Aguinaldo. who said the origi- nal outbreak of hostllities was a surprise to him. and that his efforts to maintain the truce were unavailing
 The Philippine commission has passed an act prohibiting any suspect from land ing unless he takes the oath of allegiance. the penalty of breaking it being two years of imprisonment for perjury.
 The typhoon which has just swept over Manila was the worst experience in twenty years. much damage being done to the smaller shipping and many natives lost their lives.
The age-herald., 1901-10-17
BIG COAL COMBINE.
Chartered Steamers Will Carry Coal
 to Mediterranean.

New York, October 16.-According to the Journal of Commerce number of soft coal operators are in the city completing arrangements for handling coal for ex- port besides the home trade, on a big scale, through a joint selling agency to be established here.
 This latest project, 1t is said, is headed by the Mckee Coal and Coke Company of West Virginia. the largest miners of coal in the new river district with an annual output of about one million tons It was asserted that the object of the combination is to charter several coal carrying steamers and also to purchase land in conjunction with certain foreign companies for the storage of coal in the Mediterranean ports