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The age-herald., 1901-01-06
PROVED
His Claim to Youth By Going to the
 United States Senate.

Washington Special Philadelphia North
 American
 This is the story of how Edmund Winston Pettus of Alabama happened to come to the United States Senate: During President Cleveland's second administration MT. Pet tus was a candidate for United States dis trict judge of Alabama. He applied to Mr. Pugh, then Senator from that State, to assit him in securing the place. Senator Pugh called upon Cleveland and submitted MT. Pettus' name for the judgeship, but did not urge the appointment very hard. The President wasn't much inclined to give MT. Pettus that job and Senator Pugh did not exhibit any disappointment thereat
 Senator Push wrote to a friend in Ala bama that MT Pettus was too old for the judgeship, and did not stand ghost of a show for the place. Mir. Pettus learned of Senator Pugh's letter. He promptly packed his gripsack, jumped on a train and came to Washington. The first and only man he called upon was Senator Pugh
 "Pugh," said MT. Pettus, with emphasis, "T just called to say that while I may be too old to be United States judge for Ala bama, am not too old to succeed you in the United States Senate, Good day, sir"
 MT. Pettus took the first train back home and made good his word.
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the wheels of his buggy dropped in mud holes almost up to the hub, here, there and everywhere, and his horse had to pick his way through many sections, among gar bage piles and through heaps of scattered paper and much other refuse. If Mayor Drennen and Street Commissioner Mecar- tin will invest in a hundred or two carloads of ehert and cover up and level over the residence streets with it, the people will declare that their New Year resolutions were good ones and will wish for q New Year every quarter. McCartin undoubtedly knows how to fix streets, and if the Mayor will see that he gets the money to do it, Birmingham will wear the appearance of a new and modern town in few months.
 
 I can't help, right in this connection. from coming back to my old hobby of more po- licemen and better protection for the resi- dence' sections of Birmingham. I have rath- CT abandoned hope of more policemen for the immediate present, and would, there fore, suggest that in lieu of policemen for the residence sections we have more light. I believe that there are less than two hum dred electric lights to Illuminate all of Bir- mingham. And this in face of the fact that the cost of electric lights has been materially reduced this year. believe that three lights now cost only about what two lights did last year. Under such circum- stances why not put in about fifty more lights in the residence sections? Lights may not be quite as good as policemen, but when kept burning they are some protec- ton against burglars and petty thieves. Tenth avenue, Twentieth street, Highland avenue and Thirteenth avenue on the southside are all badly in need of more lights. The darkest spot in town is at the corner of Tenth avenue and Twentieth street. And Highland avenue at night is almost as dark as a country road through a swamp. Give us more light, MT. Mayor and Aldermen, and we will talk to you more about policemen later.
 The people of the State have again be- gun to discuss the forthcoming constitu- tional convention. The matter of suffrage is particularly under discussion, and I un- derstand it is proposed by some of the politicians that provision be made for an educational qualification which will elimi- nate the ignorant negro vote. It is pro- posed, hear, when dealing with the ignor- ant white voter to make provision which will exempt all relatives of ex-Confederate
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perhaps they will fight it through the insurance companies as they did in Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi
 Alabama has been singularly dilatory in combating dangerous combinations of capital-those concerns that are sub stituting combination of capital for competition of capital. There is scarce ly a State except Alabama that is with. out an antitrust law. Some of the stat utes are not efficient. Some were shaped by the trusts themselves, or else were distorted or disfgured by sub servient courts. But nearly every State except Alabama has at least tried to curb and restrain dangerous combina- tions of capital. MT. Pettus' bill is an earnest effort in that direction.
 If any one thinks there are no dan gers involved in trusts let him read this Chicago dispatch, dated January 3, con corning an article used on every farm in Alabama. It says:
 The combination of blow companies, of which there have been rumors for two or three days, will be launched next week with a capitalization of $65, ,OO0,OO Charles R. Flint, president of the United States Rubber Company, is the reputed financial power behind the combination Thirty one firms are said to have agreed to enter the new concern. which will probably be called the American Flow Company.
 This blow combine is but an example of what is taking place in almost every article of daily use and necessity. The blow combine will be in position to name the price of plows-to levy tax, in other words, upon every farm simply because the tariff keeps out foreign blows, and the blow combine can pro- ceed to control the home output. There are similar trusts in school books, in rubber goods, in petroleum, in a thous- and other articles, and MT. Pettus is endeavoring in his bill to protect thu people from extortion. Read his story, elsewhere printed, and then let your representatives in the Legislature know what you think of it.
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THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Alabama Affairs at Washington

The news of a single morning, Fri day, showed that this districts interests are well cared for at the national capi- tai, even if it has no immediate repre- sentative in one House of Congress. There came news on that morning that Senator Morgan would ask the Senate to print a report prepared by the Geo. logical Survey concerning the iron, coal, gold and other metals of the State, showing among other things that Ala bama has more coal than all of the rest of the Appalachian system. Such doc ument cannot fail to be both interesting and productive of good to this State, and Senator Morgan is rendering us d good service in having it printed apart from other matter.
 Representative Underwood is about to win new laurels by bringing to all of Jefferson County the benefits of the free delivery system. The lesser towns and the farmers of this county-the third in the South-will appreciate in a short time this great boon, and will soon wonder how they could have got along without it. Mr. Underwood and The Age-Herald have been seeking the change long time, and their joint ef- forts will soon be crowned with com plete success. Every part of the county will be benefited by free delivery. The city will be benefited without knowing how it came about. The rural districts will know and appreciate the privilege.
 On the same morning the story of MT. Bankhead's efforts in behalf of Ala bama buildings and Alabama rivers and harbors was also told. The appropria- tions he has secured run into the mil lions, and he will soon unlock the min eral district of the State letting it's products glide out on the bosom of six feet year-round water to the sea and to the markets of the world.
 All praise then to Senator Morgan, and Representatives Underwood and Bankhead for their untiring and suc- cessful efforts in behalf of this district. It wants no better representatives, and it could not find better if it wanted them.
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Northside and Southside,

Confusion will soon exist in street nomenclature in this town unless the Council adopts a name schedule soon. For Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues have been opened on Northside, and on Southside letters covering ave- nues of like names had been rejected, as indeed they should be all the way down to the railroads. Letters are not satisfactory as street names
 AS things stand there will soon be two avenues of like name above the number Nine-two Tenth avenues and so on as far as avenues can be laid out. This will soon be very confusing. When a pack age is addressed to Twelfth avenue, it will soon be a puzzle whether it is on Northside or Southside. This confusion could readily be remedied by prefixinis the word South to all streets and ave- nues on Southside. The more populous and business side should be left with out prefix. All letters as street names should be abandoned as nuisances They are unnecessary and unsatisfactory. The prefix South" is the key to a lucid arrangement of street names.
The age-herald., 1901-01-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press
 The average man loses about half of his religion every time he loses his umbrella
 If an umbrella was made of only one rib, like woman, you would never be able to shut 1t up.
 A woman never hears new cute baby story that she doesn't tell it afterwards on her own child.
 It always jars man terribly when he wakes up after he has dreamed that his wife got married to another man.
 Up to the time she is thirty woman has as many excuses for getting married as the bundles she can carry.
 You never can see some women without thinking what a horrible thing it would be if pins had never been invented.
 When a woman in a rainy-day skirt goes along the street, all the men are too much ashamed to look her in the face.
 Nowadays, if man only says he wishes some one would teach him how to save money to a girl, she gets & queer feeling where she thinks her heart is.
 A woman who will admit that her hus- band Is the only man who ever proposed to her is as rare as a man who will con- fess that he doesn't know how to play poker.
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NED BRACE DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY
 AND COMMENTS UPON LOCAL MATTERS

soldiers or ex-Spanish war soldiers. This would be eminently unjust and unfair. There is no excuse for young white man of this day and generation who can neither read nor write, unless he be a blind man. And the foreigner who has been naturalized but who cannot read the English language is no more entitled to vote than is the China man or the ignorant negro.
 The educational qualification in the new constitution should apply to all alike.
 l hope to see every ne wspaper in Ala bama take up this matter, urge it, insist upon it, and refuse to endorse or support any candidate for delegate to the constitu- tlonal convention who would discriminate between ignorance. There is some excuse for the ignorant negro but none for the ab- solutely ignorant white man. He is entitled to no suffrage consideration.
 
 hear that Gen. Joe Wheeler has been suggested for president of the State Uni versity at Tuscaloosa. Why not? General Wheeler is man of ability, a scholar and a military expert. If the school is to have military features connected with 1t, there is no better man in America for its presiA dent than General Wheeler Again, If the military features are to be eliminated. Gen, eral Wheeler would make an equally good president. He would command the respect of the boys; he would push the university to the front, and I venture the assertion that he would double the number of students for the next collegiate year. Why not call General Wheeler to this important position. He would probably accept it.
 Though part and parcel of the Age- Herald, I feel justified in throwing a bots quet at both MT. Underwood and The Agea Herald for the great work performed in obtaining free rural mail delivery system for Jefferson County. Jefferson has gotten ahead of every other county in the South because it has pushed the matter before the government, and because 1t Is in every way entitled to the full benefits of the rel gently adopted free rural mail delivery law. It had no hesitency in asking for and de- manding it's rights of the government, and it has secured them. Three mail carriers now leave the post office at 6 o'clock every morning, and each one travels route Of twenty-two miles through the country Within few months there will be six 0T seven more carriers and every resident of Jefferson County will be able to get mail delivered at his door each and every day.
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Directory Censuses.

Some cities cannot be kept down even of those cities close at hand. Atlanta rejects with scorn the population fig ures of Director Merriam, S4,655, and now offers to an astonished world the figures of MT. Maloney, who is direc. tory maker. His census shows that the population of Atlanta is 131 ,464! At lanta is fearfully and wonderfully made, for in six months time it has grown over fifty per cent, and the Constitution grayely assures us that the figures are made conservatively.
 Nashville has not done quite so well. By means of "Maloney" it has, how ever, raised the Federal figures, S1,000, to 105,OOO. "The city of Nashville" says the American, lis composed of 1O5,0O0 progressive, enterprising and prosper ous people" The figures are made of course conservatively.
 Even Memphis, not content with a population of 102, 1920, as ascertained in the Federal count, has joined the Ma loney brigade, and now claims popu- lation-but let us quote the Scimetar: gro be definite, the population of Mem- phis as this city enters the new century is 169,261." This is wonderful.
 At the rate the Maloney cities are growing they will cross the million line before the next Federal census is taken, but what fall will there be, my coun- trymen! It will not, however, change the leopards spots. Directory censuses will be resumed as soon as the census year is ended.
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Already several hundred residents of Jef- ferson County outside the city limits re- ceive the morning Age-Herald delivered by United States rural mail carriers each morning by or shortly after T o'clock. Withir-a few months every resident of the county will be able to get the Age-Herald delivered at his door through the United States mail, each and every morning. Jef- ferson is not only the greatest county in the South, but it will soon be composed of the best educated and most intelligent peo- pie in the South.
The age-herald., 1901-01-06
A SANITARY SUGGESTION.

To Inc Editor of the Age-HeraId:
 If Mayor Drennen in his laudible desire to have the streets and alleys of the city kept clean will induce the proper authori- tives to take such necessary action as will protect our citizens from the theft and carrying away of ash barrels and trash re- ceptacles by tho trash wagons, he will no doubt meet with more uniform observance of the city's regulations in regard to this matter. Our citizens should not be expect ed to furnish a new barrel or box after every visit of the garbage wagon.
 O. T. DOZIER
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THE MUEMUR OF THE WORLD.
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and it seemed almost all the most beautiful of fair young creatures, with feet reluctant to cross the border into the larger space where women hold gentle sway Sympho- nies in pink and white, in pale green and white, in blue and white, in simple white, in what not conceivable by art for the adornment of the most beautiful little wo- men of earth. The head of the board, hostess and incarnation of grace, was d. vine at seventeen, with the grace and wit of seven and thirty; to the right divine at fifteen; to the left divine at just that age; at the foot of the board, glorious at seven- teen, with the cleverness of twice that time; then dainty creature in white, six teen; and again and again so and so, all di- vine. And the gifted and charming lads that sat between! It was all very beauti- ful, surprisingly attractive.
 
 Kindness, 1t was all kindness; love, it was all love; sweetness and light, 1t was, all sweetness and light; brightness, vivacity, wit, repartee abundant joyousness-it was all that NYouthfulness, it was all that save but one, a bidden interloper bearded like a pard whose new year of youth had been celebrated year or more before, whom kindness bade to come worship at it's cher fshed shrine. He had journeyed half around the earth more than once, had been of a thousand dinner parties in many lands, and happy at all of them; had seen the goodli- est of goodly companies fair and gallant up and down the world these fifteen years; but, for the good reasons stated, he had seen nothing comparable to this, nothing quite so beautiful or so happy
 Given these considerations and this din- ner of kindness was something of interest to all lovers of the brighter side of life, the better side of humanity: Nearly a score of maidens and youths of wonderful attrac- tiveness, in surroundings of great beauty and refinement, having the party to them selves for themselves, on the first day of the New Year and the new century,!
 It was lesson in the higher kindness, in culture, in enlightenment, in beauty, in love and laughter, and above all things In the most exquisite forms of that youth which all men and women adore-the youth that keeps in our own hearts afresh the of life and hope and love and honesty, and sincerity and faith, in our own lives keep ing us away and guarding us from sordid- ness, sefshness, hardness of heart, and all uncharitableness. That your faithful hearts be for ever young, whatever be your years, my be- loved is the prayer of
 THE MURMURER.
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A WINTER EVENING.

By Longfellow.
 Leafless are trees; their purple branches Spread themselves abroad, like reefs of
 coral Rising silent In the Red Sea of the winter sunset. From the hundred chimneys of the village. Like the Afriet in the Arabian story Smoky columns Tower aloft into the air of amber At the window winks the fickering fre-
 light; Here and there the lamps of evening gim-
 mer, Social watch fire Answering one another through the dark
 ness. On the hearth the lighted logs are glowing, And like Ariel in the eleven pine tree For its reedom Groans and sighs the air imprisoned in
 them By the flreside there are peace and com-
 fort, Wives and children, with fair. thoughtful
 faces, Waiting. watching For well known footstep in the passage
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THE VANDERBILT PERSONAL TAX

From the New York Journal
 The estate of the late Cornelius Wander bilt will be taxed on sixteen million dollars of personal property next year.
 The tax rate is s2.24 per $l00.
 So the Vanderbilt heirs will pay $95S, 900 into the public funds next year.
 In the tax lists of last year and of 1898 Cornelius Vanderbilt's taxable personal property was assessed at S400000.
 On this amount he paid taxes of some thing more than $S000.
 So the new assessment will profit the city $S50,000 year, or almost 5000 day.
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NHE Samuel J. Tilden Club is
 good name for a Democratic
 club. And it is all well enough
 S to begin talking about getting the Democratic party down to con- servative, practical and business-like ba- sis for the campaign which is to come four years hence. But neither Mir Cleveland, MT Hill, MT. Bryan, nor MT. Anybody Else will at present be accepted as the leader of the party. The rank anu file and thought and brains of the Democratic par ty Is sorely tired of leaders MT. Cleve- land led the party almost to destruction in one direction and Mir Bryan has led it to equal destruction in an opposite direction. All sensible Democrats are tired and dis gusted with one-man leadership of the great Democratic party and they will have no more of it. The good sense of the party will prevail and when it's members meet to- gether again in convention three years hence there will be conservative and wise men who will make up a platform broad enough for all Democrats to stand upon and wise enough to be accepted by the country. The party will not have either Bryan or Cleveland as its candidate ioIr years hence.
 mere are an aDunuance OL HleH III tHe party competent for the presidency, and it is undoubtedly the sense of all thoughtful Democrats whatever be their views, that the party platform next time will be broad enough and great enough to take in every man who is built on old Democratic lines. The party will return to the principles upon which it was originally constructed and upon which it achieved success sixteen years ago.
 In the past few years there has been too much of the spirit or reading men out of the party because they do not agree with the views of certain alleged leaders. Dem ocrats may disagree in certain specific de- claratons. In such event they should fight their fights out among themselves within party lines, compromise their differences and go before the country united and en- thusiastic.
 How pleased will be the people of Bir- mngham to know that Street Commission CT McCartin has afforded Mayor Drennen an opportunity to ride in his buggy over the streets of Birmingham and see their condition. The Mayor has ridden and the Mayor has become indignant. A pity it Is that no one has afforded the Mayor an op- portunity to ride about before Yesterday
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Antitrust in Alabama.

In another column will be found a re- port of an interesting talk upon an in- teresting subject, the talker being Rep resentative Erie Pettus, and the subject of his conversation being bill directed
 against trusts that will be pressed upon the Legislature when it meets again. This bill is modelled upon that of Texas, and to some extent upon similar laws in Arkansas, and Mississippi None Of these laws have worked harm, although the allied trusts predicted in each case grave disasters when each bill was pending. MT. Pettus explains with ad- pirable clearness of vision the methods practiced by the trusts in opposing anti trust bills. That they will fight MT. Pettus' bill is not to be doubted, and
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The Chinese soldier who killed the Ger man minister stood to lose his head either way. If he had not killed the minister he would have been beheaded, and after he had killed him he was beheaded by order of the powers. This is up-to-date civiliza- tion.
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DISTINCTION.

From Judge.
 Mrs. Cobwgger-So they are not in your set?
 Mrs. Proudfut-No, indeed. They go to gymnasium, while we attend a physical culture class
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It is an open question in Kansas as tc the precision and reach of Mrs. Nation, muscular efforts. The saloonkeepers dc not, however, want demonstration
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YET THEY GAN FIGHT.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-T legraph.
 Those Boer fighters were not raised on tobasco sauce and primes.
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Kidnapping laws are bobbing up in the new legislatures. In some of the bills death is the penalty. and in others the .'iug" for life
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Editor Harmsworth Is so un-American that he does not want more than an out line of police and criminal news. Such a man is beyond assimilation
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Congress has just forty-seven working days left in which to avoid a passage o the Mark Hanna subsidy bill.
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The esteemed Olmsted

burg the capital of Pennsy. .,..-..--- -Ie is a lawyer and office-holder. He scarcely knows what the shades of private life look like.
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Phianthropist Pearson of Chicago is no posing at all. and this is why he is doing much good with his money.
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In view of the needs of her French broth er-in-law Helen Gould is going into tho gold mining business in Colorado.
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The photograph is now used in teaching in living languages. Its speed can be regu- lated to the ear.
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Colonel Roosevelt says he feels now like a bull moose, but he will feel differently when he looks togaed solemnity in the face.
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Fond parents already notice that twen tieth century hobbies are much superior tt the old article
The age-herald., 1901-01-06

Adlai Stevenson lets centuries come anC go without blinking an eye.
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Rear-Admiral schley goes to the retired list next October; and his friends think he should be made vice admiral before that tipa
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The center of Jones Valley will soon be shifted to Fourth avenue, corner of Nine teenth street.
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A dramatic critic is a man who does not have to pay for his seats.