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The age-herald., 1901-11-03

Judging from the number of women who danced with Lafayette, he must have been the Wu of his day.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

It Is said President Roosevelt's mes- sage will be as pointed as it will be brief--a reform much needed.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

Frances fleet will be apt to wake the ladies of the harem from a slum- berous life and induce them to cut down expenses.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

Even Newport has the smallpox, and the 400 are being yaccinated all the way from their aristocratic toes up.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

Buffalo Bills bad luck follows him on land and sea. It recently killed "Old Pap," his favorite saddle horse.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

The New York City campaign re- lates to and will turn upon local is- sues.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03
GLAD TO SEE HER.

From Leslie's Weekly.
 So you overcame that old apathy of yours." her husband remarked, "and called on Mrs. Bobbles?'
 Yes" E
 Do you think she was glad to see you?'
 T am sure of It."
 "Ahem!-you must have some reason for that belief outside of her assurances"
 'I have. I had on the old dress that was made over twice. my hat was out of style and my hair had come uncurled; while she had on a gown that couldn4 have come from anywhere but Paris Could she help being glad to see mef"as
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

A little of the New York City cleo tion interest is needed in the Ala bama campaign.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

The Sultan of Turkey Is so good to his children that he recently had them counted.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

The treasury of the Pan-American is in the condition of exposition treas uries in general.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

''The Story of the Captains" has been dramatized, and staged in the court of inquiry.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03
He Guessed Marriage Was Joy.

Tt must be great joy to get married, [" observed a bachelor in group of loung- CTS in the lobby of the Hillman as he marked a friend disappear In the direc- tion of the women's waiting room last night.
 Now there's our friend Black just re- turned from his wedding journey, as tired and happy as a man could be. No telling to what out-of-the-way or in--the-way places he and his bride have been. They are registered here as from Cincinnati. though they dwell in this town, and I doubt if ever either of them saw Gin cinnati. You see. 1t is hard for them to come down to earth again; they must strike 1t on one foot at a time, so to speak,. Their journeying in Pullman cars has been for them soaring in the emgryrean, and even the modern, hotels with all the hotel terrors have been to them stations along their paradisaical way.
 q say to you. marriage must be great joy!4
 When greeted Black just now he was dusty and worn and tired, but he was bubbling over with happiness, and he wrung my hand with fervor such as one glad might display to brother whom he'd lift from despair. And there was a
The age-herald., 1901-11-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
"cIty Life" Come to Birmingham.


 with all my faith in Birmingham as a real city. such as 1t will be when N turns from it's more pronounced ana more non-urban village ways-for BIT mingham, mind you, great town that 1t is and world-famous. retains many of the leading characteristics of village or fifteen hundred inhabitants rapidly ln- creasing-I discovered that had not quite contemplated such distinct 'city aspect as was presented for the eight ana forty hours during which we had that tiresomely talked-of grand opera salo Birmingham man who has traveled some | what
 ''The general aspect of the town the night of grand opera-not as observed at the opera, for I was not there, am not disappointed to say-was kind or reve- lation to me, faithful Birmingha.nian as | know myself to os. !t was clearly | city And it looked as if Birmingham had discarded the garments Of It's cnilq- hood, it's knee pants (Heaven save the markD if you please, and had come out in trousers; or, to change the simile, Miss Birmingham had concealed her well filled stockings with long skirts. which she ought to have done long ago, considering her age, the frowsy mad capl
 Especially was l impressed with the scenes in the Hotel Hillman 'ahfter tn op'ra, bah love, dontcherknow.' How grateful we should feel to the builders and conductors of that hotel What a long felt, badly-felt want it fills! The scenes there after the show (Is it proper to refer to grand opera as show? were worthy of a great city. Indeed, they suggested true metropolitan life. More than two hundred men and women were there to superior lunch, maybe some of them might have said-but supper 1t really was And perhaps the best of 1t was that only some frty or sixty had 'bespoken' places at the tables, and yet every one of the two hundred and more was well-served.
 "Lounging in the lobby and about the corridors seeing whom I might see I was charmed by the number of beautiful women who. best of all, were beautifully dressed. was almost tempted into the vulgarism. 'gowned.' But those beauti- ful women-Birmingham women and wo- men from all over Alabama, and from adjoining states as well-were qualified to adorn courts of the old world. There isn't court of the old word the fair women of which are comparable in beauty and loveliness to our own South ern women!
 And the men. mostly Birmingham men, who attended those beautiful beau tifully dressed women, mostly Birming- ham men. bore themselves as being wor- thy of the high honor of being knights attendant upon ladies so fair
 Birmingham is coming into its heri- tage of politeness, as we'll as material greatness; and without polite society one might as well dwell in or hard by a pork-butchering establishment"
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

These are busy days for the political bill posters in New York City.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03
Romance. Roosevelt and Jones.

noHaHCos nooSeNeit ana Jones.
 Few scenes in the ups and downs of public life in this country have presented such picturesque and romantic features as the meeting of President Roosevelt and Judge Thomas Goode Jones of Ala bama in Washington on Thursday" said man in a lobby last night
 Seven and thirty years before Judge Jones' then a youthful officer in Gen. Jubal A. Early's army of Confederates was at the foot of Sixteenth street, Washington, wild like his comrades to be led in to the capture of the Capital of the Union. Now he came to thank the President for a commission as United States judge down in Alabama which was then Confederate state. From Ap- pomattox. where he rode as a messenger of defeat from Lee to Grant, this judge of today passed into civil life paroled officer, feeling in his hot young heart that 1t would have been better for the earth to have opened and swallowed him up than that his side should have lost Now he came as the judge sworn to up- hold the law of the side that was then victorious.
 Tn 1864 the ragged rebel boy-officer looked out upon the struggling town of Washington, as seen from the foot of Sixteenth street, and was crazy to rush in and possess 1t red-handed in war. In 1901, the boy grown man and the man bearing the distinction of many honors, came to the splendid imperial city of the Nation to have speech with the President who had given him a new honor; this young President having been but a child of seven when Grant refused the stainless sword of Lee
 All of this Is wonderfully rich in his tory, heroism, romance, sentiment; and of like interest in the busy and singularly romantic life of Judge Jones is the fact that nine and twenty years after Appo- mattox he, as Governor of Alabama, walked the deck of United States war ship named for Montgomery. the first Capital of the Confederacy. and the pa- roled prisoner then received thundrous salute and all honors possible from the American navy!
 When he who is now President was playing with soap bubbles, he whom that President has raised to the bench was playing with shot and shell tin the front of grim war; while the one was tickling with straws, the sword of the other was flashing against the ranks of that side on which played the little child come now to rule from the White House. Is there anything in fiction stranger than this history of Thomas Goode Jones, the stalwart man and learned statesman and judge. of such strenuous life?'
 He Guessed Marriage Was Joy.
 Tt must be great joy to get married" observed a bachelor in a group of loung- CTS in the lobby of the Hillman as he
The age-herald., 1901-11-03
About Persons.

New Workers at the Hillman are L. N Keller, J. Cohen. J. H. Hoffman. Irving Hellen and John H. Love. Jr.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

Miss Mary Hill. Miss Sallis Birch. Miss Edith Lodge. Dr. Saffoid and S. Lodge, a
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

J. H. Brough of Columbus. Ohio. is at the Hillman.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

R. J. Flynn of Keokuk. Iowa. is at the Hillman.
The age-herald., 1901-11-03

There is history in all mems lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas d: The which observe d, man may prophecy, With near aim. of the main chance of
 things
 As yet not come to life; which is their
 seeds And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17
NEGRo-BURN1NG IN KANSAS.

Never was the sheer brutality and stu
pidity of mob made more clearly man
ifest than in Leavenworth in the perpe-
tration of its will on Tuesday afternoon.
1t burned human being at tba stake
against whom there was not a shadow
of evidence that he had committed the
offense for which he suffered death It
acted with insane generalization, and
offered a spectacle to the entire world
Of which American society has pitiful
reason to be ashamed.
The awful evil which is represented by
this transaction has gene beyond the
point where it is Of any avail to reason
about it. AS long as public authority
will leave such f1endish crimes unpun-
ished-and all Of them that have been
committed within the past two years
have remained without even an effort to
bring their perpetrators to justice-thsy
will continue to be committed.
The real crime in these cases is charge
able against public authority. The sane
ton OF that authority is offered to their
commission each time this hideous oper-
alton is carried on. There used to be a
great deal of self-extolling comment
made in the press of the non-Southern
sections Of this country some time ago
when crimes of this character, but fer
less revolving, were committed in the
South. There is nothing more Of the
kind heard. Leavenworth Is one of the
chief cities Of the state which occupies
foremost place in American history In
connection with the movement to free
the negro. Its people are, If the Globe
is not mistaken, the most distinctlveIy
American population in the entire coun-
try. There is no sense Of danger ami
mating them regarding the social condi-
tons which prevail in many states of the
South. When negro is done to death
in the South there Is no doubt whatever
left of his guilt. The burning of the
Leavenworth negro was effected without
any serious effort whatever being made
to fasten upon him the crime which he
is supposed to have expiated.
Americans may talk as much as they
please about Russian terrorism and an
archy. No conditions which the anar-
chists seek to call into existence can
equal, in the dominance of the brute in
stinct in the conduct of affairs, the state
of things which is offered to view in
the press reports of those revolving TRACE
dies. 1t rests with the state officials of
Kansas to say whether that state is
hereafter to be regarded as In the list
of those which have shown themselves
to be under the willing dominance OF
mob law.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17
SHOULD BE WITHnRAwN

No doubt Senator Foraker was right
when he declared in the senate a day
or two since that the administration
would have the support of Judges Har-
Ian and McKenna without extending ia
vors to their families, whatever his exact
meaning may have been, when he made
the statement. Both of these gentlemen
are good Republicans. They got their
appointments as such, and, no doubt,
their sympathies, If not their Judgment,
will be arrested in behalf of the admin
istration which represents the party Of
their choice
But whether Senator Foraker is right
or wrong, the right was certainly with
Senator Pettigrew when he called atten-
ton to the fact that son of each of
these gentlemen was nominated for posi-
ton by the president under notable cir
cumstances.
1t is hardly credible that Justice Har-
Ian would have given his sanction to the
pursuit by his son of the favor Of an
appointment as attorney general for
Porto Rico at this particular juncture,
had he been consulted in the matter, or
that Justice McKenna would have quiet
ly assented to the effort to advance his
SON over great number of experienced
men in the army. These applications
were made, without doubt, without the
knowledge or approval of the parents
Of the applicants; and Senator Pettigrew
rendered a service not only to the SEN
ate but to the two judges of the supreme
court by directing attention to the cir
cumstances.
1t seems peculiarly uniting that the
Republican majority In the senate should
be called on to confirm these appoint
ments, especially that of the son of
Justice Harlan to the Office of attorney
general of Porto Rico. The appointments
may not be an international bid on the
part Of the administration for the sup
port Of the fathers of the proposed ap-
pointees in the determination of the great
questions now before the supreme court
affecting the political status of our re.
cent island acquisitions; but they looH
suspiciously like. 1t. They should be
beaten, If possible. No doubt both of the
men are thoroughly capable; but that
does not alter the situation In the slight
est. They ought not to be candidates
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17
CIVIL SERVICE FOR TEACHERS.

A bill which has just been introduced
into the legislature affecting the positions
of school teachers should commend it.
self to all thoughtful members. 1t is
designed to prevent the removal Of
teachers without specific charges being
made against them and without their
being accorded the fullest opportunity to
be heard on the merits of those charges.
One often hears of the declaration
made that all politics should be elimi-
mated from school management. OF
course 1t ought AS a matter Of fact,
politics, in the ordinary acceptance, rare
ly enters into school administration.
There is often, however, a deal of per-
sonal politics involved; and the indi-
vidual teacher is too often made the
victim Of that sort of politics.
The teacher should not be the victim
of the likes or dislikes of principals or
superintendent or of any of the outside
personalities or influences which affect
school administration as long as he or
she remains fully competent to discharge
the duties of the position. More than
that; after a certain period of service
in her calling the teacher should be as
sured Of some form of protection against
failing faculties and the other disadvan-
tages of advancing years.
AS it is at present, the most capable
be dropped without a word of explana-
ton in any of our schools. There is
practically little or no inducement Of
fered to a bright man or woman to
make the teaching calling a life work.
The complaint is often heard, that the
female teacher just makes the business
means of providing herself something
Of living until the available young man
comes along, and she is a school ma'am
no longer. OF course this is true. And
so ought it to be true. The eligible young
lady who has an opportunity to enter
the married state with the man ard in
manner to her liking would be very
foolish indeed were she to let the op-
portunity go. She has nothing but old
maidenhood, hard work and ultimate dis
missal to look forward to, as things go.
Any measure which will protect the
individual teacher against the operation
Of unfriendly cabals is a good measure
The teachers calling is noted for the
spontaneous production within it Of ca
balls. Any civil service plan which will
protect the teacher against them will be
welcomed by every honest, self-reliant
and capable member of the calling.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17
QUAY, CLARK AND ADDIcKs.

Three men have once more challenged
the moral sense of the American people
in seeking election to the exalted station
of senators of-the United States and
two Of them have been successful QUAY
and Clark have each been elected by
bare majority; while Addicks, of Della
ware, is still unable to show that he
brought his wares to the right market
when he decided upon the home of the
Bayards as the most available, in offer
ing himself as a candidate for sentorial
honors.
1t is almost laughable to hear the
Pennsylvania reformers raise their peri
odical outcry against Quay. That gentle
man knows his business. He has prosti-
tuted the politics of the commonwealth
with the able assistance of the Repub-
lican politicians of the several localities.
He and they have made the chief city
of the state and one of six of the lead
ing cities Of the Union a scott In the
mouths Of decent men who seek the dav
when active politics will be approacha
Bile by respectable men, without having
an imputadon of self-seeking rest upon
them
We hear great deal about Tammanv
hall. We hear nothing whatever or next
to nothing about the Philadelphia
political ring. Tammany is some
thing of shibboleth; and, be-
sides, that organization and its
methods are in the forefront of Amer1-
can political life by reason Of their Ioca-
ton in the chief city of the country.
Matters are no better in the one city
than in the other; and the mass of Re-
publican voters in the one sustain Quay
and his confederates, just as the mass of
Democrats in the other maintain Croker
and his.
The wave of moral sentiment which is
at present seen in movement in New
York is needed to spread all over the
huence is not confined to any one class
or any one party in political or social life
The failure to drive man like Quay out
of public life creates the bitterest re-
Election which can occur to any Amer1-
can, of tho power of corruption in our
public affairs.
1t is not the dlletanti reformer Of the
anti-Quay kind or of the DR.. Potter va
riety who will do the work effectively
which is so badly needed to be done. It
Is possible only to the masses. AS long
as they are inert as long as the busi-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17

ness man who receives more or less OF
favor from one class Of politicians il
willing to lend them his vote and In
fiuence without regard to their doings,
or the workingman or clerk will vote
for any man who is presented to him,
simply because he is Of this or that
party, or because he IS friend Of some
one whom the voter desires to favor, It
is almost useless to go on trying to ac-
complish anything.
The election Of two such men as Quay
and Clark, as well as Of such men as
Hanna and Plat, shows that the peo-
pie are not faithful to the trust which
is reposed in them when they are put
in possession of a free ballot. II they
were not capable of electing corrupt men
to the legislative body, they in turn
would not have a chance to show their
contempt for the prophecies and de-
cencies of public life by eIecting men
of their own stamp by methods the cor
ruption of which no effort is made to con-
ceal.
The evil. so far as 1t relates to the
choice of United States senators, has
only one available remedy. It is the cleo
ton Of those officials directly through the
popular vote. We should do our own
share promptly to that end. The neces-
sary sentiment is finding expression
throughout the country which will put
an end to the shame and disgrace of
such occurrences. Senator Stockwell
should push the adoption of his resolu-
ton forward as urgently as possible.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17
A SONG OF LowLY LIFE.

wouldn't be a millionaire,
I wouldn't ask for fame,
wouldn't soldiers laurels wear
Nor ask ones honored name;
I'd rather have what God has sent
Me, peaceful life, If low,
So write me down that I'm content
With being Manie's beau.
I wouldn't wear kingly crown,
I wouldn't be a knight,
For in those walks to win renown
A fellow has to fight.
I like too well my neck, guess,
But more than that, I know,
/ like the supreme happiness
OF being MaInie's beau.
We're of the common folk. it's true,
We haven't fame or wealth,
But Mamie hath two eyes of blue,
And II have my health!
I'm lord Ger loves domain, beside,
Where fields OF kisses grow,
So write me down as satisfied
With being NAMES beau.
Roy Farrell Greene in Leslie's Weekly
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17

for any position at this time. Their
fathers ought to see that they are not,
and. If 1t Is within their control. ought
to secure the withdrawal OF their appli-
cations, at least until the Porto Rico and
Philippine cases are decided.
This involves no injustice TO these
young men. They are entitled to pre-
cisely the same treatment as any other
Americans similarly situated who are
candidates for office; and there Is moth
ing in the exercise Of this right which
is inconsistent with the prompt with
drawal Of their respective applications at
this time.
AS to the point which Senator Petit
grew makes concerning the son of ex-
President Harrison, it may or may not
have merits. Maj. Harrison's dismissal
is ill-tlmed at the best. His dismissal,
If merited. ought surely to have been
made, without the slightest reference
to the opinions of his father. If 1t was
influenced In the slightest measure by
the attitude OF his father, and Senator
Pettigrew can make that fact plain, he
certainly will have succeeded in making
point against President Mckinley and
has political advisers, the Importance Of
which will be readily appreciated by
the entire country.
Altogether the affair Is one which
should result in the withdrawal for the
present at least from before the senate
Of the nominations Of Messrs Harlan
and McKenna by the president.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17

The Cuban constitutional convention
has decided in favor Of universal SUI
frage, without limitation by educational
or property test.I What that will lead
to can be seen by the experience of our
Southern states with negro rule after
the Civil war. San Domingo and most
of the spanish-Amerfcan countries are
also examples in point. Popular govern
ment in such countries can only be sue
cessful when the large numbers of shift
less and ignorant are excluded from the
franchise by reasonable educational and
property tests. Our Southern states are
quite right in disfranchising the ignorant
negro vote and the administration will
do well to insist on similar measure In
Cuba
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17

states puts the death penalty on train
robbery. but ever since the law was en-
acted 1t has been impossible to secure
conviction under it, because no jury could
De found willing to take the responsibility
OF passing death sentence for such an Of
Tense Hence. there Is practically no law
against train robbing in that state. Any
law that Is felt to be unreasonably Sc
we're Is likely to have the same effect.
Give the kidnapers plenty, but don't
oYerdo IL
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-17
war Tax Good for Years.

Blue Earth County Enterprise.
In order to relieve the brewery inter
ests the prospects are that the business
men of the country will be compelled to
continue licking revenue stamps. No
more obnoxious way of providing a rev.
enue for the government could be de-
vised. During the campaign it was am
nounced that this annoying plan of tax
alton would soon be over but the great
corporations have made a strong fight
for relief from taxation and as result
the bank check tax is destined to re-
main with us a long time to come.