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The age-herald., 1901-03-07
NO CONCESSIONS.
It Is Impossible To Secure Lower
 Rates To Coast.

New York March 6.-The Mail and Ex- press says: Some large western shippers of freight say that it is now useless to make the rounds of the various railroad offices looking around for concessions on shipments from Chicago to Pacific coast points.
 This is pointed to as one of the im- mediate results of the banks for the di- vision of all the railroads of the United States into groups or community of own ership. It means that the advisory board of half dozen men now hold the reins and whenever rates need adjusting the orders emanate from this body or from the bankers who appointed the comit- tee.
 There are no longer any long wrangles of traffic officials. These men are in- structed to get together and make such tariffs or such changes in the rates as the bankers committee, or perhaps the pres idents, think themselves ought to be made. As a result the machinery works as smoothly as if there were only one great system instead of many independ- ent ones.
 Some railroad authorities think the in- creased revenue by reason of the abolish ment of rate cutting and because of few small advances in tariffs will amount to $50. 000000 or more year.
 According to one authority. the losses to the railroads annually for the pay ment of commissions used to run into the millions, and as a rule the general pub lie did not benefit correspondingly. Again, the community of ownership method has reduced rivalry to a mini num- and 1t has been possible to run fewer trains and to make less extrava- gant concessions in order to secure busi- ness.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
CUBAN UPRISING.
Report is Dscountenanced By Senor
 Gonzales De Quesada.

Havana, March 6.-An investigation into the report circulated in the United States by news agency that the United States secret service officials here had been informed that plans are on foot for Cuban uprising and that disorder is only avoided now by the forts of lead- CTS to hold the revolutionary element in check, elicited the following statement from Senor Gonzales de Quesada, who was the special commissioner of Cuba at Washington and who was said, In the dis patch referred to, to have confirmed the statements made:
 T have not made any statements re- gardng an uprising. If any persons are interested in fomenting an uprising they are not the Cubans who are in favor of independence, but parties desirous of see- ing Cuba crushed forever. What we have to contend against now is American pub lie opinion. There is no prospect of fight ing here"
The age-herald., 1901-03-07

for a free and self-governing people, the only creed in the civic life which civilians were bound to obey. If a mistake were made, a wrong worked, it came of individuals, not of the great party of the people.
 And herein largely lay the reason for this mans partisan leadership. Every man who acknowledged allegi- ance to the Democratic party was proud to follow where Pettus lead. He had the true faith, the true eour- age, the tact, the wisdom, the pre- eminent ability of true and masterful leadership.
 He dies before reaching middle age, and his passing is a calamity. Two millions of free people have lost their most conspicuous and most honored young leader; the man of themselves to whom they looked for unerring leadership in the long afterwhiles of the public life; the man who knew no fear except the rear of wrong-doing in the peoples name and in their con- fidence. We shall not know his like.
 To his wife and loved ones of the fatherless home, and to that illustri- ous old man who after four-score years of life we'll and nobly spent looked to the brave and stalwart son to take his place and to carry out the lofty traditions of his house, the great heart of Alabama goes with profound sor- row and the sympathy of that noble brotherhood of man which the Pet tuses have done more to nurture and to strengthen than any other ones of the people.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
PORTUGAL HALTs CIVILIZATION.

From Scribner's Magazine.
 The Portuguese sits at his cafe at the coast of his East African possession and collects customs dues and sells stamped paper. For fear of the native he dares not march five miles beyond his seaport town, and the white men who venture inland for the purpose of trade, or to cultivate plantations, do so at their own risk, he can promise them no protection. The land back of Mozambique is divided into holdings and the rent of each holding is based upon the number of na- tive huts it contains. The tax per hut is 1 pound a year and these holdings are leased to any Portuguese who prom ises to pay the combined taxes of all the huts. He also engages to cut new roads, to keep those already made in repair and to furnish a sufficient number of police to maintain order. The lessees of these holdings have given rise to many and ter rible scandals.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Presidents and Holy Writ.

"The Age-Herald's Associated Press report of the second inauguration of President Mckinley gave the powerful passages in Proverbs which the Presi- dent kissed when he took the oath of office, the statement being made that the kissing of those particular passages of Holy Writ was purely accidental" said a man who was near Cleveland when he was sworn in.
 'The further assertion that Supreme Court Clerk Mckinney had kept notes of the various passages Accidentally kissed by the several Presidents of re- cent times seems to be in part fictitious, according to William E. Curtis the most distinguished and most honored of the newspaper correspondents at Washing ton MT. Curtis declares that it has been customary at inaugurations for the Pres ident or some friend to select the chap ter at which the book shall be opened and the verse upon which he shall press his lips, passages that are particularly, appropriate being chosen. That selected. by MT. Mckinley to kiss when he took the inaugural oath in 1897 was unusually appropriate. It read:
 Give me new wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this, thy people, that is so great
 President Mckinley not only select ed his passage from the Holy Scriptures because of it's remarkable appropriate ness, but in his inaugural address twice, at the beginning and the end. acknowl- edged divine sovereignty and invoked the guidance of omnipotent power.
 ''The verse that General Grant kissed was equally appropriate, and Is found in the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, as follows:
 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him; the spirit of wisdom and un- derstanding; the spirit of counsel and might; the spirit of knowledge and the fear ef the Lord. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, ana he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes nor reprove after the hearing of his ears.
 ''The verse that President Hayes kiss ed was accidental, and proved to be pro- phetic:
 His enemies encompassed him like bees, but he would not destroy them.
 President Arthur and President Cleve- land did not make any selection and the passages they kissed are unknown. MT. Cleveland took the oath at both inaugur- als upon a little red Bible, which was given him by his mother when he was a boy"
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Passaoe of the GunnelIs Bill.

The passage of the Gunnells bill by the Legislature shows that some good can be done even under the eyes of the book trust. The bill-if it has not been surreptitiously amended provides that all trustees must con- tract for five months of school free from fees, supplements or other de- vices. These five months of free school must stand distinct and apart from any term of pay school.
 Under this bill the public schools become free schools open to all, and the subsidized pay school will disap- pear from the scene.
 But all should now pull together in order to secure from the constitu- tional convention the provisions of the new Louisiana constitution which per mits any municipality whatever to levy local tax for school purposes IS AOuioidnd pIOfloiOH uOeS nOt IOTCe town or district to levy such a tax, but it permits it to levy such a tax if 1t so desires. The man does not live who can say that home rule in school matters is unwise or undemocratic. The provision cannot be successfully or intelligently or honestly assailed. Teachers and parents should labor to have it incorporated in the Alabama constitution. To that end let every candidate for the convention be ques- toned. Ascertain how he stands upon this all-important proposition. Local taxation becomes now very necessary both for the children's good and for the proper remuneration of the teach CTS, now that there must be five months of free school.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Frank Petius.

It may not be said that Alabama could have better spared a better man than Francis L. Pettus; there was no better man to spare. There is not his like left amongst us for political or civic leadership. In the partisan sense, one onward cry from him were worth ten thousand men.
 For twenty years, nearly half of his wonderfully busy and successful life, he has been the most indefatigable leader of the Democratic party of Ala bama, its most earnest and alert guiding spirit in every struggle for solidarity and for supremacy.
 It mattered not what others might do, this man never wavered, never hated, never looked back when his party was in issue. Though the party might run counter to his personal wishes and affront his individual judg- ment, whenever the die was cast he was first to cross the fighting line, crying to all men of all factions to follow. If he questioned the wisdom of any party policy or the expediency of any party movement, no word es- capped him, even to those closest to him. The only sign he ever gave was to shrug his iron shoulders as if adjusting himself to the new bur den, and turning his inscrutable face to the front he sounded the forward charge.
 This young man, this knightly leader of knightly race, has been for many years the most powerful personality in Alabama public life. For fifteen years the life of the people and their movements, their laws, the.r political faith, have borne more luminously the impress of his genius than the mark of any other man whomsoever. He has been the master of the mas ters, his writ running alike in the most populous community and in the most obscure neighborhood in Ala abama, and it ran ever for the har- monizing and strengthening of the Democratic party. How often his good and wise and just counsel settled in happiness petty quarrels in city wards and rural townships between the Gulf and the Tennessee, none but such of us as knew the man intimately and constantly and loved him to the win ming of his simple, boy-like confidence may estimate.
 The Democratic party was a re- ligion to Frank Pettus. The party might be misrepresented, to degree mislead, and in some measure abused but according to his faith that was not the party's fault: it was the un- wisdom or selfishness of individuals. The party remained the only party
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
AT THE SET OF THE SUN.

From tho Boston Transcript.
 At the set of the sun,
 When our work is done, With all it's tangled web;
 When the clouds drift low,
 And the stream runs slow, And life Is at it's ebb;
 As we near the goal,
 When the golden bowl Shall be broken at it's fount;
 With what sweetest thought
 Shall the hour be fraught, What precious most shall we count? Not the flame of the sword,
 Nor the wealth we have stored In perishable things of the earth Not the way we have trod
 With the intellect broad, Though that were of precious worth; Nor the gain we achieved
 Through the hearts we have grieved, And left unhelped by the way;
 Not the laurel of fame,
 When, for worldly acclaim, We toiled in the heat and the fray An, no! 'tis not these
 Will give our hearts ease When life sinks low in the west. But the passing sweet thought Of the good we have wrought, The saddened lives we have blest, And the love we have won, And the love beckoning on From His islands far and dim; Love out of the light,
 Shining into the night, The night which leadeth to Hin.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
FOR OVER AN HOUR THE
 U. $. HAD NO PRESIDEN
BY ALBERT HALsTEAD.

Age-Herald Bureau. 5o9 Fourteenth Street. Northwest. Washington, March 6. -(Special)-It is a curious fact that on inauguration day there Is a period of from half an hour to an hour and a half dur ing which there Is no President. Theor- etically there is no lapse between the retirement of one President and the swearing in of another, but as a matter of fact there Is such an interegnum or interruption of the Presidency.
 It happens in this way. The term of office of the President expirtes on March at noon and the new term is supposed to begin at the same moment, but 1t is customary to have the Vice President first take the oath of office in the Senate chamber, the President t-elect being then present. That being done, the newly elected Senators take the oath and the President-elect and the Senate and dis tinguished guests then adjourn to the east front of the capitol where the Pres ident takes the oath of office and is sworn in. As the Vice President is not sworn in until noon it happens, of neces- sity, that the time between his taking the oath and it's administration to the Pres ident, which Is occupied in getting from the Senate to the east front, is consider able On inauguration day this year at least an hour and a half intervened. so during that brief interval William Me Kinley was actually ex-Presldent and President-elect.
 Those who are wont to make a point about small things and to imagine dan gers regard this interregnum or interrup- ton of the succession to the Presidency as of great importance. It Is, however, simply an interesting incident of the in- auguration, and were there any serious matter to demand the attention of the President 1t would be possible to admin ister the oath in the Senate chamber or on the way to the inaugural stand, that the pressing business, requiring the Pres idential attention, might be attended to. The delay this year was rather longer than usual, not because Vice President Roosevelt made a long speech, for he spoke very briefly, and very well, by the quired than usual to get the people from the Senate, and this. despite the fact that preparations this year had been made with rather greater care than ordinary.
 Another interesting point Is the fact that for the first time in twenty-elght years there was no President to accom- pany the President-elect to the Capitol and no ex-President to accompany the new President back to the reviewing
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
THE MONTGOMERY AMENDMENTS

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The merits or demerits of the city char ter bill, as 1t was enrolled and presented to the Governor-whether 1t would have been a good or a bad charter-have no place or importance in determining the justice of the fate 1t met at the Gov ernors hands.
 It Is conceded fact, denied by none, that the charter bill, as it came from the Senate, was amended in many par ticulars in the House; that the Senate bill as thus amended went back to it, and the Senate refused to concur. conference committee was appointed, met and adjourned, without any result. The participants in that conference thought the bill was dead, and the Sen ate discharged its conferees Afterwards the Senator from Montgomery called up the bill, and the Senate concurred in the House amendments. What these amend ments were are we'll known. They were published in the press at the time. They made radical amendments to the Senate bill
 Who did it, it is not necessary now to inquire; but somebody in some way. caused the bill to be enrolled in a shape that left out some of the amendments and included others which had not passed In other words, forged bill was presented to the Governor-a different bill from that which passed the two houses. In such state of facts the duty of the executive was plain. He could not approve of the bill, without approving the fraud. Prominent citizens of all classes focked to the Governors office to protest against the triumph of the fraud. The House put itself on record. The Senate tried to do the same thing,
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
 No baby under year old can ever take the place in a mans heart of setter pup.
 When a girl is proposing to a man she acts most like a cat climbing down a tree backward
 It is generally race between the hon. eymoon and the lace nightgown to see which will disappear first.
 No matter how much he is in love with a woman, for the first hour after he has proposed to her, he wishes he hadn't.
 At wedding all the unmarried women cry because they arn't in the girls place and the married ones cry because they were.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Vote Not Worth Two Dollars.

"I observe in the official returns sent out from Jackson, Miss, that nearly 30,- 900 white men in that State have tenn porarily disfranchised themselves by fail- ing to pay their poll taxes of two dollars each" said a man who has his eye on the constitutional convention of Alabama.
 ITO be exact, 29,3n white men of Mis- sissippi have each, by failing to pay two dollars, placed themselves beyond the right of voting for two years, and have denied themselves the privilege of serv- ing on juries, petitioning for or voting for local option, or doing anything else a
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
THREE MEN KILLED.
Charge of Powder Went Off Before
 Men Got Ready.

Bluefield, W. Va, March 6.-News reached here of the killing of three men by an accident near Beverly furnace, Wythe County, Virginia. Gus Hager, Grant Pearman and Bud Park were blast ing rock on the Norfolk and Western ex- tention and had fired a blast, but on re- port followed. They began picking the charge out when it exploded, throwing the men high into the air One was in- stantly killed, the other two dying in a few hours
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
About Persons.

Former President of the Senate Rus sell M. Cunningham will proceed to Sel- ma this morning to attend the funeral of Hon. Francis L. Pettus, who was his immediate predecessor in the presidency of the Senate pr. Cunningham is the grand master of the grand lodge of Ala bama Masons, and as such will officiate at MT. Pettus funeral. which will be Masonic.
 
 Dr. Francis M. Peterson president of the States Industrial School for Girls, Montevallo, Is in Birmingham.
 Postmaster Charles W. Buckley of Montgomery is in the city.
 Representative Bernard Harwood of Greene County was in town yesterday on his way home from Montgomery. Alderman Thach has returned from New Orleans.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
cARNEGlE's BAGPIPEs.

From the New York Times.
 The new consolidation, however formid- able, Is a long way from controlling the iron and steel trades of the United States. So far as appears this IS not its purpose. Those who know the facts understand that 1t has been formed primarily to elim- mate MT. Carnegie from the trade. Ills competitors are tired of dancing to the music of his bagpipes, and could make no plans for their own protection until his vast capital and masterful inteli- gence were devoted to philanthropy, rath- CT than to business.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Mulhattan in Eufaula.

From the Eufaula Times.
 The horrible news comes from Kansas that boy climbed corn stalk to see how the corn was getting along, and now the stalk is growing up faster than the boy can climb down. The boy is plum out of sight Three men have under taken to cut down the stalk with axes and save the boy from starvation. but it grows so fast they can't hack twice in the same place The boy is living on nothing but raw corn and he has all ready thrown down over four bushels of cobS.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for this day, Thursday March ', 1901:
 Sell in the afternoon
 "Heavy losses and disappointment will occur in thy business. this being thy birthday; thou wilt quarrel and go to law. Thy health will suffer. Thy birth day is an unfortunate one"
 "A child born on this day will have much sorrow and trouble to contend with all through life, and 1t will often be in straits for money. If female, she will get bad husband who will drink and treat her cruelty"
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Judge and Donkey.

An Alabama judge, according to the Augusta News, in instructing a jury,
 said "Gentiemen of the jury, you have heard the evidence. The indictment charges the prisoner at the bar with stealing a jackass This offense, gentle men, seems to be becoming a very com mon one in this State, and the time has come when it must be stopped. Other wise. gentlemen, none of us will be safe"
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
New SaWmiIl.

From the New Decatur Advertiser.
 John Cathcart of New York has been granted permission to erect first class band saw mill upon the river front, near the old furnace. This will be another new industry to be added to our already long list of paying concerns.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
DURANT IS ALIVE.
The Reported Duel With Russian
 Count Is a Big Fake.

Paris, March ', 1:15 a. m.-The report that John Wilson Durant of Albany, N Y, who had been living during the last two years in Paris with his mother, had been killed at Ostend in a duel with a own.
 Mir Durant Is still alive.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Colonel Sanger Going to Manila.

Washington, March 6.--Col. Joseph P. Sanger. who has just about wound up the compilation and publication of the cen sus plans of Cuba and Porto Rico, is to go to the Philippines. He has been de- tailed as an inspector general and will be assigned to one of the departments when he arrives there by General MacArthur.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Decorations From Alabama.

From the Tuscaloosa Times.
 An account of the elaborate decora- tions at the inaugural ball says that something of the extent of the picture, sque effect may be fancied from the fact that there were two hundred cases of smilax from the swamps of Alabama used and the contents of one case would encircled two ordinary city blocks
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Good Riddances.
Anniston Hot Blast.

From the Anniston Hot Blast.
 It will be gratifying to the people to know that the detestable nuisance, the tax on bank checks, is to be repealed. along with some other nuisances, notably the tax on telegraph dispatches.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
HAD SOME PoTENTIALITY.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 That s23. 100000 check of J. P. Morgan's should be framed and exhibited. There never was a bit of pen and ink art to compare with it.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07

It is Cuba fibre" no longer. Under the administration programme it is to be Cuba Niestra," and the lone-star flag should be folded up and put in a pigeon hole.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07

Ex-Senator Chandler says Senator Clark"s expenditures in securing a Senatorial seat aggregate S2,059, $50. And this was done in little State, not as populous as a single Alabama Congressional district.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
WHAT THE SQUIRE HAS DID.

From the Hartman (Tenn.) Record.
 Esq. James Mays of this place is get ting very anxious to tie the knot for an- other young couple, he having did so well not long since for a couple.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
Kansas Advertising Scheme.

From the Selma Times.
 It Is stated by a Kansas paper that 5000 worth of chickens are stolen every year in Miami County in that State. That is a good advertising scheme to turn col ored emigration to that county.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07

The ex-Presidents and the ex-pugil- ists have become magazine writers. This settles a difficult problem, but it is rough on a class of innocent read
The age-herald., 1901-03-07

The bears intended for the inau- gural parade were suppressed on the score that they were not of the Vice Presidential sort.
The age-herald., 1901-03-07
WITH THE EDITORS OF
 THE STATE PRESS
A Miuhty Stroke,
2 Anniston Hot Blast.

From the Anniston Hot Blast.
 Anniston is the only city in Alabama that has had two thousand people added to its population by the stroke of a mans pen.