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The age-herald., 1901-12-01
Gemesas of Pyssldswt Roose-
 veHs Message % Congress-
BY JOHN p. FOLEY.

following the royal parliamentary pre- cedent, which Is sacredly observed in England to the present time, addressed a small portion of what they had to say to the members of the House of Repre- scntatives exclusively. as in the King s speeches, the faithful Commons'' were addressed. To complete the parallel, Congress, each house for itself, made a reply to the addresses of the two Presi- dents, as Parliament then did and does now reply to the royal speech.
 Jefferson regarded the address" and the reply thereto by Congress as one of the forms of monarchy which 1t was de- sirable should be abolished. Therefore, as soon as he became President, he de- termined to depart from the practice of his predecessors. and, instead of going to the capitol to read his address. to communicate with both houses through their presiding officers in writing. Early in May. 1901. he wrote on the subject to Nathaniel Macon, who became Speaker Of the House of Representatives that year. as follows: The first communica- tion to the next Congress will be, like all subsequent ones. by message, to which
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beautiful spirited bay. The rides take Cherry Chase, with It's fine suburban vil- las and winding bridle paths.
 Both Kermit and Ethel Roosevelt have ponies. and on Saturdays the children take long rides with a groom. Kermit frequently rides with his father in the afternoons unless he is detained at school by the combination of circum- stances that lively boy must meet with when he has determined schoolmaster.
 Mrs. Roosevelt went with each of her children on their entrance to the Wash ington schools. and insisted that they should not be spoiled by special favors.
 Archie attends the Force Public School on Massachusetts avenue. He is well liked by the other children, and. like his distinguished father, he sets his face strongly against priggishness. He has a sturdy pair of fists, and once or twice has gotten into strenuous arguments with boys who thought they could 'rasse, him and throw him ''
 Ethel rides out in the stage every morn ing early with a dozen othe. little girls to the Cathedral School on Woodley lane. She usually goes fora ride on her bicycle with one of her b-others when school is out in the afternoon.
 WherevsI they may be the children at- tract akention, and are the recipients of srni' es and mods at every block. Ky this lime all Washington has adopted the Presidents family. Old residents, accus- toned to the somewhat more staid and childless regime of many administra- tions, observe the busy. jolly White House life of today with great satisfac- tion.
 The White House stables are well SUD- piled with new carriages, and now that the. President has secured two high. stepping thoroughbreds to his liking,
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An official investigation into the admin istraton of the British war office has discovered the fact that the wretched in- efficiency, stupidity and general ignor- ance of the average commissioned officer. made painfully and humilatingly appar- ent in the progress of the South African war. are in very great degree the result of the enormous power which the women in high society, as 1t Is called, have been permitted to exercise in that branch of the public service. During an indefinite period these titled and untitled danes, backed by the interest, that is, the po- litical pull. of their families have been instrumental in promoting incompetent officers over the heads of deserving ones. They have practically distributed the hon. ors and rewards of the service. kept their epauletted relatives and favorites in thou sands of soft places far away from their commands and active operations in the field. which is the only effective school of the soldier. As consequence of this so-' cial favoritism, when these uniformed darlings of London drawing rooms, crick
 ct grounds. golf links and race courses were suddenly sent to the front. they were no more fitted fer the duties devol- wing upon them than would be the aris- tocratic leaders of fashionable society to whom they were indebted for years and years of inglorious ease far apart from an, thing that looked like the semblance of military life. Again and again the av- craze ignorant Boer, as he was derisive- ly called. demonstrated that in the art of fighting he was the superior of gray headed colonels of crack regiments while the Boer generals proved conclnsively that in a few months, with equal re- sources, they would have driven Into the ocean. or captur ed in bunch, the im- mense army of invasion that had been
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The Remarkable Countess of selborne

'"~ 't~utofN NoS'C S0aHeSoS VI 0CiOoTne. From London Cable.
 The English Prime Ministers eldest daughter, the Countess of Selborne, a very clever, remarkable woman, is re- garded by many as the one of all Lord Salisbury's eight children who most resemble him in clearness of judgment and intelligent appreciation of pass ing events. The women of the Cecil family have always been noted for their great qualities. Lady Selborne has been. one of the most successful of political hostesses in the last six years
 When as Lady Beatrix Maud Cecil her engagement to the then viscount Wolmer was announced, there was a sensation, for her chosen husband was known as typical Liberal of the old school, while her father was a Tory of Tories. The wedding was a great political as well as social event nine years ago, the leading members of the two parties doing honor to the pair. The bride evidently won her husband over, for he became under secretary of the colonies under Lord Salisbury in 1895 and held that post until reorganization of the cabinet this year. when he was made first lord of the admiralty.
The age-herald., 1901-12-01
THE kATYDID.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes. love to hear thine earnest voice, Wherever thou art hid, Thou testy little dogmatist,
 Thou pretty Katydid! Thou mindest me of gentle folks Old gentle folks are they Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way. Oh, tell me where did Katy live And what did Katy do? And was she very fair and young, And yet so wicked, too? Did Katy love a naughty man.
 Or kiss more cheeks than one? ! warrant Katy did no more
 Than many a Kate has done .h, no! the living oak shall crash, That stood for ages still The rock shall rend its messy base And thunder down the hill, Sefore the little Katydid
 Shall add one word to tell The mystic story of the maid
 Whose name she knows so well. Peace to the ever-murmuring race! And when to the latest one hall fold in death her feeble voice Beneath the autumn sun, Then shall she raise her fainting
 And lift her dropping lid, And then the child of future years Shall hear what Katy did.
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The third section of the second article of the Constitution declares that the President shall from time to time give to the Congres information of the state of the Union. and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Herein we have the origin of the document called
 the message of the President to Congress. During the two administrations of Wash if gton and the single one of John Adams the message" was not called by that name It was designated by the more imposing one of the address" or the speech" and was. in fact, an imitation if may so term 1t, of the British Kings speech to the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. The royal effu- sion was the model of these earlier lad dresses" or speeches" and were read by the first two Presidents to both houses brought together for that purpose Not only that, both Washington and Adams.
The age-herald., 1901-12-01
GERMAN SENTIMENT AGAINST DUELLING End of the Custom Thought to
 be Near PAPER ATTACKS AMERICA VoIl<s zeitung Says North Americans Will Act In Each Case to Suit
 Their Selfish
 Ends. .t..
PAPER ATTACKS AMERICA

Berlin, November 30.-The tariff debate in the Reichstag will begin December 2. The duelling debate attracted the closest attention this week. and showed that the anti-duelling sentiment is strongly grow ing in the Reichstag. Some quarters ex- press the view that duellinG is now so fully condemned by the countrys senti- ment that the end of it is near.
 American questions attracted the usual amount of attention this week. While the action of the United States on the Isthmus of Panama is admitted by fair-minded pspers to be in accoi dance with treaty rights. the Cologne Volks Zeitung makes 1t the subject of a sharp attack. It as- serts that the lesson learnabe by the isthmian occurrences is that the North Americans in spite of the sovereignty of other countries arN in spite of solemn treaties. will act in each case as 1t suits their selfish aims.
 CrIticises United States.
 The paper sharply critcizes the United Ststes for preventing Colombia from landing troops at Colon, and says that. therefore. the frcndly relations between the United Stat& and Colombia is the hsandship of the cat and the mouse. The Cologne Volks Zeitung finally admits tho United States right under the treaty to protect isthmian traffic, but only if Co., lombia expressly asks for such rrotec- ton. which she has not done" and the paper calls the present action as ''usurpa- tcry.'
 The Cologne volks Zeitung also takes rsfQ nk d1A ctaracrerizing as "braggadocio" his ref erences to the United States unlimited power and gigantic military deeds"
 The tariff discussion also continues to be directed at the United States. At a meeting of the manufacturers of the Cologne district the secretary. Herr Stel- Ter, referred So the threatening American competition. adding that 1t was neces- sary that the tariff policy of Germany should take into consideration this ov- empowering competition"
 Does Not Want Treaties.
 He claimed that the United States does not want commercial treaties. The secre- tary also said:
 We must adopt special measures against the United States and must dis regard the ddestion of the renewal of the commercial treaties with other countries. We must adopt tariff policy similar to ttat of the United Ststes, and must also denounce the present treaty with the Uni ted States"
 Secretary Steller added Chat the United Etates occupies an unfavorable position in the tariff question She would avoid a tariff war with Germany If the latte-. would give similar tariff treatment in re. turn. The anti-Chamberlain excitement Is subsiding.
The age-herald., 1901-12-01
N HE CHURCHES.

First Methodist Church.; Preaching at Il a. m. by Stan Captain Andrews of the Salvation Army. who has lately besnHsk signed tc the southern division of ~theA army work, with headquarters at Atlanta-s At 7:45 p. m. MT. James Bowron will speak Sunday school at 9:3O a. m. Ep-f worth League at 6:45 p. m.
 Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Avenue and Fourteenth Street: The mission, given by the Redemptorist Fathers from St. Louis. will be opened this morning at 10 o'clock with high mass. Services at 10 o'clock 6. m. and 7:30 p. m. tomorrow: during the week at o'clock a. m. and O. o'clock a. m.; at night. 7:a0 every evening" The mission is given by the Rev. Henry F. X. Meurer, c. s. s. R., and Rev. Father Enright, c. s. s. R. M
 Church of the Advent: An interesting service has been arranged at the Church ! of the Advent for tonight at 7:45 o'clock. It is the occasion of the annual St. An- drews day service, which is usually held under the auspices of the Brotherhood. of St. Andrew on St. Andrews day. but this day, falling on Saturday this ycar. 1t was decided to arrange the servict for Sunday night in order that larger num- Der of people might be afforded the op- portunity of attending
 The service will be opened by the rector, the Rev. John G. Murray, with a short evening prayer, and the meeting will then be turned over to the Advent chapter of the brotherhood, and director of the chapter, John V. Coe will introduce the speakers on the part of the brotherhood who will be Robert w. Ewing. Edward c. Powell and William T. Archer. The Rev. MT. Murray will @lso say e few words in closing the evenings exercises Specia. music will be rendered by the full vasted chair of the unurcn.
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OPELIKA.

Opelika, November so.-(SpeciaD-wor on the sewerage system for opelika will be begun shortly and the work pushed to completion before the summer months.
 The candidacy of Governor Jelks gives much satisfaction here. He will be tri- umphantly re-electel
 The beautiful weather is making much top cotton open and the staple that has been marketed this year has been of the finest grade this section produces.
 The grand Lodge of Colored Masons of the State have adjourned after be- ing in session a week. Their installa tion of officers was at the court house and was public
 The conference of the c. M. E. church Is in session with several hundred min isters in attendance.
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7he Army and Navy Social
 Inteyest m Washanezom
BY ARTHu R DAYTON.

sent to annihiliate them with the fore most British commanders of the century at its head.
 As a measure of military form and re- organization there is an urgent demand that the British war office shall close its doors against these danes of high de- gree and make the army what 1t should be-a fighting machine instead of a so- ciety annex.
 So much for London. But what of Washington? It is an undeniable fact that even under our democratic system social influence in much that appertains to the army and navy Is far greater than it should be and calls for radical reform. Compared with the scandalous abuses that prevail in England in this respect the evils that obtain with us are mere trifies They are mostly confined to es- cape from unpleasant duty on bleak or torrid posts and details to coveted desks in the War Department or special as- signments, the number of which is very great. All these go. as a rule, to the of flcers with a social and political pull, while men equally if not better fitted to do this work, but without friends at headquarters, are kept all the years of their lives at the military grindstone. This injustice is keenly felt in the army by the unfortunate victims of it. but complaint on their part would be con sidered unsoldierly, and so, perforce, they are silent. But the army and the navy should be kept clear of all political and social influence. President Roosevelt and Secretary Root seem resolved to do away with the pernicious practices that now obtain and have obtained during so many years. If they can succeed they will have the thanks of the country and the gratitude of the great majority of army officers who prefer to suffer from unjust discrimination rather than seek redress at the sacrifice of their professional honor. The evil effects of the British military administration contain a lesson that should be thoroughly learned.
The age-herald., 1901-12-01
NAMES DELEGATES.
Jefferson County Representatives te
 Montgomery Road Convention.

Delegates to the State Good Roads Con- the coming week have been appointed by Probate Judge Stiles of this county, Judge J. W. Shepherd of Walker county, and the Probate Judge of Blount county Following is list of the delegates:
 Jefferson County-F. r. Anderson, R. N. Rhodes W. M. Drennen and J. F. B. Jackson. Birmingham; J. B. Gibson. Birmingham; T. J. Cornwell, Bessemer; ]. M Perkins, Ensley; Joseph Martin. Wylam; T. M. Davidson, Warrior.
 Walker County-John B. Randolph. R. A. O'Rear and N. D. Argo, Jasper; J. E. Burton. Phillips; James Rutledge. Kings; M. F. Summer. Cordova. Alternates. T. K. Stubblefield, Eldridge; L. w. Garner, Cordova; J. M. Williams. Townly. and ". M. Cunningham. Cordova.
 Blount County-J. s. Delark. oneonta Joe Tedwell. Tedwell: F. N. Hudson. Biountsville; John c. Rodes. Bangor; Asa Griffith. Remlap. Alternates T. M. Horton. Murphree Valley; J. c. Wade. Doiha' 70. 1n- oohuciS' 'AieSo opihS nA' T. Richards, Bangor; J. E.. Buckalew, McLerty.
 J. Asa Rountree, secretary of the North Alabama Good Roads Association, says large attendance is expected at the Montgomery convention, and much good will be accomplished for the cause of good roads.
 It is probable the Montgomery conven- ion will recommend that the next Legis- ature pass law creating the office of Btate commissioner of publk highway. according to Mayor Drennen's suggestion. d This commissioner will have charge of
 vblic road building in the State and is
 n that the work is done properly.
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Of deities or martals. or of both,
 In Tepe. or the dales of Already? What men or gods are these? What
 maidens lath? What mad pursuit? What struggle to
 escape? Nh
 What pipes and timbrels? What wild
 ecstacy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those un-
 heard
 Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes
 play on t Not to the sensual ear. but, more en-
 dear'd.
 Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone! Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst
 not leave
 Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
 Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss, e. t-9sfe 4f Though winning near the goal; yet do
 not grieve, tao not the bliss, itts
 Forever wilt thou love. and she be
 fair! e= An happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring
 adieu;
 And happy melodist unweari-ed,
  More happy love more happy, happy Forever warm and still to be epjoy'd, Forever panting and forever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high sorrowful and cloyd, burning forehead and a parching tongue.
 Who are these coming to the sacrifices? To what green altar, o mysterious priest,
 Leads't thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken Hanks with garands drest? What little town by river or seashore Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk this pious morn? pf And, little town, thy streets forever Will silent be and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can eer return. | o Attic shape Fair Attitude! with brede | Of marble men and maidens over wrought. With forest branches and the trodden Thou. silent form, dost tease us out of thought
 As doth eternity! Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Is Than ours, friend to man. to whom thou sayst. Beauty is truth truth beauty''-that Is Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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no answer will be expected" When Con gress met in December he sent the doc ument to the Vice-President and Speaker with a note In which he said: fThe cir cumstances under which we find our selves placed rendering inconvenient the mode heretofore practiced of making by personal address, the first communications between the legislative and executive branches have adopted that by mes sage, as used on all subsequent occa- sions through the session. In doing this I have had principal regard for the con- venience of the Legislature, to the econ omy of their time to their relief from the embarrassment of immediate answers on subjects not yet fully before them, and to the benefits thence resulting to the public affairs. Trusting that a procedure founded on these motives will meet their appreciation, I beg leave through you. sir. to communicate the enclosed mes sage, with the documents accompanying 1t, to the honorable Senate"
 By sending a message instead of mak- ing a speech" he wrote few days later to his friend Dr. Benjamin Rush, 'T have prevented the bloody conflict to which making an answer would have committed them. They consequently were able to set into real business at once, without losing ten or twelve days in combating an an swer." The precedent thus set by Jeffer- son has been strictly observed by all the Presidents.
 President Roosevelt's message will, it is said, be the most voluminous docu- ment of the kind ever sent to Congress containing about thirty-eight thousand words. The annual message of the earlier Presidents were all very brief The first one read by Washington for instance, was compressed into little over one thou | sand words. President Adams made four annual addresses to Congress The long est of them was confined to three thou l sand words and the last one to half that number. Then came Jefferson. His first annual message was the longest of all that he wrote thirty-two hundred words
 The fifth had three thousand words and all the others were below those figures. Madisons longest message was his last one He said all he had to say in thirty | five hundred words. President Roose- velts first message will be as long as all the annual messages of Washington, | Adams and Jefferson. but then we are seventy-six millions of people. with forty five stars in the flag instead of the old thirteen.
The age-herald., 1901-12-01
LocKJAW CASES NOT
 DUE TO VACCINE VIRUS.

New York November 3o.-A special to the Herald from Camden. N. J., says the special committee of experts appointed by the Camden Board of Health to make a thorough investigation of the cases or tatanus has just made a report to that body asserting that not a single case of lockjaw has resulted from injection of vaccine virus.
 Every one has been due. it finds, to the atmosphere and telluric conditions which have prevailed during the last six weeks. In the committees opinion vaccination is harmless, though care should be exer- cised in the treatment of the wounds
The age-herald., 1901-12-01
AT NIGHT.

By John Greenleaf Whittier. Ton mountains side is black with night While broad-orbed, OCT it's gicamint
 crown.
 The moon. slow rounding into sight, On the hushed inland sea looks down. How start to light the clustering isles. Each silver-hemmed! How sharply
 show The shadows of their rocky piles, And tree tops in the waves below. How far and strange the mountains seem. Dim-looming through the pale. stili
 light, The vague, vast grouping of a dream They stretch into the solemn night Beneath. lake. wood and peopicd vale, Flushed by the presence grand ant
 grave. Are silent. save the criclsct's wall. And low respense of leaf and wave.
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..Poerns Worth Reading..
THE BROOK.


 THE BROOK. By Alfred Tennyson I come from haunts of coot and hern; I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the the fern To picker down a vauey. By thirty hills hurry down, Or slip between the ridges; By twenty thorps, a little town. And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philips farm I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come, and men may go, But I go on forever. I chatter over stony ways,
 In little sharps and trebles; bubble into eddying bays;
 babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks fret, By many a field and faliow, And many fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter as I flow
 To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go' But I go on forever. I wind about, and in and out.
 With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. And here and there foamy- flake Upon me as travel; With many silvery water break Above the golden gravel; And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river For, men may come, and men may go. But go on forever. I steal by lawns and grassy plots; I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip. I slide, I gloom, I glance Among my skimming swallows: make the netted sunbeams dance Against my sandy shadows. I murmur under moon and stars,
 In brambly wildernesses; I finger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my crosses; And out again curve and flow,
 To join the brfmming river; For men may come, and men may go, But go on forever.