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The age-herald., 1901-02-16
Home News From New Orleans.

Former Chancellor w. H. Tayloe Of Uniontown is in New Orleans. where a reporter for the Picayune has been inter- viewing him and the Picayune's type have been styling him Judge Taylor.
 Alabama is going to hold constitu- tional convention and eliminate the ne- gro vote" the notable Alabamian in- formed the reporter.
 ''There is no doubt about the conven- ton. We will vote on 1t soon, but l think the people favor it by a large majority. The object is to deal with the trouble some racial question, Alabama must do something about the negro vote, and the State seems practically agreed to follow the course set by Louisiana and South Carolina"
 "Uniontown," said the judge, who was once chancellor of the southwestern chancery division of Alabama, lis build ing a cotton factory and a cotton seed oil mill. We are fast becoming an indus trial center"
 Does Alabama want that slice of west ern Florida?'' was put to Judge Tayloe.
 .'Of course we do. Alabama will take those counties and be glad to get them. In fact, we'd welcome them. We want Pensacola Pensacola is a good port, and the harbor is good one-it does not re- quire so much digging as the one at Mo- bile"
 Whats the outlook?''
 "Eventually, quite good, but I do not believe this session of the Alabama Leg islature will do anything that is, l do not look for 1t to vote the necessary &C., tion."
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
TroopS at GunterSyiIle,

Governor Samford's prompt action in sending troops to Guntersville has saved the State from another outrage on the part of a mob. It is difficult to write this in this particular case, for if the accused be guilty as is charged he needs hanging, but 1T he be guilty he assuredly will be hung under and through the action of the courts, and the lesson will be even more impress sive than mob action would have been.
 It is a mistake to say that mob ac- tion is better deterrent of crime than legal action. Statistics do not uphold this view of the case The sure, steady, unswerving action of the courts leaves room for discussion and for the sink ing in of the lesson involved.
 Villainous as the alleged crime in Marshall County was, it is better to let the law take its course. It is better in every instance that it should, and Governor Sanford deserves the thanks of all good citizens for his prompt ac- ton in this case.
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
One New Gid Consul.

'It pleases me very greatly, and would please all Americans If they fully knew the man, to know that the President has appointed Gen. Oscar Malmros of Minne- sota to be consul of the United States at tho important port of Colon" said for mer consul now in Birmingham.
 Being scholar, artist, musician and man of extraordinary general culture, Consul Malmros dislikes to be called gen eral, although he achieved distinction as adjutant general of his state during the war between the north and south. AS for himself. he is punctlliously MT. Malmros. and I used to believe that nobody had ever assumed any degree of real familiar ity with him after he broke from the rude associations of his schoolboy days in far Sweden.
 "In all my observations of men never came intimately to know one so pro- foundly cultured and at the same time so charming in companionship as Oscar Malmros When first met him he was American consul at Edinburgh. That was in October, 1885. when I was for the first time enjoying breath of the Old World After that we became warm friends. and for three or four years were very fre- quently together, though his years were maybe nearly twice my own. It was our custom to go together on little tours, leaving Edinburgh Friday evenings or Saturday mornings and returning gener- ally Monday. The longest and maybe the happiest of these trips was to the Tros- sachs, where we spent five days, staying at hotel on the margin of Loch Achray, just below Loch Katrine of Lady of the Lake fame, and we believed the most ex- pensive hotel in the whole world. "The month was July, when there was no darkness of night In that high lati- tude, and we spent sixteen or seventeen hours out of every twentyfour by Ka- Urine or Achray, resting many and many a glad hour on the renowned Silver Strand, hard by Ellen's Isle, and now, alas, submerged by damned water to sat- isfy Glasgow, far away down by the At lantic, some forty miles distant.
 My hope, my heaven, my trust shall be,
 My gentle guide, in following theev
 "We quoted Scott hundreds of times, and he quoted the greatest philosophers and historians, with all of whom he was familiar On the Sunday we lay ten hours by Achray's side, and he talked to me of Montaigne and Swedenborg the Mystic. I did nothing but listen to his wisdom and that of those two giants as he talked in the sweetest and most cult ured voice of man I ever had or ever have heard.
 Consul Malmros is a man of profound learning, of extraordinary scholarship and is perhaps the most competent judge of the fine arts in America. AS long as I live I shall feel the benefit of his dis courses. And in conscientious and wise practical devotion to his official duties as consul. nevfr knew any other consul
The age-herald., 1901-02-16

Age-Herald Bureau, 5O9 Fourteenth street, Washington, February 15r-tspe- ciaI. aI.)--While most of the members Of the Senate and House are very anxious to have the rivers and harbers bill passed because of the items of local or state in- terest it contains, there Is growing feeling among the responsible Repuoll- can leaders In the Senate that it would be better If this measure were not passed Tho Republicans are already apprehen- sive because of tho immense aggregate of appropriation bills this session. They realize that it Is impossible to prevent the total from being record-breakng as it is and think that the rivers and har- bors bill offers an excellent opportunity to make Q saving of from twenty to thirty millions in direct appropriations and from fifty to sixty in authorizations, which future Congresses must meet. The bill as 1t passed the House provided for 0 direct appropriation of about $23, 3,OOO, coo and for authorization aggregating about $S7, ,Oo0,0 900. The Senate Committee on Commerce has already added direct ap- propriations to bring their total to all
  making the total almost fifty millions So the bill as it now stands carries for all practical purposes about eighty mill lions of dollars, and 1t Is not yet out of the Senate committees hands while the Western men are almost certain to add their great irrigation scheme.
 Such men as Senator Allison of Iowa, chairman of the Appropriations Commit tee, as Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island chairman of the Senate Finance Commit tee, and Senator Hale of Maine, of the Appropriations Committee, insist that this bill should not be passed this ses- sion. There is some reason to suspect that Senator Frye, chairman of the Com merce Committee, and several members of that committee believe the bill had better fail. No one of the Commerce Committee will admit that there Is any purpose on the part of any member of that committee to kill the bill, but 1t looks very much as if that were the ob- ject of some. The President himself has been disturbed by the heavy appropria- tions of this Congress, appropriations made necessary by the growth of the navy, by the larger army, by the pen sion expenditures and by the general ten dency of Congress to do things on large scale. The people are prosperous and living well and Congress is disposed to deal money out largely with the explana- ton that this is a large and growing country and that expenditures must nec- essarily be increased as the country grows in wealth, population and import ance.
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
FROM "sNoW BOUND"
By Whittier.

By Whittier.
 As night drew on, and from the crest Of wooded knolls that ridged the west, The sun, a snow-brown traveller sank From sight beneath the smothering bank We piled with care our mighty stack Of wood against the chimney-back- The oaken log, green, huge and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush; then, lowering near, We watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle caught the
 gleam
 The whitewashed wall and sagging
 beam,
 Until the old. rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom, While radiant with a mimic flame
 Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Onr own warm hearth seemed blazing
 free
 The crane and pendent trammels showed, The Turks heads on the andirons glow
 ed;
 While childish fancy prompted to tell The meaning of the miracle, Whispered the old rhyme: Under the
 tree,
 When fire outdoors burns merrily, There the witches are making tea.''
The age-herald., 1901-02-16

Age-Herald's Bureau, 509 Fourteenth Street, N. w. Washington, February 15.-(Special. )-The growing popularity of American products in those parts of the world in which all the manufacturing and exporting nations are making earn est endeavors to extend their commerce is illustrated by the figures of the treas ury bureau of statistics, showing the ex ports by grand divisions and countries in 1900 compared with 1890, These flg- ures are published In the December num- merce and Finance, and cover the calen- dar years from 1890 to 1900. They show that our exports to Europe increased during that period from $6S200o,0C0 to s1,116 00O,000, or 63 per cent; to North America, from $95 5000,0Oo to s19so00 GOO. or 10S per cent; to South America from s35,0O0,0Oo to s41 .0Oo,o0o, or less than 20 per cent; to Asia, from s22. 100000 to $5S 000,- GOO, or 163 per cent; to Oceanica, from $170oo,0o0 to $4o,o0o,oOo or 132 per cent. ; and to Africa. from $4,5oo.o0O to s23 900, ,00O or 4l6 per cent. To South America the growth has been comparatively small but to Asia, Oceanica and Africa the per- centage of growth. 1t will be observed, has been phenomenally large, and in nearly every instance the gain has been greater than that of the other countries competing for that commerce.
 A more detailed analysis considering the exports country by country, also shows some interesting facts, and this is presented in the table which follows. The United Kingdom, which stood at the head of our list of customers in 1890, still maintains that position, but only shows an increase of less than 50 per cent, while Germany. whose commercial re- 1ations with the United States have been the subject of much discussion, shows an increase of more than 100 per cent, and an increase of over S35, ,000 900 in the
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
The Maurys and Alabama.

''It has been almost forgotten that the late Matthew Fontatne Maury, whose widow has just died in Virginia, at the age of 90 years, was one of the many and the greatest of all the men selected for the presidency of the University of Alabama during its long and sometimes distinguished history" said a native Ala bamian last night.
 ''The illustrious naval officer and au- thor, the famous pathfinder of the seas, was offered and declined the presidency of our State university In 1S71 two years before his death, at the age of 67. That was in the middle of the Democratic ad- minlstration of Governor Lindsay, and it being before my time I do not know any of the particulars. When the war between the States broke out Maury was a high officer in the United States navy, and his researches into the physical geog- raphy of the sea, and especially his ex- ploration and mapping of the Gulf Stream, had made him the most famous naval officer in the world He was at the outbreak of the was 55 years old, and the supreme command of the United States navy awaited him, but he resigned his commission and offered his services to his State of Virginia, then in the atti- tude of rebellion against the Federal gov ernment In the Confederate service he further distinguished himself.
 "Commodore Maury's widow, whose fu- neral took place in Richmond on St. Val entines day, was Ann Herndon of Fredericksburg, Va, and l am some what of the impression that the lamented Con- gressman Thomas H. Herndon of Mo bile was her relative. One son, Col Richard l.. Maury of Richmond, and three daughters Mrs. w. A Maury, Mrs James R. Werth, with whom she resided and Mrs. M. l.. Van Doren, all of Rich- mond, survive the noble old lady of the past"
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
REPRESENTATIVE RILEY
 REPLIES TO MIR. WALKER

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 I notice in your issue of Tuesday, from the pen of my friend, MT. Lucien Julien Walker headed "Tyranical Paternalism', and starting out with the following sen- tence:
 An outrageous measure to destroy per- sonal liberty Is being urged upon the General Assembly of Alabama"
 . Now this outrageous measure Is one that has the unqualified endorsement of the six members from Jefferson County together with Jefferson County's Senator. and the bill was introduced by the latter in the Senate It would appear to those familiar with the bill, after reading MT. Walkers article, that he did not take the trouble to read the provisions of the act now before the House, nor did he know that 1t was submitted to the heads of the private schools to which he alludes, and had their endorsement, together with the unanimous endorsement of the leading educators of the State. before being pre- scented to the General Assembly.
 If MT. Walker had attended some of the meetings held In Birmingham before this session began, or even read the daily newspapers, instead of sitting in his office dreaming ideals, and writing in the inter- vals between his pleasant slumbers bou- quets of sentimentality to satisfy the ap- petites of the gushing youths and maid ems of our district, he would be better posted in the matter, and would not call that thing "devilish" which had been thought over and prepared by men and women who, to say the least, are as deep thinkers as the idealist of the Age-Her- aid. A, J. REILLY.
 Montgomery, Feb. IA 1901.
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
BuIuer Bill in the House.

The House met public sentiment fully when by a vote of 50 to 27 it passed the Bulger bill and sent it to the Senate. Both Houses have ad- journed and no further action can be taken until next Wednesday.
 The House has covered itself with glory in taking from the adverse cal endar the Bulger bill, and passing it by such a decisive and heavy vote. Colonel Bulger has rendered the State great service whatever the fate of the bill in the Senate may be.
 The book trust will make it's fight, it is said, in the Senate, but it is scarcely credible that thirty-three men fresh from the people will say that trust prices should be paid in Alabama when reasonable prices only are paid in Tennessee and other States. In other words, The Age-Herald is confi- dent the Senate will say that the book trust can no longer exploit Alabama. The book trust is, however, fighting for it's Alabama field, from which it has long gathered at least two full profits, and it has put at work skillful and powerful lobby at least. But the Sen ate will come back next Wednesday ready for work, and ready, let us hope, to serve the people rather than the hook trust
The age-herald., 1901-02-16

any one can tell me what to do with a baby that cries all the time at home but when taken to it's grandmother O. it's aunts behaves like a cherub."
 This was a poser. Mrs. Harry Hastings came to the rescue with the cure q Brooklyn father, who had shortened night vigil with his wailing offspring by a desperate experiment. He sang sig into a photograph and made more nose than the baby The astonished inftlt paused to listen, and it worked toa charm.
 ''What would you suggestT' demande the sufferer of Mrs. Sarah Marie Harr', the president and an authority on chil nature.
 s'Eer-would have to see the chil first" was the diplomatic reply
 Mrs Hastings caustioued the mothek to rid their minds of rambling inaccurt cies to check emotional tendencies at to stop reading twaddle as steps towar good motherhood
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
UNIFORMITY IN TEXTBOOKS.

From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times -Un-
 ion.
 Modern education is a science, and all scientific action must be based on sys- tenn. Teaching Is no longer a study of individual temperaments, and the at tempt to adapt methods to particular needs; in our public schools each scholar is but a unit, and the whole is but mass to be nodded through a system by the party in charge. The absurdity of any breach in the system is then immediately made manifest; the teacher must be sys- tematc and uniform in all or defective in much. Textbooks should be uniform be- cause classes are taught, not scholars unless the books are thrown off from the same press with the same paging, illus tration and index, how can the system enforce itself?
 But in Florida each county board se- lects books and rules for teachers that appeal most forcibly to It's collective judgment; the evils of this are plain The child that finds itself for any req son in the school of another county is immediately at disadvantage; it is not only that other methods of thought ars inculcated, but other books must be bought, and the parents are subjected to needless expense. Different authors and conclusions confuse the immature mind i; facts differently presented seem diverse or contradictory to the upripe judgment
 The members of the county boards are immersed in private business and have little time or thought to waste upon such official duties; even when qualified to judge between rival methods and author- ities, they have neither the time nor the experience to decide wisely; they accept one without having seen all. An at tempt to correct these evils has led in other States to the adoption of a law that the State shall choose the textbooks for the schools and sell or give them to the students in the public schools; we confidently commend the matter to the wisdom of our legislators.
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
Captain Hohson,s Choice.

It was hinted some time ago that Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson desired to be transferred from the construction branch of the navy to the line, so that he might be eligible to command. But such a wish was probably never seriously entertained. The President, by advancing him ten numbers In the list of naval constructors. makes him constructor with the rank O. captain, which corresponds to the rank of colonel in tho army. He Is now with in four of the top rank in his branch- chief constructor with the rank of rear admiral, which corresponds to major gen. ernl in the army. Had Hobson been transferred to tho line 1t would have re- quired jump of several hundred num- bers to have made him q captain, and once captain he would have had seven ty files tc make before reaching rear ad- mirals rank. Suppose he had been trans- ferred to the line, it would have been a big promotion for him to have started as high as half way up the list of senior lieutenants, say No, 150. The hundred and fifieth lieutenant cannot attain the next grade, that is, lieutenant command CT, in regular order, inside of six or seven years. There are ITO lieutenant com manders and to work up through that list takes seven or eight years. There are 1l2 commanders, and to reach the top Of that grade takes time. So that had Hob son gone to the line he would have been lucky to have reached a captaincy at the age of fifty, whereas he has the rank of captain at the age of thirty-two. The reason that promotion of ten numbers carried Hobson so high in the constrlic- ton branch is because there were no lieutenant commanders to jump and only five commanders.
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
Senator Wiley on Uniformity.

Senator Wiley of Montgomery seems to be the head and front of the oppo- sition to the uniformity textbook bill, and his speech upon the bill is thus epitomized;
 He said 1t fell short of the claims made for ii by the friends of the bill. The bill would not come up to those claims. It would be the means of putting the schools of the State in fhe power of the great trust 1t would strike down the rights of parents to say what their children should study. As for him, he was Tor the old schooas-the landmarks of their fathers.
 Colonel Wiley knows a great deal of law and military science, but he does not know what the percentage of say ing to the State would be under the terms of the Bulger-J Johnston bill. All know the economy that followed sim far bills in Tennessee and other : States, and from such known facts all have right to form an opinion as to what could be accomplished in Ala bama, even if Colonel Wiley says such reasonable claims are unfounded. What Tennessee has done in the way of reducing the cost of school books Alabama certainly can do.
 But Colonel Wiley says this would result in a great trust. Well, one trust is no worse than another, and trust Shat supplies books at reasonable prices to the barefoot boys and girls of the State is certainly to be pre- ferred to one that does not. Colonel Wiley should be more discriminating in selecting a favorite trust.
 But the crowning Wileyian argu- ment is this: "It would strike down the rights of parents to say what their children should study. As for him, he was for the old schools-the land marks of the fathers" AS parents do not now name the textbooks their chill dren use in the public schools, this point lacks application. If they did, we would have diversity diversified in this Stste. We would have as many kinds in a single school as there now are in some counties,
 As for the old schools which were landmarks of the fathers, their exist
The age-herald., 1901-02-16
iE ONLY DAILY aEwspApER IN ALABAMA
Trusts and the Tariff.

Ex-Attorney-General Miller of the Harrison administration and Ex-Attor- ney-General Harmon of the Cleveland administration-the one a Republican and the other a Democrat-met re- gently in Chicago, and while they dis agreed as to other issues, they were agreed that the best way to throttle the trusts is to repeal the high pro- tective tariff as to all goods manufac- tured by the trusts.
 MT. Miller went on to say:
 '.The bad features in the protection of such trusts is their treatment of the home ! market They are so strong and vigorous in their battle for a share of the world S trade that they can go abroad and under ! bid foreign manufacturers. They have met. tho iron-makers of England, France and Germany, and proved that America can compete with the civilized world. and ] yet they sell their product at home at greatly enhanced prices over what they ask abroad. This is where the injustice comes in, and 1t is due entirely to the tar If that prohibits foreign manufacturers } from entering our markets All of the trusts probably could not be reached through the repeal of the protective tar i fir, but the majority could, and it is the belief of many that the repeal of the } Dingley tariff on at least a number of ar ticles would go a long way to solve the trust question"
 MT. Harmon is a little more extreme in his views. He says:
 Tt has been my contention and the contention of the Democratic party that the tariff is the mother of trusts. The si- gantic combinations of capital are the dl- rect outgrowth of the tariff, and the Re- publican policy of protection was directly responsible for the trust issue of the last campaign. 1t is responsible for the commercial conditions prevailing today, and the country should do away with he laws that practically close us off from the world D
 There is no disgusting the fact that dangerous, demoralizing and oppres' EiNe WILL SAloI III Scuh'i J cs long as the Republican party is per rl!tted to give them monopoly of the home field, which they may exploit up to the tariff limit, which is practically their greed, for if they pass the tariff limit no importer will bring in goods when the trusts can put down prices as suddenly as they put them up. The tariff says the trusts may work the 76,- 100000 of people in this country as they wish, and the only cost to them for the privilege will be campaign sub- scriptions when MT. Hanna passes the hat, and these they can well afford to pay. This is the situation, and it will go on while the people are willing to be exploited by the trusts.