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The age-herald., 1901-01-08
OSCAR w. UNDERWOOD.

Washington Cor. of Chattanooga News.
 One of the southern Congressman who is winning reputation in the present House as debater and parlfamentarian is MT. Underwood of the. Birmingham district. MT. Underwood is one< of the youngest members of the House, but he is also one of the most active. He is recognized as one of the best floor men on the Democratic side, and during the filibuster against the Olmsted resolution this week MT. Under. wood was chief lieutenant of the floor lead CT, Richardson indeed, it may be said that MT. Underwood took leading part in the fight against the resolution. In the first days of the present session he made a hard fight against the army reorganization Dil, and made one of the best short speeches against certain sections of the bill. He also made a speech on the inheritance tax subject and one on the war revenue reduc- tion bill. He is a member of the ways and means committee of the House, and sub mitted the minority report of that con- mittee on the war revenue bill
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
The Amounts Involved.

Jackson Miss, January 1.-The decision of the United States Supreme Court today in the case of the State of Mississippi against the Yazoo, Mississippi Valley branch of the Illinois Central Railroad in wolves about s662. .OOO which is claimed for taxes from 1888 to 1892 Of this sum the State and the various counties and towns through which the road runs will receive 80 per cent and the revenue agents and at torneys 20 per cent
 Similar suits are pending which make the total involved about $1,700,000. The charters granted to the various branches of the Ya- zoo and Mississippi Valley road carried ex- emption of taxation for a period of twenty five years. When the road was consoli- dated with the Illinois Central State Rev enue Agent Adams raised the issue that the exemption was abrogated by the consolida- tion which was the point of issue in the case just decided.
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trick of humbuggery as ever was worked. It was in no sense new, as the New York Times has beer showing for years in it's literary and finance sheets, and was of piece 'wit,i Pulitzer's offer of s20.0o0 to char ity r the Harmsworth idea were success ful' Harmsworthism in England and yell low journalism in America are tarred with the sam sticks
 But MT. Harmsworth's personal charac- ter is above reproach. which is more, much more, than can be said of some of the great lights of yellow journalism in this country; and it makes him almost salntly in com parison with that wretched scribbler and ex-convict William T. Stead, whom our , wspapers are so fond of quoting, and who ,,s,.,. ta visit us as escort to Paul Kru-
 - ~1 has been long, pos = " ii94s.4i" N anistv of sibly always, barred from the sU,lo.. - gentlemen"
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
War AuainSt Trusts.

In an Ohio town the Standard Oil Trust is practicing it's accustome4 meth ods upon rival. By gathering extor- tionate profits from the many it is able to crush rival by underselling it. Says a recent dispatch from Cleveland:
 The Pennsylvania oil Company has been selling oil for a few months at the same price as the Standard. Now the Standard has started q fight and dropped the price from 10 and 12 cents to cents gallon. It Is said that the dealers have orders 10 sell the Standard oi, at cents a gallon lower than the Pennsylvania is offered for, no matter what that price may be.
 This is better than blowing up all opposition plant with dynamite, al- though it does not differ in principle. It simply shows what trusts are, and what they were organized to accom- plish, namely, to crush competition.
 The blow trust, recently organized with capital of $67,000, ,OO0, will pur- sue similar methods. All trusts do, the Standard Oil being pattern for all the rest of the vile brood. The crushing out of all competition, so that the home market can be exploited at will, paying in many cases losses on export trade there being one price for the home con sunler, and another and lower price for the foreign consumer-is the pro- gramme for all trusts
 Representative Pettus proposes to protect the people of Alabama from such robbery and extortion. His bill is
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
NE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Cenier of PopuIation.

The center of population, which has been moving westward, is still going slowly in that direction, with a dip southward The center is three miles south and and fourteen miles west Of the center in 1890. The point is on farm about seven miles from Columbus, Indiana, a considerable town in that State, and it has been exactly located by surveyors.
 The calculations for finding the cen ter of population are based on what are called square degrees" The distance of each center of population of square degree, whether assumed to be at the center of the square degree or at a dis tance from the center from an assumed meridian and an assumed parallel is first computed. The population of each square degree is then multiplied by it's distance from the assumed parallel of latitude, and the sum of the products, UT HOUlcuIS, dllu SOuJH OI tildI parallel are then made up. The differ- ence divided by the total population of the country gives a correction to the latitude. In a similar manner the east and west moments are maue up and from them correction in longitude is obtained
 The manner of ascertaining the pop ulation is not, however, nearly so in- teresting as is the fact of the tendency of population. The current is still nov ing towards the west and south. Co., lumbus is railroad center in southern Indiana, about fifty miles from the Ohio river. The center of population may indeed under the next or succeed ing census cross the Ohio river and finger along in the depths of Kentucky.
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HarmsWorth and Humbuu.

man personally acquainted with life in England said last night:
 Tt is perfectly safe to assume that AL fred Harmsworth, the English newspaper proprietor, was fully aware before he left London, of the character of his prospective reception in this country. He knew it would be friendly on the part of the conservative element in the newspaper trade, and riot ously jubilant on the part of yellow jour nalism, the profession which touches flesh when it shakes hands. Mir Harms worth is successful young man, who con- ducts several publications, mostly cheap and nasty, like the London Mail but he has no more influence upon the sober sense and the self-respecting conservatism of England than young MT. Hearst has upon the minds of the great mass of enlightened Ameri- cans. In the estimation of the English public MT. Harmsworth is something like a combination of Pulitzer and Hearst as 1t would appear to the American public.
 f"The Harmsworth Twentieth Century New York World was about as arrant a
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
NOT UP TO MANCHESTER.

From the Boston Herald.
 As between the earldom and tine Garter simultaneously conferred on Lord Roberts the latter fs reckoned the higher honor, it being the most ancient and highly prlzed of all the British orders, and the number or persons who can ylold it is limited by law. The majority of the holders consist of regning soveregns and members of the English royal family. The others are di- Ndded among the most prominent of the noblemen of the kingdom. The late Duke of Argyll and the late Duke of Westminster were K. G.'s. and it is one of the Garters made available by their dea ths that has been conferred on Lord Roberts. An earl dom is the third highest of the British titles of nobility, dukes and marquises talk ing precedence of earls.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
Army ReorQanization Bill.

The Senate is considering the army reorganization bill, and it will come out of that body not little changed, and when the conference committee's report is brought in another contest over it's terms may arise.
 The House bill was plainly unconsti- tutional, for it authorized the President to increase the army from 58, 600 men to 98,000 men. Only Congress can in crease the army but it is held that the President may be authorized to cut down the army. So an army 9S,0OO strong is to be authorized which the President may reduce to 5S,000 men at any time. As the President has no in- the Senate bill simply has the merit Of frankness. It is to be an army 98,000 strong for imperial purposes. The proposition to enlist Filipinos for ser vice in their own islands is open to many objections The Hawley bill makes no special provision for dis bandInent of such force, or for turning it into police department for local purposes, and so it may be assumed that the little brown people are to enter the regular army as a permanent fea- ture of it.
 The canteen is another disturbing subject The House voted it out, and the independent Senate has voted it in again. It is to stay in despite the ef- forts of the cold water folks; but when the subject comes up in the House there will be much lodging.
 The bill as whole puts upon Demo- cratic country an army of imperial pro- portions, and it is another departure from the republic of the fathers. All in all it is the most important step in that direction that has been taken, and upon the administration rests the entire re- sponsibility.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
Politics and History.

'Fhe mutations of politics were manifest in the local defeat for public office the other day of one of race for ever linked with Jackson the immortal!' said student of history.
 Capt James R. Donelson, who failed on New Years Eve to receive in the Demo- cratic primary election of Birmingham the nomination for the chieftaincy of the city police is according to my information, lineal descendant of that famous Col. John Doneson of Virginia, whose daughter, the widow Rachel Richards, was married to General Jackson in 1791. Students of politi- cal history are aware that the partisan ghouls and social scavengers of Jacksons time brought that noble womans name in- to politics as concerned Jacksons alleged immortality; but every implication of wrong against Jaekson's morals in this case, some of which were answered by Jackson's guns and horsewhips, was proved to be slan- derous. The lady's name was not involved except in accusations against her husband She played a great and faithful wifely part in his wonderful career.
 Captain Donelson of Birmingham, who is understood to be of that famous Donel- son family, was for the second or third time denied the chieftaincy of the police and that too when everybody acknowl- edged his fitness and his great merits 'Donelson is the best man in the race was an expression heard on all sides; but most of the very people who said that and meant it voted not for Captain Donelson, whom everybody admits to be not only good man and citizen, but most loveable soul and high principled gentleman. In point of ancestry, of good breeding, few men in Birmingham are his equal, none is his sr- perior, and he is worthy of any position he has sought. There may be no great honor in being chief of the police, but certainly it is place of great public trust and that is, after all what makes public honor! Captain Donelson is now police lieutenant and will one day be promoted"
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
A Brioht Younq Man.

George B. Allen, late division passenger agent of the Southern Railway at Charles ton, who has been promoted to be the Southern's assistant general passenger agent at St. Louis, is a younger brother of Capt. Joseph V. Allen of Birmingham and son of the late Maj. Gen. w ". Allen of Montgomery, and he is bright young man who is rising very rapidly in the railroad world. During his stay in Charleston MT. Allen has made host of warm friends, just as he has made friends for the Southern," says the Charleston News and Courier concerning this bright young railroad man who has won his promotion on his merits"
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
THE MISSISSIPPI CASES.
The Yazoo Railroad Not Exempt from
 Taxation-Other Cases.

Washington January 7.-The United States Supreme Court today decided a num- Der of cases involving the right of the State of Mississippi to tax railroads in that State. The roads involved were the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company and the Illinois Central. In the general proceedings against the Yazoo Railroad the court held, in an opinion by Justice Brown, that the road was ot exempt from taxation. The decision in the Illinois Cen tral was to the effect that the cases in volved federal question. The Federal Circuit Court of Mississippi was reversed on this point.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
Back from the Holy Sity

The Right Rev. Abbot Menges, o. S. B., of the Benedactine monastery and college at Cullman, was in Birmingham yesterday. It was his first visit to the city since his return from Rome where he spent several weeks of the holy year in great gladness. The Right Rev Abbot conferred while in the holy city with abbots from all over the world their discourse being In the ancient and changeless language of the church. He took part in the dedication of the new and splendid white marble church of the Bene- dictines on the Capatoltne hBA of Rome, and was amongst the faithful presented to the Pope
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THE HAIR. IN A KISS.

By William Hoster. On, what if certain ladies, filled with scien-
 tific lore, Inveigh against the kiss until their unkissed
 lips are sore; I know a hundred girls who still a whack-
 ing kiss adore, And science go to thunder! pucker up their
 lips for more. But when say I know them, at the same
 time l am free To say that of those hundred only one girl
 might kiss me, For with hundred lassies, it's fixed rule,
 don't you see, That there must be kisser bold for every
 fair kisseei And only in this instance can see harm in
 9 kiss; If some unbidden kisser should attempt to
 kiss q miss, And she should be the l1issee of another;
 why, linen this Might end in scientific smacks not right
 in line with bliss
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
THE TRAINING SCHOOL.

From the Mobile Register
 It is noted that whereas Jefferson County has some twenty boys receiving the benefit of training in the State Reform School Mobile County has no boy: vet Mobile County has contributed $s0O toward the sup port of the institution. We would like to know what is the matter. It cannot be that Mobile has no boys in need of the training and discipline of the institution. In fact, It seems to be common knowledge that there are boys here detected in petty th.ev- ing whose proper place is in the reforma- tory. New, what about tS? Who is at fault in this matter?
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 Adam was probably created in the after noon-at least it was little before Eve
 Affectation springs from the desire of mankind to appear better than 1t really is
 The more blunders man makes the more expert he becomes in framing apolo- gies.
 It's an easy matter to live in affluence if you have money enough to enabte you to do .t.
 The funny things that happen to other people are always serious when they hap pen to you.
 Some men are so learned that they seem to think it unnecessary to use common sense.
 A lot of different tools come under the head of sin, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
 When poor man wants assistance the world is always ready to oblige htm-to keep on wanting.
 The best way for a feeble millionaire to enlarge his chest is to carry a great big heart in 1t.
 Men climb the hill of life like small boys pulling their sleds after them and they go down hill like the boys with their sleds under them.
 The good book says the wicked stand on slippery paces-therefore it must be the other class who are brought down sudden ly by banana peels
The age-herald., 1901-01-08
JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA.

From the Chattanooga Times.
 Col. Tomlinson Fort has just returned from a trip to Birmingham ard Ensley, and last night gave reporter for the Chat tanooga Times some interesting informa- tion relative to those two places. He said: "I met Col J. r. B. Jackson at Birming- ham. He is a brother of W. w. Jackson of Chattanooga, and was the former agent He is the superintendent of roads and bridges of Jefferson County. Colonel Jack son told me that there are more than a dozen incorporated towns in Jefferson County, and that county is the third one in point of population in the so1th The first is New Orleans, the next Shelby, and then Jefferson County, Alabama. There are over 26o miles of improved roadway in Jefferson. Many of these roads have been improved with slag or broken limestone foundation covered with four inches of chest gravel.
 Birmingham is poorly lighted and it's streets and scavenger service are not up- to-date Ensley had a population two years ago when a charter was applied for of 600. Now it claims 10000. It claims to give em- poyment to 9200 men and children who re- side in the other suburbs and in Birming- ham. It is producing 1750 tons of Etg iron day and tIhey say they are converting 1G00 tons of this into steel. I found the steel mill, one of them, in charge of a young man named W D, Jacoway of Tren- ton, Ga. He began work there as com mon laborer three years ago. Enseey looks like western town. Some of it's merchants are doing business in tents. About 100 h. structed. J. B. Hawkins and Charles Heron of this city are now down there.''
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Professor Ross, who was driven from Stanford University because he did not admire plutocracy, has gone to the Uni versity of Nebraska. where free speech on that subject is still permitted.
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per's. says the modern historical romances are built "upon simple formula of blood shed and arch heroism in either sex, and history Bottomwise translated out of all likeness to human events"
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The young Duchess of Manchester never reads, it is stated, the newspapers. She will thus escape the dreadful intelligence that her husband wears drab pants
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The staff of the army Is the power that is shaping the army reorganization bill, This staff proposes to look after it's own interests, which are rarely those of the ntpxr
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Railroad Deal Accomplished.

Philadelphia, January 1.-The board of di- rectors of the Reading Company today &C., cepted the offer of J. Piermont Morgan, transferring the Central Railroad of New Jersey to the Reading Company
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DuBois the Winner.

Boise, Idaho, January '. = Ex-Senator Fred T. DuBois vase nominated by the joint caucus at a. m. for United Statesc Senator.
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FOUR YEARS ENOUGH.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Six years for the President of the United States. Why not make it eight or twelve? Or rivet on crown at once?
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Edttor Kohlsaat refused to welcome the new century on January l. Emperor Bill is saving wood and saying nothing.
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The new century babies are mostly girls This means that the world is to be ruled
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Mr. P. Grove is wanted in Omaha, dead or alive. They prefer him dead because he would then be less mobile.
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Professor Loeb, the salty scientist of Chi cago University thinks some animals may defy death. He plainly has the Thomas cat in mind.
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Representative Ltttleield of Maine will expend whatever strong language he has left this week over the apportionment bill
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An old lady, ninety-three years old, re- gently said, T don't know that the world is any better. but there's mere of it."
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Editor Harmsworth threatens to do 1t again, and there-is no statute against such crimes against the public.
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Senator Pettigrew is still sitting astride of that ship subsidy bill.
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Dom Paul is coming ths way, but it is hoped he will not insist on printing a Boer edition of a newspaper.
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Russia has plenty of territory and pop ulation, but very little coal. She is buying American coal.
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Mir. Burton, the Senator expectant of Kansas, is an orator and 0 dude.
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The new century takes over the Boer war and the Philippine war, each good for cen- tury at least.
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The first reported tEplets of the century were all boys.
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Little Bobs" though an earl, has lost none of his olt popularity in Lon- don
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About Persons.

William Halls, Jr., cashier of the Han- over National Bank, New York, and presi- dent of the Birmingham Realty Company is at the Morris
 Hon. Chappell Cory, editor of the Mont gomery Journal! is in the city.
 Chancellor R. B. Kelly of Anniston was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Arthur Chenoweth left town yesterday to assume his studies at Bingham College, Asheville, N. C., after spending very happy holidays with his parents and friends in Birmingham. No brighter or more promis- ing young man than Arthur Chenoweth has Birmingham sent away to any school or any place!
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The weaving of wool unmixed Is lost

Omaha should hire real genuinegdetec-
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It's an easy matter to live in affiuence if you have money enough to enane ypa to do II
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

The funny things that happen to other people are always serious when they hap pen to you.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

From the Chicago News.
 Adam was probably created in the after noon-at least it was a little before Eve
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

Some men are so learned that they SC, to think 1t unnecessary to use comm sense.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

A lot of different tools come under tf head of sin, but lie is the handle ths fits them all.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

The best way for a feeble millionaire to enlarge his chest is to carry a great big heart in 1t.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

Men climb the hill of life like small boys pulling their sleds after them and they go down hill like the boys with their sleds under them.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

The more blunders man makes the more expert he becomes in framing apolo- gies.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

The good book says the wicked stand or slippery places-therefore it must be tn, other class who are brought down sudden 1y by banana peels.
The age-herald., 1901-01-08

Affectation springs from the desire of to appear better than 1t really is.
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When a poor man wants assistance the world is always ready to oblige htm-to keep on wanting.
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country.