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The age-herald., 1901-11-21
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
The Mobile and West Alabama.


 Hon. H. Austiii of Mobile, former chan eellor and former state Representative and Senator, is at the Morris accom- panied by Mfr. A c. oConnor of De- troit.
 Mir. O'Connor Is the representative Of millions of money wealth and his visit to Alabama Is to consider the building of the Mobile and West Alabama Railroad the surveyed route of which extends from Mobile to the Tennessee river, at Florence. the survey having been made by John A. Milner by the authority and at the expense of the state some ten years ago.
 Judge Austin is conducting MT. O'Con- nor through the territory of the proposed railroad. Asked last night as to the pros poets for the construction of the road by himself and associates, MT. oconnor said:
 We are making plain business propo- sition to the people along the route. and if they agree to it the new road will be built. Tsa s=e15ositicn is this: If the people will guarantee Us so much freight, the amount being stipulated, we VIII build, equip and operate the road! We desire to see where our profits are to come from, ard that is all we do de- sire from the territory directly interested. We have all the money we need"
 Judge Austin and MT. o'Connor will remain in Birmingham during today, with apartments at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
THE IMPERFECT AUTOMOBILE,

.Fournier's feat of a mile In an automo- bile in less than flfty-two seconds Is in- teresting But the remoteness of the practical automobile is suggested in these remarks by w. J. Hampton:
 I should say what is needed Is. first, heavier machinery, more power; larger boiler and gasoline tank df steafn); a better water-guage arrangement; better air pump, easier to work and larger ca- pacity; better facilities for starting the machine when cold; something besides a two-gallon bucket to fill the water tank with; and a few less things for the chauffeur to keep his mind on. For in- stance, the chauffeur must have one hand on the stering bar, one on the starting and stopping levers, one foot on the brake. one on the bell. one eye on the water guage, one on the air gauge, one on the steam guage and both on the road ahead always. for here the danger lies, and then he must look around occa- sionally at the views by the way. In addition there are two or three other cocks and cranks and things he must not neglect.
 This is a conservative view of the de- fects in the automobile which, as MT. Hampton notes, make it still a fad of the rich. The automobile is either unwieldy or highly dangerous. of both Also 1t is expensive both in first cost and in maintenance. But the inventors are at work scores and hundreds of them. spurred on by the knowledge that the first man to produce a thoroughly prac- tical automobile of moderate cost will have fortune within his grasp.
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
Nashville is Aroused.

The Nashville Banner has raised the banner of war and is fighting all along the line. It is becoming so aggressive there Is danger it will draw it's snick- ersee and advance upon the Alabama line, and it may become the part of prudence to mount guns on the canoes and sliffs of the Tennessee river in order that that line tt least may be held against the doughty warrior from Nashville He is awake even if the rest of his city is not.
 In his latest manifesto he attacks The Age-Herald, the Montgomery Ad- vertiser and the Mobile Register. He evidently believes in moving them down by battallons, and his broadsides are dreadfully slaughterous in his own Imagination. His ammunition con- sists, however, of the old worked-over stuff of the Conservative Democratic : party, and therein lies his weakness.
 He hurls charges of fraud right and left. He seems to olne, sup and break fast on Alabama frauds-the same old dishes of the Conservative Democratic party warmed over. It never occurs to this Tennessee Warrior to ask for proofs. It never occurs to him that not one single charge of fraud in con nection with the recent election has been substantiated. Not a particle of proof has been brought forward. The oretical fraud is all the Alabama De- mocracy stand charged with. No act of fraud has been established, and no effort has been made or probably will be made by the Conservative Demo cratic party to establish one single charge that eney are daily indulging in. AlaSamians smile broad smile when such charges are made before them, but Tennesseeans gulp them down, and pull their respective snick- ersees.
 It is certain that the Banner war rior will not be reinforced by the great and only John Wesley Gaines, for he is stranded on a mule boat in the Indian ocean, and Laps McCord, a professional strategist, is said to be with him, occupying an adjacent mule berth. This will confine the leader ship to the Banner man, who will per force be the generalissimo of the Ten nessee forces in this campaign against Alabama and her new constitution. In the language of Macbeth we say, Lay on, Macduff, and damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough"
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
TYING HER BONNET UNDER HER
 CHIN.

By Nora Perry
 Tying her bonnet under her chin, She tied her raven ringlets in. But not alone in the silken snare Did she catch her lovely floating hair, For, tying her bonnet under her chin, She tied young mans heart within. They were strolling together up the hill, Where the wind came blowing merry and
 chilli
 And it blew the curls frolicsome race. All over the happy peach-colored face; Tfll scolding and laughing, she tied them
 in, .sr - ,.-..s l..s. Under her beautiful, dinpled chin. And 1t blew a color bright as the bloom Of the pinkest fuchsia's tossing plume, All over the cheeks of the prettiest girl That ever imprisoned a romping curl, Or. in tying her bonnet under her chin, Tied young mans heart within. Sleeper and sleeper grew the hill, Madder. merrier, chillier. still. The western wind blew down. and played The widest tricks with the little maid, As, tying her bonnet under her chin s She tied a young mans heart within. O western wind. do you think 1t was fair To play such tricks with her floating
 hair7
 To gladly, gleefufly do 1our best To blow her against the young mans
 breast.
 Where he has gladly fcided her in. And kissed her mouth and cimpled chin; o Ellery Vane, you little thought. An hour ago. when you besought . This country lass to walk with you, After the sun had dried the dew, What terrible danger you'd be in. As she tied her bonet under her chin.
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
MADE A NEGRO ARMY CHAPLAIN

From the New York Evening Journal
 Binghamton, N. Y.,-The Rev. S. L. Corrothers, the negro minister who has just received an appointment as chaplain In the regular army. and who was pas- tor of Zion M. B. Church here, won the attention of the President by his fighting courage. Rev. MT. Corrothers, while passing through the streets of Elmira on a visit. was attacked one night by the sexton of his former church, whom he thoroughly thrashed. The cause was a trivial difference. but it demonstrated to the President that here was a pastor able to care for himself and his flock in more ways than one.
 When Congressman Ray preached the subject of the Rev. MT. Corrothers' ap- pointment the President recalled the inci- dent and remarked that a man who com bined religion and discipline was just the man for the place and promptly signed the papers.
 Rev. MT. Corrothers Is known as man of ability. He is favoraDly known to many of the political leaders.
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
FAsHIoNs oE 1apo.
A Frenchman's Forecast of Feminine
 Pads Twenty Years Hence.
From the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
 When they are grown up, the young ladies of the future who were born with this century will look back with amaze ment on the manners and dress of the days when their mothers were girls. If M. Octave Uzanne be true prophet, evo- lution in things feminine will move, not by degrees, but by remarkable bounds between the present year and 1920. The long dresses of today will appear far more quaint to the girls of that period than do the founced skirts of the sos to the modern woman. In 1920, says. M. Octave Uzanne, the feminine prejudice" which causes ladies, except of course in pallets, Ito object to displaying the calves of their leg." will have become entirely extinct Rational dress" as advocated by extremists. will not, however, pre- vail. The knickerbocker will not oust the petticoat, but the latter will never fall below the knee. On the other hand the present clinging skirt will be abolished, and dresses will grow fuller in width as they decrease in length. M Uzanne be- lieves that these revolutions in costume will be promoted by fygienc considera- tions. He is a violent opponent of the long skirt. on the score of its being a microbe collecting and distributing agent In the name of the laws of health, he likewise is persuaded that the corset has but a few years to live, and will in 1920 be preserved, if at all, in museums of discarded instruments of torture. Fin oil. w-4f.. gienic reasons, as gathered in their meshes and thence are conveyed to the mouth and eyes.
 Suddenly breaking away from health considerations, M. Octave Uzanne in duiges in flights of far more financial prophecy. In 1920, 1t seems, occult arts necromancy and astrology will flourish as they never did before, except among the Alexandrine Greeks at the commencement of the Christian era. Astral infuences,' in which, presumably, M. Uzanne be- lieves, will be an article of faith with the ladies of 1920 and they will dress ac- cordingly. "They will be aware that black predsposes them to Saturian melancholy; that blue devotes them to Mercury with his gift of pecuniary prosperity. that red places them under the Olympian sway of Jupiter, that golden yellows associate them with the sun, the giver of worldly | success, and that, lastly, greenish yell lows bind them wholly to Venus an her love philters." The science of planetary influences will, in particular, he strictly followed in evening dresses. In jewelry similar practice will doubtless be ob- served. The art of reading the meanings of precious stones and the study of their respective properties and virtues will be carefully mastered by ladies' and conse. quently by couturieres. Generally speak ing, however, M. Octave Uzanne, who seems to be particularly partial to the Alexandrine period, affirms that the fash ions of 1920 in feminine Jewelry will be | "Neo- Creek"
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
7he Nc7o ComststmtsoM DeSe2veS
 7he SM1p02t of 4AN l1tsee4.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 After campaign of education the new constitution has been ratified. The lead CTS of the opposition to ratification are not yet through making wry faces at the majorities, nor whence they came. Party strife, if not party division, is threat ened.
 Promises were made by the Democratic party when the convention was called; those promises have been renewed in the name of the party, with the assurance that the new constitution would faith fully redeem them, especially the one that declared that no white man would De oisfranchised except for crime and that no negro would be allowed to vote unless he had good character and suf- ficient intelligence to periodically dis charge the duties of citizenship.
 Honest doubts that the new constitu- tion would accomplish the purpose en- bodied in this promise have been ex- pressed. Necessarily some negroes must be registered. A split in the Demo- cratic party means a division of the white people. Such division may mean the balance of power in the hands of the negro, and the balance of power in the hands of the negro means continuous tur- moiT and strife and perpetual fraud and dishonesty in elections. White mans government with honest elections is the end sought. The elimination of the negro Is only means to that end.
 The ratification of the new constitution does not necessarily mean its success.
 
 greatest measure of success will come from the most universal support of all citizens, those who opposed its ratifica- tion as well as those who favored ratih- cation. But the duty of bringing to 1t that universal support rests especially upon those who favored ratification. It
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
Eaucatson Not e Success,
 and Umh1ks the Neev0 foy Amythang

Mrs. W. H. Felton of Georgia in the
 New York Journal.
 Booker T. Washington was a notable example of what was supposed to be a leyel-headed, educated colored man. who was teaching by precept and example the dignity and value of personal effort as the best means for the negro's progress, and who took pride in his own race and was honestly ambitious for its proper elevation.
 But when he threw off the mask and came forward as a candidate for white associates in domestic relations, he lost the influence he had gained in the South and will henceforward be recognized as a disinegrator and disorganizer of both races in his future public efforts. He will be wise to lift his Tuskegee plant and move northward while he Is basking in Presidential favor.
 He has been a nine days wonder in lines less dstasteful than the political prominence of his race, but his education anu WHllc SelhAOb ASoecA V him to the real elevation which he for merly occupied, because his own race are not deceived in his pretensions and his former Southern friends will beware of him for good reason.
 When I recall the action of Governor Illinois, when negroes went there to get work they were fitted for by nature and habit, I am obliged to question the sin cerity of the negro's supposed Northern friends. Their presence was so dis tasteful to Illinoisans the Governor pro- vacate promptly.
 Negro labor is very acceptable on Southern farms and in Southern mines. Negroes have every opportunity to earn good wages and get their pay promptly. No Georgia Governor ever proposed to shoot hard working negroes out of our state.
 The friends of negro social equality in that section are getting less pro- nounced as years roll on; and it is likely Booker Washington enjoyed an invita- tion that will not be repeated often in Washington City in years to come.
 The mistake of negro suffrage Is gain- ing attention every day throughout the country. The race. with a few excep- tions, has not been elevated in mind or morals by the privilege. It has not added
  can't be too careful about writing let ters.'
 That's right" replied the nervous in- dividual; sI wrote three once that have kent me in hot water ever since.
 "Ah! love letters. suppose. Breach of -"
 "No, sir; T. O. U.'"
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
New Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.

The Hay-Pauncefote treaty has been signed, but it's contents have not been published, and will not be until it is sent to the Senate for. ratification. This treaty takes the place of the one so amended by the Senate last year that Great Britain would not accept
 The various reports as to the terms of the new treaty are conjectural, but 1t is generally believed that it differs from the document that Great Britain refused to accept in several particu- lars. Great Britain Is not to be a joint guarantor of the neutrality of the canal. That task is left alone to this country Nothing Is said in it respecting the right to fortify the ca nal, leaving such right optional by inference with the United States. All ships are to look alike in the canal, and there is to be no discrimination in favor of United States shipping.
 In other respects it is supposed to be like last years treaty. It does away at any rate with the Clayton. Bulwer treaty of 1850, which has long been stumbling block to isthmian canal legislation By the express terms of that old treaty neither the United States nor Great Britain could seek advantage in rights of transit across the isthmus. Great Britain slips out of the isthmian canal busi ness in the new treaty, and tho United States Is no doubt left free to build canal from ocean to ocean.
 When the treaty is sent to the Sen ate that body will doubtless make it public and until this is done the world will not know it's exact terms, but it's terms are undoubtedly liberal, and this country will have free hand in canal building. And if it be true that the new Northern Securities Syndicate has decided to favor the building of ca nal. tho way is smoothed fer the Mic aragua bill, end 1t will readily become a law, and Senator Morgan will live to sail through the canal he has fought for for quarter of century.
The age-herald., 1901-11-21

Is therefore, incumbent upon Its friends to deal tactfully and patiently with those who opposed. Wise and broad minded leadership is needed. Neither ridiculing nor sneering at those who are apprehen- slve of the future under the new will im- prove the situation.
 The registrars are now the responsible parts of the new machinery. Not only should honest and capable men be se- lected but men who have well established regulations for fairness and freedom from any taint or suspicion of election frauos so that the personnel of the board will carry conviction to the public mind that the registration will be conducted in keeping with the promises made.
 It is a well recognized principle in the construction of statutes that where a judicial Interpretation has been placed quently re-enacted that the legislative body thereby adopts such judicial con struction thereof. lie duties of the registrars have been publicly defined be- fore ratification. their office has been created in the light of such interpreta- ton. They will, therefore, assume their duties with them well defined. The laws relating thereto having first been ex- pounded and defined by the people who made them and created the office. No man, therefore, should be appointed reg istrar who has peculiar notions of his own as to the duties of such office. Only those should be appointed who will per- form their duties in the spirit in which such office has been created.
 Register all the whites. exclude as many negroes as possible, dispel the fears of the anti-ratificationists. keep the white people united, arouse the public con science, have honest and fair elections.
 NATHAN l.. MILLER.
 Birmingham, November 20, 1901.
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
STILL ANOTHER PLATFORM.

From the Springfield Republican.
 Mayor Dennis Mulvihill of Bridgeport, Ct., has proclaimed since his election, the principles that will guide his administra- tion:--
 I'll serve all the people
 No politicians about me.
 Public expenses must be reduced.
 No junkets.
 No secret sessions. No committee meet ings behind closed doors.
 I know the value of money. I have had to work for it. The taxpayers mon- ey shall be used as if 1t were mine own. It's a good platform In many respects. Mayor Mulvihill's degree of success will be worth observing. 4
The age-herald., 1901-11-21

respect or character to its use or exer- else in any direction.
 There is now movement-sporadic at first, but embracing states at this time to quietly withdraw the fatal gift for the well-being of both races. If not with drawn in the South, colonization, expor- tation or extermination vii. be the se- quence within the next fifty years.
 Georgia pays about three thousand colored teachers to instruct negro chill dren In colored schools, anu the state penitentiary is crowded with negro convicts
 No white woman is safe on the public highway or unprotected in her own home after thirty years of common school education for the blacks, as well as the white children of the South. A genera tion has grown up with these lavish, free educational benefits supplied by compul- sorry taxation for the purpose, and crime has not abated, criminals have not de- creased and the ballot has been turned into merchandise by those who miscon- ceive its purpose and prostitute It's oppor- tunity.
 May not answer your second question by saying public education of the negro will not alleviate the strained conditions, or reform" him into a suitable associate In the domestic relations of the white race?
 Education appears to unfit the average negro for any purpose that is agreeable to surrounding conditions. It seems to fill his nature with desires and passions that make him obnoxious. His assumption is directed toward getting even.''
 At the present time there Is but one political principle in Dixie, and that one is imbedded in the very marrow of every self-respecting white man and woman in the south.
 That principle has prcs edence over every plank in every known political platform at this time. If put into words, it would read: ''This is a white mans country, and white nen aim to keep 1t sol" The status of women in every civ ilized country on the globe sets the pace for its social relations and privileges.
 It is granted that many colored men are worthy, deserving of respect, fine ex- amples of industry, cultivation and gen. uine success. These attributes are esti- mated at their full value, but ths line of separation of the races is, like the de- crees of the Medes and Persians, beyond question, and made to stand as a vested right of white supremacy.
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
CRUMBS FROM KANSAS.
From the Atchison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.
 People talk of the desirability of hav- ing friends to "fall back on.' as if friends were feather beds.
 IL must be a terrible thing for a woman to die with lot of social obligations un- paid, on her mind.
 It Is told of an Atchison woman that she made chicken salad for twenty-seyen guests out of one chicken.
 It is too bad that he will never know 1t, but an Atchison man whose wife used to shake her fist at him, now wrings her hands when she mentions his death.
 We would like to taste one of the emergency rations the War Department is experimenting with. to see if 1t is like what we meet on the table on wash day.
 There Is good deal of quiet amuse- ment in small town near Atchison, where big, fat woman. sixty years old. recently died, and her third husband put a wounded dove on her tombstone.
The age-herald., 1901-11-21
HAS COURT OF INQUIRY BIBLE

From the New York World.
 Washington-When the Schley court of inquiry was convened a Bible was sup- piled for swearing members of the court and witnesses by Pickens Neagle, Judge Advocate Lemlys chief clerk. MT. Neagle borrowed the Bible small one. from Miss Addie Ellis. the daughter of Washington business man.
 Admiral Dewey was about to return the Bible to its owner when he learned that she had been married since the converting of the court and is now Mrs. Harold c. Grout This prompted him to write his name on the flyleaf. Admiral Schley like wise Inscribed his name. Then Admirals Ramsey and Benham and Captain Parker Of counsel for Schley added their names. MT. Rayner and others participating of- ficially in the famous inquiry also will be asked to inscribe their names.