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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-01-17

"About two months ago was taken
very IN with Ia grippe and Was obliged
TO 20 10 bed. took three bottles OF
Peruna with very beneficial results,
and was able to leave my bed In a
week and regained my usual strength
very soon.
- have nothing but praise fVr Peru
na and recommend IL to those SINH
larry afflicted whenever ! can. '---
Frances NJ. Anderson.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
sPEcTAcLEs FOR VOTERS.

Baltimo ore Telegram to Chicago Tribune.
 Spectacles will play an important part in the approaching election under the new ballot law. barring illiterates.
 About 250,000 pairs of glasses will be bought by the Republican and Democratic State committees for use in the polling booths. The Republican party has placed orders for 100 gross. The glasses will be of different grades of strength, tested by oculists. The politicians have made the discovery, both in the cities and county districts, that hundreds of voters of the poorer classes can read sufficiently to cast a ballot, but their sight is so de- fective that they will be unable to read the long lists of candidates on the ballot in the dimly lighted booths.
 Several thousand pairs of spectacles are now in use in the schools for illiterates
 The sight of the negroes has been found more generally defective than that of the whites The voter white or block, will be enabled on election day to scrutinize this ballot through either Republican or Democratic spectacles. Both parties will have large supplies of these aids to voters in the polling booths and also capable men to adjust them on the eyes of the voters. The glasses will be of good qual- ity, set in the cheapest kind of frames.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
Friday Mornings scrimmaae.

The Age-Herald knows nothing about the hostility existing between the Cashes and the Doziers, but this much it does know-this is not bor- der or lawless town, and the corners of it's crowded streets are not main .tained for the prosecution of private wars.
 A dozen shots, more or less, were fired, when women, school boys and school girls, as well as men of busi- ness, were hurrylng forward, thus en- dangering the lives of each of them. Such a battle, even if the targets proved to be windows of surrounding places of business, is discreditable to the town, and an end should be put to such performances in its streets, what. ever may be done in secluded places where the lives of the combatants alone are endangered.
 Unless this case be made a public example other cases of like nature will occur. At one of the most crowd ed street intersections in busy hour of the morning two men proceed to shoot with rare want of aim dozen balls which penetrate adjoining win dows or walls. Fortunately no pedes- tran was wounded, but such good for tune may not attend a similar case.
 The citys interest lies in telling all that private war is not to be con ducted in Inis town as it might be perhaps in Oklahoma or Alaska or in some far-western mining camp. Law ana order are presumably dominant here, and the insult offered to law and order by the combatants of Friday morning calls for public attention and public action.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
Pronouncing the Presidents Name.

Never before has the country had a President who had a name unfamiliar to English ears or English tongues; and so 1t has come about that some pronounce the Presidents name Rooze- welt, some Roosevelt. and some pro nounce it smoothly. even tripingly, as fit spelled Ro-sy-velt. The President himself is said to favor the last named pronunciation.
 When all others had failed in mak- ing plain the true expression of the name the poets came to the rescue the dormant poets who are always with us, or at least with Philadel- phians. Nearly all people. even tho non-poets, are more or less dormant m. that city. The Philadelphia bard thus solves the problem:
 Down the White House steps he came.
 Nor could he speak the blues '-he-felt The place he sought he did not get
 vTurned down by Teddy Roosevelt.
 This not only solves the problem Lut 1t shows that the art of poesy still
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
In Union There is Strength.

General Manager McClary endeav- ored to induce the street railway as- sociation to hold an annual convention in this town, but each of the dele a list of cities, and against the name of this town were the fatal population figures, 8s.415. Too small. they all said. Argument was useless, and sub urban facts of no value. All towns assert. that they have unenumerated suburbs, and no amount of talk can overcome census figures.
 Now, thefe is lesson here. We are drifting steadily towards another census. and not step has been taken towards consolidating Greater Bir- mingham. Hereafter Legislatures will meet but once in four years, and whatever Is to be done towards getting this town together, must be done be- fore the Legislature meets in 1902. 1t will meet again in 1906, but the work of consolidation cannot be com pleted in one Legislature. We should remember that there will be but two Legislative sessions before another census is taken, and the chief part of the work should be done in 1902.
 We need Mayor who is skilled in such a work-one who can draw Greater Birmingham together, mag netic man who can inspire and per suade. The task should be taken up at once, and negotiations begun and steps taken with a view of bringing all of Jones Valley into one city. All are now suffering from census figures .lat are misleading. There are 100,- 00J in the real Birmingham, and yet the census says there are but 3S,415! This count should be corrected for the good of all, be they urbanites or suburbanites. All are alike inter- ested, and a magnetic man can draw all together. Let us get together for the common good.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE BOOKER
 WASHINGTON DINNER AND OTHER MATTERS

understand that Mir. Bacon of the Tennessee Company is to return to Bir- mingham this week and that the work on the new steel furnaces at Ensley will be begun at once as well as the con- struetion of a hoop plant and several other finished product plants at Ensley.>
 The Tennessee Company, I am told, has ample cash on hand for generous develop ment, and the chances are that several million dollars will be spent in Improving old plants and building new ones in the Birmingham district within the next year or two i,..
 By the way. saw Harry M. Atkinson here day or two ago. Though for many years he has been a resident of Atlanta, he is, apparently, more enthusi- astic over Birmingham than any citizen of the place. Atkinson is really at the head of the new Birmingham Railway. Light and Power Company. He Is the man whose genius and whose finances brought about the consolidation of the properties that go to make up this com pany That he believes in Birmingham is evidenced by the fact that he and his as- sociates have decided to spend two mil- Hon dollars in improving and properly equipping the trolley car lines and the gas and electric light plants. Unless he be- lieyed that Birmingham would grow and grow rapidly such an enormous cash ex- penditure would be foolish, from busi- ness point of view
 MT. Atkinson is a millionaire himself. perhaps. Certainly he represents many millions of dollars. He is progressive and energetic; and optimistic in regard to Birmingham. have much confidence in Atkinson personally and believe that he proposes to put into Birmingham the very best street car system and lighting plants in any city in the entire South and I believe that the people of Birming- ham when they really see what he pro- poses to do will applaud his work.
 New York City is in the throes of per- haps the hottest campaign it has ever had. A Mayor will be elected on Novem- Der 5. Registration for this election closed last night. Over one-half million people registered 1t
 While the fight will be hot, 1t is fore gone conclusion that the Tammany can didate, MT. Sheppard, will be elected Mayor. Tammany controls the politics of New York as 1t has done for many years past It has the election machinery and the campaign funds-a combination which is difficult to overthrow.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
Tennessee Takes a Hand.

The naturalization people have an organ at last besides, of course, the A.obiie Item. Their new organ is To- cated In Tennessee, 1t is true, but what are State lines among friends? Their Tennessee organ is very zeal ous organ, too, abusing Chairman Un- derwood as it might pickpocket. The Tennessee editors are always ready to rush in where Alabama an- geis fear to tread, and the Nashville Banner is rusher from Nashville. The esteemed Banner demands in stentorian tones or types to know Green, Ky.," is permitted to speak for was once "a beardless boy in Bowling spread your newly-aquired wisdom the Democrats of Alabama. Listen, o, Banner, and we will tell you, not confidentially, but in the open, expect ing you thus to become wiser and to scribing anybody, but regularly Is to others.
 The Democrats of the State elected delegates to the last State convention, whose authority within the Demo cratic party no one has ever ques- toned, appointed Democratic State Executive Committee to represent the party between conventions, if not drinks. That Democratic State Ex- ecutive Committee, acting strictly within its authority, appointed Dem ocratic Campaign Committee, making the once beardless youth of Bowling Green, Ky, chairman of that Demo cratic Campaign Committee. That is why Oscar Underwood, as you flip panty call him, O, Banner, Is officially fighting for the ratification of the constitution. He Is the lineal and wholly regular mouthpieoe of the Dem- ocratic party. The party generously pSIIllbS LH0 DlC6uidio IO OuI- side the party lines, and 1t Is not pro- scribing anyboy, but regularity is only only found within the Underwood lines. A word more: The same Oscar Un- derwood, o, Banner, that was once so beardless. in Bowling Green, Ky, is now member of the tallest committee in the National House of Representa- tives, and he is Tn that body the man. ager, or whip as our British friends say. of the Democratic forces. We ad- wise you to keep your eyes on that once beardless boy. He has got more strength and skill in his little finger than whole regiment of your Gainses and Laps McCor0s possess. He Is a man of both tact and force, and the time is coming VI en even Tennessee editors will come know him and to | honor him.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

Birmingham continues to be a new town. There are many rough edges on 1t yet Men still go about armed and con tinue to shoot at one another in the pub lie streets, repeatedly endangering the lives of innocent people who are seeking to attend to business.
 When people want to shoot one another there Is probably no way of stopping them, and unless 1t be possible to educate the people above ideas of killing one an other 1t might be well for Birmingham to set aside some particular place. like the baseball park, for instance, where the men who want to shoot at one an- other can go and indulge In their favorite sport. Certainly the women of Birming- ham, if not the men, are entitled to pro- tection, and I am yet hopeful that the law against concealed weapons might be enforced. I hope that Chief Austin will give the concealed weapons law strict at tention until he can break up this damn able policy of every man being his own Tight artillery"
 By the way, speaking of city laws there is one remarkably good one promised in the new constitution. It provides that no Board of Aldermen of any city in Ala bama can issue city bonds for any pur- pose whatsoever before submitting the question to the people themselves in an election called for this purpose.
 
 So Booker Washington dined with the President Washington Is said to be the first negro who ever dined in the White House as the guest of the President of the United States.
 Washington Is a we'll educated negro an eloquent talker. The temptation when President Roosevelt's invitation was ex- tended him was great. Washington fell. He has injured his school and his life's work by this act op his part.
 President Roosevelt made a greater mistake. His act will be construed as a desire on his part to bring about social equality among the races. He evidently acted impulsively, as he often does and he certainly acted foolishly. This act may prove political fatality to Theodore Roosevelt It is not incumbent upon & President of the United States to invite any man to dine at his table, any more than 1t was upon Theodore Roosevelt. when he was civil service commissioner, at Washington. to invite to his private residence to dine with himself and wife, anyone who happened to visit the city. It was grandstand play that the Presi- dent made It brings upon him the con- tempt of Southern white men. It can well be construed into an avowal upon the
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
MISS WALKERS WORK.
From the Talladega Mountain Home.

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 Miss Annie Kendrick Walker, of The ,Age-Herald staff, is one of the most talented women in journalism in the South. While her work is always high in standard. the contributions to Sundays s paper were extensive and exceedingly meritorious. In this issue, besides her regular work on the women's and so- ciety page, there were a couple of book reviews from her versatile pen, In each of which she made honest and clear-cut criticisms, showing that she is master of her work and fully alive to what the reading public demands. Miss Walker is a credit to the staff of the great paper to which she gives her talent.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
What it

He thus had s2.95 left with which to satisfy the gas man, the water man, the coal man and the ice man, not to mention his insurance premiums, lodge dues, and clothes for a family consisting of five persons. It must be conceded that the times are not good times to those whose wages stand at the low level of 1897.
 Lard then cost Is cents; it now costs 15 cents. Irish potatoes are doubled in price, beef nearly so. eggs are nearly trebled in value, and milk is one-third higher. To meet such in creases wages should be advanced 2E per cent, and in some cases they have been.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

part of the President in favor of social equality between the races.
 The line must be drawn, and no one knows 1t better than MT. Roosevelt him> self.
 Roosevelt has lost the personal respect which was accorded him by millions of the best people of this country.
 
 And Booker Washington. if his inter view given out at Huntington, Long Island, as printed in another column be correct, has destroyed himself with the respectable people of the south-people who have really taken an interest in his work to elevate his race in the industrial pursuits.
 Heretofore, while at home in the South. Booker Washington has recognized his position. He has apparently worked to educate the negro to become an indus trious citizen; to learn the trades and to pursue course of industry. rather than to dabble in politics and attempt to rise in the social sphere. Now the educated negro of former industry loses his head and assumes to represent in New York that he is accorded social courtesies in the South, making 1t appear that 1t be no unusual thing for him to accept dinner invitations to the homes of the leading people of the South. Washington does not say this in so many words, but read his interview In another column which appears this morning in several of the New York papers as well as the Age Herald, and construe the meaning which the Northern reader will get from 1t.
 I thought Washington too intelligent and conservative to attempt to rise to the social equality plane, and his interview writes him down as one in whom the Southern public has misplaced it's confi- dence and respect.
 So a new and independent railroad is coming into Birmingham. That is what the recent purchase of the Belt Line means. It means that the Seaboard Air Line people are determined to build into Birmingham. They are now bottled up at Atlanta in one direction and Mont gomery in the other. This road has no feeder at Atlanta and no feeder at Mont gomery. With terminal at Birmingham 1t would be In position to command tre- mendous business from other railroads, because it would have business to give. Regardless of the name of the New Jer- sey corporation, believe that it will be announced in the near future that the Seaboard Air Line is really coming into Birmingham, either by building a direct line from Atlanta or connecting up with the East and West, and thereby making line from Atlanta to Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
Cost of Living Then and Now.

These are times when the man who
 earns s60 month is so crowded by the demands of his family that he does not appreciate the prosperity that covers the land. The Chattanooga News recently interviewed such a man, and he says his rent has been advanced from $15 month to s25, while his salary has not been in creased at all. He then presents his monthly bill of expenses, as follows:
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
AIabamian on Negro Soldiers.

Colonel BuIlard, an Alabamian of Madi-
 son county, and a West Pointer, who
 commanded the Third Alabama Regiment
 in the Spanish-American war; is being
 widely quoted on account of a paper of
 his in the Journal of the Military Service
 Institution. his subject being the negro
 as a volunteer soldier.
 1t will be remembered that the Third
 Alabama Regiment was composed of
 negroes. except as to the officers, all of whom were Southern white men, Several of them were young men of State promi- hence in Alabama, and all were represen- tatives of good families. After Colonel Bullard retired from the Third Alabama, upon its disbandment, he commanded the Thirtieth Volunteer Infantry. and saw service in the Philippines.
 "As a soldier" says Colonel Bullard, ''the negro's light heartedness and good humor makes the negro complainer a rarity. The negro starts. too. with a proper appreciation of the respect due his commissioned officer. It seems to be in- born knowledge and as a general thing
 he lives up to this disciplinary quality.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Mir. Harry Jenkins.

Now that Harry Jenkins has disposed of his interests in the Mary Lee coal mines, which he has been operating very profitably for sevral years, and he was yesterday made the richer by good s6O,OOO in money passed to his credit, Birming- ham may not see so much of this genial gentleman of public spirit as it has been wont to see; and if so be it that we are to see less of Mir. Jenkins then in uutn is Birmingham the poorer by his in- creased good fortune.
 A thorough man of the world, Of wide and varied experience of the brighter side, and acutely intelligent observation of all sides. MT. Jenkins is one of the most accomplished and entertaining of all good fellows-a bon vivant or rare qualities of heart He has made friend of every one who has come to know him here; and, off and on, he has dwelt many years in and about Birming- ham. By clubmen and society he IS es- pecially held in high esteem as broad minded and generous man and most ad- mirable companion.
 He is judge and lover of good horses, and is of the best of good all-around sportsmen: one who is for fair play, and the best to win. Mir. Jenkins has num- Der of valuable horses which he has en- tered in the forthcoming horse show in Atlanta, in which town he is almost as well known and greatly liked as he Is in Birmingham.
 In business MT. Jenkins is an unusually successful man, and by his ability he has builded himself a fortune, which he Is still young enough to enjoy In years as in spirit Harry Jenkins remains lone of the boys" and one whom all the others cherish for his comradery, his compan- ionableness and his culture. All will wish him, as the Irish say, "a long life and a merry one," and as the Scotch have it. prosperity, peace and happi, nessI'
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New Yofk Press
 The best thing for love affair gone wrong is calomel.
 There was woman once who never said; T told you so." Oncei
 A man can always be sure of a woman when she turns to look back at him.
 Some people hate to be happy so much that when they laugh they always have tears in their voice.
 People who speculate in Wall street don't seem to care rap that they aren't going to have red cent next week.
 The man whose conversation you enjoy is the one who says: .Ah yes" and That's right" when you are doing the talking
 When a woman Is one hour late keep ing an engagement she takes a good deal of pride in the thought that 1t wasn't two hours.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

survives by a large majority in our midst. or rather in Philadelphia's midst. where it and scrapple reign supreme.
 But there are other poets who have not hesitated to grapple the problem. Three Chicago poets, each working up his own frenzy in his own sanctum, have given us these solutions; He s'pigeoned" down the White House
 steps,
 Uncomfortable his shoes felt. "Alas!" he cried. my corn is worse
 Since stepped upon by Roosevelt" He looked the picture of despair.
 And plainly like the deuce felt For he had found that no hot air
 Would go with Teddy Roosevelt. No tongue can tell no pen describe
 The depth of all the woe he felt. He had tried-and oh, how cruel his fate
 To bunko Teddy Roosevelt
 It will be observed that the two first of the trio have adopted one the ory, while the last of the Chicago trip lets accept the Philadelphia pronun citation. In view of the contraiety in the lines thrown off in Chicago, we cannot after all say-that is, con- scientiously say-that the poets have settled it, although the Philadelphia bard is backed by one Chicago bard. The Chicago singers must settle the Chicago pronunciation of the name among themselves. When they dis agree, who can decide?
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
Enormous Landslide.

Kingston, Jamaica, October 1e-Mail advices from Barbadoes gives particulars of landslide covering 300 acres of land in the district of Boscobel. Nearly a hundred houses were destroyed and the islands were ruined. The district was de- vastated. The governor has started a re- lief fund.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20
OPPOSITION WEAKENING.
the Pine Belt New

From the Pine Belt News.
 The opposition to the new constitution is growing weaker and weaker as the days go by. The voters are reading it and becoming informed upon the many superior provisions over the present con- stitution which it contains.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

Professor Virchow, who is now 80 says he will visit America when he is 90. He seems to be standing In with Father Time.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

The brigands are studying the po- lite art of letter writing, and in the course of time they may measure up to our Kangaroo Grove.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

MT. P. Grove will not after all in- sist upon being met by reception committee and brass band when he comes marching home to Omaha.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

The late Lorenzo Shows fame rests upon his high matrimonial record, which rivalled that of our Sultan of Sulu.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

The elopement of a moose and a Jersey heifer in Maine goes to show the versatility of the reportorial mind in that distant State.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

Caleb Powers is perennial in Ken lucky, and the rest of the country must be patient and endure to the unforeseen end.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

It was the Sioux City Journal, not a Boston paper, that advised man to retire to the extreme rear and assume sitting posture"
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

Seventeen million children will turn out reluctantly for school tomorrow morning in this country.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

A Boston girl now outranks all the models in this country, and that city Is justly proud of her.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

Seth Low is overwhelmed with cam paign poetry that would be fatal to a less strenuous candidate.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

Omaha's detectives are very good in all cases in which there is nothing to detect.