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The age-herald., 1901-03-05
John W. o'NeilI Declares He Will.

John W. O'Neill, who has formally an nounced himself as a candidate for dele gate from Jefferson County in the State Constitutional Convention is the noted president of the Birmingham Board of Trade, and Is a leading member of the Commercial Club of Birmingham. He Is the head of the John W. ONeill Com pany, one of the principal mercantile firms of Birmingham. and is the youngest of all the leading merchants Of this city. His success in business is one of the most striking facts in the growth of this com mercial and industrial community.
 MT. O'Neill would make an ideal bust ness delegate in the convention which is to plan the basis of all Alabama laws.' a notable business man observed He is precisely the character and type of the practical men whom above all others we shall need In the convention. and 1t Is fortunate that his invaluable services are at the disposal of the people. MT. O'Neill should be nominated on the first ballot ir the county convention!"
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
An Outrage In the Street.

A garbage wagon possibly engaged in the sanitary work of the city was standing in Twentieth street, on the eastern side and near First alley, at Il o'clock yesterday forenoon.
 At the moment the March wind was blowing at the rate of some thirty odd miles an hour.
 Two or three men accompanied the wagon. and suddenly they attempted to empty what appeared to be a drygoods- box of ashes into the open wagon body" which was about three feet in depth.
 But no ashes reached the bottom of that "body" or rested at any place a burden upon that wagon, for faster than the men could handle the ashes the wind swirled up the mass of filth and sent 1t
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in dense cloud along Twentieth street toward Second avenue, at the crossing of which the cloud struck q multitude of people, mostly women, blinding and suf- locating them. and then continuing along the most crowded street in Birmingham and befoulins everything along the way.
 It is doubtful if in the whole history of the filthy streets of Birmingham there has been more outrageously shameful act!
 Not content with the flthiest streets on earth, somebody was making them filth fer still It was shameful.
 Mayor Drennen stated the other day that he had arranged for a powerful sprinkler. Let him also prevent garbage wagons from being worked in the prin- cipal streets at the busiest hours of the day!
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
Gov. Sanford Serves the People

The dying Legislature takes the cake. One bill was stolen outright, and the Tuscaloosa bills had to be guarded day and night to keep surrep- titious amendments out of them. The racing amendment in the Mayors veto bill belongs in the surreptitious class. The sooner such a Legislature is out or sight and sound the better.
 If Governor Sanford were in his ac- customed rugged health, he would be a masterful match for the jobsters and tricksters in the Legislature, but he is far from his full physical strength. and the strain upon him is very great. Fortunately, the Legisla- ture will be adjourned forever today, and the pressure will be lessened.
 As in all similar cases, no one knows how the horse-race amendment was put in bill relating to the government of the city of Birmingham, and we are left to assume that it walked into the bill, typewriter, and pasted itself on. No one asks for an investigation, for an investigation of all misdeeds of this Legislature would be altogether too Herculean for any one to attempt. Let it go, and let it's acts be given the advantage of oblivion, for the good of the State.
 The State is very fortunate in hay ing a Governor that no trust and no lobbyist dare approach. If he can recover his health he will stand a bulwark against all dis honesty, and he will prove an aggress- i've friend and advocate of every need full reform. He has already demon strated his purposes, and all that is lacking is physical strength to carry out those purposes. When he said on the stump that he would stand for bet ter schools and cheaper school books he meant what he said; and when he says in veto messages that illegality and irregularity must be stopped, he means business also. Let us hope he will gain strength to serve the State many years as he has begun.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
MT. Clarke and the Schools.

Representative Clarke of Mobile is a lawyer of high standing and a man of high character; and his remarks about the barefoot boys and girls of the State do him no credit. From a Mobile point of view, which hogs all the liquor license money to the detri- ment of the rest of the State, this may be satisfactory, but to speak slight ingly of the little ones who deserve and need an education, to whom the State is trying to give an education, is not at all to MT Clarkes credit. The Montgomery Advertiser reports him as saying:
 The "barefooted boys and girls of
 Alabama" had been brought back into
 the House after a rest of about thirty
 days. He had great sympathy for
 these poor children-God bless them
 but he was glad that they had had
 month of rest.
 They have had eighty-odd years of rest-they and their predecessors without education, and particularly without enjoying the benefit of gen. erous liquor licenses that the rest of the State is compelled to pay into the treasury. If MT. Clarke would first take steps to remove Mobiles unjust allowance, he would be in a better position to discuss an appropriation for the barefoot boys and girls, whom the Democratic party stands pledged to educate. The bill that Mr. Clarke advocated is backward step so far as the public schools are concerned, and the Democratic party stands pledged to take no such step.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
ALABAMA's GRAND OLD MAN.
rom the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 A wonderful old man Is Senator Nor gan. He started in on Monday to talk and, with a brief intermission, was on his feet for six houre, talking steadily He Is v years of age, but, to quote his own language, he Is not as rapid in his action and speech as his colleague, Sem ator Pettus, who is 30 years old. "I can- not keep up as closely with the process sion." he said yesterday T only stagger along.'
 All day yesterday MT. Morgan contin- ued his speech, which was an argu- ment against the adoption of the Cuban and Philippine amendments. He believed that such legislation ought not to be en- acted, and he explained the reasons for his belief. He could talk for week, if he wanted to, without repeating himself. for his fund of information Is marvellous ly extended and his vocabularly absolute ly inexhaustible. All subjects are as open books to him. He can discuss the build ing of ships or the diplomatic history of the revolution with equal thoroughness and ease. And his physical strength is as remarkable as his mental activity.
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A SONG FOR MARck..

Frank Harrington in Frank Leslies Popu- lar Monthly
 Sing ho! sing ho, for the sleet and snow! For the stormy March and the winds that
 blow From north and south, now high, now
 low,
 Or chill or warm! on, March is he month of months for
 me; Its south winds set old Winter free, And tell us of the springtime soon to be, With all its charm Sing ho, for March on the seas bleak
 shore, Where the bracing breezes evermore Blow up from the ocean bearing before, The saltry spray Sing ho, for March among the hills! Melting snows filling the ice-rimmed
 rills, Streams rushing madly past meadows and
 mills
 Day after day. Sing ho for the toughest month of all. When shrill OCT the tempest sounds the
 call Of the crow from woodland treetop tall, Telling of spring! And ho, for the waning winter days, When the lingering north winds cold
 delays Aprirs coming, and chills the suns red
 rays! Oh, March is king!
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
UNIFORM TEXTBOOK BILL.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 1 want to thank you for your bold, uncompromising defense of the late uni form text book bill. You made a splen- did fight against great odds. It seems to be lost, but it Is not. The friends of the bill are determined to renew the at tack, and at a point where the powerful lobby which the book concerns arrayed against the bill will have little power to sidetrack or defeat it. There has been no general bill before the Legislature for years that was calculated to affect the masses of the people as this bill. Yet one committee of our honorable Senate dealt it a stunning blow, and handed it over to another committee, who are now famous, with instructions to give 1t the death blow.
 Was there ever such an exhibition of abominable cringing and surrendering to to the best interests of the people? If those fat sleek well lobbied-with Sena- tors could see the conditions as they are outside of the large centers, they would stand aghast. Many poor children can not get the benefit of the limited school
 
 high, school terms short and the next teacher will very likely not want the books they have made so many sacrifices to get It Is a shame that the Judiciary Committee should have killed a bill that was so manifestly In the interests of the people. The earnest appeal of the Chief Executive and of the State Superintend- ent went for naught in the presence of such a powerful lobby as seemed almost omnipresent at the capital. It seems to me that a deep stain has been put upon the State Senate. unless they can in some way justify their vote on this bill For all men know that Caesar was an hon. orable man and would not be actuated by any but the most unselfish motives
 I agree with you in saying that the peo- pie want to remember the names of those eight fearless men who voted for the in terests of the people They want to re- member the balance of them, too, and must remind them now that there Is a political judgment day for every one of them, and when the time comes the vot- CTS will jog their memory for their deeds -or misdeeds-in a very feeling way. Un- til this is accomplished, MT. Editor. say to you, Lay on McDuff. and - be he who first cries hold, enough!'
 I subscribed for the Age-Herald for only a short time, and intended, at its expra ton, to subscribe for a well-known daily published at the State capital, but l shall now renew my subscription to your valuable paper and would like to see it in every home in the State.
 P. J. HAM.
 F,lba Ala March 2 1901
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlABAMt
House and Senate Disagree.

The Senate Is consistent, to say the least. After making the people pay two prices for school books in order to please and satisfy the book trust, after dotting the State with high schools, yclept agricultural, and after voting $100,000 to special schools that could afford to send Hobbies to Mont gomery, it now insists that It's former grant to the barefoot boys and girls of the State shall be cut out. 1t is dis tinctly an anti-free school body, body that believes in backwardness and un- progressiveness. and it's champion and prophet is very properly the Montgom- cry Advertiser.
 The House believes in free educa- tion, and if the school appropriation is maintained it will be because the House has the courage and steadfast- hess of it's convictions. The House has the great mass of the people behind it, although it lacks the support of the book trust, which ignores 1t, and of various other special interests in the State. Let the House stand by its free school colors. The trust flag waves over the Senate, and there is no help for it. Let it wave. The next general election will find the people on top, and the House also.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
For the Constitutional Convention

Some weeks ago The Age-Herald, in deference to the wishes of many of its friends and readers, expressed the hope that MT. Robert J. Lowe and MT. Frank S. White would be selected as members of the constitutional conven- tion from the State-at-large. In pre- setting the names of these gentlemen The Age-Herald took the position that both were entitled to be members of the convention, first, because of their fitness to aid in framing an organic law for the State, and, second, for the reason that both had rendered valu- able service in securing the passage of the bill by the Legislature calling the convention. Indeed, to call these gen tlemen to the high position as dele gates from the State-at-large is but a just recognition of their services to the Democratic party, MT. Lowe being chairman of the State Executive Con- mittee and MT. White having been chairman of the Morgan Campaign Committee. It is to be hoped that no factional fight will arise in Jefferson County, but that the county conven- tion, which assemblies on the 14th of March, will instruct it's delegates to Montgomery to vote for both MT. Lowe and MT. White.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
The Beloved Veterans.

"Camp Hardee on last Saturday after noon held one of the most interesting meetings since its organization" said a Confederate veteran. 'The commander was very much gratified at the large at tendance, and would be glad if all the comrades would attend the monthly ses- sions. Among the motions made, and unanimously carried, was that the camp invite all Sons of Confederate Veterans to be with them at their next regular meeting the first Saturday In April, at D. m., at Engineers Hall, Nineteenth street and Second and Third avenues. An invitation was also issued that reporter from each of the city newspapers attend and report what was said and done.
 And there Is to be a book of record. in which all Confederate veterans can write their names, company, regiment and brigade and their war record in full this book to be kept for the benefit of future generations"
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
EIGHT FROM GEORGIA.

From the Macon Telegraph.
 Georgia has furnished eight cabinet of. ficers, as follows:
 Secretary of State-John Forsyth, un. der Jackson and Van Buren.
 Secretary of the Treasury-William H Crawford. under Madison and Monroe Howell Cobb. under Buchanan.
 Secretary of War-William H. Craw. ford, under Madison; George W. Craw- ford, under Taylor.
 Secretary of the Interior-Hoke Smith under Cleveland.
 Postmaster General-Joseph Haber- sham, under Washington, Adams and Jefferson.
 Attorney General - John McPhersor Berrien, under Jackson; Amos T. Ack- erman, under Grant
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IN HOTEL LOBBfES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day Tuesday, March 5, 1901;
 "An unfavorable day"
 Heavy troubles threaten thee in thy affairs, this being thy birthday. Thy business will go wrong and thou wilt be in sore straits. See that thou dost not travel or remove. Those in employ will lose It."
 "Young widows will have offers of mar riage"
 "A child born on this day will have an unfortunate career and will be generally in trouble, whether in employ or business for itself. If a female not very happy in marriage"
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
HoosIER SENTIMENT.
n the Indianapolis Press,

From the Indianapolis Press.
 How dare we boast of a civilization that is but skin deep? How dare we chide Kentucky or Texas or Kansas? If our laws be wrong on these matters, let us correct them. If the administration of justice be slow and lax, let us make 1t swift and sure. It lies absolutely within our own hands. If mawkish sentiment makes the fate of the criminal easier, let us cry it down. If public officers prove recreant to their oath, let us kick them out and elect new ones. If courts prove indolent, let us select new judges. that understand that half the value of jus tice lies in it's promptness.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
Enormous RaIlroad Traffic.

'The extraordinary activity in railroad traffic and the unexampled prosperity of Birmingham and the district cause me misgivings in one particular" said one of the most important railroad officials of Birmingham.
 T am afraid we railroad men will be worked literally off our feet! On our road we were never before so busy as now; personally I never was so hard worked in my life, and mine has been a life of hard work. can assure you.
 Traffic reached unprecedented volume months ago, but 1t still continues to increase from week to week, and there is no prospect that I can see of falling off. nor do I have the slightest desire for A decrease
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
Thunder and LiuhtnInu.

The first heavy thunder and brilliant lightning of the year occurred in Birm- ingham last night. At 10:S0 o'clock there were loud peals of thunder, accompanied by lightning that was extraordinarily brilliant. There was a considerable rain fall The temperature of the atmosphere was warm, as 1t had been since last Fri day. The wind for two or three days has been strong
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
HE WAS TOO EASY.

Washington Special to Chicago Inter-
 Ocean.
 It was stated today that Senator De- pew's niece. Miss Pauldng, broke her en- gagement with Lieutenant Edie of the navy for no other reason than that she considered him too "bossy," He assumed too much as a fiance and was too eager to dictate the proper way to manage the Depew household. There was no guar rel.
 Miss Paulding, who is several years his senior, simply told Lieutenant Edie that she was not ready to be commanded.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
Russo-chinese Agreement.

London, March 1.-The under secretary for foreign affairs, Lord Cranborne, in the House of Commons today, informed Sir Ellis Asmeade- Bartlett, Conservative that the Russo-Chinese agreement on Manchuria was engaging the earnest at tention of the government and is the subject of diplomatic communication be- tween the powers. Any statement or discussion of the matter now, Lord Cran- borne said, would be inexpedient.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
Ressemer City Court.

The solicitorship of the newly created Bessemer City Court seems to have brought out quite a number of candi- dates. Among the number is MT. H. C.. Mead of that city, who seems to be mak- ing an aggressive campaign. Hon. H. P. Hefin, county solicitor, has the appoint ing power, and doubtless will arrive at a decision in a few days. MT. Mead Is a competent attorney and would doubtless make an excellent official.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
Cuban Convention.

Havana. March 4.-The Cuban Consti- tutional convention will meet this after noon in executive session. Sentiment Is strongly in favor of the convention con- tinuing its work, but a canvass among members show a majority of them to be against agreeing to tho Senate's Cuban amendments.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

Sampson's mistake consisted in writ ing, instead of dropping in on Secre- tary Long and telling him what he thought about Gunner Morgans social advantages.
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Hobart Chatfeld-Chatfield Taylor hesitates between gawf and literature He has a noble record, and he should not desert his colors.
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Cuba should not be blamed because it does not want to be ruled by MT. Hanna's Congress, or MT. Hanna's President
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The Wite Rats are rodents who con- slider themselves stars to a man. The truth must be stated even if metaphors are mixed.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

Congress has made our William I. lord of the Philippines, thus giving him an equal start with his Cousin Edward.
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The Indiana Legislators say women are not fit to vote, and the query arises as to how many men, taught and bred by women, are fit to vote.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

Botha did not surrender yesterday but doubtless he will today and again day after tomorrow. He is not giving a continuous performance.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

Admiral Sampson expects support in his Morgan position from Willie Waffle Astor and Hobart Chatfeld-Chatfield Taylor.
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Mark Twain thinks pint bottle of whisky is an excellent medicinal rem edy if it be refilled often enough,
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Hospitals for consumptives are ex- cellent things when they are located in some other locality than your own.
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MT. Morgan says MT. Carnegie is the richest man in the world, and what MT. Morgan does not know on that subject is not worth knowing.
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A fire broke out in Nebraska's prison, but the prisoners did not, al- though the prison was destroyed.
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The Legislature can slip away un- beknownst while the people are read ing about the crowning of Caesar.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

It is said that man Is the architect of his own fortune, but his plans often fail to work out.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

The combines rob the trusts, the trusts rob the corporations, and all rob the consumers.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

Rear Admiral Cervera has been made vice-admiral and the brave old sailor deserves the promotion.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
PurIm and Other Days.

In the Jewish religion today is the feast of Purinn. the day being the l4th of the twelfth month, Adar, of the Jewish call endar, The relative feast of Esther took place yesterday. The history of the origin of these celebrations Is graphically set forth in the sacred book of Esther of the Old Testament. Today Is a season of merriment in Jewish society, ordinarily there being a grand Purlm ball given in every populous Jewish community.
 In profane history this day Is the Sssth anniversary of the birth of Gerael Merc- ator. the Flemish geographer who gave his name to his discovery of the familiar geographical projection of the earth.
 That event known in our colonial his tory as the Boston massacre, and which was one of the moving forces that led to the Revolution, occurred one hundred and thirty-one years ago precisely, March 5, ITO. Some lives were lost in riot with the Kings soldiers.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

Brilliant headlines are not necessarily the product of brainy men-they might be written by women.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05

The bill that makes the President an imperator will not be vetoed, not by a large majority.
The age-herald., 1901-03-05
The Initiative Lesson of Lent.

Said a man yesterday remarking on the initiative lesson of Lent the repeti- tion of the fast of Jesus preceding His crucifixion:
 "The first mans mental power does not seem to have been lower than the aver age mans of today. The four of the first family would all have been put in the penitentiary except the victim, Abel, by Judge Greene's court, on the charges Scripture brings against them. There was no Watt, no Morse, no Edison, no Maury to find the ocean mountain top for the cable, no Mergenthaler, no Labor Union or Morgan syndicate in early days, but all modern development has founda- ton and the things done in the past ac- count for the achievements of today. There is a correlation of things done all the way through from the beginning. The first thing done was really as great as the last.
 We have an immense heap of history, genuine and bogus, such as Moses and his times, Solomon, Edmund Burke, Cal houn, Napoleon, Robert E. Lee. We have Phidias the sculptor, Raphael the paint CT, but there is no sculpture and no paint ing, old or new, from Phid1as to Powers, from Murillo to the French school to di- vide honors with the simple gilded cross that crowns the church spre, Very won derfull We have law makers orators, poets, but no laws are without amend ment construction and decay except the few and simple commands of Jesus, no oratory that Is not too much or too little save the Sermon on the Mount, no poetry safe to charm for all time save the life of the man who came out from Nazareth. Withal, no man save Jesus Is universally understood by mef in all degrees and conditions of life The one perfect man is alone the man that all understand.
 'If one would be a man of valor su- preme man of virtue without flaw, a man of learning without bounds, man of influence everlasting, he may copy Je- sus with absolute security of success to the fullest limit of the imitation accom- plished.
 If sne would be woman, perfect and nobly planned, then she must without fail fashion her life on the rules Jesus laid down for womanly life.
 "So we have Lent and what the annual ly recurring season stands for"
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Gunner Morgan is now national figure and a political possibility.
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The Cubans remember everything else but the Maine.