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The age-herald., 1902-05-04
Eitz Lee for the Senate.

'It seems that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia is thinking of running for the United States Senate as Martins suc- cessor," said a yirginian now living in Birmingham.
 When the late Senator Hunton was retiring Lee and Martin were the can didates It was hot contest. Martin got the decision in the Legislature, but Lee and his friends claimed that there was something wrong, and an investiga- tion was held which did not, however. change the result Lee said it was rail- road poodle that kept him out of the Senate.
 When the next election came round Lee was in the army and decided not to enter the race. Should he run next time he would have good chance, for he is more popular than Martin. He is indeed the most popular man in Virginia. Young Governor Montague an anti-Martin man, is thinking of running. He, too, is popu- lar, but Lees friends would be able, think, to get him to hold off.
 Lee is 65 years old now and by the time Martins term expires he will, if liv- ing, be 69. But the Lees are long lived and it would not be surprising if he served out two full terms At the end of his second term he would be no older than Senator Pettus is now, and Ala bama's junior Senator Is going for an other term. Lee has always been a gold Democrat. Martin started out a gold Democrat, but he embraced the free silver doctrine when he found his partisans were silver men.
 My idea is that either General Lee or General Wheeler will be very promi- nent for second place on the national ticket in 1904
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Democrat and Republican in bitter con- troversy on the floor of the House or the Senate, each denouncing the political party policy Of the other as most outraseous1y iniqnitous ard tending to utterly bank rupt the treasury and destroy the srepub- lie; applying in the wide sweep of de- nunciation the Ditterest terms allowed by parliamentary Law, and winding up with a passionate invocation to the Goddess of Liberty to witness and forefend, If she may, her impending doom. and arousing thereby wild applause on the floor and in the galleries. with reactionary misses fol- lowing swiftly; passlonately
 This you witness and hear from your seat in the gallery, with It's foul atmos- phere of crowded humanity; but, seven or eight minutes later, you may, if you will observe the two furious political combatants saunter out arm in arm into the pure air and divine sunshine, created by the good Lord for Republican and Democrat and nondescript alike, happy and loving in the bends of real human comradery, as far beyond and above poli- tics as truth is above falsehood.
 In this you perceive the saving grace of our political system. To the average American politics is something not truth full. not clean, not elevating; and this general view is probably accurate. But so long as men are men; so long as poli- tics is upon the basis of give and take and the most ordinary fair play; so long as political divisions do not generally mean pel sonal animosities; so long as we accord one another the privilege of ad- herring to our individual opinions, each supporting his own candidate for office and his own party for power; so long as hate and rancor in the personal sense are subject to real comradery of citizen ship and man-to-man political indepen- dence-just that long shall the people stsnd between the republic and the bayo- net-that long and nc longer
 The most historic friendship of our time between two men of opposing polit-
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT AMOS CUMMINGS
 SUCCESS AND OF OTHER GENERAL MATTERS

quent upon daily descriptive reports of Congressional proceedings in Washing ton
 Cummings remained a member of the printers union to the day of his death. He was likewise member of the New York and Washington Press Clubs, and was a thorough and practical newspaper man in every sense of the word. He like wise made much reputation in Congress on the naval committed Indeed Amos Cummings death is not only loss to the newspaper reading public of America, but it is a severe loss to the Democratic side in the House of Representatives.
 
 have been travelling around the State of Alabama recently, and l find that some of the smaller towns are much in ad- vance of Birmingham in some respects. For instance, Gadsden and Decatur get their water supplies from the Coosa and the Tennessee rivers, respectively. Both, however, have Altering plants in con- nection with their pumping stations, and though the water of these rivers is mud dy at times, the supply to the cities is always clear and pure. Birmingham s Water Works Company might learn something from either of these towns.
 And Selma, I was told, will sprinkle its streets this summer by a great trolley street sprinkler. which will throw water as far as forty feet on either side of the track. The cars are operated by elec- tricity, just as an ordinary street car, and are large enough to carry some ten times as much water as can be carried in the ordinary street sprinklers. The city of Cleveland, Ohio, is said to have been the first city in this country to adopt these sprinklers. They have proved wonderfully successful and hardly one fifth as expensive as the sprinklers drawn by horses Birmingham might adopt this method of street sprinkling to great ad vantage. There Is no town in America so dusty as Birmingham, and with such a progressive street railway company as we now have, I can see no reason why the city should not arrange with this
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
SLAUGHTER IN CHINA. Kwang Sl Rebels Are Sweeping Every
 thing Before Them.

Victoria, B. C., May 3.-News has been brought by the steamer Olympia, from the Orient of further successes by the .Kwang Si rebels, whose ever-growing armies were besieging Nanking on the west river at last reports, Fugltives who were flying to Canton from the scenes of bloodshed and pillage reported that the slaughter at Ching Shang Fui. when that city fell was awful.
 More than 1000 persons were killed and their bodies left lying unburied in the streets while the rebels burned and footed the stores and houses. Terrible slaugh- ter is also reported from other captured towns. Several thousands of the inn perial army are said to have deserted.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Bright Outlook.


 Every time l come to Birmingham am impressed with this city's progress said MT. s. II. March of New York' representative of one of the strongest banking houses in the world and dlrec- tor in the Birmingham Railway Light and Power Company "I have been look ing over the situation here very closely and am well pleased, not only with the development of the street car system but with business conditions here in gen. eral. Birminghams future greatness is assured.
 Eastern capital is flowing more and more into Southern investments and this city is getting a big share of it. Some people say that Birmingham would be benefited by a large fire in the mercantile section-a fire that would sweep away hundred or more mean buildings of one and two stories. l do not agree. with them. These poor houses will from this time on rapidly disappear. They will be pulled down to make room for substantial structures of three and four stories.
 "The city Is taking to the sky-scraper. Several of these tall buildings will be needed but a great number of new four story houses will make wonderful inn provement in the appearance of the place. In five years from now l expect to see Birmingham in the front rank of well built cities"
 MT Marcn said the crop outlook was sufficiently good to keep the business of the country in a flourishng state. There iy feeling of confidence in the financial world and later in the season if fine crops are actually in sight. prosperity may be counted on for another year.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

concern to keep Birmingham practicable free from the dust devil" this summer.
 
 I see from a Greensboro report ths. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson is dc. termined to break into politics. At 1rst we heard he wanted to go to Congress- Now the story is that he is a candidate for the State Senate from Hale countv Hobson Is too bright a young fellow to leave the United States navy for a mers temporary seat in a State Senate. Hia friends should advise him to stick to his business and leave politics alone
 Hobson could probably gain some valu- able information from Secretary of State Bob McDavid, who has abandoned politi- cal office to go into business. McDavid has just been appointed superintendent of the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency for the Birmingham district, and has aban- doned political office for legitimate busi- ness pursuits.
 The Virginia Carolina Chemical Com pany has finally gotten control of all the fertilizer factories of the South. It has a monopoly. It controls all the raw materi- al and is in possession of all the acid phosphates. Thus the farmer can get no fertilizer now unless he buys it from the trust. The concern is to build several new plants in Alabama. It has already acquired by purchase all the existing plants It is extravagantly capitalized. Indeed, there is a great lake of water in it, but it is barely possible that prices will not be raised on the farmer. How ever, we must wait and see.
 The Birmingham public seems to have gone into an ecstasy of enthusiasm on the subject of baseball More than 40o0 people crowded into the grounds yesterday to see the game between Nashville and Bir- mingham. If the Birmingham team keeps up the present weeks record the young men who own the club will make a pile of money. And they deserve it. They lost enough last year to entitle them to profits this season.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
rom the Coosa Argus.

From the CooSa Argus.
 The Argus again says let us have Democratic primary. It is fair, the peo- pie want 1t, and there is no longer any reason why we should not have 1t. Nom nations should be made by some method under which every Democrats vote counts the same. People are tired of unequali- ties as among white men. and they are demanding a primary. There are' no doubt, a few around who have some reason to give for the old convention plan, but the people who cast their vote are let ting their wishes be known so clearly that it is very necessary that a primary should be called to bring about that harmony that is necessary in the Democratic camp just at this time. and if the Democratic executive committee should fail to com ply with the wishes of the voters they will'make a serious mistake.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
Tariff Rates of Living.

The Department of Labor shows in carefully prepared tables that the dol lar of the wage-earner does not go as far at present as 1t did six years ago. All commodities, including food, cloth ing. implements, building materials, drugs and furniture, stand at 1885 as compared with 9O.4 in 1896. A vast number of articles have been advanced in price from 10 to 100 per cent.
 The years 1890 and 1891 were years of prosperity so-called, but neither brought prosperity to the wage-earner, because his wages were not advanced as fast as the prices of commodities were. His dollar did not in either year go so far as it did in years of depression like 1896.
 The articles that are higher in price include all the meats, all the articles of clothing, all dairy products, together with eggs, all cereals all vegetables, all footwear, all fuel, all sugars, all furniture, soaps and starch, all build ing materials and tools, besides to- Dacco, tea, rubber, salt and pepper. The list of articles that are cheaper is so short, we publish it entire;
 (Average from 1890 to 1899 equals 100) News paper ...75.6 Mackerel, salt ..76.6 Wrapping paper.9O.S Dried apples ....79. 6 Prunes .. .......671 Rice .. ..........97.7 Raisins .. .....9 .961 Nutmegs ....54. 3 Vinegar .. ......S96 Cornstarch ...S5. 8 Wood screws ...692 Matches ......99. 6 Alcohol, wood ..6l2 Saws ..........993 3 Coffee :. ........,492 Lime .. ..........929 g
 In the long list of higher prices there Is not one that could be main tained if protecting tariff duties were repealed, and it may be the wage earner will see this before he votes for new Congress this year and a new President in 1904. The tariff is enriching beyond the dreams of avar- ice few monopolists, but in order to do this it is impoverishing the mass of the people.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

@ HE death of Amos J. Cummings removes from the newspaper
 field the most interesting news
 and descriptive writer this country has had in many years. No man has ever made such reports of the pro- ceedings of Congress as Amos Cummings made for the New York Sun during the last four years of the life of Charles A. Dana, the former great editor of that newspaper
 Cummings was a member of Congress as well as a newspaper reporter. He served fourteen years in Congress, having represented four different Congressional districts in New York City during that time He continued in Congress to the day of his death.
 For many years Cummings was one of the highest salaried newspaper writers in America. He made from SIP 600 to S15,- 900 a year on his Washington letters and. of course, s5OOO salary as a member of Congress.
 Cummings began newspaper work as boy. He was born in Northern New York in 1s41. He drifted into a printing of- flee when 12 years of age, and at Is began tramping through the country as a hobo" printer, so to speak. He worked on the Atlanta Constitution, setting type, and served at the case on several coun- try weeklies in Georgia. He went with Walker in the last invasion of Nicaragua, and served with a New Jersey regiment in the war between the states After the war he wrote editorials on the New York Tribune under Horace Greedy, and was later managing editor of the Sun under Charles A. Dana. He was wonderfully popular in New York City, and when Sunset Cox died, Cummings succeeded to his seat in Congress. That however. did not interfere with his newspaper work. Though a member of the House, he made daily reports of it's proceedings and thereby won great fame as news paper writer. In recent years, he has simply been writing general letters, his health not permitting the labor conse-
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
Furnace Deal.

Capt. J. M. Elliott, president of the Southern Car and Foundry Company, and his associates have purchased the property of the Crawfords, which in- cludes the Coosa furnace and large tracts of timber and mineral lands. This prop erty will be developed and, as the Gads- den Evening Journal points out. the de- velopment insures the railroad from Gadsden to the coal fields.
 The Coosa furnace will be rebuilt on the present site and the work will be started at once. The capacity will be greatly increased.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
ODE ON SOLITUDE.

By Alexander Pope. Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound. Content to breathe his native air In his own ground: p-- Whose herds with milk whose fields with
 bread,
 Whose .flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire: Blest who can unconcern' dly find Hours. days and years slide soft away, In health of body. peace of mind,
 Quiet by day: Sound sleep by night. study and ease, Together mixed, sweet recreation; And innocence. which most doth please,
 With meditation: Thus let me live. unseen. unknown; Thus. unlamented, let me die, Steal from the world. and not . stone Tell where us.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
From the Sheffield Standard.

"Ned Brace" of the Birmingham Age Herald Is giving Alabama some valuable advertising in his "write-ups" of various sections of the state. The articles are newsy and entertaining and contain much information. An especially inter esting pen-picture of the big strawberry farm near York appeared in Thursdays Age Herald. The success of this par ticular strawberry farmer will no doubt be revelation to many of our all-cotton planters. who tell us there is no money in farming. According to the Age-Her- aids statement the York strawberry farmer realized 5000 last year from twelve acres.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The fastest thing in the world is get ting into. trouble; the slowest, getting out.
 In these days a man can take out insur- ance against most any risk, except being a fool.
 Give man the right kind of a woman and he will take care of half a dozen of the wrong kind ef men.
 If anybody wants an hour of crushing sadness, let him sit down and read the letters he saved twenty years before.
 One sure way to tell whether a man is a liar is to see how mad he gets when he thinks you have called him one when you haven't
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
THE CONVENTION IS DOOMED.

From the Choctaw Advocate.
 The day when a handful of politicians can go to a convention and name the whole ticket, is doomed. An appeal to the primary system will right this wrong, and it will be done, or all signs will fail. The people will have a voice in future elections.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
The Pharmaceutical Association.

"The Pharmaceutical Association of Alabama, which meets here this week for the first time in four years, will be we'll attended" said MT. John L. Parker, the local secretary
 I've are arranging a banquet for 200. The discussions of the body may not be of much general interest but they will be of great interest to the drug trade"
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
From the Alexander city Outlook.

Editor Barrett of the Birmingham Age Herald, as Ned Brace" is on a tour of Alabama accompanied by MT Blackman, the Age-Herald's special artist. Every days issue of that progressive paper con- tains splendid write-ups of the towns visited by them, written by the editor, and comic cuts of the prominent men sketched by the artist. This will doubt less prove profitable to that paper.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
A Festival of the Church.

Next Thursday will be Ascension Day, and 1t will be duly celebrated by the Catholic and Protestant Episcopal churches It Is customary also for the Knights Templar to observe the day. In many cities the Templars turn out with full ranks and attend services at a house of worship.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
Rabbi NeWfieId.

Dr. Morris Newfield, rabbi of Temple Emanuel, will leave for New Orleans tomorrow to attend the annual Rabbini-
  cal conference. This will be the first meet ing of the rabbis ever held in the Cres- cent City. Dr. Newfield will read paper on the relations of the pulpit to the oonprepat{on
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

The meat trust is trying to blame it all" on the cotton farmers, or rather the cottonseed oil mills that raised the price of meal cake from $22 to s27 a ton, and the price of bulls from $5 to g2
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Senator Pritehard, a Republican, is endeavoring to defend the water cure by crying out You're another" He says the North Carolina Democrats employ a sand cure, but Senator Sim mons says he never heard of it.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
MED BRACES" TOUR OF STATE.

From the Camp Hill Times.
 Editor Barrett of the Age-Herald is travelling over the state and giving the readers of his excellent journal a write up of the leading towns and the people who make them. The articles are well illustrated by Artist Blackman.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Queen Wilhelmina is recovering, and the little German candidate for the succession may as well go way back and sit down.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
THE PEOPLE IN THE SADDLE.
sntral Harmonizer.

From the Central Harmonizer.
 The time mas come when the people must ule-notwithstanding the Black Belt bullies' and office seekers.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Crumpacker Is to be taken around the horn also, and on the journey he will have time enough to explain some of the beauties of his scheme for re- ducing Southern representation.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.

From the Tuscumbia Dispatch
 When the people speak through their mediums-the newspapers. and demand a primary, their wishes should and must be respected. The state Democratic executive committee should take warn inn
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
From the Eutaw Democrat

The edit ors of the Greensboro Beacon and Watchman were caught out on the street and their pictures taken by an Age Herald artist, last week. Both papers must be prospering as the editors had on clothes becoming to the profession.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Washington is the habitat of politi- cal equestrians who are too lazy to walk
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Attorney General Knox has a pro- fessional reputation to gain or lose in the merger suits. He has some ad- vantages-he knows the trust5 and he knows the law.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

President Roosevelt signed the order for an antitrust suit with the one hand, and the oleo bill with the other. He put up the price of butter, and he has not put down the prices of meats.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

The North Pole will be apt to sur render internationally when it sees expeditions approaching on all sides.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

The price of meat has advanced, and the order has gone out to let more bone go with each steak or roast"
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Butter, meat, potatoes and hoe cakes are all up to top notches in the price scale.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

The porterhouse steak habit is rap idly disappearing under the pressure of trust prices.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

New England is torn up over a new question. It is trying to ascertain whether a college installs. inaugurates or inducts a new president.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

The Republicans have been driven to the defensive, and they will try to defend Hell Roaring Jake, even if they cannot defend the sharks of the meat trust
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

The grand stand may be the grand jury, but the bleachers are the petit jury that decides the case.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

King Leopold is so silent his sub jects begin to think he is bunking in his wine vault
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Mir Carnegie is in earnest in his de- sire to die poor, for he proposes to start a dozen newspapers.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

The two liveliest young men in the world are in this country-Santos- Dumont and Marconi.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

The tornado season need not finger on our account.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Hell-roaring Jake Smith should not expect home welcome of George Dewey proportions.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04

Boston, too, has thousand repeat CTS of the political sort.
The age-herald., 1902-05-04
Ht ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA

-trifIes light as air Are to the Jealous combinations strong As proofs of holy writ.
 -Othello.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-06
A BELVIDERE LADY
WHO SAW LAFAYETTE

Apropos of the item that Mrs. NJ.
f.. Briggs of Rockford had the honor
of kiss from La Fayette when he
visited this country in 1924 the Bel
videre Republican has the following:
The item regarding the statement
made by Mrs. NJ. +. Briggs of Rock
ford that Lafayette kissed her when
on his trip TO this country in 1924,
awakened flood of memories in the
mind of Mrs. Frances Tyler Page.
mother of Mrs. +. +. p. Truesdell and
widow of DIR. Page who died here
many years ago.
''Mrs. Page will be 81 years of age
on the third day of July, and her fac
ulties are still strong.
''She was born i'm Montpelier. Yer
mont. and was the first white girl TO
be baptized i'm that city and her
brother was the first white boy TO
be baptized there.
when Lafayette visited that city
there were great preparations. and
she was in the procession of school
children which passed by him and
shook his hand and received "a cheer
ing word from him. She well remem-
bers the wagon which carried the
girls representing the colonies and of
whom Mrs. Briggs says she was one"