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The age-herald., 1902-03-02
DIAz INSPECTING WORKS.
Will Go to Vera Cruz March to ln-
 augurate System.

Mexico City. March 1.-President Diaz will go to Vera Cruz on the 9th inst. to in- augurate the great port works construct ed by Sir Weelman Pearson. A distin- guished party will accompany him, and in addition to declaring the port works completed the President will visit the new custom house and the new headquar- ters of the lighthouse and inspect the new sanitary works.
 It Is said the President will visit his old home at Talcotalpama, recently pur- chased by Charles Hall Everest of New York. where Mir. Everest is residing. The President resided there a considerable time before coming into the chief magis- tracy.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 The women who denounce the torture of binding the feet of Chinese girls haven't a word to say about tight.lacing.
 In any well-regulated household the chief personages in their order of im- portance are the cook, the baby, and the baby's puppy dog
 Arrange to have woman catch you admiring her photograph as if you did not know she was around, and you have arranged to catch her admiring you.
 The real value of a family physician is that when a woman thinks nothing is the matter with one of the children he can make her believe what she knows al- ready.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
Sprinu Trade,

"In spite of the bad weather our spring trade is opening briskly," said a First avenue merchant last night.
 T do not recall a winter when the weather was so much against retail trade. but with a few bright days we will catch up. Business in Birmingham has been so good for the past three years that we certainly should stand some rough weather without complaining"
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Before 1920 immigration was all most wholly from England; since that time the Teutonic countries have sent us fourteen millions; the Slavic countries, two millions; the Latin countries a million, and all others about two millions. It is liberal al- lowance to assign to the Latins and Slavs more than 10 per cent of the population. In round numbers the proportions are about as follows:
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
London,s Lecture Tonioht.

MT. Alex T. London's lecture on good citizenship at Temple Emanuel Sunday night under the auspices of the B'nai Birth, will be an intellectual treat, and it will be very stimulating too' said a member of the temple congregation.
 ''The members of the B'nai Birth ex- tend a cordial welcome to the public to be present. The lecture course has been most attractive this season. Large ques- tions have been discussed Tn a large way, and good has resulted
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Ponnlar Proarammes.

''Theodore Thomas IS arranging ex- ceptionally brilliant and popular orcnes- tral programmes for the music festival April g and 1O," said MT. Guckenoerger yesterday.
 q had a telegram from Thomas man ager today saying that he would give us a violin solo by Leopold Kramer without extra charge.
 "On the first night of the festival the Thomas orchestra is to play a Strauss waltz, and on the second night Weber's s Invitation to the Dance We will give programmes that no one can call heaVV or overclassic.'
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
East Lake.

The project for the erection of a first class summer hotel at East Lake has not been abandoned. On the other hand the promoters of the hotel scheme are mak- ing headway, and 1t is expected that the company will be fully organized by the 10th of this month.
 With a new summer theatre and the summer hotel East Lake will be the gay est resort in this section of Alabama.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
DON'T YOU KNOW"

Edited and augmented by A. Latady. with apologies to Edgar Allen Poe. This lyric may be rendered to the tune of Baby Mine." This world is but a bubble,
 Don't you know; It's full of care and trouble,
 Don't you know; You come on earth to cry, grow older. then you sigh, Older still, and then you die
 Don't you know. It's all horrid mix,
 Don't you know; Business love and politics.
 Don't you know; Fashions, follies, cliques and sets, par. ties, clubs and deep regrets Struggles, strifes and cigarettes
 Don't you know. As for business-why, that's trade,
 Don't you know; Something lost or something made,
 Don't you know; You struggle and you nope, or you hang your highest hope On, perhaps, the price of soap
 Don't you know As for love-you meet girl,
 Don't you know; And you're in perfect whir1,
 Don't you know; And you kneel upon the floor, and yon adore and you implore, And it's all horrid bore
 Don't you know. Politics-why that's lark.
 Don't you know; A nightmare in the dark
 Don't you know You perspire both day and night, and at the wind-up of the fight. Why, perhaps the wrong mans right
 Don't you know. As for fashion-why, that's dress,
 Don't you know; And the cause of much distress,
 Don't you know; What to say and what to wear, when to go. and likewise where, And how to part your hair
 Don't you know. As for follies--there's a mass,
 Don't you know; They're as thick as summer grass.
 Don't you know; And who would not see an ass must bolt home and break his glass. And see no one that may pass
 Don't you know As for cliques, and all the rest.
 Don't you know: They're but parts of a big jest,
 Don't you know; And do your worst or best, and be you host or guest, You must share them with the rest
 Don't you know. There is really nothing in it.
 Don't you know; For life's but for a minute
 Don't you know; And when you've seen and felt and tasted heard and smelt, Why, all the cards are dealt
 Don't you know. You have but single conscience
 That is all; You have but a single stomach,
 That is small; You can only wear one tie and one eye, glass in your eye, And will fill single coffin when you die
 Don't you know.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
Contract for Sidewalks.

The Birmingham Realty Company has awarded a contract to John Donellson & Co. for laying a cement sidewalk on both sides of Highland avenue the full length of its property. The contract price for this work Is $10,OO0.
 The Realty Companys extensive im- provements on Highland avenue will be completed within ninety days.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

early settlers have long owned and controlled the greater and better part of it, and always will.
 Immigration figures for the period from 1920 to 1900 are at hand, and they furnish these facts as to the source of modern immigration-that is, of immigration since 1920, covering the second tide of that nature. Immi- grants from 1920 to 1900 came from the countries named, as follows:
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
MT. campbelI's Condition.

Mir E. K. Campbell Is recovering from his severe attack of pneumonia He was pronounced out of danger on Friday. It will be some time before he is out, but he will probably be able to move about the house in a few days.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
B. Steiner.

MT. B. Steiner and his family have spent a charming winter at Nice. MT. Leo Steiner had letter from his brother yesterday, in which the latter told of the perfect weather and the lovely skies.
 Mir Steiner will remain in Nice month longer and then go to Paris. He will not return to Birmingham until October.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
AIabama postmastere AppoInted.

Washington. March 1.-(Special.) - The following Alabama postmasters have been appointed: Ingram. Hale county. J. c. Wilson; oaknan, Walker county. s. N Jones. The postoffioe at Slate St. Clair county. Ala. has been ordered dis continued.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Captain Hobson is a busy man if rumors be at all correct, for he is to marry at least a dozen girls, edit a newspaper, become a college pro- lessor, and deliver a hundred lectures.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

The Senate seems less and less in- clined to pass a canal bill. The inter- nationals are still masters of the sit uation, and they will continue to be until 1904.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Queen Wilhelmina's physicians say she needs a long rest from married life. A life rest from the kind that the Kaiser forced on her would an- swer best.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

thoughtless, the ignorant, and the im- pious still call martyr.
 The main differences between the two events are that the praises of Garfield, some of them just and others the fiction of a kind heart, were sounded by master of men who was master of the orators art, while there was present to do honor to Mckinley the brother ofsan Emperor, and McKinley's praises were sounded by a worthy gentleman and scholar who read to accute weariness speech in manuscript-the oratorial effort of a man who is qualified for nothing more in that direction than a good ana brief after-dinner speech
 It was not an Amurath to Amurath succeeding. an Arthur to Arthur It was the poet Hay essaying the task that only Blaine was ftted/to do-and there is no Blaine now.
 MT. Hays eulogy of the murdered-not martyred-McKinley will read we'll apart from certain false quotations; for MT. Hay is poet, scholar. diplomat, gentle man, a most engaging personality, ex- cept when he essays a long speech.
  of men that they are orators! Probably in all America there does not exceed fifty men who do not esteem themselves ora tors of more or less power to sway multi tudes by the witchery of words.
 Take your own community, and run over in your mind the names of the men who are generally relied upon to make speeches at public meetings, banquets, and the like. Aren't you assured that the voices of most of those men are better suited to soup than to oratory?
 It isn't the rooster that crows the longest that charms the largest number of hens.
 Yet there are great many men, from preachers and politicians to poets and peddlers. who rely upon interminable speech to convince whosoever Is hemmed in and compelled to hear, without listen ing. They get unoffending persons cor nered, locked and barred in. and then they ply their tongues in the endless talk of saying nothing That is why all hu- mane folk sympathize with jurors, and with persons in the amen corner when birthstone is poured forth by the hour. Any juror would be in measure Justified in favoring a verdict against the side on which there was the longest speech. All men are aware of this universal re- pugnance to long speeches; and yet so wise and genial a man as MT. Hay read from manuscript at intolerable length concerning the late Mir. Mckinley, with the salient facts of whose life every ono of his hearers was familiar. It was the only unkindness yet shown Prince Henry in this country.
 "When I fed" explained a charming woman, MT. Hay had not reached MT. McKinley's marriage. I was worn out; I could stand no more, for I was in my seat an hour and half before MT. Hay began to read"
 One hundred dollars each was freely of fered for tickets of admission to the gal lery of the House. Early in the morning of the eventful day word was sent out from the "wew Willard" hotel that rich men there were willing to pay hundred dollars apiece for tickets" and a beauti-
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
THE rEURr1UR OF THE WORLD.

Washington, March L-(speciaD-some persons are too worldly wise or worldly foolish, take 1t as you will, to suffer themselves to be caught in irksome traps by the alluring shadows of greatness, genius, or lovellness; for to the well-man- nered there is many gilded trap. per- fumed by a rarer sweetness than the odor of roses. from which there is no escape save through the impossible door of rudeness. Yet every one of us all who has soul above pigsty is forever sounding the refrain
 70 roses, roses, I love you so."
 The bitterest quantity in life is the sweetness that has cloyed-the appetite that is satisfied-the longing that is over filled. In some moment of your child hood every one of you, my beloved, found by stealth your way to a barrel of sugar just as you contrived at first to place one of your ten tender little fingers in the blaze of the softest and most beau- tiful light the wisdom of man has ever yet discovered-the wondrous chemistry
  Illuminated to the understanding of us all-and. you shall never forget the sugar s floy. and never the candles pain until candles be lighted in the darkness of your last hour of earth
 Did 1t ever occur to you that 1t is the spiritual quality inherent in infancy which leads 1t to strive to reach that light which zad laa 4oIa af $h1 aofa as He was in the form and substance of man upon this earth, which is the light that burns at the christening, at the confirmation, at the marriage, at the death, and which burns forever upon the altar where the Master still abides with us? Who shall say that this Is not the m asterly of faith over reason, as faith centuries?
 The lesson applies to all of us and to all things in our lives. The gate to sin, to error, to ennui, and to all real pain and tiresomeness of humanity is so bow cred in outward-seeming beauty that we must needs tear the flowers away to reach 1t. So attractive is the gate that we fail to see through the interlacing petals the dreary land of desolation beyond 1t; and rushing onward with no guide but Self we stumble and fall and crawl in a waste upon which there is but one Light that can beat and that Light we may refuse to see.
 But neither all this nor any part of il is news, you know. It may be fact of philosophy; but 1t is not news and pre- sumptively news is what you wish. There fore accept it as the introduction to news, the first of which has to do with the great day we have had here in Washing ton in memory of a great man who was murdered, and whom the thoughtless. the ignorant and the impious style q martyr.
 The memorial exercises of Congress in honor of William Mckinley have taken place in the hall of the House of Repre- sentatives, of which he was once a member Similar exercises took place in that same hall one and twenty years ago in honor of another President who was murdered by accident, but whom the
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

The American Board of Missions contributed a psalm after Miss Stones release, but it did not contribute any money before her release.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Miss Alice, our own princess, will have a dull waiting period between Prince Henry's going and King Ed wards bang-up show in London.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

The grass is greening, the buds are budding and the strawberries are shaded in the market place-all signs of spring in old Alabama.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

All the professors are bidding for notoriety, the last one using mother hood as a stepping stone.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Why not turn to the Maine from the Schley case, and try to find out who blew 1t up?
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Between Champ Clark and Web. Davis Kansas City Is kept we'll SUD- piled with conversational topics.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Prince Henry prudently refrain from expressing an opinion on tn, Schley case.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Prince Henry scorns the cotton belt, for Chattanooga is no more in it than Skowhegan is.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Chicago Is to have a line of steam CTS from and to Rotterdam when they are not aground in the Welland canal.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
.om the Centreyille Press.

From the Centreville Press.
 A Tuscaloosa farmer sold a hog in that city last week that weighed 556 pounds at cents a pound, netting the owner s44. AS. That beats cotton, but the average Bibb farmer just naturally likes to raise cotton.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

From the Opelika Industrial News: The Age-Herald of last Sunday reproduced the autobiographical sketches of the Sen. ators and Congressmen from Alabama as they appear in the Congressional Record Of himself. Congressman Bowie said good deal. Of a good deal of what he said of himself doubtless the young Congressman feels ashamed.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
.om the Prattville Progress.

From the Prattville Progress
 If Prince Henry is as big as he Is re- ported to be- 1t would look as though these precautions to protect him were unnecessary.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

In Detroit a half dozen men can look into a bank window at one time and start a run.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Miss Stone will come home as soon as she has fully interviewed the dress makers. She is a little off on styles.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

A Dingley Congress cannot be dis. graced by a few well-directed manly blows.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

The great Hennery Is here, but the price of eggs remains at the old fig ures.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

Congressmen are now devoting many hours to their garden-seed de- partment.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
the Prattville Progress.

From the Prattville Progress.
 The style of tooth picks to be used at the banquet given Prince Henry by Nor gan and associates. has not yet been an nounced.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
ALABAMA EDITORS.

From the Alexander City Outlook.
 Alabam representatives in Congress are true statesmen. They send garden seed to their constituents and don't play ping pong.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
From the Eutaw Greene County Demo-

From the Eutaw Greene County Demo-
 crat.
 The Mobile Register learns that MT. B, B. Conner, president oI the Avondale MiIs. and owner of large acreage in the Black Belt, is spoken of as a possible candidate for governor. In that event Mir. Conner might show his respect for the eternal fitness of things by proceeding at once to change his name to Goner.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

The Tillman-McLaurin battle was @ colonels' fight.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

wires being down, and in its attempts to reach the President was sent by wire les telegraphy from the known Prince Welhelm to Nantucket, from there to New York, then to Chicago, St. Louis, Birmingham, Augusta, and from thence to Washington. making a circuit of 5000 miles to get 400 miles. This is a great age and we never know when we will be honored In one way or other.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

From the Bessemer Workman: While Birmingham will not have the pleasure of entertaining the Prince she had hand in announcing to the President that Prince Henry had arrived The message took a roundabout trip on account of the
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

From the Marion County Democrat.
 Senator Tillman should not take the matter of having his invitation to dine with his royal highness, Prince Henry of Prussia, withdrawn for some of Presi- dent Roosevelt's closest friends had no invitation at all No account has been noticed of even Booker Washington being invited to this dinner at the White House.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02

From the ScottsboIc Citizen: Senator Mark Hanna says in a published inter view that the two great centers for dom mating the iron and steel of the world are to be the Lake Superior region with it's Bessemer ores on one side and Ala bama with its basic ores on the other. He thinks that the region around Elr- naingham, with its epundant stores of ore and coal in such close proximity, bids fair within the next quarter of a cen- tury to dominate the basic steel industry of the world.
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
News from one of the staff correspond

News from one of the staff correspond ents of the Fort Payne Times.
 MT. Editor Dear sir if You Will alowe me A few lins in your Colums will Drop a few lins frum this place helth Of this. Communety is very good But we have had some of the Coldeet weother this wenter we have in years mr and mrs Brown and family is visiting ther daughtiter at this place mr and mrs J. V. Traffenstdet MT and Mrs Charley LeelS visiting his father at Dawson last week We'll mr Editor if this eCapes the vast Basket I will Came again.
 MAMMA THIRD GIRL,
The age-herald., 1902-03-02
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM.

From the Alexander City Outlook: It seems pretty we'll understood that Dr. R. M. Cunningham of Birmingham will be Alabamas first lieutenant governor.
 From the Warrior Breeze: Birmingham must not feel bad because Prince Henry did not consent to visit them, but should remember that Frank Duncan once dwelt in the city, and who had not rather see Duncan today than a dozen Prince Htnrys.
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carp at the new constitution will be com pelled before long to acknowledge it's beneficent effect. The time for winking at corrupt electoral Iractices and talking about them as joke has passed. Such treatment of corrupt practices was de- moralising the manhood of the State. White men began with cheating tho negroes, and finished by cheating each other. All of this now belongs to the mast
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-03-08
Mrs. Roger A. Pryer, Who Goes South on Pilgrimage.

New York, March S.-Plans for the
pilgrimage of the New York women
to the colonial homesteads along the
historic James River are now COM
pleted.
Mrs. Roger \. Pryor. president of
the New York branch of the Associa-
ton for the Preservation of Virginia
Antiquities, will be accompanied by
Mrs. William IL. Bceckman, Mrs. Al
fred Tuckerman, Mrs. a. Mercer
Pell, Mrs. George $. Shardy, .ir.; Mrs
Francis Rawidc Pemberton, Mrs.
George T.. Preston and Mrs. Henry
Earle.
The pilgrimage is taken annually
and ii is through the efforts OF the
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-03-08
OF Auditor to be
Cut Down.
Remarks Made by City
Clerk Mahar
Causes Board to Reach For
Pruning Knife.

Differences of opinion over pay for
making city duplicates have arisen
between Auditor Sisler and the Board
of City Commissioners. Heretofore
the Auditor has charged the city S125
for making duplicates sem-annually,
but this year lie has increased the
price to $3.50, on account of the two
additional wards. He says the work
of making the duplicates has been
increased onethird since the annexa-.
ton of property to the city.
r. questioning of the bill was due
to remarks of City Clerk Mahar. He
told the Commissioners that the price
was too high and also that the dupli-
cate WAS not complete, that some OF
the pages were not properly headed,
making extra work to get ut the fig
ures of the several wards. The Board
will consider the matter carefully, and
the halt in payment of the bill may
result in the fixing of a new price,
much lower than the city has been
paying.