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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
Fair elacfinns in Alshama.

MT. Smith, the candidate of the re- publicans for governor, and MT. Cooke, the chairman of the republican cam paign committee, have both publicly said that the recent state election was wholly fair and honest, and it is said that no republicans will enter contests in the next congress for seats. Such testimony is very valuable, and it is supported by teAtimony from within the democratic party. All agree that intentional dishonesty was notable by its absence. The talent" were not in evidence; the ballot box wizard aban- doned his calling.
 Here and there perhaps there were irregularities, but they were the irreg- ularities of ignorance and unfitness, and not of criminal intent No ballot boxes were stuffed, no returns were distorted. The evidence is overwhelm- ing that Alabama actually experienced an honest and fair election.
 At present the people of this state do not appreciate how great a bless ing the new constitution is in this respect, but after a while they will have time in which to analyze the situation, and then they will see that the difference is very wide and very important. The ballot box practices under the old constitution were very demoralizing, the demoralization ex- tending to nearly all walks of life. The corruption at Montgomery in the leg traceable to ballot box deviltries, and in fact nearly all the public ills of county, city or state came from that fruitful source of evil.
 sharp corner has been turned, and the state is on the upgrade morally, and when the morals of a state are sound improvement physically soon follows. If the people will set their teeth that under no circumstances shall an unfair election be held in this state, the new order of things will prove a great blessing, and the men who brought through the new consti- tuition will be honored while Alabama has a place in the list of states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
"AUDREY' IN TABLoIDs.
Miss Johnston's Romance at the Madi-
 son Square Theatre.

From the New York Times.
 Last night at the Madison Square thea ter Audrey" the novel by Miss Mary Johnson, was presented in a theatric yer sion prepared by Miss Harriet Ford and MT. D. F. Boddington. It was not an all together cheerful occasion. According to the programme the play consisted of six tableaux. but properly speaking. they were six tablolds of the kind the stock dramatist may be relied upon to compress out of any new novel; and they were not particularly sugar-coated at that. One grimaced a bit in swallowing them.
 The tabloids were pretty faithfully com pounded from the novel. Tn the first, which represented the May Day frolic at Jamestown, nut-brown and bare-footed Audrey won her race and got her golden guinea; then Marmaduke offered his friendly hand to the stately aristocratic Evelyn in marriage, and this lady. like the other lady in the song. said she could not marry him. she loved him so. Final- ly Marmaduke recognized Audrey as his old ward and the curtain fell on pretty idyll of love at first sight.
 The second tabloid represented second and more tender meeting between Marma- duke and Audrey in Darden''s glebe the Staggs. where Marmaduke again paying court to the stately Evelyn. Is again repulsed. and resolves in the mad idea of taking Audrey to the governors ball; the fourth shows how Audrey was humfliated at the ball; the fifth how she was publicly denounced in church as a woman of ill-repute.
 The sixth shows how. instead of fall- ing victim to the knife of the half-breed Hugon, as in the novel, Audrey saves MarmaduKe's life and her own. and foils the villain to such an extent that he dies, as he says like a F'renchman. but just how that was does not transpire. The stately Evelyn and her father meanwhile had quilted the stage as they said. to see how many flowers had been left by the frost and those. who remained through the last act had an uncomfortable sem sation of being counted through the peep hole.
 It must be admitted that the novel is of the kind that least easily lends itself to theatric presentation. The motives of the leading characters are not always clearly stated. and. judging by one's' guesses. Miss Johnston's silence with re- gard to them Is golden. The sympathetic appeal of the story. and it has Q decidedly sympathetic appeal depends largely upon the fluent melody of the sentences and upon a graceful. if not very authentic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
HE WROTE "THE MocKINe RIRD."

From the Baltimore News.
 sentimus Winner is dead. Septimus Winner wrote more songs and more in- music and adapted his music to more kinds of instruments, it Is said, than any other man In the world. His compositions filled 200 books of music for twenty.three different instruments, and he made moro than 2000 arrangements for piano and violin. Septimus Winner had other claims to fame. When General Mcclellan was recalled from the Army of the Potomac Winner wrote a song en- titled Give Us Back Our Old Comman- titled "Give Us Back Our Old Com mander," which grew so popular that Secretary Stanton waxed wroth. ordered 1t suppressed and had Winner thrown into prison Despite these facts, probably not one person in a hundred thousand of the present generation knew MT. Winners name, and they will note his passing only because of one fact. He wrote "Lis- ten to the MoclSing Bird" That nimbie and contagious melody has been sung in more pariors and played at moro Sunday school entertainments than any other piece of music ever written. It has been ground out of street organs and pianos by the billion. Its notes have usually se- lected the flute as the means for their escape into the atmosphere. but in the halls of vaudeville theS have been played upon musical glasses. sleigh bells. COW bells, xyiophones, saxophones, tin cans. anyils, railroad spikes and all the other instruments known to vaudeville alone. Mir. Winner is dead, but his songs go
 marching on. He also wrote What is Home Without Mother and Shall
 we Gather at the RiverT'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
DEATH OF EDITOR eoLsoN.
.rom the Selma Journal.

From the Selma Journal.
 The death of Editor James D. Golson of The Morning Times. is a distinct loss to the press, not only of this city, but of Alabama. MT. Golson was a forceful writer, a conscientious editor who said what he believed and counted not the consequences. During his career at the head of the morning contemporary of The Journal, there has been times when we have differed with him. but never when there has resulted a controversy fin which the kind personal relations have for moment been strained. His was a trenchant pen, but it was ever dipped in gall, and his adversary knew that it's tracings outlined the sentiment of his convictions. The Journal pays tribute to his worth and fain would surround his bier with tears of sorrow, attesting his efforts for the good of his employers, his city and his commonwealth. To the grief bowed loved ones this paper ex- tends It's earnest sympathy and prays the Giver of all good gifts to surround them with His mantle of mercy, and comfort them in this hour of darkness and misery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
Industrial School for Boys.

Tennessee has a reformatory filled with youthful lawbreakers, which has already cost the state $230000, and to which s50,000 is annually appropriated. Our sister state considers the invest ment wholly and highly satisfactory Many northern states have places to which youthful criminals-mere boys can be sent, and the unvarying tes- timony is that such institutions are very desirable-that they turn boys who have fallen into evil habits into useful citizens. Scarcely any pro- gressive state, in fact, permits it's boy offenders to be confined with hardened conyicts, and Alabama would do well to study the work that is going on in this direction elsewhere, notably in Tennessee.
 This state has no reformatory Of its own, but the Industrial school at East Lake would serve all purpoce5 in the case and education of youthful truants if 1t were properly enlarged and prop erly supported. The grand jury re gently called attention to it's ever crowded condition. ; 1t has room fer but 42 boys, and yet 63 have been re ceived. IL is oyercrowded. and were not the management excellent and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
Pensions Still lncreasinn

The death of 5O1,28 union soldiers in the last fiscal year did not prevent an increase in the army of pensioners. On July last there were 999, ,446 pen sioners. gain during the fiscal year of 1711. These figures have never been surpassed, but the record of each year exceeds that of its predecessor and no doubt the present fiscal year will see enrolled a million pensioners
 The first pensions were paid in 1790, and the payments since that time down to July 1 have been as follows: War of the Revolution .a.$ 7o.ooo. GOO War or 1Sl2.. ........... 4o,0z5,297 Indian wars .......... 5,S14, 206 Mexican war Sl. S6l' SSl War with Spain.... ...... 3,216, 1S4 War of sesession.-.. ...... 2,72s, SIS, 276
 The actual pension charge in the fiscal year just ended was $141 O90.- 428, and this may as well be consid- cred the minimum for long time to come, for the soldiers of the war with Spain will soon want pensions, and congress usually enlarges the pension privilege before a Presidential cleo tion.
 The weight of this taxation upon the south is not felt because the tax is collected in stealthy and indirect way in the custom houses or in the internal revenue offices, but it is safe to say that out of the s14O,OOO,O00 col 1ected each year for this purpose the south pays one-third, or something better than $45,OOO.OOO, and not over s5,O00,0o0 of this sum Is returned tc this section in the form of pensions The annual drainage is just about S40,000,00 or just about the value of the cotton crop of Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

mont" the old Morris home In Hanover county. Virginia. Dr. Morris entertained a large party of friends for a week. all but two of his guests having been Balti- moreans. The shooting was good and every member of the party was crack shot.
 M. B. Neece of Huntsville Is at the Morris. M. L. Willard of Chicago Is at the Nor rls.
 B. A. Treat of Florence it as the Morris. J. c. Jones of Huntsville is at the Nor ris.
 S. ". silsbee of Chicago Is at the Nor ris.
 A. W. Foster of Cincinnati is at the Morris. John R. o'Leary of Boston is at the Metropolitan. R. S. Mitchell of Montgomery Is. at the Metropolitan. pr. ". M Frank of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan. W. K. Thornton of Anniston is at the Metropolitan. W. F. Perkins of Chicago is at the Met ropolitan.
  J. c. Acton and wife of Houston, Tex. are at the Metropolitan.
  J. L. Weathers of Anniston is at the Metropolitan.
  cunen Goodwin of Anniston is the guest of Dr. McLester.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
PENSION EVIL IN GEORGIA.

From the Nashville News.
 Georgia has a pension problem of her own that seems to show that human na- ture as brought out by the pension sys- tenn is much the same everywhere Gcor- gia has been most generous to her Con- federates, but with the million-dollar mark in sight, her best citizens feel that a halt must be called in that line of ex- penditure The Constitution is leading the fight against the pension abuses, and demands that the general assembly cut down pensions to the indigent basis and make an annual appropriation not exceeding $50o,OOO for next years roll. At- tention is called to the insufficiency of funds in the treasury to meet the needs of the state institutions and public schools, and the Constitution emphasizes the fact that Georgia cannot afford to neglect any of these interests in order to meet the increasing and unreasonable pension. demands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
REFLECTIONS OF A. BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 An optimist tries to capitalize rainbows.
 The difference between happiness and pleasure Is the difference between being asleep and dead. ta
 The most innocent girl that ever lived never was ambitious to climb an apple tree unless she had on her best stock ings
 Some women are so smart they can wear a veil so as to make men see their face better than if they don't wear any
 When woman has had nine children she begins to have suspicious about some of the beautiful passages in love stories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
Continued Prosperity.

As the end of the year draws near the stock market flags and large operations in general trade wait for the new year." remarked an old business man yesterday but the signs of continued prosperity were never more in evidence than they are now.
 The year 1902 has made a wonderful record, and I feel confident that 1so3 will not fall much, if any, behind 1t. The unprecedented crops of this season just past will certainly keep business going until next summer. The pessimistic ad- dress delivered at Wilmington, N. C.. by Frank A. Vanderllp. president of the City National bank of New York. has called forth strong protests from able and far-seeing statistcians and fnan- ciers. The interview of Richard H. Ed monds of Baltimore was a convincing re- ply to MT. Vanderlp and James H. Dooley of Richmond has just published an answer to the New York banker which contains many logical points.
 MT. Dooley Is known in banking cir cles as man of clear head and accurate Information. He says: If MT. Wander lips statements and the inferences there from are accepted as correct the national banks of the country stand convicted of reckless expansion and mismanagement.
 The fact is that the $50S, oOO,0 600 of gold and legal tenders held by the banks, are only part of the basis upon which the great pyramid of deposits rests for safe- ty.
 MT. Vanderlip finds bear argument in his statements that our exports of manufactured goods reached their climax two years ago and have since been falling off: that our imports have increased from s600 00o 900 in 1s9s to s9oO 00O in 1902; that ''in spite of that tremendous balance of trade which government reports showed in our favor, a balance running, as I have said. up to an average of almost S60O, ,0OO,- 600 a year, we do not seem to have any unusual command upon international credits. but we are, as matter of fact, considerable debtor in the worlds ex- changes. and that now in the midst of extraordinarily bountiful harvests and at the season when a movement of gold in this direction might normally be ex- pected. we are concerned lest a high rate of sterling shall lead to gold exports"
 D" Instead of being bear argument or a menace to our future one might say the smallness of our imports compared with our increased wealth is a wonderful | ly conservative and economical showing for the American people. Especially is this worthy of admiration when we con sider that in 1893 our exports were only | $997, ,000 while in 1902 they were about | $1, 500, 100000. Here we see that in nine years our exports have increased S5OO,- OOo. 900. while our imports have not in- | creased' ]"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
Saved.

From the Chicago Record-Herald
 He-Did you hear about that Minnesota man who committed suicide because he couldn't get married?
 She-Oh, Mir. Biggles, would you do such thing?
 He-I don't know. I might if
 She-Percivall Take me. I couldn't live with such a thing on my conscience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
EPITHALAMlUM.*
By Pope Leo XIII. t1ss7.>

By Pope Leo XIII. Qs97) Two hearts-twin altars-claim A single love-lit flame: You ask me whence 1t came? Kindred in heart and soul Love silent on them stole And gained complete control. Sweeter it's victory,
 When virtues laws decree Ipviolate loyalty!
 At Mary's- shrine they bow. A mutual trothSto VOW In love made holier now. What more? end my lay Heavens choicest gifts to pray On this. their wedding day. "--On the nuptials of Alphonsus Ste and Guilia Pizzirani.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
PIE FOR WALL STREET.

From the Columbus (ohio). Press.
 Why not make Secretary Shaw secre- tary of agriculture. since his nasco as a financier won. for him the sobriquet Iowa prize pumpkin" among the Shy locks? He Is pie for Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
NoT ENoueH INDIANS.

From the New York World.
 There are only 2s9,sOS Indians left. Not enough to go around could all youthful aspRants to the title of Terror of the Plains realize their hearts desire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

President Eliot's football team is not good enough to justify him in at tacling all the world and the rest of mankind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

President Eliot of Harvard has an tagonized the Methodists and the labor unions, and he has business enough on hands to last him a lifetime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

The great reconciliation act between the miners and operators does not run smooth. but all obstacles will at length be overcome
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Theatrical window Autographs have been abolished in Washington, and some day perhaps the reform will reach Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

MT. Carnegie would like to give away his indigestion, but he must die with 1t on his hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Greece and Persia are friendly again, something they have not been since the good old days of Leonidas and Xerxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Cool weather for Thanksgiving Day lends a zest to the occasion, but it should remind tho rich of those whose grates are empty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Kansas City has ceased to be an adjunct of Mexico. The officers of the law have set it down on this side of the Rio Grande.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Indiana should consult Governor Jelks on the best manner to suppress lvnching bees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Short pants" are what Mrs. Nation especially objected to at New York's horse show. Corduroy pants" make her tired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

The cotton mills of North Carolina propose to try the justly celebrated octopus plan, although they have been doing very well in the old-fashioned way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

The socialists are full of ambition and upgrade talk. They are now 400 900 strong in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

A Chicago professor is now trying to break the young ladies of saying Great heavens!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Postmaster Hughes will be thankful today that he is still holding the fort, and many will be thankful that the football season is nearly ended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Mrs. Nation made the, New York horse show a notable event.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Be thankful today for all tho good things you enjoy, and forget all the ills of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Professor Lorenz is needed in Ala barna, where the lily whites are sadly cut of joint
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Grover Cleveland fishes and reforms the tarif alternately.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

President Roosevelt wili disclose his tarifr-trust hand next Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

The schnectady boycott of trolley line is promotive of good exercise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Kansas city's bullhght was flash in the pan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

Dr. Lewis Coleman Morris and J. F. Fletcher have returned from Glaze
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
About Persona.

W. wurzburger of New York is at the Morris.
 G. B. Mobley of Eutaw Is at the Nor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27

J. L. Harris of New York is at the Mor ris
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
FE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER " AlAqiaA

The appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me.
 -Merry Wives of Windsor.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-08-15

were at the session, which continued
through the day without resulting in
any definite conclusion. The PROPOSE
ton of reduced rates comes primarily
from the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern. Other lines are not
SO heartily in favor of cutting the
rates.
Officials at the session are reticent
concerning the matters taken up. It
was a general reduction through the.
wheat belt amounting to 5 per cent in
all cases, and reaching as high as S per
cent in rates from some points from
which the charges for the grain haul
are at present high The Omaha, the
Milwaukee and the 500 lines asked for
time to consider the questions brought
up, and they indicated that they do not
care to be forced into rate reductions
by the coast lines until fully satisfied
that there is a necessity Of giving
northwestern farmers more advanta-
geous rates. Since the proposal to
cut rates came from the coast lines,
other roads feel that the credit for
whatever changes they decide to make
will not fall to them but to the lines
that took up the question.
An %oficial%of the 500 line said yes
terday that he did not believe a reduc-'
ton averaging 5 per cent would. benefit
1.-THE farmers this year in direct proper
ton to the amount of the cut, since the
difference would probably be absorbed
by commission firms and grain specu-
%lators.
Should the reductions be made, the
Northern Pacific will lose in the differ
ence between rates before and after
the cuts about 81, 100000. More than
100000 of this amount, it is stated,
results from the 10 per cent reduction
in rates on the western lines of the
system. The Great Northern's. rev.
enues will fall off in, about the same
proportion.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-08-15

The Trans-Mississippi Commercial
Congress assemblies at st. Paul in an
nual session mex week and from all
Indications the gathering will be by far
the most notable in the history of the
organization. Delegates will be in at
tendance from Oregon, South Dakota,
Utah, Wyoming, Washington, North
Dakota. Missouri, Montana. Louisiana,
Nevada, Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho,
Iowa. Arkansas, California and Colo
RADIO. Arizona. New Mexico, Okla
homa, Hawaii and the Philippines will
also have representatives present.
Governors, senators, representatives,
mayors of large cities. men promin-
emily interested in irrigation and min
ing, railroad presidents and others
identified with the industries and de-
velopment of the west have signified
their intention to be present and par
ticlpate in the discussions. Among
the chief subjects to be considered are:
Department of commerce and postal
service, live stock industry, irrigation.
good roads. and drainage, reclamation
of arid lands. rivers, waterways, har-
bors, mines, home manufactures, gull
and Pacific ports and their export and
import trade, Pacific cable, isthmian
canal. merchant marine, Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, trade with the
Orient, statehood, consular service,
preservation of forests, railroad trans
pcrtation, American sugar, and rice
and Oil industries. John Henry Smith
Of Salt Lake City will preside over the
sessions. President James ]. Hill oil
the Great Northern will discuss trade
with the Orient, and Ex-Governor
Francis of Missouri will tell of the pre-,
parations for the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition. Other speakers of note
will address the gathering, among then
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-08-15
REDUCTION IN GRAIN RATES.

Pioneer Press: The reduction in
grain rates granted to western farm
ers by the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific led to a conference
yesterday at Great Northern headquar-
tiers of traffic officials Of northwestern
lines, the result of which will prob
ably be extensive reductions in rates
through Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Traffic Manager Hieland of the Mil
waukee and officials representing the
lines reaching northwestern territory