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The age-herald., 1902-02-16
MED BRACE. TALKS ABOUT AFFAIRS OF
 INTEREST AT HOME AND ABROAD

dirt where cleanliness should prevail. New men, of little knowledge in some instances, have swept down upon Bir- ningham-alighted so to speak-and by virtue Of a display of what Is known ss '.cheels' have secured contract work Co aid ln the development or building or this town. Architects not competent to con struct henhouse have actually planned ard constructed buildings which cost much money and which should be i'm posing and pleasing to the eye. The oolors seen about the new residence sec tions of this town and the cheap filigreo work put on some of the houses are suf- ficient to destroy the artistic eye and even to wound the sensibilties of the commonplace observer.
 There are as good architects in Bir- mingham as can be found anywhere In the world. But there are the bad also There are some really who should be judged in contempt of the public, rather than the court, and should be sent to jail for the offenses committed upon the community Observe and judge for your selves.
 I have been reading with much interest the congressional proceedings in Wash ington recently-especially the hearings before the Senate Committee In the 18th milan canal matter. It rather strikes mC that our able and distinguished repre- sentative, Senator John T. Morgan, is ra. ther too sensitive and a bit vigorous ir his expression towards those who hap. pen to advocate the Panama canal scheme rather than the Nicaragua canal.
 The people of this country are almost unanimous in favor of an Isthmian canal They know very little of the proposed routes. They want a canal. In Wash. ington a few weeks ago I heard Presl. dent Roosevelt make the remark that "either canal is better than no canal. This enthusiastic remark of the President is probably endorsed by almost every man in this country. The people want canal at that point which is most prac- tical. and a canal which can be built and maintained at the least cost. They do not care to see a fight between the advocates of the Nicaragua canal and the advocates of the Panama canal which will cause a deadlock and postpone definite actior for years. They want Congress to make provision for constructing the canal al once and the people of this section hope that Senator Morgan and all of the other Alabama representatives will contest fol that which they think best, but if they can5t get that, then that they will vote for that which they can get.
 I consider myself a good Democrat but I believe that we Democrats of the South owe it to ourselves, and the sec tion in which we live, to get our share
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
Rank Demagogy.

"Congressman Wheeler of Kentucky, in his speech on funkeyism, played to the galleries, and the rubbish that he talked should be severely condemned" said a man of affairs at the Eillman.
 "Every true American detests the flunkey, and he also detests the dema- Pgogue Mir Wheeler voiced the sentiment of the demagogic element in the Demo- cratic party when he attacked the ad- ministration for its friendly attitude toward England in connection with the coronation ceremonies, and for its friend ly attitude toward Germany in arranging an official reception to Prince Henry He referred to the state department diplo- matic acts in these matters as flunkeyish. MT. Wheeler, I take it. is not altogether ignorant of precedent. He certainly must know something of diplomatic usage. So much the worse then Is his demagogy.
 "Congressman Wheeler said President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay were mak- ing the United States the laughing stock of the world by their sycophancy or words to that effect. If they were to refuse to conform to precedent they certainly would put this co,Str in ridiculous po- sition.
 
 trucking to any foreign potentate, and yet while he was President he quickly conformed to the rules of diplomacy in receiving with becoming ceremony the Princess Eulalie of Spain and in sending gifts and gracious letters to the rulers of Europe whenever the occasion dem anded 1t. His letter to the late Victoria in 1887, when the good queen celebrated the golden jubilee of her reign, could not have been more cordial had 1t been dictated by a British peer. And his gift and felicitous letter to Leo XIII, the pope. on the occasion of the golden jubilee of his holiness marking his fifty years in the priesthood, will be recalled. These acts of Cleveland were done through the state department but no one was foolish or demogogic enough to say a word in adverse comment. Demagogy seems to be on the increase in these recent days"
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
The Heavy Fire Losses.

'The fire insurance companies arc much concerned over the ploblem which con fronts them," said an underwater yester- day. "The increase in the loss ratio during the past three or four years was bad enough, but this year if the record thus far continues, serious embarrass- ment to some of the weaker companies will be the result.
 within as many weeks there have been three fires. entailing enormous losses. First came the million-oollar blaze at Norfolk, followed the next week by the later by the $8,000,tJ0 loss at Paterson. The average daily loss in the United States since January i has been $7350O0. If this continues, it means that the total loss for the year will be $27OOO0,OOO.
 ''The cause of the increase in some quarters is thought to be the increased uses throughout the country of electrici- ty. While this probably is a cause, I do not believe 1t is the principal one. Most of the increase in fires is found in the cities. This leads me to believe that the physical hazards generally are increasing Care of property and precaution against fire have not. Jadyanced in proportion to the incresse in construction.
 a tendency to make merchants look up only the companies of undoubted strength
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
Sir Valentine, whither away so fasti The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Eourth.class knstmasters.

There Is stern commotion at Wash lngton among Senators and Repre- Bentatives of the Republican persua- sion Heretofore those Senators and Representatives have considered the fourth-class postof1oes as stock in trade. exercising complete control over them, often in the most arbitrary manner. The new Postmaster Gen. eral has, however, practically placed such offices under civil service rules ED to speak, for no fourth-class post master is hereafter to be removed ex- pept upon charges and proof to sus- lain. those charges. Arbitrary re- moval is abolished.
 This is. blow at patronage that the Republican Senators and Repre- sentatives do not relish, and they do not know where or how to kick, for ~ he presumption is that Postmaster General Payne's ideas are practically President Rooseyelt's ideas, and no one desires to argue before the Presi- dent such a case. Protests will be made, however, and there will be much wrangling before all are con vinced that fourth-class offices are no longer to be considered spoils.
 oP nf b.al Q c postmasters is to be regarded as con- tinuous, and the general policy of the administration will favor a continuous Instead of four-year term. His ten ure is to be for life if he behaves him. self. No rule has been published, and none will be, but Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow is ex- pected to see that deserving fourth class postmasters are not bounced at the instance of politicians. As there are 70,000 of them this change in civil policy is very interesting. and Con gressional patronage of the. Reputii' can sort has-heen sadly cut down President Roosevelt formerly desired j to put fourth-class postmasters under the civil service rules, but he has not the courage to ask Congress to do that, and he will attempt to do it in roundabout but quite efficient man. ner by requiring in all cases of re- moval prior proof of misconduct.
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
Teddy Junior, he's all right,
CLEAN ALLEYS.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 Many visits to. your growing city have convinced me of it's future. am a trav- cling man, and see all sorts of towns and have been particularly pleased with the prominence that your Mayor takes in the line of good roads.
 I went over to see the good road that was built under his administration, but fslled to find any material embodyment of his excellent ideas; and so I went around to see how the roads in the city were, and I found that the thing Birm- ingham needed was a clean alley conven- tion. I would suggest to you that you have a Clean Alley Association and make the Mayor president of that, so that he might set an example for all of your cit izens to follow before you get a Great CT BiSmingham," because Birmingham is a certainty. JAMES DOUGLASS
 Marietta, Ga, February IA 1902
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
HoteIa Improving.

Eastern cities have long boasted Of model hotels, and I am glad to be able to testify to the fact that southern hotels are now keeping up with those of the east" said Mir Leonard Noel, the well known T. P. A. man.
 "Of course I refer to the hotels of large southern cities. Birmingham, Chat tanooga, Lynchburg. Richmond and Nor folk nave excellent up-to-date hotels, to say nothing Of Louisville and New Dr. leans.
 Polite attention in the office, good bell boy service, good tables. good rooms and clean towels in the public lavatory are among the tests of first class hotels. When these requisites are complied with the hotel may be set down as first class. -
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
IN HOTEL LORBlES
 AND ELSEWHERE
coservadcc of Lent

Catholics and Erisccpalians are op- serving Lent az strictly as usual sed devout laymar yesterday.
 'T sometimes hear little filings to the effect that church people who keep Lent or pretend to keep t, sip off to places of amusement frequently. In other words that they arc very lax compared vita Eriscopalans and Catholics of quarter Of a century ago.
 T resent any such remarks. few giddy young folks may violate the pre- cepts of church and go to the theatre during the penitential season, but these cases are the exceptions to the rule. l think 1t is safe to say that 90 per cent of the Episcopallans observe Lent con- scientiously and as for the Catholics, it is rare indeed to sec one of them in playhouse from Ash Wednesday until after Easter"
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or the beneats which the Republicans In control of this government are determ- ined to distribute to the development of this eoun Ty. In other words, we want the Nicaragua or some other Isfhmian canal built We know this will have a tremendous impetus towards developing the South Atlantic and Cuff States.
 Again, if a Republican Consress is de- termined to pass a shipping subsidy bill we want this bill passed upon tonnape rather than upon speed. in order that inc shipping industry from the South Atlantic and Gulf ports might be developed If the government is to subsldize ships we want our share of it for the freight car rying vessels which can make the ports of Savannah. Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans.
 In the distribution of government funds for facilitating fast mails we have asked for a special appropriation for fast malls from the North to this section of the South. and we have gotten it. It was got ten because we insisted upon our rights. If we now insist upon our rights. we will get our share of the shipping resultant from the passage of shipping subsidy bill, otherwise we will get nothing.
 The remark made many years ago by Hancock that the tariff question was simply a local issue, is true in regard to many other questions. Every section of this country is interested in some par tlcular thing, and each of these sections Is desirous of getting all the aid-govern- ment or otherwise-which can be secured. In the river and harbor appropriation bill we are asking for money sufficient to open the Warrior, and to build a canal to Birmingham. Other sections arc asking for similar appropriations. That section which Is most persistent, usually gets most.
 Of course, in measure this in rank heresy. But what are we going to do? There is a Republican administration and a Republican Congress in Washington. This republican government Is determined to encourage by appropriations certain interests and industries and developments in this country. Are we to stand back on high and moral political ground and refuse to accept our share of that which is to be appropriated? This question is up to the people Of the south, and up to their representatives in Congress. It is in- deed a delicate one for the representatives in Congress to decide upon There are southern representatives who realize that the shipping subsidy bill is certain to pass. They want their share of It. That is, they want it so framed as to benefit their sections if it must be. Yet, because of old democratic doctrines they fear to go forth and ask for anything, but rather to stand back and fight the whole scheme, denouncing 1t bitterly and venemously. Yet they know their denunciations are but chaff in the wind.
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
Millions for Education.

The new Rockefeller-Baldwin move ment to organize educational work in the South undoubtedly has millions of dollars behind it. The New York Tribune announces it in it's most em- phatic manner, even using very large display heads. Thus far nothing has been agreed upon except that there shall be strong central board headed by William H. Baldwin. Jr., the busy president of the Long Island Railroad Company. It is also agreed that the work shall be confined to the South at present.
 The movement grows out of the Investigations of the Southern Educa- tional Conference. an organization that
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
Of 1904.

President Roosevelt may, and doubt less. will, make many political blunders between now and 1904 but as the outlook seems today he will be the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1904" said stanch Cleveland Democrat last night
 But how about Democratic timber? ? There is no man discussed for the nomi- nation that would, in my humble opinion make a good race. It is pretty well un- derstood that Bryan will not be again nominated. It is further understood that German and Hill are stock candidates only and that neither one of them will be seriously considered in 1904
 ""Some one now unannounced will se- cure the honor VIII it be Whitney? I sthink not. MT. Whitney is perhaps the best politician in this country, but I do not believe that he desires the Presi- dency. I doubt if he would accept the nomination. heard Cleveland say in 1892 that Whitney was one of the few men who would not accept the Presi- dency if it were handed to him on a silver waiter.
 l cid not learn what Warrant MT Cleveland had for saying that MT. Whit ney would not have the office if it were within his reach, but as the former Presi- dent was on intimate terms with the for mer Secretary of the Navy, he must have known what he was talking about. Now suppose that MT. Cleveland was mistaken as to MT. Whitney's notion concerning ffo Whitney pull through if he were nomi- nated?.
 "I believe that Cleveland himself would make a better run in 1904 than any Demo- crat that could be named. But then the question arises, could Cleveland be nomi- nateG7n
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
ODE.
By Joseph Addison.

By Joseph Addison.
 The spacious Armament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky. And spangled heavens, shining frame, Their great Original proclaim; The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creators power display. And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail. The moon takes up the wondrous tale And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn. And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll. And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though, In solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball? What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found? In Reasons ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice. Forever singing. as they shine, ''The hand that made us l. ivipet'
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
Alabama Manufactures.

The census of 1900 furnishes the net or true value Of manufactures in this l State-that Is to say, it shows the real increase in value of raw materials resulting from the various processes of manufacture in a year in the State. This it does by eliminating all mate rials purchased in a partly manufae- tured form, thus preventing dupl1ca- l tions in the gross value. This was not done in previous censuses. In the census year the factories of Alabama added $60 0,e49, ,63O in values to the raw materials of the State. No comparl- son can be made with previous cen sus years for the reasons stated.
 The number of manufacturing es- tablishments was increased. however, from 2977 in 1890 to 5602 in 1900, the percentage Of increase being SS.2. The wages paid in these establish ments rose from $10,799,747 in 1890 to s15,130,419 in 1900. The number of wage earners employed in them rose from S1,137 in 1890 to 52,902 in 1900. The capital employed was in- creased from s46,122,571 in 1890 to S70, ,370, ,OS1 in 1900.
 The three leading industries of the State handle cotton goods, iron and steel and lumber Lumber was the leader in the census year, affording employment to 9273 persons; cotton goods engaged the services of S332. and iron and steel, 723S. If we add to the last-named foundries and ma chine shops the total number of men employed would be 11,799, thus put ting the iron industry at the top, where is belongs. The production of pig iron in the State in 1900 was valued at $13, ,4G5, ,616, as against $10,315,691 in 1900.
 One-third of the wage earners o. the State live in Jefferson County 14,076 out of 52,902, and in this county, too, $22. .30S, 1886 of capital is employed ont of total in the State of $70,370,- OS1. Jeffersons nearest rival is Mo bile County, where 4762 persons are wage earners. Calhoun comes next
  with 2711, and Montgomery next with 251S. No other county contains 2O00 wage earners. Winston has but 28 all told. The value of the products of Jefferson in the census year was $27,- 629, ,306; of Mobile, $7,019,974;' of Mont gomery, ,$5, .536; of Calhoun, .$S,- 2S3.3S5. The other counties that pro duced more than a million dollars in value were in order Madison, Dallas, Talladega, Etowah, Chambers, Col bert. Lauderdale, Autauga, Escambia, Walker and Shelby.N
 Alabama is an agricultural State, but if her industries are increased SS per cent in the present decade, as they were in the last one, her manu- facturlng aggregate in 1910 will be very creditable. Such gain will cer- tainly be made if enough locks and dams are completed speedily in the Warrior to afford slackwater naviga- tion to the great mineral district of the State.
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
2ae1G7r,xe~

children into this life. We are taugh, that to carry cut such suggestion is not only sinful but appalllngly and damning- ly wicked.
 Two many children in the world, saith one old woman whose lips never sung a lullaby to her own never felt the cling ing tenderness of sweetness and gentle ness in a mothers baby brought into the world even as God came to dwell amongst men! On the first night after Miss Anthony's arrival here she was seated at dinner three or four of her female suffragists around her, when an old and thin wom- an of her class entered the dining room and seeing Miss Anthony, crossed the room and kissed her. That was the only kiss yet seen between any two of the "suffragists.' They apparently act upon the theory that it is unmanly for women to kiss. In truth, Miss Anthony has a strong intellectual, masculine face; ar almost benign expression.
 How empty is all this! How vain and futile this beating of feeble wings against 
 impossible is all this ranting and striving of women to unsex woman and drag her out into the foul mre of lying politics!
 One fat woman who crossed the sea to represent England in this gathering de- clared that she was expected to make many speeches and she had brought a change of raiment for each speech. See ing that the meetings are being held in church of some kind, she probably dodges behind the pulpit and shifts her tAings. Lawsy, lawsy-you ought to see her!
 But these reform women are few, very few, in comparison with the great band of angels of the heart, the home, the life and glory of the world! When childless and Ioveless Madame de Steal asked the great Napoleon what France needed most the conqueror of half the world answered.
 Mothers"
 Hail mother-hail! is the daily prayer of three hundred million Christians, and it is the song that is In every human heart.
 Hail motherl hail woman, hall maiden! Hail to her who inspires the tenderest and bravest, sweetest and noblest i'm pulses in the soul of every man who is a mani
 Listen to her-listen for her-listen, listen, listen,
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
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tariff to suit special Pennsylvania in- terests, while Mir. Babcock wants leas tariff. The latter really desires gen. eral tariff revision.
 The Republicans are very much troubled over the tariff situation. Not one Of them desires to go on record over ths questions presented by Mir. Babcoak, erd so they are schcming to smother hil1 in the House, trusting that the Senate will send back nothing tat is distastesul. However, all see that the taTlff issue has come to stay and that tariff for revenue only must in the end be established. It is tho only tariff that has the constitution behind 1t, although subserviant courts stand ready to declare otherwise. The trouble is the English language in the constitution is so plain that any hon est man can construe it correctly, and no one can find word in it that sup ports Dingleyism.
 Tho fight must go on to final set clement. It will be the chief and real issue in 1904, and not imperialism. Imperialism is bad enough, but Ding leyism is worse. Imperialism in the Philippines is expensive, but Dingley- ism at home exceeds it thousand fold, and the money illegally wrested from consumers goes, not into the treasury, but into bursting private and corporate pockets.
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
EDUCATION FOR NEGROES,
, the Richmond Times

From the Richmond Times.
 If we are to have the negroes here it is in the interest of public morals and good government to improve their condition and make of them better citizens No state can hope to be prosperous in morals and intellect and material things with half it's population civilized and the other half barbarous.
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
MORE CHANGES DEMANDED.

From the Springfield Republican.
 There is no escape. Hereafter we must build our houses with reference to ping pong, just as we have shaped our barns to automobiles. And now the great Amer ican people will golf all day and ping pong all night, just as the English are doing, until some more attractive fad comes along.
The age-herald., 1902-02-16
EFFEcTuAL JUSTICE.

From the Omaha Bee
 Eighty officials convicted of embezzling public funds have been beheaded in Korea The rulers of that country take no chances with the pardoning power.