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The age-herald., 1902-05-16
Men In the Hobbies.

'It is interesting to sit here in the hotel and watch strangers and guess who this or that man is," said well known citizen who spends an hour at the Hillman every night. 'I often pick out a man for a great capitalist and learn afterwards that he is a commercial traveller, and men whom I have taken for drummers turn out to be millionaires.
 "As a rule the big men dress plainly nowadays and so do the T. P. As. used to be able to spot New York men, but recently they have affected severe sim plicity. When I first saw MT. William Halls, vice-president of the Hanover Ma tiSnal Bank of New York, he wore black slouch hat and plain clothes. I took him for a country merchant. MT. Douglas H. Gordon of Baltimore, who comes from all Virginia stock and who inherited large wealth, Is plain dresser so is MT. Harry M. Atkinson of Atlanta and so is MT. John Skelton Williams. I mention these men because they are In the public eye and have large interests here and because they are models of gentemanly bearing.
 "I can remember when rich men put on much style but today the more distin- guished a man is the more democratic he is apt to be-"
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
PRINCE HENRY VISIT COIN.
Germany's Mint Makes a Silver Piece to Commemorate the Princes Visit.

From the Philadelphia. Press.
 The mint of the German government has struck off three-mark silver piece commemorative of the visit of Prince Henry to the United States.
 The coin is about the size of the Uni ted States half-dollar, but is a trife heavier. Its value is 72 cents.
 On one side are bas-reliefs of President Roosevelt and Prince Henry, which are splendid examples of minting, On the re- verse side Is representation of a huge ship in midocean. Above the engraving are the words in German, Tn Remem- brance of the Journey to America, 1902. D while in smaller letters beneath this is printed Lloyd Steamer Kronprinz Will helm.'
 The coin was sent by Dr. M. Wieder- hold of Cassel, Germany, to his brother. H. Wiederhold of 2llS Spring Garden street. and was received by the latter gentleman yesterday morning. He at once took the commemorative piece to the mint a few blocks from his home where it was pronounced an unusually fine bit of coininG.
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
Hobson and Politics.

Capt Richmond F. Hobson may never be candidate for a political office but if he Is placed on the retired list of the navy he will certainly be eligible for a seat in either house of the General As sembly of Alabama or in either house of the Congress of the United States.' remarked lawyer.
 Ut does not require lawyer to settle that question. The point was raised many years ago when General Dan Sickles was elected to Congress. It was decided that as a. retired officer of the United States army he was not an officer in the mean ing of the term and was, therefore, elig- ible. He drew s5OOO a year as member of Congress and $5625 as a retired major general.
 If General Joe Wheeler should be elected governor of Alabama In 1906. and if ia quite thinkable that he might be, he would draw the retired pay of a brig adler general, s4125, and the salary of governor.
 "A retired officer has rank and pay. but no office. Under the present law, an officer of the army cannot remain in act i've service after he is GA years of age. He not only cannot be ordered back to service. but even if ne wanted to serve in time of war he could only be commis- stoned as a volunteer. A retired officer ,s liable to courtmartial, but so is re- tired enlisted man."
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
THE PRESIDENT AND THE STUMP
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 The announcement is made that Pres ldent Roosevelt will take the stump in behalf of his party in the coming Con- gressonal campaign. This would be am unusual thing for a President to do, but as Theodore Roosevelt prefers to smash precedent rather than to follow 1t, the report is not unlikely to be true.
 But before finally deciding to take the stump in behalf of a Republican Con- gress would it not be wise in the Pres ident to make an effort more strenuous than he has yet put forth to induce this Congress to do something to merit his championship and to deserve popular ap- proval? It will not be a pleasant spectacle to see the President of the United States on the stump as an apologist for the in- excusable and defender of the indefen- sible. To deserve the Presidents approval Congress should
 l. Provide justice for Cuba.
 g. Repeal all tariff for monopoly only. especially that on the meat and other food of the people
 B. Pass an isthmian canal bill. 4 strengthen the antitrust law. 5. Ordain that oIr war in the Philip pines shall conform to civilized rules, or stop altogether upon the conditions that we are now granting to Cuba. If this Congress shall make a record on these lines perhaps it may be pardonable in a President so far to forget the dig nifty and the proper judicial attitude of the executive of all the people as to make speeches in favor of it's Endorsement. But to extol a body that has f1outed his own urgent recommendations and re- mained the obstinate tool of monopolists would be neither seemly nor polite.
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
Hardware.

"The hardware business got great deal of free advertising out of the com bine project. and now that the scheme has collapsed it will get still more." said a well-known merchant.
 "No combine or trust that was ever formed was so much in the newspapers. From the time the leaders began to hold conferences at the Waldorf-Astoria until the National Hardware and Metal Com pany was chartered many of the big pa- pers had column about the combine nearly every day.
 "I think the Southern hardware men will congratulate themselves that the combine fell through. The company would have been very unwieldy. never thought it was workable"
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
SELLS FERNS BY THE MILLIONS.

From the Grand Rapids Herald.
 J. S. Tripp, who came to 1hompsonville, Mich. from Chicago last fall, is making barrels of money by gathering ferns, bal ing them and shipping them to Chicago greenhouses. His scene of operations is in Weldon township, Benzie county, where about 40 acres are covered with ferns. Tripp and two men yesterday gathered 12OO0 and he receives $3 thousand. Tripp has a contract to fill between now and August 1, calling for millions of the plants. Chicagoans place the ferns in cold storage and sell them even in the winter,
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more land. There is no reason why the bill should not be passed, but il will not be.
 The pigeonholing of the three bills is really the result of the fearful cost of the Philippine war. The aggregate cost of this war has been about $600,- 100000, and the Republican leaders dare not swell the aggregate by pass ing the subsidy or the irrigation bill, and the railroad lobby will not let them pass the Nicaragua canal bill.
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
A POOR POLE FOR A NEIeHBoR,

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 George Vanderbilt's estate, Biltmore, is to have rival among the show places at Asheville, N. c. Serguis Minkiewincz. a day laborer, with his wife has fallen heir to a fortune of $2,0O00Oo in Germany. Minkiewincz (who is commonly known around town as Monkey Wrench") promptly raised s2O0 by giving mortgage of $10o00 on his prospective wealth and immediately left for the old country to prove his title to the inheritance.
 Before he left he secured an option on one of the most beautiful tracts of land in the suburbs of Asheyille. It includes several thousand acres and runs out in the neighborhood of the famous Switzer- land dairy, which George Vanderbilt tried hard to buy before he purchased the Bltmore estate.
 Minkiewincz intends to make a minia- ture Biltmore of his estate.
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Water Trouehs.

"If were rich man would put free water troughs for horses in every other block in the business part of the city said a merchant who has occasion to drive about town. .s
 There are three such troughs but there should be not less than dozen. If these drinking places were plentiful the horses would have as much water as they need ed. As it is the poor brutes suffer dur ing this hot weather for refreshing draughts If the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals would fur nish two or three more street troughs 1t would help of course, but l hope the time will come when the city will be fully supplied with them'
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Cominq 10 Birmingham.

When on May 24 Representative Thompsons party arrives in this town, the people should turn out in great numbers. There is no reception equal to a popular reception. Thousands of honest, intelligent faces make a recep- tion that every man in public life likes and finds delight in. Let the people greet in force the party when it reaches the city, giving it a warm and enthusiastic welcome. The party will of course be taken around the horn," and treated otherwise as such parties customarily are, but the recep- tion that will please them best will come directly from the people.
 A more distinguished party has scarcely ever visited this town. Tn it are the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Director of the Census Bureau, and twenty Congressmen, more or less, some of whom have national regulations. Champ Clark is known in every State, and he deserves every bit of his fine reputation. He is a clever writer and very entertaining speaker. There are other men in the party who are slrong and efficlen. among the na- tional lawmakers, and this town can not afford to neglect in any manner tainly will not.
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
GOVERNOR DAVIS OF ARKANSAS.

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 The recent action of Governor Davis of Arkansas in pardoning a negro felon serving term in the state penitentiary on the condition that he will immediately leave Arkansas and make his home in Massachusetts. Is a strange and silly pro- cedure for a sworn state executive. The negro Is either guilty or he is not not guilty. If not guilty he should receive
 an unconditional pardon. If guilty he
 is not entitled to clemency, even with the hard condition of making his future home in Massachusetts. Governor Davis apparently thinks his ruling in the mat | ter sharp and witty device. But view | ed In its most charitable phase, 1t is but | a dirty trick. more discreditable to his own state than hurtful to the New Eng
 land State that he seeks gratuitously to offend.
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
RIDING THROUGH THINGS.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Gen. Grenville M Dodge, "after riding through the island" gives us his opinion on the annexation of Cuba.
 President Roosevelt. after riding through" a few reports, gave us his opin- ion that Tit was a captains battle."
 A critic, after riding through" a book on which the author had spent four years, ruined 1t by nasty comment.
 A St. Louis boodler, after riding through" Missouri. landed in the peni- tentiary.
 A newspaper writer, after riding through a lengthy article oyer which there were bold headlines. denounced it as sensational" though it was nothing more than a plain recital of facts.
 That is the trouble with us. We do too much of this riding through" things. Why don't we stop once in a while to think?
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Mir. Underwood and the Relief Bill

The Republican papers are waxing hot or merry, according to their mood, over Mir. Underwood's vote on the Martinique relief bill, and yet not one of them has taken the trouble to un- 6srstand what he did or what his posi- tion on the bill really was.
 When the Senate quick-action bill, appropriating $100,000, came to the House last Saturday, MT. Underwood objected to its consideration until it had been sent to a committee and in vestigated as bills customarily are. This sent the bill to the appropria- tons committee, which reported it last Monday increasing it to $200,000. Unanimous consent was required for it's consideration, and MT. Underwood expressly stated that he would not stand in the way of the bills consid- eration and passage if the House was so minded. So the bill was taken up, and MT. Underwood was accorded the privilege O. stating his objections to it.
 He declined to bring forward con stitutional objections, as Andrew John Son did when bill for the relief of Ireland was pending, but his objec- tions to the bill were put on general principles. We quote his own words:
 There is no man on the floor of this House who has more sympathy for those who are suffering and in distress than I have. doubt whether there Is a man within the sound of my voice whose heart does not go out in sympathy toward those poor suffering people. But there are thousands of suffering people throughout the world with whom we sympathize today and will in the future. We stand not here, my colleagues, to legislate on our sympathy or the impulse of our heart strings. We stand here as the trustees of a great people, a generous people, kind people, an impulsive people whel distress stares them in the face. Blu / because our constituency may open thei hearts and yield to their impulses and b guided by that great that divine principl of kind feeling and charity toward thos who in suffering and distress, doe 1t mean that you and l, as the trustee of those people, should be reckless in ou guardianship of the trust that has beer delegated to us and left in our hands tC administer? think not
 MT. Underwood proceeded to explain that while we might be generous witt our own money, even in a case involv ing the great and rich republic ot France, Congressmen could not right fully be generous to a foreign people with the money of their constituents He did not think France a subject o charity, the bill dignifed procedure on our part, or the proposed use o the money of constituents proper oi necessary, even if this be a rich na tion with an overflowing treasury, ant Mir. Clayton of this State, MT. Williams of Mississippi, MT. Tate of Georgia and three members from Tennessee and two from Texas agreed with him and voted against the bill Eleven other members answered present" but refused to vote The only Ala bama members who actually voted for the bill were Messrs. Bankhead and Richardson.
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
Peter's Pence.

The collections in the Catholic churches next Sunday will be sent through the bishops to the Holy Father This annual tribute Is known as Peters pence. At St. Paurs last Sunday the Rev Father O'Reilly reminded his congregation that every one would be expected to give something
 As the Catholic population of the United States increases the annual collection for the Pope increases. Peters pence col lected this year in the United States will amount to about SlOOO.OoO. The collec- tions throughout the world will probably total over $2, 900, 600.
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
Three BiQ Bills Dead.

Three big measures that had prom ising start have been sidetracked- the ship canal bill, the subsidy bill, and arid irrigation bill. There is a promise on the part of the Republican leaders that the House Nicaragua bill shall be considered in the Senate, but few consider the promise valuable. for the Senate is in the grasp of the in- ternational railroads, and they have pigeonholed the bill. The promise made calls for the consideration of the House bill as soon as the Philip pine government bill is disposed of, but no one expects the promise of the slippery and railroad d-controlled Sen ate to be kept. The bill has little pros pect of passage until the people be- come stronger than the railroads in the Senate.
 The subsidy bill is pigeonholed in the House, because so many of the members of that body desire re-elec- tion this fall, and they do not desire to face the people after voting vast \ sum of their money to the owners of few fast ships. The Morgan steam. Nip merger has given the bill an addi- \al black eye, and it will stay where
 irrigation bill is bill of merit.
 lot take a dollar from the
 pat is already there. It
 the arid lands into reser.
 Rtion plants. They are
 \ss now, but as they
 \eeds go to irrigate
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
SOURCE OF AUTHORITY.

From the Union Springs Herald.
 So the Russell Register. seemingly argues to the point that no state primary can be, unless ordered by the State ex- ecutive committee. Whatever might be the authority of the committee, whence comes that authority? Certainly It could not be a Democratic feature If the people did not impose that authority; and if the people cannot augment or abridge that authority. the committee ceases to be the representative of Democratic organization.
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Strawberries.

"Cullman strawberries are small be- cause of the dry weather early In the week." said a Morris avenue merchant but the showers in the last day or two will bring them out. Cullman berries that come to the market Saturday will be large.
 The prices ruling this week are SIPS 61 .5o They will probably be little higher when the larger berries are on salen
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The Selma Train.

Everybody in my section is glad that an effort is being made to have the train from Selma by the way of Akron and Greensboro, extend its run from Tusca- loosa to Birmingham" said Greensboro man at the Florence.
 "The people all along the line want the opportunity of trading in Birmingham. Such a train service would mean a great deal for this city but 1t would mean just as much for Marion and Greensboro"
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
THE PRIMARY AGAIN.

From the Centre Harmonizer.
 It seems that the question as to wheth- CT we will have primary Is foregone conclusion. We do not think that any sober minded man can entertain this ques- ton for a moment True, the disgruntled politicians and the chronic sore-heads have predicted a great many things which have not come to pass and which they them selves did not believe.
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Restaurants and Saloons.

Notwithstanding the general prosperity of the district the restaurant and saloon business has been dull this week" said a Twentieth street caterer yesterday.
 q have not had as many customers at night as usual, and I notice that several of the saloons, instead of keeping open until quarter past twelve have been closing at a few minutes before mid night"
The age-herald., 1902-05-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
rom the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 The woman who isn't jealous about her own husband is jealous about some other woman's.
 The trouble about marrying a widow is that no live man is Justified in getting into competition with a dead one.
 The more ways a man has of showing how much he knows. the more ways he has of proving what a fool he is.
 To satisfy woman 1t is not enough to make her believe you love her; you must convince her you love nobody else.
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The beef trust is showing up prices again now that it has been assured by the g. 0. p. that its Dingley wall will not be preached in the slightest.
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The Kaiser has complete collection of the newspaper comments upon Prince Henry's visit, but his lese maj este jurisdiction does not reach across the sea.
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ALABAMA EDITORS.

From the Huntsville Evening Tribune.
 One of the delegates from the North Alabama Methodist Conference to the General Conference at Dallas, Tex, is Captain Wier of the Birmingham night police force. Truly must this churchman
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President Palma is to be inaugur- ated on May 20, but no Whitelaw Reid rises up to grace the ceremony as a special ambassador with upholstered legs
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Envoy Whitelaw Reid, with his up- holstered legs, has been properly fare welled, and will soon depart to do the special ambassador act at his own expense.
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Three years from now there will be a decision in the beef trust case in the Supreme Court, but the consumer, dead from starvation, will not mind it.
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The water in Mexico and the lan- guage in the American Senate are both becoming hotter, and 1t is feared that some volcanic outbreak impends.
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Bishop John M. Farley. the auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese, will prob ably De the successor of Archbishop CorriRan
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The two American poets who arc most widely read In England are Long fellow and Walt. Whitman.
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The census shows that New York Is the confectionery State, while Penn sylvania is the pig iron State.
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Everything is blowing up from vol. canoes to balloons. There is too much gas and water in this world.
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Senator Platt has decided to re. elect himself, after having been prop erly importuned by his own machine.
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The extinct volcano Is not warranted to stay extinct, It may resume busi ness at any time at the old stand.
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From the Jasper Mountain Eagle

From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
 Hetty Green. the great female financier and railroad manipulator, has been h- censed in New York to "tote" a pistol for self protection. If her pockets are as mysterious as those common with women a footpad could get her money and be in the next township before she could draw her weapon.
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If We buy the Danish West Indies we may be buying but job lot oi slumbering volcanoes.
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In the effete East they consider MT. Bryan the Jonah, rather than the Aaron, of his party.
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Wanted, at the Philadelphia mint, a chief coiner. Good wages steadily paid.
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They elect Presidents in Hayti from the muzzle of guns.
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The eruption of Philippine oratory in the Senate flows scorchingly on.
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The up-to-date hotel has ping pong room, thus putting it abreast of the latest fad.
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Martinique will not demand ( Schwab dinner at $100 a plate.
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Congratulations are all that Queen Wilhelmina has to face at present.
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COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINER.

Chicago Tribune.
 A war between two rival whisky trusts would indeed stagger humanity.
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The ping pong pennant Is still to be won.
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There are no applications for the consulate at St. Pierre.
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From the Greensboro Beacon.

We learn that the farmers about Cuba, Ala, are raising and selling English peas and snap beans to the amount of from 100 to 15O bushels peas and from 150 to 200 bushels of beans per acre. They receive from s1 to s1.5O per bushel for their pro- duct They sell to buyers from Cincinnati and other places north. They receive the above prices at the depot at Cuba. Why should not Hale county make some money out of truck farming?
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From the Montgomery Journal.
 There seems to be something brewing in state politics. something of unusual interest. It might be well for the poli- ticians as well as the people to watch for development.
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have a chance to see both sides of the moral world.

have a chance to see both sides of the moral world.
 From the Huntsville Weekly Democrat.
 According to the new constitution of Alabama Captain Hobsons political aspi- rations are knocked into cooked hat as. holding a remunerative office from the government, he is not eligible. He will receive half pay should he retire.
 From the Huntsville Daily Mercury.
 The suggestion from intimate friends of Captain Hobson that his retirement is opposed by Alabama congressman be- cause they believe he will become a fac tor in Alabama politics Is simply absurd. Captain Hobson is not likely to become such a factor that he will worry any member of the Alabama delegation now in Congress The members of the Ala bama delegation are not raving about the retirement of Captain Hobson, but that can hardly be accepted as proof of their opposition.