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The age-herald., 1902-01-19
The Alabama" Fund.

Mobile, Montgomery, Selma, Florence and Birmingham are the only cities that have done anything in the way of raising a fund to purchase a silver service for the battleship Alabama. The commission, of which MT. Max Hamburger, Jr., is chairman and MT. Frank P. Glass is sec retary, appointed to raise the money. has issued an appeal to prominent Ala bamians' for their cooperation so that the testimonial to be presented to the battleship will be creditable to the State.
 Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham have each contributed about $1000 The total amount needed is S60OO. There is hardly a town In Alabama that could not raise a few hundred dollars. The greater part of, Birmingham's contribu- tion was made up by $1 givers. When the collecting committees went to work here they found no trouble in getting the money. The fact that $1 items make up the total is just as 1t should be. because this shows that the people are not with out sentiment It was a great honor that the government conferred on this State when it named the ship Alabama, and every man in the State should appreciate 1t and respond accordingly.
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
FAST STEAMERS.
Company Prepares to Cross the At-
 lantc in Four Days.

New York January 1S.-To clip from { twenty-four to thirty-six hours from the record time for crossing the Atlantic is the promise of the New York and Flu ropean Steamship Company new trans Atlantic steamship line, which offers as- surances of a speedy fulfllment of its pledge, says the Tribune.
 This company, which has already ap- piled for pier privileges in this city and formulated the larger part of its plans, expects by the substituting of the tur- cure constant speed of thirty knots an hour in it's new boats. Such a speed will mean that passengers can be carried from this country to Europe in a little more than four days.
 The success that has attended the use of the turbine engine in Europe, especial ly the remarkable speed that has been secured thereby, has naturally raised the question as to its adaptability for trans Atlantic steamers. In this connection strong company has been organized and plans have been pretty we'll completed for this line. Fast mails, not only of this to pass through form Australia and the far East will naturally fall to the steam ship company that can handle them quickest. Delivered at Queenstown, these mails could, according to the plans of the New York and European Company, be carried in three days and seven hours a reduction of two days from the present time.
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
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of our nationhood is not most forcefully demonstrated in the halls of legislation nor in that supreme tribunal which is come to be master of the constitution, but it is most clearly, most luminously displayed in a presidential reception to those who are of consequence in art literature, war. society. government and governments parasitical necessity, poll tics.
 No reflective mind can perceive such an event without the thrilling compre- hension that it is the incarnation of the spirit of nationhood created of the na- tion's heart and brain and vast energy.
 All this and something besides which is nameless, pro patria, Is realized, even though dimly enough, by the thoughtful American of Americans, he who stands aside for moment amongst the soothing palms, and looks and sees, listens and hears He knows that for an instant his hand feels the beating of the nations Titanic heart-Titanic, yet moved by the death-rattle of one soldier who falls for the flag, and tender to the cry of every one oppressed.
 Here and here alone he hears the real and majestic Murmur of the world All the rest is rustic cackle.
 Lying politics Is silenced at the portal and does not intrude upon this brilliant scene of lighthearted social intercommu- nion.
 Care for the missought higher ideals has cast anchor in this splendid harbor of the peoples dream of world-power, and naught but love and life and light laugh ter and sweetness and charity ripples the waters. flower locked and music-barred - against all the rude winds that blow about the pendent world.
 Scandal Is stayed at the threshold and spite shivering in darkness mouths to itself.
 Wrong tells it's beads in penance for its own transgressions and foolish ahbi- tion Is abashed in the presence of the supreme reality.
 The vain babblement of the babblers is hushed here, and power is master of the powerful.
 Beauty and virtue and wit, intellect and honor and aspiration, ali-all, from the redcapped cardinal prince of the church and the young maiden blushing at her first praise from men of affairs, the two types of goodness and sweetness in the world, down to the hoariest sinner who ogles in vain-all pay court to the na- tion's will here manifest.
 Truly is this the real murmur of the world.
 Yet our valley is fairer to me.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
AGAINST COAL COMPANY.
Seeks to Have Virginia Coal and Coke
 Company Bankrupt.

Knoxville, January 1S.-Marcus Ham ilton of Johnson City, Tenn, has filed petition in the Federal Court here seek ing to have the Virginia Iron Coal and Coke Company declared bankrupt. The company has been in the hands of re- ceiver for several months
 The petition alleges that the company owns various iron furnaces, coal and iron ore lands. etc.. and that it is about to lease an iron furnace at Johnson City for a term of years. It further alleges that the company has bonds outstanding in the sum of $9 975. GOO at 5 per cent, held by the Manhattan Trust Company of New York. and secured by first mortgage; and that it owes notes aggregating about $575,0OO, and has defaulted in payment of interest on the Manhattan Trust Com pany's bonds. The petitioner seeks to have the affairs of the company adjudi- cated in the Federal Court His claim Is for $500 and interest from April 1. 1901.
 The Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Com pany is a gigantic corporation, organized in 1898 to control coal and iron lands in Southwest Virginia and upper East Ten nessee, and to operate numerous iron fur naces and a steel plant. It bought up many industrial enterprises and for a time expended considerable money ad- vancing the industrial interests of the section in which it operated.
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
caIveston,s Recovery.

Galveston has risen out of the flood in far better shape than had been ex- pected," said MT. John L. Wilson, res idcnt of that city, now visiting relatives in Birmingham.
 "No city in the world ever suffered a greater catastrophe. and yet Galveston is coming out of the wreck strong and beau tiful. New buildings of a substantial character are just now being completed, and these, while standing as a monu- ment to the citys destruction, will mean great value !n the main, because of the fact that Galveston hitherto fiimsily built town, will be noted for its solid construction.
 Altogether the city is recovering in wonderful fashion. The merchants who suffered so severely from the flood are gradually getting on their feet, and in four or five years there will hardly be trace of the terrible disaster"
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
Wet or Dry in Alabama.

The regulation of the liquor traffic offers many solutions, and all have been tried in this State-free trade the license system, tigers of all sorts, and, lastly, the dispensary. Else where this morning is presented much information concerning dis pensaries, not in distant States, but in Alabama. This information deserves careful reading and consideration.
 Blocton. for example, insists that while drunkenness and crime have been lessened, it is earning money enough to conduct it's city govern ment and install by degrees a modest water supply plant. Water based on strong drink is a new thing, and Bloc ton is supplying it. The system as it is presented in actual operation de- serves and assuredly will receive con- sideration at the hands of every thoughtful man. for the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
 X There are strong interests opposed to the dispensary system. There are prohibitionists who consider it straight from the Evil One himself. The lat ter can hear the switch of Old Nick's tail in it. But then again there are those who see in it a sensible and business-like solution of a difficult pzoblem. If it be assumed that some men in every community will have some strong drink, then the dispens- ary begins to loom up, even if it does put every man. woman and child into the liquor traffic.
 At any rate, read and inwardly di- gest the information elsewhere printed in The Age-Herald this morning, for 1t is worth your while.
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT SEVERAL AFFAIRS
 OF STATE AND NATIONAL INTEREST

commerce is the same old shipping sub sidy bill reported in the last Congress It is based on speed rather than on tonnage. The speed subsidy bill is merely gift to the fast transatlantic liners now sail ing under the American flag. ten-thou- sand ton ship carrying passengers from New York to Liverpool and steaming Fl knots an hour will get three times as much subsidy as a ten-thousand ton ship sailing from Norfolk, Charleston or Mo- bile for the purpose of carrying freight and steaming at the rate of from 12 to IA knots an hour. In other words, the freighter gets very little, while the fast passenger steamship will get practically it's cost annually in the form of sub sidy. The scheme is entirely bad.
 The south, and especially the mineral and manufacturing districts of Alabama, would be glad to see the adoption of shipping subsidy bill based primarily and entirely upon tonnage. It would benefit this great section. It would lead to the exports of pig iron, and coal, and steel, and manufactured products, and the cheapening of export rates on cotton. But the speed subsidy bill, being pushed by Hanna and Payne and others, who are given to raising Republican campaign funds. is merely a raid upon the treas ury for the benefit of those who already have and desire to be given.
 
 Senator German of Maryland has fin- ally been reelected to the Senate. He takes his seat on March 1. He will im- mediately become the leader of the Dem- ocratic side. He has already gone to Washington and will probably be in con ference almost daily with the Democratic Senator's
 German would be the choice of nine tenths of the Democratic Senators and of a large percentage of Democratic Rep resentatives for the Presidential nomin- ation in 1904. He is considered the ablest active man in Democratic politics in this country today. He would be stronger in New York than any New Yorker, and stronger in the south and west than any other man who is at this time conspicu- ous before the public. As things are now going Germans chances of being the next Democratic Presidential nominee are far ahead of anyone yet mentioned.
 The Nicaragua canal bill seems to be doomed Though the House has passed bill providing for the construction of the Nicaragua canal, the Panama canal scheme has forced itself into the Senate and into the good graces of the Isthmian Canal Commission. The United States has
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
North and South.

Negro labor is better disciplined in the North than it is in the South said a man who has had experience in man aging negroes in iron mills in Pennsylva- nia and who has observed them at work in the Birmingham district.
 "Go where negroes are employed in this section and you will be sure to find some of them shooting craps. Nothing Of that sort is allowed up North. In FennsylVa- mia idling or feoling Is simply out of the question. Every colored wage worker there has a move on him from the tune his working hour begins until the hour comes for him to stop. l suppost the same discipline might be enforced here. It would be economy to the employer to have it and 1t would pay the negro, too' because in the long run his steady indus try would mean more money in his pocket"
The age-herald., 1902-01-19

been offered the partially dug ditch, the old implements and concessions of the Panama Canal Company for s40000, 900, and the Senate and the Isthmian Canal Commission want to buy it. Even Presi- dent Roosevelt has suggested that pros- pectiVe canal legislation be held up until the commission makes another investiga- tion and report on the Panama offer. The commission has decided that the Pan anna offer should be accented. This at once opens up a conflict between the House and the Senate. The Senate will undoubtedly pass the Panama meas ure regardless of the vigorous opposition of Senator Morgan. Thus it would seem that the people will either have to ac- cept the Panama scheme or there will be no Legislation at this session of Congress. Certain it is that the Panama people have full swing in Washington just now.
 
 Jean DeReszke, the opera singer, has rejected an offer to sing in forty concerts in the United States for $20O,0oO. No other opera singer or actor in the world could perhaps, feel able to refuse such an at- tractive offer DeReszke, however, is worth several hundred thousand dollars In fact, by some he is said to be worth over a million. He has several estates in Poland keeps magnificent racing stables, and is said to be one of the largest in- dividual real estate owners in the world He is said to have cleared $250,000 last year on the turf, having backed his own horses with large sums.
 Former Senator Charles A. Towne of Minnesota, who has visited Birmingham several times and delivered an address on the free silver question here three years ago, has quit politics, dropped the silver question, and gone into Wall street He has opened up an office at 63 and 65 Wall street, and displays this sign, 70. A. Towne & Co, Bankers and Brokers
 Towne was a poor man when he was in Congress and when he was dabbling in politics. He, however, got into the Beau mont oil fields and Is said to have made a half million dollars out of floating sev- eral oil companies. He Is also said to have recently made a large sum out of a case in Minnesota involving the title to an iron mine valued at something like s10,- GOO GOO. It is said that MT. Towne took the case on a 9 per cent contingent fee. However much he may be worth, he is now in Wall street, a banker and a broker and has perhaps dropped politics forever.
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
EXPLOSION KILLS TWO.
Boiler On Passenger Locomotive Torn
 to Shreds in Iowa.

Des Moines. Ia., January 1s-The boiler of Rock Island passenger locomotive exploded near Victor, Ia, early today. The engineer and fireman were both killed. while the brakeman and two por- ters were seriously injured. The Pull man car from Des Moines was thrown from the track and rolled down the em- bankment. None of the passengers were seriously injured.
 The official statement given out at the office of the Rock Island, says the engine of the train leaving Chicago at 10 o'clock last night dropped her 'crown sheet" at Victor. wrecking the engine and throw ing the baggage car and buffet and four sIeepers on their sides. Engineer Will Hams and his fireman. name unknown. were instantly killed and Baggagemaster Shaffer was injured. The passengers es- caped without injury.
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
Three.NeaI Habit.

Dyspepsia is almost national com plaint, and physicians are now saying 1t cannot be fought down while Amer leans persist in eating three meals a R day. and especially while they per sst in eating the heartiest meal at midday, when half of their work re- mains to be done. No other nation eats so unwisely, and it Is impossible to attribute the American habit to Anything else than habit. We inher- tied it from the farm, where it is not ro injurious.
 There are two great objections to dinner at midday--it induces over eating and it leaves it's victim in an unfit condition to finish his days work Three hearty meals day is one too many, as all know or ought to know. A good breakfast and a good dinner after the days strife is ended are quite enough in any case. On account of heredity light lunch a< midday-the lighter the better may be taken without harm, but to eat hearty breakfast, hearty mid day meal and hearty meal at night is to overeat and bring in dyspepsia at least. Such overeating shortens life.
 But the muddy meal spells the man for hard and good work in the after noon. It makes him either dull or irritable. Let us abolish the midday meal as other nations have done and as other cities in this country have done, and in it's place set up the lunch counter and the ample meal at home after the days worry and trials are passed. No one can eat leisurely meal at midday, and no one should eat a hearty meal hurriedly We are bucolic in this matter of meals, and we should reform. Let the dinner hour be changed, and let the three meal habit be abolished. We eat too much
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
WHO LOVES ONCE LOVES FOR
 EVERMORF

By Julia Nicely Finch.
 How may we know and how be sure, They are forgot, the old love days, And all loves dear, delightsome waysI The years go by the fount runs dry Of foolish tears that used to lie So close to eyelids young and pure: Our nights are rests from daily cares. Or filled with long and sleepless hours; If dreams do come. they do not mock At what with dawn may us befall. The soul with patience plods and fares Along its due allotted road, And bears the burden of its load: When To! From out passing throng A face, like unto a star. out-gleams. The heart is as a riven rock. From which gush of memory streams. And sweeps the present far away.
 This is a touch of palm to palm Gone, gone is that content and calm In which the soul enshrouded long, Hath lain unmlndful of It's powers. From out a window opened near May chance to fall upon the ear A bit of melody, song;
 In loves old days held dear, so dear The heart is straightway touched and
 stirred,
 To bliss too perilous, too sweet To bear and kept it's steady beat. But high with hope and courage, strong, Life's current leapeth on it's way; There is no death, division, change Are foreign things to us, and strangei The old love-days, the old love wayn Come softly back enfolding us. In all their dear charm holding us. How then be sure? How dare to say. They are forgot whose hearts with ours Struck chime on chime in rythmic time? There is no barred, no sealed door Between these days and days of yoro. A look. a touch, a whispered word. And 10! The soul remembers all I
 Who loves once loves forever mora. Birmingham. January. 1s02 BJ
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
Pin Iron Production Declinino

EDn January 1 there were two less fofnkees in blast, 2e4. and the weekly capacity had fallen from 324,761 tons on December 1 to 29S,46O tons on January 1. This loss was doubtless due in part to the cessation of work in the holiday season, and in part to the shortage in cars. The railroads are unable to handle raw materials or products fully and promptly.
 Alabama made in December more iron, the product in that month az gregating 104.379, as against 97,647 tons in November, and 95.2O0 tons in october. These fgures do not include charcoal iron, HDnh footed up 2564
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
Free Delivery Here and There.

Louisville, Ky, is in Jefferson County, and it is exulting over the fact that rural free delivery route No. 1 will be established in it on March 1. Jefferson County, Alabama,
 has 91 routes in full operation, and
 the rural mail box before the rural
 home of the Alabama county Is seen on every hand. They exist by scores on every cherted road, and the good work of public education via the mail bag goes on. Rural free delivery leads to increased reading, and the man who reads almost necessarily becomes an intelligent citizen.
 But we did not start out to discuss an intelligent clause. We simply de- sire to call attention to Congressman Underwood's soonness, if we may coin a word, in, this matter. If he had waited until now he would have been confronted by 5000 applicants. All want rural free delivery routes now. He did not wait. He saw the good roads of Jefferson County, and he be- came an early bird at once That is why Jefferson County, Alabama, has o1 roufoc in full onorot;o,, ooa Toaeo,, son County, Kentucky, hopes to have route No. l in operation next March. It is all in a lifetime, but just the same the Alabama county feels in debted to it's influential and quick-on- the-trigger Congressman who secured what he wanted and avoided the rush.
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 There is something being said in Wash ington about opening the doors of the Federal Soldiers Home to the Confeder- ates. Kindness and good nature no doubt led to this movement, along with respect and admiration for the Southern soldier. The idea of a soldiers home should be that of a family that has known what it was to be severely tried and then com ing together to enjoy the hospitality of their countrymen-a reward for faithful services. While we are grateful to our friends the Confederate soldier has no claims upon such shelter; neither should he be a guest at this table of charity. Let this house and food be furnished by his own people. The State of Alabama should not defer this obligation any longer. The daughters and sons ought to see to it that every worthy, poor and sick Confederate who has no one left to lean upon be taken care of.
 J. I.AWLER DARBY.
The age-herald., 1902-01-19
Young In Feeling.

'Dr. J. L. M. Curry, the honored Alabamian who has been appoint ed special envoy to Spain, is in the seventy-sixth year of his age, but I know of few men who are more youthful in their heart than he,' said one of his per- sonal friends at the Eillman last night.
 Every alumnus of Howard College who was a student while pr. Curry was it's president, will recall the genial man. ner of the distinguished scholar, and of his sincere interest in young men. The doctor delighted in the companionship of boys, and his influence over them was all the stranger because he was in sym pathy with them in their innocent sports as well as their aspirations to higher things.
 "Dr. Curry was the same happy-hearted gentleman the last time I saw him, a year ago. that he was when he presided over Howard College. Great public honors never spoil men of Curry's mould"