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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
THE LILY WHITES.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 The lily white republicans of the south have not much to boast of in the late election. Take Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, for instance, in which states they had been most active. In Mississip- pi there was talk at one time of their putting out candidates in all the eight districts of the state so as to give some idea of their strength; but this folly was @isely abandoned. We have not been informed how many orss rather, how few white republicans there are in Mississip- pi, but judging from Louisiana and Ala bama, they must be handful.
 In Louisiana their total vote will fall far below five thousand and less than one-fifth of the total. They will average about 800 to a candidate. None of their candidates reached the thousand mark and two fell below two hundred.
 While in Alabama they did slightly better, it was nothing much to brag of, and at their present crablike progress it will not take them long to reach the point of extinction. They will scarcely be able to persuade the President that there is much hope of republican success in the movement they are leading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
Reindeers in Alaska.

When Dr. Sheldon Jackson went to Elaska in 1890 he saw that the Els kimo were in danger of starvation. Whales and wulrus had been the chief dependence for food, and there was nothing to take their places. He de I termined to ask the government to supply the natives with reindeer that would furnish them not only with food, but with clothing and transpor- tation as well, as the experience of Norway and Siberia plainly attested.
 An appropriation by congress was secured in 1892, when 143 reindeer were imported. This number had in creased in 1896 to 1000, and today there are 5000 deer at or near the government stations. The total cost of the experiment has been $108,000, and this small outlay will result in an abundance of animal food in cli- mate that demands and lacks it. It will probably result in the establish ment of great industry in Alaska.
 Lapland is similarly situated, and it's wealth and comfort spring from the ownership of 100000 deer. It sends annually to European markets 23,0OO carcasses, and the capacity of Alaska is 9,OOO,OOO reindeer. When this limit is reached Alaska will be- come a great source of meat supply, and its people will have a plentiful food supply and income. That such a result is possible and even probable, all now see, and Dr. Sheldon Jack sons name will long stand as the ben efactor of race that would other wise have been starved to death by the whale and walrus hunters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
THE AcEHERALD ELECTION RETURNS.

days ago Montgomery boubeleadd oa superiority furnishing happenings the state, election It boasted of nine columns of state returns coming from sxon counties printed Ageerad and claimed that this printed but three columns coming from if of It's feat which the Ageerald printed in located, land received headquarters"
 all it had Agerald the Montgomery should nnnized printed Agerad Ths Wednesday pub counties not htynine Adverter while the condensed into columns charged by Advertiser It's brevy added to its matter included careful estimates of the majorts for the democratic ticket and the official counts made Saturday show estimates. As getting benefit from the received democratic headquarters the Ased informing It's Montgomery contemporary that Chair entirely this for faith tho reliability
 the returning boards the Saturday. Ageead tabulated counties The Advertiser pub thirty counties without abuIaten
 of the superior service of the Its appreciate It's ef giving them the best service the stae
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
French Coal Miners Strike.

The French coal miners cannot sup ply the demands of the country even when there are no strikes of other troubles. Coal is always high-prfced, owing in part to the scant supply and in part to high railroad rates.
 This condition is now aggravated by a coal strike of large proportions. In all France there are 140,O00 coal min CTS. 10000 of whom are union men and 100000 non-union. All the miners seem to be cooperating in the present strike, which is the absorbing subject both in and out of Paris.
 The French miners demand a law reducing the work day to eight hours, a law fixing pension of two francs day after fifty years of age has been reached and thirty years of service in the mines; a minimum wage, and laws which shall modify the law of 1890 on deputies charged with the se- curity of the miners and that of 1898 on accidents sustained in the work, as well as recognition of the union.
 The strikers have not thus far been very turbulent, and their efforts are confined to a pressure upon the gov ernment, which the operators are re- sisting. Premier Combes is, however, inclined to help the miners. The government has decided to promote the eight-hour bill. the pension bill, and the minimum wage bill. At the same time it has adopted President Roosevelt's plan, and is striving to end the strike by arbitration. M. Combes has promised to follow the American example, and he is work ing on the lines that eliminated in this country in the strike commission The French legislature possesses how ever power that congress does not and the pending bills will no doubt be pressed to passage, although the operators are resisting them most strenuously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
THE DECAY OF MANNERS.
m the Kansas City World.

From the Kansas City World.
 We rush through life in such a hurry these days that there is little time or thought for the refinement and courtesies that in the good old days of our grand parents were considered necessary to good manners.
 The man or woman who has really good manners, nowadays, we distinguish as be- ing of the 'old school"
 Unfortunately the old school Is passing away. and there is no new school to take it's place.
 We seem to be drifting into the idea that good manners are a rather boresome and indefinable something in the way of an affectation which we may put on with our best clothes for weddings, parties and other such affairs, but not to be carried about with us on ordinary occasions.
 We have cut 1t out of business hours. We have come to regard common courtesy as time-consumer and waste.
 Rapid communications have corrupted good manners, for the speed with which we can travel or transmit news has aroused a nervous impatience of delay which is fatal to courtesy and manners both in spirit and form.
 We no longer write the good, long, warm. soul-stirring letters that were writ ten in the old days.
 Formerly letters were dignified and in- teresting. but now they are neither. We imagine we have no time to write ele- gantly. and in a spirit of impatience we scribble few lines to some friend when there is no escape from the painful neces- sity. And the letters of today show that their writing is task. not pleasure.
 Once upon time it was good manners to hold age in. reverence, but it is not so any more.
 Whatever we may actually feel in the heart our attitude toward the old indi- cates that instead of regarding them with reverence we consider age synonym for incapacity and boredom.
 Maybe we mean all right, but our man. ners arc such that we often cause bitter heartache in the old, who, bred in differ ent school. can interpret our thoughtless intentions only as downright disrespect.
 It is an age of ill-manners in both men and women.
 Garish vulgarity taints what is regard ed. commonly at least. as the best soci- ety.
 So far have we sunk that the man of genuine courtesy and polish must bal ance it with some sort of coarseness or be damned as a sissy"
 It is ill-mannered to say all this. but the fact, no less than the ill-mannered assertion of it, fits the times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
Poll Taxes in Louisiana,

At the recent election in Louisiana the vote was light, and the chief inter- est was centered in a proposed con stitutional amendment that would, if ratified, repeal the requirement of a poll tax pigment two years previous as a condition of voting. The consti- tuition was adopted in 1898, and the provision in it requiring the payment of a poll tax two years in advance of voting has each year become some what unpopular. It has been freely asserted in Louisiana that the clause is utilized by political bosses, and that it does not operate to cut off the hoodlum element, while not few good citizens become neglectful and lose the right to vote.
 And yet the proposed amendment to repeal the obnoxious provision was readily voted down on Tuesday. The poll taxes of Louisiana go to her pub lie schools, and this fact may have entered into the issue. As a rule the politicians favored repeal of the poll tax clause, but the rank and file took a different view of the subject. and the poll tax condition of suffrage will stand in Louisiana.
 Similar provisions seem to wear well wherever they have been tried Texas voted the poll tax provision on Tuesday, and if it was carried that state will have a poll tax condition attached to her suffrage. Texas is voting it into her constitution, where it has never had a foothold.
 The poll tax condition will doubt less remain in the Louisiana constitu- tion until 1908, when the legislature may repeal it without submitting the subject to the people. This was done in order to give the provision a full and fair trial, and the people of Louis jana seem to have concluded that ac. tion in 1908 will suit them best. The poll tax provision of Louisiana is not cumulative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10

president of the sIosa-shefaeld Steel and Iron co.. is at the Hillman.
 J. J. Baker of Richmond is at the Nor ris
 P. F. Burgoyne of New York Is at the Morris.
 [. J. Bryan of Montgomery Is at the Morris.
 ". E. Wallace of Chattanooga is at the Metropolitan.
 Dr. J. B. Henneman of sewanee Is at the Metropolitan.
 R. P. Broxley of New York is at the Metropolitan.
 J. K. Kane of Montgomery is at the Hillman.
 The Rev. Andrew L. Sweeney, assist ant priest at st Paurs church, left last night for Buffalo to attend the alumni meeting of the University of Niagara.
 R. L. Griffin, editor of the Cullman Democrat is at the Morris. The Dem ocrat is not yet two years old but it Is one of the most successful weeklles in Alabama It has a modern outfit and a large circulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
MODERN BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY.

From Letters of a Self Made Merchant
 to His Son.
 With most men duty means something to do.
 I remember reading once that some fel- lows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use 1t instead of thought.
 Iou can trust a woman's taste on evry- thing except men; and it's mighty lucky that she slips up there or we'd pretty nigh all be bachelors.
 Repartee makes reading lively, but business dull.
 Anything trains a boy to think and to think quick pays; anything that teaches a boy to get the answer before the other fellow gets through biting the pencil pays.
 College doesn't make fools; 1t develops them It doesn't make men bright; it develops them.
 You'll meet a good many men on the road that you won't like, but the house needs their business.
 What you know is club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat axe for the other fellow.
 can't hand out any ready-made suc- cess 10 you. IL would do you no good, and it would do the house harm. There is plenty of room at the top here, but there Is no elevator in the building.
 Whenever any one offers to let you in on the ground floor it's a pretty safe rule to take the elevator to the roof garden.
 A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the offce and sworn enemies out of it. A clear mind is one that Is swept clean of business at C o'clock every night and isn't opened up for it again until after the shutters are taken down next morning. | A man can't pick his own mother, but he can pick his sons mother and when he chooses a father-in-law who plays the bucket shops, he needn't be surprised 1 if his own son plays the races.
 Adam invented all the different ways in which a young man can make a fool of himself, and the college yell at the end of them is just a frill that doesn't t change essentials. The boy who does anything just because the other fellows do 1t is apt to scratch a poor mans back all his life. He's the chap that's buy ing wheat at 97 cents the day before the market breaks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
NOVEMBER IN THE SOUTH.

By Walter Malone. This livelong day listen to the fall Of hickory nuts and acorns to the
 ground, The croak of rain-crows and the bluejays
 call
 The woodlands ax that hews with
 muffled sound. And like spendthrift in threadbare That still retains dash of crimson An old woodpecker chatters forth a note About the better Summer days he knew Across the road ruined cabin stands, With ragweeds and with thistles at its
 door, While withered cypress vines hank tat
 tered strands About its falling roof and rotting floor. Save when the walnuts batter on the
 earth Or when by winds the hectic leaves are Tc dance like witches Tn their manias
 mrth. Down in the orchard hank the, golden
 pears Half honeycombed by yellow hammer
 beaks Near by, dwarfed and twisted apple
 bears
 Its fruit, brown-red as Amazonian
 cheeks. The lonesome landscape seems as If 1t yearned
 Like out own aching hearts, when first
 we knew The one love of our life was not returned, Or first we found an old-time friend
 untrue. At last night comes. and the broad white
 moon
 Is welcomed by the owl with frenzied
 glee; The fat opossum, like a satyr, soon Blinks at it's light from yon perslmmon
 tree. The raccoon starts to hear long-dreaded sounds
 Amid his. scattered spells of ripened
 corn, The cry of negroes and the yelp of
 hounds,
 The wild rude pealing of hunters 8 horn. At last a gray mist covers all the land, | Until we seem to wander in cloud, | Far, far away upon some elfin strand Where sorrow drapes us in a mildewed shroud. No voice is heard in field or forest nigh to break the desolaton of the spell, Save one sad moclSng- bird in boughs near by, | Who sings like Tasso in his madman's s cell
 While one magnolia blossom ghostly white, a
 Like high-born Leonora, lingering there. Naughty and splendid in the lonesome i night Is pale with passion in her dumt l despair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
Revision of the Iarlff.

The vote in New York and Califor- mia, and the close approach to demo- cratic house of representatives despite unjust apportionments in many states, all go to show that the democrats have at hand a growing and valuable issue in tariff revision and the regula- tion of the trusts. Beyond all ques- tion this is what the recent elections mean. Beyond all question the cam paign of 1904 will be fought over the same identical issue-the Dingley tsriff and its trusts.
 The battle will be a hard one, for the tariff beneficiaries and the trusts often one and the same-are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
MIME. DUSE'S PLAYS GIVE A
 .LACHRYMAL OPPORTUNITY

show how much they feel when they are sexually infatuated, and how much they suffer when their sexual infatuation is re- pulsed or betrayed are, essentially hum bugs. Very wisely was it said by the poet Emerson:
 Had a lover who was noble and free,
 would he were nobler than to love me.
 The theme has grown very tiresome. There has been far too much stage glori- fication of the jackass propensity Tn hu- man nature; far too much analysis Of the resultant vices and sores An ecstasy or praise is, of course, to be expected, TOT the writings of MT. D Annunzio; just such a deplorable rupture hailed the advent or the feculent Zola; but the reader Of those writings will seek in vain for its justin cation. They are bold writings, indeed but they are only bold because they are shameless. It is, apparently, case or willful literary depravity. Just as tiie droary and ponderous MT. IbSen trafrics in heredity, asseverating that the giri whose grandfather once ate a cucumber must inevitably get into pickle, so the blind profuse, reckless and loquacious MT. D'Annunzio traffics in the univer- salty of carnal desire, and declares with the catechism that fin Adams fall We sinned all''-a circumstance that he seems to regard with the greatest satisfaction Tn La Giaconda" his theme is adultery; in s'I4a Citta Morta" it is adulterous pur- pose combined with ineipient incest; in s'Francesca" it Is crotic frenzy. Mmc- Duse. in producing the odorifereus works of this "consummate analyst, is under stood to consider herself freighted with moral lessons" She is. And the chier of them is the lesson that foreign per formers who come before the American people for the purpose of attending to their moral culture and teaching them to keep the ten commandments, are imper- tinent persons, who would show better judgment and better taste by keeping their supcrfuous morality to -them- selves. Our public does not need homilies on the stage; it needs plays Mime. Duse s professional expertness-which was ex- erted last night with plentifully piuvial results-has been generally recognized and 1t is nowhere denied. The notable Italian acted here in 1893, and again in 1896, and she showed herself possessed of inordinate sensibility, emotional force. al- turing charm and 'natural'--perhaps rather too natural-method She is a clever actress along the plane of ''rea1- ism," but in no sense great actress: not comparable with Madame Modjeska in romantic drama, and far inferior td Ada Rehan in comedy. As to MT. DAn- nunzio, the gist of all his plays---n so far as they have any-can be found, and in infinitely better expression, in five lines of Shakespeare:
 But Virtue, as 1t never will be moved. Though lewdness court it in a shane of heaven,
 So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd. Will sate itself 1n celestial bed, And prey on garbage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Has Come to Stay.

''The automobile has come to stay, said citizen yesterday. There. are not very many of them here at present 1t is true. but this is largely due to the fact that the perfect automobile has not yet been invented.
 An automobile to be satisfactory for general family use must be able to travel over the usual country roads as found in the United States. The reason often given for the non-use of automobiles in the south Is the poor condition of the country roads, and while this Is true. the time will come shortly when the ingenuity of mankind will invent automobiles which will be able to travel over any kind of road. They are becoming more and more nearly perfect each day. and 1t Is going to be a case with them of the survival of the Attest.
 We all remember the bicycle craze and how many said they would not be gen. orally used on account of the country roads. Stll the bicycle, though the craze has disappeared has become Q fixture of everyday business life. The automo- bile will soon become another It has wonderful advantages over the usual con- veyance It will stand in the stable for months without eating It's head off or needing exercise. Its speed and endur- ance is unlimited, and all that 1t needs is to be built so as to stand the wear and tear of country roads. Experience Is rap. idly pointing out the best machines. The electric ones have proven the greatest failures of all. The delicate electric ma chinery will not stand jolting and the electric machines are too heavy. The storage batteries also require much space. The choice now lies between the steam and gasoline autos. The French have se- lected the latter as the most serviceable and they lead the world in their manufac- ture. It looks now as if the gasoline mo- tor was to become the favorite in the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10
A Local ventrlIoquist.

Several men were walking together along a country road in the birmingham district night or two since" said a we'll known citizen, "and one of them hurled rock into Q grove near point We were passing. Another man in the party. being a ventriloquist. threw his voice in the direction of the rock and the man who threw the stone was startled by what seemed to be the yelping of dog that had been struck.
 This clever trick of the ventrilouuist reminded me of Tom Cuniff, one of the best-known and most popular miners at Pratt. MT. Cuniff Is a master in ven triloquism. Whenever he wanted to get rid of a digging partner without telling him so he would throw his voice into the roof of the room where they were working and make an ominous creaking noise. The objectionable partner would lis ten. In little while the noise became more distinct and the man, thinking the roof was going to fall, would take hls de- parture and would never be caught in that room again.
 6uL lHc Dcot JohS tlidL Ouilltl pldySu was on a negro mule driver about two years ago. -ne negro beat his mule and the ventriloquist made the mule talk out. D--n you, nigger, stop that, shouted the mule The driver made haste to get out of the mine. What's your hurry? asked a coal digger. Tse jes gwine to de top as fast as I can. You don't ketch dis nigger round wid mule what talks '' About Persons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-10

From the New York Tribune, Nov. 5.
 A great lachrymal opportunity is now offered to the inhabitants of this capital
 in the presence and proceedings of the Italian actress, Mime. Duse, who came forth last night, at the Victoria theatre,
 in MT. DAnnunzio's play of La Glocon- da, and who can be seen there for two
 weeks, in that and two other dramas from the same hand. Mime. Duses pro- gressional condition is that of anguish.
 She carries grief by the ton. and ,noth- ing will or can content her soul but to behold her audience steeped in tears. To this end she has provided herself with several stage heroines, each one of whom cumstances, convulsed with the most dreadful emotions, contorted with agony. and blighted with despair; and this cor rosive sublimate of grief is invariably amatory. Each of these heroines is desperately enamore.- of a man, and in each case 1t Is either the wrong man, as in Francesca da Rimini, or the man who does wrong, as in La Glocouda and La Citta Morta. For the embodiment of these afflicted females Mme Duse is amply endowed by nature Ind adequate ly equipped by art, her qualifications be- ing febrile temperament, a morbid inn agination, a wayward, undi3ciplined, ego tistical mind, passionate, tremulous, cx- citable, nervous system, a woful, sat ur- nine aspect, sullen countenance, 1.-the nervous figure. a melting voice, and ex- pert skill-acquired through long experi- ence on the prosy continental stage-in the professional practice of initiating the surfaces of actual life. Such, at least, has ever been the testimony of her act ing-through which is seen woman of wild and lawless emotion, without intel lectual purpose or control, reveller in elirium, and photographer of woe
 Mime. Duse was hailed with enthusiasm by great assemblage of desolated mourn
 CTS. for whose manifest edifcaton she ex- pounded the sorrows of "Sivia Settala, an abused, neglected, insulted, outraged wife, who, being welded to despicable blackguard of husband, has neither the strength of mind, the dignity of character nor the decent self-respect to control her infatuation for him. but condescends to quarrel with his mistress, and allows her self to be literally crushed, in her abject | devotion to him. Many persons appear tc | like this kind of thing, and to suppose | when beholding it, that they are seeing | wonderful sights. virile feelings for al | that is animal and sensual, nowadays, is | .'virile'), and tremendous powers-the fact being that the grandeur of human nature | is not surrendered to passion, but con | quest of 1t; and the further fact being | that there is neither sincerity of mora
 purpose nor valuable impairment of any | kind in these. manifestations, and thai 1 actors who make business of trying tt