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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRMINGHAMs
WATER AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST

the fact that accidental pollution is liable
to occur at any time on other portions of
the sheds, show conclusively that the wa
ter furnished by the Birmingham Water
Works Company should be purified by
filtration before admitted to the Mains"
Other experts have analysed Tic water
supplied to the people of Birmingham,
and while they have not announced it rs
pure. they have declared 1t TO be a fairly
average water so far as purity goes. 1t
n ay be that Mr.. Gray is bit strict in
his expressions in regard TO the water. At
the same time, we all know that the char
acter OF water furnished to us for drink
Ing purposes Is not what II should be. 1t
needs filtration, and we must have 1t.
Such should be insisted upon by the PEG
pie of Birmingham. The water company
will. of course. put in c plant TO filter the
water supply. but as this takes time, 1t
Is due to the citizens of birmingham who
must consume this water, that they
should be notified either to filter 1t them
selves before using it. or IL they are not
supplied with household filters, TO boil
this water before drinking it. Otherwise
they lay themselves liable to imbibe fever
germs or other germs which may cause
serious intestinal troubles.
There is no use in growing wildly ex-
cited over this report. Many of us have
been drinking this water for several years
and are still alive, but there is undoubt-
ed danger In its consumption, and it is
well that all the people should be warn
ed to take the necessary precautions.
The Water Company of Birmingham
will make no mistake in pushing the
construction of a filtering plant People
naturally become alarmed when they are
notified that the water supply of a city
is not absolutely pure. But when those
people now in Birmingham, and those
who are considering the matter of NOV
ing here know that they have a perfect
water supply of pure water, the question
of Birmingham being an excellent and
healthful location will no longer be con-
sidered. People will move here, estab-
fishing industries and building homes even
faster than they have come in the past
is ample water in the source from which
Birmingham obtains its supply to furn-
ish a city of half million inhabitants
Therefore, if this water is purified and
kept pure by filtration, the water compa-
ny will benefit as much as those others
of us who happen to be interested In
Birmingham, its present prosperity and
70 flIt1 IF ha
water company are liable to be one-fourth
or even one-half larger in another year
if they spend the necessary money to
give us a pure and wholesome water.
I am glad to see that those who are in
terested and active in the political af-
fairs of this state are discussing openly
and publicly the uestion of a general
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13
21eJ0,raxa~
THE r1URT1UR OF THE WORLD.

OF pelf and place in it's worst forms. Here
one sees persons who have wealth or Off
cial station, and often both possessions.
VINO are yet unable to see the inside of
houses of refinement, homes of society
that scorns office and money alike when
tie possessors of these have nothing else
to recommend them to persons of culture.
There is one man here said to possess
thirty millions of money. Undoubtedly
ne has vast wealth, and his name is high
up in official life; but so far he has been
entirely unable to gain admission for one
evening to what he esteems the charmed
and charming garden OF private society
In vain he paints his whiskers and dis
ports himself in a palace car of an auto
mobile. Unofficial society doesn't so much
as look at his whskers, his automobile
or his huge millions; and so the story now
goes that he has finally persuaded wild
ow TO allow him to enter society by mar
rying her. She is old and very poor in
this worlds goods, but her social position
is of the highest-so high in fact that she
could lift her flfty-million dollar husband
into the houses and haunts of fashion
This is a case in point and one that
tends to arouse ones contempt, for the
man is lost to a sense of self-respect
when he tries to buy or force his way
into association with persons who do not
desire his presence. Money can't buy
everything, even in this land of the AL
mighty Dollar where the daily newspa-
pers give more space in one day to a mil
lionaire than they give in a month to the
Saviour of mankind. The newspapers are
what the public makes them; no newspa-
per can live which does not please it's
public Therefore our people run after
the millionaires, eager to kiss the boots
that may crush. In the contest between
dollars and souls, the souls suffer.
But there are many good souls in the
world who are vain of neither beauty nor
comliness, nor wealth, nor station, but
who are content to do their duty as self
respecting individuals and leave the rest
TO God. These are the salt of the earth
and they shall inherit riches that are not
purchasable by dollars He is We best
man who cares no more for the million
aire as q millionaire than he cares for
the scavenger as a scavenger; who Is
content to ride in trolley car because he
can't afford a carriage of his own: who
esteems his sweetheart or wife in a Collar
skirt far above the woman In front
staggering In ner skirt that cost fifty
tirles as much; who doesn't resort to
tricks, or so much as desires to attend a
feast at which he is not hidden in proper
spirit and who as a man holds himself
to be as good in the social sense as any
other mani
Blessed are those who do not make
fools Of themselves; blessed are the self
respecting.
LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13
Comma French Elections.

The second empire fell in 1870, and
bers of the Chamber of Deputies will
occur on Sunday, April 81 when $50
members are to be elected by man.
hood suffrage in the second republic
in the world-second in size and popu-
lation and wealth to the United States
only. Such elections are always in
teresting. and this one is particularly
So
Neither the Monarchists nor the
Bonapartists are rampant now, but
when NJ. Waldeck-Rousseau accepted
the premiership in order to tide the
republic over the Dreyfus affair, it be-
came necessary to form an alliance
with the Moderate Socialists. The
new Premier being a radical Republi-
can, this was not difficult to do, and
Millerand, Socialist leader, was made
q member of the Cabinet, and he is
today a minister of the republic. Mil
Ierand is simply a Socialist, a moder-
ate. not radical who has a pro
gramme that no government could ac-
cept, and escape financial discredit.
The uppermost question at present
In France relates to the Socilistic pro-
paganda. In the present Chamber
there are 81 straight-out Socialists Of
the Millerand sort, and "A radical So
cfalists. There are also 104 radicals,
and 254 Republicans. The rest are
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

state primary by which the Democrats
OF Alabama can select by ballot their
own candidates for office, from Governor
down through the list of Congressman
and other officials to the lowest county
and city officer. When the people. bv
ballot, select candidates for public Of
flee. and elect them to the same they
usually select gooa men. Conventions.
however, are ofto-l packed. As rule. a
convention which is called to nominate
candidates for several offices in a county
or in n state, names one or two good
men for the highest offices, and by vir-
tue of trades, which are considered nee
essary to the success of the best men for
the highest offices, bad men or incompe-
tent men are selected for some of The
less important offices. Indeed, consider
the matter yourself, and 1 venture you
do not know of an instance where a con-
vention has been held in the State of
Alabama in which there was not Just
such trades as led to the selection of in
competent or unfit men for some of the
offices. OF course 1t is not to be assert
ed that even primary will always lead
to the selection of the very highest type
of men in the state for political office,
but as a rule. men above the average
will be selected by the people when they
have the full and free right to vote and
have their votes counted in the primary
election.
We all know that when candidates for
the Legislature are chosen in county con-
ventions the beet men are not always
selected. There is such trading in these
conventions that have in the past and
will in the future, if it is continued. lead
to the selection of men for this most
important branch Of our state govern
ment who could not possibly obtain a
seat in the legislative body of this state
If they were candidates straight-out be-
fore the people.
l can see no reason why any good man
should be afraid to go before his neigh
bors for their endorsement by ballot If he
is worthy of the office which he seeks.
The announcement of the names of
those who will actually conduct the af-
fairs of the Democratic Congressional
Committee this fall has been a great
surprise to many of those who were prom
inent in Democratic councils in 1896 and
1900. In other words, 1t is composed of
a majority of men who have been anti
Bryan in the past. Ben Gable, of Illinois,
is chairman of the campaign committee.
Lewis Nixon, of New York, is chairman
of the finance committee and the balance
of the campaign committee is composed
of David Overmeyer, of Kansas; Thomas
Taggert, of Indiana; Richard Olney of
Massachusetts, and Daniel Lamont of
New York None of these men have
been particularly chummy with Mr,
Bryan.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13
Trust the New Electorate.

There are those who affect to see in
a State primary the direst evils. They
see rings, and frauds, and high ex-
penses, and a multiplicity of candi-
dates, and all other sorts of hobgob-
Inns, and they are warning the people
of Alabama against them. Their anX-
iety for the safety prosperity and
peace of the State is very great, and
they are anxious that they shall not
be endangered or even checked by the
Introduction of State primary.
Their anxiety is very praiseworthy,
but it would be more convincing if
they would give it more substantial
foundation They lose sight of the
fact that State primary is no longer
in its experimental stage 1t is part
and parcel of the political system OF
our own neighbors-of Georgia to the
east of us, and of Mississippi on the
west. 1t is the rule in many other
States. Now, if any of the evils pre-
dicted for Alabama in case she adopts
direct popular action are to occur,
they must have occurred in the
other States. If so let us have facts,
dates and circumstances. If there is
in the experiences of the other States
anything that is not wholly satisfac-
tory, so far as primaries are con-
cerned, let it be told. We desire to
know the worst. At present not a
word is said as to the fruits and eff
fects, haps and mishaps, of popular
action in the other States. The 81
lence on this point is becoming mys-
terious and ominous.l What is good
in Georgia and Mississippi and South
Carolina AND Arkansas and Minnesota
ought to Be very good in Alabama,
for we nave new, selected, choice
electorate, and direct action ought to
be even better here than it is in 9TH
er States. No one, not even a conven-
zionist, will say Alabama's present
electorate is inferior, less intelligent,
less honest, than the celebrates of
the States named. No one has said
that what is good for Georgia or Mis-
sissippi cannot possibly be good for
Alabama, because of want of intelli-
Cpoca or patrio+icr,o hove
The truth is, no State that has tried
direct popular action has any inten-
ton of returning to the convention
system. The trend is wholly the other
way. No Georgian proposes to abol-
ishes the primary-the State primary
for the purpose of nominating candi-
dates in conventions, and so it is in
South Carolina, where the Democrats,
plagued with factions, have used the
popular system many years. 1t does
not promote faction. 1t overcomes it,
and even In South Carolina it is rem
dering faction within the party power
less. 1t is adapted to all States, sim
ply because it is democratic, and it
gives every voter an equal chance to
express his preference. 1t is pure
democracy, and the people have al
ways proved to be the safest and
most conscientious depositaries of po-
litical power.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13
mNsULT" TO WHEELER.

Washington, April Ex-senator Pettus
the venerable humorlst from Alabama
met General Joe" Wheeler today in
the corridor and said:
~ know just how you must feel after
the Presidents insulting reference to
you in his Charleston speech
II did not know the President had in
suited me-" said General Wheeler.
''He referred to you as his old friend -
said Senator Pettus. at makes my blood
CONCEAL to hear a young man like You
designated as old"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13
Southern Railway Offices.

The Southern Railway Company has
removed its local passenger office and it's
division freight office from 2O19 First ave-
nue. to the Hotel Morris corner Elegant
counters have been placed in the new
quarters and within the next few days all
the furniture will be in keeping with
the handsome surroundings.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13
a PRIMARY Is COMING.

From the Centrevile Press.
At the present time it looks as if a state
urinary will be ordered. a number of
influential papers are advocating priyn "a
nv election, and the press is \ powerful
factor, and they may succeed III having
what they want
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

1t is too dry to do spring blowing
in Wisconsin, and too wet in Alabama.
This country is so big that 1t runs into
all sorts of weather
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

If Alabama is to win a high place
among manufacturing States, We must
seek for industrial plants year in and
year out. Cheap fuel will not alone
suffice
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

When actors affect to talk low to
themselves on the stage they do really
talk. They first discuss their make
up and then the size of the house.
Other topics may serve to keep up the
pretense of talk, but these two are the
stand-bys.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

Three Connecticut cities have elect
ed workingmen as their Mayors. They
had become tired of electing profess
ional politicians.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

Joker Depew has become Slanderer
Depew. He has exchanged his stale
Jokes for staler ISLANDERS of this sec
ton of the country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

The Vanderbilt familys agent In tho
United States Senate is now raiding
the South, dealing out more misstate-
ments to the inch than any of his
predecessors had been able to do.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

Cuban reciprocity is to be we'll dis
cussed at any rate, and perhaps JUS
tice and fair play to an island We
freed will be the outcome.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

Germany should not bar out Ameri-
can meats on account of boracic acid,
but on account of trust prices.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

The smell of lilacs and the sight of
new leaves is the reward of one who
wanders a-field nowadays.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

Mark Twain has bought handsome
home in Sleepy Hollow, but he will not
people it with Huckleberry Firms.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

The music festival deficit is conclu-
siye. AL. Wilson and Florodora are
what the amusement goers of this
town are willing to hear and pay lib
orally.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

Mr.. Pearson should remember that
the Beers get their horses and mules
via Port Chalmette and the British
army,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

The silence of Grover Cleveland
leads some to think that he has again
run up that Presidential lightning rod.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

~ ANITARY ENGINEER GRAY,
TX who was employed by the SAM
NJ tary Commission OF jefferson
- County to make report on the
water supply and the best sewerage sys-
tenn to be adopted for Jefferson County,
has rendered an expert opinion. What
he says of the water supply of Birming-
ham Is deserving of immediate consider
alton. He says the Birmingham Water
Works Company should put in a filter
at once-that the water we are drinking
is impure and that it will lead to disease.
This means an expediture on the part
OF the Birmingham Water Works Com
pany of perhaps q quarter of a million
dollars. This company is made up of
progressive people, and it goes without
saying that they will put in the neces-
sary filter. But it will take six months
to do this work. 1t may take a year.
In the meantime, the people of Birming-
ham are not getting as good water as
they should have. Thus it would be
well for those who are to drink the
water to filter the same, or else to boil
1T before they consume it. This may,
x.
same time. we all know that no city has
a perfectly healthy water supply. There
is danger of germs and disease in all
water. Filtration, in a large measure,
relieves the water of it's most dangerous
impurities. Boiling relieves it entirely of
all germs. That u.s. provided water after
1t is boiled is not contaminated before it
is consumed.
Mr.. Gray, the expert engineer and
Psychologist, says in his report, that
which comes from the Cahaba river sup
ply, and that this water Shows indi-
cations of serious pollution. Free am
monia and albuminoid ammonia are high,
nitrogen as nltrites is very high, and
chlorine is also high; all of which indi-
Gates sewage pollution"
Further on in his report in dealing with
the Five Mile Creek water supply, he
says this water shed, inhabited as 1t is
and with an open canal carrying the
water as it does for six miles through a
territory well occupied with people, rem
ders the water liable to contamination"
He advises that 1.-THE archaeological an
alysis of sample of this water, taken
from the North Birmingham reservoir,
shows it to contain intestinal bacteria
which in itself is sufficient evidence to
give alarm and to prohibit it's use in its
present conditions"
Mr. Gray goes further and says, at is
not believed that the water company will
continue to furnish this water for domes-
tic purposes" Further Mr.. Gray says
that 1.-The prevalence OF typhoid fever in
tho city of Birmingham is shown by sta
tistics, and the evidence of pollution of
the water as shown by the chemical and
meteorological analyses, and also the fact
mat portions CT the water shed from
which water is derived, are polluted and
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

When Kings escape from socialists
in automobiles, it is plain the world
do move
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

King Leopold scorches when he
meets socialist professions.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-13

Here in Washington one sees the vanity
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-06

tho guests Of Mrs. Sparks parents, DIR.
'Nrs i 7. Cashier.
= Iogie Wynn left Monday night for
AGO to take summer course Ia itora-
+ b. F. Elkln rs visiting relatives at
|as Kote Morgan left Monday night for
I,snooga. y. Y. where she goes 10
a H,rsie under the famous Instructor,
pr Sherwood. Miss Morgan was ac-
h,apled by Miss Dudle Barton.
~ b. Crawford aud children are
H., relatives in West Texas.
|,-aa and Mrs. V. y. Hudson and chill
f., Rryan have been visiting the fam
optostuoster ]. A. Gambell this week.
H. Mande Davis left Tuesday night for
irado City, Colo, to visit relatives.
L William Alexander of san Cruise,
|, nlco and Misses Addie and Lula
H. of Jacksonville, Fla. were recent
|ors 70 their sister. Mrs. Jennie Hinton,
Eli city while en- route to Porto Rico
and Mrs. Ralph Wade of Wootan
h. visited Calvert Tuesday.
\ n w. Garretr left Thursday night
Ala. where he goes to ac-
I,onT home his wife and children.
p r l. Davis left Monday night for
Reton 10 speud the summer with her
Ebter. Mrs j. A. Alsobrooks.
krtoin Il. +. Church returned Tuesday
4 n months visit to Los Angeles, Cal.
1 Reagan McCrary Is at home from a
70 Dallas. Waco and other points.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-06
The Boys Discrimination.

New York Evening Sun.
A certain American writer Of inrcrns-
tlonal reputation who died recently, was.
like so many other geniuses, strangely IN.
capable Of managing his own domestic af-
fairs. The small boy OF the family was
his fathers pet, but the terror OF the rest
Of the household. Now 1t happened that
under this same roof with this small boy
lived two maiden aunts sisters OF his moth
er. That they we're thorns in his lesh he
made no pretense OF conceallng. On one
occasion when he had oyefstepped o BIT
farther than usual rte bounds or proptiety
IN addressing his relatives his Aunt Ju4a
appeared before his father to state the
case Her nephew had called her fool,
while his Aunt Martha he had character
ICED as damn fool. The young offender
was summoned to the parental presence.
Fixing him with his eye the father de-
mandcd:
did you call your Aunt Julia a fooli"
"bid you call your Aunt Martha damn
foolf
YES"
My SON" was the PROMPT reply, that
is exactly the distinction | should make
myself.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-06
A PHASE OF THE GREAT DISASTER

Words Inadequate to Satisfy the Vorac-
ious Appetite for News.
New York Commercial advertiser.
1t would seem irreyerent and almost Ike
testing with death to speak Of hume Gus
side to the Martinique disaster, but amid
all It's awfulness there was one phase OF II
which appears TO Consul General Luis
Ayme Of Gaudeloupe, now that he IS far
away from the scene In rather humorous
light, ,,,.. 81.
said the consul "that people would thipE
me almost heartless to speak OF II IN ing
but a solemn way, and ! really 90 not feei
like II, but the yoraclty Of tho Amerl an
public for news, news, news nag struck me
over sixty newspaper and magazine " n
on tho Island, and that number might be
doubled q great many times when y0u con-
slider the fact that several or the men rep
resented the great newspaper syndicates
and the Associated Press that ,,supphes
Bile message after cable Iaessage was sent,
until the tolls OF these few weeks amounted
10 $4,000 Two-column letters aud three
column letters were written, everything
about the island had 70 serve na material
Why, the. appearance OF tae cloud Of smoke
scribed thousands and tens Of thousands
OF times. I know that have scnt message
after niessnge myHelf. and yet there was
no let-up In tho demand. WHOM ! eape up
on the ntenmef said 20 Admiral ttirlingi
Now. III have 20 try ard scrape up some
would there was r0yer thing left. was
4 squeeEed lemon. And yet the whole Ting
Gfg words-'s CITY Of $4,000 wl0sa on ths