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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-03

ity is the underlying principle of this
government and the action of the
house and senate was therefore truly
and thoroughly American.
The truth of the matter is majority
rule became necessary in the legisla-
ture in order to defeat the packed COM
mittees which early became features
of both house and senate. Until the
packed committee can be abolished
the majority rule should be maintained
in both house and senate.
The Register need not fear that
the rule of the majority will ever vex
the party or the state in future legis-
latures. 1t is the opposite that has
yeXed and harmed the state-the rule
OF cliques and cut-and-dried commit
tees-and the rule of the majority has
come in to crush corruption and COM
bination and to give the plain people
a chance. It Should be retained, and
the house rule permitting a bill to be
taken from the calendar by a majority
vote, should be duplicated in the SEN
ate. Let the rule of the majority be
fully established. The state needs il
in its business, and It should never be
displaced by clique or combine rule.
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s225o FOR FIVE ACRES.

Chattanooga, Tenn-George w Wander
bilt has purchased Of Joshua Moore,
negro, nine acres of land for $2250. The
land purchased would have been dear at
$40 on acre to any one but Mr. Vanderbilt.
1t adjoins his country seat. Biltmore. NJ,
c. Moore on receiving hatterins offers
from Mr.. Vanderbilt for the lard, an
nounced that he had no desire 10 sell II:
IL at he really wanted to live near
wealthy neighbor. lie persisted in his de-
termination until a few days ago. when
Mr. Vanderbilt offered him a fancy price
and he accepted II.
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Railroad Commission.

"Wl T. Sanders, one of the recently APP
pointed railroad commissioners is an at
torney for the Louisville and Nashville
railroad and as there is a question as to
whether one can fill the commissioner
Ship and act as attorney for railroad
company at the same time, Mr.. Sanders
will probably give up his position with
the Louisville and Nashville" said
lawyer. ''He is a man of high sense of
honor and propriety and if he thinks
that holding the Two positions would
subject him to criticism he will certainly
quit the railroad.
section of the new railroad bill says:
No person owning any stock in any call
road corporation, or in the employment of
any railroad corporation or of any per-
son owning or operating a railroad in
this state. shall be eligible to the office
of railroad commissioner Section l of
the bill provide for the election of rail-
road commissioners. and then 1t says
Until said positions are filled by election
as above provided, they shall continue
to be filled as now provided by law
Evidently the intention Of the lawmak-
ers was TO provide FOR the appointment of
commissioners until January, 1905, but
that in every o-,er respect the new law
should go into effect. But did they carry
their intentions into the new law? If they
did, MIR. Sanders cannot at one time serve
two masters He must choose between
the state and the Louisville and Nashville
railroad. But If the words, they shall
continue to be filled as now provided by
law are to be taken literally, perhaps
he can hold both places.
THE question is interesting from a
law viewpoint only. for Mr.. Sanders is a
man who could serve both masters intel
ligently and honorably. He could try
railroad cases in the courts. and he could
and would see that the provisions of the
new law are fairly and fully carried out
But as | have said Mr.. Sanders will
probably resign his Louisville and Nash
VILE attOrneVShip. "
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HILL Is IMPOSSIBLE.

From the New York World.
The attempt to revive the talk OF David
b. Hill as a candidate for president is
meeting with very little success. And the
reason Is obvious. Mr. Hill forfeited the
confidence even of those who believed in
his cunning if in nothing else by his stu
pen1ous folly and short sightedness in
the manag ement of last years campaign.
There was a golden opportunity for the
democrats to carry New York All that
was necessary was to nominate Judge
Parker for governor upon sound dem
ocratic platform. Mir Hill was in abso-
lutte and urquestioned control of the sit
uatlon Instead of nominating Judge
Parker ne put forward Coier for the
reason, obvious even to political kinder
gartners, ;bat Mr.. Coler. If elected, would
not stand in the way OF his ambition to
be president.
AS if this was not enough, Mr. HILL
without previous announcement of any
discussion, thrust into the state platform
tho boldest and most startling piece OF
socialism and Capitalization ever suggest
ed in a convention that called itself DEM
ocratic-a demand for the federal owner
ship and management OF the anthracite
coal mines.
1t was impossible that this should have
been meant serlousy-for Mr.. Hill is an
able lawyer and has proclaimed himself
a democrat. 1t was too palpably meant
to catch votes out of the distress
caused by the coal famine.
Is a leader who showed himself capa-
BILE OF such stupid bunder and such I'M
prineipled stiffness as Mr.. Hill was
guilty of at Saratoga likely to have any
standing as a presidential candidate? OF
a politician who has the confidence of
neither wing of his party, nor of the in
dependent voters, is it too much to say
that he Is 'impossible?'
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Joint Southeastern Exhibit.

The legislature has adjourned with
out making an appropriation for a
state exhibit at st. Louis, and when it
reassembles in September it will be
altogether too late to secure a favor
able site and get READY for the opening
of the exposition in the following May.
There is only one chance, namely,
join hands with one, two or three
other states, and by subscription make
up joint fund that will put up cred
liable building and procure a credit
able display of the marvellous re-
sources of the southeast. A combine
consisting of Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida and Georgia would represent
the southeast, for the four states are
the southeastern corner of the great
iron and steel; Mississippi, timber and
cotton; Florida, semi-tropical fruits,
and Georgia could chip in with water
melons and peaches and cotton mill
products.
The four states could make a brave
display at st. Louis, and the southeast
would in that way be properly repre-
scented.
To do this each state should raise
about $4,000, and there is no reason
why the great corporations and the
business men of Alabama should not
Speedily subscribe for that amount.
There are larger interests in the other
three states, and if joint action could
be had no doubt joint exhibit Of the
southeastern states could be provided
for. But whatever is to be done should
be done speedily, for the great fair is
to be opened in May Of next year.
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LETTERS TO EDITOR
Heartfelt Thanks.

To the Editor of The .Ago-Herald.
Please permit me to express TO you in
behalf of the barefoot boys and girls
of Alabama" the shod ones, too, ana
especially the public which pays the
freight" my sincere and heartfelt thanks
for your untiring efforts IN behalf Of the
passage of the uniformity textbook bill,
to the accomplishment Of which you
have contributed large amount Of work.
clearly demonstrating to the people of
the state the benefits that will accrue
from such legislation.
Mr.. Editor If you have never done or
never will do another good or great thing
for the people of this state. the unswerv-
ing stand you have taken in securing by
legislation commission to select and
buy the school books for the children of
this state. will entitle you to take first
rank among the great benefaetors of the
people of Alabama The taking away
from the teachers the promiscuous Sc
lection and change of school books When
ever it suited their pleasure, or the
change of text books necessitated by the
removal of the child from one village to
another, and placing the selection of said
books In the hands of a central commit
tee, men of judgment, experience, ability
and education, is in my opinion one of
the most progressive steps the state has
taken since my residence began in it over
thirty years ago | have always MAIN
tained that the people have some rights
in connection with the education of
their children, and believed further that
If any of the teachers of the state did
not approve of such bill, 1t was easier
and cheaper for them to move to another
state where there was no uniformity of
school books than for the parents to
continue to pay at least a quarter of a
million dollars annually to the enrich
ment of the book trust for the mere
sake of indulging the whims Of the
teacher and depriving them of their i'm
aginary prerogatiyes.
Wishing you continued prosperity, I am
very truly, yours,
Birmingham, March 2, 1893
b. STEINER.
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A PERSISTENT WOMAN.

From the Boston Herald.
Miss Rebecca j. Taylor, who has lost
her clerkship at Washington, through
her own indiscretion, is not content to
sit quietly under the deprivation. She is
suing for a reinstatement there. She is
persevering to the extent of persistency
in SO doing. To gain her point, she
must be the occasion of administering
reproof from a legal quarter to Secre-
tary Root who removed her. This lone
woman against the comparatively SUI
preme secretary is in an unequal contest.
There was a manifest improperly in her
criticising publicity. as she did, the Off
cial action of her superiors in office, and
If the habit of so doing spreads in the
departments it will be apt to operate de-
moralization there. Still, for their own
personal comfort. and perhaps little for
their dignity, also, it will be better for
high officials to let women of this calibre
alone. They are not pleasant subjects
to tempt to engage in controversy.
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For thy favors done to US in our
election this day, give thee thanks.
Titus and Andronicus.
Hjuh Price of Cotton.

Bad weather has destroyed no little
cotton in the fields, and it has kept
back the remnant of the crop. At
times the actual exports have been
larger than the receipts at our own
ports, the foreign demand being heavy
and well maintained. Altogether there
is a lively competition for the rest of
the crop, and few indeed expect the
price to fall below ten cents until the
new crop is pretty well measured and
estimated.
One serious objection to ten-cent cot
ton at this time is the tendency under
such a stimulus to greatly increase the
acreage. At present about twenty-five
million acres are planted in cotton,
and no doubt an increase of ten per
cent would be feasible. Such an in
crease would at any rate discourage
those who are endeayoring to grow
cotton in Africa, Cuba and elsewhere.
1t would remind them that America
can grow the worlds cotton and that
she proposes to do it. Nor would an
Increase of ten per cent in the acreage
be at all serious If the acreage in sup
plies could be maintained
The truth is, the world needs from
America a twelve-million bale crop.
Stocks have been running down sew
eral years, and the demand for the
heecy product is annually increasing.
China will take hereafter a large
amount of goods, and an eleyen-million-
bale crop is no longer sufficient to sup
ply all demands and leave reasonable
reserve at the end of the cotton year.
The number Of spindles is increased
every year, and point has been
reached where the capacity of the
spindles overlaps the capacity of
twenty-five million acres in this coun-
try.
Consumption is not reduced by the
high prices which the raw material
commands, and no one expects it will
be, but by June or July the market will
begin to discount the new crop, and
this may lead to lower prices If the
start be favorable and the acreage
large.
Not since January, 1901, has cotton
been higher than it is now At that
time cotton sold up to 1915, or over
21a cents higher than it is now worth.
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SIGNIFICANT.


The great significance of the discovery
of Adrenaln Is indicated in the announce
ment that dog was made to live ten and
one-half hours with his head cut off, by
means of this powerful restorative.
One OF the chief difficulties in vivisec-
tion has always been the proneness OF
dogs and other animals to die with the
pain and shock OF having knives thrust
into them. Nobody knows how many Sc
crets of nature have eluded MS merely be-
cause of the vivisectionist having had
to stop at the critical moment and get
another dog.
Now that dog may be kept alive up
wards OF ten hours with his head cut
off, important results may be expected.
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JUDGE NOT.
ide Anne Proctor.

BY Adelaide Anne Proctor.
Judge not; the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In Gods pure light may only be
A scar brought from some well-won
field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
The look. the air, that frets thy sight
May be a token that below,
The soul has closed in deadly fight
With some Internal fiery foe
Whose glance would scorch thy smiling
grace,
And cast thee shuddering on thy face.
The fall thou darest to despise,-
May be the angels slackened hand
Has suffered 1t. that he may rise
And take a frmer, surer stand:
Or, trusting less to earthly things,
May henceforth learn to use his wings
And Judge none lost; but wait and see,
With hopeful pity, not disdain;
The depth of the abyss may he
The measure of the height of pain
And love and glory that may raise
This soul to God in after daysl
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Hirsch was confined to his home yester-
day ON account of illness but it is thought
he will be out again today.
]. II. Arnold of Gadsden is at the Met
ropolitan.
Harden H. Fits of Mobile is at the
Metropolitan.
II. C. Parker of Providence is at the
Metropolitan.
II. A. Fletcher of Kansas City is at the
Metropolitan.
A. M. Hnand of Chicago is at the
Metropolitan.
The Hon. Thomas R. Roulhac, United
states district attorney is at the Morris.
C. C. Holley of Little Rock is at the
Morris.
A. S. johnson of Louisville s at tne
Morris.
c. V. LeCraw of Atlanta is at the Nor
ris
w. H. Null of Chicago is at the Norris
]. r. Hunter of Lehgh is at The Mol
ris.
d. W. Lum Of Washington d. C., Is at
the Morris.
-
The Rev. John G. Murray and family
have gone to Mrs Nixon's to remain I'M
til their departure for Baltimore, about
March Is.
Mr.. Ben Carter OF Washington is IN the
city.
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SOME OF THE CHARMS
OF THE WOMAN OF so
Mrs. wilson woodrow in Cosmopolitan.

Mrs. Wilson Woodrow in Cosmopolitan.
HERE was one thing, at least in
(0 cident to the good old days for
which the modern woman never
signs, and that is that definite line which
marked the boundary between youth and
old age. The woman who today is eeIe-
brated for distinctive charm and beauty
ripe views, disciplined intellect, culti-
waited and manifold gifts, would. two
score years ago. have been relegated to
the heavy ranks of the dowagers and
randmothers-forced by the stern con-
ventions of prevailing opinion to confront
the bitter knowledge that just as she had
gained a mastery of the rules she was
expected to retire from the game.
Consequently when the elder novelists
drew a heroine she was beautiful II, and
her antithesis and foil was the snubbad
spinster governess, invariably described
as Internationally, with lines OF age and
grief craven deep on her face. The femi-
nine novelists, never dreaming of deviat-
ing from the accepted masculine stand
ard. all followed suit until Charlotte
Bronte depicted Jane Eyre and the novel;
reading world tremhled as with vol
canic shock and awaited chaos
In those happy days 40 was a respect
able age, If viewed from the matronly
standpoint; but at Ozone prepared for
death The woman who had reached that
age must smooth back her locks, perhaps
unthreaded by gray, under a snowy cap
crush her hearts aspirations under the
JCggernaut car of convention, adopt
garments suitable to her age-rich, per-
haps. but dark and becomng-and keep
ever before her mind the fact that She
was an old woman, until In utmost truth
she was
A question which might elicit consldera-
BE interesting discussion Is: Why are the
typical modern women at twenty and even
thirty years younger In manners, dress
and appearance than were their grand
mothers at the same age? Ono might re-
ply very pertinently that, in the first
place, they have decided not to grow old ;
and believe me, 1t is largely question OF
will. Having made this decision, they
seek the means which shall enable them
TO retain their youthful appearance. They
understand that beauty and ill-health are
not eongenial companions; consequently
the women of today live much in the
open air, loving the sun and the breeze
far more than the easy chair and the
CNen fire.
We can hardly realize what an outdoor
life and outdoor sports have done for our
women until we gaze on the collection of
| gowns worn by their feminine progeni-
| tors One may well believe that oft-told
tale of tying the staylaces to the bedpost
in order to pull the slaves In sufficiently
and even thus, these scant-skirted,
STRAIGHTFORWARD gowns look as If designed
for maidens whose slender frames had
been crushed in the embrace of the Iron
Virgin before a fitting; but tennis golf,
horseback exercise, basketball and the
wheel have changed all that
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Larger Police Force Needed.

Birmingham needs a much larger
police force than it has and it is hoped
that the city will make soon an appro-
-,
priation for at least fifty more men,
said prominent citizen.
we have now only forty odd police
men, whereas we should have 100. Inc
minimum basis in old and quiet cities Is
one policeman for every 1000 Of popula-
ton, while in some cities the basis Is
two policemen for every thousand. BIZ
mingham, without including any OF the
suburbs, has a population of something
like $4,000, and owing to the large num-
Der of criminals discharged from the
convict mines in this county, to say MOTH
ing of other reasons. Birmingham should
have police protection on the maximum
basis"
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SENATOR MoReAN's DOUBLE.

Washington Telegram to the Baltimore
Herald.
Representative Hit of Illinois, chair
man of the house committee on foreign
relations, is growing so much like Sem
ator Morgan of Alabama that their close
friends have to look twice in order to
distinguish them. To add to the perplex-
ity of the situation, Mr.. Hit is often
FOUND nowadays, While the Panama canal
matter Is pending, over on the senate
side and large part of the time in con-
yersation with Mr.. Morgan. The two
Dromios looked scarcely more alike than
do these two statesmen. 1t was sug-
gested to Mr.. Morgan recently that If he
should tire of his speechmalxing in his
filibuster against the Panama canal, he
might utilize the services of Mr.. Hit
without fear of the imposition being de-
tected.
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Today the typical woman of fifty Is
possessed of ripe beauty, charm and in
tellect. Her face does not exhibit the I'M
written page of lovely sixteen; and it is
inscribed with the sensitive. beautiful
lines of character. thought, experience
and sympathy, but no dshguring
wrinkles. It is generally conceded by
wrinkle specialists that this bane of wo-
mankind, arises, principally from the in
diligence of moods, of temper. discon-
tent and worry. In a nutshell wrinkles
come from lack of self control.
Today, the woman of fifty who is not
tolerated nonentity stands for some
thing in her particular world. Her opin-
ions are no longer tentative or in the
formative period. She has had years
wherein to observe events to study per-
sons and conditions, and to weigh and
test the value of her beliefs She is care
full, however, not to let them solidify.
She holds them flexible, ready to be
extended or contracted; but they are
definite. "They say" is phrase which
has no particular weight for her Her
II say is assured and perfectly salts
factory to herself, although never i'm
posed On others.
The charming woman of middle life is
very tolerant, and very chary of passing
Judgment. In fact, she has greater hor-
ror of Intolerance than the devil Of holy
water. Why should the rose cavl at the
eatnip? The world is wide, and it would
be extremely monotonous il this earth
were one vast garden. Neither is the de-
lightful woman sensitive. That is a form
of egotism which may be excused in
sweet eighteen, but 1t is impossible at
fifty. She has learned, with patience and
humility, life's most difficult lesson--self-
control. She has also been courageous
enough to cultivate the art of forget
ting" and she seasons all the dishes at
the banquet of existence with her sense
of humor. Without it, the feast would be
as fiat as a vegetarian dinner.
The man who said that woman was
not worth looking at after thirty or worth
talking to before, would have no standing
for sincerity in regard to his first clause,
although he was right, in the main, on his
second. Many young women desire to
make social history for themselves by
being considered brilliant conversational
lists, but the woman of ripper years is able
to exert a far more subtitle attraction.
She understands that the true art of con-
versation is the ability to draw out the
best in man woman. The light of her
sympathy is so clear and perfect that
all the dull facets of their wit reflect it.
But the last and browning charm of the
ideal woman of fifty is repose. She does
not fuss or hustle. She has sown for
many years; now it is time for her to be-
gin to reap some of her harvests, to
gather up her fruits and tears" And
she is content, because, as Mr.. Howels
| expresses 1t in one of his most charming
stories, she has glimpsed in certain
luminous moments, an infinite passion,
encompassing our whole being like a sea,
where every trouble of our sins and sor-
rows must cease at last like a eircle in
the water"