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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22

tery of the organized militia must as- semble for instruction for at least five days. Regular army officers may be detailed to conduct such instruction.
 A long section of the act provides for the preparation of lists of persons available for commissions in any vol unteer force which may hereafter be called for, these lists to be composed of persons who have held commissions or who have had military training and have been examined by boards to be convened under the terms of the new act. Provision is made that the com missions as well as the other benefits of the act shall be properly appor- toned among the states and terri tories.
 Singularly enough, the constitutional provision relating to the organization of the militia has never been carried out, and the new bill is but an applica- ton of the constitutional power. Aside from the fact that the governor of the state will no longer be a factor-at least, controlling factor-in the hand ling of the militia in times or war or even of peace-the change is wholly favorable, and the bill commanded the support of democrats as well as of re- publicans in congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The mid-winter term of the Circuit court is in session in Athens, Judge O.. Kyle is presiding.
 An unknown person entered the home of Mrs. Julia Fetbie, near Selma while she was away and stole her jewelry.
 Professor M. Whitney of the bureau of soil inspection, United States department of agriculture. is in Mobile working on the soil survey of Mobile county.
 The stockholders of the Peoples Cotton mills held their annual meeting Tues day night In Montgomery and reelected the old members of the board of directors.
 Point Clear on Mobile Bay, will have a hotel this year that will be open all sum- mer. A big boat load of lumber and other building material have been shipped to be used in remodeling the old building at that place.
 The Huntsville Evening Tribune says: While playing In a room, the little baby girl of Probate Judge c. L. Cargill of Scottsboro, fell over pet shepherd dog that was asleep before the grate. where upon the dog sprang up and bit the little one through the nose and body, lacer- ating her face. Physicians were called.
 The Anniston Hot Blast says that the Muscadine Mining company is contemplat- ing the building of branch railroad from Iron City to White Plains. The com pany already has surveyors on the field and If built the road will be used mostly for the delivery of iron ore to the Bir- mingham division of the Southern rail- road at Anniston. The company has just completed a $2OO,OOO plant consisting of ore washers and material for raising the raw ore. It is the purpose of the company to extend their field to White Plains where the ore mines are known to be quite rich. but are isolated from railroad facilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
MAX sO'RELL ON GROWN
 PRINCESS OF SAXONY

forgive If the children were grown up and able to support themselves.
 On no account, howN,ver, would I ap- prove, or even forgive, a man who leaves wife with whom life may have become as intolerable as you like. with out duly providing for Ter comfort. even if by so doing. he should have nothing left for himself and be obliged to start life afresh
 l do not admit that any one, man or woman has a right to shfrk responsibili- ties imposed by solemn promises. Let them set this right first of all. After that let them solve the probl em of hap piness as best they can.
 The Princess Royal of Sa Sony, who has left behind her five young children who daily cry for her, and that i'm order to run away with man fifteen ye;Irs young CT than she, is, have no hesitation in saying it, wretch and desIlicable wom- an; and so would any woman be, who did the same. And If it interests you to know my opinion of man who is trust ed by father with the educatiolm of his five young children, and who ma7xes love to their mother and succeeds in depriv- ing them of her love and tender atten- tions, I will tell you that I call flim conceited flop, an unmitigated black guard and scoundrel.
 So much for "M. and Madame Giron."
 No doubt there are drawbacks in h old- ing royal honors but I believe in the old motto: ''Noblesse oblige," and if s'no- blesse" does, surely royalty should. Roy alty nowadays is not of much use. vx- cept when 1t gives to the people over which it rules the example of all vir- tues of all domestic virtues especially.
 When people are born in the purple, they are born with responsibilities If they fling them to the four winds of the earth, there is no use for royalty, the reason for its existence has ceased to ex- ist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
STATE UNIFORMITY.

From the Mobile Item.
 Uniform text books Is said to have a safe support in this legislature, and that the law will be passed with little oppo- sition. However, it Is safe to say that the measure will be fought with vfgor when it comes up for passage. One of the favorite schemes of the trusts in leg isiative matters, is to mask their strength in silence and be prepared for a grand assault at the proper tlme Therefore, it behooves the friends of uniform text books to be constantly on guard and have a thorough organization with which to defeat the book trusts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
From the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal
 Since the escapade of the Royal Princess of saxony with the French tu- tor Giron, many lady readers of the New York American" have asked me: Do you approve or forgive her? Do you not think that a woman, who can no longer endure life with a sullen, brutal and unfaithful husband has a right to break away from the social conventionalities of life' and go her own way in search of happiness?
 The question Is not easy to answer. There may be or there may not be, ex- tenuating circumstances in the conduct of woman who deserts her husband or a man who leaves his wife.
 First of all let me say that I place the consideration of duty far higher than that of personal happiness. There a man or a woman who abandons a home where there are children of tender age, chil- dren who require the protection of a father and the affection of a mother, which no one can replace, is a coward that should be placed under the ban of so- ciety.
 don't care how much a woman may fall in love with man, or a man with woman. the duty of either is to re- main by the side of their children. to watch over their education, and to see them launched in life. If they shirk this duty, there is no excuse, no atonement for their conduct which closely borders on crime.
 When there are no children I admit that there may be circumstances in which l would forgive man or a woman who leaves a home in which life has become in the company of a partner who has given proof of love. devotion and disin- terestedness. I might also be prepared to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
MIR. GATES WISHES TO BE HEARD

From the Chicago Tribune.
 MT. John w. Gates and his associates ask the interstate commerce commission to allow them to reply to some of the testimony given before 1t regarding the acquisition of the Louisville and Nash vile by the Atlantic Coast Line. MT. J. Pierpont Morgan told the commission that he looked on MT. Gates, who, by a sud- den, daring dash, had acquired control of the Louisville and Nashville, as "a dan gerous element in the railway world' In order to eliminate that dangerous element he was instrumental in the ar- engagement under which MT. Gates and his associates were paid $50000,0o0 in cash bonds and stocks for the Louisville and Nashville shares they held.
 MT. George w. Perkins said: we were extremely anxious as to the ultimate con- trol of the road. If it remained with Har- ris, Gates & Co. nobody knew what they would do with it. MT. Perkins said they had already stated that 1t was their idea to pay large dividends and sell the stock at the highest price they could obtain in the market. Mir. Perkins said he thought that might have been a good thing for a year, but it would have been very disas- trous afterwards. Our firm is not com mitted to a temporary policy of any kind"
 If MT. Gates wishes to give his account of the Louisville and Nashville deal and to show why he is not "a dangerous ele- ment in the railway world" the inter state commerce commission might as well oblige him. It may be that MT. Nor gan is prejudiced against Mir. Gates be- 1; cause that person put him to some incon- 4venience.
 If MT. Gates were to go before the com mission he could tell precisely how much he made out of his Louisville and Nash vilfe operation. Mir. Perkins gave it as l,is opinion that Mir. Gates made total aain of s5l00.0 000 This shows how much cf profit can be made by suddenly buy ing up the control of road and then s,,fling out at an advance to parties who tl link their interests are endangered by the coup. Perhaps MT. Gates made more .han MT. Perkins says he did and desires to let the interstate commerce commission A<lnow it, so that it may not underestimate srr15 business ability.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
Reorqanization of the Militia.

The house promptly accepted the senate amendments of the militia bill, and it has become or soon will become law. The volunteer reserve provision was properly stricken out, and the bill as it stands is one to reorganize the militia, leaving it in most respects in the hands of the state.
 By the terms of this bill all able bodied citizens between the ages of IS and 45 are to be enrolled-a part to be known as the organized militia or national guard of the particular state, and the remainder as the reserve mili- tia. The bill provides that "the organi- zation, armament and discipline of the organized militia in the several states and territories and in the District of Columbia shall be the same as that which is now or may hereafter be pre- scrlbed for the regular and volunteer armies of the United States, within five years from the date of the ap- proyal of this act"
 The President is given the power in case of war or internal trouble to call out the militia or any part of it for a period not exceeding nine morths, and any enlisted man or officer who refuses to answer the call of the President shall be subject to trial by courtmar- tial. Such a court martial shall be composed of militia officers only. The militia when in the service of the United States are to receive the pay provided by the regular army. It will be observed that these provisions place the militia more directly in times of war more directly under the control of the President, doing away with the intervention of the state officials to some extent.
 An adjutant general is to be ap- pointed in each state and territory who is to make returns to the secre- tary of war Magazine guns and other equipments are to be issued by the government to the organized militia, but all such arms shall remain the property of the United States. h. spections are to be made at least once year, and the secretary of war is authorized to provide instruction for the organized militia in camps, all en- gazing therein to be paid as so many men in the regular army would be paid. Camps, maneuvers and field in struction are provided for, and each year every troop, company and bat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
THE TRIUMPH OF REFORM.
om the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 Governor William D. JellSs was inau-, gurated yesterday with large ceremony. fitting the importance of the event. Th@ inauguration may be said to be the apotheosis of the reform movement that began some fifteen years ago, and in thes starting of which The Register had nog small part. The inauguration of Governors Jelks is the triumph of the policy of hon., est elections in Alabama. The state has shaken off the nightmare of negro domin- ation and the necessity of false ballots and fictitious counts. It has entered the era when perfectly fair election law can be adopted and put in force and where the voice of every qualified party man, whether of our party or of the opposition can be recorded and its weight felt.
 The governor recognizes the beginning of this new era and rejoices in it. He is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
Over in Mississippi.

Governor Longino of Mississippi has long been desirous of doing something to put down lynehing, and when 2S | citizens of Ethel beat in Attalla county bound two negroes to stake, and then lined up themselves and poured yolley into the two victims, he had a case that he could not and would not quietly submit to. The two negroes were accused of attempting to stir uE an insurrection, when none, it is now known, had been contemplated.
 As a piece of barbarism the Ethel beat case stands out unchallenged. When twenty-eight men line up to rid dle with ball and shot two victims of their anger and suspicious, there is no need of looking to the Philippines or China or any other country for some thing barbaric and horrible.
 Of the twenty-eight men seventeen got away, but eleven were arrested, and they are lodged in Kosciusko jail. They have been indicted by the grand jury, and now they are hunting law yers who will endeavor to get them out of jail. The chancellor of the Cir cult court will be asked to admit them to bail. Whatever their fate may be, it is at least established that "lawless murderers," as Governor Telks calls lynchers, can be indicted, arrested, and brought to a close and intimate knowl- edge of the law as a factor and insti- tuition of the state. They did not rec. ognize the law or the state when they constituted themselves sheriff, court jury and all in Ethel beat.
 Attalla county in central in the state lying on the Aberdeen branch of the Illinois Central railroad, rich, pro- ductiye county, full of good people, and the tWenty-eight men who lined up to kill two negroes by no means repre- sent them. Governor Longino has se- lected an excellent case fin the very heart of the state in which to assert the supremacy of the law and the efficiency of the state and county gov ernments. The case is strictly epochal, for no precedent exists in the states history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER
 WINDS.

By William Shakespeare. Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind
 As mans ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen,
 Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning. most loving mere folly:
 Then, heigh-ho the holly! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky Thou dost not bite so nigh
 As benefits forgot: Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp
 As friends remembered not. Heigh-hoi sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:- Most friendship is feigning. most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho the holly! This life is most jolly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
THE LAST OF THE PoPULIsTs.

THE LAST OF THE PoPULISTS. Topeka Telegram to the Pittsburg Ga- zette.
 Representative J. A. Buckln, populist of Thomas, has arrived. He Is the orig inator of the farmers grain trust.
 "When will your side caucus?' he was asked.
 I don't know yet. I have not made up my mind.
 But you are not the whole works?" "Oh, yes, I am.''
 How so?'
 'I am the only Pop left in the House." What has become of the rest?' 'tJoined the democrats"
 Haven't you?''
 Not by a sight"
 Are you not going into the democratic caucus?'
 Not on your life"
 "What are you going to do?'
 Hold a caucus of my own. There is no more reason why I should go into democrat caucus than into a republican caucus. I am no democrat. The eastern democrats have again got control of things in Kansas. They fused with the republicans to beat me, but couldn't do it. I am the only Pop left in the House Iris sad but. true"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
Masqueratle Ball.

Memolis band will give grand mas querade ball at Knig hts of Columbus hall, formerly Elks' ha Il, on the night of Thursday February 1e. for the benefit of it's uniform fund. JIIr. Memoli says that he and the committee of arrangements will endeavor to make the affair a bril- liant success.
 It will be the first time that band of twenty pieces is heard in the ball room. Memon has the best briass and reed or ganization in Alabama and no band of It's size in the south produces better music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
THE SUCCESSION AT STAKE.
rom the Selma Time,

A right pretty little story comes from Montgomery, that the election of a sec retary of the senate was a fight between the Knox and Bankhead forces looking toward the United States senate chamber at the first vacancy that may occur. And John KnoX's man won out. Yes, and the brilliant young attorney of Anniston is just as sure of seat in the senate at the first vacancy as that Fillmore Garrett now fills the place of secretary of the senate. The people have about settled that matter in their own minds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
Hotels Crowded.

The hotels of Birmingham were filled with guests every night this week. Stran- gers who are not familiar with ithis citys growth and stir might imagine that a great convention or exposition was draw ing the crowds.
 The fact is, the hotels are well4patron- ized all the year round. And during the winter they are taxed to their ful capa- city. Every experienced man on 'dis way to Birmingham telegraphs for a room reservation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
GROVER AND THEODORE.

York World.
 When Ollie James of Kentucky. who will be the heaviest man in the Fifty eighth congress, was on the stump before the late election a man in one of his audiences fired this question at him:
 What is the difference between Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt?"
 Well" Ollie replied Cleveland is too lazy to hunt and Roosevelt is too rest less to fish,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Where there is a will there Is way and several byways.
 The proof to woman of her happiness is the unhappiness it can cause her.
 The wife who knows how to get a man the kind of ham omelette he likes can give cards and spades to Cleopatra in diplomacy.
 The kind of heroine in a novel that apa peal to women is the one who has freight cars of jewels but leaves them sil off the night she is the belle of the ball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
creatore.

Echoes of Creatores baahd are still heard in Birmingham. Yesterday mus- clans and music lovers were discussing the merits of the. concerts that kwere given at the Jefferson Tuesday, ands all agreed that the band, taken altogether, was the finest that had ever been heard here. In shading in attack and in tone color Creatores certainly surpasses all the fa- nous brass and reed organizations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
IudGe Parker in Geornia.

Judge Alton B. Parker, who presides over the Court of Appeals, the highest court of the state of New York, has consented to deliver an address before the Georgia Bar association at it's an nual meeting during the coming sum- mer. The executive committee of the association has not yet decided where the annual meeting will be held, but it will be at some summer resort in the state, and Cumberland Island, Tallu- lah and Warm Springs each have been suggested. The meeting will be held in the third week in June.
 Judge Parker will not be apt to dis cuss current political questions before an assemblage of lawyers, although they are almost to a man full of politi- cal ambition, and yet his appearance in Georgia in summer weather is re- garded as somewhat significant. Some of his boomers live in Georgia, and altogether the address in question is regarded as a movement that has at least it's political side.
 No doubt the campaign of 1904 is crystallizing rapidly, but still there may be many surprises and develop ments in store for both parties. MT. Roosevelt has many enemies, espe- cially in the senate. The senate al ways desires senatorial President, and Theodore Roosevelt is by no means a President of that sort. He is as independent as Grover Cleveland or Benjamin Harrison. The latter, how ever, understood the senate and to some extent he met the desires of re- publican senators at last. Mr. Roose- welt is not considered amenable to senatorial discipline, and if he should fail to receive the republican nomina- tion the situation on the democratic side would be materially changed. For this reason the Georgia boomers should not be in haste to select in June a standard-bearer who need not be se- lected until the month of June, 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
Dramatic Pno auctlon postponed.

"It is expected that Sir Gilbert Parkers dramatization of his novel. The Right of Way would be produced by Charles Frohman this season." said an actor. 'Mr. Frohman recently received a cable from Sir Gilbert to the effect that parlia mentary and other duties had prevented the completion of the play. It is Mir. Froh- mans intention to produce the play next season, with William Faversham in the role of Charley Steele"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
A Mild Winter.

''The 21sh of January having been passed and the winter having been comparatively mild up tcr this time, it is safe to predict that it will continue mild" said an old citizen. T made a prediction of this kina a week or so ago. but the Fist of January is the dateaupon which weather prophets hinge their econfident forecast"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22

Garfield, the gambler, contriyes to have his name tangled up with those of the Vanderbilts and the Whitneys, and even with that of the artist Whistler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22

Apostle Shoot explains that he is a polygamist constructively speaking, not otherwise-at least not while he is knocking at the doors of the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22

Baron Speck von Sternberg, the new German ambassador, married an Amer ican, and he is sure at least of her support in his diplomatic endeavors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22

The maddest lot of passengers ever landed in New York were those on the overdue steamer St. Louis. They pumped the language dry in trying to express their feelings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22

Emperor William is about to estab- fish an organ, one of the undertaking true-blue, never-f1icl1er sort. It should be heavily subsidized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
"AND WHY?v
From the Atchison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.
 There lived in Kansas City a woman who had four children; two sons and two daughters. Her daughters staid with her, and took care of her. and comforted her when one of her sons, Bud Taylor, was convicted of killing his sweetheart in the street, and sentenced to be hanged But the mother died, and her will leaves all of her property to her two sons Cone under sentence of death) and cuts off the two daughters. How dear to a mother are her sons, and how far out in the cold she sometimes pushes her girls And why?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22
TIse Number Thirteen.

Hotel m anagers no longer offer theH guests roo1n No. 1S," said an old com mercial tra Feler at the Metropolitan. can rememl Ter when men did not object to occupyin B 13, but now the supersu- ton about be unlucky number has taken such hold Ion the average person that the proprieb ITS of hostelries use rooii No. 13 for sttrage purposes.
 'When wfhs young man the supersu- ton about 1S was only applicable to per sons sitting eh. a table. The idea that 10 persons at thIe same board presaged a tragedy is tr aced to the last supper or our Lord, whe the Saviour and the apos- ties, includingI Judas, made the in-fatea number. But iin recent years the supersu- tlous folks at taeh significance to every thing in which ;the number 1S is involved. I myself pay little attention to super stitions, but still I steer clear of 1a in all its connecth 9ns."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22

When life becomes dull in Kentucky some one jumps up and contributes a new confession in the Goebel mystery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-22

All are heard before the strike com mission except tho consumers. They were born to pay the freight in all cases.