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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
HILL OR PARKER-WHlcH7
Campbell Sure Both Will Not Be Can
 didates for Nomination.

Buffalo, February 25.-An interview with Chairman Frank Campbell of the democratic state committee, who was in this city yesterday, is given today, as follows:
 "How do you and the state organiza- tion stand on Parker for President?"
 'It is not known that Judge Parker will be a candidate" replied Chairman Campbell.
 .If he is?'
 "If David B. Hill is candidate, Judge Parker will not be candidate for Presi- dent If Hill is candidate, everybody will be for Hill. Time will develop whether MT. Hill Is a candidate. It is too carly now"
 ''What if IIill and Parker both are canddates?'
 "That will not be-" said Chairman Campbell. "As I just said, if Hill be- comes a candidate Judge Parker will not be a candidate. That is certain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
New Railroad Commission Bill.

The Starr-Waddell bill for the SUI peryision of railroads has become a law. It provides for a president and two associates, to be elected in No vember, 1904, who are to hold office four years, not one of whom shall be a stockholder in or be employed by any railroad in any state. Each one is forbidden to receive gifts from any railroad, save only "a permit for him self to pass over the railroad" and if he receives anything more he shall forfeit his office and may be i'm peached.
 The president of the board is to re- ceive $3,500 a year, and the associate commissioners $3,O00 year each, and their clerk is to receive $1 800 year. They must not accept during their term of office employment directly or indirectly from a railroad The rail roads shall pay a license tax suffi- cient to meet the salaries and eX- penses of the commission.
 Section g and the following sections of the bill are the gist of it, for they give the commission general super vision" over the railroads of the state. They are to revise all tariffs, and they may adjust them, increasing or re- ducing them as they see fit, provided they allow a railroad flair and just return" on it's value. They are to hear all complaints, and decide them, and tax the costs on the basis of those in cases at law as equity may justify. They may order a railroad to make re- pairs, or to change it's method of con ducting it's business. They may re- quire railroad to build fences, and if fences are not built ass ordered then the delinquent railroad shall pay for al stock killed by 1t. All information needed can be demanded and must be forthcoming. Annual reports are to be made to the commission by the railroads. All accidents are to be re- ported to the commission. The com mission has the power to summon wit nesses. It shall make an annual re- port to the governor of the state. Railroads that obey the commission in a specific matter may plead in suits for damages the order of the commits sion in the way of justification. All orders of the commission may be en- forced by suit, and the act makes it the duty of the commission to enforce it's orders in that way, and it may re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
BOSTON IS STILL RICH
 IN ITS HISTORIC ASSETS

has fascinating stories to repeat to all who walk across it who have read his tory. Rarely does one pass the Shaw monument without finding a group before it, to whom 1t is giving its message of the heroism of serving the ignorant and the helpless Faneuil hall the old South church and the old state house are among number of buildings whose value to Boston cannot be estimated in money. Last year at the old state house, besides Bostonians, 10,564 persons were registered from various parts of our own country and AT from other lands. All such places are permanent educational institutions, impressing their lessons on the charac- ter of the rising generation of the city and extending their influence through the entire country
 But Boston has been prodisally wasteful of it's historic assets. It threw away the Hancock house. One must search dili- gently to find where the old Province house stood. The old First church, Trin- ity, Winter street and many other his toric churches-who knows where they stood or what they did to make Boston what 1t is? And now Park Street church is about to follow its predecessors into oblivion. Much of what the institutions of Boston have been and have done must be forgotten if their material abiding places disappear. These places are a rich asset. not of denomination or a party, but of the whole city. The loss of them is a loss to coming generations greater than their fathers can appreciate. It is time for Bos- tonians to unite for the preservation of the most valued possessions which they hold In common
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
JUST FORE ELECTION.

From the Chicago Record Herald. The following poem written on city hall paper has just been brought in by the postman: The gamblers call him ''easy'' and the
 barkeeps like him. too; The bunko steerers view him as friend
 that's tried and true; Mighty easy for the ones who run saloons
 all night To make policemen understand that
 everythings all right; Streets are hardly ever cleaned, and every
 week ,or so He goes away to hunt or fish-tired out,
 you know; Most all the time the whole year round
 the crooks are full of glee, But jest fore election he's as good as he
 he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

can win fine regulations in conserva- tie and just initiation of the new law.
 The law contains many stringent provisions, and these should be exc cuted with good sense and practical wisdom, and the commission has q fine opportunity to serve the state and make reputation for themselves in the course of the next two years. They may win term at the hands of the people, for the constitutional re- striction to one term does not apply to tbem. They are statutory, not constitutional, officers.
 At any rate the execution of the new and in some respects revolution .ary law is on their shoulders, and they can meet the expectations of the peo- lie hy giving it fair and full trial without doing injury to any interest in the state and without driving a dol lar of capital away from the state. The siate needs their full services, and every member of the commission should live in or near the capital of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
Duties of the New Commission.

Chairman Smith and Associate Tunstall and Saunders are now the railroad commissioners of this state, and as such they will remain until the legislature canvasses the vote in Jan uary, 1905. But the new railroad com mission law will go into effect as soon as it is signed by Governor Jelks, and it will become the duty of the commits sion to put it into operation at once. Me essrs. Smith and Saunders of the commission are lawyers, and MT. Tun- stall is veteran in the service. They
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

Got way of sayin' that he'll never run
 more; Doesn't like the thankless job: critics
 make him sore; City's bankrupt anyway, ain't no place at
 all For an honest man like him in the city
 hall; Hands are tied for lack of funds; ain't no
 use to try, But the old bee comes to buzz round him
 hy and by Lets the boys pursuade him, and fills their
 hearts with glee When, jest fore election. he's as good as
 he can be. Orders gamblers to get out. closes every
 den; Empties out the bridewell, bids people
 hope again; Hires gangs to clean the streets. fights
 the traction crowd; Wants it so the townll make all good
 people proud; Gives up goin off to hunt, doesn't care
 to fish, Just to make the city bright is his dear
 est wish; Most all the other times he lets vice and
 fifth go free, But jest fore election he's as good as he
 can be- So boys turn out and whoop 'er up and
 get the crowds in tow. Clean out the alleys, close the dives and
 make the gamblers go; Reluctantly he's given his consent once
 more to run, When duty calls him he obeys, the battle
 must be won. Send forth the wagons and the gangs tc
 clean the dirt away, The city must be purified and he win
 find a way; Oh, who could wish to turn him dowr
 since every one may see That jest fore elfction he's as good as he
 can be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
From the congregationalist.

From the Congregationalist.
 N o city can be fully appreciated or U enjoyed by a visitor or a tran
 sient sojourner in it. Only the resident citizen possesses it. Those own most of it who best knew ita past. and understand most clearly what it has stood for that men value. Such citizens are like owners Of homes rich in treasures of art and literature, who. when they entertain a guest. give life and meaning to all the wealth that surrounds him. To be really great in character a city must have noble history, abundant and well-kept memorials of it. and citizens who know. appreciate and are proud Of it. Such a city has rich assets in it's past In it's people and in the advantages 1t can give to it's children.
 Boston, in these respects, is the richest city in the United States More great events in American history. and more em- inent men who have figured in that his tory. have been associated with it than with any other city It has stood for po litical and religious and individual free dom, for self-government and righteous government, for the rights of the op- pressed, for the truth as it's citizens be- lieved it, and for a united country with a persistence handed down from father to son as sacred inheritance, which has given to the city a character of its own. These things go far toward making it desirable above most other places as a residence for the best classes of Ameri- cans.
 Boston for these reasons has peculiar attractiveness for visitors The Common
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Capt. Josephus Clemmons. the oldest active pilot in America, died at his home in Mobile on Wednesday.
 Henry Mcdonald, a young white man, fell from a ladder at Woodstock furnace Wednesday morning and was instantly killed.
 G. B. Fore. a photographer of Anniston has miniature photograph that is 100 years old and is said to be the oldest in that section
 The Newton Harmonizer: Silence may be a good substitute for wisdom, but it's difficult for the man who is short of wis dom to keep his mouth shut.
 The battleship Alabama sailed from her station off Mobile bar Wednesday at G D. m. and anchored off Pensacola bay some time in the forenoon Thursday.
 The Newton Harmonlzer: The Coffee county court house fight has been settled, and an agreement reached by which the SOunly VIII SpcHu dS liuSh as @-V,VVV III repairing and furnishing the court house at Elba.
 Anniston Hot Blast: Probate Judge E. F. Crook on yesterday issued charter to the Scarborough Drug company to do a general drug business in the city. The capital stock of the company is s6o00, with the privilege of increasing 1t to s15,0Oo.
 Anniston Star: A party of eastern capi- talists. who are negotiating for the pur- chase of the Jenifer furnace, arrived in the city last night and today are look ing over the property. The party is com posed of Messrs. G. Schumacher of New York, Ed r. Neidecker, Charles Gezels- chap, F. Hoffman of Milwaukee. WIS., and c. R. Schmidt of Baltimore. They went out to Jenifer by private conveyance this morning and are being shown over the Jenifer Furnace companys property by Capt. w. H. Weller. The sale of the Jenifer furnace has been talked of con- siderablv for the past two months, but nothing definite has been known. It is understood that these gentlemen con- template purchasing it and the deal will ,,robabiv he closed soon. MT. Schumacher is interested in the Central Foundry com nany. which has a fourishing plant here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

seems that the cook has been demanding German lard for use in the royal Kitchen, thereby discreditlhg the English product Good Queen Vietoria's cook always used London lard and now the London dealers have entered a protest against the un- patriotic departure of MT. Menagar. If the kings cook declines to adopt the old time rule and patrouze home trade, the tradesmen have gigen notice that they will take their grievance to the Right Hon. orable the Earl of Pembroke, lord stew ard of the household, who is Mir. Mena- gers immediate superior. Should the lord steward and his advisory council sit- ting round the Board of Green Cloth turn a deaf ear to the London vendors, then a petition will go direct to his maj esty. The chief cook in the royal house. hold, by the way, Is no ordinary cook. He is not a practical cook al all and has nothing whatever to to with preparing dishes He is a chemist ane as such passes on the hygienic quality Of foods. He also makes recommendations in the line of economy and as ne found lard could be bought cheaper in Germany than in England, he made a recommendation accordingly. This may seem a small mat ter, but 1t is going to make q 5til Tn Brit ish politics. The kings servant who ac- tually directs the cooking is styled first master cook'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
.e New York Press.

From the New YQrk Press.
 A woman can bear every sort of trouble that she can conceal from her best friend.
 Even toads and snails are not unbeauti- full to little children until they cease to believe in Santa Claus.
 It's curious how the marriage ceremony can infuse commonplace sanity into couple that are stark mad.
 There is nothing at which widow is such success as getting advice about worldly things from a beardless boy.
 A woman is sure she is making man a good wife when she worries because he won't wear two undershirts on cold day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Heart Lost to Rooamora.

nCdFI LoSL 10 F1oGdHtSiN
 Suzanne Rocamora, one of the prettiest and daintiest of the members of the Bi1ou Musical Comedy company has real masher' note" said the press agent anu the author is said to be a live 'Johnnie who has fallen prey to her biz piaeA eyes and winsome ways
 She says the note is just too sweet TOT anything, but claims it is from young ster who is green in the art. 1t has gone the rounds of the girls, and at every performance the 'chappie is the object ol interest to members of the company as he sits on the front row and makes goo goo eyes. The note reads:
 My Dear Miss Rocamora; Since first saw you last night I have been thinking only of the Baby With the Dreamy Eyes" and all day long that song has run through my head. want to meet you and know more of you Tor l am simply madly in love with you and am sure that were l given an opportunity I could prove it.
 I shall sit on the front row tonight and shall wear a white vest and red carnation in my buttonhole, so you can identify me
 ''If you will encourage me l shall meet you at the stage door and be glad to take you to dinner, where l trust that an acquaintance will ripen into love.
 Bye-bye, Baby with the Dreamy Eyes
 Miss Rocamora recognized him, and he was the envy of all the boys on the front row, for he was obseryed-out of pure curiosity.
 "He was there plus a white vest a car nation. merry smile and q longing Miss Rocamora did not encourage him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
UNIFORM TEXT BOOKS.

From the Ozark Tribune.
 The text book bill has passed the senate and is now pending in the house where it will again be subjected to the bitter fight made against it by the book trust. We hope 1t will pass the house thereby thwarting the plans of the lobbyists who have stood in the way of simiiar bills on former occasions. The passage of this bill is a necessity. and the legislature owes 1t to the people of the state to enact 1t into law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

CTS, and his smile in a nod of recoeni- tion to a friend was fascinating. On each of his small fingers he wore seal ring. His necktie was a simple white one, over the stand-up white-winged collar. In his buttonhole was chrysanthemum. After all, primitive man in his tastes and manners, but dynamic in every move and gesture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
The klno's Cook.

An Alabama man who visits England occasionally and who is familiar with the organization of the royal household said: T have read a good deal recently about the trouble King Edwards new chief cook. Mr. Menager. has been making. 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
TWO WAYS.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Some people organize turf investment companies and others unload common stock. There are all sorts of ways of separating the plain people from their savings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27
About Persons.

 w S. Henderson of Mobile is at the Morris.
 E. S. Cunningham of Coronado is regis tered at the Metropolitan. W. Aubrey Thomas of Jenifer Is at the Hlllman.
 D. M. Ransom of Talladega is at the Morris.
 E. T. schuler of Gadsden is registered at the Morris.
 ". O. Robbins of Wetumpka is stop ping at the Metropolitan. Hugh w. Blair of Sheffield is at the Morris.
 B. T. Coffee and wife of Salt Lake City are at the Hillman. A. W. Brant of Erie Pa, is at the Morris.
 Dr. Joseph Jacobs of Atlanta, pres- dent of the Jacobs Pharmacy company, is at the Hillman. He is ono of the most prominent men of Georgia and Is well known and esteemed here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

MT. Baer and William Hohenzollern are the special agents of heaven on earth-if you let them tell it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

Race-suicide Is not crime negroes are addicted to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

The highly esteemed George Wash ington was the Father of His country, but not of any children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

David Bennett Hill is looking for delegates in Indiana, and if in lndlana' why not in Alabama?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

Mrs. Rooseyelt's famous handker- chief brought $121 in Dallas, Texas. It was not a cheap wipe, even if it was made of cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

About 100000 people are added to New York city every year, thus show ing that a good many babies are still born somewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

The deadlock in the Deleware legls- lature is chronic, and no one cares hov4 long t lasts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

Congressman Littlefield has 800 trusts on his list, and the New Jersey mill is turning out more weekly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

The recent earthquake raised Guam six inches and enlarged it's size. It now demands two barrels of whisky a Npar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

President Eliot's baby issue has rendered him eligible to an appoint ment in Rockefeller's Chicago instl- tuition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

MT. Rockefeller announces that he has not fairly started in making edu- cational donations, and the price of oil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

Smoot has a wife and is a million aire, and he says he cannot be kept out of the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

"The rights of the unborn,' is the new Roosevelt-Eliot issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

All Macedonia needs now is another Alexander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

Frosts may kill the Delaware peaches, but they canont phase the perennial Addicks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

It has been decided that bankruptcy is also one of womans rights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

The mid-ocean newspaper supplied with wireless messages can easily be kept afloat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

General Miles will retire on August 8. carrying his nerves and uniforms with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

President Eliot requests his boys to go west and populate the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

The winter wheat crop is snugly cuddled under big blanket of snow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-27

Senator Morgan never asks leave to print.
The Red Cloud chief., 1903-11-06

date for county assessor, is elected
ovsr Crabill by the decisive majority
Of 80 Mr.. Turner had an uphill fight
for the Office, but won handsomely.
w. X. Anderson, republican candi.
date for commissioner from the Second
district, wins v Greig by q majority
Of d.
John w. Tulleys, republican, was
elected county surveyor by a sood ma.
jority, aud DR.. X. +. Raines, repuoli.
can, il elected coroner.
Judge j. b. Barnes, republican a n
didate for Judge Of the supreme court,
has a majority Of about 5000 in the
state. and the republican candidates
for regents Of the State university are
elected by about the same majority.
Judge Ed l.. Adams. fusion candi'
date for district judge, has a majority
Of % 10 the county and about $50 in
The district.
The Red Cloud chief., 1903-11-06

and Mr.. John Martin, Judge L, W.
Eison% performing the ceremony. The
bride is a daughter Of M. and Mrs A.
A. Philips, southwest OF C,wles, and
the groom IS one Of Webster county's
prosperous young farmers. After the
ceremony The bride and groom, accom-.
panied by a few friends, drove to the
Phillips home, where an elaborate wed.
ding dinner was partaken OF by the
relatives and a number OF invi'ed
guests. The wedding festivities ended
with a dance In the evening. The
happy couple were the recipients of
many useful and valuable presents.
They will make their home I r a short
time with the brides parents, but ex-
pect ia make their permanent home in
Washington. The CHIEF extends its
good wishes to the newly welded pair.
The Red Cloud chief., 1903-11-06
G. 4. z. Resolutions.

james A Garfield post No. 80 has
adopted the following preamble and
resolu'i ns on the death Of w. Is, Roby
Whereas, Death has taken from us
our esteemed comrade, VIM. b Roby,
who lived the life If a good cit zen, "A
loyal comrade, Il good neighbor and an
upright man; and,
WHEREAS, When this nation was
diseased aud in sore distress ut the
hands of the enemies o! our gDvermen',
our dec, ased comrade enlisted to up
h, Ia u flag, the greatest flag in the
world, and the cause If humanity
therefore be it.
RESOLVED, That James A. Garfield
post has lost a worthy comradc, the
community a good citizen; and, DO II
further
RESOLVED, That the post charter be
draped for thi ty days in memory OF
our deceased comrade; and be 1t
further
RESOLVED, That James A. Garfield
post extend To the family OF the de
ceased it's coincidence and sympathy,
and that these resolutions be placed
upon the records Of the post.
The Red Cloud chief., 1903-11-06
The Election.

Tuesdry's election In this county was
a remark ,ble one, ia that little or no
attention was paid to party lines.
"Scratching' was freely INDUCED in
by the voters on both sides, aud The
estimates and calculations If party
leaders went ast,av.
The surprise vt the election was the
defeat of Ed Amack, republican nomi.
nee for sheriff, J. A. Macarthur, the
fusion candidlle, being re elected to
the Office by the narrow margin Of u
votes. The greatest change in the
vote for sheriff occurred in the Second
ward T this city, which two years ago
gave Oliver Hedge, republican, Al ma
jori'y, and this year gave Sheriff Nc.
Arthur a majority of IA, a gain of SO
voles for the fusion candidate. As the
ward is ordinarily republican by an
overwhelming majority, MrArthur's
Zig gain is the more remarkable
County Clerk + S. CARRIER l"d the
:epubli, an ticket and was reelected
by the splendid majority Ut 400 votes
His work in the Office during his first
te, m was evidently more than sa is
factory L the voters of the county.
George McCrary, the genial fusion
incumbent OF the county treasurer's
office, will continue for another two
years to smile across the counter OF
that Office at the taxpayers OF the
county. His popularity is shown by
the fact that he not only led his own
ticket, but ais, had a larger majority
than the leading republican candidate,
452 McCrary has . smile that won,
liar loose"
Miss Elizabeth Marker, fusion can
didate for reelection to the office o.
county superintendent. defeated Mis-
Ada SkJelver by . majority Of 19l,
gain Of l79 over her majority Of I've
years ago.
County Judge l. W. Edison was thu
only candidate for reelection to suRe
defeat, Albert H. Keeney. republican
winning by the splendid majority o
2S5 votes.
George Hutchinson, fusion candidate
for clerk Of the district court, defeated
Thomas II. Quiggle, republican, by
maj of 20. James Burden, tn
present incumbent Of the office, is a re
publican.
Richard Turner. republican cand'