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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Unitarians and universalists.


 T have heard many eminent pulpit orators, but few of them have equaied the Rev. Dr. slicer, the Unitarian min ister of New York. who delivered two discourses here last week. remarked an old citizen. 'T am not Unitarian but l listened with deep interest to Dr. slieef s exposition of Unitarian doctrine
 pr. slicer spoke at Temple Emanuel Thursday night and at the county court house Friday night. Of the two dis courses the latter was perhaps, the more eloquent and masterful, but persons who appreciate high class oratory missed a rare treat if they failed to hear either one of them.
 Neither unitarianism nor universahsm in organized form have ever taken root in the south. Southern people, outside the Hebrews, are either Trinitarians or noth- ing. On certain points Unitarians and Universalists are close together. Both reject the doctrine of the holy trinity and both reject the doctrine of eternal tor ment for unbelievers, but l do not sup pose there will ever be an organic union of the two denominations. The genius or anlmating spirit of the Uniyersalist church has to do with the emotional na- ture of man, whereas the Unitarians dis courage emotional tendencies and base their doctrines and their practices alto- gether on reason. Both Untarians and Universalsts are altruistic and are ben evolent and well hammered to a high de- gree; but I will live and die believing in the holy and undivided trinity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
Freedom for City Schools.

Dr. Ullman says he is opposed to the uniformity bill passed by the senate "because it provides for neither music, nor drawing, nor a right of initiative upon al9 line, and restricts the course to that which is particularly authorized in the bill" This reason is so stuffed with error it Is charitable to think that Dr. Ullman never read the bill sent down to the house by the senate
 The bill provides for a sub-commis- sion of five teachers to report upon the pedagogic merits of the books sub mitted, and then for a commission con sisting of the governor, superintendent of education and three eminent educa- tors to secure the books at the best possible prices. After naming the GUS tomary branches taught in the schools, the bill adds, land such other branches of study as said commission may select and designate" Does any one believe the governor, superintendent of educa- tion and three eminent educators would arbitrarily omit either drawing or music? And even if they did, there is not a line in the bill that prohibits the use of books in branches not named by the state text book com mission. "It shall not be lawful" says the bill for any school officer, director or teacher to use any other books upon the same branches ether than those adopted by said state text book com mission" All are free to strike out in a new direction-to exercise the right of initiative-to their hearts content.
 Nor is this all. Section 14 of the Johnston bill is directly contrary to Dr. Ullmans statement, and we give it in full:
 Sec. Ii. That as soon after the passage of this act as may be practicable and the commission may deem advisable, the books adopted as a uniform system of text books shall be introduced and used as text books to the exclusion of all oth- CTS in all the public schools in this state; provided that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the use of supple mentary books, but such supplementary books shall not be used to the exclusion of the books prescribed or adopted under the provisions of this act; provided fur ther, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the use in public schools of any text book upon any branch mentioned in any previous section of the act where the commission shall not select or adopt a book for that branch or subject provided further, that nothing m this act shall prevent the teaching in any school any branch high CT or more advanced than is embraced in any previous section of this act, nor the using of any book upon such higher branch of study. provided that such higher branches shall not be taught to the exclusion of the branches mentioned and set out in this act.
 These provisions do not seem to have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Gadsden Journal: Louis Bagger & Co.,, patent attorneys, Washington, D. C., re- port that on last Tuesday MT. Robert Campbell, resident of this place, ob- tained a valuable patent for improve ments in a molding machine.
 
 Anniston Hot Blast: The Model Ice company has purchased of the Anniston City Land company the property located next to their plant on Moore avenue formerly used as a pumping station for the Annston water works.
 Huntsville Mercury: Huntsville has the largest cotton mill In Alabama now and she will have one of the largest mills in the southern states. Ninety thousand spindles and two thousand looms Is great mill whether it is located in Man chester or in Huntsville.
 DeKalb Times: The DeISalb Fire Brick company has been organized with Johh H. Altman of New Philadelphia, o. as president and general manager, ana l.. e' Harding as secretary and treasurer me capital stock is placed at $2o,ooo' II IS proposed to engage in the manufacture of fire brick and sewer pipe on an ex- tensive scale.
 Selma Journal: Friday night the stock holders of the Peoples Saving Bank Of Selma held a meeting and decided to in crease the capital stock of the institu |. tion to s1oO, 900. The bank during its short life has been very successful and the stock holders are convinced that with more capital President Howard can in- crease his business many fold. The bank has a splendid line of deposits and does an exceedingly creditable business.
 Anniston Star: On Tuesday and Wednesday a preachers conference and missionary institute for the Talladega district of the Methodist Episcopal church south will be held at the First Methodist church. Among the distinguished minis- ters who will be in attendance are Dr. J. D. Simpson, presiding elder of the Birmingham district, and Dr. J. H. Me- Coy, editor of the Alabama Christian Ad- vocate. They will deliver several ad- dresses and sermons during the session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
TEE oHlY DAILY NEWSPAPER N AtA3,Na
In hearty prayers that your attempts may overIive the hazard.
 -2 King Henry w.
Defeat the Amendment.

A straight state tax of $10,000 in addition to county and city taxes OH oil dealers would be good thing for an oil trust, but it is not a good thing for independent dealers, and the amendment to the revenue bill adopted by the house Saturday providing for such a tax should be defeated in the senate.
 Whether intended or not, a $10,000 tax would be unmistakably in the fn- terest of the Standard Oil company.
 The trust has now an active com petitor in the Birmingham district. This independent company has ample capital and 1t is managed by practical business men. Its purpose is to de- velop an extensive trade, but at pres ent its operations will be confined prin- cipally to this county Independent concerns may be established in other sections of the state. Competitors of the big trust can well afford to pay percentage tax based on the volume of business they do. But $1O,O00 state tax would shut them out of the field.
 By all means let us encourage com petition in the oil traffic; not stifle or kill 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
Politics and Lnnic.

The Montgomery Journal fatters The AgeHerald. 'No paper" it says, '.in the state has an editorial page so attractive in makeup and general ar rangement of the page" but it finds flaws in an article on democratic hopes. If, it goes on to say in sub stance, the democrats cannot carry both the Presidency and congress, why struggle to win either? And then it cannot see why republicans should vote for a democratic President when they know one branch of congress will remain republican. Both views of the Journal are erroneous.
 It is very important to elect demo- cratic President and house of repre- sentatives, because not only would divided power result in good legisla- tion, but it would enable the demo- crats to pass bills in the house to re- wise the tariff and to curb the trusts, thus putting the responsibility directly on the republicans through non-action by the senate they control. This is of deep importance. It is, in fact, the shortest road to democratic senate.
 The Journal is also mistaken in it's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
PROFANATION OF THE
 WHITE HOUSE BUFFET

welt the inward parts of the historic man. sion were completely torn out, every thing being done over" and whatever was old, including the furniture, together with great quantity of other material, went to auction few days ago. and this particular article of yirtu was sold-ye godsi how painful is the talei-to the keeper of the beer garden.
 The beer garden man. who runs a sa- loon and open air concert hall on E street, northeast, in Washington, knew a good thing when he saw one. He paid ss5 for the sideboard and promptly had 1t con veyed in a van to his place of business, where 1t was hoisted in through a wlnGow in sections. Fortunately for him it was just the size for bar of the modern ana up-to-date buffet" style. The customer steps up to the buffet and arders what he wants of the bartender. Who. arrayed in q neat white jacket, stands in front of and not behind the sideboard. IL costs no more to take drink In this way, and it Is much more swell don't vou knew
 The $S5 paid by the beer garden proprie- tor was less than the mere wood in the sideboard cost the virtuous and strict principled young ladies of Cincinnati Ob- viously then, the purchase was bargain. But imagine, if you can, the horror of the surviving donors and of numerous other good people when the news of the fate of the historic piece of furniture was wired over the country. Mir. John R. Mclean. proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. who is no teetotaller himself, went directly to the keeper of the beer garden and offered him $S50 for the sideboard-an adu vance of 800 per cent on the purchase price. The response was a polite refusal. The saloon man said that he could make more money out of it in other ways.
 Col. Webb Hayes, U. S. A., who hap pened to be in Washington, went to the beer garden and made an offer for tho sideboard He felt that his family name was mixed up in the matter. and was anxious to rescue the relic from the threatened proclamation. But it was use less. The saloon keeper told him that, seeing that he was a son of President Hayes he would let him have the side board for $3o0O; but 1t was obvious that the price was intended to be prohibitive. It's present owner declares that he will take the piece of furniture for business purposes to the world Is fair, at St Louis. where he expects il to serve as big ad- vertiscment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24

their race. The conference that has just closed was the twelfth each of which has been larger and more effective than it's predecessor The aim of the conferences may be gathered from the following sim pie and straightforward statement of Principal Booker T. Was7fn gton:
 From the first it has been the main work of this conference to confine itself to simple and informal consideration of the methods and means of securing homes, the freeing ourselves from debts, ,he sav- ing of money the encouragement of intel- ligent producers, the payment of taxes, the cultivation of habits of thrift, honesty and virtue, the building of school houses and churches, the securing of education and high Christian character and friend ship between the races
 We do not see how an impartial ob- server of the situation in the south with no prejudice of race. or even an intelli- gent man of either race. with a sincere desire to advance the character and the prosperity of both, could indicate to the negroes objects better worth pursuing than pr. Washington thus summarlly points out And the true history of the past decade shows beyond all cavil that the Influence of the successive confer ences has been more effective than could have been expected in promoting the earnest and practical pursuit of these ob- jeets. There have been thousands of negroes who have undertaken with much success to clear themselves of debt, to increase the returns of their industry, to live more decently to school their chill dren and to lead more useful lives in a spirit friendly to their white neighbors. Certainly what tends to make the ne- groes self-supporting and self-respecting should, so far as it is adopted, make them respected by the whites. and if 1t does not, the blame Is with the whites.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
Railroad Hotels.

Several of the wealthiest and most en- terprsng railroad corporations in Great Britain, France and elsewhere on the Continent of Europe have built gigantic hotels at their terminals" said a railroad official. "That sort of investment by rich transportation lines has not been entered upon extensively in many cases n this country.
 But 1t Is now expected that railway hotels of the skyscraper kind will be set up on Manhattan Island. What is to be the limit in this generation for the raising of enormous inns and taverns in Manhat- tan borough?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
NOT FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.
Supreme Court Holds That Corkran
 Should Not Be Extradlted.

Washington, Feb. 23-The supreme court of the United States today affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals of the state of New York diseharging from the custody of the chief of police of Albany, N. r., Charles E. Corkran. who was held on a warrant by the governor of New York, granting a requ:sition from the governor of Tennessee. This case raised the question as to whether Cork ran could have been held as fugitive of justice from Tennessee if 1t were shown that he was not in the state when the alleged acts for which he was arrested, were, if ever, committed.
 Justice Peckham, giving the opinion of the court, held that on the showing of Corkran, uncontraoicted, that he was not in Tennessee at the time in question, he was not fugitive from justice with in the meaning of the federal statute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
AntI-spIttlna In St. Louis.

T notice the mayor of St. Louis has just signed an anu-spitting ordinance similar to the one on the statutes but not enforced in Birmingham" said a business man.
 Tt is so rigid that 1t will be impossible to enforce it, and St. Louisans have al- ready begun to ridicule it. One man says that some genius should devise jeweled hand euspidor, which could be carried like a lorgnette. He thinks it would become as fashionable as the snuff box was century ago, and that it would soon be a common sight to see two friends meet. and after a warm greeting extend a cuspidor to be spat into. He also says that after March l the only places left for man to spit will be at his home and in the Mississippi river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
INVESTIGATION STOPS.
Coal Committee Finds That Terminal
 Facilities Were Sufficient.

Washington, February 23.-The sub committee of the house committee on merchant marine and fisheries that went to Boston to investigate the subject of coal transportation, reported to the full committee today the results of the hear ing held The report of the sub-com- mittee recited among other things:
 "The evidence taken satisfied the sub committee that there was no question as to the sufficiency of tonnage for water transportation between the terminal coal ports and New England, and also that no deficiency existed in the matter of ter mnal facilities"
 Upon the question as to whether any understanding between the coal roads and coal operators existed the sub-commit- tee expressed no opinion. Owing to the fact that the end of the session is near at hand the subcommittee finds it im- possible to continue the investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
From the New York Evenlne Journal.

From the New York Evening Journal.
 N IOU must have your portrait paint AGT ed. It is the very latest fad
 and 1 am sure it is not a bad one. Sometimes we are supposed to go into extravaganza and to throw money out of the windows to amuse ourselves, but the artistic is never wasted.
 This year there have been numbers of new portraits added to the different private galleries There was Richard Hall. who has given us Mrs Ollie Har- riman, Jr., and who has also caught an excellent likeness of one of the Mills twins. Mrs. Hartman, by the way, is better, and she will soon be able to go south. The same artist has had Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt and he has succeeded in painting her jewels. If you have dia- monds and emeralds and rubes and pearls you must have them all done just as the tintype and cheap photograph people insisted upon putting various col ored stones on your hands. Mrs. Chaun- cey Depew was limned by Muller Ury. rather thought she felt bit incongru- ous in the gallery with Lillian Russell, who is always up to dae. and has been having herself done in oils. Mrs. Depew is picturesque. Possibly the handsomest of the portraits at Halls was that of Mrs. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant who was Belgian Countess. She is very chic, and her gown was perfectly plain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
From the New York Herald.

@ QUARTER of a century ago, \VE when Hayes was president, cer-
 tain young ladies of Cincinnati offered to Mrs. Hayes a magnificent ma hogany side board as a token of their ap- preciation of her action in barring wine from the White House. Two of the don ors subsequently, became the wives of distinguished men-Bellamy Storer, our ambassador to Austria-Hungary, and William Taft, civil governor of the Phil ippines. The others were young women of social prominence and all of them were ardent advocates of prohibition.
 There was at first question as to the advisabiity of accepting the gift. The president, whoever he may be. Is always beset by we'll well meaning people who are anxious, for one reason or another to bestow presents upon him or upon his wife. But 1t was finally decided to ae- cept, and the sideboard was shipped to Washington, where 1t was duly installed in the private dining room of the Execu- tive Mansion.
 The article of furniture was very large and of a most massive description. About eight feet in length, it weighed not far from a ton, and it's carvings were elabor- ate and beautiful. On the front below. was the American eagle in high relief perched upon a shield bearing the Stars and Stripes-the coat of arms of the United States, in fact, slightly m 1dified. In the middle of the back was a large and very fine plate glass mirror
 Through a series of administrations the sideboard preserved it's place in the pri- vate dining room, and nobody imagined that the time would ever arrive when it would be disturbed. In sense it fell from it's high estate after the Hayeses left the White House. and, though it's drawers were used chiefly 10 hold silver ware. many bottle of champagne and other warm stuff disapproved by the Wo- mans Christian Temperance Union were permitted to repose upon it while in the cupboards in the lower part decanters were conveniently stored During the administration of Chester A Arthur, if common report does not err the good old mahogany sideboard witnessed not a few rouslng times and supplied a deal ot liquid cheer.
 This was bad enough, but worse. far worse, was to come. Congress decided that the White House needed to be made over again, and in the reign of Roose-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
FEATHERLEss CHICKENS NEXT.

Washington Telegram to the Chicago In-
 ter-Ocean.
 The qualification and encouragement ex- perienced by the officials of the agricul- tural department as a result of the favor able manner in which the announcement of the attempts that would be made to breed clean pigs was received by the press and public has led to another step toward the perversion of species for use full and practical ends Experiments will be conducted with a view to securing a breed of featherless chickens. The work will be conducted at the experiment sta tons in the south. and while the result of the experiments Is yet a mater of con lecture, those having the affair in charge are sanguine of ultimate success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
HAVING ONES PORTRAIT
 PAINTED IS LATEST FAD

chatran is doing Mrs Sydney Dillon Ripley. who is one of the most stunning looking women in society. and Fornaris has also been engaged on portraits.
 The miniature for the time has gone out of fashion. l think we rather got enough of them with poor dear Peter Marie.
 Mrs. George Gould, I hear. is having another portrait executed and there is to be new one of Mrs. Ollie Belmont who never looked better than she does this season.
 The Vanderbits are always having their portraits painted. l do not care for the latest one of Willie. It looks old Alfred does very we'll in a portrait He has the sharp Vanderbilt features but Reggie is too fat. His face makes d lovely study. One of the most beautiful Of all portraits is that Of Baby" Belle Kemp. You should see it to appreciate it. Mrs Kemp is so statuesque.
 Julian Story is very busy with DOT traits, and Elliott Gregory is doing more of that kind of work than he is with the pen Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney paints morning, noon and night and l hear she is achieving splendid results, and Henry Clews, Jr., is to exhibit at the forth coming Paris salon.
 In fact, it is impossible to get a sitting with a fashionble portrait painter, orders are just flowing in. We are in the full Of the tide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
Atrocities Not Investigated Further.

Washington. February 23.-The senate committee on the Philippines today de- oided to take no further testimony regarding atrocities alleged to have been committed by the United States army officers in the Philippines. Several mel are In the city in an effort to give testi mony regarding the cases of Father Au- gustine and the alleged violations of the rules of warfare at the battle of Caloocan, and tomorrow they will present their evidence to Senator Carmack of Tennes- see with view to publication in the Con ereSsional Record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 The ideal way to keep up the human race would be to have only grandchildren.
 If there is anything on the floor man cant find, all he has to do is to put out the lights and hunt for 1t in his bare feet
 A man always remembers the dates of his great disasters; he never has to look in his memorandum book for the day when he was married.
 Women will know how to play cards well when they can be made to under stand that a carpenters rule will meas ure as accurately as dressmaker's tape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
Asphalt Receiver Appointed.

Trenton, N. J., February 23-Judge Kirkpatrick, in the United States court today appointed former Judge R. s. Woodruff of Trenton referee to take testimony in the receivership cases of the National Asphalt Company and the As phalt Company of America for the pur- pose of ascertaining the amount of prin- eipal and interest due on the collateral gold certificates of these companies and the amount of securities held by the Land Title and Trust Company of Philadelphia as security for these certificates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-24
NEGRO AWARDED DAMAGES.
Was Refused Admission to Dining Car
 On Pullman Train.

Trenton, N J., February 23.-In the United States court today a jury award ed $500 damages to the Rev. H. P. John ston of Camden, a negro, who sued the Pullman Palace Car company for S10,O00. Johnston is editor of The Christian Ad- vocate, and on March 27 last, while riding on a Pullman car between Richmond, Va, and Washington, sought service In the dining car.
 He said he was refused food by diff ferent subterfuges. notwithstanding he applied three times. Finally, when all the passengers had been served and the employees were eating, he said he was offered food