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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
LETTERS TO EDITOR
School Legislation.
Iltor of the Age-Herald:

TO the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 Your paper has been coming to me since last summer. I like it very much, and I send you 25 cents to have it continued.
 certainly am in favor of some of the reforms advocated by your paper. taught school ten years in Talladega county. I am still poor and will no doubt remain so. Yet I have lived and have slept on good beds, and have eaten good food. I have built schoolhouses and made desks with my own hands. have stood two of the state examinations. I got certificate both times. I have a diploma from a big university and papers from another. I have taught from the first reader through Horace and geometry. I have had good health all the time-only little sick
 I am in favor of a state uniform text book law.
 l advocate local taxation, or some sort of taxation, so that the country children can have schoolhouses with desks and blackboards and glass windows.
 I am in favor of prohibiting preaching, singings, prayermeetings or anything else in the schoolhouses except for school pur-- poses-let there be good law passed against these things.
 l am strongly in favor of abridging the power of the township trustees, as from my experience he Is the bone of contention and trouble all the time.
 I think the school districts ought not to correspond with the townships. l am in favor of a change for the better on that line The way it is, some of us teachers can hardly get $2O per month while others who have no more pupils and not very high grades, get $50 per month
 I favor some way of getting the people to send their children to school. Some times it is hard to get the pupils to att tend school. Some means should be found to improve the attendance in school. The parent is generally the trouble.
 I favor law requiring the county su- perintendent to visit the schools and to see how the teacher teaches and how the school is managed.
 JOHN MACPHERSON. Remlap Ala January 12 1903.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Judge Parkers plurality of 1889 in 1897 for chief judge of Court of Ap- peals, is not significant. He polled at that time 54,680 votes, whereas in 1896 the democratic candidate for gov ernor boiled 574,524 votes, and the democratic candidate for governor in lo58 boiled 643, ,921 votes, and in 1900 the democratic candidate for governor polled 693,733 votes, and in 1902 the democratic candidate for governor polled 55,99S votes.
 Judge Parker's light vote ill 1897 was chiefly due to the fact that Seth Low was running for mayor of Greater New York in that year, and no candi- date for chief justice was placed on the fusion ticket No less than 95,7S2 voters in Greater New York did not vote for chlel judge-tnat is to say, the vote for mayor exceeded tho vote for chief judge in Greater New York by that number of votes.
 Judge Parker may pc able to carry New York, but nevertheless the record shows that in 1897 he polled g. very light vote He was elected by hand some plurality, but this was largely due to the neglect of fusion voters in Greater New York. It is best to know the facts in so important matter. leap in the dark is never advisable, and the democratic party in 1904 need not make such a leap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
From the New York Herald.

 s@ ROM the outburst of resent U ment throughout the south
 and the expression of sober northern sentiment, Presi- dent Roosevelt must now re- alize that the ill-adVised appoint ment of pr. Crum, following close ly on the abrupt closing of the IndianoIa postoffice, was a bIunder which has already done no little mischief and which, if persisted In, can hardly fail to lead to the most depIorable consequences.
 To this prevailing opinion of the country the President may we'll bow and promptly repair the mis- take by accepting the resignation of Mrs. Cox, opening the IndianoIa office with a postmaster accept able to it's citizens and withdraw the obnoxious nomination from the senate to avert sectional discus sion to be deprecated by the entire nation.
 One of the results of the Spanish war hailed with keen satisfaction by the American people was the welding of northern and southern feeling in patriotic unity. It was a theme that President Mckinley loved to dwell on and is one on which President Roosevelt himself has repeatedly spoken with en- thusiasm. But if the agitation now menaced should be fomented if would not only undo the good then done, but would set the coun- try back generation in color prej- udice and sectional strife.
 The sentiment against color in the south may be unfortunate and to be deplored, but the vital fact is that 1t exists, is universal and rooted in the growth of centuries. 1t may wear out, but cannot be cut out. MT. Roosevelt may buck against it, but neither he nor any other President, neither congress nor the republican party, can over- come it. He can no more enforce political equality of the races in the matter of office holding, which is not constitutional right of any citizen, black or white, than he can enforce social equality. Any strenuous attempt to do so will simply intensity prejudice against color, embitter race feeling and cause sectional strife, in all of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
WALDORF-ASTORIA COST
 MILLIONT RUN 6 MONTHS

MT. Astor and MT Boldt. The annual payroll of the army of 1512 is a good deal more than $1,000,000.
 There are 10000 napkins in daily use at the Waldorf-Astoria. 12,OOO towels, 4OOo walters, cooks and maids aprons, $500 pillowcases and $500 sheets. More than 10000 plates are used every day, 5000 cups and saucers and 1S.00O spoons as well as 1S000 knives and forks There are all ways $3OO,O0O worth of cigars In the humidors, spacious chambers forty-five feet below the street.
 In governing and directing the affairs of the great hotel Proprietor Boldt, Man ager Hilliard and their lieutenants seem to be always on duty. This writer has seen them about tho hotel at all hours of the day and night Probably they sleep sometimes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
2Fe Weh York HeYald
 Calls OOA1n ROOSebeh

which the negro will inevitably be the greatest sufferer.
 Apart from this view there Is a controlling consideration of policy. 1t is a recognised international principle and established usage that a diplomatic representative must be, irrespective of merit or worth, persona grata to the gov ernment and people to which he is credited. For this reason Presl- dent Roosevelt recalled the first consul he sent to Havana. Now, the same principle should apply to such prominent federal officials as collectors and postmasters, who are brought into close touch with the people. Like diplomatic rep resentative, their usefulness de- bends in a large measure on their acceptability.
 1t matters not what the personal objection may be; if it is shared by the community and the appoint ment is obnoxious to the citizens, that is enough to render 1t unfit and impolitic, especially in view of the fact that there are plenty of other men as well qualified and personally unobjectionable Would President Roosevelt think of fore ing upon New York, Boston, Phila- deIphia or San Francisco a col lector or postmaster against the unanimous protest of business men and citizens? Why is not lead ing southern city entitled to equal consideration? He recalled Con- sul Bragg from Havana because he was not acceptable to the Gu ban people. Why not recall the nomination of pr. Crum from the senate because it is obnoxious to the citizens of Charleston?
 1t Is an issue of more than local concern and of far-reaching conse- quence. The Charleston appoint ment and the lndianoIa affair have stirred southern feeling as it has not been stirred for years. Both were unwise and uncalled for steps in a policy which can only mean serious mischief and cannot be abandoned too soon for the good of the negro as we'll as the white people of the south and the entire nation. It is to b hoped that the President will retrace his steps before bitter sectional discussion is provoked in the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
ON DRINKING ALONE AT MID.
 NIGHT.

By Li-Tao-Po, A. D. 720.
 Here are flowers, and here is wine But where's a friend with me to join Hand to hand and heart to heart In one full cup before we part? Rather than to drink alone, I'll make bold to ask the moon To condescend to lend her face To grace the hour and the place. Lo! she answeres, and she brings My shadow on her silver wings; That makes three. and we shall be, l ween, merry company.
 The modest moon declines the cup, But shadow promptly takes it up; And when I dance my shadow fleet Keeps measure with my flying feet. Yet though the moon declines to tipple, She dances in yon shining ripple And when I sing. my festive song The echoes of the moon prolong. Say, when shall we next meet together3 Surely not in cloudy weather; For you. my boon companions dear, Come only when the sky is clsar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
About Persons.

J. K. Dixon of Talladega is at the Hillman.
 J. B. Allen of Montgomery is at the Morris.
 II. L. Mckee of Meridian is registered at the Hillman
 w. R. Nelson of Selma is at the Morris. A. H. whiteside of Atlanta is at the Hillman.
 L. D. Batre of Mobile is at the Morris. O. A. Field of St. Louis is at the Hill man.
 w. S. Scott of St. Louis is at the Nor ris.
 G. c. Osborne of Nashville is register ed at the Hillman.
 w. c. Smith of Selma is registered at the Morris.
 A. Hilton, general passenger agent of the Frisco is at the Morris.
 George M. Ryoll of Baltimore Is at the Metropolitan hotel.
 w. c. els of Atlanta Is at the Metro politan hotel.
 B. II. Briggs of Memphis is at the Met ropoltan hotel
 Henry Fitts of Tuscaloosa Is at the Metropolitan hotel.
 J. A Dodson, assistant to the general manager of the Southern was in Birming- ham yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
PROSPEROUS ALABAMA.

From the Gadsden Times-News.
 Judging from our exchanges every town in Alabama starts off the new year in a prosperous condition. There seems to be a progressive spirit in all sections of the state and it is hoped that the leg islature will fall in line with a good ap- propriation for an exhibit at the St. Louis fair. Alabama is wonderfully rich in resources which will never be fully de- veloped without the right sort of adver- Using. Commissioner Poole can do a great amount of good at St. Louis if he is supplied with funds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
Darwln's Coffin.

near Bromley England, is a secondhand coffin. It was made by the village car penter, who frequently made cases for Darwin's collection. One day, work being scarce, the carpenter asked for something to do and was told by Darwin that he could make a coffin, which he did. The body of Darwin is said to have lain in 1t for two days before his burial in West minister Abbey was decided upon. A new coffin was then provided, and the first passed into the possession of the carpen- ter and at his death was bought by the publican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
Judge Parker's Runninu Strenqth

The Brooklyn Eagle is one of the fairest and justest of democratic papers in the country. It never descends to demagogry. It seeks the truth. It desired the nomination of Judge Parker for governor of New York last fall, and it regretted the fact that MT. Hill would not consent to his nomina- tion. The Eagle not only believed Judge Parker could have been elected, but it desired him to establish his strength before the people, something he had not done.
 The Eagle unfiinchingly shows that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
THE OLD TRUNDLE-BED.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 '"rhe trundle bed is a thmg of the past, and I don't believe you could find one anywhere, not even in the antique shops" said a furniture salesman yesterday. ''Twentyfive years ago they were in gem eral use and most middle-aged people will recall the low bed in which they slept when they were children, and which was rolled out of sight under their par ents' bed in the daytime I haven't seen one for years; in fact they are no longer made. I suppose when the style in beds changed from the high-posted affairs 70 the lower and more ornate ones, there was no place for the trundle bed, and it went out of existence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
Toothsome Coal.

From the New York Times
 A stroller through a big department store in the shopping district was aston ished to come upon a generous bod of anthracite standing a counter.
 Mercy me!' she ejaculated selling coal right here in the middle of the store?'
 Looking further she saw sign, $500 a toon; good to eat not to burn;" and dis covered that it was candy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Most love gets sick when the loved one does.
 The student is not practical enough and the practical person is not studious enough.
 Some one who wants to make a for tune should start a marked-down bar gain counter restaurant for women
 If woman can't be petted any other way she will get up a quarrel with her husband so that she can be happy when he Is making it up.
 woman can never be too sick abed not to regret that she hasn't some hand some furs which she could wear if she weren't sick abed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

let between it's eyes. The howdah is of chiseled silver and over her excellency's head Is a canopy of thick white silk, heavily embroidered with pearls. Mrs. Letter. Lady Curzon's mother, is one of the drubar guests, and greatly as she has hitherto rejoiced in her daughters dis tinguished position, she confesses that she never really realized what 1t was to be the wife of the viceroy of Indian until she beheld Molly on her elephant"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
THOSE REVERSED PICTURES.

From the Talladega News-Reporter
 We cannot help feeling as if we'd like the Advertiser better if it classified It's state news, instead of serving 1t in muni- cipal dishes. And The Age-Herald, if it would not exhibit those terrible guess pictures gable-end to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
St. Nicholas Hotel.

The Arlington hotel has changed it's name to St. Nicholas. Under it's new man. agement many handsome improvements are to be made. The lunch counter will be removed to the basement, and the en- tire floor of the restaurant will be used as a cafe. The Ventibule saloon, adjoin- ing the St. Nicholas, which was for long time conducted by Zeke Solomon, has been leased by the proprietors of the hotel and will be refitted in elegant style.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

From the London Society.
 It would be hard, says an Indian cor respondent, to imagine a more gorgeous picture of barbaric splendor than Lady Curzon presents when mounted on her favorite elephant. The creature is one of the largest ever known, and as gentle as he is huge. Rich draperies of silk and gold sweep almost to the ground; the tusks are clasped with jeweled bands of gold, and jewels gleam also on the front
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
WHAT KILLED THE COW?

From the Richmond. Ky. Pantagraph.
 A COW belonging to "Budp Bowlin de- voured twenty-three twists of tobacco few night ago and died in less than an hour.- Tobacco users, however, declare that she died simply because she didn't know hom to eXpectorate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

We have long had disappearing guns but now we are to have dis appearing newspapers, steeped in sul- phuric acids, from which all printing will disappear in a short time. This fills a long-felt want.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
TOO NUMB TO THINK STRAIGHT

From the Denver Times.
 There are four million cold people be- cause of the coal famine; they are cold because they don't know enough to make it hot for the right people
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Remember this, you cannot vote, either in the primary or at the polls, for city officers unless you pay your poll tax this month. Paste that in your hat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

The smitlng of the Hon. Reed Shoot is still progressing, but he will be Utahs new senator just the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

The elephants have been released from their engagements at Delhi, and have gone home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

The ice crop in the northern states is not a failure, but it is believed the peach crop is off again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

The legislators are a-legislating for, let us hope, the greatest good of the greatest number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

MT. Charley Scnwab IS really coming home, with an intention of working up to his salary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

All baseball wars have been declared off. They did stagger humanity of the bleacher sort, but peace reigns again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Politics in Colorado is as mucl1y as the article was in Alabama in recon struction times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Colorado is in tue hands of the contingent artists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

The chief work of congress consists in the filing and pigeonnoling of anti trust bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Many princes have reigned over fewer men and women than those who live and work and play in the Hotel Waldorf-As- toria. In this principality which com prises seventeen floors, below as well as above ground there is an annual expendi- ture of money that any chancellor of the exchequer would be glad to handle.
 To contemplate the figures which show the activities of this great mountain of luxury and pleasure is to receive sur prise amounting to shock when one re- members that in size and importance the Waldorf-Astoria is to New York as tree is to the forest.
 There are 1512 employees in this great hotel. Three thousands guests daily oc- cupy it's rooms. By eschewing alcoholic beverages and fine cigars and keeping tips within moderate limits a man can live there on $S a day.
 He will not play the gourmand, but he will be comfortably fed and housed, he can command the services of any one of the 1512 employees, and he will enjoy the music, the pictures. the statuary, the luXuTlOuS rugs anu ldpeSlIltS anu dll tiiS other rich surroundings of the salons, music-room, restaurant, cafe, etc, as much as any foreign potentate or Ameri- can multi-millionaire who lives in the royal suite or the state apartment. More over he will enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that he is living at the Waldorf for the lowest possible price.
 Highest Cost Unrecorded.
 What the highest cost of living at the Waldorf Astoria is neither the richest guest nor the management will tell.
 ''The daily rent of the Royal Suite" says Manager Hilliard, runs well into three figures. What he spends on living beside that depends entirely on his tastes in eating. drinking, srtoking the number of guests he entertains, etc. An cpicure could easily spend 5000 day here ana not overexert himself"
 Here is the muster roll of the 1512 em- ployes in the hotel yesterday
 ' housekeepers, AT pantrieS,
 14 parlor maids. 19 helps hall
 94 chambermaids, 30 silver room
 54 cleaners, IT head walters, 66 housemen S3 restaurant
 4 linen room, "A care,
 103 laundry, 90 garden,
 footmen, 70 roouS' 133 nalt boys. "A oi1lcers "aitels' 26 elevatormen, AZ evening "ailers' A front if ic e SS kltchen'
 clerks and 17 bake shop,
 nigbt audit. 2S wine department, Q +reasurer's office, 9 cigar department, eo oasb,ers and 2S controllers a n q
 floor clerks cneckers' 10 detectives and 97 mechani c 8 n d
 watchmen engineers,
 40 stewards. 1 director of music, e1 store private servants.
 rho cost of maintaining the Waldorf Astoria principally runs well up In the millions of dollars a year. Here are the figures showing exactly what was spent on it's maintenance during the twelve months ending November 90 last:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

The Indianola date line begins to have a tired feeling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Memphis begins to fear the Olney boom will outgrow the home of it's birth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

In the coal trade there is limit named by riots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
LADY cuRzoN ON HER ELEPHANT

New York is tunnel crazy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

A warm city election approacheth. Pay your poll taxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Office seekers will be expected here after to show vaccinauon certificates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Gumshoe Bills goloshes are to be fitted over Senator Vests old shoes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Sig. Marconi makes love freely, using in each case the old system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

That Bibb county lynching, for tunately for Bibb, did not pan out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

The Monroe doctrine needs only one backing-a big navy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14

Captain Hobson s later Merrimacs are of a congressional nature.
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either in the primary or at the polls, for city officers unless you pay your poll tax this month. Paste that in your hat.
 All baseball wars have been declared off. They did stagger humanity of the bleacher sort, but peace reigns again.
  The smitlng of the Hon. Reed Shoot is still progressing, but he will be Utah's new senator just the same.
  The ice crop in the northern states is not failure, but it is believed the peach crop is off again.
 -.s--- The legislators are a-legislating for, let us hope, the greatest good of the greatest number. The elephants have been released from their engagements at Delhi, and have gone home. Mir Charley Scnwab IS really coming home, with an intention of working up to his salary.
 --s.-----. Politics in Colorado is as mucl1y as the article was in Alabama in recon struction times.
  The chief work of congress consists in the filing and pigeonnoling of anti trust bills.
 Memphis begins to fear the Olney boom will outgrow the home of it's birth.
 ------s------------~ Office seekers will be expected here after to show vaccination certificates
 -s.- Gumshoe Bills goloshes are to be fitted over Senator Vests old shoes.
  That Bibb county lynching, for tunately for Bibb, did not pan out
  Sig. Marconi makes love freely, using in each case the old system.
 --s.- Captain Hobson later Merrimacs are of a congressional nature. The Monroe doctrine needs only one backing-a big navy.
  A warm city election approacheth. Pay your poll taxes. The Indianola date line begins to have a tired feeling. Colorado is in tue hands of the contingent artists. In the coal trade there is limit s.-Aa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-14
THE SKYScRAPER.

Remlap, Ala, January 12 1903.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-12-24
AT THE WHITAKER HOME.
Conditions Fairly Good For The
Helpless Ones.

The fifty pupils here are anxious
about Santa Claus.
NJ. L. Alberty has recovered fiom
bis pneumonia attack sufficiently to
resume his cooking.
Mrs. Copper d Mrs. Galloway will
spend X mas witE relatives in Vinita,
gong there Thursday.
Prof r. Bruce Garrett and his es-
timable wife Will depart for Table
quah Thursday 10 spend a few days
with friends aud relatives during The
holidays
Prof. B. S Cippock took suppe r
with Us last Wednesday evening. He
was pleased to know that we we're
getting along a. we'll as we are, since
the fire. He said as soan as the pres
ident signed the bill setting the build
ing at Tahlequah over to the use OF
the orphans, steps would be taken to
put 1t ia readiness for occupancy.
Siuce the new kitchen has been put
in use and the partition removed from
the dining room, we have capacity
.ur feeding the whole school at one
sitting. With only one hoy, Jesse
Sanders, ou the side but we feel
very Fortunate. There can be no con-
ditinn in life that so completely pros
tralc- sav me more than To he burned
Out. Wueu we think OF the wreck
and compare our conditions here with
those enjoyed at the o'd Cherokee
Orphan asylum we can but feel cast
down We are only too glad that we
are as we'll provided for as we are.