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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
Twas a Famous Victory.

The record of this country in the
management of the Indians is not an
enviable one. 1t is not one that will
be credit to us hundred years
hence, for we drove them from their
homes, their own soil, killing more or
less of them whenever and wherever
they stood up for their rights, but in
the long story of Indian Warfare in
this country there is nothing quite so
miserable in all respects as the
slaughter of women and children and
of practically unarmed Moros in the
crater on the island of Jolo, in the
Philippines Gen. Leonard Wood adj
mits the nature of the slaughter. but
they we're Mahommedans of the ex-
IRENE sort, and so they had to be
killed.
He refuses, like the Standard oil
crowd. to present particulars. AS be
held and still holds the crater. he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
A TOAST.

BY Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
from 'The School for Scandal'l
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here's to the widow of fifty.
Here's to the Haunting, extravagant
And here's to the housewife that's
- thrifty.
Let the. toast pass,
Well drink to the lass.
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for
the glass.
Here's to the charmcr whose diniples we
prize.
Now to the maid who has none. sir;
Here's to the girl with pair of blue eyes;
And here's to the nymph with but one.
sir.
Let the toast pass.
Well drink to the lass.
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for
the glass.
Here's to the maiden with bosom of
snow;
Now to her that's as brown as a berry,
Here's to the wife with a face full of
woe,
AndNnow to the damseI that's merry.
Let the toast pass.
Wen drink to the lass.
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for
the glass.
For let 'em he clumsy, or let 'em be slim,
Young or ancient. l care not a feather;
So I'LL up your glasses, nay, fill to the
brim,
And let Us cen toast them together.
Lot the toast pass,
Well drink to the lass,
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for
the glass.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
Cars Handled In February.

The census bureau will have to adj
nit some business is going on in Ala
bama, where $4,000 cars were moved
in the short month of February. More
than 1000 more cars were moved last
month than We're moved in February,
1904, and about 10000 more than were
handled in February, 1905. when the
effects of the strike were felt 1t was
the most active February the rail
roads in this state have ever expert
enced. 1t stands as the record Febru-
airy in the railroad calendar.
There is no better index of the state
of business than the records kept by
the Alabama car service, and while the
number OF cars handled is constantly
increasing we may know that the bus
mess of the state, particularly of this
district, is increasing also. Every adj
ditional car that is handled means
that that much business has been add
ed to our aggregate.
Iron is a good barometer of prices,
but the number of cars handled is a
much surer and better index of bus
mess actually transacted. The Ala
bama car service is in fact the scorer
of the big game that Alabama is play
ing in trading, mining and manufac-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
Extra Constitutional.

A primary in this state is not a
mere voluntary gathering of men be-
longing to one party. 1t is an official
matter, held under the election law of
the state. That law was framed in
accordance with the constitution.
1t follows, therefore, that the pri-
mary should keep within not only the
law, but also within the constitution
within the spirit of the constitution as
well as its letter. Does the plan to
apportion the county into legislative
districts to that?
In the northern states the township
is the political unit, but in the south,
particularly in Alabama, the county
is the political unit, and no other is
known TO our constitution or our laws.
When the Legislature apportioned the
state into Legislative districts it di-
yided no counties A county is known
as a county. and in no manner is any
division of 1t recognized for any leg
islatiye purposes whatever.
To attempt to do in the primary
what can not be done az the polls on
election day is to spurn the constitu-
ton and the political system of the
state. 1t is disregard of Alabama
principles that nothing of a local ma
ture could justify and that nothing in
our county affairs at present should
induce us to attempt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
COLLEGE Men and Students.


"As an aftermath of the great gathering
of college and university students at
Nashville recently" said L. IL. Putnam,
the local branch of the Young Mems
Christian association has arranged for Il
college day among the former students
of the colleges and other institutions of
learning in the south. On Sunday next
Chancellor J. II. Kirkland of the Universe
ty of Vanderbilt will come to this city
as the special guest of the Birmingham
association to address the college men
and the preparatory students of this sec
ton. The chancellor is known as one of
the best educators of the south and will
give the men Of his audiences some ex-
cellent words of counsel and advice.
w d. Weatherford, southern college
secretary of the International Committee
of the Young Mems Christian association.
will also be in the city Sunday in the in.
terest of the High school and preparatory
students who intend going off to college
this coming fall or the year following.
Mr. Weatherford is a graduate of Van
derblt university having taken three
degrees from that Institution, master of
arts, bachelor of arts and doctor Of phil
osophy. For several years he was tia
physical director of the Vanderbilt gym
nasium, and is one of the best gymnasts
of the south among collegemen.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
DEATH OF ACTOR MORGAN.
A Talented Career That Went to
Waste.


BY William Winter in the New York
Tribune
In the death Of Edward ]. Morgan,
which occurred in this city on Saturday.
the stage has lost an actor whose talents
and opportunities, if they had been we'll
used, might have raised him to fortu-
nate eminence They We're, however, for
the most part. misappied and wasted.
and he has died prematurely in the mid
die of a wandering and fruitless career.
Mr.. Morgan was an Englshman. born
at Croydon, near London, in ISL In
youth he went to Vancouver, B. c. to
seek his fortune, but the quest failed,
and he presently came to the United
States, In 1883 he obtained employment
as a supernumerary IN the production of
Mr.. Bronson Towards play of "Shenan-
doah," and later he was employed by Jo-
seph Haworth and by James ONenl;
and in that way he entered the dramatic
profession.
In 1898 he was at the American theatre
in this city. acting in a play by Mr..
Charles Klein, called ''rhe District At
torney." In 1896, at the Boston museum,
he acted a soldier play called 1.-TWO Lit
tie Migrants and was so fortunate as
to attract the attention of Mr.. Daniel
Frohman, who engaged him for the stock
company of the Lyceum theatre then on
Fourth avenue. He made his first appear
ance there in the season of 1861. acting
Sir Jasper in a play called THE Wife
of Wiloughby." His subsequent perform
ances at the Lyceum were those of George
Carteret, in THE First Gentleman of
Europe; Jack Poynngs, in "The May
flower; Edwin Ariel in THE Princess and
the Butterhy'' Nigil Stanyon-as also,
a later occasion, Brian in THE Tree of
Knowledge" and Tom Wrench in Tire
lawney of the Wells" He went to London
with Mrs. Leslie Carter. appearing at
the Adelphi theatre as Colonel Thorpe
in "The Heart of Maryland"
He was the first performer of the part
of John Storm in Mr.. Hall Gaines play
of "The Christian" when that piece
was produced ON October 10, 1898, at the
Knckerbocker theatre. with Miss Viola
Allen as Glory Quayle During the summer
of 1899 he acted with Mr.. Henry Miller
on the Pacific coast, and in that year
he performed as Elliott Tremane in
"Americans at Home and as John niger
field in Mr.. j. *. Jerome's play OF that
name. other characters with which his
name was associated were those OF the
two Defarges in Mr.. Henry Millers pro-
ducton of THE Only Way; Petronius
in "Quo Vadis, and Ben Hur in the
drama bearing that title. lie also played I'm
"Unleavened Bread" In the season of 1901
02 he acted as a star under the manage
ment Of Messrs. Liehler & CO., in "The
Christian He was associated with Miss
Viola Allen in 1.-THE Eternal City," and
later he was a star in the same piece.
Recently he acted as n star in Mr.. Hall
Gaines drama of The Prodigal Son."
His professional career has covered
period of about 16 years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16

A. schott of Auburn are registered at
the Birmingham.
Walter Iverson of Mobile is at the Hill
man.
J. a. Scholars of New York is at the
Hillman.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. Morris of Tusca-
loosa are at the Birmingham.
N. L. Heferman of Huntsville is at
the Birmingham.
Andrew Wilson Of New Orleans is at
the Morris
L. NJ. Hill of Paducah. KY, is at the
Norris
cyrus A. Johnston of Meridian is at
the Morris.
John D. Anderson of New Orleans is at
the st. Nicholas.
Wallace F. Williams of Admission is at
the St. Nicholas
". A. Cobb of Selma is at the Metro
politan.
@. c. Graft, Jr., of Montgomery is at the
Metropolitan.
William A. Foster of Montgomery is
at the Metropolitan.
NJ. G. McCargo OF Talladega is at the
Metropolitan
J. NJ. Gates, formerly of Birmingham
but now of Texas. is registered at the
Morris Hotel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
Few Stray Dogs.

"A somewhat peculiar thing | have
noticed since have been in Birmingham,
is the fact that there are few stray dogs
roaming the streets, either by day or
night" said John B. Wilson of Chicago.
at the Metropolitan hotel last night. las
n rule in city of this size there are
always many stray ours on the streets,
particularly at night. but notwithstand-
ing the fact | have been in Birmingham
several days / have failed to notice more
than two or three.
There is an old saying that whenever
you find negro living in a neighborhood,
you need not look far to find dog. There
are certainly a great number of negroes
in and around Birmingham but l do not
see the number of dogs it would take
to so around. Either there are excellent
laws to suppress the dog nuisance in Bir-
mingham. or there is a wonderful lack
of ours here"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
colorina Pipes.

"rho idea of having channels skin
around a pipe when a smoker is trying to
color it is all wrong" said T. Haas, rep
resentative of the pipe department of
the American Tobacco company, last
night "1n reality chamois skin hurts
a pipe when it is being coored
another objection TO covering the pipe
is that it requires several times as long
to color a pipe, and frequently the pipe
burns out at the bottom of the bowl be-
fore it is colored. A pipe must have air
in order to color it and prevent its burn
ing out at the bottom of the bowl
'The most successful eolorers of pipes
never use covering. but they are very
careful in handling the pipe not to
scratch II in any way and they are also
very careful about the kind of tobacco
they use"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
Hiqh-Class Music.

"The two important musical events an
nounced for Birmingham this spring are
the Treble Clef club concert with Madame
Shotwell-Piper. March p. and the New
York Symphony Orchestra concert, Wal
ter Damrosch director, May ." said a
music lover.
"The Treble Clef club is IN fine form
this season and with Madame Shotwell-
Piper. one of the most famous sopranos
in the United States, as the star of the
OCCASION a rare treat is promised.
"Damrosch will bring an orchestra of
fifty men to Birmingham in May. He will
take part in the Spartanburg festival the
latter part of April. That engagement
is the basis of his southern tour. lie will
visit only six or seven southern cities.
including Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16

could readily have counted the women
and children he had caused to be
slaughtered, but he declines to lay
the figures before the people. He as
sumes full responsibility for the
wretched slaughter that he ordered
and supervised. and the President has
cabled him congratulating him on his
brilliant feat of arms but this off
eial flapdoodle will not remove the dis
gust thar fills the breasts of the Amer
lean people.
The Notifications bill just reported
expressly provides that no money shall
be spent at Subig Bay. in the Philip
pines, and that fact, together with the
Leonard Wood slaughter, may be re-
garded as the beginning of return of
common sense in the handling of the
Philippines. Decent people, regard
less of party, are coming to think that
we cannot get rid Of those islands too
soon or too thoroughly. The Moros
are entitled to liberty and they have
right to be fanatical Mahommedans
if they so desire, and Gen. Leonard
Wood has no right to exterminate
them. 1t is his duty TO preserve order,
but he is not justified in pursuing a
policy of determination. It is a bad
piece of business first and last.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
ALABAMA PRESS


Greenvllle Advocate: 1t looks as If there
were a short circuit somewhere in the
Chicago municipal ownership programme.
columbiana Sentinel: Now that March
has drlfted in like Mary's little lamb
we may expect 10 see it so out like
brace of Roosevelt bears.
Huntsville Democrat: Hon. A. A. Wiley
will be the only congressional candidate
for the Second congressional district, for
which the voters are to be congratulated.
He fills the bill exactly.
Roanoke Leader: We notice in the Bull
lock County Breeze that Union Springs
Is to have a canning factory. The south
Is the proper home for many of the man.
ufacturing industries that have heretofore
been held by the north and west.
Ozark Southern Star: Some smart fell
low has a scheme on foot to tunnel the
Behring strait and connect North America
with Russia by rail. We rise TO assert
our objections right now for we are just
as close to those bomb throwers as we
care to be.
Mobile Register: Senator Tillman will
not confess that amlcable relations exist
between him, and the President. He says
they appear to exist" Then he pro-
ceeds to accuse the President of lghtness
and flippancy. likewise ignorance If
there are any amicable relations we feel
sure that they are strained.
Gadsden Journal: We have subiugated
the natives and established permanent
peace and order in the Philippines at
least dozen times since our acquisition
OF them and yet 1t constantly takes more
money more soldiers and more warfare
to maintain our authority. Benevolent
occupation and assimilation sounds good
as a theory, but delivering the goods
come high.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
Is Soliciting Votes.

4. C. Sexton, chief clerk in The Office
of the secretary of state at Montgomery
spent yesterday in Birmingham cleo
tioneering. Mr. Sexton looks upon Biz
mingham as a city and Jefferson as
county which will materially assist him
in his campaign and he said last night
that he felt sure he would get the support
of the JEFFERSON county voters in numbers
sufficiently large to help him win the Of
flee he seeks.
Mr. Sexton has not yet made any Of
fetal announcement of his candidacy, but
said yesterday that he would issue his
announcement in the next day or so
through the most prominent papers in
the state. He said also that his friends
have known for some days that he had
been entered, therefore he would mot
much longer delay his official announce
ment
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:
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press,
A man can always marry an heiress in
novel.
The same woman that calls her fairness
plumpness thinks her red hair is golden.
1t always makes woman awful mad
not to have anybody calling when a tel
egram arrives.
There is nothing a woman Will belleVe
quicker than when YOU tell her she mas
brains unless il is beauty.
What woman likes about having an al
lowance is she always has an excuse 1oi
not being able to pay her bills with H.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
BRILLIANT cARTooNIST.

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
Las and Liza, the comic ''coons'' now
appearing in the Birmingham-Age Herald
every Sunday, are the work of Blackman,
the -Herald's cartoonist. and they
equal in every respect to the best work of
the day in that line.A MIR. Blackman IS
hard worker and his cartoons have been
recognized by the leading publications of
the country. He is native Albanian.
and more than that, native of Tallade-
ga county.
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From .yarIons exchanges.


UsAN BRowNWELL ANTHONY
~ was pioneer leader of the cause
~ of woman suffrage, and her en-
ergy was tireless in working for what
she considered to be the best interests
of womankmd, At home and abroad she
had innumerable friends, not only among
those who sympathized with her views,
but among those who held opinions radi-
cally opposed to her.
Miss Anthony possessed a figure of me-
dunn size, a firm but rather pleasing
face. clear hazel eyes and dark hair
which she always wore combed smoothly
over the ears and bound in coil at the
back.
She paid much attention to dress and
advised those associated in the move
ment for woman suffrage to be punetil-
ious in all matters pertaining to the toll
let. For a little over a year in the early
fifties she wore a bloomer costume, con-
sisting of a short skirt and a pair Of
Turkish trousers gathered at the ankles.
So great an outcry arose against the
Innovation both from the pulpit and the
press. that she was subjected TO many
indignites, and forced to abandon it.
Miss Anthony decided to make a radical
test of her rights in 1872, and with dozen
or more women she insisted upon casting
ballots at the state and congressional
elections in Rochester. She said she did
1t in order to test the APPLICATION of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.
She was indicted for voting Illegally and
was found guilty by Justice Hunt in the
United States court.
"You voted as a woman. did you not?'
he asked her.
mo sir" she replied; 81 voted as a
citizen of the United States"
When the justice fined her 500 and
gave her the alternative of going to Jail
or paying. she declared that she would
never pay, and she never did, The JUS
tiee did not send her to jail. and Miss
Anthony sent a petition to President
Grant. In response to this she and the
inspectors who received her ballot and
had been fined were pardoned.
While n guest of the United States Legal
ton in Berlin she posted letter in the
official envelope of the Woman's Suffrage
Association Of America. On the envelope
this was printed:
mo Just government can be formed
without the consent of the governed"
This struck the officials of the German
postofflce as revolutianry and Miss An
thony soon got the letter back, with the
announcement that the inscription was
contrary to Prussian law Miss Anthony
once told an acquaintance that had she
not been guest Of the legation she
probably would have been lockeds up as
a Nihilist or a socialist.
: Even after she passed the age of so, she
continued her activity. and her brain
seemed to be as clear as ever. She was
wonderfully alert, and at the~age of 81.
she went abroad attended a. convention
and made an extended tour in the sur
frage cause. AT that time she was re-
eeived. with twenty-one other delegates.
to the convention. by the Empress of
Germany, and was told by the Empress:
You are my special guest on this oc-
easion.''
marriage. There were once told by Mrs.
marriage. There were once told by Mrs.
Harper, who worked with her on BIZ
ography OF Miss Anthony.
She believes that a woman should not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
REFORM.

REFORM.
Mrs. Biffkins has the public ear,
Is always on the go
And while her house is never clean
She wants the city so.
She holds a meeting every day
To freshen up the town,
Avows it's In a awful fix
And keeps on running down.
She reads q paper now and then
on how to sweep street,
The way to build up city parks.
And keep the alleys neat.
She has a hundred clever plans
On WHICH the board should act,
But. sooth to say. she overlooks
One thought-compelling fact
That needs no bard TO tell it out,
Nor huge, impressive tome.
The fact is this: Like charity,
Reform begins at home.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Birmingham an Insurance Center.

Birmingham an Insurance Center.
The Birmingham of today IS an en-
tirely different city from the Blrming-
ham of 1000, when was last mere said
+. 3. Allen. vice president Of the Hart
ford Steam Boiler Inspection and lnsur-
ahee company. who Is on a business trip
to this city. 1T doesn't take an outsider
Ike me. however. to make you reailze
that, for you know it already.
From the viewpoint of the casually m
surance companies can say that they
all consider Birmingham one Of the best
cities in the country on account Of its
Industrial activity, which is increasing
at such a rapid rate
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
GALLANT ALABAMiANS.
mi the kansas Gazette.

prom the KansaS Gazette.
Alabama carried off the individual hon
ors at Santiago with Hobson and did the
same thing at Mount Dajo with Lieut..
Gordon Johnston.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16
GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

From the Memphis commercal-Appeal.
It's wonder some sharp American
doesn't get hold of Monte Carlo and in
corporate 1t under the laws of New Jer-
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"HEARsrERIA."
\ the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore News.
A new word has been coined in New
York politics to describe a morbid con-
dition which has developed. 1t is called
Hearsteria.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16

Gen. Leonard Wood should now try
to live down Mount Dajo. II was this
country's most disgraceful battle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-16

Those Moros in the crater, armed
with boloes. did not know that they
had been sentenced TO death.