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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Sanarata Cars for Neoroes.

The negroes in the northern states are disturbed over the rate bill, and so are the southern negroes, but they look at it from viewpoints as far apart as the poles. The act as it stands says interstate carriers shall give equally good service and accommodations to all persons paying the same compensa- tion." This is all it says that touches the race issue, but this is construed in two amusing ways. The Boston negro says it means that jim-erow cars are to be put on the railroads of the north ern states, whereat they are indignant. They ride side by side with plutocrats now in all cars. dining with them sleeping with them and observing with them in any.and all trains. They fear that these advantages will be sunk in Jim-Grow cars. The southern negroes, on the other hand, fear that separate car laws and regulations will be aDol' ished by the rate bill, and this is ex- actly what they do not desire.
 Between the two interpretations the negroes as a race are in a perturbed condition. Both are protesting on wmely different grounds, and they are aple to reach nearly every republican Representative and every republican Senator. Ten millions of negroes arc opposed to the equality clause of the bill as it stands, and it may come out of conference not little disfgured in the clause that relates to the separa- ton of the races in passenger cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Valuable Book.

Said A member of Birmingham's Nir- g1nia colony: One of the recent pub ncations that should prove of great in- terest to southerners and especially Vir- ginians is Col. John Goode.s 'Recolleeions of Lifetime Colonel Goode Is one Of the most brilliant and popular men in the Old Dominion.
 Born in 1929 and hay1ng spent many years of his life in the public service Colonel Goode's "reminiscences are Of high value. Colonel Goode graduated at Emory and Henry college and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1851. He was mem Der of the Virginia house of delegates from 1852 to 1867. He belonged to the con ventlon which passed the ordinance of secession in 1861. He served in the Con- federate congresses from 1862 to 1865, and during the recesses of that body, was volunteer aide on the staff of Gen. Jubal A. Early.
 After the war was over Colonel Goode began d successful law practice in Nor folk, He was elected to the United States Congress in 1S75 and remained in office until 1881; was a presidential eleetor in 1852, 1856 and 1884: United States solici- tor general from May of 1885 to August of 1886: member of Chilean claims com mission during the years 1893 and 1894 and president of the Virginia constitu- tional convention, meeting in Richmond during 19Ol-1902
 Colonel Goode's chapter on the settle ment of the Hayes and 1ilden eontro- versy for President by the electoral com mission is one of the ablest and most carefully written in the book, and is vital ly interesting and important Colonel Goode was a member of the committee of democrats from Congress to wait on Mir Tflden in New York and learn the President-elects wishes in regard to the electoral commission proposition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
MT. BoWie's Destination.

Not within the memory of living man had an Alabamian tossed aside a long and promising congressional ca reer, or even a seat for a single term. until Sydney J. Bowie, like a bolt out of the blue. sent to the printers a earl declining service beyond his present terms in Washington. Professional and industrial life again wins a point over public service The tide has been running that way long time, and the brains of the country are no longer at the command of Uncle Sam for direct use in public employment. In the days before the war official life outranked all other employment, but the times are changed, and the change is not a bit encouraging to the republic.
 Mir Bowies card is manly and Btraightforward. and he is wholly justi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
RUSSIAN DOUMA AND THE
 FRENCH STATES GENERAL

Estate and even the King himself had privileges. particularly to that of in. equality In taxation All were for prac. tical reforms although those suggested by the Third Estate were more radical than the others Toward the end of May came up the wider subject of civic equal ity. The Third Estate now pressed most urgently that the two other orders, which. by the old custom, would have debated and voted separately as distinct chambers. should vote with 1t in one chamber. This point being pressed the King declined to receive delegation of the Third Estate, so that he might con sider and decide the innovation, although he allowed it to be intimated that he would permit no change which would de- stroy the observance or old forms.
 On June IT, the Third Estate, by an overwhelming majority, took upon itself the title of national assembly and at once assumed control over taxation and the national debt This was the first defin- ite act of defiance flung down to the royal power and it resulted in the main from the encouragement which Louis XVI. had first given to the Third Es- tate. By refusing to treat with the dele gates of the Third Estate he had lost great opportunity-just as it is believed Nicholas II. has lost one in declining to treat with the delegates of the Douma. The King resented the creation of the national assembly and took the step of imposing on the three orders a pro- gramme which would have been well eomed earlier but which was utterly in- adequate to the existing situation. Sym pathetic echoes were heard among the clergy and the nobles, and the King, fearing lest these two orders would, of their own initiative go over to the na- tional assembly, finally, at the end of June, bowed to the inevitable and order ed them to join it. But the King having made an undignfied surrender was now more unapproachable than before He turned his back on the delegates of the national assembly who sought to treat with him on the subject of a new con- situation and lent his ear to the reac- tionary advisers, who told him that he could only undo the harm he had done his prerogative by the use of military force. He took this advice and the end was not far distant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
But if there be
Russia's First Parliament.

The Duma is remarkable body. It has all the courage of it's convictions, and it stands up to those convictions as bravely and determinedly as the French states general did over a cen. tury ago. The French body transformed itself into a national convention, an1 the Duma shows all the revolutionary tendencies of the historic French body.
 The Duma comes from the people, Out of it's 442 members, 275 are cdn. stitutional democrats in the left" who stand outright for parliamentary government and a responsible minis try. They are the pick and flower of the liberal movement-of the new Rus sia. There is not an anarchist or bomb thrower among them. Then there are 17 Polish delegates and Octoberists, and Is members in the right" or gov ernment group. The rest are inde- pendents, who act as a rule with the left"
 In the respect of occupation there are in this epoch-making body 121 peasants only three of whom are illit- crate; 17 factory workmen, 14 mer- chants and contractors, 46 landowners 39 lawyers, 16 physicians, ' engineers. Il journalists, IT teachers, Ii officials, anu 21 village clerks. All close ob- servers in the Russian capital say that \the Duma fairly represents the Rus
 9 nation that has risen since the war.
 The issue between the government and the Duma does not admit of com. promise, There can not be two rulers of one nation, and the Emperor or the people must back down. It will not be the people, who are becoming more deeply and widely educated every day. The Duma sits in St. Petersburg to give the people voice and expression. It speaks in no uncertain tone. It knows what the people want, and 1t proposes to secure the demands of the people regardless of consequences and personal risks. The air of Russia is surcharged with change and revolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
LIKE A RICH MAN"

From the New York World.
 q feel like a rich man." says Mir. Rockefeller
 The statement has the importance of it's limitations. If MT. Rockefeller had said "as a rich man ought to feel'' we should like it. We should see then that he was in the way of letting the public share his sense of wealth. since it might then es- teem itself rich in possessing him. A mill lionaire who accepts the responsibility of his millions Is a joy forever, and neither dces he sheer at the law nor dodge the process-servers, having nothing to fear from either.
 How curiously to the day laborer with unshaken digestion must the fact appeal that Mir. Rockefeller feels Hike rich man" merely because for the time being his stomach has ceased to be an organ of torture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Communication in the New York Times
 mrable article on Sectional Codes," and concur fully in the sentiment of 1t, as I do almost without exception in the spirit of all your editorial utterances tionally of course, committed an error as to fact You say the term, or epithet, or whatever you may choose to style it, "liar" Is mot, as weapon of personal controversy, any longer in the arsenal of northern controversalists. When you say Northern" you include. as you intimate, all that is east and all that is west, as distinguished from what is po- litically known as the south. My ob- servation does not tally with yours, and I think many will be found to agree with me that "llar" Is still prominent in the arsenal of controversialists, and is not by any means a lost weapon.
 One living in Washington comes con- stantly in contact with representatives from every state of the union. It is cer- tainly no infrequent occurrence to hear gentlemen in public life, or not in public life, coming from the New England states, New York, and Pennsylvania play with the weapon. As for western gen. tlemen, it is a favorite with them. grant you this: Eastern and western men most probably in nine times out of ten use this term in a perfectly friendly way, and with no intention to give of fense. But it sounds not the less coarse or vulgar. The southern man never says liar unless he means it as an insult and is prepared to accept the conse- quences It would be next to impossi- ble for a man of southern birth and instincts to apply the term to anot er In a familiar or friendly way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
From the New York Times

fIOtH the New l 1ork Times.
 N UssIANs exiled from their native N country betray signs of disap-
 pointment that so far the ses- sions of the Douma have produced no greater leader of Russian liberty-no Robespierre or Mirabeau, no Danton or Marat. The fact is overlooked, however. that the period has not been reached in the Douma similar to that of the states general which produced leaders. The coin cidence of date in regard to the open ing of Douma and states general may be significant or not; at any rate, there is it may or may not prove prophetic that on May 27 17S9, the states general had not yet produced it's great men.
 The editor of The Anglo-Russian be- lieves that "the man" will arrive at the same time that he did in the history of the French revolution and that his ad- vent will be heralded by similar signs. The generally accepted opinion-by for eigners that bureaucracy in Russia is incapable of producing a single strong man is denied by the editor of the Rus sian revolutionary organ. Witness" he says, "Huravieff, the hangman Pobiedo- nostseff, von Plehve. von Vahl, etc Are they not all strong men of oppression and tyranny" On the other hand, he says, If occasionally really good and strong men, intending to devote their lives to the cause of the people, are pro- duced in the midst of Russian bureauc- racy, then they are crushed in the bud, exiled and tortured, and are cut off. He concludes that on this point simply. the case of the Douma and that of the states general is not similar France drew her revolutionary leaders from men of intel ligence and education. It was Napoleon who found leaders among the peasants. As long as autocracy exists in Russia, the bureaucrats have not sufficient in ducement to pledge their brains to the cause of the people. But, with autocracy out of the way, "the man" will come, whether he be bureaucrat or peasant.
 Let us see what took place in the states general in the months of May and June, 17Ss In the many hundreds of "cashiers" drawn up for the guidance of the deputies of the third estate. there is not found a single word in the favor of a revolu- tion. Still, the nobles clergy. the Third
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Vaudeville Shows.

T always like to watch vaudeville show because there is literally something doing all the time," said a man who was at the Bijou last night. "The people who appear in Vaudeville are generally the best in their special line of amuse- ment, and one enjoys seeing the best
 This is a day of specialists and the vaudeville artists are always specialists therefore they should be the best. In the summer time it is impossible to get the regular companies and the manager of a summer theatre cannot do better than to inaugurate vaudeville I believe 1t will pay in Birmingham now as the crowd to- night was very large and very appre- ciative. The various numbers seemed to please the people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Presidential Travelling Expenses.

At first it was proposed by some of the organs in touch with the admins tration to build for White House uses a palace car of unsurpassed magnif- cence-one lined with gold and pre- cious stones far beyond the widest dream of newspapers or other pluto crats, but election day is coming on, palace car proposition. Instead the sundry civil bill is to carry an item of S25000 to pay the travelling expenses of the President of the United States.
 It will be urged in behalf of the item that it will lift the office above the "pass" and special-train level. No favor from railroad would then be accepted. But all this Is rather spacious. No President need accept such favors at present, and it would be far better to increase the Presidents pay directly.
 The sundry civil bill will be consid- cred in the House this week. The ad- ministration machine can readily put it through the House, but 1t will not be passed by the Senate until it has been thoroughly discussed. The item in question should be stricken out and the Presidents salary increased to meet all reasonable travelling expenses. | he rate bill put an end to railroad favors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
ETERNAL GOODNESS.

By John Greenleaf Whittier. walk with bare, hushed feet the ground Ye tread with boldness shod; I dare not fix with mete and bound
 The love and power of God. I know not what the future hath
 Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death
 His mercy underlie. No offering of my own I have,
 Nor works my faith to prove; I can but give the gifts He gave
 And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent sea
 I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me
 On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift
 Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift
 Beyond His love and casa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
zEeRAs TO DRAW STREET CARS.

From the Railroad and Engineer Review.
 Street cars in Zanzibar are to be drawn by domestieated zebras. Lord Howard de Walden. proprietor of a 4o,oooacre zebra farm in Uganda, Africa, has received an order for forty of the animals for that purpose.
 The zebra is stated to have some ad- vantage over the mule for the work in question: he endures the climate better and is stronger, and is immune from the attacks of the tsetse fly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

testimony meeting when Sam Small gave in his testimony, telling how he had been set upon by the devil for years, but how during all this period God had been calling to him and beckoning him back nome. And he told how the sermon of Dr. Torrey had reached him as nothing else had ever done, and how he now rendered his heart and life anew to God, and in- tended to follow wherever God should lead.
 It was announced that MT. Small would probably in short time resume evan gelistic work, and tour some of the lead ing cities of the country From reliable has already received requests from two cities to come and open his evangelistic work there. One of them is said to be a large northern city. MT. Small did not care to discuss the matter, saying that he had no definite plans as yet but was willing for Gods spirit to direct him.
 The revival spirit that has been sweep ing the world for the past few years, be- ginning in Wales, spreading to England, crossed the Atlantic and ragged for awhile in Philadelphia and in Louisville, and in other cities and in smaller towns, and has caused the evangelical churches to appear more powerful numerically than ever before.
 Sam Small is but one man. 1t is true. but when his heart Is right and his head Is set, he is as thousand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The same interest never looks so much when you are receiving it as when you are paying it.
 No matter how late man comes home at night he knows he was all right If he didn't try to hang any of his clothes on the chandelier.
 The most fun that a woman has on her summer vacation is buying the clothes for 1t beforehand.
 A girl has such a deceptive imagina- tion she will believe she has never let any man hug her when 1t Is happen ing.
 When a woman gets her yachting cos tune as likely as not 1t Is sign she is going to spend her summer in the noun tainA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
VETOlNG PENSION BILLS.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 Vetoing pension bills is an ungrateful task President Cleveland showed his hon. esty. his public spirit and his courage when he undertook 1t on a large scale. And his reward has been bombardment of denunciation and sneers that has even yet not ceased. The veto Is ungrateful. but wholesome. If the President will sort out the goats from the sheep and put the former to slaughter without mercy it will accumulate merit for him on a scale which he need not desplse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
Solo Soprano.

Miss Van Merkestyn, who was a par ticipant in the Sangerfest at Chattanooga as the solost of the Birmingham Turn verein, distinguished herself,' said @ prominent Turner.
 q had heard Miss Van Merkerstyn often here at home. She had sung solos at the Turnverein entertainments and every Sum- day she sings at St. Paul's Catholic church. but l never listened to her when her soprano voice seemed so true and beautiful and full of color as 1t did in Chattanooga, Her singing was reyela- tion, indeed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
VALUE OF THE WORD LIAR
 IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH

Your article was inspired by the Ian. guage used recently by Senator Bailey on the floor of the Senate Under the code which Senator Bailey believes in he meant what he said in its fullest, broad. est sense, and was prepared for the con- sequences, whatever they might be. I do not know Senator Bailey and never mistaken if he ever in his whole life used the term liar a dozen times. But l am quite sure within the sound of his voice were eastern and western senators to whom 1t is as a household word. I have heard in the greatest cities of the west. not once but often, this last weap- on of which you speak hurled back and forth between political opponents side by side, with other wordy weapons of greater reproach and opprobrium. No one seemed to mind it. If it had oc- cured in a southern city there would literally have been rivers of blood.
 But why should I say this? It could not possibly have occurred in a southern city. My object in addressing you is not to stir up any controversy but it may not be disputed that the southern code of personal responsibility for language and conduct must make men weigh with more deliberation their words and their actions. Our distinguished and able President is a northern conroversialist, and you and all of us know that in his arsenal there is a collection of weapons of invective and denunciation in which liar is included, but puny weapon 1t is beside many others. The men like Senator Lodge, who fetch and carry these presidential darts, polish them off a little in the transmission, but many of them come straight
 F. A. RICHARDSON.
 Washington, May 20, 1906.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
About Persons.

William Halls. Jr, vice president of the Hanover National bank of New York, who is a frequent visitor to Birmingham, and has many friends here is now in the city. the guest of A. l.. Fuenwider, president of the Birmingham Realty com pany. MT. Halls is vice president of the latter company. and has large interests in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

James Creelman Investigated Presl- dent Cassatt and reported him whiter than snow, but the interstate commits sion finds it was New York city snow tnree days after the storm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

of the more conservative citizens of the town walking around as though they were hamstrung. avoiding stepping on live wires"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
A TARIFF CHAUNTEY.

From the Washington Star. Now here's the tariff, truth to tell,
 For which my prudent soul doth sigh Protection for the things I sell;
 Free trade for what I have to buy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

The silver dollar in the south is to be replaced by filthy, germ-infested paper dollars, all because the govern ment is unwilling to pay express charges
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Standard oil sends all rivals into bankruptcy, taking over their trade and opportunities. It stands at the head of all trade robbers, far outrun- ming the life insurance companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

MT. Bryan will watch the Duma when he gets to St. Petersburg, but it may not be there then, and MT Bryan does not know the Russian tongue when he meets it in the middle of the road
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

bolt of lightning in an open field on which spectators of baseball game stood, goes to show that no one can tell where the electric fluid will land itself. It was not theological, but it was scientific and deadly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
A MELANCHOLY CONVERSATION

From the London Standard.
 The following melancholy conversation between two small boys was recently overheard. T say, Jimmy, who is that man with your mother?' That ain't ro,oD. fhaf's father
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29
CHARGE HIM WITH HEREsY!

From the Reward News.
 But. Chancellor Day, if impeachment proceedings won't reach the President you might try heresy trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Fairbanks, Alaska, has been de stroyed by fire, and while the fire was at it's height the name of Fairbanks and frigidity stood divorced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Chancellor Days heart is again wrung by the disclosures made at Cleveland concerning Archbold and the rest of the Standard oil crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

The plumbers are clamoring for m all-night bank to which they can resort when they come in loaded with coin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Poor Cassie Chadwick She seems to have been but baby grafter along side the Pennsylvania railroad and the McCurdy family
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Edward Payson Weston is ready to meet Dr. Osler or any other man in a walking match, but chloroform bot ties are barred
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

The New York Central is to be un- covered next. and this means more trouble for men in high places
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Weston snould challenge Uncle Joe Cannon for the long distance champion ship in the pedestrian world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Datto Ali of Mindanao Is again on the warpath, and he refuses to become on demand a good Malay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-29

Congressman Towne is nothing if not dignified, He says our President remembers without accuracy.