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THE AGE-HERALD.
Birmingham, Ala.
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Across Continont Railroad
One railroad combination controlled j
by a single man has been deemed a
dream, but it is well advanced by recent
occurrences—so well advanced that
three men are in control of a vast mile
age reaching every part of the country.
These three men control 76,000 miles ot
railroad out of 196,000 miles in the coun
try, or almost one-half of it. We give
the nanus of the railroads controlled
by the triumvirate:
Mileage.
New York Central.2,340
West Shore. 495
Chicago and Northwestern.5,030
Michigan Central.1,6®
I.ake Shore and Michigan Southern— 2,200
New York, Chicago and St. Louis
(Nickel Plate. 523
Erlo..„..<■.2.187
Lehigh Valley.1.235
Reading.I-2®
Central Railroad of New Jersey. 675
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.. 932
New York. New Haven and Hartford.. 1,464
Southern Railroad.5.823
Central of Georgia.1.6®
Northern Pacific.4.816
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. 6,451
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Louis (Big Four).2.495
Chesapeake and Ohio.1,544
Boston and Albany. “88
Fitchburg. 458
Wisconsin Central. 857
Union Pacific.3,021
Baltimore and Ohio.2.365
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern. 938
Chicago and Alton. 943
Missouri. Kansas and Texas (Shreve
port). 560 ,
Missouri, Kansas and Texas. 3.100 .
Missouri Pacific.5.375 |
Southern Pacific.7,571
Kansas City Southern. 825
Total.76,224
The three men are J. J. Hill, John D.
Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan
representing himself and the Vander
bilt family. The dream is fast passing
into fact, and whether for good or ill
we seem destined to witness one control
of all Aiilroad lines. This may not in
all, or perhaps in a majority of, eases,
involve ownership, but either by owner
ship or the routing of business all will
be controlled, and competition except
by water will disappear.
Army Canteen Must Go.
Beer drinking at army posts is to be
abolished. The House has so voted,
and so has the Senate, and the terms
of each provision are alike, and they
are broad and positive. “The sale of or
dealing in beer, wine or any intoxicat
ing liquors by any person in any post,
exchange or canteen or army transport,
or upon any premises used for military
purposes by the United States, is here
by prohibited.’” There are no loopholes
in that provsion. The canteen must go
in response to public sentiment. The
women did it.
And yet it is doubtful indeed whether
it will lessen the evil of drinking
among the soldiers of the army, for
every post will at once be hedged about
by groggeries that are ten times worse
than any canteen ever was. If munici
palities in which posts are located
would drive such places at least half
a mile away there would then be some
benefit in the provision abolishing the
canteens: but as long as every town
and locality favors the establishment
of drinking places about army posts no
benefit can well arise.
The women who have striven long
and devotedly for this victory can claim
that the “principle” of prohibition has
been vindicated: that the people at
large are no longer responsible for ex
cessive drinking at army posts: but the
vindication of a principle does not in
itself lessen drunkenness. It will not
in this case.
The vote in the Senate was 34 to 15.
The minority vote haa no relation to
parties. General Hawley of Connecti
cut and General Pettus voted side by
side, and Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin
voted with our senior senator.
Anti-Trust Laws.
The Mobile Register lines up with the
trusts. It declares the anti-trust laws
of the period “pestiferous.” “There is,”
it says, "a cry going up for less law
agaiust capital and more invitations to
capital to come in. Gradually the idea
is being inculcated in the minds of the
most ultra pessimists that what is
needed is not laws to incommode capi
tal, but those that will encourage in
vestment.”
What pessimism has to do with the
case it is difficult to imagine. What
the investment of honest capital has to
do with the control of monopolies is still
more difficult. The belief is that an
open held Is what capital desires. If
a trust, say in plows, comes into the
State, all capitalists outside of the one
trust who desire to make plows, will
keep away. And ro ic would be in every
other line of business controlled by a
trust, and nearly all are or soon will be
in that condition.
Representative Pettus’ bill invites
honest capital instead of repelling it.
It does discourage capital invested in
trusts, but in doing so it leaves an open
field for all other capitalists. The Reg
ister prefers a trust-swept State. It
prefers to pay two prices for an article,
it wants a few factories of the robber ’
sort. Mr. Pettus’ bill is built on com
petition instead of combination lines.
It encourages capital to come in by pro
posing to keep down and out monop
olies.
The Register insists that the anti
trust law's of other btates are not effi
cient. Mr. Pettus thinks his bill will I
prove efficient. Is it not worth a trial ?
Why, for example, should Alabama pay 1
tw'o prices for school books in order to
enrich a book trust that does not pub
lish a page in the State? But the best
evidence from Texas, Mississippi and
Arkansas is to the effect that those j
States are well pleased with «.aeir anti
trust laws—that they are effective to
some extent at least, and that honest
capital is not repelled by them. If the
Register has evidence to the contrary
let it produce it. Mr. Pettus prints
affirmative evidence, and the Register
has not met it w'ith contradictory tes
timony.
Dangerous Grade Crossings.
Tli* deadly railroad crossings must
be gifted. Birmingham is behind the
times. Its citizens are compelled to
risk their lives every time they cross
the unguarded railroad tracks. The ac
cident at Twelfth street Wednesday was
due to the unprotected crossing, and in
a large measure the city officials as well
as the railroads were negligent. Let
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen act
at once by providing an ordinance re
quiring every railroad to uave gates at
every street crossing and have a com
petent watchman to operate them. They
should put in the latest and best style
of gates and the most perfect system
of signals. «*
If human life was not considered,
and only cold financial considerations
ruled, it would be advisable for the rail
roads to put in gates at every crossing.
The damages which they will perhaps
be forced to pay because of Wednes
day’s accident will probably be greater
than the cost of equipping gates at
every crossing in Birmingham.
But whether or not this be the case,
human life in Birmingham must be pro
tected, and the Aldermen should act
without further delay and require gates
at each and every crossing constructed
immediately.
The Christian Scientists in South Dakota
have been told by the Supreme Court that
their children must carry vaccination
marks if they go to the public schools.
Such schools are not the place to work up
fads.
Editor Harmsworth of the Napoleonic
cast of countenance is moving towards
Mexico, where he hopes his experiments in
"journalism” will be better received.
General Aguinaldo and Mr. Pat Crowe
should appear together on the vaudeville
stage. Such great artists are wasting
golden opportunities.
The statesman in Washington who have
lost a grip on their places, have accumu
lated another kind of grip that is not near
ly so pleasant.
The Commoner should secure an office
cat. The Age-Herald will soon be in posi
tion to tender one of unsurpassed stripes
and pedigree.
If hazing cannot be stopped at West
Point it should be regulated like other
vices. There should be a superintendent of
hazing.
Although Wisconsin has been a state
fifty-three years, yet she inaugurated last
week her first native governor.
Secretary of War Root will not know his
reorganizations bill when the Senate
bosses it over to the House.
It Young Frazer is under pay from the
city of Atlanta, he should at least relieve
'the tension at home.
Pugilism and grand opera shine side by
side in Cincinnati, where high art in all its
forms is welcomed.
Barwiueting and grinding out copy do not
go well together, as Editor Bryan will soon
find out.
Michigan is full of counterfeit nickels,
and the slot machines are working over
time.
When Mr. Cleveland presided at the pie
counter he did not know the rank and file.
St. Louis is fighting an attempt to drag
the public schools into ward politics.
As Colonel Roosevelt moves westward
the world begins to tip that way.
Mr. Crowe has no regard for the finger
feelings of the Omaha police.
Tesla should not invade Mars without
the consent of the Invaded.
No one wants the unluckty reward offer
ed by Omaha, $13,000.
Disgrace is accumulating on Mr. Car
negie’s hands.
The tabloid germ will not thrive In this
climate.
The smaller the cuspedor the higher the
civilization*
General MacArthur is fighting the cli
mate.
HANNA AS A FUNNY MAN. *"
From the Omaha World-Herald.
Mark Twain should look to his laurels.
His reputation as the great American hu
morist Is in danger, and the danger threat
ens from an unexpected quarter. Mr. Han
na says the only lobby interested in the
ship subsidy Is the one opposing the meas
ure.
WEDDED IN BOTH CENTURIES.
From the Los Angeles Times. ^
A novel wedding was celebrated in San
Francisco New Year’s night. A couple were
united in marriage while the clock w*as
striking the midnight hour, in order that
they could claim to be the last pair wedded
during the nineteenth century and the first
of tlie twentieth.
MILITARISM IN SCHOOLS.
From the Lafayette Journal.
A number of misguided people in different
parts of the country are busying them
selves getting up what they calKschoolboy
militia. Nothing more damaging to the
boys of the nation can possibly be devised
than this crusade army crank. Nothing
can be worse for the nation than the turn
ing aside of Uhe attention of teacher and
scho-lar for the interests of the military
company. Soldier duty among men is re
garded as to be avoided where this can
honorably be done. The man who makes
it a necessary part of a child’s life is less
than patriotic. He is a parasite.
WHY HIS SON IS NOT A SAILOR.
Admiral Dewey, in Success for January.
If a boy has no inclination to become a
sailor, I should certainly not encourage
him to become one; and even if he has tlie
desire, I should make sure that It is not a
temporary craze for adventure. Many boys
who ship aboard a vessel when they are
15 or 16 are very sorry for it a few' years
later. To be really successful In the navy
a man must have his heart in the work,
and a young man who dislikes the sea can
never distinguish himself in the service.
My son is not in the navy. The reason is
that he seemed to have no inclination that
way, and I refused to spoil a good busi
ness man in him by making a poor sailor.
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.
From the London Daily News.
One of the porters employed in carrying
tourists in a chair from the upper station
of Cook’s Funicular Railway to the cone
of Vesuvius has met w’ith an extraordinary
accident. He ventured alone, says our Na
ples correspondent, too near the top, and,
hearing an extra loud explosion, looked up.
A shower of redhot stones fell around him
and one entered his mouth, which was
open, inflicting a serious wound. He now
lies in the hospital at Naples. The summit
of Vesuvius has become higher and quite
pointed, and everyone must be struck with
the now' beautiful shape of the mountain.
The eruption at the date of our correspond
ent’s communication was continuing quiet
ly. The weather is magnificent.
LEVY’S STATEMENT.
What Bryan Would Have Done if Elect
ed President.
Washington, January 10.—Mr. Levy of
New York, who was present at the meeting
of the House committee on coinage, weights
and measures to advocate his bill, created
something of a sensation by stating that
Mr. Bryan, the recent Democratic candi
date for President, had told him that if
elected President he wTould find a way to
pay the obligations of the government in
silver.
Horace White said he assumed that no
argument was necessary in support of the
gold standard. The only question at issue
was the means to be placed at the disposal
of the Secretary of the Treasury to secure
its maintenance. He then took up the lan
guage of the bills and gave the Hill bill
his endorsement.
WILSON SUPPORTS GROUT BILL.
i The Measure s Intended to Protect the
Farmer.
Washington, January 10.—Secretary Wil
son made an argument before the Senate
Committee on Agriculture today In sup
port of the Grout oleomargarine bill. He
said the* measure was intended to protect
the farmer and the public at large and
slhould become a law. Mr. WHson said the
quantity of butter disposed of annually is
about eighteen pounds per capita and of
oleomargarine something over one pound,
and he said that he considered this dan
gerous competition. He was of the opinion
•t'hat- there was danger in the imitation of
butter by the use of coloring matter and
'that in time such use would result In driv
ing renovated butter out of existence.
Shoe Causes Death.
Reading, Pa., January 10.—Walter Car
penter, one of the founders of the Carpen
ter Steel Works, died last night after an
illness of five w’eeks from blobd poisoning
and gangrene resulting from irritation
from the large toe of his left foot by his
shoe.
Fire in Cotton Cargo.
London, January 10.—British steamer
Tenagrao Pont Marcters arrived at Bremen
yesterday from Savannah and Norfolk, via
Falmouth, with fire In her cotton cargo,
three hundred bales having been damaged
by fire and three hundred by water.
Missouri's Appropriation.
Jefferson City, Mo., January 10.—A bill
was Introduced in the Senate today appro
priating $100,000 for the Missouri exhibit at
the Pan-American Exposition, to be held in
Buffalo, N. Y., this year.
Admiral Cevera Dying.
Madrid, January 10.—A dispatch from
Puerto Real, near Cadiz, where Admiral
Cervera Is lying ill, says his condition is
growing W'orse and that his recovery is al
mot hopeless.
Negro Hanged.
Atlanta, Ga., January 10.—Will Hines, a
negro, was executed here today for the
murder of Minnie Walker, colored.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
Babies probably have features, only it
takes practice to see them.
A man never knows Ihow much he didn’t
love a girl till she doesn't refuse him.
Probably Jonah made such a fuss that
the whale thought he had swallowed a wo
man.
A woman robbed of her young Is 'most
as fierce as one when you have burned up
her box of combings.
IMPORTANCE OF SUFFRAGE QUESTION
IN FRAMING ALABAMA’S CONSTITUTION
To the Edtlor of the Age,-He raid:
In reply to your polite request received
today fo.r a ^expression of my views as to
what, In my opinion, the suffrage clause in •
the new constitution to be framed by the j
convention if ca-lled, should be. I answer:
This is a question to which I have given
much thought. More than a year ago
when the discussion of a constitution was
agitated and what it should do if held,
especially on the suffrage question, I ad
dressed a circular Ic-ter to the voters in
which I briefly outlined my views on this
subject, wOiidh substantially expresses my
views now, as follows towit:
I am in favor of honest elections, which .
jure the basis of our governments—State !
and Federal—which cannot be uniformly I
•had in Alabama except by a revision and S
purification of the elective franchise, by !
extirpating therefrom dense ignortmee and *
corruption. This is a delicate ;.nd difficult
question to deal with successfully, and j
noticing >»hort of the aggregate wisdom of
a convention of our host and ablest men
can accomplish it in a just and satisfactory
manner.
The suffrage clause in a State constitu
tion should not. in terms, exclude anyone
form the elective franchise on account of
race, nor require an educational or proper
ty qualification, but intelligence and good
character should be made the test. No
felon, no man of notoriously bad character,
no man who has not paid his poll tax. n«
man who ttias ever sold his own or bought
the vote of another, nor anyone who can
not read intelligently, or understand when
read to him any section of the constitution,
should be allowed to register as a voter.
BY GEN. WILLIAM C. OATES.
And i*n order that no injustice be done by
registration to any one flega'lly entitled, an
appeal should be given firom such decision
to the courts. Those who are disfranchised
for crime committed should be restored to
their rights of franchise, if at all, only by
the vote of two-thirds of the members of
the General Assembly.
The disfranchisement of the whole negro
race would be unwise and unjust. They
constitute a large minority of our State
population—over 800.000. Among them are
many honest, industrious and good citizens,
capable of fairly understanding the issues
of a campaign and for what they would be
caWed upon to vole. Such men are patri
otic. Wfien volunteers are wanted to fight
our battles they furnish their quota. Some
have acquired property, and pay their tax
es, but the great mass of them are proper
tyless anil utterly Ignorant of the funda
mental principles of government, and the
ballot is a weapon which they know not
how to use for their own good or the good
of any one else. The ballot is an Injury to
such men. But if you make intelligence
and good character the test of the right to
vote you present an incentive to every man,
without regard to color, who aspires to full
fledged citizenship, to acquire intelligence,
whether he has any book learning or not,
and to establish a good character among
his neighbors: and no man possessed of
these should be denied the right t<*^ote in
all elections.
Such qualifications as I have briefly staled
above are practicable, and would elevate
and tend to purify the suffrage by eliminat
ing the corrupt, the densely Ignorant an4
purchasable, who, under the present con
stitution, have the right to vote. Who will
say 'that Booker Washington, Council,
Grant, Calhoun and hundreds of other citi
zens of Alabama shall not vote if they
choose? No one can deny their intelligence
and qualification. Shall they he excluded
merely because the; Delong to the colored
race? I say no. It would be both upwise
and unjust. Make some such provision for
suffrage as I have indicated, and there will
be no reduction of Alabama’s representa
tion in Congress, because there will be no
legal reason for It. With such a provision
enforced there never would be any sort of
Justification for ballot box stuffing or for
counting votes otherwise than as they were
cast. This is a consummation devoutly to
be wished. Very respectfully,
WIBLIAM C. OATHS.
Montgomery, Ala., January 8, 1901.
iin HOitL Luambi
AND ELSEWHERE
Astrologer Raphael’s prophecies for this
day, Friday, January 11, 1901:
“An unfortunate day for every purpose.”
“This being thy birthday, sickness and
disappointment threaten thee; avoid new
undertakings, lend no money, and make no
new friends.”
“Young women must be careful of the op
posite sex.”
“A child born on this day will be gener
ally unlucky in its undertakings, unless it
be born at a lucky hour.”
'Tis Forty Years Since.
“Friday, January 11, 1901, is the fortieth
anniversary of the secession of Alabama
from the Union, that momentous event hav
ing been decreed at Montgomery January 11,
1861," said a newspaper w-orker, the son of
a rebel, last night.
“We all of us have read and heard about
that great day in the dingy old capitol, and
t most of us are familiar with the ugly aryi
musty hall of the House of Representatives,
but the men who actually witnessed the
secession convention in session, or who were
old enough then to personally remember
now anything relating thereto, are compar
atively very few.
“ ‘The convention met January 7, 1861, in
the city of Montgomery,’ says Owen. ‘Un
der the leadership of William L. Yancey,
but only after an earnest struggle, on Jan
uary 11, it adopted, by a vote of 61 to 39,
“an ordinance to dissolve the union between
the State of Alabama and other States un
der the compact ‘The constitution of the
United States of America.”
"This statement by Owen denies the pop
ular impression that the ordinance of seces
sion was adopted in Alabama by only one
or two votes, fraudulently obtained; but it
does not contradict the faith that secession
was carried in Alabama by unfair methods!
The full text of the memorable deed of forty
years ago this day is of contemporary in
terest. It reads:
“ ‘Section 1. Be it declared and ordained
by the people of the State of Alabama, in
convention assembled, That the State of
Alabama now withdraws, and is hereby
withdrawn from the Union known as the
“United States of America," and henceforth
ceases to be one of said United States, and
is, and of right ought to be, a sovereign
and independent State.
" 'Section 2. Be it further declared and
ordained by the people of the State of Ala
bama, in convention assembled, That all
the powers over the territory of said State,
and of the people thereof, heretofore dele
gated to the government of the United.
States of America be, and they are hereby,
withdrawn from said government, and are
hereby resumed and vested in the people of
Alabama.'
“McCorvey in his admirable work on ‘The
Civil Government of Alabama' notes that
twenty-four of the ihirty-nine delegates
who voted in the negative refused to sign
the ordinance. He does not give the names
ol those who refused, and, though they are
of record, they are not at hand for the
purposes of these remarks.
"Only six or seven delegates of the seces
sion convention till survive, the oldest sur
vivor, Gen. Michael J. Bulger, having died
a few weeks ago. The youngest is Judge
John W. Inzer of St. Clair. Colonel John
ston of Birmingham was a delegate, and
so was Senator John T. Morgan. The names
of the other three or four survivors escape
me at the moment. One of them is a doctor
in Eutaw* County.”
He Saw Secession.
Said a distinguished veteran of the Con
federacy :
“I wai< present in Montgomery and act
ually saw Alabama secede. The second
battalion of Lomax's regiment, to whidh I
belonged, was encamped at the old ‘Florida
Depot,’ Montgomery. We all were dressed
in broadcloth, with brass buttons and red
plumes, and ail the girls were in love w'ith.
us. Such girls! The loveliest of today are
commonplace compared to those of ’61.
j Early iil the morning of the fateful 11th
my father and Judge A. B. Meek, the poet
! jurist, called upon me and together we
went to the capiitol, w"here my red plume
gained us admission to the hall of the
House of Representatives. As we entered
the hail Yancey was delivering the flag of
Alabama to the convention. It was ac
cepted by Alpheus Baker in a marvelous
speech, he having been requested by Judge
William M. Brooks, president of the con
vention, who died in Birmingham in 1894,
to speak for all the delegates. Then it was
I first saw the Hon. A. A. Coleman, now
Circuit Judge in Birmingham, and John
W. Inzer, youngest and handsomest man
in the convention.
“Quitting the hall I received orders to
command tfhe section of artillery which
was to fire bhe salute of fifty guns In 'honor
of secession. When I reached the guns,
in front of the capdtol, I found that Miss
Theo. Rauol and Miss Let Mia Tyler, grand
daughter of President Tyler, had assumed
command, and they fired the first two
shots. Which one of the young ladies fired
first ds a question I cannot answer. But
I took command and fired the remaining
forty-eight shots.
"Afterwards the soldiers proceeded to
•the ‘Florida Depot,’ accompanied by all
the girls, who were escorted by their pa
rents, and I venture to say that before the.
train left for Pensacola every unmarried
man in the second battalion of Lomax’s
regiment was engaged to be married.
Colonel Lomax, as you know, was the fa
mous father of the distinguished Tennant
Lomax, who may be president of the forth
coming constitutional convention of Ala
bama.
"I knew William L. Yancey well and was
often a guest in his house. He always had
family prayers, morning and night, and
was one of the most charming of men.
"Wallace Screws was then young, brown
haired. generous, talented and brave. Ben
Washburne was there, true and lordly, but
still unconverted to secession. Others
whom I recall lovingly were there strong
and brave, but are now' gone, some i*n bat
tle, some in peace. Frank O’Brien, Wade
McBryde, Louis Gilmer. Charley Bryan,
all brave boys, still live in usefulness,
and I am younger than either of them.
And so, being in good health. I may hope
to see many other anniversaries, and to
now' and then greet the old boys in the
spiritual union of the Confederacy. Give
’em all my love, my boy!"
Novel Trades of Hotel Man.
The most novel of all hotel cards was
produced for the inspection of a party of
railroad men at the Morris yesterday by
Whit Collier of Atlanta, known and ap
preciated all over the south as one of the
best fellows in the railroad business. They
were all telling stories, and good ones too,
and when somebody finished a railroad
story,
"That reminds me," said witty Whit
Collier, and pulling out his pocketbook he
took from the midst of 107 annual passes
and about that many greenbacks this:
W. F. BARRETT.
Prop’r Barrett House,
DEALER IN GUANO AND HOGS,
McCormick Binders
and Mowers, Deer Plows,
Furs and Skins.
"That is from an envelope of a hotel at
Charleston, Tenn., and I’ll put it against
all hotel advertisements w’hatever," said
Whit Collier. "Hotel proprietor, ‘dealer in
guano and hogs,’ and likewise in ‘furs ana
skins’ is a novelty in trade too novel for a
novelist to have ever imagined in the novel
work of writing a novel,’’ continued the
witty Whit, and all the boys agreed with
him.
progress ot iviomie.
“I have been spending two or three days
in Mobile and a day in Montgomery, and
poih those cities I found to be most pros
perous, though to a Birmingham man ex
tremely dull, so far as street life was con
cerned, ” said Cary Thompson last night.
‘‘Everybody knows Montgomery is wretch
edly poor in hotels—has almost no hotels—
but I was delighted to observe Mobile’s
progress in that essential of civilization.
The new' Beinville Square hotel is really cn
ideal house of public entertainment. It
is small as hotels go, but it is new, bright,
clean, w’ell kept, and has every convenience
and luxury for the traveler.
“The old and historic Battle House, per
haps the most famous of all southern ho
tels, since the old St. Charles in New Or
leans was burned, is being entirely recon
structed, and will be one of the most
luxurious hotels in the country. The whole
of the interior is being taken out, all that
will remain of the old structure will be the
walls. The new structural arrangements
strike me as being as, nearly perfect as art
and skill could make them, and the main
diningroom, now about completed, is the
most beautiful chamber I know in the
South. The work of remodelling and re
construction was begun last July, and sev
eral months longer will be required to com
pletely finish the work. When the work
is done, it will be one of the finest modern
-hotels South of the Ohio river.’’
Carrie Bridewell’s Power.
At the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York last Sunday night there was truly a
grand concert. The concert was by Grau’s
Grand Opera Company, and w?as under the
direction of Mr. Walter Damrosch, who
many years ago, incidentally became son
Jn-law to the late James G. Blailne, and a
Birmingham girl w'as the greatest and
most exquisite power w’hich thrilled the
great audience of culture and enlighten
ment that gathered to “violate the saw
bu-th” by listening to pure and elevating
music. The New York Sun says of the
concert:
“Miss Bridewell, who was ‘discovered’ by
Mmo. Sembrioh only last year, showed
once more tfhat she Is going to justify
such distinguished patronage. She sang
with distinction and power. Indeed, tfhe
could have filled a building twice the size
of the opera house without an effort. She
is a distinct addition to the company.’’
WITH THE EDITORS
OF THE STATE PRESS
Some Remarks on Kidnaping.
From the Attalla Mirror.
We wish some one would kidnap us and
carry us way off somewhere and proceed to
have a lot of fun out of us, but we never
were lucky.
From the Greenville Advooate.
No, we don’t believe that Mr. McKinley
Is a party to any scheme to have Teddy
kidnaped for keeps while he is hunting in
the Colorado mountains, although he might
not grieve much over such a happening.
From the Mobile Item.
Two Southern boys were kidnaped yester
day, one in Memphis and the other in At
lanta. The kidnapers of one of the boys
wrote his father that they had taken his son
because kidnaping is all the rage now. This
is another case where the prevailing rage
does not effect poor people and they are
heartily glad of it.
From the Huntsville Weekly Democrat.
The kidnaping of young Ed Cudahy, the
15-year-old son of the packer of Omaha,
has resulted in the introduction of a kid
naping bill being introduced In the Ne
braska Legislature by Senator Ransom.
The bill calls for three to live years in
the penitentiary for simple kidnaping; for
kidnaping with money extortion, life im
prisonment; and for kidnaping with threats
of injury to victim, hanging.
Are His Troubles Over?
From the Guntersville Democrat.
Ignatius Donnelly is dead. An erratic, yet
very brainy man of letters. He found dis
appointment in every pursuit, whether liter
ature, politics or statecraft. His troubles
are over, let us hope.
Too Previous.
From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
A Northern paper is boasting that it will
soon have a $25,000 editor. It is a little too
previous, as we haven’t decided to leavt
Jasper yet.
SALT AS AN ELIXIR OF LIFE.
From the Springfield Republican.
Whether Abram S. Hewitt, after being
on the verge of physical breakdown, from
old age three years ago. has been given a
new lease of ldfe by ■hypodermic injections
of glycero-phospfhate of sodium, or wheth
er some other cause has given him a
healthy appetite, made him once more a
strong walker and restored his' capacity
for mental work, does not seem to himself
important. He is satisfied >to be at his of
fice every day, ready for any of the large
business interests he controls. But there
is quite a discussion of Uhe merits of gly
cero-phosphate of sodium, which was first
administered to him in Paris in 1897, and .
which his New York doctor says was the
"only efficacious” ingredient of Dr. Brawn*
Sequard's elixir of life. Nothing has been
heard of this elixiir, by Uhe way, since the
great Paris neuropathist died. Dr. Shrady
Is one of many physicians who pooh-ooh
at the specific. He says: "This matter of
rejuvenation by the salt in question is too
absurd for serious comment.”
SHE RATTLED THE DRY BONES
From the St. Louis Star.
It now transpires that Mrs. Carrie Na
tion of Kansas is an osteopatfhist. Why
shouldn’t she take an Interest in moving
tho joints?
WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED.
Percy Byss'he Shelley.
When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead—
When the cloud is scattered
The rainbow’s g<lory is shed,
When the lute is broken,
Swee«t tones are remembered not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.
As music and splendor
Survive not the lamp and the lute,
The heart's echoes render
No song when the spirit is mute;
No song but sad dirges,
Like the wind through a ruined coll,
Or the mournful surges
That ring the dead seaman’s knell.
When hearts have once mingled,
Love first leaves the well-built nest;_
The weak one Is singled
To endure what it once possest.
O Love! who bewaWest
The frailty of all things hen-e,
Why choose you the frailest
For your cradle, your home and youi
bier?
Its passions wllil rock thee
As the storm rock -dhe ravens on hlghj
Brigh.' .-eason wHl mock thee
Like the sun from a wintry sky.
From thy nest every rafter
Will rot. and thine eagle home
Leave naked to laughter.
When leaves fall and oold winds com*.