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—All’s Well That Ends Well.
Colonel Kyle’s Suggestion.
The Mobile Register does not con
sider the suggestion of Colonel Kyle
as an empty threat "uttered with the
intention of spurring Montgomery on
to immediate action in the matter of
providing hotel accommodations and a
proper hall for the sessions of the con
vention, although even if this were its
only object it would serve the public
interest; indeed, there is some ground
for thinking that the Legislators who
called the election upon the question
of holding a convention contemplated
the advisability of having the conven
tion held in some other place. The
convention is required to assemble and
organise in Montgomery in the hall
of the House of Representatives Tues
day, May 21, and continue in session
until a revised constitution Bhall be
framed and adopted, but 'said conven
tion may, in its discretion, adjourn to
any other place it may see fit/ This
can be interpreted to mean to ‘any
place’ in Montgomery, or to mean any
other city. If Montgomery offers no
place more suitable than the Hall of
Representatives, and Birmingham does
offer such a place, the convention may
decide that the language of the bill
calling the convention gives authority
V to move the convention to Birming
ham.”
The Register is talking with the bark
off, for it goes on to tell the people of
Montgomery that they should wakeup.
"There is,” it adds, "no other city in
the country that does not make some
effort to receive and entertain conven
tions; Mobile, for example, always pro
viding entertainment and showing ap
preciation of the value of visits from
distinguished men. In Montgomery
nothing of the sort is attempted. Con
ventions come and go as a matter of
course. The people there Beem to think
that because the city is the State capi
tal conventions must come to their
city and will always come, whether
suitable accommodation is provided or
not. The whole aggltatlon for the re
moval of the capital from Montgom
ery arises out of the attitude of the
people of Montgomery. They do not
appreciate the obligation resting upon
them. Their newspapers are alert and
have never tired in urging that some
thing be done, but the public has been
absolutely deaf to all remonstrances,
until lately when talk of outside capi
tal building a hotel has scared the
stockholders of the principal rattle
trap of the city into some activity.”
Outlook for Cotton.
Cotton is now selling fully 2% cents
below the prices of January, and yet
there are people who talk about still
lower prices. There are some who
think even 7 cents would be too high.
This sort of talk Is based partly on
the fact that the present crop was un
derestimated. It will exceed ten mil
lion bales, or nearly a million bales
over the early estimates. Then, too,
the negotiations in China are proceed
ing very Blowly—so slowly that the
bears are able to say that the vast and
populous country will not be opened to
trade this year, although no one can
give any good reason why it should not
be opened In a month’s time after the
Indemnity question is settled, and that
question will, it is conceded, be speed
ily settled.
But the chief influence towards lower
prices is found in the new crop. The
weather is the determining influence.
The start has not been wholly favor
able. Some cotton had to be replanted,
and some of the replantlngs are still
out of sight because of cool, dry
weather. These troubles will, however,
soon disappear, but there will remain
the weather as ihe all-controlling fac
tor.
There is a feeling that a twelve-mil
lion-bale crop has become a possibil
ity—in other words, that a ten-million
bale crop is now a minimum crop, and
a twelve-million-bale crop a possible
maximum. This may be so, for each
five years is marked with an advance
of about a million bales in minimum
General Oates’ Manly Position.
General Oates Is not afraid of the people. He does not distrust them,
In other words. To him they are not children, but real men, courageous,
manly, straightforward and clear-headed. He does not think they should
be treated as children, or that there 1b any need of hesitation or timidity
In- the convention. The State needs, he says, "such a constitution as
a great and progressive State should have.” He asks the convention
to frame a good Instrument, and to trust the people afterwards. The
distrust that Chairman John V. Smith manifests hq does not share, and
he is entitled to unqualified commendation when he asks the convention
to do Its duty manfully, openly and courageously.
But his "intelligence and good character” scheme is a misfit. This
State does not need It If Mississippi had a chance to make a new con
stitution today she would depend upon a requirement of a two-dollar poll
tax paid before the February preceding an election. It does the work
as an intelligence clause does not, in that State. Georgia and Tennessee
rest content in a poll-tax condition precedent, paid long before election
day.
Any intelligence or character test would necessarily lead to a trans
fer of frauds at the ballot box to the registration lists, and the conven
tion has been called to eliminate all fraudulent practices in connection
with the suffrage. That is the convention’s chief mission. When Gen
eral Oates advocates the prepayment of a poll tax he is in line with the
mandate of the party, but when he mentions an intelligence or charac
ter test he is inviting fraudulent practices at the registration places
against his will. Such practices may as well occur at the ballot box as
at the places of registration.
When General Oates descends to particulars he says: “No felon, no
man of notoriously bad character, no man who has not paid his poll tax,
no man who has ever sold his own or bought the vote of another, nor
any one who cannot read intelligently or understand when read to him
any section of the constitution, should be allowed to register as a voter."
i
This is the Mississippi "Intelligence” clause with a character test added,
It is not needed in this State. It would either disfranchise a largo num
ber of whites, or else it would invite frauds of the most glaring nature
in the making of registration lists. This State does not need an intel
ligence clause. Georgia does not. Tennessee does not. Both of the last
named States depend upon the prepayment of Boll taxes. Mississippi
sees no advantage In her intelligence clause, and would gladly be rid of
it. Let Alabama keep clear of a similar mistake. The prepayment of a
two-dollar poll tax eliminates fraud of every nature, and it will shut out
no white man if a primary election law be offered also. The non-tax
payer can attend the primary, and the taxpayer will come along to ratify
the selections of the primary.
General Oates serves the State well in bringing this great subject be
fore them in a straightforward, manly manner. There Is no occasion for
evasion, or for whispering or for midnight councils. Trust the people.
There is no need of an intricate scheme. The experience of surrounding
States shows that the ballot can be kept in the hands of the intelligence
of a State by means of a two-dollar poll tax paid at least a year before
election day, and all know that the primary system has come to stay,
and these two measures can be readily utilized to the elimination of all
fraudulent practices at or in connection with the ballot box, and to the
elevation of the electorate.
and maximum crops. But if the crop
should he carried by fine weather to
twelve million bales, there would then
be no reason to expect even seven-cent
cotton if China could be opened to the
trade of the world. China thus ranks
with the weather as a controlling fac
tor In the making of prices for the new
crop. The chances are that China will
be opened and will want before the
new crop is marketed a vast quantity
of goods, and that we weather will not
be favorable enough to admit of the
making of a twelve-million-bale crop,
and that the efforts of the bears in
an attempt to force the price below
seven cents will prove fruitless. The.
weather and China will determine the
price, but there are now no reasons
for expecting prices below seven cents.
Street Car Transfers.
The Board of Aldermen in a measure
changes tonight. Several new men are
to be sworn in and an equal number of
old members retire.
The old Board has accomplished
much good for the city, having adopted
a more liberal policy of improvements
than has existed in the past several
years, and it has taken decided steps
towards regulating quasi-public enter
prises.
It has effected an agreement with
the owners of the street railway sys
tem of Birmingham by which transfers
are to be given over its entire system
within the flve-cent fare limits. This
naturally means much to the people
along the lines and to everyone. One
may soon ride from South Highlands
to East Bake or from Powderly to
North Birmingham for one Accent
fare. And it will not be long before
the fare will be five cents from any
part of the Birmingham district to any
other part of it.
The street railroad people are pro
gressive, and they naturally will see
the benefits to be derived from cheap
fares. They are improving their tracks
in every direction, have orders in for
two score of new and modern cars and
are to give Birmingham the most rapid
and best street car service in all the
South. _
Rural Free Delivery.
Congressman Underwood is leaving
no stone unturtied to secure for all
parts of Jefferson County rural free
delivery, and he will before the sum
mer Is ended have the satisfaction of
knowing that this great convenience
has been brought to this populous
county. The delay is solely one re
lating to the pressure for the service
from all parts of the country.
The extension and popularity of the
service is one of the marvels of the
time. Less than ten years ago the
Postoffice Department declared that It
was not feasible, and for a number of
years it was maintained here and there
tentatively. But now its extension is
only a matter of appropriations and
the capacity of the department to meet
the demands for it. All want It, hut
all cannot get it at once. Congressman
Underwood will have the honor of first
securing it throughout a county !n this
State. The appropriations for the pres
ent fiscal year have been exhausted,
but those for the next fiscal year will
be available July 1, when the system
will be inaugurated in this county.
The experimental period in this new
branch of the postal service is passed.
The system is acceptable, feasible and
! very valuable to the rural districts, and
almost equally valuable to the towns
that depend upon the country districts
for trade. Congress appreciates its
value. Last year the appropriation on
account of it was $450,000; this year
it is $1,750,000, and for the year be
ginning July 1 it will be $3,600,000. And
even this sum will prove unequal to
the demands of the country. It is
thought the next appropriation will be
$7,000,000, or about half the cost of free
delivery in the cities.
Very few entire counties have been
covered by the new system, and when
Congressman Underwood succeeds in
securing it in Jefferson County he will
do what no other Southern Congress
man has done, or will soon be able to
do. There are many counties in the
South that should have it, but no
county can secure it until it has first
built good roads. Good roads are a
condition precedent. All should re
member this, and get ready to secure
this great convenience in the postal
service.
About Trotting Horses.
The Age-Herald's department de
voted to horse racing and particularly
to the trotting and pacing world of
horsedom, conducted by Judge A. E.
Caffee, will be made one of the fea
tures of the paper. No man in the
South is better qualified to conduct
such a department, and few write more
gracefully than Judge Caffee.
All lovers of horses—especially the
roadsters—should get The Age-Herald
regularly for this attractive feature.
Perry Heath might have brought out
Mark Hanna for a third term by using
the long-distance telephone, instead of
firing the announcement off In the ef
fete monarchies of the East.
Expositions go with panics, or rather
panics go with expositions. There was
one when the Chicago fair was held,
and Buffalo brought one at the very
outset.
No watered stocks can now be sold,
because the lambs are penniless. The
Wall street manipulators have killed
the geese that laid the golden eggs.
The music trust is trying to crush
out the ragtime article, but like the
community-of-lnterest crowd It has bit
oft more than it can chew.
Mayor Tom Johnson is a picturesque
figure, and he is trying also to be a
practical Mayor, and that, too, in Mark
Hanna’s imperial town.
The Wall street bear is still walking
like a man with his hat on one side of
his head, and one eyeshut.
Fortunately for the shorn lambs In
Wall street the weather is mild.
President Schwab is lining up with
Ohauncey M. Depew and Andrew Car
negie as a great public moralist and
eminent example.
If a student of books Is called a book
worm, the Boston Herald thinks a
student of the ticker should be called
a tape worm.
Although 700 millions of dollars were
lost on Black and Blue Thursday, no
one Is willing to own up that he was a
loser.
The Duke of Manchester’s debts
have assumed an international charac
ter to Pa Zimmerman at least.
Brigadier General Funston has his
eyes on the Presidency, for he is saw
ing wood and saying nothing.
Russell Sage would not object to a
perpetual panic that permits him to
loan money at 60 per cent.
Harvard proposes to ratify the de
gree conferred on Mr. McKinley by
the electoral college.
Russell Sage is a prophet and a
money changer who is honored in his
own country.
General Miles ranks photographers
above editorial writers. Every man to
his taste.
The corner in corn has stopped the
starch mills, but not the moonshine
mills.
The shorn lamb has all summer to
grow wool in for Wall street shears.
Count Boni has appendicitis. All
have it that can afford it.
There should be a bear panic in
strawberries.
It is called Black and Blue Thurs
day.
NEW DIAMOND CUTTING METHOD.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
An expert gem cutter recently discov
ered and patented a method of cutting
diamonds by which, It is said, their bril
liancy and apparent size are Increased
23 to 30 per cent. This remarkable effect
Is brought about by following the nat
ural lines of crystallzatlon of the uncut
gem. A brilliant may thus be cut with
as many as eighty' facets, while the num
ber under the old method never exceeds
sixty-four.
The great amount of time and labor re
quired for this “twentieth century cut
ting", as it is called, augments Its cost,
so that it will probably never entirely su
persede the present style of cutting. But
the resultant increase In brlllancy and
effectiveness is such that the cost will
not deter connoisseurs from investing.
SENATOR VEST’S PET ANECDOTE.
Prom the St. Louis Republic.
Senator Vest’s most famous anecdote
Is that of Miss Bertie Allendale. It was
told when the two chambers were ar
rayed against each other on the tariff
of 1.894 and the House was Insisting that
the country would go without any tariff
act unless the Senate were prepared to
forego Its own schedules and adopt those
of the House.
“In my younger days out west," said
Mr. Vest. “I went Into a varioty theatre
one night.
“It was one of those primitive shows
where the stage manager comes before
the footlights without a coat and waist
coat, and with his shirt sleeves rolled
up to the elbows, to announce the next
number on the programme.
” ‘Miss Bertie Allendale,’ remarked the
stage manager, appearing tn one of the
Interludes, ’who has entranced two hem
ispheres with her wonderful vocal pow
ers, will now render In her own Inimit
able style, that exquisite vocal selection,
entitled "Down In the Valley.” ’
“A gentleman In a red flannel shirt
rose In the midst of the audience and
exclaimed In an Impressive bass voice:
’Oh, thunder! Miss Allendale cant sing
for green apples.’
“The manager, who had started to
leave the stage, halted and turned. An
ugly light flashed from the eye which
swept the audience and finally rested on
the face of the Interrupter. Raising one
shoulder higher than the other, letting
one hand drift significantly toward his
hip pocket, and thrusting his nether jaw
forward In a savage way, he observed
with a deliberateness which emphasized
every syllable. ’Nevertheless and not
withstanding, Miss Bertie Allendale will
sing “Down hi the Valley.” *
“And she did. So, likewise, neverthe
less and notwithstanding, the Senate
schedules will stand."
Captain Betta Appointed.
Manila, May 14.—The civil commission
has appointed Captain Arlington U. Betts
of the 47th volunteer Infantry to be civil
governor of Albay province. Lieutenant
Howard Lee Landers of the 41st Infan
try has been appointed treasurer of the
same province. Lieutenant W. O. Thorn
ton of the 38th Infantry has been appoint
ed treasurer of the province of Capiz, In
Tanay Island, vice Lieutenant Marlon C.
Raysor, who Is 111.
ISN’T IT STRANGE—
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
That bo few women know how to hold
the skirt gracefully?
That so many men dislike to have other
men pat them on the shoulder?
That so few women can keep the run
of the cards when playing whist?
That so many men have such an abiding
faith In their own shrewedness?
That so few women take advantage of
the passing years?
That bo many men like to boast of their
physical strength?
That so many women are willing to
take advice from other women?
That so many men insist that they know
better than so many other men?
That so few women can explain clear
ly the details of an incident?
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
It isn’t always the best woman In the
world that’s best for a good man.
Emerson said that all healthy things
are sweet-tempered. Emerson never had
a baby.
No experience meeting Is half so Inti
mate as two women who have found that
they each lost all their hair In exactly
the same way.
Every woman over thirty at some time
in her life has opened somebody elae's
letter after making up her mind to think
It was meant for her.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for. this
day, Wednesday, May 15, 1901;
"Travel, remove, and deal with women
before noon; then sell.”
"Thou art treatened with losses, l^w.
sickness, and an unfavorable year gen
erally, this being thy birthday; keep thy
business well under control, and do not
speculate nor quarrel. Those in employ
will run the risk of losing It.”
"A child born on this day will be un
lucky in all it undertakes and often in
poverty and trouble.”
Noble Charity of Noble Women.
More than ordinary Interest attaches to
this statement set forth in yesterday's
Montgomery Advertiser:
"St. Vincent's Hospital In Birmingham
Is in charge of the Sisters of. Charity and
it is on© of the most successful eleemosy
nary institutions In the South.
"The following self-explanatory letter
was received last night:
"Birmingham, Ala., May 13, 1901.
*'Mr. F. P. Glass, Montgomery, Ala.
"My Dear Sir—I learn that a movement
Is on foot In your city to establish a hos
pital, similar to Birmingham’s St. Vin
cent. i hope that the Advertiser and
yourself will become Identified with the
movement. It is a glorious work.
"The Sisters of Charity will contribute
a large proportion of the money. Mont
gomery will be the gainer In every way
If you can secure a handsome and well
equipped, up-to-date hospital. Such an in
stitution, controlled by the Sisters of
Charity, will be conducted on the highest
lines of philanthropy and surgical and
medical science. It will be in fact, as well
as In name, a charity hospital, w’hose
portals welcome anyone who Is sick and
needy, regardless of race, condition or re
ligious views. Sectarianism plays no part
in Its conduct. Its purpose and aim seem
only to relieve pain, restore health and
preserve human life.
"As you know’, I am a Protestant, but
that fact does not close my eyes to the
benevolence and charitleB practiced by
those with whose religious opinions I dif
fer. I am firmly convinced that to no or
der, among men and women, so safely as
to the Sisters of Charity can be confided
the responsibility of a permanent hospi
tal. Once begun by these consecrated
women, the task isi never quitted. A ha
ven for the sick will always be open. If
fire destroys or earthquake demolishes the
material fabric, their devoted work w’ill
go along. If need be, In tents, under trees
or the vault of heaven—but It will go on
somehow and somewhere.
"Birmingham Is prouder of nothing
more than of St. Vincent's Hospital. Get
something like it for Montgomery, if you
can.
"I am yours very truly,
"RUFUS N. RHODES.”
All for You, Strong and True.
Somebody seems to have obtained the
impression that some Birmingham news
paper was not altogether friendly to the
Iton. James H.Nynnalee of Dallas in his
aspirations for the Alabama secretary
ship of state, in 1902. That is erroneous,
and Is hardly fair to old friends. There
is not a newspaper-worker in Alabama
who doesn’t lean affectionately toward
"Jim” Nunnalee and who wouldn’t be
glad to see him os secretary of state or
holding any other office he might de
sire.
‘‘Jim’’ Nunnalee. newspaper worker, de
sires to succeed "Bob’’ McDavld, news
paper worker, as secretary of the State.
All other newspaper workers of Alabama
are glad this is so, and every one of them
wishes all manner of good luck to "Jim.”
So it ain’t fair to say anybody’s agin
him! „
The Elderly “Rooter.”
The elderly "rooter” of the graphite
pencil sat with his younger comrade of
the press, who doesn't know precisely
what "rooter” means, beholding the Age
Herald and Birmingham News baseball
game yesterday afternoon, and the two
of them shouted like schoolboys and
were very happy—calling, Just like the
other boys, to "Allen”, "Billie”, "Ros
coe”, "Bozle”, "Pickens”, "Festus”,
"Vance", "Alf Walker", "Phillie", and
all the others of the boys. It was like
old times—it was old times come back
again for just one golden glorious May
afternoon, down there In our valley of the
vivid green!
The elderly "rooter" was a living pic
ture of present-day joy. He kept his
younger comrade Informed as to the
whole game, that comrade absolutely
happy In seeing the boys happy in a
thing it wasn’t his fault he did not com
prehend in a scientific manner.
"He oughtn't to have missed that!”
"My! What a ball!”
"Now, that was fine—fine—fine!”
"Look at Alf—don’t know him—you do—
what a fine young fellow!”
"There is the younger Bulger—Roscoe—
what noble physical strength Js^here!”
"And Boles and Bozle—how full of It
they are!”
And thus the elderly "rooter" ran on
to his younger comrade of the graphite
pencil, who was as happy as a child, se;
ing all that fun there In the vivid green
valley, within the shadow of the vivid
green mountain. And thither there came
fair little gentlewomen to lend their gra
cious presence to that time of merriment
and manly sport.
"Which Is ’she’—the one?" demanded
the elderly "rooter.” He was informed
concerning things perhaps it was not his
place to know.
Man, it was fine! as they say in Fife
shire—that game of base ball between
the Age-Herald and Birmingham News!
The Empire Is Come.
In the wild excitement of the baseball
game between the News and the Age
Herald yesterday afternoon, a News man
at one time knocked a ball out of sight,
It being driven over the fence and
through the back door of a cullud pus
son's cottage, about a quarter of a mile
away.
Considerable damage was done by this
far-driven ball, n pane of glass and the
chief household lamp being broken.
Viewing the shattered fragments of the
lamp which did not "cast Its light upon
the tufted floor, the ebony mistress of
the household cried:
"Whar's de empire? I'se gwlnter hab
de empire! Ise jest gwlnter make de em
pire pay for dat lamp!”
Thua the ebony mistress of the humble
cottage hurried out and called down the
Hon. Hugh Morrow, State Senator, "do
empire of de game," and he had to "come
across."
"De empire sho Is come," she said, not
knowing she spoke with the gift of great
political prophecy.
JltWJsl' -
Help for Jacksonville.
Mrs. W. C. Cooper of Birmingham has
undertaken to solicit clothing and other
necessaries of life for the victims of the
Jacksonville Ore. Mr. Cooper's father and
SUPPRESSION OF IRISH
PAPER IS ALL THE TALK
London May H.—The police have seized
all copies of Wlllim O'Brien's paper, the
Irish People, exposed for sale In Limer
ick, Cork and other towns in Ireland,
thus completing the work begun at Dub
lin last week.
The seizure and suppression have caus
ed widespread comment among the liber
als and radicals. By the latter it is called
an attemt to suppress free epeech. The
objectionable articles were abusive of the
King and Cardinal Vaughan.
Text of the Offending Editorial.
The following are some of the person
alities of the Irish People which caused
the paper's seizure.
Down upon his knees before an old and
bald-headed roue—lover of every woman
of fair features who has appeared In
English society for forty years, Includ
ing titled dames and as yet untitled ac
tresses—the English gentleman perjurer
of a historic divorce case, the polluted
hero of one of the most malodorous
scenes In Zola's rotten novel, "Nana”,
the center of a score of the most dis
graceful scandals of the most contemp
tible type, dowp In front of this English
King, whose latest public performance
was to stigmatize on his solemn oath the
whole Catholic world as superstitious
Idolaters, knelt the English-born cardinal
prince of the church, with a document
that might have been presented to a Le
gree In a southern plantation fifty years
ago, but by an Utieie Tom, poor but con
tented, of Harriet Beecher Stowe's great
story, who would have seen his black
skin stripped off Inch by Inch rather than
put his mark to a document like that
signed and presented by Cardinal
Vaughan and the Duke of Norfolk on his
solemn oath.
We do not believe he attached the
slightest solemnity to the performance.
But the fact remains—this old and worn
out descendant of a race of scoundrels
and practical professors of hideous Immo
rality, aaservated that moat of the sacred
doctrines of the Catholic faith were Idol
atrous and superstitious. He has not yet
recanted. He has not yet said a word to
indicate that he did not thoroughly ap
prove of the terms of the oath framed In
the days of Titus. The oath of a perjurer
Is no less vile than that of the reigning
king, but on bended knees the prince of
the church knelt before this unutterably
abominable person.
Let us console ourselves with the fact
that the presentees were Englllsh Catho
lics who are repudiated by the only really
Catholic nation now in existence. The
loyalists represented England only, and if
English Catholics choose to acknowledge
themselves superstitious Idolaters it If no
fault of ours.
History of the Editor.
■William O'Brien, publisher of the Irish
People, foundered that Journal In 1898 at
the time he organized the new agrarian
movement known as the United Irish
League. He was returned to Parliament
by Cork last year. He woa first elected
In 1883 by Mallow^County Cork, and sub
sequently represented South Tyrone, 18S5
6, and the northeast division of Cork from
1887 to 1895, in which last mentioned year
he retired from Parliament owing to dls
sentlons In the Irish party.
Mr. O’Brien la one of the most brilliant
of the Journalists In the United Kingdom.
He began his career aa a reporter of the
Cork Dally" Herald In 1869, a position he
occupied for six years. Thence he went
to the Freeman's Journal, for which ho
wrote editorials until 1880. In that year
he founded United Ireland. He has been
prosecuted nine times for political of
fenses, and has spent two years In pris
on.
TRUST APHORISMS BY
CHARLES M. SCHWAB
From the New York World. that capital Is united with this ability,
Here are some of the strust proposl- Is powerless except In a small way. Tile
tlons, aphorisms and conclusions submit- country Is being ransacked for brains,
ted by Charles M. Schwab, president of brains, brains.
the United States Steel Corporation, to "I think It possible that so great a com
the Industrial Commission: blnatlon might be formed that no man
"Brains are wanted, not money. could be found with the administrative
"Great Industrial combinations like the ability, the brains, to manage It. But that
United States Steel Corporation doubtless will not happen for many years,
decrease the chances of the Iron and steel "The question of organized labor Is not
maker with a limited amount of capital a question of wages. It la a question of
to make his way, but they give to the more vital Importance. It Is a question
men with brains the greatest opportunity of administration, of running your own
this world has ever known. works In your own way.
"The great captains of industry are not “I have nothing to do with labor or
looklng for money. There Is plenty of ganlsatlons, but If I was a workingman,
that. What they want Is brains—spec- as I was at one time, I would not belong
laliztd brains; brains that are capable to a labor organization. They put all
of taking hold and carrying out the plans men on the same level,
for which they furnish the capital. “If I was a bright, alert, competent
"The man with exceptional ability Is man I would not be put In the same class
the man for whom everybody Is seeking, with ths’poorest m4h.
His is the opportunity now eventually to "Organized labor means that no man
own and direct these great organizations, ctn advance unless all the others ad
"The man with small capital, unless vance."
mother dwell in Jacksonville. The father
was a noted officer of the Confederacy.
Private letters convey from Jacksonville
the Information that there Is a great deal
of destitution amongst the homeless
ones—"that hundreds of men haven’t had
a change of undergarments since the Are
on May 3."
This Information has moved Mrs. Coop
er to undertake the collection of neces
sities In clothing and otherwise. It is un
derstood that Louis Hake permits Mrs.
Cooper to store her collections In the
building, about to be demolished, at the
rear of Saks' great 'store, In Nineteenth
street. Mrs. Cooper hopes to get at
least a carload for Jacksonville. Tester
day she was remarkably successful. She
hopes for still better results today.
TAXE8 HARD TO REPEAL.
From the Paris Messenger.'
Some kind of taxes die hard. Once Im
posed, they go on year after year, simply
because money Is wanted, and political
economists do not know where to raise
a new tax to replace the one abolished.
For instance, the tax on doors and win
dows in France was voted in what Is
known In Republican circles as the year
VII. It was a war tax, and intended t®
be temporary, but once imposed it has
remained. Even in the city, which prides
Itself upon being the “Light of the
World”, taxes are paid on doors and
windows. Air and light are the two es
sentials for health. God gives them free,
but people In France cannot enjoy them
to the full without having to pay for
them—without having to pay a door and
window tax. A movement Is in progress
in the center of France asking for the
suppression of the tax on doors and win
dows.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRY.
From the New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
Southern phosphate deposits are practi
cally the only American deposits of the
kind of commercial value. Even they,
though, have felt the Impulse of the new
era, whether they be In the older fields
of Florida or the newer ones of Tennes
see. With the destruction of the forests
of the Middle West and West, Southern
lumber Is becoming dominating In Its
field, and will be the leader whenever the
effort shall be made to combine the lum
ber Interests of the country. In West
Virginia and Kentucky there are tenden
cies today toward placing the coal mining
Industry In closer touch with the bitumi
nous Interests elsewhere, while some of
the fuel in the Alabama region has al
ready been brought within the Influence
of the power centered at Pittsburg.
MAYOR MASON’S TALE OF WOE.
New York L<ett«r In the Chicago Record.
Mayor Joseph Mason of Vineland,N.
J., found soon after he was elected that
he could not live properly upon his sal
ary of |60 a year and keep up his social
position. He made a tearful appeal to
the council, and there was a hot debate
as to whether his honor was worth any
more money. It was decided that he was
not.
Then a plan was figured out to make
him Janitor of the city hall at a salary
of IX a month. This would give him an
Income of 1360 a year, all told, and that
spells prosperity In Vineland.
Mayor Mason went to work and shov
eled In the coal and “Janlted” with much
energy. He was a thoroughly happy man.
The only care he had was In making
lightning changes from Janitor ts mayor
In case young folks called to be married,
or from mayor to Janitor If the steps had
to be swept.
Now, however, two griefs have some to
Mayor Mason's life. Councilman Cun
nlngham has raised the point that a man
cannot hold two offices and that Mason
is either Mayor or Janitor but he is not
both.
“He has never qualified as Janitor,”
says the relentless Cunningham. “Under
the law the Janitor must be sworn In by
the mayor. How can a man swear in
himself?"
Cunningham has prepared a resolution
embodying this opinion. If it ia passed
Mayor Mason will veto it. He says he
swore himself in with the aid of a Bible
and a looking glass.
The other trouble that besets him Is
purely social. A short time ago Mayor
Mason gave to the Women's Golf Club,
an aristocratic concern, the use of a Held
that was intended for a municipal play
ground.
The women of the club out of gratitude
elected him an honorary member. Now
that he Is a Janitor, who shovels coal,
they have Intimated to him that they
would prefer if he did not come around.
“I don't know whether to give up my
social prestige, my Janltorship or my
mayoralty,” says the mayor.
Revolt Proves Failure.
San Domingo, S. D., May 14.—The revolt
In the provinces of Moca and Lavega has
proved a failure. The operations of the
government troops led by Vice President
Vasques has been successful and the re
bel leaders have been made prisoners.
The position of the government Is strong
financially.
Free Over the L. A N.
St. Louis, May 14.—John Fltsgerald, su
perintendent of terminals In St. Louis of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to
day announced that his road was ready to
transport free of cost anything In the
way of supplies offered for the fire suf
ferers In Jacksonville, Fla. . •
Strikers Raise Row.
Seville, Spain, May 14.—A mob of strik
ers here while attempting to force a num
ber of workmen to leave their tasks, to
day came In conflict with the gendarmes
Many were wounded and seventy arrests
were made. The strike movement Is
spreading.
THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES.
By Charles Lamb.
I have had playmates, I have had com
panions,
In my days of childhood, In my joyful
schooldays;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I have been laughing, I have been ca
rousing,
Drinking late, sitting late, with my
bosom cronies;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I loved a Love once, fairest among wom
en;
Closed are her doors on me, I must not
see her—
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I have a friend, a kinder friend has no
man—
Like an ingrate I left my friend abruptly;
Left him, to muse on the old familiar
facea
i
Qhost-llke I paced around the haunts of
my childhood
Earth seemed a desert I was bound to
traverse.
Seeking to And the old familiar faces.
Friend of my bosom, thou more than &
brother,
Why wert not thou born In my father’s
dwelling? i
So might we talk of the old familiar
faces.
I
How some they have died, and some they
have left me, '
And some are taken from me; all are de
parted;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.