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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
THE MAN WITH THE HOE.

By Professor Edwin Markham.
Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face.
And on his back the burden of the world
Who made him dead to rapture and de-
spair,
A thing that grieves not and that never
hopes,
Stolid and stunned, brother to the OK?
Who loosened and let down his brutal
jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back
this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within
this brain?
Is this the thing the Lord God made and
gave
To have dominion over sea and land2
70 trace the stars and search the heavens
for power,
To feel the passion of eternity?
Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped
the suns
And pillared the blue armament with light 2
Down all the stretch of hell to the last
gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this
More tongued with censure of the world $
blind greed.
More filed with signs and portents for the
soul,
More fraught with menace to the universe
What CULTS between him and the seraphimi
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks Of
song.
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the
rose?
Through this dread shape the suffering
ages look.
Times's tragedy Is in that aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity be-
trayed
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the pudges of the world,
A protest that Is also prophecy.
o masters, lords and rulers in all lands
Is this the handiworlS you give to God,
This monstrous thing distorted and soul
quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this
shape?
Give back the upward looking and the
light,
Rebuild in IT the music and the dream.
Touch 1t again with Immortality,
Make right the immemorial infamsies,
Perfdious wrongs, imnedicabIe woes?
o masters, lords and rulers In all lands!
How will the future reckon with this man?
How answer his brute question in that
hour
When whfrlwinds OF rebellion shake tho
world?
How will 1t be with Kingdoms and with
kings,
With those who shaped him to the thing
lie is,
When this dumb terror shall reply to God
After the silence of tho centuries?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
THE Ne.GRo AND rnE CENSUS

From the Nashville American.
There is no doubt much truth in the con-
tention of C. H. ]. Taylor, who is at the
head of colored college in Atlanta that
the strength of the negro race in the south
has never been correctly estimated, owing
to the manner in which the census is taken.
Taylor was register. of deeds in the Dis
trict of Columbia under President Cleveland
and is a negro of sound Judgment. IF
the. enumeratnr," he says, should make the
mistake of asking dark-complexioned
white man what race he belonged to, the
enumerator might get punch in the head,
and for 3 cents a name he could not afford
to take any such risks Any white. man,
with a notebook in his hand, looking up
people, they are very suspicious of. Per-
haps they have been stealing something
the day before, and they think this man
has come around to get them for the chain
gang, and so they scatter. do not be-
Heye any national census yet has given
anything like full enumeration of the
negroes" And the trouble is, moreover, it
is a hard nut to crack.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
The State Press communicated.

The Montgomery Journal has taken the
state papers in hand, reading them a lee
ture after this fashion:
The state press has influence when 1t Is
right and has none when 1t is wrong. The
people are always going to determine for
themselves when the press is right and
when it Is wrong. They are not to be
fooled by a newspaper Influenced by per-
sonal pique or prejudice. They fully un-
derstand the press, il the press does not
fully understand them, and the mistake
many newspapers make is. that they do not
think that the people understand them
They ought to know better, but they DON'T
If they do not learn better II is their fault
not the peoples. They will be the loser,
not the people. They will continue to have
cause to bewail their loss of influence, and
the people viii continue to have cause to
congratulate themselves on their own pc
culiar wisdom and discriminating intelli-
gence and good sense. II the state press
wises to have influence with the people, it
must show itself worthy to lead them. II
it expects to have the respect and conf
dence of the people, 1t must show itself
worthy of both. The whole state press has
been made to suffer the loss of influence,
and in many instances the loss of respect
of all fair-minded people, by the conduct
of certain leading morning newspapers.
The Age-Herald desires to know who is
to, determine when the state papers ought
to know better. Who is to determine when
the state papers are or are not worthy of
the respect and confidence of the people !?
Some one must determine these questions,
and the Journal has undertaken to decide
them against the state papers.
The esteemed Journal goes on to say that
the state press has as rule lost the re-
epect of all fair-mfnded people. This is a
heavy judgment against the. state papers,
and The Age-FIerald pleads again to the
juriediction of the court. 1t also ira
verses the statement of fact. When did
the loss occur? What phenomena occurred
to work the change? How did the es-
teemed Journal become aware of the loss?
And why does 1t so heartlessly announce
it?
We regret that the Journal feels so dread
fully over this matter. 1t need not, how
ever, grieve over the sad condition of it's
contemporaries. They are quite able to
take care of themselves. They will con-
tinue to follow their convictions, lead
where they may, wholly regardless of the
inspired Journals judgment and declara-
lions.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
LARGE Exports or Iron and Steel.

The annual statistical report of the
1898, discusses the country's export trade
In iron and steel and their manufactured
forms. The growth of the trade is wonder
full, and is not appreciated until the actual
figures are presented. The value of such
exports was 50 millions in 1898, rising from
60 millions in 1897, and As millions in 1926.
In the exports of 1898 were included 25S ,O57
tons of pig iron, nearly all of which was
Alabama iron.
The value of imports of iron and steel
fell from Is millions in 1895 to Il millions
in 1898. Prior to 1896 the annual importa-
lions, covering period of "A years, had an
average valuation of AZ millions. The fig
ures of exports and imports in 1898 were al
most the reverse of the figures of 1880. In
1880 the imports were valued at so millions
and the exports at Is millions in 1898 the
exports were valued at 50 millions and the
imports at 70 millions. In eighteen years
the conditions were reversed as between
this country and the rest OF the world.
Nor is this quite all. American iron and
steel have been pushed into English mar
kcts. We have sent and sold to England
for English consumption pig iron, steel
blets, steel rails, steel plates, structural
Steel wire rods, wire nails, cast iron pipe
ond forty locomotives An American shop
has received an order for great bridge to
be placed over the Atbara river In the
Soudan, and American rails and Iocomo-
tives are going to India and Australia.
The truth is, we are now sending to the
English home markets as much iron and
steel as England sells to Us.
"The immediate Culture Of our export
trade says the report, an iron and steel,
which trade has been factor in bringing
about the present Improved eonditlen OF
our iroa and steel Industries, need not
cause apprehension, Notwithstanding GEE
enhanced prices. UE5er any eirculn-
stances we viii continue to expor. large
quantities of leading .ron aad stee;
products to Canada, Nexieo. tho West
high prices for .rou and steel that now
prevail Ia European countries viii help lis
ia nsintail; DIR present advantage III all
lnpIkets The excellent quality Of our Iron
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
THE BRIGGS CASE.
Philadelphia Press.

Bishop Potter. by ordaining Dr. Briggs.
has done his church one of those great
services only possible when a man of cour-
age faces grave responsible ty with resofu-
ton. Aside from all other issues, the real
principle involved in the case was whether
the Protestant Episcopal church should
continue to stand for the broad position
that the finar and ultimate truth depends
not on the Interpretation of men IN one gem
GRAFTON or another, but on the best knowl-
edge and most complete study of all the
sources of divine inspiration. AT no stage
of its history has the Episcopal church
limited its teaching. and, thanks to Bishop
Potter, it is not to begin to do this.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
The only thing on earth that doesn't care
whether 1t is laughed at or not is Love-
One of the queer things is how mifch
unmarried men know about feminine lin
gerie and girls about babies.
A girl can sit on the damp grass without
being uncomfortable, but a man doesn' t
wear that sore of clothes.
The harder a girl tries to marry man
the surer he is that he wants to marry
some girl who won't have him.
Chiidren's questions aren't nearly SO en-
b;,rrassing some of the ones that grown
Up people don't ask, but only think.
After a man has caught his train with
several minutes to spare, he knows how
the engaged fellow feels, who wonders why
he chased her so fast.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
INTEREsTING CoNFEDERArE RELIC

An interesting relic at the confederate re-
union at Charleston, s. C., was the iron
six-pound cannon, "Old Secession which
was used in announcing the opening of the
secession convention in that city, and was
again fired when the ordinance of seces-
sion was passed. 1t was also used to an
nounce the secession of each state as the
news was received at Charleston, and when
ever its roar was heard many persons rush
ed see what state had Joined South Car
DINA. The cannon has been removed at
night to various places and buried since the
evacuation of Charleston. 1t was recently
dug up in Savannah and returned to
Charleston, where it has been suitably
mounted and labeled with silver plates,
and Will be kept as q relic.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

From the Talladego Mountain Home
Great indeed is Birmingham and all Ala
bamians are proud of their iron queen and
her every triumph. Her May Festival, as
an initial number, was a glorious success,
and if the coming Industrial metropolis of
the south and iron center of the nation be
too far from the tropics for Mardi Gras,
then by all means let her have May cele-
bration annually.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
MR.. JoHsToNs PROMISE.

From the Tuscumbia Dispatch.
Governor Johnston promised the 1egisla-
tors and the people of Alabama that If the
constitutional convention act was repealed
he would guarantee an amendment satis-
factory to the suffrage clause. Time will
be called on the governor pretty soon.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The news from the Philippines is CEN
sored. and the only assurance that things
are going along satisfactorily is the willing
ness of Admiral Dewey to return home.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The new Russian demand for railway
concession to Pelkin shows that nothing is
settled except that the powers are still
grabbing all they can.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

TIE Dothan Home Journal dcEies all
peuc.Istis.ic Affiliations, although Chair
man Grove says that ali who think as it
docz have gone orer to the pepuiiss party
and position.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Admiral Dewey has hard campaign be-
fore him. and If he goes through it without
stopping over he will be entitled to place
alongside the immortal hero of the cherry
tree
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The census supervisors for the Alabama
districts are to be appointed soon after
President McI1inIey's return from Hot
Springs, Va.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Dom Pauls prison house is located at
Pietpotsgeitersrust. The punishment out
there consists in pronouncing the name of
the locality.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

New York also has an extra session,
called to remedy defects in the bill to tax
water in corporation capitaIizations.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The only unauthorized article of food
seems to be early vegetables raised and
pulled in the home garden.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The postmasters of large cities cannot re-
cuperate from a long spell of loafing ex-
cept with the permission of the postoffiee
department.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The senatorial pure-food committee is at
work in Chicago, where processing" has
been abnormally developed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

TIE r.!ners OF this district are net PLAN
ming u strike. They arc too busy to waste
Tine eve: lis that car. be cured peacefully
as they go along.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Ayers defence practically is that he
should not be held responsible for all the
laundering of a laundering administration.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The Michigan movement that had for its
object the sending of Alger to the senate
was a flash In the pan
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Major Marchand is not dead, and the
great explorer is to be welcomed home in
France very much as Funston will be in
Kansas.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Andrew Carnegie and General Joe
advertising.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The bel1ing and lanterning OF automobiles
is new subject of municipal legislation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The country is afflicted with New Jersey
trusts and New Jersey mosquitoes.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The Methodists can make Birmingham
College a great institution, and they seem
determined to do it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Vermont is "all torn up" over the re-
turn of Kipling and Dewey, her two favor
ite sons. One is, however, an adopted
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Another insurgent capital has been cap
tured, and new capital has, of course,
been located.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The $1OO-a-plate managers have wisely
deferred the buying of badges.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
Fron, tbe Can,den PROGRESS,

From the Camden Progress.
II Johnston doesn't have a satisfactory
suffrage amendment passed his name will
surely be Dennis"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Adam-Zad opened his conference prompt
ly at The Hague yesterday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

The news from the Philippines is cen
sored. and the only assurance that things
are going along satisfactorily is the willing
ness of Admiral Dewey to return home.
The new Russian demand for a railway
concession to Peldn shows that nothing is
settled except that the powers are still
grabbing all they can.
The census supervisors for the Alabama
districts are to be appointed soon after
President McKinIey's return from Hot
Springs, Va.
The postmasters of large cities cannot re-
cuperate from long spell of loa1ng ex-
cept with the permission of the postoffiee
department.
Dom PauIs prison house is located at
Pietpotsgeitersrust. The punishment out
there consists in pronouncing the name of
the locality.
Vermont is "all torn up" over the re-
turn of Kipling and Dewey, her two favor
ite sons. One is, however, an adopted
son.
Major Marchand is not dead, and the
great explorer is to be welcomed home in
France very much as Funston will be in
Kansas.
Alger's defence practically is that he
should not be held responsible for all the
laundering of a laundering administration
New York also has an extra session,
called to remedy defects in the bill to tax
water in corporation capitaIizations.
The senatorial pure-food committee is at
work in Chicago, where processing has
been abnormally developed.
The only unaduterated article of food
seems to be early vegetables raised and
pulled in the home garden.
The Michigan movement that had for its
object the sending of Alger to the senate
was a flash In the pan.
The Methodists can make Birmingham
College a great institution, and they seem
determined to do it.
Another insurgent capital has been cap
tured, and new capital has, of course,
been located.
Andrew Carnegie and General Joe
Wheeler are past masters in the art of free
advertising.
The bel1ing and lanterning Of automobiles
is a new subject of municipal legislation.
The country is afflicted with New Jersey
trusts and New Jersey mosquitoes
The S100-a-plate managers have wisely
deferred the buying of badges.
Adam-Zad opened his conference prompt
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Stephen Smith, of Livingston, is the guest
of his brother, Hon. A. G. Smith, in this
city.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

Editor Earl Cochran of the Fort Payne
Journal is in the city. lie Is one of the
best newspaper men in the state, and pub
fishes one of the neatest, newsiest and best
weeklies. Mr.. Cochran reports the indus
trial outlook for Fort Payne to be most
promising. The city Is growing and the
people are confident.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-06-23
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
ANDREWS.

ANDREWS, June 2O.-Mrs. Lizzie Ma.
hon, and Mrs. Bob Jones were here last
week To minister to their mother, Mrs.
Carrlgan, In her last hours.
Mr.. Bud Thomas is quite sick ut the
home OF his father in-law, MIR. rheO-
dore speed.
gAlrs Dooley, the aged mother Of Mr..
Jim Dooley, is in feeble health here at
her sons.
Miss Lizzie Redding's school closed
last Friday, and Monday she returned
to her home at Campbell Station, leav.
ing warm place in the hearts of our
people.
Mr.. K. p. Stegall, we understand, will
teach the public school.
Misses Mamie and Marye Redding
spent Saturday and Sunday with rela-
tlves and friends here.
We enjoyed DR.. Padgett's interesting
letter of travels in the last issue of the
HERALD.
Mr.. " allace 7. Sowell drove out in a
handsome new surry one evening last
week, purchased of Sattertield Il bod
son.
MIS-. Ella Scott, / believe, is our
champion fowl raiser She has the
finest lot of young chickens | have
seen, and has something unusual in
the way of turkey hen, which l.
mothering 20 little turkeys, and laying
an egg daily.
Mesdames f. j. and w. |. Sowell
leave to-day for several days visit in
Franklin, and Mrs. f. G. Sowell goes to
! Gallatin.
Quite large crowd was in attendance
at the Sacramemtsl meeting at Union
! Grove on the 2nd Sunday.
MRS. MICAwBER
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-06-23
McCAIN'S.

MCCAIN's, June 2l.-Our farmers are
quite busy now in the harvest field,
digging potatoes and laying-by corn.
The wheat crop on an average is
right good through this section.
Messrs. Petty aud Morrow have pur-
chased an 81 800 threshing outfit, and
are now at work on the Ridley farm.
The sick throughout our community
are improving at present. Mr.. Warrin
Fly has had serious attack of pneu-
monia for the past three weeks.
Mr.. NJ. j. Irwin has been having
chills.
Mr.. John Irwin, Just from Cuba, is
now with his father, Mr.. More Irwin.
Children's Day exercises were held at
this place last Sunday morning, con-
Stunning the hour for regular service. AT
the close of the exercise we listened "a
an excellent address by Rev. Mr.. Mil
Ter, of Lebanon, State Superintendent
of Sunday-schoOl work. Owing to the
lateness of the hour the installation
service of two elders was deferred un
til the first Sunday in July, at which
service the members OF this church are
especially invited to be present.
Mr.. Will Henderson led a splendid
EndeavOr meeting sunday afternoon
from the toOic, "Intemperate Pleasure :
Tim. 3: IL, after which Rev. Millel
addressed the society.
Owing TO the fact that the church viii
soon be under repair, no more services
will be held there at present, but tn,
Board OF Trustees Of McCain's Acade
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-06-23

my have kindly offered the Academy
for service until the church IL repair, d
Or. NJ. T. Gabard, being chairman Of the
building committee made a trip To Giler
county this week in the interest Of get
ting the material to begin work imme-
diately.
Miss Ella Thomas Is home from the
Cumberland University, of Lebanon
Miss Emma Hall Is back from Louis.
lana, where she has been teaching the
past year.
The Field Secretary of the Woman =
Board of Missions, Miss Florence g. Ma
ghee, of Evansville, Ind, will visit this
congregation some time during the
month of July.
Mrs. A. n. Mcdonald, Mrs. Lizzie
White and little Bessie Frank White, of
Campbell's Station, visited Mrs. ). q.
Thomas and Mrs T. II. Medley last
week
our postOflice department at this place
has undergone II change, rs Mr.. ID ID.
Dagger now has charge of 1t instead of
Mr.. T.. X Hall
Mr. John Pullen, of Co tage Grove,
West Tenn, is visiting his relatives
here at the home of Mr.. Dan Wilsford
Miss Mamie Caisley, of Campbells-
vile, is spending while with her sis
ter, Mrs. w. j, Fly. OMEGA.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-06-23
NOW

MowD, June 20.-We have promised
to give the HERALD occasionally the
news of our neigh borhood, although we
were always poor hand to manufac
ture news, and we have almost added
our weak mind in try ing to think Of
som ething to write that would interest
some of the many readers of the HER
AID: but it seems the more we think
the less we know.
The farmer comes in complaining that
the potatoes are ruined, the clover is
dead, the millet can't make much, the
pastures are so dry it looks like the
stock will starve, and if it does not rain
soon corn will not make anything. The
spring or well will dry up IL 1t continues
this dry for few days.
Mr.. James Haywood, who lives near
the business part of our village, now
has the poles up for telephone line,
and before this goes to print he will
have a phone in his house.
The music of the thresher Is heard in
the land. There will not be more than
half as much wheat made in this com
munity as there was last year.
Mr. John johnson, of Hohenwald, Wis
tied friends and relatives here few
DAYS last week.
Wesley Dodson, son of Mr.. J. c. bod
son, is dangerously i'll with typhoid
fever. There is but little hope for his
recovery. The family have our deepest
sympathy.
Miss Forest Walters, we are glad to
say, is conyalescent.
Mrs. James Watson has been quite i'll
but is now on the road to recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. y. A. Bassham visited
friends on Carriers Creek this week.
Best wishes for the HERALD and it;
many readers. SYLVIA.