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The age-herald., 1900-04-23
SENATOR MORGAN
Washington Times.

From the Washington Times.
 The democracy of Alabama are to be heartily congratulated on their good sense and patriotism in according to the Hon. John T Morgan, senior senator from that state, the ringing endorsement at the pri- maries which guarantees his reelection at the next session of the legislature. In democrats honor themselves. It is not too much to say that for statesmanship, great ness as a constitutional and interna- tional lawyer and for that courage of his convictions which some times causes man to ignore party in the presence of higher duty to country, he towers above ncl only his brother democrats in the sen ate. but all others within it.
 Neither party nor nation could well af- ford to lose Senator Morgan's services in his present capacity. He is man of re- nown in every civilized land under the His ability, experience and achieve tionai questions and as constructive statesman in the formulation of govern mental systems for new American terri tory, and his frank straightforwardness as an advocate or opponent of proposed leg islation in congress, have combined to render him one of the foremost figures in the higher political life of the generation. Indeed, he is one of the very few men now in the senate who would have been at all conspicuous in that body if he had been a member of it in the great days of Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Seward and Cass.
 with the views and expressions tE Senator Morgan: but that is 6 mere incident. It does not in the least detract from the sin cere admiration we feel, and always have felt, for the sturdy old Roman. who be- lieves tn and fearlessly expounds the sound, brave Teffersonian doctrine ef aa- tionaI expansion under the constitution. If his fellow citizens of Alaba.n.a realize, as we do, that in his person they are rep resented by not only one of the greatest sons their commonwealth has ever pro- duced but one of the greatest ever born to any state, they will know that, in dis ccunt-naneing untimely and regrettable oppositiuf to his reelection they have done a wise, a manly, and a thoroughly patriotic thing, and one for which the whole country will applaud them.
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eook Making at Home and Abroad.

Dr. Richardson, librarian of Princeton university, has relieved this country Of a stain upon it's literary reputation. This stain originated with the London Book seller, which recently went on to say the book output of Germany last year was 2S,0OS; of France, 1S,26s; of Italy, 9,567; of Great Britain, 7.249; Of the United States 5315. What a faE of pride was shut up ill these distressing Iigures The land of the free school children stood fa1 below Italy-this was indeed galling to Ameri- can pride In literary output we could, it seemed, hope to stand only with the little countries. or with backward Russia
 But Dr Richardson has lifted the veil and shown that the London Booksellers figures are misleading grossly so. Pamph- lets, periodicals and parts of books pub lished in ins,allments are included in the European Fists. In the German list are G.
 
 pamphlets of less than 100 pages. In the French list are included annuals, alma macs, reprints, installment parts, as well as pamphlets. In the Italian figures are listed magazines and newspapers, and 1899 pamphlets. Four page leaflets are count ed in all of the European lists, except Great britain's.
 Dr. Richardson says that if those lists were reduced to the American basis of substantial books, excluding periodicals and annuals they would read in this way Germany, 4,5O0 France, 4,2OO; Italy. 2,512 Great Britain, 5000; the United States, G. 900 This is approximately the truth if periodical literature be omitted. Count ing that, the United States would outrank Great Britain. and therefore the rest of the world. Germany may write better books first and last, but the literary out put of the United States is larger than that of any other country. There are more readers in this country than in any other, and more reasonably good literature of one sort or another is furnished to them each year.
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want to be 1e;. girls prefer IS; young men prefer 2l to 20. and. worst of all. old people knock of five or ten years, preferring. sim sularly enough, even numbers to old
 This subject has serious side, for it taints statistics thas would otherwise be valuable. 1t taints statistics that would otherwise determine the average duration of life. The census tables are not because of it, safe-guides in preparing insurance tables or in calculating the death rate. The country has no means of knowing ex- actly who are of military age Scores of questions turn upon age statistics, such as the employment of children the recruiting of the criminal class, the death rate of negroes as compared with that of the whites, and so on to the end of the list, which is long one. Inaccurate as Euro peah age statistics notoriously are those of America still more so, and an ap- peal is made by the census authorities to all GO answer truthfully in June the ques- tions that the census enumerator will pro- pound.
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Good Work of ssoer Cannoneers

In view of the vast amount of travelling which De Villebois- Mareul did after his arrival in South Africa. and the responsi- ble and arduous duties he had to perform its surprising he should have found time to write the many letters he dispatched to newspapers and friends. In a lengthy epistle sent to the Paris Liberte he wrote:
 'The Boers work wonders with their marvelously precise French guns owing to their astonishing capacity for judging distance and finding the ranges.
 "A mysterious and legendary influence surrounds this artillery, and Long Tom will long be talked of in the farms and in the halts during treks. Long Tom as- tonished me by the positions it could be fired firm. It could be transported up the steepest hills. These operations were directed by M. Leon (of the Creusot works, France), who at night, with the aid of numerous oxen, and often of only the Boers themselves got the gun up to the most seemingly inaccessible positions M. Leon came to be regarded as sort of supernatural person, as he showed him. self to be artillery director, engineer and sapper.'
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Census Aqe Statistics.

The census officials respectfully ask each person to tell the exact truth ir June, when ts, or she is asked as to age IT. all cnua- tries such questions arc answered in round numbers, producing results that are nec- essarily untrue. For example, there are in all countrles more persons 49 years 1lo than 50 years old. more 5s years olo than 60 years cid; but the compiled census of 1890 there were apparently twice as many persons 6c years old than they were persons 49 years old. This came from indulgence ir round numbers. In 1SSo there were 61S, ,641 persons reported ss 30 years of age, 1,Os7, ,336 at 40, and 4s6,S53 at 41
 Amng women, 500,774 were reported to be 10, 29o,977 30, 224,55i, 4l The mortality of persons as of truth was excessive at so.<7e. point, it is plain. Don't then indulge in , round numbers in June. Try the truth.
 A census is usually taken once in ten years It is so taken in England; and yet in that country more women return them selves as between % and 9 than there were girls in the preceding census from 10 to 15 years old. In all countries children
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FALSE STEP

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sweet, Thou hast trod on a heart:
 Pass there's a world full of men; And women as fair as thou art
 Must do such things now and then. Thou only has stepped unaware,
 (Malice not one can impute), And why should a heart have been there, In the way of a fair womans foot? It was not a stone that could trip,
 Nor was it thorn that could rend; Put up thy proud under-lip,
 Twas merely the heart of a friend. And. yet, peradventure, one day.
 Thou sitting alone at the glass, Remarking the bloom gone away,
 Where the smile in its dimplement was And seeking around thee in vain,
 From hundreds who flattered before, Such a word as, "Oh, not in the main, Do hold thee less precious, but more |" Thou wilt sigh, very like. on thy part; .''Of all have known, or can know, I wish had only that Heart
 l trod upon ages ago." ms A.
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Admired the Tactic of ahe Boers

The late general also wrote in praise of the Boer transport system, and stated that food was distributed with a liberality un- known in the French army. De Villebois- Mareuil described the kindly reception which the Boecs accorded him, and went on: When I think of all this I cannot help feeling gratitude toward my own country, to whose influence Ieowe the marks of friendship shown to me, and ad- miration for the Boer people, which has kept intact the traces of French blood in its veins, and whose sentiments toward France are thus revived merely by the presence of Fernch officer in its midst.
 'I have found the following names of French origin amoung the Boers-Jou- bert, Malan, Cronje (which he derives from Crosnier), Du Toit, De Villiers, Nal herbe, Du Plessis All the hopes of the Boers,' he concludes, '.are centered in France. If France can take up again her traditional policy in South Africa the way of Northern Africa will be reopened to her"
 In a subsequent letter De Villebois- Mareuil said: 'AThe Boers have per- feet trust in God and thorough contempt for the Englishman. It was this feeling that led President Kruger to send his ultimatum to Engla nd.'
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M'KINLEY's FORGIyING DISPOSITION

Walter Welnan in Chicago Times Herald.
 President Mckinley is the most forgiv- ing of men. He neve. bears ii! will to- ward anyonce about anything. His inti- mates say he is the most remarkable man in that respect they ever saw. The presi- dent praised Dewey to the skies when he knew the admiral was angry at him and giving vent to his anger in regular quarterback, sea dog way. Not long ago MT. HamIin. former assistant secretary of the treasury. called at the white house to invite the president to go to Boston.
 And who else is invited to the affair." asked the president.
 MT Hamlin named Senator Lodge, Gov ernor Wolcott and others, and then paused. He was just little nervous.
 You have not mentioned Senator Hoar' said the president.
 No: IT."
 Senator Hoar must be invited by all means" said the president. 'Mr Hoar and I have our differences of opinion, but he is a grand old man and I love him very much"
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Where there's way there's a will.
 No man of his own free will ever married a woman who thought she had a ''mis- sion."
 You can generally tell fifty feet off which woman at the communion table are won dering if the soes of their feet show
 If a man will only go and get married again the women will quit talking about his never going to see his wife's grave any more.
 A woman always refers to him as 'our family physician" when they have com pany and looks mad at her husband if he talks about ''the doctor
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Justified by tho Necessity

Ex-Congressman Timothy J, Campbell of New York, was at Chamberlaii.'s recently. says the Washington Post. When he was a member of the fiftieth congress, MT Campbell stole a clerk from Congressman Scott. Scott was a new member, and was made chairman of committee, which gave him a clerksilip He knew nothing about the clerk. Campbell did. Through some means or another he had the clerk ship transferred to his owu committed Six months later Scott learned of the trick Meeting Campbell, he said:
 That was nice piece of petty larceny"
 Tut tut. MT. Scott" said Campbell; my committee needed Q clerk worse than yours" Then, with twinkling eyes, be con- tinued: You arc . millionaire and can af- ford to hire a half dozen clerks, while I must go to the government for clerical as- sistance."
 The ready reply pleased Scott The two men were always the best of friends there after
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NINE SAFE RULES

From the New York Press.
 Seldom has there been better advice for the conduct of the human family than is boiled down in nine comprehensive anti theses: Drink less, breathe more; eat less, chew more: ride less, walk more; waste less, give more write less, read more; talk less, think more; preach less, practice more To follow these is to strike for bet ter health. further popularity and greater Sl1crase
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ANOTHER RECORD BROKEN


 When quite a youth, 4G years ago. I reported to your office that the frogs were peeping about the middle of March, you came out with an item "The record is broken; get on your linen dusters; bring out the soda fountains; spring has come" ," But this time the record is the other way. The oldest inhabitant does not remember the time when the 10th of April went by without hearing the frogs peep.
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MEN TO TAKE PLaoEs ~HELLo" GIRLS

From the Chicago Tribune
 Paris-As the French public complained of the poor telephone service the minister of posts and telegraphs has begun the ex- pertinent of replacing the girls by men at one of the principal 'centra!s" of Paris. change contesses that ali beseeching and disciplinary measures have been powerless to prevent the girls from chattering among themselves instead of devoting their sole attention to connecting subscribers. Men are expected to be more reasonable
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FORTY YEARS OF "RIp VAN wINKLE'

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
 It is reported that Joseph Jefferson had an extraordinary reception Monday night when he began his New York season with Rip Van Winkle.' He was called before the curtain repeatedly. and finally made short speech in which he said among other things:
 Tt is now forty years since I first played the part you see me in tonight in this city, and it is reasonable supposition that I played it before the fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers of you who are present before me this evening""
 The speaker might have gone further back in the scale of ancestry, for no doubt there were young people in the audience whose great-grandparents enjoyed Rip forty years ago fully as much as their de- scendants do today, and who. we nay add, would still cultivate the society of that incprrigible vagabond with undimin- ished pleas gre if thsy were alive and way beyond the century mark. For the player
  to all ages with equal potency and with a charm that never loses any of its fresh- ness.
 In the sixty years that he has been upon the American stage he has passed from one triumph to another until now his position is unrivaled, either in the present or in history No actor ever had such a hold upon the affections of the people or was so universally known and admired as he The elders salute him as if he were a cherished comrade of lifelong standing though they never have known him except over the footlghts. When the child first sees him it is as though he were meeting a friend of the family to whom the family owed a lasting debt of gratitude. Indeed it is hardly enough to say that no actor is so near the hearts of the people. It would be difficult to name any American of our time who arouses quite the same degree of affectionate sentiment among his coun- trymen.
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Spanish warship would be sent to Mont gomery to be erected in tho capitol grounds. Greensboro has the proud dis tinction of being Lieutenant Hobson's na- tive town. Very probably a mistake has been made at New York.
 A violent attack of hiccoughs lasting six days recently came dangerously near prov ing fatal to former Congressman Thomas Williams Of Fillmore. Colonel Williams was making a political tour of the north ern counties, when he was attacked by what appeared to be the grip" Hic- coughs quickly followed, and became so violent that Colonel Williams returned home as speedily as possible. The family physician called to his aid a doctor from Montgomery, and every possible effort was made to stop the hiccoughs, but without success until the end of six days. Colonel Williams, who is considerably past seventy years, so completely exhausted that on the last day death was feared hourly Happily he is noss rapidly recovering, and will soon be hale ana hearty again. He has been man of remarkably strong con- Stitution.
 Congressman John Hollis Bankhead of the Sixth district arrived in the city from Washington yesterday. and is at the Morris. He feels greatly gratifed by his recent renonination without opposition. Colonel Bankhead is of opinion that con- gress will adjourn by the 18th of June, in time for the republican members to attend their national convention at Philadelphia He will spend few days in Alabama, and will probably attend the state democratic convention at Montgomery.
 f>epresehtative John H. Wallace of Madi- sen. who has been renominated for the legislature, is in Birmingham.
 Sam Carpenter of Greene a candidate for state auditor, is in town on his way to Montgomery.
 William M. Teague and Harry E. String fellow of Montgomery are in town.
 M. J. billiard of Florence is at the Morris. Amongst recent contributions sent to Rev. Father OReilly for St. vincents hos pital is check for $50 from Phoenix Lodge No. 25. Knights of Pythias, Bir- mingham. This generous gift of the good TX. P.s'' is signed by H. M. Austin, mas ter of exchequer, and countersigned by Dr. Satterfield, as presiding officer, and A. S. Hirscher, keeper of records and seals
 
 Charles Neuman left town last night for Nashville.
 WollarG Warner, Jr.. of Redwood, Tenn, is at the Morris MT. Wa:ner's S father. General Willard Warner. at one time represented Alabama in the United States senate.
 George B. Nichols and Mrs. Nichols of Joplin Mo-, with their two children, are at the Morris. Mrs Nichols was formerly Miss Sophie Hallonquist of Montgomery one of the most admired of Alabama s beautiful women.
 Amongst the late arrivals at the hotels last night were A. s. Apte, Florida; T. Jefferson Tobias, Charleston, s. C.; J. I. Carter and J. B. Moffett. Chattanooga c. B. Love and Frank M Potts, Atlanta; and J. c. Waters and J. B. Waters, Rome, Ga.
 Luke Williams, of Wetumpka is in Bir- mingham.
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De orc Wins Three straicbts

New York, April 2s-In use match at pool, championship of the world, Alfred De Gro defeated Geroue R. Keogh, in three games straight. concluding tonight The score nt the finish was:
 De Orc. 600: Keoeh- 9l
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The pomp and circumstance of effete monarchies will be exceiled when Vice. gerent Allen sails into San Juan.
 MT Carnegie is brayely endeayoring to die a poor man. He gave the Pittsburg library Si,Oe0, 900 last week.
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Governor Jones of Arkansas declined to further contest Senator Berry's seat. He Johnston race
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The question before Senator Morgan in 1906 will be, shall I write Thirty Years in the Senate or shall I go on and make it thirty-six years?"
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Edward Everett Haes famous story was a prophecy. He was Porto Rican, and. he begins to see that he is indeed a man without a country.
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The war among the generals in South Africa is becoming as fierce and bitter as the general issue itself.
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There was blundering enough at spion Kop to go around.
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Bobs is awaiting the arrival of some mules before he gives the order to Gridley Kitchener to fire.
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Come to think of it, the Sultan finds he is only toe glad to pay the bill. He is thankful to be reminded of it. It had quite escaped his attention.
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The revision of creeds and platforms is in the air, but the Chicago platform stands untouched.
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The esteemed d'Arcos carries his sensi- tiyeness close to the surface.
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The trouble with Turkey should not be taken too seriously.
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Butler would not grieve himself to death if Bobs should encounter T Spion Kop or two.
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The northern editors are construing Seh- ator Morgan's victory to suit themselves.
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Bobs is fighting major generals and K. c. Bs instead of Boers.
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Fought for the Sake of His Daughter

For reasons best known to himself, he kept a profound secret the appointment he had received in the Boer army and, with the exception of his daughter and an in- timate friend, nobody in France knew that he was going to play such an important part in the war One explanation for Count de Villebois- -Mareul's action is given or the authority of Frenchman who knows him well. The count was compar- atively poor in2n. and was anxious to give his beautiful daughter larger dot than his means permitted of. He therefore ac- cepted the very substantial remuneration Dr. Leyds offered him.
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Professor Murat Ha.stead is getting ready to turn the crank of journalistic mill.
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MT. Gates of Chicago is nearly as unpop- ular as MT. Macrum of East Liverpool.
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Aguinaldo carried his gold whistle with him, but he has put it on the vacation list.
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The baseball rooter has resumed in many cities.
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The running mate was never more will ing or numerous.
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SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
The Won moltke of the Boer Forces

One of the romances of the war has had a tragic termination in the death of Gen. eral de Villebois-Mareull, ex-colonel of the French army who was surrounded at Bos- hof by Lord Methuens forces and killed, says the London Daily Mail. When hostil- ities broke out, that ubiquitous and enter prising agent Dr. Leyds paid a visit to De Villebois-M -Mareuils castle at Bos-Cor- beau, in Brittany, and had lengthy inter- view with the ex-French officer the re- suit of which was that De Vil1ebois- Ma reuil accepted a tempting offer to act as chief of staff of the oBer army with the rank of general
 Immediately on his arrival in South Af- rica. De Vilebois-M -Mareuil set to work to elaborate a plan of campaign in northern Natal. That his efforts were only too suc- cessful was proved by the English reverses in the early stages of the war. He was responsible for the tactics displayed by the Boers at Colenso the memorable 18th of December. and to him alone were due the conception of the plan of fighting and the distribution of the troops along and around the Tugela river Schalk Bur ger was merely figurehead, a nominal substitute for the absent General Joubert.
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Disguised With inc French Service

Colonel Count Georges de Villebois- Mareuil was the most important of the many foreign mereenaries in the Boer ranks. He was soldier by instinct and training. He had a practical knowledge of all the most modern weapons of war fare; he a skillful leader: tactician of no mean order: and personally brave to degree. Tn shott. he was the brains of the Boer army. The other generals for the most part merely carried out his plans.
 Count de Villebois- Mareuil retired from active service in the French army four years ago His ambition was to command the Madagascar expedition but the war minister of that time refused him the ap- pontment. Then he became disgusted with the intrigues and jealouses which prevailed in the Etat Major, and sent in his resignation.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day. Monday. April 23 190O
 Court. marry. ask favors. and seek work before D. m."
 Thou hast an excellent birthday, and thy money and business will increase fast; thou wilt travel and change with success. The young will court or marry"
 A child born on this day will be fortlI- nate and rise rapidly in life;. it will be brave. valiant, generous and kind, and meet much sympathy and respect from all"
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Luke Williams of Wetumpka is in Br- mingham.