The age-herald., 1900-05-12

Keep quiet and do not quarrel.
 Be ware of accident, and do not quarrel l or go to law; thou wilt have an unsettled
 and tiresome year, and lose money
 "A child born on this day will be rash
 and headstrong, fond of travel and changes, but not fortunate; it should keep
 in employ Uranus is star of the morning
 The children's festival of music at the | Auditorium yesterday afternoon was at | tractive to an extraordinary degree. 1 Banked back from the orchestra by the | footlights was a wondrous mass of young | girls, forming a sort of parterre of human 1 flowers budding in the loveliness of youth. | There was no coloring observable, save l only the pink of faces the dusk of eyes and
 hair, with here and there a tint of gold, all | rising as from great bank of driven 1 snow that stirred, ever so gently moved oy | air vibrant with melody That wealth oi | childhood was fit to make wild dlscofd
 melodious and stir emotions beyond the
 power of stringed sounds to touch. Yet II seemed to rest upon waves of harmony
 whose murmurng thrilled. And when the
 children sung there was rippling river of l
 vating, inspiring: it was wonderful! | .AIr. Towne the westerner whom one
 faction of the populists have nominated for | vice president was in Birmingham TWO | wears ago and delivered political speech | here that is well remembered by many ol | those who. heard it." said a Birmingham | man who takes an interest in politics. MT | Towne is a little man with hatchet lace, | blue eyes. and sandy hair, and wears | s,asses. There is doubtless much of the | demagoeue about him, as there is about | most spell-binders of his class; but he lm- | nresses one as being very much in earnest, and unouestionably he is an unusually elo- | ouent public speaker. He marshals his facts or what he calls his facts, with the precision of German regiment and he presents them with great if not convincing force He possesses that rarest of all quail | ities in men who talk or write for the pub
 lic-logic. Indeed, he is perhaps the only notable national speaker of the day who Is
 almost thoroughly logical. No wise or | thoughtful man can fully agree with him | in his theories, but none can question that | he presents them in orderly sequence. lie | doesn't beat the bushes for hares; he has 1 his hares ready at hand In personal in- 1 tercourse, Mr. Towne is. of amiable and l engaging manner; attractive to an unusual l pcint in fact. His politics? Leave his poh-
 tics to the politicians, and to his wife, who l is charmingly bright woman.
 "The cables are burdened with the state
 ment that W. T. Stead was the last man
 in Europe to bid farewell to the Boer dele
 gates and that they charged him with "a ] message to the American people, Which 1 likewise burdens the cables said traveller | at the Morris last night. Presumably the | delegates are now seasick on their voyage 1 in quest of the golden fleece of American | sympathy; and these evangels of the Boers
 may be expected within a few days to fall | in with the American customs officers and | see their raiment handled as if it were un-
 clean rags fashioned to conceal diamonds, i after the pleasing manner of such officers. 1 To have to struggle with Uncle Sam's GUS 1 toms officers is but a little less terrifying 1 than to be hemmed in on a kopje by Brit
 ish soldiers, one would think As for that
 person Stead, to have him a herald Is
 enough to bring any cause into disrepute.
 Of all the blatant humbugs of the million | ol DOiillSdl anu SpC4ui GlIedlS III iIuSidllu,
 William Takeall Stead is the most consum- | mate; and no respectable element of the population in the British isles has respect ! for him. Many years ago he set out to ] work the moral reformation of London, be-
 spattering everything in reach with the
 slimiest of all filth, and shocking even the
 most degraded conscience. He wound up
 his moral crusade in jail, convicted and in
 stripes on the charge of enticing young
 girls to France for immoral purposes His
 defense was that he secured the girls
 in order to prove that it could be done, and
 thereby strengthen his contention that there
 was foul traffic of that loathsome nature. | Whatever the merits of the case a iurv
 held Stead guilty and sent him to prison
 from behind the gates of which he Haunted
 his shame in the face of the world. Vet
 the American newspapers reek with that 1 mans name."
 | Ben Thefss, manager of of the Birminp
 ham Auditorium, who spent several days | of this week in Chattanooga, is very warm i in his praise of Chattanooga's flower fcs
 tivaL MT. Theiss declares that the floral
 parade was superb, and that the entire celebration was a great success. The re-
 ports of the railroads show that 20OOO yisi-
 tors entered the city by rail on Tuesday
 MT. Theiss, in common with everybody
 else who has given serioss thought 10 the 1 jolly matter is perfectly confident that | Birmingham's great street fair next week 1 will be the most notable success of all | celebrations yet held in this city, Mean
 time the Elks are rapidly completing all | their preparations for the fair which be- | gins next Monday.
 | '"The Courier. the leading newspaper of Connellsvile, Pa., refers with satisfaction,
 pride ,and as something quite new, to the
 fact that telephones have been placed in | some of the coal mines in that district,
 which is the largest coke producing dis l trist in the world said Erskine Ramsey
 of the Tennessee company. We have had l telephones in our mines at Pratt City for | four or five years, and some of the instru-