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The age-herald., 1900-08-19
HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Pekin Has FaIIen-What Then?

At this writing the particulars of the entrance to Pekin through it's east gates have not been received, nor is it known what the Legatoners report as to the guilt or innocence of the Chinese govern ment ill the long bombardment they were subjected to- The political position or condition of the Empress Dowager is still an unsolved problem. She may have been under home pressure, or she may nave been leader or inspirer of the Boxers. This feature of the problem will soon be cleared up The flight of the Empress Dowager does not establish her guilt, al- though 1t has tendency in that direction.
 But this country is not so much inter- ested in her fate or in her past action as it is in the steps that are to be taken hereafter by the allies in China. Under the theory held out by Secretary Hay, we have accomplished the task that we went to China to accomplish; all Americans having been released, and all American property still standing rendered secure. If General Chaffee goes further we will then enter upon course of conquest, and the fiction of the administration as to the non-existence of state of war will have to be given up at least among people who are not stark mad.
 But the question most pressing now is the one relating to indemnity Whether actual injuries shall be paid for, or wheth- CT retributive damages shall be collected. is living question now. It must, too, be determined whether the cost of each ex- peditonary army shall be repaid, and whether the payment shall be in money or in territory The last-named phase of the problem will bring up the partition ques ton, and incidentally the open door ques- tion The occupation of Pekin is, in other words, but the beginning of the troubles that the administration has led the country into. It is at least certain that China, which already has a large debt, cannot pay large sum in cash, and demand for territory would precipitate a storm among the land greedy powers that might be much worse and much wider than any war that China is capable of.
 A complete partition of a homogeneous people numbering 400, 900 would be gigantic task as well as a gigantic crime; and it is scarcely conceivable that such a venture is under consideration. A holding of the coast provinces as a security for the indemnity demanded is more probable and it is equally probable that such holding would become footholds of future aggres- sions. Is the United States prepared to later to take China out of the hands of the Chinese?
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
THE MURMUR OF. THE WORLD.

Faith gives pause and commands a why that must be answered.
 Charity, gentle and generous, loving to love and loving he lovely and loved as she is, creature so fair and so unspotted from the world that to be near her is to adore being in all things adorable; maid en blessed drawing near to where the laughing brook joins the brimming river, and gathering music and bliss of every flower serenely sweet in the dawning consciousness of power that is dawned, and pure of heart awake and in maiden dreams: Charity is-Charityl
 
 To know these Three is worth years of toll and patient endeavor towards the higher life To know them is to live, and whosoever, man or woman, would not love them is far past the flowery field of high CT hopes. They inspire to nobler purposes, purer lives, broader humanity. truer as- pirationa. They are youth-most beautiful of all created things, maiden youth! They are innocence, laughter, love, joy, rap ture, blissi They trail in gee the bright clouds of glory that gild life's dewy dawn. and their voices sing clear notes in the mighty anthem of mankind, giving har- nhoHS anu COHCOTu Ol sweet sounds To every ear that listens. The deaf are the damned-whoso will not listen; the. blind, whoso will not see.
 The Three are natural. Artifciality has not laid its whitening hand upon them robbing them of mirth and its sister blush They are honest. The forms of fashion have not taught them to deceive. They are frank. Fear and formula have not schooled them in polished art of dissem- bling. They are grateful. The poison of ingratitude has not touched their white souls, nor has faisehood robbed their fair faces of the bloom. They like or dislike or are indifferent. Hypocrisy has left them to God and truth-to their angel mothers and their angel loves. They are beautiful The years have not brought them to the fiercer fires that scar and fade to lovers faithful unfaithful; to wake full nights apprehensive days; to the atmosphere of bathrooms or the anxieties of frtations They are pure of heart Apron-strings are still in reach They have nothing to seek. They receive or reject that which is offered
 Doff your cap and bend low in proud obeisance to youth and maiden purity The Three Graces are passing by. All hail Cry, God save their little majesties! Thus Drayeth best he who loveth best
 THE MURMURER.
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shall be powerless to bring in any after while of your journey to the place whence no traveller may return. That something is above the price of metals and stones; bricks towering or crumblng with straw or without straw; palaces and marts; gains and losses, and riches even of all the earth Saw you them not as they walked the traf- fife worn place, treading so lightly and so jauntily and so joyousy that even violets would scarce bend beneath their tread; i; and half-loltering under the green trees wherein elfs must have kept watch and ward in loving, laughing duty and the shadows were but golden shades of even time, imprisonng the soft voices of maiden merriment-then there was denied you the inspiration, the hope, the life, the conse- eration and the poets dream of the most superlativeIy beautiful of all the beautiful things born of time in the fullness of the deathless verities the unspeakable and im- measurable blessing of beautiful youth in the fair semblance and reality of maiden loveliness, rippling and rolling bar on bar of melody from out the most wondrous and most divine of all possible forms of human life Enough to make a paradise too far removed from the sordidness and
 
 lessness and folly, cruelty and crime of mankind, for sin to ever enter in any guise however alluring
 Doff your cap and bend your knee to her of the Three whom the angels might crown as the figure of hope, and you know that the rich abundance of her spirit, her unexampled enthusiasm, her thrilling spon- taneousness, her intense life and intense loyeliness, her marvellous grace and won- derfuly sunny heart, royal in its wealth of purity and tenderness, and her stormy joyousness that sweeps all things into glad subjecton, all resolve into force having the saving power of regeneration and wor- shipful awakening!
 Faith, calmly conscious of inherent force and modestly aware of and still surprised at beauty that passes understanding, and which men shall rave about mad men rave and strive for as strong men strive a mind clear and bright and seek ing looking through eyes that dance in joy and speaking from lips that laugh as little children laugh; straight-walking in the path of the high calling to the realm of nobly beautiful life of duty and love
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
Why Some Days Are Hot.

Every school boy or girl stands ready to explain why it is cold in winter and hot in summer. He or she knows the sun is do- ing business with steadiness and dispatch the year round, without material variation wobbling. The sun does not go cavort- ing through space. It stays at home and attends strictly to business, and yet winter Is cold and summer hot on the eaxh that the mighty luminary heats and lights free from meter rates As all up-to-date school children know the ol.lerence is due to the angle at which a ray of the sun strikes a given spot on the earths surface An oblique ray is not worth as much as a direct or more direct ray. Obllquity does it. obiquity in anything is damaging, although little more obliquity would have been relished in Chicago and New York last week. Birmingham. The Age-Herald is glad to state, has all the obliquity it needs, or the cotton plant in Jones valley can stand.
 But, the reader may say, why then does one day In week differ so much in temper ature and comfort from the day before or the day after? Thereby hangs a tale of the scientists. They tell us many things in the way of an explanation; but the only one vouchsafed us which has no holes ap- parently in it runs in this wise:
 Inc atmosphere surrounding our earth is in the form of a concave-convex lens. This produces mild degree of refraction of the rays of light, and this crowding of these rays into smaller space produces heat When the atmosphere is dense with aqueous vapor the refraction is increased and this increases our heat; and when the atmos- phere is bright and clear we have less re- fraction and consequently less heat.
 This theory is the best on the market, and it goes quite long ways towards sup porting the farther theory that the sun is big electric light supplied by celestial dynamics, instead of being a lower Hades, or shrinking body, or anything else but great heat and light plant.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
THAT RArHBONE THREAT
he Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 The threat of Major Rathbone, at Ha- vana, to make trouble for the Republican party if he should be unduly pressed seems to have been effective. Neely will not be extradited until long after the November elections, and Rathbone may fare stump tuously every day without fear of official interference with his plans and pleasures. It is this sort of thing, rather than the chatter of partisan rodomontade, that is gradually sapping the confidence of the American people in Republican administra- ton. There is too much wholesale steal ing, and too much protection for the thieves when found out.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
SHIRTWAIsT MEN ALARM VESTMAKERS From the New York Tribune.


 The shirt waist man is making trouble among the East Side garment workers, who are up in arms against him. Mem bers of the Vestmakers' Union declare that if he is permitted to run at large he will ruin their business.
 Julius Goldstein of the unions executive board said yesterday that the manufac- turers had refused to grant the demands of the union for increased wages, and that some manufacturers gave as their reason the appearance of the shirt waist man. They added that there was no use in man ufacturing a lot of waistcoats that couldn't be sold.
 'Mein Gott!' added Goldstein, If tings keeps on der peoples don't year nottings but some fig leaves already yet.' The coat tailors also expressing alarm.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
REFLE0TIoNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It takes a genius to discover that he hasn't got any.
 The average girls stocking are lot nearer to her than her religion.
 There is always one girl in the party that the chaperon is afraid will go and tell on her if she has any fun at all.
 The world would be a lot better off if women were like safes and men could lock up their wives and carry around the com bination.
 When a woman hears that some one else she knows is engaged to a man she want ed herself but could't get she says it's such self away like that.
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riches us of his bountiful largess. He gives us a song that in its essence has sung it's way into every heart with hope of happiness.
 Love is hot, love is cold,
 Love is gentle, love is bold
 Love can perish in a day,
 O and love can last alway;
 Love hath rived my heart in twain, Love hath healed the hurt again,
 o sweet lovei
 Love is heaven, love Is he'll
 A dream, truth, a miracle;
 Love doth ripple like a Till,
 Love can roar the torrent still;
 How can weakling words portray, That which over all hath sway,
 O sweet love.
 Can anything be more clearly, tenderly ringing than that, Scarcely. It is music and it is truth; it is the romance and the reality of all men and women worthy of a moment in romantic realm.
 And this
 1 Elizabeth, Elizabeth,
 Thy lips might lure a man to dea h, Thy face, thy form, thy bosom's swell, Might tempt a man to happy hell. And yet if for some grace of thine, He should his soul to woe resign, Thy sweet eyes wet with fearful rain, Would lead him heavenward again. There is in these lines very much of the pathos and sublime of human life; for into every mans soul has come some Eliza beth, some woman with power to depress to deep damnation, or exalt him heaven ward MT. Loveman is something more than the lover and the singer; he is a phi lcsopher; gentle withal, yet philosopher in all.
 One of the most charming characteristics of MT Loveman is absolute lack of affec- tation. He never halts nor stammers never minces nor stumbes, never pulls his own fingers in confusion or uncertainty When he has got song to sing he sings it out as the wildbirds sing, rolling note on note as God has given him to roll, not caring o cast aphorisms for critics or car pers. Thus we have in him the real poet and the praiseful idyllist He sings be-
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HUNTISGTON'S PERSONALITY

From the New York Sun.
 There was about MT. Huntingtons per sonality much of magnetism when convers- ing with those whom he desired to please, but in business he was often brusque and sometimes made enemies in this way. Pa tience was one of his most pronounced characteristics He would wait for years to accomplish something upon which he had set his mind. He used to say himself that nothing could beat him waiting except the Catholic church.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19

The administrationists are firmly con- vinced that General Chaffee did it, although the Japanese seem to have been in the neighborhood.
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The Republican National Committee has settled it by resolving that Mir Bryan's Indianapolis speech had no effect in the Central West It should have further re- solved MT. Mckinley into another term and then the job would have been com plete.
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course more promising
 Than wild dedication of yourselves To unpathd waters; undreamed shores;
 most certain
 To miseres enough: no hope to he1p you; But. as you shake off one. to take another: Nothing so certain as your anchors: who Do their best office, if they can but stay
 you
 Where you'll be loath to be: Besides, you
 know,
 Prosperity's the very bond of love: Whose fresh complexion and whose heart
 together
 Affliction alters.
 1T were no theft to steal to be honest; and so simply flching luminous truth and swearing 1t true is the part of good faith, bringing back tender story of the young years heard at twilight as of angel voices singing, the melody that from the skies sometimes bright angels come, and con cealng their wings in earthly raiment dwell in earthly places. 0 legend of love long loved. if ever souls divine were con- cealed in fair mortal forms those forms are the Three Graces, daintiest and beautifuIest and purest and happiest amongst all the cherished figures of purity and joy that people the earth with radiant maiden truth and light and sweetness.
 II the world were condemned as were the unrighteous in antique time the names of these Three whispered in prayer might stay the averaging power, and the dainty little hands should weave the mantle of . universal charity and universal regenera- tion, hiding ancient wrong and setting forth love and mercy for adoration through the uncountable years of the vast after whiles. The sacred chambers of their young hearts are the whispering galleries of heaven, and whosoever may listen shall hear the tenderest tones that ever echo from the choir invisible to the choir visible, enchanting human lives and giving new birth to human hopes; and whosoever wor- ships there is given to the form and sub stance of idolatry approved of the Mas ter For he prayeth best who loveth best such as these Three, for it is of such they that heaven is made heaven, and the earth the fiowery way leading to the beatl- tude of the blessed.
 Saw you not the Three ere the night fell as they laughed their homeward way, the way to holy dreams upon white couch of innocence, something infinitely precious was lost out of your life that the years
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BOOKOFJOY, SINGING, ,SINGING SINGING

cause it Is in him to sing He couldn't sit
 mute in the shadows of the solitary. He
 must have company, .goodly company; if
 not the listening multitude to command to awesome love, then the radiant children of his own luxuriant and exquisite fancies He is a poet because-he is a poet He gives us tensely tender music because-he is a musician.
 MT Loveman's verses are Mr. Ioyeman They are from him of him. part yet not a part. He is in them and they in him. It is beautiful; it is positively bewitching You read him, and he abides with you. takes his place gently in your soul, and ! stays there. In the street, at work, every where you are his and he is yours That is the most precious quality of poetry That is what it means-that is what it isl Hear this
 A sunshine heart And soul of song Love for hate And right for wrong; Softly speak to the weak, | Help them along, A sunshine heart, And soul of song. What more? If that be not the true philosophy of life, what is philosophy in its actual significance? Where found? Whence cometh? Where the interpreter? What manner of man is he who hath any other sort of story of life's supreme duty
 to tell? "A sunshine heart and soul of song!' Beautiful.
 "A Book of Verses By Robert Loveman' is the little heart-colored, heart-filled vol ume Lippincott sends us. It is just out and all the critics praising. Such praise
 is of less importance than the aroused af- factions of everyday men and women. One order has reached the publisher for fifteen
 hundred copies of this book. So the pub fisher avows in plain black and white. That means a remarkable demand from lovers of love and beauty and sweetness and light That book must be as sought after as roses in midsummer and violets at notwithstanding to give joy. It is a book of joy-singing joy-singing, sing ing, singing.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19

A New York physician offers a serum for snake bite, apparently unaware that Peoria, H., makes an acceptable serum for that purpose by the barrel.
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Bathhouse John who knows Chicago as we'll as if he had gone through it with a lantern, ventures the prediction that Bryan and Stevenson will carry it by 5O,OOO ma ioritY.
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Birmingham is at present treating it numerous guests to cold wave, compara lively speaking.
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The cable does not say whether the Dow ager Empress capitol has been put on wheels or in a Sedan chair It Is resting at Hsian Flu.
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Every good citizen is needed at the State Fair meeting to be held in the Commercial Club rooms tomorrow night.
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The Count Won Galdersee is overworking his condescension in marrying an American millionaire wife. Besides he talks too mlch
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The back of the Birmingham summer is beyond repair.
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Between the laws delay and the law yers' greed Nicely will soon be restored to his former Muncie, Ind, condition.
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Waldersee should do less farewelling and more travelling. Our gallant commander should be a-field
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The Shanghai liars did their best as Pe- time now in which to catch their breaths.
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Uncle Russell Sage considers Dr. Harper a neophyte in the matter of living on fifteen cents a day.
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The staying qualities of the Legationers have been duly met by the advancing al- lies
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Andueza Palacio Dead

Caracas, Aug. 1S-Former President AT dueza Palacio is dead.
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This country has railway kings to burn
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General Joe Wheeler is charmed with the self-advertising advantages of Chicago
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General Joe Wheeler is equally at home whether lives are to be saved or destroyed.
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Charles A. Towne will soon camp on Teddy Roosevelts trail.
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The indemnity question in China is now a bigger man than the military question.
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The hatless woman is wanted even more than the coatless man.
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Shirt Waist Clubs are in course of or ganization for the campaign.
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Uncle Russell Sage considers pr. Harper a neophyte in the matter of living on fifteen cents a day. The staying qualities of the Legatoners have been duly met by the advancing all lies.
 The indemnity question in China is now a bigger man than the military question General Joe Wheeler is equally at home whether lives are to be saved or destroyed.  General Joe Wheeler is charmed with the self-advertising advantages of Chicago
  In Chicago the light overcoat is prepar- ing for a tussle with the shirt waist. Alabama can defy the Carnegie combine when the Warrior river is opened. Shirt Waist Clubs are in course of or ganizaton for the campaign. Charles A. Towne will soon camp on Teddy Roosevelts trail.
  The hatless woman is wanted even more than the coatless man.
  A wall fifty feet high always has holes in it.
 Give the State Fair a boost tomorrow night
 Hermit empires are going out of fash ion.
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Alabama can defy the Carnegie combine when the Warrior river is opened.
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In Chicago the light overcoat is prepar- ing for a tussle with the shirt waist.
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A wall fifty feet high always has holes l in it.
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Hermit empires are going out of fash ion.
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Give the State Fair a boost tomorrow night.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-21

is. a friend Of the family who married
a Frenchman from Martinique; and
the other was that of Miss Easten of
Tennessee, a niece of the president,
who married Mr.. Polk. of the same
state.
Elizabeth Tyler was married in the
white house in 1912; and shortly after
the wedding Mrs. Tyler died. just two
years later the president brought home
froan New York a lovely bride of TWEEN
ty and the white house was again the
scene of much joy. John c. Calhoun
escorted the bride to the supper table
and assisted her in cutting the cake,
while all Washington was present with
it's congratulations.
1t was thirty years. according to the
written history of the white house,
before another wedding occurred in the
old mansion. But in 1874 Nellie Grant.
only and we'll beloved daughter O.
President Grant, was married to Al
gernon Sartoris. The affair was by far
the grandest n ever known in the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-21

Romances That Have Had Their Gull
m nation in the Historic Home
of Presidents.

If Miss Mabel Mckinley weds Mr..
Hermanus Baer in the white house
this spring hers will be the tenth we'd
ding, SO the best authorities assert,
that has occurred in the historic man
sion.
The first white house marriage was
that of Miss Todd of Philadelphia, who
was married in the east room in 1911.
She was a relative of Mrs. Madison
and was handed forth to a happy mar
ried life by the president. Their first
baby was ame James Madison jack
son; and the two Jacksons, father and
son. were we'll known in Washington
for sixty years.
Maria Monroe married Samuel Cow
erneur in the white house in 1920, the
! president weeping bitterly at giving
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-21

white house: and the wagons con-
tanning the wedding gifts literally
blocked the streets.
"A wedding took place in the white
President Hayes, when quiet. nrettv
little Miss Platt, niece of the president.
married General Hastings. a war friend
OF the executive. The occasion was
made as quie as possible and there
were few invitations outside the imme-
date family.
THE CLEVELAND WEDDING.
BY far the most notable wedding that
ever occurred in the white house was
that of President Cleveland and Miss
Frances Folsom in 1886. The bride, a
girl of q, welded the chief executive.
a man of 40; and all the officials of
washington were there to see. The