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The age-herald., 1901-09-23
ROOSEVELT AND THE SOUTH.

From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
 Judging from the expressions of the press, the Southern people are disposed to feel very kindly toward President Roosevelt at the outset of his administra- tlon, because the general belief is that he entertains a very kindly feeling to- ward the South. Not only does this be- lief spring from the fact that MT Roose. Velts mother was a Southern woman, but he has himself on various occasions given evidence of interest in the South by kindly expressions In regard to her distinguished citizens and industrial and agricultural prospects.
 It Is recalled that in the early days of the recent Presidential campaign MT. Roosevelt was charged with making some disparging remarks about Jefrer- son Davis in a book he had written sev- eral years previous. In the light of some later utterances, however, 1t is charita- ble to conclude that, even if guilty of this offense, his views have undergone a very decided change since that time. About two weeks ago, in a speech at Minneapo- lis, he bestowed high praise upon General Wheeler for his services in the Spanish- American war
 Long before that time, however, Presi- dent Roosevelt had given expression to a most profound admiration for South ern heroes in the following extract from his life of Thomas H. Benton, published about 1SS9
 The decline of the militant spirit during the first half of this century was much to be regretted. To 1t is due more than to any other cause the undoubted average individual inferiority of the Northern compared to the Southern troops; at any rate, at the beginning of the war of the rebellion. The Southern CTS by their whole mode of living, their habits, their love of outdoor sports, kept up their warlike spirit; while in the North the so-called upper classes deyel- oped along the lines of a wealthy and timid bourgeoise type, measuring every thing by a mercantile standard Ca pecu- hary debasing one by itselfO, and sub mitting to be ruel in local affairs bv low foreign mobs, and in national mat ters by their arrogant Southern kinsnen | ne militant spirit of these last certainly stood them in good stead in the civil war. The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee: and their leader will undoubtedly rank as without an exception the greatest of all the great captains that the English speaking peoples have brought forth and this, although the last and chief of his antagonists may himself claim to stand as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington
 This tribute to the heroes in gray and their loved commander cannot fail to cause warm glow in the hearts of the old Southern veterans. as well as South. ern people generally. and affords good grounds for the belief that the man who uttered 1t is too big and patriotic an American to be other than a good friend to the South.
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dog. Very few dogs have rabies, and only one person in six bitten by such dogs develops symptoms of hydropho- bia. So rare are such cases that Dr. Charles w. Dulles, lecturer on the his tory of medicine in the University Of Pennsylvania, who is familiar with all the literature upon the subject, has never been able to find one. Dr. Mat thew Woods, who has been in quest of the disease for more than twenty, years and who during two summers personally visited every case reported in Philadelphia, asserts that he never saw hydrophobia either in man or ami nal. This is the unvarying testimony of prominent members of the medical profession.
 And so it is in England. The re- cord of the London hospital shows the cases of 5000 persons bitten by dogs, put none of them developed hydropho- bia. St. Georges hospital in London has treated 4O0O patients bitten by dogs, but it has had no case of hydro phobia. In the city dog pound, in London, where 1000 dogs are handled annually, many of them supposed to be mad, and where the catchers are frequently. bitten, there has never been a case ol hydrophobia.
 There are thirty disorders in man which might be by mistake considered hydrophobia, and about as many in dogs. As a rule hysteria in some form is mistaken for hydrophobia. The popular errors in this connection are numerous. No dog that has ra- bies ever foam at the mouth, nor does a dog so affected avoid water, nor does rabid dog bark any more than a well one does. but the truth is, very few people have ever seen a case of rabies. It is very rare, and as for hydrophobia the risk from murder or homicide is many times greater. If the people would cease to talk about mad dogs and hydrophobia, and the papers would cease to print such mat ter, the whole thing would disappear and never more be heard of.
The age-herald., 1901-09-23
Theft in HIqh Circles.

s. G. Squier, secretary of the United States legation, bought at auction a wonderful collection of porcelains, bronzes, wood carvings, worries, paint ings and other art objects, all the pro ducts of great Chinese artists through out many, many centuries. He bought enough to fill Several railway cars" and he has offered as a gift this un- surpassed collection to the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art of New York, and Director di Cesnola and Curator Story's outgivings indicate that the gift will be accepted.
 These articles are loot taken from palaces and houses in helpless China MT. Squier knew the articles were sto- len property when he bought them. "The commercial experience" they passed through was simply a transfer from the thief to the receiver. MT.
 ,quier cannot plead ignorance or h.
 ocence, for he was part and parcel
 the allied machine that rendered
 na helpless while thieves of all --s-s under his eyes robbed her. The squier collection is a part-a small but valuable part-of the biggest loot ing the world has ever known.
 The New York institution has an easy conscience, because Napoleon footed Italy in order to enrich the Louvre. and England acting as pal of Turkey footed Greece in order to flll her great museum with antiquities. There are examples enough of footing in past centuries; but it was fondly hoped that the twentieth century would rise above it. The New York case shows it cannot. The stolen ar ticles, known to be such by MT. Squier and by the directors of the Metropoli- tan Museum, wIA be received and openly exhibited and even placarded as curios from this or that palace in China, and the common thief will be hunted down and sent to prison. So wags the world away. The crime of the one is however the crime of the other, and no veneering, no conner cial experience can change absolute truth.
The age-herald., 1901-09-23
NO MORE CIVIL WAR PRESIDENTS

The transfer of the Presidency from Mckinley to Roosevelt doubtless marks the end of the civil war Presidents; every Republican elected to that office since Lincoln had been union soldier, as was Major Mckinley. Colonel Roosevelt be- longs to later generation. and it is doubtful if in future nominations the party can find its leaders among those who participated in the war for the pres ervation of the union.
The age-herald., 1901-09-23
HAS NEVER BEEN CLIMBED.
From Pearson's Magazine

rToiH TedrSon MaBazlne
 If you thirst for something really new, if you want to do something which has never been done before. here Is a chance for you. Climb Mount Everest It's height is 29,o02 feet. and you will not find any thing in the nature of a paper bag on it's snow-capped summit for the excur- sionist has not reached there yet. The highest point to which man has so far climbed Is 2S,S93 feet. This is the height of Aconcagua, the loftiest summit of the main cordillera of the Andes. This point was reached by the guide Mattias Eur briggen and MT. Vines, two members of the expedition that went out in 1897 under MT. B. A. Fitzgerald. Before this the record was held by Sir William Martin Conways expedition, which in 1892 climbed a mountain in the Karakoram Himalayas just g. 500 feet high.
The age-herald., 1901-09-23
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.


 Facts concerning the acts of Emma Goldman and Leon Czolgosz, tending to connect them with plot against the life of President Mckinley, have been cim- piled by the police of various cities of the country, and placed in chronological order are as follows:
 May 7-Emma Goldman, before the an- archial group in Cleveland, Ohio, deliv- cred an incendiary address, in which she maintained that government exists only through the abridgement of human lib- erty, and that assassination, properly applied, is wide, just humane and brave. Leon F. Czolgosz was present.
 May 20-David Koplin, alias Peter Chaple. appears in Buffalo at No 1892 Broadway, and begins a daily correspon- dence with Emma Goldman.
 May A-Dr. Saylin advanced s75 to Koplin as a cash bond to guarantee Kop- lin's honesty with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
 May 22-David Koplin became a regu- lar member of Isaac Saylin's household May N-Koplin begins work as an in- suEance agent for the Metropolitan col lects money and gives receipts employ ing his alias of Peter ChapIe.
 June 14-Leon F. Czolgosz appears in West Seneca and becomes aboarder at the house of Joseph Katzmareck.
 June 20-Koplin tries to hire rooms for Emma Goldman and party at Dr. Say lin's, where his application is denied by Mrs. Saylin.
 July 10-Emma Goldman visits Abra- ham and Marie Isaak at the headquart- CTS of the Free Society, No. 515 Carroll street, Chicago.
 July 13-Emma Goldman and Marie Isaak appear in Buffalo as the guests of Dr. Isaac Saylin and Mrs. Hattie Lang, of No. b6 Wasmuth avenue.
 July 1EEmma Goldman, Marie Isaak and Dr. Isaac Saylin go to Niagara Falls.
 July 15-Emma Goldman and Marie Isaak leave Buffalo ostensibly for Ro- chester.
 July 16-Dr. Sayln pays Mrs. Hattie Lang for the lodging expense of Emma Goldman and Miss Isaak.
 July 17-Abaraham Isaak, Henri Trav- gelio and Hipolyte Havel, in the Free Society journals, "The Free Society," ''Discontent" and "The Firebrand, " hercely assail the Federal Administra. ton, the United States Supreme Court and the Chief Executive. Platform oi the Free Society published. advocating the overthrow of our social system by force. Publications issued from the headquarters of the Free Society, No. 51t Carroll street, Chicago. August Ion or about this date Leon F. Czolgosz disappears from West Seneca.
 August 1o-Emma Goldman appears at the headquarters of the Free Society in Chicago.
 August 11-Leon F. Czolgosz appears al the headquarters of the Free Society in Chicago in consultation with the Isaaks Emma Goldman, Henry Travgelio, Hip polyte Havel, Martin Razinski and Mi chael Boz.
 August 12-Leon F. Czolgosz escorts Emma Goldman and Marie Isaak from No. 5l5 Carroll street, Chicago, to the Rock Island Railroad depot. August 13-Emma Goldman and Marie Isaak arrive in Buffalo and are quartered at No. 56 Wasmuth avenue. August H-Emma Goldman, Marie Isaak, Buffalo from Rochester.
 August A-Emma Goldman, Marie Isaak, Maurice Goldman, Dr. saylin and David Koplin attend the exposition.
 August 1-Emma Goldman, Marie Isaak. Maurice Goldman, Dr. Saylin and David Koplin go to Niagara Falls.
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Sermons and History.

was published in Edinburgh in 1755, is in the possession of L. J. Whitaker of Lit tleton, Ala. and he would be willing to rart with it to some good Scotchman. or any one else The sermons were preach ed in 172O. and attracted international attention.
 Henry R. Dwight of Pinopolis, s. C., writes to ask for purchaser for a copy of Pickett's Alabama Qs51). In 1900 the Webb Book Company of Birmingham is- sued new edition of Pickett with an extensive appendix by Thomas McAdory Owen. bringing the history down to the present time.
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A Bishop of Montgomery.

"A press cablegram from Glasgow states that amongst the passengers sail ing from that port for America on board the steamship Ethiopia was Bishop J. w. Alstork of Montgomery Ala.,' he be- Ing one of several bishops, together with twenty ministers. all of whom had been attending the great methodist Council in London" said a Montgomerian last night.
 Rev. Alstork is a negro bishop of the Colored Methodist Church-is a genuine black man of much intellectual force, and Is said to be an eloquent preacher. It would seem fitting that he travel aboard the ship Ethiopia. and it is not improb- able that he had the fitness of things in view"
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An Irish Patriarch.

Mir. Michael Clifford of Chattanooga, who was in Birmingham at the end of the past week and who was for several years proprietor of the Florence Hotel in this city. has just returned from a visit to his old home in Ireland. much improved in health.
 Mir. Clifford visited his venerable fath- CT on the Ould Sod and found him hale and hearty. though he is within seven
The age-herald., 1901-09-23
Roz.veIt.
A Birmingham woman writes:

A Birmingham woman writes:
 q will esteem 1t favor If you will in- form me through the columns of your paper the proper pronunciation of Presi- dent Roosevelt's name"
 The Presidents name is pronounced as if spelled Roz-velt-as of two syllables with the accent on the first and with O sounded as in rose.
 The name is of Dutch origin and means literally Field of Roses.
The age-herald., 1901-09-23
AlIeoed Mad Docs.

Dr. George A. Steele presents se- ries of facts in the Philadelphia Tele- graph that practically establishes the non-existence of hydrophobia, and the cruelty of over-nervous persons to the
The age-herald., 1901-09-23
SECOND LARGEST BUILDING.

New York Letter in the Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 Despite the predictions made last week of depression to real estate and build ing circles. several large deals have just been closed, the most important of which Is the decision of the Bank of the State of New York to build a $S. 900 home in- stead of the $6Oo,O0O building, for which plans had been filed. The bank has se- cured by contract with w. K. Astor the plot Nos. A and 43 Wall street, ex- tending through to Nos. 45 and 47 Ex- change place. The new $3,500OOO structure will be twenty-two stories high It will front 61 feet on Wall street 1e49 on Ex- change place and 87.1O1s feet on William street. The depth of tI.e plot from Wall street to Exchange place averages 214 feet. The new building will be the larg- est office building in the world
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years of being century old. The elder Mir. Clifford remains at the place where he was born ninety-three years ago. and he has every prospect of reaching his hundredth year. It is no uncommon thing to see Irish patriarchs In Ireland spry and jolly far on the sunset side of fourscore years
The age-herald., 1901-09-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 One feels repentance when he is caught.
 We know less than we admit; we ad- init more than we know
 woman hater hates them only as long as they don't care to make him love them.
 Men may know more than women but women know how to do a great deal more with what they know than men.
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Mckinley and Colonel Wiley.

Congressman A. A. Wiley of the Mont gomery district journeyed to Canton to attend the funeral of President McKin-, ley, to whom he was personally cordially attached, and the attachment was recip- rocated.
 Although a Democrat In his affflia- tions," as the Washington Post says in noting Colonel Wiley's presence in the national capital "he had high regard for President Mckinley. He appreciated the fact that the President appointed him lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Reg iment United States Infantry, with which command he saw eleven months service at Santiago de Cuba. Recently his son. Capt. Noble J. Wiley, was ap- pointed to lieutenancy in the regular army. In the spring of 1899 Colonel WI ley, by the invitation of the President, travelled with him through Florida. In the winter of 1S9S-' -'99 Colonel Wiley intro- duced a resolution in the Alabama Sen ate inviting President Mckinley to visit Alabama and address the General Assem- bly, of that State, and in his speech advo- eating this resolution he spoke eloquently of the Presidents policy, which had vir- tually obliterated all sectional lines."
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The Roosevelt administration has been accorded spell of kind consid- eration, but hereafter 1t must stand or fall on it's acts of omission and commission.
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The Czar must envy the King of the Belgians who slips into Paris at any time and has lots of fun while he stays. No one guards him, because guards would be embarrassing in his case.
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About Persons.

AQOuL TVioOtSh M. Newberger of Jasper is at the Nor ris.
 R. M. Falkner of Montgomery Is at the Morris.
 Hon. J. P. Mcqueen of Butaw is at the 4Lorris.
 A. K Hawkes. of Atlanta is at the Morris.
 A. M. Donohoo of Talladega is at the Florence.
 S. T. Fowler of springville is at the Florence.
 J. s. Gardner of Centreville Is at the Metropolitan.
 John T. Delaney of Montgomery is at the Florence.
 David White of Washington, D. C., is at the Florence.
 Emmet s. George of Linden, Marengo, Is at the Florence.
 J. H. Thompson and M. J. Cohen of St. Louis are at the Morris
 E. A. Scott for many years a leading merchant of Selma, is at the Metropoli- tan.
 A. c. Henry, the widely known and wealthy banker and merchant of Gunters- vile. is at the Morris.
 Col. John J. Altman went to Living ston last night to attend the Sumter county chancery court.
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It is proposed that Guam be filled full of anarchists, and that they be left there to settle the problems of government and of that barrel of whisky.
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The Hon. Thomas Collier Platt and the Hon. Mark Hanna are inclined to think Providence works wonders in mysterious way.
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The school teachers, 300,000 strong, constitute the most useful and deserv- ing body of workers in this country.
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No memorial arches to the memory of the dead President should be begun until the money is in hand.
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Willie Waffle Astor dislikes the American press, and the American press is ready to execute reciprocity treaty of fullest size on the spot.
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Minister Wu Is studying New York politics, but he has no idea of intro ducing any of it in China. He loves his country.
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Even General Funston has contract ed that fashionable complaint, appen- dicitis.
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China also sent an apologist to Japan, but no flip-faps were asked from him.
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The Chinese have resumed in Pekin so far at least as the footing of the allies will permit.
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Connecticut, too, has an worn out constitution and she is trying to get new one.
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Very little red tape should be con- sumed in he Czolgosz trial, which is to be begun today.
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Seth Low IS to be the anti-Tam- many candidate for mayor of New York, but Tammany will name the successor of MT. Van Wyck.
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Platt ana Hanna may be permitted to be friendly to the new President. but neither will feel that he owns him.
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Czolgosz has but a few more days to be silent and sulky in.
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The soldiers of France see the Czar. but the people are not trusted to that extent. Ni
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The men who are trying to kill an archists at sight without law are an- archists themselves.
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shrewdest Dog in America.

There is a Birmingham doctor who is the owner of a very wise dog, which he frequently sends on messages to places where the dog is known.
 The other day the doctor gave the dog nickle and sent him for some ice for the office water cooler.
 The dog trotted briskly out and down the stairs, and started in the direction of the ice-dealer's; but when out of sight of his master he. changed his course and went to the meat market, at Twentieth street and Fourth avenue, where he bought for his own tooth five cents worth of choice beefsteak which he ate with great relish.
 Having thus enjoyed his lunch the dog trotted to the ice-dealer s, and the dealer recognizing him gave him lump of ice properly bound with cord, and the smart animal taking the cord in his teeth calm ly trotted off to his master, leaving the ice to be charged to the masters account
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The electrocuting of Czolgosz is near at hand.
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The strikers are unstriking as rap idly as their pride will permit.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
One Wondroua Day.

Whatever this day bring forth, yester- day was perfect Never day dawned brighter, never day wore away more gloriously, never day died diviner. From dusky dawn. before the sun rose, to tawny dusk. after the sun had gone to rise upon lands less fair than ours, this valley and these mountains laughed un- der a shlmmering sheen of indeserlole beauty and glory, which lent to the com monplace the charm of romance and to the beautiful the glory of the heavens.
 If it had been the last day of the earth the earth had passed In infinite gran duer; and yet granduer soft and sweet to touch the heart of little child.
 No genius that to the world fate ever gave could tell the story of such day, could sing 1t in a song of inspiration or sound 1t in st ory of magician's spell.
 Wondrous wondrous, wondrous day! To have lived through 1t were to give praise though all the past had been gloom, and to cherish 1t though all the afterwhiles be lived in shadows
 Astronomically, summer passed and au- tumn began last midnight and thus we are now in the first autumn day of 1901.
 Beautiful Girl and Beautiful Hair.
 A man said last night;
 "A beautiful young girl with her long hair hanging loose down her back was unique and exquisite figure in the throngs returning from church today.
 Tn the incomparable golden sunshine of the last day of supmer in this valley her hair-a veritable fall of woman's glory-took on tints that glowed like bur nished bronze. One had impulse to reach out and touch it and be healed of all Ills, spiritual and unsplritual, as if touching the tips of one's fingers in the fountain of perpetual youth.
 And the young girl was as natural as a rose abloom in June, and as graceful as a little willow swayed by the soft breezes of the dying September. She laughed and chatted, showing her white teeth between her red lips and giving from those lips, not yet ripe for kisses, music sweet as the ripple of clear waters between sedgy banks ere winter comes to chill.
 She was the fair embodiment of all ones fairest dreams of tender youth, beauty, innocence, loveliness. Clearly she was unaware of her own superlative charm, and if one had said to her that she was fair and lovely beyond all power Of words to say she would have been as startled as some young fawn surprised in bosky vale far from man.
 Yet If this fairest of perfect yester- days fair worshipers had been wronged by being subjected to the common cruel ty of having her glorious hair twisted and plaited and made ugly, as other girls are, she would have been common place.
 What freak of mind Is 1t of our American mothers which drives them to spoil the beauty of their young daugh- ters by not suffering them to wear their hair free and flowing as the young girls of every other civilized land do?"
The age-herald., 1901-09-23

Astronomically, summer passed and au- tumn began last midnight, and thus we are now in the first autumn day of 1901.