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The age-herald., 1901-07-28
i'll drink to her as long as there is . passage in my throat.
 Twelfth Night.
Birmingham Sport Loving Town

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 An athletic club with a membership of 100 is evidence of the fact that this town has a liking for health-giving recreation. The golf club at West End is further evidence Football in sea- son and basketball at all seasons at test the ambition and inclination of our young men. And the crowds that go 0aily to the baseball games whenever the Orphans are in town show that outdoor sports are popular. The at tendance at the baseball games is the largest in the league, the size of the town considered.
 This sport-loving spirit is largely due to the cosmopolitan makeup of the town. There is not town in the South that contains so large a percentage of population born in other States as this town does, and this is particularly ob- servable in outdoor sports. The men, too, from the mills and furnaces are athletes and athletic sports never fail to attract them.
 Birmingham a, becoming every day more and more cosmopolitan. It's pop ulation comes from every State nearly, and in such 6 population sports espe- cially of the outdoor sort always are we'll supported, commanding plenty of recruits and followers. Birmingham sA.ould be set down as a sport-loviug town. Every wholesome and desirable sport can find plenty of devotees here.
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
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niversaries In love, or in more material things-or in both, perhaps--we have had our successes, and these are blazing bea- cons that illumine the shadows behind. "Oh, waiting long, oh, waiting late,
 Is swet-faced girl at the garden gate: Over the mountains, down by the sea,
 A sweet-faced girl is waiting for me-
 This may not be true now, but there was time when, in its essence it was true. and when you spun your cap upon the winds, as you thought of her swinging on the gate, shyly watching for you far down the way. She may be waiting TOT you now by your own fireside, and your children and hers may be playing about her; or she may await the coming of another, pre- ferred to you at the altar But still in some sense you have claim upon her, born of respectfui esteem and thoughtful consideration. You cannot be robbed of that thought-would not be; and whether as bride at the altar or matron of maturer years, you have a claim upon her given to you by your own sense of reverence and the memory of those other days when she was all the world to you. This does not apply to youth, for youth runs largely to folly. Middle age and those few years which precede- 1t constitute the ripe time of reflection. Regret Is unavailing then. Regret Is forever unavailing. So with some sense of longing and some degree of bovine complacency we accept things as they are, and with as much patience as we may we pursue the journey to gray hairs and oblivion. It is better so, perhaps. When you married you didn't see the wart upon her chin nor that dark blemish upon the damask cheek of maidenhood If you see them not on the journey through the veldt to the vastness so much the better.
 God is good. On your wedding anniver- sary she is your bride again, and no wrinkles, no grey hairs rest. You, in your slippers and your fatness, are the trim youth of the yesteryears, and the smoke from your pipe weaves above you both an aureole that obliterates the marks of times dull march, and above the couch of your children forms canopy glorified by love-
 Time defies paint and powder, and wrinkles wrestle with the advancing years. But motherhood and fatherhood are beautiful Compensating grace for ev- cry loss is given
 "r praise God for you," my beloved
 THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
Cotton Mills in Alabama.

In the year 1900 Alabama increased her spinales from fS0,958 to 612,660, and her looms from 10,9S4 to 12,228. South Carolina had at the end of the year 1,794,657 spindles; North Caro- lima, 1,692,S33; Georgia, .1,303,917. The States that have each more than one million spinales are in order Massa- chusetts, South Carolina, Rhode Island, north Carolina, New Hampshire, Geor- gia and Connecucut.
 Alabama should be put into the mil lion-spindle class. She will go this year to 700 900 spindles, and 100000 spindles could be added next year if every county in the State would take hold of this matter. There must be fully lairty counties in the State that have no cotton mills. There really should not be one. There are very few in Georgia. Every county in that State has the cotton-mill ambition, and each county town has at least one mill. So it should be in Alabama. Let every county that has no mill organize a company, and if capital enough cannot be secured within the county outside aid can be readily secured through the ways ready if home capital is first en- listed so that nome energy and skill will be supplied to conduct mill A county that subscribes $60, 900 towards mill can always secure the other $40,000 in the Eastern States. It would be better, of course, to build a mill
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
Tiliman and McLaurin.

Some of the best of all the good men of South Carolina convinced me, during a. recent social visit to that state. that Senator .Tillman is a man without physi. cal courage-that he is not a brave man. but a mere b1usterer and braggart, J, said Birmingham man last night, in a general hotel lobby talk concernlng the reading of Senator McLaurin out of the Democratic party. ,
 Easing my opinion upon the state ments of men in South Carolina, whom I trust, Senator Tillman is not game he won't fight they say
 Senator McIsaurin is a different type he's dead game These are very slangy phrases to apply to men of such emi- hence, but they are needed. to convey the impression made upon my mind by notable South Carolinfans, that is that, Tillman won't fight and McLaurin will
 Tt will cause no surprise in South Car olina If McLaurin gives Tillman a cor poreal beating; it will be surprising If he does not. The hard feeling between the two Senators is intense, and there is cer- tain to be a personal encounter unless Tilman keeps out of McIaurin's way, or is very cautious. In the now memera- ble debate at Gaffney, in May last Mo- Laurin made himself bitterly offensive to Tillman, and gave Tillman every chance to fight; but Tillman showed the white feather, so brave men who were present told me.
 "McLaurin doesn't believe that he can live longer than four years more. He is afflicted with an incurable kidney mala- dy. He doesn't set any great store by his life, and he doesn't care the toss of a penny. for the United States senatorship. Moreover he believes he would do South Carolina a great service by personally chastising Tillman- =
 ''This much my South Carolina friends convinced me Of; and the people of the country needn't be surprised to wake up any morning to be confronted by the news of a South Carolina tragedy of na- tional consequences
 "Tillman knows that he dare not offer McLaurin a personal affront Tillman has no courage, but he has a little discre- tion still. He and his gang of political freebooters have read McLaurin out of the Democratic party. There may bel believe there will be-a chapter of tragedy to follow.
 ''McLaurin, like Tillman, is farmer; but unlike Tillman, McLaurin is hard
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
The Flourishina Golf Club.

At meeting of the board of governors of the Birmingham Golf Club held Fri day evening at the residence of MT. H. H. Mayberry the following committees were eleced: Green comittee-Thomas Ward, A H. Woodward, H. B. B. Yergason; finance committee-R. s. Munger, H. H. Mayberry, J. D. kirkpatrick handicap committee-R. II. Baugh. Thomas Ward, I. J. Watson.
 It was decided to receive women mem- bers, and bylaws were adopted de- termining the several classes of member ship now provided for.
 Announcement was made of presenta- tion by Mir. Kirkpatrick of a cup for tournament play, and it will be known as the presidents cup. Particulars in re- gard to competition for this cup willv be announced 1ater.1 N
 It was decidedsto have the club make appliuation-for membership 'iuzthe United States Golf Association which gives the members the right to play on the-l links of clubs which are likewise members of the association.
 The local golf club is in most four ishing condition, and the members are enthusiastic, even during the hot weath- er
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE GROWTH
 OF BIRMINGHAM AND OTHER MATTERS

conspicuously in the bank statements made to the comptroller of the currency on the 18th of this month On the 29th day of June 1900. the deposits in the three principal banks of Birmingham-the First National, the Trust Company and the Alabama National-were $4,402 2ss. The 18th of this month the total deposits in these same three banks were $6,134, ,956- an increase within the past year of s1,- 7S2. 72O, or within a small fraction of a 40 per cent increase within the year. The First National Bank alone showed an increase of over a million dollars in its deposits and the other banks in almost like proportion.
 a should say that all business in almost every line in Birmingham has increased within the past twelve moths in about the same ratio.
 If Birmingham continues to grow within the next few years in like proportion to its growth in the last two years it will be the Hub of the SoSNl' in both busi- ness and population befoN the next cen sus is provided for.
 A black belt Democrat who has held high position in the democratic party or ganization of Alabama made bold to an- nounce yesterday that the suffrage clause of the proposed new Alabama constitu- ton, now under consideration at Mont gomery, would be adopted in it's present form and that whether or not Jefferson County and the Northern counties of the state want the new constitution, as 1t will be adopted by the convention in Mont gomery, that the black belt would count come the majority in other sections a. gainst it and that in this way the consti- tuition would be adopted.
 Do you suppose I asked him, "that the great majority of the white Demo- crats of this state will permit the black belt to count in upon them a constitu- tion which they do not want 5
 What can they do?" he replied ''we can roll up any kind of majority we want in the black belt and I presume we will do it.''
 This man may be right or he may be wrong. hope he is wrong for I do not believe that the people of this state will be willing to accept the suffrage clause which it is stated that the constitutional convention is sure to adopt, and 1 do not belive that they will permit any half doz- en or more counties to "count in'' such a constitution upon them. It does ap-
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pear to me that we are going from bad to worse in the suffrage clause of the new constitution being made at Mont gomery. do not know of a business man in the city of Birmingham who is satisfied with it. l do not know of one whs will vote for it, with its many open doors for fraud in elections
 Unless the delegates to the constitu- tional convention give consideration to the wishes of the people and make a con stitution which is just and wise-and that means a material compromise in the pro posed suffrage clause-I haiieve the people will vote it down at the polls and will not permit under any circumstaces it's being counted in'' upon them.
 It would seem that Admiral Sampson. instead of giving his attention to naval affairs, is determined, if possible. to de- stroy the reputation of Admiral Schley. Schley is a born fighter He has been a fighter all his life. He is of fighting stock. Sampson, on the other hand, is a theorist Sampson was for several years at the head of the ordnance bureau of the navy department. He was in charge of the armor construction of bat tleships and it was Sampson who permit ted the Carnegie Company to unload up- on the American navy hundreds of tons of armor plate honey-combed with blow holes.
 If any one should be investigated it is Sampson. Schley did the actual fighting and because Schley won the victory of Santiago, Sampson and his little group of friends around the Navy Department are attempting to destroy the reputation of the great fighting admiral from Nary land.
 And, by the way, was amazed at Sec- retary Long's appointing this blackguard Maelay clerk in the Brooklyn navy yard. Maclay draws a salary as a part and parcel of the Brooklyn navy yard, and yet it. stands out as a fact that he never did particle of work of a clerical nature or any other nature in the office of the Brooklyn navy yard. He simply draws : a salary and spends his time in writing alleged American history The clique in the Navy Department gives him his salary from the government coffers and requires him to belittle and make charges against the one man who is entitled to the chies glory of the victory at Santiago.
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From the New York Press.
 If there were no looking-glasses, won- der if women would wear some of the things nobody else ever has?
 The only thing worse than losing a woman's love when you want to keep it Is keeping 1t when you want to lose 1t.
 Just don't. forget that there are whole lots of things in the world worse. than the worst we know, and whole lots better than the best we know.
 No man was ever woman-hater at the moment he saw one of them pick up a strange child crying, wipe off its dirty face, and kiss it-because 1t is a child and she woman.
 A woman's idea of mans cruelty Is for him to be able to sleep comfortably when she is worrying about whether her best friends new gown Is going to really be- come her. !.
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

the bountiful provisions of nature, the boy in Lincoln green has no advantage over the young ruffian of the shirt-tails It is matter of environment. Lincoln Green may lose out, and Young Shirt-tails be- come a Senator. This is not arguing against the semi-d divine right of those born to purple and fine linen. Assuredly there is as much in the proper breeding of men as there is in the breeding ef dogs and pigs Cads marry money and become snobs, whilst snobs marry gentlewomen and become cads. The process of trans formation is in each case very amusing. The light of the duke fades; the star ot the quondam swineherd rises to the zenith.
 The sun shines on us all Cad and snob, swineherd, gentleman and princely per- sonage, they all of them bask in a sunlight which some of them comprehend not, and for which the others giorify the Giver of all the god things of this life. There is as much difference betwen the man who kicks a dog and him who caresses one as there is between vice and virtue. The one would beat his wife, the other would salute her as one exalted.
 The anniversaries of life mark our pro- gross from joy to sorrow, from sorrow to joy. and they are the milestones along the beaten highway to that vale wherein the sunshine never rests This dawn recalls to the thought of many of us the grief or .gladness of year ago, ten years agone, or some other year of our storied past It is the anniversary of day memorable in many human lifez-perhaps in your life or my ownr beloved fellow traveller to that bourne from which no traveller has ever yet come back. Turning the pages of our poor little calendars we each of us come to those stained with tears or per- fumed with joys that sped,. maHhap, at the instant of salutation, and returned not at all. Possibly it were best that we turn back to no date, as 1t certainly is best that we turn not forward to any date out of it's due time; but to many of us in the world this privilege Is all that Is left to us. The fires burn out; the ashes lie cold and gray upon the hearthstone. whilst the flame in the breast burns and consumes the heart and transforms our mortal frames to the death s-head and the cross bones of hopes that have proved delusive.
 
 But we most of us have some glad an-
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NOT GOOD DEMOCRACY.

From the Montevallo Sentinel.
 The Sentinel has a great regard for the opinions of Hon. Sydney J. Bowie upon any subject, but we cannot think as he does regarding the majority report on the suffrage clause of the proposed constitu- tion. We cannot see the justice in making registrars sole arbiters as to any mans eligibility to the right of franchise It puts too much power in the hands of a few--a power that can be used in the in terest of any cause the registrars might see fit to espouse And further, we do not think 1t good Democracy. Such pro- vision is not of and for the people, and the new constitution is for all the people of Alabama, for If adopted they will have to abide by its provisions. The rights of all should be considered in the matter.
The age-herald., 1901-07-28

Ten million dollars is much money. Yet the statisticians of Birmingham tell us that much has been spent in improvements in and about this town in the twelve months past. I mean they tell us that that much has been spent in new manufac- turing plants and new buildings.
 Birmingham Is indeed growing. Its growth is a matter of pride to us all. Growth means prosperity, and prosperity in whatever degree 1t might come-wheth- CT diminutive or magnifled-makes opti- mists of us all.
 The newspapers of Birmingham, I am proud to say, have been prosperous. They are good newspapers, and they deserve to be money makers. I might say that am proud of the record that the Age-Heraid has made in the past year. It's advertis- ing, its subscription lists and the news matter which it prints has almost doubled in volume in the year past. It's business has required an entire new outfit of ma chinery for printing purposes, which has necessitated an outlay of many thousands of dollars. Yet Birmingham wants the best of everything and it is entitled to it. Today's issue of the Age-Herald, though exceptionally large, tells of but few of the many enterprises and great business con cerns of Birmingham. It is not complete by any means, yet it evidences the phe- nomenal growth of the Birmingham dis, trict within the past year. ~
 Speaking of progress, I am told that the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company will begin within thirty days the expenditure of one million dollars in inn proving the street railway systems O Birmingham and vicinity. Many new cleo trio cars with a speed of fifteen miles per hour and costing $750O each have been purchased, and will be put on the suburb an lines between Birmingham and Ensley and Birmingham and Bessemer. Ninety pound steel rails will supplant the ex- isting track; and I. am told that before Christmas Birmingham will have the most modern street railway system in the South.
 This is, however, but one of many great and lasting improvements scheduled for the next few months for Birmingham. Within five years it should be the great est city of the South, and perhaps one of the great cities of America.
 very material evidence of the growth and prosperity of Birmingham stands out
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
Past, Present and Future.

The boom of 1886 created Birming- lam, and thS next boom in iron, which was begun in 1S59 and which is still with us, has served to distinguish this aistrict and this town as the most promising in the Southern country. The great gain of the last two years consists in the fact that all now see what iron and steel and coal when added to cotton are capable of-what they will accomplish in the way of population and wealth In word, this town and the u.strict have come to be regarded as the most promising in the Southern country, and thither both capital and population are steadily flowing. This appreciation, this rec ognition, this acknowledgement. of the strength of this district is the chief gain of the prosperity that came to iron in 1899, and that remains, and perhaps will remain indefinitely. Before it came people had doubts as to the pos siDillties of the district. but none have doubts now. All know that an Ameri- can Birmingham is to be built in Jones valley.
 Nor is this belief confined to the iron, steel and coal industries, great as they are. Others see the situation. The men engaged in wholesale trade are coming this way, and the development in that direction has been and will con tinue to be very great. The builders of office buildings are beginning to look tnis way, too, ana capital Tn short be- gies to see that almost any sound in vestment in this district will prove profitable. Birmingham will always be Birmingham town, but a prosperous iron city means all else that goes with population, prosperity and increasing wealth.
 All. too, see that the Warrior is to be opened, thus affording solid basis | for al! sorss of industrial operations 5 connected with iron, steel and coal It Is hoped that Major Rosselrs estimates for the coming year will cover the locks and dams needed up to the < mouth of Village creek, and that even the equalization of that creek up to Bessemer may be begun. All this is possible at the hands of Congress next winter.
 wnen water transportation is added to the products stored in our red hills, who can doubt? Who can name a limit to the possibilities of this dis trict? Who can it will grow thus and so, when there is an iron-hungry world on the one side, and inexhaustible sup 2 plies of raw material on the other? No one will then be warranted in putting metes and bounds to this district and this town.
 The census decade that was ended :, last year was begun as the boom of | 1886 was expiring. Years of panic and Repression and bedrock prices fol-
 led, and this state of affairs. dis
 ening as 1t was. lasted up to the
 er qf the decade. One year of
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that you deem cannon bullets.
 "I praise God for you" my beloved.
 Did you comprehend anything of the un-
 speakable glory of yesterdays westering
 sun? Did you catch the golden glow, and feel your pulses to quicken because of the
 wondrous beauty? Did it seem to you that the afternoon was the most wondrously enchanting of all the afternoons of your
 life? Did it not occur. to you to toss your
 cap into that marvellous atmosphere and
 shout until the heavens rang with praises to the Master for such light In your ma
 terial existence? If you did not experi-
 ence something of these sensations you
 missed an opportunity the like of which may not come to you before the summons to go down into the valley of the unknow-
 able shadows. This slave of the graphite
 pencil will swear to you that never be-
 fore in all his experience of many lands, in many varying circumstances, did he ex- perience any afternoon in any degree com parable to that of yesterday. There was
 no glare, but simply golden glow, due to atmospheric conditions that can prevail
 but few times in the course of human life. All the houses, the very pavement of the street, the vehicles, the garments of men and women, the atmosphere, the far-off sky-all took on the golden tint, and the world as seen and dreamed of was
 more beautiful than ever it had been be-
 fore in all the changeful years of a time not to be defined. To borrow a thought
 from quaint old George Herbert, it was q sweet day, so calm, so golden fit bridal of the earth and sky!
 The sun shines for us all, my beloved Ut is not of any moment nowadays wheth- CT ones father was swineherd, ditcher or a beggar. Nor does it matter. A man 8 8 man for a that, and a that! The sun shines as brightly, the flowers blossom as
 beautifully, the birds sing as assweetly, the
 brook murmurs as softly, for the son o: the swineherd father as for the heir to
 numberless millions. The sun rises as re- splendently and sets as gloriously for the heir of poverty and want as for the heir to throne. The song of birds is as entranc- ing, the -odor of the flowers as sweet. In
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 J. Oliver and W. T. Asbury of Green vile, s. C., are at the Morris. O. L. Patillo of Atlanta is at the Nor ris.
 Ira H. Virgin of Montgomery is at the Metropolitan.
 Hon. w. c. Tunstall of Greensboro Is at the Metropolitan. Wm. L. Easley of Dallas, Texas, is at the Norris
 J. l. Landry of St. Louis is at the Nor Tis.
 Hon. J. P. Mcqueen of Eutaw was in Birmingham yesterday. L. K. Mackey and Stanley Glover of Virginia are at the Florence.