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The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Senator Moruan Hopeful.

Senator Morgan's long battle with the transcontinental railroads and the Panama scheme over thc Iuilding of an American interoceanic canal has a pathetic personal side to 1t, for the veteran Senator begins to despair of witnessing the work he has so earn estly and nobly striven to secure. But he has by no means lost hope. He will battle on, and he hopes that the new Congress will at it's first session authorize the construction of the canal.
 In ten years afterwards the canal will be completed. Senator Morgan has a magnificent constitution. He was bred in Alabama, where long life is not exceptional. He should live to see the canal completed, always pro- vided it's construction can be author ized next winter against the combine of railroads and Panama schemers.
 If this country would wake up to the importance of an interoceanic canal in knitting and binding together it's two great coast lines--if the self ish and impudent nature of the oppo- sition to a canal could be generally understood, there would be no doubt about the passage of the bill next win ter. Both parties are pledged to it. Everybody desires it, except the trans continental railroads and the Panama people. The transcontinental rail- roads keep a shrewd and skillful lobby at work in Washington and in all news centers. It was they who concocted the amendments to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, and they can be trusted to devise other obstruc- tions, but the people are becoming very weary of such efforts, and the passage of the bill next winter seems assured.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Troup RandIe, Alabama Hero.

''Henry J. Rosenstihl of Union Springs, who has been appointed assistant adju- tant-general of Alabama, with the rank of captain. has been long actively inter ested In the citizen soldiery of the State, now the Alabama National Guard, and thus he deserves the honor which the Governor has conferred upon him." said former South Alabamian who has long known Captain Rosenstihl.
 Captain Rosenstihl married Miss Elm mic Randle. the daughter of the famous Confederate veteran. Captain Troup Ran dle of Uuion Springs. She, unhappfly, Is now very i'll In a private infirmary in Birmingham, and though she has rallied somewhat, her condition is sadly grave fact that will be disquieting to the friends of her father all over the State
 "Troup Randle Is one of the most heroic and most famous of the noble army of beloved Confederate veterans in Alabama. He was repeatedly and ter ribly wounded in battle, and he is one of the many who have empty sleeves to testify to valor in the four years con- fiict, one of his arms having been shot off near the shoulder joint Jesse M. Carmichael, the new chief of the State convict bureau. an old friend and former fellow countyman of Troup Randle, Is, by the way, similarly wounded Troup Randle was one of the bravest and truest of all those illustrious heroes who wore the grey, and now at seventy-two he is still a noble hero with courage to do right that has never failed him, any more than his indomitable courage to fight failed him on the firing line long ago.
 Tt is pleasing to note, and Captain Troup Randle will take the reference in generous spirit, that this veteran warrior was short time ago confirmed into the Episcopal Church. Bishop Barnwell hav- ing received him In that faith. From not having been a member of any church, he is come now to an enviable degree of piety. in which, as he declares, he finds the greatest happiness he has known"
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMI
ClOture in the Senate.

The general impression is that the proposed shutting off of debate in the Senate will come to nothing. No ac- tion was taken in the executive ses- sion, and when the Senate meets again in December the friction and ir- ritation of today will be forgotten.
 If cloture should be adopted next winter it will be because the subsidy looters demand it, and this is problem atical to say the least, for next winter 1t will be impossible to drive the scheme through the House. The members of the lower house will then be facing reelection, and the opposi- tion to the bill in the House, now con- siderable among the Republicans, will be increased. The bill is really dead although there may be a show of re- viving it next winter in order to sat isfy the clamors of big and threaten ing campaign subscribers.
 Free discussion in the Senate is abused, but so is gag law in the House. The happy mean has never been discovered, and perhaps never will be. Certainly Senator Platt's proposition does not contain 1t; for what he calls reasonable discussion" is simply the will of the majority, and under his plan the Senate would soon be an imitator of the House, and discussion and full consideration of a measure would be but memories.
 The chances are that there will be no change in this respect in the Sen ate rules, and under the circum- stances the minority aEe under moral obligation to be reasonable. Senator Carter will. Dol be on hand next win ter to talk thirteen hours or to talk at all and the golden mean may be found in the good sense of both the majority and the minority. If it is not found in that way then the Senate must choose between freedom of de- bate and gag law It will prefer the former.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Russian Greed in China.

At length this country and Great Britain and Japan are aroused over the plain purpose of Russia to seize and annex Manchuria. This is to be accomplished in the customary Rus sian manner. Ii Hung Chang has long been an agent of Russia in China, and through him and kindred spirits Russia is endeavoring to secure con- cession of Manchuria Independent of and outside of the negotiations of the powers.
 This is bad faith towards the other powers. It is really reversal of Russia's declared position six months ago, although those declarations were very guarded and evasive. Russia plainly depends upon France for SUD- port, and she hopes doubtless that i Germany will not take hostile steps. The United States, Great Britain and Japan are lined up to preserve the in- tegrity of China, and to secure fair play to all.
 If the United States lets Manchuria be transferred, the best market of China will go along with 1t, especially for cotton goods. No cotton is raised in. Manchuria, and the climate de- mands a great deal of clothing. The tranfer of Manchuria to Russia would be felt in every cotton mill in the South
 Nor would the trouble stop with Manchuria, for what Russia can do there Germany and France and Japan can do elsewhere in the vast king dom, and the entire shore line would be distributed among the powers, and each would claim spheres of influence extending indefinitely westward. This Is what the gobbling of Russia means. ]. means the dismemberment of China.
 When China Is cut up we lose not only the open door, but Manila and the Philippines become valueless to HIS. These have cost an immense sum, and this is so much money thrown away if the Russian scheme is carried out The powers will not per nit Rps ;e 10 seize Manchuria with out eos.Ds,,ea tions of territorial ma turc. hl. gre in fact no other pos sible compensations. A bold stand on the part of the United States. Great Britain and Japan may however stop
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
70 Life, O Beyond."

By James Whitcomb Riley. Strange-strange, mortal Life, The perverse gifts that came to me from you! From childhood I have wanted all good things:
 You gave me few. You gave me faith in One And fiowery. grassy paths by laughing streams: You gave me lettering steps, and eyes all blurred
 With tears and dreams. I wanted love-and, To! As though in mockery, you gave me loss. O'erburdened sore, I wanted rest you gave
 The heavier cross. I wanted one poor hut For mine own home, to creep away into: You gave me only lonelier desert lands
 To journey through. Now at the last vast verge Of barren age, stumble, reel and fling Me down. with strength all spent and heart athirst
 And famishihg. Yea. now, Life. deal me death Your worst-your vaunted worst! = Across my breast With numb and fumbling hands I gird me for
 The best. i
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
MIR. EvARTs' EeADY REPORT.

From the New York World.
 By the decision in the Illinois Appellate Court that a judge may take a nap on the benc'l without invalidating the pro- ceedirss. a witty rejoinder of the late Senator Evarts is recalled. It was in the Ttate constitutional convention in 1861, and the proposition was to retire all judges at the age of 70. Martin I. Townsend of Troy, the cumulative Round-Head of the bar and stump, told of having seen the venerable Chancellor Walworth asleep on the bench. "The honorable gentleman does not tell us,' said MT Evarts in re- ply, whether he was present as counsel or as spectator on the occasion of which he speaks so feelingly, but it is well known to the member of the bar that the venerable chancellor never slept when anything was transpiring worthy of his attentiOnp
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
RUSSIA'S BEACON LIGHT.

From the Forum
 The Russian press is under an unbear- able yoke. But what it loses in the way of liberty is compensated in the field of expansion. The number of provincial pa- pers has increased tenfold, compared to what it was during the most liberal period of Alexander IT." reign. Consequently, provincial Russian nowadays is far from what he used to be. He feels his connection with the rest of the world, and he has gained in initiative as well as in criticism. Moreover, the provincial press. profiting by the stupidity of the local censors, sometimes brings to light facts of the greatest, importance which would never come out through the met ropolitan press.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
THE NEGRO IS STILL ENsLAVED

From the Atlantic Monthly.
 Despite compromise, war and struggle the negro is not free. In the backwoods of the gulf states for miles and miles he may not leave the plantation of his birth; in wellnigh the whole rural south the black farmers are peons bound by law and custom to an economic slavery, from which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sec tions and cities of the south the negro is a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges. Befort the courts, both in law and custom, he stands on a differen tand peculiar basis. Taxation without representation is the rule of his political i'e. And the result of all this is, and In nature must have been. law lessness and crime. This Is ,ne large legacy of the Freedmens Bureau, the work 1t did not do becap,e it could not.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Peace in South Africa

Peace reigns for sever days In South Africa. Mrs. Bncda, wife of the Boer commanderIn-chief, distressed by the conditiors into which her coun- trymen have fallen, has been actively at work in securing some settlement of tht war, and it now seems probable that her efforts will be crowned with success.
 She and her husband have to con- tend with such irreconcilables as De- Wet and Steyn at home and with the whole crowd of absent Boers, but there is a deal of sense in the slow Dutch mind, and it is more than pro- bable that terms of settlement will be agreed upon. Sir Alfred Miner as we'll as General Kitchener are at hand, and both are in communication with the government in London, and what ever is done will not have to be un- done.
 General Botha has seven peaceful days in which to confer with his sub ordinate officers, and as the terms offered by General Kitchener doubt less include general amnesty except as to few who could not safely be left among the Boers, it is reasonable to expect that they will be accepted, and hopeless war ended. General Kitchener further promises to bring aid to the Boers towards starting them in life again.
 The Boers have made a remarka. ble effort for independence, but they had no chance of accomplishing any. thing but their own ruin from the outset. England can well afford to be magnanimous towards brave people. They did their best, but numbers and resources are all powerful in modern wars, and the Boers have their Lost Cause, and they can best cherish it by going to work again and rebuilding their waste places.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11

that the Kansas City Company readily undertook to build branch road over the nine miles distance at Its own ex- pense. and therefore the public impress sion that the Empire Company was con structing the new track is erroneous; the Kansas City making the investment for the profit to be derived from transport ing thousand tons, at least. every day, and added to which will be the large gen. eral traffic of a very prosperous mining center. By the middle of the current three thousand at the Empire mines, and since everybody will be at work for good wages, the new city will be exceedingly busy and prosperous.
 As heretofore stated in this place, the estate of the late Senator John T. Mill ner Is very largely interested in the Elm pire mines. It Is said as a fact that the imperial industrial development is $7OO,- OOe, and that the estate will control the management, although 1t is said that Rogers, Brown 6. Co. also are largely in. terested with the Miner estate, and ther, are number of other large holders of shares
 MT. Henry Milner. who for a dozen years has managed with remarkable sue cess the coal mines at New Castle, which were opened up and developed by his dis tinguished father. the late Senator John T. Milner, will undertake the entire man. agement of the Empire mines, it Is un- derstood; and thus 1t follows that the new mines will be wisely and successfully conducted, for MT. Miner Is one of the most astute and capable of all the young men of power and prominence in the min eral region.
 "A half dozen sub-contractors. working under arrangements with the contracting firm of Charles D. Smith and Walter Smith, are rushing the work on the new line of railroad between the Kansas City main line and the Empire mines. and il is expected that the undertaking will be completed by June"
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Peace to It's Ashes.

From the Tuscaloosa Gazette
 Our Legislature is curious one They pass q bill today appropriating a pile of money to some cause, the next day 2 fit of economy seizes them and they move to reconsider, or pass another bill to kill the first So on and so on. One kind of fit today. A different one the next. As Is has adjourned, we say peace to it's ashes, hearty goodbye. come again when you can't stay so long.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
A CORNER IN ERMINE,
m the London Express.

From the London Express
 The peeresses who did not possess robes" for the state opening of Parlia. ment felt some consternation at the cost. liness of these necessary appendages, for ermine, besides being very expensive, is one of those which suffer most from the ravages of moth" The ermine-lined cloaks are calculated to cost f5OO at the very least, that which regulation requires a duchess to appear in being nearly as long as court train, so that If the ru- mored corner in ermine comes off there will be heavy drain upon pin money'' this year.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Imperial New Coal Mines,

Tt is the purpose of the new Empire Coal Company, which Is opening the great Empire mines in the Horse Creek district. nine miles from the Kan sas City main line of railroad, to raise and ship thousand tons of coal a day." said a man who knows.
 Coal to the amount of many thousands of tons has been already mined and made ready for shipment as soon as the branch railroad from the Kansas City line B completed. The coal is of extraordinarily good quality, which accounts for the ex- mines.
 "The Empire mines are about nine miles from the Kansas City road, but are only five miles from the Southern. It is said
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
A STORY OF SENATOR VEST.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Senator Vest is older than his years, in fact as well as in appearance He Is ill and Respondent and refuses to take a cheerful view of life. Nevertheless, his mind is one of the brightest in the Sen ate. One day he sank into his chair, say ing to his neighbor: T am an old man, and I'll never get over this" Come, come, Vest; brace up," replied his neigh bor. Brace up, and you'll be all right Look at Morrill, over there; he's nearly 90 and Is as spry as man of 40" "Morrill. Morrill!' said Vest. Hes set for eter- nifty. They'll have to shoot him on the day of judgment"
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
JUST CAUSE FOR SURPRISE.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 We are surprised to see some one or two of the State papers condemn the Age-Herald for publishing a "scathing article about the General Assembly, and claiming that it can do the papers nc good. Do the gentlemen suppose that the editor of the Age-Herald let his r thought dwell upon what effect it would have upon the subscription list of his pa per when he was endeavoring to have the Legislature correct what he considered an injustice to the people at large? We must repeat that we are surprised at the narrowness of some of our contempor- aries.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11

the Mancc urian scEsme and preserve the insegrit~ of China. The issue is a serious oke. and the hoIr for it's set clement has come. The administra- ton I1usL now stand for the open door in Menchuria as we'll as in the rest of China, or 1oso all. There Is no room for compromise.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 To learn to love a man must first love to learn.
 After sbe gets to be forty woman's sigh Is nothing but a puff.
 The women begin to work fashion on the babies from the time they first begin to stay at home and sew on baby clothes.
 The men that. are willing to kneel to a woman when they propose are generally the kind that never do it after they get her.
 A woman spends the first week after she is married in telling her husband all the women they know that have false hair only he would never guess it. its
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Suggested Amendments.
m the Florence Times.

From the Florence Times.
 One of our candidates for the constitu- tional convention. in his speech last Monday, said he was in favor of making the Governor of the State ineligible for reelection, though he thought the term should be extended to four years, in- stead of two, as it now is. and we heartily endorse it. We want the Governor to be Governor and not make his office a stepping stone to something else
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Busy and Expensive.

From the Monroe Journal
 The General Assembly of Alabama ad- journed finally on Tuesday evening after a very busy and expensive session. Not withstanding the frequent and urgent warnings by the Governor, the Legisla- ture preserved the record made in the outset for extravagant appropriations. At the last moment it was forced into the
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Should be Duly Thankful.

From the Opelika Post.
 The Legislature has adjourned and the Senators and Representatives have re- turned to their homes. While a number of important measures were defeated, some good laws were enacted, and we SUD- pose we should feel duly thankful there- for.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for this day, Monday. March Il, 1901:
 "Sell in the afternoon"
 Expect losses in thy business, quarrel ing or law. Thy birthday is bad one, and misfortune will dog thy footsteps"
 "A child born on this day will be very unfortunate all through life. will be of a restless. quarrelsome disposition, and generally fin some trouble"
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Cotton Mills Close.

From the Coiumbiana Breeze.
 The Columbia cotton mills closed down Monday night for an indefinite period. President John T. Davis said to Breeze reporter that ther was at present prac- tically no margin between the price of cotton and manufactured yarns, and fol- lowing the example of self-protection set by the mills in other states he decided 1t was best to shut down for time, a month or perhaps longer
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Turpentine and a Town,

T fUIII tIIS zaUUtVIIIV tWS,
 About two miles south of Shortervilla large turpentine farm has been opened up, still being located. This Is said to be permanent and new town has or will soon spring up there and an effort will soon be made to have a postoffice estab- lished there, as it is on the Fort Gaines and Columbia route, and will cause no change in the mails or the route The mail man will only have to stop a few minutes.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
THRILLING TALES.

From the Danforth Qll) Herald. Elmo Kohl made his regular trip to Paradise Sunday. | Steve Dashner's gray mare died lass Saturday morning. A. J. Grove was circulating in our midst this week.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
MT, and Mrs. Bert Allison.

MT. Bert Allison and Mrs Allison of Cincinnati are making brief visit to Birmingham, Mr. Allison's former home. where he is gladly received. He won great many friends during his residence in this city, and he is still greatly es- teemed here. Mrs. Allison was Miss Mary Young of Louisiana, and is brilliant and at the Norris
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Veto Prevented Harm.

From the Scottsboro Progressive Age
 The Alabama Legislature has adjourned without doing anything to materially help the general welfare. Had the Governor not made liberal use of his veto power, it would have done much harm. On the last day of the session he vetoed thirteen separate bills, all of which were unques- tionably inimical to the best interest of the people.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Ran a Close Second.

From the Eufaula Times.
 The Alabama Legislature and the United States Congress were running race to see which could reduce the treas ury first. Alabama came in ahead.
The age-herald., 1901-03-11
Stirred Their Dry Bones.

From the Eufaula Times.
 Senator Morgan stirred up the adminis- tration's dry bones in his sensational speech in Congress on the canal bill. We need few more fearleess men like him in the Senate. There are too many who are whipped by the bosses lash and dare not say what they think