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The age-herald., 1901-04-25
JOHNSON GRASS.

M Crumbine, Kleburg, Tex, in Kansas
 Farmer.
 I have seen several papers written by different ersons on Johnson grass. All recommend 1t to the farmers in Kansas as fine grass for both pasture and hay. This is very true, but they didn't say that when they wanted to let go they couldn't. Probably they haven't found that out yet. Now. for the benefit of those who have not been bitten by John son grass. I would say, Don't bite at the bait" To those who have been caught I say. Let go as soon as you can,' for wher you get the stuff on your land you have reduced 1t in value three fourths, or at least that is the case here in Texas. Land here before 1t had John son grass on it was worth from $10 to s15 per acre. It is ten times harder to get rid of than Canada thistle
 The Texas Legislators passed law two years ago prohibiting any one from let ting 1t go to seed on his land, with a heavy fine for failing to comply with the law.
 The papers are full of avertisements of receipts to kill Johnson grass. Wherever 1t gets start 1t soon spreads all over the country. It spreads from the seeds being blown by the wind, by being carried by passing stock and by taking root where tramped in the ground by stock.
 A bulletin from the experiment station at Manhattan, Kan. says bushel of seed to the acre is sufficient. would suggest to those who want to experiment with 1t to try small handful on 160 acres. One small handful will satisfy those who wish to try it. Just tell the people of Kansas that lived in Kansas twenty one years and have lived in Texas for six years, right here where thousands of acres of the best farming lands have been ruined by Johnson grass When you want to kill it you just can't. It won't die as long as there is a root In the ground or a joint of the grass tramped in by stock. When first saw 1t praised by some of the, stockmen I paid no at- tention to 1t. but when 1t had survived the hard winters of 1898 and 1899 though l wouldn't be doing my duty if I didn't warn those who would likely try it.
 Now. we have a grass here that will beat any grass that has ever been tried in Kansas for pasture. It don't seed here and won't seed in Kansas It spreads by the stems taking root. but don't spread from the roots. It Is nearly as hard to kill as Johnson grass. but easy to confine and drought don't hurt 1t a particle. It will grow right through the hottest and driest weather, and makes much prct- tier yard than blue grass. It has to se propagated by sets, which grow rapidly. 1t is Bermuda grass, and a small patch will pasture a horse all summer through the driest weather. 1t is far ahead of Johnson grass for pasture and 10 easily controlled. .whereas Johnson grass cannot be controlled ,.s--ti -:2s9l4A .A f.hs
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
Two Birmingham Orators.

From the Mobile Register.
 The friends of constitutional reform are very greatly indebted to Dr. Cunningham and MT. Weatherly for their able efforts last night to set forth in convincing way a solid vote should be cast today for the holding of the convention. When Dr. Cunningham spoke It seemed to the list ener that not only was there nothing more that could be said on the subject. but there was nothing that could be as we'll said for the doctor never was in better form nor ever had better sub ject We need not sing his praises, for all know his great power as an orator. Mir. Weatherly followed. and, although his style is almost the opposite of the doctors his speaking being deliberate, while that of the doctor is dramatically rapid, he soon proved that he also was an orator of remarkable gifts. Each in his way brought home the question of the hour. and 1t would be difficult to say which of the two had most success in reaching the minds of the hearers. Suffice 1t to declare that 1t was rich oratorical treat all around, from<start to finish. and that the Mobile audience gave every evil dence of being thoroughly in rapport. applauding heartily the excellent points made an dappreciating fully the duty.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
BuFFALoEs TO MEET IN BUFFALO From the Washington Times.

The great bison of the Order of the Buffalo. George L. Shipp, has been di- rected to call grand convocation of Buff faloes to be assembled in Buffalo during the Pan-American Exposition. The Su- preme Herd will meet in Buffalo the lat ter part of June. when the great fair will be at It's best and every Buffalo in the United States is expected to be in at tendance The Order of the Buffalo is a new institution. It has within few months sprung into universal popularity. When and where 1t first saw the light of day is not of evidence, but it is here. and like the proverbial four-eleven-forty- four, Is here to stay. It is founded on two broad principles-charity and good fellowship. The man who has been in itiated Buffalo in America can carry these tenets into the Fiji Islands if he wants to.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
HepubIicanism in the South.

The St. Louis Globe Democrat wants . real Republican party in the South. It is tired of sham party knowingly and Intentionally kept down, so far as whites are concerned, to size that can absorb the federal offices allotted to the particular State. Such a party exists in eleven Southern States, and the Globe-Democrat denounces as a fraud, delusion and nuisance "the Republican machine" in those States. It desires change all along the line.
 And 1t believes it is coming. It sees it in the new attitude of Senator McLaurin of South Carolina, who is, says the Globe-Democrat, "a Republi- can in everything except in name.' ' Through his influence with the admin istratfon John c. Capers, Gold Dem ocrat, has been appointed United States district attorney for South Car olina, and this has been heralded far and wide as the beginning of a new movement on the part of the Gold Democrats through which real Re publican party would be established in the eleven States.
 This expectation will lead to disap- pointment. The Tiilmanites in South Carolina will soon put an end to the McLaurin departure. and MT. McLau- rin himself will probably bag the fed eral judgeship that he is said to be seeking. Mir. Capers will serve out his term, and that will sum up the South Carolina business that is now consid- cred so promising to Republicans in all parts of the country that do not know the eleven States in question. It really means that MT. Capers has gttosen plum from the Republican machine in South Carolina, and that Mr. McLaurin will. perhaps. secure another plum. That is all it means.
 But the Globe-D Democrat prefers to think that it is the beginning of real Republicanism in eleven States-that
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the Republican machine Is to be shelved, and that all federal plums are to go to Gold Democrats. No doubt Gold Democrats can be found to ac- cept federal offices in any one of the eleven States, but the expectation that duplication of the Capers appoint ment would bring to Republicanism any considerable number of Democrats is delusion. It might carry over the votes of appointees-that is all. It would simply enlarge the Republican machine.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
An Historic Brick.
From the Selma Times.

From the Selma Times.
 Abraham Lincoln Brick is member Of Congress from Indiana. This particular Brick in the Congressional superstruc- ture has not as yet made itself conspic- uous or caused any unusual attention be- ing drawn to it. But it has at last got into print and there Is no telling to what extent of popularity it may look forward to. One of Congressman Abraham Lin coin Bricks constituencies Federal vet eran of the $soo substitute stamp-has made him his intercessor with the pen sion bureau either for a yearly pension or a paying back of the money paid for a substitute when he was drafted. If Mir. Brick succeeds in this case he will have his hands full of similar applica- tions and measure of popularity seldom meted out to embryo statesmen.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
The Tree That Tells of Weather.

Ben I'll eiss elm tree. the natural ba- rometer and harbinger of springtime' s bud and bloom, is now covered with a thick shimmering sheen of vivid green, and there will be no more cold weather in Birmingham.
 This truthful tree stands just at the Peerless corner of Second avenue and Nineteenth street. There is row of trees there, but only the corner one is the one Ben Theiss has sworn by for twenty years. The others have been fairly well covered with green for three weeks, out cold weather came just the same.
 In this place month ago when we had a spell of gentle weather and poets and lovers were hailing the diphtherial mild ness, there was printed an interesting in- terview with Ben Theiss, in the course of which he declared the prevailing warmth to be illusory, and that we were still to have cold and rough weather. And so saying he pointed to the elm at the Peerless corner.
 Every spring for twenty years I have closely observed that tree, and every time it proved to be an unerring guide to the weather. Cntii II put loil III 6iSSu iettNSS I knew absolutely that wintry weather was not done and when 1t did put forth green leaves 1 knew absolutely that win try weather was done and spring was come
 q do not care what the weather bureau may report, I care nothing for the prog nostications of the weather prophets, the oldest inhabitant or the groundhog: l have relied for twenty years with posi- tive confidence upon that tree. still rely upon it, and will so long as the tree and I both survive"
 Since tt at talk of Ben Theiss, and since the knowing ones declared spring had truly opened. there has been the coldest and toughest April weather-three weeks of it-ever experienced in this valley.
 Yesterday afternoon Ben Theiss was seen not far from his cherished tree. He stopped and pointed to the green leaves that now adorn the spreading branches and demanded with the force of a prophet whose prophecies had been verified:
 Didn't tell you so?''
 He did.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
TRUSTS SONG AT TWILIGHT.

From the Pail Mall Gazette. When twilit valleys dream of spring.
 And swelling buds of greenness grow. Then doth the thrush his vespers sing
 From the unlighted elm-tree row. He sings the budding year. gives praise
 For sweets to come-the sheltered nest Bright orchard blooms, delicious days,
 And the long, silent, noontide rest. No backward fancy mars his song,
 He gives no heed to winters rimes But floats his music far along
 The valleys, waiting for the primo His is the note of brave delight
 That spurs the soul to paths untrod; Here, in the shadow of the night.
 He flutes his perfect praise of Go6-
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
CUBAN DELEGATES ARE
 NOW IN WASHINGTON

CT to the White House or War Depart ment.
 General Wood has no direct information from General Whiteside regarding the re- ported troubles at Santiago, but before he left Cuba he had been advised by General Whiteside that party strife was making some trouble in that municipality and that disorders might be anticipated dur ing the spring elections in other sections of the island. After that, however, it is expected that the usual tranquility of the island will be resumed
 The delegates remained at their home resting most of the morning Quite number of officials called, including As- sstant Secretary Hill of the State de- partment, and Assistant Secretary Sanger of the War department, who left cards individually for each member of the del- egation.
 When inquiry was made of MT. Diego Tamayo, one of the delegates, as to the plans of the party, he answered that the delegation felt that it would be discourte- ous to enter upon a discussion of their business before they had called on the Secretary of War.
 Arrangements have been made at the war department by which the Secretary of War will receive the delegation at II o'clock tomorrow morning and probably will escort them to the White House about that time.
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The age-herald., 1901-04-25
vlsitina Iron Men.

Howard Wood of Philadelphia and R. G. Wodd of Pittsburg, two powerful iron men of Pennsylvania, arrived in Bir- mingham yesterday morning and are reg istered at the Morris. In the forenoon they secured the services of a bright and well-informed telegraph messenger as guide and set out on a tour of the immediate district, intending to visit all the greater industries and coal and iron mines and limestone duarries They bore letter of introduction to one of the principal officers of the Tennessee Com pany at Pratt City.
 The town was alive yesterday with all kinds of rumors about all kinds of deals and combinations in mineral properties; but 1t Is believed that nothing definite will be known for another week or two.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
AsLE.HoDlEp TEXAS MOSQUITO

From the Galveston News.
 William Labatt, assistant ticket agent for the Santa Fe, captured and caged mosquito yesterday morning claimed to be the largest and fiercest ever seen in this section of the country. Labatt dis covered the insect oerched on an ink stand on the counter. The insect is on exhibition in glass case, and is attract ing considerable attention as the giant of his race He Is more than half an inch long and stands about an inch high.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
THE AGE-HERALD. THURSDAY. APRIL 25. 1901

Randolph county by 700 majority. but that Colonel Handley's majority for Consti- tutional Convention delegate from that county was much more
 It is understood that Colonel Handley received every vote cast in Randolph in Tuesdays election--that is to say that all voters of all parties and factions voted for the eohnty's most distinguished cit- izen. the Democratic nominee for the county. M
 In the recent Constitutional Conven- ton primary election every vote cast was voted for Colonel Handley. All this is remarkable when 1t is considered that Randolph Is a hill county and contains great many anti-Democrafs! In the old days when parties were nearly even- ly divided in Alabama, and when Ran dolph was actually non-Democratic, Col onel Handley carried the county in his race for Congress and was elected.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 We are Indebted to women for men. to God for women, and for purity to little children.
 A woman's idea of an argument is to claim that civilized women are superior to savages, because they wear corsets.
 When one tabby-cat splts at another it is saying how nice she looks this morn- ing. When tomcat splits 1t Is swearing.
 When . woman begins by marrying Q man because she is sorry for him. she ia apt to end by making everybody sorry for him because she married him.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
Railroads and Improvements.

From the Tuscaloosa Gazette.
 The proposed extension of the Tidewa- ter branch of the Mobile and Ohio Rail- road will mean a great deal for this place if the Central Iron and Coal Company will build furnace in Tuscaloosa. It is industries that pay out good wages every month that will make Tuscaloosa grow. An evidence of the truth of this state ment is to be seen in the improvement that has been seen in this place since the establishment of the Mobile and Ohio shops in this place Tuscaloosa, to i'm prove and be greater in a financial ana industrial way, must have such indus tries.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
THAT PITTssuRe DOCTOR.
. snringfield Republican.

did something in poetry to make their patronymic memorable, but they are sim ply mot in it. alongside of doctor of their name in Pittsburg, who recently sent bill of s1so.oco Tor medical attend ance on the late Mir Magee of that city, which includes one item of s12,000 for a visit to the Virginia Hot Springs, and an- other of sl7,ooo for one to Atlantic City, with his patient! Nolan's famous charge at Baiaclava passes into obscurity after this rsf'
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
A Tree By a Church Door.

Speaking of trees, the destruction of shade trees in Birmingham through their use as hitchng posts for horses goes on unchecked, under the very noses of the police.
 There is a beautiful elm. about eight inches in diameter and eighteen feet high, near the Twnty-firsts street entrance to the fashionable Presbyterian church at the corner of that street and Fourth ave- nue. which has been within the past few days stripped of about a square foot of It's bark, leaving the trunk in one place perfectly bare and bleeding the life-sap of the tree. aT
 Fancy a benevolent Christian going to pray in his church hitching his horse to a beautiful shade tree, so that this gracious gift of the good God to humanity might be destroyed!' exclaimed one of party of men who observed that evidence of the latter-day PhiIistinism which is so ram pant in Birmingham.
 On the opposite tide of the street from the ruined tree by the church door is an- other and larger tree. standing in front of Mrs Nixon's residence, which has been ruined by horses But, bless us all there are such trees in every street of Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
Not an UnqratefuI Man.

"The general and just charge of per sonal ingratitude made against politicians and holders of high offices does not ob- tain in the case of Hon. William Vaughan. who has just been re-appointed by the President as. United States at torney for the Northern District of Ala bama." business man said yesterday.
 MT. Vaughan has stood true to his friends, and since his work as district attorney has been eminently satisfactory, the President does a just thing and pleases the public by giving him another four years in office. MT. Vaughan is an able attorney, is a good man, and is good fellow all around. and his reap pointment pleases everybody.
 'Mr. vaughan's present term will not expire until June 6, and he had made no application for re-appointment, which makes the honor done him all the great er"
The age-herald., 1901-04-25

Alaska expects to turn out thirty millions of gold this year without mak- ing any fuss over 1t. The Alaskans are now ready for work under fixed and boomless conditions.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
Sam p. Jones To Be President.

The commercial travellers who make their headquarters in Birmingham. Mont gomery and Mobile, together with the members of the respective posts or the Travellers Protective Association or America In these cities, have with re- markable unanimity endorsed Col sam P. Jones of Louisville. who is widely known personally in Alabama. for the presidency of this great organization or American commercial travellers.
 In Birmingham and Mobile there is un- derstood to be not single opponent to Colonel Jones amongst the members or the two posts. and but two members of tho Montgomery post who are not openly for him. All this constitutes a remark able tribute to the young business man of Louisville, for there are about one thousand organized commercial travellers in the first three cities of Alabama, there being about five hundred members or the Birmingham post alone; and Tor hlgn character and business ability there Is not a similar number of men in any or ganization in this country superior to these!
 hentuCky lSs SOllu anu ihSei hNeNN ~ Colonel Jones' The Louisville Courier Journal devoted more than a column last Sunday under a "scare-head' to the most encouraging news regarding his prospects and the work of his supporters for the presidency of the national drummers. Similar news Is received from other states and Col. Jones' election is now practically assured.
 Colonel Jones Is member of the man. ufacturlng firm of Jones Brothers & Go. of Louisville. is president of the famous Commercial Club, one of the richest, oid- est and most powerful business men clubs In America; Is a member of the Louisville Board of Trade, and is truly one of the ablest and most honored lead CTS of the great and busy commercial life of the Kentucky metropolis. Yet he Is under forty years of age. It is extraordi- nary that a man so young should have achieved such distinction in the business world, and 1t cannot be accounted for except by the extraordinary ability and high character which are universally &C., knowledged as being possessed by Colonel Jones. His election to the presidency of the Travellers Protective Association will lend added distinction to that distin- guished body.
 Colonel Jones is a leading Elk, a lead ing Knight Templar, and is colonel on the staff of the Governor of Kentucky.
 The fact that he Is a younger broth- CT to Mi. George w. Jones of Montgom- cry, the gifted and remarkably popular assistant counsel of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, under the beloved Colonel Fakner, will give all Alabamians an interest in the Louisville p.n's clpctiCn
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphers prophecies for this day, Thursday, April 25. 1901:
 Ask favors, and keep very quiet sickness and trouble will befall thee this being thy birthday; thy affairs VIII decline"
 Those in employ will lose it, and those in love will grieve."
 "A child born on this day will have an unfortunate career. and be often in sore straits for money"
The age-herald., 1901-04-25

The Philadelphia Ledger mentions the fact that the South always breaks away from the Democratic party be- tween elections.
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About Persons.

Judge Thomas R. Roulhac, J. W. Nor gan and J. L. Anderson of Sheffield were in Birmingham yesterday.
 --s ess f4 ssf.
 MT Jesse Adams of the State Agricul- tural Department was in Birmingham yesterday.
 MT. John w. Durr. one of the oldest and most honored business men of Mont gomery, spent yesterday in Birmingham.
 Mir P C. Watts of Montgomery is at the Morris hotel.
 Daniel Pratt of Prattyille was in town yesterday.
 Judge George c. Almon of Russellville is at the Metropolitan hotel. (
 F. Blount Greene of London, England, Is at the Morris.
 Roby Robertson, of Atlanta was in Bir- mingham yesterday,
 B. J. Well and Louis c. Cardinal of Montgomery are at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25

Count von Waldersee's seven-room asbestos house was in the winter pal ace which was destroyed by fire, and the old field marshal Is now incapable of movement in the field.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
s1o,ooo In Accident Policies.

The late Dr. c. C. Chapman, the brill liant young physician of Birmingham who was killed by the great tornado which devastated large section of the city on the 18th of last March, carried no regular life insurance. but held two accident policies of 5000 each. It is un- derstood that these policies, aggregating slC,00o, have been already paid to Dr. Chapman's parents MT. and Mrs. Chap man of Wilcox County. Mir. Chapman is a prosperous farmer and owns the 800 acres of fertile cotton land on which he and his family reside.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25

The potatoe crop in the Transvaal was lighter than the war crop, and the former are worth s25 bag in Johan. nesberg.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
TIMELY ADVICE.

From the Chicago Record-Herald. The poet laureate of Kingsley. Ia sweetly sings:
 Beat the carpet gently. papa,
 Do not strike it quite so hard. For you know we can't replace '
 Short of eighty cents yard.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25

That $190, ,O00 doctors bill against 6 Pennsylvania mans estate may have led to his death. He could not afford to live any longer.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25

Let us hope that model of the book trust Legislature will not be included in the Alabama exhibit at the Pan American exposition.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25

The Pittsburg doctors could form a trust that would eclipse the steel com bine, if they are all like Christopher l.. Magee's doctor.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
Will Have New Capitol.

Little Rock Ark. April 4.-Dhe Senate today by a vote of "A to : passed the House bill appropriating 8, 900 for com, pleting the new State capitol here.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25

At least fifty counties of the State want new constitution, and the other sixteen are not strongly disinclined to nna.
The age-herald., 1901-04-25
SAY. GIRLS.

From the Chicago Record-HeraiA Oh, girls. what would you do
 If Morgan took d notion To form a trust of dukes and ear3u. And barons who want wealthy girlss
 While he's across the ocean7