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The age-herald., 1901-10-13

there were but 552. The births num- bered last year in this town 72S, and the birth rate was 1882 per 1000 of population. In Montgomery the rate was but 12.s9. but in Mobile it was 24.77. The Atlanta rate was but 11s5. The number of deaths in this town last year were 74s; in Montgomery sb1; in Mobile, 1,O12; in Chattanooga, 546; in Atlanta, 1,764.
 Birmingham's parks include 20 acres, and 1t has 56.Ss miles of sewers, and 3s.61 miles of paved streets. It has 209 arc lights. In it's schools are 4,4O7 children, taught by 94 teachers.
 The valuation of it's property by taxation is s16,SS7 ,226; of Mobile, $15,- 9S6,2O1; of Montgomery, $12,555,770. The expenditures for maintenance and operation in this town last year were $336,419; in Mobile, $229,s 9,s4s; in Mont gomery, $405,O5S. The actual income of this town last year is elsewhere in the bulletin put at $353,375.
 Let these figures suffice at present. They are official, but they are just as difficult to understand and to reconcile as some unofficial figures. They may serve as food for reflection, but the reader will have to reflect long time before he ascertains why there were so many arrests in this town.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
Statistics oi Cities.

The Commissioner of Labor has eb- tained wide variety of statistics from various cities having over 10000 popn- lation, and these statistics are pub hshed in bulletin just issued. The otatistics of Birmingham cover the calendar year 1900, except those re- Iating to schools, which relate to a year ended June 30, 1900.
 The area of Birmingham is 4,053.30 acres. It has 92 saloons, and 9,626 arrests were made last year, namely, BATS for disturbing the peace, includ- ing drunkenness; 921 for assault and battery; 3S for homicide; 622 for vagrancy; 137 for housebreaking; 1,123 for larceny. and S,S12 for all other offenses. The number of arrests in this town is almost beyond prece- dent There were but 5,20O in Mobile, 3.72o in Montgomery, 1856 in Chat tanooga. 2,490 in Knoxville. 3,47S in Augusta, 5,898 in Memphis, 4,S60 in Richmond. 5.5e4 in Savannah. and 8,054 in Charleston. Why there should have been almost twice as many ar rests here than there were in Mem phis, seems beyond explanation or req son. for Memphis has nearly three times more people, and is river town at that Why are we so bad?
 There were 626 marriages In this town last year, while in Charleston
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE PROBABLE
 RESULT OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS POLICY


 ~1 HAVE been thinking more than
 bit about that appointment of
 Governor Tom Jones to the Fed G era1 bench
 Everyone in Alabama respects Tom Jones' ability. They admire his char acter. Those who know him well love him for his gentle traits. Like all brave men he is ever courteous and Just and his actions are guided by the highest impulses. Upon the bench he will be a jurist respected and honored by the bar and the public.
 So much for Jones'
 
 Roosevelt became vice-President from no wish of his own. He was the acci- dental creature of political rivalry hoisted after a struggle Accident made him President. Mentally strong, superbly ambitious, lucky politically he has risen to the crest of American citizenship. Being honored he seeks to honor his office. No political party, by It's premedi- tated act made him President He is not the creature of the office-seeking, barter ing politician of the nondescript combina- tion which goes to Republican national conventions from Southern States. Owing this element nothing he Is free to act upon the impulse of the honest, sturdy, thoughtful American who happens to have dropped into the alI-powerfui office of this great land. He therefore kicks aside unwritten laws and would do unto others as he would have others do unto him.
 The Alabama situation happened to pre- sent itself first. Regardless of politics, what man in Alabama would be most &C., ceptable to all the people," asked the President of an Alabamian-an Alabam- ian who was the son of a black slave woman, though an educated, worthy man. of wonderful intelligence, and of honesty; a man whom all races and classes respect.
 ''To Ex-Governor Thomas G. Jones no man could object.' was the prompt reply.
 The why's and wherefores were gone in- to. Inquiries from all manner of sources were then made by this accidental first man of this land and Jones became judge. 4s
 NOW TOT Specu1ation.
 Tn Alabama there is and has been a tremendous white element composed of men with views of their own. They may be mugwumps if one so chooses to call them. They own something and desire more. They want high tides to continue. They want the highest type of man in public office. These men are liable to vote the Republican ticket in national politics if they prefer the personality of the Republican candidate for President to the man named by the Democrats.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
W '
 le91,ree-

as repulsive creatures of uncharitableness and unrighteousness
 To most of us it is given to reJorice to be glad, to be merry, for there is some thing in every life to make 1t worth the living: and if life be worth living 1t is worth enjoying. worth loving. worth worthiness. But whether in our selfish ness we feel that life brings us not our share of good things, it is Gods and He marks its sorrows and it's joys alike, knowing full we'll its worthiness and un- worthiness. Life is ours to live and to enjoy as best we may. and any other use we may make of it is In defiance of His inexorable law. It Is ours to live and love and pray. And,
 "He prayeth best who loveth best
 All things. both great and small;
 For the dear God who madeth him
 Both made and loveth alI''
 All! my beloved; not you or me or any one singiy. but all!
 Love is ever a prayer, the love of all things without the taint of sin and such of us as love most pray most that we be led not into temptation.
 Love is the great guardian spirit of the world and with It's twin sisters, Joy and Laughter, it gladdens every honest heart and makes the world to ring with some thing of the music of heaven. ,,
 Be 1t as tender as the wood-dove's sigh or be it riotous In the glad glee of it's own triumph. love Is the essence of all good in humanity, the promise andsithe fulhllment of all happiness in this life and that other life loved and prayedtfor of the faithful. e
 Love smooths the wrinkied brow of care. heals the deepest wounds the spirit ever may suffer, sooths the most troubled heart to rest, transforms grief into glad ness. and lends to humanity a glory that is of the eternal
 Love is the parent of every virtue sand the prophet of every good. and 1t is bow erful to make the humble kingly and sthe kingly humble.
 Love of humanity, which we caM by that other angel name Charity, is spro- claimed of God Himself to be the first and highest attribute of the soul
 So are we admonished to turn away from those whose vinegar aspect, spirit of perverse unkindness and uncharitable-. ness, disturbs us in our loves and4our meditations. and loiter along the prim. rose path and gather the flowers of joy their growing in all the wealth and pro- fusion of love that is divine and love that is human. q
 THE MURMURHlR. .--------.-......-.--..... active head of the Birmingham Water Works Company, arrived in Birmineham yesterday afternoon and Is at the Nor ris.
 J. W. stickney of Tuscaloosa, is atsthe Florence.
 Thomas Bragg and E. M. Mason: of Auburn are at the Florence.
 .; John C. Marbury of Riverside is aslthe J H. Landman, IT.. of Huntsville iE at the Florence.
 L. A. Myers of winston-s Salem. N. C.. Is t1OrenCa.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
CHAMELEON BEACHES.

From rid Bits
 Tn the Gulf of Mexico there is an island where the beaches change color twice daily with the tides. When uncovered the sands are purple. but the infiowing tide speedily transforms them to gold. The name of the island is ''Snails Isle," and this is the key to the peculiar phenome non. The sands of the island are of a golden color, and when the rising tide spreads over the wide beach the gilded bits of earth glisten in the sunlight; but when the tide ebbs the golden sands be- come purple, because of the myriads of tiny purple snails crawling in the wake of the ebbing tide. As the tide recedes the purple becomes deeper, as millions of these little snails come from the wet sand in search of food, moving with re- markable rapidity.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
REFLEcrloNs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 Gods mill grinds ever with the water that has passed
 When a woman says man drinks she always means he drinks too much.
 Either we always seem to be more in earnest than we are or we are less in earnest than we seem.
 If women could be got to show the same enthusiasm over municipal prob lems that they do over military problems, reform politics would be easy.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

ly is a coward, and will be thief if op- portunity presents itself.
 It is literally true. if you laugh the
 world will laugh with you; weep, and
 you weep alone. You will find multi
 tude of happy men and women of refine
 ment and goodness of heart, sweetness
 and light. eager to drink your wine; but
 If you are weeping they pass you by. If good fortune has come to you, in wealth or Joyous health, you are greeted gladly as you pass along the public way; but if you complain of want or pain, you shall be summed as pestilence save only one or two-if you have one such, you are fortunate; if two. you are blessed.
 Whosoever complains or whines, he is
 bidden to go tell his troubles to the police. And. after all. maybe in these common facts lies the true philosophy for some good measure of comfort in the world. But there is this all-embracing truth,
 my beloved: No power, human or divine.
 has given any man or woman the moral right to needlessly wound another or
 bring discomfort into any life. Grief is
 reserved for every one who heedlessly or
 without kindly consideration causes any
 heart to ache. any human spirit to grow sad.
 Half the unhappiness of the world is
 retribution for unhappiness needlessly
 caused to unoffending ones. No heart
 ever broke under a wrong, an injustice.
 that did not make for the breaking of the
 heart that wronged
 Even as compensating grace is given for every wrong suffered. so also Is retri-
 button decreed for whosoever offends
 Bitter reckoning is appointed for every
 swindler and slanderer and unlsind mor-
 tai. the way of the transgressor is hard
 as hell for ever.
 | Whose brings want or shame or grief to
 the worthy. he shall pay the penalty in
 bitterness in this life, here upon the earth that his shadow darkens.
 Whose returns evil for good. unl1indness for kindness, rudeness for courtesy. or
 hate for love, he shall be branded in this life with the mark of grief and in per dition with the mark of the accursed. And 'twere as easy for you to laugh
 and leap. and say you are merry because you are not sad," my beloved. It is easy to assume the virtue, if we
 have 1t not of kindness and merriment ana laughter; and such as are of vinegar aspect we may pass by on the other side -.-----..--.-.
 signor Baasen of St. Bernard's, Gull man.
 George W. Ely, W. J. Elliott and J. C..
 Parker of Montgomery are at the Metro
 politan. Lieut.. James Kelly Parsons, United States army, recently on duty in the Philippines, has arrived in Birmingham and is with his father, Hon. Lewis E. Parsons, ax the Metropolitan Hotel. M. O. Johnson of Louisville Is at the
 Metropolitan.
 pr. A. P. Martin of Bosham is at the Metropolitan. ...i. George Getcheil of Denver. Colorado, is at the Metropolitan. f. Col. A. J. Milstead of Tallassee is at the Metropolitan.
 R. M. Cary of Pensacola is at the Morris. M
 c. A. Daniel and Mrs. Daniel of Tusca- loosa are at the Morris. Edward c. Wells of Quincy. H., is at | the Morris.
 Charles s. Hedden of New York and l.. W. Hall of Syracuse are at the Morris. gtfF Goodwin Lee of New York is at the
 Florence.
 A. M. Lynn of Pittsburg, formerly the
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
SOUTHERN SHOPS.
Reported They May Be Removed From
 Memphis to Huntsville.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 12.-vice Pres ident F. <, Cannon of the Southern Rail- road has agreed to consider the proposals from the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville, Ala, for the location of the machine shops of the Memphis division of the Southern railroad there. It was lately announced that these shops would be removed from Memphis to Sheffield. on account of the want of protection from police authorities during the late strike of the machinists.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Captain Leary, late of Guam, re- quires his men to sing the Star Spangled Banner" even if they are not masters of technique, virtuosity and the like All they have to do is to open their mouths and sing Cats howl on this plan.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
BIG ENGINEERING PROJECT.

From Gunton's Magazine.
 The irrigabie water in Texas is derived mostly from the Rio Grande, the Pecos and the Canadian. and enough water flows down these streams to irrigate the whole valley from end to end. In the autumn the water of the Rio Grande is somewhat exhausted before 1t reaches the Texas line, and the farming induktry below Fl Paso is thus threatened. but the June floods send the water down in riot ous abundance, so that valuable drops are often ruined by itE overflow. { The engineering question of paramount im- of the Rio arande by storing the overflow of June for the fdrouths' 6f August. Att tempts are already being made to do this. but it will be gigantic engineering feat that will require years for completion
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

MT. R. B. Smyer calls attention in a card in another column to the prop osition before the Board of Aldermen to purchase property on the Southside for park purposes. A city cannot have too many parks, and if the city has funds to devote to. this purpose money cannot be better expended.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Ex-Governor Taylor of Kentucky Is still delighted with the climate Of Indiana. He considers 1t better for his nerves than the climate of Ken lucky.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
An Interstate Marriage.

A wider interest than personal friend ship or acquaintance attaches to this wedding invitation: fs
 Mrs. Jamie Small Peeler requests the honor of ---.s presence at the marriage of her daughter Wylle Belle. to MT. John Archer Fillmore, on Wednesday afternoon, october g. at 5 80 o'clock at 52o Washing ton avenue, Macon, Ga,
 Mr. Elmora the bridegroom in this happy interstate marriage. is the elder son of Major Vincent M. Elmore. one of the most honored of Montgomerians and grandson of the famous John A. Elmors, whose full name he bears and in whose honor Fillmore county was named He Is
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Sir Thomas Lipton's expenses to date in his, attempt to lift the Cup have been $462,9s5. This item prop erly belongs to the advertising ac- count of his grocery store.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Admiral Schley has been retired from the navy, but not from attend ance upon the court of inquiry. He is there to see what the naval ring is trying in vain to establish.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

With the pianos out of the way, Gen eral Kitchener hopes. to give the Roers all the war they can attend to.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

When President Roosevelt goes to the bat he is apt to score at least a clean singlebagger.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

New York State appropriates s20.- 100000 a year to her public schools without blinking an eye,
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Habibullah Khan, here's to you. May your life be one grand, sweet subsidy from India.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

It Is impossible to induce our Sultan of Sulu to take 8 deep interest in marriage and divorce questions.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Emma Goldman stood the ordeal well, and she Is now prepared to preach anarchism at so much preach.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Ann odelia Dis DeBarr is in Lon don stirring up trouble. She is old enough to be in the chorus.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Admiral Schley holds his own in the headlines, even if they have put him out of the active navy.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

King Edward is an excellent after dinner speaker. put all his speeches are prepared before dinner
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

China is about ready to quit kow- towing and get down to steady re- form diet.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

The Schley case may be appealed to the court of the people, which will sit in 1904.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

The human memory is on trial in the court of inquiry. It needs jack. ing up.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

This country will soon consist of beet rooters and sugar caners.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

General Miles has decided to let the Alger book stand while unanswered.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Mir. Alger's book is as free from prejudice as the naval clique.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Carrie Nation has fallen to the ounty-fair-attraction level.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
North Birmingham Furnaces.
About Persons.

The Rev Father Meurer, priest of the church of Our Lady of Sorrows, has re- turned from a visit to bis brother an eminent priest of St. Louis, greatly im- proved in health, During Father Meurer's absence the duties of his church have been discharged by the Right Rev. Mon
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
IHE oNLY pAlLr NIwspApIR IN ALAsAMA

The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds pang as great r As when giant dies.
 --Measure for Measure.
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Not in love neither7 Then let's say you
 are sad Because you are not merry: and 'twere
 as easy
 For you, to laugh, and leap, and say, you
 are merry,
 Because you are not sad. Now, by two-
 headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in
 her time:
 Some that will evermore peep through
 their eyes.
 And laugh, like parrots, at bag-piper; And others of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way
 of smile
 Though Nestor swear the jest be laugh
 ter.
 satan's chief agents upon the earth are those of vinegar aspect who snap and snarl. wrangie and quarrel. whine and fuss and fume and show themselves to be so many apes, with authority or with out it,
 Luck or money puts the, eontemptible fellows in place. and then they begin to show the cheap and vulgar stuff of which they are made. God help us, most Of us have had to contend with these vulgar upstarts; many of us have to contend with them every day; but the fact that the devil will get them in the end of- fers no proper comfort.
 We have of this class, as if to try our patience, the rude ruffians whom money or self-assurance has placed in associa- tion with responsibility and refinement loud mountebanks who are as false to propricty as they are to syntax; who are as completely unacquainted with the finer amenities as they are with the grammar of our tongue; swaggering swineherds and ewinebutehers of a society In general which prociaims its crudeness by It's tol- erance. A-
 These .intolerable nuisances, the ill-con- ditioned snarlers and the ill-bread ruff fans. are on the deyips list of his elect; but the trouble is. they are intolerably long in going to their master. We never hear of one of their kind dying; they are extensively lusty and long-lived!
 Beware of men who do, not laugh, and shun laughteriess women my beloved for none of them is to be trusted.
 Let no master trust servant and no servant have faith in a master who laughs not at all.
 Whilst a man may smile and smile and be villain, no man who habituaily frowns and fusses can be either kind or heart or personally honest; and any one who is so unkind of heart and unmanner-
 
 related to the Fitzpatricks, the Reeses, the Hailses, and other historic families or Montgomery county.
 MT. Fillmore is a lawyer, a member of the Montgomery bar, and is one of the brightest and most engaging young men in the State capital. His younger brother. Lieutenant Vincent Fillmore, Is the commandant of the University of Ala bama-
 North Birmingham Furnaces.
 North Birmingham furnace No of the sloss-sheffield Iron and Steel Company. which has been under repair for several weeks, will probably be again put into blast next Friday.
 The other one of the North Birmingham furnaces of this company was repaired, virtually rebuilt during the summer. The output was largely increased, and the furnace is now giving the greatest satis- faction.
 The work of repair and reconstruction of the furnaces has been under the direc- ton and control of Gentry Hillman. and his success in carrying out such diffi-
The age-herald., 1901-10-13

Elihu Yale was the father of foot
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Manhood"

 These lines, entitled Manhood" were sent hither by friend at Hillman who asks the name of the author: Not til nfe.s heat has cooled, The headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace, And every purblind passion that mas
 ruled.
 Our noisier years at last Spurs us in vain. and, weary of the race, We care no more who loses or who wins. Ahi not till all the best of life seems past The best of life begins. To toll for only fame Hand-clapping and the ficlle gusts Of
 praise.
 For place or power or gold to gild a
 name
 Above the grave whereto All patAs will bring us, were to lose our
 days We on whose ears youths passion bell
 has tolled In blowing bubblesp The copy sent is mutilated, and the in- quirer desires a complete copy, with the authors name. Will some one gratify him? Referring to the argument of the lines, he writes: t.. Tt would seem to me to be the proper and philosophic view for youth, or rather middle age, to talk of coming old age"
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
HuaaIn, Mss HuaIn.

Tt was certain to happen, and 1t has happened-a girl has been hugged nearly to death by her lover" said George Thomas of Chicago last night.
 'In Janesville, Wisconsin, as I heard while there the other day, Miss Carrie Hugin was so tightly hugged by her lover that the services of local physician were necessary to release her overlapped ribs. Miss Hugin and her lover had been out walking. On reaching home they spent considerable time talking on the shady porch. This was at 10 o'clock in the evening.
 Before his departure for home the strong admirer grasped his sweetheart in his arms and with mighty force em- braced her. Miss Hugin was unable to sleep that night on account of excessive pains in her side, and the next morning she consulted physician, who found that her lower ribs had been interlocked.
 Miss Hugin, after considerable hesita- ton and questioning, revealed the cause of her injury"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-06-07

from the Item travelling expenses
but leave tho amount ,,,,,,,, 900
s. w wilcox. on behalf ~ the min
orlty, made a report II reads as fol-
lows
Hon. J. A. Aklna, Speaker House OF Rep
ressntatiyes.
Sir The undersigned, members OF the
Committee on Agriculture ana Commerce..
hsrswith presents minority report re-
iAtina 10 the items FeaommtnasA Ia the
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-06-07

DAY AMONG
THE SOLONS
A Message From
the Governor
Read.


when you have that tired feeling
rbv ms, adjourn. This Is the cure the
Senators have adopted whenever ennui
Green's over them. which is quite often.
That thew would rather 90 out TO the
hascb and fish or IoIl around under the
shade of a spreadinr algeroba tree. al
post goes without saving
T. took the Senators lust five minutes
Yesterday to decide whether or not they
should do any business the decision
beinp in favor of the "algeroba tree. "
The excuse given for their actions was
that Eanuha,s majority report on mill
t.rv was NOT readv. They remembered
"a forge+ that they had other matters
awaiting decision
senator Carter proposed that a re-
cess he taken until n. m. in order
IN allow Kanuha time in which to
,,,asopt bis renort Kanuha the slasher.
in t,rad tone of voice amended the
,,otion to talsa recess nv Suggesting,
- odiourn untr 10 a m TODAY. which
yas accented nv senator Carter and
o.rr,od u,i+bout a dissenting vote
sanotor John ~ brown he of the
,s,erous nronortions and his bosom
sriana can.tor yacht sought refuge
under the trees on the capitol lawn.
uhi,o senator "Oilv Rill" and few
Of tho "oboss,, biea themselves to
tho "cano+or,s Ratraatu whore a "cold