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Daily camera., 1901-10-16
Trying to FinA O.s,

"Tommie, 10 your mamma at
homer" asked q lady caller coming
up the gravel walk. Tommie, who
was peeping around the corner Of the
house. gave q guilty start and then
replied, meekly:
That's jiet wot wuz tryin' Z find
out; I've bin swimmin'. Ohio State
Journal.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
TO TEST THE LAW.
Negroes Have Employed Counsel To Attack Louisiana Enfranchlsement.

Washington, June 25 = Especially = The Afro-American consul here proposes 10 test the validity of the election laws in the southern states that disfranchise the negro. At a meeting held here to get con- tributions to help in the work it was pointed out by speakers that the consti- tutional convention In Alabama was be- ing held largely with view to disfran- chising the negro. It was stated that able legal talent had been secured in Louisiana to bring the matter before the courts, and the case, 1t is claimed, will be car- ried to the United States Supreme Court. Judson W. Lyons, Register of the Treas- ury, spoke in favor of testing these con- stitutions. The Rev George w. Lee took ..-sue with Lyons on his statement that the Republican party was a strong arm which was supporting the negro He said: "If the party is standing by the rights of the colored citizens, as has been alleged by MT Lyons, the party must now be taking a long sleep. It is in full power and control of the government but we do not hear of anything it is doing 10 protect the colored brother in his rights which the southern states are now taking away from him. The party must wake up if 1t wants our people to believe shat 1t is alive to our interests"
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ing an immense loss of patronage of various sorts, The plutocratic in- fuences in the North are now in con- trol, and all the favors and opportuni- ties now go to those who have pulls of that sort. Tariffs are made to suit their schemes. The South is in short taxed and robbed unmercifully; getting nothing in return. How and when this state of things should be remedied, is pretty difficult problem. Section alism Is still rampant. Demagogues can still utilize it. But perhaps after all the best way to bring about a change is to secure the election of a Democrat to the Presidency who will deal fairly with the South. If the South has the most available man, well and good; if the North has the man, let us support him. Tn other words, we should not put forward the sectional ism that the North has consistently maintained. The South can be treated
 fairly only through a Democratic vic tory, and instead of demanding a sec tional candidate let us seek first and
 last Democrat who can be elected.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
Road Map of Jefferson.

Jefferson County, with a network of admirable roads, by far the best in the State, has no road map, being in this respect excelled by hundreds of coun- ties in this country, although not one of them has better country roads. The need of a road map is felt in various directions. Home hunters would study it; the bicycle brigade would use it daily; the coming carriers of the free delivery service would find it useful, and real estate throughout the broad and splendid county demands such a map.
 The Board of Revenue have legisla- tive authority to make such map, and as the cost of it would not exceed $250 an order should be given for its mak- ing. Let all the world know what roads Jefferson County has. These roads are the pride of the county, and the county cannot afford to hide it's light under a bushel. The expense would be quickly replaced in various directions. Such a map would have been made long ago in some States if the roads of Jefferson had been theirs to enjoy, and perhaps the fact that no Alabama county has a road map has operated to prevent the making of one here. But Jefferson leads the way in the State in the respect of good roads, and it may well be the first county in the State to print road map. At any rate one is greatly needed, and is con stantly inquired for, and as the cost would not be large the Board of Reve- nue should not hesitate to order the making of such map.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
.SNe SNxee 5rieNdNN NatAOns.
sY JOHN p. FOLEY.

Call the roll of the great nations and answer if am net right in the proposition that three of them, the United States, Great Britain and Ireland with its splen- did system of colonies; and Germany with It's eoloniesI are not natural friends? In all of them the dominant racial element is the same, with, of course, adnixtures of other races more or less potential. Their literature draws It's inspiration from the same parent reot. Their laws can be traced back to the same fountain head, while in the great domain of religious be- lief, they may be said to stand on the same common ground. In the matter of government there Is divergence. The present ruler of one of them aims at the creation of an absolutism that is as fant- tastic as 1t Is foolish and antiquated. The
 net result of his endeavors is to make himself and his medieval theories ridieu- lous. He Is simply an awful example of what to do away with In the line of mon- archs, and the greet German nation may be trusted to do that in it's own way if experience does not teach him the neces- slty of doing 1t of his own accord. Never can Germany be Russianized. England
 in nearly every respect presents the best ordered system of menarehial government that ever existed. The power of the head of the State has been reduced very nearly to a minimum. His nominal supremacy
 is shadow without substance. As com pared with the Sixth Edward. the Seventh one of the name is the mere ghost of kng-a king in buckram, not a king in armor of steel whose mandate was not to be defied with impunity. The third mem-
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Der of this natural national partnership needs ne description. Far in advance of either iH it's governmental forms, 1t fz, or ought to be, the Ink that should unite all in the line of peace and progress
 The ststesmansl1ip which could succeed In affecting an understanding between these three nations of such character that rivalry of all kinds should be plotted cut would be the means of accomplishing more good fer all Humanity than has any alliance that has been formed in half the centuries. United for peace, they could make war next to impossible. No power or combination of powers, would dare at tack thema It may be said that there is the industrial battle, that marz.xks must be conquered; in other words that one set of factories in one nation must be pitted against another set of factories in another one with great captains of indus try in command of all. This is really the old feudal system in another form It means the triumph of one band of baruns, the crowding to the wall of another band, but the people are in the end the victims. To wage this industrial warfare, as it is justly called, there must be armies and fleets. These are expensive luxurtes, or necessities, to put 1t in both ways But are they not luxuries that can be dis pensed with? And are they not merely imaginary necessities which in reality have no existence except under a false system? And, viewed from this point of view, would not the world be better in every way If these three natural national friends could be brought into harmony, the harmony of a tripartic policy which should have for its aim the greatest good of the greatest number? That is the only foundation on which all just government can securely rest.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
UNDERWOOD LIBEL CASE.
Judge Evans Intlmates That He Will
 Let Judgment Stand.

Nashville, Tenn, June 25-In the United States District Court here today Judge Walter Evans heard motion for a new trial in the Underwood Cunningham libel case in which plaintiff had been awarded damages of s1oO0O against Cunningham, as proprietor of the Confederate Veteran, and s15,00O additional damages against Cunningham and the Methodist Publish ing House jointly. Judge Evans has not yet rendered his decision on the motion but stated plainly to the counsel that he would probably let the verdict of $10,000 against Cunningham individually stand, but that he would greatly reduce that of s15.00O against Cunningham and the publishing house jointly.
 The judge said he would leave accept ance of the reduction optional with Gen eral Underwood and that in case of 0 refusal new trial would be granted. He refused positively to separate the two cases, saying the printer was fully as liable as the author.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
AMERICAN APPLE CROP.

From the New York Commercial
 The American apple crop in 1900 aggre- gated GOO barrels, of which we ex- ported only 100000 barrels. On an aver age yield of $2 a barrel the price in Lon don and Liverpool runs from g tosEthis crop should have had an aggregate value of at least s4So, ,O0o,0O0, which is sls0, 900 OOO in excess of the total value of our cotton crop in recent years. This money Is, of course, distributed over a vastly greater area than the returns from the cotton crop are, and through a large number of States and more diversified classes of people. Still the apple crop. as it grows and is handled, excites not hundredth part of the popular interest that attaches to cot ton, although its yield is about A per cent. in excess of cotton.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
COST OF STUDYING IN BERLIN.

From the Woman's Home Companion.
 It costs the average American girl stu dent from $50 to s75 month for living ex- penses in Berlins To keep her expendi- lures within the former sum of course necessitates the exercise of rather strict economy. If this money be spent judic- iously, however. she may have taste of all the comforts of life and even some of its luxuries. The lessons. from the masters cost from s to s10 each, and the girl who brings sufficient training from home will profit much from her\weekly audience with the great teacher Rpoms in the fashionable quarter of BerlirN are expensive, although after the third story is passed there is a decrease in pricss. The style of living is much more sim pie than In America, and the plainest meal is generally well cooked and nour- ishing.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
Southeru Candidate s.

A syndicate writer is endeayoring to show that the Democratic party should bring forth a Southern man for Presi- dent. There is much truth in what he says about the exclusion of the South from the honors and emoluments of the country. It has been carried be- yond all reason
 It is claimed that the South, pos sessing one-third of the people of the country and paying one-third of its taxes, mostly of an indirect sort, should have one-third of the national honors and emoluments. As a matter of fact the South gets next to nothing. Out of the enormous pension fund regularly disbursed it receives, instead of one third, about one-twentieth. One-third of it is taken from Southern pockets to be placed in pockets in other sec tions. This has been going onsforty years, and will go on forty years more.
 While the South is paying pensions at this rate, why should it not receive due consideration in other respects This is the point raised by the syndi cate writer, and he goes on to show that the South has not been permitted to furnish President since 1844, foI Zachary Taylor was an army man Only one Southern vice-President has been elected in thirty-six years. Sec tional ostracism has extended to Cabi net places also. Since the war 12t Cabinet officers have been appointed f2 of whom should have been Southern men. The South has had since the war:
 The secretary of state, out of 16.
 Secretary of the treasury, out of 22.
 Secretary of war, out of 2z.
 Secretary of interior, out of 1s.
 Secretary of the navy. out of Is.
 Secretary of agriculture. out of 5.
 Postmaster general, out of p.
 Attorney general, out of 22
 All told, the South has had IT Cabi- set appointments instead of 42, inyoly.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
County Aid Not Needed.

 port seems to have been specially de signed to thwart public education. No friend of the schools has asked for any such scheme. No friend of the schools of Alabama desires it now. It is peculiarly built on the plan of How not to do It.
 The friends of the schools desire a large State school appropriation. This should never be lost sight of. They know the weaker districts need help, and they believe the stronger should help the weaker in this matter of mak- ing better citizens. The cities should help the country; the more powerful counties should help the weaker coun- ties. There is not friend of public education in the State who does not endorse this feature of public educa- ton. The State as a whole should do all it can do to carry to all children the rudiments of education.
 But beyond State aid each and every community should be permitted to con- trol it's own schools. County aid is not an essential feature of the case. It may as well be eliminated, or if not eliminated altogether it should be left as a resource of exceptional sections of the State. It is not county aid that ,. should be relied on as supplementary to State aid, but fully localized aid. Let each community be it's own judge of the sort of schools 1t will have. Give each and every community free and full power to provide it's own schools, State aid being of course taken into consideration. This is the way to have great schools. This is the rule in at least forty States out of forty-flve. All but Alabama encourage in local way public education, and the committee on taxation proposes to keep Alabama an llliterate State in this respect Its county scheme of school taxation should be cut out altogether, and every school community, be it in town or country, should be told to suit itself as to what kind of schools it will have beyond State aid. In this way, and in this way alone, can the pledges of the Democratic party in behalf of schools be kept.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
Depew on the Third Term.

Senator Depew publishes letter, in which he endeavors to defend his third term fiasco In reality he favors a third term both personally and as the chief representative of the Vanderbilt family and allied plutocratic forces. They want to man stable" and a strong" government, and this means freedom as far as possible from popu- lar intervention. The people are in other words to be eliminated as nearly as that can be done under the consti- tuition, and the third-term is an essen tial plank in their platform.
 As matter of fact, the third-term movement fell fiat. No one offered the crown to MT. Mckinley except Chauncey M. Depew, and his affilia- tions rendered the offer of little value, and the shrewd Ohio politician prompt ly discarded what he saw was beyond his reach. He knew, even if MT. De- pew did not, the emptiness of his re- ception in the South, and he acted upon his knowledge.
 But MT. Depew goes on to argue in favor of third term. He insists that the Grant effort was really an anti Blaine effort-that C1eveland's defeat was due to other causes than third term-that in a word there is no un- written law on the subject. The "pa- triot" he is looking for will never come while the ballot remains in the American people. If the trusts can be carried to complete control of public affairs a Diaz or an emperor will be- I come a logical result, and MT. Depew, if alive and well, will be the court jes- ter; but while even fragment of our | institutions remain untouched by the
 Supreme Court and the trusts, nothing of the kind will occur, no matter how
 welcome it would be to MT. Depew and | his crowd of semi-imperialists. The
 sincerity of MT. Depew's advocacy of
 a third term for MT. Mckinley should
 not be doubted. He says he stands
 pat and justified" He wants third term, and he does not much care who the recipient be- He chiefly wants a
 new precedent. He wants to abolish
 the unwritten law. He wants some
 thing that cannot be upset in day in I November. He really wants a king, l and so do those behind him.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
HIGH LIGHTS.

From the Chicago Record-Herald
 Indulgence in regret is to pay twice for experience.
 This is the whole problem: Is life a circle or a spiral7
 It is possible for conventionalities to be observed in a very unmannerly way.
 Style is inborn distinction; 1t is not merely pretensious airs or fine gar ments.
 Life would be easier if 1t were true that we get credit for the good we intend to do as we'll as for the good we do.
 In espousing the right. be very sure you are not doing so merely to indulge your tendency to be disagreeable.
 Religious controversy sometimes grows out of the fact that people like contro- versy better than they like religion.
 Energy is dangerous: your little spurts of 1t may inspire some weaker. brother to continuous effort which will give him nervous prostration.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
BOY coNFEssEs.
Homer Bllss Acknowledges That He
 Killed His Father.

Mt Clemens, Mich.. June 2.-Homer Bliss who was arrested several days ago on suspicion of killing his father, whose badly decomposed body was found on his farm, confessed this afternoon to the crime, maintaining, however. that 1t was accidental. According to Bliss confess sion he found his father June about to commit suicide. In the struggle over the gun he had it was accidentally dis charged, Homer says. instantly killing his father. The next day Homer buried the body, leaving 1t in the ground until June IA when he exhumed 1t. Placing it on a wheelbarrow he moved 1t to the spot where it was found last Saturday. Here he propped 1t against stump and tied the gun to a sapling to make 1t appear his father had committed suicide.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
Railroad Officials Satisfied.

Salisbury, s. O., June 25-General Man. ager Frank Cannon of the Southern Rail- way was in Salisbury today en route 10 Knoxville. Regarding the machin.sts' strike on his road MT. Cannon said:
 Everything Is satisfactory to the rail- road. The shops are all rapidly filling up. I expect conditions to be normal in ten days"
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
IN HoTELNLoBBIES
 AM ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphal# Is prophecies for this day, WednesdaS June e6, 1901:
 Ask favors. deal, seeS work. and push thy business before D.. :"
 'Thy birthday Is fayy able one, and thy business will succeed those in em- pley may expect promotIenX
 Young women will haTie attention from the opposite sex'
 "A child born on this day will be very fortunate in employ or In business for itself. and will rise in life. If a female rather fortunate in marriage"
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
NEW ORLEANS DELEGATION
Waits Upon General Passenger Agent
 Stone In Behalf of MT. Kilkenny.

Louisville, Ky, June 25.-A delegation day called upon General Passenger Agent Stone and the passenger traffic manager of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in behalf of Col John Kilkenny late di- vision passenger agent of this system in New Orleans. Colonel Kilkenny has re- gently partially lost his eyesght. The New Orleans delegation was headed by Col A. T. Moss of the City Council, and they had letters and authority to speak for ex-Mayor Fitzpatrick and many prominent citizens of New Orleans.
 No definite result was reached but the New Orleans gentlemen were we'll satis- fled with their interviews with the officers of the road.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
THE PENALTY OF BEING IDLE.

From Sarah Grand's London Lecture.
 likeness is at the bottom of the drunk enness, gluttony and sensuality which compass the destruction of one section of the community at the present time. It is at the bottom of that particular form of heartache which is the plaque of womenL the heartache of purposeless, miserable existence. Such women often look for ward to marriage to cure them, but when they are married and settled the old mal- ady recure. and in our own day we see them running hither and thither after that elusive something. Others try to find cure in the suffrage and others again in cigarettes.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
sELF-HELP FOR NERVOUS WOMEN

pr. John Mitchell in Harper's Bazar.
 Learn to keep still when you rest; when you move, move with the part of the body needed: do not waste your force by walk ing with your arms and face as we'll as with your legs. If circumstances force an unusual and fatiguing amount of exer- tion upon you. break it now and then by periods of absolute rest. No matter how brief they are, they will be useful if you make them complete and perfect in the way described. This is true of mental as well as bodily exertion. A minute or two minutes of quiet, with closed eyes if pos sible. with your tension relaxed and the gearing of the machinery thrown off for the moment. will help and refresh you greatly. Here. again, more may be gain ed if the ability to relax mentally can be secured, in a fashion similar to the with drawing of muscular tension. Learn to empty your mind when not using it.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
TIE +RIUMPH OF TRUTH.

Beatrice Hanscom. in the Century. If you should say that you couldn't guess What I've tried to tell you the summer
 through, Come. Nellie. honestly now. confess.
 Would that be true7 If you would say that though girls galore Have been jolly and ehummy, and quite
 liked you, You were never rsaIly in love before,
 Would that be true? If you should say from the very start You have always fancied that liked
 Prue, That you must take time ere you know
 your heart,
 Would that be true9 If you should. say that you never firt That you never stay at your club till two, That you think Pauline is both fiat and
 Would that be trusa If you should say you regret I'm rich. That you'd like me better without a sou, That you'd love fiat. and to cook and
 stitch
 Would that be trues She But if. perchance, am far too wise To fib in the manner that most girls do- He And if, adjurine the usual Hes. I should say, of all girls that ever knew (And your predecessors form quite line) The dearest. tho sweetest. the best Is you. Is 1t true that you'll promise you will be
 mine?
 She Yes. dear. it's true.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
THE GREAT DusE's BIRTHPLACE

From the London Chronicle.
 In a biography of Eleanora Duse by Luigi Rasi, which will shortly appear at Florence, there is an interesting story of the famous actress infancy. She was born in a wagon near Venice and was be- ing taken to a church for baptism, ac- cording to local custom. in glass cradle ornamented with gold, when a detach- ment of Austrian soldiers came along. Regarding this sumptuous cradle as a shrine full of holy relics they respectfully presented arms.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
FinIay Expelled.

Melbourne, June 25.-Amid scenes of excitement in the crowded galleries, the Federal assembly today, by vote of GA to r. expelled MT. Finlay, editor of To- cal labor organ, for republishing in his paper the article from the Irish People of Dublin, dated May 10, violently attack ing King Edward, which caused the seiz- ure of the last mentioned weekly period ical by the police of Dublin, Cork and other towns of Ireland.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
Passing Worthless Checks.

Kansas City, Mo, June 25.-Warren Stoner who was arrested in Chicago on the charge of attempting to pass worth- less checks, is son of the late Col. R. G. Stoner, prominent horse breeder: and who once owned Baron Wilkes" Mrs. Stoner, who was a Miss Fox of Danville. Ky, will leave for Chicago tonight ac- companied by her two children.
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
New Depot for Knoxville.

Knoxville, Tenn, June S.-Frank S. Cannon, third vice president and general manager of the Southern Railway who is, in Knoxville tonight, states that the contract for an ss0,0OO depot at Knoxville would be let in three weeks. A large amount of Tennessee marble will be used in the building. MT. Cannon refused to speak about the strike situation on the road
The age-herald., 1901-06-26
GUN BREACH BLEW OUT.
Captain Bray of English Army and One
 Enlisted Man Killed.

London, June @.-During artillery prac- tice on the Isle of Wight today the breach of 12-pound rifle blew out, kill ing Captain A. L. Bray of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and one enlisted ran, and wounded eight other men, three of whom will die. Colonel A. J. Nixon, of the same regiment, was also slightly wounded by the explosion