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The age-herald., 1901-07-09
Charbon in Mississippi.

Charbon, which is attacking cattle horses and even mules in Mississippi Arkansas and Louisiana, Is the old dis ease formerly called anthrax, and it was known to the Romans, and it has bothered the world ever since. Even men take 1t, or rather flies and mos- quitoes may transfer the disease from dead animal to a human being. A few deaths of people on this account nave already occurred.
 In the three States it is chiefly con- fined to overflow districts. Cattle that are not allowed to graze on bottom lands are not apt to take it, although there are exceptions through the work of flies and mosquitoes. Grass and even corn grown on land infected with the disease will even in another year create it. The bacilli go on from year to year. Between Memphis and New Orleans all the bottoms are becoming infected, and scarcely COW is left in some of the counties.
 The remedy consists in prevention through vaccination, for there is no remedy after an attack of the disease occurs. A weak fluid is injected at nrst, and twelve days later a stronger fluid. This renders an animal immune. Even dogs take the disease. The vac cine preparation IS at hand in sufficient quantities, and many are using 1t. Un- less it is freely used the bottom lands of the Mississippi and of tributary streams will soon be robbed of live stock, and this would be a greater calamity than overflow. The anthrax fever runs it's course in an animal speedily, and the stock on farm is swept off in some cases in a couple of days. But if a farmer can have about twenty days warning of the disease he can keep 1t off through the use oi the anti-anthrax vaccine preparation
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
WE DRINK OCEANS OF COFFEE.

From the New 1Ork sun.
 One-half of the worlds production of coffee berries Is brought to the United States Americans are the greatest coffee drinkers on the face of the globe now, and every year the consumption of coffee is increasing here.
 Last year 1t was more than 800,0c0, 900 pounds for the whole country, or more than 10k pounds head of the population. Germany and France together only con- stunned half as much coffee, Germany less than pounds a head and France only Az pounds per capita. The United Kingdom used little more than half pound of the berries per head of the population, but over there they made up for 1t by drink ing more tea than any other nation.
 More than a million dollars is sent out of the United States every week in pay ment for coffee. South and Central Amer ican countries, which supply us with more than 600, 900, 900 pounds of coffee a year, get most of the money. Porto Rico, Java and the Philippines get almost all the rest but little goes to Hawaii, where they produce a very superior brand of coffee berry.
 Last year the total value of the coffee imported into the United States was about $60 900, 000 and that was less than for sev- eral years, because the import price of coffee has fallen about one-half.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09

to seek education is an actual present peril of the gravest moral consequences.
 The men who are responsible for this absurd and unrighteous grandfather clause declare that 1t is meant to carry out the pledge of one political party that no white man shall be deprived of his right to vote under a constitution that shall govern all parties-all the people of Ala bama
 mat IS rank nonsense-it is impossibleI Under the proposed registration scheme. the burden will be upon every white man concerned to prove that he is either a Confederate veteran the son of a Confed- crate veteran, or the descendant of a war fought in the dim past,
 There are thousands and tens of tbo,,. sands of men of voting age who can give proof of no such thing
 There are thousands of Confederata veterans who could not give proof that they fought for the Confectionery
 There are thousands of the sons of Confederate veterans now of voting age who could not possibly prove that their fathers fought as soldiers of the Confed- crate army!
 There are thousands of men , whose fathers were too old to fight for the Con federate states, who were themselves too young, and who have no means under heaven of proving that they are de- scended from soldiers of previous wars of the United States!
 Suppose Confederate veteran goes to the registrar to vote, and in answer to the question whether he was veteran and which was his company, which regi- ment, and so on, and he answers in sim pie honesty. and is then asked for proof then what?
 Suppose then son of veteran seeks to register and he Is asked the same question as to his fathers record, and he answers, 'T do not know as thousands would have to answer-then what?
 Suppose a man who was not in the Confederate army, and whose father did not or could not serve the Confederacy because he was too old seeks to register and the registrar asks him to name the war service of his ancestry-then what?
 'It is wrong hopelessly wrong-this proposed grandfather clause in the new Constitution Its enactment would be fraught with the gravest consequences, and in the cause of common justice and morality it should be defeatedl"
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
Fat Governors and Others.

An old friend of Governor Jelks de- clared yesterday that the burdens of state were making the Governor fat; that he had recently gained fully twenty pounds, ard that he looked even happier than in the days of his youthful gladness and lesser responsibilities. It Is well. The able and distinguished young Governor may not be pleased himself that he Is growing fat; but the people will like it. Fat men are ever amiable as fat women are jolly; though, as for Governor Jelks, he was amiable in his tall and rather bony youth, and has been amiable all the while.
 It Is not stated here as a fact that Governor Jelks Is fat or fattening-an outside friend says 1t of him-but If 1t be really true, he is the second fat Cover nor of Alabama since the war between the States, the only other one having been Governor Oates. Governor Patton was of medium size; Governor Parsons was big man, but not fat, and the same was true of Governor Smith. Gov ernor Lindsay wasn't at all fat, and his successor Governor Lewis, was not above medium. Governor Houston was stout, but not fat. Governor Cobb was tall and raw-bony and is still. Governor O'Neal was a small man, and Governor Seay even smaller. Governor Jones was tall and thin, and is yet, but his success sor. Governor Oates, though a big man, might still be called fat. Certainly Gov ernor Johnston has never been fat; and his successor, Governor Sanford, was a very thin large man.
 War Governor" Watts was fat. and lived to a green old age in fatness and amiabiity. And so may it be with Gov ernor Jelks.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
THE SPLENDID SPUR.

By A. T. Quiller-Couch. Not on the neck of prince or hound Nor on a womans finger twin'd, May gold from the deriding ground Keep sacred that we sacred bind;
 On the heel
 Of splendid steel Shall stand secure on sliding fate When golden navies weep their freight. The scarlet hat, the laureled slave Are measures, not the spring, of worth In wifes lap, as in a grave. Mans airy notions mix with earth.
 Seek other spur
 Bravely to stir The dust in this loud world. and tread Alp-high among the whispering dead Trust in theyself--then spur amain: So shall Charybdis wear grace. Grim Aetna laugh, the Lybian plain Take roses to her shriveled face.
 This orb-this round
 Of sight and sound Count 1t the lists that God hath built For naughty hearts to ride atilt.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
CAPTAIN JENKs' PET PIKE.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 The angler Is again in his glory, and many picturesque stories are being scat tered abroad of fine catches and strange experiences with the finny treasures of the deep. Perhaps the prize yarn of all up to date his its source in Cass lake. which Is a very popular resort with local anglers The story Is told by Capain Frank Jenks, a quaint old character, who has the care of several summer cottages at the lake, and who passes his spare time in turing the elusive and sporty fish from their home. He tells of his latest catch in a sincere and sober manner that can hard ly fall to carry conviction. In fact. he would probably wax indignant were a suspicion cast upon the truth of his state ments.
 Upon several occasions he noticed a beautiful pike in the vicinity, and he re-
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
Mir. Bowie and a Poll Tax.

Congressman Bowie is so broad minded and big in every sense of the word, it is difficult to "cross" him. There are two paragraphs in his let ter, however, that need support of some kind. He says:
 "It has been suggested that the poll tax provision was enough, and that no other should be adopted. That the pre- payment of a poll tax Is wise provision is not to be doubted. I personally would have preferred to have seen the age limit raised, but the committee unanimously decided In favor of the present rate and age limit, and I have no doubt 1t did the very best it could under the circum- stances But even if the limit and amount were raised, while 1t would help, 1t would not cure the sore, the source of the corruption and danger in our insti- tutions, would remain.
 What we want Is not merely partial, but complete relief. Those who under stand the situation best all realize that the poll tax provision alone will not meet the exigences of the situation. Something more was and is absolutely essential
 Here are glittering generalities to bea. the band But these generalities with all their glitter are not satisfac- tory. If a poll tax provision be not sufficient, let MT Bowie name wherein o,d ,,baro ood xx,ba,, it would not ha He should descend from the Jeffer- sonian style to a plain statement of detailed facts. Name the time, spot and environment in which a poll tax provision would be insufficient, and then all will listen. Generalities of any sort do not fit the case.
 The Age-Herald has never said that poll tax provision would suffice. It has always maintained that poll tax provision should be backed up with a good primary election law. The pres ent convention is chiefly determined to see that Sta.e primary shall never be established, although the people want it.
 But let that pass. MT. Bowie will find as he goes along under the new constitution that the poll tax provision will do the work, keeping the worth less of both races away from the polls. He will soon see that it alone is op- erative after all, as is the case today in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, and then he will be forced to admit that the poll tax provision does meet the exigencies of the situa- tion."
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
 WOULD EDUCATE NEGRO

"One of the chief results of the grand father clause in the franchise provision of the new constitution of Alabama, If adopted and prolonged will be to bring about the education of practically all the negroes living in the towns and a great number of those living in the country districts, while the chil- dren of uneducated white men will continue to be ignorant" declared Ben jamin F. Roden a Confederate veteran, and one of the oldest, most successful and influential business men of Birmingham. a man who is the architect of his own large fortune.
 This inexcusably bad and therefore highly objectionable clause would offer the greatest possible encouragement to the negroes to educate themselves and their children, and would at the same time offer the greatest possible Encouragement to ignorant white men to educate them selves and their children. It is a well recognized fact that the negro is ambi- tious to learn to read and write.
 ''The delegates responsible for the grandfather clause declare to the negro that he can not vote unless he can read and write, or have so much property, and at the same time they declare to the un- educated white man that he need not learn to read and write, that he is the special ward and pet of the State and that the exercise of the ballot is his by inheritance, provided that he is the de- scendant of a Confederate soldier or a soldier of some other war previous to that between the States
 Followed to it's logical conclusion, this deplorable law might easily result in the end In raising up a majority of negro voters in Alabama; that is to say, might bring about condition of things wherein a majority of the voters of Alabama would be negroes.
 This Is a very serious and lamentable thing to contemplate, but that Is precise ly the danger the majority of the fran chise committee of the constitutional con- vention is proposing in all seriousness to the white people of Alabama
 The danger Is grave possibility, and its coming would be appalling!
 "But apart from such danger, the propo- sition to practically and in plain words encourage the negro to educate himself and discourage the uneducated white man
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
About Persons.

United States Senator Edmund Winston Pettus and Judge Mabry of Selma passed through Birmingham last night on their way home from Tate Springs.
 Hon. Tennent Lomax of Montgomery passed through Birmingham last night on his way to Chicago to attend the supreme grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias.
 Hon. William T. Northington of Pratt vile is at the Morris.
 Capt. J. B. Webb of Plant City, Fla, is in Birmingham. Captain Webb has been spending several months in this city, where he owns a large amount of proper ty.
 William Hamilton Hayne of Augusta, Ga, the gifted poet, only son of the famous poet Paul H. Hayne, is the guest of Mr. David Roberts, at Quinlan avenue and Twenty first street.
 Rev. Father Ambrose, o. s. P. of the Benedlctlne monastery ana colieBe oI 6t Bernard, Cullman, who had been for ten days in Birmingham, returned home last night.
 W. A. Latimer of Asheville, N. C.; c. w. Stringer of Talladega, s. O. Doty of An niston, N. O. Burchell of Montgomery, John s. Bell of Pensacola, and D. R. Wood of Flomaton are at the Metropoli- tan.
 W. J. Kerr of Philadelphia is at the Morris.
 George N. Hunt of Atlanta is at the Morris.
 Hon. Ed deGraffenreid of Greensboro is on Birmingham on his way from Tate Springs to resume his duties in the con- stitutional convention in Montgomery.
 Maj. J. J. Harris of Faunsdale, W. w. Woodruff of Rome, Ga; D. A. Stroud and Gainesville, Ga., and J. s. Edson of Mont gomery are at the Florence.
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 Former Congressman Thomas S. Flow man of Talladega is at the Florence.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
SEMBRICH TO RETURN.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 A cablegram received yesterday an- nounces the engagement of Mercella Sem brich, the eminent prima donna, by MT. Maurice Grau for the coming opera sea son. The contract calls for sixty per- formances, and Sembrich will accon- pany the artists on the tour to the Pa ciflc coast, which will precede the New York season. In addition to the familiar roles in which the great singer Is un- rivalled she will be heard in Donizetti's s "L' 'Elisire d'Amore." If MT. Grau de- cides to produce Paderewski's opera "Manru' Sembrich will sing the role Hedwige, the heroine.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
lRr owlY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlABAMA
Love goes toward love, as schooIboy from their books.
 Romeo and Juliet.
County and Local School taxation.

The postponed section of the taxa tion report provides that county tax tu aid of public education may be lev fed if the total tax does not exceed SIPS on every $100 of values, and if this county school tax shall first be ratified by majority of electors both in numbers and values.
 This proposition has been softened in one respect and hardened in another by the Browne committee. Instead of a majority 1t now demands a three fifths vote, but the vote is to embrace all voters. Numbers and values" has been dismissed to unsayory history, or is about to be-
 Majority rule is the universal rule in this country, and the taxation commit tee goes out of the beaten track when 1t demands a three-fifths vote in favor of its county proposition for the better ment of the public schools that 722, ,333 children are supposed to attend. The children cannot vote. and when their parents and friends stand up for them three-fifths vote is demanded by the Browne committee.
 Chairman Browne says the proposi- ton will add S250,000 to the school funds eff the counties see fit to levy the tax" This is very large-sized 'if''-so large that no thoughtful stu
 At of Alabama expects anything from it. MT. Browne goes on to say:
 Something has been said and will
 be said with respect to levying this
 tax by school districts or townships.
 That is not practical in the State of
 Alabama. It would be very unpopular
 in counties like mine. I will not dis
 cuss the counties of other gentlemen.
 In the county of Talladega we have
 about seven townships in which are
 railroad centers. iron furnaces, cotton
 factories and large mercantile houses
 and the like. Those townships levy
 ing this tax and appropriating 1t all to their own use would have magnifi-
 cent schools; all the corporation taxes in the county would be paid to them
 and the outlying townships would get
 no benefit. Therefore, throughout the
 State of Alabama the county unit is
 much preferable to the township unit.
 The proposed county tax can, how ever, do no harm, now that numbers and values" has been eliminated; but what is needed is the right in each school district to supplement, as oc- casion may justify, whatever aid may come from the State or county,or both. This would render the school system nexible and equal to all times and oc- casions. It would operate to keep the entire constitution popular and endur- ing. If so it must be, let numbers and values" be reintroduced, but at any rate give the school system of the State fiexibility. Look ahead, in other words, not backward. Keep the county unit if you must, but give us real local taxation when all else fails.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
Bright Crop Prospects.

Commercial travellers who travel out of Birmingham report the crop prospects as being very fine The gloomy outlook caused by the prolonged wet and cold spring, which continued until June 6, has given place to cheerfulness, and there is every indication of abundant crops, ex- cept in a very few small and isolated localities, where rain is needed. The crops are two or three weeks late, but are very promising.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
soPHISTRY OF A RICH MAN.
From the Springfield Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
 John D. Rockefeller gave a little talk to the Fifth avenue Sunday school, which his son teaches, some days ago, and this was what he said:
 q believe a gift than which no other Is more valuable Is the gift of honest labor-giving a man steady work. I am not an orator nor an educator but just a business man. I did not come here to make a speech, but there is one thing upon which I would like to say a word l am engaged In a business that for thirty years has paid out each working day an average of $60O00 or $7O,00o in money. or about $22, 900 or s23, 900, 900 each year, to laboring men. For thirty years of the forty that I was in that par ticular business the aggregate so paid was between $500, 900 ,0OO and $7OO, 900 ooo And that I regard as the best kind of giving. I will ask you to pardon me for referring to this thing
 MT. Rockefeller Is credited with owning a majority of the stock of the Standard Oil Company. This stock now has a mar ket value of over $500, 900 900, of which nearly $3O0,000.O00 has been added on since the November election. If he owns nothing else whatever, he must therefore be worth some s4Oo. 100000, and his share of the Standard oil employment or wages paid during thirty years we may thus place at say s35O. .0OO.0 900, and his share of the average number of workmen em- ployed must have been about 10000. Hence it is made to appear that while paying out $S5o 900 900 to 10000 men he has paid to one man, himself. some $4OO, 900, 000 and under those circum- stances he might well chose some other subject for a public address than the credit still due him for giving honest work to other men.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer RaphaeIs prophecies for this day. Tuesday, July g, 1901:
 Do not travel or sign writings"
 Sickness and trouble threaten thee on this thy birthday; in thy business thou wilt have losses and changes, and an un- favorable year generally Those in em- ploy may expect to lose it."
 A hard struggle to succeed, and thwarted at nearly every step, will be the lot of the child born on this day. If a female, she will be unfortunate in her relations with the opposite sex
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
Iliiteracy in Alabama.

The esteemed Montgomery Adver- tiser is very much distressed over illit- eracy figures. It does not like to read that 33 per cent of the voters of Ala bama are illiterate. it will have to take the facts as they come from the census office; there is no other way. and when the table of States is ready. it will have to read Just where Ala bama stands. If it is the most Hitter ate State in the Union, the fact should be carried and will be carried into every beat and district in the State. It is to be regretted that the fact will in that case be carried round the world. This cannot be prevented. Peo. pie prefer to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If some other State is the most illiterate we'll and good; but if Alabama be the tailender, the fact should not be hid. and will not be.
 The esteemed Advertiser intimates that it is in favor of compulsory edu- cation. It carefully avoids saying as much in 8 positive, plain manner. It tries the inference route. Here is an example of the kind of stuff it deals out:
 we want the State to devote as much money to educational purposes as can be spared. but when this is done education will not be universal under present condi- tions. Either school attendance must be .snads compulsory or there must be such
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Hot weather takes the starch out of our modesty as well as our linen.
 Little children don't lie so much as grown-up people because they don't have to keep on speaking terms with their best friends.
 Mighty few men have the will power in weather like this to tell a woman they rather be with her in hot, stuffy parlor than anywhere else on earth.
 When there is something else to worry about, woman can worry because she never knew everything to be going all right without some great trouble being in store for her.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
ihe First Cool Night.

Last night was the first cool night since June 6. a little over one month ago. During all the time since then the heat has continued unbroken, except for two or three hours last Friday night and an equally brief period last Sunday night.
 On Sunday there were heavy showers throughout this immediate district, fol- lowing a downpour which lasted an hour and a half Saturday afternoon. Yester- day was cloudless and wonderfully bril- liant day, but the heat was kept down by stiff northwesterly breeze that blew all day and far into the night. An cpl demic of summer colds has already set in.
The age-herald., 1901-07-09
SECRETARY GAeE's BLUNpER.

From the New York World
 United States Consul General Hollo- way reported from St. Petersburg that Russian sugar exports were indirectly propped by bounties
 Russian sugar worth s22,000 year was coming into our ports. Secretary Gage exacted extra duty on it because of Con- sul General Holloway's allegation though the Russian government denied it.
 Russia retaliated by raising her import duties on all American goods 5S per cent above German, French and English goods. This Is practically prohibitive of the bulk of American exports to Russia worth s1S,OOO, 900. year and steadily growing until, on Consul General Hollo- ways motion, seconded by Secretary Gage they were altogether cut off
 To destroy a market worth $1S,000, 900 for the sake of collecting a tax on im- ports worth $22, 900 is a strange way to ex- tend our trade with the Orient.