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The age-herald., 1901-08-25
EImore's Grand Jury.

The chicken squabble in Elmore County, in which no man was hurt, and no woman even concerned, may become historic in the history of the State. The negro in the case was lynched by thirty white people, and the best people of the county are en- deavoring to reaeem it's fair name from the disgrace that the mob cast upon it.
 We have no desire to prejudge the cases. Few indictments have already peen found, and more may follow The grand jury should sift the matter to the bottom. and if the solicitor of the circuit does his duty lesson may be taught that will be more beneficial to the county and State than ten cot on crops.
The age-herald., 1901-08-25
Happy in Mobile.

''The Camp Hardee Confederate veter- ans excursion to Mobile was very pleas ant,'' said Adjutant J. Lawler Darby.
 'sThere had been copious rains along the line of the railroad, and it was de- ligfrtfully cool.
 Mobile was clean and dry; the waters having receded into the bay. The trip to Point Clear was delightful.
 ''To realize the fury of the recent storm one must go down the bay front, where he will see all kinds of debris piled up for miles, A great portion of the beau tiful shell road is entirely destroyed.
 'I stopped at the home of my friend,
 MT. Farley In his house Father Ryan lived when in Mobile. There Is a large and fine portrait of the famous poet priest in the room he occupied. This fam fly has a large collection of rare paint ings. One that attracted my attention more than any other, except that of the poet-priest, was that of Queen Elizabeth, and with it Mary Queen of Scots on her knees pleading for mercy.
 ''The monument to Admiral Semmes, the eagle-eyed rover of the seas, was the great attraction to the veterans. What a pity that his book, Service Afloat,' has gone out of print, thereby depriving so many of our young people of reading the story of the life and deeds of this re- markable man!'
The age-herald., 1901-08-25
WORTHY OF PRAISE.
m the Nashville Banner.

From the Nashville Banner.
 The sheriff of St. Clair County, Ala bama, who has successfully defied the mob and preserved the dignity of the law at Ashville yesterday is deserving of all the praise that can be bestowed upon him. He is the second Alabama sheriff who has recently taken such courageous action and 1t is to be hoped that the example the two have set will furnish a precedent that may be universally followed.
 There are few occasions on which any officer of the law who is earnest in the de- sire to do his full duty cannot preserve a prisoner from the hands of mob. The saying is no less true than trite that mobs are cowardly, no matter how brave may be the individuals that compose them, and nine times out of ten they will quail at the resistance of courageous officer armed with the authority of the law.
 There is no fact better established than that lynchings do not prevent crime On the other hand they increase it because of the publicity and advertisement they give the criminal, of the mawkish sentiment
The age-herald., 1901-08-25
NED BRACE WRITES OF. GAY SARATOGA
 AND SAYS ITS DEVILISHLY ATTRACTIVE

This place Is expressed in two words, devilishly attractive Besides it's health- giving properties there is something which holds on to you and keeps you here. The Whitney's and Belmont's and scores of millionaires have their hands on the throt- tie of Saratoga and they are making it this summer the most attractive place in the world. Whitney's horses are winning the great purses, in the races, galore, and William c. is spending his money in inn proving things hereabouts like money was but little drops of water. Yesterday he went out to a polo game. He liked it., and immediately drew a check for $70o0 and presented it to the club to pay for and improve the club grounds. Today one of his two-year olds won the Grand Un- ion Hotel race stakes Of s1o.0O0, and an- other of his horses won s12Oo stake race
 Belmont is as lucky as Whitney He won a $100OO stake race the other day. Whitney and Belmont together are more than $50,0OO ahead inethe last two weeks on race purses.
 They are not the only ones. A New York broker, who has branch office here Southerner well known in Birming- ham-that is, one through whom several Birmingham brokers and others trade remarked to his wife last Sunday evening that he would give her $500OO pearl neck lace, displayed in a jewellers window here, if he could win its~This evening he count ed out fifty one thousand dollar bills to the jeweler and his wife appeared at din- ner in the Grand Union dining room with the necklace. You can better imagine the beauty of this necklace than I can de- scribe 1t. The pearls are large, perfectly matched and exquisite in color. The necklace is simple string of them-noth- ing showing but the pearls; that is no gold or setting about them.
 Now, how did he win it? We'll, he won something like s3O,0O0 on backing Whit ney's and Belmont's horses at the races and he had a streak of luck at the Club House last night and cashed in $25, 900 on the roulette wheel. His was the largest winning of the month on the roulette wheel at the club.
 An Atlantic railroad man. however, cashed in 5000 on faro, winning from a s1OO stack the other evening, and had the good sense to start home with it. He may get through New York with it or he may not
 The Club House is a wonderfully at
 
 & Joseph's store in Birmingham. Every body goes there. Many try few dollars on the turn of the wheel. I must admit that in a measure the playing of these games is a science which have never studied and know nothing about; but I had rather a novel experience the other
The age-herald., 1901-08-25

"If I have fought my baser self and
 raised
 My thoughts to high ideals, it is due To this the love that have found in
 you,
 As in your dear eyes have longing
 gazed;
 When look back find myself amazed At what was: what mire l f1oundered
 thro
 So far I wandered from the pure and
 true
 While all my good intentions fitful blazed. A man is half savage. and he needs The woman's presence to arouse his
 soul.
 Her love has given the world his noblest
 deeds;
 She is the light that warns him from
 the shoal-
 The reefs-the rocks-where fell destruc- And dark engulhng waters silent roll" Tn morning hour of a divine yester- day she looked from her window, cooled by the north breath that was killing this most glorious summer that the green earth ever knew, and throwing her per feet arm upward and outward in greet ing the maiden laughed with joyous abandon, glad in her own perfection that she did but dimly perceive, and in the splendid opulence of her own goodness glad to give gladness to another.
 With the inestimable crown of youth and natures noblest gift of lovliness, she looked little princess there in the win dow. and the man she had greeted made obeisance to her as one beyond the fulfill of t,t rtot, t,, I,t idolatry. The red lips parted and in the little mouth the white teeth gleamed, seemingly each having tongue to speak and every tongue speaking gladness. Her eyes flashed like diamonds. He knew those eyes gave out rays that illumined his soul, and he had a blind impulse to kiss some holy image She looked a goddess In her exquisite physical perfection, he knew her to be noble in the great goodness of her heart of sunshine. and he could have sworn that never did maiden heart beat in fairer form of morality!
 She was an inspiration, and to him an aspiration too. She-her type of woman ly beauty, goodness, innocence-is inspira- IlOn IO tll tHe WOiio. AsO AAeh iiihy nv worthily without the incentive of this quality of woman's diviner charms. This one woman's presence in the swin- dow in the morning of the perfect day recalled to her worshiper the night last summer died in rain. He saw her then. She was framed in dying vines against which hao beatImany awhisper of love, and she said the moaning of the night |. . . .-- = -- -.--- Melton, P. Williams and J. H. Hensley Of New York are at the Morris.
 Arthur Gibson, Jr.. of Memphis, is at the Morris.
 G. N. Carter of Dover, N. H., is at the Morris.
 G. w. Kent of Pensacola is at the Flor ence.
 w D. vasser of Atlanta is at the Flor ence. gsvega'5 Jos
 T. M. Bryan of Florida is at the Flor ence. s1ettkiH
 Hon. Wiley c. Tunstal1. Jr., of Anniston is at the Florence.
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evening. Colonel stealey, an old Wash ington friend of mine, who has been Washington correspondent of the Louis vile Courier-Journal for twenty years Colonel Henry Watterson. the editor of the Courier-Journal. and myself, were watching the games when Colonel Jack Chinn of Kentucky joined us.
 Let's try them turn.' said Stealey. wen chip in twenty-five each and Jack will play 1t, won't you Jack?"
 'Yes, I'll go twenty-five" said Colonel Chinn.
 We talked politics in the drawing room of the club while Colonel Chinn tried his luck with the one hundred dollars of chips.
 In a few minutes he joined us with ex- actly $1075, which we divided into four parts. But that was merely a streak of luck for amateurs If newspaper men were to try 1t on their own accounts the story would probably be a very different one. There are score of losers to every winner
 The man who owns this club house MT. Canfield-is a remarkable parsonage He is man of education and of accom- plishments who deyotes much of his time to reading and study Yet he is probably the boldest gambler in the world. Hun dreds of thousands of dollars are bet against him every evening. There are days when he runs an hundred thousand dollars behind and others when he ends the day that much ahead. Yet to all out ward appearances 1t is all the same to him.
 company. This club house is said to be doing twice the daily business of Monte Carlo this summer. Yet 1t is all owned by one man. and every bet made is against one man. Nobody knows what he makes or loses. He never talks about the games himself, and you never see him about the tables He has clerks to con- duct them. He will talk art, literature and occasionally politics with you, but will not discuss the games. When one asks him about them his invariable reply is, These games are good things to let alone Keep what you have, unless you have more than you want
 So the greatest gambler of the world would advise against it. And, by the way. no resident of Saratoga is allowed to play in this club house. Nor will those who overlook the games allow any one to play unless they are known.
 It is only matter of six weeks in the year that this great club house is open, but in that time perhaps several million dollars changes hands
 write about these matters of gamb- ling because they are interesting. It is a part of this great world. All sorts of people go to make it up. There are men who play these games or bet on races once a year for mental recreation. Others go
The age-herald., 1901-08-25
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

brought back to her the joys of many dear dead days.
 "When in the valley where the river ran And sunlight rippled on its current fair, While shadowed vistas of autumnal air Re-echoed with the dying notes of Pan, When twilights herald came in night s
 dusk van,
 While sank the sun in western splendor
 there,
 What joy for you and all this to share Mid wooded glades and chords Aeolian The after-glow dyed deep the waiting
 slopes,
 While breeding silence hushed the som
 Der rills,
 Then fell upon our hearts a happy awe And light and shade of mingled fears
 and hopes,
 Star-signaled on the ramparts of the
 hills"
 She signifies and suggests to every man some good woman who is all the world to him.
 Behold, beloved 1t is love that rules the world-it is the loves of the lovers and the love that is charity in its wider significance.
 Quiet thy heart. since others are loving; Still thy soul, for the sky is vast; Rest thy limbs from the stale earth rov-
 ing,
 Flow in the furrow thy lot Is cast: So, when in the spring all the earth is
 moving
 A flower may fall to thy feet at last' Tn the empire of pain life's little light burns low; but angel hands close about it until the rustling, rushing winds fall to the whisper of things that might have been; the heart is uuieted. the soul is stilled and the slow-returning light re- veals sky vaster and bluer and bright CT for the darkness that fell. Mercy and truth and charity and kindness, and all the spiritual evangels of the better life come trooping forward, -ladened, mercy-robed. love-crowned glorious! Whosoever knoweth not these things has not dropped sounding plummet into the calm waters of the worlds divine chari- ty. He has not suffered, she has not known sorrow, who fails not to know that the goodness of humanity makes of uncharitableness a blushless lie that echoes in the gutter and snarls blasphe- Hearts break and bleed every day; wrong issues it's damning decrees, minds become unclean, souls, spotted with vice; truth Is outraged, and fast-paced sin bears the leper down, whilst truth. unweary nurse in the garb of holiness, tolls to save; and over it all the love of just men and good women shines with that steady radiance given of the Godhead since men and
The age-herald., 1901-08-25
Co-education in CoIIeqes.
The Chicago Record-Herald prints this list of universities that have an attendance of more than 5000:

In some way an error has crept into the table of the Record-Herald. for the institution at Athens, Georgia, is not one of the six leaders in this country. Nor is it, strictly speaking a State institution. as the State Uni versailles of Ann Arbor, Minnesota, and California are. It is hampered by a lack of income very much as the Uni yersity of Alabama is, and lacks the latter's coal lands.
 Co-education accounts for the great numbers of all the universities named except Harvard. At Harvard the women have a college of their own Radcliffe, and the presumption is that the attendance at Radcliffe is not in cluded in Harvard's magnifcent fig ures. At the other four co-education
The age-herald., 1901-08-25

fishing. and still others hunting or boat ing. One of the greatest and best of tho noted divines of all the South here not long ago for the health-giving waters and climate, went through the Club House and had each of the games explained to him in detail that he might be competent to discuss the percentages against those who would gamble and the harm 1t would work to homes and families. I am sure that his sermons on the subject will be interesting. and of benefit; for offshoots of places like this Club House, little gam bling houses in small cities, places where one must slip in secretly, and where young men are led cause much destruction and the downfall of many young men.
 
 About Saratoga Is the most beautiful and picturesque country in the world. Mountains and hills, wooded and green are all about you. Nesting among them are the most beautiful lakes in the world. No where in Superior is there more beau- ty of scenery than about Lake George, some thirty miles above here. took the trip to it and through it recently. The lake is thirty miles long, lying between green mountains and dotted all about with islands About every island has it's hotel and cottages where thousands of people spend the summer. Many of these so-called cottages are palaces, costing far up in the thousands of dollars. and each one has its steam yacht or launch, and little sail boats and skiffs in great numbers. One must have boats to call upon neighbors on adjoining islands as one has carriages at other resorts. I was surprised to hear a summer cottager at Green Island say that 1t cost him $25, 900 a season to maintain his summer cottage and large steam yacht. But to him that of a little shanty cottage to one of us at Blount Springs or St. Clair.
 These people up here who are in the big trusts or some other things which bring to them hundreds of thousands a year spend a thousand like we spend a large round silver dollar. They are where it is and they can make 1t. We are where we have to dig it out of the earth and somehow we have to dig hard to get but little. But doubtless each one of these who have much now and make much show of it, have dug for 1t in their day, or their fathers did, and perhaps the per capita of cash in our country may in time come up to this standard. However, that be, there is something about Ala bama and Birmingham which satisfies all of us with our respective lots, and while it is pleasant to come up here occasional7 ly and see what they have, and what they are doing for recreation, pleasure and excitement, we soon tire of it and look for the true methods of lifes enjoyments in our quiet homes in Alabama.
The age-herald., 1901-08-25
INVESTIGATION NEEDED,

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Several Congressman are now in the Philippines, some for pleasure and some, it is believed, to look after their private speculations, but John A. T. Hull of Michigan. whose case has been enquired into, is not believed to be the only one who secured free transportation for him self and family on government vessel. Some investigation of this subject will be in order when Congress meets again.
The age-herald., 1901-08-25

is an important feature, more import ant than is generally supposed. At the Chicago University. for example, the registration for this year consists of 1885 men and 1,7s7 women, almost half and half; and the chances are that the number of women who desire liberal education wln increase more rapidly than the number of men Of like mind. Young men as a rule hurry into employments, many of which are not open to young women, and the latter seek advanced education in many cases in order to obtain remu- nerative employment.
 In this great and growing country there is no change more surprising or extensive than the advanced educa- tion of women. It necessarily means good to the land, for the better the women of the land are educated the better the children Will De. The mother holds back nothing of good from the child. And as a rule the better education is coming to women in the same institutions that men at tend. Co-education long ago passed it's tentative stage, and it is firmly established as a policy of the country, and no college, not even Harvard, can much longer neglect it without falling into the class made up of small colleges.
The age-herald., 1901-08-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
 People fall into love with their eyes shut; they fall out with them wide open.
 Sin always dresses in it's best clothes for you till you get well acquainted with it.
 No woman can really love a man with out wanting at some time to put his head on her breast and mother him.
 Originality is the spark that ignites mems and women's interest in one an- other; variety fans the flame; monotony smothers it.
 When a girl stops showing a mans let ters to her best friend 1t is not because of what is written in them, but ofwhat is written in her heart.
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ReJ53ooze~

women began to love and be just and fear not anything save wrong-doing. Never yet fell mortal too low in suffer- ing to be reached by human love or god- ly piety The olive branch and the lily of charity are fadeless. They are the banner of the Most High. under which march in measured tread to the divine harmony all humanity that is worthy upon this green earth.
 Charity rolls up the blackest curtains, and into the souls inner chambers bursts the sunbeams of peace, laughter, joy; and the heart beats rioutously to the notes of song borne inward from the infinite, There is no longer moan, no longer fervered pro- test no longer unanswered cry for tardy peace. Love, the all-heal, has wrought the miracle, as 1t has been doing ever since love came to abide upon the earth to bless and to save, to redeem the con- demned and reprieve those who would be lost to the flowers that blossom to the songs of the birds and the music of many waters. The daffodil is still the daffodiI, the rose the rose. It is haiil And fare- we'll shall be unspoken until you and your life have been longer together. Truth and mercy and righteousness kiss each other in the festival of honest hearts that are purified. It is given to but few of us to walk the sinless way; but all may tread the path of charity upon which the light of heaven beats for ever and forever It is not for any human creature to cast stones at any mortal who has erred; but the teachings of the Nazarene are vain if they call not forth the helping hand and brave words of good cheer and hopeful promise. Neither do condemn thee" are the words of God; the incarnation of charity, and whoso finds it not in his heart to speak them should go feed with swine, for love and prayer are not for him.
 The world is very beautiful, my beloved. and the muck-heaps of it's uncharitabIe- ness fill but a small space Sweetness and light abound to the glorification of that which is good; to the upbuilding of hu- manity, and to the making of the higher life; to the sustaining of truth and the cause of mercy and charity. The growth in better things silences the tongue of envy and malice and hate, islander and all false witness. Under thy hearts work-wear burneth the love" that would banish pain and unrest and untruthfuI- ness and bring hurrying bands of angels voicing blessed anthem of love, glorious. all-resounding, and filling the vast cathe- dral of the sou-space with a mighty har- mony, and resting in softened lisping of love around the spirits confessional ap- pointed of God the Father!
 THE MURMURER
The age-herald., 1901-08-25

We are glad to note the marriage at Chicago of Kazmiers Mykszewick and Elzbeta Gurzduki. We tender the happy couple our congratulation, and long and faithful life. May their troubles be little ones.
The age-herald., 1901-08-25

and desire for notoriety they engender in the minds of the criminally weak, of the familiarity with deeds of violence they produce, and above all the contempt into which they bring the law and its repre- sentatives. The white people of the South properly insist on making and administer ing their own laws, but they stultify themselves when by their own hands these laws are overthrown and trampled under foot
 The oft-occurring lynchings in the South are giving this section most unenviable reputation the world over. It is not only the news of the lynching that goes abroad but that of the crime that caused the lynching and the impression Is thus cre- ated that the South is lawless region in which innocence is in continued jeopardy and life without value. The incalculable injury that comes of such advertisement can be very readily understood by all clear-headed men and should be generally deplored by the right minded.
 There must be an end of lynchings and Iawlessness in the South. and the two Ala bama sheriffs who have done their full duty in this respect are the kind of men who should be entrusted with the enforcel ment of the law
The age-herald., 1901-08-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day. Sunday, August 25, 1901:
 An unfavorable day"
 Thou mayest expect chequered year, with gains and losses, annoyances and sickness; keep thy business well under control and run no risks with thy money Those in employ will be promoted"
 Young women may expect to be courted" ] Fortunate will be the child born on this day and 1t will rise in life rapidly if in emploY.n
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SHERIFF KYLE.
From the Buffalo Express.

From the Buffalo Express.
 A mob at Tuscaloosa surprised sheriff while he was sleep. took his pistols from him and demanded that he give up the keys to the jail in order that negro might be taken out and lynched. The sheriff pretended that he was going for his keys and got double-barrelled shot gun instead. The mob left without lynch ing anyone. There would be few lynch ings if there were more such men as that sheriff In office
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Congressman Littlefield and Con- gressman Babcock should get together. They are two honest men in party of trusts and looters.
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Hero sheriffs are becoming quite the fashion. The other kind deserves public opprobrium. and is in fair way to get 1t.