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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-06-28

weight affecting either proposition.
The stalking ghost OF the Clayton Bull
wer treaty. 10 whose abrogatlon the
British government has just reasserted
Its objection. ought not 10 be allowed TO
stand In the way OF the contamination
Of great enterprise upon which the
American people have set their hearts.
There is a well established precept Of
international law, as laid down In Bou-
yiers Law Dictionary. that treaties
may be properly abrogated whenever
"the condition OF affairs which formed
the basis OF the treaty has become so
modified by time that It's execution has
become contrary 10 the nature OF
things and the original intention Of the
parties" Surely the reasons for the
continuance or the Clayton-Bulwer
convention have long since ceased 10
exist, II, indeed. there was ever any
good reason for such compact.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-06-28

Great men seldom keep diaries"
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
Odd Election Days.

Rhode Island holds no election this spring, this ancient and peculiar State having joined the big band of Novem- Der States. The only States that do not choose State officers in November are now Maine, Vermont, Oregon, Ar kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Alabama-seven out of forty-five.
 The peculiar seven will probably be- come six when Alabama makes a new constitution; for the reasons that ex- isted in 1875, calling for an election apart from the national election, have passed away, and there is no reason why there should be two campaigns in year in this State. What was needful and wise in 1875 has become unnecessary and burdensome and ex. pensive in this century.
 Just why Louisiana refused to join the November States when she made a new constitution does not appear But Louisiana's peculiarity and eccen- tricity need not be used as guide in this State One election in November is enough, and the August election should be permitted to live in political history only.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07

at unrivalIed rates at the sea. thereby gaining access to the markets of the world. The improvement of water ways by the federal government gives the coal of Pennsylvania and West Virginia access to New Orleans. Mil lions upon millions were spent on the upper reaches of the Monongahela, and if but tithe of that expenditure were expended here Alabama coal would have little to fear from any trust.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
Negro Leaders for Convention.

From the Marion County Democrat
 The Republican party, which is domi- neered by the carpetbaggers and pie hunt CTS, who sit in conventions with the ne- gro and use him as their political tool, are opposed to constitutional conven- tion because 1t is its purpose to disfran- chise Mir Nigger, their political bedfel- low. Booker T. Washington and W. II. Council, two of the most prominent ne- groes in the world. and who have more sense than all of the Republican party in the south combined, say that the ne- gro in politics is a menace to good gov ernment and that he himself is better off without the franchise. Who is 1t, then. that wants the ballot to remain in the hands of the sons of Ham when the lead CTS of their race want 1t removed? No one who favors white mans government can say that he does, and on the 23d of this month the people of Alabama will have an opportunity to take the initial steps to establish purity in politics and true white mans government in the State. Are We going to improve this golden opportunity? It Is now almost an assured fact that we will.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
MaIIeabIe Iron.

The only fouEdry in the South in which malleable castings are made Is in Chattanooga, and such castings are in demand They are especially wanted in the building of railroad cars. Many designers now call for malleable castings, and the uses to which malleable iron is put is widening every year.
 Malleable iron is cast iron or com mon pig put through an anneaiing process, and there should be foundry in this district that stands ready to turn out malleable castings. The equip ment of the district is incomplete with out such an establishment. Possibly the new plant of the Southern Car and Foundry Company. at Ensley, will in- clude such a plant. The subject at any rate deserves attention. Steps should be taken to turn some of the iron of this district into malleable iron, for until this Is done orders must go elsewhere that should be filled under the shadow of our blast furnaces. We need such foundry. just as we need a large stove factory and locomotive plant. We need In fact any plant that will work iron or steel into ultimate mercantile forms.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
TIE oHlY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Wearing his new doublet before Easter?
 Romeo and Juliet, Act 8, Scene 1.
Out Door Sports.

The season for outdoor recreation is close at hand, and Birmingham is one of the eight towns in the South that will, this year be treated to a series of excellent contests between profes- sional players of baseball The other towns in the Southern Association are Selma, Shreveport, New Orleans, Lit tie Rock, Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga. Each of these towns have secured hines that can play good ball, and the games alone will decide which will win the pennant. All are confident of success.
 Manager Mills of the Birmingham club is judge of ball players-one who has had practical experience on the diamond, and he does not propose to be tailender in the coming games. But, however that may be, the public who enjoy such outdoor sports will at any rate De aHOrded SerleS oI well conducted games. The eight clubs have players of about equal merit, and this fact is about all that need be told. So far as can be judged no club in the association will have much mar gin for slack or uneven work. All must do their best in order to win games, and it is believed all will do their best, and good sport will be the result. The promise of healthful recreation in the open air was never better. The grounds are near the heart of the city, and in the early days of May the call will be heard, Play Ball!"
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
Walker County and the Coal Trust.

The Monongahela Coal and Coke Company, capitalized at $30, ,000, ,000, be ing the river coal trust of the Pitts burg district, has obtained a foothold in Alabama. The trust has long sup piled the New Orleans market and all the rest of the Lower Mississippi, and its coming to Alabama is evidence that 1t has found a rival that it fears and proposes to circumvent.
 It has bought the Virginia and Ala bama Coal Company, owning and oper- ating mines in Walker County, and it is currently believed that it has op- tions on other productive mines in Walker County. Just how many mines, whether all or only a part, it proposes to gather in is not now known; but it is plain that the giant trust desires to have a finger at least in the Walker County pie.
 tt tiOcC tnC ulinCo IL this district, or will it develop them as the cheapest source of fuel for the Lower Mississippi? Only the trust
 m answer this question. But it is
 lain that any attempt to close mines eould be met with stern disfavor, not { fIy on the part of the Southern and other railroads. but it would encounter legislation that would not be pleasant. Nor will the State look with favor on any effort to make it's mines play sec ond fiddle to those of Pennsylvania.
 The Lest answer to the effort of the trust is to open the Warrior. In that way alone can Alabama coal be landed
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
Necessary Evils.

From the Brewton Standard-News.
 A little talk is cropping out here and there to the effect that an effort will be made to move the courthouse from Brew ton to some other point in the county,,, now that new one must be build any, way The other places mentioned as wanting 1t are Atmore and Fiomaton. Of course, Brewton wants the courthouse, but, on the other hand, a place which cannot grow and amount to anything without a courthouse would improve very little with one. Courts are a necessary evil-much of their doings unnecessary, and the less we have of them the better Let us have good schools and churches. If half the money squandered in lawsuits were used to redeem the human mind from error we would have much less use for courts than now.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
FRANKS OF NITRo.eLYcERINE.

Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
 Nitro-glycerine would make a fatalist of any man. It Is a substance that Is likely to do almost anything except what Is predicted of 1t. A ten-quart can of it had been dropped off the roof of house with no disastrous results, while 1t is on record that man, in passing a can that had been emptied and that way lying be- side forest path struck it with ohis walking stick and was promptly blown into a neighboring treetop. Instances are numerous where workmen have "thawed out" the cratic fluid by standing the cans on top of hot stove and have con- tinued to eat three meals day. and yet the dropping of a piece of hot iron into a tub of water in which such cans had been standing wrecked building and an adjoining oil derrick.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
THE MUE2MUR OF THE WORLD.

Joy. gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts!''
 The other Easter, my beloved, there was a note of gladness to you in this meeting-place, note in which there was no false quality. In whatever clearness or dimness it rung, it rung with truth in the abundance of faith that asked not why or whither, when or how, but ac- cepted the things revealed and the things promised to all whosoever would receive.
 The cry then was joy to you. and that is the cry today when the Easter bells are ringing again the splendid glory of the new life, the vast present and the vaster afterwhiles that await over the brow of the hill along the sunlit way of souls that love and strive, in all the un- dulations made by unrest and sweetened by song and laughter and loving.
 Joy, gentle friends! Join hands and hearts and laugh and shout till all the chambers of the soul ring with the glad ness that the angels love to hear ringing!
  full of the human love that is beating upon you in a flood that would submerge all unkindness. all unhappiness, all grief of waywardness and of wantonness.
 Joy! Catch the glory in the anthem of the bells that span the space between earth and the stars with golden bridge of melody, rising, ever rising, and bearing upon it's mystic way all the spirits of mortals willing to receive blessedness here and now or at any time.
 Joy! the joy of the unsurpassable glory of the Easter resurrection, the new birth, the new life, the new hopes!
 Listen n,
 One day a little while ago, out in the wide fields far from the surging throngs of men, there was terrific rain of ice- bullets from black sky. It poured down, the musketry of the heavens in hailstones beating the first flowers of the warming days, the first birds beginning to sing, the tender leaves of grass springing up after the ascending sun had broken the chains in which winter had locked the turf. Grass and flowers dropped and the birds affrighted fled. leaving a scene of cold and splendid desolatton and gloom. :.
 Disturbed in sweet dreams of his love and his flowers and awed by the majesty of the elemental warfare come with ap- palling swiftness. the dreamer paced un- easily as if hedged about by some sor- row not discernible of the soul. but only felt as suppressing. His bright dreams were fled. Yet in such dreams to have been blessed was so sweet that he could ask no more.
 The blurred landscape faded into black darkness interminable. Yet, not so; the blackness passed. though in troubled sleep that was not slumber, a tossing sleep with visions not calm or sweet, an unresting animation never suspended.
 Alter awhile came dusly dawn with
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
CABBAGEs TO A FINISH.
,m fine Mernphis Scimitar.

From the Memphis Scimitar.
 An old darky, who lives in the thickets across the river. came to Memphis the other day to get his pension check cashed. After receiving his money, which amount ed to s11, the old ex-slave sauntered down Front street to a produce house and bought three crates of cabbages. When they were delivered at the wharf late that afternoon the old man was there and re- ceived them with mouth watering in an- ticipation of the good time ahead.
 "Whut yer gwine ter do wid dem cab bages?" inquired the negro drayman who delivered them.
 Eat 'em." was the quick response. ''Ise bin free forty years, and dis is de first time I'se had de money to buy nun cabbage. Ise gwine ter eat cabbage till I furgit de way ter my mouf."
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
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far winding road through the wide fields and by leafy hillsides.
 Life in that fair form Is joy. joy, joy!
 An, God. the joy Thou hast given all Thy children to live and love! And how surprisingly abundant and glorious the joy of the Easter Thou hast planted in the soul of man!
 Listen!
 In the noble place of praise on the day we hold holy as Good Friday multitudes constantly thronged praying and worship ing. Grandsires and grandams came there with humble and contrite hearts praying. Likewise came fathers and mothers with their children about them. and strong men unmated and maidens fair as clois- tered sisters of faith. One thought of Ruth's divine vow to Naomi:
 ''Entreat me not to leave thee or to re- turn from following after thee: for whith- CT thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest. will lodge: thy people shall bs my people. and thy God my God:
 Where thou diest will die, and thers will be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also. if aught but death part thee and me-"
 The aged and the strong and the youth full. and even the little children under standing nothing but to worship, all gath cred there to go through the solemn n1eas- ures of pious devotion. and all thronged forward to the high altar to kiss the feet upon the foot of the cross, old age in wis- dom gained at great price. and infancy ignorant of all things save worshiping, falling prone in the inner place of prayer, exemplifying and living the godliest les- son ever yet given or to be given to man. kind to know.
 That was the joy of hearts uplifted by the proud humility of faith!
 Joy. gentle friends. joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts!"
 The past is past with all It's doubts and sorrows and unrest, and we are of the 1iv- ing present. hearts within and God oyer head.
 With malice toward none and charity for all, forgetting every wrong, fancied or real, every grief, every disappointment, every sentiment of resentment against others. we shall fare forward in peace and laughter, love and joy!
 THE MURMURER
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
Three Hundred Millions.

The child born today may live to see three hundred millions of people in this country, or nearly four times the present number. o. P. Austin, chief of the United States bureau of statistics, is confident this country will contain 3o0,00o,o0O people at the close of the century, but that it will not then be any more than abreast the productive nations of Europe with Great Britain, Germany and prob ably Russia.
 When we have 0O,O0o, ,o0O people our population will not be as dense as the population of England is today, not to mention still denser Belgium or Holland. In Java and Madura 26,000,- 900 people comfortably inhabit sec tion about equal to the State of Ala bama. There are there 517 people per square mile. In Belgium there are 579, in England and Wales 49S. In Alabama there are about 35 people per square mile.
 When the country has 300,000,000. Alabama should have 8,000,000, and every county should be increased four fold. Jefferson County would have 560,000 people, but Jefferson will have to do much better than that, because her rich natural resources must make good the shortcomings of counties not so well endowed. A million of people is Jefferson's century stunt, and iI will be equal to it.
 The productive power of 300,000,000 Americans would be something pro- digious, if we may judge the future by the past, as we certainly may. True, we have vast arid region, but much of that arid region will be rendered productive by water artificially SUD- piled, and there will be no lack of food supplies. What the cotton crop at the end of the century wlii be we decline to say, but it will be all the world de- sires it to be. If the world demands crop of 5O,00O,OOO bales that amount will be forthcoming.
 In our own district Red mountain will by the end of the century be honeycombed with iron mines, and the Warrior will be crowded with tugs and barges carrying the finished prod ucts from those ores to the sea. All in all we have, it is plain, underestim- ated Jefferson's population at the end of the century, but the reader is at liberty to make his own figures pro- vided he takes into consideration the building space in Jones Valley.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
Jackson county's Prosperity.

From the Scottsboro Citizen.
 Jackson County Is rapidly forging to the front. Everything is looking up. The farmers are in better financial condition than in years. Money Is easy. We are mak- ing plenty to live upon, and some to spare. We have the best system of turn bikes in the State, or rather will have when completed. We have five splendid banks in the county, when but few years ago we had none. We have more public schools, better churches. and we are soon to have one of the largest cot ton mills in the south located in our coun- ty. We have some of the finest farming lands in the State. and some portions of the county are unsurpassed for stock raising.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
"cMrist is Risen. :"
BY FRANK V. EVANS.

Today Eastertd They come throuoh silence Again sound sweet hmes,t telling Christ the crucihed
 
  yoverde deah gIadness Behold rosy comes tbroycn gently softly floating sy And then +oo from wakina and .r. M spring anthem of praise ound b mountain hill bud. .,. the day How wondrou the clear swiftly of time Tn. High And there tho sursIns streamIst
 mornins These
 
  calmly
 If there be heart ths morn with Joy. gEs 28s* TT z Praise to the Morning LGhtI chrst
The age-herald., 1901-04-07

that whispering of wind that ever comes with the coming of every day. hush of the world rolling out of blackness into brightness, and To! jocund day laughed over the misty mountain into the wide fields, and golden sunbars striped the dreamer's couch. Flinging back the things which covered him. he sprung to his feet and kissed his hand to good morn ing.
 Opening wide his window, he faced the new day to the hymns of birds in the trees, Gods first temples upon the earth, and heard the peaceful cackle of the yard and the voices of the meadow down be- low; saw the mighty streamers of silver and gold and purple, fading into the black blue of the central upper deep, and bend ing to the benediction of Nature his heart burst with praise and thanksgiving and joy; and this dreamer of the hailstorm. the long night, and the wondrous day, found his lips trying to say the things that were in his spirit, the ancient prayer said by another in long-gone time:
 Life, we have been long together, through pleasant and through cloudy weather. When friends are dear, 'tis hard to part.A Then steal away. O Life! Give little warning. Say not goodnight, but ing
 Listen!
 life In ;ts fo;rast for,, If noajdeut voufh that never knew a. sorrow, was receiving its i6olators at nightfall when the earth was but few hours younger than 1t is on this Easter morning. Life. laughing, ro1iicking, happy Life. did surpass the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome, for Life was Youth, the most precious thing that ever was sung or said,-loving, hoping. confident Youth. pure of spirit, and of the world untouched and unafraid; one to serve without ask ing and to adore without praying for sell fish ends and selfish rewards; one set apart to be praised for rare qualities of spirit and entrancing qualities of physical individuality; one whom you would cir- cult the globe to serve, and then scorn to wait attendant for compensation. but whom you would serve for the proud priv ilege of serving: one upon whom you would dance attendance, whom you would strive for, adore and praise. and to whom you murmur:
 They tell me oft of the beautiful that
 dwells in a woman's face,
 The soul-lit eye and fairy form, the poe
 try of grace;
 But vain are loves fondest words to tell
 sweet girl of thee
 Pure as heaven and beautiful as poets
 dream could be!
 And thus Life in youth sat at the receipt of her friends. Life in similar form you, every one of you. know, my beloved. She laughs and loves and is adored all this great old globe around. in every street of every. city, in every village, upon every
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
LOOT AND VANDALISM.

From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
 All intelligent witnesses of this sum- mer's madness of murder, vandalism and piliage agree that it has complicated and intensified the difficulties in China a hundred-fold. We have no right to go to the Chinese and tell them that we are the civilized and they the barbarians. Christendoms own acts in supreme test refute it's claims, to moral suprem- acy. The pagan world may long point to the year 1900, which left so deep. black. and indelible a stain upon Christian civ- ilization.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
To Purchase Ore Property.

From the Montevillo Sentinel.
 The Shelby Iron Company is negodit- ing with the Robinson Mining Company with view to purchasing the property of the latter on the southside. and there Is every indication that the deal will be consummated. Work in ore beds has stopped, but should the Shelby Iron Company get possession of the property 8 larger force than ever will be put to work.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
For the Nearo's Good.

From the Florence Times.
 The elimination of the lower element or the negro vote in Alabama will operate to the advantage of the negro. His pres ence now in the body polite Is sinking him in the public esteem and doubtless also in his own opinion. His legal rights will be protected and every advantage will be given him to advance in the scale of humanity
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
The People to Decide.

From the Scottsboro Citizen.
 "Convention or no convention will be the battle cry on the 23d of this month It will be in the hands of the people, and they are to decide the matter. A splendid body of men are nominees to hold the convention in the event the people so decree. No one need have any fear but what everything will be done to advance the best interests of the people by the chosen representatives.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 Married men kiss from duty; married women kiss from habit.
 Whenever you can get {.iree ministers together you can get new funny story.
 The ancients probably Invented a pret- ty wife for the devil so as to explain why he was so wicked
 A woman is never worried by her big troubles near as much as she is troubled by her little worries. 4s Probably in heaven the worssa VIII all talk as nice to the men as they do on earth to their husbands when they have comnanYs
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
Merely a Commodity.
he Monteva1Io Sentinel.

From the Montevallo Sentinel.
 Eliminate the negro from politics and the one great cause for corruption and fraud in elections will have been removed It is a well-known fact that large ma jority of the negroes consider their vote a commodity, and they put it on the mar ket for whatever price it may bring.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07

The farmers have hung out the card These are my busy days. Politicians keep off,"
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
Not Caught in the Fall.

From the Boston Transcript.
 Wolf-Did you lose much in the big fall in z, Y, x preferred?
 Lamb-Not a cent. Fortunately, I had dropped all I had on Brummagen Copper a week ago.
The age-herald., 1901-04-07
WITH THE EDITORS OF
 THE STATE PRESS
stIlI a Fighter.

From the Eutaw whig and Observer.
 The editor Is getting slightly gray 1nd somewhat bald after long service In the interest of the community. commonwealth and the country generally, yet he feels equal to almost any emergency, and don't intend to let any one "step on his coat tail"