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The age-herald., 1901-11-06
Mhite EniranchIsamant the Issue.

Colonel Handley of Roanoke sums up the issue of next Monday very com prehensiyely when he says 1t is a bat tie for white supremacy, lower taxes and better schools. This is fuller analysis than The Age-Herald has seen fit to make, because in white suprem- acy all other reforms become possible are really included. However, Col onel Handley descends to reasonable and logical particulars, and in one re- spect he is eminently correct-by the terms of the New constitution lower taxes and better schools become com pulsory, so much so that corrupt book-trust Legislature could not rem der the case otherwise. When the New constitution is adopted, as 1t soon will be, the maximum tax rate be- comes 65 cents on each assessed value of s100, instead of 75 cents, and the yearly school fund will soon go up to a minimum of one million dollars.
 But really what is most wanted for the general good is assured white supremacy, and this is to be accom- plished under the New constitution by wedding out the worthless illiterate negroes. This is the long and short of it, and there Is no need of present. Ing the situation in any other than its true light. The entire suffrage plan was prepared for that very purpose, and that is exactly what will take place when the instrument is ratified.
 No county can afford to vote against white supremacy. No Populist can afford to hazard the welfare of himself and his children and his children's children by voting against the New constitution In order to grasp for a short period local power. No white man can afford to, in short, vote against white supremacy
 This is what the election of next Monday means. and there is no req son why the real issue should be dis torted or in manner concealed. Next Monday is the day set for the full en- franchisement Of the white men of Alabama. They are to be freed from dishonest elections and possible negro rule. Both are to go down together. and honest white men are to come to their own again. This Is the real issue make no mistake as to that.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
pooLEY AMUSED ROOSEVELT.

William Curtis in the Chicago Record
 Herald.
 About the worst scolding Roosevelt ever got was Dooley's "Alone in Cuby." in which he was represented as writing the history of the Cuban war as if he had fought it all by himself. but he roared when he read 1t. bought dozens of copies of the papers in which it appeared and sent them to his friends. He cut out the artice and carried it around in his pocketbook and used to read it to people. and the first question he asked of me when met him at the Philadel- phia convention was wneiner Dunne, who wrote the Dooley articles, was in town. I told him thought he was. and he said that he wanted to see him. Dunne was as reluctant as Roosevelt was eager for the meeting. and when they finally came together on the floor of the con- vention hall Roosevelt exclaimed:
 By Godfrey. MT. Dunne. would rath- CT meet you than any man in this hall You gave me the worst roasting I ever got. and my wife has read 1t to me about seventeen times when she thought I needed discipline. but 1t was the best thing you ever wrote"
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
Average per month during 19O1.

turn in the conversation soon gave the opportunity I sought for.
 How I asked him. "do you account for the strange circumstance that when death really comes people seem to fear it so little? It seems to me that, how. ever good man may be, the mere mo- tion of falling into the great unknown and of meeting God face to face and of having ones fate definitely and irrevoca- ply settled for all eternity ought to cause anyone on the brink of the grave the most indescribable apprehension and the most acute anguish
 Well" replied the cardinal the vast majority of persons do undoubtedly die calmly enough and my explanation is briefly this So long as God intends a. man to live. he wisely infuses into his soul certain natural dread and horror of death, in order that he may be in- duced to take ordinary care of himself and to guard against danger and need less risks. But when God intends a man to die. there is no longer any ob- ject for such fear. It can serve no fur ther purpose. What is the result? Well. I take it, God then simply withdraws' It."
 This explanation of the old cardinal pleased me we'll and seemed not only to account for the singular phenomenon, but to set God in a peculiarly amiable and tender light.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
LETTERS FROM
 THE PEOPLE.
HInts on the Constitution.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 The constitution of 1875 recognizes the 18th amendment which allows ignorant negroes all the rights of suffrage. In 1890 Hon. Hilary A. Herbert wrote as follows:
 Education and the liberalising infiu- ences of the age to which Alabama is fully alive, will gradually and surely, and safely solve every problem that can arise within her borders if she herself is left to deal with them. VIII the American people in the light of the terrible exper- fence of the past permit outside infiu- ences to prevent this consumation7"
 The new constitution seeks to purify the ballot. and honest elections are sure to follow its adoption. It requires the Legislature to pass laws which will prove safeguards to the purity of the ballot box; it excludes from the right to reg ister or vote or hold office any person convicted of selling or offering to sell his vote, or the vote of another, or of buying or offering to buy the vote of an- other, or of making or offering to make a false return in any election by the peo- pie or suborning any witness or registrar to secure the registration of any person as elector Honesty in elections Is the watchword of the new constitution.
 The new constitution provides that the question of bond issue-publio debt con- tracts-shall be In the hands of the peo- pie; that no county, city or town shall arbitrarily use the credit, the property and the faith of the people unless the people express their willingness to 1t. by ballot. The old constitution says with Vanderbilt, 'the people be d-n.''
 Every man must know and understand that the Democratic party Is the repre- sentative party of Alabama. That it's membership is composed of the wealth, the intelligence. and the manhood of the state. and its utterances are the voice Of the people. The movement having for its purpose the framing and adoption of @ new organic law is of Democratic origin. For years the party has realized that the present constitution has grfevous deh- ciences, and falls far short of meeting the demands of this day and time. TEe general growth and industrial prosperity of the state demands the enactment of laws commensurate with the demands of the time. and the Democratic party in Alabama has prepared constitution and submits 1t to the people for their ratifica- ton or rejection, which fulfills every measure. Democrats cannot afford to op- pose it; neither can intelligent Repub- licans. JOHN 41. STRANGE.
 Birmingham, Noyemeber g.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
Law and Order Anain.

On the first day of this month, at Cartersyille, in Georgia, negro was legally hanged, after a trial in the courts. He was hanged for the cus- tomary offense. in the presence of POGO persons, including the victim of the crime and her husband This is vindication, or rather an assertion, of law and order fully as valuable as the Jim Brown case in this State.
 Like Virginia, Georgia and Alabama seem to be swinging over to the law and order side. Both States have Governors who propose to stand by sheriffs who do their duty, who pro- pose, too, to score sheriffs that are towards or accomplices in lynching bees. At present lynchings, especially of the more brutalizing sort, are con- fined to Kentucky and the southwest ern counties of Mississippi.
 This form of anarchy is attracting worldwide attention. We print below the stinging remarks of Francis de Pressense, son of the academician of the second empire, as printed in the Paris Aurore:
 The same men who show themselves so rncompromising In their respect for hu- man life when great parsonage is con- cerned, and see crime beyond expiation in the destruction of human being, if he is at the top of the social ladder with what indifference do they not take note of the attacks whose victims are common people, poor helots, the residuum of the species! Almost daily some lynching af- fair kills negro in the United States The lynchers no longer content them selves with simple death; they must add the refnements of torture. The press Is mute; the churches are silent. The il- lustrated newspapers reproduce photo graphs of the successive scenes of tor ture. Against such infanfies. which are no mere accident, but which are repeated and go on multiplying and acclimatizing themselves in the states of the South and West, there has not been. there will never be. the concert of execration and male diction which has been let loose against the Buffalo murderer. They demand O crusade of the human race against ar- archtsm: they are careful not to call for orc movement of reproduction. one effort of repression against lynching. What would you have upright consciences think of society. civilization. which puts up with such hypocrisy and prac- tices contradictions so revolting?
 Unless the entire South can be put
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
About Persons.

State Senator Walter L. Oliver of Shell by was in Birmingham yesterday.
 
 Judge Thomas Bradford, State inspec- tor of convicts, spent yesterday in Bir- mingham.
 Col. John J. Altman went last night to Livingston, where his Sumter County law office was burned yesterday. Colonel Altman said he hopeu his loss would be confined to a few books and to his safe. John L. Parker, the prominent druggist was another Birmingham sufferer by the disastrous fire in Livingston, he owning some house property that was burned. J, c. Morris, J. l.. Carter and Frank King of Nashville are at the Florence. J. H. Irwin of Moulton is at the Flor ence.
 s. J. Foster of Montgomery Is at the Florence.
 H. R. Johnston of New Hope Is at the Florence.
 B. L. Smith of New York and D. Mum TO of Detroit are at the Florence.
 Joseph Sackman, c. F. Scholl, P. A. McPhillips and Samuel Isaacs of New York are at the Hillman.
 Capt. L. Y. Dean of Eufaula and George E. Fossick of Tuscumbia are at the Hillman.
 Charles H. Wellman of Cleveland, Ohio, and R. A. Hancock of Atlanta. Ga. are at the Hillman.
 J. s. Aylwood of Pensacola Is at the Metropolitan.
 Alabamians at the Metropolitan are George H. Cole of Eutaw, J. A. Mac Knight of Souti Calera, J. G. Kay of sylacauga, J. H. Slane of Huntsville, S.. L. Rountree of Hartselle and Thomas J.. Scott of Montgomery.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06

The average marketing up to No vember has of late been just about 80 per cent On this basis the crop will be 9,472,040 bales. This agrees with the estimates made by the Com missioners of Agriculture of the South ern States when they met in Septem- Der. We see no reason for adopting higher estimate. October was an ex- tremely favorable month for picking. and the crop was hurried to market. Receipts have been very liberal. The exact percentage of the crop marketed on November 1 in the last twelve years has been 30.06 per cent, or trifie more than our estimate, thus reducing the figures of the outcome to about 9.450,0OO bales.
 A killing frost has now occurred over a greater part of the cotton belt, and the size of the crop is no longer affected by the unknown extent of 8 top crop. The coming of frosts sent up the price of spot cotton in Liver pool as well as in New York and New Orleans, and there seems to be no doubt but that 8 cents will soon be- come minimum price for the staple. No farmer who can hold his cotton should accept less.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
COmbavssom of Commerce
 0f khe Leading Countries

Washington November 6.-An accurate principal countries of the world at the present time is afforded by some figures published by the treasury bureau of sta tistics in the September number of the monthly summary of commerce and finance. The statement Is in the form of a table showing the commerce of thirty leading countries of the world during such part of the fiscal year of each of the countries as is available from their latest official reports. Owing to the fact that the fiscal years of the countries as is available from their latest official reports. Owing to the fact that the fiscal years of the countries differ in their dates of termination. the statement Is in some cases for a six months period in other cases for eight, and in other cases for eleven or twelve months In order to volume of the commerce of the various countries the bureau of statistics gives the average monthly import and export during the part of the fiscal year covered in the statement for each of the thirty countries in question:
 This statement of the average monthly value of the imports and exports of the thirty countries furnishes a fair basis of comparison of the commerce of the countries one with another and an op- portunity to compare the imports with the exports, and thus determine whether the excess or "balance of trade is on the import or export side.
 An examination of the full list of coun- tries shows that In two-thirds of the number imports exceed the exports and that in one-third of the number the ex- ports are greater than the imports. The countries which show an excess of ex- ports over imports are: Argentina, Aus tria-Hungary, Brazil, Chili. Bitish India, Mexico, Roumania, European Russia. the United States and Uruguay. The coun-
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on the basis that prevails in St Clair County in this State and at Carters- vile in Georgia, we must expect to encounter similar rebukes from all parts of the civilized world, and these rebukes carry along with them much material damage. They prevent im- migration. and they render capital timid. The capitalist thinks that if life is freely taken outside the forms and safeguards of law, his property may be treated in like manner, and he withholds 1t from this section. Our true policy consists in complete res toration of law and order.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Bad Manners and Good.

''The purely Southern custom of men removing their hats in elevators when women happen to be present has finally provoked systematic opposition in Now York" said a man who has travelled.
 That is one of our Southern customs that Is perfectly absurd. and strictly speaking 1t Is rude. and I am glad that attention to It's absurdity Is being so con- spicuously called in New York; for noticed in several of the great office buildings of the metropolis conspicuous placards, placed there by the managers of the buildings. reminding men that the elevators are as public as the corridors and are placed there for the convenience of the tenants and public alike. There fore good taste and civility do not require men to remove their hats in the presence Of women who may be in the elevators These elevators are in effect as public as the sidewalks of the city and there Is no necessity for or sense in men affecting in an elevator the manners that are re- quired in a private office or private residence.
 But the real reason for the New York crusade against the hat-removing nuis-  ance In elevators is not related to good manners-the New York public generally is more ignorant than Hottentots or Sou danese of ordinary good manners. for that town is in this particular the most uncivilized community on earth!-but reasons purely hygienic are advanced. Physicians have assured the public that men who remove their hats in elevators are thereby rendered susceptible to the contraction of any one of forty or fifty diseases. the least objectionable of which is cold that may result in pneumoniai
 True policeness forbids a man to take any notice whatever of a woman he doesn't know. He may not even look at her steadily, to say nothing of removing his hat to her under any sort of pretense. One well-bred man meeting another we'll bred man who Is accompanying a woman may not lift his hat in any circumstance, unless the woman's escort first lifts his hat, and that may be accepted as a sig nal from the escort that he is willing or ready to introduce the other man to the woman. Hence the removal of his hat by a man in the presence of a woman he doesn't know in an elevator is in reality an act of presumption, If not imperti- nence'
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
A MISSISSIPPI SWAMP.

Walter Malone in The Criterion. Here In this sultry July afternoon The white light through the shade
 seems gloomy green Here lies. all motionless. the long lagoon Through twilight where no sun is ever
 seen. Huge turtles bask by wonder sluggish
 lake,
 A hoarse bullfrog is croalking from the
 bank, And like a jeweled necklace swings
 snake
 Amid the mosses of cypress dank. Here. like a. shipmast rooted in the soil, A great live oak defies the future gales: Gigantic grape vines. twisting coil on
 coil,
 Have weaved his cordage and his
 mighty sails. A scarlet splash of color, here and there The trumpet blossoms flag is all
 aflame Beside this stream, the cardinal flowers
 glare,
 Like eyes of tigers none can ever tame. Here a magnolia with respiendent buds Seems green pillow strewing peerless Or bearing focks of swans on emerald
 floods,
 Afiutter in maze of snowy swirls. The sluggish waters, green with curdIed
 scum
 Are gloriffed with filled robes of white Lilies so pure, so lovely that they come Liko myriad moons on some unchanted
 night The purple bunting that is glinting by Seems like pansy that can soar and
 sing; The scarlet tanager that fiutters nigh, Seems like poppy warbling on the
 wing. The red bird. like crimson shooting
 star,
 Burns or the vision with a blaze in-
 tense; And like two jeweled daggers, from afar Two humming birds pierce through the
 shadow dense. The yellow-hammer for @ moment giints, A golden breasted dotted autumn leaf; The oriole in black and orange tints, Glows through, the greenwood like a
 flaming sheaf. The hermit thrush. that forest Hamlet. Asking the old. old questions, ever new. Yet still unanswered by created thines, And hid forever out of mortal view.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
PORTO RIcANs PLEASED.
Enthusiastic Natives Greet Governor
 Hunt In Ills Journey.

San Juan de Porto Rico. November B. Governor Hunt started yesterday on a four-days' tour of the island. He received enthusiastic ovations from crowds of the people at all the towns visited, members of both parties turning out, particularly the Federals, who were formerly bit- ter opponents of the Governor.
 The Governor was met with processions consisting of coaches midway between the towns. This is the best indication that Gov. Hunt has the good will of the peo- pie. Education Commissioner Brombaugh, who is with the Governor, Is opening new schools enroute.
 Mir. Dix the acting treasurer. is in the military hospital. He has been operated upon for appendicitis, and his condition is serious
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
The Price of Gas.

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 In your issue of today noticed you stated that the price of gas had been re- duced from $1.65 per thousand feet to s1.26 per thousand. In order to see if this was correct. I sent around and paid my bill. Instead of being SIPS my bill was made out at s1.4O. with 10 per cent off for cash. The price heretofore has been $1.65. less 10 per cent for cash. So 1t stands s1.4 against s1.85. or SIPS against 1.4s I am sure you do not desire to mislead the public by this misstatement of the facts. and for this reason call your attention to it. The difference is not as great as the casual observer is apt to think. Think correction imperative. P. c. SMITH.
 Birmingham, November 5. 1901
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
HOW vIRcHow WORKS.

From the London News Berlin Telegram.
 Few men have worked harder than Virchow. It is not very long since that. after a full days work. he went in the evening into his study and sat down at his writing table. Here. next morning. the housemaid, coming to clean the room, found him absorbed in his work. This incident did not stand alone. and on such occasions the professor was quite astonished when he learned that 1t was morning. He would pull out his watch, saying: 'rNow. I must go to bed for couple of hours before leaving for the university" Prof. Virchow's average daily allowance of sleep is between four and five hours
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
MERE OPINION.

From the Chicago Record-Herald
 And one can be the foolish half of a genius.
 If all women were homely none of them would dare to be wicked.
 We can forgive man for a good many other shortcomings if we know he is a slave to the bathing habit.
 It is hard to imagine anything more contemplate than the man who howls when he is beaten at his own game.
 A woman will dress for three hours to appear for twenty minutes at reception, and never notice the waste of time.
 They say bad boy may develop into a useful man. but most of us are willing to have good boys and hope for the best
The age-herald., 1901-11-06

tries showing an excess of imports over exports are: Belgium, Canada, Cape of Good Hope. China, Cuba. Denmark. Egypt France, Germany. Greece, Italy. Japan, the Netherlands. Norway, the Philippine Islands, Portugal. Spain. Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
 The table which follows shows the av- craze monthly imports and exports of the ten countries in which the exports exceed the imports in that part of the current fiscal year for which figures are now available:
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
SIR HENRY IRviNo'e FAD.

From the Chicago Journal.
 Sir Henry Irving has one peculiarity that only those who are brought into the closest relations with him recognize. This Is in regard to the number of spectacles and glasses of various sorts that he al- ways has on hand, both at the theatre and at home At the theatre he has quite two dozen pairs of one kind and another. He Is constantly losing and buying new pairs of glasses. and he pleads guilty to having sixty pairs at the theatre or at home
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
un to November.

We present below table showing, first, the number of bales marketed on November of each crop year, then the total crop, and then the percentage of the marketed bales to the total crop, as follows:
The age-herald., 1901-11-06

The Waldeck-Rosseau ministry Is again threatened, but 1t has weathered many storms, and it will do so, in all probability, again. It has been in office two years.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
RECALLS FAMOUS CURES.

From the Norfolk Reflector.
 Small doses of fine. dry sand are the latest freak remedy" for dyspepsia. Somehow this specific recalls the remark of distinguished American that six feet of gravel is the only cure for hay fever,
The age-herald., 1901-11-06

The London Lancet has pricked the stories about King Edwards vocal chords, and as things now stand he has as strident chords as the next man.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
PAID FOR ONE GOAT, s1,o5o.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 A 3-year-oid Angora buck goat, Pasla- Columbia. was sold at the Kansas City stock yards yesterday afternoon for $l05o the highest price ever paid for one of his kind.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
AN OPENING,

From the Baltimore American.
 The Hungarian Parliament has been opened, and one factor in the gayety of nations Is assured.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06
Greensboro Market Rurns.

Greensboro November 5.-(special)- Four frame buildings constituting the market of the town were utterly de- strcyed by fire last night The prop erty loss is about $2500.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06

Professor Triggs is falling sadly be. hind, and he may have to form an alliance with Bath House John or Mrs. Taylor.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06

The leonids days proper are No. vember lS, IA and 15, and engagements with young ladies as co-watchers can be made accordingly.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06

The French people have decided that it will not be necessary to in- vestigate Santos-Dumont because he looped the Eiffel tower.
The age-herald., 1901-11-06

As an agriculturist instead of farmer MT. Bryan has bought a heifer. Price, $450.
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The new Amesr has been invited to attend King Edwards coronation, and the young man may accept the invita-. ton.