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The age-herald., 1901-05-24
Racing for the American Cup.

When the America's cup was trans ferred to this country it was agreed that "any yacht of foreign country shall always be entitled to the right of sailing a match for the cup against any yacht or vessel constructed in the country of the club holding the cup" These are the terms, and under these terms a local American issue has arisen. The New York Yacht Club insists that the defender or defenders of the cup must be confined to its fleet that the Independence cannot be- come defender unless it is first trans ferred to a member of the New York I Cub, and flies the pennant of the club. MT. Lawson of Boston, who built and owns the Independence, refuses to transfer his boat to any member of the New York Club, although he is willing to accept it's rules and regula- tions and flag during the race. Pub lie sentiment is with MT. Lawson.
 The Constitution, owned by the New York Yacht Club, is in the water, as are the Independence, and Shamrock Il, owned by Sir Thomas Upton, who will cross the sea in the hope of carry ing back the cup that England lost in 1854, and has never been able to re- gain.
 If the New York Yacht Club should rule the Independence out of the race, MT. Lawson proposes to challenge the winner. He may not gain chance to race against the Constitution or Columbia, on account of the feeling that has arisen, but he can race against the time they make when he is sailing against Shamrock IL The truth is, all should be admitted who are willing to defend the cup-all that are known to be worthy, and the Independence belongs in the worthy class beyond question.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
THE FIRST THING IN LIFE.

From the Philadelphia Prass.
 Life is love- Whateer else there may be, if this has come and welied through life and filled all the passing chambers of the years as men and women dwell down the decades and passed from youth to strength and strength to lessening years to every man and woman the one arching fact which shelters earth's stay and crowns it lies in the experience common to all. shared by all and known to all. All else passes. The fashion of this world changes. But these things remain They quicken sympathy through millions and touch the tides of common noture be- cause these alone are real lasting and eternal. Barren Is the life and hopeless the fate that shuts them out and knows them not. Empty are the years which have won success. measure 1t as men may, and have not this.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24

feet of the poll tax provision in Louis jana. In that State all who fought in any war and their sons and grandsons may be registered, but they cannot vote unless they have paid poll tax. It does not shut out white voters. The white voters shut themselves out by refusing to pay a poll tax, the smallest of all taxes levied by the State. A drone who will not pay something to- wards the support of the State that guards him and his should not be per mitted to vote. The poll tax line is the most reasonable line that can be drawn at the ballot box. It is just, fair and efficient line. It separates the worthy from the worthless, and Ala bama needs it.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
TIE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.
 Midsummer Nights Dream.
President Knox,s Address.

The address of President Knox upon taking the chair in the constitutional convention is as well-considered as it Is clear, suggestive and masterly. MT. Knox handles all subjects with the ease that springs from study, and the address should be read by all who are interested in the work of the conven- ton.
 In one respect correspondents have misrepresented MT. Knox. He at no point opposes in any form or manner local taxation for public schools. As a definite proposition standing by itself he does not discuss it; but he dwells long and emphatically upon the need and importance of better schools. The State is too poor, he says, not to educate her children. In other words, she should make them more product i've, as Massachusetts has done. Ig- norance, he adds, Is to be fought down and out as malaria is, which, he might nave added. it resembles, for like ma laria 1t clouds the faculties. MT. Knox regards the giving of an education, free from tuition fees, that win qual- fly child for the duties of life, as an essential part of the suffrage prob lem, no matter what shape it may take. awhen he urges the State to get away from the disgrace of illiteracy he prac- .-cany says that authority in detached communities should be granted to assess themselves for school purposes, for the State school fund cannot be materially increased without increas- ing State taxation, and the Demo cratic party stands pledged not to do this, or to increase county or city tax ation. The party is not pledged to oppose voluntary and, it may be, tenn porary, school district taxation.
 All that MT. Knox says against the creation of city and county indebted ness should secure the endorsement of all patriotic citizens. No friend of local taxation for school purposes asks for the power to create debts. All that is wanted is the power to take up a public and evenly laid collection as a supplement of the State fund for the good of the community and of the State through the better education of the children. It is difficult to see how any good man can oppose this proposi- ton. President Knox does not.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
The Jewish Pentecost.

The celebration of the Jewish Pente- cost began yesterday evening and will be concluded this morning, when children will receive confirmation. It is called the Feast of Weeks on account of it's be- ing computed by weeks, in the manner specified in Deut. xvi, 9. In Palestine, the feast was practically a harvest fes- tival at which the first sacrifice of the new corn was offered. When the sacri- ficial rite was abolished the custom pre- vailed of adorning the synagogue with plants and flowers as a thank offering, for the rich gifts of nature produced by that Wisdom which regulates the seasons and blesses the products of the earth.
 The Feast of Weeks" is also supposed to commemorate an historical event, the law-giving on Mount Sinai. It Is in har- mony with this that the ordinance of the synagogue prescribes the confirmation of children.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
Be Ready for Big Things.

From the Eufaula Times.
 We should be getting ready to usher in the new railroads which are sure to come and then you know manufacturing industries will be hunting us up as well as those who are looking forward to find winter homes We should be putting on our best dress and keep dressed up. for we do not know at what hour these fore runners may be among us. Every little added to public and private property will add to our attractiveness. There is noth- ing now that will keep us from being one of the great distributive points in the south, and we should now begin to feel our importance and begin to set the pace for our competitors. While public feeling is such as 1t is now we ought to feel that we should do something by way of letting the world know who and where we are. and the time to begin is now.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
Rains and Acreaue.

After a prolonged cold spell the cot ton crop began to be retarded by dry weather. In some localities, especially in Louisiana, the drynessj was of long standing, and the growth of the crop became slow and backward. All of this trouble has disappeared, for the recent rains extended from the Rio Grande to Virginia, and every part of the cotton belt is well saturated with moisture. The crop has late start, but it has by no means an unfayorable start in other respects.
 The determination even approxim- ately of the acreage in cotton is the most important subject now in that connection. On the last day of this month the agricultural department will send out from Washington it's first estimate of this years acreage, and cotton men will study it carefully Heretofore the government reports of acreage have been reasonably trust worthy, and it is believed the forth coming report will approximate the truth.
 When the acreage is ascertained, there is not much left to watch but the weather. The weather is factor always, and it will remain factor up to November at least, and really until the last bale is picked out.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
, THE PEDIGREE OF DowIE.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 It will have to be admitted that MT. Dowie is the most picturesque old black guard who ever founded a religious sect, duped the weak-minded or left women and children to perish in agony without scientific relief of any kind. Delusions such as that by which he is profiting are not long lived. If Dowie had not been obscene and profane, if he had not been bully. if he had not been, in short, the very opposite of what a religious leader is supposed to be, he would have been without followers long ago. He wins on the ignorant and the emotional by his audacity. A loafer in a pulpit is a novel; ty always and Dowie, fully appreciating the fact, has worked the sensation for all that 1t Is worth.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
Grading the Extension.
From the Selma Journal.

From the Selma Journal.
 The work of grading for the track of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad both on this side of the river and on the south side to Sardis, is progressing as rapidly as the bad weather will permit. The Alabama Constructing Company which has charge of the work is pushing it as fast as they can and are putting as many hands to work as they can get.
 Immediately after the grading is com- pleted the laying of the track will be commenced so that the cars on which the bridge will be shipped can come right up to the banks of the river and in that way there will be no hauling of heavy pieces a long distance. The work on the bridge will be started as soon as the river reaches low stage and when once start ed 1t will be put in as quick as it pos- sibly can be. ]
 It is thought that the bridge will be com pleted and trains will be running over it by the first of October.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
Poll Tax Pronnsitinn.

If the convention desires to forever eliminate all possibility of fraudulent voting or counting, it will make voting depend upon the production of poll tax receipt. If it desires to establish a plan that rascality cannot turn to account in the unknown changes of the future, it will adopt the poll-tax plan. This Is the whole case in nut shell.
 All other plans render fraudulent practices feasible, or at least possible. All other plans are open to criticism. All other plans are proscriptive in a more or less disguised way. All other plans are a violation of either the let ter or spirit of the fourteenth or if. teenth amendments, or both. All other plans invite Congressional interfer- ence
 The poll tax stands out alone free from objections especially if it be linked with good primary election law, real law, not a skeleton make shift The State has an alleged pri- mary election law, and 1t needs real bona fide law.
 But voting based on the prepayment of poll tax stands quite alone, and 1t is desirable and wholly practicable as a means of suffrage reform even without primary election. It dis. franchises no one. for any man may qualify as voter by paying the poll tax that he should pay anyway. for every man shou-d pay something to- wards the support of the State. Men who do not should not be permitted to vote.
 There is no question:" says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, 'as to the poll-tax provision shutting out the negro voters, but the trouble is it shuts out the white voters also" The Times-Democrat is speaking of the ef-
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
FRANCHISES NOT TAXABLE.
Supreme Court of Texas Holds It To
 Be Unconstitutional.

Austin, Tex, May 23.-The Supreme Court today handed down an opinion wherein it holds that franchises of railroads and corporations known as intangible property are not taxable. The case came up from the Travis County District Court and from there was appealed to the Third Court of Civil Appeals at Austin and to the Su- preme Court. The decision of the lat ter court .affirms the decisions of the lower courts. There was test case which was styled The State of Texas vs. The Austin and Northwestern Rail- road Company, wherein it was sought to tax the franchise of railroad cor poration. The court holds that the franchise of corporation without it's real property is lifeless and also that taxing the franchise and real property would be double taxation, not permit ted under the laws of Texas.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
To christianize New Orleans.

From the Mobile Register.
 A Huntvsille preacher proposes that four hundred missionaries be sent to con- vert New Orleans to Christianity. This is the result of the impression made upon the preacher during his sojourn in New Or leans as delegate to the Baptist conven- ton. It is a good idea, but should not stop there. New Orleans needs conver- sion. So does every big city. We have always held that there is more work for missionaries right here at home than there is abroad. Let the good work begin in New Orleans. Send three hundred mis- iosnaries to New Orleans and one hundred to Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
MT. euckenberoer,s Statement.

"The music lovers of Birmingham in general and the festival guarantors in particular were greatly delighted with MT. Guckenberger's statement of the bus iness end of the third annual festival, held at the Auditorium April 30 and May l." said one of the largest guarantors yesterday.
 That, so pretentious festival should have been held here without a deficit Is certainly a noteworthy fact. learn from the Musical Courier of New York that the deficit paid for the Syracuse fes- tival this spring amounted to S2600. The Boston Festival Orchestra directed by MT. Mollenhauer, the same orchestra that supplied the instrumental music for Bir- mingham's festivals of 1899 and 1900, was employed at Syracuse. The Louisville festival week before last did not pay ex- penses;, neither did the festival at Mem phis pay out. Birmingham is to be con- graduated"
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
SIR GILBERT PARKER
 DISCUSSES RECIPROCITY

be desirable It is, without doubt, from the Bahama point of view"
 Sir Gilbert's views are decidedly inter- esting, but the itSgrowers of America. particularly those Of California and Florida. do not look with calmness upon the idea of freer entry of Bahaman fruits into the United States, which, they think, would interfere wiEh their own prosperity The fact that reciprocity ar engagements giving Bahaman fruit a bet ter entrance into the United Stases would make much better opening for >aAmeri- can manufactured products does npt ifl- press them in the least. This instance simply makes apparent the ernbarrAes- ments presented in trying to make re1i- procity treaties. Fears of the effect df such concessions caused several reciproei- ty treaties negotiated with other nations to fail in the late Congressional session and will intrefere with making any suita- ble reciprocity arrangement with Cuba at the next Congressional session. The re- ciprocity question and, perDps, the en- tire tariff question, is certain to be se- riously and generally discussed at the next session of Congress. There is 10 doubt that number of Republicans think that American manufacturers have reached a point where lower duties are desirable, not only because of the growth of trusts, but because 1t is felt that such lower duties will not seriously interfere with American manufacturers while they may be beneficial in preventing commer- cial union of European nations against the United States that might seriously in- terfere with America's trade expansion and leave an insufficient outlet for our surplus products, the sale of which abroad has had so much to do with the present prosperity Others insist that any change in the tariff would be injurious to American manufacturing interests and to the wage earners and that, also, the att tempt to amend any schedules of the ex- isting tariff laws would bring on a tariff fight that would be as harmful as the agitation preceding the Wilson tariff and during the long months it was in the legislative mill. The question is one of the most important that will come before the next Congress.
 >-<<-S<<<~->->>-<<>> necessary. The city, of course, can't look after all of them and depends upon the citizens in front of whose residences the trees are planted to care for them, It looks like everybody would do this if prompted by nothing more than finan- cial reason, for it is an undisputed fact that the trees will greatly enhance the value of their property. We can now see the value and appreciate their beauty, and if the effort is continued and the cooperation of the citizens is given the city in few years we will see grand result.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
NO CHANGE FOR HANNA.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 Some little attention has been attract ed to the talk of Perry Heath, Repub- lican politician of considerable but sub ordinate activity, proposing Senator Han na as the next Republican nominee for the Presidency.
 It is doubtful if there is a man of any note in the Republican ranks whose char acteristics, political associations and ac- tivities combine to make him as generally objectionable to a great body of the Moneybags from Ohio Senator Hanna is almost an incarnation of trustism. He is the chief representative in politics of all the selfish interests that want tariff pro- lection for their products and govern ment subsidies for their schemes.
 Of course, the trust bosses would eag- erly help him into the executive office at Washington If they could, but they can not. It is true that under Republican ad- ministrations, the trusts have enormous ly multiplied and were given every op- portunity to fasten themselves upon the industrial interests >of the country, but the great body of the Republican party is as poorly disposed towards the trusts as are the Democrats and the. Repub lican party is as poorly disposed towards the trusts as are the Democrats, and the Republican leaders know this. It would make absolutely certain the defeat of the Republicans in the next general election if MT. Hanna were put up for the Pres idency. The Republican leaders know this and they will run no risks with such a man as MT. Hanna. The Democrats would ask nothing better than Hanna's can didacy, but they will get no such op- portunity. The Republicans have not yet ,nln rrnd into r,nliticn1 idinnN
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
About Persons.

E6Cdt VI oSttes MT. J. T. Gratsy of the Baltimore News is at the Morris
 Enos P. Stewart of Selma is at the Morris.
 A. A. Hunter of Indianapolis is at the Metropolitan.
 Mrs M. M. Force. at present and for many years postmistress of Selma, Is reg istered at the Morris.
 State Superintendent of Education J. w. Abercrombie was in Birmingham yes- terday.
 Marion s. Acee of New York, a former Alabamian, is at the Morris. Capt. W. c. Ward has recovered from his recent severe illness and is now attending to his law business. William H. Skaggs arrived in Birm;ng- ham from Chicago yesterday.
 
 R. M. wailes of Rockfish Depot, Va, is at the Metropolitan. Chancellor R. B. Kelly of Anniston is at the Metropolitan
 John Post, a veteran newspaper man of Troy; F. S. Earle of Auburn, and for mer Representative Paul Carson of Gads- den are at the Metropolitan.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24

Washington, May 23.-(Special )-Sir Gil- bert Parker, Governor of the Bahamas, came to the United States on short leave of absence and visited Lord Pauncefote, the British Ambassador. Just before leav- ing for Buffalo to visit the Pan-American Exposition, where there is a Bahama ex- hibit, Sir Gilbert. after expressing him self as surprised by the beauties of Washington, said:
 Reciprocity treaties of some sort be- tween the United States and the Bahama Islands would be of great benefit to each. We had hoped that the last American Congress might take up the question of closer trade relations with the Bahamas and make a few concessions on our fruit in return for concessions on our part in respect to machinery and general manu- factured produce from the United States. The Bahamas are so sltuated~that If al- lowed it's own course, free and unrestrict-. ed. all trade would flow to the United States. There is a high wall of duty now raised against our most important products-citrous fruits and pineapples- and We get into the American markets only at ruinous prices. Tn the fruit trade alone we already do about f3o0,oo worth with the United States under conditions unfavorable in every respect. Favorable conditions would swell that sum enor- mously It seems to me that the prize is one worth bidding for.
 England Is bidding to get away from America what your country already has, and will succeed, I judge, In getting good share of the 900 worth of trade. The English government Is now heavily subsidizing the Elder-D -Dempster line of steamships, which runs from Nassau to Bristol direct. They are large ships and will be able to carry our oranges, citrons,, lemons and so forth, practically into the markets of Great Britain and the con- tinent. Others of the British possessions in the South Atlantic, Jamaica especially, would like reciprocity treaties. Jamaica has trade of immense value with the United States, and takes machinery to an even greater extent than the Bahamas. For the benefit of trade relations between the two countries it seems to me that less prohibitive duty on our fruits would
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
ORDER SIGNED.
For Removal of Greene and the Gay
 nors to Savannah.

New York, May 23.-Judge Allison Brown of the United States District Court signed an order today for the removal of Capt. Benjamin D. Greene, J. F., Edward N. and E. T. Gaynor to Savannah, Ga., for trial on the charges of conspiracy with Oberlin M. Carter, formerly captain in the United States army, to defraud the government in connection with the work on harbor improvements at Savannah and other points in the South. Judge Brown granted the defendants five days in which to file bonds for their appear ance for trial at the United States Circuit Court in Savannah in August next Captain Greene and John F. Caynor were held in s25, ,O00 bail each and Edwin H. and William T. Gaynor in $1o,000.
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
Tearing Down an Old Building.

The double-tore two-story brick busi- ness structure at Nineteenth street and First alley, the demolition of which was begun yesterday, to make room for the extension of Louis Saks' big clothing es- tablishment, is one of the oldest build ings in the business district. It was built by the late Major Marre in 1883. and at that time was one of the best buildings in the then twelve-year old town of Birm- ingham. Major Mares name. with the date of erection, appears in each section ofsthe castiron doorsill.
 Major Marre was o1ie of the first set tiers of this city, and he prospered greatly, dying last year a very rich man. His estate owns a great deal of the most
The age-herald., 1901-05-24
Their Opportunity.
From the Troy Messenger.

From the Troy Messenger.
 There are number of young men mem- bers of the Constitutional Convention and such an opportunity as they have to win the applause of Alabamians is-rarely pre- scented. And, too, splendid opportunity will probably be placed within their reach to throw away the good name that they now possess A good rule irl their convention life would be to bring their heart and head in close communion, obey the impulse that makes their conscience feel easy and good, and die fighting any, thing that might oppose or be repulsife to those feelings