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The age-herald., 1901-07-20
Taxation of Property.

The Jefferson County Board of Rev enue is serving the people excellently through its sensible and straightfor- ward work in revising the tax lists of the county. It's decisions are invari- ably; the views that practical men would take in considering questions of a like nature in their own business. It acts in other words as if it were conducting private affairs, and when public affairs are treated on that basis the public is well served.
 The pretension that dwellings belong to cotton mill are part of the mill and are therefore exempt from taxa tion for ten years might be carried so far by rich syndicate that there would be no property in beat at least to be taxed. Such at any rate is the logical limit of this claim. And so it was in the somewhat similar case of the union railroad station, which can not be said to be part of any par tlcular railroad.
 These cases show the ingenuity of the property owners in attempts to avoid the payment of taxes, and they also show that the Board of Revenue stands ready to take sensible and clear-headed view of all such efforts. The tax lists of Jefferson County are in capable and just hands, and no in- justice will be done any individual or corporation, and no harm will come to the county and State. The Age-Herald calls attention to these cases because Q vein of common sense and common justice runs through them, and it believes all cases that come before the board will be treated in like -magnef.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
 SUMMER AND WINTER MEET.

From Among the Clouds.
 At 8 o'clock Saturday morning the thermometer at the Summit House (Adt Washington) hanging in the sunlight, stood at 93 degrees. The other side of the doorway, in the shade, but receiving reflected light and heat from the platform, another thermometer read 61 degrees Be- hind the hotel, unaffected by the sun's s rays, third instrument told the true temperature of the air to be AT degrees. One needed but to walk fifty feet, or from one side to the other of the hotel, to find the difference between July and Novem- ber
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
THE FAvoRiTE GIRL.
'rom the st. Louis Star.

From the St. Louis Star
 She Is the girl who is not "too bright and too good to be able to find joy and pleasure all over the world.
 She is the girl who appreciates the fact that she cannot always have the first choice of everything in the world, says Woman's Life.
 She Is the girl who Is not aggressive and does not find joy in melting aggres- sive people.
 She is the girl who has tact enough not to say the very thing that will cause the skeleton in her friends closet to rattle his bones.
 She is the girl who, when you invite her to any place. compliments you by looking her best.
 She Is the girl who makes this world a pleasant place because she is so pleas ant herself
 And, by the by, when you come to think of it, isn't she the girl who makes you feel she likes you, and therefore you like herr
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

impossible. There are no school houses. and no opportunity afforded for building them. There are but slender appropriations for the support of the scnools anyway, which may or may not be increased, for no one can say that taxable values will continue to rise.
 And yet 1t is proposed to base the suffrage privilege on the power to read and write. Does not this carry with 1t an obligation to carry to every child the means of an education? South Carolina is discussing compulsory edu- cation. Other Southern States will do likewise, and Alabama should be left free to advance educationally as she may hereafter desire to do. This can be done by adopting local taxation, for that would give the school system all needful flexibility based of course on the consent and action of the com munity to be affected by 1t. There Is not a single objection that can be brought against it. It is not denied in other States. The proposed one-mill county tax aoes not meet the case. That tax should be compulsory, and then each community should be left to determine the extent, if any, of supple mentary aid. Anything short of this will leave Alabama educationally crip- pied, and will be a wrong to an army of children who deserve well of State that proposes to demand an educa- tional qualification at the ballot box.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
Historic BIount Will Be Gay.

"Blount Springs. to which every Ala bamian who travels from home expects to go at some time, as Alabamians have been doing for sixty years is being most excellently conducted this season by MT and Mrs. Vaughan. who belong to the historic Vaughan family of Dallas Coun- ty,'' said Birmingham business man, This Is decided advantage to the great number of people who visit Blount; and it is therefore of general interest, especially to Birmingham people, that Blount is so excellently and so satisfac- torily kept by MT. and Mrs. Vaughan this season.
 ''Blount is very beautiful just now. Biount is always beautiful in fact. there being no more romantic spot in Alabama. It has been the very capital of romance in the real social life of Alabama for three generations.
 "I hear that many Birmingham families will spend the end of July and the months of August and. September there. Senator Pettus and Mrs. Pettus are amongst the distinguished guests there at present."
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

has had two years mora for work we expect to bring him back with us. hIs work accomplished"
 You believe then that Lieutenant Peary has found the North Pole?''
 T do. He has at least gone nearer to 1t than any one else. To reach the pole is like making score of 100, but I see no reason why he should not have accom- plished the feat.
 '@The work of the Peary Arctic Club is a matter of honor with its members. There are fourteen of us, and we have already spent about s57.OO0 to keep up our end of the agreement. The first two relief expeditions met the explorer left him provisions and coal and came back in good time. The last one, however, was a heavy blow in the expense line. The windward started out with Mrs. Peary. and all other expenses have run on so that 1t was pretty hard scratching to get this one together.
 I've have had to charter the ship. officer and man 1t, stock 1t with a years pro- visions. coal 1t and then stand ready to keep the pay going if we happen to get back in the ice. With Peary near the pole and looking for us, it would not do to abandon the expedition. We will take no chances.
 ''The Erik will carry twenty-two people. The basis of our food supply Is the regu- lar army ration, but there are also tea, coffee, sugar, condensed milk, canned meats and a few other necessities. We will carry S25 tons of coal, about twice what we will need.
 No Scienrric Work. M
 s@This expedition is purely for business. There will be no scientific work. We want to find Peary. learn what he has done and bring him home if he wants to come. Peary. however, may change all our plans.
 If we should not find him we will leave letters and supplies for him at different points and word with the natives, who know him as well as Chauncey M. Depew Is known on Broadway. Then we will come home and go out again next year.
 My belief is, however that we will find him at one of our many stopping places. and that we will bring home with us the discoverer of the North Pole"
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
FROM THE NIGHT JOURNEY OF A
 RIVER.
y William Cullen Bryant,

By William Cullen Bryant, O River, gentle River! gliding on In silence underneath the starless sky! Thine is ministry that never rests Even while the living slumber For time The meddler, man, hath left the elements In peace.
 Thou pausest not in the allotted task, o darkling River! Through the night I Thy wavelets rippling on the pebbly
 beach;
 I hear thy current stir the rustling sedge That skirts thy bed; thou intermittest not Thine everlasting journey, drawing on A silvery train from many a woodland
 spring
 And mountain brook. The dweiler by thy
 side. Who moored his little boat upon thy
 beach,
 Though all the waters that upbore 1t then Have slid away OCT night, shall find at Thy channels filled with waters freshly
 drawn ax From distant cliffs and hoilows where the
 Till
 Comes up amid the water flags All night Thou givest moisture to the thirsty roots Of the little willow and OCT hanging
 plane, And cherishest the herbage of thy bank, Spotted with little flowers, and sendest up Perpetually the vapors from thy face. To steep the hills with dew,, or darken
 heaven With drifting clouds that trail the shad-
 owy shower. O River! darkling River: what voice Is that thou interest while all else is
 still
 The ancient voice that, centuries ago, Sounded between thy hills while Rome
 was yet
 A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream! How many, at this hour, along thy course Slumber to thine eternal murmurings, That mingle with the utterance of their
 dreamsi
 At dead of night the child awales and
 hears
 Thy soft, familiar dashings. and is
 soothed,
 And sleeps again. An airy multitude Of little echoes. all unheard by day, N Faintly repeat, till morning, after thee. The story of thine endless goings forth.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
SHOT HIS sTEPFATHER.
Also Ills Wife and Then Tried to XIII
 Himself.

Cincinnati, July 19.-Clarence Davis, aged 1T years, today shot and seriously wounded his step-father, William Weide- busch, and also attempted to kill his young wife and John Good and George Metz two young men whom he charged with slandering him. His child wife had left. Davis had attempted suicide on three different occasions and threatened to kill anyone with whom he quarreled. He started out today to kill four persons. He shot at his step-father four times today. one bullet in the neck. just miss ing the jugular vein. He was disarmed and arrested before he could shoot at others, and is believed to be insane.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
LOCOMOTIVES st APIECE.

From the New York Sun.
 The Western Maryland Railroad, which is owned chiefly by the city of Baltimore. has closed a somewhat peculiar contract with the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Ten locomotives for freight service. each of the value of s14,OoO, have been con- tracted for and the Western Maryland Company binds itself to pay s3.S23.75 as a monthly rental. These monthly pay ments must be kept up for three years up to May l. 1904. after which date tho railroad company is to have the privilege of buying the locomotives for $1 each.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
THAT PEARY HAS
 FOUND THE NORTH POLE

From the New York World
 'T feel satisfied that Peary has discov- cred the North Pole" said Herbert L. Bridgman, who tomorrow starts for syd- ney, Cape Breton, where he will take com- mand of the steamer Erik and will sail north with the fourth and probably the final Peary relief expedition. No word has been received from the explorer since March s1. 18OO
 Mrs Peary and little Mss Peary, who left Sydney in the windward on August 10 last to go to Etah, North Greenland. Peary's headquarters. They may have reached there or they may have been caught in the ice of the northern seas The expedition will try also to find the Stein party of which little is known since Kann, one of the party. received the last messages from Peary in March, 1900 The exploring party on the Tram, Nansen's s old ship, which is under the direction of Otto sverdrup, will also be sought and will be given relief If 1t is needed. :.
 The Party on the Erik.
 Ihe Erlk Will be In command of Captain BlaSeway of Halifax. The first officer and ice master will be Captain Moses Bartlett nephew of Captain Sam Bart lett, of the Windward, and besides MT. Bridgman there will be Prof. L. c. Stone of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and his pupil Herbert Berr; Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Clarence A. Wyckoff and Louis Bement of Itchaca, N. Y, and Alfred D. Church of Elgin, H.
 We here have to do entirely with the commercial part of the enterprise" said MT. Bridgman. "and these yearly relief expeditions are all a part of the plan of Lieutenant Peary. Peary will hunt for us, just as we hunt for him. He knows where we will be at certain times and will try to reach us. as he has done on two other occasions. It may be, of course. that we will not find him. He may be in the far north, cut off with his sledges by sea of open water. That, I imagine. is about the only thing that will keep us from getting together
 "'When we saw Peary two years ago he had gone far toward the accomplish ment of his purpose. and now that he
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
Schools in Other States.

Tn attempting to cut down school appropriations one-quarter-for that is what. the constitutional convention seems determined to do--the absolute rights of 100000 children are forgotten or overlooked. These children are, it is true, powerless, but the time is fast coming when they will not be, and then they will begin to ask why they were denied an education equal to that granted in nearly every other State in the union, and who did 1t. Every child has a right in this modern republic to an education that will enable him or her to become an useful, happy, con tented and intelligent citizen. Alabama is practically without school houses. Outside of the cities she has scarcely one. She has 722,333 people of school age, and the convention proposes to give them an education at the rate of one dollar a yeari It is not enough. It means illiteracy beyond that of any other State.
 All the progressive counties of Flu rope and 32 of the States of this coun- try have compulsory education laws These 32 States are very productive states. They include two Southern States, Kentucky and West Virginia. lne restrictions proposed in the con stitution render any steps towards compulsory education in this State
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
investigation of the EImore Case.


 A special term of the Elmore Cir cult Court is to be held next month, and grand jury will be convened for the purpose of Investigating the lynch ing and murder of Bob White on July ?. The holding of special term of court is creditable to Judge Denson and to the good people of Elmore. The case calls aloud for investigation and for punishment. Every man concerned in it should be brought to trial, and the good name of the county and State redeemed.
 The assembling of grand jury will be useless, however, unless the State is ready to produce probable evidence, not as to the commission of the act, but as to the complicity of the ten in- dividuals who committed it. The value of the effort will depend upon the evi- dence that the good people of Elmore anu the prosecuting officers will lay before the grand jury. If the grand jury finds that Bob White was mur- dered by persons unknown" this would be worse than no finding at all. It would then be better they had not met. The names of the ten men en- gagged in the uncaned for and outrage ous tragedy should be made known. If they feel that they did their duty, let them come forward, and demand a |,trial. This Is what they should do, but if they refuse to do this then the people of Elmore and the State should see that they are brought to trial to the last man.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
SUPERSTITION SAVES COAL.
1t Lies In China and Near the Coast,
 But Is Not Mined.

From the London Chronicle.
 Because of superstition one of the rich est coal beds in the world lies unworked. This will not be the case long after the great powers have partitioned China, for the mine lies near the city of Annoy in that unfortunate country, and 1t may be imagined that modern greed will not he's itate to go after the coal.
 Fengshurl comes with birth and is nev- er-ending. It attends every important act and combines the functions of fortune. fate and destiny. One may not undertake an enterprise unless that spirit favors it.. It sets the time for marriage, and 1t must be propiated before burial.
 The compound is made of words that mean wind and water. or that which can not be seen and that which cannot be grasped No amount of speculation or re- search by foreign inquirers has resulted in making much more of it than this defi- nition. Since 1t thus symbolizes what the human mind cannot easily comprehend the Chinese not only accept 1t without question, but as a reality pertaining to their own life and governing it.
 Annoy needs little fuel except for cook ing, but the supply hardly satisfies the most sraring use of wood. In some places women and children by hundreds find a means of livelihood by gathering stems. sticks and leaves. and in digging for roots which will always bring good prices in copper cash. The work has become almost an industry in the adjoining prov fnce. where the searchers for fuel trudge miles for it daily. On the way to the hills where they gather 1t they have made a path which has become 50 worn tat it exposes coal bed along most its entire length. Outcroppings elsewhere in the same section show coal at hand ovetl a vast area, ready for use and to be ga 1h- cred at infinitely less trouble than Hhe wood obtained from the hills
 But doctors have declared that there must be no disturbance of the coal beds The people bow, as if to an inspireA law.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
ARMY oRDERs.
Surgeon Chambers and Lieutenant
 6ankhead Assigned to Duty.

Washington, July 1s.-(SpeciaL )-By d. rection of the Secretary of War Contract Dental Surgeon William H. Chambers. United States army. is ordered from Montgomery. Ala. to Fort Monroe. Va. and to report in person to the command ing officer of that post for duty.
 First Lieutenant Henry M. Banhhead, Thirtieth United States Infantry. has been transferred to the Twentieth Infan- try, in which he originally served. Lieu tenant Bankhead is a son of Representa- tive Banlkhead of labama and has a, very good record.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
NOT IDENTIFIED.
Irene Canning Is Still an Unknown
 Girl and Insane.

Goshen, Ind. July 1s-Irene Canning, the mysterious girl found near here, and who claims to have been abducted from New Haven. Conn.,. has not been iden- tfied. The girl still says she is heiress to a $500 900 estate at Galveston. Tex.
 She said she attended Mount Holyoke Seminary, Massachusetts, last year. The police have been asked to find out if she is Bertha A. Mallish. who recently disap- peared from school at Mount Holyoke The police, however. are working on the theory that the girl may be the daughter of Frank Canning, former Fort Wayne shoe manufacturer The girl Is insane.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

It is permitted to deforest some of the hills for fuel, and they gre kept contin- ually stripped by the thousands who make living by gathering wood and carrying it back to the settlements. The spirits generated by the wind and water and which occupy and enyelop the earth exact this burden upon toiling millions, who bear 1t patiently and without conn., plaint.
 N is an essential purpose of Fengshui to preserve the harmonies of nature. It aims at placid conditions. The welfare of the people Is best to be served, 80 far as anything approaching philosophy en- ters Into this sort of calculation, by leav- Ing things as they always have been in order that the spirits of earth and air which they have become accustomed, so that there may be no distraction of an- noyance to provoke or ruffie them If they are driven out of their course through human agency, the penalty Is ex- acted in human suffering
 Hence all possible precaution is taken to avoid that which will disturb them. and the interpreters of Fengshui must be consulted on every occasion. It may well be that the high regard which the Chi- nese have for precedent, their intense cons servatism. and the quality of self satis- faction which enables them to feel supe- rior to the outside affairs or even to their own mishaps is engendered by the faith that makes them fatalists.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
DIED FROM POISON.
Son of Lord High Chancellor of Eng
 land Ends His Life.

Houston, Texas. July ,1s.-Wm. Monta- gue Muir Mckenzie died here yesterday from the effects of poison, and today 1t was stated that the drug was taken with suicidal intent. The dead man was the only son of Sir Zenith Mckenzie, secre- tary to the lord high chancellor of Eng land. Mckenzie and his wife have lived here quietly. and it is known that the young man had been receiving remit tanoes from home. The widow will return to her parents in London.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
The Famous Hewlett Corner.

MT. E. L. Brown, of Brown Bros & Co.,, the successful real estate dealers, has gone to New York to meet MT. W. H. Woodward and MT. G. A. Hoerle, the re- cent purchasers of the Hewlett corner. It Is understood that at this meeting 1t will be finally settled what disposition will be made of the valuable and famous Birmingham property.
 Messrs. Brown Bros. & Co., decline to give out anything more, except that they will not erect a building trimmed with diamonds! If they succeed in having that splendid property properly improved they will deserve and receive the grati- tude of Birmingham; they already pos sess it's confidence.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Love lasts pretty we'll, considering all the wear and tear it has 10 stand.
 When there are no men around to help girl float she learns to swim mighty quick.
 It's generally easier to make love to all the girls some of the time than to some of the girls all the time.
 No woman ever gets real interested in a man until she begins to worry about whether other women think he has good taste in neckties.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astroioger Raphaels prophecies for this day. Saturday, July 20, 1901;
 Unfortunate day till the evening, then better.n
 Thou hast fortunate birthday, and thy business and money will increase. and thou wilt have an active and success ful year.
 Young women must be careful of their acquaintances."
 Very successful will be the child born on this day. and 1t will rise rapidly in life"
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

This summer is not so bad as 1t has been painted. It is much like its pre- decessors.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

President Mckinley and King Ed ward have both been automobiled. Thus do the two countries gravitate to- gether.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

Birds of feather flock together. The Republican organs are supporting the Schwab side of the steel strike.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

Snowfall stories have supplanted the sea. serpent tales that once tickled the public ear.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

The man who went to Europe as a cattleman and came back as stow away Is about to write a book entitled Around the World On Eighty Cents," says the Boston Herald.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

Santos-Dumont has not shown that he can back his airship. He, can do all other needful acts.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20
-powiE.

Form the Peoria Transcript
 He is nothing but a falSer, pure and simple. and. If he believes the things he breaches. it is only an additional proof that his proper place is in the insane asy- lum.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

The sooners at El Reno are trying to keep off endorsements by organizing a brass 1and.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

The Youngers, after 25 years of i'm prisonment, are engaged in inspecting a new United States, full of tramps and millionaires.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

The man who leads double life has trouble in the final exit. He cannot die twice or double up his funerals.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

Mir. Bryan shoulu disown the men who are bolting In his name in Ohio. Bolters are not wanted.
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

The Emperor William considers 1t lese majeste when one of his minions asks him, "Is it hot enough for your Serene Highness
The age-herald., 1901-07-20

There are Is pages of Smiths in the New Boston directory! A good many of them of the John variety.