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The age-herald., 1901-04-29

retain very vivid recollectlons of both of them" said Frederick I. Jenkins of Bal tinore, who Is visiting his brother. Hen- ry Jenkins. at Mary Lee.
 1T attended Pen Lucy, the select school near Baltimore established by the late Col Richard Malcolm Johnston, the father of Richard F. Johnston. the Blr- mingham newspaper man Pen means a hill and Lucy was the name of one of Colonel Johnstons daughters. and thus he called his school Pen Lucy
 MT. Stephens and Mir Toombs used to visit Colonel Johnston and those were great times, for we were generally given a holiday in honor of the two nlustrious visitors. Our elders would play whist. and MT Toombs would fuss and quarrel nightly with MT. Stephens, and swear? My, how MT. Toombs could swear! MT stephens and the others would take 1t III the best of good humor.s for Mir. Toombs didn't mean it. He was so ac- customed to swearing that he was not conscious of offense. and so offense was not taken by anybody. #
 One day-it was in 1874 or 1ST5 - Mir. Stephens was very III. and the newspa-
 
 pers reported him dead. He rallied, and was given copy of a Baltimore evening, newspaper; containing the statement that he had died that day, and giving long obituary of the deceased statesman.
 MT. Stephens sent for Colonel John ston and l was present when the colonel entered the bedroom of the sick man, who was sitting in bed propped up with pillows.
 "'See here, Malcolm. this is an odd ex- perience; I am reading my own obituary, and that is privilege few man have said MT. Stephens in that voice of his which l dare not attempt to initiate. He chuckled, and lived some eight years longer and then died Governor of Geor- gia.
 Colonel Johnston was engaged at the time in writing q Life of Stephens, but when the great man did die some other historian got out a Life ahead of him and Colonel Johnstons book was never publtShed v
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
LOOK AFTER VACANT Lors.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 It is time that somthing should be done to make vacant lots less nuisance and more real advantage to the city No pri- vate owner has a moral right and none ought to have legal right to maintain sn the closely inhabited parts of a great city plat of ground in an unwholesome or even an unsightly condition. The day has fully come when the owners of'vacant ur- ban lots should be expected. and if need be required. to maintain them in pre- sentable condition, condition appro- priate to their neighborhood They need not be improved elaborately,. but they should at least be smoothed off, kept clear of rubbish and in residential dis tricts be devoted to grass instead of to weeds If real estate owners were re- quired to pay this reasonable deference to the public appearance of the city from whose growth they are seeking to profit the result would De a distinct addition to the good looks and wholesomeness of the city.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
HOW sUDANEsE TELEPHONE.

From the London Daily Mail
 People often wonder how the natives in Africa contrive to transmit news with apparently miraculous rapidity across miles of bush and desert The explana- tion is a simple one. They use the tele- phone. The Sudanesc telephone is noth- ing like the one in use in European coun- tries. It is of two kinds-a hollowedout elephant tusk of immense size. or tam tam. The tusk can be made to transmit seven distinct notes, by means of slice of tree-bark, which is placed on the out side of the tusk at varying distances from the mouthpfece. By means of this in- strument sounds can be heard at a dis tance of several miles. and messages are frequently transmitted as much as zoo miles in a single day by these primitive telephones.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Oil Versus Coal.
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There is this,' says the Mobile Herald, ito be said about the use of oil by seagoing steamers. In the first place it is a very dangerous thing for steamship to carry. In the second place, while steamer can supply it. self with coal in any part of the world it cannot supply itsef with oil in any part of the world. When we consider the probability also of considerable reduction in the price of steam coal in the near future, we are not disturbed in regard to the future of Alabama s great mineral. This oil fever will have its day and run its course as other levers have done"
 This is about the size of the Texas oil deposit. It is good at the best for few years, and when it is exhaust ed the everlasting hills of Alabama will hold fuel that will last centuries afterwards. The one thing needful now is an Open Warrior, down which alabama coal can be barged at 30 to 40 cents ton to the sea. Given that Alabama asks no other advantage, and with that it is ready to meet at the Gulf ports Texas oil, Pennsylvania coal, or any other 1uel that man can find or devise.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
REFLECTIONS CT A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
 Where there's a Jill there's a jay.

Where there's Jill there's a jay.
 Loquacity is the mother of invention.
 The average woman would get awfully tired of life if it weren't for her religion and for auctions.
 Heaven is place where you have time for everything; hell is a place where you have everything-for a time.
 It is part of womans religion to act at certain times as If she was afraid a man was going to take advantage of her weakness.
 The same woman who will go down town and stick the key under the mat when ten people are looking will worry herself sick wondering whether some wo- man she has never heard of isn't waiting to steal her husbands love.
 A kiss on pretty woman's mouth is worth fifty on green billiard table. We are indebted to women for men, to God for women and for purity to little children.
 A woman's idea of an argument Is to claim that civilized women are superior to sa@ges because they wear corsets.
 When one tabby catsspits at another it Is saving how nice she looks this morn ing. When tom cat splits 1t is.swearing.
 When a woman begins by marrying a man because she Is sorry for him slse Is apt to end by making everybody else sor- ty for him because she married him.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Sudden Honesty ln Politics..

There is story going the rounds that is Illustrative of the changing order of things political.
 It looked for a time as If the Jefferson County Democratic nominees for delegate es in the Constitutional Convention were possibly defeated in last Tuesdays elec- tion. One of the nominees, noted man of the State who was born and brought up in the Blackbe1t was in fit of deep disgust at his club one evening. His friends had been unfeelingly joking with him about his defeat" and he had re- mained silent. according to his habit yet smiling good-naturedlyf the while. Sud denly he drew himself up and with an in finite drawl declared his opinion;
 Its blariked shame!''
 "What?" was asked
 Here I've been working for the Dem ocratic party twenty-five years and never ran for an office before the people. Now, when I'm for the first time a candidate. the party becomes honest suddenly and without warning, and I'm as good as beat!'
 The dr;lwl and disgust were too much for the men present. and they are still laughing.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
WITH THE EDITORS OF
 THE STATE PRESS
Divergent Views.

From the Tuskegee News.
 There was every sort of an opinion on the negro question represented among Tuskegee's visitors.
 For instance Drs. Donald and Park hurst could not see any good in disfran- chising the negro. To their minds the enfranchisement of that race was heav- en's richest blessing to the negro. They see nothing in the past slavery of the negro except evil. It seems difficult for them to think that an unlettered white American might know more of the duties of citizenship and appreciate the obliga- tions and privileges of that citizenship more than a negro who has been trained in the schools. On the other hand Julian Hawthorne and Superintendent Aber- crombie believe the enfranchisement of the negro to have been a crime on civil ization and a curse to both races and to all sections. Dr. Curry and others look at slavery as one of the training schools through which God brought the negro from heathenism and put his feet in the path which leads to usefulness and re- spectability. These men see in the dis franchisement of the ignorant negro the geams of brighter morning for all con cerned. They would say to the world that men must appreciate the obligations of government before they become the man agers of the government
 But with all the divergent views every body seems impressed alike with this one thought That there must be carried to every child of every race and condition the opportunity to procure an education which will make for his we'll being and for the uplifting of the world.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
RUsHEs ON THE BANK.
!. Milwankee Sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel. N
 Why are we like Pharaoh's daughter?' inquired the man with the white coat and apron as he wiped up the glasses left on the bar by the crowd which had just gone out the front door. It was a long time ago-years and years ago-but the incident was recalled a day or two ago in discussing the various developments in in the Plankinton Bank case. The man with the white coat and apron was an old-timcr, and he remembered back. in the early sos, when there was long line of people in front of the bank building at Grand avenue and Second street, and the anxious, nerve-tearing strain upon those who waited in line to get their money. Every once in a while one or two of the anxious depositors would give up their places in the line to- a boy, who promised to keep in until they returned, and go across the street for drink.
 Why are we. like Pharaoh's daughter?" asked the genial dispenser of them. No one knew why they. were like Pharoah's daughter
 Because we find little profit in the rushes on the bank" replied the bar boy. and then made good again by asking. Have another?"
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Speculation and Trade.

The activity in Wall street is still well maintained, and the volumes of transactions is enormous. In the days proceeding the presidential election 100000 shares was often the limit of a days work; now the daily transac- tions often aggregate 2,OOO,0OO shares. People outside of Wall street are ex- pecting tumble in prices-a "bear" panic--but in Wall street they do not read the signs of the times in that way. In Wall street they have dis counted the heavy production of gold, the heavy increase in bank note cir culation, the gold basis in our currency system, the increase in exports, and even the crops of next summer and fall. They are proceeding on the basis of good crops and great railway earn ings and great clearings in the banks, and they do not anticipate at present a turn in speculation or business. Money is easy and the interest rate low. collections were never more sat isfactory. Mortgages have been re- dufed. s4
 A And yet experience teaches, that
 h ;n upward tide in speculation
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Carrie BrideweII a Sponsor.

Col. J. w. Bush of the Confederate Vet erans having written to Miss Carrie Bridewell that she had been chosen spon- sor for the First Regiment of Alabama Confederate Veterans in the reunion in Memphis, May 9. 3 and 4, has received this response:
 Chicago. H., April g.
 Dear Colonel: Your kind note received and I greatly appreciate the honor you bestow on me. Allow me to thank you and our veterans; and I shall be only too proud to accept. With great thanks for this honor, and wishing you all good. Sincerely, CARRIE BRIDEWELL.
 This is very happy indeed and will please a multitude of people.
 Miss Bridewell has generously under taken to give a benefit concert for Camp Hardee' of Confederate Veterans, Birm- ingham, to take place in Memphis during the reunion or in this city about the mid dle of May. as faay be determined. Her father. Capt. .Hy- F, Fridewell of Birm- ingham. is an honored veteran and is a member of Camp Hardee.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29

n commemoration of the stirring inct- dents of the Nineteenth Day of April, the Legislature of Massachusetts has de- clared that day In every year a legal hol- iday. The New England Society and it's branches every where throughout the union celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Lexington by giving dinner, at which speakers contribute to the occasion by rehearsing some of the scenes of those eventful times.
 Concord. Lexington Buncker Hill, Dorchester Heights are In the United States. although some people are inclined to grant the Bostonans' claim that they are only suburbs of Boston. No one should waive eontemptuously aside these jealous pretentions; indeed, Boston is to be not only respected but admired for her desire to absorb into herself the sa- cred soil and the deeds done on it by her patriot sons of TIC. Yet. nspite of the re- sistance those states which have sprung up Wet of the Alleghanles since the crack of the farmers rifle warned the red coats the soil of America had it's de- lenders. should claim their right to eel ebrate the deeds of valor done by the sons of the revolution irrespective of place. The environments of Boston. of New York. of Philadelphia, of Charleston, are the cornerstones of the nation, dyed with the blood of nations defenders and laid for all time. It is becoming, therefore, for all lovers of this union to celebrate any event that may select.
 Patriotic societies, Sons of the Revolu- ton, Daughters of the Revolution. Col onial Danes. and others, are doing much for posterity by erecting commemorative tablets as landmarks to perpetuate the memory of historic sites. It would be more than we'll if these societies would resolve to hold certain days In each year as sacred in the national calander and celebrate some memorable incident Sub
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Use of ,Ieaumnnt Oil.

1 It is months too early to say what the effects of the gusher wells in the Beat.mont district will be upon indus i try and trade. In the first place we do not know as yet now large or rich or enduring the field will prove to be. l We do not know to what extent the Standard Oil monopoly will control it. Lastly we do not know whether the oil from Beaumont can be utilized otherwise than as fuel. All of these propositions must be determined and defined before any satisfactory estf- mate of the new wealth can be pre- sented
 At present it looks as if the produc- tion would outrun the capacity of the Standard Oil to abolish it. It should not be forgotten that the great oil combine was compelled to divide ter ritory with Russian oil, and it may have to divide again with Beaumont | oil. There Is no more interesting problem in the Beaumont district than this one, and as yet there are no de- velopments upon which to base sat isfactory opinion.
 At the outset Russian oil was con sidered too impure and neavy to be capable of refining into illuminants, but the worlds skill was equal to the task, and today the Baku district in Asiatic Russia is furnishing as good an illuminant as the wells of Pennsyl- vania or Ohio. So it may oe in Texas. It is far from certain that Texas oil is beyond the art of the refiners. They may be able to turn it into variety of proaucts, having at hand plenty of cheap fuel. Such result may reason ably be anticipated.
 But even if it be but fuel oil, it will all be needed. The wells are located in a vast coalless section. All the way from New Orleans to California there is a painful lack of fuel. And 50 there is ia Mexico and Central America, and in all the continents south of Panama. There is no coal of commercial value from the Rio Grande to the Horn. There is none in the West Indies. Here is vast field for fuel. oil and pipe lines and tank steamers can dis tribute that oil at low carrying rates.
 There will still be room left for coal not for Pennsylvania coal. which cannot be laid down in New Orleans for less than s2.50 ton, but for Ala bama coal at $1.2o ton. This calls for an Open Warrior, and towards that all our energies should be bent. The oil discovery has but added to lne need of an open river to the sea. Cheap coal and cheap oil will then fight it out, and the South and the whole country will be a winner in any | event
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
EVENING SONG.

By Sidney Lanier. Look off. dear Love, across the sallow
 sands,
 And mark you meeting of the sun and
 sea-
 Hoy long they kiss in sight of all the
 lands, .s As, longer. longer, we. tt1 Now in the seas red vintage melts the
 sun, As Egypt's pearl dissolved in rosy wine, And Cleopatra night drinks all. 'Tis done. Love lay thine hand in mine. Come forth. sweet stars. and comfort - heavens heart. Glimmcr ye waves. round else unlighted
 sands;
 Oh. night divorce our sun and sky [ apart. ss1' Never our lips, our hands.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Samuel DaIe-Rice Will Case.

' One of the mgst historic characters of Alabama, Samuel Dale. the hero of the famous canoe fight with the Indians in 1s13 Is brought freshy.to mind by the awful tragedy Of: lynching which took place near Corsicana. Texas, the other day. It will bes recalled that man as- saulted one Miss Dale, and was captured and lynched hE the linfuriated citizens. The Miss Dale in question La grand daughter of Hugh Dale, formerly. of Sumter County, brother of Samuel Dale. asa f
 Another far away fact which is of in terest to Alabamians is that Albert T. Patrick who figures in the celebrated Rice will case in New York, is the grand son of MT. Samuel Swilley, who for merly dwelt in Sumter County, this State few miles from the historic town of Gainesville, once the home of Joseph Glover Baldwin, the author of the famous book. Flush Times in Alabama and Mis- sissippi" referred to at length in this place yesterday. Patrick's father and mother, who was Miss Emma Swilley, married at the Swilley home in Sumter about 1853.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Recruits in South Carolina.

The McLaurin Republican party in South Carolina has acquired Gen. M. c. Butler. who once had following. but who now has, or recently had, an office in the volunteer army. The new party in South Carolina now con sists of District Attorney Capers, Sen ator McLaurin and General Butler, all in fat offices, and in high favor with the administration at Washington, in cluding MT. Mark Hanna. They are also scourted and fiattered by the es- teemed organs. The New York Mail and express says MT. McLaurins Charlotte address was a remarkably eloquent and patriotic deliverance" |" It weakens the force of its adjectives by adding that 'it arrays him against everything that Democracy stands for now" The New York Commercial Advertiser is equally frank when it says that Senator McLaurin is now "a .5Rarty supporter of the administra- tion in it's domestic and foreign poli- cies.s Gold Democrat Capers is equally frank, and General Butler ceems to have become an apoiogist of -<Nfel ladministration.
 It is very plain, however. that the new party is in no danger of becoming overloaded with recruits in South Car olinai The newspapers of that State are not attracted to the new combine. They might be perhaps if equally fat offices were handed around, but thus far no paper in the State has endorsed the office holders combine. The Spartanburg Journal reminds Sena- tor McLaurin that he was formerly a Tillmanite' of the deepest dye and it stops to remind him of his use of Dr. Van Dykes sermon.A The Sumpter Item tells him that temporary success is not the best test of enduring princi- pies, and the Florence Times warns the people against this new form of Republication. The Greenville Noun taineer advises him to join in an open and direct manner the Republican party instead of beating around the bush as he is doing now. Further quotations from the papers of the State would be useless.
 MT. Tillman will attend to the new combine. although the McLaurinites refuse to meet him in joint discus sions of the issue raised by the firm of McLaurin, Capers and Butler. Next year the State will select an United States Senator by popular vote, and a prophet is not needed to declare that the name of that Senator will not have Scotch sound. The Columbia State, the Charleston News and Cour- fer and all the rest of the influential newspapers of the State are pouring hos snoL, into the pig three who are trying to down MT. Tillman by turning the State over to Mir Mark Hanna.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
ODDS IN HIS FAVOR.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 "Philander c. Knox of Pittsburg, now Attorney General of the United States, :" says the Sportsman, "has one hobby. He keeps a string of fast trotters." The in- teresting question now is, of course, whether he can drive through the Feder- al antitrust law as well as his prede- cessor in office did. The betting, it may be noted, is in his favor. 10 to l, with no takers
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Waterworks for Thorsby.

From the Thorsby Enterprise.
 Mess.s. Snyder and Sarber submitted a preliminary proposition to the City Coun- cil to establish system of waterworks and fire protection for the city of Thors- by. The City Council promised to extend to them such aid and encouragement as were in their power, and the chances are that we shall soon have metropolitan con- veniences in the stores and residences of Thorsby. Then let the City Council go ahead and provide for some street lights, too. Thorsby is modern city and should have all the modern conveniences. It will como
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Cotton Factory for Dothan.

From the Dothan Wiregrass Siftings.
 We understand that an effort is soon to be made toward organizing a stock com pany of local capitalists to erect a cotton mill in Dothan. No one will be sorry, for every one seems to think that a cot. ton factory is a necessity to a city. And Dothan is going ito be that.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 The masses of the Russians of today are ignorant and apathetic, as they were in the past, but the humber of educated persons in the Empire has grown in the lapse of time, and 1t is among that ele- ment that the revolutionary sentiment abounds. These are the enemies of autoc- racy and they are the ingredient of the Cars ellow-countrymen who will event ually compel Russia ito abandon the companionship of Turkey and China, and by granting constitution place that country on the roll of modern states.
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Long Distance Telephone.

From the Wilcox Progressive Era.
 Mir. R. E. McWilliams is busy putting in a telephone system that will connect Canton Bend and Rock West with Cam den, and it is not improbable that in the near future he will extend his lines to more distant points in the county. This new enterprise will prove a great convenience both to Camden and her sister towns
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies fol this day. Monday April %. i9oli
 "Doubtful be careful; do not buy"
 Thou wilt have a chequered year for thy business and many changes and an noyanees. :h's being thy birthday keep thy affairs well h hand and run no risks. Those n fspploy must be careful "
 The young will court; there will be ardent wooing..
 tThis evidently has reference to the ball at .the Birmingham Country Club ton.ght.)
 A child born on th's day will oe unset tied and careless rash in action, and un- fortunate in business
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
CLUB RATES FOR LEGISLATORS.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The Arkansas Senate has passed a bill requiring that a person who drinks in- toxicating liquors shall take out a li- cense. for which he must pay s5 q year. Would it not be fair to amend the bill so as to provide that an Arkansasian who wishes both to drink and to legis- late may club his licenses at cost of, say, s7.5O year? It is understood that the dr:nker and the legislator is a popu- lar combination in Arkansas
The age-herald., 1901-04-29
BIount's Balance Sheet.

From the Blount County News-Dispatch.
 J. A Brice sold during last fall and this spring 403 tons of guano-about twenty six carloads, amounting to about 5000; 5000 bushels of corn and oats, amounting to $1SO0; S52 bales of cotton, amounting to s3S,000; bought and shipped 2O5 tons of cotton seed, paying the farmers s3O1S .6s for same.