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The age-herald., 1901-03-19
THE OILY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMi
Russia and Japan.

Russian treachery, through Ii Hung Chang and other agents under pay in China, is leading to serious friction, and the chances are that she will give up her claims to Turkestan and the western end of China, and will modify her pretensions in Manchuria. The making of a secret treaty with China when all the powers were negotiating a settlement is characteristic of Rus sian treachery and guile. It is neither unexpected nor surprising.
 If Rusisa is permitted to control in every material respect Manchuria, Ja' pan will insist upon a recognition of her long standing pretensions to Ko req. This country is not more than a hundred miles from Japan, and it fair ly overshadows Port Arthur. There is more danger of war between Russia and Japan than of war between Rus sia and England, because Russia will avoid the latter by dropping Turkes tan, while she will not willingly lei Japan have Korea. England ana Ja pan may, however, have an under standing, and when one fights or sends an ultimatum the other may be be hind it.
 But the troubles will be apt to blow over, because Russia always backs out when she is not ready for war and she is certainly not ready at pres ent, for her Siberian railroad is as yet incomplete, and she cannot fight Eng land and Japan on the sea, or either of them in the East successfully. She will yield her secret treaty rights, but she will not be apt to go so far as to acknowledge Iapans suzerain rights in Korea, because she hopes some day to gather in Korea herseff.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
SENATOR MORGAN.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 It seems to be the fact that Senator Morgan with all his eloquence and all his opportunities to educate the Congress and the American people on the subject, has not been able to start actual work or canal to connect the two oceans, but he ought to feel that he is not alto. gether without achievement. He has att tracted the sarcastic comment of the British press. MT. Morgan has under taken long, hard job, but he Is perse- vering, courageous and independent, and has been so effective that he has made our British cousins forget occasionally that their great play is to constantly throw bouquets at the government and people of the United States. These flow CTS come to us not because the givers love us, but because they want to use us. and because they believe that al- liance with the United States is the best way, and perhaps the only way. to preserve their North American possess sions.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
WAR REVENUE REDUCTION
 GOES INTO EFFECT JULY

Age-Herald Bureau, 509 Fourteenth Street Northwest, Washington, March Is Special )-The Treasury officials are ac- lively making preparations to carry into effect the war revenue reduction act which becomes operative on July 1, 1901, and with a view to giving ahe public all information on the subject possible at this time the Internal Revenue Bureau has issued the following statement;
 "All documentary and proprietary reve- nue stamps in the hands of purchasers on and after July 1, 1901, will be redeemed by the government under the provisions of the act of May 12, 1900.
 Such stamps should be presented for redemption by the owners thereof to the collector of internal revenue from whom they were purchased. who will supply the applicant with necessary form and in- structions for the preparation of his claim. It Is probable that regulations will be prepared and issued providing for the redemption of imprinted documentary stamps without requiring the destruction of the checks or drafts on which they are imprinted"
 The amount of stamps which probably will be offered for redemption on and after July 1 cannot be calculated with any degree of accuracy, but the officials most familiar with the subject estimate that of the classes of stamps for docu- ments, checks, etc., from which the aax was entirely removed, the redemptions ,,,o,, ( 5nn 0oA Yaoeciblv a IiftIa less. This estimate Is based upon the
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
MORGAN AND THE CANAL,
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
 Often defeated, he has never lost hope or courage and his persistent effort for so grand an undertaking has won for him the admiration of the nation There was something pathetic, however, in his re- mark the other day when he suggested that he might not live to sec this work begun. Let the hope be earnestly ex- pressed that such will not be the case. While Benton did not live to see the Pacific Railroad begun, it is still possible that Morgan may be spared to participate in the ceremonies which shall mark the beginning of this isthmian waterway un- der the direction of the United States Then the Alabama statesman will be pre- pared ito depart in peace"
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
Appeal for TuskeQee.

The Tuskegee institute, now twenty years old, is endeaYoring to secure an endowment fund of $5O0,000. It has already secured $1S9,000 of this amount, and committee headed by Grover Cleveland appeals to the pub lie to contribute the balance.
 The annual expenses of the institu- tion, now possessing forty-two build ings and employing eighty-six teach CTS, are $S0,000, and only $30,O00 of this amount comes from school fees and the like, leaving $50,000 to be raised annually by President Booker Washington. The securing of this sum each year takes up no small part of his valuable time, and one object of the proposed endowment fund is to relieve him to some extent of an nual begging tours.
 The committee really proposes to carry the endowment beyond $500,OO0, but at present they are trying to se- cure that sum. The committee that makes this appeal to the public con- sists of some of the strongest names in the Northern States, and no doubt the full amount will be secured.
 This sum will indeed place the great industrial school on a solid founda- tion. It is true the academic training extends to the classics, but industrial training holds first place at Tuskegee, and there is no other single institution or force in the South that is doing so much good in that direction. We | havd watched" say the committee en. gagged in securing the endowment fund, "the growth and work of the Tuskee institute from year to year and we feel that it is such valuable | factor in solving the race problem in the South and making higher type of citizenship that the institution should be put upon more permanent footing, and the principal, Booker T Washington, relieved somewhat from the anxiety and wearing work now necessary to raise money to keep the scnool going, so that he can devote a larger portion of his time to the actual work of the institution"
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
The opps.

In view of the assembling of the State Democratic convention In Montgomery today in part preparatory for the forth coming Constitutional convention, 1t is interesting to note that one of the dele- gates already nominated Is Henry Opp of Covington, former Montgomery boy whom all Montgomerians who have arriv- ed at their ma jority remember with pleas ure. Henry Opp Is a lawyer. and a who dwells in the balmy region of the Southern pines.
 The younger brother of Henry Opp, the Hon. Fred Opp of Llano, Tex, some- time mayor of that prosperous town, and later the successful and distinguished consul of the United States at Bres- lau, Germany, is one of the most bril- liant and promising young Texans of the day. It was he who caught the ear and eye of the nation by rising ola point of order and interrupting Bourke Cock rans famous, philippic against Grover Cleveland in the National Democratic convention of 1892, and thereby secured Cleveland's nomination on the first bal lot. Fred Opp's point was that the great New Yorks orators speech was not ger mane to the subject, and 1t was sustain ed MT. Opp was a delegate from his adopted State of Texas. Cleveland did not forget the service, and he gave Mir. Opp one of the best consulates in the service.
 There Is every promise that the Demo- crats of MT. Opp's district will nominate him for Congress next year. An Ala bamian who recently enjoyed his charm ing hospitality in Llano declares that Fred Opp is very prosperous and happy. He is adored by the people, and is in love with a fair Texan. Alabamians will wish Tim great good luck
The age-herald., 1901-03-19

assumption that the public will have on hand on July one months supply.
 The articles upon which the tax was re- duced represent a very much larger sum- but in those cases the redemption will be in the nature of an exchange. although these stamps, like the others, will prob ably be redeemed in cash, but other stamps made to conform to the reduction in the rate of tax will be immediately is- sued, so that the net loss to the govern ment will not be very large. On the basis of users having a months supply of stamps on hand July 1, 1901, it Is esti- mated that the redemption will approxi- mate the following amounts:
 Checks and drafts $6OO,O0O. documents s40O 900, proprietary $40O0c0, tobacco and snuff s35OO,0O0, cigars and cigarettes $2,- Ooo,OOO, beer 5000, 900; total $12,soo,o00.
 The officials of the Internal Revenue Bureau are confronted with the problem of reducing the force of the service, both in the field and in Washington The reve- nue reduction act will reduce the re- eeipts of the government from internal revenue sources by about $40 900, and in consequence of this the appropriation for the collection of the revenues was cut down $10O,0O This large decrease will necessitate the dismissal of consider able number of clerks and employees. and at this time the commissioner is engaged in critically examining into the work and personnel of each internal revenue onlce throughout ahe country with view to seeing where a saving in any direction may be made
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
St. Joseph's Day.

This day is set apart, and has been from the beginning of the Catholic church with St. Peter as it's human head, in con- memoration of St. Joseph spouse of the Mother of Christ. In all Catholic churches of any considerable dimensions in the world there is an altar to St. Joseph, usu- ally erected on the opposite side of the high altar from the altar dedicated to- the Blessed Virgin, and in many of the prayers in the Catholic prayer-book there are invocations to Blessed St. Joseph. As Christians and Christian historians are taught St. Joseph was a resident of despised Nazereth, out of which it was said no good could come, but out of which came Christ. He was a descendant of David, and connected by his immediate ancestry, perhaps by birth, with Bethle- hem fin Judah. His genealogy is given by St. Mathew and St. Luke, but in the for mer Gospel he Is given as the son of Jacob and in the latter as the son of Heli. which may be reconciled by suppos- ing St. Joseph to have been Helis son and the Virgin Mary to have been Jacobs daughter. The last glimpse of St. Joseph is found in the incident OLuke II 42-52) of Jesus when twelve years of age being found with the doctors in the temple.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
Wish They Hadn't.

From the Jackson South Alabamian.
 For some time Butler County has fur nished large contingents to the coal mines. the men having been convicted of unlawfully riding on trains. This industry fiourished and increased until it attracted attention and led to an investigation, and now the officers of Butler wish they. hadn't. It transpires that men were ar- rested and sent to the mines without ever seeing the inside of the courthouse or be- ing given a trial; their offense consisting of walking on the railroad tracks It half that is told is really true. the officers of Butler County should be severely pun ished. A proper enforcement of the law against vagrancy is to be desired but the Butler county folk appear to have been a little too zealous
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
DAVIS NEW BOOK.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
 It is announced by his private secretary that Webster Davis has sold his book on the Boer war for s1SO,0OO. A New York syndicate represented by Franklin Quinby is the purchaser. It is the intention to publish the book simultaneously in Amer ica, England, France, Germany, Russia and Holland.
 MT. Davis began the book shortly after his flop to Democracy at the National Democratic convention here, but laid it aside to enter the campaign and only re- gently took it up again.
 MT. Davis secretary says it represents less than six weeks work. MT. Davis had an offer of s1OO,OOO for 1t before it was finished but took 1t to New York to try to do better. MT. Davis says in his in- troduction that he vert to South Africa purely for his health, but that while there he became convinced that the Boers were right.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
FROM "ULYssEs." i"
By Alfred Tennvson

By Alfred Tennyson. There lies the port; the vessel puffs
 sail;
 There gloom the dark blue seas My n
 ners,
 Souls that have toiled, and wrought.
 thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and op-
 posed
 Free hearts, free foreheads; you and I
 are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toll Death closes all; but something ere the
 end,
 Some work of noble note, may yet be Not c,ods unOec0mins men that strove with The sosss! ,iss's begin to t hle from the The long day wanes; the slow moon
 climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come.
 my friends 'Tis not too late to seek newer world. Push off, and sitting we'll in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose
 holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars until die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us
 down; It may be we shall touch the Happy
 Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we
 knew. Tho much is taken, much abides: and
 tho
 We are not now that strength which in
 old days .4 Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; M One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will esr s, To strive, to seek. to find. and not to yield. s5s g .sss afs .sis sSssi rag
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
A TREMENDOUS STEAMSHIP.
From the Iron Age.

rom the Iron Age.
 The new steamer building for the White Star Line at Harland & Wolff's yards, Belfast, Ireland, and shortly to be launched. will be the first vessel ever constructed with a measurement of over 10000 tons. The new vessel has a length of 700 feet and breadth of 75 feet. She will thus be s feet wider than the Ocean ic" and the Deutschland" at present the two largest vessels afoat, and feet more in breadth than the new Kaiser Wilhelm IT., which Is building at Stettin for the North German Lloyd Line. Her length. however. will be 52 feet less than that of the Kaiser and feet less than the Oceanic, at present the longest seago- ing vessel. The Kaiser Wilhelm IT. will have a measurement of 19,500 tons.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
Morals and the canteen.

From the Noble Register.
 A few lines from Fort Morgan give painful picture of the harm done to the morals of the men in the military reser- vation by the abolition of the canteen in the army. Thanks to the energy of the national W. c. T. U. in this matter ex- cessive drinking has begun where it had been effectually prohibited disorder fol- lows, with courtmartial and imprison- ment and the whole region round about tainted with vile whiskey. There may be people so opionionated as to think that an outward show of temperance made by the abolition of the canteen, is better in morals and in actual results, than the real thing, but we do not envy the size of their intellect.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
SIR EDWARD MALET ON LINCOLN

From the Memories of Many Men ir
 Many Lands"
 Of all the great men have known he is the one who has left upon me the i'm presson of a sterling son of God. Straightforward, unf1inching, not loving the work he had to do, but facing it with bold and true heart; mild whenever he public veal required it. following a bee line to the goal which duty set before him. can still feel the grip of his mas sive hand, and the searching look of his kindly eye.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
One Famous peIeaate.

One of the delegates in the State Demo- cratic Convention which will assemble in Montgomery today for the purpose of perfecting final arrangements for the election of delegates to the constitutional convention was the youngest delegate in the Alabama secession convention of Jan- uary, 1861. He is the Hon. John W. Inzer of St. Clair, one of the best and strong est men in Alabama. It seems a pity that he was unwilling to be a delegate in the coming convention.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
Wants an oil Mill.
From the Camp Hill Times.

From the Camp Hill Times.
 Why shouldn't Camp Hill have an oil mill. The cotton mill seems to have been most too large an undertaking for our citizens. Now. if some of our public spir- ited business men will take hold of the matter we see no reason why enough cap ital cannot be raised in a weeks time to authorize beginning work on an oil mill This is an excellent location for such an industry. We are informed that more than 100 carloads of cotton seed are shipped from here each season, this alone being sufficient to supply small capac- ity oil mill with material. With an oil mill here and a little effort, there is no doubt but that this amount could be in- creased at least 50 per cent. By all means let uslhayesan oil pill. -i - u'SsS. ae
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
What Makes a Newsy Paper?

From the Cullman Tribune-Gazette.
 The newspaper reporter Is as dependent on the movement of the public for events and occurrences as the public for the news sent back dressed up or made more rediculous. Think of a newspaper ''rais ing the devil'' if there is no "devil' to raise-imagination won't do it. no matter how strong the current. Thrifty and newsy papers are made up from thrifty and news-making people. A tame and lazy newspaper is an abomination in the sight of every one except tame" and lazy reader.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
IN HOTEL LOBBEsS
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day. Tuesday, March 1s, 1901:
 Very favorable until p. m. and again after D. m.
 Thou hast a favorable birthday, and thy business affairs will increase and prosper; thou wilt also travel ana change"
 "The young will court, but should be careful and not put faith In promises
 "A child born on this day will be very fortunate all through life, and will rise rapidly and meet with much success.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
SHOWED RARE TALENT.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 Now" said the tobacconist, instruct ing his new saleman, If any one asks for pipes you can say we have them for sl and s2."
 Yes, sir. In other words, if I can't get s2 for a $1 pipe I'll take $1?"
 Exactly. Young man you are a wpn- der"
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
HOW TO GET WORLDS TRADE.

From the Peoria Herald-Transcript
 If the United States will now remove all unnecessary duties and go out to cap ture the worlds trade, the field will be all her own before the end of the first quar- ter of the century She will then occupy the place long held by England, with the chance of keeping 1t permanently.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
COCK FIGHTING.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 While we are suppressing cock-fght- ing in the Philippines a man removes his wife's body from an Indiana cemetery be- cause it has become a cock-fighting re- sort. Are we cock sure of the kind of civilization we are to give our colonies?
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 The dimple in a pretty girls shoulder ten years after is only crease in a fat place.
 Most women would rather burn up their husbands library than a bunch pf old letters from other men.
 If women acted the way they felt, half the times when they run together and kiss they would bite each other.
 It takes the average woman till she is 30 to make up her mind whether it is bet ter to marry a pig that looks like gen. tleman or a gentleman that looks like pig.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
The pauohter of Heroes.

"In your article yesterday you referred to the little girls who gave the flowers to the late General Harrison when he visited Birmingham as President of the United States in 1891, but you unwittingly omitted to name the third one of the beautiful trio, the one whose presence was of greatest historic interest" writes a friend under date of yesterday.
 This other one was Ida McGan whose grandfather General Winchester fought under General IIarrisons grandfather the first President Harrison. at Raisin River. General Winchester was taken prisoner and conveyed to Canada, where his wife, Ida McGans grandmother, yis- tied him. riding horseback all the way. Ida is married now but it seems a pity she should be neglected or overlooked
 Certainly she shall not be overlooked! !! A girl of such lineage of noble patriotism, and who was one of President Harrison's little sweethearts of Birmingham ten years ago is entitled to all her honors, for it is a thousand to one that she is one of the sweetest of all little southern women,
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
Governor Johnston.

Former Governor Johnston is mingling with the great throng from all over the State assembled in Montgomery today He is not a delegate to the state conven- tion-had no wish to be.
 T have business in Montgomery, and besides I'll be able to see many of my personal friends" Governor Johnston said yesterday.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
THEIR MONEYS WORTH.

From the Toledo Bee.
 The story from Washington to the eff feet that the syndicate that financed Mo Kinley and made him President twice now wants a third term for him doesn' t sound reasonable. If they didn't get their moneys worth in the first term, and are not satisfied to take chances on evening up during the next four years, there won't be much sympathy with them as shrewd financiers. t
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
Heavy Storm at San Juan.

San Juan, P. R., March 1S.-A heavy storm prevails here. Two inches of rain fell last night in two hours The wind is thirty-one miles an hour from thef northwest. The rain ceased at daylight but the wind still continues. The ra.ll road is tied up by serious washouts. Tel egraphic communication with the nort and west shores is partially suspended.
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
Very Weak Grounds.

From the Dadeville Spot Cash.
 Elsewhere we publish the full recom- mendation of the advisory pardoning board in the Baker case. The recommen- dation is based on very weak grounds. We fail to see how a man can be any the less guilty of crime because 'he is de- scendant of long line of ancestors that have never shown the slightest tendency to criminality."
The age-herald., 1901-03-19
Not Worthy.

From the New Decatur Advertiser.
 Carnegie has given s5.0Oo.o o00 as a fund for the benefit of his former workmen. We would like to give an equal sum for the benefit of our former workmen, but tsome of them have turned out such un- grateful scalawags that we prefer to let them go.