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The age-herald., 1901-09-22

Among the heads of governments In the world President Roosevelt in point of achievement and ability is easily the first and foremost of them all Neither the King of England, the German Kaiser, the Russian Czar the Australian Emper- or nor any other monarch stands in the same class with him. This Is something of which as a people we have reason to be proud It proves the superiority of popular government of elective over the hereditary system in the selection of the head of the state. This pre-eminence of the present executive is not a mere acci- dent.
 From the foundation of the government down the Presidents have been far supe- rior in every way to the race of Kings Washington lowered above the third George as the oak above the scrub growth beneath its shade Adams and Jefferson were two of the ablest men that ever swayed the destinies of a state. Among statesmen Madison was without a peer To come to more modern years what monarch could be put in the same category with the immortal Lincoln? And then we had Grant and Harrison. Mem tally and morally they outranked all their contemporaries. And so of the be- loved chief to whom the whole world has just paid the highest tributes of its ad- miration, respect and esteem. Fortunate indeed has been the Republic in the line of It's chief magistrates
 For the discharge of the duties of the great office to which he has been so sud- denly called MT. Roosevelt Is magnificent- ly equipped. Tn the first place his splen- aid natural gifts have been trained and
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
Trial of CzOIu0sz,

Tomorrow at Buffalo the worst of criminals will be brought to trial, and the indications are that the trial will be a model of judicial action. Two distinguished lawyers will defend him, but these two eminent men will take no steps that do not pertain to the real protection of the real rights of the prisoner. He will have a fair trial by jury of his peers, but he will not be lionized in the course of it, and technical points for the purposes of delay will not be utilized. Another Guiteau trial will be avoided. There will be no chance for the display of passion, no appeals to the baser ele- ment of society, no ostentation of any sort, no wild vengeance. The execu- tion that will follow the trial will be of private nature, and in this way the orderly but certain operation of the law will be fully felt.
 The New York courts have an op- portunity in this case to show the entire country how speedily and how terribly the law can be executed, with no injustice to the criminal, and with no opportunity on his part to exploit. himself or his doctrines. Fortunately for all he was not torn to pieces on the spot He lives to be an example to all criminals in intent. He lives that the punishment of the law may be visited upon him in all it's certainty and terror. The man who sheds inno- eent blood should die, and the man who strikes down the head of the State should die speedily and ignobly. This is to be Czolgosz's fate. No time mas been lost thus far, and none prob- ably will be. The entire course of justice in his case promises to be simple, direct and solemnly impress ive
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
MIR. BRYAN's FINE EXAMPLE.

From the Washington Evening Star.
 The manner in which MT. Bryan has borne himself in these days of a great national shock and grief is worthy of high praise. He has refrained from sug- gestions such as might spring to the lips of one who was so opposite to the late President In all his views of public policy. He has shown himself above all an American rather than the leader of faction or a party and his words of the sincere expression of the sorrow of one who could appreciate the worth of the dead, despite political antagonism. This spirit on the part of the man who twice measured himself against William Mo- Kinley in the race for the highest hon. ors should serve as a stinging rebuke to those few others who have dared to voice their sneers. MT. Bryan has won friends by his manly, simple tribute to his late opponent and has strengthened the faith of the nation in the goodness and the justice of the leaders of American thought and action.
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
ElQhtInQ Typhoid Fever.

Next month when the years vegeta- tion is decaying is the month above all others in which the typhoid germ null tiplies itself, until the typhoid fiend becomes perhaps a general public dan ger. But the typhoid germ Is well understood. All doctors can describe this dangerous parasite, and all can ind it under the needrul glass. All know, too, that it is the product of filth of some kind, and that 1t can find entrance to the human system through the mouth only. The dread fever is practically a drinking-water disease. We drink in lne typhoid germ. It is therefore necessary to keep the water consumed pure as nearly as may be.
 In other words. clean up. Clean up the neighborhoods of all water sup plies come they from wells, springs or streams. The inspection of public supplies should be unusually vigilant, for a single case of typhoid has been known to create an epidemic of the disease in town fed from the slope on which the patient lived.
 But all filth is hurtful, for all filth weakens the vitality, thus affording the typhoid germ a coveted opportunity. This town Is full of filth. Every alley is full of smells, ana these offenses to the nose come from filth. The streets and the lots are by no means wholesome. Clean up. Let this town have good furbishing-up. It needs it. It always needs it, and it especially needs 1t this month before the typhoid germ begins his autumnal visits. Take away filth in the town and from the water supply, and there can be but little, if any. typhoid fever, the chief curse of this country and this climate.
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
Famine In Iron and Steel.

''There is very great scarcity Of struc- tural iron and steel at this time, and it is impossible to place orders for delivery under six months" said an iron manu- facturer last night.
 Does that indicate extraordinary ac- tivity in building?" was asked.
 "Assuredly. Activity in building all over the country is somewhat as 1t is here in Birmingham and the district practically unexampled. AS a matter of course the recent steel strike had se- rious effect in the way of reducing the output of structural iron and steel; but the supply had been for sometime pre- viously short of the demand, and 1t will require manufacturers 6 long time to catch up with orders.
 You couldn't now place any large or der for iron or steel for delivery under eighteen months. The demand has far outrun the supply and the full ca pacity of the iron and steel producing in dustries of the country. The result is 8
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
PvesAdeNt SMeoAore RooseoeAt as Ru\ev
BY HON. MAURICE M. HINTON.

strengthened in one of the first universi- ties of the world The highest honors 1t could confer are his. All his life he has been a student as we'll as man or ac- ton. The record he has made in the forty-three years of his life shows that he has an enormous capacity for work of the very highest order. In early man hood he distinguished himself as a leg islator, and in the executive offices that he has filled he acquitted himself with the utmost credit. As writer of history and of adventure he has won fame that will endure Previous to the late war no one thought of this scholarly man as. a soldier. and yet in a few months he won a place among the heroes of the nation. When the struggle came to an end he threw down the sword as quickly as he had taken it up. All the work that has come to his hand Mir Roosevelt has done we'll and thoroughly His sincerity of pur- pose has never been questioned, his honor never assailed. Not by the arts of the demagogue has he risen, but by the sheer force of a strong and resolute spirit, an imated with lofty purposes and unswerv- ing resolution to do what was right, be the consequences what they may.
 It is true that President Roosevelt lacks the great experience of his incompara- ble predecessor, but the sceptre of au- thority could not be placed in hands bet ter calculated to use 1t as 1t should be used By some an apprehension is en- tertained that his impetuosity may lead him Into courses injudicious and inexpe- dient. Those who know him best have no such fear. They have profound faith in his Judgment and good sense, while no one questions his lofty patriotism. Taken all in all the Republic has in The odore Roovevelt far abler ruler than has any other nation.
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
Mckinley Used to Sing.


 Said former Washington correspon- dent last night:
 When I listened to the beautiful hymn Nearer My God to Thee at the me morial services in the First Methodist church last Thursday I was especially moved for I recalled the fact that the last time I saw President Mckinley he was one of the worshipers at the Metro politan M F. Church in Washington and Nearer My God to Thee was one of the hymns sung on that occasion.
 ''Mr. Mckinley loved to sing the hymns of the church. He did not simply hold a book and move his lips but he always sang with fervor have been in churches of many denominations, but in none have I listened to such fine congre- gational singing as I used to hear at the Metropolitan church.
 Every seat was filled every Sunday and nearly every one in the congregation joined heartily and intelligently in the musical part of the service. I imagine that few German Lutheran congre gatons excel the Metropolitan in singing that class of church music known as the chorale, originated or developed by Jo- ham Sebastian Bach. I attended that church frequently and I was glad to find that 1t was a rule there to have one of the three hymns of the service sung as a chorale. The President was partial to this style of music which was evidence of course of his good taste, for no com gregational music is so churchly or so stirring"
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
TAGGED CHILD REACHES HOME
Little Rosa Reber Guided Safely From
 New York to Wisconsin.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 A tag attached by the New York bureau of immigration, Probation Officer Michael J. Short of the Juvenile Court, and a Wis consn rural mail delivery man served to guide Rosa Rober, Il years old and unable to speak a word of English, nearly half way across the United States. The girl, with her mother arrived from Switzer- land last week, but the mother was not allowed to land on account of sickness The girl was sent on to her father in Wisconsin.
 A common shipping tag was attached to the child by the Commissioner of the United States Immigration Service at New York, containing the statement:
 This child, Rosa Reber, Is going to Gottlieb, Darlington, Lafayette County Wisconsin"
 With this tied around her neck she was placed on the train, and finally arrived in Chicago. where she was met by the po- lice. Captain Colleran appealed to Presi- dent Hurley of the Visitation and Aid So- ciety to assist him in getting the child to it's destination Probation Officer Short yesterday accompanied the child to Wis consin. Arriving in Darlington, he found that the father worked in a sawmill ten miles from the town. The little one was taken in charge by the rural delivery postmen, who promised to see that she was left at her fathers home.
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
THE PRESIDENT HALF SOUTHERN

From the Springfield Republican.
 The Southern, papers are recalling the Southern ancestry of President Roose- welt, and the facts do seem to warrant the claim that he comes nearer being a Southern man than any President the na- tion has had since the civil war. MT. Roosevelt's mother, Martha Bullock, was Georgia woman, who was born at Ros- well, twenty miles from Atlanta. She was direct descendant of Governor Archibald Bullock. the first Governor Georgia had under It's State government. Governor Bullock was leader of Geor- gia during the early part of the Revo- lutionary war, being a delegate to the Continental Congresses of 1775 and 1776. Mir. Roosevelt has many Southern rela- tives scattered through Georgia and South Carolina. The Southern blood in him probably supplies an important ele- .saA of nil ak.a
The age-herald., 1901-09-22

spiriting of all the great truths bearing upon the nations tragedy and the na- tions sorrow and grief in these black days of treason and murder.
 That mans love. tor his one fair woman and that woman's love for her one brave and true man constitute the greatest factor in human life and fur nish forth example whereby the strong est and the weakest the greatest and the humblest of us all may nobly live and bravely die.
 It is a kindly light to lead us on through this world and unto the Kindly Light that made and loyeth all.
 
 Fame is an accident Love is the ap- pointed way. Love is ,ne kindly light sent of the Kindly Light to illumine every life, and to shine resplendently in the humblest heart and dim with it's glorious radiance the white-haated glow that doth beat about the throne of tenn poral glory in earthly power
 Not ten of our nation now dying shall be President, but 1t Is given to every worthy man to preside over the love Of some good woman, and it is given to every good woman to be mistress in the mansion of some mans empire of the soul.
 Boy or man, he Is vain and foolish whose ambition leads him to dream of the Presidency for himself vain, vain, vain.
 Girl or woman, she Is pursuing the tenth shadow of shadow who suffers herself to hope to one day dwell in the mansion of the Presidents.
 But the Presidency of love, the White House of the hearts republic, these are open to every boy and man, every girl and woman in all this nation that mourns the great.
 O noble destiny = the destiny made bright by the kindly light of love, that burns of the Kindly Light above!
 Behold, beloved. 1t Is for you to pray, Lead Kindly Light, lead thou me on."
 THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1901-09-22

souri, Kentucky, West Virginia and Maryland. They are going to States farther North, and in those States the percentages of negroes are slowly but steadily rising. New York's percent age has increased from 1.2 to IA; Pennsylyania's from 2 to 2.5, and New Jerseys from 3.3 to 3.7 The changes in the border States correspond to the changes in States farther North, and they certainly show that bordeF-State negroes are inclined to distribute themselves over the country.
 But in the cotton States there IS no such tendency, at least not in Geor- gia, Alabama and Mississippi. The figures in these three States deserve close study. They all show increases in the number of negroes. The in- crease in Mississippi IS the largest of all, in Georgia next, and in Alabama the least of the three.
 In 1890 the percentage of negroes in this State was 44.2; it Is now 45.3. In 1890 the negroes in this State num- bered 679. .299; now they number 827,- 307-a gain of 148,10S. In the same decade the whites in this State went from 839.71s to 1,001,152, a gain of 16f ASA. The gap between the whites and blacks is still considerable, but the blacks are slowly gaining upon the whites. These facts are unpleasant, but it is best to know the truth and the whole of It.
 We have not the detailed figures of the census of 1890 at hand, nor have we the patience needful in arithmeti- cally ascertaining fhere this increase has occurreu-whether in the Black Belt or out of 1t. Some of it may have occurred in Jefferson County. Some here. some there. When the full fig |
 ures are at Land it will be well worth the while of any student of sociology to determine what the race movement has been within lne State.
 Suffice it at present to know that in this State the blacks increased in the decade ended in June, 1900, at the rate of 22S per cent, while the white increase was at the rate of 19.3 per cent. This corresponds with the fig ures of Georgia and Mississippi, but not with the figures of South Carolina and Louisiana. In the two last-named A,ates the whites seem to be increas- ing faster than the blacks. Why this is so, is but another perplexity in the intricate race problem.
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

Lead, Kindly Light lead thou me on"
 l Lying politics Is silenced whilst the world weeps beside the political mans grave-weeps and prays for the mighty one come at last to the cooling bosom | of the mother earth-weeps and prays for the broken and dying wife who is without comfort, save only as God gives it-weeps and prays for a broader, kind Her, godlier humanity which shall obey the mandate of the Most High God Thou shalt not kill
 | Duncan Is in his grave;
 After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
 Malice domestic foreign levy, nothing. 1 Can touch him further" Fame's proud temple is stained and | blackened, for treason and murder have entered there and abided. The heralds | in black have sounded see J. Transcen- dant greatness of power has passed in transcendant greatness of sorrow, and ] the childless widow is sacred in the worlds love and grief. And therein abides the noblest lesson of all this greatness and glory and grief upon the earth-the kindly light of love as typified in the frail fair woman who throughout all those long years has lived and loved upon the life and love of the great dead, who being what he may to mankind, was to her lover and husband.
 Lover and husband he was to her long before she sent him from her arms and their fireside to fill the post of danger, the most exalted honor of the world, and that he will be to her until she goes to sleep by his side for ever.
 Throughout all those years of her own unceasing pain and helplessness he car ried her tenderly and bravely in his brave and tender heart.
 That, my beloved, is the greatest and bravest, most beautiful and most in
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
HARD TO TELL.

From AnsWers.
 The scene was a large hosiery estab- lishment in the West End.
 At one of the counters stood fash ionably- dressed woman gazing at a bleating attendant over pile of goods 'I like this mauve chiffon, she mur- mured, but have you something a It, tie darker?9
 Once more a heap of fluffy stuff was added to the already high pile.
 Are they really fashionable?' asked the lady of frills.
 The youth looked at his watch.
 "They were" he said. three hours ago, but I can't vouch for them now"
The age-herald., 1901-09-22

Lead, Kindly Light, lead thou me on"
 The sacrifice of a great life will have been vain if we fail to perceive in 1t the supreme value of human love, my beloved.
 Greatness and glory, beauty and gen. jus are alike of little true purpose if they be not pended to the gentle offices and affairs of love.
 Be it Love in the glorifed sense, love in purple and fine linen, or love swing ing upon humble gate in the gloaming- the Love that Is God or the love that is of youth and maiden. man and wo- man, 1t is the only Kindly Light to lead us on.
 Whosoever goes forth full belted for the strife of life or whosoever comes to the end of 1t all where the last dim shadow falls, his soul would penetrate the smoke and dust of battle or pierce the veil dropped before his fading eyes for one ray from the kindly light.
 Sometimes inarticulate, maybe, some times clear as the Angelus bell when all Is still; sometimes in low and treIfT3lIng whisper, sometimes like thunder of Olympus; sometimes unsyllabled by maiden lips, sometimes shouted by mar. as the battle-cry of his soul-in some form the Master has taught that every human heart shall plead. Kindly Light lead thou me onl
 The illustrious Cardinal Prince of the Church whose divine inspiration gave to the world the deathless hymn to the Kindly Light, which has cheered a hun dred million hearts, offered 1t up as a prayer to the Supreme Love that is Lord of All, of Presidents and Kings of rich and poor, who all alike do but await the inevitable hour when the Light shall be most essential.
 And in these bitter days of a nations great sorrow the fourscore millions of the nation have been saying that prayer, unconsiously perhaps, in many in- stances yet thus truly praying. pray ing. praying:
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.

 By Charles Wolfe. Not a drum was heard, not funeral
 note,
 As his corpse to the rampant we hur-
 ried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot Der the grave where our hero was
 buried. We buried him darkly. at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeams' misty
 light,
 And the aancern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Nor in sheet nor shroud we wound him; With his martial cloak wound around
 him. Few and short were the prayers we said. And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of
 the dead,
 And we bitterly thought of tomorrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow
 bed,
 And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would
 tread OCT his head, AHu we idr away on Ine pllioWi Lightly they'll talk of tho spirit that's
 gone,
 And OCT his cold ashes upbraid him; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep
 on
 In the grave where a Briton has laid
 himt
 ' But half our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for re-
 tiring; And we heard the distant and random That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down. From the field of his fame fresh, and
 gory! We carved not line, and ws raised not
 a stone
 But we left him alons with his xlorx
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
Naaroes in tha Country.

In 1880 the negroes were 13.1 per cent of the total population; in 1890 they were but 11.9 per cent. Despite a large white immigration they are today, or rather were in 1900, when the census was taken, IF per cent of the country's population. Although nearly five millions of whites came to this country in the decade just com pleted, yet the negroes held their own. This shows beyond doubt or dispute that the negroes are not dying out, put are on the other hand increasing faster than the whites. The birth rate is confessedly higher, and the death rate is not high enough to overcome She former.
 As rule the percentage of negroes ls falling in the border States-in Mis-
The age-herald., 1901-09-22
TEDDY, JR.,
Kills His First Deer In the Adiron-
 dacks.

North Creek CN. Y) Cor. New York
 Herald.
 The exploit of young Teddy Roose- welt last Monday morning has been the chief subject of conversation among the guides around the Tahawus Club house. The President had promised the youth full Nimrod a handsome bit of pocket money if he managed to kill deer without help from the guide. So Mon day night Teddy" with John Hall, the veteran woodsman, for escort, came down from the upper club, where the family was stopping, to the lower Ia hawus Club house. An unsuccessful at tempt was made that evening, but noth- ing that looked like a deer could be found
 Bright and early Tuesday morning young Teddy" started out with Hall who carried no weapon of any kind, in order that there might be no doubt who killed the deer. About o'clock in the morning before they had gone half a mile from the clubhouse, young Ted dy' discovered a misty figure looming up at the edge of a clearing. Not dar- ing to stir they waited until the in creasing light revealed a fine buck calmly browsing without a thought of danger. It was a sight that has given many an older hunter "buck fever" of the worst kind. but young Roosevelt had inherited his fathers nerve
 Before the excited guide could signal him to shoot Teddy had quickly raised his gun to his shoulder and fired. The buck gave one convulsive leap and fell dead in its tracks. Teddy was with difficulty restrained from rushing for ward. The guide, who knew the danger, held him back. No signs of life ap- peared, however. and a cautious ap- proach revealed the fact that the youth full hunters shot had severed the back bone just back of the shoulders. It was a clean hit that any marksman might be proud of.
 Hastily returning to the clubhouse, with wild shouts of joy, Teddy pro- claimed his achievement. A team was sent out and the deer was brought in. It was a fine specimen, weighing fully 25O pounds, with a handsome pair of antlers. The heau Is being mounted and will doubtless rank as one of young Roosevelt's proudest trophies.