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The age-herald., 1901-06-09
HE oHlY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlABAnA
Too Much Constitution.

The Commercial Club is endeavoring to secure a public library for this bookless but book-hungry city. But it should remember that it must first secure more freedom for the city in a tax sense before Carnegie library can be established here. MT. Carnegie has adopted the plan of securing a stipulated support for any library that he houses. He insists upon a ten per cent annual support, as rule. If he builds S100,000 house, he expects the city thus benefited to vote $10,000 a year to the support of the library.
 This town could and should pay $10,- 900 a year for the care of a library and tho purchase of books; but under the present constitution it cannot do so and meet other urgent needs. The present constitution aims to reduce all communities to one backwoods level. It is the most backward organic law that exists in the federal union today. If the Commercial Club can have the constitutional shackles removed from Us growing and prosperous town, it can no doubt secure Carnegie library that would bring books to the bookless, that would be means. of education whose benefits cannot be told in black and white. And yet such a library would but bring this town to the com lon level of other American towns that is all
 Can the shacllles be shaken off? Can the constitutional convention be in duced to permit the citizens of Ala bama cities to say what they will do with their own moneys? Can home rule, in other words. become fea- ture of Alabama towns? These are the questions that the Commercial Club will have to face MT. Carnegie's gen erosity is ample, and the need of books in this town is great, but these facts are not controlling. Constitutional shackles are holding back Alabama towns, and making the State one of the most backward in the union.
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ever it is, human nature for men to man. ufacture as cheaply as possible and sell their goods for the highest possible prices. Only competition or overproduction as rule reduces prices.
 
 Money is yet high. Alabama needs a six per cent. legal rate of interest. Sev- eral Southern States have this law, but Alabama still holds to the old per cent. rate. However, there is no money trust yet, and all sorts of rates prevail. Sev- eral large loans have been made in Bir- mingham recently at per cent.
 Speaking of money, I am told by New York broker that the South has been a heavy loser in the speculative market. Hardly town in the South has failed to ship much currency to New York recently to make good speculative losses.
 But the speculative cara, of the year at least, seems to be over. The crop pros pect is good and the production of coal, iron, steel and manufactured goods in the South is growing almost daily. and prices continue good.
 The growth of manufacturing in the South has been tremendous during the past several years. Thirteen million dol- lars of new money was invested in and about Birmingham last year< and our records show that eighteen hundred new residences and other buildings were con structed last year.
 Indeed prosperity has been all about us and promises to continue. The Tennessee
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Southern Industrial Convention.

Beginning on Tuesday next con vention will be held in Philadelphia that will bring the possibilities of the South very plainly before the investor of the North. The resources of the South will be presented by capable men and idle capital will be quick to see the chances that lie unimproved in vast and richly-endowed section of the country. r &AlS
 And not only the investor, but the merchant and manufacturer will study the case as it is presented at Philadel- phia. Instead of seeking trade in na- tions far away, speaking another tongue, they may conclude that bet ter field can be found in the land of cotton, where a common language and common traditions prevail. They may conclude to leave to others China and the South Seas, while they of Phila- uSlpDld SGth OOutuSlA u u1lu OOuIh ern opportunity.
 There is not State in the southeast that is one-half developed. Land is marvelously cheap in every cotton growing State. AS good farms as the sun shines on are going today at ten dollars an acre, and much less figures can buy land that energy and enter prise can render productive. And as to deposits of coal and iron and gold and phosphate rocks and oil, or the abundance of timber and naval stores where can better opportunities be found. These are the subjects that are to be presented at Philadelphia. The. New South and the New North are to meet there, and talk business instead of politics or past troubles. The dead past is to be left to take care of itself, and mems minds at Philadelphia will be turned towards the living present, and the morning of a new and. better future.
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Consolidation continue to be the order of the day. The American and Continen- tai Tobacco Companies and the American Cigar Company have combined piling up millions upon millions of bonds and pre- ferred and common stocks, each holder exchanging his securities in one of the smaller companies for his proportion in the new trust. And it may be now that cigarettes formerly selling twenty for five cents will be raised to ten cents; and nickle cigars will sell for ten cents. and the size of a plug of tobacco will be ab- breviated in order that the great trust may pay dividends on all its padded se- curities.
 The movement to consolidate all the railroads in the country is assuming shape again and 1t begins to appear that in few years there will not be more than three different railroad systems in the United States
 Whether trusts are good or bad for the great masses of people remains to be seen. The Standard Oil trust has devel- oped almost numberless oil wells and has been for years gradually reducing prices of commercial oils. The sugar trust has likewise lowered prices of sugar. But other trusts have not. The paper trust built up monopoly and almost doubled the price of paper last year. The cotton gin trust, I understand, has not reduced prices, and now a cotton cloth manufac- trust is being organized doubtless for the purpose of maintaining prices" How
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AN UNwIsE PROPOSITION.
n the Nashville American.

From the Nashville American
 The proposition introduced by a mem- Der of the Alabama Constitutional Com vention to divide the school money of the races as they pay taxes appears to us to be neither just nor wise. The State would narrow and evade it's duty If such policy were adopted. It is to the honor and credit of the South that it has treated the whites and blacks alike in the expendi- ture of the public school funds There should be no distinction because one race happens to pay more taxes than another. If that policy were logically followed the poor white mans children would not have the same free school advantages that the rich taxpayers children would have. The State should know no distinction in such matters. Its duty in the work of educa- tion is not limited by race lines The question of dividing the school funds among the two races has been discussed in Virginia. The following letter. written seven weeks ago by Senator John w. Daniel, expresses the right sentiment, as it appears to us:
 Acknowledging your esteemed favor in- quiring my opinion as to the proposition which is being debated in many parts of the State, to appropriate to the colored schools the funds derived from the color ed people, and to the white schools the funds derived from the white people, beg leave to say that think 1t would be un- fortunate for any such provision to be put in our State constitution.
 Apart from all questions of constitution al and legal import, it seems to me that the proposition is lacking In just regard for the natural relations of the State to it's citizens would contain a restric- ton upon legislative power unprecedented in the United States. It would create a running sore in the commonwealth that would be fruitful of constant and ire pressible agitation. It would put us out of sympathy with the great body of our fellow citizens elsewhere, as we'll as a large mass of them (both white and black) ip our own commonwealth. It would de- stroy the hope of stable, judicious and satisfactory Constitution which is now kindled In the breasts of our people.
 Primary education ought to be free to all. With the three Rs open to everybody they have the keys that unlock the book of knowledge, and it is their own fault or peculiar misfortune if they do not then work out their own salvation. You will
The age-herald., 1901-06-09
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT SEVERAL
 MATTERS BEARING UPON BIRMINGHAM

Company is said to have three million new equipment during the present year So, trusts or no trusts, with money beini spent freely in and about Birmingham we should all be content and those amoni us with energy and judgment should b, able to accumulate.
 The demand for real estate in Birming. ham has never been greater. Prices ar, yet far below Atlanta and Nashville and Memphis, but they are increasing with tbe great demand, and men of credited good judgment say there will be good profit in every foot of Birmingham req estate at present prices.
 There is but one cloud in the horizon of Birmingham at present, and that in my opinion, is more imaginary than act ual It Is the fear of a coal miners strike in July, because of the fact that the op- orators will insist upon some changes in the present wage scale. The operators will probably not make any decided fight against the present price per ton paid foi mining coal but will insist upon some changes in the regulations of the mining hours.
 With practical men on both sides can see no reason for prospective strike talk. Neither owners nor operatives can af- ford any serious disagreement, and there should be none.
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The age-herald., 1901-06-09
ORKNEY LULLABY.

By Eugene Field.
 A moonbeam fioateth from the skies,
 Whispering: "Heigho, my dearie; I woul6-spin web before your eyes A beautiful web of silver light Wherein is many a wondrous sight Or radiant garden leagues away, Where the softly tinkllng lilies sway And the snow-white lambkins are at play
 Heigho, my dearie!' A brownie stealeth from the vine.
 Singing: "Heigho, my dearie; And will you hear this song of mine A song of the land of murk and mist Where bideth the bud the dew hath kist Then let the moonbeams web of light Be spun before thee slvery white. And I shall sing the livelong night
 Heigho, my dearie.'' The night wind speedeth from the sea.
 Murmuring: '.Heigho, my dearie: I bring a mariners prayer for thee; So let the moonbeam veil thine eyes, And the brownies sing thee lullabies- But I shall rock thee to and fro, Kissing the brow he loveth so, And the. prayer shall guard thy bed, 1
 trow-
 Heigho, my dearier'
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THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.
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"From your beautiful white feet to youl beautiful white face, you are perfect" he found himself saying to her, as was writ. ten of another.
 She might have been a white-robed an- gel, straying there in the cool shadows of the green trees, the cool pellucid waters laying her white feet, her white arms ex- tended, her white throat, like carved ala baster, barred to the cool breeze, and her white face, flushed and thrown back the precious sign of uncomfortable happiness. There seemed to be about her light that was not of earth. In her perfect innocence this little maiden in the white robes of the sinless one might have been mes senger come out of heaven to teach him she hailed a new sense of purity, goodness and devotion.
 And so she taught him, and as she taught there came into his heart prayer that sin might be staid for ever outside her gentle radiance and across that light no shadow of sorrow might ever fall. Amen.
 That white and living young dream of all the virtues, laying her white feet in tho pure waters that were bursting from the base of the wooded hill and murmuring away a wide brook to join the brimming river was and Is the heavenly type of good women the green old globe around. my beloved.
 You know one such somewhere of some years, from ten to three score and ten, for upon the soul of a good woman time can make no impress and sin can leave no mark. The maiden wading the crystal brook shall not spiritually fall or fail. Her youth will speed quickly, and the roses will quit her face to go and douby charge her pure and loving heart for it's cease1ess beating in goodness and sweetness and charity. Her white soul will return to God as white as He gave it to bless the earth.
 Behold, the bride cometh, beloved-a bride such as even that babbling little bride of the babbling brook, far away where the blue sky seems to bend to the embrace of the green earth laughing in plenty and in joy
 Such as she give pause to even the wick edest of us all and turn our thoughts to holy things and attune our lips to prisons for the higher life and higher and hap pier hopes and strivings.
 Doff the cap and bend the knee in the presence of the living and loving majesty of womanly beauty, goodness, sweetness, life and light and joy!
 Uncover, and fling the fadeless cloak of honor and faith upon her pathway that she may walk secure and steadfast in your homage and your unaslzing devo- tion.
 All-hail to her, my beloved All-hail. all-heal, all-joy! 1a19io
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dition of the effete monarchies in which all tempting places are reserved for the children born with silver spoon in their mouths.
 MT. Newman's example became pos sible in this country solely because no Vanderbilt was equal to the task of controlling a great trunk line-at least there was no one in the family capa- ble and willing. It was necessary to go outside. and in that way the boy born in a remote Kentucky county, who went to Texas and began railroad life as a brakeman. was called at the age of fifty-five to the presidency of the New York Central.
 The case attracts attention, because the trend of events is the other way, although as a rule the sons of "pull' are looking for places of less respon- sibility. They want as rule soft places-places in which there is more pay than work. The capitalistic or combination age of the republic rem ders this the probable outturn, and the American boy who starts in active life without fortune or fortunes aid will soon be in pickle with the small trader or the small manufacturer. All will feel the pressure of that power which flows from Dingleyism, the pa- rent of all the economic ills that afIlict a land in which the man once out ranked the dollar.
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nal why of Self that in many life may not be answered before the peaceful fold ing of hands that toiled for the sweetness of them that rocked not at all. =. It is true of every one of us, my be- loved; was true in all our yesterdays, shall be true of all our morrows filling all our lives fin the noble cadence of faith tried and not found wanting: Love Is and was my Lord and King,
 And in his presence I attend
 To hear the tidings of my friend, Which every hour his couriers bring. Love is and was my King and Lord And will be, tho as yet I keep .z Within his court on earth, and sleep Encompassd by his faithful guard,
  And hear at times a sentinel
 Who moves from place to place, And whispers to the worlds of space, In the deep night, that all is well. Whoso knows not the truth of this knows not anything worthy to be known in this life has tasted no joy supreme and grieved in no grief that was ex- quisite
 A man and little maiden were walking across the fields on the homeward way toward the wood behind which the sun still was shining, though the day was far spent She wore a crown of wild honeysuckle which he had woven for her. and her laughter was more musical than the song of the birds in the copse under the hill. He laughed in silence, leaving |, oI%., ,1-., ness and wonderful glee Her freshness and beauty made her rare human flow CT there amongst the wild flowers of the wide fields.
 He found himself marveling at her grace, and feeling pride that she gave him freely of her confidence. The rustic pathway led them into a little low green valley with giant trees standing guard over a murmuring brook that rippled it's wide way over sands which looked like powdered amber. The beauty of the brook enchanted the maid en and she made the dreamy place ring with the melody of her song. When they reached the low footbridge over the stream they paused to mark the blending of sunshine and shadow upon the water. Suddenly she cried that she would love to wade her way in the brook He bade her do so. and passed on a little way to the root of an oak, where he appeared to doze In an instant she was in the wa ter, her white feet wondrous fair upon the amber sands. He called to her that she looked like little goddess, and she knew he spoke truth. Some impulse led her to fallen tree that lay low over the water. and with her back to 1t and her arms outstretched upon the grey bark she faced him and calling bade him come to her. He did not obey. but sat enrap- tured by the incomparable loveliness of the scene before him.
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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore, all hearts in love use their own
 tongues;
 Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into
 blood.
 This is an accident of hourly proof, Which I mustrusteth not.
 Silence is the eberfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy. if I could say how much.-Lady, as you are mine. am yours: I give away myself for you, and dote upon the exchange,
 The world has never needed a story that was not story of devotion
 From babbling girl to dim-eyed gramdam, from boisterous boy to wrink- led grandsire, mankind has ever given its love to the lovers. and reioiced in their joys. grieved in their griefs.
 Love in the emotional sense Is the sav- ing grace in the quality of humanity: a truth that is luminous around the roguish dictum of the gentle Emerson that imam kind is damned rascal"
 Outside Of holy orders the world does not take lovingly to earthly saints. The strongest and truest and purest of women like to think of their lovers as curbed ras- calss tanned by womanly puritX; and the bravest and most adoring of men like to regard the fair women of their adoration as mot too good for human natures daily food.'
 Prayer is for the place of prayer, and
 
 and unexpressed; the prompting of every faithful spirit, repressed to silence in the presence of the wide-eyed multitude that is vain either of righteousness or of the inexorable creed of good form.
 Neither may love vaunt itself before the world; for that which has builded the proud structure of society may pipe its lays and sing it's sonnets in concealment only. Signs of. the closer tenderness made in the gaze of others submerge loveli- ness to the unfathomable deeps of the ri- diculous and the resentful, and the cry of heart to heart echoing before the world places the black mark of suspicion upon the hot brow of desire.
 It Is come to pass again, my beloved:
 Behold, I dream a dream of good
 And mingle all the world with thee. To one whose chiefest joys have been born of the joys of others, there is glory in that dream of good. Through the "'dusky dawns and tawny dusks of many perfect days" he has drunk of the brim- ming cup filled by hands not of his own. In the holy hush of the starlight and In the noontide of many golden June he has joined the glad throng hurrying on to the place of mating in the temple of happiness and been glad servitor before the altar of gladness, rejoicing and laugh ing, yet remembering not to ask the eter-
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From the Bottom.

The election of Kentucky-born Will liam H. Newman to the presidency of the New York Central is commented upon and regarded as proof that the boy who starts empty-handed still has a chance in this country to- win fortune and influence. So undoubtedly he has, but it is diminishing chance. For the more capitalists we have, the more choice places will be picked out by them for their sons or other favorites, until at length we will reach the con
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The Chief of Drummers.

"The election of Colonel Sam P. Jones to tho presidency of the Travellers Pro- tective Association of America, which took place in the national convention of the association at Old Point Comfort yes terday, is especially pleasing to all com mercial travellers resident in Alabama" said an observant man last night.
 Birmingham post and the other posts of the order in Alabama were unanimous for Colonel Jones for the presidency, and this had a strong effect, for the influence of the Alabamians extended into other States and materially aided Colonel Jones' cause.
 'There are about four hundred commer cial travellers who reside in Birmingham alone, and as a class they are strong men of the highest character and of proverbial energy. Perhaps no class of men in this country surpass in honest merit the com mercial travellers. To them Birmingham owes a great and ever-increasing debt of gratitude, for every one of them who knows this city of wonderful enterprise and bountiful prosperity is living adver- tisement of great Birmingham.
 Colonel Jones is member of whole sale manufacturing firm of Louisville, and is still we'll under forty. Thus he is the most conspicuous and most honored com mercial traveller of his age in America. He is the president of the famous Com mercial Club of Louisville, the richest and most powerful trade organization south of the Ohio river; he is a leading members of the Louisville Board of Trade. is a bank director and colonel on the staff of the Governor of Ken lucky
 There are thousands of Alabamians who do not know Colonel Jones and who are not personally interested in the Trav- elers' Protective Association, but who will yet be glad of the honor that has come to him, because they are friends of his brother George w. Jones of Montgomery, the gifted and popular assistant to Col. Jefferson M. Falkner, general counsel for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. There Is not a young man in Alabama who has more friends or is more cordially esteemed than George Jones, and none is more deserving He had set his heart on the election of his younger brother. and his work was as the work of a half hundred ordinary men"
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Young MT. Denson a Lawyer.

Mir. William A. Denson has been ad- mitted to the Birmingham bar by order of the Chancery Court. He stood a most creditable examination, one the Supreme Court judges pronounced excellent; and his formal entrance into practice of the law will be of pleasing interest to the friends of his father throughout the State. He takes to the law naturally and he will adorn it we'll fs=
 Young MT. Denson began the reading of law in the offices of his father, former Congressman w. H. Denson, but ten months ago. In that time he has care fully read all the text books and statutes requisite to a successful admission to the practice; having studied 12,OO0 printed pages He was examined under the statutes and each of the five justices of the Supreme Court gave his examination papers their unqualified endorsement.
 MT Denson is a graduate of disenction of the University of Alabama, and is recognized as young man of strong in dividual characteristics for the good of humanity, and of undoubted intellect. He will practice in the office of his father.
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tion. The men who are arranging for the meeting hope that every alumnus of the University of Virginia now resident in Birmingham or the immediate district will be present and take part in the proceed ings.
 The principal purpose of the proposed organization of the association Is to secure free scholarships in the university. If an association of twen- ty members can be perfected there will be a scholarship to be given to some de- serving young man. A membership of forty would secure two scholarships. Thus the alumni can do much good by attend ing tomorrow's meetings.