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The age-herald., 1901-03-03
TEMPERANCE REFORM.
From Life.

From Lire.
 France has passed a new law for the promotion of temperance. Oyez Oyez. Hear all ye people, and especially ye sa- loon wreckers in Kansas! What Is the law? Consul Skinner of Marseilles says: Tt reduces the tax wine, cider and beer. classified as 'hygenic beverages and at the same time increases the tax on alcohol" When wine was cheap and plenty in France, and poor people drank it, France was temperate When the phylloxera made wine scarce and dear, and drove the people to spirits, drunken ness increased ominously. Now wine is cheap again, and 1t is proposed to make spirits dear. Thus they 'contrive in France to do some, things better than we do them. We have no cheap wines as yet, as good as theirs, but at least we have beer, and we. could insure its being fairly wholesome if we chose. Our idea of temperance reform is to abolish the army canteen, where beer and light wines were sold, and drive the soldiers to drink disreputable whiskey in disreputable sa- looms.
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FROM 1.-THE LADY OF THE LA.KE.s

By Sir Walter Scott. Soldier, rest they warfare OCT.
 Sleep the sleep that knows not break
 ing;
 Dream of battlefelds no more.
 Days of danger. nights of waking. In our isles enchanted hail.
 Hands unseen thhy couch are strewing. Fairy strains of music fall.
 Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest. thy warfare OCT, Dream of fighting fields no more; Sleep the sleep that knows not break
 ing.
 Morn of toll. nor night of waking. No rude sound shall reach thine ear, Armors clang. or war-steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon her
 Mastering clan, or squadron tramping, Yet the lark's shrill fife may come, At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum,
 Booming from the sedgy shallow. Ruder sounds shall none ben near. Guards not warders challenge hero, Here's no war-steed's s neigh and champ
 ing.
 Shouting clans or squadrons stamping Huntsman, rest thy chase is done,
 While our slumbrous spells assail ye, Dream not with the rising sun,
 Bugles here shall sound reveillie, Sleep! the deer is in his den;.
 Sleep! the hounds are by thee lying, Sleep nor dream in wonder glen
 How thy gallant steed lay dying. Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done. Think not of the rising sun. For at dawning. to assail ye, Here no bugles sound revillie
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manner of lies uttered to cloak wicked stainless virtue.
 Wrong breaks the heart of youth and stains the face of maiden modesty; wrong rides as a devil s-mare the strong and resolute, the upright and noble, the straightforward and heroic, and drags down the fair and the weak, giving grief to lover and loved, and destroying the faithful and bringing the aged sorrow ing to an unregretted end.
 Wrong fastens itself upon the place of prayer, intrudes to the couch of sleeping purity, crashes like a sirocco through the peaceful places of society, and lays foul and monstrous hold upon the state, the while reeking of the uncleanliness of the charnel-houses of decaying humanity, and seeming to destroy patience and baf- f1e the silently averaging power of peti- ton and of praise.
 We see wrong in the seats of the mighty. a drunken. reveling debauchee defiant of every sense of honor, truth. and justice, and waving it's black flag with the death-mark of skull and bones, the sign of fear to fleeing honor the sign of despair to all them who make for the straight way of the high calling of civic virtue, the emblem of death to all who stand as stood Diana of the crossways pointing the sure and safe paths to sure and safe purposes.
 Wrong, like some incorporeal Minotaur, has fixed its grasp upon the civic life, and that life gasps as If passing.
 But one may better endure the open workers of open iniquity than the shams of goodness, my beloved.
 The unco guid represent errors and ter TOTS, contempt and condemnation, TO- query and rascality, vice and villainies transcending in disreputableness and dis knaves unhanged.
 The uncommon good, to translate the sneering phrase of far Caledonia, fasten themselves upon every community, every society, and do more to drive men to the bad than every dramshop with doors in viting to gladness today and grief through the long-drawn afterwhiles.
 The uncommon good crucfed old Saint Peter two thousand yeafs ago, and slew the little Saint Agnes, who in her twelfth golden glorious summer of childhood had wrought such miracles that all the worlds power of wrong trembled and they would in their spirits today cruelty every maiden who dances in glad glee, whose feet keep time to the beating of her own pure and incorruptible heart who laughs as sweet children laugh in all-
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work and the expenses of employing these men and paying their board, travelling expenses and livery bills to go to the country schools, to say nothing of the sample books given away. must be very high. Consequently, the concerns must sell their books for nearly double what they would charge if the expenses of travelling so many men should become un- necessary.
 There has been lots of talk about lob bles in Montgomery. Indeed. lobbyists have been there in droves, and there have been Hobbies on both sides of nearly every important question: There were lobbles on both sides of the school book question. The American Book Trust had some of the ablest attorneys in the State there, The little book manufacturing concerns also had attorneys there lobbying in fa- ,vor of the bill. It would probably be worth much to them to get chance to bid for the entire supply of school books for Alabama. It is said that they would bid under the trust and place their books in Alabama therefore, their lobby. Doubtless the legislators have been very much disgusted with both Hobbies on this question.
 As a matter of fact, have never known any Legislature anywhere to give as many privileges to lobbyists as are given in Montgomery. Any man who goes there is allowed to go upon the floor of either the House or the Senate and confer with the members. I have never known of an- other Legislative body where any outsider was permitted upon the floor of the Leg islative hall.
 Lobbyists in Washington would gladly pay thousands of dollars for this privi- ton who presented the city with a mag niflcent marble statue, costing him fully twenty thousand dollars
 AS Congress is the City Council of Washington a resolution was offered thanking this man for the statue.
 Under the rules the thanks of Con gross being extended to any individual floor. That was what the individual who presented the statute desired. But at the last minute just before the resolution of thanks was adopted a clause was added to 1t declaring, But the adoption of this resolution shall not be construed as giv- ing the privilege of the floor to the party mentioned above" So after his gift he did not get that which he most desired
 If the Legislature at Montgomery should
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THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

abounding joy, who throws her kisses to the sunbeams dancing and flashing and who sings the songs of happiness the an- gels bend listening ears gladly to hear.
 O generation of vipers, hypocrites, Phar- isees, sinners and sons and daughters of sin!
 Know you that every prayer you ever uttered were not worth one whispered weary of happiness in the dance and the merriment of golden hours drawn through aisles of joy to the parting time and come at last robed in the white vestmeits of virginal purity, to kneel by the white couch of sinlessness and to tell the heads of their pure loves and hopes of earthly heaven, breathing the Our Father taught of God as guide in all this earthly Me! Such as that is the truest glimpse of heaven that even a mother may see, that and the mothers holy love, and at srch as that the angels cry glory and joy and all happiness to the dancing. laughing, happy-hearted maidens weary of happ.- ness and come with a mothers kiss to the sweet hour of maiden prayer!
 Mankind has no use for prigs of society nor for prudes of morality. The world can work out its own destiny without the aid of goodygoodiness. Society demands men and women who pray, but it has got no place for the apostles of cant. bigotry, selfrighteousness; no room for vapid prigs Fa. 9,a -rttt Or upstarts in social purity. Society de- mands men and women who love and laugh, and who, if their veins be opened, will not bleed icicles
 But ito the darkest sorrow there comes a morrow, a right to every wrong" my beloved.
 In charging you to feel this to be true, to believe it, to know 1t, the Murmurer charges you to accept the happiness that Is at hand for you!
 T know itr. the penitent declared
 How do you know it?" demanded he who was without faith.
 q know itr' was the proudls confident reason.
 So 1t is-so il is true! Happiness smil- ing waits for every one of us.
 Joy Is around the corner riotous In glee.
 Laughter is in the next room laughing to be won.
 Bliss is throwing kisses to you from across the way.
 And "to the darkest sorrow there comes a morrow a right to every wrong" my beloved. THE MURMURER.
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NED BRACE WRITES ABOUT THE
 LEGISLATURE AND OTHER MATTERS
NED BRACE

The Alabama Legislature is great show. There are many men of ability in 1t. But as a whole I fear this Legis- lature has not been a great success. It has scattered here and there. It has ap- proprlated wildly In other words there has been a demerallzation of appropra- tions and holidays. And now the body Is seeking to cut and slash appropriations already made. 1 doubt very seriously whether General Harrlson's bill to hor- izontally reduce the appropriations here tofore made is constitutional, because of the fact that 1t does not specify in ac- cordance with the terms of the constitu- tion the details of each appropriation.
 1 rather think after these approprla- tions have been made that 1t would be best for the Legislature by some means to provide to pay them. l am rather believer in an expensive government, but l don't believe in paternal government. l believe in educating the children, but I don't believe in either feeding or cloth ing them. Every citizen should be entitled to common school education, but there 1t should end. If the State would con- fine itself to this It's educational facill- ties would be better.
 I see Governor Stanford sent an ur- gent message to the General Assembly calling attention to the probable deficit, and asking the body to provide sufficient revenue to meet the appropriations Prob ably there Is time yet in the revenue bill.
 By the way, Governor Sanford has had rather a hard time of 1t since this Legis- lature has been in session. One or two things which he specially urged have been turned down-notably the Uniform Text Book Bill. The Governor, however, will probably gain more credit from his advocacy of this measure and what he will have to say about 1t later, than he would have gained had the measure passed. He will continue to advocate 1t and he believes that the next Legisla- ture will give the Alabama school chill dren cheaper books.
 The reason, am told why school books are so high in Alabama at present Is be- cause of the expenses. necessary to be incurred by the school book makers in placing their books with the schools in this State. They have to send a man to every school teacher to urge the adop- tion of their particular books. Naturally this necessltates a small army of men at
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adopt rules prohibiting the privileges of the floor to any but Senators and Representatives and clerks of the Legis- latlve bodies perhaps. there would not be such hordes of lobbyists around the cap itol. Certain 1t Is at any rate that they would not run after and attempt to bull doze. bluff and annoy the Senators and members of the House.
 Speaking of the lobbies at Montgomery, the Birmingham Aldermen or the 'rounders", as they have been dubbed by the newspapers, met with great sue cess All the city bills were put through, including the amendment to the charter, which provides for chairman of the Board of Aldermen, to be elected by the board and which gives the Mayor the veto power. But the veto power to the Mayor has a very strong string tied to 1t. In other words the Board of Alder men can pass a bill over the Mayors ve- to by a simple majority vote. Therefore, the Mayors veto will amount to but lit- tie. And the Mayor no longer has vote on the board. In other words it looks to me a bit as If the Mayor will be tho re- sponsible party and yet be deprived of much of his power. The chairman of the Board of Aldermen who Is to be elected will be the man of power He will have the appointment of the committee on rules and as we all know the committee on rules is always the great power in a legislative body.
 
 I see the Associated Press dispatches from New York indicate that the big steel combine headed by J. P. Morgan may scoop in both the Tennessee and Sloss Companies. I would not be sur prised if this be true. If 1t Is not true now, 1t will probably be later. As a mat ter of fact 1t Is known that little sym dicate in New York owns the majority of the stock of the Tennessee Company and that this stock is pooled. This syn dicate has but one idea in view and that to make money. Therefore, if they can sell out their holdings to the big steel combine 1t is natural to suppose they will do so. The only question Is does the Nor gan steel combine want the Tennessee Company and the Sloss Company and other iron companies in this district. They have the money and can make the opportunity to get them if they want them.
 Aes1,oze
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'Learn patience from the lesson!
 Though the night be drear and long, To the darkest sorrow there comes a
 morrow
 A right to every wrong"
 'Leave patience to the saints,' one great son of earth admonished when he was urged to be guided by the spirit of the angelic grace which bides Its time, hopes and fears not. is calm and for ever unperturbed: Leave patience to the saints!'
 The admonition of the great was folly ripening to decay, for it is never to the saints that we need to leave patience, my beloved.
 That Is precisely what we shall not do, even if we are no wiser than the instinct of humming bees and buzzing beetles wheeling their droning flight, for we need all the patience within our power to ac- quire and possess in our ceaseless strife with the many-headed shapes of unrest Everybody Is apt in believing some night to be the dreariest and longest of all the nights the stars do gem In their courses, some sorrow to be the darkest that ever made faithful heart to ache, some wrong to be the most cruel that ever bur dened spirit true and brave; but pa tience teaches another condition in a les son of wide impersonal significance.
 There is none amongst the children of earth to whom some sorrow has not come, upon whom some burden of unresting pain has not been placed to try the soul and maybe wiring from 1t the f1eeting thought that 1t is to the saints that pa- tience belongs
 The long night In which no slumber comes to the downiest bed. when care sits upon the pillow a mooker and giber of hideous form, and apprehensons like ugly toads toss the sheets in devilish pur- pose to drive to madness; when the shad- ows deepen as each terrible hour ticks it- self into the past, and every hope dies In the fierce struggle with despair; when the affrighted heart beats riotously, and then falls to beat almost not at all, and there is the stupor that follows the fires of lost desire, supreme wretchedness com ipg-the long night comes to every soul that strives or Is supine in the world garden of humanity!
 
 Wrong fiaunts itself in the face of the fairest and the bravest alike. Wrong for ever walks the earth, assuming the null titudinous forms of all the sins forbidden of the decalogue, all the errors damned of the dogma of truth, all the, heresies that violate the creed of human faith, and all the nameess villainies matched in the forcing-place of lies, white and black, all
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the polls. The book trust robbed the people of Tennessee, just like 1t Is now robbing Alabama, but thanks to per- sistent agitation on the part of the press, we have law that has put the book trust out of business in this State, and our people are buying school books about 8 per cent cheaper than the people of Alabama are now getting them. The first move for the people of Alabama, after. their present defeat Is to see that no gentleman who voted against this school book law Is returned to the Legislature two years from now. Make 1t political issue and fight the battle to a finish.
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il proceedings in the strict court of Venice. The doges of Venice were at times autocratic, but at no time did they arrogate to themselves any such powers as the fair young delegate ex- ercised. At no time did they set aside the eternal principles of justice, for they dealt with questions arising in a worldwide trade.
 But out of the maze of improbability and of unprecedented law stands the figure of twenty centuries with all the sufferance of the past, the present and the future upon him. Robbed by his daughter, distressed by her elopement with a Christian, stripped of all his goods, spurned and despised on every hand and doomed to declare himself Christian in order to save his life, he goes out of court bearing accumulated wrongs, pathetic and tragic human soul. And yet he sprang from race that gave a sinful world the Prince of Peace, in his humanity, and the Holy Mother, and all the early saints in the calendar; a race rich In tradition, learning and aristocratic rights; a race just as rich, alas! in memories of injuries, aversion, and downright wrongs. All this Shylock bears as he is bowed out of court by the victorious and clustering Gratiano. But the age of tolerance has come, or is coming, and sentiment Is running towards Shylock, and against the Antonios, Bassanios and Gratianos, under what soeyer guise, in whatever land, they may appear.
 Surely the wonderful imagination of the master poet foresaw this evolution in thought-this evolution in his own play as it would be read in ages to come. Assuredly so, for he puts the strongest passages of the play in Shy locks mouth when he presents his case against an unkind world. The keenest satire is hurled against intol- erance, and 1t is not reasonable to say that the immortal bard did not know the full and ultimate meaning of his own work.
 Nor is it certain that he meant more when Shylock demanded his bond than an illustration of the artifice of Vene- tian law-of all law when applied to Jews in those days. If the wise young judge had decreed the forfeit nomi- hated in the bond, Shylock, after he had shown that he, too, could lend money without usance; after he had humiliated the relentless Antonio even as he had many times been humiliated the dislike of bloodshed be racial char acteristics, have turned about perhaps as the Duke had intimated, and would have shown mercy instead of strange apparent cruelty. Such possible re- suit was, however, prevented by the triumph of intolerance which the dram | atist, let us believe, intended to hold up to prejudice as the years went by. The play was written in the days of ghettoes, when persecution was at its height, when Dr. Lopez, Jew, physi- clan to the Queen, had just been hung at Tyburn, and it is impossible to be- lieve the poet did not put his love for religious liberty and tolerance and jus tice in the undying words that disclose the patient agony of Shylock.
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PHILOSOPHICAL FLIGHTS.
Hunger is the best appetizer.

Hunger is the best appetizer. To have is not always to hold. Overindulgence makes thing common place.
 The spring poet will soon "wabble' forth. Too much champagne whets the thirst for water.
 All the worlds stage-but all the play CTS are not stars.
 Astronomers and photographers usual- ly view the wonders and beauties of na- ture from the dark side.
 Fine feathers make fine birds but the barnyard bullet is more practical fowl than the peacock.
 .s..ssss-,--. M, B. M.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Every woman imagines she has haunt ing eyes
 A fat widow always reminds you of too much hash to warm over.
 There never was but one man who un- derstood a woman, and 1t killed him.
 Diplomacy Is the art of getting what you want by convincing other people that they don't want 1t.
 Before a girl gets married she plans to have dressing room to dress in mornings After she has been married six months she uses 1t to pile old trunks
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TABLE ETIQUETTE.
he New OrIeans Picavun

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 Grace at meat is not a modern observ- ance. It existed among the Jews and classical ahcients. The latter also made an offering to the gods. Hence the say ing. Always leave some for manners"
 The Romans always dressed for dinner, and the custom has been handed down to
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Admiral Sampson should define his phrase, Social advantages" If a sailor man must be dancing master and a virtuoso, let the admiral say so.
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The esteemed papers who do not like F. Hopkinson Smiths criticisms of Uncle Toms Cabin" and the like now speak of him as F. H. Smith. This is the unkindest cut of all.
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The G. A. R.'s got mad over the po- sition assigned them in the parade of the second spell of empire, and have withdrawn altogether.
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It must be conceded by even Ad- miral Sampson that Captain Hobson, recently promoted, had full share of social advantages.
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MT. Grove is, we judge, willing to settle with MT. Cudahy and the Omaha police on the basis of payment for the time he has been absent.
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China may be a disturbed country, but the office-seeker is not afraid. At least a score of him is seeking MT. Wildman's place.
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There are some who think the sher- if of county in which lynching occurs should be held responsible for it.
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MT. Grove may discover the Omaha police, but the Omaha police will never discover him, not if they know it.
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There will not be an open cage of lions In the inaugural paraoe for Colo nel Roosevelts accommodation as a lion tanner. The opposition journals nave created an unfounded impression.
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Admiral Sampson wrote one letter too many. He shoud have stopped die tating a few minutes sooner.
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King Edward and Emperor William have swapped pointers, and each is preparing to rule up to the danger line.
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Seamen may not be gentlemen, but on the other hand gentlemen could not jibe even a prairie schooner.
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W. T. Wear denies the report that he had sold the Opelika Industrial News. He states that he has bought a third interest in the Springfield, Mo, Republican and that he will divide his time between the News and the Re publican.
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Sampson struck out Gunner Morgan and knocked out his own promotion to the post of vice admiral.
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SPEAKING OF ROCKS.

From the Lawrence Journal.
 Mrs Nation is ruled by the theory that the hand that rocks the cradle also rocks the joint.
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MT. Grove Is not inclined to make a Lenten sacrifice of himself.
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Admiral Dewey does not consider social advantages the whole thing in the navy.
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The man behind the gun is several laps ahead of the admiral in public estimation.
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The new star declines to say who of the claimants first discovered it.
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February left a record as unenviable as that of the Alabama Legislature.
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Every other building in the country will soon be a Carnegie library.
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The Gunner Morgan cigar will be at hand in a few days.
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The battle of Santiago Bay is fought over and over.