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The age-herald., 1901-10-06
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT STEEL TRUST
 PROFITS AND BIRMINGHAM OPPORTUNITIES

- the United States Steel Company
 perhaps better known as the Bil-
 lion Dollar Steel Trust-earned Sa profit of hfty-five million dol- lars, in six months, after fighting a two months labor strike to a finish, what are It's prospects in real good times? This tremendous profit shows what opportunities there are in this great country of ours. Carnegie started in the shops as mechanic and worked himself up to millions Schwab, the present pres ident of the Steel Trust, has done like wise Today he draws the largest salary of any man in the world. Besides he has accumulated and Is worth several million dollars.
 The prospects for men right here in Bir- mingham are today as promising as were those of Carnegie or Schwab few years ago. I venture that there be boys in Birmingham's public schools today who will be millionaires fifteen or twenty years hence. Opportunities exist here as in no other place in the world. know young man hero today who has risen rapidly by virtue of his diligent applica- tion. Three years ago he was rooming over a store in Birmingham, cooking his own scant meals on cheap oil stove, and hunting work. Today he is in responsi- ble position earning $75O0 year salary. He won it by hard work, application and ambition. The corporation for which he works recognizes in him an invaluable man of practical ability. He will go higher.
 Man cannot succeed where there are no opportunities The best opportunities in America are to be found here. The yet dim and grey light of the rising sun is but beginning to illume Birmingham. The steel era has but been born. It is babe as yet struggling for the growth and strength which time alone brings. The health giving properties and the bone and sinew are here And the practical parent hand is here in the new man at the helm of the great nurturing and developing plant of the district Birming- ham has her Carnegie in Don H. Bacon, who believes in extension and develop ment, who would manufacture its pig iron into the steel rails, girders and bands of commerce, and throw the finish ed commercial product upon the market, rather than content himself with sales o1 raw products which are always change able and speculative in values. Capital is at hand, and soon every steel thing from the smallest wire nail of the cigar box to the hundred-pound rail will be made here. Even armor-plate making is not beyond the horizon of present vision.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

grooves with home work it is equally en- thusiastic, but not otherwise.
 Possibly the most bitter political con- tests President Roosevelt ever fought have been against Tammany-first. when he was police commissioner in New York, and again when he was a candidate for Governor. Tammany's own candidate for Governor was defeated by Roosevelt. In this fight for Mayor of New York Roosevelt will probably throw the combined strength of all the Federal office holders in New York City actively against the Iammany candidate.
 
 Every business man in the South. re- gardless of political creed, welcomes the news from Washington that in appoint ments in the South In future President Roosevelt will rise above the old corrupt and degraded Republican organizations in the Southern states, and will appoint men to office because of their ability rather than because of the number of negro dele gates to national conventions they can control.
 Roosevelt is ambitious to go down Into history not only as the youngest but one of the greatest Presidents this eountr, has ever had. Desiring perfect admin istration, he realizes the importance of the ablest possible men in office. I don't believe he can be induced to make an ap- pointment upon promise or assurance of votes for him in the next convention. He evidently proposes to make l..s acts stand out boldly as the best appeal to the high est element of American citizneship. He will if possible destroy all corruption and insist upon the conduct Of the govern ment's business upon the soundest prin- ciples of economy, justice and right.
 Pursuing this policy, which he, has an- nounced, he cannot be defeated for a renomination, and he will be a aif- fcult candidate to overcome in the cleo tion.
 Birmingham Is at last to have dollar gas-the eliminating result of the Age Herald's long fight, And street car trans fers are likewise provided for in the near future. Then five cents will go a long ways in transportation. For the subnr- ban people and for the merchants of Birmingham transfers will be a great boon.
 The new consolidated street car and lighting company promises to prove prof itable to the people of Birmingham as well as to its owners. It has abundance of funds for Improvements and 1t has be- gun to spend the same literally. All of which is well for Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
UNB BELIEF.

By Edward Bulwer Lytton. & There is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And wants to see it push away the clod
 He trusts in God. Whoever says when clouds are in the sky, sE 'Be patient. heart; light breaketh by and by"
 Trusts the Most High. Whoever sees meath winters field. of snow, H The silent harvests of the future grow,
 Gods power must know. Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep Content to lock each sense in a slunber deep. sf
 Knows God will keep. Whoever says tomorrow" ''The Un. known" ''The Future" trusts the Power alone
 He dares disown. VI The heart that looks on when eyelids close,
 And dares to live when life has only woes, B.
 Gods comfort knows. & There is no unbelief; s And day by day. and night, uncon- sciously. st The heart lives by that faith. the lips deny. 27t. '
 God knoweth why.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
The St. Clair County Trouble.

- nc SLs Claif CouHty- l'OHSS'
 There is a well-deined hint from Montgomery to the effect that Governor Jelks Is determined to protect Snerhl North of St. Clair county from unlawiui punishment at all hazards and wlth the whole power of the state, If need De- said a man in a position to know what he was talking about.
 Governor Jelks fully recognizes that Sheriff North stood faithfully to ms oln- cial duties. and at the peril Of his own life maintained the honor and integrity oI the state respecting the states prisoner Jim Brown. The imperative duty or the state Is to prevent its prisoners rom Iail- ing Into the hands of murderers organlz- ed into mobs for the specific murder 'cail- ed lynching. and Sheriff North was one official who dared to maintain the states honor in that most essential particular.
 Therefore. the governor of the state Is resolved to protect this sheriff rom violence until the courts can pass upon the accusations brought against him Tor acts performed while protecting Jim Brown, who has since been hanged. That Is why the governor has kept troops In Ashville the past week. He felt 1t to De the states duty to shield North from all possible violence.
 And this much may be added for the information of ali persons in any degree concerned:
 'If on account of his action against the mob, so much as a hair of Sherin North's head is harmed outside the regu- lar machinery and processes of the courts of law, Governor Jelks will employ all means within his power as head Of the state to bring those who harm North to nuniahment p
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
1Ht ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Cup US, till the world go round, Cup us, till the world go roundl
 Anthony and Cleopatra.
Chickens and Eggs.

When chickens of frying size are worth 271s cents each, and eggs are worth 20 to 22 cents dozen, it is time for Jones Valley and the rest of Jeff ferson County to wake up. None of the chickens and eggs handled nowa- days in Morris avenue in this town are Alabama chickens and eggs. None of them, mind you. Does any one know why the money of this county should be sent to Tennessee day by day for chickens and eggs? Does any one know why Jefferson County should not have hens enough to meet its own wants?
 Approximately there are 150,0OO peo- pie in this county who are fed on Ten nessee eggs and chickens. This is why large flyers are worth 271a cents each, and eggs are worth about 20 cents dozen. There is right at hand an excellent and big market at all seasons of the year for these articles. There are land and fine water in abundance. Feed can be produced or bought as cheaply as it can be in Ten nessee.
 There is but one answer-the people of Jefferson lack the energy and the prudence of the people of the Tennes- see chicken counties. As one dealer recently said, There is no excuse for this." It is neither good sense nor good business. We mine coal and make iron in order to enrich the grow CTS of chickens in Tennessee. There is no business sense in such policy One thousand chicken farms ar, needed in this county today, not t supply Montgomery or Memphis or At lanta, but to meet the home demand If to the business of producing egg and chickens should be added the bus tness of producing milk and butter, nc harm would be done. We need not care how much or how little cotton is grown in this county, but it Is matter of general concern when we do not produce our own chickens and eggs If flyers were selling at cents in. stead of 27 cents, there would be some excuse for buying elsewhere, but when the business is known to be profitable there is no excuse. It is shiftlessness on our part, and waste and economic folly. Let us reform ourselves.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

So, why. with such opportunities, should not there be men to take advantage of them, and why not in the years to come should there not be millions to be earned here in proportion to those of the great steel corporation operating In Penn sylvania?
 Abundance of work for those who desire it is here. and wages are high compared to other sections. Therefore. he who will may succeed.
 Richard Croker and his right bowers of Tammany were forced to eat a largo slice of crow in nominating Edward M. Shepard for Mayor of New York Shep- ard is man of extraordinary ability and with opinions of his own. No man in New York abused Tammany more vi- ciously than did Shepard in the cam paign four years ago. Croker naturally was antagonistic to the man, but Coler, whom Croker wanted less, was so strong that he was forced to bring in Shepard or suffer an overthrow in his own organ. ization- As matter of fact Crolxers long sojourn in England has deprived him of
 N-- in Tammany, and 1t is very evident that his will is no longer paramount.
 By the way, Tammany is political organization unlike any other in the world. It has controlled New York City politics for an hundred years. In that time it has suffered but few even partial defeats. Yet 1t practically has no great political principals. It is a machine com posed of men wno either want office or special privileges. Almost every member Is in 1t from selfish motives. Many men of its membership have grown rich from special privileges 1t has accorded them. It takes care of the poor and provides city work for those of its members out of employment. Though the Mayor of New York has thousands of appointments at his disposal he can make none. The ex- ecutive committee of Tammany furnishes him with men from its eligible list for each place. --y providing for its mem- bers and protecting interests which pay liberally into it's coffers for protection, 1t is always strong financially and It's mem- bership continues to increase. It will, therefore, probably continue to control the politics of New York as it has done in the past.
 With Tammany the control of New York overbalances any interest in nation al politics. To its leaders the election of a Mayor Is far more important than the election of Democratic President. Therefore, its first work Is at home. When national political work tongues and
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

forwarded wltnout delay. Her fate rests primarily upon the board of for eign missions, and secondarily upon the American people.
 There are some who think the United States, after it's raid in China in behalf of missionaries, should raid Bulgaria, or at least ransom Miss Stone, but the duty plainly rests first of all upon the mission board that sent her to the land of brigands, and then perhaps the United States can recoup for them the ransom they may have paid.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 To him who hath misfortunes shall be given more.
 Delusions discovered are romances un- der a searchlight
 A woman judges man as she judges a bargain-by his price.
 A man can slide down forever without getting to the utmost bottom of despair.
 When we try to convert others we are convincing them; when others try to con vert us they are bullying us.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
RoosEvELT's DOG AND HORSE GO

New York Letter in the Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 There are to be additions to the Presi- dential household at Washington. The President has sent to Oyster Bay for his saddle horse Yaganker and his pet dog Jack, full-blooded black-and-tan The coachman will take the horse to Norfolk on steamer where another steamer will be used to Washington. The dog goes by express. Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay is still the mecca for sightseers who are in the neighborhood.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
BAN DiTTI.

William Hamilton Hayne in Harpsrs Nocturnal pilferers we cannot trace. Fantastic. fieeting.. yet divine in grace Swift-footed fugitives no law can bind; Thieves who invade the chambers of the
 mind;
 Deft-fingered burglars in the. realm oi
 rest. E. Who piiiage reason and yet leave us bIest Blest by the beauty of illusive gleams-- The bright banditti of delightful dreams
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

A Don't Kick Club" has been organ ized in Buffalo, but there are times when the clubs rules should be sus- pended. For example, when the sugar trust cuts the price in one county, and not in another. All should kick then
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
Two Fishers Went Out to Fish.

Two Birmingham anglers went out to angle, or two fishers went a-fiishin', as you like. But maybe they weren't an- gers at all-just fishers!
 At any rate. Johns Adams, druggist, and w. B. Dickerson. merchant, accepted an invitation from Thomas s. Pounds engineer. to accompany him to his farm on the Coosa river, in Talladega coun- ty.
 Tom Pounds Is a great fisher himself for he sells about $500 of fish a year; though. it is proper to add, he drives locom otive while hired men catch the fish in traps and otherwise.
 When the party arrived at the Pounds farmhouse, MT. Adams and MT. -Dicker- son reluctantly yielded to Mr. Pounds entreaties that they eat something before making for the wide and winding river MT. Pounds Is a most hospitable man, and everybody who goes to his house has got to eat something.
 In short time Mr. Adams and MT. Dickerson, full of that life and energy which come of good health and clear conscience in the pure and invigorating air of the open country, found them selves by the rivers brim. with fishing tackle intact, the baitbox filled, and the weather and water in perfect condition for catching fish. They tumbled into a boat, pulled off a little way put out their lines, and let the boat drift. The fishers fished. The boat drifted The fish bit. The fish were caught. By and by the boat drifted under the long | the water. The fishers decided to stop the boat there, and they stood up in order to reach the willow.
 willow. o willow. o willow! The fishers lifted up their hands and caught that willow limb. The boat shot out from under their feet. They shot down into the water. They were not drowned Wet and weary plodding back to the house, Johns Adams was heard murmuring that sad refrain which wrung the heaving heart of the immortal Kati- sha:
 Little birdie what makes you sing Willow, o willow, that willow"
 And the two fishers who went out to fish in Tom Pounds river far away re- turned to town to wait till another day.
 Col. ,Garber for Attorney General.
 Colonel Alexander M. Garber, the able young lawyer of Talladega, is at the Morris hotel. Colonel Garber will be candidate for the nomination for attor- ney general of Alabama before the State Democratic convention of 1902 and he has already received many assurances of strong support, he declared last night He has many friends throughout the State and is highly esteemed by the Dem ocratic party leaders in the various coun- | ties
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Cartoonist Opper should return and renew his work against the trusts. It is needed, particularly in the case of the sugar trust.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
A SAFE MAN ON HORSEBACK"

From the Boston Herald
 President. Roosevelt's saddle horses need not be considerd as denoting danger to our liberties. They simply mean good presidential liver. That's all.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

The blow trust is the latest. An air trust will soon be in sight. MT. Opper, where are you?
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

The Midways are always with us. Charleston will soon have one, and then St. Louis will follow suit.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Edward M. Shepard and Seth Low both belong to the strenuous school that President Roosevelt established.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

The Mug is thoroughly American ized, and it would not be content in England.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

The Lowites are hiring all the halls in New York, but the tails of the carts are still open to Tammany.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Reciprocity is popular in platforms, but the trusts will see that it is squelched in Congress. Come home, Mir. Opper.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Admiral Evans did not object to the taking of an oath in the court of in- quiry. He is an expert, an artist, in that line.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

The ship subsidy bill in new guise will soon agaln try to sneak under the Congressional tent.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Professor Trigg is marvelously quiet nowadays. He may have heard from fresident Harvey.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Sandy Hook will now please fall back and sit down. It is no longer en- titled to the center of the stage.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Richard Croker grows young in New York, but he becomes aged as the Squire of Vantage.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Gen. Fred Funston should be sent to Samar, where Gen. Lukban needs attention.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Senator Lodge is hurrying home, but really the country is getting along very we'll without a second Hanna.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

It not always the boat that crosses the line first that takes the Cup.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06

Send the anarchists to Samar. They would feel at home there at once.
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
Col. .carber for Attorney General.
YounabIood to Live Here.

About the first of November I shall come to Birmingham to reside, and I
The age-herald., 1901-10-06
A Former Consul.

In a recent speech welcoming some Northern visitors to Llano, Texas, the Hon. Fred Opp, former mayor Of that town, sometime American consul in Ger many and native Alabamian of Mont gomery, said:
 Just why I have been chosen to per- form this pleasant duty I am unable to tell, unless 1t was that have been living in Texas for about twelve or fifteen years; that I was born within about 800 yards of the spot where Jeff Davis took his oath of office as President of the Southern Confederacy, and that Tor period of four or five years of recent date, although not having spent more than a month all told north of the Mason & Dixon line, had the peculiarly odd ex- perience of being introduced to the courts of Europe as a specimen of the typical Yankee As you of the North, in spirit of pleasantly call all the people of the South. Johnny Rebs so we of the South in turn kindly call you Yankee. But Europeans know little of our differ ences, so they frankly and blandly call Yankee to every man, woman and child, white, black and red, including Indians not taxed
 It Is a well known fact that every American is a Yankee in Europe; and most Europeans, judging Americans generally by the odd and freakish types that make up the great mass of those of our countrymen who do Yurup," have very little real respect for the Yankee" Unfortunately Europeans see too few Americans of the admirable type of MT. Opp, who distinguished himself in the consular service.
 MT. Opp was the Texas delegate in the national Democratic convention of 1892 who called Burke Cochran to order for the latter's onslaught against Cleveland. thereby breaking the force of Cockran's eloquence and making Cleveland's nomination on the first ballot easy. Of the quarter of million people Alabama has given to Texas no man has been worthier than Fred Opp of Montgomery: and he is rapidly rising as one of the strong young men of Texas. MT. Opp's elder brother. Hon. Henry Opp represented Covington coun- ty in the late constitutional convention of Alabama.
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and John D. Akin of Denver are at the Metropolitan.
 J. Mallory Davis of Anniston Is at the Metropolitan.
 Judge Henry B. Tompkin, the eminent lawyer of Atlanta, is at the Metropolitan.
 Charles I. Levy and G. w. Garfield of Montgomery are at the Metropolitan.
 Ed P. Loveman of TuscaIoosa is at the Metropolitan.
 Hon. John H. Wallace of huntsville is at the Florence.
 W. P. Tartt of Livingston is at the Florence.
 G. F. Peter of Maylene is at the Florence.
 J. G. Marbury of Riverside is at the Florence.
 Anniston newspapers announce that Frank Nelson, a well known capitalist of that city, will remove to Birmingham immediately and permanently reside
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own shame. Eyes, lips, tongue, daily walk, these in the end will tell the story of the transgressor in villainy.
 Yet 1t were not so black an infamy to proclaim a vice. by whatever means. as to walk the earth a living lie in secret a deceiver, a hypocrite, sham, a devils shadow in the garb of virtue; a moral Philistine, a libertine, a rake. a betrayer of innocence. with prayerbook in hand and saying the beads of holiness in as- sumed reverence.
 None shall live lie and escape even the uttermost heartache of tho penalty fixed against every transgressor of the higher law of morality, of truth as truth and of decency as decency.
 
 Thou shalt not lie Thou shalt not bear false witness! Thou shalt not deceiveI These three are one great principle taught of the Most High, and verified by human experience from the dawn in Eden to Calvary, and from that hill in the hour when it was darkened by the Divine Tragedy unto this valley in its dawning of today!
 And when we put away from ourselves that which is false we put away that which Is grievous and fruitful of sorrow When we cease to live falsehood in any measure. then shall there be no cloud of our own making to darken the blue above us or fade the sunbeams that bright en our way. If we be true to ourselves, to the higher and holier promptings of our own spirits, the world shall be powerless to work our undoing.
 When friends prove untrue, when our beloved are unfaithful. their infdelity may strike us low and wound us; but the graves of dead loves that were false are easily hidden. It is for us to rejoice in the end that we are freed from the con- tamination of souls capable of betraying the faith of the faithful.
 Grief because of one disloyal friends unfaithfulness Is quickly submerged in the tide of contempt and then there comes a sense of comforting thankfulness that we are freed from the danger of a vipers sting.
 When the rich gift of friendship is re-
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Some murmur when their sky is clear
 And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear
 In their great heaven of blue; And some with thankful love are filled
 If but one streak of light, One ray of Gods good mercy, gild
 The darkness of their night.