The age-herald., 1901-11-03
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.
|. IRMINGfIAM is an active town. Something is doing daily. The
 } past week has been full of hannenln1a wbl.h ,, naos-

There is history in all mems lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas' d.: The which observ'd, a man may prophecy, With a near aim. of the main chance of things
 As yet not come to life which is their seeds,
 And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. We may foresee with reasonable cer- any act of personal conduct, any speech of real import uttered in calmness or in the heat of passion.
 | We are constantly aware that any good and unselflsh act will bring spiritual com fort in its most gratifying measure. | Charity will bring charity, benevolence will brighten the soul with sunshine. love and friendship beget love and friendship; constancy creates its own quality, faith to faith gives birth, laughter ripples unto laughter; joy bursts into newer joy; and all these graces of heart and mind cause our world to ring with the wedding bells of truth and mercy.
 Observation will teach these blessed realities to every one who looks with eyes open to the reception of the real, while happy experience of 1t all gladdens the hearts of vast multitudes who abandon themselves to the better and nobler ad- monitions of hum anity's better and mo- bier impulses-the higher hopes of the human heart Ilf
 Likewise, all men and women. and most children, know with the utmost certainty | that the transgressors way is for ever hard; that shame followsw sin; that pain comes swiftly upon indiscretion; that bit- | terness comes of wrong-doing; that re- morse stalks behind falsehood, and the bangs of grief are born of affronting er- TOT; that shapes of terror created of last nights lie, lived or spoken. are revealed by the days troubled dawning; that an army of devils, physical and mental, are grimly attendant upon physical and men tai debauchery, day and night in hideous deformity reyolting and appalling.
 Human experience and divine injunc- tion unite in burning into our souls knowledge of these certain penalties of transgression against the laws of mans existence and mans God.
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 Thus may we prophecy concerning our selves and concerning others, and thus may we avoid errors condemned from the beginning. the while seeking by example .-...-- -& .- = spirit of heartiness and breeziness about him that was positively exhilerating.
 " Do you know iioy2 well joy is my other self. he seemed to say, and know he meant It. s
 Black was a long time winning out in his hard fight for his bride; but he won. That's enough for him-would be enough for any man--and he deserves her, bless the Lord! His faith hath made her his'n. Joyl What's the difference so long as you win. Only ultimate losing painfully hurts, I should imagine, though I know nothing about 1t.
 And that leads me to hazard the guess that marriage must be great joy"
 Bankhead Busy canvassing.
 Congressman John H. Bankhead ar rived in Birmingham from Jasper last night and proceeded to his home in Fay cite. Returning. he will arrive in I,irm- ingham at o'clock this afternoon, and proceed at once to Hale County, in which he will deliver two speeches tomorrow and one Tuesday in support of the new constitution.
 Colonel Bankhead has been making q very active canvass of the counties of Lamar. Marion and Walker, and he says that wherever he travelled there was the greatest encouragement for the consti- tuition. He believes that even Marion County. in which the opposition has seemed very strong, will give majority for ratification. Colonel Bankhead drove thirty miles and delivered two speeches on Friday speaking Friday night at Winfield. Yes terday he engaged in joint debate with former Governor Johnston in Jasper. About Persons. New Workers at the Hillman are L. N Keller, J. Cohen. J. H. Hoffman. Irving Hellen and John H. Love. Jr. v s-s ..5s..,..-.s ssss -ttt J. H. Brough of Columbus. Ohio. is at the Hillman.
 R. J. Flynn of Keokuk. Iowa, is at the | TJIllman