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The age-herald., 1901-08-24
Cause of His Bad Luck.

This man was old, riper perhaps in experience than years. He was a news paper man, poor devil. and he was pen niless and hungry. as though merely be- ing newspaper man was not enough misfortune. He was not a journalist one misfortune he had escaped at least. There he sat in the cafe. He sat in the cafe because brother newspaper man had given him one dollar Don't say you'll have to show me-" because this is a true story. The brother newspaper man sat across the table because he wanted to see his money well spent. That is to say he sat in chair opposite the old man. The money was spent well. but that's another story as the city editor and not Kiplng would say. Kipling has no right to steal things The city editor used this expression first. The old man fell to talking, the words fell from his lips or that was a fall of hard luck stories. Put 1t Just as you please.
 T was married during Clevelands first administration" he said, land have had bad luck ever since"
 This was really nothing new. MT. Cleve- land, of course, had nothing to do with it, but then haven't you known a. few mar ried men to have bad luck? He gave the waiter the last ten cents left of the dol- lar and continued:
 My trouble, sir, was all caused by a city editor and he wasn't a bad fellow at that. I have often thought I'd write the story, but it's too sad for publica- tion. It was this way" and he sobbed so violently that the fan in the middle of the table came In contact with a goblet of water and shed tears about the table.
 "He loved his joke Indeed he did. No not his today. He belonged ito the temper ance league. was to be married on 0 certain Saturday and for various reasons I wanted to keep 1t quiet, so I did not tell him. It was the time for my annual vacation, and intended to have the knot tiled and go away on a trip. But the city editor heard of it. There was to be 8 hanging on Friday before my marriage. The city editor thought 1t would be a good joke to innocently assign me to the hanging, and so he did. I wrote the story of hanging one day and got married the next. I have never had any luck since and attribute 1t all to that
 And he got out of Birmingham without being murdered.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
WILL MEET TO CONSIDER
 THE MARKET PROBLEM
Special Call to the City CounclI--No Meeting On the Water
 Proposition. i

Mayor Drennen has caleld a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen for 2:30 o'clock this afternoon to consider the petition of Fies 6 Sons to be allowed to erect a new market house corner of Eighteenth street and Fourth avenue.
 The marketmen claim that the quarters set apart for them in the new city hall will not be large enough, and they have also petitioned the council to bo allowed to rent stalls in the proposed new build- ing. The question will be decided this afternoon.
 On account of the absence of Alderman Jones no meeting of the fire and water and finance committees of the City Coun- ell was held yesterday to consider the water rate question. The meeting will be called as soon as Alderman Jones re- turns.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
STORIES ALLEGED TO
 BE BOTH SAD AND FUNNY

man lifted his head suddenly, then bowed It in prayer. his lips murmuring almost audibly. The angelus waltened him from his dreams He appeared like a silhou- cite. so distinctly was his head outlined In the gloom. It deepened and the echo of the angelus died away. but the man sat staring in front of him. an unutter- able wretchedness in his eyes.
 ''I feel as if he was in trouble" whls- pered one of the women "and as if we should speak to him." She could not get the bishop and the yellow passport out of her mind.
 The two women stepped into the aisle and groped their way past the man. They glanced at him nervously. but he took no notice of their presence. The darkness was enwrapping the motionless figure but the man was making the sign of the cross
 The women passed out in the batter of rain, and the solitary figure within be- came part of the darkness.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
POSTPONED AFFRAY CASES.
Charges Against Mothershed~and SuIIi.
 van To Be .teard Tuesday.

The cases against Wade Mothershed the attorney, and Andrew Sullivan, the detective, for fighting, were called in the inferior criminal court yesterday morn ing and continued until next Tuesday morning Mothershed and Sullivan were the participants in personal encounter in Second avenue and Nineteenth street Thursday afternoon.
 John Hendricks, Harry Hit and Fred Peck, three little negroes. were fined SIG for throwing rocks. The police have been troubled considerably of late, especially on the Southside, by small negro boys congregating in the streets and having rock battles.
 John Coleman was fined $25 and thirty days extra on charge of petit larceny, and Albert Graves was fined 800 and 1SO days extra on the same charge.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
U. s. Govt OnFOOdS..
 (See beIow.) GRAPE-NUTS
Solve the Problem.


 The U. S. Government has been at tempting to instruct the people regarding the purchase of food that would give the best advantage to the system With the least expenditure of money. A report has been made by Prof Atwater. the famous chemist, and the subject is of great interest.
 This Is an age of specialists, and the work of the food specialist is of great im- portance. Persons who do not care to go into all of the details and statistics. can Nuts the breakfast food, which is prob ably the most scientifically made food in the market. It Is made for a purpose and was originated by food expert of unprecedented standing.
 The elemental principles contained in Grape-Nuts are selected for their value in rebuilding the brain and nerve centers in the human body. The subject Is worth any brain workers attention The Food is fully cooked at the factory and is ready for instant service.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
TO GIVE SOUVENIRS.
FiftIeth Performance of Elite Opera
 Company.

Tonight will be memorable one in the history of the Elite Opera Company, as 1t will be the fftieth consecutive perform ance given by that company this season. It is a record which no other theatrical organization has ever approached in this city. and one of which the company may we'll feel proud
 As a memepto of the occasion hand some satin souvenirs will be given to each lady in the audience Last nights performance of Mlkado was as usual; good from the spectators viewpoint, as the singers were in excellent form, ana from the company's viewpoint as the audience was large in numbers and dem- onstrative in applause.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
STABBED WITH UMBRELLA. White Miner Comes To His Death In a
 Peculiar Way.

A white miner named Jett was killed ct Stout Mountain yesterday in a peculiar manner, He became involved in row with several other miners. A fight ensued. during which one of the men damned the steel point of an umbrella up Jett's nose.
 The tip of the umbrella reached the brain. and he became unconscious and died within a few hours. No arrests have yet been made. and 1t Is not known which of the men inflicted the injury. The dead man was from Bangor. He was young and unmarried
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
ANOTHER DAYS REIGN
 OF THE RAINY SPELL

Another day of the forty days rainy spell has passed The floodgates were opened promptly at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and drove every person within doors Every one has become accustomed to the wet weather just as inhabitants of tropical climes become accustomed to the annual .'rainy season." No one would be surprised to awake on a bed floating down the street. A warship an- chored at street corner would be a mere detail of city routine
 The amount of rainfall yesterday was only 165 inches-not as large as it has been during some of the days of the month of August. but 1t was so everlast- ingly continuous that it destroyed the afternoon for purposes usually given to sunshiny days. The day was Friday
 4.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24

may afford satisfaction to all whose pleasures or profits were destroyed.
 One merchant in lamenting over what he would lose by the rain. offered fer vent prayer for another day even so good as Thursday. He stated that he had not made enough profit since the beginning of the present almost forty days rain to pay his rents and expenses. He fur ther stated that many other merchants would make the same statement, and that the weather had simply paralyzed all business
 For tomorrow the weather man holds out no promises for a cessation of the rain further than the sighted indications are that all the clouds had emptied them selves At least he was furnished with information to this effect from the bu- reau on top of Pike's Peak.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
E. c. MiIner.

The remains of B. c. Milner, who died Wednesday night at Ingraim Lithfa Wells, near Anniston, were inferred yes- terday from the residence of his mother, Mrs M. c. Milner. of Woodlawn. in the Woodlawn cemetery. The deceased was about s5 years of age and unmarried. He was employed at one of the Bessemer furnaces as foreman for a long time and had a great many friends in the district. Following were the pallbearers: John Evans, P. G. Evans. W. s. Reynolds. J. 5. Helm, J. M. Collins and M. F. Wood.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
"Jean Val Jean" in Church.

The two were sitting together in St. Pauls, having taken refuge from the rain. They were quite far back and chatted in whispers. Presently one of the women gently touched the other and pointed to a silent figure near them
 "He is asleep" she said. and the two regarded him silently. There was some thing about him that riveted their at tention. The bowed head. the great shock of hair. the ill-fitting clothes, the knapsack at his side and about him the vast stiffness that envelopes a church at twilight
 The figure was perfectly motionless The man might have been dead. A wo- man passed out and almost touched the bowed figure, but there was not any evil dence that it heard. Farther down the aisle was a little group at prayer. The stiffness was unbroken and the mans head was bowed as if in agony.
 The two women looked at him plying ly. One of them was almost sobbing. She was thinking of a yellow passport and the bishop.
 "Jean Val Jean looked like that" she whispered, and her companion nodded her head.
 The very attitude of the man was that of Jean Val Jean, He might have wan dered from Victor Hugos Paris into this vast cathedral.
 It's threshold might have been like that of the bishop. The yellow passport was a badge of welcome. But he sat there as one dead and the two women weaved tragedies about him. He was the epitome of tragedy. He seemed the despair of ages.
 The darkness was spreading itself down the shadowy aisles. It enveloped the fig ure in the ill-fltting. faded attire. At the altar a brilliant red light gleamed. The sound of the angelus fioated in. clear, sweet as vesper bells at evening. The
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
AMUSEMENT IS.
Hermann, the Great.

Those who enjoy the correct and skill ful offering of an entertainment of magic, nirth and mystery, will have an oppor- tunity of gratifying their taste at the . Jefferson next Tuesday. when the Great Hermann appears at that place of amusement. MT. Hermann promises some startling illusions for the present engagement. He Is the most able trick ster on the stage and its entertainment possesses the double quality of being at once amusing and mystifying
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following transfers of real estate were placed on record yesterday:
 George A. Blinn, Jr., and wife to Steiner Bros. 5000, lot B. block S49. 1ooxisO feet, on Highland avenue, August 22. 1901.
 Mary E. Golden to Mary O. Hopkins, ss25o, lot in block 792. Birmingham
 Investment Real Estate Company of Alabama to F. McCrea, lot 2l. block 2Ss Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
$5,ooo FOR TWO SHOTS.
Green Cuts Asks Damages From A.
 Ieqed AssaIiant.

Tn the Circuit Court Green Cuts has filed suit against James Craney for s5ooO damages. He says that the defendant committed an assault and battery upon him in May of this year by shooting him with a pistol.
 He says he was shot twice. once in the leg and once about the hip. and was crip- pied and disfigured and rendered unable to work.
 He also says that he suffered great men tai and physical pain.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
LerIlne Bradley pIdIake.

Lurline Bradley Didlake, daughter of Mrs. Belle Didlake and niece of Mrs. B. F. Roden. died at the home of the latter this morning at 1 o'clock. The funeral arr rangements will be made later
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
Mrs M. A. CaIEear.

The funeral of Mrs. M. A. Callear of Eyton. who died Thursday night, will take place Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the interment being at Woodlawn ceme- tery. Mrs. Callear died after a brief att tack of appendicitis.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
Last Sacred Concert.

The last sacred concert of the summer season will be given at Lakeview tomor- row night by Mir. Miller and his asso- ciates Among the new singers will be Walter Drennen and Miss Dot Roland.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24

A thrilling spectacle. The trick diving at East Lake ev- cry night. Free.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24

A splendid sight. The trick diving at East Lake every night. Free.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24

Fortify the body to resist malariai germs by putting the system in perfect order. Prickly Ash Bitters is wonderful sys- tenn regulator.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24

Be sure to see the fancy diving from the trapeze at East Lake every night Free.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24
Two Lads, Two coffees, a Woman.


 The habitues of the cafe were late in arriving, but there were two who saun- tered in together. They were sitting qul- etly at little table, their backs to the street, the glare from which they turned wearily They were so ultra blase that the waiter and coffee for two were of too earth, earthly to be considered. But the walters time was precious, and he per sisted in being recognized.
 Coffee" said the younger one. as if to forever dismiss the subject
 Coffee for two" said the other, by req son of having apparently gone a wider pace They had evidently made night of 1t, not their first one by any means, not likely to be their last, but a night just the same. They were really very young. but they were very old yesterday. They imagined themselves veterans in worldit- ness. They were taking themselves very seriously; the world was a mere spectre in space. The cafe bored them. The waiter took an interminable time to fetch the coffee. The chatter of group of women near them jared upon their nerves. There were tell tale lines. the uItduIully ulSSlpdltu OlleS tilhl iuaho b younger man look as If no pace could be fast enough to kill.
 The waiter brought the coffee He was obsequiously polite. But it remained un- touched, and he put a menu card before them. There as nothing in the cafe that they desired They turned with that ex- cessive air of boredom to each other. The stupid waiter waited in silence. Then the two laughed outright, and others in the cafe looked over at them. The tables were filling up, and a little party of women came in. They were all acquainances, and they bowed to the men over their cof- fee. The two looked up and the younger s air of boredom somewhat vanished He continued to smile at one of the young women, but instead of going over to her he pushed back his chair and suddenly left the cafe. The waiter stared after him and his companion stirred slightly In his chair. The young woman looked up con fusedly. She seemed to be waiting for an explanation, but in the silence that fol- lowed she ran her eyes down the menu card and ordered an ice. When she look ed up the other men had left the cafe, and the waiter was removing two cups of coffee that had grown cold.
The age-herald., 1901-08-24

Invigorating and refresh ing-Moerlein Beer.
The Conservative, 1901-07-04
THE LIVING SEA.

How like the city is unto the sea!
The mighty wave of commerce breaks and
beats
In restless surges through the city Streets
Swayed by the master tide of energy.
How many derelicts, long morn to morn,
Drift at the mercy of the wind and wave
The flotsam and the jetsam of the
pave
Deserted, rudderless and tempest-torn
Here move great argosies with gold and
bales
Stanch ships that dare the cunning currents
might
And through their long procession dart the
light,
Swift pleasure craft with un-emblazoned
sails.
Yet am minded only of one thing:
How much-how much these smiling waters
drown,
Dear God. what wrecks this very day went
down,
Unhailed, unsignaled and unsignaling
-Theodosia Garrison, in Ainslee's Magazine
The Conservative, 1901-07-04
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

The Anti-Imperialist Leagues of the
United States have been silent since the
presidential election, but not because
they have less faith in their cause or be-
ieve the battle lost. They had hoped
that those who voted for Mr.. Mckinley,
while disappearing his policy in the
West Indies and the Philippines, would
see that their votes were misinterpreted,
and would make their disapproval
known and felt. They had hoped that
congress would claim it's place in our
government, and would insist that the
principles of human freedom must be
recognized and applied wherever our
country holds sway. They had hoped
that the supreme court would with no
uncertain voice, declare that no human
being under our control could be with
out the rights secured by our constitu-
tion, and that neither president nor
congress, nor both together, could exer
else absolute power over men entitled to
the protection of our flag.
These hopes have not been realized.
Where Benjamin Harrison nobly led,
too few have had courage to follow. The
war in the Philippines has been prose-
cuted with unrelenting cruelty until the
resistance of the unhappy islanders
seems to have been crushed. Many
thousands of their bravest men have
been killed, or have died of disease,
during the contest and today the presi-
dent exercises a power as despotic as
the Czar's over the whole Filipino ma
tion. Congress abdicated it's function,
gave these people into the presidents
hands, and adjourned without attempt
ing to deal with the questions presented
by the islands. Already it has learned
that free government is hard and abso-
lutism easy-a dangerous lesson in a re-
public.
Three years ago congress by joint res
olution, declared "that the people of the
island of Cuba are, and Of right ought
to be free and independent" THAT they
The Conservative, 1901-07-04

Only Sucn rlSntS as congress chooses TO
accord them, is wholly inconsistent
with the spirit and genius as well as
with the words of the constitution
In organized society there is no liber-
ty that is not constitutional liberty.
Even in America, where we have only
to fear the abuse of power by our own
fellow citizens, we all rely on constitu-
tions, national and state, to protect our
rights. We cannot conceive an Ameri-
can community without these safe
guards. Do not the inhabitants of Lu-
zon need against us, the protection that
we need against ourselves? 1t has ever
been the American method to incorpo-
rate acquired territory with representa-
ton it is now proposed to revert to the
Roman method, and hold conquered ter
ritory by force without representation.
This policy which we oppose gives to
the Filipinos and Porto Ricans no con-
stitutional rights, no American citizen
ship, no hope Of statehood, no voice in
the congress which rules them it leaves
them without a country, the subjects of
a republic. This policy, to believers in
free government, is monstrous.
"Let it be remembered, said the con-
tinental congress-, ''that it has ever been
the pride and boast of America that the
rights for which she contended were the
rights Of human nature" When this
country denies to millions of men the
rights which we have ever claimed, not
only for ourselves but for all men, it's
policy is suicidal. AS Lincoln said:
"Those who deny liberty to others de-
serve it not themselves, and under a
just God cannot long retain it," Indif-
ference to liberty anywhere breeds in
difference to liberty everywhere. No
man can defend despotic methods abroad
and long retain his loyalty to democracy
at home. The common speech of those
who support our new policy gives us
daily examples of this truth. We can
not have citizens and subjects under the
same flag. "a house divided against
itself cannot stand" For
Laws of changeless justice bind oppressor
with oppressed,
"And close as sin and suffering joined we
march to fate abreast"
We insist that constitutional liberty
shall be the inalienable right of every
man who owes allegiance to our flag,
that freedOm shall belong tO man and
not to place, that our constitution shall
be no respecter of persons, colors, or
races, but that it shall recognize the
equal rights of all. Ours is the policy of
liberty. Ours is the cause for which the
American revolution was fought and
which triumphed again in the civil war
1t is the cause of human freedom now
threatened in the house of it's friends.
The Conservative, 1901-07-04
Che Conservative.


pendence, and by the same resolution
promised not to exercise Sovereignty,
jurisdiction or control over said island,
except for the pacification thereof" To
day the president is the absolute ruler
Of Cuba. He spends the revenues of the
island as he pleases. No constitution,
no law, fetters his power At his in
stance congress has violated the nations
pledge. The independent" Cuban
people were told that they would not be
allowed to establish any government in
their own land, unless they surrendered
in part the control of their finances; un-
less they gave to this country the pos
session Of strategic points on their ter
ritory; and unless in addition they gave
to it the right to intervene in their do
mestic affairs whenever in the Judgment
of our authorities the occasion should
demand such Intervention. They were
offered no option to refuse these de-
mands, backed by the presence of Ameri-
can troops on their soil. Thus to the
whole world our course has become an
example of national perfdy. The en-
forced submission of the Cubans to
these unjust requirements has made the
stain on our national record indelible.
| The supreme court has spoken, but has
left the law in doubt Some of it's
members have given their countenance
to views urged by the administration, of
which their associate Mr.. Justice Har-
Ian, republican by conviction, says:
''If the principles thus announced
should ever receive the sanction of
majority of this court, radical and
mischievous change in our system Of
government will be the result. We will
in that event pass from the era of con-
stitutional liberty, guarded and pro-
tected by written constitution, into an
era of legislative absolutism." f"
Where such revolution is threatened,
and when congress and the supreme
court both fail, there is no help save in
the people. If they would avert the
impending calamity they must help
themselves. Let us not be misled by
names. Imperialism is not question
of crowns and sceptres, of names and
titles. It is system of government.
Where man or a body of men, an en-
peror, president, congress, or a ma
tion, claims the absolute right to rule
the people, to compel the submission of
that people by brute force, to decide
what rights they shall have, what taxes
they shall pay, what judges shall ad-
minister their laws, what men shall
govern them,-all without responsibility
to the people thus governed-this is i'm
perialism, the antithesis of free govern
ment. AS Mr.. Justice Harlan says:
''The idea that this country may ac-
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