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The age-herald., 1901-03-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A man judges woman's heart by her face: woman judges a mans face by his heart.
 A woman who loves too much some times loses. but woman who loves too little never gains anything worth los inI.
 The women have got up a new story now about girl that was so sensitive that 1t made her seriously i'll to be kissed.
 Every girl has an idea that when she is telling a man she loves him he will see her whole soul looking at him in her eyes
 Whenever a woman sees a picture in a book of woman kneeing at mans feet she feels that she ought to read it herself before she lets her daughter.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
HEAVIEST FRANK.
Washington Postal Clerk in Providenc, Journal.

Washington Postal Clerk in Providence
 Journal.
 Probably the worst job I ever had to tackle was when a retiring Senator franked home a safe. In his committee room at the capitol he had very fine and large safe, which had been pur- chased for the use of his committee, but which had been condemned and sold to him at an inf1ntesimai price. t weighed about 5000 pounds. All the Senator did was to place an address and frank upon it and notify the officers of the Senate postoff1ce to come and get 1t. They got it. all flight, 6pt the getting was ae.- compa nied by malss- Swearing and many cuss words What the clerks in the p2sfof1ce where 1t was shipped said when it landed I have never heard. I don't think it was delivered by letter car rier.'
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Helping the Farmer.

From the Troy Messenger.
 The Central Railroad has for the past year or two taken great interest in the farmers along their lines. They now have experts in various branches of agricul- ture who meet with the farmers and give them practical demonstrations. A day or two since they held quite an enthusas- tic meeting at Dothan.
 They held a meeting at Columbia and one at Hartford this week. Much good will accrue from these meetings. One man at Hartford has gone into the tobacco business and will plant forty acres this year. He made 700 pounds to the acre last year, and was offered 25 cents a pound for it, but he declined the offer and is making 1t into cigars, which are bring ing $35 per thousand.
 The Central Railroad never did great CT thing than to send out these men to thus stimulate intelligently the people to farm to the best advantage. They will hold a meeting anywhere they are called for. It is worth the whiel or any community to hear them. Progressive towns are always on the lookout for such things. -vf
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Work On Channel suspends.

From the Mobile Register.
 Major w. T. Russell, chief of engineers, said Thursday night. when discussing the failure of Congress to pass the rivers and harbors bill, that, in his opinion, it would be August, 1902, before 8 rivers and harbors bill is passed, so that 1t will be eighteen months or more before there is any more money available for work of improvement on the Mobile cham nel
 It will be remembered that the last appropriation was exhausted several weeks ago, the small amount remaining being expended in work on the river, just after the accidents to the Dalmally and Montgomery, which deprived them of their propellers.
 In this connection 1t may be mentioned thatsathe work of removing. dead-heads from the channel of the river, under- taken by a citizens committee. is pro- gressing very favorably, and great
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
An Able MobiIian.

MT Gregg Smith of Mobile, accom-. panied by his young son, MT. Rittenhouse Smith, has been in Birmingham two oi three days visiting MT Sydenham Moore, MT. Gregg Smiths brother-in-law. MT. Smith has long been one of the most hon. ored and most popular of the leading men of Mobile, and 1t is pleasing fact that he is to be a delegate in the con stitutional convention, where such able services as he is capable of giving will be constantly needed In framing the basis of all Alabama laws If the future.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Republicans Trick Morgan.

T have been tickled overly to see how the Republican Senators pay court to our Morgan by all manner of cajolories and always go back on him when it comes to Alabamians in bill or resolution" said man talking in the lobby of the con- vention yesterday. '"They have tricked him Into desperate straights, yet our Sem ator is known as a man of most ready resources in a trial of wit and pluck At the bar all the lawyers feared to inter- rupt him or challenge his line of con- duct of a case before court or jury. He had retort always in stock.
 "I knew lawyers who would actually stop their ears with their fingers to avoid hearing Yancey before a jury when they had to follow him in the argument. They were not willing to be embarrassed with thought of his speech. yet the great measures of Morgan now and Yancey then, In politics, are in the historical class only of par mobile fratrum. What did Jefferson do for the country, while an empire is now upon us? What did Calhoun do with his plan of saving the Republic after the Roman plan of two trbunes, or Presidents. one from each grand natural division of territory? Where is Webster's theory of liberty as well as union? Where is Clay's expedi- ent of compromise to settle all perils? In fine, where is George Washington while John Hay shapes us backward into the embrace of England?
 "As to a canal along the Nicara qua route, the engineering problem is to find base for enormous stone walls, some 80 feet high. from the surface, on quick sand that is hundreds of feet deep below the surface. At least, I read that is one of the main engineering problems.
 When we made treaty with Mexico in 1s4S, the treaty of Hildalgo-G -Gaudaloupe, we secured the right of transit across the isthmus of Tehauntepec forever. The greatest of all the worlds hydraulic en- gineers, the late James B. Eads, said the Nicaragua route is wholly impossible and the Tehauntepec route is wholly practi- cable. So we go, with nothing of isthmian politics certain except that our Senator's Republican party friends have tricked him."
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
A Knight of Fishing Poles.

Through the windswept, cold, dusty, and, for the once, cheer1ess streets of this busy town shortly after noon yester- day there hurried young man with three long, old-fashioned cane fishing poles up- on his right shoulder. Possibly it would be more proper to say the man carried freed rods" but that would be meaning less to our folks.
 He had fishing poles made out of the cane that grows in Alabama swamps, long, straight, yellow poles, the sight of which set ones heart to palpitating in memory of long-gone Satd'y evenin's s spent by streams sweeter far than the Bendeneer of the poet, concerning which we lately heard so sweetly from sweet ly-learned man, calm philosopher who paused to let the muddy current of ex- tremely muddy politics roll by to join the ocean of babblement.
 The young man with the fishing poles was pure Saxon, with sunny hair and sunny face and eyes of the springtir1e skies, a sort of herald of the soon com ing days when the warm sunlight shall kiss the land into flowers of a thousand hues and the birds into songs of a thou sand notes. He was a lusty youth who strode with youths freedom from every i'll that afflicts children of larger years
 As one observed this young knight of the fishing poles, there was memory of tho immortal song of him who is of the Immortals:
 "I wind about, and in and out,
 With here a blossom sailing,
 And here and there lusty trout,
 And here and there a grayling. And here and there a foamy flake
 Upon me, as 1 travel
 With many silyery waterbreak
 Above the golden gravel.
 "And draw them all along, and flow
 TO join the brimming river,
 For men may come and men may go,
 But I go on for ever"
 v 5A.;,er,. |. There was memory 9f-that and many things, recalled by,the fisherman with the cane poles f9x fishing. Forgot was was that was driveql like black and unclean sneets oi Train through the streets
 mem 'ii'3t can't fish may dig bait" said the phil hosopher, sententiously.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Will Sing DoxoIogy.

From the Talladega News Reporter.
 The people now can sing the Long Meter Doxology with a right good will, as Congress and the Alabama Legisla- ture have both adjourned. Our law givers, national and state, have signal ized their sittings with bounteous appro- priations of the peoples money-nothing else worth recording save that they joined hands in an all around glee dance with the monopolists and corporate com bipes to the tune of to use the. language of the late Commodore Vanderbilt-"fhe people be d-d."
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

By Alice Cary. Strange strange for thee and me a' sadly ".tscr: r. Thou safe bescrd bcve,
 meath the star. Thou where flowers deathless spring,
 I where they fade; Thou in Gods Paradise, g.
 I mid the shade Thou where each gale breathes balm,;1
 I tempest tossed; ~ .484 Thou where true joy is found, t&
 I where 'tis lost ss Thou counting ages thine, s. I not the morrow; 4 Thou learning more of bliss,
 I more of sorrow. & Thou in eternal peace,
 I mid earth's strife; Thou where earth hath no name
 I where 'tis life. Thou without need of hope, 5ss
 I where 'tis vain; Thou with wings dropping light,
 I with times chain. Strange, strange for thee and me
 Loved. loving ever: Thou by life's deathless fount, near deaths river t Thou winning visions love,
 I strength to trust: Thou mid the seraphim, W sss< in the dust.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
The Butler County Case.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The newspapers are having much to say regarding the enforcement of the law rel ative to riding on freight trains. Just now public attention is riveted on the court officials at Greenville, and some ugly charges are being made against the court officers. The anti-tramp law is, a good one and should be rigidly enforced all over the State. If the court officers abuse the law they should be punished but there is no reason why the law should be repealed. The newspapers and the public should be careful about extending too much sympathy to tramps and vaga- bonds.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
ss57o PRIZE MONEY FOR DEWEY.

From Washington Letter.
 At the treasury department Thursday warrant was issued in favor of Admiral Dewey for $9,570. being his share of the prize money found due him by the court of claims for the destruction of the Spanish fleet in, Manila bay. It was found by the court of claims that the Spanish fleet was inferior to the Ameri- can. This decision cost the admiral near ly s1o,ooO, as if the question had been determined the other way he would have received double the prize money paid him.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
MIL Owe ltTo Moraan.

From the Guntersville Democrat.
 The Nicaragua canal will yet be built and when 1t Is the South will owe most to Senator Morgan. Added to his long years of advocating the canal, his speech of seven hours on his feet few days ago left no argument unused in behalf of the canal. At his age a seven hours speech is heavy draft on physical en- durance
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Five Months of Free Schools.

From the Guntersville Democrat.
 Five months of free public schools. That is what has been provided by the Gun nells bill just enacted This is a great im- provement over present conditions. This bill will stop the pay" school portion of each term in the public schools of the State and gives five months of absolutely free tuition to each child in the State.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Dupont and the Irish Harmaid.

"The particular representative of the great house of Dupont, the powder per sons of Delaware. whom Gas Addicks wouldn't suffer to be elected United States Senator for the State the peaches come from, is the uncle of the young Dupont who ten years ago shocked the codfish aristocracy of the new world by marrying barmaid of the old world" said former diplomat at the Metropoli- tan Hotel last night.
 ''The young woman was the beautiful barmaid of the Queens Hotel, Queens town, Ireland. Dupont left New York for a tour of Europe. Like thousands of other Americans have done, he left his ship at Queenstown, being unable to re- sist at first sight the unexampled beauty of the Cove of Cork, the most beautiful harbor in the world. He landed at the far-famed Deepwater Quay, and almost as a matter of course he proceeded to the Queens Hotel, hundred yards away and facing the harbor. Actually as matter of course the scion of the noble house of Dupont entered the hotel bar to refresh himself after his long voyage over the sea, and of course came face to face with the beautiful barmaid. He saw her, asked her to give him a drink. and was conquered
 Dupont remained at the Queens Hotel a week, and all of the barmaid's spare time was spent with him in the cosy bar parlor, where seventy thousand (more or less) Americans have taken comforting stimulants in days gone by. On the sev-i enth day Dupont took into his confidence Jerry the Jarvey, who is known to two continents. Jerry in his jaunting-car drove around to the hotel shortly after wards with a feather in his cap which he swore was taken from the tail of the American eagle-Jerry always wears such q feather-and taking Dupont up On one side and Miss Barmaid up on the other, he made for Cork, fourteen miles away and one of the most beautiful drives in Europe. In Cork the happy couple were made husband and wife, re- spectively
 'The Duponts never forgave the son of their house for winning one of the pret- tiest and sweetest and best girls in all Ireland but, when I last heard of him, he remained true and devoted, with his allowance from his father cut down to flf- teen hundred dollars a year, a portion of which he has spent in the higher ed ucation of his wife. whom the Duponts had refused to recognize as one of them selves. The newspapers printed pages about the romantic marriage, every line of which was offensive to the proud house of Dupont, where the powder comes from
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
High Prices Two Years More.

From the Ozark Southern Star. ..
 For two years longer the patrons of Alabama schools must pay book trust prices-1 cents for copy books that are sold for 3 cents in Tennessee. and for text school books proportionate prices. The, people, for the time, have been de- feated by the book trust, but two years hence 1t will be a different story They will see to it that Legislature Is chosen invulnerable to the insiduous ways of the most powerful lobby.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Second Only To conqress.

From the Coumbiana Chronicle.
 The Legislature adjourned last Tues day. It will go down In history as one of the most remarkable bodies that has assembled since the days of carpet-bag rule It ranks in the number and size of it's appropriations as second only to our billion-dollar Congress.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
G. A. R. Rates.

Chicago. March H.-Chairman E. E. Mcleod of the Western Passenger Asso- citation said today that no action was taken at yesterdays meeting on rates to the G.. A. R. encampment, as the veter- ans have not yet been assured that Cleve- land will put up the required guarantee fund.-
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
BUILD THE CANAL.

From the Louisville Courier Journal
 It was Bismarck who said that no treaty can endure forever. The limit has long since run against the Clayton-Bul- wer treaty. That treaty must be abro- gated; with England's assent if she will. without 1t If she won't We are going to build the Nicaragna canal
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Uniform Text Book Law.

The Savannah News, assuming to know great deal about text book laws, undertook to say that such laws lead to monopoly rather than away from 1t. The best answer to such talk is furnished by the Nashville Ameri- can. It says: "The uniform text book
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
GEN. HARRISON'S RECORD
 DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

men. After the battle it was either Gen. eral Ward or General Butterfield who ex- claimed: Colonel, you have won your stars today It was atsthis battle General Yard was won. dc l and Colonel Harrison took charge of the brigade. which he commanded through all the succeeding battles to Peachtree Creek before Atlan-.. ta, where he commanded the division in that battle.
 After the surrender of Atlanta he was granted a thirty-days furlough and re- turned home and participated in the cam palgn of 1864. he then being the ticket for erection as reporter of the Supreme Court, an office he had surrendered to go into the army. On his return to his regiment after the election he got no further than Nashville, the railroad hav- ing been cut by Hoods army between Chattanooga and Atlanta. After the bat tie of Nashville he reJoined his regl- ment, by way of New York, somewhere in North Carolina, I think at or near Raleigh, and participated in the return to Washington and the grand review that took place in the early summer of 1865, thence returning with his regiment for muster out at Indianapolis in June, 1865.
 Many times he was seen when on a long march to dismount when he saw a weary soldier who seemed to be well worn out take his gun and order him to mount the horse and ride while he walked and carried the gun of the sol dier. AS another evidence of the great esteem in which he has been held by his old command, I might say that he was the president continuously of the regi- mental organization and was reelected as such at our last reunion last summer
 "A little incident showing his thought fitness after the war occurred while he was in the United States Senate. He call ed me up one day and said he understood that Fred was In the poor house-Fred was a little German boy who enlisted in his company out near Cumberland this county, and he wanted to now if would not go out with him Sunday and see him.. On Sunday I drove up to the generals house to get him, but before coming out to the buggy he went back to the grape arbor In the back part of the yard and gathered basket of grapes to take with us for Fred. He ascertained from Fred the cause of his trouble and in a very short time had him removed to tAe Sol dier's Home at Dayton, O."
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
lillian a Candidate.

A strongg candidate, for tho secretarv- ship of t1 constitutional convention. TOT rship of which hundred dele gates nave been already named is Mir.
 frahN N '"tan of Tuscumbia, assist ant oiel oi vle House of Representa- eNeS' WI ian has been candidate TUT eeNeiai sks, and as to his capacity TOT S"'i ant work, he has the cor dial endorseme1,t # of .se,,en of tbe thirty-three Sdno+ors inc,,,a;ng preai- 'eihs' si'o i''s sy-five of the Representa-
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

President Hadley. of Yale College has mortally offended the Republican leaders by declaring the probable com ing of an emperor within twenty-five years.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day. Friday. March 15, 1901:
 Sell in the afternoon; evil for all else" Beware of sickness and disappoint- ment and do not quarrel. this being thy birthday. In thy business thou wilt have troublesome year, and wilt lose money
 The young may court"
 "A child born on this day will be clever. possess a good judgement. but will be fond of pleasure and spend all its money"
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
A Few With Ills.

From the Alabama Courier.
 Six hundred more bills were introduced at the last General Assembly than at the former. The members were full of bills and a few of ills.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Continue to Pay High Prices.

From the Jacksonville Republican.
 The people of this State will have to go on paying high prices for books. It Is very unfortunate that the uniform text book bill was slaughtered.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
Remarkable Legislature.

From the Jacksonville Republican.
 The Legislature has finished it's work and adjourned. It has been a remark able one in some respects; more notably as to the amount of money 1t has appro- priated than anything else.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

The semicolon has degenerated into a comma and the comma is about to be eliminated. Punctuation is to be- come a lost art.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
The Blind Spell Followed

From the Coosa Argus.
 Brock Thomas slipped up on the blind side of us the other day and had his sub scription pushed up another year.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Senator Mitchell of Oregon earned a pocket full of mileage when he crossed the continent in order to be sworn in.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

 tives. including Speaker Pro Tenn. Tuns- tall-praeticalIy the entire General As sembly of Alabama.
 We believe him (Alr. Julian) to be a most efficient man to discharge the in- portant duties devolving upon any one discharging any clerical functions of a deliberative body" declare the Senators of Alabama.
 We unhesifatingly say that he (Mr. Julian) possesses in a high degree all the qualities which go to make an effi- clent clerical officer of a deliberative body" declare the representatives. of Alabama.
 That is very high praise indeed, and there need not be any doubt that MT. Julian is thoroughly capable and praise worthy young man!
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Congressmen Bankhead and Un- derwood's best efforts in favor of tho Warrior were beaten by a long dis tance orator.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
WITH THE EDITORS OF
 THE STATE PRESS
Alabama Titles.

From the Talladega News-Reporter.
 Indian corn should be made the kernel of Alabama and cotton reduced to the ranks
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
TOO BAD ABOUT sUs FIX
THOU AND

From the Ambia Gnd) Journal. Bub Fix is on the sick list.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Mrs. Nation publishes in her paper letters from all over" Such letters give one a creepy feeling.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Web. Davis should send at least ten per cent of his book money to De Wet. .l.ts
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

When the combines are rolled into one great combine we will have some thing more autocratic and more de- pleting than an emperor.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

many logs and pieces of timber have been removed. Harbor-master Williams said recently that excellent work had been done and was still being done to rid the channel of the river of this menace to navigation
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Third-termer Mckinley proposes to fight it out with that audacious and obstinate man from Princeton.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Grover Cleveland is not hobnobbing with Banker Benedict on his yacht nowadays. This is another straw.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

The Boers heard that more Ameri- can mules had been shipped, and they are preparing to surrender.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
AND RATCHET PROOF.

From the Portland Oregonian.
 It is said that the bottles sent to Kans- as nowadays are first Harveyized.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

The Cnbans may not take our con- stitution and laws, but they will con tinue to absorb machetes made in Con. necticut.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Sarah Bernhardt should bunch her alligators with Roosevelts mountain lions. It would be an aggregation sure enough. ..
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Mark Hanna, John D. Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan are the new triumverate.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

If Aguinaldo does not hurry up Bo- tha will beat him out in settling with the Anglo-Saxons.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Hadley and Hanna disagree, but Hadley is looking below the surface while Hanna is in the vulgar swim.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Continuity of administration is now considered at Washington the coral lary of community of interests.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

The Presidential trip to California Is third-term movement.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

MT. Carnegie of skibo Castle will not during the hot months do much towards forcing libraries on the illit- crate.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

Delawares two Senatorial vacan- cies have covered her with glory.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15
The new Spanish claims commission will handle about slOO,OOo 900 of them.

The eternal Addicks proposes to fight it out if 1t takes fifty years.
The age-herald., 1901-03-15

D. 4. Fitch is the only authorized trav- cling representative of The Age-Heralo in it's circulating department.