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The age-herald., 1901-02-13
BOARD OF MISSIONS.
Methodists Want to Start a Publishing
 House in China.


 Nashville, February 1.-The board of missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is in called session here.
 Rev. Collins Denny, chairman of the book committee, explained that his conn mittee wanted to establish a publishing house in Shanghai, China, and that this meeting was called to ask the board of missions to transfer to the book agents of the church the unoccupied property of the committee in Shanghai, on which to erect the publishing house.
 The committee directed its secretaries to make the necessary deeds to transfer the property to the book agents.
 Dr. w. R. Lambuth, one of the secre- taries, who has just returned from Mex ico, reported the mission in that field in a flourishing condition. He said Bishop Key, who Is holding the central confer ence In the city of Mexico, dedicated new stone church in that city yesterday, the handsomest Protestant church in the Republic. This makes the third church which has been erected within the past general passenger agents interested in
 Bishop Wilson, who is In China, makes a very favorable report of the work there He writes that he has ordered all the missionaries to return to their fields in that land.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
OTHER PEOPLES MONEY.
From the Boston Post

from the Boston Post.
 The Carnegie-Morgan deal seems to have been agreed upon, but its conclusion halts awaiting the cash with which to finance it. This may we'll be In a case where the first purchase calls for hun- dreds of millions and the ultimate combi- nation Is figured to represent a round billion of dollars. Undoubtedly MT. Nor gan and his associates could themselves put up the money to carry the deal through. But that Is not secundum ar- tenn for the modern industrial f1nanci,r. It is with other peoples money that the thing Is to be done.
 In a smaller way. the proposed electric light combination in this city, which for tunately fell through, illustrates the point. The assets of the companies, com ing into the hands of the promoting syn dicate, would not only practically pay the purchase price, but would form the basis on which to issue stock and bonds of g new corporation which the public would take as a very good thing. The deal would be carried out In the end by the money of other people.
 This is the approved method nowadays. The great promoters want the velvet" and they take 1t, using other peoples 8 money to do the business with. Into the swirl come even the savings of the peo- pie themselves through the savings banks. The economies of labor find their way. directly or indirectly. into the great pool. The wage earners of the land con- tribute the sinews of war to the cam paigns of the great trusts.
 It is feature of the moderen system of industrial finance that its great strokes are made with other peoples money.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
HE oHls DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Senatorial Deadlocks.

Four deadlocks, involving seven Senatorial seats, are calmly progress. ing to the end of legislative sessions. Montana has reelected MT. Clark, but she is unable to elect Democrat to i'll the seat now filled by MT. Carter. The other three deadlocks are in Del aware. Oregon and Nebraska, in all of which states the Republicans are dominant.
 ! The Nebraska Republicans are en- deavoring to settle their differences, and they may be able to elect success ors to Messrs. Allen and Thurston. It is mere matter of personal choice. MT. Thurston Is railroad lawyer and is not an aspirant again, probably be- cause he could not command a fol- lowing in the Legislature.
 In Oregon the trouble is of like personal nature. Messrs. Mcbride and Simon, the sitting Senators, are both Republicans, and the two new Senators will be of like political faith. Personalism is all there is in the way.
 In Delaware the deadlock turns upon Addicks-Mr. Addicks, gas op- orator and citizen in truth of Bos- ton. For fifteen years he has stopped over at times in Delaware, hoping to pick up a Senatorial seat, but he seems to be as far away from the prize as he ever has been. The Re- pubiicans are divided and the Demo erats are unpurchaseable. This ren- ders the deadlock very firm and very well defined. The ante-Addicks Re publicans are as obstinate and de termined as the Democrats are, and ~-r stQ think it is better that the little State go unrepresented two years longer than that it be represented by Addicks and an Addicks associate. The Addicks proposition of himself and an antisAddicks associate has been rejected, and the indications now are that the Legislature will ad- journ without filling the two seats. In such contingency the Governor of the State, who is a Republican, cannot name successors.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13

Indeed. as one looks over the tabooed list he flndN 1t long one. including many Of the novels which we have been reading without a suspicion that they should be quarantined.
 The committee does not stop at listing the books which 1t has rejected, but in some instances it gives It's reasons for rejecting them. Thus we are told that ITO Have and to Hold" makes a good beginning, but sadly wobbles before it ends. The committee seems especially dissatisfied with the distribution of the agony" The story would have been much stronger we are told, ''and would have kept much more of its early dignity if some of the agony had been reserved for another occasion" From which 1t will be seen that books are excluded by the committee not only because they may be considered morally objectionable, but also because they may not in every respect comply with the canons of art that may happen to be held by the committee Which is another revelation that will sur prise the public
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
A POWERFUL TRIBUNAL.

From the Louisville Courier Journal
 Before novel can be added to the shelves of the Boston Public Library 1t must be read and approved by the 'Fic- ton Committee" appointed to sit in Judg- ment on the output of the publishers
 This committee recently made a report to the Board of Trustees which reveals that long list of novels has been ex- cluded from the library during the last two years. Occasionally we see a note of the fact that some library-usually the Boston Public Library-has refused ad- mittance to a novel, but these notes have been so rare that one might well have assumed that such refusals were almost, if not quite, as rare. This report of the Boston committee, however. shows such to be a surprising mistake. Instead of only an occasional novel. large pro- portion.of the novels published in the last two years have been condemned by the committee and barred out of the library.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13

greed-general interests are face to face with special interests. Which shall it be, lawmaker?
 Three propositions are industrious ly circulated by the agents of cupidity and greed, namely:
 1. A reader or a geography or an arithmetic that Is adapted to the children of Limestone is wholly un- suited to the needs of the children of Escambia.
 2. Books bought by the thousands for State cannot be bought at lower prices than books bought by the hun dreds for a municipality.
 3. Paternalism.
 Which of the three is the silliest 1t is difficult to say. All three are tommyrot. All three are but devices of cupidity and greed. There is not much need for arguing the case. Gov ernor Stanford has summed up the ar gument in few striking and we'll founded sentences. He asks the Leg islature to take hold of the matter bravely, turning a deaf ear to all who are interested in defeating this re- form, and passing a wise, well-guard. ed law that will give relief to the children of the State. More words could not add to the value or impress siyeness of this timely recommenda- tion. Let us hope the Legislature will yindicate It's own honor and sense of justice by shaking off the agents that the book trust have placed in Montgomery.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
Indecent Threats In the Senate

While Mark Hanna works the pat ronage end of the machine for the subsidy steal. Senator Frye shame lessly holds up the river and harbor bill, openly proclaiming his intention of making that bill wait upon the ship subsidy measure. MT. Frye is chair man of the Committee on Commerce, to which the rivers and harbors bill goes in the Senate.
 In all the history of legislation any thing more shameless than this bill and the manner in which 1t is pushed has never been known. The case is, however, urgent. The Republican managers have promised the bill to a coterie of heavy campaign subscrib- CTS. The goods, they feel, must be delivered, and they are anxious to de- liver them four years ahead of an other presidential election, when they hope the steal will be forgotten, and two years ahead of the next Congress sfonal elections. If the bill goes over to next winter they fear the members of the House who live in close dis. tricts and desire reelection will not support ]
 It must be put through before June, , or 1t is as dead as Hector, although they might have the audacity to at- tempt its passage next winter. They are willing, however. to do anything . that will compass its passage by the present Congress.
 This cannot be done. Even MT. Frye, with his rivers and harbors bill, cannot intimidate this Congress. Ala bama is deeply interee' in the riv- CTS and harbors bill, tASfyt wants no bill at the expense of the subsidy steal, which takes $1So,000,oo0 from the pockets of the people to fill about fifty pockets already crammed full.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
"'Pay to John Blank twenty dollars.
"At Stones"

Thus beginneth spring "po'try"I In joyous dignity demure
 They smiled and waited cream; Blest burden of love to endure,
 They laughed fair saints a-dream. They chatted and winked and bowed
 As others came and departed, And scores of adorers vowed
 They'd die for these fair sweethearted One declared he'd be-thunder'd
 If life was all an empty dream, When a maid weighing a hundred
 Could devour anything but ice-cream. And still the three fair angels sat,
 And rattled spoons in their dishes, And all the men near by stood pat
 That they were saints of their wishes. Fairest fair and infinitely swell, -- None on earth can equal M, The gentle c and stately L.
 All the world laughs and adores 'em.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
American Music Abroad.

'The Washington Post march was played as the Queen bride and her ducal bridegroom left the church after their marriage in The Hague the other day. and this interesting fact is one evidence of the great popularity of that particu- lar American march throughout Europe,
 said & man who Is not a musician.
 'aThe first time l heard the Washing ton Post performed was at private re- ception in Ireland, and l didn't know what it was. The hostess informed me, and was greatly surprised that I hadn't so much as heard of the exquisite march from my own country. She summoned the chief musician and asked him con- corning the music. He said 1t was quite new. She then asked me what It's name could mean. I answered her that 1t was in all probability a prize march published by a newspaper published in the Ma tional capital and called the Washington Post, whereat she expressed surprise.
 This march immediately took an ex- traordinary hold upon the popular fancy abroad, and very soon reg imental bands in their open-air free concerts for the public, wherever such bands were stationed, always rendered the Washington Post which was en- cored with unfailing regularity. It was also universally played in private houses. It seems that the march was composed by Sousa, who gave the music its present name, doubtless for a monetary consider ation, since the, newspaper desired it for advertising purposes, a scheme which l am at this moment aiding 1t to carry into practical effect It is easily the most familiar American music abroad"
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
PARTNERSHIPS NEW SENATOR.

From the Savannah News.
 fTennessees new United States Senator, Edward Ward Carmack, is handicapped with a glib tongue from which torrents of language flow on the slightest provo cation. After his election to the Senate he was approached by one of his sup porters from Hardeman County. a horny handed son of toll, who said: Med, want you to make a success of your new callin'. an you'll do it If you'll take my advice. Will you?' Of course Carmack promised Well, Ned, when you git to Washington pull some O the feathers out O the tail of your imagination and stick 'em in the hind end O your judg-menti'
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 Physic is poor substitute for exercise.
 Time is money-with the absconding bank official.
 If a man has short legs they can't be- long to him.
 The biggest fool is the man who con- siders himself the wisest.
 A long face is very apt to be in partner ship with long conscience.
 Too many culinary assistants Tare sure to impair the flavor of the consomme. . Some men rise because of their gravity and some sink because of their levity.
 A fashionable tailor says that many of his customers dwell in the land of prom ise.
 Speculation sometimes empties a mans pockets and fills his head with costly ex- perience.
 the greater the volubility of their ex- pressed opinions.
 The boy who works hardest for the least pay may eventually become the man who has to pay the biggest taxes.
 Some habits are praeticed so uncon- sciously that movement to correct them in otheres is the only way to detect them In yourself s. .s..y .4
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The age-herald., 1901-02-13
Fake Faces of the Famous.

'"Thc illustrated daily newspapers, ard all daily newspapers are illustrated nowadays, should be brought in some way to realize that the public has some rights which ought not to be outraged by faked or purely imaginary portraits of famous or notorious persons" said a traveller last night.
 ''The latest and most offensive offense of the newspapers In general is the pub lication of a picture purporting to be a portrait of J. Pierpont Morgan. Pretty much the same thing, with maybe slight variations in the pose of the head, ap- pears in very nearly all the public jour nas But this inky daub described as J. Pierpont Morgan, Great King of Finance and so on, bears no more re- semblance to Mir. Morgan as he is than President McKinley's portrait bears to the Pope.
 'In other words, there is not even one single point of even remotest rcsem- blance between the pictures in the news papers and the face of MT. Morgan as he goes about from day to day
 "If the mustache in these fake pict- ures were big the brow great the fake portrait of MT Morgan would be an ex- cellent likeness of President William Dorsey Jelks of the Alabama Senate, and the resemblance between President Jelks and MT. Morgan is no more eXistant than is the resemblance between the dove and the hawk.
 MT Pierpont Morgan does wear a mustache, though 1t is short-cropped and bristly, and otherwise his face is clean shaven rough and rugged face, scanned into hills and dales like the face of Gro yer Cleveland; a most powerful face withal the face of a great man, with a slightly hooked nose and a sort of split chin. He is tall and burly-looking, and rather phlegmatic.
 ''So Pierpont Morgan appeared to me on the numerous occasions when I saw on the same ships that bore him, and at meal times sitting opposite to and within six or eight feet of him, thereby being enabled to study his face; and often sat within two or three feet of him in the smoking rooms of the ships, Yet the thing the newspapers print as Pierpont Morgan's portrait might pass for the modern type of that popinjay who de- manded the prisoners of Hotspur, and ous portrait of MT. Morgan would be an excellent likeness of President William who had his chin new moved and was 'perfumed like a milliner', was a real carpet-knight."
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
MlLNER's REMARKS APPROVED.
British Government Has No Intention
 of Changing Policy.

Capetown, February 12.-Joseph Cham berlain, secretary of state for the col onies, has addressed a communication to Sir Alfred Milner, approving the remarks made by Sir Alfred to the Afrikander deputations sent to him by the Afrikan- der Congress at Worcester, with resolu- tions addressed to Queen Victoria.
 "The government has not intention" says the colonial secretary, "of chang ing the policy which it has repeatedly de- clared, and which has been approved overwhelmingly by the Empire"
 The military authorities here have been authorized by MT. Chamberlain to destroy great quantities of hay lying near the docks, which has become infested with rats.
 The Mayors of the peninsula at a meet ing called to devise joint prevention schemes adopted a resolution calling upon the government to provide camps fer the Kaffirs so as to prevent over- crowding the towns and the consequent danger.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
To Treat Cotton Seed.

Austin, Tex, February 12.-The first and only plant In the world for the ex- tracting of whole kernels of cottonseed from the huils will begin operation here tomorrow. It was erected at a cost of $30co0, and has daily capacity of 1Ot tons of cottonseed. The kernels are ab. stracted by a machine and chemica process, which was invented by a mem Der of the firm which owns and will op- crate the plant.
 The kernels will be shipped to France where oil will be extracted and the meaI sold for much higher price than is to be obtained in this country. The separation of the hulls from the kernels not only makes big saving in freight but also means big reduction In duty. The new invention may revolutionize the cotton seed manufacturing industry.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
Uniform Text Books.

Governor Samford's message is con else and to the point, but concise as it Is, it is thoroughly and fully compre- hensiye. It covers the ground. It not only in few words presents the objects and value of State uniformity in school books, but it also unflinch- ingly exposes the nature of the oppo- sition to the bill. It sums up that op' position in two. .words-cupidity and greed. Patriotism and love of chil. dren are up against cupidity and
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The age-herald., 1901-02-13
Electric Car for Distant Suburb.

He stood at Second avenue and Twen- tieth street yesterday afternoon, swaying and totterfng with the liquor-l r-llmberness in the surging and hurrying crowds so characteristic of Birmingham streets ev- cry hour of every day He looked con- fused, lonesome and forsaken as, he intently watched with unsteadfast gaze the rapidly moving electric cars making for the four points of the compass. He made, several intellectual attempts to reach cars, but was startled back by the signs they bore:
 "Powderly."
 "Eastlake."
 North Highlands"
 South Highlands"
 "Lakeview."
 Highland Avenue"
 North Birmingham.
 'Ensley."
 And SO on they ran to the utter confu- sion of the Timber stranger alone in the wilderness of great crowds. Suddenly he lunged at man in a hurry and hold ing fast to his arm he said:
 ''Shay-shay-when does the-Mont- gomery car pash?'
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
CARNEGIE AND MORGAN.

From O New York Letter.
 Andrew Carnegie and J. Pferpont Nor gan are each 63 years old, MT. Morgan being the elder by seven months. These are the two principals in the greatest Ideal" in the history of American busi- ness. MT. Carnegie desires to dispose of his large holdings In the most important steel company in the world, while MT Morgan is planning how to buy him out Mir. Carnegie desires to relieve himself of business cares and devote his remain ing years to philanthropy and other con- genial occupations, while MT. Morgan, actually hds senior in age, is shouldering the greatest responsibilities ever assumed by a private banker.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
Chicago has snow to be carted away
sENATE's LEFT HANDED MEMBER

From Washington Letter. ..
 With the retirement of MT. Wolcott of Colorado on March 1, the Senate will t,se It's only left-handed member. This will detract considerably from the pictu- resqueness of the body Many members and spectators drop all otfer business whenever MT. Wolcott begins writing and the desk.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
1.-THE CAVALIERS ESCAPE"

Trample! trample! went the roan, Trap trap! went the gray; But pad! pad padl like thing that was
 mad,
 My chestnut broke away. It was just five miles to Salisbury town, And but one hour to stay Thud! thud came on the heavy roan, Rap! rap! the mettled gray; But my chestnut mare was of blood so
 rare
 That she showed them all the way Spur on spur on! I doffed my hat And wished them an good day. They splashed through miry rut and pool, Splintered through fence and rail; But chestnut Kate switched over the
 gate;
 I saw them droop and tail. To Salisbury town, but ndie of down, Once over this brook and rail. Trap! trap! heard their echoing foofs Past the walls of messy stone; The roan flew on at a staggering pace. But blood Is better than bone. patted old Kate and gave her the spur. For I knew it was all my own But trample! trample! came their steeds, And I saw their wolfs eyes burn; I felt like royal hart at bay,
 And made me ready to turn. Efs siiss. I looked; highest grew the May, R1 19li 2 And deepest arched the fern. flN&A z I flew at the first knaves saIldw f1zI011/ One blow, and he was down. x The second rogue fired twice. au0 u1I1Do1E I sliced the villains crown, Clave through the rest, and i'd 1 Mfo@&
 Kate, < Fast. fast to Salisbury tow11 Pad, pad thssy came on the .1vu1 1U~<| Thud. thud! upon the san <1I With a gieam of swords al 1
 match H- And a shaking of flag an q l[<{t But gone long bound and I R Safe from the canting I< 8;' ,a.ksasr..s,5.zs sTss s2sca 7a'z a& X YP<#T l
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
AIaska Troops comfortabIe.

Washington. February Photographic advices have been received at the War Department from Fort Egbert, Eagle City, Alaska, and from St. Michael Alas ka, to the effect that the officers and men at those garrisons are well and com fortable. The temperature at Fort Egbert is reported at 6S degrees below zero.
The age-herald., 1901-02-13
An Ancient Document.

A gifted man who had a grandfather and who Is a gentleman of the Southern CTS of the old South, student, scholar and historian .has in his possession here in Birmingham the original commission of a captain in the provisional army of vir- ginia, issued one hundred and twenty-five years ago in the name of the Common wealth of Virginia to Reuben Vaughan, gent; greeting" and know ye all men" and so on, concluding a full page of of- f1cial commands. exhortations, and pro- testations after the fashion of that time as follows:
 Witness Patrick Henry,
 Governor and Chief Magistrate'
 What a world of history in that simple attestation! Patrick Henry married in legal infancy and was truly ne'er-do- we'll but the spirit of righteous rebellion amongst the colonists of England gave him his chance to talk to wide audience which heard him gladly. Independence having been achieved, Patrick Henry
The age-herald., 1901-02-13

sought to nullify it all by trying to de- feat the ratification of the constitution.
 John Marshall was too powerful for him, and though those two giants became bitter foes, young love in young hearts afterward united their blood, as has hap pened many time since the Montagus and the Capulets waged war. Almost every chapter of the worlds history do- monstrates that love will find the way.