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The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Census of Cotton Ginninu.

The census office became convinced hat the transportation companies puld no longer furnish accurate fig res of a cotton crop, because one lghth of the crop is now spun amid le cotton fields. The old method thus ecomes untrustworthy, and in casting bout for a new and better plan the snsus bureau concluded that the gin ers could furnish the best figures, nd so steps were taken to gather in- ,rmation through enumerators and correspondence from 29,62O estab- shments engaged in the ginning of tton in fourteen States and two ter tories. These statistics were gath ed under the superintendent of aniel c. Roper of South Carolina, ho thoroughly understood the situa- ,n. Of the 29,620 ginning establish ents in the country, 646S are oper- ed for the public, 2S63 for the plant lon alone, and 20.S29 are operated the public and the plantation. lese gins reported the crop of 1899
 9,345,391 bales of an average weight
 500 pounds.
 The crop of Alabama is mt at
 s,519 bales, or 11h per cent. of the
 al. In this State there are 2851
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
HANNA AND ADDICkS.
le Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 Whats this? MT. Hanna serving notice upon MT. Addicks that the latter gentleman will have to withdraw from the Delaware Senatorial contest! Why, the proceedings amounts to declaration of war between states. MT. Addicks is the sole proprietor and the general man ager of the State of Delaware, Just as MT. Hanna owns in fee simple the com monwealth of Ohio. For either states man to issue orders to the other is equiv alent to the Czar of Russia telling the Emperor of Germany to get off the earth.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
CONFEDERATE PARADE
Will Be One of the Features of the
 Knights TempIar ConcIave.

Louisville, March 13.-George B. Eastin Camp, Confederate Veterans, tonight de- cided that a parade of confederate vet erans will be one of the features of the twenty-eighth triennial conclave of the Knights Templar in this city on August G-3O. A mass meeting of ex-confederates will be held in this city Tuesday night to perfect plans
 All ex-confederates are invited to par ticipate in the parade. Captain John H Weller probably will be chosen grand marshal and the procession will be led by the famous Stonewall Brigade Band of Staunton, Va. The orders of southerners are expected to attend the conclave.
 The parade will take place one after noon of conclave week after the grand parade on Tuesday morning. August 27, which is to open the grand encampment.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Age-Herald Bureau, 5O9 Fourteenth St., N. w.. Washington, March 13.-tspecial) Though Great Britain's formal declina- tion to accept the Senate amendments te the Hay-Pauncefote treaty came after the time for the ratification of the treaty had expired, this answer Is important as in- dicating that the British government thought the treaty as originally drawn met the situation, and Is unwilling to make any concessions. This is evident from the failure of the British to sug gest any new negotiations. If there are to be further negotiations they must be instituted by the United States. But the President Is in no hurry to make any ad- ditional proposals to the British govern ment, and will probably do nothing for some time, perhaps half year. It Is even doubtful if he will propose any ne- gotiations whatsoever, knowing as he does that the Senate Is not in mood to ratify any treaty with Great Britain other than one that will abrogate the Clayton Bulwer treaty unconditionally. At least the opponents of the Hay Pauncefote treaty insist that no treaty that does not specifically abrogate the Clayton Bulwer treaty, without condi- tions can command two-thirds of the Senate.
 The present probability seems to be that the next step will be in the direction of abrogating the Clayton-Bulwer treaty by notice to Great Britain of our intention. The British are suspected of a desire to use the supposed anxiety of the United States to rush the isthmian canal for the purpose of gaining points in the contro- versies with Canada. But the United States government will not be euchred in any such way. The administration wishes, of course, to have the Alaskan boundry question and the other matters at issue settled, and settled satisfactor- fly, but 1t will not make any concessions that are unfavorable to the United States. The failure of the high joint commission to be called together again indicates that the outlook for the settlement of the matters at issue before 1t is not favor able.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
REMOVING sTEWART's HOUSE.

From the New York Tribune.
 The work of tearing down the famous Stewart house. at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, which was begun about a week ago, has attracted considerable attention. The workmen employed in the task of raging the building refer to 1t as the marble quarry There is marble on every hand, and the pieces were put to- gether or rather in place as though to re- main where they were laid for all time. To loosen the pieces Is as difficult almost as cutting, 1t is said. through a solid slab of marble. The few persons who have had the privilege of inspecting the house since the work of tearing 1t down was be- gun have been especially attracted by the stairway directly opposite the main en- trance. This stairway Is entirely of mar ble. Besides this stairway there is an iron one in the rear for the use of the servants and also an elevator. What will become of the building material cannot be denn-
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Satisfactory Business.

From the Cullman Tribune-Gazette.
 Cullmans business advancement up to the present time is reliable and satisfac- tory. One of its most reliable points in its movement is that boom is not known in its history, and boomers are not solici- ted to come inside the gates. Besides sev- eral manufactories that are doing pay ing business, others are anticipated A cotton mill is the next move in front of us and when established will cause oth- CTS to follow, and it is confidently pre- dicted that in five years from January 1, 1901, Cullman will have a population be- tween five and seven thousand people. Watch the prediction--we know the prophet and if it's a failure the laugh will be on him.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Harry Walker, New Yorker.

There be some fortunate few of us here in Alabama who personally know and are warmly attached to Harry w. Walk CT the famous slave of the graphite pen cil whose dwelling place is New York and whose forum is the world, and all the people know him by that good repute which is the higher fame," observed d local graphite pensil person last night.
 "At the moment the fact of greatest interest concerning Harry Walker, who made happy visit to Birmingham last summer, is that he has begun the publi- cation of a newspaper of his own, to which he has given the eloquent and all sufficient name of The New Yorker. It is 8 weekly publication devoted mainly to interesting human figures conspicuous before the public eye; journal of cul- ture for enlightened people who have de- sire for further enlightenment
 "The New Yorker starts well, and that it will continue we'll is assured by the fact that it is conducted by Harry Walk CT Perhaps no other one of the powerful newspaper workers of this country is so peculiarly, so fully equipped for conduct ing such a journal as MT. Walker. His personal acquaintance with men and women of note is believed to be greater than that of any other man, and he shares a full measure of their confidence and the confidence of the millions who like to read about the hundreds. He is a brilliant man of truly wonderful in formation, the kind of information that rises to the dignity of wide and deep knowledge.
 And, above all, Harry Walker is one of the best fellows between the seas. in any land That quality of good fellowship, -f comradery. so powerful in Harry
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 No woman ever wishes she was a man unless she has failed to be a woman.
 The microbes had a mothers meeting the other day and voted that the short walking skirt was immoral.
 Being in love and being seasick are about the same; when you have either one you wish it was the other.
 The woman who intends to have her own way afterward never kicks at the word "obey' in the marriage service.
 There are only two things which make life worth living to man or to wom- an. To a man, a great love or a great hate; to woman, great love or great sorrow.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Tax Payers Have Some Rights.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The death of the House bill providing that local laws should be printed in the county papers in each county to which they applied was not a matter of much surprise The bill was bitterly fought in the House, and when it reached the Sem ate without any particular friends and in the dying hours of the session it was promptly defeated.
 The members of the Senate probably lost sight of the incontestable fact that the voters and taxpayers of each county have a right to know the full text of the local laws. They very likely thought the purpose of the law was to legislate few dollars into the pockets of the careworn newspaper men. but in that they were sadly and entirely mistaken. It would be worth two dollars to each county in Alabama to have the local laws printed for each dollar such printing would cost.
 The newspapers should look into the vote cast on the bill both in the House and in the Senate, and treat the members according to their deserts. A member of the General Assembly who was so narrow
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

A correspondent with 1diosyncracleS comes to the throne with the following letter on current politics and active can didates:
 Rex Lobii: your majesty!
 q make bold to lodge with your majes- tvs favor a part of my daily contempla- tions. I note, at the outset, an awakened public zeal pervading the sub-common- wealth of Jefferson. When l meet an ac- quaintance on the streets he pauses, may hap to remind me that the shift from the mud sill of a pervading labor ele- ment to a labor element that includes better men, better customers for mer- chants, better supports for the ballot box, better parents for school children, better supplants at the altar of grace that this shift from labor element to labor element, which has at the initial brought in thirty intelligent white men to one plant alone, Is good thing and timely thing. A step or two further down the street, my friend who studies affairs of politics button-holes me to announce that the ub-commonwealth of Jefferson has shed off a conglomerate of aspirants for seats in the sovereign convention of Ala bama and that the register of available citizens for that supreme honor Is thus left free to the public discriminatiin for a selection. Most happy sub-common- wealth of Jefferson!
 Did ever horsemen, well mounted, feel the nervous tremor of the noble animal under him at sight of an empty barrel on the roadside as each onward stride brings him nearer until in phrensy of inane apprehension he plunges into the mire from the beaten way to escape a dead bogy? I remember the modification with which my mind received the tortu- ous and labored act of the General As sembly last winter called an enabling act to allow the people of Alabama to meet in sovereign convention The shy-of from the plain line of duty by the act is most amusing as well as most ominous of the facility with which ambitious statesmen find an empty barrel for bogy. The act is in itself an amendment in details and specifications of the constitution and the suggestion is inevitable, Why summon a sovereign convention?' The legislative act goes part of the way, until it finds a bogy that frightens it, and then leaves the road free to the convention! Here we have our public records encumbered with the limitations, two or three thousands words, placed by the General Assembly upon the anticipated new constitution! If the General Assembly is potent to do this much of defiance to the new consti- tuition. who may distinguish the top from the bottom of our political organism? If that be not anarchy, where leth that an- archy we fear!
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
MT. Weatherly Wins.

'It seems practically certain that James Weatherly will be nominated by the Jef- ferson County convention as one of the County delegates in the constitutional convention, and the people may be con graduated in advance upon securing the services of so able and so masterfully equipped man." business man said last night.
 MT. Weatherly is an ideal man for the convention. He has a deep knowledge of law. wide experiences and general quail fications of a very high order Moreover he is a man who has been eminently sue cessful in his honored career as a private citizen, and no better man can be found to attend to the peoples business."
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Venerable Patriarch
rom the Florence Times.

From the Florence Times.
 MT. W. M. Underwood of this county is one of the venerable patriarchs of Lau- derdale. He is now S3 years old, and was born in Ebert County, Georgia. He is the father of fourteen living children, with two dead. His oldest child is 56 years old and the youngest 25 He has sixty three grand children-the oldest of whom is 28 years, and the youngest weeks. Of the sixteen children born to him two were twins The old gentleman is in good condition for one of his years, and lives around among his children.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
WRITTEN IN RICHMOND PARK,

By William Watson. Lady. were you but here! The autumn flames away, And pensive in the antlered shade
 stray. The autumn flames away, his end is near. I finger where deposed and falln he lies, Prompt in his last poor tattered bray
 cries,
 And think what brightness wuold en- ,hapce the day, Lady, were you but here. Though hushed the woodlands, though
 sedate the skies, Though dark the leaves and sere, The stored sunlight in your hair enA
 eyes. wopld vernalise November. and renew the aged year, Lady! were you but here.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Building Submarine Boats.

London, March IS. = Vickers Son & Maxim, Limited, are building the five submarine boats provided for in the new ship-building programme announced yes- terday in London and cabled to the As sociated Press, at Barrow-in-Furness
 The first will be launched next May. They are of the improved Holland type, sixty feet in length, to have surface speed of ten knots and a submerged speed of from seven to eight knots. Vick- CTS Sons & Maxim have bought the right of these submarine boats for the world with the exception of the United States.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
The GreenvilIe Scandal.

From the Tuscaloosa Times.
 If the scandal at Greenville is true, it will be a great thing for the State if the guilty officials are exposed and pun ished. There is no punishment too se- were for men in whom have been reposed public trust, who are so low down and mean as to take advantage of that trust, by arresting and imprisoning innocent people just for the sake of the fee con nected with such imprisonment. The people applaud the Advertiser for its att tempt to expose the corruption of these officials, and are unanimous in hoping it will succeed in its laudable course.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Invest Surplus Money.

From the Abbeville Times.
 There is enough surplus money lying idle in and around this town to build and equip a first class cotton factory, and every one will agree that there could not be an establishment put up in this town that would equal a cotton factory. Besides the prominence 1t would give us, the hands it would employ alone would be of great benefit, the money paid out in wages would return weekly to the coffers of the business men of this town Real estate would enhance in price and more than double it's present value. Every factory built in the South has proven coupon clipper, and why our people who are seeking safe and dividend paying investments don't get together and build factory we can't see. We believe all that's necessary is for the right man to take the lead. Let our people talk cotton factory, and get 1t in time to work up the next crop.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
APPLYING A TEST.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 ''Tell me a mans mind is superior to a womans in remembering detailsl" indig- nantly exclaimed Mrs. Ferguson. When you put your overcoat on in the morning which arm do you thrust in the sleeve first?'
 ''rhe right-no, the left. No-the right" floundered MT. Ferguson. heplessly Which one is 1t, Laura?'
 Neither one," said his wife triumph antly. You always have me hold 1t for you, and you put both arms in at oncePi
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
AN. ORDER FOR 2s,soo, ,ooo EGGS.

From a Kansas City Dispatch.
 H. M Slayton, of Manchester, N. H.. capped the climax of a meeting of the Oklahoma and Kansas Produce Dealers Association here today by giving an or der to be filled by all members of the organization jointly for 200 car loads of eggs. The shipments are to be made a train at a time. The order means that the hens of Oklahoma and Kansas have ahead of them the task of laying 2S,S00, 900 eggs this spring.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Alabama's Two Senators.

From the Mobile Item.
 Alabama's Senators are men of whom the State are proud, and they are equally respected and honored by the people all over the country. For example, the Phil adelphia Record says: There are Sena- tors and Senator's Compare for mo- ment the two men who are sent to rcp- resent the State of Alabama-Morgan and Pettus-with Pennsylvania's chosen = Quay and Penrose. Yet Pennsylvania had the pick out of a million men,"
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Thursday, March fl, 1901:
 Buy, speculate, ask favors seek work, and push thy affairs after noon."
 Much success will attend thy endeav- ors, and thy business will prosper, this being thy birthday"
 "A child born on this day will be quick and active. practical. fond of music, and fortunate in its undertakings
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Good, Bad and Indifferent.

From the Conecuh Record.
 The Legislature has adjourned finally. There was much legislation of diverse kinds; good, bad and indifferent.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
AII Directors Reelected.

Kansas City, Mo, March 13.-All the old directors were reelected here today at the annual meeting of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad and it's two branches, the Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield and the Current River Railroad
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

itely said at the present time. It may be used in the construction of other houses or one large building of for cemetery vaults. The marble floors are said to be In just as good condition as the day they were laid.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
HE IS VERY INDIGNANT.

From the New York Mail and Express.
 President Mckinley is so indignant over the defeat of the rivers and harbors bill by MT. Carter that he has named the latter as a commissioner of the St. Louis exposition at a salary of 5000 year.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

The fact that the wife of MT. Yates of Illinois had to loosen a tight slipper at the inaugural ball is considered by St. Louis cumulative evidence as to the size of the feet of Chicago girls.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
An UnIuckY Number.

From the Eufaula Times.
 Governor Sanford put his veto to thir- teen bills. This is an unlucky number. He should have added a few more pen strokes and done more for the State and taxpayers.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Willie Astor's "Pharaoh's Daugh- ter" should be dramatized. He would then get all the "roasts" he would be apt to hanker after.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Champ Clark is pursued by the book fiends who pursued Web. Davis until he gave up his copyright for the pit tance of $18O.O0O.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Now that two Senators have been elected in Montana the price of Legis- lative seats has touched bottom, and no one wants them,
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Lord Chamberlain Hanna proposes to show that he is fully equal to the collaring of third term. ..
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
GOT THEM ILLUSTRATED.

From the Minneapolis Journal
 Empress Tsi An stanford's order for the university professors to commit sui eide is still agtating the far west
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

The bourbonic plague is what ails Kansas.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

The constitutional convention can not make the interval between two book trust Legislatures too long.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

MT. Cleveland says he is himself an obstinate man up to date-obstinate in expressing opinions on any and all subjects.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

The season of editorial mildness is not considered bowling success in Northern attitudes.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
ExcLusIvENEss OF THE HUB.

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 It is now in order for the Boston li- brary to put the ban on the Bible and Shakespeare.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

The Jeffries and Ruhlin fight cannot be pulled off anywhere this side of the Austrian Reichsrath.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

There is this hope-Knox cannot outdo MT. Griggs in standing by the trusts. We cannot lose.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

MT. Mckinley must feel deeply aggrieved that his third term aspira- tions have gotten out prematurely.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14
Debenture Company in Trouble.

Columbus, Ohio. March RE. B. Mo- Carter has applied for a receiver for the Toledo Debenture Company.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

The book trust Legislature sine died just in time to run for the constitu- tional convention.
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The robin and the bluebird have shelved the groundhog.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Tolstoi has been accommodated so often, he does not now nina such incidents. =.
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De Wet is escaping to Botha, and what both together will do is the worlds wonder.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Walkers dauntless and toiling and laugr- ing spirit, is equivalent to genius He has achieved success by deserving itr'
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as to vote against bill proposing to print the local laws deserves to be de- feated when he again asks to be elected to office. Four out of every five members who opposed the bill are lawyers, and get a copy of the acts of the General Assem- ply, but the farmer who works for his living and expects to read the changes in local laws must either go to the court house and spend a day or live in ignor- ance of such laws
 The country newspaper men should whet their knives for the men who op- posed the printing bill, and if they go about it systematically they will make their influence felt all over Alabama
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Another ex-President has crossed the Great Divide. ..
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WITH THE EDITORS OF
 THE STATE PRESS
When the Sheep Will Rlate.

From the Talladega News Reporter.
 The sheep will never plate in Alabama until she steps on the neck of the cur dog.
The age-herald., 1901-03-14

Russia proposes to assimilate be nevolently, of course, Manchuria.
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Addicks and Hanna have, it is re ported, dissolved partnership.
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Russia says nothing and gathers in treaties.
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Hanna is in the market for a third term.