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The age-herald., 1901-07-04
GranddaddY Clauses Differ.

Much stress is laid on the fact that the registrars who are to judge mems characters, and the granddaddy clause, are to remain il. force but one year. This is misleading. The registrars and the granddaddy clause will create in that year life-certificate class that will control the State fully twenty-five years. And this will be the case even if the United States Supreme Court upset the granddaddy clause, as it doubtless will. AS the registrars will register all alike and grant certificates of life registration without specifying the basis of it, 1t will be claimed in that event that each holder of certifi- cate was registered under the good character clause and not under the granddaddy clause. The scheme is laid to register them both ways.
 The real question before the people is this: Is it best to have fixed ruling class at the polls during the next twenty-five years? This is the real question. There is not the least req son why we should adopt class rule, for the poll tax provision in the re- ported article would keep all unworthy negroes out anyway.
 T aJa oA and of the reported article differ, the one being based on suffrage privileges prior to 1868, and the other on military services in a remote ancestor But this difference will not be important in the Supreme Court, for there the inquiry will relate to the intention of the law makers. In that court they will en- deavor to ascertain whether the two clauses are intended to deny or abridge the suffrage privilege on account of race or color, and the Alabama clause will fare no better in that court than the Louisiana clause. The intention of the framers will be studied, and that intention will be controlling. We give below the Louisiana granddaddy clause, in order that all may see where in it differs from the Alabama military granddaddy clause:
 ''No male person who was on January 1, 1867. or at any date prior thereto, en- titled to vote under the constitution of statutes of any State of the United States, wherein he then resided, and no son or grandson of any such person not less than 2 years of age at the date of the adoption of this Constitution, and no male person of foreign birth, who was naturalzed prior to the 1st day of Jan uary, 1898, shall be denied the right to register and vote In this State by reason of his failure to possess the educational or property qualifications prescribed by this Constitution; provided, he shall have resided in this State for five years next preceding the date at which he shall ap- ply for registration. and shall have reg istered in accordance with the terms of this article prior to September 1, 1898, and no person shall be entitled to register under this section after this date"
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
Railroad onsiruciion.

The work of building railroads goes on in the West and South, but in the well-supplied East trolley construction is uppermost. In the now completed half of the year 1,S17 miles of railroad track were laid. In Alabama 5,8S6 miles of this aggregate were laid on eight lines. In Georgia 105 miles were laid, and in Texas, 295 miles. Texas leads all the States in new rail- road construction, followed by Okla homa. Out of the 1,817 miles of new track laid in the country in the first six months of the year 1900 miles were laid in Southern and Southeastern States. In eleven States no track was laid, and in five more less than five miles each was laid. In New York but ten miles were laid down, and in Ohio but four miles. AS a rule new con- struction is done by large existing com panies, being extensions of the various systems.
 Judging from past years it is estim- ated that the total for the year will be fully 5000 miles. Last year it was 4,436 miles. The Rock Island will com plete one line this year 392 miles long, and our own St. Louis and San Fran cisco has laid this year 123 miles, and will lay 200 miles more before the end of the year. Both of these long extensions lie largely in Texas.
 Nothing will prevent the completion
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
SOUTH AN INDUSTRIAL MECCA

From Leslie's Weekly.
 Go South, young man! Consider what she is doing in cotton spinning. In 1890 her factories used 645,0Oo bales of that staple, while in 1900 they used 1,597,0OO bales Observe how she is increasing her output of pig iron, her product having increased from 1,646,410 tons in 1895 to 2,147,s $40 tons in 1900. Notice also that her coal production rose from 12,297, 020 tons in 1894 to 19,97S,297 tons In 1899. And do not overlook the fact that she is not only making money, but saving it, her savings banks having S0,131 depositors, with total deposits of $14, 1Ss in 1900, as against 43,O6S depositors, with aggregate deposits of SS, SS4 in 1899.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
HOW THE POPULATION OF
 ALABAMA IS DISTRIBUTED


900 square miles and an average density of 35.4 persons to each mile. This aver age is more than ten in excess of that of the country at large, and one of the characteristics of this distribution is that compared with other states 1t Is remark ably even. Jefferson county is of course, the most populous, and 1t averages 133 persons to the square mile. The accom- panying map shows the distribution and the following is the list by countless
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 On a real hot day Cupid seems to lock himself in a refrigerator. There's no woman who won't believe some part of f1attery; man believes 1t all
 Children keep cooler than grown-up people because they keep thinking about something else.
 If the best child could only look as in- nocent as the worst woman, nobody would ever know who ought to get the whipping.
 The only difference between the man who thinks women can't fool him and the man who knoYs they can. is that he gets fooled little Qtener.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
REFORM IN KENTUCKY.
m the Galveston News.

From the Galveston News.
 Colonel Jack Chinn of Kentucky an- nounces that he is reformed character. "All the trouble I ever had in my life came through whisky" he told the boys recently. Three months ago little lady down in Kentucky (my wife. if you please gentlemen) suggested that I had had about all the fun that was necessary in this life. and she asked me not to drink any more. I have regarded her wishes ever since, and shall never take another drink as long as I am alive.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
WHY scHwAB oMITs FIREWORKS

From the flttSDurg Dlspatcn.
 President Charles M. Schwab of the United States Steel Corporation will cele- brate the Fourth of July this year at Lo- retto as Is his usual custom. There will be house party. but no fireworks, &C., cording to report Last Fourth's celebra- tion cost the genial president just s7O0o. But 1t was not all for powder. Part of 1t was for fire and smoke. One of the great rockets set fire to a neighbor' S house, so the story goes, and MT. Schwab, in addition to paying 5000 for his fire works on the day we celebrate, also paid s5OOO for the neighbours house and It's con- tents.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

of about 5000 miles of track this year if the rail mills can fill their orders promptly. These mills are very busy. and some of the new lines may not be able to get needed rails until next year.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

The allied powers footed China to the extent of s24,5O0,00O more than they intended to do, and now they are trying to dispose of the money. Send for Waldersee.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

John Perry has discovered a way in which the Birmingham Reds can win the pennant. He says that if the table of percentages be turned up side down, the pennant is as good as won.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

The Hon. Thomas Reed declines to entertain politics or Presidential bees. He is much too big and brainy for either.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

Plutocrat Rockefeller endows col leges, and Plutocrat Schwab warns young men against colleges. The Puts. should get together.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

A watched thermometer, like a watched pot, is never satisfactory. Keep busy, and let the thermometer take care of itself
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

The children of France, who are none too numerous, are becoming still fewer as Vanderbilt automobiles spin along.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
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The age-herald., 1901-07-04
4 Smashed Bicycle.

A youth with a foreign accent, a bi- cycle, and horse attached to a vehicle got badly mixed up in Twentieth street at 7:3o o'clock last night. The horse got It's
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

Minister Wu. who was not footed, will explain today liberty in Independ- ence Hall in Philadelphia. which city is footed every aay.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

This is John Chinaman's day, and his firecrackers will pop in every State.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

General Sickles is endeavoring to pry open the Treasury for the benefit of all pension applicants.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

This is the Glorious Fourth, which has in this section of the country nc terror attachment.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

MT Million-a-Year Schwab earned his salary at Braddock, where he kissed 200 women in 20 minutes.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

Uncrowned King Edward will dc business at the old stand just the same He prefers to lie easely.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
DoWIE's CURES.

From the Washington Star.
 MT. Dowie continues to cure a great many people of their money. t
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

The new soft coal combine will en- deavor to make it July all the year to all competitors.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
HOW IT HAPPENED,

From the Sioux City Qa-) Journal.
 Not having the money to pay in any event. China was naturally a little care less in promising to pay few millions more or less.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

"On to Berlin" sounds warlike, but the damage will accrue to automobil- ists only.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

The Heath spoke in the Hanna Pres idential wheel is still doing duty re- gardless of the New York bank fur ries.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

In the Fourth-of-July belt much noise and many bruises are expected today.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
WORTH THE PRICE OF THE WAT

From the New York Sun.
 No yellow fever in Havana? Think of itl Think of itl That alone is worth the price of the Spanish war.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

This is Hot Air day on Northern platforms as well as in Northern cities.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

The original lhird-term men cannot be organized unless Chauncey M. De- pew concludes to mobilize himself.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

respite has been granted to the barefoot boys and girls of the State that is all.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

- mosphere thirty degrees greater than in Birmingham. You have the official press weather report before you every day, and you know that many people are dying from heat in the city to which you are sending your family in order to get them out of hot Birmingham, which has never in it's history had a death from the suns heat
 Look at the terrible reports of the aw- full ravages of death from heat all over the East and West, as given by the As sociated Press from the United States Weather Bureau every day! Yesterday in Greater New York 23S persons were killed by the heat There wasn't single prostration in Birmingham.
 Factories and mills all over the 'cool' East have had to be shut down and the fires are banked because of the awful heat.
 Work In the great industrial plants of Birmingham-the iron furnaces, the rolling mills and the like-goes on with out interruption.
 "Laborers in the streets of Birmingham and in the fields around go about their work as if in December weather so far as the amount of work they do is con- cerned.
 'The public health remains perfectly good; but if Birmingham were an East ern or Western town heat alone would kill many of its people every day. "The heat is actually killing people suddenly in Atlantic City, the greatest seaside resort of he East-a resort right on the shore of the Atlantic ocean.
 "The heat is killing nobody in Birming- had or in all Alabama. What wouldn't the teeming millions of the torrid East give for one day of Jones Valley and Birmingham in this delightful July weather!"
 Happy Times Way Down in Butler.
 "As you doubtless know, there will be a Confederate Veterans reunion In this city on the Fourth writes Gen. James Berney Stanley, the distinguished editor of the Greenville Advocate, to friend in Birmingham.
 There will be the largest crowd here that old Greenville has ever had within her limits I write to ask you to come and be with your old friends and spend the day with us.
 General Oates will deliver the address to the old boys, and we shall have a din- ner that will be a surprise to the people Already (July p preparations are being made for the barbecue and the great Brunswick stew. Tables have been erected so that 2O0o people can eat at one time. We expect, from 300 to 500 veterans, and thousands df other visitors. We all would like so much to have you come and be with us"
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

President Schurman sees no Shake speare among the new Americans in the Philippines.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

General Sickles seems to think the letters e. A. R" mean Grand Army of Robbers"
The age-herald., 1901-07-04

You cannot prove by Perry Heath that prosperity is unadulterated.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
If Raises the Dust It Lays.

Street Commissioner John McCartin, who is an efficient official, is somewhat surprised to receive complaint that since the street sprinklers began to be run ahead of the sweepers the dust is worse than before. It shows how difficult it Is to please everybody all the time.
 In point of fact the street sprinklers, the heavy carts for watering the streets ahead of the sweeping machines, raise the dust they lay. Paradoxical but true, as many other paradoxes are. The water that spurts from the hundreds of holes in the perforated pipe, which is the sprinkler proper, strikes the ground after pitch of twelve feet, and when the street Is very dry the falling water raises considerable dust, as a matter OF course; fact which anybody may ob- serve by simply looking at the sprinkler in operation.
 Thus the sprinkler raises the dust it lays.
 All persons whom business or pleasure requires to be in the streets late at night can bear glad witness that the sprinklers have worked incalculable good: and for putting them into service the city gov- ernment deserves the hearty thanks of the public.
 Commissioner McCartin says that the amount of work now in progress in inn proving the streets of Birmingham is more than three times greater than 1t ever was at any other period in the his tory of the city. And this will be readily appreciated by any citizen who will travel over Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-07-04
Torrid East-cooI Birmingham.

"Under substantial covering upon my bed last night l slept the sleep of perfect comfort, in the cool and invigorating July atmosphere of Birmingham" said Robert Goodall, the wholesale dry goods mer- chant, yesterday. What makes me more weary than any hot weather have ever experienced out side of the East is the complaint of East ern residents of Birmingham against Bir- mingham hot weather.
 Last night I was on a trolly car going out to the cool South Highlands to spend the cool night happily, when a friend of mine. an Eastern man, resident in Bir- mingham, complained rancorously of the heat, and he said:
 "I must get my family out of this ter rible heat at once, and they shall leave town tomorrow.
 "'Where are they going? asked.
 T'East.'
 "'To what place in the East? I asked and he answered me, naming a certain city s4
 "'You make me tired I said for you know the temperature there is ten de- grees higher and the humidity of the at-
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The age-herald., 1901-07-04
HE cHlY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA

To be said an honest man and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say careful man and great scholar.
 Twelfth Night.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06
cit Can't Be Did"

We agree with a brother
editor that there are a good
many men who are lying under
the green today because he tried
10 please everybody. When
they started out in life they
made up their minds that every>
body should be satisfied with
them, but they didn't succeed
in making anybody happy but
the undertaken.
The world is full of fault fud-
ers and grumblers, aud a man
cannot walk five minutes IN any
given direction without meeting
with EN-. Even when a man
turns his face to the wall. kicks
the foot of the bed and expires
there are people who will find
fault with it, Some will say that
he ought to have done it twenty
years ago. while others will say
that he ought to have waited a
little longer for the sake of his
family. The man who jogs
along from day to day and does
his best, regardless of what peo~
pie say, is the one who is the
hardest to kill and " hen at last
he does die there is about as
mauy bouquets laid on his cas-
ket as there are on the casket Of
the man who worried himself
into Abraham bosom.-Lou1s~
burg Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06
Here's to You Young Men

Colonel Watterson, of the
Louisville Courier, Journal, says:
Let the young men Of the com
monwealth come to the front and
take the helm; the intelligent,
the brave, the ardent young men
our best beloved with their
breezy sense Of self sutficiency,
buoyant, all Conquerlng optl~
ism. their keen and live sense
OF right and wrong. their free
dom from old personal grudges
and their Immunity from the
mud Of the Old ruts. To the
trout, therefore, YOU shock head
barba1lans, to the front and may
be as hard head. as level1eaded,
as YOU are shock headed; your
time has come and there are
places waiting for YOU upon the
empty benches which were once
occupied by statesmen The
old men are with you because
they are proud of you. The
young women are with YOU be
cause they love you. The God of
Battles is with yon, because you
carry the light of the future in
your eyes and have kids luck
buhling il the very veins of you.
20 in, you billy goats, 60 in,
and win -
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06
The Lesson OF a Life.

The other day a woman stop,
ped toiling after fifty two years
as public school teacher. She
is Elizabeth Hogan, of Philadel.
phia. For half a century she
had studied children and made
her life successful by loving
them. She instructed more than
8 900 little ones in the day
schools, and , 900 men, women,
and children in the night
schools.
\ woman who can succeed as
IA school teacher over a period
longer than the average life
must have some extraordinary
characteristics, one would think.
Teaching isn't a pleasant task.
1t makes headaches and heart
aches 1t furnishes a com blna-
tlOn OF worries that are distress
ing. No one envies the school
teacher, with her hard and wear
ing work. There is a general
feeling that she alNa avs earns
more than she receives.
But Miss Hogan loved her
work. She loved it as a girl,
ard she loved it when age had
dimm med her eyes and she wore
a crown of silver.
She made "honor" the all-im~
portant word IN her school. She
trusted the boys and girls. She
did not allow talebearlng or spy
ing. She insisted that the way
to make a boy honest was to
make know that she believed in
him and understood him. She
studied the children while they
studied their books.
She said: "A woman who will
study boys character and win
his love will hold him forever.
Woman's Influence is paramount
in the life Of both boy and man.
There is a lesson tor parents,
as We'll as teachers, in the life
works OF Elizabeth HUgan.-EX.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06

a question? How can any man
answer it7 Good, light Sauterne
is an exquisite wine, full bodied
Burgundy is a most excellent
beverage. | like both.
In northern countries you very
seldom see a pretty woman
among the working classes.
Tney are faded, wrlnkled or
freckled, and lack expression.
In Italy and Spain you see in
the streets flower girls and fruit
sellers who could have given
sittings to Raphael and Murillo.
But | will tell you what | like,
although you do not ask me,
and that is blonde with brown
eyes, or better still, a fine, tall
brunette with dark blue eyes
and the fine, delicate skin of a
blonde, and if you want to see
the latter, 60 to Ireland; you will
find her there in plenty.-Ex.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06
Cu1e + or Gossip.

What is the cure tor gossip?
Simply culture. TIfere IS great
deal Of gossip that has no NAL
ignity IN it. Good natured peo-
pie talk about their neigh bors
because, and only because, tney
have nothing else to talk about.
AS we write, there comes to us
the picture of family of young
ladies. We have seen them at
home, we have seen them III
galleries of art, We have caught
glimpse of them going from a
bookstore or a library with a
fresh volume in thei- hand.
When we meet them, they are
tull OF what that they have seen
and read. They are bimming
with questions. One topic OF
conversation is dropped only to
give place TO another, IN which
they are interested. We have
left them, after a delightful hour
stimulated ard refreshed; and
during the whole hour not
nelghDor's garment vas soiIed
by SO much as a t0uCh. They
had something to talk about.
They knew something and
wanted to know more. They
could listen as we'll as they
could talk; to speak freely OF a
neighbor's doings and belong
ings would have seemed an i'm
pertinenCe to them, and OF
course, an improperly They
had no temptation to gossip, be-
cause things of their neigh bors
formed subject very much less
interesting than those which
grew out of their knowledge and
their culture.-F. G. Holland.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06
Mental Geography.
The largest river rs Time.
The deepest ocean is Death.

The largest river rs Time,
The deepest ocean Is Death.
The region where no. hviaE
thing hath habitation Is called
\ esteldav.
Tne most highly c-vi-ize Z
county IS To-day.
The highest mouncaiU ls. caI}-
ed success. Few reach the toy
save those who watch >h4r ply
tor the passing of the spi-Ir ot
the mountain, Opportunity, Who
carries upward all those that
seize hold upon h,m.
HE region Wnere no 1raD
hath set foot IS caiied TU.m,r-
low BAPTIST j!orkey.