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The age-herald., 1901-08-24
IN HARRoR.
By Paul Hamilton Hayne.

By Paul Hamilton Hayne. I think 1t is over, over,
 think it is over at last; Voices of foemen and lover,
 The sweet and the bitter have passed: Life. like tempest of ocean,
 Hath outblown its ultimate blast, There's but a faint sobbing seaward. While the calm of the tide deepens lee-
 ward, And behold! like the welcoming culver Of heart-pulses throbbed through the
 river,
 Those lights in the harbor at last. The heavenly harbor at last. I feel 1t is over! over!
 For the winds and the waters surcease; An! few were he days of the rover That smiled in the beauty of peace; And distant and dim was the omen That hinted redress or release. From the ravage of life. and it's riot, What marvel yearn for the quiet Which bides in the harbor at last For the lights. with their welcoming culver, That throb through the sanctified river, Which girdle the harbor at last, This heavenly harbor at last? know it is over. over.
 I know it is over at lasti Down sail! the shethed anchor uncover, For the stress of the voyage has passed; Life. like tempest of ocean. Hath outbreathed its ultimate blast. There's but faint sobbing seaward, While the calm of the tide deepens lee
 ward, And behold! like the welcoming culver Of heart-pulses throbbing through the
 river.
 Those lights in the harbor at iast, The heavenly harbor ct last.
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About Persons.

 James A. Going. who for several weeks had been i'll of fever in his residence. 223O Fifth avenue, was sufficiently recov- cred yesterday to resume his private business duties.
 IT. L. Leavitt of Canton, Ohio. who so successfully managed the Birmingham Elks' street fair last spring, is at the Metropolitan.
 c. H. ogilvie of Memphis is at the Metropolitan. T. S. Sharp and D. B. Sprague of Co., lumbus, Miss, are at the Metropolitan p. D. Thames of Greenville. Ala, is at the Metropolitan.
 President Francis M Peterson of the Girls Industrial School. Montevalllo, is at the Metropolitan.
 Louis " Massey of Tuskegee is at the Metropolitan.
 A. R. Walker of Greensboro is at the Metropolitan.
 D. D. Louis of Nashville is at the Metropolitan.
 c. W. Roycroft of Mobile is at the Nor rls.
 Arthur c. Crowder of Jackson, Miss, formerly citizen of Birmingham, is at the Morris
 John L. Coleman of Atlanta is at the Morris
 James P. Bullock, a we'll known Mont gomery merchant. is at the Morris. Daniel A. Terrell of Anniston is at the Morris. M 1T. c. Schaefer of Grand Rapids. Mich, is at the Morris.
 E. S. George of Linden Is at the Flor ence.
 s. H. Parks of Montgomery is at the Florence. .s R. H. Little, editor of the Tuscaloosa Sun, Is at the Florence. MT. Little was recently offered an army appointment by the President, but it Is not known wheth- CT he will accept the appointment, which is to lieutenantcy.
 W. A. Bishop of Gunterville Is at the Florence.
 
  egan of Huntsville, F. M. Woods of Clan ton, William S. Woolsey of Selma, J. B.. Jones of Montgomery. and Nelson c. White of Columbiana are amongst the Alabamians at the Florence.
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Coffee County Cool.

From the Troy Messenger.
 Three miles south of County Line postoffice. in Coffee county, in the chan nel of Sweetwater creek. on the old 'Jack Green place." now owned by J. s. Carroll, coal has been discovered.
 A son of A. J. Fuller, who lives on the place, was here today, and says there is no doubt about the coal being there, and while it is soft, it burns free enough. after being taken from the bed and dried.
 It will be some two weeks before the matter can be fully investigated, owing to the high water caused by the recent heavy rains.
 The finding of coal in this section will be of incalculable benefit, provided it is of such quality and quantity as to justify mining. Several attempts have been made to buy the place recently. but MT. Carroll refuses to sell.
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Capt. Rogers and the Negro Vote.

In the course of his speech in the con-
 stitutional convention, in support of the
 majority report on suffrage and elections,
 which has been made a part of the new
 constitution, the venerable and honored Capt. Charles P. Rogers of Lowndes. after saying that there are more negroes to the square mile in his county than there are
 in darkest Africa, made these striking
 statements of fact:
 T have seen in this historic hall thirty
 negroes at one time, members of the Leg
 islature, selling their votes for a drink of whisky or a mule. and enacting laws for
 us that inflicted millions of dollars of in- debtedness on the State of Alabama, and
 which we are now paying and will have
 to pay for fifty years more as we have for the last twenty-five years"
 Alabama with 51 .540 square miles, con-
 tains 1,0Ol,152 whites and s27. BOT blacks; fin
 thirteen central counties of the state. in
 one of which this capitol Is situated, em- bracing 97s6 square miles, or one-fifth of the area of the state. the most productive portion of it., there dwell 373.311 negroes and 100000 whites. or three-sevenths of the black population and one-tenth of the white populations; z44,0oo blacks and 9Oo.- 900 whites Gin round numbers) live in the other fifty-three counties of the state containing 41.754 square miles. In eight counties of the fifty-three the white popu-
 lation and the black is nearly equal. and in the forty other counties of the fifty three the negro holds the balance of pow CT. In only five counties of the whole state he cuts no figure"
 ''so in sixty-one counties of the sixty six of the state he holds the balance of power and is menace to good govern ment in social and political sense" Captain Rogers. who is a State Senator and who has been several times a repre- sentative in the lower house, is man of
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prudqe First; Genius Afterwards.

Paderewski is just as modest and un- selfish as Is Kubelik. When told by Her Royal Hlghness Princess Victoria, per- haps the most accomplished musician of all the royal family. that he was "surely inspired" he answered.:
 'Your Royal Highness will. I dare say be surprised when I tell you that I re- member the day when I was quite an in- different player. I was determined, how ever, to be what the world calls a genius and to be a genius I well knew that must first be a drudge. for genius and orudgery always go hand in hand.
 Genius'-Paderewski spoke excitedly lis three-quarters drudgery-thats s what genius is. I at one time practiced day after day, year after year. till be- came almost insensible to sound-became machine. as 1t were. Now 'Paderewshi is genius. says the world! Yes, but Paderewski Your Royal Highness was drudge before he was genius!''
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SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Feared Effect of Greater Talent.

Feared Effect of Greater Talent. A writer in the Chicago Chronicle says that modesty is almost invariably one Of the characteristics of genius. Men who have achieved the highest fame seldom vaunt themselves ostentatiously in the public eye, but are content with the praise that comes to them legitimately as a tribute to their worth. Two of the greatest musical geniuses of the day are undoubtedly Paderewski and Kubelik, the former a master of the piano. the latter of the violin.
 "Oh, MT. Kubelik," said a dazzling beauty at a recent fete to the great vio' linist after one of his performances, you are indeed a geniusl Whenever I hear you and M. Paderewsl1i play I seem quite dazed; the effect upon me is so fascinat- ing! Have you ever heard Paderewsl1i. Monsieur?'
 "once, madame. only once" quietly re- piled Kubelik. "But," and this very firmly q shall certainly never hear him againl'
  ty.
 1T will tell you," answered Kupelik. "I am conscious that I possess certain power, certain originality. Now, can not afford to lose this consciousness, for upon 1t entirely depends my success. heard Paderewski once, and then I felt my proud consciousness going, my faith
 
 ence over me the only time I ever heard him play was so powerful that I felt, for the sake of my own originality, if pos- sess any ('Oh. M. Kubelik! almost shrieked the beauty, that it would be safer and wiser to leave him to his own joy and genius. No. madam, there is but one Paderewski; there are many Kube- liksp'
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The Value of a Decoration.

Maurus Jokai, the Hungarian writer and one of the most distinguished nov elists of the age, was recently in Vienna and presented himself for. an audience with Emperor Francis oJseph. At the pal ace he encountered bureaucrat of the emperial. household. writes Vienna correspondent. Whats your name?" inquired the official.
 ''Maurus Jokai'
 "Your occupation?"
 'I have written few books"
 Are you nobieman?" =
 'No." s.f
 "A privy councilor?"
 "No."
 By what right, then. do you request an audience with His Majesty?"
 Jokai paused to reflect whether he had done anything which would entitle him to the officials respect. Then he said: : T am member of the House of Peers"
 The official became friendly. Anything else?" he dueried.
 T possess the Order of St. Stephen's." This is the highest order ever conferred by the Emperor on any one not of royal blood
 The official now became almost affable but could not shake off his habitual sus- picion. T tell you what. old gentleman" he said, giving Jokai a patronizing slap on the shoulder. "you come again tomor- row and wear your decoration and will see what can do for you.''
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MAMMOTH COTTON PLANT.

From the Quitman Ga, Advertiser
 Daniel Allen, coiored tenant on E. J. Pedrick's plantation, brought to this of- flee this morning a cotton plant which measures nine feet in height and five feet in breadth. It is tree In size and is completely covered with clusters of bolls from it's lowest limbs to it's topmost sprig. It is of the short staple variety and fine specimen of what Brooks coun- ty soil. with the proper care. will do in the production of cotton. Allen states that the specimen brought us is but one out of field of several acres which will average very near the same
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Team of Mules Drowned.

From the Selma Times.
 It was reported here yesterday that Capt J. M. Anderson. who resides on the c. D. Hunter plantation, which is in his charge, lost two mules last Friday in Bear Creek, while the team was on its way from Martins Station, loaded with freight to the plantation. The driver had to hug a tree to keep from being drowned. Bear Creek is a placid little stream, but 1t takes mighty little rain to turn it into a raging current.
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A SCHOLARLY REPORT.
From the London King.

From the London King.
 A famous scholar whose hobby was the derivation of words, had occasion to store his furniture while proceeding to the con- tinent in quest of the origin of the term "Juggins." During his researches in Der lin he received from the warehouse com pany the following letter: sir: We have the honor to inform you that the mattrass you sent to our store had the moth in 1t. Since the epidemic would expose the goods of other clients to injury. we have caused your mattrass to be destroyed"
 The scholar replied Dear Sir: My mattrass may. as you say. have had moth in it. but am confident that 1t had an e in if also"
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rha MaokereI skx,s story.

"If any man ever again tells you that 'mackerer sky betolens fair weather you may tell him that he doesn't know what he is talking about said Hon. Jake W. Weiss of Mobile last night
 "seafaring men. thousands of whom visit Mobile in the course of year, assert that 'mackerel sky betokens falling weather that is to say, bad weather; and my observation is that they are correct Certainly men who go down to the sea in ships have more reason to study the signs of weather than other men, and therefore 1t is right to assume that they are more accurate in their reading of such signs
 Somebody was quoted in Hotel Lob bies' this morning as saying that in Ire land and Scotland folk held that mack ereP sky meant fair weather. Last night there was beautiful 'mackerel sky, and this afternoon there was a deluge, one of the heaviest rains of this season of heavy rains falling for more than an hour. be- ginning at 3 o'clock. That's enough!'
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 wide learning and rare courage to do what seems to him to be right Throughout all his long life he has enjoyed the re- spect, the afteotionate esteem of the peo- pie.
 captssl Rogers is the oldest and most distinguished civil engineer In Alabama, probably the most distinguished this state ever had. Long before the war between the states he was building railroads and making surveys that are historic. It was he who surveyed and chiefly built the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad, which passes by the front gate of his beautiful home in Letohatchie, a home that for generation has been the seat of a noble hospitality; and he surveyed and super vlsed the building of several other im- portant lines.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 It is the fool man who dresses for wo- men or thinks they dress for him.
 Marriage ties are the life lines of con tent; of discontent, the shackles
 Children are the steps on which grown up folk climb out of the abyss of self.
 A man is content to avoid betraying his pain; 1t takes woman to conceal hers behind a joyous smile.
 Show me the best woman on earth and l will show you the same one who what ever she thinks of a man. respects his money-getting.
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DROP IN CORN.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The five-cent drop in corn has been made most unwiilingly, but in response to reports from the farmers and not from the Chicago statisticians. Four-fifths of the reports made by farmers and collect ed in western newspapers and by the weather bureau testify to the great i'm provement wrought by the rains. but Chi cago specuiators are still insisting that only a half crop will be raised The mar ket soon or later, will tell the story.
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o Dem Watermllyuns!

Perhaps nothing occurred yesterday in this town more fraught with the pure ly animal comfort. of man than the ap- pearance of a wagon loaded with water melons at the alley door of the big rock jail of Jefferson county" said man who was reared upon a plantation, and in part, on watermelons.
 Law to goodness, dem watermilyuns!
 Gwine jine de conterband. chillun,
 Bymebye, bymebyei
 Clearly the melons were for the pris- oners, nine out of ten of whom are ne- groes, and some of whom will probably one day be hanged for murder; practi- cally every crime against the peace and dignity of Alabama having it's black rep resentative caged there behind those castle-lilke walls.
 But at sight of the red meat of those melons, even the scaffold and the peni- tentiary were forgot and judge and jury had no terrors. If conscience were there, conscience was eased; if deligion, de- ligion's comforting was submerged in the pink juices of dem watermilyuns; the deeds of vice and promptings of virtue alike fled to forgetfulness!
 Law to goodness! Whose has not ob- served de sho huff nigger eatin' CT water milyun. smacking his thick lips, showing his white teeth and batting himself the while, can have no real conception of the perfect animal comfort of the coarser element of humanity.
 We all of us have observed the effect of abundant feeding upon the so-called lower animals. We know how 1t mani fests itself in a COW, which, having fed on the rich grasses of pastureland all the morning, lies down at noontide in the shade of a tree and ruminates with the unequalled complacency of the bovine; but the darlSey is human being, and there is joined to his comfort with de watermilyun a certain quality of actual enjoyment that almost approaches the spiritual quality of happiness.
 Conceive. then. the state of feeling ex- perienced by the condemned and the un- condemned in the big rock jail! After each prisoner had eaten the real meat, he of course scraped the rind with his fing- CTS, ate the scrapings and drank the juice. Then he scraped and ate and drank again. and In the end with the greatest reluctance put aside the thin green outer shell of the melon.
 Dat watermilyun was de best I ebber tasted-it sho was.' reflected the prisoner, and so thinking he doubtless fell asleep and dreamed of his lost youth and lost liberty-dreamed of an endless water melon patch. with no hostile dog and no shotgun in a thousand miles!
 Never in the history of prisons did cus- todian of the law do thing more pleas ing to prisoners than the giving of the wagonload of watermelons to the inmates of the big rock jail. Truly that act was of a high order of humanity, for nigger in jail in watermilyun time do suffer turrible-he sho do!'
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Brooklyn of Alabama.

From the Etfaula Times.
 The Montevallo Sentinel calls Anniston "the Brooklyn of Alabama" Correct. with the navy yard and East river left out. Yet who knows but what hustling Annston may yet have a navy yard? Stranger things than that have hap pened.
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Two Boys Drowned.

From the Gadsden Tribune
 A little negro boy named Crook, while in bathing down the river this afternoon. got beyond his depth. and being unable to swim could not get out. His older brother. Seab Crook. a driver at McCar- yer Bros, was on the bank and jumped in after him and they were drowned. The body of Seab has been recovered, but the other is still in the river.
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JUDGE COLEMAN.

From the EufauIa Times.
 Delegate Judge Coleman was the lion of the convention. A resolution was passed by the delegates commenting him to the people There may be some po> litical bee buzzing around and his friends took this method of starting hls boom.
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THE OBJECTION TO TRloes.

From the Topeka Capital.
 One of Professor Triggs' objections to Longfellow Is that ''he had no ideas to impart." On the other hand. Triggs has ideas to burn. The objection to Triggs is that he insists on imparting instead of burning them
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Horse swappers' Convention.

From the Sylacauga Enterprise.
 The horse-swappers' convention will be held in Sylacauga on Friday and Satur- day of next week Of course the usual crowd will be in attendance.
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Jacksonville Wants Board of Trade.

From the Jacksonville Republican.
 Why is it that our business men (mer- chants especially do not organize a Board of Trade, small though it may be, and start up something to advance our local interests; by such a step as this our sister town of Piedmont has captured the trade of large country section, so we are told. Shall We sit down and rust out7
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New Bank.
From the Thomasville Echo.

From the Thomasville Echo.
 Clarke county is soon to have another national bank. The wide-awake citizens of Jackson have organized with capital stock all subscribed at a meeting held one day this week in that town. All home capital has been put into the venture. We predict decided success for the en- terprise.
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WITH THE EDITORS OF
 THE STATE PRESS

Communicates With the World. From the Sheffield Reaper.
 Russellville now talks with the world of course.
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Certain Views of southern Women.

eaiu NiCWs oI SoutHCIn "ohiSt"
 Whatever the men advocates of order and law and the theorists of morality may argue or do. every southern woman of every gradation of life favors the lynching of negroes who attack white women," declared southern father of wide observation.
 ''Tn this particular the gentlest and loveliest women in the world have no spirit of Liberation or mercy. and they ap- plaud every mob that lynches brute for attacking a defenseiess woman.
 You can't find real southern woman who Is in favor of allowing the law to take it's course in respect to these blackest and most accursed crimes of the black race. As a matter of fact and of course good women do not discuss the subject except amongst themselves and the men of their respective kindred; but. believe me. with every mob that lynches 0 black brute of the Jim Brown type are the silent congratulations of all southern women, and their unspoken thanks go to the mobs instinctively.
 "Is not this feeling the instinct of self preservation, the first law of heaven? Is 1t not, after all, the supreme test of pure woman's loyalty to pure women? Could any man expect women to have any other view regarding the greatest possible crime against woman?
 Leaving aside the abstract proposition of law and the philosophy of organized and orderly justice, are not good women right in this. as good women are right in their views of all other affairs of req! life in the light of morality and de- cency?''
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T. Estrada Palma would be willing to serve as President of Cuba if he could have the support of majority in the Cuban Congress.
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Even the men are to be crowded out of the barrel business in the Niagara rapids, for woman is about to shoot that chute.
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Any sheriff who is not traitor to the law can dispel mob. for all mobs are from their nature and makeup cow ardly.
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Messrs. Whitney, German and Wat terson have met. and yet the Demo cratic party is still the Democratic party.
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Field Marshal Count von Waldersee is doing as much talking as his men did footing.
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This is the last call-the last day on which the best Grau seats will be offered to a music-loving people.
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Boston has a society that has found a home for LILO homeless cats-Tab- bys, not Thomases.
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France also has a bill against Tur. key. and she is trying to bulldoze Alb dul Hamid.
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The rain is fighting the heat, and the heat is holding it's own bravely.
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The steel strike promises to be as long winded as constitutional con vention.
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IN HOTEL LoBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer. Raphaers prophecies for this day. Saturday. August 24. 1901:
 Travel deal. sign writings. and seek work before D. m"
 Thou wilt have very active year in thy business, which will prosper"
 Women will have attention from men and receive offers of marriage
 Much energy will be possessed by the child born on this day. and it will push along in life, prospering and saving mnoey."
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The wireless telegraph is to be fitted to Spains shipless navy.
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The task of lynching ten millions of negroes is very serious undertaking.
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Potatoes are now securely wrapped in silk paper and locked up for the night.
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One in every 76 in this country is a pensioner. and the other 75 are willing to be.
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Neither side in the steel strike has scored. It has been wind work thus far.
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When Sembrich comes to town Reu ben will come also.
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The Islander went down loaded with lives and s275.0O0 of gold.
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Montgomery's grand opera season will occur in some other year.
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MT. Nation sold 2,00o hatchets at At iantic City at 25 cents each.
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The baseball tailenders are Alabam fans by adoption only.
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HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Let 1t work;

For t Is sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard.
 Hamlet.
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It Is a peach but not a potato yea

The lawn hose is taking a vacation
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James A. Going. who for several weeks had been i'll of fever in his residence, 229O Fifth avenue. was sufficiently recov- cred yesterday to resume his private business duties.