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The age-herald., 1901-07-18
EFFECT OF MUSIC ON GENIUS.

From the New York Times.
 It is said that Edison despses music, and that Nikola Tesla is peculiarly averse to its charms. That is a strange freak. Many believe that person who does not love music has no soul. But some of the acknowledged geniuses of history, among them true poets, could not bear the sound of the sweetest melody. Byron had no ear for music, and neither vocal nor in- strumental afforded him the slightest pleasure. Edmund Burke whose oratory was music to his audiences, hated music Charles James Fox, another great orator; Danial O'Connell, still another; William Pitt, third; Robert Peel, fourth-all of these ran away from the sound of music. Hume, the historian. and Dr. Samue; Johnson were strangely affected by play ing and singing. Pope could listen to a hand organ. but not to classic compost tions. Rogers. the poet, was uneasy at the sound of music, and so also were Sir Walter Scott, Lord Tennyson and Southey.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
DocToRED MILK.

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
 The new adulterant with which the un- scrupulous dairyman can make his ''skim milk rich and creamy again without en- dangering the health of his customers sounds attractive-for the dairyDhn. How ever, as there are invalids and infants whose only diet is milk, 1t is rather im- portant that the milk they drink contain the natural amount of nutrition. But even if there were no danger to life from this substitution of lime for cream, the use of the adulterant would constitute fraud on the purchaser, which the dairy and food commission has done well to discover and make public. Vigorous prosecution of the guilty dairyman would do much to put a stop to this sort of thing.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

tween labor and capital. As the steel trust has the courts and the adminis- tratIon at its back. 1t is difficult to see how the general welfare is to be pro noted except by fighting 1t out.
 In the lIn plate, sheet steel and steel hoop mills belonging to the steel trust there were when the strike order was issued 49,000 union end 26,000 non union men. Tn all the steel trust em-. ploys 109. .O00 men, and the demand of the Amalgamated Association is that all the mills of the trust shall be union ized. The trust expects to drive the union out altogether This is the issue. The trust could then dictate wages. and crush all competition in this coun- try, depending upon the Mckinley Dingley tariff to keep off outsiders. The trust hoped to defer the battle to a dull season, but labor preferred to make the fight at the present time, and the issue must be fought out now
 The issue is very deep. Labor knows that if it loses all the mills of the trust will be filled with non-union men, and that steps will then be taken to break up the Amalgamated Association. Cap ital knows that If it loses this battle labor will dictate it's own terms. Arbi- tration does not seem to be possible, and a prolonged and desperate strug- gle seems to be the only road to a set clement. The endurance of both sides will be severely tested, and the final victory will be far-reaching and almost conclusive.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
ABANDON INVESTIGATION.
Protest Against Consolidation Mem
 phis-F Frisco Failed to MateriaIize.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 1.-The State board of railroad and warehouse com missioners today abandoned It's investiga- ton of the consolidation of the Frisco and Memphis Railroads and returned to Jefferson City. The board came here last Monday with the belief that indignation existed because of the proposed combine. but no shippers appeared to protest. The board met at Harrisonville, Mo, yesterday and still no one came to protest.
 The board was to have met here again tomorrow, but abandoned the entire inves- tigation because of the indifference dis played about the consolidation.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
! ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Piq Iron Production.

The Iron Ages tables show that three less furnaces were in operation on July 1 than were in blast June 1. The number had fallen to 249, with a weekly capacity ot 310,950 tons--a loss of about $500 tons The production in the heats of midsummer is, how ever, immense and unprecedented.
 The production in the South is well maintained. Virginia had on July 14 furnaces in blast, Kentucky 4, Ten nessee g, and Alabama 25-a total of 52 furnaces, with a weekly capacity of 38,575 tons. This at the rate of about 100000 tons a year, which is the an nual average production of the South Two Southern furnaces were stopped in June for repairs, and two were blown in. No account is made of char coal furnaces in this reckoning, their production being light. All told, Ala paino hau on Jufy l"cnIy-hin iur- naces in operation, with weekly ca pacity of 23,57S tons. This points to an Alabama production of nearly 1,200,- 900 tons this year.
 Although production Is heavy, yet stocks were reduced nearly 10000 tons, and on July there was but supply for ten days on hand. As the Iron age says, the consumption is phenom- enaI
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
"Ten-story Steep Rubbish.

"If there Is any one thing which is, above every other thing. save the Dust Devil, a bore to Birmingham. 1t Is. in its present condition, the Hewlett or Boddie corner of First avenue and Twentieth street. claimed to be the most valuable lot In the city," said man who stood on the disgraceful and dangerous sidewalk on the Twentieth street front of that much discussed property; a sidewalk which the city authorities, for reasons of their own. or no reason at all, have suffered to re- main in its present condition ever since the fire there in February, 1900.
 ''This corner is very unattractive in Its present condition, and the public has grown very weary of seeing 1t so: but that which makes the people of Birming ham most weary is the interminable newspaper and oral gabble about a ten story steel office-building on the Hew- lett cornerv
 ''If that wearisome phrase has appeared in Birmingham newspapers once, 1t has, in precise terms or in effect, appeared hundreds of times. Last year we read it under sensational headlines almost every other day-'ten-story steel office-building on the Hewlett corner!' Yet there has never been at any time any probability that such a structure would be built, ur- gent and crying as is'the demand and the necessity for office accommodation in of aceless Birmingham.
 Why do the idle gossipers persist in making that purely imaginary building 'ten-story steel?
 "Why not nine-story steel or eleven story iron?
 'why not eight-story stone or thirteen story granite?
 ''Why not twenty-story gold or thirty story silver, with diamond ornamental tion?
 Why not let it stay as 1t is-one-story shacks?
 Why not-mud?
 Certainly the mud of Birmingham wouldn't look as shabby on the surface of the Hewlett corner as the present i'm provements look.
 Meantime Birmingham has greater need of Understandable than any other town in America. An office-build ing here properly constructed would pay net 12 per cent to the owners
 "The trouble is that such building is a great want which Birmingham's busi- ness men and property-owners do not de- sire; for if they desired this want sup piled they'd take steps in that direction
 Last year the southern manager for a great eastern corporation came to Bir- mingham and tried for two weeks to get office-accommodation for his force of a hundred and twenty men. His efforts were vain, as we all know. and, as some of us know, Birmingham business men lost that managers payroll of s25o,00o
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
IN EARNEsT.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The Alabama Constitutional Convention has agreed on provision making 1t the duty of the Governor, when a sheriff al- lows a prisoner in his custody to be lynch ed, to institute impeachment proceed inBs against the officer, and to suspend him pending trial. Alabama seems to be in earnest. This is the first really ade- quate measure against lynching yet adopted in any state.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
About Persons.

MT. Otto Marx will leave Birmingham today for new York on his way to Europe. He will spend several months in the Old World, and his innumerable, friends will wish for him happy time. Few young men in any community have so many friends and admirers as MT. Otto Marx.
 Thomas P. Grasty of the Baltimore Manufacturers Record was in Birming- ham yesterday.
 w L. McLeer of Ozark, John W. Young of Baltimore, P. H. Estes of Richmond, and P. H. Rhodes of Kansas City are at the Florence.
 Circuit Judge S. H. Sprott of Livingston was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Capt. A. B. McEachin of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan.
 E. A. Nicely of Selma is at the Metropoli- tan.
 A. williford of Columbus, Ga., is at the Metropolitan.
 Samuel F. Tate and Mrs. Tate of Child ersburg are at the Metropolitan.
 Congressman J. H. Bankhead of Fay cite, John J. Kahn of Mobile, Albert Roberts of New York, c. H. Pancoast of Atlanta, William V. Walsh of Philadel- phia, and John W. Wood of Atlanta are at the Morris.
 Charles D. Smith, the successful and widely known railroad builder, is in Bir- mingham.
 J. A. Woods of shelbyville, Tenn, popu-. lar all over the South as a travelling sales man from New York. Is at the Norris.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Is daily growing that the old ballot box frauds and practices will be simply in troduced under a new disguise. In this matter we feel certain that the people of this section of Alabama propose to scan critically any plan or scheme of suffrage and if it provides for the perpetration of fraud in the registration or at the bal lot box, they will as one man reject and repudiate the whole thing. The people were assured that they would be given fair election law In this there must be no lodging or evasion. The Mercury does not credit the many rumors. declarations and statements as to the elasticity of the plan of suffrage proposed by the commit tee. We have able men in the convention who can point out and detect any fraud or foul practice that could be perpetrated under the provisions of the suffrage. These men whom we refer to in our minds are sincerely in favor of a fair election and are bold enough to fight anything that looks like fraud on the floor of the con- vention.
 From the Daphne Standard
 Gentlemen of the committee and the convention, your diagnosis of the dis- ease is wrong, and your remedy is worse still You are looking in the wrong di- rection for relief. This is labor prob lem, and can be settled rightly only by complying with economic laws. When ever and wherever the demand for la Dor is sufficient to give employment to all who want to work, then there is nothing heard about disfranchising the colored man; but when work is scarce, times hard, wages low. and competition fierce, then men turn to political pastures for support. and to obtain office, use or mis- use colored voters and ignorant white voters as well and the white side that is beaten at the polls cries out, ''If we would maintain the supremacy of the white race. we must disfrsnchise the colored race If the convention submits the constitution to the people for ratification or rejection and the colored voters are counted Gas they will most surely vote) against the ratification of the constitu- ton, these. together with the white voters who oppose disfranchisement may be able to defeat it. The effect upon the white race, of disfranchising the colored, will be, disastrous in the extreme as has been pointed out. and 1t is this certainty that awaits wrong doing which impels the Standard to urge the people to deal justly one with another, for an injury done to one class by another must be atoned for. If the convention is really in earnest about purifying the ballot box let them include among the voters the intelligent woman hood of the State. This is . tegt of their sincerity and will show their courage and their good sense,
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
TIMES CHANGES.

From the Boston Herald.
 The reported illness of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. who Is summering at Portland, Me, is reminder that while the heads of the Lincoln, rant, Sherman and 6heri- dan families, as represented in war imes have so largely passed from among the living, the "wife of the Confederaoy' Is sall one of us and temporary resident, at least, of what was one of the strongest federal and abolition cities of the North during the dark days of the rebellion.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
REFLEcfIoNs or A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Every girl has a longing to be kissed so it will take her breath away
 A mans business ambition Is the para chute that saves him when he falls out of live.
 When woman is in love she has about as much regard for other people as she has for herself when she is seasick.
 When a girl laughs at a mans joke she generally keeps it up. till some one says something else. so no other woman can ask her to explain.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

From the Huntsville Tribune Rep.
 The more a man studies the action and probabilities of the constitutional con- vention the more he is convinced that no man living can foretell the follie and out rages this body is liable to perpetuate. From the Sheffield Standard.
 The adoption of the proposed suffrage anticle will imperil the new constitution. It remains to be seen whether the con- vention will go ahead and defy the peo- ple
 From the Huntsville Democrat
 General Morgan come out against the grandfather clause in the proposed suf- frange ordinance, giving as his reasons, that it will foster heredity of suffrage, against which the spirit of our people have always fought
 From the Greenville Advocate.
 The most serious objection to the report as whole that we see is the registration clause This gives the registrars too much power and there is no penalty whatever imposed. They can register any one they choose. They can pass on mans character whether 1t be good or bad, as it pleases them. There are many other things in that clause which is difh- cult to understand, and opens the gate to much fraud should the registrars be
 But that part of the constitution is yet in embryo and it Is altogether problem atical as to what the convention will do with the report. They will take 1t up by sections and will improve 1t as it suits them, and let us hope that they will make a suffrage clause that will meet with the appreciation of the people.
 disposed to exercise 1t.
 From the Huntsville Mercury.
 We can not ignore the fact that within the past few days the dissatisfaction among the people about the work of the constitutional convention has increased very decidedly. The erietters of Senators Morgan and Pettus in opposition to the grandfather clause have made pro- found impression on our people. The Mer- curry still believes that the strong and able conservative element sn the conven- tion will yet prevail and submit to the people a constitution that will meet th. expectations of the people, It Is apparent that hhe advice and counsel of our best and ablest men is needed. The impression
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
LORD RoBERTs' MEYERS.

From the St. James Gazette.
 Never Smokes.
 Never has patience with those who drink to excess,
 Never uses an oath. Never parades his piety.
 Never forgets name or face. Never passes comrade.
 Never forgets to thank those who serve him.
 Never omits to return salute. and Never forgets to give praise where nraisa Is due
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Dave is coming home, and the na- ture of his explanation to his Iowa con- stituents will soon be made known. He has much of an unpalatable nature to explain.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Politically longevity soon comes to regard the power to plunder as a vested right, says the Philadelphia Times, speaking from the depths of a bitter experience.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Carnegie is still perplexed with $780, 900 ,000 on hand, which he took from consumers under the robber tariff, and refused to divide with his workmen who made the money.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Prof. Goldwin Smith says men and mosquitoes will alone of animate life be present on resurrection morn. He had not heard from the kerosene brig ade.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Lord Milner Is at home trying to un- horse Lord Kitchener, but British grit declines to be bamboozled by this red tape fiedgling.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

The outpour of the presses need not disturb any one. The good old books remain, and the reader who does not read them is the one who is lost out.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

The Hon. Webster Davis says he cannot write and talk at the same time, but this scarcely explains the non- appearance of a book upon which the royalty was paid in advance.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Englishmen who complain when the thermometer goes to s5 would employ bad words if they were in Kansas or Montgomery.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

The strike that the billion-dollar steel trust has accumulated will be apt to take some of the water out of its securities.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Young Mrs. Hanna is beyond the kingdom of Hanna and it's subservient courts.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

The Duke of Manchester says that he Is no longer in the market for bull dogs or wild oats.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

M. Santos-Dumont may have to take a spin to the North Pole in order to rescue the rescuers.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

England and Norway abolished lep- rosy, and Uncle Sam must do likewise.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Senator McLaurin Is an administra- tion go-between.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
Death of the Dust Devil.

Did you observe the Dust Devil die yesterday afternoon7' asked physician last night-the Dust Devil has done more
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

The German boom has become an enduring depression.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
A Workman's Litigation Expenses.

There was a claim against me for T.20 and my creditor brought action in a justice of the peace's court to recover that amount" said a skilled workman, who works for @ daily wage and who has unfortunately fallen few dollars be- hind In money matters.
 My creditor recovered the sum of s7.2o claimed, but in addition the court taxed me with $11.6o for costs" the man con- tinued.
 ''In other words, am directed to pay the original claim of S.2O and am fined over dollar and sixty cents on each dollar of the claim for not having paid it outside of court. If that is not expensive litigation I'd like to know what 1t is''
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

The shirtwaist fully asserts itself this summer.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astroioger Raphael's prophecies for thls day, Thursday. July IS, 1901:
 ''Very uncertain all day"
 Expect losses in thy business and sickness. this being thy birthday; thy business will require great care and att tention."
 ''The young may court
 "A child born on this day will have a quiet career.''
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
Master Wetmore Fully Recovered

Master Richmond Pearson Wetmore has fully recovered his health, and there IS now no liyelier or happier youngster in Birmingham; there is no brighter or handsomer one in the world! It will be remembered that Master Wetmore was sore stricken with fever, and that for a time his life was in peril.
 The little fellow got better, however, and his parents MT. Richmond Pearson Wetmore and Mrs. Wetmore. took him to the Gulf coast for a change. There he rapidly grew stronger, and, after three weeks stay by the Gulf they bring him back to Birmingham stronger and hap pier than ever. Master Wetmore is the only heir to that historic and honored name, and there will be pleasure in many counties because of his health being fully restored.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Jones Valley has resumed as a sum mer resort.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

chicagos exports do not yet include | n0uyfa
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

Nell Gwynn and the historical novel belong in the same boat.
The age-herald., 1901-07-18
Fewer EIectIons-I eee corrlI


 Fewer Electlons--Less Corruption.
 ''The constitutional convention has en- acted one wise provision, at any rate, in changing the date of the State elections from August to November, to conform with the date of the national elections said an old Black Belt Democrat.
 Previous to 1875 the State elections were held on the same date in November as the national elections, but on account of the peril of federal bayonets and depu- ty marshals at the polls, the date for the State elections was wisely changed in the constitution of 1875 from November to Au- gust. The necessity for such change then was absolute and pressing. Neither the necessity nor any reason for It any longer exists, and the present constitu- tional convention of Alabama acts most wisely in making the change, for the best of reasons
 l ''In the first plaoe-and this is of prime importance to the people-the change de- creases the number of elections, and therefore lessens the ba1eful influence of politics. It would be best for the people If there was but one election in every ten years. Certainly that would be an un- mixed blessing in municipalities, includ- ing counties and towns; though some wild delegate at Montgomery argued that a county was not a municipality, but bore relation to the State similar to that borne by the State to the nation.
 'The people-all the people except office seekers, or 'pie-hunters as the Hon. Robert J. Lowe once called them-are not only tired of politics, but they are hearth ly disgusted; for wherever there is poli- tics there is corruption in one or many forms
 The convention at Montgomery is mov- ing in the right direction when 1t decrees fewer elections. It is calamity that the convention lacks the wisdom or cour- age to go far enough!
 Making the date of the State elections identical with the date of the national elections will, directly and indirectly, save the people of Alabama hundreds of thousands of dollars every four years. For, praise the Lord the convention has voted to abolish biennial elections of State officers. These officers are to hold office for four years hereafter.
 The biennial canvasses for State of- ficers in the past have each cost, one way or another, a quarter of million of money; not that there has been buying of 'fooence.' that the public is aware of, but in all kinds of other expenditures in- cluding loss of time of candidates and their friends.
 ''So if the constitutional convention did nothing besides decreasing elections, 1t were worth the thousand dollars day it is costing the taxpayersi"
The age-herald., 1901-07-18

D. A. Fitch and J. c. Little areAhe only authorized travelling representatives of The Ase-Herald in Its circulating depart menk.