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The age-herald., 1901-05-01
That Great Quotation.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I raise an issue with Colonel John, or "F. V. E." as to whether McDuffie or St. Paul was the author of the famous quo tation:
 "He who dallies is dastard,
 He who doubts is damned"
 It was Joe Blackburn, and not the South's great champion and defendant, Ben Hill, that made the famous quotation in Congress. It was during the session of 1s76-77, when the infamous electoral com mission bill was before that body, that the fiery young Kentuckian in an elo- uuent plea to the Democrats to stand firm. said:
 ''He who dallies Is dastard,
 And let him that doubts be damned"
 The immortal Hill never made the above quotation while in Congress, as far as am informed.
 w. H. STANLEY.
 Birmingham. April 90.
 If Judge Stanley will refer to the official report of Senator Hills great speech, aimed at Senator Malone on the floor. of the Senate in 1881, he will most likely find the quotation in question.
 For the information of such persons as have not kept to the run of this pleasing and instructive controversy, it may be re- peated that in the familiar Murmur of The World. printed every Sunday, in The Age Herald of Sunday, April IA, the Mur- murer in pleading for fidelity in friend ship and in all good things. said: "As was cried of old, He who dallies is a das- tard he who doubts is damned"'
 The Murmurer does not quote from any writer without clearly indicating that the language used is borrowed. His work, whatever may be said about 1t, is his own. Tn ninety and nine Sundays In every hundred his texts are taken from Shake speare and are clearly borrowed, though, presumng upon the intelligence of the readers of The Age-Herald, he does not cite Shakespeare or the particular play quoted, he holding that sort of thing to be priggish.
 Mrs. Baskerville, brilliant society wo- man and writer of Mississippi writing from her home in Columbus. asked the editor of The Age-Herald to state just where the Murmurer, who Is an employe of The Age-Herald, found that wonder fully forceful quotation, "He who dalles Is a dastard. he who doubts is damned ' The Murmurer answered the query for his editor, saying that he got it from a speech delivered by Benjamin Harvey Hill, whom he held to be the greatest orator in American since Webster.
 Colonel Samuel Will John of Birming- ham wrote to say that McDuffie, the fa- nous South Carolinian of fifty years ago, first used the words. ''F. V. E' (former Mayor Evans of Birming- ham, learned man) in yester- days Age-Herald claimed that the quotation was fashioned from a passage in the 14th chapter of St. Paul's epistle to the Romans. Perhaps hundred men and women communicated to The Age Herald yesterday their dissent from MT. Evans contention.
 The editor of The Age-Herald has re- ceived a great many private communica- tions upon this question. all of which please him. Judge W. H. Stanley gives an entirely new proposition as set forth In his letter.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
A Man,s Great sueeess.

He began at once the study of law, requiring then three years of preparation for the bar. Richest success awaited him at every venture in life from the day William Calhoun discovered him. He was among the great jury lawyers of the South. He grew rich rapidly and saved his money. On one occasion, at least, the court house at Columbia was packed with the finest ladies of the State, come to hear McDuffie argue case at bar. It is yet told that he had not proceeded fifteen minutes before the excitement that hung upon his words was overwhelming. men and women swayed by his marvellous tongue to forget themselves.
 ''He soon married the daughter and only child of Mir William Singleton, one of the wealthiest planters residing at Col umbia. Mir. and Mrs. McDuffie had one child only and she became the second wife of the present General Wade Hampton, bringing him large increase of his al- ready ample fortune. Of course, MT. Me- Duffie entered politics. He became Gov ernor of his State and a member of each house of Congress. While yet a member of the Senate he died from the effects of a wound he had received many years be- fore in a duel with General Cummings of Augusta. Cummings and McDuff1e had already met on the field of honor, but neither was hurt in the exchange of shots The seconds made an honorable settlement. Some time later on McDuf1e referred to that affair and report got abroad that he had then declared, Gen eral Cummings was easy to satisfy! News of this idle speech reached Cummings and another meeting took place. Then it was that McDuffie received the ball of his antagonist so that 1t finally lodged on or under the spine and was never found by the surgeons. He seemed to regain for a time his physical and intellectual pow CTS from the shock, however
 After he retired, about 1887, from the office of Governor he crossed the Atlantic with the hope of having the ball located and extracted by European surgeons. Like the Americans of the profession, never the less. they could not find 1t. Ten years later physical and mental decay set in, traced to that little hump of lead, and one of the most brilliant of the states men and lawyers and orators of all Amer ica sank down, a wreck of splendid manhood, perished in his prime.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
Don't Be Late.

It Is painful to inform any person that it Is rude to be late in arriving at any place. But we live in an age of rudeness, and more's the pity, Last night three hundred persons were kept waiting out side the barred door of the May Festival in the Auditorium. They ought to have blushed, but probably enough they didn't. Birmingham has more bad manners to the acre than any town in America. Won't Birmingham do better tonight?
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
SOUTHERN BANKS.

From the New York Financier.
 During the first twenty-three days of April no less than forty-four banks have been organized in thirteen of the South ern States. The Financier for the last two months has published on average in- formation of about seventy-five new banks weekly,
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
WELL CHARGED.

From the Denver Republican.
 Tolstoi's, new novel will be about so- ciety girl named Spziefzeff. The book ought to make delightful summer reading, as the heroine's name sounds like the drawing of a glass of soda water.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Minister conger does not propose to let go of the Chinese mission untIl he has a more secure grip on the Iowa Gubernatorial nomination. A bird in hand is to him better.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

The Russian barbarians of the twen- tieth century oflcially stole the ancient Manchu library at Mukden and sent it to St. Petersburg. The Russian world do, not move.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
Mobiles Fruit shipments.

From the Mobile Item.
 As fruit port, Mobile is steadily growing. as will be seen from the imports of bananas during April. Over sSo car- loads were shipped from Mobile to cities North East and West and the amount of money left in Mobile from this indus try alone is considerable
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

A Missouri restaurant sign reads, "Dinnar is reddie," and it has been criticized, but the criticisms fall to the ground if the dinner be above re- Droach
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
Young man who desired to be well dressed found that the experience cost him si332, I I N x

tell you. If K Y. z. gives up a fa
 I'll let you two take me out
 me complete outfit" Done" sal
 and then they set to watching the n
 Two weeks later, the dreader sum
 came. She's up," said voice over telephone: meet us tomorrow" Th met.
 Then started the greatest clothes-buy ing expedition of recent times. The girls spared him just like a fox spares a nice fat goose, but true to his soldier train ing, he took his orders and repeated them to the obliging sales persons. When it was done he had a chance to count up, and here is the tally of his bills:
 Two suits of evening clothes. .$1S0 0d One Tuxedo..... ............... 4b co Two opera hats..... ....-. .......... 20 % Two silk hats..... ...... --..-..--.... IS 6O Two derby hats..... ...... ...----.. 10 co One soft hat.......... ......... ...-.- 6 % One Prince Albert coat...... .-....... 70 % Six pairs fancy gray trousers, ..... 72 Do Six white mercerized linen vests.... AS co One morning dress cutaway coat
 and vest... ........ -......---.!.-. 500o Three cutaway suits, mixed goods. 15O co Two riding suits, extra brooches .. 100 60 Two pair patent leather evening
 shoes. ......... ......... ...... IS OO Two pair patent leather Oxfords.... 17 co Two pairs black calf shoes.......... IS to Two pairs black calf Oxfords.-.-... IS O0s One pair russet storm shoes..... ..., co Two pair riding boots..... ........ 32 % One dozen evening dress shirts. ..... S5 00s One dozen fancy colored shirts 80 % One dozen French, flannel shirts. i'
 negligee. ........ ....- ..--.... 40 % Three dozen assorted collars 12 % Three dozen pairs cuffs. ..-- ---.....-. IS % Two dozen suits assorted, weights
 silk underwear. =. ..... ......... ss % Four dozen assorted silk sccks...-- 96 % IOtdl..... .......- s........ .s.s. .$lioo1 VO
 The worst of it is that he did not sell X. Y. 2. at 42 and now it Is s1-b,t. he has a lot of nice clothes.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

The robber tariff was fitted even to the giraffe recently imported, the only one Tn the country. The robbers net lets nothing come n untaxed.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
BEEN JHuR's" CLOSE SQUEAK. Booth Tarkington in Washington Inter

view.
 Success with book Is something like having lightning strike you. Up at Macki- mac last summer General Wallace told me how narrowly Ben Hur" escaped publications. It was examined by two of Harper's readers, who reported rather ad- versely on 1t, thinking 1t would not be a good seller Finally Mrs. Harper a lady of strong religious tendencies, read it and advised her husband to risk the expense of printing the book. Then there was ''Dr. Jekyl and MT. Hyde" which ran a somewhat similar gauntlet and was all most rejected
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

The administration has returned the Washington relics to the Lee family, but it has not returned footed goods to the Chinese.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Neither MT. Bryan nor MT. Hill seem to have a favorite candidate, now that they have taken themselves out of the race.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
Nothina stranae in ThIs.

From the Anniston Star.
 Birmingham men are prospecting for oil in the vicinity of the Magic City Stranger things than oil have been found around Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

With MT. Bryan and MT. Hill both out of the race, the way is open to new corners who can carry their own States.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Congressman Babcock should not let his new marital duties lessen his whacks at the robber tariff.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

They have overtaxed Peter to enrich Paul in Russia, and 400 factories are in a state of collapse.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

The music festival is a delightful surprise, and last nights audience should be duplicated tonight.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Let us hope the Gainsborough hat will subside before the opening of the next theatrical season.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Russia prefers that her students should haze one another instead of the government.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

The winner in 1904 will be a man who can carry his own State. No others need apply.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

The rooter is preparing to root to- morrow in this town.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Hobson and the northwestern pro- lessor should seek a middle line of osculation.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Sir Henry Irving is making London gloomy in "Coriolanus."
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

The McIaurin Republican party is still awaiting the coming of the fifth recruit.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

The man who has music in his soul will be found at the Auditorium to- night.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01
BOUNTY FOR rRIPLETs

From the London News.
 ''I had once,'' writes correspondent ''the curiosity to write to windsor castl
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Talk over the telephones is to b. cheaper in Chicago.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

"The Rose of Avonborn" tonight Don't forget it.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

Cullman County knows now what book trust is.
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

D. A. Fitch and J. c. Little are the only authorized travelling representatives of The Age-Herald in its circulating depart ment
The age-herald., 1901-05-01

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The age-herald., 1901-05-01

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The age-herald., 1901-05-01

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The age-herald., 1901-05-01

the Age-HeraId Is the only news. paper in Alabama printed every day
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
The Flight of a Great Nebu1a.

One Of the most striking spectaeles
revealed by telescopes is that Of the
Great Nebula in Orion. In the COM
pleXity of its glowing streams, spirals
and strangely shaped masses, inter
cepted by yawning black gaps and
sprinkled over with stars arranged in
suggestive groups and lines, it has few
rivals in the heavens. The impression
of establishment made by the sight of
this nebula is heightened by knowledge
of its enormous size. The entire solar
system would appear as tiny speck
beside it. Yet this tremendous aggre-
cation of nebulous clouds and starry
swarms has been proved by the re-
searches of the late Professor Keller
Of the Lick observatory to be flying
away from the earth and the sun at the
rate of II miles in every second! But
so vast is its distance that 100 years
reveal no visual effects of the great
nebula's swift retreat. If it were near
by, it would seem to become rapidly
smaller.-Youth's Companion.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
Ant sInxehoIder.

Many of the large red ants are slave
holders. and, oddly enough. their slaves
are invariably black, much as is the
case with the human race. When
slaves are desired by a colony of ants,
regular army of invasion is formed,
and skirmishers and scouts are sent on
ahead to discover a nest of black ants
This having been found, the warrior
ants-insects quite different from the
ordinary workers, with powerful jaws
set out to invade their neighbours ter
ritory and carry away the eggs and
pupR to their own nests. A fierce bat
tie ensues, but the invading ants are
always victorious.
On returning to their own colony the
young Of their defeated foe are taken
into their nests and carefully treated
until they arrive at maturity. when
they become the willing bondsmen Of
the conquerors of their parents, doing
all the hardest work of the community,
even to the length of feeding their cap
tors The latter, however, Is not en-
hrely needless humiliation to subject
them to, as some species of slavehold-
Ing ants are incapable of feeding them
selves and would die of starvation In
the midst Of plenty were it not for
their slayes.-Kansas City Independ-
ent.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
Too Self Confident.

Mr.. Bodkin, Q. c., tells the following
anecdote of the late Mr.. Francis Mac
donagh, Q. c., who was for upward of
40 years the recognized leader of the
Irish bar:
81 remember once in the early glory
of my wig and gown got case for an
opinion. The solicitor thought it very
simple case, or he would not have sent
it to me. thought so too. With the
touching confidence of the neophyte l
took my pen and began:
I am clearly of opinion
Now, it so happened that sat in the
law library beside the silver haired
silken Nestor of the Irish bar, a leader
of unfathomable astuteness. This eld-
er CHANGED to glance over my shoulder
as wrote.
MY dear young FRIEND he said
softly-we were all his dear young
friends-'never write that you are
clearly of opinion on law point. The
most you can hope to discover Is the
preponderance of the doubt. Green
Bag.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22

ton was completely blocked, and 1t
would be two days before 1 could get
through. Two days! I instinctively
pulled out my watch. 1t was $50. In
ten minutes, parson,' said 1, my we'd
ding will be due in Laramie, and Ara
bella is even now waiting for me-
HE was expressing his sympathy
when we heard roaring noise, and
Smithson said: Run for your lives! A
cyclonev
1.-The three of us instinctively dived
into the snow. Then we heard a muf-
fed roar, and the earth shook, and 1t
was all over. Just to make sure, we
lay in the snow for few minutes, and
then we crept out. Such scene as
met our gaze! The church and the par
sons house We're the only movable
things that hadn't moved Trees were
leveled on all sides, and the plains in
front of us were full of debris from va
rious states.
"Just in front Of me were half a hun
dred crates of eggs, whipped to an ON
elet by the wind; bunch of bananas,
WhhtC hOiS anu u VI DOOkS
labeled Cheyenne Free Library And,
stuck in the snowbank was a woman
in a gray travelling dress. The parson
pulled her out, wondering IL it was a
neighbor. but l, catching sight of her
face, recognized her as Arabella! Ara
bella in her wedding dress, my friends!
"Of course the next days papers all
over the country had full accounts of
the awful cyclone that had struck Lar
annie and had run northeast into the
Dakotas, but not a word about ArabeI
la except the fact that she was missing
and her mother was frantic.
Now, you may say that it was her
woman's love that guided her on the
back of the storm to where I was, but
even if so it was a remarkable occur
renee.
"In a minute she opened her eyes,
and then she sat up, and then she saw
me. She was always quick to take in
situation, and she held out her arms
to me. 1 kissed her just once for luck,
and then 1 looked at my watch. It was
4:59.
Parson,' said 1, the church is still
standing Denver Post.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
When scotch Hunt. scotch.

Wandering about the streets of Paris
some distance from his hotel, he found
himself in a maze from which he could
not escape, and, to make things worse,
he failed, through ignorance of the Ian
guage, to get any light to guide him
homeward. Then a happy thought
struck him. BY dint of signs he con-
cluded a bargain with fruit hawker
for basketful\ of gooseberries and
then, to the amazement of everybody
went about shouting: "Fine Scotch
grossets! A penny a pun. a penny a
punw
This went Oh for awhile till fellow
countryman rushed forward to him
and, Selling him roughly by the Shout
der. asked, Man, dye think ye're in
the streets O. Glesga. that We gang
ABBOTT like mailman cryin grossets?"
''JSch!'' he replied, with a sense of re-
lief. "Ye're just the man 1 was lookin
for. Dye ken the way to the Hotel
%-London Fun.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
A Prlceless Idol.

1t is part of the creed of Mohamme-
dams to smash the noses of all idols they
may come across. When they invaded
India, they defaced In this way every
Hindoo god. A figure Of Yishnu cut In
green jade was buried in the bed Of
the Gauges during this invasion and is
now preserved in temple in Benares.
1t is the only perfect image left of all
the old idols, and its sanctity is such
that the priests at Allahabad have Of
fered for it its weight in gold, together
with two magnificent rubies, formerly
the eyes of Buddha. But they cannot
buy If
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
worked his little game to advantage
in other localities ff tt4t



The young man had returned from
his wedding trip and was again at his
desk in the office.
1t was the day after his return that
the Junior partner called him to his
desk and said:
Now that you're married, Mr.. Quilts,
| trust you will be considerate in your
treatment of me-"
81 don't quite understand you, SIR"
exclaimed the young man in surprise
"Oh, it's little early, I know" ad-
mitted the junior partner, "but there's
nothing like taking time by the fore
lock. l suppose you haven't been out
late at night yet"
Certainly not, SIR"
"And it's none of my business if you
have. But when you do stay out some
night be considerate Remember that
l have a reputation for fairness and
humane treatment of everybody in this
office that would like to retain. Don't
tell your wife that you're sorry you're
late, but that that slave driver at the
office piled work upon you to such an
extent that you had to work right into
the night Don't tell her that the ty-
rant you work under gave you is. Cd.
for dinner and told you that you would
have to post all the books in the office
before leaving for the night. Just in
vent some other excuse, you know"
The young man thought the matter
over for minute or two and then ask
ed anXiously:
We'll, if should be late what shall
l say"
ooh, put it on the senior partnerJ as 1
do. He can stand it."-Londoni An
swers.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
The Congreration smi1ed.

A certain clergyman when preaching
extemporaneously touched on the sub
iect Of miracles. Some people, he said,
had difficulty in accepting the miracu-
lous stories of the Bible, as, for eK-
ample, the story of the speech that
Balaam's ass made to his master.
Looking solemnly at the congrega-
ton the preacher hammered in his con-
tention with the remark, "Why should
not God make an ass to speak-he
made me to speak."-New York Trib-
npe.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
THE DREAMAWAY PLACE.

The Dreamaway place is down by the brook,
In cool retreat where tall trees grow;
The moss is soft in the shadowy nook,
Ard there's music made by the waters flow.
And you lie at ease and upward look
And dream the happiest dreams you know
great rock shelters the Drearnaway place,
Afording the coolest shade;
The green leaves waver like flmy lace
A fairy veil Ger the whole spot laid
AID lilies bow with winning grace
On the edge OF the brook in the quiet glade.
Oh, the Dreamaway place is a remedy sure
For worry and heartache and petty care,
And the wild birds song can always cure,
And tonic turks in the scented airi
The spirit groweth strong and pure
With an hours repose in Dreamland there.
Annie WilliH Mccullough in Good Housekeep-
. ing
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
THE cHlLD's FAITH.

O little one, O little one,
What joys belong 20 theel
You bask contented in the sun;
Your shouts are shouts of gleei
You breathe the air, you see the sky,
You watch the clouds go floating by;
You count the stars nor question why
Nor how they came to be-
little one, you kneel to pray,
Believing you are blessed;
Your faith you keep all through the day
The sweetest faith, the besSl
For you no cropping in the gloom,
No dread of ending at the tomb;
For you no doubling, only room
For gladness in your breast.
s. E. Kiser in Chicago Times Herald.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22

A birdseye view of the sanitary situ-
alton of Europe shows that it is the
damp. chill. cloudy north which is
healthy and the dry. warm, sunny
south which is unhealthy.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22

...-. :. LOSS OF MANHOOD, the
consequence OF self abuse and excess produc-
ing the following symptoms: SallOw connie
nance, dark spots under the eyes, pain in the
head, ringing in the ears, loss of confidence,
aimdence IN approaching strangers, palpitation
of the heart, weakness of the limbs and back
loss OF memory, pimples on the face, coughs,
consumption, etc e'es',
DR. GlBBON has practiced in San Francisco
over 81 years, and those troubled shonid mot
Iall to consult him and receive the benefit Of
ms great skill and experience. The doctor
cures when others fail. Try him. Cures guar
anteed Persons cured at home Charges reas-
enable. Call or write.
Francisco, Cal.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22

The Bengal cavalry, which consti-
tutes the bodyguard of the governor
general of India, was raised as far
back as 1775.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22

The largest city in the country In
Washington's time was Philadelphia.
1t had $4,000 inhabitants.
Amador ledger., 1901-02-22
TO THE UNFORTUNATE
DIR. GIBBoN

, This old reliable and
themost successful spe-
'cialist in San Francis
CO stillcontinues to cure
all Sexual and Seminal
Diseases,such as Ghon-
orrhea, elect, Structure,
Syphilis in all its forms
Skin Diseases, Nervous
De b ility, Impotency,
Seminal Weakness. and