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Ay, So you serve US,
Peonane is Prohibited j..

The decision in the Pace case FOL.
lows in due course the decision in the
Clyatt case. The circuit court of ap-
peals takes it's cue, of course, from
the supreme court. Pace had pleaded
guilty in eleven cases of peonage, and
the Clyatt case was conclusive and de-
termining in his case as well.
There is no further use in fighting
the anti-peonage statutes of the
United States, and the sooner all in
this section appreciate and act on this
fact the sooner the local United
States authorities will be cut out OF
a new and profitable line of business.
The supreme court of the United
States upheld the constitutionality OF
the anti-peonage statutes, and its de-
cision was unanimous, and so was its
disposition to punish offenders under
those statutes.
ly a negro, in involuntary servitude
for debt, or without reference to debt,
is now hazardous and The Age-Herald
urges all to abstain from any appear
ance of the offense The federal ma
chinery is alert, and 1t has instrue-
lions to hunt down peonage cases. Ar
rests have just been made at Athens,
Ga. and arrests will be made wherever
there is a possibility of earning repu-
tation at Washington or fees at home.
If to the statutes directed against
peonage be added the construction of
Judge Emory Speer relative to chain
gang punishments in misdemeanor
will become great industry. Some
officials in Louisville, KY, were last
week arrested under the Speer view
of chain-gangs. A decision rendered
by Judge Speer in a case that arose
in Macon is now on its way to the
supreme court, and If that court en-
dorses Judge Speer's views all chain
gang punishments in city streets or by
city authorities will have to be given
up. For appearances sake and de-
cency's sake they should be, and no
one will be grieyed in this section if
the supreme court stands up to Judge
Speer's decision.
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GRAND OLD WOMEN.

The Louisville Courier-Journal publishes
this list of grand old women" of today:
1917, Kate Livingston (Scotch); 101, Wis.,
countess Glenworth English); 80, Eliza
beth c. Adams (American); 81, Duchess
of Abercorn (English); 81, Baroness Bur-
dett-couts CEnglish); 90, Princess Meter
Mich (Austrian) Sc. Ciementine of Sake
Coburg (German); So. Caroline Severance
(American); IS. Mary A. Sadler Cana
diam: So, Julia Ward Howe (American):
So, Susan B. Anthony (American); 81.
Letitia Tyler Semple (American); S4, Anne
Whitney (American); 81, Fannie Crosby
(American): 81, Florence Nightingale
English; 81, Adelaide Ristori Qtalian);
81. Mary Baker G. Eddy (American: 81.
Mary A. Livermore (American); 50, Julia
A., Carney tAmerican); 50, Adeline D. 7.
Whitney (American); 70. Julia C. r. Dorr
(American); 7s ex-Empress Eugene
tspanish); IS. Mrs. Jefferson Davis (Amer-
ican) IS Blanche Marches French); Is.
Mrs ". G.. Jones Scotch; "A. Clara Bar
ton (Anierican); 70. Amelia E. Barr eng
lish).
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Maintaining the Status Quo.

Although the Senate practically re-
jected the Santo Domingo protocol by
not acting on it at all during the extra
session, President Roosevelt assumes
that it may yet ratify it, and under
cover of that assumption he proceeds
without a particle or shadow of au.
thority to establish what he calls the
status quo. In order to do this ne
names an American receiver for four
Dominican custom houses, and this
receiver is to pay to the Dominican
40 per cent of the moneys he collects,
and the remaining So per cent is to
tributed to creditors when the neg
lected treaty is ratified.
This is a very pretty scheme, but
it is very lawless. Congress has au-
thorized no such interference in the
affairs of another republican, such
responsibility. 1t has not authorized
Professor Hollender to go to Santo
Domingo to investigate and determine
the debts due by the little republic to
persons in other countries, yet Mr.
Hollender is doing that very thing to.
day. The United States receiver Of
the four northern ports has been given
power to suspend preferential ad-
yantages held by certain importers
He must of necessity do many official
acts that some one can be held re.
sponsible for-possibly Uncle Sam.
This so-called modus vivendi may
be the best possible thing, all circum-
stances considered. but President
Roosevelt is not above the law. He
IL az much subject to the law as the
numblest man in the country He
should so hold himself. but he does
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NOT so IN SHELBY.

From the Columbiana Sentinel.
The Montgomery correspondent of The
Age Herald, in speaking of the teachers
of Alabama, thus soliloquizes:
THAT man is prone to evil-and woman
-as the sparks are to fly upward, is
abundantly evidenced by the records and
letters of the examiners department of
the State Superintendent of Education.
Teachers, or rather some who would be
such, stoop to all sorts of means to Sc
cure certificates. from stealing the ques-
lions and answers before examination to
chemically erasing figures and dates
from lower grade papers to make them
stand for more than they would legiti-
mately in securing higher grading. Ex-
aminer Feagin finds that he needs a
larger measure of grace each day to
keep him from losing faith in a consid-
cradle share of his fellow-r1en in Ala
bama."
The above is a sweeping arraignment
of the teachers of Alabama, and the
Sentinel believes that it is an unjust re-
Election upon many worthy, honorable,
conscientious teachers all over the state.
The examiner should name the counties
in which such actions as he names have
| occurred or he should give out nothing
In relation to the matter. 1t leaves a
cloud upon all alike, and we do not be-
| lieve this should be.
The Sentinel does not believe that any
teachers in Shelby county, or any who
desired to be and may have failed, stopped
to any such practices notated by Mr.. Fea-
gin, and that gentleman should not place
cloud where it does not belong
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The General Delivery Window.

AT the general delivery window in
tho postofflce is one of the best places
in the world to study human emotions
remarked a close observer of human
nature yesterday.
Hope and disappointment are extreme
opposltes, yet 1 have seen them both ex-
pressed on the same face in very
short space of time. You see the anx-
ious mother, devoted wife and expectant
sV eetheart approach the window, their
faces aglow with eager expectation. The
looked for message does not come and
in an instant a cloud OF painful disap-
pointment takes the place of the hopeful
smile. 1t was done in a moment but
there you are. The human heart is sus-
ceptible of many emotions and those
emotions are very plastic to crcum-
stances and conditions. The general de-
livery window in the postoffice witnesses
a display of every one of those emotions
in the course OF every day.
Tragedy, comedy, sentiment and sor-
row mingle together here. Standing
shoulder to shoulder one learns of the
death of loved ones and weeps, while
another rejoices over a message Of pleas
ure. And then again there is the tragedy
OF the looked for letter that did not
come
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PUGALISTIC DRAMA AS
REVIEWED IN THE EAST

arms as If she was trying to make her.
self heard in an impassioned speech of
hero-worship. All the time the wolves
were bowling outside and the orchestra
1t may have been a mistake-was play
ing Mendelssohn's Spring Song" with
drum effects. In the same act Jefffries
made tremendous hit when ne splits
kindling wood. 1t shook the house-the
axe did.
And another emotional scene in which
James excelled was something like this:
Scene-Major Roylston's house. Flea
nor is about to be married to the williams
| nephew. Many tears shed and blood on
i the horizon; also the looming form of
| Crockett, who hides behind a screen.
Eleanor--Look at this bridal veil-these
orange b-b-blossoms. 1t should be block
mourning and evergreens, for me heart
| is d-dead.
Davy-Poor gal! She doesn't seem jest
happy thinkin' so hard
(They see one another. Great emotion.
More tears.more threatened boodshed
and quotations from young Lochinvar'J
| Eleanor--Me heart acknowledged you
| from the first. but me hand is bound to
| ano-o-o ther.
Davy-Your're mine an I'm going to
| have you. I'm sure I'm right. an by
| the 'tarnal. I'm going ahead!
| Then somebody comes, and Lochin-
var Jeffries Crockett f1ies The band
plays the wedding march.
| Sign girl says the william.
| Never cries James Jeffries, as he
bursts upon the scene. tucks the heroine
under his arm and goes to look for the
! parson.
| After the play Jeffries illustrated how
| he did up" people-not in the manner
| of the pioneer Crockett, but In the style
| of San Francisco. A. d. 1904. At IL
o'clock the gallery was hoarse, and still
the arms of the champion of the world
were swinging. with the orchestra play
| ing Hearts and Flowers
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About Peraona.

Emmett oNeal Of Florence, one OF
North Alabamas most prominent citi.
zens. is at the Morris.
T. L. Long of Jasper is a. the Morris.
J. S. Paden of Gadsden is al the Morris
Prof William F. Feagin of Montgom-
cry, chairman OF the board of examiners
in the state department of education, is
at the Morris
Allen w. Jones of Augusta is at tae
st. Nicholas
H. F. Franklin and s. NJ Franklin OF
Atlanta are at the ST. Nicholes
e. B. Reed. C. F. Davidson and Taylor
White of West Point stoppea at the
Metropolitan last night en- route from
Oklahoma.
DR.. Shirley Bragg of Montgomery is al
the Metropolitan.
A. w Chase of New York is at tae
Hillman.
Thomas Cobb OF Montgomery is at the
Hillman
W. H. Weller, Jr.. of Admission is at
the Hillman
f. NJ. Burke of Boston is at the Co
lonial.
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AFRICAN HOSPITALITY.

From the Century.
Hospitality may be considered as che
of the characteristics of not only the
Vels, but of the whole African race. It
is considered the duty of every citizen
to entertain strangers without tie small
est compensation. Places of rest stand
always open, and when these are found
occupied by strangers a man g1es and
tells his wife. who will send his servants
with water for the strangers to wash
their feet; for, as they wear no SHOES,
they naturally need such accommodation.
Afterward rooms ami cloth wrappers are
given them, food Is brought from sll
quarters, or they are invited to eat with
the people. They continue to he so FRO
vided for, even If they stay ,ronths. Their
garments are also washed and returned
TO them. On leaving they generally make
sn,aI gift to liis wife OF tho host.
though not more than t'yo or three cola
nuts or two or thrse English permits.
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Loans and War Expenses.

II is a source of qualification that
the bankers and investors of this
country took one-half Of the new
Japanese loan for $150,O0O,000. The
loan bears Az per cent interest, and
IL was issued at SO, and the asking
price for the new bonds went up at
once to SO.
Russia has just borrowed from home
capitalists $1OO,O0O,0O0. The loar
bears per cent interest, and 1t was
issued at SO. The prices of Russian
bonds in France are declining, and
they would decline much more II
prices were not held up artificially.
Japanese credit on the other hand is
steadily rising. All told Japan has
borrowed from other countries on ac
count of the present war $3.50, 900, 900
Her two previous foreign loans bore
per cent interest. and they were
placed at SO and SO, respectively. 80
that she now places a Az per cent
loan on almost as good terms as she
at the outset of the war placed a 6
per cent loan.
She has borrowed abroad $3.50, 000,-
600, and at home $190,000,000, a total
of $3.50, 100000 since the war was be.
gun in February of last year. At that
time the debt of the empire stood at
1886 ,o0o, 900. All of her bonded in,
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A SONG OF HARVEST.

BY John Greenleaf Whittier.
o painter of the fruits and flowers,
We thank thee for thy wise design
Whereby these human hands of ours
In Natures garden work with thine
And thanks that from our daily need
The joy of simple faith is born:
That he who smites the summer weed
May trust thee for the autumn corn.
Give fools their gold, and knayes their
power:
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field. or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree is more than all.
For he who blesses most is blest;
And God and man shall own his worth
Who tolls to leave as his bequest
An added beauty to the earth.
And, soon or late, TO all that SOW
The time of harvest shall be given;
The flower shall bloom, the fruit shall
grow.
II not on earth. at least in heaven.
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From the New York Times.
JAMES ]. JEFFRIES, the cham
o1I pion of the world of heavy
~ weight pugilism. tackled the
character of Davy Crockett in the play
of that name at the Bijou theatre, Jersey
City, last night. There was no other
actor in the company who was as good a
pugiist as Jeffries and none who was
better actor.
The performance at the Bijou had the
air of a dress rehearsal outside the gates
of New York city, where Jeffries will ap-
pear next week
The hosue was packed before o'clock.
Shortly after'7, in fact, there was sign
hanging on the gallery door "All Full, =
and the ticketless small boy walled.
When the pugillst made his first APP
pearance 1t was like this:
Scene-Exterior of Davy Crockett's cot
tage Backwoodsmen pulling their false
whiskers and saying things that paved
the way for the triumphant ntry OF
Davy.
Distant voice-Whee- yo-o-owl
Backwoodsman Shading his eyes)-
There he comes, swingin' a two-year buck
on his shoulder.
(Enter Davy Crockett. disguised as
James J. Jeffries)
Davy-Hullo. boys!
The Gallery-Whr-r-r-r-e-
Hoorayl
(Davy modestly bows for ten minutes
Cries of sSpeechi Speechr)
Davy-Every time l draw me knife
across the throat O. one o. them young
things 1t seems to me. etc.
The the play proceeded. In the second
act the heroine and the weak sutton for
her hand are brought in. MANNED, having
been hurt in the forest where they were
travelling. She is Eleanor Vaughan. She
wore French high heels, highly typical of
the pioneer period Jeffries' acting then
became emotional. She reads to him
"Yorng Iochinvar," and all the world
was 'raptured with the cleaning II
JeffrIes' eyes Then his love gets the
better OF him and he roars in the girls
face:
go away Go away I've had enough
o. you-heard enough from your
she covers before that sonorous leonine
note of despair.
Il didn't mean to brighten you" says
James, tenderly. And she Is comfortsd.
But the end of that act was the climax
of the evening. The wolves attacked the
hut with the feroclty of Jersey mos
quitoes," as The critic from Hsckensack
remarked The bar of the door was
missing The weakling sutton for the
hand OF Eleanor couldn't find it. Then
James j. Jeffries cried;
'.All is not yet lost. There is still bar
that will stay these ravenous brutes. 1t
is-it is-the arm Of a strong backwoods'
man.
So saying James barred the world-fa-
nous arm, and for ten minutes the aud
fence shriekcd, the gallery weeping with
sheer JOY. and the heroine waving her
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ton spindle situation:


In Dockham's tables all looms are
mingled together, but South Carolina
appears as the second weaving state,
being outranked by Massachusetts
only. South Carolina mas 77,25S
looms, and North Carolina 5O,0AS.
Alabama is not great weaving state.
Alabama will do well to spin
good deal of cotton. We need about
$4,000 spindles in order to carry US
up to the million-spindle line, and
there is no reason why that number
of spindles should not be placed IN
yarn mills in this state In a single
year. Jacksonville has just completed
a cotton mill, but elsewhere in this
state the building OF cotton mills has
become dormant. 1t is not so in
Georgia and the Carolinas. AS the
fourth state in the south we should
resume the building of cotton mills.
We cannot afford TO rest short of a
million spindles.
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President AbercrombIe

DIR. John w. Abererombie president of
the State university, stopped at the Metro
politan last night en- route to Morgan
county, where he goes to attend teach
ers' institute. This is the third year
of DIR. Abercrombie's admnistra ton as
the head of the university. and the at
tendance this year is by far the largest
In the history of the institution.
DIR. Abercrombie Is an earnest and ac-
tive supporter of the local taxation plan,
and has during the campaigns in the sew
eral counties for the special taxation
made a number of speeches in favor of
the plan.
President Abcrcrombie states that the
prospects for the teachers summer schoc'
at the university. which opens in June,
are exceedingly bright.
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Cure for Insanity.

Superintendent Harmon of the Long
view asylum near Cincinnati, has made
the remarkable discovery that baseball
physician declares emphatically that the
great game has cured more cases Of
insanity than any other outdoor sport
or amusement. Several days ago the
trustees of the institution wanted to till
all the soil belonging to the asylum, but
DR.. Harmon insisted that enough ground
BE- left intact for baseball park
Baseball has worked wonders in many
cases of insanity Dr. Harmon is quoted
as saying. I'm that 1t gives these I'M
fortunates healthful exercise and d.
verts their minds from the channels into
which their maladles have sunk Them
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debtedness is considered good. a rise
of ten points In the London market
attesting the confidence of English in
yestors in Japanese securities. She
has increased the import duties on to-
bacco, and she will now, it is estl-
mated, have an ample revenue with
which to meet all obligations on bonds
as well as running expenses aside
from those of the war.
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REFLECTIONS OF A sAcHEL OR

From the Admission Hot Blast.
When a woman isn't talking about
clothes 1t is sign she Is listening tc
some body else who Is.
A man hardly ever knows en- ugh to
pretend TO think his wife kaows Incre
than she does.
Either people do more than they care
think about or they dare to th.ak 1t. but
not TO do II.
A woman has an awful hard time max.
ing herself believe she can't trust a man
she knows she can't.
Very few people care as Aicn about
succeeding over other people as they 90
about not having somebody else succeed
over them.
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not. There is not an act leading up or
connected with the modus viYendi that
is under any law whatsoever. It is
all outside of the law. Is it best, is It
right, in the High Sheriff of the coun-
try to set such an example?
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NO PARTS THERE.

From the Chicago News
Two flies met in a steam-heated fiat.
Where is your wife now?" asked No. /.
she recently left for parts unknown,
answered fly No. 2.
Parts unknown," echoed No. l.
Yes answered No. 2. Shes in the
adjoining room tickling the pate of a
bald-headed man"
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Lucky Mobile.

From the Mobile Item.
Mobile is playing in luck these days, in
the way of visits from the prominent
people of the country Admiral Schley
comes next Sunday; Bryan coming later
on, and then. so it is said, Carry Nation.
Hurrah for Carry
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SpindIes and Looms.

Dockhams survey of the textile in
dustries of the United States shows
that the south is still rapidly gaining
spindles, while the north is practically
standing still in that respect. A table
of the spindles in the five leading
state in each section best presents
the cotton spindle situation:
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SIZED UP SITUATION,

From the Admission oIIt Blast.
The Age-Herald has a cartoon repre-
senting Conner, Cunningham and Hobson
all attempting to ride in the same boat,
and Conner exclaims: ITS my boat"
Very appropriate representation of The
political condition in the state.
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Andrew Carnegie has succeeded in To-
eating a literary atmosphere in an In
diana crossroads town and the aesthetic
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ONE ACCOMPLISHMENT.
She did not sing or "elocute,"
But when she came to die
The neighbors all did mourn for her
Because she made good pie.


A youngster of or 8 years was start
ing out to school. In one hand he carried
his books and in the other was a neatly
folded note. 1t was easy to guess that
the missive which he held so carefully
between his stubby fingers was an 'ex-
cuse," probably written by mama"
That document meant for him a release
from school earlier than usual or perhaps
explained why he was missing from his
class the day before. Potent note. whose
weight could not be questioned! Who is
there in the whole wide world with more
authority than father or mother? That
boy will grow up some day, no doubt.
but he will never look upon another docu-
ment with the same reverence and un-
shaken belief in Its efficacy as he does
that mote from home to teacner."
HER ROSES.
The roses in her cneeks were like
The roses in her hair,
But to tell you where they came from
Would not be playing fair.
T. j. Kleage Jr., of st. Louis, erst-
while wheat King and a man who is
said to have made a million dollars in
one day by cornering the market, has
been declared a bankrupt. How different
the world would be If every man knew
when to quit!' The secret of success
in affairs lies almost as much In knowing
when to quit as when to begin. He who
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Radium may cure snake-bite, as the
Paris scientists say, but IT will never
supplant the great American remedy for
that trouble.
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Rather Previous.

From the Livingston Southern Home
The gubernatorial candidates are now
trotting themselves out upon the race
course in a somewhat previous fashion.
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May Yohe and Captain Strong are at At
lantic City, where the rankness of their
served.
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II the Russian army can be reorgan-
lied the democratic party certainly can
be. Mr.. Bryan should proceed.
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Oyama's turning movements are so nu-
merous some are inclined to call him
the cart-wheel artist of the age.
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A train of thirty cars loaded with pea
nuts recently left Richmond hunting for
a circus. 1t is not headed toward Bir-
mingham.
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The Lone Hero.

From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
Roiestvensky is the lone Russian hero
of the present war. and his victory was
won with the Japs thousands of miles
away.
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The quandom Storey Cotton company
had a woman in 1t who could give Mrs.
Chadwick points and still Guido her.
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The trusts think wages are too high,
and that there are too many restrictions
on prices to consumers.
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Germany begins to think the yellow
peril will put In an appearance at Kiau-
ehau. II certainly should and will.