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THE AGE-HERALD.
Birmingham, Ala.
1 HE OHIV DULY NIW8PAPEB IN ALABAMA
Fences on Northside.
The disfiguring fences of Central or Cap
itol Park have been pulled down, and all ,
the King’s horses and all the King's men ,
could not set them up again, for the sover
eigns in that locality would rise up In in
dignation against such a step. It is dif
ficult to account for the presence of such
a fence at all except upon the theory that
the town was once as Iskkooda is now'—the
tramping and feeding ground of various
four-footed beasts. The beasts arc now
lacking or under control, and the erections
that mar the beauty of residence streets
should be sent to the trash pile, and in
Fifth avenue at least they are fast going
there.
But what Is seen to be good In the case
of Central Park, would be equally pleasant
to the eye In East and in West Park, and
the people who live near thp two last
named parks are beginning to ask, why
must we longer submit to the fence abomi
nation when Central Park has been re
lieved of it? This question is before, or
soon will be before, the City Council.
If the City Council would take down the
fences that have descended, so to speak,
from strctly bucolic days, und if the South
ern Club, possessing high and forbidding
terraces, would take down its useless fence, i
a reform would be started on Northside
that would become infectious, and that
portion of the city would cease to remind
one of Louisville or other up-the-creek
settlements.
The retention of street fences when there
Is nothing in the street to fence against is
not only Illogical but it Is unaesthetic. It
mars the town. It gives ofTonse to the eye.
It depletes the purse. It is burolic in the
extreme. It should be voteij out by accla
mation. Down with the fences. Let us
have a French revolution In the interest
of landscape beauty, and In the up-build
lng of a town that can be made very love
ly despite its smoke if its nightmare fences
can be gotten rid of.
Nomination of Gov. Beckham.
The nomination of Acting Governor Beck
ham for the remainder of the four-year
term of Governor Goebel was not unexpect
ed. Some opposition to the young leader
had been developed but as his course dur
ing the trying times that followed Mr. Tay
lor’s inauguration was on trial, his nomi
nation by acclamation logically followed.
Although he is young in appearanve and
in fact, being only 30 years old, he has
had not a little experience in public affairs.
His three terms in the Legislature, and his
nomination for Lieutenant Governor after
a thorough canvass of the state, besides
his service of nearly a year in or near the
executive office during the most critical
period in the entire history of the state,
really go to make him something more
than a tyro in politics and public business.
His judgment and courage have never been
deficient, and the people of Kentucky judge
him worthy of confidence In high office.
Beyond all doubt the decision of the con
vention will become the decision of the
state.
This is rendered doubly sure by the plat
form. It condemns the Goebel law, and it
demands its amendment "so that the most
hypercritical can find no excuse for charg
ing fraud or unfairness;” and until the law
Is so amended the platform declares that
the Republicans shall bo represented upon
both the state and all the county boards of
Election Commissioners. These declara
tions and pledges are broad, sincere and
fair, and they will be kept to the letter
beyond a doubt.
The party In Kentucky will be helped by
these manly declarations In favor of fair
elections, and so will the Democratic party
in all other states; for to some extent the
Democracy were charged everywhere with
responsibility for the Goebel law. In the
face of the declarations of the Kentucky
Democracy such charges will fall to the
ground. The Goebel law will be amended
to the satisfaction of all, and Kentucky’s
name will be found this fall high up In Its
old place in the Democratic column.
Safety of Minister Conger.
If the dispatch that came to Secretary
Hay through the hands of Minister Wu
Ting Fang be genuine, as many are In
clined to think it is, all the legationers and
missionaries were alive at least last Wed
nesday. They were alive, even if they
were not well to the point of comfort.
They were “under continuous shot and
shell from Chinese troops." The legatlon
ers were In the British legation, and the
missionaries, who number several hundred,
may also have been there. It does not fol
low that the words "Chinese troops” means
more than armed Chinese. It Is construed
by many to mean Boxers, and that the gov
ernment and the Chinese regulars are doing
their best to put down the mob that have
made China an enemy of western civiliza
tion.
If this view of the case be accepted the
need of haste on the part of the allies in
the preparations for a march to and assault
juion Pekin becomes more pressing than it
has of late been considered. Japan should j
| be invited to hurry forward troops, and at
j least ten regiments should be temporarily
taken from the Philippines. In the wet
season in that archipelago strong, aggress
ive movements are not possible, and lO.Oflfl
American troops can do much more good in
China than they can in the Philippines.
1'pon Japan and America and Russia, as
the three immediate sea neighbors of China,
rests the responsibility for the lives shut
up in Pekin, and America should not shirk
her duty. It is regretable that Congress is
not in session, but vigorous action on the
part of the administration will suffice. The
want of it may precipitate a disaster at
Pekin that will Justly fall upon an admin
istration that refused to call Congress to its
support.
There are many, however, who believe
the Wu-Hay dispatch is but a piece of
Chinese craft. It came in the cipher code
of the State Department, but it is more
than likely that the foreign office in Pekin
held a goodly lot of delayed dispatches, all
in cipher, and it is further known that the
Chinese have in the past been quite as
skillful in deciphering ciphers as white
rivals have been. It is altogether possible
that the dispatch is fictitious, but the bet
ter part of the world propers to believe it
is not," and as the administration believes
it is not, it should hurry troops from the
Philippines to Tien Tsin. If 2,000 Valuable
foreign lives are saved in Pekin, it is plain
that Japanese and American troops must
do it.
Wage Scale and Common Sense.
In the ceaseless round of duties many
persons do not stop to think how fortunate
this district was in escaping trouble at the
recent annual settlement of the year's
scale. There are those even who do not
stop to consider that all the property and
activity of this district come directly from
the earth—the ore, the fuel and the flux.
Everything that man uses, be it useful or
hurtful or merely ornamental, comes from
the earth, and this is particularly and di
rectly the case in this district, and this fact
rendered the late settlement of a wage
scale critical and extremely important.
The miners did want a semi-monthly
pay day; they wanted freedom from the
commissaries; they wanted a great many
things: but in the end they accepted with
out friction what the operators offered
them. - They accepted last year’s wages,
with a few minor concessions, and all re
sumed work deep in the bowels of the earth
without resentment or friction or trouble
of any sort. The district is indebted to its
splendid corps of miners and mine laborers
for this happy ending of a contention that
might have stayed, possibly wrecked, its
prosperity.
The truth is, there was plenty of business
sense on both sides in the recent settle
ment. The operators overlooked the demor
alization of the pig iron market, and of
fered to pay last year’s wages, and the
operatives met them in an equally gener
ous spirit. They overlooked the more fre
quent pay day And similar needs. Both
sides were business-like, reasonable and
sensible; and whenever they meet on that
footing a satisfactory settlement will be
reached, and this district spared a disaster
that would be worse than fire or earth
quake. While labor and capital agree in
this district, all can afford to disregard
rivals in other localities. The absence of
strike and the opening of the Warrior are
in fact all that we need In facing the rest
of the world in the production of coal, iron
or steel.
China was a republic flve thousand years
ago, but it drifted into an empire. At our
present pace' America will accomplish in
five years what it took China two thou
sand years to do. The Chinese are very
pokes'.
Kentucky Democrats know much less
about the English language than they
know about revolvers and whisky, if one
may judge by their "magnificent” refer
ence to the "splendid" national ticket.
It is, alas, too true that Oom Paul has
permitted a lawn mower to be run over his
face and head. He Is well-nigh annexed.
But there is still hope while he refrains
from playing gawf.
David Davis is under sentence to be
hanged at Montgomery next Friday.
That’s worse than Jefferson Davis being
governor of Arkansas or Webster Davis
being a Democrat.
The little brown Filipinos are taking the
administration at its word and are disre
garding the coinage laws by melting Mexi
can dollars and coining the American dol
lar.
How this country gets along without ca
bled interviews with Chauncey M. Depew
and William C. Whitney is something be
yond explanation.
Just one year ago the peace conference at
The Hague was shaping laboriously the
fifty-six articles that were to usher In uni
versal peace.
Thus far Senator William Mason's sym
pathies have not been aroused in a visible
sense over Prince Tuan's position in China.
The 1,500 Cuban teachers in Boston com
plain that the heat Is beyond their experi
ence or imagination.
The war correspondent has a calling that
has not failed since the holding of The
Hague conference.
Minister Wu Is still persona grata In
Washington.
Our Sultan of Sulu objects to the pro
longed stay of American soldiers at Jolo,
where his palace and harem are located.
. t
Gas Addlcks has decided to head the Re
publican ticket himself in Delaware as a
Candidate for governor.
Li Hung Chang’s yellow jackets and pea
cock feathers are again endangered, and
so is his head.
For ways that are dark the heathen
Chinee, it was long ago recorded, is pe
culiar.
All nations want more ships. The sea is
fast becoming the world’s battle ground.
f Willie Wallie Astor has gone to Austria,
where he cannot read the newspapers.
Teddy, the toreador, is not open to en
gagements outside of doubtful States.
Secretary Root and General Miles need
a separator as wide as the widest sea.
The patched Oregon will be better than
any of her unpatched rivals.
Esterhazy is free in Paris, where he is
even welcomed.
General Miles would at least outshine the
mandarins.
It's the gold brick game at Cape Nome.
Prices are higher than art in Paris.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this
day, Sunday, Jnly 22, 1900:
“Visit thy friends in the evening.”
“Thou wilt travel or remove, but not with
success; keep thyself quiet and attend well
to thy business.”
“A child born on this day will be of a
restless disposition and fond of travelling:
in business it will not be successful.”
“If a female, rather fortunate in mar
riage.”
Raphael's prophecies for Monday, July
23, 1900:
“Sell; unfavorable for all else.”
“Thou hast a most unfortunate birthday
and wilt experience sickness, losses, and
disappointments; thou wilt also quarrel
and go to law; be very careful, and run no
risks.”
"A child born on this day will possess
an unruly disposition and will be careless,
headstrong, and unfortunate, and a trouble
to itself and its neighbors.”
“If a female, she will be subject to dis
grace, yet will marry well.”
* * *
Yesterday, July 21, was the thirty-ninth
anniversary of the first battle of Manassas.
Yet there are many thousands of well
meaning men in this country who are still
engaged in the absurd and self-appointed
task of “fighting the war over!” Even the
chief commander of the Confederate Vet
erans, whom all Southerners love with an
ever-increasing devotion, and the chief
commander of the Union Veterans “fit” on
the very eve of the Manassas anniversary.
“Who was right?” “What was right?”
“Which was right?” In the name pf com
mon sense and practical life, where is the
use of such wordy and wrathy discussion?
Who cares what anybody believes or says
regarding the tiresome questioning? “Re
bellion,” “wrar between the states,” “civil
war,” what not—that particular war is
past, long past. Why fight on paper or
platform that which killed a half million
men in fighting? The veterans—bless their
heroic souls!—may talk as much as they
will, but the busy world has got to work
for a living! Every enlightened and open
minded student, and scholar, and historian
are aware that secession was in accord
with the organic law; and wise men no
longer discuss that proposition. Then, why
should Gordon and Stiaw and others fight
over the trivialities of lingering passion or
variously construed morals?
Many Birmingham men and perhaps
some hundreds of surviving Alabamians in
general were in the terrible battle of thir
ty-nine years ago. Amongst these was
Dr. A. T. Henley of this city, wrho discuss
ed the fight most entertainly with his
friends yesterday. He spoke with a few
of the best of our people, educated individ
uals, who had never heard of Manassas,
and didn’t know where it was. Are they
any the worse for that?
* * *
At the recent barbecue at Bangor Park,
where Colonel Samford and Hon. O. W.
Underwood were the speakers of the occa
sion, the latter was cautiously approached
by one Blount County mountaineer, who
was overheard to say:
“Seems I’ve seen you up in our neck o'
the wood. Ain’t you a drummer that sells
snuff at Smith's store?”
“No, sir,” answered Mr. Underwood, ”1
am not a drummer at all; I am Oscar Un
derwood, your present member of the Con
gress of the United States.”
“Now, what you givin’ us? Everybody
knows that Morgan is at Congress. Yea
are jest a drummer—that's what.”
The old man was only convinced of his
error after Mr. Underwood made a speech.
* * •
“The Declaration of Independent wfcA
written by Franklin, Lincoln and Samuel
Adams. The main purpose wds the free
ing of the negroes, which were then held
as slaves.”
This extraordinary statement was written
out in serious sobriety by an applicant for 1
authority to teach in the public schools;
and as a display of dense ignorance on the
part of one who sought the privilege ot
teaching defenseless children, it was sim
ilar to four or live other teachers’ examina
tion papers found lying on a table in a
county court house by a distinguished law
yer of Birmingham. The quotation is exact
ly as he wrote it down at the time of dis
covery, even the slip of paper with the
writing on it being used in this place.
An applicant for teachers’ license here
in Jefferson County, Ninth Congressional'
District, State of Alabama, declared that
there were eleven Congressional Districts
in this State, and that he himself lived in
Jefferson, one of the counties of the Third
District, and one of the “forty-three” coun
ties of the State. Another applicant knew
of only Washington, Lincoln aud McKin
ley amongst the Presidents of the United
States, lie declared there had been "five
Presidents” altogether, but expressed re
gret that he could not remember the names
of the other two. Still another said there
were but twenty-seven States in the Union.
• • •
Birmingham’s Country Club is understood
to be the best country club In the South,
and there are some good ones. Certain it
is that the local club would be most cred
itable to the great cities, and those for
tunate men who possess its highly-prized
membership are justly proud and jealous of
their club. No place more charming as a
resort for society men and women is im
aginable.
NED BRACE DISCUSSES THE CHINESE SITUATION
Minister Conger and his family, the at
taches of the legation and the diplomatic
representatives of the other nations, with
the exception of the German Minister, may
be alive in Pekin, but it is evident that all
the other foreigners, including the mission
aries, have been massacred. If this be the
case and if the Tsung-li-Yamen, or foreign
office, has protected the lives cf the Minis
ters, the Chinese government will be in po
sition to say to the world: "This was an
uprising of a mob, which the government
was temporarily powerless to control. The
government was no party to it and should
not be held responsible.”
The Chinese are smooth diplomats, in a
way. The Tsung-li-Yamen has known that
the murder of the Ministers either on the,
part of a mob or government troops would
lead to the powers declaring war against
China. Thus, the government has probably
exercised itself to protect the Ministers
while aiding and abetting in the massacre
of all other foreigners.
* * *
Li Hung Chang, the premier diplomat of
China, is supposed to be en route from Can
ton to Pekin. He has been called to Pekin
to negotiate with the powers. Heretofore
he has always been successful. Now, how
ever, the chances are that he will not be
permitted to reach Pekin. The dispatches
say that the British cruiser, Bonaventure,
has been sent forth from Shanghai to inter
cept the ship on which Li Hung Chang Is
sailing, and to seize him, making him a
prisoner of war. This being done, the al
lied forces will march upon Pekin, capture
It and settle the Chinese problem as they
see fit, without diplomatic negotiations
with any representative of that nation. In
other words, the allied powers would be in
position to deal with it as the United States
government has dealt with the Philippine
Islands.
Li Hung Chang is a wily old diplomat.
It is not improbable that he is a party to
his being taken prisoner by the British
cruiser Bonaventure. It is a well-known
fact that he has realized that the present
problem at Pekin would be a hard nut to
crack, so to speak. He has resorted to
every known means of Chinese diplomacy
to prevent being called from his home at
Canton to Pekin. He knows that it is al
most impossible for him to reach Pekin,
or even to reach his old home, Tien Tsin,
without the consent of the foreign powers.
He further realizes that it is only a mat
ter of time when the foreigners will tak«*
Pekin and have the whole Chinese gov
ernment In their own hands. He believes
that England, w'hich has always been the
most forceful power in'the Far East, wii!
be predominant in the formation of tht
new government. It may be, therefore,
that he would prefer to be the prisoner of
the British temporarily, that later on he
may act both for the powers and for China
in setting up a new form of government.
• * *
LI Hung Chang has for many years been
in favor of the development of China. lie
has advocated the open door policy. He
has succeeded to some extent, but in the
main has not been successful with his own
people. He sees an opportunity now, and
likewise an opportunity to protect his own
life and property.
And, by the way, in this connection Li
Hung Chang is said to be the wealthiest
individual in the world. He is accredited
to be the owner of more than $200,000,000
of property, much of which is in the for
eign city of Shanghai, which is under the
government and control of Great Britain.
Whether the foreign Ministers shall be
murdered or not, it is a safe bet that Li
Hung Chang will come out on top, preserv
m 0 m
Speaking of the Chinese situation, the
Presidnt and the Secretary of State have
appointed a special envoy in the person of
W. W. Rockhlll to go to China and report
upon the situation there, Mr. Rockhtll was
formerly secretary of the legation at Pe.
kin. He speaks Chinese fluently and is
thoroughly familiar with the customs and
methods of diplomacy of that country. He
was for several years assistant secretary of
the State Department and has recently been
director of the Bureau of American Repub
lics. He has been selected to go on this
special mission to China on account of bis
peculiar fitness for such duty. He is real
ly clothed with extraordinary power and Is
sent to represent this government particu
larly in the event of an effort on the part
of the powers to dismember and divide up
China among the great nations of the earth
now participating with military and naval
forces in protecting the lives of foreigners.
Even if Minister Conger is finally rescued.
Mr. Rockhlll, as special representative of
the government, will probably outrank him
in power.
• • •
It seems that our gallant little friend.
General Joe Wheeler, can’t get enough of
war. He has made a special requst of the
War Department that he be immediately
assigned to duty in China. In speaking
about the matter to a Chicago reporter,
General Wheeler said that he thought it
the duty of every one who holds a com
mission in the I'nlted States army to desire
active service when It could be accorded
him; therefore, he had specially requested
to be sent to China, where he could see
active service at once.
The little General traveled all the way to
the Philippines to get into a genuine fight,
but the other ambitious officers would not
give hint the opportunity. He knows that
he can get a fight and get it quick if he
goes to China; therefore his anxiety.. If
there’s any more fighting like that around
Pekin, the General will probably find a
warmer reception than he or any one else
desires.
• • •
President McKinley’s is meeting with se
vere criticism throughout the entire coun
try for not calling an extra session of Con
gress to consider the Chinese situation.
Under the constitution only Congress can
declare war. The President only has the
power without the co-operation of Congress
to send ships and land men in a foreign
country to protect our citizens. The
statesmen of the country outside of the ad
ministration seem to think a declaration of
war against China will soon be necessary,
and that, therefore, Congress should be
called together at once in order to provide
in the event of an urgent contingency
The Board of Aldermen of Birmingham is
about to enter into a new contract for light
ing this city with electric arc lights. The
contract price is said to be the lowest of any
city in this section of the south. It is
some $28 per light per annum lower than
the existing contract. With the present
number of street lights the saving will be
about $5,000 per year. But the present
number of lights is not nearly sufficient for
a city of Birmingham’s size. Such a little
city as Knoxville has seventy-three more
lights than Birmingham, Chattanooga has
fifty more lights than Birmingham, and
Memphis and Nashville have twfice as
many. Birmingham has only 177 light*.
This number should be increased to at
least 225 at once. We can’t get policemen
to protect us. We should, therefore, at
least have a degree more of light to pro
tect our residence sections. This $5,000
saved annually on the new light contract
should be used either to employ policemen
or to put up more lights. The use of this
inonej' In one of these ways would proba
bly have some effect toward curtailing the
recent wholesale burglaries throughout the
residence sections. There is hardly a night
that we don’t hear of one or more
burglaries. The police department gets re
ports of burglaries every day. But the
department with Its small number of men
is almost powerless to accomplish any
thing.
• • *
There’s another small thing In connection
with the city government which almost
every merchant in town iis protesting
against, but without effect. Birmingham,
has a modern street sweeper. It is drawn
by two horses, and if properly manipulated
would keep e paved streets of the city
clean. It, however, needs to be preceded,
in its nightly rounds, by a street sprinkler.
Every other city In the world which pos
sesses a sweeper has a sprinkler to go In
front. Birmingham has none. Therefore,
when the sweeper goes along it chums up
the dust, sends it flying through the air
and under the doors and windows of the
mercantile houses to settle upon the fab
rics of the dry goods and clothing houses
and damages them materially. In other
words, the street sweeper, instead of clean
ing the streets, only fans the dust and dirt
into the buildings and destroys much valu
able property of the merchants. The street
sweeping business should be done right or
the sweeper should be cast out of commis
sion.
• * •
The music-loving people of Birmingham
and of all this country will learn with
much regret of the news from London that
Jean de Reszkc’s voice has been seriously
Impaired; so much so, indeed, that the
celebrated singer has refused to sign a
contract for next year's season with
Maurice Grau in this country, and he has
been compelled to abandon ull of his pres
ent engagements in London.
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD. ..
O! wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new
world,
That has such people in't!
The glad old world is for ever new peo
pled with goodly creatures. They were the
wonder of ail our yesterdays, the wonder
of today, and shall be the wonder of all
our bright promising tomorrows. They
bid us good dawn, good gloaming, good
night. They greet us on our ways, and
dwell in the mansions of our dreams. They
are with us to face the day and to face the
starry hours. They cheer us when we
feast and gladden whilst we toil. They
call to us when we set out upon our jour
neyings, call to us at the resting places,
call to us down the sunrest way in even
time when the day is far spent. They
strengthen us when we falter, acclaim us
when we are exultant in victory. They
change our defeats into triumphs, and
when our banners would trail crown us
with the bays of the brave. They give us
peace with the magic touch that drives
pain , to rest, and when hope tarries they
give it speed. They are the promise of all
our love and the fulfillment of all our
faith. They chase unrest beyond the
whisper of an echo and hold to our eager
lips the chalice of joy. They wait for us,
long for us, love for us, and around every
bend In the road of life they come trooping
in endless romp and shouting in gladdest
greeting—shouting, shouting, shouting!
They kneel with us in blessing orisons
praying, and when our prayers are done
give us the benediction of their smiles!
O! Wonder! How many goodly creatures
are there here!
4 4 4
All these are something more than a
name; something more than a charm that
lulls to sleep; something more than a
Shade that follows wealth or fame and
leaves the wretch to weep; something more
than an empty sound, the unhallowed dirge
to hopes that are dear! They are our
lovers, our beloved. They are the brave
men, the beautiful women, the saintly Utile
children, tl* faithful and the trusted and
the trusting who make our lives what God
meant our Uvea to be! They give us good
cheer, give us hope, give us love, give us
faith, give us righteousness, give us joy!
They are our ministering angels, helping
us when we need help and faithful to us
all the whiles through evil and through
good report. Whosoever denies them de
nies hops and truth; whosoever would
Stine bright smiles from them would veil
the face of heaven; whosoever would re
turn chill 'greeting for their glad, would
darken the fair face of fortune; whoso
ever would withhold from them fidelity
would betray the faith of the fathers.
See their faces radiant, hear their voices
ringing, know their hearts beating. See
listen—feel! They are our own, our be
loved; the goodly creatures peopling the
earth and storing it wilh abundant happi
ness for our days of worthiness. They
give; we receive; and we give out and
around and about full measure of our
heart-treasure. We keep no reckoning,
seek to balance no ledger of our loves.
There is no such accounting as. Thou
gavest but a smile yesterday; thou shalt
owe glad laughter at this day's tryst. Nay!
give all that may be given; give it today,
every day, every hour, every fleeting mo
ment along our journey as we go—give,
give, give!
4*4
You robbed your lover of some half score
of precious moments whilst you toyed with
your lapdog, woman beloved! Know you
that you can never repay In all the after
hours of your spirit! That time is lost to
him irretrievably. The kiss you did not
suffer when you might lost its place, and
all the caresses of the afterwhiles cannot
be absolute compensation. You were fash
ioned for the world to be caressed and to
caress, and when you spurn that destiny
you fail in the foolish fancy of seeking uo
fashion a destiny of your own inclinations
gone astray.
So also with every human entity. None
has the moral right to receive coldly gen
erous advances and kindly greetings. It is
hail and hail in this life: heartsease and
allheal, or heartsore and allwounding.
There must be comradeship, giving and re
ceiving; or the cold negation of the higher
humanities. There must be wide-eyed com
panionableness and happiness, or surly
churlishness and miserable loneliness. It
is so written, so ordered, so all-wisely di
rected. We must be goodly creatures,
beauteous mankind, or heathenish outcasts
toiling the rough road to deep damnation
The unhappiest of life’s Incidents is a glad
dening smile slain by a stare. There are ;
frowning and snarling and bickering and
slandering persons in the world, but they
are the pauper poor of hell whom we know
not, praise God!
* * *
The maiden in white raiment is the
bright light that beats about the earth.
She seems to be everywhere—at the cross
ing of the ways, in the marts, behind the
vines, under the stars, at the tryst, in your
heart, in your prayers, in your dreams!
Wearing youth's most superlatively splen
did of all earthly crowns, her enchanting
figure swaying with awakening desires as
a flower moved by tender winds, she rules
with her own marvellous grace, and
blushes at the hopes born of her own in
comparable loveliness. She laughs in glee,
rejoices in promises, and is radiant in the
infinite abandon of her own affections. Her
lissome self, divine in a thousand nameless
charms, from her little white brow’ to her
little white feet, is of yet diviner prophe
cies; and her ravishing loveableness holds
strong men glad idolaters at the altar of
her goddess personality. So overmastering
is this exquisite youthfulness in white, this
all-conquering maiden of the young years,
this happy houri, this heavenly Hebe of
earth, that she sets wise men to jibbering
like buffoons, and they would die to kiss
her feet, kiss her feet.
All for you, strong and true;
No time the tie can sever;
Till the angels doubt and the stars burn
out,
I am 5’ours, sweetheart, forever.
• * *
So say we all of us, bo say we all! Love
reigns right royally over every worthy man
and w’oman in the w’orld, and children are
the dearest flowers of all the human love
of mankind. Children are the pledges of
the world’s faith, the re-incarnation of all
the w’orld’s better and nobler hopes and
purposes.
* • •
It Is truth, ever bearing something of
joy, that every man and every woman, of
whatever age or environment, have been
glorified in some hour by some love; and
love is the one supreme tale for ever inter
esting to every human, sane or Insane. The
venerated Senator, bending with years and
honors, but still radiant with a soul young
beyond the power of time to age, wrho sends
tender greetings to him who loves
to write of love, tells in . his own
way of truth the world's oldest and young
est and dearest story. Love-words please
him who has loved loyally for seventy
years W’dl lived, and under whose roof tree
echoes of dear remembered voices murmur
ceaselessly as time vainly seeks' to make
antique a noble soul. The Senator, beloved
of a multitude, Is in heart-longings the you
and me of our time, of all time; for such
■a spirit can neither forget things loved,
nor become old, nor pass away. It is our
essence immortal. The objects of our loves
pass from us, but love itself remains. Even
though at brought bitterness, it survives
as a memory that pleases. The loved might
have fallen asleep young and with beauty;
but that was only the resting of the dusty
vesture of decay. The spirit lived, and is
elsew’here waiting, waiting, waiting!
* * •
When the briar-root pipe is lighted in
hour of peace love begins to murmur its
own music in secret words and melody,
ringing tenderest variations upon names
that are cherished, Illumining faces that
are fair and dear; some that came to
gladden bright yesterday, some the long
yesteryears. Ail about is the music sweet,
with no note discordant; all around are the
faces and every face is smiling. O! Won
der! These are the goodly things, the
goodly creatures of one's own old world
always new. Every one reaches to write,
every one calls in love to love that shall
not pass. All these are one’s own, and as
much a part of one's being as the heart
that aches, and is glad, and enshrines
things that are holy. To turn from them
and their endless cause w’ould put out the
fire in the root of the briar, would break
the tool of love's dearest toil as it is
moved by unseen hands to harmony that is
flooding the viewless wind which shapes —
the grey clouds rising into a thousand joy
ous forms.
Upon the goodly company of goodly
creatures no shadow falls. Your face is
there, my beloved, whether you know’ it is,
whether you know him who dreams of you
as one in the empire of kindness and love
and goodness; Dne whom the spirit draws
to the place of love’s dear toil in the voice
less watches of the world.
Good morrow, goodheart! good morrow,
my beloved!
THE MUBMURER.
BIG PROFIT* OF NEW YORK HANKS
New York Telegram to Chicago Tribune.
The banks of this city have earned hand
some profits the past ten years. According
to a table published by the Financier, the
Chemical National Bank has earned 150
per cent annually and added 24.2 per cent
to its surplus, making average net earn
ings of 174.2 per cent. The First National
Bank has paid 100 per cent annual divi
dends and increased its surplus at the
average rate of 60 per cent. Its earnings
of $S,000,000 in ten years are the largest on
record. The National Bank of Commerce
comes second, with $7,390,100.
The highest average profits of banks not
already mentioned follow’: Garfield Nation
al Bank, 46.3 per cent; National City Bank,
45.7 per cent; Second National, 30.6 per
cent, and the Lincoln National, 29.6 per
cent.
INTERESTING HlftSVIE APPENDAGE**
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The whiskers of the Afrikanders have
been almost eclipsed in the history of cur
rent events by the pigtails of the Chinese.