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The age-herald., 1897-10-12
Cost of Armor Plate.

The New York Herald, in recent ad- vocacy of PennsylvanGa as the best loca- tion for the manufacture of annor plate, said the price of iron, confessedly cheap- CT in the south, was not material; and yet Prof. Roberts-Austen stated alt the Toronto meeting of the British associa- aion that one-half of the entire iron out put of Great Britain now goes into the British navy. Tt does not all go into armor platte, but the section that could furnish iron oheaply for the one use could furnish iron cheaply for all other uses.
 The very advantage that the Herald considers immaterial, congress considers material. Congress considers the price named by the Pennsylvania combine as exorbitanlt, and, aoting for the people, it does not propose to longer be at Its mercy. The cost of arTror plate is, in if we are to have a navy commensurate with our commerce and coast line, nor is it matter that the taxpa yers are umconcerned about. It is an issue that congress itself has raised, and the aarnor Yactory board win doubtless endeavor to meet the views of congress rather tllan the views of our distinguished New York contemporary.
 The Heraad goes on to say, af;er putt ting the cost question aside, that bhe armor plate factory should be located
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
What Is the Motive?

For months past certain newspapers in Alabama have been in furry of ex- citement oversnext years state election. An outsider glancing over their sditori als would have supposed fha the cam paign was on, and that the voters barely had time to reach the polls.
 These newspapers s9-m to believe that there is nothing interesting outside of politics. Commerce, industrial matters, public health, society and morals may take care of themselves or go to the "demnition bow vows" but the politi- cal slate must be fixed up at any cost.
 Very we'll, people who are of that way of thinking may go ahead and occupy themselves in their favoritA pastime. The Age-Herald believes that Alabama is about to share the blessings of a. wave of prosperity, and it thinks that during the present year the farmers. merchants their various interests in the best pos sible shape. This Is the busy season, and 1t should be devoted to businsss.
 After the new year comes in with its promised brightness; after things have settled down, and after people get some idea of how they stand in regard to profit and loss. past and prospective, thsre will be plenty of time for politics, and it is quite likely that the follow ing six months will be exciting enough to satisfy. But why precipitate all the turmoil and trouble of campaign now, months before 1t should open? What Is back of all this haste-what is the mo- tive?
 Now is the time to market crops, look after the fall trade, take care of our ris- ing industries and clear the decks for a long season of good times. Then will come the Christmas holidays, and after the festivities politics will be in order. There is no sense in neglecting pressing matters of business now to arrange the details of campaign which may be bet ter arranged many months later.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
Iron Production.

Mr. A. M. Shook really tells in quar- ter of column of the New York Times ths story of the countrys development Ostensibly 1t is a story of the protuc- tion of iron. but between the lines one can read of railroad and trolley exten- saons. of great and 1ittle bridges. of buildings tall and buildings broad, of new water supplies and of the hundreds of other great enterprises of the last half of the century.
 And what a wonderful, story is bou.h up in the figures of iron consumption In 1860, when the boys in gray marched to fields of war, the per capita consump- tion of iron i'm the country was only 62 pounds; in 1870. despite the waste of civil strife, ih had risen to 102 pounds; in 1880 it stood at 24O peurds, and in 1890, according to official figures 334 pounds of iron were used for every, man, wo- man and child and pickaninny in the oountryI In thirty years the annual per capita consumption had been increased more than five-fold! In such an in crease Is expressed extension, energy, enterprise bordering upon the marvellous.
 The annual production in 1860 was only S00,000 tons Hess than Alabama now pro- duces. Tn 1870 it had risen to 1,SO000O tons; in 1880, to 3,S0O0oo tons, and in 1890 to 9,2O0,00O tons. We are now pro- ducing iron at the nate of 10,000, 900 tons a year, and consuming it at the rate of 100000 tons a year. Four years of panic and depression have rendered the country iron hungry, ard MT. Shook looks for remark dhction during the two remaining years of the century-in 1898, possibly 15,OOO.oOo of tons, and in 1899, about 20,000,o00 of tons. And why not? If in 1900 our population stands at 7500OO0O, and ac- tivity and prosperity are maintained MT. Shocks figures are underestimated.
 Let us, however, be extra conservative by assuming that the production of 1900 will be 1sO0o0oO tons. Alabama's DOT tion is 10 per cent. That percentage will at least be maintained. Where all the
  there surely the general gain wIl be maintained. This means a doubling of present production.
 Now, all this is not fgment of the brain. If the country regains the pros perity of 1890. it will consume iron at the rate of SS4 pounds head. It did this when iron sold in the yards of the southern furnaces at s15 ton. Similar iron Is now worth s75o. Why, then, may we not reasonably assume, with MT. Shook that the country's production will soon be doubled? If it is, does not all the world know that ADabamas pro duction will be at deast doubled? And if the nome production Is doubled, is it not plain that we must prepare to shel- ter double the number of people? The problem is, in other words not one of the imagination or desire, but of per cap- ita consumption and plain arithmetic.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
DAISIES.

Long-drawn shadows OCT the meadow
 We've their many misty mazes As they loitered, youth and maiden,
 Homeward through a field of daises Tender kisses from last sunbeams
 Fell upon them as they stood, And a song bird's evening anthem
 Floated from the darksome wood. Then he told that sweet old story Of love supreme and true; And sho listened, bluehing coyly,
 In the twilight and the dew. Bending low she plucked a daisy;
 Prophet flower" she said, and smiled "TeH me if his love be earnest
 Or a passing fancy wild. As she counted off the petals
 Near the style where brambles twist, Soft the moon rose; so two shadows On the meadow met and kissed. Plucked off one by one the petals
 Hell away like flakes of snow While she murmured OCT the test worth Known to maidens long ago: 'Tl m'aime peu," Her merry laughter
 Softens as she says: .Beaucoup, Passiounement." The teli-talp-color
 Slowly pales at Pas de toEt." Once again. she counts the petals.
 On the air they float and dance As the moon combs out her dresses
 Der the landscapes fair expanse. 'sn m'aime peu-" his arm steals round her Oh, the daisy's tale is true, For the petal on the calyx
 Tells her that he loves "Beaucoupw
 Weaving all it's misty mazes, Naught but shadows softly kissing
 On that field of dewy daisies?
 By Sara Beaumont Kennedy.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
Towns and Factories.

The following clipping from small country weekly published in a neighbor- ing state voices growing sentiment in the south:
 We need some factories. Why could we not nave a cotton mill here as well as elsewhere? Statesboro is situated in a locality convenient for getting cotton without cost of freight, and it does seem that goods can be manufactured here cheaper than in the north, where the freight has to be paid both ways We certainly could compete with the north ern mills. Again, brick yards and ice factories could be established with profit, and though we have not the rail- road facilities now that we need for all of this-for we should have a road in dhffeTent directions-yet this is the way to get them. We want something insti- tuted that will give permanent employ ment to class of labor that finds it difficult to obtain work all the year round Let the business men organize themselves and solicit investment from foreign capitalists.
 The town in question will find that distributing and transportation facilities play very important part in this mat ter but when a community is equipped with these factors of commerce, and has cheap fuel. satisfactory labor and raw material, it should, by all means try to build up its industrial interests.
 But it is not enough to advise the business men of town to organize and solicit outsiders to invest To show their good faith and confidence, they should invest their own money first.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
The Convict Lease System.

The meeting of the National Prison mined, in Austin, on the second day of December. The effort to change the place of meeting, on account of yellow fever, failed, and the reformers will therefore meet in Texas capital.
 The chief subject of discussion will doubtless be the convict lease system a system that grew out of the impover- ishment of the southern states at the close of the war Nearly all the states of this ection of the country have, how ever, taken steps toward a better sys- tenn. Only two states are now without penitentiaries, Georgia and Florida and in Georgia at least a movement in fa- vor of the building of a penitentiary is progressing with evidently popular support.
 The scandals and cruelties and moral hopelessness of convict camps is beyond question, and they are condemned by all who have given them any study.
 
 ness of handling convicts either for his own health or for the health, moral or otherwise, of the prisoner. He proposes to get out of him all he can. The peo- pie, on the other hand. are quite as much interested in his career after he becomes free as they are in what he does in chains. The opportlnities for- moral and religious work in a well-reg- ulated penitentiary are very consider able; in a convict camp, wherever To- cated, they are small indeed. The lease system has lasted longer than it should due in some states to very selfish rings organized for that purpose.
 It is hoped the congress at Austin will discuss the subject fearlessly, but with proper consideration of circumstances. There is really no need of denunciations of a system that no one defends. The Austin conference can best hasten a change by giving dts time and experi- ence to the manner of keeping convfcts in penitentiaries busy, useful, and, il possible. self-supporting. To shut them than the abuses and abominations o1 the convict camps. If the problem ol employment can be satisfactorily solved the lease system in all of the states will soon disappear. Among thoughtful, con. scientious men 1t has no friends.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

where skilled labor is abundant. If wo can make steel in Birmingham by rl1s open-hearth process. clam we net make armor plate also by that process? Does the Herald meant ito say tine government cannot secure all the skilled workers it needs, regardless of location?
 The truth is, the opponents of a fac- tory in the south do net like to meet the question of cost. We should stand or fa1l on that issue. lit is the issue before the taxpayers. A great navy will be expensive under amy circumstances, and congress does mot propose. it is plain, that additional millions shall be expend- ed which night be kept dn the treasury.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
One of CIeyeIand's Ideas.

When an educational test for immi- grants was proposed, says the New York Times, President Cleveland vetoed 1t on the ground that the more ignorant the immigrant the more contented he would be with his lot in this enlightened re- public. He was the first president bold enough to express the opinion that the best way to keep the working classes contented is to deny them the opportu- nifty to read and study.
 Naturally, when men of MT. Cleve- lands prominence express such views others follow on the same line. Prof.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

iThe death of former Senator John Roderick McPherson of New Jersey on Friday was unexpected in the extreme. Mir McPherson had taken upon himself the task of starting a boom for Grover Cleveland for the senatorshfp to succeed the present. senator. James Smith. MT. McPherson was prominent in the su- and to extricate himself from the "deaP made the statement Ithalt his cook had sent a telegram by mistake to a Wall street banker ordering hfm to sell sugar stocks for the senator. No one believed the senator when he made the statement. Yet the Investigating committee exon- erated him fully
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The removal of Weyler is no doubt a great blow to Hungry Joe Pulitzer, who had a correspondent for more than two years in Cuba in ths pay of Weyler, and another one in Madrid, drawing a hand some salary from the Spanish govern ment. While the insurgents of Cuba have been undergoing all kinds of hard ships and privations fighting for lib4rty, the heritage of every one, Pulitzer, the editor and proprietor of the New York World, has been filling his pockets with money from Spain to create, if possible, sentiment in this country against the liberty seeking people. And this is the man who poses as democrat, but al- ways fights the democratic party.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

It is stated on good authority that Col. Burl Bazzil, the sage of Prattville, may shortly announce alis candidacy for chief justice. It is also reported that Col. Eli Bashinsky, of Troy, will contest for the exalted position of superintendent Of the waste basket emptiers.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

Perhaps John M. Palmer, who ran for president last year on the gold ticket would like to come to Birmingham and help to regulate the school question by taking the side of the coiored people, as he did few days ago att Alton, III. He was not invited to do so, but volunteered upon his own account.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

sipns Evans in 'fadvaneing' all the Ohio claims for pensions for the purpose of stimulating the power of the administra- tion in that state, and aiding In the elec- disreputable practices of the-repnblican party
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
How It Happened.

Diggs-I wonder what caused the ad- varce in the price of wheat?
 Biggs-Probably that St. Louis girl who won a husband throlsa her ability to make bread is responsible for it.
 Diggs-Why, how is thai?
 Biggs-Every girl in the country who hear of tEc affeair is now prac.icSng the act, and the result Is an increase in .ne demand for flour.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

If Gen. Ramon BlanIco intends conduct ing his canlpaagu from his private office, it is hoped that he win at least gut a different set of stenographers from those that Weyler employed.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
The Cotton industry.

New England has been troubled over the uss of some of her great cotton fae- tories when they are no longer usefui in the cotton industry; but the Boston Transcript thinks a good substitute has been found in sill1-weaving-an industry that is well protected by the Dngley bill. Trust the far-seeing New Eng lander for that The Transcript says that -four well-known mills who ma themselves unable to successfully com- pete with the southern manufacturers in the making of cotton cloth" are study ing the new industry with view to an immediate change, and it adds that other mills are quietly contemplating such a change.
 This is very different from the talk of twenty years ago, when it was said that cotton manufacturing could not be successfully conducted in the south. Some of the alleged experts of that pe- riod said the climate was unsuitable, while others said the labor problem in the south was insuperable. Others still said the needed capital could not be pro- cured, and others said the southern peo- ple lacked the genius of manufacture and commerce. But let that pass.
 In twenty years change has been. wrought in cotton manufacturing, but the supremacy of the south in that field will be essentially the work of the com ing twenty years. It must not be for gotten that the northern mills still con sume nearly two bales to one spun in the south, and that we have some dis tance to go yet. The Charleston News and Courier sums up the situation ad- mirably when it says:
 ''It is well fur us to contemplate what has been done for the development of the cotton industry in our section in the past twenty years, but we should not contemplate it with satisfaction. We should never reach that mood so long as New England manufactures nearly two bales to our one, nor indeed so long as a. pound of cotton leaves our territory in the condition in which it is grown
 That is the work before us. If in the next twenty years the cotton states can handsomely increase the number of their mills, there will after that time be no question as to the most advantageous section for the making of cotton goods. Every cotton-growing state should build mills. Alabama is, we regret to say, a laggard in this race, for she has the cheapest steam coal, and yet she has not one-third of the number of spindles that South Carolina has. The Palmetto state has over a million of spindles in operation. We should have a million also; for a mill could be so located in this richly-endowed state that it would have coal drift at it's furnace doors, and opening bolls under its windows
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

serve thea at Urbana. O. and Versailles, Ind. where assembled two of the greaS- est Iynehing syndlcates known to his aory. each Iyncher has been allowed to 30 free without even so much as an indiclt- ment against them.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

From the Mobile Herald.
 Our visitation of fever is nothing to the epidemic that prevails in Maidstone, in Kent county, England, where at last accounts there had been 1,172 cases of typhoid fever and 46 deaths. Impure wa ter the cause, as it generally Is.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The thing for Blanco to do will be to quarantine against the Weyler Glabit of the too frequent use of the typewriter.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

Gen. Blanco must bear in mind that two have preceded him, and each have failed.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

It took Montgomery but few hours to stamp out the false rumor of yellow fever in that city. The prompt action of the health authorities was most com nendable.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

While in Cuba it is hoped that Weyler did not duplicete his trick of distorting $4.0OOo0o as he did while governor in the Philippine Islands.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The most charitable construction to be placed upon the rawlings Of Henri Wabterson is that he is etrter insane or has been hitting the pipe.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

If Weyler wishes to know how unpop- ular he is he should try the lecture plat form in the United States.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

If Weathermaker Jacobs expects to keep fhe public in good humor he must do better in the production of rain than was demonstrated yesterday.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The silence of David B. Hill on the New York campaign is sufficient to indi- cate that he is still the solitary inhabi- tant of Wolfert's Roost..
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

About the worst thing that could hap pen to Seth Low is the fact that he is being supported by Carl Schurz.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

A man fell nto a soap vat in Philadei- dea.al. Weary Waggees and Wandering Willies Hial now have another excuse for tboycotting all soaps, as the partbc- ular brand which was then being made was not mentioned.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The Good Roads association might hold its next convention in the Klondyke, as that is where good roads are most in de- marld
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

Mark Hanna was more modest than usual in his Chicago speech Saturday night last. He made no reference what ever to Me and the president"
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

Senator Morgan might bring with him from Hawaii to be exhibited at an execu- tive session of the senate bevy of those hula hula girls. There is no doubt but they would liven things up in the great est delIberat.ve body in the world"
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The chances are that Luetgert will lose his life, his sausage business and Mary Siemmering also.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

platform should be watched by the peo- ple
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

Joe Pulitzer is bound to crush some thing if he has to blackmail every man, woman and child in all of Greater New York
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The copartnership of Tom Platt and Dick Croloer may result in making Henry George mayor of Greater New York.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The governor of West Virginia will have something to say whether his wife shall be sent to prison or stay out by means of a pardon, in the event a yer dict should be against her
The age-herald., 1897-10-12
Impure Water the Cause.

It will do no harm to keep on boiling the water just the same.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

completely annihilated the Cuban sweet potato crop
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

The removal of Weyler might be con sidered the first Spanish victory 50 far experienced
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

Atlanta has more frost to the square foot now than any city in the country.
The age-herald., 1897-10-12

Before the northern papers say more about iynchers not being punished in the south, 1t will be well for them to ob-
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-31
puRRANT CASE AGAIN UP.
Charges Against Juror That MAY cause
New Trial.

charge. Against Juror That May Cause
= New Trial.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2s.-The long
promised sensation in the Durrant
case was developed when W. A. Dur
rant, father of the murderer, presented
an affidavit to Superior Court Judge
sewell, in which he charges Juror
smyth with having knowingly used
certain information not presented at
the trial of Theodore Durrant in de-
Gliding the merits Of the case IN MS
(Smyth's) mind. Durrant senior says
Smyth talked OF the case to reputa Die
persons before the trial was concluded;
that Smyth told the persons thaS
Theodore Durrant had been on terms
of criminal intimacy with near rel
atives, and that he was abnormaliy
developed sexually; that Juror smvtn
had intimated that Durrant senior
knew of those relations, and that
Smyth had made up his mind as to the
defendants guilt before the trial was
half concluded. Durrant's attorneys
formulated the papers on motion for
a writ of probable cause and presented
them to Judge Bahrs, but he denied
the motion and gave notice that an
application for a writ OF probable
cause should be made before the
supreme court. This will be done in
a few days, the attorneys for Durrant
saw.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-31
THE NEWS IN low A
ANTl-sALooN LEAGUE.


Meeting OF the Antl-saloon Forces ut
Des Molnes. s.
Dies MONIES, Dec. 31.-The Iowa
Anti.Saloon League, in state conven-
ton, refused to adopt q suggestion
that the members Of the organization
be relieved from signing what is known
as the voter's pledge and which Is: -
will make it my rule and Practice
Whatever my political party, to vote
at primary and polls for candidates
only who are opposed to the saloon. !
This pledge will be made necessary
condition to membership in the league
.hereaf ter. The league adopted res
olution.favorins the re-su omission OF
the prohibitory amendment to the
people by one or the other processes
possible, viz: Legislative submission
to vote, or by the calling OF a const''
tutional convention, on which question
the people may vote in 1000. Follow
ing are the officers elected for the
ensuing year: President, L. >. Conn.,
Fort Dodge; vice.presidents. &. H.
Sweeney, Belle PLANE, E. +. Brock
way, Iowa City, l.. Brookwalter'
Toledo; secretary. Allen Hickey; treas
urer. s. A. Merrill.