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The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Eaitor YerIses, NeM Rules.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 While the work of reorga nizing the editorial and bushes forces of the Inter Ocean has not, we are assured, been dis cussed by our esteemed con emporary. Editor YerkeS, some changes have been made in the rules governing the editorial conduct of the paper. It is tor Yerkes' desire that the editors and reporters on his paper shall conform to certain meth ods which bring success in a purely bus mess career and which the average me ws- paper man so heartily dislikes To that | end he has prepared the following rules:
 No transfer shall be given from one agate line to another.
 In collecting news don't forget to ring up.
 In speaking of street railway com panies, Tanner and Van, use lenders.
 There will be fifty-year jols for those who know how to go after them.
 Employes will receive a part of their salaries in car tickets-eleven rides for 50 cents.
 Don't write sneerfngly of Chicago. as it belongs to Me.
 Reporters must not stand on the edi- torial latform.
 Owl-car reporters must report to the barn boss fifteen minutes before their runs.
 After the date in foreign news add in parenthesis: "(By west side cable)"
 If you see it through the big telescope it is so; if it isn't, make it so.
 Except in extraordinary cases keep all news down to Lincoln avenue.
 Remember that the city council Is on our staff and that our motto is 'Tielp Those Who Have Helped Me"
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Trouble Ahead.

'.My friends" said Alexander H. Stephens in one of his speeches, "tIh ne are not offices enough to go round" This is the great defect of the political system in this country. Fer every offics there are scores of applicants and others who are 'in the hands of their friends"
 The hard tinnes period has swelr.d the number of office seekers. Men who few years ago, would not have thought of a Nttle office paying two or thrse thousand year now move heaven and earth to get 1t. In some cases this means that tht candidates have found it im- possible to make comfortable living in their business or profession. They are driven by necessity to join the host of office seekers.
 As Mr. Stephtns said, thsr= are not enough offices to go round. Many are bound to be disappointed, and they will naturally be embittered. They will rebel in the party ranks, organize fac uons, or desert to the other side. That is. some of thsm will. They win make trouble. Of course the sensible thing for them to do would be to give up politics and try something else. But
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Key That opcus All His Doors.

An Englishman has had a most ex- traordinary key made. It is tny enough to be concealed in seal ring and yet it VIII unlock every door on his estate, and the locks are of different sizes. In speak ing of this key he said: ''The locks are all arranged in suits. The butler can un- lock arl the doors that are in his depart- ment and the housekeepeT can unlock the linen closets and other doors urld r ifer supervision, but she cannot get into the buffers domain. And In every d pa t. ment about the placs from end to end every one has his or her key, but I alone have the master key. All of the doors open to me. My valet can open my dressing case and closets, but he cannot get bottle of wine. Of course the ar rangement in a seal ring is novel, but it is very handy for me-.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
"Mr. Roding, turn me loose"
Why the Gut in Cottons.

From the Springfield Republican. The home market is filled to the raft CTS with unsold ootton goods, but the Massachusetts manufactu with one accord point to the 5S-hour law and the lower wages commanded by the raw and inexperienced help in southern mills as the cause of all Their trouble. Let us help them to broaden the scope of their vision.
 Until a little while ago they were en- toying considerable expart trade to the Dominion of Canada. The shipments of cotton cloth to British North America were proceeding as fellows:
 Yards. Year ending June 30 1896 .. .. ... .19, TOE, ,804 Year ending June 30, 1897.... ..29,46O,S6O Here was marked a gain from the last fiscal year, and the source of some little relaaf to the ocngestetd home market
 Now note what happened. Near the close of the last fiscal year we began loudly and aggressively to assert our right to the home market against any ration on ecrth, and particularly Cana da. We had fer many years been ship ping more general merchandise to that country than we had received from there, and by every rule of high tariff logic such a trade was profitable, d sirable and to be chung to and cultivated. But the eminent tariff tinlsers of last July thought to make the favorable balance of trade with Canada still greater, and under the guidance of a few petty in- terests along the northern border they proceeded to single out the staple exports of the Dominion for especial taaiff tn7sat- ment This was inviting retaliatery blow, and it came-in a Canadian far.ff revision extending preferential rates to merchandise from countries which had some Ettle regard for the rights and fe5l- ings of Canada. That did not include the United States.
 Wei we have the home market all right; that is evident. But how about the Canadian market for our cott2n goods? Compare the exports of cotton cloths from the United States to British North America in the three morths att tending and following the enactment of the Dingley tariff bill with the exports in the same month last year:
 D spo ts f c1t cl u o a da (Yer 8
 1S97 1896 July ...... .. .. ......1, ,447,53S 3,774754
 
 September .... .. .... S09S65 3,997, ,7e0 All of winch shows that tariff is a game that two can play at, and That sentime mt sometimes may enter into international trade. You cannot club a customer every time you see him and expect always to hold his trade. The Canadians felt the Dingley blow, and it stung. Thsy are not forgetting it.
 Here is a loss in the cotton export trade from the tariff foolery in two months alone sufficient in great measure to &C., count for the glut which weighs so heavily on 9he New England mills. But the managers of the mills are lost be- meath the burden of unsold goods in con templating the beauties of the home mar ket and the virtues of a tariff which hits our nefghbons, and can find nothing save the cheap and untrained labor of the south to complain of And MT. Dingley and the president will tell them they are on the right track. What Statesmanship! What business sagacity!
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Children and Poisonous Plants.
from Pediatrlcs.

From Pediatrlcs.
 Buttercups and daisies are generally associated in one's mind with Words worth, children and Arcadian simplicity. It is difficult to conceive of anything the pretty little yellow flower, but un- fortunately it is not always the most modest and retiring plants or flowers that are the least harmful for example, the deadly nightshade (atropa belladon- na). Not that the buttercup can vie with the deadly nightshade in poison- ous qualities. and still when consumed in sufficient quantities it will cause death. A proof of this has lately been afforded in England in the case of a boy who after eating some buttercups died within a fsw hours with all the symptoms of iriitant poisoning. The buttercup belongs to the ranunculaceae. and nearly all the members of this group possess poisonous qualities, chief ly of am irritant nature, though in a few narcotic principles are to be found. Ev- cry year some children lose their lives by eating poisonous seeds or flowers, and care should be taken to exclude from gardens or parks whsre children play plants or shrubs of a poisonous nature, as deadly nightshade, laburnum and yew. Fortunately buttercups, though nice to look at do not as a rule tempt children to eat them wholesale, other wise the mortality from this cause would bs much greater than it is at present.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

The Rev. Sam Jones is strongly op- posed to free schools. In a recent article he says:
 I take the posi-, ion against all odds and corners, that it's no more the business or
 a state or city to educate my kids than it's the business of the sta,se to feed and clothe them and put them to bed every
 night, and that when you take the re- possibility off of a father 10 educate and
 care for his children, you cut the grit from under the whole family, and forever destroy the spirit of independent man. i hood, which animaies everything above calves and colts, and which furnishes the
 bass of all true worth.
 The public free schools of this coun- try ape but manifestation of the com
 munlstic spirit which will end in pater- nalfsm and anarchy as surely as we now see it already clamoring for more free
 pensions, free silver. free schools, free turnpil1es. free railroads, free books, free ! board and free clothes.
 When you undo individuality and de- stroy the spirit of independent manhood, then you inaugunate communism and en- throne anarchy.
 I state it plainly want intelligent cft- izens and universal educa tion. I say again do not believe there is a child American born i'm the United States that could not get a first-class education if you were to abolish every public school in the United States tomorrow. Elihu Burritt, whose wife taught him his al- phsbet after they were married, and he a poor blacksmith, sat over his pineknot fire at night. died the master of more languages than any man in history. The best and itruest men I know 'today toled through hardships at college that made them heroes as well as scholars I be- lieve in effort. Struggle work, hard ships-for it's not advantages. but disad- Vantages. not help, but hindrance, that
 make the man-for first, a hero, then a man.
 Free schools. like every thing else free fosters the spirit of dependence and ef- femlnency, and breeds dwarfs and weak lings. "If any man will not work neth CT shall he eat" says the Scriptures: and
 'every man shall bear his own burdens" |"
 it also proclaims.
 In the same antfcle MT. Jones says that he has given a free education at his own
 expense to a number of young people. If free educat ton by the state "cuts the
 grit from under the whole family. and forever destroys the spirit of indep .ndent manhood" why does Mr. Jones proceed to do those terrible things by giving a free education to his pets? Is he so high and mighty that the gift of an educa- ton from him is better than it is from the state? The free public school system has it's faults. but instead of trying to abolish it
 altogether. I, would be better to work for the reform of the system. The thing
 to do is to simplify its organism; get
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
The Duty of the Aldermen.

The special committee of the board of aldermen meets tomorrow night to in- vestigste the Birmingham Gas company That company is charged with having violated it's contract solemnly made with the city.
 The ald .rmen have duty to perform to. the citizens who elected them. They are the representatives of all the cBtf- zens. It is their duty to first ascertain whether or not it is true that the gas company has violated its contract made with the city. If so, in what respect. It is eheir further duty to ascertain if the charges of the gas company imposed upon the consumers in Birmingham is exorbitant; that is, If they are greater than in other cities of like conditions. The gas company has a contract with the city of Birmingham made in 1891, In which it agrees to furnish gas to the public buildings of the city for one dol lar a thousand feet, and to private con- sumers for one dollar and forty-eight cents thousand feet In face of this contract it has charged citizens S1.65 per sistently, with a clause in the rendered bills allowing discount of ten per cent. on all bills paid by the tenah of each month. Whether or not this is a viola tion of the contract on the part of the gas company with the city, is a question of fact for the board of aldermen to de- eide.
 The Age-Herald reproduces the con- tract on another page in order that it may be thoroughly understood by all.
 If this contract has been violated, it is the duty of the board of aldermen to pro- ceed to annul the charter and deprive the company of its franchises. There is precedent for such action in this state in the matter of the Montgomery Water works company. The charter of that company was annulled by the supreme court of the state and the company put in the hands of a receiver because it violated its contrad. with the city of Montgomery.
 The board of aldermen have a pain duty to perform. They are to investi- gate, to decide a matter of fact and then proceed to act upon such decision in accordance win their sworn duty as representatives of the citizens.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

pol.tIc:ars yer do this. When they once get -taete of ofice-holding or of- fiee-seeling they are in the business for life Death Is tta only thing that will take politicians out of politics.
 This craze for office Is the curse of the counlny. It ruins bright men and stupid men alike. It makes mem idle, greedy and rapacious. Ut takes away good men from farms, shops. stores and the professions and turns them into clumsy, haR finished statesmen who will be out of job befors they flave learned the duties of their offices It is time to turn ovsr a new leaf and let the office seek the man.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Tnn sn0N

She cana, how sweet and fair she cama
 To our rude earth. and stayed awhile, A tender spirit. free from b.ame
 And Lit with an angelic smile. Am mel that smiles 30 sweet should fads From lips that in the grave are laid. She was young. the light intense
 That seemed to guard her from her birth. Spoke but of stainless innocence,
 And purity too great for earth. Ah mel that smiles so sweet should fade From eyes that in the grave are laid. And then she left us, as a bark
 Wh.te-winged sinks dimly from our sight, Or as some sweet song -burdened lark
 Scars upward to the realms of light Ah mel that youth and hope should fade When beauty in the grave is laid.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Biz Prices For Hogs in Iowa.

From the New York Tribune.
 That prices of live stock are rapidly increasing in Iowa is shown by the rec ords of some recent sales of Poland Chi na hogs. E. Nj. Metzgar at Fairfield sold one hog to S. F. Shellenberger, of Camden, Ohio, for s6S3. A litter of five pigs born in February last brought $115o, In alI forty-one hogs were sold net- ting a total of $3, 300.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 There is nothing as certain about love- making as the uncertainty.
 Matrimonial matches are frequently lighted on money boxes.
 Some crooks are fly, but there are no feathers on the jailbird.
 A chromo is some imes known by the tea that is given away with it.
 The fortune hunter prefers handsome figure rather than a pretty face.
 Spiritualists tip the >ta ble. but the man who tips the waiter often fares better.
 When instinct governs some mems ac- tions instinct is only another name for wife.
 = The woman who is homely enough to stop a clock is not a success when 1t comes to stopping a street car.
 The average woman swallows fattery just as a baby swallows buttons-reg gaud- less of the trouble that may follow.
 Wha't blessing 1t would have been to huma nifty if St. Patrick had been born in time to chase the snakes out of Eden.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

then he has destroyed every hat he has seen on the street, which had net come from his mistuess' stock.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Precocions Infants.

Smiles-Some of those Biblical charac" ters must have been precocious children. Giles-Why sof
 Smiles-well there's Job, for instancs. The Bible says he cursed the day that he was born. ]
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Good Measure.

From the Chicago News. s'How't tfis?" exclaimed the editor,
 s'Your reports yard in length;
 The subject, said. required 'stick.' But should be of extra strength" Your pardon. sir" the reporter said.
 .'Gn me pray do not he hard; For fos ,l-cr.y clegked in carpst store
 N-hcrc 2 stl2is' was cnnsidered yardy
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

President Mckinley will be ungrateful should he faii to return thanks to Mark Hanna. as man, chairman of the na- tional committee, and as senator. Hanna has been faithful in all positions.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Mir Gladstone should not become so distressed over national events which are beyond his control. He should know that Rudyard Kipling is still an Eng lishman. and he can preserve national honor in poetry if not in the house of parliament.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

The result of the hate elections may be the mlsans of causing Josiah Patter- son and Bin Bynum going to work for an honest living.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Perhaps MT. Cleveland is inclined to look upon the kicking of Presbyterians about that bar license as party pelhdy and dlshonor.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
First of the Season. :

Clara-See the dancing snowfiakes! Jack-Yes; they are practicing for tha snow +ball, I suppose.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

with the usual amount of liars. Judging
 from the contradictory reports which come under an Havana date line.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

It may be a case of "what do you pro- pose to do about it." so far as Weyler is concerned, with the threatened court martial by Spain.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

The most conspicuous event at New York's horse show was rough and tumble fight between two of it's most prominent promoters. There has not been horse show for number of years without there having been similar af- fairs Madison Square Garden is fast becoming the Carson City of the east.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Editor Brann should be good enough to pay the funeral expenses and doctors bills of the three Waco due11ists.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Henry watterson is in danger of be- coming nIirely too good.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Thanksgiving is about here. Every body is sure to have turkey, but they would prefer dollar gas.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Judge Coleman may be in the hands of too many unwise friends
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

All candidates for state offices look alike to thoss who are willing to d ink at their expense.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Speaker Reed will in all probability find the nexet session of congress the most unruly he has yet had upon hls hands
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Though Weyler is no longer in Cuba, the country seems ito be still afflicted
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

There is danger of getting more than mud on the judicial ermine.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Is the Commercial club for or against dollar gas?
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

|. The woman who is homely enough to stop a clock is not a success when 1t comes to stopping a street car.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

The average woman swallows f1attery just as a. baby swallows buttons-regaud less of the trouble that may follow.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

When instinct governs some mems &C., tions instinct is only another name for a wife.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Spiritualsts tip the ia ble. but the man who tips the waiter often fares better.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

Whs't a blessing 1t would have been to huma nifty if St. Patrick had been born in time to chase the snakes out of Eden.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
Sam Jones on Education.

The Rev. Sam Jones is strongly op- posed to free schools. In recent article he says:
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

I'm nine years the Indian population
of Tama county, Ia, has increased by
13. The red people there now number
BOA.
Mortgages are being paid off, by
reason of the good times, in Cowlitz
county, Wash, the interest on which
had been left unpaid for two or three
years.
"A couple of dozen onions seem
few for bushel, but j. r. Douglas, of
Albany, Ore, has exhibited 81 onions
which together weigh 65 pounds, or is
pounds more than bushel.
By wiping perspiration from his
/ face with the back of his hand while
counting coin f. j. Eighmey, of Water
loo, Ia, poisoned his eyes badly, APP
parently with dust from the foreign
accretions on hemetal.
There may be deadly monotonyin
the handwriting of the next generation
in this country, for the vertical sys-
TEN" fad has spread to the furthest'
confines. 1t has been adopted recently
in the public schools of Tacoma, Wash,
and at Portland, Ore, where the schools
already use it and classes are being.
formed to learn it by people in various
walks of life.
"A cutting rebuke was given to his
congregation by a preacher in Pleasan-
ton, Kan. Just after the prayer which
succeeded his sermon, he said: "Those
of the congregation that did not get
their things on during the prayer can
do SO while pronounce the benedic-
tion."
"A lunatic in private asylum at
Atchison is harmless, and is permitted
to roam abroad at will. He possesses
resmeric power over snakes, and often
returns with five or six of them in his
pockets. He is. always searched, and
1.-The snakes removed, before he is per-
United to reenter the asylum 3
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-02
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Dolby RHDu0R'S GRIT.
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MAYHEM Dung Jack Stuart threw up
Wv his government job and left
Washington last spring without telling
where he was going everybody natural
ly concluded that he had gone to the
dogs" People are always eager to say
that any man, especially if he is young
and handsome and hasn't penny in
the world, has gone to the dogs. In
fact, it is the one way people have for
accounting for 9 fellow who turns up
missing; and then regarding each other
in a greedily curious way, they inquire:
Who's the woman?"
The fact that fellow can go to 1.-The
dogs" without the help of some woman
never enters the human mind, although
be it noticed that when a man reaches
a high degree of prosperity, when he
makes fame and name, people never
turn upon one another and ask: who's
the woman?"
Now, as nobody could prove by which
route Jack Stuart had gone. there the
matter rested; and if newspaper re-
porter had followed his career where
it is now he would throw down his pen
ell with "ipshaw," or something
stronger, adding in tones of disap-
pointment: 1T was woman, but she
didn't send him TO the dogs; the story's
no good" The result would be that the
newspaper wouldn't give it para
graph; whereas, had she caused him to
kill her, himself or the other man, we
would have had an illustratedpage.
The story as it stands has, however,
something besides virtue to recon-
mend it, and maybe it is worth the tell
ing even if the several people con-
cerned will not like to seeitin print.
1t began, or at least the winter of its
discomfort eliminated, one evening
last March in the coy little living
room of great, impressive house on
Dupont circle. Jack Stuart was sitting
in one of those corners which invoke
Irritation at the beginning and more
serious intentions after close intimacy.
His hands were stuffed deep down in
his pockets and his handsome brow
bore a deep, dismal frown. The girl
sitting on the little stool in front OF
him and resting an elbow familiarly on
his knee, looked upon him with tender,
anxious sympathy in her eyes. They
had evidently been discussing some
grave subject and the youth broke
forth after his moody silence:
Hang it all, little girl, can't much
blame your mbther for not liking zne
around"
"she wouldn't like you around if
you had cords and cords of money,
Jack You know mamma. She's de-
termined l shall marry a foreign sitle,
andI' m just as determined shan't."
The girl closed her pretty lips in a
way that showed that she had not had