The age-herald., 1897-11-14

| steal Threaten to influence people to | take their trade away from them. IT the
 merchant ts in debt, and the gas trust
 can find out the name of the creditor,
 they threaten to buy up his paper and close him out. I hear statements like
 this made by numbers of reputable men. 1 I have no doubt they are true. It sounds | justSlke men who are carrying on a
 business of robbery such as Is bsing done
 by the gas company. Every man who burns gas in the city knows that he is | paying four times more than 1t Is worth. l Bills of extortion are presented every month. He pays them promptly. Afraid | to "squeal' and submits to the robbery. If ten merchants in this town would get | together and declare themselves, every other merchant would follow. There are some men, however. who have got the courage of their convictions. They can't be bulldozed. They are not afraid of the gas trust or any o.lfer trust. 1t ws-iild be a sad state of affairs. indeed, if the gas company controlled eveiy- thing in thLs city. I can't imagine any would be more corruptly conarolled.
 A very peculiar cass came under my observation a few days ago, and if the stony told me is true, it is sad one in- lTdaed It relates to an honest aged Ger man by tlae name of Klein, or Kleinsor- age.s From what I have been informed, MT. Klein is an honest, law-abiding citi- zen, and has been resident of Birming
 ham for number of years. Have heard thai he was deprived OF hIs propet ty by those who ought to have been very near aY,J to HhOSa who against him should have been the first to provide a home for him in his old age. There are some similar eases in the world where children turn against tl1s parent, and when this is dcne the parent invariably gets the. worst of it. It is incomprehensible to ths average man how chIild can become so hostile to the parent. It is true some childr n displease their parents ip the case of marriage, but in a case of that kind time generally flea1s all wounds. TIh:re are other cases where property consid- ezaticns figure largely in family quar- rels. These ara the worst of all family disa 9ireementS. Some children w2uld like to have their parents die early that they might get DOES ;ssion of their share of the property. Others will scheme to take their property from them I think that son or daughter who would con- spira to deprive their Esr :rts of ample property for their support in their de- clining years, are too unnatural to re- main at large. They are dangerous eni- ma1s. They nsver do good. The per- son who thinks nlolre eff money than of his family ties, is not a safe tditizen. Then those who are always graSping for money, no matter how they get it, must not blame the world if their hon. esty is questioned.
 Must be a peculiar popul tticn !n
 Montgomery. A great nuniher of the people of tlaat city are jumping on the state administration for the enforce m-nt Of the state quarantine rules. Before tie yellow fever broke out in Montgom' cry there was not soul in that city who objected to the most rigid enforce ment of the rules. n fact, they demanded it. Montgomery had as rigid quaran- ne against Mobile as any city iu the state has had against Montgomery. Montgomery at one point almost reached the shotgun quarantine stage, so hostile was it to allowing refugees from Noble even to look out of the ear window when
 he trains were passing through. Mont- gomery has not added anything to its reputation because of the fight that one of its papers is making on Governor Johnston The impression seems to pre- vail and perhaps not x3+hou. good req
 SOIL that the cause of this hostility IS
 political more than fever. Taking this opportunity to abuse the state a1m.n.s-
 tration for the sake of political preju.
 dices. These things won't work. The ruklic is on to the snap. The people are not fools. Montgomery seems to
 have it sn for B[nm ngham. Mad be- cause Bil lmingham didn't Lave yellow fe- yer It had all the smallpoy it wanted. It had more than Montgomery, but still
 Birmingham was not mad With Mont- gomery because the latter city didn't have as many cases of smallpox as were had here. I read in the paper the other day that "Old Sleuth" Brumby came up to Birmingham searching for yellow fever mlc.eibes. Brumby got the assign ment, ard of course had to come. He worte good story about nothing.
 hear "Old Sleuth" is nice, clever fel- low. Popular with everybody down in Montgomery. A good newspaper man, but his search for microbes in Birming
 ham seems to have been a. failure. "Old Sleuth' has good reputation at home for finding dead coons. Perhaps that is what caused him to be sent here to find microbes Heard it said that Brumby was the handsomest man at a fash ionable wedding while here. I hear he knocked the socks off of A. E. de Campi, or as some persons call him, Camp. Montgomery has troubles of it's own. It ought to take care of itself. It has got Tom Jones, and it should be satis- fled. Hear Jones Is a way-up citizen. Nice, agreeable man. Man of fine abil- ity. tIifle vain. On mighty good | terms with himself. Great writer. Writes more long communications than 1 any man I ever knew. Writes good stuff, but entirely too long. He should study the art of condensation. The av- craze newspaper reporter would put dn 200 words more than Jones does in 1,500