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The age-herald., 1897-10-27
s.AIr." and "Esq." in EngIa nd.

Correspondence of the Chicago Post.
 Gn former paper Il had occasion to mention the nice discrimination neces- "sir," as applied to Englishmen. The same kind mentor who led me from darkness into daylight on this problem was good enough to direct my groping mind in another ihnotty social question It was regarding the prefix, 'sMr," and the suffix, Esq" had addressed note to a gentleman we'll known in the lit erary world. accepting an invitation to dinner at his house. My friend was just leaving my hotel, and I asked him to post the letter.
 ''To MT. Greatbrain?" he remarked as I called his attention to the sueprscrip- ton. "Why, my dear boy, that will never do. Permit me to explain" Then this good fellow sat down and gently showed me that 1t would be bad form to address professional gentleman as 'Mr." So-and-S '"That sort of thing would be entirely pnoper if you were writing to a tradesman your butcher, your tailor, or your natter; but'-here he gave just the ghost of a shudder-"ft must be esquire to any one not in trade" He deprecatingly handed me back the letter. whercupon rescued the note and meskly re-addresses it to Phile- mon Greatbrain, Esq, with sense of having narrowly averaed disgrace. We have many things to learn who go avis iting i'm foreign climas.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

attempt possible resistance to the daw in some localities.
 Tn the mayors office the author of Progress and Poverty would unesn- sciously allow himself to be made the tool of designing men. A great city is built for business purposes. People live there from business motives. It Is a center of business, and its affairs cannot be successfully conducted unless they are managed in a strictly business way.
 Such place should not be selected for an experiment. It might do to elect man like MT. George mayor of town on the edge of the republic where his example could not do much harm, but it would be dangerous to make him the chief executive of the metropolis of the country-a city whose methods, good and bad, are certain to be followed more or less by every town in the union.
 Fortunately, the common sense of the people of Greater New York may be relied upon to direct them into the path of safety. No man with a family prop erty. a good job or the hope of one, will give his vote, after studying the situa- tion, to the reformer who is simple enough to think that human legislation can abolish poverty.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Quite a number of iron works in this country nay from 15s. to ITS. Sd. per ton for coke, which In the neighborhood of Pitss'buig is delivered at works for 5s. to 6s. per ton."
 He thinks that the striking engineers cannot afford to demand too much of a trade which seems bound to decline, a in the case of the British iran and steel industry.
 That these fears arg amply justified is, of course, to be admitted on all hands. Compelled to mine her coal and ore at considerable distances underground, and possibly approaching partial exhaus- ton of these stores of nature, Great Britain, with all her prestige and ac- quired momentum in the business, can not long compete with a country where immense supplies of iron material lie close to the surface and can be scooped Up with huge steam shovels and trans ported by water to the location of the coal supply, or where all the material necessary for manufacturing iron is to be found lying in close proximity, as in the nswly-leveloped iron regions of the south. Such being the case, a tariff for the protection of the American iron in- drstry, of course, becomes ridiculous. It is an anachronism which can have no use at this time save to foster the growth of eXtcrtionate iron and steel trusts.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
pain may protest too much.
BRlTtlN'S LOST SUPREMACY IN IRON.
Some Interesting Statements From an English
 Expert in Iron and Steel.
rom the lspringfield Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
 Recent iron and steel contracts secured from Japan by American producers, and recent sales of American iron right in the midst of England, are having the effect of breaking down the superior British self-assurance in one direction at least. The Pall Mall Gazette of Wednes- day makes particular mention of this growth of Amercan competition in the iron and steel industry, and admits that "the causes which are giving the United States such favorable position are per- manent, and everything points to the United States remaining the cheapest steel-producing country in the world"
 The demands of the English engineers in the grsat stlGke now in force has fur ther dralwn attention to the subject and brought out letter to the London Times from the editor of the London Iron and Coal Trades Review, in which he says:
 "'I know a good deal Of the conditions in Great Britain. I thought I had ascer- tainad something of the conditions in the United States, as the result of several visits to that country, and of having had large and perhaps unexceIled oppoI!tu- mites of seeing the progress there made in manufacturing industry. But con- fess that was totally unprapared for the figures which large American manu- facturers have placed before me as to the cost of production at their numerous colossal establishments. The cost of the production of Bessemer pig iron in the most favorable circumstances Is now in that country los. to 15s. per ton less thar the corresponding cost in Great Britain. The difference tn the cost of produic ng a ton of steel Is at least as much, and in the majority of cases Is likely to be a good deal more. know of casfs where the labor cost on a ton of billets and rails is 25 to 35 per cent. less than the lowest labor cost have ever heard of in this country, although the rate of wag 8 paid in America Is materially higher.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
A Suqqestion.

Now, that international binetallism has disappeared from the political hori- zon, it remains to be seen whether the American people will advocate a finan- oia1 system of their own, or accept one ready-made from England. If they fol- low the latter course it will be unneces- sary for them to discuss the silver ques- tion any further.
 In fact, they need not discuss any ques- tion involving dollars. They might as well lay business aside and spend their time chasing rainbows in the hope of finding the pots of gold which some very credulous children believe are to be found at the end of each radiant bow of promise that arches the sky.
 If the single gold standard is to pre- vail, get ready to chase rairbows. That will pay about as well as any other em- ployment which will then be open to the masses
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
Frost Is C0minq.
masses.

Birmingham had her second white frost yesterday morning, and now feels safe from the approach of fever here. Some weather-wise people predict early frosts everywhere, this season, and it is to be hoped that they are not mistaken. The white visitor will be more welcome this year than ever, for he is expected to bring delverance from the plague to hosts of anxious people in the far south.
 It is safe to say chat the prayed-for guest will not long dslay his coming. Already people are feeling more hopeful and confident, and the panic will not spread any further.
 One of the best ways to fight fever, or any other epidemic, is to be brave as well as reasonably prudent. As a rule the doctors, nurses and other courageous people who stay at their posts during a pestilence do not suffer as heavily as those who yield to the,r fears. In a few days the fever in the south will be thing of the past.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
WORTHY OF DANTE AND DORE.
Grim Scenes in Norway, as Described by Leo
 turer Stoddard.

From John l.. Stoddard's Lecture on
 Norway.
 As we sailed further up this beauti- fdl expanse it was difficult to realize that we were floating on an arm of the Atlantic. It had the appearance rather of gloomy lake shut in by mountains never trodden by the foot of man. On either side was solemn army of stu pendous precipices-sheer, awful cliffs refusing even the companionship of pines and hemlocks, and frequently re- sembling long chain of icebergs turn ed to stone. The silence, too, was most impressive. There was at timss no sign of life on sea or shore. The influence of this was felt upon the boat, for if any of us spoke it was in a tore sub dued by the solemnity of our surround ings.
 As we pursued our way, sometimes we could discern no outlet whatever; then suddenly our course would turn, and another glorious vista would appear be- fore us. We sat at the prov of tte boat and there, with nothing but the awe inspiring prospect to contemplate, we sailed along in silence through this liquid labyrinth. So close together were the cliffs that when, for the sake of ex- pertinent, I lay down on the deck and looked directly upward, I could at the same instant see both sides of the fjord cutting their outlines sharply on the sky! Mile after mile, these grim divid- ed mountains stood gazing into each others scowling faces, yet kept apart by this enchanting barrier of the sea, as some fair woman interveneS between two opposing rivals each thirsting for the others blood. It is such scenery as Dante might describe and Dore il- lustrate. We wondered what such ra- vines would look like without water. They would be terrible to gaze upon. They would resemble gashes in dead mans face, or chasms on the surface of the, moon, devoid of atmosphere and life. But water gives to them vitality, and lights up all their gloomy gorges with silvery flood, much as smile illumines, while it softens a furrowed face.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
A Supreme Duty.

The sentiment of the country is crys- talking in favor of the federal control of quarantine matters. This is sensible and practical. Consistent quarantine regulations enforced by one strong au- thority cannot fail to be more efficient and beneficial than the scattering efforts made by the various local governments. Public health is a national matter.
 Whsn a pestilence touches any point on our coasts 1t menaces the interior towns It interiors with travel. traffic and industry, and in time of war would cripple our defensive preparations. The general government therefore, would be justified in taking the proper steps to stamp out any plague in any locality under it's jurisdiction, and as measure of self preservation it would also be justified in seizing an island like Cuba, and holding it in order to prevent it from continuing yellow fever centre, endangering this entire continent.
 2 The government. can always find 8
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
Kicking Over the Traces.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
 The New York Mail and Express says:
 ''Of the 64S ocean steamships which en- tered the port of Buenos Ayres during the first eight months of the present year not ore sailed under the flag of the United States. Yet those vessels carried thousands of tons of our goods, the freights on which went into the pockets of European shpowners. The growing commerce of Argentina, whiah might be largely controlled by American enter prise, is passing into the hands of Ger many and England. and will continue to do so until our shipping laws and commercial policy are revised on terms that will enable us to compete success fully for the South American trade"
 The very essence of the shipping laws and the commercial policy which our contemporary demands shall be revised, Is that American citizens are absolutely prohibited from buying their ships in the cheapest market, prohibition imposed upon the citizens of no other country in the world. No American citizen cam un- der our slipping laws buy and obtain an American registry for foreign-buit ship, and cannot, therefore, compete on equal terms with those who can buy and have their own country's registry for any ship, wherever built. but we did not expect that the Mail and Express would thus demand the revision of laws made for the protection of Anericln ship huildeIrS
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
Concerning Henry George.

The success of Henry George in the pending New York campaign would be a national calamity. Whatever else he may be, he Is an avowed socialist, in fa- vor of some of the widest and most wis., ionary schemes that ever found their way into print.
 The election of such a man to the mayors chair of the chief city of the country would encourage socialists and anarchists everywhere. They would or ganize in every city, and under the lead ership of men less honest, prudent and peaceful than MT. George. they would
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
WHEELING HOME WE GO.

From the Boston Transcript. When days are cool and fields are sweet The dearest girl often meet; Tho charm of youth beams from her facA And on the bike she's full of grace,
 And a-wheeling. off we go. This dainty girl is rather shy. In vain I try to keep close by. Swift as a bird she darts ahead, Or iags behind my pace instead,
 As a-wheeltng, off we go. Returning when the sun is low, And western hills are all a-glow, One glance from out her loye-lit eyes The road leads on to Paradise!
 As a-wheeling, home we go. So hard to take her back to town! My Spanish castles tumble down wonder shall ever dare Ask her my road of life to share.
 As a-wheelins. home we go? t<s
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

If the Montgomery board of health and the newspapers there had told tfie truth about the fever when it first made its appearances there, the innocent cltt- zens would now be i'm the uninfecteA portions of the state. Why not place the blame where 1t belongs2
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

No man will ever be ensured by the people for trying to protect the health of ninety mine per cent of the people of the state when the other one per cent was unwilling to protect Itself when it had the opportunity
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

From present indications it does not appear that President Mckinley will be able to deal a hand from the bottom of the deck on the Cuban question, which may give Mark Hanna a full term In the senate.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
Gold Bug Josiah.

From the Washington Post.
 Twenty people surged into the opera house at Keokuk, Iowa, the other even- ing to hear Hon. Josiah Patterson uncork his patriotism. Josiah might save trav- cling expenses by writing personal letters to the deluded people.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

A jury at Danville, H., on Saturday last rendered a verdict for $54, 4,333.33 in favor of Mrs. Carrie Corbett, a buxom widow of 35 years, against John H. Bernard, aged 71, for breach of promise which indicates that it was the finest knockout so far scored by any mem Der of the Corbett family
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Perhaps that severe storm on the North Atlantic coast In the vicinity of New York is but forerunner of what is to take place in Greater New York next TueSdaN
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Thomas G. Jones must have very large office, or that mass meeting must have been a small affair. as it is said to have met and resoluted in the office of thla ex-goYernor.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Gen. Tracy is the only one of the four candidates for mayor of New York who does not ride the wheel. There is no doubt but what he will be the last to come in,
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

If Gel. Burl Bazzel. the sage of Pratt vile, would only give his opinion about the proper manner in which to conduct quarantine, the controversy between Johnston and Jonss would be speedily endad
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

the boilers of the idle paper mills until the. hum of that industry will sound throughout the world as has never. been known before
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

If Spain possesses any manhood at all war will be declared at once. Mrs. Me Kiniey's pet cat has given birth to four kittens, one of which was named Cissy Cisneros, and ore Karl Decker, while the ether two were ramed Weyler and Dupuy de Lcme respectively, but the lat ter two were promptly taken to the Po- tonlac river where they were drowned with neatness and dispatch at the ear- nest request of the First Lady of the Land If this unwarranted act at the white house will not fire the Spanish heart to war and violence, that nation will have to remain content with it's guitar and bull fights.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

It is we'll to bear in mind that one of tral train bore the number 1S, and there were 13 Chinamen passengers on the train,
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

That promised wave of prosperity which was to ride in with the Dingley law has probably been Kidnapped OF held up by the train robbers.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

The thing for eX-Governor Jones to do is to employ few Pinkerton detectives to discover the loop holes in the quar- antine regulations.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

The cat and monkey fight now going on in the east is calculated to create the impression that it is Smaller New York instead of Greater New York.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

That great accident on the New York Central railroad Sunday last, when many were killed and others wounded, is at wide variance with the address of Chauncy M. Depew, made at Nashville at the unveiling of the Vanderbilt statue when he said the railroad of which he is president was the first in the country.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

No doubt the people of Northern Pennsylvania look upon the proposed killing of Murderer Sheriff Martin as in the line of poetic justice for the part he took in killing honest laboring peo- pie who had committed no offense.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

From the absence of Spanish victories of iaIte one would infer ttat Captain General Blanco has been caught on to the workings of a typewriter.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

If Chicago wishes to try Luetgert the second time before jury who know nothing, why not invite the late mone- tary commission to take seats in the ju- ry box?
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

There is no doubt but She Prince of Wales feels much relieved when MT. Croker informs the public that the two men had never met
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Ex-Governor Thomas G. Jones will find his law office too small to accom- modate mass meeting of the people who do net want his letters.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27
Increase the Assessment.

That the tax commission law has al mers is well known. It seems to be growing in favor even among town peo- pie. MT Sig Steiner of this city makes decided ground In it's favor He says the assessed value of city property here is TOW $10,S00,O00. about 50 per cent. of what it was four years ago, and that it is steadily growing less while many houses are being built, and that the assessment should in all honesty and fairness be double, and that a fair assessment would enable the city to maintain it's credit and support the public schools.
 He says also that the commissioner has attended to his duty. but that the commissioners can't satisfy themselves with such assessments as provide suf- ficient revenue for the county. He says that property here is mortgaged in many cases for three times it's assessed value. If MT. Steiner is correct, the people will quarantine against the present ,comm.s- Wipcih tHCy 6Ct d SiHtih~c. All property should be assessed at it's fair value and airy official who stands in the way of this will sooner CT later have Q rebuke administered that will not soon be forgotten. When commissioners allow assessments to stand at ore-fifth the value of property they are laying up wrath for the day of wrath.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

The proposed purchase of the Union Pacific road by the Morgan syndicate has all the evidences of a modern hold
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

If the will of the late George M. Pull man should contain clauses disinherit- ing the twin sons from any part of the great estate, the chances are Mrs. Pull man will have enough left her to pro- vide the boys with $2 bill and a clean shirt every morning.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Lady Somerset may be attempting -to work too much of a reform where reform is the least possible.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

It is good thing for Emperor William who objects to newspaper criticism 80 strenuously that he is not at the present. time a candidate for mayor of New Ynrlr
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Jim Corbett did not miss the opportuni- ty to get some free advertising out of the New York Central train wreck.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Ut is barely possible that Butcher Wey- Ter shipped his typewrite,r to ex-Gov- Thomas G. Jones, at Montgomery.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Yellow fever may be preferable to the reading of Thomas G. Jones' numerous and long letters.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

The gang of negro box car thieves stole six silver coffin plates, which shows that they had an eye to the future.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Mark Hanna is rapidly approaching the highest elevation of the toboggan.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

One week from today there will be few thousand political prophets in New York out of jobs.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Tom Jones is exceedingly fond of tell ing how things were run when he was governor.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

Seth Lows tide of reform is to make dead set for all the poodle in sight.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

It seems that John Armstrong Chan Ter is rapidly going the way of Edward Langtry.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

George c. Bates seems to have been running a furniture store on the pawn shop plan.
The age-herald., 1897-10-27

"A few more Thomas c. Jones' work ing overtime will start the fires under
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-08-19
country.

The Republicans of this state are
having high old time over the
$40, 900 appropriation made by the
last legislature TO pay certain
"Home Guards" for alleged scr
vices rendered during tho war.
All the other "lIomo Guards" i'm
the state who are just as much en-
ti;led to poy az these fellows, and
get nothing, are mp in arms. But
the trouble does not stop here.
Judge D. VI. McWhortor was tho
attorney for tho men WHO got the
appropriation. When the time
came 10 disbursc the money to the
men, Governor Atkinson appointed
McWhorter's son the agcnt Of The
stute 20 dlslr.buto b.. The FIRST net
of the agent WIS TO took out for
number one, and ho paid one
fourth Of the appropriation to bis
father asa fec. The men protested
but the protest counts Tor n,thing
H. was Is case OF steal from CLIO Start
and be 10 among them Che matter
Of dividing tho pinge. Wayne
News.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-08-19
OHIO POPULISr TICKFT.

The Populist State Convention
OF Ohio in session at Columbus last
week, nominated the following
State ticket:
Govcrnor-Jacob S. Coxcy OF
MssSillOn.
Lieutenant Gov,-Morris Whit,
comb Of Dcnisou.
Supreme Judge--P. g. Pomcroy
OF Columbus.
Attorney Genoral-C. A. Reeder
OF Wooster.
State Treasurer-F NJ. Morris OF
Auglaize.
School Commis ssioner- Snas
Shook OF Grcenville,
Member Board cf Public Works
}. IL. Sanders of Greene County.
IL was openly charged and pro
ven that Mark Uanna's agents dis
tributed Doodle among tho crowd
to get them to keep in the middle
of the road aud get out straight
ticket for fear some of tho Pop
ulst would vote with tho Dem
ocrats on the silver issue.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-08-19

James f. Laughly, a prosperous
farmer, who had been living three
miles west Of Webster, is mystcri-
ously missing. He loft his home
Monday morning OF last week, sta.
ting to his wife that he would drive
into Grafton and secure some fruit
jars necessary to preserving fall
fruit. lie arrived there at noon aud
left his horse and buggy in "A wagon
shop, stating to the proprietor that
ke would return in an hour. He
was last seen near the depot about
3 o'clock, and no trace Of him has
been found to the present time.