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The age-herald., 1897-10-02
rant to be assisted during exlraordina-

want to be assisted during exlraerdina- ry stress Of circumstances.
 E This is the experience of the Union Relief association, of this city, whose beneticaries have increased in number in the course of the summer, instead of becoming fewer, as is usually the case. Those whom the Union Relief assists are not paupers, and 1t should be well understood that the object of the asso- citation is to prevent pauperism. by ex- tending human and Christian kindness to those whom fate is treating harshly, so that they can get along, even in a straightened way. until they find means of self-support. The association needs large and generous supply of money to face the coming winter, for naturally it cannot expect a decrease of it's bur dens as things are now.
 It is just the same in Othe- cities. The summer has been one of extraordinary expenditure by the New York organized charities, nor is there any let-up so far. The Boston record is of the same char acter. There as here th+ calls upon the poor department of the city have not been much heavier than usial. Tine Boston Transcript reports that "Secrs-
 
 overseers of the poor states that the increase dn that department has not been gerat, but that it has come to his attention that the private organizations have been called upon far more this summer than last year." The increase in the absolutely destitute is considera- ble, however, these numbering forty-one more than last year, but this is not out of proportion to the increase of popu- aatfon; the very great application to private associations shows that the dis tress is among those who will almost etarve before they will ask the city for aid and so be placed on the pauper list. The Boston associated charities say that there has been more distress this summer than at any period during the haird times" There were fifty more cases assisted by the Boston provident association during August of this year than during the same month of 1896. Such facts show that "the hard times" are not to be spoken of in the past tense, but that they are here and now.
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
4 City's Vacation.

Atlanta seems to have entered upon a long vacation. The Gate City was not ready for a state fair. She gave up her proposed fan festival She will not even celebrate her fiftieth birthday in Decem- ber. She is making no preparations for the big confederate reunion next year. The fact is, Atlanta is tired and is talk ing a long rest. No railroads are nov ing their offices and shops there no factories are starting; no new enter prises are on foot.
 Grady was the one man who knew 1how to run the Georgia capital and keep it moving, but he left no sllscessor-no one with the ability to take up his great pub lie schemes and push them through.
 But the town is growing and will con- tinue to grow. Any city with so many commedous and sky-scrapirg office build ings is bound to draw people to it. If they can't do any thing else they can camp in an office building. There is plenty of room. .3-iI~,i
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
The Mighty Pulitzer.

John Paul Bocock has recently made public some very remarkable corre- spondence between ilhe Nate Col. John A. Cookerill and Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer made C'ockeril editor eff the New York World, Cblit in the course of time he be- came jealous of the journalists fame and popularity and sent n1im to London for a couple of moniths. A6,er getting Cock
 erfIl on tho other side eff the waiter,
 Pulitzer wrote him a long letter ir- sltrlpdtinlg hfm to remain in London aa Iuhe Worlds corresponds n5. In hs 1erlter he fr,arGSIy stated that he had intended
 when he sent him on his trip to keep
 him i'm Europe, because, as managing
 editor of the World he was making too
 much reputasfons
 Pulitzer filled several pages With pro-
 fessioms of friendship, but he admi tied that 0ie wanted to get all the credit for anything in his paper, and was not wffl- irlg ito play second fiddle in the eyes of
 the public Ito his subordinate. So Cook
 erfll would have to stay in London ui.itfa
 the people recognized Pulitzer as the absolute brain ard soul of his paper. The message cut CockerlI 70 the heart He had been loyal ito dlas chief. He at
 one time even Killed man flor him, unt
 der jllstfying ci1cuGns'ta nces, butt it is
 possible thaN he would thave avoided tt
 but for his employer. The journalist rer
 signed ard made a splendid record on
 other great newspapers, dying in harf
 ness at an ,Intlmely age. He is out ,of luhe way now, and MT. Pulitzer geits a T the putting he wapls when he pays fot 1t, or from the fiaUterers who lawn upon alFm in the hope of getting job. Yet he is not Happy. He cannot forget poor Cockerill.
 nt is a fact lthlat no newspaper in the world has gone down faster iJhan the World since CcL Cockerill ceased to be it's managing editor. By his untirdng en- erg'y, irdukltry ard ability, he made at one time the greatest newspaper fin nIhis country. He had w71I. Pulitzer did not have-courage, honesty and thorough | knowledge cf news-whic1f no paper can succesd without having The United Sta tes is filled with newspaper owners who krDow rcthing slbou, making news
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
An Era of Crime.

Georgia has had more lawful hangings and lynchings within the past twelve months than during any year since the reconstruction period, and yet crimes of violence in that state continue to in- creas.
 Death, whether administered by Rhe law or the mob, does not seem to check the red-handed monsters who thirst for blood and assault unprotected women. What is the remedy? We have among us an increasing number of devils who defy the law and mock at death. They go ito the gallows smiling, and express no fears about their future beyond the grave. Such fiends baffle human wis dom and justice. Ordinary methods fail to reach them.
 The only hope of the country is that a moral reaction will come, but it can rot be expected all at, once. It will be the work of time and education. Let the hangman continue his work until the wave of reform gets here.
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
Boston in the Past.

Just two hundred years ago an Eng nshman named Edward Ward visited Boston, and on his return to London he gave the town a fearful roast. In his account of the place Ward wrote:
 "The inhabitans are very religious showing many outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual grace. But though they wear in their faces the in- rocence of doves, you will find them ln their dealings as subtle as serpents. In terest is their faith, money their god, and large possessions the only heaven they covet.
 "Election, commencement and train ing days are their only holidays. They keep no saints days, nor will they al- low the apostles to be saints, yet they assume that sacred dignity to them selves, and say, in the title page of their psalm books: Printed for the Edifica- tion of the Saints in Old and New Eng land'".
 From the morals of our ancestors Ward now turns to their laws and cus- toms.
 "If you kiss woman in public, though offered as a courteous Saluta- ton, if any information is given to the select members, both shall be whipped or fined. But good-humored lasses, to make amends, will kiss the kinder in a corner.
 "A captain of a ship, who had been on long voyage, happened to meet his wife and kissed her in the street, for which he was fined 10 shillings and forced to pay the money. What hap piness, thought I, do we enjoy in old England, that cannot only kiss our own wives, but other mems, too, without the danger of such a penalty. .
 Another inhabitant of the town was fined 10 shillings for kissing his own wife in his garden, and obstinately re- fusing to pay the money, endured twen- ty laShes at the gun who. in revenge of his punishment, swore he would never kiss her again, either in public or in private.
 "A man and woman were sentenced to be whipped for the like offense, he be- ing ordered thirty 1ashes and she twen- ty; but he having extOrted the kiss from her. was so generous to solicit the se- lect that he might have the fifty, and the woman be excused, which was con Sented to accordingly"
 He went on to say that the Bostoni- ans were saints without religion, Christians without charity. magistrates without mercy, subjects without loyalty, traders without honesty. neighbors without amity, faithless friends and inn placable enemies"
 The traveller said that the men of Boston supported their pious preten- sions by wearing frowning and gloomy faces. The selectmen were very active in sending to the whipping post any man who got drunk or used profane language, but Ward intimated that those who stood treat for them were allowed to do as they pleased, and the author- ities winked at their peccadilloes.
 This old chronicle makes racy reading, and one cannot help wondering whether the Bostonians have altogether outgrown the peculiarities so bitterly criticised by the free-spolSen MT. Ward. Boston in the year of grace 1897 must have been town of hypocrites and tyrants.
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
Ex-Confederates and Republicans.

The Virginia state republican commit tee has disappointed Colonel Lamb, a prominent member of the party, who ex-confederates This is the general opinion in Virginia, and the St. Louis Globe Democrat makes plea for the recognition of ex+confederaItes by the republicans. It says:
 It is inc dtable that the republican party, in building up a constituency among the white men of the south should acquire great many persons who served the confederacy in a political or military capacity. A special effort should be made to reach these men. Their en- trance into the party should be well comed, and they should obtain a fadr share of the party's nominations. There wouA1 be no injustice to the exUnionists of d.he south in this course. The ex- confederates overwhelmingly outnum'ber the ex-unionists among the whites of the south, and it is among the whites that the republicans must make proselytes in order to win elections. They have been making proselytes the whites in most of the southern states very rapidly in recent years, partbcu- larfy since. the federal election laws were repealed. The reproach that the republican party in the south is negro party" merely is no longer applicable It has large following among whites of the highest social standing, and this should continue to increase. The way to increase it is fer republican caucuses and conventions in distributing their fa- vors, to be guided entirely by consid- eratons of fitness, regardless of the side which the aspirant took in the troubles of 1S61-5.
 There is sense and policy in this ad- vice from the 'Globe-Democrat's point of view, but it Is perhaps too late for the republicans to profit by it. The admin istration has gone crazy in the matter of appointing negro postmasters in the
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
Will Be the First Time.

From the Washington Times
 If the Spanish government makes it necessary to withdraw cur minister and sever diplomatic relations with that gov ernmenit, it will be fhe first time in the history eff America that such a thing has been done. Minister Woodford's case would be the precedent for the future. This government has, however, threat ened to do this sort of thing. In the days of the former Cuban war; when Gen. Sickles was minister ito Madrid, cer laan demands were made in conlnsctiom with the Virginius affair." and they were not compiled with
 The American government instructed Gen. Sickles to inform the Spanish gov ernmenn lthas if the demands made were mot promptly agreed to he should with draw ard all relations wi gh Spain should be severed. This threat brought the Spanish to time, and the demands of this government; were complied witlh promptly.
 During the insurrection bn Chili Min lister Egan was instructed ito make cer- 'bain representa- tioni5 to the government which were not kindly received. Minis ter Egan threatened to call for his pass ports, but Ith.s was unnecessary, for the "reques." of tfiis government was ac- uuieSced in. These are the two cases where threats of a severance of diplo- matfc relations had their effect, but none of the officials at the state depar ment is able to recall single Instance where one of our ministers was realty recalled.
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
DingIeyism in Operation.

Under the Wilson bill knit goods valued at not oyer 40 cents a pound We're taxed 35 per cent. ad valorem; if worth more, the duty was 40 per cent. MT. D,hgley changed these reasonable rates in a very radical manner. He divided knit goods into two classss. The first class, valued at 40 cents or under he loaded with an ad valorem tax of 50 per cent, and specific tax of 33 cents a pound. Upon the second class, consisting of goods worth over 40 cents a pound and under 70 cents, he imposed an ad va loren tax of 50 per csnt. and a specific tax of A cents pound. On goods worth over 70 cents a pound, he had duty of 55 per cent. ad valorem and an ad- ditional duty of A cents a pound.
 Such duties upon indispensable arti- cles of every day use-articles that main- tain warmth of the body-articles us by the poorest of a community, are of course prohibited. They were intended to be prohibitive up to the point of ex- cesslve profits to the combined home mills. The usual result was quickly seen. The association of knit goods manufacturers uet in New York. and ad-
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writing out story on the machine. Now, I have heard composftcks talk while setting type, but they were merely copying. whereas MT. Crockett was writ ing out original matter. Usually he works alone, beginning at about o'clock in the morning, and when he comes down to breakfast at he has 5000 words written out. He ssems to be inexhaustible and is certainly indefatig- able. He is six feet four inches tall, weighs 2S0 pounds, and Is as nlmble as Q cat"
 Mime. Sarah Grand will send the copy of her new novel to thsi printer in the course of the next fortnight or three weeks. She is now staying at a little wayside hotel in the forest of Fontaine- bleau. Befor5 she went there, she left the manuscript of her novel at a type writer's in London, and is now correct Ing the typed copy shest by sheet, as 1t reaches her. Directly this emsndation Us ends l, the copy will be sent to Londo1 Co be ,et up. There has been refeeels ingly little of tha flourish of trumpeta so far about this book: and even Mme Grands severest critics must admit that she is at heart an artist. She has no care for serial rights, and, indeed ob- jects to her work appearing in that fash- ion. Consequently hsr new tovel-the first since "The heavenly Twins will make its first appearance in book form. It is reported to be an introspeetive study of female character from the cradle to tha grave. The book starts with the birth of the heroine, Beth, and ends with her death
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
PHILIPS COUNSEL.
A Bit of Wise Advice That Greatly Pleased His
 Father.

From the New York Sun.
 "As a general .Ihing," satd Mir GraEe- bar, 'I take a cheerful view of things, and with all it's cares and troubles I like life so we'll that I would be glad to have it prolonged indefinitely. But oeca sion- ally something happens that, while i5 does riot Crake me deSpondent-I am never 'that-db:'tuibs me greatly. And then. as likely as not, I grieve to gay. I go home 70 dinner and sit down at the table with gloom written in my face in letters so large that there is hardly room to get all on.
 Finally, after a period of silence, Philip speaks up wi.ll the irreverance of youth. but with youths blessed buoy ancy:
 q Take a brace, old man; take brace.'
 ''ArJd l try to explain to Philip that things have not gone my way that day, and dihat don't feel wedl
 'And Philip says: We'll you ought 10 throw a bluff that you are feeling well. whether you are or rot.'
 ''Arla I feel that what Philip says is true. I have, from time to time, lrled 70 give him, out of my experience, wise counsel. fee lthat there are times when I may profit by the counsel of Philip"
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
Havana Must Be CIeansed.

Ut will be three yeans next December since the patriots of Cuba began their efforts to lhIow off the Spanish yoke; and ever since that time affairs through out the island G1ave steadily gone l.cm bad 10 worse. Havana Itself has became dha't respect the foulesit ports of Brazil. lis pent-up harbor 11as become cess- pool. Its drainage is abominable. It's every condition is filthy and disease breeding. ''Who wonders" says a racens correspondent, 'ftllat Havana is the focus of yellow fever, and that is proximity to our sou uhern ports exposes us to con- stani. danger? Were Gs not for the reg breezes, with the steady rays of the trep- fcai sun, with so many breeding points of infection and with an utter neglect of sanitary regulations, the mortality Sanitary engineers who have visited the island all unite in saying that with mod ern sanitary measures Havana could be made one of the most heaEtffful of cities. By simply cutting a short canal 10 the ocean on either side of the bay, the flow and reflolw eff ItIhe water would effectuaaly cleanse the haIibor, and as eXpsrie nee has demonstrated dn other Iocaffies, cause the fever ito disappear"
 It is not necessary to go back to Jeff ferson's position aIs to lhe sstragetic value of Cuba. Capt. Mailman, in the October Harper presents the miDD.ary view of the subjech But Itlhe sani lary vietw-the view slha't James G. Blaine often pressed upon public attention, namely, bhe rig's. to de- mand thalt Havana shall not long be kept in @ condition tIflat threatens all epidenics. To our great danger and constant menace Spaia has kept Havana full of unacclTmated soldiers, while she has made no efforo to put it in sound sanitary condition. T7he people here lpaye right ito demand t1Jat such a menace to life and propehty in this coun- try shall not be longer maintained. It is she right of self-deferse. It is the righ, that has been violated Ito such an extent that half a dozen sta.es are today in state eff fear and paralysis. Such con- diaion of things has gone on long enough Further, tJhalt Havana should be put under s,trict sanitary regulations If it has io be done at the cannon's mouth Again, that the plainest, simplest rule of all law gives us the right to seek pro- tection against the most 'reacherols and malignant fever that ever ravaged man. kind.
 If Havana be mot swept clean and puri- fled on shore and off shore before con gress meets in December, the people de- mand as @ measure of protection to many states that s,:epts be taken to do what Spain hlas neglected to do, whether Spain likes it or mol. 1t is mot Cuba so much than we want as It is security here at homo against Spanish filth and Span fsh misgovernment
The age-herald., 1897-10-02

vaneed prices. just as cold weather IS coming on, from 15 to 40 per cent. At the same tims they provided for further advances, and they also provided for the maintenance of the new prices even If ito do so they had to shut down their mills
 Ie is a hold-up of unusual severity. It
 is Ding1eyism as 1t Is practised. Secre- tany Bible, of the Knit Goods associa- ton. explained the situation very clearly when he said in his circular letter. "the consumers are naked, stocks depleted, and the pockets of the agricultural classes are full" He did not tell the mill lords that their grip upon the pock- cts of the agricultural classes had been mads perfect, because all knew what their campaign subscriptions meant, and all knew that the bargain had been put into the Dingley bill.
 So 800 of them met in New York, and lev-ed tax beyond former taxes of 15 to 40 per cent. upon the consumers and agricultural classes. How much more they will levy before their avarice is sated, no man can say. The more they levy, the quicker perhaps will the peo- pie see the true inwardness and rotten ness and downright villainy of Ding leyism. Speed the day of just taxation and common honesty,
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
WITH THE WRITER'S.

A new departure for Sir Walter Besant is @ volume of drawing room plays, which he has produced in collaboration with Walter Pollock. The plays ar@ graceful, light and witty and appeal to lovers of fiction while at the same time they are adapted to practical use for amateur theatricals. The volume is pnofusely illustrated after drawings many of which are contributed by the we'll known American artist, Arthur Jule Goodman.
 Gen. Lew Wallace has been silent since the publication of his Prince of India" The announcement of a new book from his pen is, therefore, nsws indeed. It is called 'The Wooing of Malkatoon; Com- modus," and contains two poems, with illustrations by F. V. DuMond and J. R. Weguelin. ''The Wooing of Malkatoon" is a love story, the scene of which is in the Orient. The hero, a chivalrous youth, while on the chase, meets his fate. Acting under conditions imposed by the maids father, he goes forth into the world to do and dare that which will se- cure him her hand. "Commodus'' is play founded upon acaramatic incident in the time of Rome's greatest power and glory. Maternus, slave who had lib- erated himself, gathered about him a band of freebooters that finally reached Rome, Maternus being slain, after a vain attempt to kill the emperor and cap- ture tha throne.
 A friend who has recently visited S. R. Crockett at St. Andrews. says of him: 'He has two type-wrting machines of 1lnlIclIal siza and rtre n cntJ1 that he had made especially for his own use at cost of $500 each, and he works on th=se at lightning pace. But that is not all-he will carry on a general conversation with a roomful of people while he Is
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'Haru Times" Stfll 10 lSe ReckOne0 Withs
 From the Springfield Republican.
 Whatever may be hoped for in respect to prosperity, whether from the new tariff, the wheat crop. the upward fiuc- tuations of silver or other cause, it must be recognized that so far the wave so long predicted and so effuslvely well comed on trust has not reached a great number of the workers of the country. It is a fact, too, that the past summer has been a hard one for the poor, and there are no indications that the winter will be better. As matter of fact, the winter is always the season when lack of employment and consequent priva- tion is felt most bitterly. The past sum- mer and the present autumn are char acterized by all who deal with these con- ditions as unequaled in their demands for help; and the most depressing as- pect of the situation is that the calls for aid fall prinSspl~:y sspon those soci- eties which are formed only to help those who do not wish to become de- pendent on public charity. but only
The age-herald., 1897-10-02
AT DANCING SCHOOL.

By H. c. Burner. The masters old and lean and grim And the gout is in his knees; And though he says his eyes are dim My smallest fault he sees. Chassez and bow, and turn and bow try my best to please No matter how, there's a frown on his brow And the gout is in his knees. He taught my father long ago;
 He teaches me today; A thousand small tired feet, I know,
 Have stirred at his chasseZ. Chassez and bow and turn and bow To the girl in pink and gray No matter how, there's frown on his brow AS he teaches me today. But what care how stern he be,
 If Pink-and-Gray be kind? Oh, let him frown his best on me,
 If so he have mind. Chassez and bow and turn and bow My happy eyes are blind To the frown on the brow-no matter how-- If Pink-and-Gray be kind. Oh, let him frown, and frown his fill, Howeer he make me stir; The Caledonian Quadrille
 Today I danced with her. ChaSSez and bow, and turn and bow The fiddles whizz and whirr, No matter how be the frown on his broM Today l dance with her. An, me, what years have slid away, Sweet Pink;;and-Gray, K; d,s; and how!
 They do not dance it now. & Chassez and bow, and turn and bow And the master, grim and gray. Hasa frown on his brow, and yet, some
 how,
 The scholars slip away. I sit here in the evenings cool, And see you, Pink-and- Gray Lead children to the danf1nE school
 To the master, grim ana gray. Chassez and bow, and turn and bow I might have walked today No matter how-twill never be now With you. sweet Pink-and-Gray.