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The age-herald., 1898-02-08

occupied by western farmers who were themselves educated in public schools. and who expect to have their children prepared for the battle of life in a similar manner. So far as rudimentary education Is con- cerned. this expectation is reasonable and practicable. If other states offer to all children such an education, Alabama must do likewise. or else she must expect that the tide of people who will soon or late states that furnish adequate school fa- cilities
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IRONICAL IFS.

If a man is overbold he seldom gets bowled over.
 If a man is happily married he Is trans ported for life.
 If girl has blind beau she must have . spark of feeling.
 If a man has a bee in his bonnet he is reasonably sure of a lively-hood.
 If a lover of books is a bookworm, a lover of silks must be silk worm.
 If you would know what kind of temper a woman has take wet dog Into her parlor.
 If a pair of shoes are too small they may fit a woman, but if they are too large she has a fit.
 If you would know what your friends say of you when you are absent listen to what is said of others in your presence.
 If a married man dreams he's a bache- Tor it's sure sign that he will meet with . disappointment when he wakes up.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Women who paint should never shed tears.
 An easy lesson in bookkeeping-don't lend them.
 Auctioneers are always of more-bid disposition.
 The hair on horses neck is his mane protection.
 Money is useful as servant. but tyran- nical as a master.
 Lawyers and doctors usually profit by their own advice.
 No girl appreciates lover who is una ble to hold his own.
 It is easier to think you will get up early in the morning than it is to do 1t.
 An old bachelor says the man who con- fines his courting to widows never courts a-miss.
 When a man says there is no use talk ing you may as well prepare Tor long, winded argument.
 Silence is anything but golden to the poor girl who is dumb to the entreaties of a wealthy suitor.
 A cynical bachelor says that a widow should be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
 Nature cannot jump from winter to sum- mer without a spring, nor summer to win ter without a fall.
 Producers of poultry should rafrain from enumerating their juvenile fowls until af- ter the period of incubation has expired.
The age-herald., 1898-02-08
The DinqIey-German War.

Another chapter of Dingleyism has been laid before the American people, an6 the apple growers of New York and Michigan, Florida do not seem to relish it. The Ger mans are finding bugs in American fruit. The real bug was originated up in Maine.
 The president has the power under the can forbid the importation of German wines, or in fact of any or all German made or German-grown articles. He can take a hand in the work of retaliation, and the German rulers in their present desire to please the agrarian party in their coun- si5 could follow suit, and a tariff war would be on, and the beauties of Dingley- ism would thus become a spectacle to the whole world.
 In truth, this country has no casezno grounds for complaint. To satisfy 'the avarice of the sugar trust congress dis criminated against sugar manipulated in Germany, and Germany plays for even by finding bugs in American apples and or anges. She is trying to hold up her end, and has perhaps succeeded. If the presi- dent takes any step under the act of 1890, he must be considered the aggressor, just as the sugar discrimination was an aggres-
 sive, uncalled-for act of commercial war fare The country that began the nasty business should not grumble if it gets the af fba
 The apple growers :. of New York and Michigan and the orange growers of Cali fornia will have plenty of time to consider the subject before they desisively act in 1900. They can, if they study hard, as certain that they cannot, as a rule, sell
 where they do not buy. If in order to raise campaign funds Mir. Mark Hanna, acting for the snug MT. Mckinley, IS compelled | to shut out German goods, shall not the ] German rulers be permitted to win over
 the agrarans of their land as supporters | of their new naval programme by shut l ting out American goods? What is good | in one case, is good in the other. In- | stead of swearing at the Germans, who
 have followed American example only. let | the denunciations be directed at the ras- | calls. political and otherwise, who framed that great scheme of campaign liquidation. | the Dinglcy bill.
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Can't Come In.

The republicans who hurled Nevada into the union head foremost and more recently admitted a half dozen states, not one of which possessed the ratio of single mem Der of congress. now have the effrontery to stand up and declare that New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma are not entitled to admission. The pharasical MT. Mckinley the interruptions MT. Hanna, together with the dauntless speaker of the house and his committee on territories, all declare that the three territories named are not fit for statehood And yet every one of them contains more population today than Ne vada, Idaho or Wyoming contain today. to say nothing about what they had when they became states. The chances are that there are more people in at least two of them than there are in either of the two Dakotas or even in Utah. In 1890 New Mexico had 153, ,593 people. and the mining and fruit-growing industries have steadily prospered, and irrigation is transforming 1t into very desirable section. And this is true of Arizona also. Oklahoma is a nlVe or aSrlculturdl industry. It WdS oc- cupied almost in a day. Thousands upon thousands camped along it's border line, awaiting the opening of its fertile lands to occupation and entry. The claim that these territories are not entitled to ad- mission in the face of the record of the re- publican party in the cases of the Harri- son administration, is too empty and too attenuated to deceive any one.
 The action of the house committee on territories is simply an act of arbitrary power-a party measure, having no regard whatever for the merits of the particular applications. The three territories are democratic; Idaho and Wyoming and the Dakotas are, as rule, republican. That is all there is of it. The house committee practically says that republican communi- ties can become states, and democratic communities cannot There is nothing like expiieitness and frankness in politics. If the three territories insist upon remain Ing democratic, they must. of course, wait until the democrats control congress, and that time happily is not far off.
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give his references to the heroic period of that party. and he carried them along in a tide of logic, wit and biting sentences. It is fortunate for the cause he advocates and for the democracy that such a speaker Is on his way to the Pacific coast, and es- pecially to Oregon, where the first battle of the campaign of 1900 is to be fought tower of strength in the preparations for that great opening battle. He is an em- bodiment of force and clearness of state ment. with an abundance of excellent humor.
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had to close their shops and similar scenes arc reported from Rouen, Nantes, Nancy, Gnenoble. Remnes. Bordeaux. and Limoges. In all these towns students are leaders of the disturbances, which threaten to condnue-in the provinces as well as in Paris-so long as the Dreyfus affair keeps Frenchmen divided.
 All sensible people are longing for peace, and are deprecating tlhis agitation, bub it is plain enough that the excitement wili be kept up by the prosecution of M. Zola, which is in the opinion of many practical politicians, by no means a clever move on the part of the ministry, which is already in a very shalky condition, so much so, in- deed, that its fall any day would create no surprise. The best answer to M. Zola's letter would have been to publish the proof of Drefus guilt, with his confession, if he made any, which Is not yet demon- strated.
The age-herald., 1898-02-08
Schools and Immigration.

The railroad companies. and all others for that matter who are inviting immigra- ton from the north and east, are begin- ming at the wrong end The farmers of the north and east have children, and they are accustomed to good schools. When the state provides and equips good public schools, accessible to all, free for eight or nine months in the year, thousands of western farmers, with their families, their capital and their energies will gladly ex- change the blizzards and rigorous climate ofs the north for the genial atmosphere and generous soil of Alabama.
 These farmers that the railroads are in- viting down this way are not plutocrats. They cannot keep governnesses, nor send their children to distant schools. They are accustomed to schools near at hand, and perhaps their first inquiries will relate to the school facilities of the section they may have in view What answer can the railroad agent from Alabama make? If he tell the truth. the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, his chances of suc- cess are very slim indeed The western farmer. who has a family of children, sim ply cannot afford to come to a state that is without an efficient school system.
 It has become American doctrine that every child has a right to go to school not three or four months in the year-not to a slipshod excuse for school--but to a school that affords the education needed for good citizenship The child is to be fitted by the state for the duties and re- sponsibilities of life. This is now accepted American dostrine, but Alabama in her common schools is not living up to this doctrine; and until she does she cannot reasonably expect to have her fertile lands
The age-herald., 1898-02-08
TO DnI.IA sKhqI>

 From the Westminster Gazette. Of Diana, huntress. goddess, maiden cola
 And sedate, And her heavenly grace and beauty taiea are told
 Of old date How through woods swift-foot sne speos Danced on many a mountain head; Yet we never hear it said
 She could skate! Thus the happy bard who Delia's form ana face
 Celebrates As Diana's own, must sing an added grace
 On her waits, As he sees the radiant girl. Red as ruby, white as pearl. Like a Maenad dancing, whiri
 On her skates. Oh. the graceful form that flies and stoop1 and swerves Swiftly changing as wave that gather4
 Passes straight Oh. the eyes like stars that glow, which the frost has furnished sol cTis a gift of frost that know
 Those who skate) ai As q bird who poised in air on slsspinl wings,
 Watching, waftsi 4 Then by sudden fright or impulse movs4 up-springs: I
 Swoops, gyrates: She. whose feet the Graces nedget For her safety giving pledge. Skins from perllous edge to edge
 Of her skates.
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cally and mentally. He is now familiar with the work of his division, and in the prime of a most useful career. and it seems hardly the thing to discuss any suc- cessor to him but the Hon. Thomas Cobbs himself. Our people are learning wisdom from the experience of great nations. that are governed in all departments by wis., dom gathered from the experience of the past. They do not put aside faithful and tried official in the midst of his best service. It is too much like swapping mo sight and no seen," as the boys used to say in the jack knife trade. We are not ready to trade off the chancellor of this division.
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United Action Needed.

When the people of Alabama ask that a waterway be provided by the general gov- ernment for the coal and iron that nature has placed in the mineral district of this state, they ordinarily and properly base their request upon the promotion of the export trade; but there Is another point of view that is worthy of consideration.
 Out of the ss25 100000 to sS5O,OOo.OOO that the government annually collects, it is estimated that s1OO, 1000 900 is collected from the southern states. Of the internal rev. enue receipts it is known that the south contributes s35,OOOOOO, and it is believed that $1OO,OOO,oOo Is not an overestmate of the entire southern contribution.
 How little of it comes back! One-half of the amount contributed by the south is dealt out in gratuities to northern soldiers. And when the south asks, for example, for the opening of waterway that would handsomely increase national trade, what does it get? It has heretofore been told long series of years-that comparatively small sums only can be apportioned to them from year to year.
 The rank injustice of this treatment of is this all. Southern representatives should act unitedy in opposition to an unjust and negotiable policy. In every aspect of fed eral taxation, the south loses. The pro- ie lo fo ht1iI up the north, at the expense of the south, and the immense pension disbursements are just so much money extracted by force of law from lean southern pockets to fill fat pocketbooks in the north.
 Why then should not southern senators and southern members stand firmly to- gether to ask free and full appropriations for all improvements that relate to na- tional trade? They should seek such ap- propriations, not on the grounds that beg gars go on, but on the broad and unan- swerable ground of fair play and equity and justice. The present plan of federal taxation is fast impoverishing the south, and unless southern representatives can summon up force and keenneSs enough to secure for this section its just proportion of appropriations, the south will remain in bad way indeed. From the Maryland line to the Rio Grande. southern repre- sentatives should act unitedly in this mat ter. Right, justice, equity, and the fig ures on their side, and they need not fear the misrepresentations and abuse and shower upon them. This section has, all things considered, right to better com mercial facilities at the hands of the fed- eral government; and il such facilities cannot be procured, let the blame not rest upon southern representatives because of the want of united action.
The age-herald., 1898-02-08
OPINIONS OF A MAN.

Love sharpens the wits of woman and dulls the wits of a man.
 If most men told the truth they would write 1t mine ever'' at the end of their letters
 If girl has on her plumed hat when she faints away she generally does it with her head hanging over the edge of the sofa.
 As soon as a girl gets to know the differ ence between "healthy" and wholesome" she knows too much to be happy with a poor man."
 Probably the women will soon begin to have indignation meetings to denounce the doctors who have decided that house plants carry germs.
 The average woman would forgive her husband alot easier for cheating another man out of $500 than for squeezing the hand of her bosom friend.
The age-herald., 1898-02-08
CHANCELLOR THOMAS CoBBs
From the Tuskaloosa Times.

From the TuskalooSa Times.
 Something has been said about wanting the scalp of Judge Cobbs, our distinguish ed and popular chancellor, and that there has been bush shaking from beat to beat in Tuskaloosa county in that behalf. We have not so far, however discovered any inroads made upon his popularity and prestige here.
 Messrs Mcclure and Carmichael are both good men, and no disparagement of them is suggested in saying that Chan cellor Cobbs has given marked satsfac- tion-that he has <sraced the dignifed jul dicial position with the utmost fairness and ability.
 This office. as far as practicable, should be non-politicaL We too often witness the sad plight of the ermine being dragged through political mire, and we see very good reason why the United States su- prcme court judges are appointed, moi elected, and that, too. for life.
 The chancellor is strong man, physi-
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A SHIRT WAIST THAT FAsTENs IN THE
 BACK,

From the New York Sun-
 The newest corner in shirt waists is of taffeta, and opens only down the back. It is usually evolved from tempting bits of silky color found on some remnant counter, and it has drawstring about the waist which ties in front and gives full pouched bosom. A stiff, high white linen collars Is worn with such shirt, but the necktie is apt to be a scarf of some pale tinted silk muslin or chiffon, with tucked and hemstftslled ends, wound twice about the throat and knotted large and full in front It is the popular thing to make these little waists of striped silk or French flannel letting the stripes run crosswise of the body and arranging the sleeves on the same model.
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MT. Dingley does not practice what he breaches. A few days ago he purchased a new hat from a London maker, having sent to that city for the article. In this way Mir. Dingley was depriving some one more hat. If 1t was MT. Dlngley's idea to get good hat-one worth all the money he paid for 1.-the did the correct thing to buy better hat for less money, including the customs duty, In London than he could had he purchased an American make; but MT. Dlngley passed his tariff law for the purpose of forcing the people to patronize shoddy American manufactories.
The age-herald., 1898-02-08
ANEW IDEA IN WEDDING CAKES.

From Paris Letter.
 A present novelty is decorating the table for weddings, christenigs or royal dinners with huge ornamental cakes, cut up, and slices put in white wedge-shaped boxes These are put back in their places and the whole cake is surmounted with the usual blobs and wiggles of icing. During the festivities the big cake is cut apart.
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An object lesson has been taught the people of this country by the great storm in Boston, the necessity of placing all wires under ground. Aside from the danger of severe storms, there are hundreds of other reasons why all wires in every city in the United States should be placed under ground If Birmingham should ever be- come large city, then will be seen the great importance of underground wires. All wires to be used in the future should be placed under ground
The age-herald., 1898-02-08

Hugh Hanna, the monetary conference boss of Indianapolis, like others of his kind is fast acquiring the belief that he is running the country, and paying no heed whatever to Henry Watterson, who believes he has controlled that monopoly for many years.
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MT. IoWne's Address.

The eloquent ex-congressman from Du- luth, Charles A. Towne, certainly aroused a spirit of enthusiasm in the fine audience that filled Seals hall last night. He spoke as a silver republican. but the mans mag netic powers soon led his hearers to for get his repubicanism, and even to for
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The girl in West Virginia who shot a man the other day for stepping on her foot should have been more considerate. The chances are she had big feet, and the man could not avoid stepping on them. If some Birmingham girls should resort to the West Virginia method, there might be an un-
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If MT. Towne, of Minnesota, impresses open the campaign, as he did those who heard him last night in this city, there can be no doubt as to the result in the Pacific coast state. MT. Towne is the northwest, and will undoubtedly be elect ed to the next congress from the Duluth district. Few men have made more brilliant record in congress than did MT. Towne during the single term he was a member of that body.
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The public is getting on to the facs that Thomas B. Reed resembles a man who has his hands in the pockets of those able government robbers who seek by tricky legislation to acquire more of the Pacific land grant railroads.
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Now that Mark Hanna has taken his family. including all the little Hannas, with him to Washington, he will have to give up living at the White House or else the mansion will have to be sufficiently enlarged to accommodate both the Mo- Kinleys and the Hannas.
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In the opinion of some members of con- gress, a great outrage was committed when the Union Pacific railroad was sold, thereby depriving Collis r. Huntington of the pleasure of keeping up his infamous lobby, composed largely of members of the house, some of whom are from the south, and who have fattened from the Huntington lobby crib.
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Senator Lindsay may not be forced out of the senate now, but when the time comes for him to asked to be sent back there will be some lively throwing of the har- poon and the chances are Lindsay will be smited to political death. Then it will be as it should be.
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In the event that the next house is dem- ocratic and Benton McMillin of Tennessee should become candidate for the speak ership, 1t is doubtful if he will be able to make even as good a showing as he did in the senatorial race at Nashville.
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DEVIOUS DEFINITIaNs.

From the Chicago News.
 Tankard-A man who gets "tanked.. Drawing-The art of marking aroun- one's thoughts. Blockhead-The sire of chip off the oid block. .
 chaos-A pile of nothing with no place 10 put it. ,. Toddy-The one stirring event Of toperi existence. ,
 Sock-Something that frequenty ois- colors a mans eye.
 Now-The period of time between a"hhs ago and after awhile.
 Cohinet-The net in which all politicians are willing to be caught.
 Hope-S Synonymous with the wag or . aog,s tail when he's waiting for bone.
 Joy-The peculiar feeling experiences pS the man who counts his money ana nnos more than he expects.
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In the event of MT. Bryan's renomina- ton and election in 1900 it will be well to keep an eye on Charles A. Towne, of Min nesota, as the most probable secretary of the treasury.
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Richard Croker is. if all accounts are true, developing into gigantic political octopus extending to all the states and all the cities in the states. MT. Croker is a fairly good sized man in New York, but he is being worked as a bogey man through out country.
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Alabama's Showing.

From the Alexander City Outlook.
 Alabama's annual school expenditure is 39 cents per capita, while that of Missis- sippi is S9 cents Such a showing for Ala bama is bad indeed, when we consider the fact that Mississippi has a much larger colored population than our state.
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There Is Hope.
the Piedmont Inquirer.

From the Piedmont Inquirer.
 The plea for better schools continues, and has been made loud and long, and though we can never hope to see them perfected, signs of progress are visible Alabama, however, is far behind and needs vigorous efforts for improvement.
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Recent developments lead to the belief that David Bennett Hill might prepare for another snap convention.
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MORE AND BETTER SCHOOLS.
Echoes From the State Press Demanding
 Better Educational Facilities.

From the Decatur Herald.
 new constitution is needed, that we may have better and more public schools.
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