The age-herald., 1898-06-11

 duction to 2O,OOo.OOO tons a year. Alabama could furnish ten per cent of that amount without serious effort. An increase of $2 ton would mean a season of new fur naces and unexampled prosperity through out this district. Such an increase is not improbable, as things are going.
 Under the primary system and direct voting for state and other candidates the white people turned out in Georgia last Monday almost to a man. In Carroll coun- ty, on the Alabama line. 2,0i2 citizens voted in the democratic primaries, and in Floyd county, another county on the Alabama line, 3147 voted. In every county hundreds of people had voice in saying who tl;eir candidates should be-a piece of business heretofore transacted by a few "fxers."
 As General Shafter closes in on Santiago he should remember that he Is drawing near the scene of the Virginlus butcheries of the ten years war In that port the
  cred.
 The people are becoming very tired of the delay in conducting the war. The troops would be safer from disease on the wlnd-swept hills of Cuba than they are pen- ned up in sewerless towns in this country
 If seens that Georpoa French and Colonel Joe Letter were simply working for the farmers good, and they are now trying to determine which shall be elected goyer- nor of Illinois by the farmer vote.
 The Pail Mall Gazette is for once right when it says "The seizure of Porto Rico and the Philippines will place America in po- sition to dictate the only terms she could possibly accept"
 
 The spook ships have left the neighbor- hood of Boston, and are sailing in the Florl- da Straights. Mir. Mckinley has found an- other excuse for staying the on-to-Cuba movement.
 The Florence people are eagerly awaiting Governor Johnstons Fourth of July oration in that city. They propose to give him a rousing welcome. A patriotic address is anticipated.
 The farmers of Kansas have begun to cut wheat, and they propose to put 100000 OG0 bushels beyond winds and rains by the end of next week. What a countryl
 Cape Haytien is in Hayti. and the great American censor does not exalt himself in that country. The blue pencil is not mace in that island.
 The removal of the capital of China from the empire is in hot water, and is perhaps breaking up.
 Santiago is about to fall and Cervera Is about to pull down his flag. This is a good time to run up a few more flags in Birmingham.
 MT. Platt and the esteemed Quay have been heard from recently but the scholarly Hanna seems to have been lost altogether 
 The Santiago bottle served it's purpose excellently, but now Shafter and Sampson will finish the business by smashing it.
 Sewanee river Is supposed to run right fbrnt ttryl #, see many beauties in the old song.
 Montejos fleet was destroyed in May, Ceveras will be this month, and Camara's case is calendared for July
 The people are commencing to feel the effects of war. It comes home to every man in the form of taxation.
 
 It is difficult to say which the country has the less use for-its board of strategy or it's porcelain bath tub.
 The Galveston News thinks Lieutenant Hobson has knocked some of fame's finest persmmons from the tree.
 
 Florence should not be permitted 10 mo- nopolize the Fourth of July in the broad state of Alabama.
 Tho Washington Post says the prune has become the luxury of the plutocrat in Ha- vana.
 Almost every days wheat market shows how heartless was the Letter conspiracy.
 Squire Wheat should suggest to Major Flour that it is time to come down.
 Every citizen of Birmingham should sub scribe to the charity hospital fund.