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The age-herald., 1898-10-16
The Virden Riots.

The coal mine officials and Governor Tan ner continue to talk and to denounce each other. Governor Tanner really accuses himself of negligence, for if the incoming negroes were undesirable citizens of Illinois and he had right the executive of the state to prevent their coming into the state, he should have acted at the state line instead of the mines And if the mine owners brought such people into the state, knowing that their presence would lead to a riot, they were, to say the least, reckless of consequences and public order and life
 Whoever brought the coal miners and the negroes together contributed to the deplor- able result. The blame will doubtless be distributed among the negroes who would not stay away from trouble, the miners who refused to depend upon the slow and uncertain action of the courts, the gover- nor of the state, who acted too late to stop bloodshed, and the mine owners, who were determined to win regardless of human life
 There is one aspect of the case that is pretty free from doubt. If the mine own CTS had a right to hire Alabama negroes and to put them at work in their mines, thus supplanting equal number of white miners, then they were morally bound to protect them from injury. Doubtless the courts will hold them to legal responsi- biity in this respect; for they carried the negroes they took from this district direct to Virden without taking any adequate steps whatever to protect their lives. Everybody knew in Macoupin county that a strong force would be needed when the negroes were landed at the stockade,l and D10lllIlInnn1es not at hand. Every ir1- such foree W" p suffered injury sbaS)Gl ported negro wh\ he courts. ald test his rights in NoDoO man has no right to hire another man and at once assign him to piece of work that would endanger his life or health, and the rule | seems to apply to the case of the Ala bama negroes who were carried to Virden to face a mob that the mine owners had good reason to believe would be present. Instead of talking about the rights under the constitution of the colored citizens of this country the president of the mining company should have been hustling for a force sufficiently strong to protect them when they arrived. This he did not do. This brings upon his head a moral respon- sibility at least for the resultant bloodshed ana possibly pecuniary responsibility will fall upon his company The latter is the only kind of responsibility that a corpora tion seems capable of understanding and meeting.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
THE TRUCE OF THE BEAR

Literature in it's current number pref sents the latest poem by Rudyard kipling. He distrusts the czars motive in advising universal disarmament, and reveals it by telling the story of a hunter who forebore to kill the bear. The refrain of the poem is: "There is no truce with Adam-zad the bear that looks like man. Some stanzas run: Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot iE the vale below. Yearly by Muttianee he follows out white men in Matun, the old blind beggar bandaged from brow to chin.
 broken speech, Seeking a dole at the doorway he mu;zSsS5 his tale to each Over and over the story, ending as he began; Make ye mo- truce with Adam -zad-the bear that walks like man!
  "Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer Making his supplication rose Adam-zad tho bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing. "Touched with pity and wonder, did not fire then I have looked no more on women-I have walked no more with men. Nearer he tottered and nearer, with paws like hands that pray Frcm brow to jaw the steel-shod paw, if ripped my face away!
  ''But (pay and I put back the bandage) this is the time to fear, When he stands up like a tired man, totter. ing near and near; When he stand up as pleading, in mon- strous, man-brute gulse, When he veils the hate and cunning of the little swinish eyes. "When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like~h hands in prayer, That Is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear!"
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
AMERICAN COTTON IN CHINA

From the New York Mail and Express.
 While the southern cotton planters are grumbling of overproduction and cosequent distress, it is interesting to note. in official reports of our expanding export trade with China. that the most valuable branch of that trade is now in cotton goods. Over s7,OOO,OOO in American cotton fabrics-or about 40 per cent. of the total exports of cotton goods from this country-went to China last year. What is especially needed for further increase, it appears, is sample rooms, which could be cheaply instituted and maintained in connection with our con- stlar service. Our rivals are following this plan, and we must resort to 1t systemak- cally, In China as elsewhere. N
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
CAMPAIGN CASH FOR VAN wYUK

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 For the first time since the Syracuse con- vention that nominated Judge Augustus Van Wyck for governor, Richard Croker today made his appearance at the demo- cratic headquarters in the Hoffman house. Manhattan. He was in conferecne with Senator McCarren only a short time when Senator Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy, made his way into the room. The reporter for the Eagle learned that the conference concerned the important question of rais-
 ing a campaign fund for the state ticket A man who has been familiar with cam pagn funds in the past and the effort to raise them, said that the democracy this year would spend at least $5O0,000 in the at tempt to elect Van Wyck.
 The greater part of this sum, he said would come from the place holders in the Greater New York. Here the old system of assessment will be applied. The men earning $1 ,O00 a year will be taxed 1 per cent; those earning s15OO 11a per cent. and so an increase of F per cent. for every additional $500 in salary. The draft is ex- pected to yield something like sl50.o0o, which, with voluntary contributions from .,paople who have been democrats all their iivss s55 ,aasEell off ipstAiS .xa1ls s s5eesls and also from corporations, wifi raise the figures to perhaps $3O0,0O0.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
Greater Birminqham.

The keynote of Greater Birmingham should be Health, Sanitation, Sewers. No matter how well the present city be drained-no matter how free from malaria the city itself be kept-there is no safely from malarial levers and epidemics unless the entire valley, which is none too wide, be made sound in a sanitary sense. The drainage of every inch of Jones Valley should be under the control of the people most deeply interested in it, and this cannot be the case unless the territory of drainage be included in the limits of the city. Lesser municipalities or the county would be apt to employ pipes of unsuitable size, or they would neglect the matter of drainage, the latter contingency being altogether the more probable.
 Annexation is the only sure remedy against condition that leads on to mal- aria disease and epidemics. Jones Valley can be readily drained, and when it is thor valley in the universe. A porous chert overlying a soft eavernous rock, all being full of lime is natures part in the work, and if the people of the valley will take created by their presence in it, the problem is favorably solved and no malarial disease can gain a foothod here.
 The value of such a condition in this sec tion of the country, or in any section for that matter, cannot be overrated. It at tracts population as scarcely anything else does People soon ascertain where there is is a town free from malara, and when other circumstances permit, they select that town as a place of residence. This would increase taxable values as well as population, and in the long run every ex- pense in the direction of sanitation would be returned to the treasury many times over.
 It does not follow that an elaborate sys- tenn of sewers covering the entire valley must be constructed as soon as annexation takes place. It does follow that plan covering the entire valley can be made as soon as annexation tnDo a tbon jIsfy drainage impreysment will conform o that plan, be tt mdch or little. Sewer s'tensi0ns VII sfde along as the eondl'i'" # the city treasury permits, but what we hould strive for is right to make those xtensions conform to a plan that event lally looks to a healthy and sound condi- ion of the entire valley.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
The Feysr Situation.

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 The fever is losing it's force. It did not last week gain much additional ground It did invade Natchez and a few other towns in Mississippi and Louisiana, but at no place were there many cases or many deaths The percentage of deaths does not thus far exceed five per cent. or cases. The disease seems to be attracted by con- dtions existing near the great river. inc eastern section of Mississippi is almost un- touched. ocean Springs and Biloxi and Meridian and Columbus and West Point and Tupelo and Iuka are all untouched by it; and even the town of Starkville has not had a case, although there have been a few cases among the students of the Agricultural and Mechanical college, dis tant about two miles from the town itself. The western half of the state is very freely infected, but the disease lacks vigor, and not many deaths will result from its prev alence.
 The cool wave will undoubtedly have good effect It was accompanied by light frosts in at least one-half of the state. The cool spell came unusually early in the sea- son and lasted unusually long, eliminating in this district in a frost that was rather
 more than light" The white blessing must have been apparent as far south as | Jackson, in Mississippi. It must have a
 good effect so far as a spread of the | disease is concerned, and a diminution of | its area and virulence will doubtless set in | this week, with promise that quarantines | can be lifted by the first of November. 
 When Dreyfus reaches Paris the fun will begin.
 Cuba will be annexed ad interim on De- l cenber l.
 i Government by telephone is feature of
 Mississippi life.  i Virden outranks Bear Island in the mat
 ter of bloodshed.
 Spain has been notified to get off this
 continent by December l. |
 spains sovereignty in the Philippines is
 almost wholly matter of the imagina' l ton.
 Chaplain Mcintyre will probably keep hls | tonics down to quinine hereafter. ------ | The war department should offer tht
 camp ground at Chickamauga as a healti
 resert.
 The southern cotton mill owners and cot
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
SEVEN BROTHERS IN POLITICS

New York Letter to Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The Van Wyck family isn't in it with the seven Buttling brothers, of Brooklyn. Every one of them appeared in the repub lican judiciary convention as representa- tives from one assembly district The aIest member of this family of practical Politicians is ex-Sheriff Butting His six brothers, who at an early stage of the game recognized his superior qualities, have aided in advancing him in every pos sbe way.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
a.sPossihIe Candidate

Selma Times: Since Hon. F. L. Pettus has retired from the gubernatorial race. or rather refused to enter it, Dallas may come to the front in the person of MT. c. w. Hooper, one of the truest men and most loyal democrats who ever drew the breath of life. If he would consent to run he would have the loyal, enthusiastic support of Dallas county and a large proportion of the black belt counties.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

vote in the senate. But beyond a doubt the debt problem Is the chief problem be- fore the commission, rivalling in that re- spect the Philippine question. Both will tax the skill, if not the patience, of our commissioners.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
STRAY THOUGHTS
 OF STATE EDITORS
The Trial of His Life

Scottsboro Citizen: Governor Johnston has the greatest trial of his life before him the appointment of two railroad commits sioners. The Citizen desires to give the governor the assurance of it's distinguished cOmmiSeration.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
Bibb County Wants Schools

Centreville Press: The press s in favor of schools, if there is any county that needs schools it Is Bibb. Then after getting the schools there ought to be some law passed compelling ignorant parents to send their children to school. Some parents keep them in the field and let them grow lD in ignorance
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
A BIeachery Needed

Warrior Breeze: The Birmingham Age Herald raises the question of securing bleachery in Alabama This is a much needed enterprise. At present Alabama cotton is shipped to New England to be bleached when it could be done her. It IS said that bleachery would pay at least 30 per cent. upon the outlay. Let's join The Age-Herald in working to get bleachery in this section of our state.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

enterprise which may be located here from city taxation for a period of years
 I feel sure that this objection can be overcome.
 Let Birmingham be progressive. Let us expand. Of course there will be lots of kicxers, but there are always kickers.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
HE KNOWS THE CORoNERs

From the Boston Herald
 Secretary A1ger is off to Omaha with the presidential party. Apparently, he isn't worrying much about the inquest on his political corpse. Perhaps he knows the Coroners.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
THE UNTANGLING

From the Washington Post.
 One of the most important things in con nection with the war is the work of un- tangling our chaplains.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
ALL ALONG THE LINE

From the Scottsboro Citizen.
 The next general assembly should give Alabama a better public school system. An improvement is needed all along the whole educational line in this state
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
Schools for All

Bessemer Herald-Journal: The south must have better public schools-not schools for the education of the favored few at the expense of all the taxpayers, but schools for the education of all the children the poor as well as the rich. The chil- dren of today must not grow up in ignor- ance-they must be educated. The legisla- tor who votes the public money to a few favored institutions may be unconsciously' dsnriTi7s. nfs avn children of an education bv taking inc NVapues away from the schools where inc beShfhen of the masses are educated. es7e.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
BUCKING Is BARBARIC

From the Philadelphia Ledger
 College hazing is an anomalous bit of barbaric imbecility for institutions devoted to the spread of sweetness and light.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
Ire Bankruptcy Law

Ozark Star: Within the past few days any number of farmers have been in Ozark consulting attorneys about the bankrupt law with view of being relieved of the r indebtedness. In most cases the farmers who seek to take advantage of the law, are under mortgage and they cannot be bene- fited by it's operations or relieved from the mortgage. As a matter of fact many far
 mers, on account of being in debt, and the price of cotton so low. that they see no prospect of paying out have about lost hope, and in some instances are becom ng desperate. This is unfortunate and there is no use in giving up. The man who does the best he can, acts honest with his cred iters and shows a clean hand, need have no fear of being broken up by his creditors. As the farmers are pressed the merchants are correspond ngly so, and everybody will just simply have to do the best they can, and assist each other in bridging over what seems to be a year of hard luck and low prices. The thing the farmers of this country want to do is to plant less cotton and let the bankrupt law severely alone.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The gentlemanly burglar is the tax dodgers rival in New York
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

Jack Frost and annexation are quickening the steps of every good citizen.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The negro who goes to Firden or Pana to help the mine-owners institute starvation wages deserves all the punishment he will get, and he will get a lot of it.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16
Golden BirdnAfs

Dadeville New Era: Tallapod&a mas goid mines from which great wealth WA0i some day be extracted. We have several mes called attention to specimens of fine 9&oio from these mines brought here to he sene to the mint for coinage; but decidedly the oldest looking lump of the yellow metal ever turned out of any one of our mines was a birds nest (so termed, shown us Monday by Fred A. Vaughan-the nest being solid gold and containing twelve solid golden eggs, the whole weighing 15O penny weights. MT Vaughan will send this gold to the mint at New Orleans to be coined into what some people call sound money
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

This is the place and the city to appl the expansion doctrine
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The boys of the First had no opportunity to fight the Spaniards, but they are to have a chance to fight for charity's sake, the sweetest cause of all.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The Spaniards regret that they cannot take Cuba with them as they go.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

Mustered-out men and privates do not seem to be eligible as witnesses before the whitewash board.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The coal miners of Virden want pay for their work at the rate of 10 cents a ton.s The mine-owners offer them 2S cents ton Hence the strike. It Is a strike directed against starvation wages.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

If you believe in the future greatness of Birmingham become an annexationist at once.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The Minnesota pillagers have subsided, but the Pennsylvania pillagers are still shaking the plum tree, though little shaken up themselves.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The war department should offer the camp ground at Chickamauga as a health rescrt.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat insists that the anthracite coal mines found in China are the bottom of the Pennsylvania mines.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

At Leech Lake the Red Pillagers were goaded to desperation by the timber and land-hungry pillagers, all whites.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The southern cotton mill owners and cot ten growers are interested to the extent of
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

The political campaign is warming up-in the contested congressional districts, par ticularly in the Seventh.
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spain's sovereignty in the Philippines is almost wholly a matter of the imagina- ton.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

Chaplain Mcintyre will probably keep his tonics down to qunine hereafter.
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Remittances can De made by express, rate of exchange. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala
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s7oOoOOO a year in the Chinese trade ques- tion. They are naturally expansionists.
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Spain has been notified to get off this continent by December l.
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yirden outranks Bear Island in the mat ter of bloodshed.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

Government by telephone is feature of Mississippi life.
The age-herald., 1898-10-16

I000,0O0 year in the Chinese trade ques- tion. They are naturally expansionists. The coal miners of virden want pay for their work at the rate of 10 cents ton. The mine-owners offer them 2s cents ton. Hence the strike. It Is a strike directed against starvation wages
 The negro who goes to yirden or Pana to help the mine-owners institute starvation wages deserves all the punishment he will get, and he will get a lot of it.
 
 The boys of the First had no opportunity to fight the Spaniards, but they are to have a chance to fight for charity's sake, the sweetest cause of all.
 The Minnesota pillagers have subsided, but the Pennsylvania pillagers are still shaking the plum tree, though little shaken up themselves.
 The political campaign is warming up-in the contested congressional districts, par ticularly in the Seventh.
 The St. Louis Gobe-Democrat insists that the anthracite coal mines found in China are the bottom of the Pennsylvania mines.  At Leech Lake the Red Pillagers were goaded to desperation by the timber and land-hungry pillagers, all whites. Mustered-out men and privates do not seem to be eligible as witnesses before the whitewash board.
 If you believe in the future greatness of Birmingham become an annexationist at once.
 The Spaniards regret that they cannot take Cuba with them as they go. Jack Frost and annexation are quckening the steps of every good citizen
  The gentlemanly burglar is the tax dodgers rival in New York
 This is the place and the city to apply the expansion doctrine.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-13
inexpensive Trimmed Millinery.

Every day choice trimmed
hats are being made in our
work room to sell at
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-13
Dress Goods.

We have a splendid stock
blacks and colors-two sorts
for every one found in any
other store in this section;
we are showing the very
cream of the leading foreign
and domestic productions.
Nothing good for this fall and
winter has escaped us.
The next best thing to be
said is the remarkable reason
ableness of the prices. Inva-
riable astonishment is ex-
pressed that they are SO very
low.
We have a little booklet
listing all the principal stufs
of the season. Glad to send
it to anybody interested; f;
write or ask for it.
Samples of any kind of
dress goods sent anywhere.
Drop us a postal.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-13
Black Dress Silks.

A short story Of black dress
silks. If there is one reputa-
ton we strive for more than
another it is that of reliability.
So our black dress silks are
dependable, first price comes
afterwards.
Brocaded Black Gros Grain
Silk, 81 and % inches wide, at 75c
and ST. the yard.
Brocaded Taffeta, imported
goods, 81 inches wide, at 874c the
yard.
Black Satin Duchess, 10 to "a
inches wide, SOC to 50 the yard.
Black Peau de Sole, 10 to "a
inches wide, 75c to $3.50 the yard.
Black Gros Grain, 10 to %
inches wide, 62c to $3.50 the yard,
Black Taffeta, 10 to % inches
wide, 55c to $1.62 the yard.
Werepeat again: we cheer
fully send samples anywhere;
write for samples if you can
not come to see.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-13

The free-for-all was a great race. Mr..
Dodge stated that the free-for-all had to
be abandoned at the state fair in Rhode
Island, and complimented the manage
ment on the excellence of the starters.
Belle Colley won easily. The summary ;
Traa For III purco SoOn
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-13
A Filtration Checked.

One day when Queen Victoria was
present i'll her carriage at /: military re-
view the princess royal. then rather a
willful girl of l3 or IA, sitting on the
front seat, seemed disposed to be rather
familiar aud coquettlsh with some
young officers of the escort. Her majesty
gave several reproving looks without
avail. At length. i'll flirting her hand
kerchief over the sides of the carriage,
the princess dropped it. too evidently
not accidentally. Instantly two or three
young officers sprang from their sad
dies to return it, but the voice of the
queen staid them.
"Stop, gentlemen, leave it just where
it lies, she said. Now, my daughter,
get down from the carriage and pick up
your handkerchief. /" There was 70 5elp
for it. The royal footman let down the
steps for the little lady, who proceeded
to lift from the dust the pretty piece of
cambria and lace. She blushed good
deal as she turned her head saucily.
but was doubtless angry enough