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The age-herald., 1898-09-02
South caroIina's Primary,

The democrats of South Carolina held
 interesting primaries on Tuesday of this
 week for state, county and congressional
 nominees. The convention system no long, CT exists in that state. The many have gained the privileges formerly held by the few. The politicians no longer select nom- fnees to suit their own plans. The people
 now make the selections and the demo-
 cratic party is the gainer in every way.
 Content and harmony have supplanted dis
 days primary all nomina tions were at
 tempted. but many were not made because
 no man in several cases had clear major
 ity of all votes cast. In such cases a sec
 ond primary is held, and the voting is con
 fined to the two highest aspirants.
 In the recent primary there were seven
 aspirants for governor Governor Ellerbe
 was an aspirant for a second term on a
 platform that includes a support of the dis pensary system of the state. The vote shows that he leads in the contest, followed closely by Mir. Featherstone, who repre- sents the prohibition element of the party.
 In the second primary the voting for a | gubernatorial candidate -Wi1l therefore be confined to Governor Elerbe and MT. 1 Featherstone, and the chief issue will be | the dispensary and prohibition. The Au- | gusta Chronicle is confident that MT. Featherstone will be the winner in the sec- ond race.
 l The first primary called out large vote, | but the second primary will equal it in that | respect. In some of the congressional dis | tricts, second primaries will be necessary. 1 The people do not mind the trouble they | are put to. The system is not new in South Carolina, but it is firmly rooted and no | man dares to propose return to the old ring and clique system of former days. Primaries simultaneously held. and hon.
 estly conducted are the hope of the states l that desire but one white mans party. No complaints of dishonesty in the conduct | of primaries has been raised in either Georgia or South Carolina. Rascality seeks channels that are safer and less ex- posed to publicity. No one cares to offend his own white neighbors. No one cares to
 have the charge of dishonesty at the pri-
 maries brought home to him.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
Yellow Fever in Northern Mississippi

The yellow fever cases at Franklin, La., and at Galveston and at Key West are closely watched, and the patients are re- covering. No apprehension on account of these outbreaks is felt It is believed that the steps taken will stamp out the disease at those points,.
 But the outbreak at Orwood and Taylors station in Lafayette county, Miss, is full of danger. Four cases are reported at Or wood. and the local physician, Dr. Gray, of Taylor's, died few days ago, showing symptoms of black vomit. There is no way to account for the appearance of the disease in Lafayette county, as there were no cases in the county last year. The Mis- sissippi state board of health are on the spot, and they declare their inability to discover the origin of the disease. But the existence of the plague in Lafayette is admitted.
 Orwood is a little town of about fifty people, five miles from the main line of the Illinois Central railroad, and Taylor's is it's railroad station. The infected spots are about fifty miles from Holly Springs on the Kansas City railroad, and about like distance from Winona on the Southern railroad. Lafayette county is considered one of the healthiest counties in Missis- sippi, and Oxford, it's county seat, ranks high in that state as a residence town. The county lies due west of this city. The cases at Orwood and Taylors station need close attention in this state and dis trict. During the next twenty days no chances should be taken. This city is again full of foul smells and foul spots, owing to the laxity of the sanitary author ities after the suppression of the McHenry outbreak We need, not spasmodic but continuous sanitation. We need another general cleaning up to begin with, and then a steady, consistent course of sanitation, ] covering the entire season and all seasons
 And so much tearing up of the streets and surface should be summarily stopped. It | would not be permitted in any southern town, and it should not be permitted here | before October.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02

crossed. and sure enough, there was the horsehair snake as big my thumb ana over four feet long. As he was fast to the stump let him alone and continued my hunt, baggfng some quail, raopit, and two squirrels, which gave me good mess of fresh meat. As I was very busy for the next three weeks, I had no time to visit my pet snake. so you may judge of my surprise when my next visit to find the snake as big a stovepipe and over forty feet long. As I was going to have a log rolling the next week l kept my secEet so that we could have some fun after we were through our days work. I got everything ready and sent out my fnvi- tations. My friend that showed me the land came with the rest of them and told me that the horse was lost or stolen. We all pitched in and did a good days work and had a good dinner. I told them my se- cret and we went to the branch. You can imagine our surprise when we found the snake as big as a saw log, with a bulge in the middle as big as sugar barrel.
 Well, to make a long story short, we killed the snake and cut him open and my friends lest horse tumbled out We thought the horse was dead until he com- menced to move, and soon ran around all right and my friend rode him home. l have heard a great deal about horsehair snakes and this Is the only instance l know of where horse was swallowed alive by hair from his own tail.'
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
STRANGER THAN FICTION

From the Baltimore American.
 From the southern home of Senator Quay comes the following letter from veracious correspondent:
 Being an ex-soldier and having only fifteen months to serve to acquire a title to quarter section of land, went to Florida in 1885 to put my plans into execution. Not being posted as to the landmarks, had to hire settler to locate the land for me, and as we had to go about eight miles through woods, over bad roads, with no bridges, we went horseback, and in cross- ing a stream I noticed that my friends horse's tail caught in an old pine stump, pulling a hair from the tall and leaving the hair fast to the stump.
 'As you know a horsehair will turn to a snake when in water, and I made up py mind to watch that particular hair. Sc. after locating my land and getting log house built, took my gun and started out on hunt, and during my rambles I came to the stream that my friend and had
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
The Hospital Blunders.

In striking contrast to the navy depart ment as to which no complaints are heard, the charges against the war department continue to accumulate. These charges re- late to the lives of brave men. They now belong to a period of peace, when there is no pressure of any kind, when a rich coun- try stands ready to go to any expense, when supplies and ships of all kinds can be readily had
 The care of the ill and wounded by the war department has been from the start a disgrace to the country, and a burning wrong to the soldier boys and to their friends at home There is scarcely a bright passage in the entire story. It Is story of needless suffering, unnecessary deaths and untold horrors, from Tampa to Mon tauk Point. At Santiago competent nurses and doctors were lacking, as well as medi- cal and food supplies. When the full story Is told in an official investigation, as 1t as- suredly will and should be, the people will be shocked
 But bad as Santiago hospitals were. the transports that the war department em- ployed in the transportation of the wounded and i'll soldiers, were worse Nothing short of the horrors of the slave trade equals it. And when the men were finally landed at Montauk Point. they found there no adequate provision for their comfort or recovery. It is now conceded
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
THE CITY GAL

By Edward Singer. That gal that stayed down here awhile wuz
 queer ez queer could bej I ain't a bit on talkin', but she talked g. She had lot O larnin', en wuz stylish ez
 she looks En yet I didn't hear her say single word
 bout boQaks You Qfter seen her dresses-they wuz
 mighty fine en rich, But she told Mary Ann she liked alpacky
 goods en sich; En one day when She fust come here, sha
 laughed en said to me That apples tasted better when you'd eat
 'em from the tree. We took a-lilsin' to her. en we liked her
 mighty well; The mint that we seen her we knowed she
 wuz purty swell. So Jane sent to the city fer some high-
 falutn' things Knowed theys what she wuz use to-~
 knowed 1t by her dimon' rings. But she didn't seem to see 'em-said het
 eyes had caught the shine That wuz dancin' in bottle O plain elders
 berry wine. It all ,wuz most amazin'-but ez Jane senca
 said to me, Her apples tasted better when she'd eat
 'em from the tree. You'd orter .heerd her talk about the musid in the trees She seemed to think pianys wuz a-playirs
 on the breeze. Her face wuz pink en white en brown-hea
 step wuz light en quick En her eyes shined like the rifles when th0
 sunshine hits the crick. En when she left she jfst walked up eu
 kissed me fair en square; It ali wuz most amazin', but made my
 mind up there, That them,s the kind Q folks like-don't
 keer how queer they be- That like their apples better when they eao
 'em from the tree. ,.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 woman's look may affect a man more than her words.
 No one has been able to prove that Bacon was Shakes peer.
 Realization is never a luxury to the man who did not hope.
 Only the fear of endless torment causes some sinners to repent. stf.r
 It is safer to learn from an enemy than it is to instruct friend.
 It's useless for man to seek steady job if he isn't that way himself.
 Turn some men loose in brewery and trouble would very soon begin to brew. 4
 Fleshy people would undoubtedly fall off a good deal if they would try bicycling. a plan whereby he may obtain wealth, but 1
 Natures laws are disregar1ed by the office-holder who occupies two planes at once.
 The woman who takes in all a man tells her often does it merely for the purpose of taking him in.
 It isn't much to the worms credit to turn when trod upon; any old harrel-hoop will do the same thing.
 Nothing ever upsets the even tenor of a woman.s ways so much as the intuition tha! fen, St
 When a man tells you he has just been married it sometimes puzzles you to know whether he expects congratulations or sym- Qathy, <
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
WAR AND WOMEN
From the New Orleans Picayune.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 One of the most interesting as vel as im- portant factors in the labor problem today is the employment of women in the various departments of labor once reserved for men and the competition of women with men in the struggle for life. There were some 22,OOO,0O0 persons of both sexes en- gagged in gainful pursuits of all sorts in 1890. Of these about 100000 were females and 1S,O00,O 900 males. There were, according to the same census, about B oCo,cOO families in the United States. In 1850 there were about 10, 900 workers of both sexes and of these one-twentieth, or 500 900, were females. These were engaged chiefly in clothing fac tories, cotton mills and in shoe binding, and they were found almost wholly in the New England states, whose men had gone away to sea or to the new lands of the west and left their women dependent In the west and in the south woman seldom went away from home to work, or, If so, they were occupied with household duties in families After the civil war the situa- tion was vastly changed. A million men lost their lives or were so inoepacitated as to be unable to support themselves. The south suffered more than any other section, and many women were left self-dependenr. It was a new thing to see white women in the southern states start out to work in avenues that had been previously closed to women. They could not take domestic seTv- ice because such places were monopoiized by the negroes, who had been brought up to that sort of work. The posts of teaching the young did not afford places for all who were forced to work, and thus the white women of the south emulated their sisters to the north and west in seeking tle means of earning livelihood in every honorable work within their capacity, and, however much the necessity for such state of things is regretted, it must be recognized all the same.
 It is not only unmanly, but il is outrage ously unjust for men to complain that wo- men are driving them out of employment, There are 13, ,000 900 heads of families in the United States. Some of these are women, but the greatest number are men. There are men enough in the country to support all the women if they would. The fact is that they do not. 1t is their own fault. If every man who pretends to be a man were supporting a woman as the should there would be probably 4,000, 900 places sin offices stores, shops and factories that are now occupied by women workers left free to men, and the women should be at home.
 The worst feature in the entire situation is that the women are put off with about one-half the wages given to men for the same service. This is an outrage in many cases. When the women acquire the power in business which they have always been able to wield in love they will correct the evil of lower wages, too.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
MELON CORNER IS BROKEN

From the Kansas City Star.
 The famous Rocky Ford cantaloupes, which brought $1 apiece in the Waldorf Astoria and were the delight of the epi- cures all over the United States last year, have temporarily lost their reputation. Too much rain in the Arkansas valley Of Colorado, where the Rocky Fords are grown, has spoiled their flavor and brought financial troubles to Nate Wetzel and L. R. Wilfey, who cornered the melon market this season. Whole train loads of Rocky Ford melons are going through Kansas City every day for the east and nearly half of them are unfit to be eaten when they reach the Atlantic coast. This is why the melon corner, like Letters wheat deal, mas proved a disastrous venture The men be- hind the melon corner are losing $5,OO) every day.
 Nate Wetzel is we'll known in Kansas City, having been engaged in the poultry commission business here for several years. He is now president of the Western Poul- try and Game company, of St. Louis Nate Wetzel recognized the superior flavor and worth of the Rocky Ford melon and it was he who gave it its envfable reputation all over the country. Last year he sent 125 car loads of melons to the east and made big money on the deal. He decided to cor ner the whole Rocky Ford product of this year and, with L. R. Wilfiey, also of St. Eouis he bought in advance all the melons grown in the Arkansas valley. The deal required over s50O,0O and Wetzel and Will fey figured on making $10000O each.
 It rained in Colorado this spring as 1t never rained before and probably never VIII again. The melons grew and thrived but were soft and would not keep If shipped long distances. The financiers found this out when they were forced to throw away five car loads out of their first shipment to New York.
 "Yes, the Rocky Ford corner is busted,' shipment-about $5 009 a day. The melon pot this morning on his way to Colorado. "we expected to make big money out of teen to St. Louis. We pay ninety-seven crop throughout the country is failure The Rocky Fords, like the rest, are toe soft to be shipped and their flavor is in ferior to those of last year. We bought every melon in the Arkansas valley, about 1000 car loads, and are sending them through Kansas City at the rate of thirty car loads a day. Just think of 1t, solid trains loaded with nothing but melons. Al Kansas City the shipments are divided fifteen cars being sent to Chicago and If, teen to t. Louis We pay ninety -sever cents crate for them in Colorado and are losing money every shipment Still we must try to get some of our money back I cannot say what we will lose but it will be a very large amount. If he had cor ner last year when the melons were firm and luscious we would have made big fortune Too much rain ruined us" MT. Wifiey is going to Colorado to try tC save few dollars out of the collapsed cor. ner.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
Helen Gould is genuine camp angel.
 GREATER ALABAMA


 From the Mobile Item. J-~
 Although thre was great ,ieaf more dis cussion than action at the meeting of the Commercial club last night, President <Craighead mapped out a good programme if it is properly acted upon. The tide that occurs in the affairs of men comes in same measure to cities and communities, requir- ing to be taken at the flood. Now is Mo- bile's opportunity, and if the chance goes by through the failure of any section of citizens to aid in taking the advantage of fered the city may see more of that dis couraging period mentioned by ths presi- dent
 But it is not alone Mobile that VIII be af- fected the question of water-carrying conn petition and of commercial intercourse with the newly opened territory is one in which all manufacturing, trading and agricultural and mineral-producing Alabama IS vltally interested. Montgomery and Birmingham, Anniston and Bessemer, the lumber towns and the coal centers are as much concerned in the future of this city as Mobile herself is, and it is highly encouraging to the local commercial bodies to have the hearty SUD- port of the interior press, quoted in the Item today. The strong support of the Montgomery Advertiser and The Birm'ng- ham Age-Herald cannot but be of immense assistance to the Gulf City in the supreme effort she is making to become the principal port in the Caribbean and Gulf trade. All the petty prejudices and rivalries which have existed must be swept away. slt is not Mobiles sole interest now; 1t Is the welfare of the state of Alabama
 The subject of making the Warrior and Tombigbee rivers navigable at all seasons for the coal iron and steel trade is one in which Mobile will join with "the black country"
 The coal and iron district is equally in- terested in the improvement of the channel to the sea from this port, enabling the dis tribution of it's products. Congressional dis tricts must not define what they alone want from the government; they must combine for the necessities of the whole and insist on their obtainment.
 The reign of narrowing down 10 what Taylor wants for the First, or Stallings for the Second, or Underwood for the Eighth, is over; in the future it must be what two senators and nine congressman require for the commercial supremacy of naturally endowed state, rich in everything but unanimity of action for Its own benefit.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
Irrigation in Alabama.

We have 5S and fraction inches rainfall in Alabama annually Water enough comes to us in each twelve months for all purposes of soil culture. There are uncertain sea- sons of "too much," but, taking the year through, there is the inevitable mot enough" of rain season
 The state has provided laws Of virtual encouragement of the use of fertilizers. A commissioner of agriculture is elected, taxes on fertilizers ordained and other provisions made to better lands and increase crops.
 When 1t rains enough at the right time the fertilizer does it's work well; when drouth follows the application of the fertil- izer, the average farmer regrets the lien recorded on his growing crop to secure his debt the fertilizer vendor.
 Alabama is an area of some 45,000 square miles, nearly all broken with gentle hills and narrow valleys, though which branches, creeks and rivers run swiftly every day in the year.
 Can this perennial supply of water be appiltu tO lH6 lHOuSsliAOS Ol tol ihS 'Ot tNSt- ing 1t when the growing crops require ir- rigating help?
 The fact is, the government is constantly studying and printing the results of Its inquiries into the practice of irrigation in the arid and semi-arid regions of the west These regions include vast section from ba nol nS r5 millions of dollars have been expended in procuring water from streams and .from wells, storing it in reservoirs nearly milo long and many feet deep, and distributing it under peffected system through canals and ditches to farmers, who pay sum cer- eahY each year for each of the three or four overffows allowed in the comparatively brief season found there of soil tillage. Suffice it to be said, that arid lands worth $1.25, and often without any recognized value before touched by the irrigaung ca nal leap at a bound on to $1OO to 400 per acre as soon as the canal comes their way Thus capital in the east organizes, goes
 
 water upon them and reaps in the advance in the selling over the cost price enormous profit.
 The branch that runs through the Ala bama farm lands can be lifted up, often- times by it's own power. always by pol t. able farm steam engine into reservoirs of earth or blanks that the farmer can him self construct. A portable farm engine, if necessary. could go from farm to farm to do the lifting Where the farm is hilly the water from the reservoir can be distributed by hose or pires. A crop of wheat in the arid region takes three overflows at 100000 gallons each. But a cotton crop in Alabama would not probably require a tithe of that extra water over natural rainfall.
 This is a very grave matter to be weighed earnestly by Alabama farmers. If tine iand can be made to produce up to its full ca pacity every year, without fail, farming in this state would be so attractive that the energy of the young men and their best in- telligence would seek it in preference to . all other occupation, and our social life would be immensely strengthened as re- suit.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02

to be an unfit place for a great camp. It's water is inferior, and it's soil is one, so Assistant Surgeons General Senn says, that will soon be filled win typhoid fever germs. The soldiers, are therefore, to be hurried away from there to their homes or to other camps.
 Every camp from Tampa to MontaulS Point has proven to be a typhoid fever nest. It was not so in the civil war, when the pressure of war was simply fearful deficient, when sanitary and medical science were less advanced than they are now. There is no good excuse for such errors, oft repeated, as the country has witnessed in the Spanish war. It is simply Algerism. He has done nothing we'll. He claims to be persecuted, and he stubbornly refuses to learn from experience. He re- forms nothing. He institutes no investiga- uons. He is, what he has always been, corrupt politician, a schooner, a man of narrow ideas-an incompetent, in a word And yet, President Mckinley stands by him! He stands by man who has never neen able to supply a camp or hospital with proper food or to safeguard it with proper sanitary precautions-not one, from the camp unwisely placed and kept at Tampa to the one located not many days ago at Montauk Point. Such incompetency may De overlooked in the white house, but it will not be overlooked by the people or by the peoples representatives in congress
The age-herald., 1898-09-02
wHEELEK's FINE RECORD
'om the Springfield Republican.

II
 No one is criticising General Joe Wheel CT. He seems to do everything exactly as 1t should be done. The impression of alert ness and mastery of affairs that he gives to visitors at Nontank. together with his fine record yn Cuba, Indicates that he would have come out on top had the war lasted long enough. Moreover, he makes red-tape yield to human brotherhood.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02

The czar is respectfully requested to hold back his peace conference until we can add about half a dozen battleships and a couple of dozen torpedo boat destroyers to our navy
The age-herald., 1898-09-02

England will probably favor the.sreduc- tlon of every navy one half England would then have 300 ships, and the other countries none That, of course, means peace at sea.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02

When the czar heard from Santiago and Manila, he concluded to call upon the na- tions to cut down their armament.
The age-herald., 1898-09-02

After trying the artics and the tropics. Americans are beginning to think the home climate is good enough for them.