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The age-herald., 1898-07-15
PROSPEROUS SOUTHERN MILLS.

Charlotte, N. C., July 12.-In addition to the evidence of renewed activity in the cot ton industry in the south, furnished by the fact, previously told, that many of the mills are running overtime, some of them even with day and night hands, there comes now, in dividend declarations, as- surance that the business is very profitable In very many cases q Ter cent semi-an- nual dividend has been declared, after ad- ditions to surplus or the setting aside of funds for improvement, and a few in- stances are reported of ( per cent semi annual dividends, one of them in the case of mill which has just completed it's first year of operation. All these records were eclpsed however, by that of a mill in Huntsville, Ala, which recently declare d annual dividend Of 10 per cent after setting aside & like amount for new ma chinery.
 Naturally, under such favoring condi- tions. cotton mill stocks have advanced in value. One or two Illustrations will suf- flee Forty-fiye shaI,s of the Mississippi Cotton Mills at Wesscn. Miss, were sold recently. under order of court, as part of tho assets of an estate The par value is $1 900, and the price paid was over $2 900, the stock being bought in by the mill cor poraticn. In Raleigh block of s50,000 of the stock of the CaraleiSh mill there, which has been in operation only about five years, was bought by the trustees of Wake For est college, the trustees selling the same amount of stock in a New England street railway company to make the investment because the cotton mil shares promised to pay much better thar the railway shares.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
To aohom God ,oill, there be the uic- tory. HENRY VI.
Yellow Fever.
Editor

The outbreak of yellow fever in Missis- sippi has run it's course. There are no cases in the state, or elsewhere in the south The cases at McHenry are very naturally regarded as results of germs that survived a mild winter There were last year some very severe cases at McHenry, and the sur- vival of the germs, although rare in this country, is not wholly without precedent. But the season is now so much advanced that we may reasonably hope that no more latent germs will come to light. The weather has at times been very hot and every living germ has had an opportunity to do it's worst. That none have done so, except at McHenry, is encouraging, and the further fact that the cases at McHenry were kept in bounds until the disease died out, is also encouraging. Unlike the grip, the disease has it's limitations. It can be trochaed and forced into disappearance.
 The source of future trouble probably lies hereafter in fresh importatfons, not from Havana, but from Santiago. The disease has broken out at Camp McCalla, the base of supplies and quartermasters, on Guanta- namo bay. The carrying of the ill and wounded of the army to Atlanta is probably one of the means of infection to be dreaded. Vessels arriving at any southern port will be closely watched, but dormant germs in the clothing of soldiers, whether i'll or wounded, cannot be closely scrutnized. The men stricken with wounds and disease should not be carried from the camps near Santiago into the heart of the south. They should be given the benefit of the sea air on one of the islands along the coast. Such concerned, and 1t would relieve the south of very possibly source of fever infection A single suspicious case of fever in Alt lanta would shut that town up so tight that a mouse could not squeeze into it. Trains and supplies would be sumamrily stopped, and the government, with all its power, would find itself powerless to con- tend with a quarantine of the modern yell low fever variety. It would therefore be all wounded from the neighborhood of San tiago be landed on a coast island, where they would have the benefit of an air more invigorating than can be found at this esason of the year in the interior south.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
STARTERS ENVY.
Letter in Chicago Record.

Santiago Letter in Chicago Record.
 General Wheeler is particularly addicted to scouting Yesterday this kindly, mild looking little veteran. who swung his hat and jumped like a hoy when the first Hotchkiss shell struck the Spanish breast works, went out or a reconnaissance that took him within four miles of Santiago. There happened to be a handy palm tree at this point. and up the trunk the general swar,ned, perching fn the branches and calmly surveying the outworks of the ene- my through his fioiG glasses.
 General Shafter reached General Wheel CTS quarters last evening and dropped breathess into hammock, which creaked so aarmingly under his weight that he quickly abandoned il fo- the ground. In the course of the conversation that fol- lowed the venerable ex-confederate officer alluded to the tree-clmblng incident.
 "You climb a treei" exclaimed General Shafter.
 "Cortainly. Why not?' replied General Wheeler.
 "Hcw old are you. gcneral?' inquired the portltv commander of tic invading forces.
 "Slxty-one, but l don't feel it." said Gen. eral Wheeler.
 General Shafter eyed the spare figure be- fore him silently and erviously for mo- ment, and then he said: Well, l wish l could do that"
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A nation cannot be strong without ship
SOUTHERN pR0DUCTIoN OF STEEL.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 When the southern states-more especi- ally Alabama and Tennessee-astonished the country few years ago by the sud- den increase in their production of crude to the iron and steel industries united in declaring that steel could not be produced in the south in competition with the north. Expert steel masters were interviewed, and all'of thm said: "The southern ores are not adapted to steel making; they contain too much phosphorus, and they are good for nothing in the production of steel.' Re gently these opinions have been undergo ing great modification. It has been found that while the southern ores are not suit able for making Bessemer steel, they are well adapted to the making of the open hearth product. Until quite recently the manufacture of open-hearth steel was much more costly than that of Bessemer steel. Improvements in the manufacture of open hearth steel have now reduced the cost almost to an equality with that of the Bessemer product, and it is universally ad- mitted that the output is much superior. The fourteenth edition of. the "Directory of the Iron and Steel Works of the United States" just issued, shows that open-hearth steel is rapidly forging to the front. In the Directory for 1896 there were eighty eight completed open-hearth plants de- scribed as compared with ninety-nine plants in operation listed in the present. edition. These represent an increase in annual ca pacity of more than LOO 00) tons. The recent announcement of the formation of a neV steel company at Ensley, Ala,. with ample capital, herads the Beginning of an indus try which is destined to grow rapidly to great proportions.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
The Rocking Chair Habit

English physicians are emphatic Tn theif condemnation of what they term the "American rocking-chair habit" To this, they affirm, are due many of the nervous diseases to which American women are Vic- tins. The amount of nervous energy ex- pended in useless and injurious rocking is, they say, incredible.
 A woman who usually imagfnes herself to be resting will exercise as much force or the lower muscles of the back and of the legs as would suffice to run sewing ma chine for the same length of time Not one woman in a dozen is content with this gentle swaying motion which is only mildly exhausting and which occasionally compen- sates for the exertion by sending an old lady comfortably to sleep.
 Rockers are rare and unpopular in Eng land, and this is cited as one reason why the health of middle-class Englishwomen is so generally superior to that of our own.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
The Popular Loan.

The bids for bonds have been coming in at the rate of about twenty thousand a day and our telegraphic columns will doubtless this morning announce a surprs- ing number of applicants. If the number passes quarter of a million, no one need be surprised The placing of a war loan for s2O0, ,O00, 900 at per cent. in war times at par, is task that not more than one other nation in the world could accomplish.
 Another feature of the remarkable bid- corporations. None of them will receive a bond. All of the bonds will go to individ- uals, at least ostensibly, and the indvid- uals who subscribed for large amounts will also go unsuppled. In this case it is not, first come, first served. Priority of application was without weight in the all lotments of bonds yesterday The small bidder was served first, and the allotments went on according to size. until the desired $200000,OO0 was spread as widely and demo- cratically as the bidding permitted. If the plutocrat gets any bonds at all, it will be because he has made a modest bd or else it will come about through an army of convenient henchmen.
 This loan should be an example for all future loans. The intervention of the capitalist and syndicate is uncalled for. He is no longer a nee eYslcy factor. The people will hereafter attend to the finan call wants of thsr nwn government. Mr. J. Pierrepont Morgan's occupation as a manager of government loans is gone. He and his brother Othellos of Wall street can hereafter give their undivided attention to railroad wrecking and the like
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the expedition off, and next they were com- peiIed to send hilh to the front to direct the war there. Secretary Alger's influence prevented him from being put in actual command, for he is determined that any honor to be had from the fall of Santiago snail go to Shafter. At present there is not more popular man in official cirles than shafter. Reed once said to d congressman Who asked him how much he weighed that Only 200, of course. A man cant be a gentleman and weigh more."
 
 Ihls Is certainly not true, but had he said a man who weighs over 300 pounas can be hero he might have hit near the mark Certainly you can't make a fighter out CT one. Even those who maiigned Miles the most felt greatly relieved when they heard that he was to start. No one denies that he is a capeble soldier and q hne ofncer. He will be given the oppor- tunity to prove hlnself a great general And for the sake of our arms there are very lew now who do not hope he will do it.
 These two episodes are the only things so far which have marred an otherwise harmonious War. The matter has been presented to the president in every light and While he may have to offend one or more of his official advisers in recognizing merit and overthrowing bureau favorites, he Will strengthen himself with the army and navy. and with the people generally II he has the grit to do it.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
SCBLEY.
init it.

From the Cleveland Leader. Schley,
 He saw em with his little eye That's why Their cruisers lie All battered up there on the beach, Schley's a peach, That's what! He opened up with shell and shot One ship against the lot! Schley
 Went in to do or die, And he did Just smashed the lid Of their cracker box, Schley old fox! Why Didn't somebody mention Sehlcy When the good news came? Did they try To keep his name From being coupled with the glorious work ? Did they try to jerk The credit he had won Away? Well, hardly, but what's done is done They Were excited that Ca. So here's to Schley, The man Who saw them with his little eye, As they ran For the open sea! He Is the man who merits praise To him is due The credit, and he'll get it, toe, One of these days! Just keep on, Schley, You're all right; It was your fight The world will know it by and byi
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
WILL THE GOOD DOCTOR ExPLAINg

From the Hartford .Courant.
 Our good friend, Dr. Goldwin Smith, is worried about Commodore Watson's much advertised but not yet consummated visit to the coast of Spain. With the smoke of his first guns" says the learned doc tor, Twill vanish the Monroe doctrine. If America will not let Europe alone, she cannot expect to be let alone by Europe" That's just what she does expect, all the same, and will pr. Goldwin Smith kindly explain what the Monroe doctrine has to do with our free choice of methods in pros- ecutng a war forced unon us by the long, continued and fragrant misconduct of a European government?
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.

From the Greenville Advocate.
 Governor Johnston is making some speeches in various parts of the state. He makes a magnificent showing of what the administration has done during the last two years It is creditable in every par ticular and there can be no doubt that the governor is winning votes. No one doubts that he will be elected, but he is anxious that the tidal wave may sweep all the dem- ocratic nominees into office in all the coun- ties. It looks now very much as if it will do it.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
Rather Queer
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post
 ''I don't understand it all, he said.
 Understand what?' she asked.
 "Yesterday," he explained, you tried on your bathing suit, ana happened to see you in it at the hotel"
 She blushed and admitted that he was right.
 Again she admitted that he was right.
 "But today" he went on, you have promenaded up and down the beach in it in sight of everybody, and there hasn't been even a suggestion of a scream. I don't understand it at all"
 Neither did she, of course she didn't ad- init it.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
A TUNEFUL CANDIDATE.

Fror, the Atlanta Constitution. A rural candidate, who "don't let the grass grow under his feet" publishes this card in, local Georgia newspaper:
 Spite of war, an sword, an gun, This here state we've got to run;
 While the armies fret an foam,
 Get ter run the things at home
 Let the war an sojers be:
 Came out soon an vote for me!
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The sixteenth century sltouid not attempt to fight the twentieth. Ie this retroactive business goes on, the ghosts of great Cae- sars armies will again walk the earth, mann.pg the ships. They would fight near ly as well as the sixteenth's people,
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
HER DAY Is COMING.

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 Alabama's name is being waited with the fame of her statesmen and warriors to the remotest corners of civilization. She stands at present pre-eminent among the states; but it is not in intellectual acumen and soldierly valor alone that Alabama excels. The halcyon day of Alabama's s glory is yet to dawn.
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course of solution, and whatever the result of the effort may be, we may be sure that Shafter and his associates. including our own Joe Wheeler have done all that mortal men could do under the circumstances ex- isting in roadless, rainy Cuba.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

The St. Paul Pioneer Press comments the present war because it airanges all its prin- cpal events with a view to getting into the morning papers first.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

The annual mail of the Ladrones fits the almanac publishers very well, but other publishers will not accept it without doing some grumbling.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
His Share of It

From .he Sporting Times.
 'I suppose you get lot of honeymoon couples billing and cooing around hereT' asked the inquistive stranger of the land- lord of our favorite weekend seclusion.
 "Wetl, ye-es," replied the man of experi- ence, plenty of cooing. I manage the rest"
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

The verdict of contemporaries has settled the naval squabble. All the babies are talk ing the name of Schley, end in Texas a girl baby, born July 1, is called Scheyette
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

Tho range of Simpsons guns, when fired over hill at an iri isible city, is five miles, When plunlxing all enemy on level it is the horizon.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

Admiral Camara had to swear he was really and truly headed fer home before he could obtain coal at Port Said after his round trip experience in the wild waters of the Suez canal.
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The Age-Herald is under contract not to say anything about that bathtub until it has had a fair trial in the Santiago climate
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

Colonel Hogg, the Texas apostle of ex- travagance in women's dress, does not feel impeiled to visit either Hawaii or the Phil ippincs.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

Spanish spooks looking for gold ships from 'hs Flondike have appeared near Sa- att.e Tho spock business is very volatile.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

Prof. Goldwin Smiths view of the Mon roe doctrine is strictly European. There is not a bit of Monroeism in it.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15
A Hard Case

From the Philadelphia Call.
 ''Is Challer, the artist. as bad as he ia painted?"
 "Worse: he is as bad as he pairts." U
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The place of safety Is on Uncle Sams iron-clads. American armor doessnot con- tain so many flaws. after all.
The age-herald., 1898-07-15

Spain fought for compromise. and Amer,ca for an unconditional surrender The difference was considerable.
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Those flaws in Carnegie's armor did not materialize, or else the Spanish gunners could not hit them.
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sion is.realiy devrsing form of govern ment for mora than onc group of islands.
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All feel that the new Hawaiian commits
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sion is.realiy devIsing form of govern ment for mora than onc group of islands.  Spain fought for compromise, and Amer,ca for an unconditional surrender. The difference was considerable.
 
 Prof. Goldwin Smiths view of the Mon roe doctrine is strictly European. There is not bit of Monroeism in it. The place of safety is on Uncle sam's iron-clads. American armor does.not con- tain so many flaws, after all.
 Those flaws in Carnegle's armor did not materialize, or else the Spanish gunners could not hit them.
 Admiral George Dewey's. grasp of the German complications at Manila leaves nothing to be desiral.
 
 If Watson gets away promptly it is a race for Cartagena between him and Cam ara.
 The yarn trust is busted" for good. The trust made yarns for hosiery mills. If there is anything in a name, the La- droneS will fit mar.y T politician. The unchalenged winners are Dewey Hobson and Wainwright
 The lions whelps a'e coming along very finely this morning. Sues canal stock is booming. Spanish tolls cid it.
 Cervera begins to think Spain has strat- egy board.
 Hawaii should send over battalion Of immures.
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Admiral George Dewey's. grasp of thu German complications at Manila leaves nothing to be desirai
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If Watson gets away promptly, it is a race for Cartagena between him and Cam
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The yarn trust is busted" for good. The trust made yarns for hosiery mills.
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 of both and will cause an unwhoesome discussion in congress when that body meets again. Every one testifies to the admirable character pf Sampson and up to this time nothing has ever been said against him. He has been "hoodooed" by | being, played as the favorite. Sampson was unfortunate in not men, tioning the name of Schley in his bulletins | though navy officers. say it would have been stranger still had he done so. He Is l criticised very severely for the curt mes- sage, Report your casualties,' in answer | to Schleys signal, "A glorious victory has been won-details later."
 This is explained by the fact that there are no polite signals he could have used | The altercation cannot be judged on its merits until the men who were present can be heard from. The people have goi | 1t into their heads, however, that Schley has been unfairly dealt with, as doubtless he has, but whether it is right to incrim- ! mate Admiral Sampson will develop later Over in the war department there is a counter-play to the Sampson-Schley cpl sode For a long time there has been a cabal formed against General Miles in the old army circles. As soon as the war broke out there were those who started out to sidetrack Miles. They succeeded for a time. Secretary Alger had an old friend in the person of General Shafter of Michi- gan, who weighed over 300 pounds and who had to take. a step ladder to get on a horse. So he brought forward his'old friend to take command of the first expedition to Cuba, when the command properly be- longed to Niles. Everything done by him from the time he took charge showed in- competency. The administration was forced to send General Miles to Tampa to get
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-06-30
VATSONS SQUADRON
win Soon Leave Santiago For tho
Spanish Coast
TO STRIKE A CRUSHING BLOW.

watson's Squadron WIN Include the
Battleships Oregon and Iowa, and
viii Probably Leave sampson's Fleet
on the Fourth OF July.
Washington. June 2s.-The admins
tration yesterday finally came to a de-
sision to send an American squadron
to the Spanish coast and into the Med
iterranean. The first announcement
yesterday. through a bulletin posted
at the navy department Of the govern
ments intention. was received with
incredulity. There was a suspicion
that the story was being Noated to de.
ceive the Spanish government. How
ever. when later In the day the de-
tall OF the vessels selected to cons;i-
tute Commodore Watson's eastern
squadron was announced, and official
orders were given to provision the
fleet for four months II became appar-
ent to the last doubter that the gov
ernment was In earnest In this purpose
to dispatch the fleet to Europe. The
three vessels selected as coiliers have
started already on their way to New
port News to take on a large supply of
coal. 1t will require about a week to
get this down to Sam!Non's fleet. SO
II the start is to be made from that
point 1t will be impossible for COM
modore Watson to get away before the
Fourth OF July.
This would seem to be an auspicious
date for the beginning Of an expedition
that will, for the first time In the
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-06-30

nortaliy Ait. He had sseu that he vas
SIGHTING against terrible Odds. but he
never ainehed. "0ivs me your gum .
minute" Ae said TO the ssrgsant, end
kneeling down he deliberately aimed
and Ared two shots In quick succession.
At each Spaniard was seen to fall.
Bell in the meantime had ssissd Q dead
comrades gun and knelt beside his
captain and fred steadily. When
Captain Capron fell he gave the SER
geant Q parting message to his wife
and father and bade the sergeant good
BY In cheerful voice.
Sergeant Hamilton Fish. Jr., was the
first man killed by the Spanish fire.
Colonel Roosevelt. in front of his
men. snatched riS and ammuni-
tion belt from a wouSled soldier and,
cheering and yelling with his men,
led the advance. For a moment the
bullets were singing like a swarm Of
bees all around them, and every in
stant some poor fellow went down.
Colonel Wood. with the right wing,
charged straight at blockhouse about
800 yards away. and Colonel Roose-
welt. on the left. charged at the same
time. Up the men went. yelling like
fiends and never stopping to return
the fire Of the Spaniards, but keeping
on with q grim determination to cap
ture that blockhouse. That charge was
the end. When within 500 yards OF
the coveted point the Spaniards broke
and ran.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-06-30
ADAMSBURG.

Miss Myrtle Klose is visiting
;ends at Chillisquaque and Free
% .r Of rreseut Meade Bower
K and wife from BeavertoWn were
|llers in town on Thursday evening
Miss Pruella Meyer hasgone
| philadelphia. She intends|to have
! ewes treated Miss Madge
fller accompanied by Mrs. Dwyer,
Inn Iewistown were viatorsat the
prchant's hotel ...... .Childrens
I was observed in the Lutheran
prch on Sunday evening, the ex-
Uses were very we'll rendered: .....
bnk Dreese has had his residence
nted, thereby greatly improving
|annearanoe.. .Sheeklers views
lectures given here on Thursday,
day and Saturday evenings were
n much appreciated by all who
cnded. =. :. John Kurtz and
Iily from Lancaster are at present
ting their son Hayden, at this
pe. .Chas. Goss, frem Irox-
lille, Sundayed at this place.