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The age-herald., 1898-07-26
SOUTHERN COTTON INDUSTRY
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 While the cotton spinning and weaving interests of the eastern states are far from being in prosperous condition, those at the south are growing with marvellous rapidity. If present conditions remain rn- changed 1t cannot be long before the great majority of the cotton manufacturing es- tablishments will be located nearer the cotton-producing area than are the New England states.
 The two things that make 1t impossible for the eastern mills to compete with the southern are the price of labor and the saving of freights on the raw material The mills in North Carolina and Georgia have the same machinery as those in Mas sachusetts and Rhode Island and there is no difference in the competency of the op- eratives, but those of the southern mills work cheaper and they can afford to do so. The cost of living is at least one third less for the Alabama spinner than it is for the Connecticut operative. Rent, fuel and clothing cost less at the south than at the north, while the climate enables the work man to live on less costly food. So far the southern mill owner has not been hampered with the labor troubles and strikes that have nearly ruined the cotton manufactur-
 
 The saving of the cost of transporting the raw cotton from the gin to the mill has given to the southern producer great ad- vantage over his northern business rival for that salvage is falr profit of itself. There has been a movement at the east to have congress empowered with the right to fix hours of labor with a view to regu- fating the natural differences that exist between the two sections of the country, but these advantages cannot be Wrested from the south by legislative enactment, and the only thing for tine east to do Is to adapt itself to the changed conditions of trade and business, as 1t has done before. In the early history of the country the eastern states favored free trade and the south advocated a protective tariff The south succeeded, and New England sold her vessels and went into manufacturing The cotton manufacturing industry has gone to the south to stay. The eastern operator must follow it there or go out of the busi- ness.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
ALLEN WASN'T THAT WAY

The proposition that John Allen, of Tu- pelo, the congressional wit, made to or ganize company of congressman was for tified by some of his inimitable stories at the time An addition has been made, in which he is alleged to have said: "If the war isn't ended when we get there the Spanish will stop fighting when they hear of our arrival.
 "I don't feel about this affair the way a friend of mine does A man here in Washington asked him if he intended en- listing.
 'Fust off, he said, I thort I would, an then I kinder thort I wouldn't. l ain't afraid of fightin'; that aint the trouble. I was talkin' it over with Tom Owen, after I'd about concluded to jine, an after dis cussn' of it with him then I made up my mind final. To see, I reckoned it would be too big a surprise to the boys that's done been dead these thirty-five years. They'd see me a-comin' through the pearly gates, maybe, if things didn't come my way, with blue uniform on. They don't know about this affair, an my appearance would amaze em some. Then they'd rise up an holler:
 "'"Deserted! Darn him.
 "'So thinkin' it all over, concluded to avoid shockin them angels that wore the gray, an I'll stay at home.' "
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due for the sueces-overw helmfng 1t seems of the popular bond fssue-should be given 10 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
 Vasderiip, He Is, by the way. one of the most remarkable men connected with this administration. From the inception of the war, when it was seen. that there would have 10 be bond issue, MT. Xanderlip de- termined that it should be popular one. It is his work, night and day work, that has made this issue, not only one which has been taken up by the Topulace, but one which has actually become popular. Sec retary Gage turned the whole matter over to Nanderhp to manage, and he has done his work well, and now that this much is acknowledged it is but fair that he should be given credit by the people, who never forget public debt, if some times the gov ernment does.
 The newspaper men of this country have some reason to be proud of their repre- sentatives in this administration. There is Vanderlip. He is a Chicago newspaper man and the first assistant postmaster general, Perry Heath, was a Washington correspondent. The latter has from the be- ginning of the administration managed the affairs of that department and from the general satisfaction which he has given 1t would seem that he has managed them well. He has instituted more peforms and important changes in the service than any postmaster has done in several administra- tions. Then there is Director of the Mint Roberts, who was an editor of small daily He stands to his guns well and while there is little opportunity to play conspicuous roll the fact that he speaks his lines we'll, and does not get stage fright is a good deal to his credit. The copsul to Liverpool is a newspaper man and so is the consul to Birming gharn. of the numerous sons of Murat Halsted holding down that latter post. The president has sent newspaper men to every country as consuls and minor officers of legations. He has one in his cabinet and another for his private secretary, though I believe that off, flee is now known as the secretary to the president The president realized that since the people of Connecticut thought that J. Addison Porter was big enough to be their governor he was certainly big enough to be secretary at $5,000 and not private secretary at S2,500
 The only families prominently connected with the administration which are in the city now are those of Secretary Long and General Miles. Mrs. Miles remains here in order that she may be Tn constant com munication with the general through the var department. General Miles, just be- fore starting for the front, bought a home on street. the old residence of Admiral Radford Mrs. Miles was a Miss Sherman, niece of the secrtary. She is a sister of Mrs. Don Cameron and is one of the hand somest women in Washington. She has one daughter and one son, the latter named sherman after her father. Miss Miles is an extremely handsome young woman and one of the greatest favorites in Washing tons smart set. The Cages are at their country home at Chevey Chase and the other cabinet officers are scattered throughout the northern summer resorts with the exception of the Longs, who still retain their apartments at the Port land.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
The EutaW Example.

Eutaw's engine that drives the dynamos of an electric light plant, pumps water for a public supply, turns gin and grinds corn. would fill it's field if it also was made the force of an ice manufacturing plant.
 Eutaw contains perhaps fifteen hundred people. It may claim more, but it stands for towns ranging from one thousand to three thousand-a class that embrases nearly every county town in the state. In such towns the happiest modern combin- ation is an electric light plant, water supply, and an ice factory, all driven by one engine for economical reasons. The water would be lifted from deep wells to a stand-pipe thus affording Mead that and reducing insurance to minimum The electric light plant would not be crowded in the hot months, and the idle power could be utilized in an ice factory The small town that has water supply can also have system of drainage, for it would have the water needed for it's flushing and cleansing. Such a town could 
 be kept clean and healthy and pleasant to all the senses.
 town that possesses electric lights, water supply, sewers and an ice factory has as a matter of fact all the modern nm- proyements. Add to these good schools, and the list of municipal advantages is summed up. It is in position to attract population, to defy the utmost efforts of it's rivals, and to boast it's superiority.
 Eutaw has shown that all this can be &C., complished through the use of a single en- zine, and that that engine can also earn money in grinding corn and ginning oot- ton The Eutaw engine is a study in econ omy and municipal practice. It is the best practice beyond a doubt. It earns money. It pays" 1t is a plant that is within the reach of every town, whether 1t be in the
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
WHEELER AT SANTIAGO

By James Lindsay Gordon.
 C'General Wheeler started on the two miles journey to the front in an ambu- lance. About half way to the front he met some filters bearing wounded. The vet eran, against the protest of the surgeons, immediately ordered his horse, and, after personally assisting the wounded into the ambulance, mounted and rode onward. "The men burst into frantic cheers, which followed the general all along the line" ne."-Correspondence New York Tribune ) Into the thick of the fight he went, palid
 and sick and wan. Borne in an ambulance to the front, a
 ghastly wisp of a man: But the fighting soul of a fighting man,
 approved in the long ago, Went to the front in that ambulance, and
 the body of Fighting Joe. Out from the front they were coming
 back, smitten of Spanish shells Wounded boys from the Vermont hills and
 the Alabama dells; Put them into the ambulance: I'll ride to
 the front" he said: And he climbed to the saddle, and rode
 right on, that little old ex-Confed. From end to end of the long blue ranks
 rose up the ringing cheers, And many -blackened face was
 furrowed with sudden tears, As with flashing eyes and gleaming
 sword, and hair and beard of snow, Into the hell of shot and shell rode little
 old Fighting Joe! Sick with fever and racked with pain, he
 could not stay away, For he heard the song of yester-years in
 deep-mouthed cannon's bay He heard in the calling song of the guns
 there was work for him to do, Where his country's best blood splashed
 and flowed round old Red, White and
 Blue.
 Powered body and hero heart This Unions
 heart to you Beats out in love and reverence-and to
 each dear boy in blue Who stood or feil mid the shot and shell,
 and cheered in the face of the foe, As wan and white, to the heart nf he
 fight, rode little old Fighting Joe.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
The Nipe Harbor Battle.

The Topeka, Annapolis, Wasp and Ley den, all vessels of lesser size and arma ment although the Topeka has a heavy and a gunboat, the Jorge Juan, in Nipe bay last Thursday. It resulted in the s- 1enee and abandonment of the forts and the sinking of the Jorge Juan after rat ting fight of about twenty minutes The crew of the gunboat, consisting of 1i6 men, escaped in small boats to the shore and were soon lost in the thick undergrowth. Nipe bay is on the north shore of Cuba, nearly opposite Santiago. It is one of the largest and best anchorages for a large fleet on the Cuban coasts. There is plenty of water, and several islands in the capa- cous bay afford excellent protection against tropical storms.
 At present the harbor will be utilized by ships going to or returning from Porto Rico. It lies in the route from Key West to Porto Rico, thus becoming an excellent base, if one be needed, for the Porto Rican campaign. Santiago would involve de- parture from a direct course of at least 200 miles. Keeping in view the possibilities of stubborn resistance at San Juan, the capture of Nipe is an event of considerable importance.
 After it ceases to have importance in that respect it will he held, doubtless, to complete the surrender of eastern Cuba and to facilitate tho landing of supplies for the insurgents, and to afford base for a campaign against Holguin, city about twenty-five miles distant, where General Pando is supposed to have about 10000 regulars at his command. The cap ture of Holguin would practically wind up the campaign of eastern Cuba Hogun is the only city of considerable size in the interior of eastern Cuba. On the bay of Npe is a small town called Mapari Abajo. This little town is at the mercy of the guns of the Topeka and the other Ameri- can ships in the harbor.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
FITZHUGH LEE

Washington Letter to the St. Louis Globe
 Democrat.
 Some friends of General Fitzhugh Lee are represented to be chafing because he is held in camp with his corps at Jacksonville, while other generals go to Santiago and Porto Rico. They are not wise friends. Havana has not yet been attacked. Per- haps there will be no need to go against its thirty miles of defenses. The surrender of the island may come without it. But even if there is no active campaign against Havana, no fighting for the possession of the chief city, General Fitzhugh Lee will probably be called upon to perform most important part. Everybody now sees that the establishment of a new government in Cuba is going to be more serious matter than the expulsion of the Spaniards. The president will need wise representatives in Cuba on the day after the flag comes down at HavanA Then will be wanted strong Americans who can command the confi- dence of the residents of the island, the Cuban patriots and the intransigente, the autonomist and the volunteer. If there is going to be possible a reconstruction of government for that unhappy country, short of absolute military dictatorship, if representative government in Cuba is to be practicable, the result must come through the hold on the leaders of the vari- ous factions which the Americans chosen to act for the president in the solution of the problem are able to exercise. Fitzhugh Lee will be in position to render to his own country and to Cuba a service with which the winning of a battle is not to be cOmDared,
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
We go to gdin little patchNof groa Id That hoh in ft no profit but the name.
 HENRY ".
North Carolina Cotton on Rampaae

In the cotton column of the commercial page of the New York Evening Post this bit of news, coming as a special dispatch from, no doubt. valued correspondent, recently appeared
 Raleigh N. C., July 22-The crop report to be issued by the state agricultural de- partment tomorrow will say that up to last Sunday the weather conditions were un- favorable for the rapid growth and devel- opment of cotton, the rainfall being ex- cessive But for the last week the in tensely hot weather, much the hottest of the year so far. has been exactly the kind needed for the cotton, which is growing rapidly. If 1t continues for a few weeks the plants will make up for the time lost earlier in the season. Little shedding of cotton is reported this week, another very favorable circumstance. The plants are full of squares and the bols are now burst ing forth at most encouraging rate. Last week very few bollS were to be seen in many of the fields that are now almost white, and growing whiter every day"
 Cotton that acts in this way in North Carolina in July is certainly very remarka- be and unusual cotton. The more we think of it, the more we are inclined to think that the famous, for a season and req son, "Limbess African or African Limb less" cotton has been run to earth again. It has broken out in epidemic form in the Old North State Whether the ancestors of it's colored population brought ever in the clothes they did not wear some of the seed of that famous cotton, or whether it was imported directly from Atlanta, the report in the Evening Post does not state. ~But no other known cotton could be in- duced to act as frantically as the cotton mentioned by the Posts valued correspond ent, and so we are forced to conclude that it is the famous and unapproachable limb less cotton. It has, as a matter of fact, no time to waste in the formation of limbs. The bolls jump out of the stalk without the intervention of limbs. They spring out almost without ceremony or introduction. It is spontaneity itself, as near as may be. True, 1t is recorded that there are squares, but from square to bursted boil is but a seconds space. It must be the African nmbless-the true and only cotton-and North Carolina is it's new habitat.
 There will be some, no doubt, who will doubt the Posts special dispatch-mefe scoffers, perhaps, of some dry goods box board of strategists, but those who know how severely proper the Evening Post is, and the depth of it's admiration for Dr. Cleveland, how intensely it hates jingoism, how its responsibility is only matched by it's antiquity, will not doubt for a moment the statements recorded in special dis patch from a special correspondent. They Svil on the other hand, try, as we have tried, to find the key to the information, and be content with that.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
MOLLY LAY DOWN

In his Fourth of July oration at Spar tanburg, s. C., Senator McLaurin interpo- lated this:
 Senator Bate, of Tennessee, told me an anecdote of Colonel Tom Sumter that I have never seen in print. Sumter was a great big, giant of 0 fellow, with voice like a foghorn. It is said his "holler' could be heard for miles. On one occa- sion when he was off on foray the tories came and captured his wife. Molly, and stripped the plantation of everything. When old Tom came home and found Molly gone his rage knew no bounds. Gathering together such forces as he could he put after the tories.
 He overlook them on the third day and hung around until midnight. Then he de- ployed his forces around the camp and told them to await his orders to fire. Ha was afraid of Molly being shot in the r:e- lee, SD when he got everything ready he opened his big mouth and let out yell that fairly made the earth tremble: Lay down. Molly! Lay down, Molly!" and Mollyt recognizing those stertorian tones, feli prone her fscc, and, after tho last Lay down, Molly came the command fire and charge. Molly was recaptnred without be- ing hurt.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
Sanitation in Cuba.
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The man who sees an emperor marching straight to the White House, who studies
 Washingtons Farewell Address daily as something that fits the present time and circumstances, who, in a word, stands aghast at a policy of territorial expansion Thomas Jefferson in iSO3-even such man agrees with the advanced jingoists that Cuba must be held by the government until it is rendered immune as far as yellow fe- yer is concerned, as immune at least as Vera Cruz or Kingston have become There is absolute unanimity from epidemics of yellow fever in both of those towns, and they were formerly hotbeds of the disease. What the English did at Kingston and President Diaz in Vera Cruz, this country must do in the cities of Cuba, particularly in Havana and Matanzas.
 Any proposition to hand over Cuba to the Cubans or to anybody else, before the coast cities are thoroughly ceansed and reor- ganized, should be stoutly and uncompro misingly resisted in the south. This is the south's opportunity to rid itself of stand ing menace to its prosperity. Foul Havana bay has long been the breeding place of disease that has inflicted untold injury oh southern interests. It cannot be put in sanitary condition in a single year. Cuba should be held at least five years in order opit work needed there. To such holding the entire south should stand pledged. An inn mune Cuba should be demanded at every turn of the question as to Cuba's future. This matter cuts very deep, and the south cannot be too insistent concerning it. The cleansing of Cuba does not necessarily in volve it's final political settlement, and even if it did it should be insisted upon. Noth- ing, in other words, should be permitted to occur that will prevent this country from carrying out the complete sanitation of the Cuban coast cities. The entire island needs more or less sanitary attention, and this work must not be entrusted to Spanish or Cuban hands. In sanitation, they are in- capables; they dc not understand its first principles
 The expense of quarantine and the losses Inflicted by epidemics brought straight from Cuban towns would render any cost of sanitary work in Cuba unworthy of con- sideration The losses that grew out of last years epidemies in the gulf states would suffice to render Havana and the other coast towns as healthy as Kingston in Jam aiea is today This the south should in- sist upon This must precede the final set clement. Sanitation must precede autonomy or anything else of a political nature. A, military government, in which sanitation has high place, Is the only correct plan for five years at least; and the south should speak out boldly and unfinchingly in it's favor. Cuban promises, in a matter in- volving the interests of American states and American lives, will not answer
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
The Dingley tariff is out of date alread
THE SOCIAL DEPARTMENT

From the Dixie Home.
 Miss Annie Kendrick Walker has taken charge of the social department of the Birmingham Age-Herald. Miss Walker is a bright young woman, a strong and reso- lute writer, energetic and ambitious. The Age-Herald is fortunate in securing her services. She has bright future in the literary world, and we predict for her much success.
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General Wood, formerly commander of the Rough Riders will serve Santiago well as military governor. He was physician and surgeon in Washington before the war and he knows what sanitation is.
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hands of a local company, or of the town itself. There should be at least fifty pill Alabama towns in order to see and study what small town can do when 1t wakes up, and becomes progressive and prosper ous.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

The Dixie Home and Manufacturer pre- scented last week fine showing of Bir- ningham's industries in the form of an Omaha edition. This edition is to be large- ly distributed at the Omaha exposition. of affairs in this district will become well and faYorablY known.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

When the contact and the electric mines were pulled up at Santiago they were destroyed the one and the other mines could not be fired. The submarine mine
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

The first load of General Torars army will sail away on Thursday, and in three weeks time every man of the 24,000 sur rendered men will be either at home in old Spain or on the blue sea headed towards the Land of the Cid.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

The whereabouts of General Pando, on other, are matters of curiosity. An island fifty miles wide seems to be as good a place to hide in as 8 continent.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

Richard Croker is coming home, horses with the English turf, and American tracks and American politics will know the od-time leader hereafter
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

A nice point in international law has been raised by Shafter's conquest. It is has been changed by it from Santiago de Cuba to Santiago de U. s.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

Cotton mill property in Fall River is so depressed that the authorities are over whelmed with petitions for reductions in their tax valuations
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

Fighting naked to the waist became custom at Santiago, and the tendency to- ward less clothing, says one correspond- ent, is so great that many regulars go about clad in cartridge belt, rife and a chew of tobacco.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

The president and vice-presdent are as cordial as two peas in pod-something that never before occurred in the history of the country.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26
"WHAT'S IN A NAME?r

From the St. Louis Republic.
 Honorable Code flakes of Missouri can shake names with Colonel Dink Bolts of Georgia and Judge Dodder Snigg of Kan sas.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

If Admiral Camara's squadron puts in at Ceuta and stays there, the pillars of Her cues will soon look down on another his torcal event.
The age-herald., 1898-07-26

The Mole St. Nicholas is utterly beyond the noise range of General Miles guns. Let us be thankful for this much
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RESOLUTION OF AMERICAN PEOPLE

From the New Orleans 1imes-Democrat.
 The American people have resolved that henceforth Spanish oppression shall be con- fined to Spaniards. and nothing in the wide world will swerve them one hairs breadth from that most just and necessary con- clusion.
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The wounds made by Mauser bullets are not inhumane. All surgeons at Santiago agree as to this.
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The Porto Rieans who desire indepen- dence forget that a war indemnity Is al ways a first lien.