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The age-herald., 1898-03-10
lNvESTIGAIl0N IN MAY
Of Street Car Company's Insurance Policy by
 Southern Tariff Association.

News has been received in this city that fine Southeastern Tariff association which met in Atlanta last week, had deferred action on the insurance policy of the Bir- mingham Railway and Electric company until the annual meeting of that association in May. This policy was written by the Royal Insurance company through Its agents in this city, A. R. Dearborn & Co., and caused considerable discussion at the time. it having been charged that the policy was written at a rate lower than that permitted by the association.
The age-herald., 1898-03-10
ECHOES FROM BRYAN.
RePut Montgomery Gold Men to Thinking Se-
 riousIy
Special to The Age-Herald.

Montgomery, Ala, March s.-The echoes from Mr. Bryan's speaking here indicate that his effort was productive of consider able good. If he accomplished nothing more he established himself all the stronger in the regard of the silver men here, and he set the good boys who heard him to think ing His audience here was not altogether satisfactory. It was too large and too un- wieldy.
 It was also over-supplied with enthusi- asnl. MT. Bryan's efforts are argumenta-
The age-herald., 1898-03-10
Bibb County Committee

Special to The Age-Herald
 Centreville, March 9.-The executive conn., mittee of the democratic party in Bibb county met here on yesterday. There was 8 full attendance. The committee de- cided to prorate; that is, to give each can didate for county offices his pro rata strength in each beat. The county conven- tion will be held on April IS, and beat meet ings will be held Apri l9
The age-herald., 1898-03-10
LIVINGSTON MATTERS.
Denson and Seymour Will Speak at Epes and
 Gainesville.
Special to The Age-Herald.

Livingston, March 9.-Col Wm. H. Dem son and Hon. w. H. Seymour, ex-consul to Italy, will speak at Epes and Gaines vile on March 12
 MT. J. E. Woodward of South Sumter, and Miss Desma Breitling, of Butler, were married at the latter place on the 7th.
 large crowd from here will attend the Bryan speaking at Meridian on the 16th.
The age-herald., 1898-03-10
Negro Politician Dead

Special to The Age-Herald.
 Eutaw, Ala, Maj oh 9.-Ihe noted preacher and politician of the Sixth district, Rev. l. Dawson, died here last night He was the leading colored politician of the republican party in all this part of Alabama and was an element that had to be noticed in Greene county. His influence extended over Sum ter county also.
The age-herald., 1898-03-10
OLD AND YOUNG BOYS

Who h aY 0 been out late or too often, and now find themselves in trouble should n O t grieye; there is a balm at hand for all such wounds.
 My Private Dispensary is for the ex- press purpose of giving com fort and .con- SOlatiOn fo
The age-herald., 1898-03-10
Read The Age Herald. Only 67 cents per month.
Electric Light

Have you an incandescent electric light at your home?
 This Is the most perfect light in the world, the best and the cheapest. CONSOLIDATED ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.,
 3-6-tf. 18th St. and Powell Ave.
The age-herald., 1898-03-10
To the Public

To the Public: We are sole agents for the Gas Light Coal. Yard 2620 Fifth avenue.
 WALKER & co. Phone 275. 3-10-2t
The age-herald., 1898-03-10
Securina Sea Food

Fit for the gods from our rare stock of fish and oysters you can do at any time. Our supplies of fresh and salt water fish and oysters are received fresh every day, as well as game of all kinds, which we sell at wholesale and retail and ship td any desired point.
 Birmingham Fish CO.
 2OS-2lo Twentieth St., North. 2-1S-eod
The age-herald., 1898-03-10

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Promo Qunine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it faiIA to cure. 25c. 9-23-91t.'
The age-herald., 1898-03-10

sThese sums were also promptly paad ln- to the county treasury by the collector
 ''The footings of hds books TOT lsyi snow tbat he is charged with the correct sums on property, but there is an error in the assessors footing of the poll book by which the collector is charged with 10 polls amounting to s3,4O5 The correct footings Collections for 1897 are not completed, I recommend that the auditor adopt the latter figures as a basis of settlement"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23
WAR AND DOMESTIC ISSUES.
The Present Conflict Cannot Hide the
Work of the MfIIionaires
and PIutocrats.

Those who think that the people will
be stampeded by the Spanish war, so
that the millionaires and the hundred
millionaires who already contro! so per
cent. of the property of the country can
get control of the rest, overestimate the
effect of crazes on the minds of people
who are naturally sane and sensible.
It is true that all of us are liable to
crazes, but we are also liable to use our
common sense with suddenness and de-
cision when those who think we are
weak and ignorant fools are least ex-
pecting it.
The war has not changed single is
sue in our domestic politics. The peo-
pies leaders throughc at the west and
south are becoming more aggressive
and are more determined than ever not
to submit to the domination of class
of men, cruel, brutal and insolent in
their contempt for the masses of the
people. for justice, for liberty, for
everything which makes the world in
habitable and its progress possible.
The country cannot remain eight
tenths plutocratic and two-tenths free.
The fight for freedom and progress ad-
mits of no further compromising. The
future of the world is at stake and the
men who oppose themselves to civiliza-
ton will have it's heel set on their necks
as ruthlessly and as justly as if they
were in reality the snakes they are in
the subtlety of their frauds and the
venom of their contemptuous hatred of
the Mississippi Valley Demo
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23
The Currency Question.
ALLIANCE WITH ToRYIsM.
America Should Never Lock Hands
with a Nation of PlutOcracy
and Oppression.

AS if the United States, with &C, 600, 900
people and vast resources, were not a
match for bankrupt and beggared
Spain, a country with less available
wealth than the single state of Missouri,
our tories and Hannacrats are propos-
ing IAN Anglo-American alliance" with
the tories and plutocrats of England.
If the time ever comes when the peo-
pie of America can join those of Eng
land in putting down plutocracy and
toryisTn, we may be glad TO do SO. But
until then, we will follow the advice of
Washington and Jefferson. and preserve
the independence of the United States.
Nothing can be more shameful than
an alliance between Americans and the
English plutocrats. who are worse op-
pressors than the Spanish mobiles, be-
cause they are more cunning in devising
scientific methods Of fraud and eXtOr-
ton.
As result OF their love of enearned
money, of their constituencies IA Pacity,
there is as much suffering in peaceful
London now as there is in warswept
Cuba. In the slums of that vast and in
formally oppressed city, starving moth
ers are nursing at their dry breasts the
skeleton forms of their gasping chill
dren, who, as the weather grows wa rm-
er, will die like flies" to keep up the
percentages of my Lord Rothschild, and
TO give my Lord Salisbury type of the
English aristocratic gentleman"-in
league with Shylock, his share in the
profits of bond dealing imperialism.
Day by day the cries of the starving
poor Of London go up to just and I'M
forgetting God. Day by day, heir poor,
mean corpses are hurried in cheap pine
boxes to fertilize Potter's fields. Day
by day, by the hundred and The thou
sard, in London, in New York, and
wherever else Mammon is the God who
governs, these reconcentradoes Of plu-
tocracy are rescued by plying Heaven
which sends them death to relieve them
from life oppression makes infinitely
worse than death.
When Americans are asked TO ally
themselves with Rothschild and Sails
bury, with plutocracy and toryism, to
perpetuate such conditions as This, and
to fix on the people of the world the
shackles of fraudulent imperialism, the
only answer they can give is that if the
issues are forced which Messrs. Roths-
child and Salisbury wish 10 force, Amer
leans VIII lock not hands, but bayonets
with them.
This nation stands for liberty, not for
toryism, not for plutocracy, not for i'm
perialism. lis way lies forward, and
if the American people find that they
can advance only with fixed bayonets.
- 4
Mississippi Valley Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23

stepped down from the window plat
form and, throwing about her shoulders
a black lace scarf. passed through the
glass as though it were q mist and laid
her hand upon Jules arm.
How. mon ami" Iisped a sweet voice
in the Partisan accent jules so loved to
hear. ARE You not glad to have me
come? For two long years. morning
and night. have smiled down al you
and murmured words of love. Tonight
then | am free-free for few short
hours of happiness with you. And did
you not speak of a-petit souper. my
Jules"
Many a time had the little French
man prayed that the figure of his love
might come to life and speak to him,
and now, in the realization of his wish,
he was so astounded and confused that
he knew not whether he was awake or
dreamed. Furtively he pinched him
self; the pinch was real. and real the
gentle touch upon his arm. Overcom-
ing With an effort his timidity and
summoning all his courage. he gallant
" responded and led his ckarmer to
the best French restaurant be knew.
The next few hours were to him an
ecstatic dream. In the intervals of
passionate address and sweet response.
he dimIy realized that between him and
his loved one there lay a sumptuous
repast: that nimble walters flew about
TO 90 his bidding. and champagne corks
popped merrily-then. all too soon. he
stood once more before the plate glass
window in the deserted street. and his
Annette was whispering in his ear a
soft good night.
''Bonne mutt. mon Jules. aGieu-and
that thou mayst forget me not. this
pledge l give to thee" and speaking
thus she slipped upon the little finger
of his ungloved hand a glistening ring.
Then. passing through the glass, she
threw from off her shoulders the light,
lace scarf. her arms fell easily to her
sides. a culver shook the slender form
and slowly it sank back to its accus
toned pose.
annette. Annette" cried Jules and
stretched his arms impulsively to draw
her back to him, His hands struck vio
Ieptlv against the cold, hard glass, and
through it, beyond his reach, the waxen
face smiled down at him the sweet, sad
smile it had worn since first he saw it
there.
A distant clock struck three. A DO
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23
ANOTHER PANIC THREATENS.
Adoption of Revenue Measure VIII
Produce Conditions Similar to
Those of 1898.

Congressman Joe Wilson declares
that the adoption of the revenue meas
ure will produce panic in this coun-
try similar to that inaugurated by the
banking interest in 1898, and the effects
of which are still widely felt. Senator
Lindsay declares that its passage will
be followed by n raid upon the treasury
gold, and that the reserve will be drawn
out by the gold syndicate, compelling a
suspension of specie payments, forcing
gold to a premium and throwing the
finances of the country into confusion.
This menace was to be expected. I'm
fortunately it is bluff that cannot with
safety be called. The conditions are
not fundamentally different now from
what they were when the last issues OF
Understanding bonds were forced
from the Cleveland administration, as
the price of immunity from continued
treasury raids. The eXigencies of the
war period. indeed, give added strength
to the position of the gold"hoarders.
They have it in their power now to
drain it in a day. The success of the
proposed addition to the greenback cir
culation will give them the pretext.
Specie payments will then have to be
suspended, unless the president shall
use the authority he already possesses
of selling bonds to replenish the re-
serve, and the endless chain machine
will then pump out the gold as fast as
it can be gathercd-as often as the con-
Spirators choose to resort to it.
There is no installing the temper of
the people who thus hold the govern
ment by the throat. Their demands
conceded, and 5000, OOG, 900 of additional
interest-bearing bonds placed upon the
markets, they will for a time perhaps
keep hands off, but baffled in this pur-
pose, the worst they may do will
come to pass. They have already made
their threats, with the purpose of in
ffuencing pending legislation. Let us
refuse their demands and they will pro-
coed to make them good.
As to their purpose, but little is left
20 conjecture. 1t is boldly uttered by
one of their own spokesman, who did
not hesitate to declare, upon the floor
of the senate, that they will take every
advantage offered them, even in time of
war."-Los Angeles Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23

they had lived So the Young angrayer.
putting weed on his hat in respectful
remembrance of his kind though stern
benefactress, sold the house, bought a
ticket to Havre and New York, drew a
deep inspiration, and, whispering TO
himself: ''AIlcns!" started forth with
no very well-defined plans into the
world.
jules life and training had made him
shy and timid. Longing for adventures
of the most romantic type he lacked
the courage even 10 make acquaint-
ances. A week he spent, wandering
about New York alone, gazing on the
rushing throngs and into the windows
of the shops, sore troubled 10 know how
best TO begin his search for Her. And
then, on busting Twenty-third street.
beyond a crowd of shoppers, he caught
one day glimpse of a slight form shat
made his heart leap up into his throat
There was the slender, slyph-like fig
ure; the heavy, raven tressas; arched
eyebrows; soft. rich complexion; dim
Piled cheeks and rosebud mouth, of
which 50 often he had dreamed. In
trembling haste he crossed the street:
pushed through the crowd TO where she
stood-alas. il was a dummy. in the
window OF a dressmaker'S shop,
Keen was his disappointment, and
yet thrill of triumph stirred his little
heart, for ou;wardly. in face and form
al least, ii was no other than his true
ideal EnraPtured. he stood there,
gazing upon the waXen face. until a
porter pulled the iron grating down
and the shop girls with jokes and
laughter drove him from his post. All
night he dreamed of her; his IDEAL, his
Annette" and when the morning
came il found him there again.
Circumstances thus far had governed
Jules career: they did so now. a fell
low countryman met him by chance.
found him employment in al engrav-
er's shop. and forthwith he settled
down, his sEop companions for his only
friends and constant devotion to his
divinity of the plate glass window for
his end in life.
Late in the evening Jules Lemaitre
approached Nine Monte bello's shop
again to bid his fair one bonnie mutt =
as he had promised. Jules had dined
well al the diner de garCOn; his tie
was under one ear, his high hat tipped
recklessly back and his pose far from
steady as he stopped beneath the great,
white globe fixing and spluttering
above the window of the shop. The
variations in the intensity Of the cleo
trio current caused curious shadows TO
fit about he smiling face. ard 10 en-
n Tnn-aI Tr11-S II Il \
Efelike than ever before.
''Ah, ma cherie." he exclaimed. for
getting the little English that he knew
and dropping wholly into French, IF
only YOU could speak 20 me, TO tell me
that you know at least the depth of
passion that l feel for you!"
Was it a shadow more deep than
usual? jules was sure he saw the rosy
lips tremble; the long. black lashes
CULVER. Yes. slowly her right hand was
raised; her ruby lips parted. disclos-
ing a row of pearly teeth; slowly she
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23
ALL HONOLULU TURNED OUT.
A seeno of Enthusiasm Never Before Wit
Reased In Honolulu When the
American Soldiers Sailed In.

VICTORIA, B. c., June 19.-Advices
per steamer Miowera from Honolulu,
June 10, say:
The United States transports City Of
Picking. City of Sydney and Aus
tralia arrived here together on
the LIST inst. The voyage was
very pleasant, and the vessels
travelled abreast most of the way, al
though it was necessary for the Pc
king and Australia to slow up and
wait for the City of Sydney. Eight
mild cases of measles broke out on the
Australia. The sick men were sep
arated from the other passengers on
the ship by being quartered on the
hurricane deck, and the surgeons had
the cases well in hand when the vessel
arrived.
As soon as the three vessels weie
sighted, all Honolulu turned out to
welcome the soldiers. The docks were
lined with people, and as the vessels
entered the harbor the spectators yelled
themselves hoarse. Such scene of en-
thusiasm had never been witnessed in
Honolulu as when the vessels locked
1t was late, so the order was given to.
allow no one ashore, but the next
morning about one-half of the troops
were allowed to land. During the DAY
they were given the freedom of the
city. A committee of citizens fur
nished free cars and other con-
veyances. The majority visited
Waikiki and other points of
interest, and had pleasant time gen.
orally. At noon President Dole and
his cabinet received the officers of the
expedition During the reception the
stairs and grounds of the executive
building were thronged with people.
The second battalion of the California
regiment arrived a few moments be-
fore the reception began.
During Friday, June 3, the soldiers
were entertained on the grounds of the
executive building. President Dole
welcomed them. The visiting troops
were introduced to the president by
members of the national guard and
citizens generally. The utmost free
dom prevailed, the affair being very in
formal. To each the chief executive
gave a word of welcome.
The United States transports left for
Manila on the 4th. OF the $500 men
among the various vessels, but two de-
sertions were recorded. They were
from an Oregon regiment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23
PITH AND POINT.

Good breeding is manifested by what
we read.-Ram's Horn.
The wages of genius are usually
monuments.-Fiegen Blatter.
We have never yet seen anybody too
lazy TO work a puzzle.-Washingt on
Ua.) Democrat.
Every man believes he pays his bills
more promptly than other people pay
him.-Atchison Globe.
No young man who tells a girl that
eating ice cream has a tendency to en-
large the mouth Will make a good hus-
band.-Chicago Daily News.
Hamlet Starrs-"We had poor house
tonight; owing to the war, suppose"
Pitt-''Wen now, I thought it was
owing to the piece.
Internal RevenEe.-.America has but
to stamp her foot, and her treasury is
full" Then why must we stamp all
these other things ?''-Detrot Journal.
Peters-'Which of the American
cities is called the city of magnificent
distances?'" Larson-"Oh, any of them
if You are trying to borrow two dol
s.''-Town Topics
Time is money, you know" re-
marked the tailor. Well, I take notice
you never seem TO think so when I ask
you 10 wait two months for your bill, -
said the gilded youth.-Yonkers States
man.
\ Faulty DiagEosis.-"Charley Flut-
ter came up to tell me the doctor said
he couldn't 60" What's The matter
with him." His heart is weak"
Pooh, its his knees. "-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Erudite - "Of course YOU are
thoroughly familiar with Shakespere's
works" said Prof. Joggins to Mr.. Cen
tralia. president Of the Chicago Literary
society. Certainly, professor" replied
Mr.. Centralia. Il can read SHAKESPEARE
in the original."-Judge.
Piscatorial Delights.-Mrs. Innocent
What did you enjoy most about your
fishing trip, dear?" Mr.. Innocent-"I
got most excited when I was Keeling in,
my love" Mrs. Innocent (bursting into
tears) - And to-to-th-think you
promised me y-you wouldn't d-drink a
drop."-Harlem Life
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23
cAIMANERA TO BE DESTROYED.
Streets Filled with Straw and Saturated
with OIL to Be Fired When the
Inhabitants Flee.

o. BOARD THE DANDY, of Guantana-
mo, Saturday, June Is. via Kingston
Jamaica, June 2O.-Cuban scouts re-
port to-day thas the inhabitants of
Caimenera have strewn the streets
with straw and oil, with the intention
of destroying the city and fleeing to
the hills.
Cainenera lies four miles up the bay
from Camp McCalla.
1t is also stated that the Spanish
uunboat at Caimanera has been loaded
with inflammables and win be burned
with the city, her commander declar-
ing that she will never become an
American prize.
The scouts also say that the Span
ish soldiers are in almost as complete
. state of panic as are the civilians
and that they could easily be induced
to surrender. Some of the prisoners
taken by the marines also say they be-
heve the Spanish troops are on the
verge of surrender owing to the lack
of food. Capt. McCalla, however 10
somewhat skeptical
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23

modiste's shop was burned. Ny An
nette has perish in re fire
puzzled over the enigma for a week,
and the more l thought about il, the
more ineXplicable did il appear. had
no doubt that at the little stag dinner
my friend had drunk sufficient wine to
render him entirely incapable of re-
membering what happened afterwards;
he may have visited the Twenty-third
street shop. or may have gone straight
home-in either case everything con-
nected with the coming to life of the
French dummy must have been simply
dream. But lis possession of the
ring, =. beautiful. ilawless gem, too valu-
able by far to be the subject of a joke,
remained still unexplained.
l was about to give the matter up.
when l bethought me of looking
through the newspapers of that date.
And. in a copy of the Herald of the
day Immediately succeeding the bach
elor dinner, l came at last upon the
simple explanation, in the form of this
CID advertisement:
Yesterday on Twenty-third street
between Sixth avenue and Madison square.
valuable diamond ring. Finder will be
literally rewarded on returning II to -.
The name was that of a welI-known
society leader of the time, whose home
on upper Fifth avenue now is pointed
out as one of the show places of the
town.
l have not told her of the little
Frenchman, who. one night so long
ago. picked up her ring from the side
walk beneath the window of the mo-
diste's shop. and slipped it on his finger,
al uncon scious of what he did; nor
have I wrecked the little romance
which Jules Lemaitre for 20 years has
treasured in his heart. Why should 1:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23
JER-R-R-OME.

Ore day wandered through a srova
OF aspens all a-quiver,
Ana when the evening shadows fell
reached the flowing river
Atioat. afioat within a boat,
sought while dews were falling
To flrd q long-lost boy for whom
heard strange voices caIIiDy.
Jer-r-r-ome. Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome-'
Up from the water grasses:
tome nome. come home. come home"
Among the weedy passes;
Jsr-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome Jer-r-r-ome-'
o. why do you not reply?
ne frogs are calling and we are searching,
l and the FREELY.
The shadows gathered thick and fast.
Inc merry stars were JwiEkling,
And breezes from the woodsy hill
Set little waves a-crinkling:
But still heard the voices call
In accents loud, and deeper
Up from the weedy pools below
The banks e1Iwiaed with creeper:
"Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome. Jer-r-r-ome-''
.. where can the boy delay?
Tome home, come home. come home
For the night flies fast away
Bat Yet 10 whisper rose OF fell
Il answer TO the crying.
A-JE5ugh / listened. and the bat
) moment ceased his flying
Ss--r-r-ome. Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome-''
but bark!
\ little voice came creeping
Up from the weeds along the bank
Ard cried: .Asleep-sleep-sleepin
7 -ew. knew the search was done:
The voices swelled in number,
There was TO need of calling
For Jerome was wrapped in slUmberi
And still throughout the summer nights,
AloEg the flowing river
Z hear the frogs, and wonder
II Jerome will sleep forever,
Henry Ripley Dorr, il Springfield CAIass.
Republican.