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The age-herald., 1899-10-01
Campaigning in Luzon.

The administration and General Otis are much too nervous over the criticisms upon their management of an unpopular war, to await the coming of dry weather and dry roads, which in the natural course of events will not before the mid-days of November. The troops at Bacolor are therefore moving, and they have taken Porac, about eight miles from Bacolor, at the foot of the hills or mountains. A simi- lar movement will doubtless take place on the other side of the railroad. Then Gen. eral McArthur will be ready to seize Tar lac, fifteen miles beyond Angeles. Tarlac is a fortified town, and is at present the insurgent capital
 But Tarlac is not the real objective of the army. That is Dagapan, the northern terminal of the only railroad on the island, and the occupation of Dagapan, and of the entire line of railroad extending from Dagapan to Manila, will doubtless occur very soon Angeles, which is now held by the American army, is fifty-eight miles from Manila, and the distance to Dagapan is not much more. Dagapan will be held from the Lingayen gulf and will become a base of operations of equal value with Manila, thus placing the insurgents be- tween two fires.
 Aguinaldo and his army will be kept ac- lively employed hereafter it being reason- ably certain that not a moment will be lost in a campaign that involves not only the holding of Luzon but also the holding of the White House through another period of four years It is an Otis-Hanna cam paign that has been begun, one-half mili- Hary and one-half political. It will be pressed wholly regardless of any rains that do not make success impossible, for sue ress is what Is sadly needed at Washing kon.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
Liverpool Makes the Price.

The swindllng cable scheme of Friday was an object lesson to the people of the south If they had doubts before as to the power of Liverpool to put up or put down cotton prices, they can have none now. Southern markets went wild'' on Friday, because prices in Liverpool were reported as going up by leaps and bounds. Whatever Liverpool did, no matter how er- ratio and improbable, New Orleans and Savannah and all the lesser I~cobto markets attempted to do. The latter simp7. ly followed suit. While the swindle re- mained unexposed, prices moved with re- ported Liverpool prices, wild as they were.
 There seems to be but one way to get Out of the hands of outside parties. The oil mills of the south point the way The price of seed. So cotton mills amid the cotton fields can make the price of cotton. But we need two or three times many mills as we have. It Is not so difficult task as it may seem to be al first sight. When Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are brought up to the level of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, the cotton mills of the south will make the price, and Liverpool will pay for the small surplus it will be permitted to take whatever price the southern mills may name. The effect of the mills now in the south has been materially felt in the cur rent rise, and when there are enough mills in the south to spin the larger part of the crop, the south will get out of the hauds of Liverpool, and not one minute sooner.
 The mills of the north and the mills of the south will then spin the entire crop, and Liverpool will then take its American cotton in the form of yarns or manufac- tured goods. We must expect to remain in bondage to Liverpool while we permit Lancashire to do such a large part of cot ton manufacturing. Alabama in particular, possessing cheap fuel, should wake up in this matter of building cotton mills. When a Huntsville mill can distribute semi-an- nual dividends of fifteen per cent. it is time to build mills in every county.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
EATING THE KERNEL
London Answers.

From the London Answers.
 The Great Northern express gradually slowed up as the lights of Grantham twinkled brighter and brighter through the night.
 As the engine gave a farewell shriek and the train began again to move our carriage door opened and a middle-aged man fell in. We all sat watching him for some minutes in silence. At length he looked up and catching my eye, said:
 Are you married?'
 I expressed my regret that I was not as I thought of sweet little Dora.
 Never trotted up and down half the night with a squalling baby?"
 "No'
 Don't know what it is to have scold- ing wife that never gives you a minutes peace unless'-and here he chuckled over the joke that was to follow-'it is a piece of her mind?"
 Never"
 ''Then you could never have been a wod- ower?' with a seraphic smile.
 Certainly not?"
 "Young man you have my sympathy You know nothing of the delights of matri- mony." And he relapsed into smiling si- lence
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
WHY IT WILL BE A SMALL YIELD
MT. Johnson Says the Present Indicates Crop
 of 9,50o,ocO Bales

A. S. Johnson of Meridian, Miss, says in his circular of cotton: The following reasons we think fully demonstrate the correctness of the stand we have always taken concerning this crop, and we ven- ture the opinion that each reason advanced will be coincided with by every practical farmer and business man of the cotton states who has given the crop thought or investigation:
 A decreased acreage
 No preparations of land before planting.
 Less use of fertilizers.
 A struggling start resulting from differ ent plantings, varying from two to eight weeks.
 Use of inferior seed, results of which are now being plainly evidenced by the small fruitage of the plant.
 Following all the above adverse condi- tions, in themselves sufficieney to cause a light yield the crop has been overtaken by a severe drought during August far reaching in it's disastrous sweep, more so than that which overlook the crop in 1896. The month of September is always an inn portant one for maturing a crop and this month in 1896 added so largely to the final yield of that year that we found 1t neces- sary to make mention of it in our circular of October, 1896, using the following words:
 "The month of September has beyond a doubt proved a very satisfactory and favorable one. to the growing plant; so much so that it called forth from all sec tions a nearly unanimous opinion that the plant was green and still growing This fact was even admitted by the weekly government reports We are so well sat isfied and the opinion is so well fixed Tn our minds that a fair top crop has been made that we unhesitatingly state we now believe the crop cannot possibly be under eight and three-quarter millions"
 This season September has done nothing for the crop except to force open prema- turely large percentage of it.
 We will await the frost period before making final estimate of yield, but we do not hesitate to say that at the moment indications point to yield near nine and one-half millions
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

come a city of nearly 100000 people, a city of wealth and many attractions. What a spectacle it presents in a so-called repub- lici Forts have been built about it. not for defensive purposes. but to keep down the people of Johannesburg. The guns are all pointed inward at the Outlanders ofthe city who pay nearly all the taxes, but who have no police they can control, no city gov- ernment that is elective, no schools in which English is taught. Nine-tenths of the taxes of the republic are collected from the outanders.
 Englands patience has at length been ex- hausted. The rude Boer who formerly held the Hottentots as slaves and concubines, is to be treated to discipline that he sadly needs. War is simply inevitable. It has long been inevitable. It should have been fought out in 1884, but Mr. Gladstone never did have a clear view of far-away questions England sees clearly that Boer injustice must be wiped out by the sword. The task will be expensive and perhaps prolonged, but it is a task that cannot and will not be shirked.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
B0erS Have No Case.
! Mir. Chamberlains demands have not been officially published, but it is under stood that they consist of these points:

Mir. Chamberlains demands have not been officially published, but it is under stood that they consist of these points:
 1 Five years franchise qualification without hampering conditions
 g. Municipal sef-government at Johan- nesburg on a freely elected basis.
 g. The separation of judicature from the executive and its independence of the Volksraad.
 4.The abolition of the dynamite monopoly. 5. The removal of the fort dominating Johannesburg though the defenses at Pre- toria may remain.
 6. The teaching of the English language in the schools
 There is not one of these demands that is not just and reasonable, when the fact is remembered that MT. Gladstone out of his customary tenderness granted the Boers local independence with the tacit understanding that all should be accorded equal rights
 Instead of equal rights the English and Americans and other Outlanders who were invited to come in and develop the gold industry have been gradually deprived of political rights until they have none at all. Citizenship on their part has become an impossibility. The situation Is really not understood. Johannesburg Is the cen- ter of the goldlnfining industry. It has be-
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
A HOT DAY EPISODE

From the Washington Star.
 Have you anything horrible in stock?' asked the young man with the limp collar and the suffused brow as he walked into the lair of the bookseller.
 By any particular author?"
 q couldn't specify To teM you the truth, I ain't literary. But friend of mine was describing something he read and have been thinking that maybe books have more sense in 'em than I gave 'em credit fer forgot the name of it, but anything in that lne'll do."
 There are some ghost stories over on that shelf.'
 May l read little in em, just to sample the goods?''
 Certainly
 In less than a quarter of an hour he came back to the bookseller.
 It'll take too long to find out that way" he said. q haven't seen anything yet that fills the bill.
 I'm afraid we haven't what you want in stock"
 "I'll get my friend to give me the title and then come back. He said it would he something that would freeze the blood in your veins and make your hair stand on end. If l could find some thing to do that I'd be the most liberal customer you ever sold to. I'm dead tired of having the blood go through my veins like hot water through the pipes of Turkish bath, and if l could get some thing to make my hair stand on end awhile so the breeze could get through it I'd give you the biggest bill in my salary envelope and never say word except keep the change.'"
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
All Are Now Bulls.

Even the Providence Journal admits that the rise in the price of cotton, based as it is on the sustained and increasing de- mand for cation goods, lis not to be Of even provided the crop is unprecedently large" Enormous quantities are being taken by spinners, and the Journal sees in this buying the essential cause of the rise in prices. This view leaves out the ques- tion as to the size of the crop which is still in dispute No matter how large the crop may be the Journal thinks the world will need it, and will take it at good prices.
 And when one thinks of it, is Scent cot ton any stranger or more improbable than SIS iron would have been year ago? If iron can be advanced in response to con- sumption from s6 to SIS. why cannot cot ton be advanced two or three cents pound in like manner? It should be remember ed that other countries are as prosperous as the United States and that in all con- sumption has been largely increased; Scent cotton is therefore much more than a pos sibility. It is highly probable
 The rise is bringing to the cotton belt the happiness tht was felt in other states when wheat ceased to sell at fifty cents and corn at nineteen cents. All the land is now sharing better prices and better times. All the land is now prosperous. The cotton movement was long delayed, but still it was timely. It came while the crop Was largely in first hands.
 Experts do not think that the movement has by any means run its course. Experts in the south believe that a moderate crop is joined to an approximately active trade, and that higher prices will result from this rare but happy combination. ton goods; why should there not be an un- precedented demand for the staple itself?
 The rise in lint and seed over the prices prevailing at the corresponding date of last year is, or soon will be, equivalent to $lo a bale In round numbers 900 more money-all profit, let us hope-will go into the pockets of southern farmers. Very naturally they are happy. Alabama will receive s1O, ,o00, 900 more money this year, and that is a very comfortable sum-a sum that will make itself felt in additional comforts and contentment and business enterprises and discharge of obligations, and happiness in general.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
HDPELE ESSLY MIXED
From the Wave.

From the Wave.
 A traveller on the St. Paul railroad was much puzzled by the little signposts along the track having the single letter "R' or ''W." He asked the porter, who replied, "Why, sir, dem's whistle and ring posts fer de engineer" The traveller pondered and became only the more perplexed. In despair he repeated his question to the con- ductor. 'Those signs are for the informa- tion of the engineer" replied the conductor, The Is to whistle or ring at certain points as indicated by those initial letters" "Yes," said the traveller, "so I understood the porter, but thought he must be mistaken I know w stands for wiring but how in thunder do you spell whistle with an R"
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
CATHOLICS IN TIRE PHILIPPINES

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The representative holders of Roman Catholic opinion know that it is much better for their Church in the Philippines that the Americans should rule than that the Filipino insurgents should hold sway. The Catholic church has little to expect from the Tagal insurgents. It's local orders in the islands have no more bitter ene- mics than Aguinaldo and his followers One of the primary objects of the rebels was to seize church property. For two years they have been imprisoning priests and subjecting them to all sorts of barbarity. They seem to be animated by a feeling of ferocious hatred toward the Catholic or ders. If Aguinaldo were allowed to be the master of the Philippines there would not be much room for the Roman Catholic hierachy, but if the Americans continue in control they will secure to every priest the right to go where he pleases and to admin ister the rites of his church.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
FROM "SEZ YOC"

By Henry Lawson. When you're camping on the mulga, and
 the rain is falling slow, While you nurse your rheuma tism meath a patch of calico; Short of tucker or tobacco, short of sugar or of tea; And the scrubs are dark and dismal, and the plains are like sea; Don't give up, and be dewnhearted-to the soul of man be true Grin! if you've a mate to grin for laugh and jest and don't look blue; For 1t can't go on forever, and-"Ill rise some day. says you. When you've tramped the Sydney pave ments till you've counted all the flags, And your Tapping boot-soles trip you, and your clothes are mostly rags, When you're called city loafer, summed, abused, moved on, despised- Fifty hungry beggars after every job that's advertised- Don't be beaten! Hold your head up! To your wretched self be true: Set your pride to fight your hunger, Be a
 man in all you do! For 1t cannot last forever-'I will rise
 again." says you. Bother not about the morrow, for sufficient
 to the day Is the evil trather more sob Put your
 trust in God and pray! Study well the ant. thou siuggard. Blessed are the meek and low. Ponder calmly on the lilies-how they idle
 how they grow. A mans a man, Obey your masters! Do
 not blame the proud and fat. For the poor are always with them, and
 they cannot alter that. Lay your treasures up In heaven-cling to
 life and see it through, For it cannot last forever-"I will die some
 day." says you.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
INSTRUCTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Trumps are always kisses. When in doubt. lead trumps
 A "deathless joy is probably nearly as scarce as a kssless girl.
 The presence of good women in the world is tAe surest proof that God made it.
 If man was much of devil as he tries to make his wife think he is, he would never dare go out of the front door with out getting shot at.
 Whenever a minister that nobody sus- pected anything about goes wrong there are a lot of women who say that whenever they listened to his sermons they couldn't help thinking of the sounding brass and the tinkling cymbal."
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
NELSON, TARRAGUr AND DEWEY

Rear Admiral Sampson in Century Maga-
 zine.
 The names of three great admirals Will stand out conspicuously in modern his. tory, each of whom rendered transcendent services to his country; Nelson, the real victor of Napoleon and establisher of Flu ropean peace; Farragut, the far-reaching effect of whose services in the civitl war has yet to be recognized by the general public, and Dewey, whose attack was as bold as that of Farragut at Mobile Bay (and I can use no higher praise), as suc- cessful as Washingtons Trenton victory and whose diplomacy and tact after his destruction of the Spanish squadron make a shining page which will not be the the least in his glorious record.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
in genera,

If New York reporters would inform a weary public how they obtained such posi- tive information that mo Roman con- oueror returned to his triumph of barbaric splendor'' ever 'received such a magnifi- cent ovation as overwhelmed Admiral Dewey" and what the said reporters know about the occurrences >"since the night of ages" there would be general gratitude. What or when was the night of ages, anyway?
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
THE TROUBLE

From Punch
 Shooting Tenant Gust arrived from the grouse)-What a beautiful place to live, Dougald,
 Douga'1-Its no a bad place to live But what wad ye think O havin' to travel fif- teen miles for a glass O whusky?
 Shooting Tenant-But why don't you buy some and keep it?
 Dougald-Ah, mon, but whusky will na' keepi
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
NARROW ESCAPE

From the Indianapolis Journal.
 To the millionaire came the superinten- dent of the farm with beaming face.
 Looks like we were going to clear ex penses, sir,'' said the hirelng.
 Great heavens," cried the millionaire, "something must be done CT am disgraced! Go and order a 5000 automobile to haul the truck to market in,''
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION WILL COME
From the Huntsville Mercury.


 Sooner or later the convention question will again come to the front. It cannot and will not be denied that the state IS seriously hampered by the back-number constitution under which we are living When that time arrives the Democracy can find no more unselfsh leader than pr. Cunningham. He is brainy and tireless in his efforts to bring Alabama and ner splendid resources to the front.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

From the Mobile Herald.
 The loading of pig iron from Birmins- ham furnaces into the hold of the Catania this morning attracted much attent1on New kind off fruit" said a negro, who has been wont to handle bananas all summer Don't like 'em so much as bananas. Guess not.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
GOOD FOR GIRLS, BUT NOT FOR BOYS

From the AtchisOn Globe.
 Dewey anecdotes relate that the admiral traces his start in file to a severe whipping a school teacher gave him, whereupon he resolved to lead a new life. This anecdote will be read out loud by mothers, but 1t will not fool any boy. It is harder to fool a boy than girl with fairy tales.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

Forgetting the interests of Alabama and of the other gulf ports, the enemies of Sem ator Morgan have accepted in full fellow ship MT. Horace White, who is republi- can. and the rotten Panama canal scheme
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

The Outlanders are after all a later edi- ton of our old friends, the carpet-baggers and they are loaded to the chin with car pet-bag assurance. They want the whole halya
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

The Rome Tribune says much of the good work done at the Gadsden convention was due to the untiring activity of Congress- man Burnett.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

The warclouds over South Africa are still very black and no one can see way to peace unless President Kruger crawfishes at a lively rate.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

The absence of pink-eye among the auto cago Tribune.
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Editor Whtelaw Reid is displaying his sore head in articles intended to injure the administration of William Mckinley
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

Visitors to New York's Dewey celebra- ton were expected to leave enough money to lower the price of money in Wall street.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

The nations glory that was yesterday centered in the Olympia will tomorrow De shifted to the Columbia.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

promoter is grade better than a poli- tician, and developer is better than regiment of either.
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In the days before Otis arrived there was no censor, no blue pencil, no round robin, on the Olympia.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

Street. fairs and seven-cent cotton have driven politics out of sight and sound in this state.
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The joy of the nation would be uneon- fined if Otis would cable his resignation.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

The interest taken in the State Fair is widespread-as wide as the borders of the state at least.
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A new trolley car is needed-one that is not too cold after sunset, nor too warm be- fore it.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

Mrs. Kruger can turn the British ulti- matums into paper lighters for the parlor lamp.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

Alabama has a short crop of cotton but a long crop of gubernatorial candidates.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

"Empties" are scarce articles in every part of the south nowadays.
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President Kruger cannot find Lafayette, much less an ally. outside of South Africa.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

General Otis still holds Manila. He needs it as headquarters.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

The Hon. Billy Mason continues to live in a country he is ashamed of.
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The Transvaal situation is becoming posi- lively monotonous.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01
BIRMINGHAM APPLES

It was Greatest, not Greater, New York yesterday.
The age-herald., 1899-10-01

The maiden at the crossing of the street and the gateman at the gate are the heirs of a million years, which vast time Is find- ing something of full flower in this year of grace Charity Is chasing self-righteous- ness from the earth. Mercy Is making for the millennium. The urco guid are retiring abashed to their own solitudes. The holier-than-thou are taking their rightfu places amongst sinners who mourn all things save their own snfuness. Selfish ness is sinking to the noxlous recesses of its dungeon tombs. Charity sits in high places and dispenses heal-all to them that deserve its blessing. The slanderer and the scandal-monger foul-mouthed beasts of humanity, are losing their occupation. They are now to be hired for drinks and dark places. The backguard no longer finds his trade profitable. Charity is driv- ing all the iniquitous from the busy scenes of mandkinds benevolent activity. The Sisters of Charity are the real angels of the world. They do good for the love Of good They minister to the afflicted for love of ministerlng. They bear aloft the noble banner of godly goodness: they are handmai i@ens of the Most High.
 So passes the false. So comes the true to proclaim by word and deed the divine beauty and light of the eternal verities! THE MURMURER.