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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
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Admiral schley did not have to conquer
Birmingham yesterday He captured this
town at Santiago. The echo of his guns
touched all hearts here stirred all hearts
profoundly, won all hearts absolutely.
Events since Santiago have deepened the
public sense of attachment and admiration
respecting the famous admiral, and he is
made now to feel that in the estimation of
Welcome is written upon every heart in
Birmingham, falls from every tongue, and
stirs every spirit here. 1t is felt in all its
depth and all its breadth and all its inten-
sity.
The greeting to Admiral Schley is cordial
open, frank, free. 1t is wonderfully en-
its meaning. 1t is the highest spirit of
broad Americanism as represented in him
self, softened and sweetened by an attach
ment and devotion quite personal in it's
nature.
More than this could not we'll be said in
explaining phenomenal display of deep
feeling that really needs no explanation;
for it ought to be as fully comprehended
in high quarters as it is upon the. streets of
Birmingham.
Admiral Schley is graciously pleased to
accept the expressions of our admiration,
our attachment, our devotion, our Ameri-
itself upon its own manner of giving force
to these expressions.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
THE TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS

FROM the Kansas city SttSr.
Some of the advocates of protective tariffs
have sought to combat the argument that
the tariff fosters trusts by pointing to the
numerous combinations that have been
effected in industries that are not directly
benefited by a tariff. The Standard Oil
company is the most conspicuous of trusts
that are alleged to have sprung up without
any assistance from duties on imports. But
the fact must not be overlooked that it is
the special favors enjoyed by the protected
industries which have prompted men in
other lines to look about for some means
to gain advantages which will put them on
a level with the projected Industries.
The most demoralizing factor in the life
of this nation has been the protective tar
iff. BY relieving great manufacturers from
the competition of foreign goods it has
created the idea that some special advant-
age is necessary for. every man who ex-
poets to win extraordinary success, and in
those industries which could not be helped
by a protective tariff men were forced to
find some other means for collecting large
profits from consumers. The trust idea was
developed by this effort of men in the nom
protected industries to enjoy equal advant-
ages with those who have profited from the
protection afforded them by an excessive
duty on imported goods. 1t is plain. there
fore, that protection is largely responsible
for the organization of all trusts, whether
they are engaged in producing articles pro-
tected by an import duty on not.
In the same way that the tariff has slim
ulated the organization of trusts, 1t has
also been potent reason for railroad dis
elimination. When the great United States
government undertakes to assist favored
industries by means of a protective tariff
1t discourages open and fair competition
among its citizens and encourages every
one of them to seek undue advantages, in
one way or another. over his competitors.
The demoralizing effects of the protective
tariff on the business morals of the country
are simply beyond calculation. 1t has not
only bred trusts, but all manner of unfair
methods for avoiding competition, and Sc
curing special advantages, all in emulation
of the example set by the government in
undertaking to build up favored industries
at the expense of the whole mass of the
people.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
School Books in tennessee.

The last Tennessee legislature passed
much-needed law providing for uniform
text books in the public schools, and pro-
viding. too, for a commission to carry the
law INTO effect. The commission. met, and
1t found that the people had been charged
about two prices for each book purchased,
and it proceeded not only to secure uni
tormity but to secure reasonable prices.
The school combine, which is known as
the American Book company, has there
fore, declared the law unconstitutional, and
it proposes to have the Tennessee courts
do likewise. 1t went about in this way: A
public school teacher in Blount county
whose name is Lapeer and who receives
salary of $50 a month was induced to dis
obey the law by refusing to adopt the books
selected by the commission. Lapeer was
brought into court, and the fine prescribed
in the law was inflicted. He appealed to
the supreme court, and when the case was
argued in that court last week five of the
leading lawyers of the state, headed by
United States Senator Turley, appeared in
behalf of the thirty-dollar teacher Attor-
ney General Pickle alone appeared for the
state. The case has not been decided by
the court.
In Tennessee the presumption IS that the
five big lawyers are not volunteers. Nor is
it thought that Teacher Lapeer is paying
them out of his salary. There is a we'll
defined belief that the book combine has
decided to break down the law in the
courts This book combine is a very
tough combine even as combines go, and
the people of Alabama are now numbered
among its victims. They are doubly taxed
by it, as the people of Tennessee long have
been.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
Former British CapituIation.

Now that it is known the regiments that
surrendered at Farquhar's Hill fought
bravely and determinedly until their ammu-
milton was exhausted, there has arisen an
inquiry as to presidents for their action
All British capitulations have not been as
honorable as the one in Natal was
The Duke of York in 1899 led fine army
into Holland. the ancestral home of the
Beers. He was weak, incapable soldier,
and one disaster followed another. until he
surrendered to the French at Alkmaer.
The French allowed him to return home
with his troops. Altogether This was the
most disgraceful capitulation in English
history.
The other POPULATIONS in English history
were in this country, where Anglo-Saxon
met Anglo-Saxon. General Burgoyne sur
rendered at Saratoga 5.7ss troops to General
Gates. To this number should be added 800
sick and wounded, bringing the total up to
7,599 These men were held to the end of
the war. and were shifted from one point
died and many deserted. Comparatively
few of them saw their English homes again.
Then came the surrender at Yorktown,
where 1000 British troops surrendered to
General Washington in 17s1. This ended
the war.
Something similar to a capitulation oc-
CURED at Cabul, in Afghanistan, in 1912,
where 5000 British troops were surrendered
by horde of force combatants, and were
forced to leave the country. They really
fled from their camps, leaving nearly all
guns and stores behind. Privation and the
Afghans followed them, and the remnant
was extinguished in Jugdulink Pass. Only
one man escaped, DIR. Brydon, who reached
Jellalabad with the news of the awful dis
aster.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
JU T JOUBERT
London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
There is a story concerning General Jou-
bert who is in command of the enemy, now
actually fighting in Natal. One of the Brit
ish wounded at Majuba Hill, while lying on
the ground, was robbed by a Boer, who de-
prived him of his watch and money The
Englishman was able to speak a little
Dutch, and when, shortly afterwards, Jou-
bert and his staff rode by, drew the atten-
ton of the general to the incident. Jou-
bert dealt with the matter promptly. The
Englishman was removed to the Boer COM
mander's tent, where his wounds were at
tended to- and parade was ordered of the
Beers who had taken part in the engage
ment. The wounded man was asked to
identify the thief and he did so, the watch
and money being discovered in the Boer' 5
possession. Joubert reprimanded the
burgher, the Englishman being kept in his
tent until he had recovered sufficiently to
proceed to the Cape.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
A Russo.Persian Railroad.

Russia has long needed and long planned
~ secure an outlet by rail to the waters of
the southern Asiatic seas Following the
line of least resistance she has long sought
the right to build line from her railroad
system through Teheran, the heart of Per-
STA and Ispahan to the head of the Persian
gulf. The line would perhaps be built at
first from the Caspian sea straight to the
head of the Persian gulf. This is certainly
the shortest and most economical lire to
The sea that Russia. could at present Sc
cure 1t is but just to say that She has
long had the project in contemplation, and
at the most only acceleration OF 1t can be
attributed to England's trouble in South
Africa The pushing of 1T at present is
natural and reasonable. AS the line is in
evitable anyway, not much harm can be
done by its construction in the immediate
future although it means of course the
domination CT Persia by Russia. AS this
is also inevitable, no harm is possible. The
railroad in question is an economic neces-
sity; England does not need Persian ter
ritory, and there Is no reason why she
should object to the proposed railroad.
A southern outlet is greatly needed by
Russia. The Daraanelles are closed by a
big combine, and nature closes in the win
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
SCHOOL ROCKS TOO HIGH,

From the Falkville Chronicle
There is one issue that the people of every
county in this great state of ours should be
deeply interested in and that is the SUBJ
ject of school books for the children. This
burden upon patrons of schools has been
borne heroicaly, and very little said about
it; but the time is coming when they will or
should assert themselves in regard to this
matter which is of vital Importance to
them. Not that they want books given to
them free, but they demand that lower
prices, and one, and only one system of text
books for the entire state; if not this, let
it apply and be strictly enforced as pertains
to the counties. That the book concerns
are growing rich at the expense of those
who are barely able to keep their children
in school six months in the year, no one can
deny. That The conditions in this county
(where we are supposed to have system
of school books adopted for schools in the
county,, are not satisfactory to patrons,
we know we'll; we think 1t is time refor-
nation be inaugurated to right these mat
tiers, and help raise these burdens, by prop
err legislat ton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
rus JONES SCARE
.nm the Boston Herald.


A republican leader is reported as saying
in Ohio: There's a Jones craze on, and
l see no way of heading it Off lisa band
wagon hurrah, with Jones on the drivers
seat and if it keeps up till Saturday night,
it's all off with u.s." There probably is
considerable Jones support in the state, and
the politicians are greatly troubled by it.
There is a large rural element in Ohio,
however, which they are hoping he will not
reach very much. Jones Is strong in the
workshops, and this may mean good deal.
We remember the first year the republican
party started in Massachusetts, it set itself
to defeat Governor Gardner, who was the
know-nothing candidate that year. re-
publican campaign speaker then came home
from a stumping tour with the remark: IT
fear we are beaten. Gardner has got into
all the workshops" And his prophetic soul
was right.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
AN ABBREVIATED WORD

From the News.
The Alabama state fair edition of The
Age-Herald, published yesterday, is easily
the most credltab1e performance in the his
tory of the News morning contemporary.
1t contained forty pages, full of advertising,
excellent contributions, latest news and
booming editorials-the whole well illustrat-
ed and prettiy printed.
The News congratulates The Age Herald
force, from turret to foundation stone"
from Editor-in-C Chief Barrett to the print
er's devil, on their great achievement.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
REFLECrIONs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
All wedding marches ought to be written
in rag-time.
Women like sensible men a lot better than
they like men to be sensible.
No man ever thinks a woman angel
till he has found out that she is human.
There is nothing in the world that Is
worth dying for that isn't worth living for
Probably a girl could never explain just
why she jumps up and down so at foot
ball game.
There are tricks in all trades and in all
women.
In a woman's club the one that can talk
the longest without running down is always
president.
The average woman hates an old bachelor
worse than she does a congressman with
six wives
Baking is said to be good thing for
rheumatism; it is probably also the only
cure for love-
A man takes a drink about the way a
woman cries-when he feels mighty good
or Niaen he feels mighty bad
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

some of the northern counties in the inter-
est of his candidature for the governorship
Captain Charles Sewell of Marion is the
guest of his kinscan, John R. Reid, in
this city.
Holding FLETCHER of Huntsville is visiting
his brother, Hon. Robert J. Lowe.
Claude Seals has come to town from his
island home in the Tennessee at Florence.
Ernest Alley of Chattanooga formerly of
Birmingl Cham, is in town.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
GroKGIA SHOULD GO SLOW


From the Clay ton Recoru
Georgia is thinking of having a constitu-
tional convention. If she will take the ao-
vice of am humble Alabama weekly, before
she goes into the thing too far, she had
better ascertain '1aree things-frst, what
her governor has up his sleeve; second,
how many places he can promise the legis-
latcrs, and third that she does not elect
her best men to frame the instrument
That is, if her governor has any of the
characteristics of our governor.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
PrOQress of the PLAQUE.

America is as full of dirty, undrained
cities as Turkey and the east are--Latin
America, that is to say; and the appear
ance of the plague at Santos, in Brazil, is
not at all surprising. The scale of living
among nine-tenths of the people of Santos
is low, and the surroundings are all insan-
itary. Towns can be found all the way
from the Rio Grande to the limit of popu-
lation in Argentina that can Hospitality en-
terrain bubonic plague. 1t will not be al
should be swept by the dread disease that
sprang from the filth of the Lower Nile
The deadly pest was known in the delta
of the Nile three centuries before the Chris
tan era, and it has devastated country af-
ter country In the intervening centuries.
1t does not necessarily need hot climate,
although it prefers a mixture of heat and
filth. 1t swept through Moscow, and the
black death of London is historic. From
1888 to 1874 there were twenty-one epidemics
of the disease in Europe. After 1874 Europe
came to the conclusion that sanitation was
better than disease.
The Chinese province of Yunnan has of
late taken the place of the Nile delta as a
propagation of the disease. The Chinese
do not know what sanitation is, whereas in
the Nile valley sanitation is enforced
through English dictation. The outbreak
that has spread to Oporto, in Portugal, and
to Santos, in Brazil, came from Yunnan.
1t is slowly spreading from Oporto, and it
has also appeared al Assumption, the capt.
tai city of Paraguay.
1t is not a leaplng disease in the sense
that yellow fever is. 1t requires direct
contact and a good deal of it, 1t creeps
from place to place, slowly and steadily.
1t leaves no gaps behind, as a rule, after it
has gained a foothold. Persons who live in
a clearly manner, and are well nourished,
rarely take the disease; filth and low living
promote it. Like typhus it proceeds step
by step through slums. There are slums
in this country that could Hospitality en-
terrain it, as London did in the fourteenth
century, and Surgeon-General Wyman Is
acting wisely when he watches 1t and takes
steps intended to prevent the Introduction
of its germs in this country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
MIR. BANKumAD A VETERAN
-, the Eutaw Wing and Observer.

From the Eutaw Wing and Observer.
Bankhead should be reelected to congress
nv a rousing majority next year. He stands
as highly as any momber of congress from
the south, and is likely to be made the lead
er of the democrats in the house, whlch
would reflect honor on our state. Ii wouid
be the climax of folly to swap Bankheao'
who is a veteran in parliamentary rules ana
congressional legislation, for one perfectly
ignorant of those things. ~
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
THE HANDwRIrING ON THE WALL

From the ST Louis Republic.
Cecil Rhodes is said to be showing his
fearlessness of Boer capture by giving daily
dinner parties. Perhaps it has never oc-
Cured to him that Belshazzar was giving
dinner party when trouble appeared ]
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
Ii h l1t;Crs
Schiller.

ScHllleT.
There are three lessons I would write,
Three words as with a golden pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.
Have hope! Though clouds environ round
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow
No night but has its morn.
Have faith! Wherever thy bark be driven
The calm's distort. the tempest's mirth-
Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven
The inhabitants of earth.
Have love! Not love alone for one.
But man as man thy brother call,
And scatter like the circling sun,
Thy charities OH all.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Hereafter The Age-HeraId will be strictly a
daily newspaper. 1t will go to its subscribers
every day in the year, Mondays and all holt
days included. 1t is the only daily newspaper
in Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Powder is not strong enough for benevo-
lent assimilation purposes in the Philip
pines and thorite, very high explosive,
is to be used
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
u,yp .IoTurK THOUGHT COMING

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
We have paid s., 600 600 more for the Phil
ippines than we paid Tor the nite@h states
embraced in the Louisiana purchase se'
some people think that we ought 10 "ahu
the islands back to the fellows We never
purchased them from.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
ms CIRCLEr OF GOLD

From the Boston Herald.
Sir Henry Irving describes MS humping
reception in New York as a new welcome
with an old ring. Rather neat PHRASE
that!
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

From the Boston Globe.
Rudyard Kipling continues to show Al
fred Austin, Esq, of Swinford Ola Manor
lust how the poet laureate ought to DO d.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

From the Clayton Record.
Good advice from The Age-Herald. Non
committal legislative candidates-spot them
and avoid them afterwards.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

The mayors proclamation holds good to-
closed at least two hours today, and as
much longer as patriotism may severally
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Low rates and fine weather are pulling
hard in favor of this town. Pretty soon
people will begin to hang on by straps alo g
the outer edges of the city
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

From Roosevelt to Fred Grant is a wide
leap in any sense, and yet both are under
consideration for the vice-presidency. 1t
will probably be Governor Roosevelt if he
will consent to run. New York vice-pres-
dents have heretofore been lucky.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

The republicans who tried so hard in Ne
braska to- defeat Mr.. Bryan are evidently
talking through their hats when they say
they want him to run again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Roberts is a trigamist, but 100000 of other
fellow citizens in the sulus are so high up
in that scale that they have passed our
dictionary.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

General Otis nnds an endorser and sup
porter in his quartermaster who has ar
rived home with a tired feeling
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

President Mckinley estimates his vindiea-
ton in Ohio at 10000. AS a matter of fact
he will lack that many votes at least of
majority.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

General Yule's retreat to Ladysmith won
him promotion, but promotions on that
score will soon be on the other side of the
hnnsn.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

1t will soon be Boer and Butler, the one
being as grim and determined as the other.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

British soldiers are carried in box cars;
American soldiers in palace cars, and the
latter are none too good for them.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Butler may defend Ladysmith by march,
ing a column straight through the orange
Free State to Pretoria.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

From the New York World.
General Joubert has fairly earned his pop
nlar name of slim Piet''
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Mr.. Bryan's Nebraska canvass is regard
ed as the most remarkable in the history
of that state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Powder Is not strong enough for benevo-
lent assimilation purposes in the Philip
pines, and thorite, very high explosive.
is to be used.
Roberts is a trigamist, but 100000 of other
fellow citizens in the sulus are so high up
in that scale that they have passed our
dictionary.
President Mckinley estimates his vindiea-
ton in Ohio at 10000 As a matter of fact
he will lack that many votes at least of
majority.
General Yule's retreat to Ladysmith won
him promotion, but promotions on that
score will soon be on the other side of the
house.
British soldiers are carried in box cars;
American soldiers in palace cars, and the
latter are none too good for them.
Butler may defend Ladysmith by march
ing a column straight through the Orange
Free State to Pretoria.
Mr.. Bryan's Nebraska canvass is regard
ed as the most remarkable in the history
of that state.
New England is becoming full of gift
library buildings. The fashion Will bear
extension.
This is the day that separates the true
prophets from the false one-the sheep from
the goats.
Jeffries and Sharkey will fight again IN
order to see which shall so into the saloon
business.
Otis little battles no longer attract the
attention of the world.
Alfred Austin is still merciful to brave
and distressed people.
Barrels will be emptied today, but not IN
Alabama.
The Mexicans are not, it is plain six
footers
Broomcorn is out of reach almost Ell SlVo
ton.
-. j.. :. o,,1 20 oil oD-crOD talk.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

New England is becoming full of gift
library buildings. The fashion will bear
extension.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

This is the day that separates the true
prophets from the false one-the sheep from
the goats
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Otis little battles no longer attract the
attention of the world.
Alfred Austin is still merciful to brave
and distressed people.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07
GOOD Ai1VIC n

Frost has put an end to all top-crop talk
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Jeffries and Sharkey will fight again in
order to see which shall so into the saloon
business.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

Barrels will be emptied today, but not in
Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-07

The Mexicans are not, it is plain six