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The age-herald., 1899-08-26
increasing Intensity of Iron Famine.

Manufacturers of wagons in the Omaha district are compelled to delay orders be- cause they cannot procure stock needed in the ironing of otherwise completed goods. Truck manufacturers are experiencing like difficulty. News of this nature from the central west. when added to the de- lays attending the scant supply of iron and steel material in the shipyards and great foundres of the east, goes to show that there is downright scarcity of iron and steel.
 but it is cash, of constantly advancing value. Deliveries in the present year de- mand not only the market price. but any reasonable advance that the furnace sees fit to ask. Next years deliveries are hardening all the time, and some contracts have been made covering the last six months of next year without material con- sessions from present prices. The steadi- ness and firmness of southern iron is surprise to the most sanguine friends of this district. and every additional day con- firms the belief that the price of iron will not soon return to old figures. The Iron Age, just issued. says, "A number of im- portant orders have been placed for deliv- cry far into the second half of 1900, the southern furnaces leading in these trans actions" When such contracts are made this far in advance, it is very plain the ex- perts in the iron trade have concluded that iron will remain at or near the present level until 1901. This is the greater and better probability now. What 1901 has in store for this district, need not disturb any one. No one can look that far into the millstone. It is enough to know that boom- ing prices are reasonably secure throughout another year.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
THE RISE IN THE PRICE UF MEAT

From the New York Herald.
 "God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat" but the trust contrives to levy toll en route.
 It is no new thing. Men moro cunning and greedy than their fellows have in all ages attempted something of the sort. and society has been obliged to adopt stern measures for self-protection.
 When old Thomas Tusser. the British farmers poet-oracle in the days of Good Queen Bess, wrote the above lines laws against "forestallng'' had been on the statute book for POO years, and others were still being passed. The man who in those days demonstrated that he could success fully conduct a corner was not elected to make laws for the country. but was rigor- ously dealt with as a felon
 Combinations of brain and capital for the conduct of business on larger scale with a view to economy in production or dis tribution. when honestly effected and con- ducted. rebound to the benefit of the com munity, as we'll as of those who manage them. But where the purpose is to monop- olize the sources of supply and of the meth cd of distribution, to exclude competition and to arbitrarily fix the price to the peo- pie. we have a very different proposition, and one condemned alike by the common law and by the statutes of the federal and the state legislatures.
 Now the "Cattle Trust" or the Big Five." the men who with headquarters in Chicago, are supposed to have control of the cattle ranges and through contracts
 with the railways and steamship lines to
 have vast advantage oyer others in the transportation of meats to the east and to Europe, are popularly assigned to place among the offensive and tyranioal trusts. ' A rise of cents a pound in the price of beef during the last ten days brings the question home to the people of this city in a very practical manner.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Typhoid Fever in Rural Districts.

As the months of decaying vegetation ap- proach, the land becomes filled with ty- phoid fever cases. There are today more typhoid fever cases per one thousand of than there are yellow fever cases in any of the provinces of the West Indies or of South America: and of the two levers the scourge of the tropics is the less fatal and the less dreadful in every other respect.
 Typhoid fever has never commanded the attention from scientists that it's ravages call for, simply because 1t is not contagious or infectious. That Is to say person in good vigor-or health cannot well contract the disease from another person. If he takes in in any way a typhoid germ his strength enables him to throw it off. And so people do not generally dread the dis ease. and yet it kills moro than any other disease known to this country, consumption alone excepted.
 There are two well established facts in connection with this disease that should be kept in mind
 1. The germ does not have to be import ed. No exposure to the disease is neces- sary The germ Is in some way propagated in decomposing matter that accumulates in or about the homes of people.
 g. It is essentially a drinking-water or milk disease, and the chief source of prop agation is surface-fed wells or springs wells or springs that are fed with water that passes over decomposing matter.
 pr. Pate, of the North Carolina State Board of health. an expert of high rank, thinks all open wells should be classed dangerous" because the bucket method of hoisting water is the reverse of cleanly. Dirty hands handle it. and the water below is in that way kept we'll supplied with putrefactive bacteria pr. Pate condemns the open well altogether. Between the dust loaded with bacteria that the rope and bucket gather. and the dirty hands of farm laborers, the water below Is kept full of germs that are ready to create in man disease. pr. Pate would add open wells to the indisputable causes of typhoid fever.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
SCARCITY OF CARS CONTINUES

From the Indianapolis Journal.
 The falling off in the loaded car move- ment last week was wholly attributable to the car shortage, which last week was more seriously felt by Indianapolis lines than in any previous week of this season.. Still. the roads have all their power in cars would tend to a congestion of traffic at division points. That with the fewer number of loaded cars handled the tonnage now moving is heavier than last year is evident as all lines are compelling ship pers to load cars to their fullest capacity. which is quite an important item on through business. It is surprising that the tonnage east and west bound is so nearly equal. the trunk lines now bringing but few empty cars westward The last few days there has been a large increase in the grain shipments for export via Newport News, Norfolk, Baltimore and Philadel- phia, and at presnt the export traffic via Boston and Portland Is heavier than in any former year. The shipments east of provisions, dressed meats and produce are averaging well with former years. North and south roads are now enjoying the greatest prosperity in years. doing an im- mense business and at good rates. Lum- Der, timber. fruits and vegetables of south ern production are coming north by train loads. There is a strong demand for coal, stock and furniture cars. Not in many years has there been as large a tonnage of coal handled in August as this year. and the great prosperity with iron industries creates heavy demand for flat cars.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
GIRAFFEs IN CENTRAL AFRICA

From the British Central Africa Gazette.
 From time to time 1t has been rumored that giraffes existed in British Central Africa, on the Loangwa river, but, although that river valley has been frequently wis., ited during the last ten years by Euro peans. no authentic information on the point has ever been obtained. Last month, however. giraffe was shot on the east bank of the Loangwa, in the Marim5a dis trict by a European prospector, and its skin is being sent to the British museum. and it is hoped that a complete specimen may now be obtained.
 The existence of giraffes in Marimba is remarkable; the area in which they are found is extremely restricted. and their number appears to be very few. The one shot, however, was in herd of about thirty-ive. The nearest country north of Marimba in which giraffes are known to exist is north of Mareres, where the Elton- Cotterill expedition met with them (many years ago). To the south Matabeleland is the nearest giraffe country.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
CARS AS DISEASE BREEDERS From the Galveston News

There is no place at which more care is required in sanitary way than in the cars People of all kinds, ages, weaknesses, and ailments are riding in them constant ly. They are in way the active exchanges in which diseases of various kinds are traded. The Indiana state board of health has made some sanitary recommendations to the railway companies of the state that, if adopted, will mean a radical advance. At the railway terminals the seats and backs of cars are to be dusted with an air blast After washing the whole inter- for of the car is to be sprayed with a per cent. solution of formaldehyde. After they have been closed three hours, the sur face Is to be wiped with sterilized cloths. Instead of being vehicles of contagion, as we'll as of travel, under such treatment railway cars will carry no microbe dead heads. A similar treatment is quite as much in order for street cars, especially su places where the travel is great. Every car should be kept in at least fair condI- ton. The pigpen on wheels should be con- demned
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
REFLECTIONs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The best friend you think you have in the world thinks he has better friend than you.
 You can never find out much about man by asking him, or about a woman by watching her.
 The man who calls the woman he Is in love with flower" never caught her out in the rain with no umbrella on.
 A really good woman is never able to de- eide which is the dearer to her-her hus- bands love or her own reputation.
 Every woman who has been married over two years goes to her grave with the be- lief that her husband has only been good to lug things around, while she managed.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
THE DREYFUs CASE UP TO DATE

THE DREYFUs CASE UP TO DATE
 September 20, Colonel Sandherr sends to General Mercier, secretary of war. document known as the bordereAu, thought to implicate Captain Alfred Drey- fus in reasonable acts.
 October 13. Bertillon pronounces the DOT dereau to be in the handwriting of Drey fus.
 October 15. Dreyfus placed under arrest.
 November g, M Demange is assigned as his counsel.
 December 19, his trial by secret court martial begins.
 December 9, he is found guilty and sen- tenced to be publicly degraded and im- prisoned for life.
 1S95.-January 4, sentence of degradation is carried out in the courtyard of the Ecoie Militaire.
 January 14 President Casmbr- -Perier sud- denly resigned from office.
 January II, President Faure is elected.
 March 10, Dreyfus is taken to the prison on Devils island, off the coast Of French Guiana, South America.
 1s96.-May l, Lieutenant Colonel Picauart, head of the intelligence bureau. receives the petit bleu. and his suspicious are aroused as to the author of the bordereau.
 September, as result of Picquart's in- vestigations, Vice President Scheuref- Kesther is convinced that the bordereau was not written by Dreyfus.
 November 10, the Matin published fac- simile of the bordereau, and suspicion is directed toward Major Esterhazy.
 1Sg.-August, Picard, the detective. em- ployed in the Dreyfus case. found dead In his Paris lodgings.
 October. Senator Schuerer-Kestnep an- nounces that he had proofs of Dreyfus' innocence.
 tine proofs.
 November 12, Mathieu DreyfuS denounces Esterhazy as the author of the bordereau. February ' first trial of Zola and Perreux. publishers of L'Aurore. in which his letter appeared, saying that Esterhazy was ac- quilted "by order"
 November l6, Esterhazy demands court martial
 November 25, Zola's first letter about the Dreyfus case appears in the Aurore.
 1S9s.-January 10, Esterhazy's court martial begins. He is acquitted. January IS, zola's letter. known as the ''J'accuse'' letter, printed in the Aurore. February T. Zola and Perreux publisher of the Aurore. on triad for saying Ester hazy was acquitted "by order.'
 February 9. they are found guilty and sentenced to fine and imprisonment.
 July g, Maitre Demange forwards to the minister of justice Madame Dreyfus first appeal for retrial of her husband.
 July 10, Colonel Picquart declares the ietter of '96. the new evidence, a forgery. August 90, Colonel Henry confesses that he forged the letter of '96.
 Angus 31, is arrested and is found dead in his cell with his throat cut
 September g, Major Esterhazy fees from Paris to London.
 September 26. the French cabinet votes for revision of the Dreyfus case and the papers are sent to the court of cessation. November 15, Dreyfus Is notified of the impending revision.
 1S99-March 21, French court of cessation Court of appeals) orders the secret dossier submitted.
 June 8, the court of cessation orders a new courtmartial for Dreyfus.
 August T. courtmartiaa convened at Rennes. the ancient capital of Brittany. with Colonel Jouaust as president of the court.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
CORN IS KING IN KANSAS

Topeka Correspondence St. Louis Globe
 Democrat.
 Corn is the universal topic in Kansas these days. Corn starts the conversation on the cars Corn stalks are stacked up at the station doors to show the travellers what that particular locality has done. In the office of the Atchison Globe Is a col floor. When Editor Howe stands on tiptoe he can just reach the ears with the tips of his fingers. Nothing less than 14 feet is considered worthy of show. Out at Downs, halfway across the state. the station agent has on exhibition stalks which tower above inches local poet has been inspired to the following: -4.,. ga. -.-,..-. e--.ss .- The Kansas chinch bugs never die.
 Each season they appear:
 But corn stalks g feet high
 Have knocked them out this year. The bugs they came-they came in vain;
 We'll live when they have flown; Give Kansas but her share of rain
 And she will hold her own.
 Some of the new crop is sufficiently ad- vanced to justify weighing. One buyer, to illustrate the quality, is showing eight ears which tip the beam at two pounds each. rhirty-five such ears would weigh a bushel In ordinary years corn from which eighty ears will weigh out a bushel is accounted good enough for Kansas.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
HARD ON THE CANDIDATES

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 The Democratic executive committee of Jackson county has called county pri- mary for December. This is hard on the successful candidates, as they will have over seven months in which to treat the voters, endorse notes, contribute to the building of church and school houses, be- sides giving all the children in the county a Christmas present.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
THE STATE FAIR
From the Fayette Sun.

From the Fayette Sun.
 Much interest is being taken all over the state. and from present indications the fair will be a great success. Chambers county ought to have good exhibit that will call attention to our magnificent resources. We suggest that the officials of tho Lafayette railway are proper persons to take hold of the matter and see that Chambers county is adequately represented.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
MAGAZINES FOR ENsLEY STOPPED
From the Amencan Manufacturer.

From the Ametcan Manufacturer.
 In the United States district court an order was dissolved restraining the Mesta Machine company of this city from ship ping machines for stripping ingots outside the Jurisdiction of the court This action was taken in the case brought by Henry Aiken against the company named and against the Alabama Steel and Shipbuilding company
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

trouble in securing the lowest rate, but that it was a great satisfaction to know that he could apply to the bureau and se- cure rates and routes without the delay of twenty-four or forty-eight hours
 MT. G. G. Miles. one of Montgomery's most prominent, insurance men, and for merly resident of this city, was among his Birmingham friends yesterday.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

President Kruger's prayers might be more powerful if he would do more justice between times. The old rascal knows he is robbing the Uitlanders, and treating them harshly and unjustly He needs a good licking, and Is in a way to get it,
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

From the wetumpka Herald.
 The white people in Elmore county should get together in politices. There is no long CT any need of a division. Let us forget the past differences. and have general love feast-take chew off the same plug of tobacco, and all spit red together.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

The Columbiana Peoples Advocate is an anti-Bryan paper. It supports, Barker and Donnelly. and so perhaps do the rest of the populist papers in the state The Ad- vocate is outspoken.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

Toledo Sam Jones will soon formally en- large the gayety and choice of Ohio vot- CTS. He is candidate for governor out side of all parties.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

The Dothan Siftings Is trying to instiii some of the Jackson county spirit into the Henry county candidates.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

The boy with the hoe drops it at the first opportunity. He is not bowed down with any other thought.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

MT. Hobart was not sent to have a chat with MT. Reed. The great New Jersey statesman knows who to talk to and who to let alone.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

The Shamrock, and Captain Dreyfus and Admiral George Dewey are all before the people, but the greatest of the three will soon be the hero of Manila.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

The Boers vote money freely for war preparations, but they proceed to make the Uitlanders pay nine-tenths of it.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

David Bennett Hill is still in the flesh, but not in politics. He is the privatest of private citizens.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

Wheat and cotton are both going up. Some people think they see dollar wheat and seven cent cotton on the horizon.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

The only beef that is higher is that in the COW that jumped over the moon.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

The effort to revictual Fort Guerin mis carried. The leg of mutton was carried tc police headquarters.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

Chairman Earle's revenue court is the biggest pebble on the beach.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

Chief Justice Chambers knows Samoan politics better than he does Alabama politics.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

Keep your ear to the ground. for General Joe Wheeler is on the firing line.
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Experts in yacht lines agree in saying that the Shamrock is dangerous oppon- ent
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

The Franco-Guern war is steadily hold ing it's own.
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Newspaper clipping and even comment matter
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

In the matter of free advertising MT. Joe wiliett Is not outmatched even in Mont comety
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
HARMONYIN ELMORE

The French San Juan is M. Guerins club fortress. ~ .
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-09-02
Tactful Messenger Boy.

zone of the beautiful traits in
the make up of Washington mess
senger boys" said a railroad man
who lives in. Washington, s"is
their tactfulness." l think other
wise. They are chock full of and
loaded down with tact-with the
copper on. To illustrate
"My wife went over to New
York a few weeks ago to attend
the bedside of a seriously i'll rel
ative, who was not expected to
live. This morning l was sitting
in my office, wondering why I
hadn't got letter from her by
the first mail, when a tousle hea-
ded messenger boy joggled open
the door.
sWhere'll l find de office O.
Mr.. -" he asked, mentioning
my name.
fright here, son. said I.
YOU'RE talking to him.
"Well,' said the kid, measur-
ing me up, with the probable ex-
pectation that I'd do a stage back
fall. I've got death messenger
fer you, an they tole me at tn
Office that it was important
"Nice, mild, tactful way of put
ting it, wasn't lt9 He just left it
up to me to wonder, while I
was ripping the envelope open,
whether the message announced
the death, of our aged relative or
the decease of my wife. 1t hap
pened to be the former, but am
inclined to believe that that boy
would have been just bit better
pleased had it been the latter."-
Washington Post.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-09-02
BRYAN AS HE Is.
James Creelman Visits the Fa.
nous Democrat at Home.

James Creelman.the wellknOwn
correspondent of the n. Y. Jour
nal, has been visiting Hon. VIM.
J. Bryan, at his home in Lincoln,
Neb., and, under date of Aug. 81,
he sends his paper the following:
a little more than week ago
| was walking the deck of the
steamship st. Paul with Richard
Croker, listening to the tribute to
MIR. Bryan's power and integrity
which has stirred the country
And here | am today, with Mr..
Bryan himself, the most stub.
bornly sincere and convIncingly
convinced political leader | have
met in the whole world.
l have known Mr.. Bryan for
many years, and during the cam.
paign of 1896 l travelled nearly
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-09-02

icanism and glorying in the rough
righteousness of the masses, /
could not help contrasting him
with another figure l saw in the
yellow gaslight of a London night
only few weeks ago-William
Waldorf Astor-thrilling in the
presence of an English duke.
These two men represent the two
extremes of present tendencies on
this continent.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-09-02

the fields to q vicious, ruinous
tenant system, which kills the
land and demoralizes the country.
1t behooves young men to look
the situation squarely in the face.
Those of US who have passed the
meridian of life cannot in the
nature of things live to see the
end, but as for myself shall
point out the way as it appears
to me, and contribute as best l
can to the solution of the race
question on lines of humanity
and justice. In the discussion
there is no room for passion or
Incorporate language. The wild
harangues of men who openly
advise the murder of the Telberts
and keeping the Negro in state
of quasi slavery, and yet who al
ways manage to get into safe
place when the ball opens, deserve
the contempt and execration of
all right minded men. That is
not the way to bring peace and
order in the country and give the
law an opportunity to assert
itself.
You will naturally ask why not
cure the evils of cheap Negro
labor by advancing their wages
and lift them up from their pres
ent plane of degradation. The
ready answer is found in the fact
that their methods of work, their
habits of life, their lack of intelli-
gence and adaptation and thrift
in modern production does not
justify it. This has been tried
within my knowledge, with disap
pointment and loss as the result.
The same argument was used
on the Pacific coast during the
agitation of the Chinese labor
question with the same result.
You may look at the subject in
every one of it's possible phases.
and come back to the starting
point, that the Negro, endowed
as he is with every civil and DO
litical right that the law confer.
upon you and myself, cannot and
will not live in peace with the
white man, so long as he is in
immediate contact with him. 1t
never has and never can be done,
until the Creator of US all change
the natures of us all. Lynchings.
white capplng, mob law, every
form of lawlessness, constantly
menaces society, obstructs pro-
gress, and keeps up a state of
anxiety while such contact exists.
Very truly,
M. @. BUTLER.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-09-02

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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-09-02

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