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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
AGES OF SPEAKERS

From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Congressman Sherman, of New York.
whose name is most prominently mentioned
in connection with the speakership, is a
young man comparatively. If elected, he
will be one of the youngest men chosen to
serve as speaker though he will not be a
record-breaker, by any means.
Mr.. Sherman is but A years old. Ga
lusha A. Crow, who is still living, and a
member of congress, was elected speaker of
the house when but 49, James G. Blaine
was but 80 when he was first called to the
chair. Thomas B. Reed was 80 when he
was selected for the first time, and Mr..
Carlisle was 49, Others have been older
and a few younger, but as general thing
the speakers have been chosen from men
who are in the prime of life, partly because
they are compelled to undergo a great
strain at times and partly because the men
must be legislators who have had long ex-
perence on the floor and are thoroughly
acquainted with parliamentary practice.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

patented. One convict built an organ and
showed it to the warden. who went % son-
siderable expense to have the scheme de-
veloped. The instrument was successful
and much income has been derived from
its SALE"
people who are thinking of building
houses said an architect, will find mate
rial much higher now than it was q month
ago. The price on indoor finishing material
has recently gone up Is per cent, and deal
ers are not anxious to supply you at any
price. There was rise of 10 per cent. some
time ago on this material Brick has also
bounced up, and 1t is hard to get them at
any figure. Dealers and manufacturers are
so busy filling orders that they will not
even answer your letters promptly. They
have more orders booked than they can
fill"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
CAPTAIN UoGIiLAN
q the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Granting that the captain of the Raleigh
has been guilty of ind secretion, in the sense
in which frozen-faced diplomacy under
stands that word, it is not the sort of in
discretion which ought to make men
ashamed of themselves, or make men S
friends ashamed of them.
The captain came home br.mful of loyal
ty to his chief, Rear Admiral George Dew
ey, and charged almost to the same extent
with the indignation inspired in the souls
of the American officers and sailors nearly
year ago by the original attitude of the
naval representatives of Germany at Ma
Mia: When he got ashore he let out at
the first favorable opportunity both his
loyalty to duty and his sentiments concern
ing the performance of Won Diederichs.
A good many things have happened in
the various foreign offices of the world
while Captain Coghlan has been sailing
half way around the globe, but he has NOT
kept track of them. He has not been where
he could inform himself about changing re-
lations and the requirements of eXpedency
in dealing with what he regarded simply
as the facts of history
So he told his story, and told it in New
York as straight as he shot in Manila bay.
If his narrative causes Inconvenience to
those who are engaged in lowering the
drop curtain of oblivion upon a very un-
pleasant scene, for large political and in
ternational reasons, that is the measure of
Captain Coghlan's offense. Nobody will ac-
cuse him of misrepresenting the truth. No
body can say that he has come home to
critcise his superior officers, or to attack
the service to which he belongs, or to ma
Ign the navy department and the admin
istration.
Sailors of the Coghlan type are the glory
of the nation when war is on, and they arc
also the terror and despair of diplomats
in time of peace.
This comes from the circumstance that
when they think Damn your they have
not been educated to smile and say, inlay
the blessings of Divine Providence oyltr-
Bhem you with beatitude!'
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
CAPTAIN CoqhIan and the Kaiser.

1t is very plain after dinner eloquence has
been overworked in New York. In Captain
Coghlan, of the Raleigh, we have one orator
too many, or at least an after-dinner ora
tor who is too unanimous. He talked, 1t is
true, in his own club home at his own club
table, among his own club friends; and 1t is
difficult to see how talk under such cir
night, can be made the basis of an inter
national incident.
1t is difficult to see what purpose can be
subserved by a protest from the great Ger
man government against the songs or the
sentiments of the bibulous Coghlan. Secre-
tary Long may jack him UP because of his
want of tact, or because of his eXecrable
poetical tastes, but surely the time has not
come when man cannot freely make mer-
ry among his friends without encountering
q protest from great power. Herr Won
Holleben, the German ambassador, and
Secretary of State Hay-s.Little Breeches,"
matter, and in the end no doubt a blue book
or a book of some other color will have to
be printed in order to contain it all. Cool
ness between seventy-five millions on the
one side. and at least fifty millions on the
other has. 1t is alleged arisen. because
Captain Coghlan sang a song, and express
ed his sentiments at his club.
There is not much in the matter except
in the way of evidence of the friction that
existed at Manila while Admiral Won
Diederichs was there. The kaiser has really
apolosized for that friction by recalling his
admiral and by placing him in a less re-
Eponsible position. he has been .censured TO
all interts and purposes. Captain Coghlan's
remarks were il-tined on that account. but
they so 70 show that trouble between
the two countries might have been precioi-
taxed by some hot-hcad In Manila bay. The
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
THE

GOODNESS and wisdom of Admiral George
Dewey prevented perhaps a collision.
Certain it is that Captain Coghlan comes
home fun of dislike for the German people
and the German ruler. If he has gone too
far in his after-dinner oratory, Secretary
Long will perhaps call him to account, but
it is very improbable that anything more
will grow out of the matter than the dis
patch of the Raleigh to some port where
dinner oratory does not exist as distinct
institution.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
THE SOUTHERN GIRL

In concluding an editorial inspired by a
southern girls regret that she cannot go
to college, Edward Box, in the Ladies'
Home Journal, has this to say of the girls
of southland: 1.-THE southern girl is sur
rounded by a life far truer and more con-
ducive to acknowledgment than girls living
in other sections, because social conditions
are more normal. Her life is healthier, be-
cause it is saner, and her mind, by reason
of it, is clearer and more constantly at rest.
The rush of life of the north and west is
not SO stimulating as many southern girls
suppose. On the contrary, it wears woman
out as often as it develops them. In no
part part of our country do women look
younger at maturity than in the south. To
the southern girl, too, nature blooms in 4
profuson as she does nowhere else. The
natural history which the northern girl
must get out of books the southern girl
gets direct from natures own hand. She
is born of a soil as rich and co1orful in
romantic history as Is the literature of
Spain. This she receives as a natural heri-
tage. Her parents are and her ancestors
were, among the best types of American
chivalry and American womanhood. She
hears but one language spoken, and that IS
her own. If there is the Introduction of an
other tongue, it is French and with these
two she can travel the world over and never
be at a disadvantage The religion which
she learns from her mother is the highest
and best, because it is untainted with mod
ern revelations The truest friend and
safest teacher in highest living a girl can
have is her mother, and in the south
mothers have a way of finding time for
their daughters and being companions to
. them. The southern father is fond of his
the domestic hearth after his days business
is over
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
1898 OUR 1iANNER YEAR IN EXPORTS
The Total Reached S1,s1O,s 01,913, Ex-
ceeding Figures of 1897.

Washington. April 2s.-The fiscal year of
1898 was the banner year Of the foreign
trade of the United States, our exports be-
ing the largest ever recorded for like
period and our imports exceptionally small.
The total value of our domestic exports
reached 81 PIG, POI ,91S, exceeding the record
breaking figures of the previous year by
SITS, 2S4310. The imports during 1898 were
the smallest since 1885, their value being
$616 ,Oie, 654, decline of $14S6SO,7 5S from the
figures of 1897.
For every dollars worth of foreign mer-
chandise brought into the United States
two dollars worth of our products found
a market abroad.
The increase in the exports of our agri-
cultural products was 1898 per cent. of the
total, or $S5S,507 ,942, a gain of nearly 20 per
cent. over 1897. Our purchases of foreign
agricultural products in 1898 amounted 10
only $314, 291 796 as compared with $500, 81 1853
in 1884, a decrease of $S6,579,672, or about
% per cent.
The total value of the breadstuffs sent
abroad advanced from $197 ,S57 ,219 in 1897 70
S333, 1897 ,119 in $685. In wheat and flour alone
there was a gain of nearly 100000 ,OOO While
these enormous gains resulted in part from
the higher prices that prevailed, there was
at the same time an important increase in
the quantity shipped. The total wheat ship
ments were 148 231 ,261 bushels, nearly double
the quantity exported in 1897. Averaging
the export price at 1873 cents per bushel,
the value was $145 6S4 500, gain of SIS, 1884,
4S1 over 1897, when the average price was
1873 cents per bushel and the total value
$59, 920,17S.
Although our exports of wheat flour did
not increase very much in quantity during
1898, the gain in value as result of the
higher prices amounted $13349,371. During
1858 the export price averaged as nigh as
$4.51 per BARREL making the total value of
the shipments $50, 1858 u.s. as compared with
$50, 914 BAT for 1897, when the average price
per barrel was only 1884. In the quantity
shipped there was an increase from IA, $685.
barrels in 1887 to 15,549,94S barrels in
1898.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
Where Gov. Johnston Stands Today.

The state executive committee of Ala
bama is a large committee, coming from
every senatorial district. 1t consists of
thirty-four members. These thirty-four
members are the judges in the last resort
of all disputed questions in the democratic
the party is assembled. AS to this state
ment there can be no dispute All parties
in all states employ executive committees
as sole supreme authorities between con-
ventions- By American practice they take
charge of the party until they are sup
planted by a onvention-managing cam
paigns, deciding all disputes, and promot-
ing in every possible way the welfare of
the party. Until Johnstonism arose no one
had ever in American politics challenged
the authority of regularly appointed ex-
ecutive committee.
A dispute arose as to whether the last
democratic state convention made the con-
slitutional convention proposition party
matter. The dispute arose in the teeth of
plain English terms and palmer votes in
the convention, but it arose just the same,
and the democratic state committee heard
the dispute and decided that the conven-
ton did make the constitutional convention
proposition party ISSUE 1t so decided by
a vote of IS to T. OF the nine absentees all
were known to be opposed to a repeal of
and Bricken, and no one who attended the
meeting of the executive committee knew
how they stood on that question; but if
they are placed in the Johnston column,
the complete count stands % to 9. -Four
of tie nine negative voters are Governor
Johnston's appolntees.
BY such strong vote the state execu-
tive committee decided that the convention
proposition is democratic policy, entitled
to the warm and loyal support of every
democrat. Whoever does not yield to the
proposition such support is boiler; and
that is just where Governor Johnston
stands when he spreads before the people
of Alabama sophlstries and demagogical
appeals against the holding of a conven-
ton. 1t is just where the Montgomery
Journal stands when it demands a repeal
of tho convention act, and sneers at the
action of the state executive committee.
There is no use of mincing words in the
matter-Governor Johnston and the Mont
gomery Journal have bolted the democratic
party, it's organization and its policy. They
are boilers, If there ever were any in this
world.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
AsEORGIA .UOoDLEv FARM

From the Zebulon (Ga.) Journal.
There is farm in the thriving Town of
Molena known as the doodle farm" 1t is
owned by stock company, and contains
one square foot of land. 1t was decided
to the company, which is composed of five
or six men, by slick politician, in order
that these men fight vote in elections where
two-thirds of the freeh0lders decide a
question. A few years ago an election was
held at Molena to decide whether liquor
should be sold in the corporate limits
Only freeholders were allowed to vote, and
the anti had to receive two-thrds of the
total vote caet before liquor could be le-
gally sold. The election was exciting
one, and one OF the leading antis decided
the land in order to carry the election,
which he did.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
The West Demands the speakership.

The lines are being formed for a geo.
shoes. The east-that is to say tho country
east of the Allegheny mountains-has but
70 votes out of 1S5 that the republicans have
elected to the new house; but this geo.
graphical minority proposes to put Mr..
James Sherman, of Utica N. Y, in the
chair vacated by Mr.. Reed, who was every
inch a man, hard-headed and hard to head
but man every time and everywhere Mr..
Sherman is lawyer. who is neither great
nor little, but who is no more Reed than
he is a James Whitcomb Riley or a Dooley.
He is a smart and reasonably successful
politician, who is not widely known, and
who has not rendered any conspicuous SER
vice
The west controls 106 republican votes in
the new house, including two from Tennes-
see, two from Kentucky and one from
Texas. 1t will have a majority in the
caucus, and as a speaker has never been
selected from the territory west of Indiana,
and as that section contains many strong
men-men more widely known than Mr..
James Sherman-there is disposition to.
resent the dictation of the east, and to
organize against it. The states that trade
with Chicago will have &c votes in the re-
publican caucus, as against 7sufor the en-
tire country east of the Alleghanies.
The west proposes to fight out the Ques-
ton of supremacy within the republican
party at once. The speakership is as good
battle-ground as it wants, and Illinois pro-
poses to furnish the standard-bearer Con-
gresham Hopkins is the more probable
choice of Illinois. But Iowa and Ohio have
men whom they desire to honor, and at the
present writing it is difficult to say who
will be accepted as the standard-bearer of
the wild and woody west. Mr.. James Sher-i
man is endeavoring to break up western
combine. He has an eastern combine at
his back and he does not want western
combine in front of him to obstruct his
course to the speakers chair. There's the
rub. Can a solid west be lined up against
a solid east? solid west would be in-
vincible, but Mr.. Shermans promises of
chairmanships and the like may disarrange
the western programme. 1t is impossible
now to say what the outcome will be. Mr.
Sherman is confident, while the sentiment
of the west is still in a scattered condition
Ohio is not cordially backing up Illinois,
and Iowa is jealous of both. 1t is a pretty
fight, and 10 one in this section cares much
which wins; although southern sympathies
as a whole incline to a western candidate
rather than to a Plat candidate from the
Plat districts in the upper part of New
York state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
A NEW ORE RIVAL
St. Petersburg Correspondent of the Lor
don Times

st. Petersburg Correspondent of the Lon
don Times.
Tho vast mineral wealth of Siberia which
fresh exploration continues to discover in
ever-lncreasing quantities, will also yield to
the attraction of the railway. New coal
fields are being opened up. The yearly
transport of coal to the Urai iron mines
is already estimated at $780, COO tons. The
government has decided. on the advice of
NJ. White, to take over tho celebrated
magnetic mountain" of iron ore on the
property of the Ofenburg Cassacks, and to
lease 1t in separate lots for exploration to
private capitalists. This deposit is sup
posed to be the richest OF its kind in tho
world, and the most tempting offers of rent
have already been made to the Cossack
authorities, but the government is of tho
opinion that any single lessee of this noun
tain for ninety-nine years could monopolze
the iron industry of the country. Well
known English companies, as well as Rus
SLAMS. have already turned their attention
to the district,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
RESTRICTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press. ~
No woman ever learns how hard it is not
to say 81 told you So"
Most men aren't worth the trouble wo-
men take to get them, but few are worth
about half as much.
Every girl has a certain period when she
spends most of her time looking at things
you can't see.
When a man never kisses his wife unless
she asks him to, it is generally sign that
he never has to ask her to.
No man can really tell whether nnother
is a conscientious Christian or not till he
has been around when he puts the wrong
end of his penholder in his mouth by mis-
take. He can tell then by the way he looks
right after he has said 1t.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

From the New York Press.
It is said in the street that in a short
time we shall be advised of a combination
of all the iron and steel interestsSthat
hitherto have been in sharp rivalry; that
Andrew Carnegie and Federal Steel are at
the bottom of the deal, and that Carnegie
will be placed at the head of the greatest
trust in the United States, with capital
of sonething like half a billion dollars.
The combination will include Tennessee
Coal and Iron and Colorado Fuel
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
BEFORE THE WAR
From the Nashville American.

From the Nashville American.
Before the war when the negro was in
bondage, and before he was made to be-
lieve he was the equal of the white and
must be treated with the same considera-
ton. the uncomfortable crime was never
committed. Is not this in favor of the the
DRY we advance that it is revenge more
than anything else which leads to these
acts?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

From the Centreville Press
Before the constitutional convention
hubbub is over with, Governor Johnston
will hum the refrain of the pessimistic
'tow-head':
ST never had piece of buttered bread,
Particularly nice and wide
When it fell upon the sanded floor
1t always fell on the buttered side"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
GOV. JoHNsT0N's SUPPORTERS

From the Edwardsville Standard-News.
The republicans and populsts of the state
are almost unanimous in their approval of
Governor Johnstonfs extraordinary pro-
ceedng in regard to the constitutional con-
vention. 1t may be that the governor will
be compelled to look to these parties for
his support in the future. Truly, politics
make strange bedfellows.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
49, JEFFERSON AND his DINNERS
From the New York Tribune.

A flashlight picture of Jefferson in the
shades looking down on the Gargantuan,
tumultuary and discordant dinners gorged
in his name would be an interesting image
to the disunited democracy, and would
probably exhibit the great man IN the
act OF holding his nose.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

At Ruby, Col. the snowfall of last winter
was 43 feet inches Ruby must have had
winter sports beyond its widest dreams, or
desires.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

The new Florida senator, Mr. James P.
Taliaferro. is a Tampa merchant, who will
not overtax the space of the esteemed
Congressional Record.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

High-tariffism is scoring another failure
in the wool trade. The duty is II cents 6
pound, and yet wool is selling low enough
to admit Of expectations.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

All the trolley gaps between New York
and Boston will be filled this year. About
fifty nickels will then suffice, and the time
will be about fifty hours.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
DEMOCRATIC DUTY NOW

From the Centrevile Press.
The state convention saw fit to make the
constitutional convention party issue, and
we believe they did right. 1t is the duty
of every democrat to stand by the issues
of the party.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Mr.. Hanna has decided. It's said, to put
James Sherman into the speakers chair,
even if the name does remind him of his
treatment of John Sherman.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

The Nashville American is becoming
round-shouldered in its efforts to avert
calamities in Alabama politics. 1t should
take a vacation until May 2.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
1T HAS COME TO ALABAMA

From the Washington Post.
Tho Judas Iscariot controversy mas
broken out among the Alabama democrats
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Washington died on December "A. one
hundred years ago, and it is proposed to
make the day a memorial of his death.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Editor Lane OF Huntsville, who Is now
conducting a Johnston organ, attended the
benson meeting. He left 1t to warn his
colleagues that the Johnston cat is dead"
unless Colonel benson is headed at once
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

The Nashville American will have a
clearer better insight of Alabama politics
after May 2. At present it is as coeksure
as the Montgomery Journal, and that is
saying good deal.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Governor Johnston's pace is not so hot
as it was, esteemed American, of Nash
vile, in the state of Tennessee.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Captain Coghlans best place is at sea in
the wide Pacific ocean, where after-dinner
speeches are not reported.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Investigations show that wealthy and
fashionable people during the Revolution
airy war We're, as a rule, tories.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

No speaker has ever been taken from the
far west. and that section begins to think
this is their opportunity.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

The man whom Car Reeds robe will fit
has not yet been discovered.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Senator Morgan should be present in
Montgomery on the eve of May 2. The de-
mocracy of the state needs him in this
crisis
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
FOR READY REFERENCE

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Mr.. Carnegie's checkbook is the most ini-
Rressiye literary work in the country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

1t seems that even vice-presidents can be
overworked, or at least become i'll.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

The war department announces that the
report of the beef inquiry court will close
the incident So?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26

Florida elected a senator on the first bal
lot, as a refreshing change.