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The record-union., 1899-09-17
school books and supplies

The school book and supply de-
partment is in the basement this
year Here will be found every
thing needed for the primary and
grammar grades, together with the
books for the High School. Some
price hints follow:
Revised First Reader, 10c.
Revised Second Reader, 2Sc.
Revised Third Reader, 44c.
Revised Fourth Reader, 53c.
Revised English Grammar, 4lc.
Spoilers, 25c.
Primary number lessons, 2Oc.
Advanced arithmetic, 42c.
Lessons in language, 25c.
u. S. History, zoe.
Elementary geography, SOC.
Advanced geography, S1.O2.
The record-union., 1899-09-17

If silence is golden they ought to
have a mint in St. Louis.
The record-union., 1899-09-17

1t is easier to go without a hair
cut than it is to write poetry.
Hop pickers wanted at Pleasanton.
See want ad. on classified page.
The record-union., 1899-09-17
dress goods, bright and new

Mercerized Italian is the late idea
for Innings, facings and rufflings;
has a heavy satin finished surface,
produced by chemical process;
warranted to retain it's color and
finish; 80 inches. wide; per or
yard ................ wv
The tendency for fall wear is fa-
vorable to black storm serges. An
ticipating this, we secured an al
most endless selection, starting at
25c a yard and running UP Gf 0E
Black merseretta crepons-a dis
tinctly new weave; very artistic in
appearance, rich and lustrous, it is
bound to please you; per d. 0E
yard ....... ......... ~ H -
The selection of plaids for skirts
holds out remarkably well, although
the demand does not seem to abate.
we show rich, modest effects at
prices ranging per yard o. EN
from oUc, to .........-. PA' ~
The record-union., 1899-09-17

Misses genuine kangaroo leather
shoes give excellent service; full
wide mannish toes; lace, only;
heavy square edge soles: ideal
shoes for school wear; sizes q
1115 to 2.................... VA
Misses kangaroo calfskin shoes
in round, sensible shaped lasts;
good soles: sizes 111a to CT 7S
VAs ~
The record-union., 1899-09-17

The Board of Trustees of the City O
Sacramento ordain as follows:
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
NT,KINLNY AND KOO-EvELT

Washington letter in the Chicago Tribune
 Governor Roosevelt will open the Ohio gubernatorial campaign for the republicans at Akron, Summit county, September 23 Akron is in the famous western reserve and Summit Is one of the closest counties in the state. George K. Nash, the nomi- nee for governor, will be present and will follow the governor of the Empire state in speaking. This is held by the politicians here to strongly indicate that Roosevelt will be the running mate for President Mckinley in the next campaign. Those in a position to know the innermost party se- crets now say Vice-President Hobart will not be a candidate for reduction.
 MT. Hobart is satisfactory to the party leaders in every respect, but the condition of his health prevents his acceptance of place on the ticket. in support of this as- sertion it is said President Hobart.s retirement will be voluntary act because
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
WANTS STRAIGHT GOODS

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 In his letter of acceptance answering an invitation to address the citizens of Talla- dega, Senator Morgan has something to say relative to democratic policy. In that connection he refers to his candidacy for reelection to the senate, by declaring that his nomination must not come from any fusion. but from the recognized democracy of Alabama.
 This remark from Senator Morgan is at least significant. He is the oldest political rat in the barn. He must suspect oppo- sition from a man closely allied with the populists. Naturally, such a suggestion recalls the coquettjng Governor Johnston has done with the populists.
 It revives memories of the fight against the constitutional convention law in the senate and the way the populists stood by Governor Johnston.
 The democrats of Alabama will stand by Governor Johnston in his demand for a straight democratic nomination. They, too, will repudiate any fusion or coalition with the populists. For the sake of harmony such trouble should not occur, but if it does the democrats should stand by the advocates of straight democracy.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
THE MOUNTAIN GOES TO MoHAMEr

From the Springfield Republican Qnd).
 The Tammany Hall leader seems to have gone over to Bryan. His return from Eu- rope is marked by an interview which shows complete reversal of his position in national politics. He went away two months ago saying ttht the democratic party had always been the party of ek- pansion, and no ground taken by our sol diers should be surrendered. He comes back saying that the war in the Philippines must be stopped, and the presidents i'm periahst policy overthrown. He went away saying that while Bryan was an admirable man in many ways, he was mot the man to lead the democratic party in 1900. He now says that Bryan is one of the greatest men ever produced in the United States, that he stands nearer to the masses of the pople han any other, that he has their con- fidence more than any other, that trusts and imperialism are the great issues and that the silver question will be settled in due time and congress will fix the ratio.
 Such is the Croker greeting to the anti Bryan conference at Saratoga this week, where the Van Wyck boom is to be re- vamped or a German boom substituted fer It. IHe lIleTNiSW WIFI ldll as q DOInDSneIl in that company, for the strength and hope of the anti-Bryan movement centers in Tammany. That was where the Van Wyck boom was first projected on Independence day. and MT. Croker seems to have heard how it fared at the hands of the file and rank of the order They chee-ed for Bryan. The Van Wyck candidacy was his own idea, but he now gives it up and says in ing the democratic masses away from Bryan. The floor has given way from un- der the Saratoga meeting before it had fairly assembled.
 damaging blow to organized effort in the esasern states to wrest the party control from the Bryan radicals The Nebraskans s renomination is more than ever assured, yer, while placing emphasis on trusts and imperialism. In the wreck of matter and crash of elements within the democratic party today, there Is no unifying force in as his position is on some questions, his perSistency, his unalterable determination and his brilliant and unwearying advocacy seem to be slowly but surely closing up the fuses to go to the mountains, the moun- tains are beginning to move toward Ma homet.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
FOLLOW JACKSON

From the Anniston Republic.
 The democratic executive committee of Jackson county has set an example which the committees in other counties in the state will do well to follow. In Jackson the people are to be heard. They are to say in an old-fashoned, honest primary who they want to fill their county offices and who they want for governor, and who they want to represent them in the United States senate. In Jackson county the very humblest voter will have much voice in the selection of officers as will the court house ringster. This is as it should be in every county in the state. Give the peo- pie chance to say who they want and then there will be no kicking after the nominations are made. If the people are consulted there will be few beat meetings or county conventions in Alabama this year. The old fashioned primary will take their place. When this is done, then there will be less of discord, strife and bitterness in Alabama ploticis. Give us a primary in every county.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18

of his i'll health and not as a result of opposition from any source.
 A strong intimation was given tonight by politicians who have Q great deal to do with president-making that Mckinley and Roosevelt will be the republican ticket next year. This prediction is somewhat surpris- ing, as it has been understood that Roose- welt would fill out his term as governor of New York and mako a fight for the head of the presidential ticket in 1904. It Is said that interested parties, in the event OF Vice-President Hobart declining a renomi- nation, have united in promising to assist Roosevelt in climbing from the second to the first place if he decides to run for the vice-presidency next year.
 There are many who believe Governor Roosevelt would not accept the second place. as it would be fatal to his chances of landing in the white house. In recent years few if any viee-presidents have suc- ceeded to the presidency in the case of the death of the president.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
NOT A CANDIDATE

From the Selma Hines.
 The Times has the highest authority for the statement that Hon. John B. Knox, of Calhoun, will not be candidate for gov ernor of Alabama. This was in line with what the Times suspected. He had never intimated that he desired to enter the gno- ernatorial race, so the telegram sent out from Huntsville was fake, so far as being based on facts was concerned. There is no more gallant democrat in Alabama than John B. Knox, and he believes that 1t is a democrats duty to support the nominees and platform of the party, whether he per sonally agrees with them or not. In other words, he is a democrat without prefixes, a plain, old-fashioned democrat, who believes that the minority in the party should sub init to the will of the majority as expressed in convention assembled.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
Dreyfus and Two Criminals.

Beyond a doubt the London Times hit doubtless from inside knowledge-that the 160 documents more or less, containing secrets of the French military service, were sold to Germany by Esterhazy and Henry, and when the treason was suspected the two traitors conspired to throw the blame on the only Jew of the general staff, Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Beyond reason. able doubt this is the key, the secret, of the Dreyfus case. Henry committed sui eide, and Esterhazy is disgraced liar and exile, but Captain Dreyfus Is not yet vin- dicated.
 The military secrets were sold by some member of the general staff to Colonel man embassy at Paris. When Esterhazy and Henry began to feel suspicion gather ing about them, they cast about for a scapegoat. Colonel SanGIAerr was then in charge of the bureau of military informa- ton. He was a Jew-hater. Dreyfus had few friends. He was born a Jew. When the bordereau was found in a wastepaper basket in handwriting similar to that Of Dreyfus, Sandherr said at once that Drey- fus was the guilty party It is now known that Esterhazy forged tine boriereau, or list Of documents that had been marketed He did this, nearly as he could, in a handwriting similar to that of Dreyfus- so similar that experts were deceived by it. Sandherr is dead. Henry confessed he forged the letter that was supposed to connect Dreyfus with the authorship of the bordereau. Esterhazy says in his con fession:
 'I entered into relations with SchwarZ- koppen, the German military attache, in 1894. Schwarzkoppen told me he had in his service at the French ministry of War a captain of artillery. l told this to Sand herr, and he said, I know the man, and have got him. l wrote the bordereau on Sandherr's instructions, and took it myself to the German embassy when l knew SchwarZkoppen was away from Paris on leave. It was seized there by one of our agents, a German, and taken to Colonel Henry. Henry was my friend. l had lived beside him for a long time. He knew me very well. He knew my handwriting better than anybody. He&Cy said to me, Our hands full of proof against Dreyfus.' "
 And when Sandherr died, Henry became the head of the secret intelligence depart ment! Was there ever stranger case Of international crime! Was there ever vic tim ,f nnvar t,nora tn ha nitied tha an the once obscure and hiendless Dreyfus! Such rottenness seems impossible outside of France.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
Jackson CountY's Action Again.

The Mobile Register considers the action of Jackson county's executive committee an calling primaries revolutionary. It considers the action as a step taken by orders from the state house. It considers it a piece of the campaign that was begun by calling an extra session of the general assembly in the teeth of state conyen- tion and the state executive committee. It believes the action in Jackson county will be followed by similar action in every other county that the state house clique can control. If the scheme works, adds the Register. ''the next convention will be composed very largely of Johnstonites and a new executive committee will be ap- pointed from that faction. It will not be necessary eveh to consult the present com mittee on the subject. A convention can be called and held without any recognition being given to the old organization. Gov ernor Johnston and his partisans can walk o ffwith the name, seal, style and office ef- fleets of the democratic party elect himself governor and afterwards senator; and we shall have the most elaborate boss rule in Alabama possible to imagine"
 But this can not come to pass unless the people are parties to it. No matter what induced the county executive committee in Jackson county to call primaries, the people of that county will name in those primaries their choice for governor and their choice for United State senator. If the primaries are fairly conducted. and the vote is hon estly consolidated, that is the end of it. The peoples will is the supreme power in the county. There is not and should not be any appeal from it.
 Unless the Register is prepared to assert that the coming primaries in Jackson coun- ty will not be honestly and fairly con present, a valid objection to the Jackson primary plan. The will of Jackson county is the real thing to be ascertained and the county executive committee has select ed the very best manner of ascertaining it. Unless unfair action is apprehended in Jackson county no sound reason can be urged against the appeal to the people.
 The Register may as well accept the pri- mary plan for 1t is spreading in every di- rection, and wherever it gains foothold it becomes a permanent institution.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
CHIEF JUsTICE CHAMBERS

From the Nashville American
 Judge Chambers, from a comparatively obscure place in life, was placed in posi- tion that focused the attention of the world and in which the interest of three great powers were involved. That he acquitted himself in this matter to the entire satis- faction of the American people in this try ing situation is greatly to his credit. He was sacrificed to the pacifcation of Ger many in the diplomatic proceedings that followed the recent trouble in Samoa, but this does not alter the fact that he did his duty firmly as he understood it and his ton was commended by both the United States and Great Britain.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
A REPORT FROM ROBSON
He Wants to Raise More Ships and Build 8
 Dry Dock

From the Washington Times.
 Lieutenant Hobson has sent to the navy department long report upon the condi- ton of work on the three Spanish ships raised from the bottom of Manila Bay and sent to Hong Kong for repairs and over hauling. In this report MT. Hobson ex- presses himself at some length upon the advisability of this government having it's own shipyard and dry dock at Cavite, where vessels attached to the Asiatic sta- tion may be attended to without entailing the heavy expenses involved when sent in private shipyards at Hong Kong. where the warships of all nations in those waters are overhauled. MT. Hobson tells of the experience Great Britain has had with pri- vate firms, and shows the policy she is pursuing of building her own docks, an ex- ample which, he says, it would be well for this government to adopt at Manila Hob- son wants to attempt the raising of several vessels still on the bottom of Manila Bay. where they have rested since sunk there by the guns of Admiral Dewey's fleet. It is doubtful if the navy department gives Hob SSA AhO bCSOoohiy E'ShihioSiOh tV attNhPo the rescue of the ships, however, as it ia believed their long immersion has caused rust and corrosion of all the vital parts of the machinery and hull, and the expense of getting them up would be far greater than the original cost of the craft.
 Hobson in his report shows that Manila, as he believes, is destined to become an important commercial port in future and a place of call for merchant ships bound across the Pacific. Regardless of the com mercial value of an important dry dock and repair station, he believes that econ- omy requires that the navy maintain it's own establishment in the Philippines in- stead of depending upon private firms at Hong Kong to perform repair work.
 Three Spanish cruisers, the lSla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, and Don Juan de Austria, now ready for sea, with the exception of their armament, which he expects to have on board in four weeks. He places the value of the vessels at $215, 900 each for the Cuba and Luzon, and the Austria at $lSo0O0, or a total of $6l0,eO0 for the three. To raise, repair, and get ready for service the ships has cost the government as fol- lows: The Cuba. $100000; the Luzon, $11O,- 900, and the Austria, s94,0O0; or a total of $3e4, ,O00
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
It was Time to Awake

Judge Wheaton A. Gray, recently ele- vated to the supreme court commission, was hearing criminal case in Fresno. Cal. on a warm day. At the end of long harangue by the prosecuting coun- sal, says the Columbian, he noticed one of the jurymen asleep. As soon as the argument was completed the judge ad- dressed the jury in this particular manner: "Gentlemen of the jury, the prosecuting attorney has completed his argument. Wake up and listen to the instructions of the court" A
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
Irons Unprecedented Position.

In all business circles the position of Iron is attracting wides attention. The great staple has usurped the place of King Cotton, and the great bread berry; for the price of iron is the barometer of all busi- ness, and it is besides the basis of the country's immense and annually increas- ing exports of manufactured goods.
 The price of pig iron has been nearly tripled, and yet there are no reeessions, and no signs of any. On the other hand conservative men who must have iron in their enterprises are contracting for sup at current prices. The movement is in- crossing in volume rather than decreasing
 "The simple fact is," says the Philadel- phia Record, nobody can tell just wha. is likely to occur in the iron trade, and this is the reason why cautious manufact- urers are insuring themselves against all contingencies by purchasing supplies Of pig iron, steel and other materials at pres ent prices for delivery far into the year 1900. Such thing has never before been known in the iron trade as contracting for a half years supply of material four or five months prior to the beginning of the con- tract term. Nobody is now willing to take chances on the future and the sellers of iron are fully satisfied with the advance in prices. Most of them deprecate any fur ther increase; everybody realizes that a vory little disturbance might start a scram- ble among those consumers who have not been so provident as to insure the future, and might send prices of all iron and steel products soaring skyward in a truly alarm- ing fashion"
 The Iron Trade Review, published in Pltisburg, carefully reviews the situation. It sees furnaces buying raw material for next years requirements; 1t sees foundry iron daily sold at full prices for next year; it sees buying world ready to take ma chincry and other products at figures that justify present prices of iron and steel, and it arrives at the conclusion that high prices will last at least until 1901.
 It is of course matter of demand and supply-of production and consumption; but when the world Is this countrys mar ket, who can say when consumption will overtake production? It may not do it in many years, for furnaces are expensive
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY

President KruEer's Biblical Quotations
 President Kruger, as Is well known. Is fond of backing up his opinions by Scrip tural references. But it is not matter of common knowledge that his honors quota tions from the Bible arc often inaccurate. On this point a South African correspond -ent of the London Daily News says:
 'I have often enough heard him quote passages to prove his points, but his quo tatiOns have been misquotations. When I was a boy had to learn my Bible thor oughly, so I could tell his errors. Sir Bar tie Frere found him out, too. Did you never hear the story? When Sir Bartie Frere came down from Zululand, at the time the Transvaal was British territory. and just before the breaking out of the rebellion, he and Kruger had a confer ence. The men who were there tell me that at the beginning Kruger started quot ing Scripture But Sir Bartle had two texts ready for every one of his, and not content with that, Sir Bartle carefully pointed out to him how each one of his texts was misquoted. and bore quite a diff ferent meaning from that he put on it. Finally, Kruger stopped altogether, and sat gazing in wonder at Sir Bartles ap- parently intending stock of verses from the Bible."
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
Carleton Declined Correction

Henry Guy Carleton, the eminent play wright, stammers badly, but this does not prevent him from holding his own in any controversy. When he was living near Madison Square, New York. he used to pass daily the New York Club, of which he is member, relates the Philadelphia Post. One day one of the young and friv- olous members said to him:
 'I saw you this morning, Carleton, carry ing your poodle through the Square. Good exercise, isn't it? But I'd rather let some- body else do it for me-"
 "Und-doubtedly," replied Carleton, grim ly, even if halttngly. When any one sees m-me carrying m--my d-d-dog, they say, There g-g-goes Henry G-Guy Carleton with his d-dog But if they should see y-you they'd ask W-w-who's that in internal i-idiot c-c-carryins p-p- poodle?'"
 Sometimes Carleton stammers worse tha at other times, and his hearers try to sup ply the word that sticks, but it is always resented. When he was editor of Life he began to tell Mir. Mitchell story. He got as far as this:
 "One d-d-day while I was w-w-w-w -alk-k-"
 "walking," interposed MT. Mitchell, help fully.
 "One d-d-day" began MT. Carleton anew, 'wtde I was p-p-promen-n-n- nad-d-ding." which was even harder to pronounce.
 MT. Mitchell never repeated uhe experi- ment.