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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
Democratic Unity Needful Now.

The action of the popuIst state executive
committee renders it important that care
be taken to admit to democratic primaries
those popuists only who are prepared to
break away from their party, and to sup
port in 1900 democratic principles and demo-
cratic nominees 1t has been almost unani-
mously determined by the state executive
committee of the populist party that a
straight out and determined campaign is to
be conducted in this state next year A
full state ticket is to be nominated in May,
and it is expected that Ex-Congressman
Howard will stand as the party's candidate
for United States senator. This will call
for populist candidate in Marshall county
for the legislature, and it will put not a
few populists in that county who assisted
at the recent democratic primaries in an
awkward position.
In order to avoid more awkwardness the
fact should in some way be brought before
all voters in democratic primaries that
only democrats can participate. Only those
who are ready to accept democratic princi-
pies and vote for democratic nominees are
eligible. The populists have drawn the line
very definitely. No one can hereafter serve
two masters in this state. The voter must
hereafter forsake the one and cleave to
the other. He cannot cling to both, for
they are now going in opposite directions.
The populist party has resolved to live to
fight another campaign in a straightfor-
ward manner. So far is known only one
member of the populist state executive
committee favored disarmament.
This action, together with the known ac-
tivity of the republicans, is significant.
They think they see a chance to carry the
state They think they see a division that
promises them victory. The determination
of the populists should at least warn every
democrat against the efforts that are being
made to weaken and impair party discipline
to break down the time-honored authority
of the democratic state executive commit
tee. Party discipline and party organiza-
ton should be well maintained. The work
of the democratic party was never more
needful than it is now. Democrats every
where, in every county, should act unitedly,
wisely and efficiently, keeping out undue
ambition, and rising above personalism to
efforts for tho common good.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
WIEN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Hillary Bell in New York Press.

Hillary Bell in New York Press.
He sits. Enhancing moment! He runs
his fingers over the keyboard, as one who
grapples with his enemy His chair is not
right. What could be right for such per-
lection! He arranges its legs as carefully
as if he were going to execute feat on
the tight rope. He looks at the sea of up
turned faces abstractedly for a moment
then turns and gazes at poesy. Slowly, as
if by hypnotsm, he makes passes at the
soul of music in the strings and softly they
sing for him. Thereafter, for two hours,
he has no interest in the audience. Nothing
exists for him but melody-now. the fancy
Bach-Liszt, now the splendor of Beeth-
oven, now the tenderness of Schumann,
now the fairyland of Chopin-wonderful
music, inexplicable music, music like the
majesty of thunder in the heavens, music
so sweet and low that nothing lives 'twixt
it and silence, music as gorgeous in color as
painters palette, music subtle as the
grays of dawn, music that swels like a
great orchestra through the auditorium,
music that falls the ear like the dew
of a summers night Here is surely a
necromancer, for at his touch the insensate
strings discourse with eloquence in adj man
ner of melody.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
Premature DenunCiatiOn.

The court journal has decided to de-
nounce in advance the committee engaged
in investigating the land deal. 1.-THE
called investigation" it says, 'of the land
sale, by the university alumni, is purely
and solely a political move.' Is it? That
depends upon the nature and purport of it's
report. If the alumni will present WELL
substantiated statements of facts or rea-
sons. mere denunciation, either before or
after, will not prove a sufficient answer.
The Age Herald has no knowledge of the
forthcoming report. 1t may or it may not
include statements that carry conviction.
We await its findings and conclusions with
out prejudice, and the esteemed court jour-
nal should do likewise. If it can refute or
in any manner dispute the statements of
the committee, then, and not until then,
is 1t justified In declaring its work "a polit-
zeal move" Its work is unknown to The
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
Hg Guy o4Ily Bs8spApsa IN AlAsAHA
Clarke County Aqain.

1--WE note says the Mobile Herald, that
Governor Johnston's supporters in Clarke
county have succeeded in having a primary
that will neninate a member of the legisla-
ture called for January Q. But this does
not mean that the county will go for john
ston.' But this is exactly what they did
not de. If they had called primaries in
which every democrat could appear and
express his choice in a allot. no objections
beyond a breach of party discipline could
be raised. Instead of calling primaries,
thus giving all democrats an even square
chance, they have called beat meetings
with a convention tail, is which only in
siders are expected to participate.
The Herald should ask the people of
Clarke county if they propose to submit to
such scheme at the hands of anybody.
If the people of Clarke want primaries,
they should make that want known. They
should a least give the county committee
an opportunity to refuse their petitions.
They should not tamely submit to manipu-
lation of the rankest sort.
The people of Coffee county have recently
held primaries and they are so delighted
with their operation-wlth the opportuni-
ties that they afford for action and express
sion by the humblest citizens-that they
now declare them an established institution
in their county. And so it is throughout
the state, except in Clarke county. Again
we ask, is Clarke county exceptional? Is
clique rule necessary in that excellent
county? Are the rank and file of that coun-
ty incapable of political action? Must they
be led by the nose? Are they brothers of
the OK? These are questions that the Her
aid should consider for Clarke is in the
Herald's own field These are questions
that the intelligent people of the county
itself should consider.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
Rnllar's Defeat.

Unmereiful disaster follows fest and fol-
lows faster upon the British troops in
South Africa The cables this morning
report what appears to be a terrible defeat
of General Sir Redvers Butler in his first
fight with the Beers, and the explanation
Which he sends to Lord Lansdowne does
not explain. 1t is very clear that the
commander in-chef in the field endea9ored
tG send his army across the Tugela with
out having any sort of knowledge of the
Boer position. The result is havoc and
we'll nigh chaos.
Tie effect of the Tugela disaster will in
England be electrical and terribly pas
sionate. There will be frightful outburst
of rage, disappointment, grief. The Lion
is aroused at last, and the Lion aroused
is perhaps the most masterful force known
of the world.
Sir Redvers Butler appears to have
biundered, and biunders in war are not
forgivable. He has enjoyed the reputation
of being one Of the best soldiers of the
venerable queens long reign, and Britain
asters in Africa. He appears to have made
a greater mistake than any officer sub
ordinate to him; and it would almost seem
that Tugela marks the end of a career
that has been noble.
The saddest thing about all this sad
business of war is that reverses Ike chat
which Butler has suffered serves but to
prolong the horrors of a war that must be
in all particulars horrible until the Beers
are conquered. The best judgment is that
Britain cannot eventually fail; but in the
meantime the Empire of The World is the
central figure in a tragedy that is awful.
Sir Redvers Butler is come to realize
that the fourteen miles between Colenso
and Ladysmith constitute vast space in
heroism and daring, and cali for great
numbers of men upon the black roll of
death.
The proud boast of England-"Ready!
aye ready!"-is falsified upon land at last
What shall be the answer from the sea
when the hour cometh?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
THE PARTY'S LIFE INVOLVED

From the Selma Times.
The democracy of old Dallas has cons
menced to organize for the coming fray.
The personality of John 7. Morgan sinks
into insignificance when we are brought
face to face with the real issue. 1t is the
democratic party that is threatened. Joe
Johnston has been pretending for three
years to be making a Herculean effort to
bring the white people of the state to-
gether. He has fooled some people, but he
never fooled them all. The scales are drop
ping from the eyes of many. They know
now that his pretended love and affection
for the populists was simply to get them to
support him for the senate. Joe Johnston
would throw those pops over just like he
has his Blackbelt friends, If it was neces-
sary for him to win. 1t is the democratic
party and not John T. Morgan that is at
stake. :
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
Chicaqo's New Steel Scheme.

The giants have undoubtedly quarrelled.
Rockefeller, boss of ere mines and ore
steamers and the Standard Oil gold mine,
do not propose to let Mr.. Carnegie boss
them both, even if ne has assumed charge
of the world and is regulating general
movements of all sorts, political and social
as well as industrial. What they quarreled
about is not exactly known. Each is hard
headed, particularly Scotch Carnegie, and
the chances are each simply wants his
own way-that is to say, each wants to
boss the other two And so they have
agreed to disagree. F'rick has drawn out
of the Carnegie partnership at Pittsburg;
Rockefeller is to organize himself against
it, and Carnegie is left solo undlsputed
king of Homestead and Pittsburg
Chicago people are excited over the re-
port that Friek and Rockefeller are to es-
tablish 900 steel plant in their town.
The proposed plant could not be near the
city of Chicago without being in it, for the
tory up to the Indiana line. 1t is to be
located in the city This" says the ex-
cited Chicago News. lis a matter of spend
ing 500OO,O 900 or so of real money in the
purchase of real land and the erection of
| real furnaces, rolling mills and shops to
reduce real ore to pig iron, and real pig
iron to real steel" The process of reduc-
ton is to be- as all can see, definite and
glorious. 1t is to be in Chicago, and $780,
COG, 600 "or So is to be expended.
But spite blast furnaces and spite steel
mills might not prove to be very spiteful
after all. Very much depends upon the
staying qualities of 60 per cent. ores in
the Lake Superior district. II there is to
be drop in that quarter to So per cent. ores,
as the Iron Age indicates there will be,
then these proposed spite works would
have their hands full in meeting operating
expenses Neither coal nor ore nor f1ux are
mined in Chicago, ample as the city's
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
JOHN ALIENS wAsHiNGToN RIVAL

From the Washington Post.
Representative Allen, of Mississippi must
look to his laurels. There Is a new humor-
list in congress. The discovery is Cushman,
of Washington whose wit is keen, whose
sense of the ridiculous is acute, and who
tells a good story in delightful fashion.
Cushman is tall and lank, of the Abe Lin
coin style of architecture, with legs so thin
that he himself says that he has often been
arrested for being without visible means of
support. Another quaint expression is that
he was once SO poverty-stricken that he
sewed buckshot in his summer coat to
make it heavy enough for winter wear.
He bubbles over with original sayings, and
he utters them in spontaneous, uncon-
scious way that adds to their effectiveness.
Mr.. Cushman is put down in the Con-
gressional Directory as a congressman-at-
large, his state being without definite con-
gressional districts This reminds him of
a story. He was once approaching a town
where he was billed to make a speech, and
stopped at house on the outskirts of the
town to get drink of water He met the
farmers wife at the web.
"What is the political sentiment around
here?" asked Cushman.
''I dunno" said the woman. 81 don't go
congressman at large, and 1 think the
safest thing for me to do is to stay at
homer
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
HALE A TONOF BUTTER

New York Letter in the Chicago Tribune
The American Guernsey Cattle club held
its twenty-first annual meeting in this city
today. Among those present were former
Governor w. d. Hoard of Wisconsin; c. l..
Hill. Rosendale Wis. James Logan Fisher,
PHILADELPHIA, and Ezra Kitchener, Carvers-
Vile. Pa There are now about 1900 Guern-
sew cattle in the United States. Much sat
isfaction was expressed at the meeting to-
day over the report of the official record
of the butter test of the COW Lilly Ella,
belonging to James H. Beirne, of Oakfield,
Wis. During the year this animal produced
912 pounds of butter. This, it is sad sur
passes any official test ever conducted in
any country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
SONS OF ALABAMA. ROUSE YE,

Sons of Alabama! Rouse vel
Rally round your Grand Old Man!
Work for him whene'er you can
To his standard faithful be.
When your hearts were full of fear.
Safely through the waves of hate
Did he guide your ship of state;
Alabamians! Hold him dear.
To his people ever loyal,
Bravely for your rights he's stood,
Striving always for your good;
Would you slight a friend SO loyal
Brain of mighty mould has he,
In the nations forum ever
Using adj his best endeavor-
Fame he's won-o'er land and sea.
Many years more than score,
He has lived in public view,
And he's proven a statesman true;
Fully stood the test-and more.
AS his years grow on apace,
Should he yield his place of honor
For the pleasure of another
Shall he fail to win the race?
Far and near they'd cry you, "shamer
At the nations council-board.
Filled with wisdom he has stood;
Great and honored Is his namei
Sons of Alabama! Rouse We!
Wave the standard! Sound the slogan.
For the cause of noble Morgan
Bear him on to victory.
JUSTITIA.
Admission, Ala, December 10, 1899.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Love is a bee; marriage is the same bee
with the sting pulled out.
No man objects to having his wife talk
baby talk to him If she knows enough not
to do it before other people.
After a woman has been married about a
year she never has near as many tall
screens in the bedroom.
AS soon as girl begins to think she
wants a certain man, she begins to put her
hand a foot above where her heart is when
he tells her he was sick yesterday.
The man who won't sit around the house
in his shirt sleeves before his wife Is about
as rare as the woman who will never let
her husband see her comb her hair.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Birmingham friends. returned last night to
Mobile.
p. P. Watson, the tobacco manufacturer
of Martinsville, Va, left the city yesterday
for Eufaula.
A. L. Fulenwider who has been for sew
eral years engaged in the cotton business
in New Orleans, has disposed of his inter-
ests there and Withdrawn from the firm of
which he was a member Hereafter Mr..
Fulenwider will permanently dwell in Bir-
mingham, which has been long the place
of his legal residence, though his large in
terests in New Orleans have necessarily
kept him away from this city the greater
part of his time. His family have continued
to reside in their beautiful home in Airing
ton avenue, south. Mr.. Fulenwder has
succeeded in his business undertakings; and
this simple statement tells a very eloquent
story, one that need not be enlargd upon.
He is a man of boundless energy and a
spirit of enterprise that stoops not to petty
things. 1t Is we'll for Birmingham that all
his time is to be devoted to this best Of
all towns upon this continent
q. l.. Norman, OF Atlanta, perhaps the
most successful architect of the south, Will
open an office in Birmingham on the first
of January. Mr.. Norman, who has been
in the city several days, went to Atlanta
last night.
r. III. Walker, of the Athens Democrat
one of the best county papers in the south
and one OF Birmingham's best friends
amongst newspapers, is at the Morris; and
will spend today in the city.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

bounds undeniably are. The assembling of
the raw material is a serious task. The
coke is brought from connellsvile, several
states away, because Illinois coal stub
bornly refuses to be turned into coke. The
ore also comes from distant states, and
presumably the fux does also Water
transportation is available in six months
of the year only, on account of the prox-
unity of the Windy City to the North Pole.
Altogether, it is best to wait until Messrs.
Prick and Rockefeller lay the cornerstone
of their $5O0OOoO0 "or SO" enterprise.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
ALL WANT A FINGER IN THE PIE

From the Huntsville Mercury.
The announcement that the Mobile and
Ohio road will extend it's Centreville line
into Birmingham suggests the rapid expan-
sion practiced by the officers of that system
since the election of Colonel E. L. Russell
20 the presidency. There is business enough
"A the Birmingham district for all the roads
s,d the Mobile and Ohio wants share.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
Two Women Instantly Killed

. San Antonio, Tex, December 15.-A spe-
cial from Maria, Tex, to the Daily Ex-
press says: A carriage containing Mrs. w.
A. Duncan and Mrs. Helm was run down
by a Southern Pacific freight train at noon
today Both women were instantly killed.
A daughter of Mrs. Duncan had her foot
cut off, and was so badly injured that she
may die.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
STUMPING ALABAMA

From the Chattanooga News.
Senator Morgan ought to pay Governor
Johnston something for stumping Alabama
against him for United States senator.
Everywhere Johnston has spoken Morgan
has received Overwhelming majorities
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

From the HuntSVllle mercury.
Governor Johnston lost votes every time
he spoke in Colbert county. The chances
are that he will do the same thing in Jack
son. He talks to the people about how
he saved them from themselves, and he
disgusts them beyond all comparison.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Next Tuesday at Tuscaloosa" says the
Mobile Item, 1.-THE alumni of the state uni
versity will investigate the sale of lands
and no one of impartial Judgment doubts
that Governor Johnston will be fully ex-
onerated" If he is, no one will more readi-
ly or more fully say so than The Age
Herald
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
TICKET FOR 1900

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Mckinley and Root
Bryan and Hogg.
Campaign rallying cry:
Root, Hogg, or die.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

The relations of Mr.. Friek and Mr.. Car
negie are now attracting public attention,
there being curiosity as to how much they
have quarreled, and how far the esteemed
Mr. Prick will carry the quarrel.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

As long as Aguinaldo is permitted to TO-
ment Instruction on the spot Otis stories
of the suppression of the affair will be
cautiously accepted.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

The Hanna-Payne subsidy bill is an effort
to make The people pay double ON account
of the robber tariff and navigation bills
to rob them twice.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

As a raiser of bogus issues the court jour
nal is the whole bakery.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

White and Gatacre have been brought to
a confessional stage at any rate.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

This spring or early summer weather was
premature; it could not endure.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
FROG TIME is NOT COMING

From the Wetumpka Herald.
When Johnston beats Morgan for the
United States senate frogs will be playing
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner on the piano.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Arizona, owning many copper mines and
irrigation bitches, wants to know why
statehood is not her proper condition.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Senator Allen will not it is to be hoped,
try in the coming currency debate to beat
his own record as a ime-consuming
speaker.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

If young Rockefeller loses any more mill
lions in Wall street, the price of refined coal
oil will have to be raised.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

The British are focl1ing to Pretoria. 1t
is becoming a compulsory fad on their
part.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

A good general is worth more in South
Africa than unlimited quantities of lyddite.
The English army contains too many
Gatacres.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

The esteemed Mobile News need not
worry There will be a-plenty of the sons
of the old university at Tuscaloosa next
Tuesday
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Goebel and Aguinaldo are in condition
to meet and talk over the ups and downs
of life.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Lord Methuen is the gay trooper whose
baggage was marked "Pretoria via Cape
town" He is not keeping to his direction.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
SPEECHES THAT DO NOT coNcILIATE

Methuen has discovered that the Boer gun
is loaded.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

SILK hats ere passing so rapidly that the
appearance of one in an Ohio city creates a
sensation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Cavalrymen, as General Wheeler long ago
pointed out, are about all the soldiers that
are needed n Luzon now.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Senator Mason should not attempt to
twist the British lions tail when so many
Beers are trying to render him stump
tailed
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Congressman Phanor Brezeales of Louis
lana has been heard from in the currency
debate.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE

Te All Who Sympathize With Those Who
Are Helpless and In Distress:
Only a dumb possum, from AIabam,
Doomed to die in a far-off land,
Tc be cooked and garnshed with yellow
yam
To fill The belly of a Yankee" mani
Taken from the woods I love so well,
Deprived of liberty and all that's dear;
Pent UP in this narrow cell:
Sick al heart and agonized with fear!
Oh, jailors, l cannot speak your tongue
l cannot ask for water and for food
But freedoms song-the sweetest ever
surg
Sounds in old Postum heart; Therefore
be good
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-16

Be good to me ere I obey Gods call
Whilst L my cup of anguish drain
And God, who notes the sparrows fall.
May spare you some like hour of pain!
These lines were attached to cage con-
tanning large, fat Alabama possum, which
was sent from Birmingham by the Southern
way yesterday afternoon, consigned to a
New York address, They were meant to
be an appeal to express messengers and
porters to be kind to the doomed marsupial
from the Alabama nils.