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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-14
GENTS CLOTHING
is A HOBBY AT OUR STORE.

Handsome Fitting Genemens Clothing has forced business
into other towns and has made volume of trade of such emen
dou proportions that manufacturers jealous of purchases
and keen to sell bills of clothing and it is with full
knowledge this fact that always buy with such tremendous
odds in favor dealers in negbong towns But every
body knows this Only last week. with tremendous
stock of cotng bought arrive by the first of NEXT
WEEK, FROM A BUSTED JEW CONCERN THREE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE SUITS OF CLOTHES At
FORTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR! We have neither
time space just quote prices but prompt inspection
from you will be convincing to values For the last three
Clothing stock has been famous for ONE DOLLAR
PANTS, and in THIS LOTT have $50 PAIRS which are
worth 81 and up, NEXT WEEK 60 ON OUR ONE DOL
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-14
j. III. RIDDLE.
YES, SIR.>&z
Bagging and Ties

just as cheap and most likely a little
cheaper than any other dealer in the
county. Come and see us. We say just
exactly what we mean and mean just
exactly what we say.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-14
r U Going to Build

a house anytime soon? If you are, we
just want to give little information that
will prove of value to all who intend to
use
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
Suburban Attractions.

The Birmingham Railway and Electric company is doing a good work towards making Birmingham an exceedingly attrac- tive summer city. It is not only giving an improved and really good service on its city lines, but it has made East Lake one of the most attractive resorts adjacent to any city in the south Besides the lake and the na- tural beauties of the place. the theater is attractive and the dramatic company a good one The outside attractions, such as the man and woman who perform with a bicycle on a tight rope fifty feet above the lake, and other outdoor amusements, fur nish much pleasure to the residents of, and visitors to- the city. The Birmingham Rail- way and Electric company is to be congrat- ulated upon the work it is doing to make Birmingham attractive in summer.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

in the pending case. They should see that John weatherford has a fair trial They should above all else see that their own fair fame and that of the state is not tarnished by resort to mob law, which is no law at all--whieh Is simply anarchy or brute force.
 If John Weatherford had been lynched for murder, one step more would bring Ala bama to the mob level of the Texas county, in which three men were lynehed by ten men-all thirteen being white-beeause they would not disclose the hiding place of a neighbor who had killed a constable. These three men insisted to their last mo- ments that they did not know where theF neighbor was concealed. The Texas case is only one step in advance of the Bibb case, or the attempt in Colbert county The tendency of the lynching habit is ex tension. and extension means anarchy.
 Sheriff Grisham of Colbert deserves high praise, but the people of Colbert should render such efforts unnecessary. They should render the supremacy of the law complete There is now hope that the ten men in Texas who hung the three who could not reveal what they did not know, will themselves te tried for murder and perhaps hanged. The better sentiment of Texas is aroused and that is just what should take place in the excellent county in the Tennessee valley. The law-abiding people of the county should assert them selves.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
A PIG IRON FAMINE

From the American Manufacturer.
 There is g. good deal of unnecessary and even harmful talk going on as to an im- pending pig iron famine. For the last sev- eraI years buying has been restricted to actual necessities, there was enough iron for the demand and nothing was said about any famine. There has come time when buying could not be postponed any longer and every industry went into the market at about the same time and began to ask for iron. The inevitable conse- quence was that the price stiffened and has continued to grow firmer each week. But this buying can not go on indefinitely. There must come a time when immediate necessities are supplied and in some cases they are supplied very quickly when the price is high. But now, forsooth, there is a cry of famine and Cassandra has the floor The buying that is now going on and that will continue through the present year and perhaps into the next year is but the evening up of general conditions. The de- precision that has marked the course of the iron trade in this country during the last few years has been too painfully evident to need more than a passing comment. There were few or no new industries begun and the old industries occupied themselves with taking care of such trade as they had well in hand. Makers were plentiful, but buyers were few. Now buyers arc plentiful and We have the same producers and many more. The circulation of rumors that there will be a real pig iron famine is calculated to work harm to all concerned. It induces the manufacturers of pig iron to believe that prices will continue as high as they are now and possibly go a good deal higher It induces purchasers to insist upon present deliveries, for which they have to pay more, and thus the fire is fed and prices mount up.
 There is no danger of a pig iron famine in any sense of the term, and while we may expect the present range of prices for some months yet it is likely that we shall see again generally lowering to conform to the history of the trade for the past fifty years.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
BRAVE OLDGALLIFET
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 General Gallifet's removal of General zurlinden from the post of military gov ernor of Paris shows that he has the nerve the situation calls for General Zurlinden has manifested an insubordinate spirit to- ward the civil authorities. For some time he has been spoken of as the leading man in clique of generals who were preparing a coup detat, his command of the troops at Paris giving him exceptional facilities for bringing on a revolution. The govern ment has, in fact, been afraid of him. it Is said, and a bluff old soldier like Gallifet was wanted at the war office to reduce 1nsubordinate generals like him to their proper position. Zurlnden opposed giving justice to Dreyfus and upheld the officers who plotted the ruin of the unfortunate man. It has been feared that the acauittal of Dreyfus would be the signal for a revolu- tionary movement General Gallifet seems to be elfectualy preventing it.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
The Weatheriord Murder Case.

The plain and well-known tendency of the lynching habit to spread from one crime to another is well illustra ted in the assassination case that arose last last Sat urday at Tuscumbia As soon as young Wea atherford had been arrested, the lynch ing fever began to appear; mysterious squads Of men began to gather in the streets. and the wide-awake sheriff of Col bert county, who deserves high praise, deemed it best to take his prisoner away from tho Tuscumba jail. On the following morning he was safely landed in the jail q! Huntsville, where he will be kept until he Is wanted on his day in court.
 Young Wcatherford may be guilty, but whether he be or not, he is entitled to a trial, fairly and legally conducted. With .he awful mistake before them recently naGc n Blob county, where an innocent man was iynched, the people of Colbert should take a firm stand against mob law
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
How the S60O,O00 Bill Was Killed.

The Montevallo controversy has progress the political history of the state namely the mysterious pigeon -holing in the senate of the house bill appropriating $600,OOO to the common schools of the state This bill increased the states appropriation to the common schools s15o.O0o year. and it met to certain extent public sentiment and public expectation. It was a popular bill, but lust when it seemed about to became a law, it was side-tracked in the senate, and no more was heard of it. It is in the senate's pigeon holes today, an inchoate statute.
 This is no longer an important matter The mistake was afterwards more than made good, and the entire matter is of his toric interest only. It now appears that the $6o0 GOO bill was turned down in the senate at Governor Johnston's request. He told Former Congressman Plowman, trustee Of the Montevallo school, that he desired the defeat of the OO0O bill in the senate. It had been referred in the senate to the edu- cational committee, which could not be trusted to kill the bill. He desired change of reference and the bill was there fore taken from the educational committee and referred to the finance committee, and was duly killed
 All this is ancient history; but it is very curious piece of history-a piece that amply illustrates the uncertain -eddies Of legislation. The legislature afterwards ap- propriated more than $6OOOOO to the common schools, and Governor Johnston signed two bills carrying an increased sum in the ag- gregate to the schools. And yet the bill appropriating S6OO,OOO for all the children of the state was tangled up with an appro- priation of $15 900 for an institution that shelters few hundred of the states many children, resulting in the defeat of the greater and more beneficial bill! The man. ner in which this was accomplished is simply beyond comment, and there is only one lesson connected with it-intelligent, upright and independent men are greatly needed in the legislature-men who will act upon their. own judgment, and not upon inducements spoken in the lobby or upon orders from sources outside of the legis- lature itself.
 No more curious piece of history has been unearthed than this scrap of postmortem intelligence from the dead and gone house bill for the benefit of the schools of the state It is in and of itself a curious com- mentary upon the American system of gov ernment.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
Our New Colonial System.

Mr. Alger's insular commission, fortu- nately for us all, does not make or con- strue the laws of this country; and when it says the islands that came to us through the war with Spain are not parts of this country but are in fact colonies, it simply declares the individual convictions of it's members, who are not men of high standing among constitutional and inter- national lawyers. One of the three is a lumberman from Michigan, whiom a partner of the esteemed MT. Alger, and the names of the other two are even less known.
 In order to sustain its theory the com mission argues at length to show that the terms of the treaty of Paris were very diff ferent than those of the treaties by which we obtained Florida and Louisiana. In the last named treaties 1t was stipulated that the territory acquired should become part of the United States. The commission claims that governmental relations of the United States to Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines are practically similar to those that were extended to the territory acquired from Mexico in 1S4G There was military occupation of New Mexico for five years before congress extended its laws over it, thereby taking it in.
 This theory is not altogether new, but it is very attenuated The truth is Hawaii, Guam, Porto Rico and the Philippines and as much American territory as they ever will be, or can be. Perhaps the United States can say when the irrevocable act of governmental amalgamat ton shall take place, but they are already annexed and it is difficult to see how in them duties other than those of this country can be levied under the constitution, for that instrument prohibits the levying of duties between DOT tions of the country.
 The opinion of the insuar commission should lead up a decision of the important questions involved. Attorney General Griggs' opinion will be no more conclusive than is that of the insular commission. Until a case can reach the supreme court the precise political standing of the Phil ippines and Guam and Hawaii and Porto Rico can not be definitely and conclusively ascertained. If these islands are a part of the United States, they cannot be alienated if they are simply colonies. then we can do as we please with them. and a minister for the colonies is in order, and colonial system is well started. This is sires; but this may not be the effect and purport of the decision of the judges of the United States supreme court when they review the situation in the regular course of their duties.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
THE STRUGGLES
 OF MARCUS DAILY

From the San Francisco Bulletin. ''-.
 From poverty to the ownership of $10 OO0,s oOO Is long step, longer than that from old Chili Gulch, in Calaveras county, to Butte, Mont, but Marcus Daily, copper king and turf masnate, has taken both. Chill Gulch lies in the Mokelumne Hill mining district, between this place and Mol1elumne, and has been famous as a mineral producer from the earliest days. It once sustained A larga population, and is still fair gold producer. It was here, in the old What Cheer mine that Marcus Daly who recently sold the Daly associated Anaconda holdings in Montana to the Standard oil syndicate for S2S,OOO,00O, his share being s6 o0O, GOO. made his debut a miner in Calaveras county, That was in 1861. and Daly was then about 24 or 25 years of age. Old-timers like Billy McCann, Karl Henter, William Casey, M. C. Rigney and others, remember him well and all bear testimony to his skill. inteli- gence and zeal as miner. From the What Cheer he went to the Carpenter mine as foreman and practically as superinten- dent. Though he worked hard in Chill Gulch. MT. Daly did not prosper there, and in 1862 or 1863 he left here for the Reese river country
 He was far from being even with the world then. Indeed he owed a number of bills in the Gulch, among the rest several hundred dollars to Henter, the butcher and a considerable sum to old Billy McCann, who advanced Daly the money with which to leave the country.
 From Reese river Daly went to Nevada, and thence to Utah and Dakota. It was from Deadwood, where he was connected with the Homestake, that he went to Butte and great fortune, the story of which has long since become public property
 Fortune did not smile on MT. Daly for some years after he left Calaveras county, and his creditors had long ceased expecting to hear from him, when he made an ESQ., GOO stake on the Alice mine, at Butte, and then organized the Hearst -Haggin- -Tevis- Daily syndicate to buy and develop tho Anaconda and St. Lawrence mines.
 But the sterling old miner had not for gotten his old associates and creditors. One day Butcher Henter's heart was gladdened by receiving a remittance for $500 from MT. Daily, in full payment of his claim and $90o in memory of Aud Land Syne.' He was equally generous with the rest of his creditors, and old Billy McCann, who still c1ings to the Gulch and could live nowhere else, yet speaks affectionately of " that boy"
 This was rather rough and unruly country in those days In Jackson, Anna dor county, several ladies made life pleas- ant for the young miner, Daly, and when he attained a competency he gave evidence of his gratitude by loading them with presents, including several fine pianos.
 The acquisition of wealth has not chang ed MT. Daly. He is in no sense purse proud, and is liberal and generous to fault The millionaire of today is very much the same man that the miner of 1880 was.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

lieutenant, one of the sons of Hon. Henry Clay Armstrong, suceessiveiy saperintef- dent of education in Alabama, speaker of the house, consul-general to Brazil. and grand secretary of the grand lodge of Ma sons in Alabama. Marion Mabson, first lieutenant, is the son of Major Algernon A. Mabson, sometime receiver of the land of flee at Montgomery, and more recently major of United States volunteers. Thus Alabama gets four first lieutenantcies in the volunteers for service in the Philip pines.
 George Washington Ely, the popular man of the Sunset Route to the Pacific, is in town.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
THE TEACHERS OF ALABAMA

From the Sheffield Reaper.
 The meeting of the educational associa- tion in Birmingham was the most profit able one ever held in the state. The ad- dress by Judge Banks vindcated every con- tention of those papers which made the fight for better schools. In selecting Bir- mingham as the place of assemblage the teachers did the appropriate thing, because their staunchest daily friend, The Age Herald, is published there. The teachers at last begin to realize the important re- lation they bear to society and government, and so long as they move onward and up- ward the press will lend it's leverage.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
MILLIONS SPEAKING.
*Less than.
THE VISION

The moon, a slender silver horn. Cleans on the rosy-baldricked nisrn, And milky white, the mists below From frosty fields are rising slow, And with rapture IS of Spring The thrushes in the treetops sing. The waiting world is very still Before that vision on the hill, That vision that is never old, Of morning with her bow of gold, And in the golden leash the Sun Leaping with eagernoss to run. Oh, harli! the silver horn is blown, Its witchery is round me thrown; I saw 1t touch the Mornings lips Held in her rosy finger-tips The world is very still to hear That fairy music faint and clear.
 -Incram CrnckAtt-
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
GENERAL WHEELER
From the Washington Times.

From the Washington Times
 If Brigadier General Joseph Wheelers as- signment to the Philippines carries with it active duty in the field there can no longer be room for doubt as to the administra- ton's resolve to push the instruction to d speedy close. General Wheeler is a fighter and not temporizer. If he is given an in- dependent command in the Philippines and ordered to find Aguinaldo we can look for interesting developments shortly in our re- factory Oriental possessions.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
REFLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Woman is the slave of fashion, man Is the slave of woman.
 The reason Cupid wears wings is So he can fly out the window when poverty comes in the door.
 The woman who really thanks a man for doing something never says wordl she just looks 1t.
 The only way a man can keep his wife from worrying about his morals is for him to worry about her health.
 About three days before his wife comes home from Europe man begins to look as if he had note coming due which he couldn't pay.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
"GooD MoRNING"IN IN OTHER COUNTRIES

From Tid-Bits. How can you?' That's Swedish. How do you are?" That's Dutch. "How do you stand? That's Italian. "Go With God, senor." That's Spanish. "How do you live on?" That's Russian. "How dc you perspire?" That's Egypt ian.
 s"How do you have yourself?' That's Polish.
 ''Thank God, how are you?" That's Arabian.
 May the shadow never grow less" That's Persian.
 "How do you carry yoursef?" That's French
 "Be under the guard of God" That's Ottoman.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

If Birmingham shippers desire to secure relief from unjust discriminations in freight rates, they must act unitedly, in hearty CO., operation. The freight and transportation bureau of the Board of Trade should be we'll sustained in all it's efforts in favor of just rates.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

The man with the hoe is not so dumb that he does not know how to place the largest of the hoes products on the outside of the bunch.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
From the Nashville Banner.

General Joe Wheeler has stated to the Washington correspondent of the Birming- ham Age-Herald that he expects to be back in Washington in time to take his seat in congress when that body meets in Decem- ber This leads to the conclusion that the general goes to the Philippines on a spe- clal mission, or otherwise he does not expect to stay unless General Otis assigns him to place where he can do some fighting. or more probably the general expects to make short work of Aguinado after his arrival In the islands. However all that may be- the voyage to the Philippines does not elim- mate the general as a candidate for gov ernor of Alabama, and the Hon. Jesse Stall lnss and some other aspiring politicians down in that part of the country have not made up their minds whether to be glad or sorry over his prospective departure.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

A Cicago man takes the cake in the con- test over bankruptcy petitions. His liabili- ties were S1 ,696 07S and his assets exactly $5. New York can now hide its diminished hnad.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
BATTLE OF THE TONGUES

From the Chicago Tribune.
 "The Battle of the Tongues" is the head ing of an instructive and amusing paper. with much of pictorial statistics, which Lewis Carnac contributes to Pearsons for June. What he represents by differently sized military figures, and by the ladder diagram, may be grouped in the following way:
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

Ex-Governor Altgeld says the two-thirds rule will not be permitted to block the will of the majority in the next national demo- cratic convention.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

If the republicans are really opposed to trusts, let them show their opposition in the next congress rather than in their next platform.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

The Spanish-Tagal war had cost $2S0, ,- 900 up to June 30, and the figures are going up at a rate that will soon make that little cash-down payment to Spain ashamed.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

The dismissal of Bertillon, who swore hard enough to cause the arrest of Drey- fus in 1894, and the dismissal also of his iailer at Devils Island, are straws which show the way the wind is blowing in E1ranpP
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

All retreats from the Texas floods had and the unfortunate people of the flooded district were sore beset both afoat and ashore.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The city council of Birmingham has passed an ordinance requiring the saloons to close from 1915 to 500 o'clock in the morning. Birmingham Is pinning down on the liquor traffic. Only a few weeks ago Sunday closing was inaugurated, and now comes the midnight closing.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

Tammany is now convinced that nothing 1t next picks orators.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

Antitrust laws are purely visionar when the Grigges of the land are kept i place to execute them.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
HEADED TOWARDS PROHIBITION

The rise in the Brazos was 5S feet abovt it's ordinary average tide
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

General Otis desire for more men is near- ly up to the summer resort mark.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

Chicago has no respect for town that stadlumless. our Auditorium may have be rebuilt and rechristened.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

The Depew interview will now become daily feature of unoffending and really de serving people.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

closed mouth and open nostrils, is now the standard prescription against disease germs.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

The kissing bug gained a Judgment in Ala bama at Anniston. This is history.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

"Usona" as the true and only name oi the United States does not catch on as rap idly as it might.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

Alabama is to have seven captains and lieutenants in the ten new regiments.
The age-herald., 1899-07-12
From the Selma Journal.

It is reported that General Wheeler in q recent interview with a newspaper reporter said that the war department expected his return from the Philippines by December next ana that he may probably then enter the gubernatorial race in Alabama Of course such statements must be taken with many grains of allowance but still it is among the possibilities. It is a good long time between now and the next democrat tie state convention in this state; plenty of time for General Wheeler to go to Manila
 take part in a dozen battles and get back in time to be governor of Alabama. Gen. eral Wheeler continues to be gubernato- rial possibility in Alabama, even if he has received orders to go to Manila
The age-herald., 1899-07-12

Lieutenant Hobson left the country be fore the kissing-bug was discovered.