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The age-herald., 1899-01-21
STEEL RAILS ABROAD

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Within the last year and a half the ex- portation of steel rails from the United States has grown to such proportions as to alarm the owners of the large rail plants of England. Germany, Belgium and other foreign countries. A large majority of the rails exported, too, has gone from the Maryland Steel eompany's plant at Spar rows Point, that company having sold more rails abroad than any other American con cern.
 Until year and half ago the steel rails for the world. outside of the United States, were furnished, practically, by the three countries referred to. The improved ma chinery which has been applied by Ameri- can mechanics and the gradual exhaustion of the iron ores upon which those plants relied for their raw material, has, however, turned the tide in America's favor, and rails can now be made here, sent to distant lands and sold to the consumer at rates lower than those which the European companies are able to quote
 The Maryland Steel company has already sold rails to Russia, China, Japan, Eastern Siberia, India, South Africa, Australia, France, Ireland, Scotland, Mexico, the West Indies, Brazil and the Argentine. A few days ago an order was received for 1000 tons, as sample, to be sent to Scot land and it is believed that order will be followed by a larger one. This company is the only company except English ones which has ever sold rails to the Indian gov ernment, for use upon it's railroads, it being well known that the inspection which rails sold to that government have to undergo is very severe.
 Twelve thousand tons were sent to dis tant Australia, and that order was so sat- isfactorily filled that 30,OO0 additional tons have been ordered. Altogether, it is esti- mated that the company has sent about 15O,OOO tons of rails abroad.
 The high rates of transportation and the difficulties of distribution have put the company at disadvantage in it's competi- ton with foreign companies but in spite of that fact, it has forged ahead. Other countries which have fostered their mer- chant marine constantly have vessels re- turning to home ports, and much cheaper transportation can be secured. It is hoped that the present. congress will do something to remedy this evil, although the shipping subsidy bill introduced in the house and the senate is not considered favorably by Baltimore shipping men. They say, how ever, that 1t may prove better than no remedy at all, and there is an impression that its provisions are as good as can be hoped for at this time.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
STAGE COSTUMES HELD DECENT

New York Telegram to Chicago Chronicle.
 ''The costumes of these, women are no more indecent than those worn by society women who sit in the boxes at fashionable entertainments; therefore the case is dis missed.
 Such was the decision rendered by Mag istrate Wentworth today, in the case against May Wheeler and Jeanette Perie, who were arrested charged with violat- ing public decency in the costumes they wore in An Affair of Honor at music hall.
 When the case was called the women were on hand with their maids, who were loaded down with satchels containing the costumes used in the performance. They put these on and gave an exhibition of their fencing before the magistrate who then rendered his decision.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
Pneumatic Tubes and Fast Mails.
Editor
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Congressman Moody lives in the Massa- chusetts city that makes shoes and has a socialist mayor, Haverhill; but MT. Moody did not stick to his last-he was sent to congress as republican; and as a republl- can he moved to strike from the postofice appropriation bill the item providing for a fast mail train from Washington to New Orleans, through the heart of a wide sweep of southern country. The item is SITS, ,2SS in a bill that totals up to something over one hundred and five millions. And the strongly republican house supporte the Moody proposition by vote of S2 to 64
 The value of MT. McKinley's slobbering declarations in his swing around the south can now be measured. The south is to have the fiattering phrases, and the north is to have the appropriations. We are expected to take pay in fraterna expressions only. The flag is for the gray, but the ap- propriations are for the blue. The old flag and an appropriation are divorced, and the north takes the latter. Congressman Moody of Haverhill is close friend and supporter of the administration, and he was supported by the f1rmest adherents of the Hannatic dispensation, and there is no appeal from the vote-that is, in the house.
 It is different in the senate. Mr. Mark Hanna does not own the senate No one knows who does; and if the fast-mai ap- propriati tion which the south has enjoyed many years, and which this section of the country needs as much now as it did when the appropriation was first voted, is to be restored, it must come through a resolute stand and bold fight in the senate and an equally uncompromising position in con- ference committee.
 The utter sectionalism displayed by the republicans of the house was shown in the days proceedings; for just before they for the benefit of the entire cotton belt, they voted to appropriate s225,O GOO for the purpose of giving three northern towns a pneumatic tube service. Pneumatic tubes for the blue, and the ancient mail trains for the gray So it goes. MT. Mckinley should for con- sistency's sake, withdraw the speeches that he distributed from every platform he could reach in his pilgrimage through Georgia and Alabama
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
The Rise in Cotton.

Now that the staple is out of the farmers hands prices are advancing, and six cents in New York will doubtless be reached At any rate there is better market. Spinners abroad and spinners at home want cotton, and there is more activity than the cotton market has felt in long time.
 This activity is partially based upon gen. eral prosperity or the bull movement-is a part of the latter, for that matter; but bull movements in crops are not conducted wholly regardless of crop situations. The cotton crop has been overestimated It Is not twelve-million bale crop, and supplies pectedly small The interior has not the cotton that it was expected to hold at this season of the year. This is due, doubtless, to unfavorable weather for picking. More has been left in the fields on this account and more of the picked cotton is of low grade, thus giving desirable grades ad- vantages in the market wet fall and a severe winter have worked the results that are now shown in the cotton movements from the interior.
 The forces behind the market at present are of a permanent nature, namely, an ac- tive demand, and falling off in receipts, and farther advance in prices is not im- probable. It is to be hoped, however that any advance that may occur will not induce planters and farmers to increase the acre. age of the approaching season. A determin- ation had been evinced to plant less cotton this year, and that determination should be maintained not relaxed. The present bull movement will benefit some investors, and tho farmers can secure fair prices only through reasonable limitation of the crop. If they will hold to the plan of planting less cotton, they can name the price of the sta- ple while it is in their own hands. When they plant big crop. other people make the prices, and they do not raise them, as rule, until they have first secured the bulk of the crop.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
REFLEcrIoNs OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Skinned milk is rich and creamy com- pared with the same kind of love. without kissing it she looks hurt if you do or you don't.
 Satan never worried about future supplies for his grill room.
 The bravest man is the husband who doesn't envyhhe man who might have mar ried the woman he married.
 If there were really conscientious man in the world he wouldn't lay such a mea n trick on the woman he loved as to marry her.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
The Senatorial Elections.


 If any one thinks the present plan of electing United States senators is leading to the selection of the best men, he should study the pending contests. thus reversing the action at once of his brain machinery He will learn anew in that way that any de- vice that suppants the people is a device that chiefly breeds mischief and trouble. A century's experience in this country demon strates that the people are the safest repos- itory of political power-the only safe one in fact, and that the professional politicians will demoral!ze anything they are permitted to control.
 Take the case of Delaware. The mil lionaire gas man, Addicks, has secured the caucus nomination. He is not in any full sense of the word a resident of the state. He goes there occasionally, as the late MT. Brce went to Ohio. And he is violating all law and all honesty in his endeavor to reach the senate. few respectable re- publicans stand in his way. If he fail, it VIII De DecauSe ne HdS d WHolesoniS ASai of the penitentiary.
 The West Virginia case is one in which anarchy promises to be the outcome. The unseating of opponents is threatened. One house is controlled by the republicans, and the other by the democrats, and the result of the senatorial election may depend upon fbo orilf oft tha in ha f. ing business.
 In Montana two mining millionaires, both democrats, are struggling over senatorial seat, and the only weapons they use are thousand-dollar bills. Millionaire Daly's candidate is a MT. Conrad, and Millionaire Clark proposes to assume himself the sena- toral peacock feather
 Another typical contest is going on in California. It's feature is the open, instead of the secret, use of money. Votes are held high, five thousand dollars being the cus- tomary asking price. The speaker of the house acknowledges that he received a bribe of s1,601 from the manager of b. S. Grants campaign. One of Grants oppon- ents Is Danny Burns, wao represents heavy railroad interest. The contest is doubtful only in the respect that no one knows who has the longest purse. No one claims that the election turns on any other issue.
 These cases shall suffice, with only a passing mention of the effort to return an indicted ballk wrecke. in Pennsylvania; of the election of Plutocrat Kean ir New Jer- sey whose only qualification consists In { tampaign subscriptions, and the election of an agent of the Vanderbilts in New York.
 Such dsgraceful contests and results can be avoided in only one way-election of senators by the people. Illinois, South Carolina and Georgia have adopted the popular plan, and the sooner 1t is adopted by the other forty-two states, the sooner the country will be relieved of such spec tacles as many states now present. The present system stands condemned. It leads to bribery, corruption and millionairism It does not evolve men who are superior to the men that popular elections seat in the house. It accomplishes nothing that com mends it. Away with it. Let popular elections in every state.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

desire to change his policy, that desire can be expressed in emphatic fashion when the treaty of peace has been ratified.
 The country wants peace There is a stumbling block in the senate. It ought to disappear at once. In the name of all that is patriotic, let not the senate stand in the way of national feeling or make itself q spectacle in the eyes of the world.
 Ratify the treaty and stop the war.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
SPAIN LOSES AGAIN

From the Washington Star.
 The casket supposed to hold the remains or Christopher Columbus was found to con- stain some dust and thirty bones. As there are 2O4 bones in the adult skeleton Spain appears to have once more gotten the worst of a transaction.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
WHY DEADLOcKs OCCUR
he Phila delphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 The senatorial contest in West Virgin a has caused deadlock. and the same out come is indicated in Nebraska and Dela- ware, if not in Pennsylvania. There are never any deadlocks when the people do their own voting. It is only when they turn the job over to their servants that it is not attended to in a neat and work manlike manner.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

From the w aSnlnStOn fOSt.
 It rests with the senate of the United States to decide when peace shall come. This is a grave responsibility How will the senate meet 1t?
 Is it possible that there exists in the senate minority in favor of continuing the war? Or, if this minority is willing to grant peace to country weary of wars continuance, does it propose that it shall dictate the terms by which this peace shall be obtained? If this is the case, we are confronted with a very remarkable condi- ton of affairs.
 It would seem as if the prospect of glorious peace would be welcomed by every senator with patriotic enthusiasm. Ger tainy the country desires peace. Thousands of army volunteers, anxious to return to their usual avocations. await with impa- tience the day when peace shall be an ac- complished fact. The business interests of the nation demand that the period of un- certainty shall speedily end In the face of this universal sentiment, upon what ground can the opponents of peace continue their antagonism? They, and they alone, are now responsible for the prolongation of the war.
 The question of the disposition of the Philippines can and will be settled when the treaty Of peace has been ratified. When that fact is accomplished, congress will have exclusive Jurisdiction. Until then the presidents power is supreme. If there Is
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mistake. and rectify 1t by transferring Gen eral Brooke from the governorship to command purely military. and by appoint ing General Lee governor of Cuba.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The eortes will take up the Paris treaty on the sOth of January and delay in ratihca- ton In Washington will be considered en- couragement to the opponents of the treaty in Madrid.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

Chief Justice Chambers, who has decided in favor of Malietoa Tanus, is an Ala bamian. Before he embarked in tho Sa- moan and king-making business. he was one of Montgomerys lawyers. The right
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The Oceanic is to make twenty-three knots in ordinary weather. It is so nomi- mated in the bond. If she does this she be- comes at once the greyhound of the seas.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The fees of trusts have filled the New does not levy q state tax, but 1t taxes the men who desire d chance to rob the coun- try,
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

France has troubles of her own-enough anyway, to render woman's department in the exposition unnecessary, and there will not be one
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

of King Malietoa to the throne is disputed by Chief Mataafa, and the latter. Is sup ported by the Germans.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The anti-ratificationists are doing the boasting, and the other side will do most of the voting when the time comes to end the matter.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
NO oTvIcE-fl0IDERs WANTED

Delegates fresh from the people should be sent to the constitutional convention Let the office holders attend to the duties for which they were elected
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The first music ever heard in the house of representatives occurred at the funera of MT. Dingley.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The stomach of the army is commanding the attention that should have been be- slowed upon it last spring and summer.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The anti-ratificationists have plenty of wind power, but are short of votes.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

Senator Hoar regrets that the circulation He is one of it's esteemed contributors.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The horse will stay if the other crowd cannot get better name for their ma chimes.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

Governor Roosevelt has hung up this ex- cellent sign in his pardon department: No wife-beater need apply" or words to that effect.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The country was never more afflicted with unworthy senatorial aspirants than it is now; thanks to the legislative plan.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The Santiagoians like General Wood be- cause he conducts the government without any secret monkey work.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The American pie is now making its way in the midst of the Filipinos, and they will soon be reduced to condition of complete submission.
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If the politicians see that Quay cannot win they will desert him to a man. Success is the only thing that politician respects
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

The exports of last year total up $1,25i- 925,169. At this rate this will soon be two-billion dollar country.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

Beef with a green beard should be issued to the staff departments of the army only, with slice now and then for Secretary All ger
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

U s. Grant, who is running for senator in California on his wife's money, should change his name.
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The mossbacks are trying to defeat rati- fication by the talk route, but there is a hereafter to this congress.
The age-herald., 1899-01-21

All back-number politicians should be counted against ratification.
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 The eortes will take up the Paris treaty on the SOth of January. and delay in ratiica- ton in Washington will be considered en- couragement to the opponents of the treaty in Madrid.
 The Oceanic is to make twenty-three knots in ordinary weather. It is so nomi- mated in the bond. If she does this she be- comes at once the greyhound of the seas. France has troubles of her own-enough anyway, to render a womans department in the exposition unnecessary, and there will not be one.
 The anti-ratiicationists are doing the boasting, and the other side will do most of the voting when the time comes to end the matter
 The American pie is now making its way in the midst of the Filipinos, and they will soon be reduced to d condition of complete submission.
 Governor Roosevelt has hung up this ex- cellent sign in his pardon department: No wife-beater need apply" or words to that effect
 Beef with a green beard should be issued to the staff departments of the army only, with slice now and then for Secretary Al ger
 If the politicians see that Quay cannot win they will desert him to a man. Success is the only thing that politician respects 
 The stomach of the army is commanding the attention that should have been be- Senator Hoar regrets that the circulation of the Congressional Record is falling off. He is one of it's esteemed contributors. The country was never more afflicted with unworthy senatorial aspirants than it is now; thanks to the legislative plan.
 The Santiagoians like General Wood be- cause he conducts the government without any secret monkey work.
 
 The mossbacks are trying to defeat rati- fication by the talk route, but there is hereafter to this congress.
 The exports of last year total up $1,254- 925, ,169. At this rate this will soon be two-bilion dollar country.
 U. S. Grant, who is running for senator in California on his wifes money, should change his name.
 The first music ever heard in the house of representatives occurred at the funeral of MT. Dingley.
 The horse will stay if the other crowd cannot get better name for their ma chimes.
 The nti-ratificationists have plenty of wind power, but are short of votes. All back-number politicians should be
The age-herald., 1899-01-21
RATIFY THE TREATY-sToP THE WAL

State Solicitor Manley Foster, of Tusc; loosa was in town yesterday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-10-19
Remarkable Rescue.

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainheld
ILL.,, makes the statement. that she
caught cold, which settled onher lungs
she was treated for month by her
family physician, but grew worse. He
told her she was a hopeless victim of
consumption and that no medicine
could cure her. Her druggist suggest
ed DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption: she bought a bottle and
to her delight found herself benefited
from first dose. She continued to use
and after taking six bottles, found
herself sound and well now does her
own hosuework, and is as we'll as she
ever was, Free trial bottles of this
Great Discovery at r. O. Woods
Drug Store Large bottles 30 cents
and Sl.00.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-10-19

Every farmer should set out
several fruit trees this fall.
Then next spring should set
out more and this should be
kept up every spring and fall.
Fruit is healthy and every
farmer and owner of city real
estate should have plenty of it.
It pays TO grow fruit in this sec
ito of Missouri When laying
trees always buy from good
reliabl nursery man who grows
his trees near here, We do not
know of any nursery mere ne
liable than Stark Bros Il
Louisiana. They have beer in
the business over 80 years and
have built up the largest nurs.
cry in the United States.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-10-19
Churches.

BAPTIST-Elder ]. II. Rife pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning
and evening Sunday school at 9:45
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-10-19

NJ. E. CHURCH, SOUTH-Services
every Sunday morning and evening
Sunday school at $3.50. Epworth
League at $50 Jr. Epworth League
at p. m. Mid-week prayer meeting
Wednesday evening. Rev. J. A.
WALES, pastor.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-10-19
Bucklen's Arnica Salve,

The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhenm
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped hands
'Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin
Eruptions and positively cures Piles
or no pay required. 1t is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction or money
refunded. Price Doc, for sale by B.
o Wood.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-10-19

Is. Y. L. [. p. m. Sunday.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
Deacons meeting at p. m. the las
Sunday in each month.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-10-19

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES even Sunday
at IL a. m. and s p. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening. Sun
day school at I. y. p. S. c. E.
meeting at p. m. Sunday. NJ. j..
NicosOn, pastor.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-10-19

the army supply departments
during the SpanishAmerican
war show that he was not vigil
liant or that he was easily hood
winked. But his whole admin
istration has been one of dis.
honest dealings with the pub.
lie He called an extra session
of congress to establish
schedule of customs duties for
the basis of the formation of !
the most colossal and avarlcious
industrial combines the worlds
ever saw, and these combines
are Transforming the masses in.
to mere cogs in the wheels of
industry. That Is only one
place of applied mckinley
ISM"
The presidents foreign policy
radically antagonizes the dec.
laratlons of every political par
ty in national convention since
the governm emf was founded.
There is no warrant for it in law
custom or iii the letter or spirit
of our institutions, hence the
policy being Independent Of
party Endorsement the word
"McKinleyism' is appropriate,
the more so because President
McKinley's administration is
the father of the ism. 1t is not
democratic or republican to
wage 4 relentless war against
II, 100000 people in the islands
of the sea to deprive them OF
personal liberty and reduce
them to the status of subjects
Z. of the Washington government,
5 but it is consistent imperialism
based upon militarism and INC
Kinleyism" that stands for al
: such a war is for in aim and
| purpose. The word "McKin
f leyism" has come to stay. L
e expresses great deal. The
= people will use it when they
S want to give vent to their hat
0 red of un. Americanism. It will
:, stand for all time in American
!. politics as Weylerism stands il
VI war. The people will call at
n tacks upon their liberties ant
t. rights "McKinleyism" and al
S the world will know what the
e mean, for "McKinleyism' will
= always convey the idea tina
e eve have out grown the con
e stitution" snd need form c
i government that assumes al
q sovereignty and rests upon
l. large military establishment
% "McKinleyism" covers tn
ID whole scheme of governmer
ID for the people by a suprem
E. authority in Washington,-
re Kansas City Times.