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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
IRON AND STEEL BUOYaNCY


The iron and steel markets are booming
and seem now entirely out of the control
of the sellers. Prices have been jumping do,
lars per ton,, and the excitement is spread
ing. AS for the first half of the current
year, it has ceased to be question of price
and has become matter of ability to de-
liver at all.
1t is not so long since that the majority
in the trade pooh-poohed the prediction that
there would be scare y of pig iron. The
fact is admitted now, and, the only ques-
ton is when relief may be expected. That
may be brought about either by the blow
ing in Of additional furnaces, or by the
checking of TIE export shipments, or by the
falling off in the home demand. For the
first half OF the current year not a single
ore of these factprs, nor all combined will
make any imp esS on. VIII it come early
or ate III the second half? We believe that
in this respect the hopes of many will be
doomed to disappointment 1t is true that
number OF large new or remodeled plants
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
ROOSEVELT AND THE PRESIDENCY

A bringing forward of Theodore Roose-
welt for the presidency is not an impossible
event in the future. We doubt very much
If it is in serious contemplation in any
quarter now, however. President Mckinley
is at present popular in his party, and its
leaders are seeking out no one save himself
as his successor in office. If Roosevelt is
taken up, it will be only in some such con-
tingency as brought him out in New York
for governor-the threat of defeat to his
party with the man then in office. There
might be an attempt to find candidate
about whom war memories cluster in such
an event. But to name Plat as Roose-
vet's present sponsor is absurd. Roosevelt
has been trying Platt's patience ever since
he became governor and the indications
are that the strain is to be continued. Platt
never accepted him except under compul-
sion, and he is about as far as possible
from a desire to render Roosevelt more a
permanency in public life than he is.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
The Tax Rate Hereafter.
Editor

"Our legislature" says the Eutaw Mir
ror, has added mill after mill to the tax
rate until the outside constitutional limit
has been reached-seven and one-half mills,
or seventy-five cents on each one hundred
dollars of assessed valuation. And our
approved it, and saddled 1t on the people
for the next two years in spite of them"
This reads very well, and 1t seems to be
an effective effort towards firing the heart
facts of the case? The legislature added
one-half of a mill to the tax rate for the
benefit of the old soldiers, who will not be
in this world long to receive help through
tax rates. The legislature also added one
mill for the benefit of 100000 children in
the state. This is all. No other addition
was made to the tax rate mill after milf
was not added. A single mill was added
to single half mill-that is ALL
Now the plain question is, is the Mirror
opposed to either? Is it prepared to say
federacy should not have the benefit of the
additional half-mill? Is 1t ready to say that
thu mill imposed for the benefit of 100000
children will prove a loss and detriment
to the state? Is it prepared to say that
the better schools and longer terms guar
anteed by the one-mill tax will not prove to
be the best investment the state has ever
nader Such schools have brought mater
ial prosperity of all sorts in other states,
and the Mirror certainly will not say that
the boys and girls of Alabama are not
equal, when properly trained in good
schools, to the boys and girls of any other
state.
AS to Governor Johnson's action in the
matter, the less that is said about it the
better. He did not "go" to do 1t. He
became the victim of circumstances and
public sentiment. He preferred a dog tax
to a direct tax. What does the Mirror
think of dog-tax as a means of sustaining
and building up an efficient public school
system?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04

The wrangling of politicians is proverb-
ial. They have fought over the spoils of
office ever since this government was or
ganized. and they probably will continue
to do SO while it lasts. The contention in
the city executive committee is therefore
thing, but the customary thing.
Just why anybody should want to hold
primaries outside of the primary law does
Tot appear. Both sides and all sides pro-
fess to want a fair vote and count, and
both want registration in order to pre-
vent repeating and dishonest voting. But
they disagree apparently as to how such a
result is to be secured.
And especially do they disagree as to the
manner of holding the primaries after reg
istration is accomplished. AS the pri-
maries constitute the real election-the
May voting being but a formality and a
ratification proceeding-it is important that
every possible safeguard be thrown around
the primaries. The Pettus bill is a poor,
weak. inefficient law, but 1t is better than
no law at all. 1t makes the penitentiary
yawn for any one who as clerk, manager
manner. 1t provides that all such officers
of primary shall be duly sworn in; they
shall swear that they will faithfully per-
form their duties as primary officers, and
good order is to be preserved at the boxes.
Is it not plain that, weak as the law is,
1t is better to have these important meet
oaths and official machinery?
Why should any one object to the Pettus
law? That is the question. Can the boxes
be too carefully guarded, the manner of
the voting too carefully conducted, or the
count too carefully made? These are ques-
tions that to people are asking The
Pettus bill is not compulsory, in one re-
spect. and it's provisions are open to every
body, and the city executive committee
cannot furnish any good reason why it
should not be applied. 1t is step in po-
li.ical progress, even If it be hating and
limp 1t offers some safeguards where none
existed, and the people do not see why
It's advantages, be they great or small,
should not be fully utilized.
Nor Is this all. While the city committee
could adopt the oligarchal before the-food
convention plan, yet they cannot adopt the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
The University Of Alabama.

| The report of the trustees of the state
university, just published, covers two schoi-
astic years up to June 20. 1898 In the first
of the two years the attendance was 12s, as
against 1856 in the year 1856; but in 1897
9S the attendance had risen to ISL. The en-
rollment of 1S9S-99 promises to afford next
June even better figures.
The trustees, encouraged by the additional
state appropriation of $4,000. have brought
the advantages of the university within the
reach of nearly every young man or young
woman in the state. No tuition fees what
ever are now charged to real residents OF
the state, and the price of board has been
reduced to so a month"; so that $13O now
covers the necessary expenses of cadet
through the academic year of thirty-eight
weeks.
The trustees are trying by means of a
summer school and favorable rates of board
to bring the teachers of the common schools
of the state into closer relations with the
university; and they have fitted up an an
mex for the accommodation of the increas-
ing number of young women attending the
university. There are now ten young wo-
men In the annex, and sixteen more resid-
ing in Tuscaloosa, making twenty-six young
women who are now regular students of the
university. The hope is that the number
will be increased from year to year.
The income of the university in the schol-
ast.c year 1898 was $3S, 6O7.11, and the dis
bursements of the year were $37,941.34, leav-
| ing a balance at the end of the year of
| $66737. The cadet fund Is we'll managed,
| showing last year balance large enough
to buy years supply of coal. The uni
versity still owns $1,000 acres of land, and
the trustees have adopted the policy of
leasing the coal lands on the basis of
royalty on each ton of coal mined. One
lease at the rate of cents a ton now
brings in revenue of about $500 month.
The coal lands of the university may yet
make 1t a rich institution. At present,
however, all expenditures have to be care
fully watched in order to make ends meet;
and the states additional appropriation
alone makes the additional teaching force
of the university possible, and it aids every
student through the reductions that have
made in his necessary expenses.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
Armor Plate to Come Up Again.

Representative Underwoods bold denun-
Citations of the ring that is trying to hold
up Uncle Sam were strong and timely, and
his advocacy of an armor-plate factory as
the most feasible thing the government can
do in the way of procuring armor has been
effective and convincing. He has led the
movement, and If a government factory be
the outcome, the credit for the gain will
be chiefly due to his efforts. He has al
ready created sentiment in both houses
favorable to the erection of a government
factory. The senate has practically said
that the government should make it's own
to be paid for armor, but the combine
vans $545 a ton. Just why they thew off
IS from round number Is not known. Per-
haps it was done on the principle that gov
ems department stores when they affix
ninety-nine cents to an article of unknown
value.
Mr.. Underwood has induced the house to
consider the senate amendment offering
$500 ton for armor, and, in the event of
the refusal of the offer, authorizing the
secretary of the navy to at once begin the
erection of an armor plant. Congressman
Dayton, a republican from West Virginia,
attacked the senate proposition, but Mr..
Underwood, democrat though he be, sue
ceeded in having the matter referred to the
house for action before it could be taken
up by the conference committee, to which
the naval appropriation has been sent. He
answered Mr.. Dayton's argument in favor
of the combine, by showing that the pro-
posed factory would make armor for the
government only-that 1t would not come
in competition with makers for other pow
ers-that if the government should have
arsenals and gun factories, it should have
an armor factory, the one being as free
from objections and as necessary as the
other.
The contest in the last hours of the house
promise to be a warm one, and the inter-
ests of the people are safe in the hands OF
the well-equipped member from this dis
trict.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
THE VAMPIRE

BY Rudyard Kipling.
A fool there was and he made his prayer
Gwen as You and u,
To rag and a bone and hank OF hair
eve called her the woman who did not
eare);
But the fool he called her his lady fair
Gwen as you and u.
Oh, the years We waste, and the tears we
waste,
And the work of our head and hand
Belong to the woman who did not know
(And now we know that she never could
know
And did not understand.
A fool there was and his goods he spent
Gwen as you and u,
Honor and faith and sure intent
(And it wasn't the least what the lady
meant;
But fool might follow his natural bent
Gwen as you and u.
Oh the toll We lost and the spoil we lost,
And the excellent things we planned
Belonged To the woman who didn't know
why
(And now we know that she never knew
Why
And did not understand.
The fool was stripped to his foolish hide
Gwen as you and d,
Which she might have seen when she
threw him aside
(But it isn't on record the lady tried,
SO some of him lived, but the most of him
died
Gwen as you and u.
And 1t isn't the shame and it isn't the
blame
That stings like white-hot brand:
It's coming to know that she never knew
why
(Seeing at last that she could never know
whY.
And never could understand.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
GEN. WHEELER AT the CAUCUS

From the Washington Post.
The democrats of the house, who are
friendly to Gen. Wheeler, and that includes
all except very few joining in the crusade
to deprive him of his seat, say that the in
formation given out regarding the caucus
on Monday evening, as far as regards the
reception to him, was unfair. 1t is learned
on good authority that Gen. Wheeler was
given most kindly reception by the eau
Gus, and that no speeches were made abus-
i've of him. The statement given out by
certain democrats about the caucus Mon
day evening that Gen. Wheeler's express
sons were not in accord with the ideas of
his democratic colleagues were mistaken.
Gen. Wheeler was given the closest atten-
tion and all democrats, including the few
who are trying to GUST him from his seat,
showed him every courtesy.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04

In the central west are to fall into line after
the 1st of July, and that furnaces now Idle
are expected 10 start in soon. Il ls true
that a number of small eastern stacks are
trying to get ready. and the same is true In
Virginia and the south
But with many enterprises 1t is not a
matter of putting plant into shape, but of
getting raw materials. In the central west,
In the east, and in Virginia the ore problem
Is the troublesome one, although relief may
come to some through imported ores. In
the south 1t is a matter largely of fuel.
The export business, of course will be
checked. The tonnage of all kinds foots
up to about 100000 to 100000 tons. For the
first six months and for a part of the Sec
ond half much has been contracted for. In
some cases even now 1t has been possible 20
delay deliveries and thus get room to take
on domestic work. In some lines, like
in southern pig iron, the contracts provide
that the metal must go abroad, and switch
ing may not be possible Under the cir
cumstances it does not look as though much
relief can be expected before October.
AS an offset it may be considered that In
many lines the consumers have been bare
of stocks for years without feeling any in
convenience. They are having rather novel
experiences now, and are endeavoring to
guard against them by accumuating some
reserve. In the aggregate this means big
tonnage.
The shortage of material has been empha-
sized during the week by some happenings.
A leading wire interest has purchased and
is about to close for several blocks of bill
lets. aggregating about so 900 tons, for east
ern delivery. Two eastern steel works have
purchased a stock of about 10000 tons of
Bessemer pig in the yards of plant which
Is now limiting its operations to special
quality What the second half will bring
in Bessemer pig in the central west will
develop in a few days. For earlier ship
ment the furnaces have sold as high as
$12 50, and are now out of the market.
There have been heavy sales of mill iron
east and west. The scarcity and high price
Of billets, which have jumped to $22 Pitts
burg are starting every pudding mill stu
in good condition and the demand for mill
iron has, therefore, been very heavy.
In foundry iron there have been large
purchases in the east, while in the Chicago
district a large car company has taken
1000 tons of northern iron and like GUAM
tity of southern pig for the second hair.
Advances have taken place along the
whole line of finished iron and steel Struc-
tural material is up 81 per ton, and bars are
50 higher. Plates, sheets and skelp are very
difficult to buy. at a sharp advance Mer-
chant pipe makers have issued new uni
form discounts. Cut nails are higher ana
interest centers on the proposal to gather
the eastern works into a consolidation.
A sharp advance has taken place IN wire
products and in tin plate further upward
move Is imminent.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
SEND REPRESENTATIVE MEN

From the Guntersvile Democrat.
A movement is on foot In many Ala
bama counties to send as delegates to the
coming constitutional convention men who
are not politicians. The idea seems to meet
with approval in some counties. 1t has the
merit of doing away with the old wrangles
and old iealousies which come unbidden
like Banquo's ghost, whenever ex-office
holders or ex-eandidates put themselves up
The constitutional convention ought TO be
made up from all lines of business, men Sc
lected for theih honesty and capacity
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers and
doctors ought to have say, as well as law
yerS,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
BANKHEAD'S OPINION.
Thinks Warrior Contract Will Be Re-
instated in Bill.

Tuscaloosa, March 3.-(Special)-The
board of mayor and aldermen met last night
in regular session. Little was done be-
You'd the regular routine business.
A private letter from Congressman Bank
head says that the chances are favorable
for the reinstatement of the Warrior river
appropriation under the continuing contract
system. The bill has not come out of the
conference committee, and when it does
Colonel Bankhead says there is good reason
to hope that it will be all right.
Bernard, the little son of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
w. Sanders, died yesterday afternoon. He
was six years of age.
Major Marion B. Saffold, of the United
States army, who served in the Cuban cam
paign, has been on a short visit to his
brother. Professor w. b. Saffold. He left
yesterday for his post at Governors Island.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
A CHAIN OF REAsONfNG

From the Atlanta Constitution
Didn't you steal that hog?" asked the
rural justice in Georgia.
well, sub, Mr.. Jedge, 1 mus admit dat
l outrun him."
And didn't you kill him?"
We'll. sub, he run 'gainst de but er de
AK, en- got his DEATH"
And you ate him, of course?"
well, jedge, it wuz dis way: De weather
wuz mighty hot, an after he wuz dead it
look lax pity to let him spite, so l des
salted him down en- smoked him, en- de fire
Wuz dat hot dat TO 1 could tu'n roun' he
wuz cooked DONE en- seem him in dat fix
dar wuz muffin lef' ter do but ter eat him
up. Hit wuz done in self-defense, jedge-
all in self-defense."
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
A Mississippi View

From the Columbus (Miss.) Dispatch.
All this is very interesting to the man
across the line and it partly reimburses US
for the diversion that others have had in
watching the political fight in our own
state. But Mr.. Tominson should have pre-
pared himself for the worst He knew he
was dealing with politician, and gratitude
is not one of the cardinal and distinguish
ing traits of such men. Gov. Johnston
has done what thousands of other politi-
clans have done. He has sacrificed a friend
for his political future, and in these degen-
crate days such sacrifices are too often
made. Meanwhile Gov. McLaurin is no
doubt looking on and felicitating himself
with the thought that there are others.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
South Alabama Speaks Out
ne Conecuh Record.

From the Conecuh Record.
1t really does seem that the governor has
suffered his selfish motives, prompted by
his political aspirations, to get the upper
hand of him in this matter, and the people
of Alabama will not be slow to resent the
manner in which he has treated the appli-
cations of their friends for position on
the board of railroad commissioners. He
has utterly ignored south Alabama in dis
tributing his appointments to state offices
of any kind, and when he offers for the Of
fee of United States senator he will find
south Alabama democrats solid against
him. We can't help thinking you made
mistake governor, although you may have
done what you conceived to be your un-
biased duty, but we think you have driven
to the head another ten penny nail in your
political coffin.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
SENATOR rErTUs COINS A PHRASE \

From the Washington Post.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama. has coined
a new phase. He was anxious the other
day to get amendment for public
building on the sundry civil appropriation
bill, and Senator Allison had asked him to
lay it aside for few moments. Mr.. Pettus
was afraid that postponement meant de-
feat. He looked over to Mr.. Allison in APP
pealng fashion.
Let u.s." he said, "act perpindicularly
toward each other"
1t is needless to say that Mr. Allison at
once Strengthened up and the amendment
was adopted
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-04
Government Dredging Fleet

Florence. March 3.-(Special)-Th gov
eminent fleet of several dredging boats
passed up the river yesterday en- route for
the dry docks at Muscle Shoals canal.
where repairs to the fleet win be made. The
fleet has been at work in the lower river,
and is under the command of Capt. c. A.
Turrell, of Cincinnati. He is visiting his
wife in this city while the repairs upon the
boats are being made.