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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
THE VIC E-PREsIDENr
rom the Boston Advertiser.

From the Boston Advertiser.
1t is now announced from Washington
that Mr. Hobart will not be .renominated
for viee-president. This off-hand method of
settling the nomination may seem to some
republicans rather premature, as it appar-
emily takes for granted the proposition
that the republican voters of the country
have little to say about the nomination.
anyway, and that the republican ticket for
1900 can be settled by few influential men
at the national capital nearly year be-
fore the campaign begins. Still, if the pre-
cedent established during the past fifty
years has anything to do with the matter,
Mr. Hobart will not be reelected. 1t has
been the almost invariable rule since polti-
cal nominating conventions came into eX-
istence that a vice-president should not
have two successive terms.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
A ButIer COUNTY Paradise

A writer in the Greenville Advocate tells
of a little land of plenty;
On Pigeon creek, between Indian and
Piney Woods creek may be seen growing
the finest fields of cotton and corn, melons
simply out of sight, gardens wilderness
of fine vegetables; the yards alive with
chickens, guineas, geese and turkey COB
blers, that strutted and gobbled around
you all day in most defiant way; pigs
and lazy hogs looked their contentment
from every shady covert. No commercial
fertilizer has been used by any of those
farmers.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

REFLECTIONS OF \ BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
There are always two sides to a woman's
story abou the other man.
After girl once learns to carry things
in her stocking she never reforms
Before a girl has been married ten min
utcs she feels like she could put her arms
around a widow and say, Dear, we have
suffered together!'
When a fellow has squeezed a girls
hand and Rugged her all he wants to, she
assumes a very distant air toward him
when they are in a crowd.
When girl feels extra romantic she can
always think up some story about a couple
she knows that have been married twenty
years and that she has caught patting each
others hands under the tablecloth when
they thought no enc was noticing.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Farmers Paying Their Debts

The Troy Messenger hears sweet music
of practical value
IT Is sweet music to hear our merchants
talk about how our farmers are paying OF
their old debts. The desire of the farmers
of Pike it appears, is to once more be
square. Speed the day. 1t is a deplorable
fact that a large per cent. of our farmers
are in debt. But this can't be charged 20
dishonesty on their part. Taken as a class
they are as honest any other. Nor can
it be charged to extravaganza, for If they
don't practice economy we know of no class
OF people who do practice it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
I'Iot to XIII the sultan

Cincinnati, o.. September 15.-Abraham
Dahourage Syrian now in Jail. made the
startling statement today that he knew of
a plot to kill the sultan of Turkey; that the
chief conspirator >in the scheme has been
in Cincinnati and later in Indianapolis.
Dahourage says he dare not now reveal the
consIirator's name, but says he is studying
high explosives with a view to their use
to accomplish his purpose. Dahourage is
charged with obtaining two typewritsrs
by false pretenses. He has claimed to be
III communication with the consul general
of The Ottoman empire and has exhibited
letters from that official. Dahourage does
not have the confidence Of local Syrians.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Arrested for Agitsting strike

London, Ky, September 15.-G. w. Pur.
cell, member of the national board of
United Mine Workers, was arrested today
on warrant by the operators of the seven
mines now strike at Altamont and
Pittsburg, Ky, charging him with inducing
the miners to strike while under contract.
He says his board will fight his case In
the highest courts. He is from Terre
Haute, Ind. The strike continues. The
Lilly mines have gone out today, affecting
1900 miners.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
THE HARDY MOSQUITO


From the New York Tribune.
Suggestions for the determination of the
mosquito multiply, but not SO abundantly
as the insect itself, which laughs at them
and goes ON fulfilling the decree, really not
meant for 1t, to be fruitful and replenish
the earth. SO far it has done so with no
perceptible hindrance from nature or art
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Totals. ..... 80. -. ...S17,S 35 3,17S35S
The kaffir is not as dark as the negroes
in equatorial Africa are; he is not as dark
as the unmixed negro of this country is;
but he belongs TO the great dark race, and
he once very full of comoativeness.
To what extent his services as a warrior
can be utilized. or which side he will favor
whether he will prefer the Dutch to the
British or vice versa, is not known. The
probability is he will be governed by his
surroundings-by the circumstances of his
habitat. 1t is not reasonable to presume
that the average kaffir knows the ante
cedents of his white neighoors or of their
standing in the world, or of the meaning
OF tine conventions of 1881 or 1884, He prob
ably takes the Dutch side in Pretoria. and
haps he should be classed all the way down
to Capetown. The kaffrs were once very
warlike, but they long ago lost such pro-
clivties. and they may be inclined to think
that a white mans quarrel should be SET
tied by the white men. This is however,
giving them more credit for common sense
than they are entitled to. In one was or
another more or less of them could be
drawn in to the struggle il it come at all.
and especially if it be prolonged and ,les-
operate.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

The reenboro Republican, edited by Ad
Winds, the negro leader. says:
No man with spark of justice in his
soul could for a moment truthfully con-
tend the coored republicans in Alabama
have been treated right; unless his sense
of right be that it is the duty of the ne
groes to vote work and suffer for the re-
publican party and not expect or require
any of the fruits of republican victory.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
THE EDITORS
AND THEIR TALK

One of Selma's most popular newspaper
workers has been enjoying a birthday an
niversary, which was very properly cele-
brated, according to the Times of the
18th:
Colonel R. E. L. Mel. the handsome
city editor of the Journal, yesterday cele-
hrated his Goth birthday. Many of his
friends congratulated him in no uncertain
tones, and banquet was rendered him In
the afternoon. The presents were costly
and numerous.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Good Farmer of Pike

Farmer Hood of Pike county is worker
of the right sort. The Ozark Star says:
Mr.. b. r. Hood, who lives four miles
west of Daleville, was in town Thursday
with cotton. Last spring he used three
mules in breaking and seeding time but af
forwards only two. He informs the Star
man that he has made about thirty bales
of cotton, seven hundred bushels of corn,
one thousand bushels of ground peas, be-
sides small crops.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
overcoat Would be Fatal

Warm weather the gulf moves the
Mobile Register to shudder:
Colonel Russell Telegram pms from WiPni-
peg, Manitoba, September Il. that there
has been a big frost up there, and he is
wearing a heavy overcoat. Well. he is 10
be ratulated Down here We believe
We would drop dead just now were We to
see an overcoat.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Tho Editor Not Forgot
he Collinsville Clipper says:

The Collinsville Clipper says:
just about the time this scribe had ar
rived at the conclusion that all of our read
ers had forgotten the great fact that an
editor loved the sweet and delicious water
melon our big-hearted hustling friend, T.
Nj. Presley. of Wills stepped into our
sanctum Friday and made We editor smile
as he has not before this year by present.
ing him with a fine melon.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
GLAD TO HAVE AN EXCUSE

From the Atchison Globe.
We don't intend to attend the Paris ex-
position because of the injustice of France
to Dreyfus. We had really become alarmed
that we might have to give the true rea-
SON
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Alabama Oak for France
The Demopolis Dispatch says:

The Demopolis Dispatch says:
Laborers are getting out thousands of
white oak slaves on Mr. Brasfield's timber
lands in Greene county. for shipment to
France. They will be loaded on steam
boat near where they are gotten out. and
will go to Mobile. There they will be trans
ferred to steamship and be shipped di-
rect to France. The slaves will be used to
make wine casks.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
noycorrING THE paris EXPO TITO,

Washington Correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune.
At a mass meeting held tonight to protest
against the conviction of Dreyfus it was
decided by fully 1000 citizens to boycott
solved to call on the president to take such
measures as he and his cabinet might see
fit to apprise the French government of
the sentiments of the American people
One paragraph In the resolutions adopted
urges congress to repeal its enactment au-
thorzng the participation of this govern
ment in the exposition.
1t being suggested to the mass meeting
that Minister Lebon had testified before
the Dreyfus courtmartial that the prisoner
of Devils Island was at one time in danger
of being shot because an American ship
was supposed to be lowering In the vicinity
with the intention of rescuing him. when in
reality there was no such vessel there
abouts, a committee was appointed to wait
OH Secretary Hay for the purpose of hav-
ing this story branded as SANDER against
the United States. The audience was COM
posed of people of all nationalities and re-
ligious views. Protestant ministers and
Roman Catholics participated In the
speechmaking An address to Captain
Dreyfus expressing belief in his innocence
was prepared.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Too Busy for Politics

Editor Stanley of the Greenville Advo-
cate notes that the people of Butler are
busy:
out their crops that they are not giving
politics a thought. Only the prospective
candidates are lying awake thinking about
their chances of success.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
BIRMINGHAM'.s SYSTEM IS EFFICIENT
From the Mobile Register.

from the Mobile Register.
The Birmingham, Ala, street railroads
have been consolidated. 1t Is the age of
union OF forces and economy in admins
tration. Strange to say, the destruction of
competition in this line of industry does
not seem to lead to impairment of eff
cheney.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Mr.. Eyre Damar, of Mobile, is the only
representative of Alabama in the Chicago
trust conference, but he has thus far been
a silent member, thus making up in sense
and quality what the delegation lacks in
numbers and uuantity
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Blacks and Whites in South Africa.

South Africa is blacker than the Black
Belt. and in estimating warlike possibilities
in that section the blacks should not be
wholly overlooked. The latest figures of
the various sections that constitute what
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
HauIs Wood and Gives Beans

The wood-hauler didn't present Editor
Norwood of the Collinsville Clipper with
wood, but gave him beans:
]. p Livingston, the hustling, jolly and
popular stove-wood hauler and prosperous
farmer of Lookout, dropped in to see Us
Monday morning and presented ye editor
with a lot of fine old-fas hioned corn-field
beans, which are certainly appreciated. He
will please accept our many thanks for the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
State Fair and Judge Beck

Editor Gordon of the Wilcox Progress
says:
The State Fair association a Birming
ham has elected Judge James T. Beck
vice president. In making this selection
the above association has benefited its flu
ture interest. and at the same time honored
an honorable son of Wilcox.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

The Demopolis Dispatch hears of a great
change for the better in Birmingham;
Recent visitors to Birmingham are loud
in their praise of the cleanliness of the
city since the anti-spitting ordinance went
into effect 1t is meeting with so much
success there that We might try it with
good results.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
QUEER TRAITS OF CECIL RHODES.

QUEER TRAITS OF CECIL RHODES.
From the Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
Here is an instance of how Cecil Rhodes
makes enemies. A young Englishman
named Pierce until recently held a good
position with the British South African
Chartered company, and was being rapidly
advanced by Rhodes, who held him in high
favor. Coming out from England, where
he had taken a brief vacation, Pierce fell
in love with the daughter of major in the
Scots Guards, and before he reached Bula-
wayo again had married the young woman.
With funds exhausted but spirits eX-
uberant. Pierce rushed Ito the ex-premfer TO
be congra tulated. Rhodes received him
coldly, refused to employ him or even to
advance him enough money to get out of
town. Whether or not the arbiter of South
Africa had had an unpleasant love re-
nance no one seems to know, but he GER
tainly does not care for women, and dis
likes to employ married men.
Persons either like Rhodes immensely or
detest him. At Kimberly he is most popu-
lar. He became so by refunding to sew
ney Barnato persuaded them to invest in
the Pleaides mine, on the Band. The KIM
berly men sunk every sixpence they had
saved in this investment, and when it
proved a failure they were so wild with
rage that Barnato would have had hard
time but for Rhodes, who paid the men
100000 of his own money, completely reim-
bursting them and winning their esteem for
ever.
Among the native tribes in South Afri-
ca Rhodes is called "Lumula McKunz,'
which might be interpreted approximately
into Kind white father" With them he
is thoroughly popular. He seems to enjoy
sitting in a native kraal and conversng
in the various dialects. He addresses them
as my Children
Rhodes apparent ignorance of the value
of money is greatly appreciated in South
Africa where gold sovereigns are about as
plentiful as quarter dollars in the ordinary
American town. He will sign a check for
$4,000 to the order of some friend, and
reach in his pocket only to find he has not
a single coin to buy the stamp. His valet
always makes it point to carry about
some money, for his master is frequently
without it.
For those whom he likes Rhodes will do
anything, and the rougher and harder you
are the better chance you stand of winning
his favor. He advanced almost unlimited
sums to Roland Creech an American cow
boy who had the contract for building part
of the telegraph line from Umtali to Tete
because Creech could thrash any other sim
gle white or black man in Portuguese ter
ritory.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

The fifteen hundred people who fled from
Johannesburg must feel like the king of
France who marched up the hill and then
marched down again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

An appreciative writer in the Ozark Star
writes:
The girls of Skipperville were beautiful.
boys handsome, the chicken delightful, the
music inspiring, and may We soon pass that
way again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
There Are Always Others

The Selma Times suggests this worldly
wisdom:
In naming a man for office some one l.
always mean enough to suggest that there
are Others"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

The treatment that the army of France
will extend to the two members of the
Rennes court that voted for the acquittal
of Captain Dreyfus is awaited with inter-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
No Falsehoods There

All fibs will be banished from Collinsville
today. The Clipper says:
Next Saturday is the regular monthly
horse-swapping and trading day in Collins
vile. big crowd will doubtless be pres
ent.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

From the Kansas City Star.
The burning of General MERCER in efigy
was a wanton waste of rags and kero-
sene.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

General MERCER may have been vfndi-
Gated at Rennes. but as he receives returns
from the rest of the world he does not feel
as well as he expected to feel.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Labor Is in demand in all parts of this
district. In lamar county the Illinois
Central railroad wants one thousand men,
and cannot get them.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
WANTON WASTE

The trust conference in Chicago is not
even the fly on the wheel.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

The prosperity that prevails in quite as
able-bodied fashion in Europe as i'll this
country hurts the high-tariff argument
very much.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Nearly every county in the state is TAX
ing steps towards securing a county ex-
hibit at the State fair. This alone will make
a great fair.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
WHERE rnE NIL BILLIEs COME

From the Fort Payne Journal
That's the complimentary term applied
to northern Alabama, isn't It, by the astute
wheel-horses, the sages, the leaders and
bosses in the black belt who run the polit-
ical business of the state. 1t has not been
so long ago when even Birmingham was
outside the inner circle; but that city has
become so powerful in every other respect
that it can no longer be ignored, but prom
Uses to he almost as prominent as Mont
gomery in the matter of making and of
breaking states. general dictation and
rounding up. So be it. North Ala ma
can afford to leave politics to the minority
down in the pit of Dixie, except in local
affairs; and we can well content ourselves
with the work laid out for us along more
profitable lines. /. e., the upbuildng of this
grand division of the state in colonization
and in Industrial enterprise, until we reach
the inevitable plane of commercial and
manufacturing supremacy. That's the
mission of the "hll-billies," and noble
it is.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

The manuscripts that are read before the
Chicago trust conference are worse in
Fiction than the trusts themselves.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

There is a chance that the trusts will be
talked to death at Chicago.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Cotton Is opening very rapidly in all
parts of the state. Much of the crop will
be ready for the pickers by October /.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

The Brooklyn bridge route Is open to Es-
terhazy and Colonel Jououst. Neither need
apprehend a resoue at the bottom.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Lieutenant Peary has lost several toes
by freezing, but his face is still turned to-
wards the North Pole.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Garbage wagons that are overloaded or
thai leak should themselves be led GU TO
the dumping ground.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Iron and steel are scoring high up. aai
they are business barometer.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Even the court journal" is Offering a
street fair a relief from a straight diet
of politics.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

France is still ON trial She must now
show herself superior TO her military in
cumbrance.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Elhu Root IS now the object of mild
vice presidential boom.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Toledo Sam Jones proposes to dissolve
political parties in favor of himself
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Very little low-grade cotton has been
brought to market thus far this year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

James G. Cowan assistant state examn-
er of public accounts, returned yesterday
to Montgomery from Blount, where he had
been staying a week. Mr.. Cowan's health
Is not good just now.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

France who marched up the hill and then
marched down again.
The prosperity that prevails in quite as
able bodied fashion in Europe as i'll this
country hurts the high-tarih argument
very much.
Nearly every county in the state is taxi
ing steps towards securing county ex-
hibit at the State fair. This alone will make
a great fair.
Cotton Is opening very rapidly in all
paris of the state. Much of the crop will
be ready for the pckers by October /.
The manuscripts that are read before the
Chicago trust conference are a worse in
Fiction than the trusts themselves.
The Brooklyn bridge route Is open to Els
terhazy and Colonel Jououst Neither need
apprehend a resoae al the bottom.
Lieutenant Peary has lost several toes
by freezing. but his face is still turned to-
wards the North Pole.
Garbage wagons that are overloaded or
that leak should themselves be LED GU, TO
the dumping ground
Even the court journal" is offering a
street fair as relief from a straight diet
of politics.
France is still on trial She must now
show herself superior to her military in
Cumbrance.
Very little low-grade cotton has been
brought to market thus far this year.
Toledo Sam Jones proposes to dissolve
political parties in favor of himself
----
The corn crop IS now out of danger. even
along the northern edge Of the belt.
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Iron and steel are scoring high up, aai
they are business barometer.
Ehu Root is now the object of mild
vice presidential boom.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
shells" All kinds of homegrown vegeta-
bles are becoming scarce.

Hon. w. II Seymour, of Sumter. went to
Montgomery yesterday, after spending two
or three days in Birmingham.
The Portland daily press., 1899-09-12
MORRILLS.

Mr.. Charles H Mareau. OF standish,
has acce pied the position as assistant at
the Deering Drug store. Forest avenue
The marriage Of Mr.. George W. /. stew
ems, clerk at J. X. Cobb's grocery store,
Morrills. to Miss Lizzie M. jackson Of
Lisbon. is to occur this morning ct ten
O'Clock ut the home of the brides mother.
Mrs. q. Al. Jack son, Lisbon. After n
brief wedding trip they are to reside at
70 Hartley avenue, Deering Center.
Mrs. George b. Stevens and daughter,
Miss Ellen r. Stevens, Hartley avenue,
leave this morning for Lisbon where they
are TO attend the wedding Of MIR. q. w.
L Stevens.
An intoxicated farmer driving home In
a wagon was capsized at Morrills Corner
Monday afternoon. The man struck solid
ly on his head. but but did not appear to
notice the accident very much. He was
picked up and with his team was taken
to the Woodfords police station.
The Portland daily press., 1899-09-12
INSPECTION WATCHES.

IL Jewel adjusted Pat. regulator nickel Elgn
Silverine case, $500. b. W. Raymond IT and
81 jewel adjusted is the hes. Railroad Watch.
These watches will pass the Inspection. Nc
KENNEY. the Jeweler. Monument Square.