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The age-herald., 1899-01-01
GONE ANOTHER YEAR

How sad the thought to him Whose balance scales weigh 'gainst tn
 good
 And for the better count for naught. Hath the year that's past dealt gently With thy spirit, friend, so dear? Hath sunshine, naught but sunshine, Lighted up thy passing way? Or shadows fallen thick and fast? Didst dark nights seem to thee but day? If thou can'st answer mo regrets Count you among the blessed of this day. For thou must know of some sad hearts Bowed down by might have beens.' Narrowed by cares, stabbed by woes, Forlorn, oppressed and nigh o'ercome With grief-the darkest of all clouds. If none of these, then turn your eyes Toward that haven--Paradise- In thankful tone and grateful mien, Remembering what is might have been. And pray to Him who sends the rain And sunshine that no shadows come To mar thy life, but make for thee A clear way to eternity.
 May this New Year that's with us now Vouchsafe to thee abundant joy, And no cloud come to mar thy soul With sadness, tears or grief, despair, But happy thoughts and joyous tones Thy portion be for this New Year.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
MRS. FRYE AND PARIS

From the New York Press.
 Mrs. William P. Frye, wife of one of the American peace commissioners, comes home to make some remarks which leave very pleasant taste in the mouth. She is quoted. as saying: There are all sorts and conditions of people in Paris, dukes and duchesses by the hundreds, whom one would not consider an honor to know. We preferred to spend our time sightseeing" Again she says, referring to her investiga- tions of the Latin Quarter: "Oh, you can not fathom the wrong Americans do to their sons and daughters when they send them to Paris alone!'
 It seems to us that this is Americanism of the finest and most sensitive sort--the Americanism that cannot tolerate loose liv- ing and moral deformity, whether in high social state they are crested with the crown and coronet or on a less superior social plane they drape themselves in the robes of fine arts. In respect to these sen- timents Americanism is different from the old world civilization It is the American wife and mother who marks that differ ence, and it is she who gives it significant expression in the most delicate form.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

journed, having passed all the bills that Atlanta desired. At one time the party at fault was the Alabama legislature; at an- other, Atlanta owned up that she forgot; but now the blame, according to the es- teemed Constitution, is to be charged up against the Georgia legislature. "we simp- ly say,' says the Constitution, ''that Att lanta, with burdens of her own, will not the shoulders of the legislature. Atlanta is not responsible for the long or the short comngs of that gifted body. We may re- gret the misadventure of the Alabamians; but, in all seriousness, the episode is one that suggests laughter rather than lamenta- tion."
 "Misadventure" is good, and no doubt it suggests laughter, and the esteemed Con- stitution is, of course, free to do as much of it as 1t likes; but the people of Alabama will hereafter jubilate at home. At least we judge they will Their exposition trip was recalled and double-leaded, as it were, at the jubilee, and they have decided that Alabama is good enough for them.
 The plain truth is, the legislature of Georgia had no more to do with the con- duct of the jubilee than they had with oc- currehces in the moon. They were invited guests themselves. It was exclusively an Atlanta affair. conducted by Atlanta people, and every feature of 1t except the Alabama feature was personally conducted by Att lanta committees. Alabama was snubbed and ignored, and she Is rather glad of it, for she has discovered anew the truth that Alabama for Alabamians is. after all. the top of patriotism, the more satisfactory of the two experiences. and the better of the two to live in, and also to trade in.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
HoBsON's PROTOTYPE

From Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
 The young woman of St Louis who first kissed Hobson on his return to New York may never have heard of similar greetings to Captain Joshua Barney of the conti- mental navy while visiting France in 17S2; but the case of Captain Barney furnished precedent Captain Barney was a great lighter at sea, almost as bold and success ful as John Paul Jones. He was a gallant and a handsome man, an American by birth and training; and he went to France in 17S2 in the ship General Monk, which he had captured from the British He was received with every mark of favor at the court of Lous XVI, where Dr. Franklin was also great favorite. Captain Barney was so profusely kissed by the .worshipful ladies of the court, because of his success against Great Britain, that some American wag made song about him. Perhaps some of our elders may have heard their fathers or grandfathers sing that song:
 Barney, let the gals afene,
 And let them quiet be.
 If any one can produce that old song it would be real curiosity. The name of Hobson might be substituted for Barney.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
The Fourteenth Amendment.

The ultra republican journals are meeting President McKinley's patriotic utterances with the declaration that the fourteenth amendment forbids the United States or any state from assuming or paying any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insur- larly on the word "rebellion." which is favorite word in their vocabulary.
 An obligation is one thing, and gift another. If the general government desire, Tor example, to take charge of the con- federate dead, there is nothing in the four teenth amendment or any other amendmnt that forbids. If Alabama desire to pre- sent to the confederate veterans a sum of money each year, or any year, there is no constitutional inhibition in the way. The difference between charity and obligation and the other wholly voluntary-one being a gift, and the other duty.
 It Is not, however, so much the law of the case, which is clear, that concerns us, as it IS ll6 Splrll WHICH lives Stlll Tn repuDllcdn ranks despite the utterances of MT. Me- Kinley. There cannot be a thorough union Of the two sections until this spirit is ariven out, voted out, and educated out It is sec tionalism of the direst sort In the face of the fact that the soldiers and sailors of the two sections fought side by side at Manila and Santiago. It is sectonalism for dema gogieal purposes, but sectionalism for dem- agogical purposes is necessarily based on something in the popular mind. President Mckinley should read his own people and followers a lesson or two; and in the mean while the people of the south will show the country what patriotism is under cifcum- stances more trying than the demagogues ever experienced; for the people of the south have been tried and purified in the fires of war, and worse still, of reconstruc- tion.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
An unWiSe Pr0Viso.

Section twenty-one of the constitutional convention bill directs the convention, if it should be called, to insert in its work "any and all limitations upon the rights of taxation that are in the present constitu- tion.' If this simply means that the pres 7shal be maintained, well and good; but if it means that school district, or town, or a city, or a county, shall not be author ized to have as good public schools as it wise provislon-one that will keep the state illiterate to an extreme degree-one, too, that will render the whole constitution obnoxious after a few more years of educa- tional progress in the country. This is a matter that should be understood from the beginning, for there should be no trickery in public affairs. There should not be any addition of dishonesty, for there is alto gether too much now.
 The state of Louisiana adopted last year a new constitution, and all the members of the convention in that state agreed in throwing wide open the door to local taxa tion for school purposes Any municipality in that state, be 1t parish, a town, city, or a school district, can tax itself for pub lie school purposes. It cannot bond itself for that purpose, but 1t can tax itself. There is no danger In self-imposed taxation for the people will not go down into their pockets for money for immediate use, un- less that use is very pressing and very im- portant. Local taxation for school pur- poses is the rule in all advanced states in probably thirty-five states out of the forty-fve. There is no need of a limit Tho people of a given district are the limit, and they should not in such a matter be dis trusted.
 Money wisely spent in public education was never in the history of this world money mis-spent. Don't forget this, and don't vote for convention thinking 1t will lack the power to throw the door wide open to local taxation for school purposes, as the people of Louisiana have recently done.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
RAILROAD BUILDING NEXT YEAR

II lOlu lHo fteCOTu.
 The outlook for 1899 is very encouraging to railroad promoters in the south. New enterprises in Georgia include terminals for the Georgia and Alabama railroad at Sa- vannah, an important belt line in the suburbs of Atlanta, and the completion of the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western through the southern and southeastern portions of the state. Several lumber and other companies will add to the new mile age in Alabama, while there is possibility that the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City will be extended distance of about thirty miles. A considerable mileage will be added in Mississippi by the extension of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad through the central and northern section, distance of 1SO miles, and by the construction of sev- eral branches of the Illinois Central which will aggregate fully eighty miles in the eastern and northern portions In South Carolina branch of the Atlantic Coast Line, now under construction, thirty-five miles long, will be completed, while con- tracts are to be let to build fifteen miles out of Sumter and an extension seventeen miles long of the Hampton and Branch vile railroad.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

much of big mills that we have lost sight of the smaller industries. although the latter are the more valuable of the two. Let us turn our ener- gies in this bright new year--a year that opens with more of promise and more of actual activity than any year in our history let us of the south, and of Alabama, en- abilities of a section that nature has so wonderfully endowed in climate and natural resources. Let hs make the closing year of the century the gladdest and the bright est of the whole lot
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
NEW YEAR POEM
Written by Mayor Frank V. Evans Years
 Ago.

The mayor of Birmingham, the Hon. Frank V. Evans, has suffered an unspeak- able affiiction the past week in the sudden death of his beloved son, Frank. A. Evans, and he has received in full measure the sympathy of all the people of Birmingham
 Many years ago, before he had known any great personal sorrow, he wrote the following exquisitely tender lines which, in view of the great burden of grief that now rests upon him, will appeal to all honest hearts on this New Year morning. The lines are taken from the old files of The Age-Rerald, and run sweetly SO:
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
HANNIs TAYLOR IN LITERATURE

From the Mobile Register
 After a comprehensive and exhaustive review of MT. Taylor's complete work, the Boston Herald, of the 10th inst, has thus expressed its estimate of the book, and of the place it is to occupy in the literature of the country:
 added this work to the long list of histori- cal works which have attracted the attcn. tion of the world to it's achievements in that branch of authorship. It impresses us as the most important contribution that the south has yet made to American literature, and students and patriots throughout the land are under obligations to her for it."
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
Not So Funny, After All.

The Atlanta Constitution Is still trying to jubilee episode -ary as the days go along, but 1t never loses Its patronizing tone Alabama is to 1t a half-civilized outlying district, from which some trade and sub- ec-iptions can be drawn, and 1t proposes to draw them, even If the point of view be constantly shifted.
 Just at present 1t Is putting the blame on the Georgia legislature, which has ad-
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Constant nagging wears away the heart
 The shortest honeymoon is longer than q brides delusons.
 Youth thinks of love with passion, middle age with reverence, old age with comfort
 When a girl peers into the future she sees herself in a photograph with baby's naked arms around her neck.
 It isn't the striving and never achieving that wearies the heart 1t is the achieving and then finding it wasn't worth while.
 If man does not unbosom himself to a woman who likes him she shudders to think of the life he led before her example brought repentance to him.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The wits of the later decades of the twen- tieth century will look back with scorn on their tongues, as the air-ships go by, full of joyous dust-tree passengers, at the earth-tied, disease-ridden dullards of the nineteenth century. We will look to them as the people of the last century, who knew not the uses of steam and electricity, look ito us. So runs this mad world away.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
QUEEN COLUMBIA

Hail. Queen Columbia! The New Year greets thee on thy throne, With many jewels added to thy crown; All hail! thy majesty serene. Hail! Queen Columbia, Thy brow is naughty, still 'tis kind: Thine eyes so lately filled with fire, Now glow with lustre most benign. Haii. Queen Columbia, The people of a thousand isles, Now look to thee for freedom, justice. life. And hang upon thy smiles. Hail! Queen Columbia, Blest freedoms native land, The weak and helpless bless thy name.
 I'll. E. ponnell.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

Wake island, our latest acquisition, is small, but there is room in the Pacific ocean to grow in, and the coral builders may yet build 1t into an empire, if Governor Bout well does not obect.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

Senator Morrills successor will be a rati- ficationist, who does not believe MT. George Dewey's work should be reversed MT. Dewey, it should be remembered, was once a Vermonter himself.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
q WIDE CHOICE
n the Anniston Index.

The Birmingham Age-Herald thinks after the governor of the state, and the judges of the supreme court, and the United States senators of the state, have been nominated delegates to the constitutional convention that the line should be drawn against office holders and take the remainder of the dele gates fresh from the people. Plenty of good men can be found who are not office holders. The woods are full of them in Ala bama.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

Senator Faulkner, a democrat, has de- cided to vote for the ratification of the treaty. This movement should go on until Senators Eugene Hale and Dominick Caf- fiery are isolated.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01
JEFFERSON IS UNANIMOUS
From the Birmingham News.

From the Blrmlngham NeWs.
 Jefferson county is entitled to one of the two railroad commissioners, soon to be ap- pointed, and the people of the county are well nigh unanimous in asking the ap- pointment of Hon. John W. Tomlinson, who will make, the News believes, as good commissioner as Alabama has had.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

If Quay's downfall should occur next week. Platt's cannot be far off. One by one the bosses fall, and even thick-skinned, dollar-fortified Hanna's turn will come.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The government-our government-owns telegraph postal system in Porto Rico, and postal savings bank system in Ha- waii. The "mongrel races'' are in some conuuerors
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The Atlanta Constitution thinks Alabam- fans will be happy indeed, if they continue to have governors as strong and creditable as Joseph Forney Johnston.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

Havana is a pretty big city, full of ex- cited Latins, and more excitable Cubans, and yet Uncle Sam is moving in steadily and, all things considered, smoothly.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The real difference between the Roberts case and divorce of the Vanderbilt-Bel- mont kind is the difference between twedle- dunn and and twedledee.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The people of the world are now estimated to number fifteen hundred millions, and the Anglo-Saxons are not at all tagging in the increasing throngs.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

General Lees great aggregation is in full possession of Havana this morning. The Spanish stay of centuries is ended at last
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The actual monogomists of congress will not be able to expel MT. Roberts, for 1t requires a two-thirds vote.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

Boston stands against the rest of the country in the matter of ratification. It has, however, Editor Bowles at it's back.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

Legalized polygamy is as bad ethically as the kind outside the law.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The new year will be a year of booms, and new enterprises, and speculative move- ments.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

No signs can be depended upon this sea- son except the signs of prosperity.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The new year will be officially recognized tomorrow at the White House.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The new year begins in frosty but really seasonable manner.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

If Havana can stand Jim Corbett and the Cherry sisters, its people must be in a good state of discipline.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

The Tagal insurgents hold Ilolo, but they will not hold it after Admiral Dewey drops anchor there
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

Cow cases and line-fence disputes seem to suit Judge Day better than international controversies.
The age-herald., 1899-01-01

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The age-herald., 1899-01-01
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09
SCRUBS MUS! go.
No stockman Who Stielxa 70 Them
Can Reasonably Expect to Make &.
Both ends Meet. M

Scrub stock is not always bred that
way. The best and bluest blood known
to breeders may bemade 70 bring forth
progeny of the scrub order by careless
ness on the part OF the feeder.
The old saying that well fed is half
bred is not merely a saying. It is
founded on truth, and asgastatementis
quite exact. The veriest scrub may be
made quite respectable by proper feed
ing, but ii can never be made a pure
bred animal. 1t has notin it the quail
ity to assimilate feed and put it to good
use that is inherited by the pure bred
animal, and the feed given to it will
never produce the results that would
have been shown if the care and skill
that lies behind the pure-bred beast
had had some part in making it up.
There is no excuse for scrub stock
whether bred or made SO by careless
ness. Scrubby horses or cattle mark
the owner as being at once non-pro-
gressive and ill-fitted for breeding or
feeding. A man may not be financially
able to stock his farm with pure-bred
stock, but even the poorest farmer may
command the services of good sires
and in this way secure the benefits of
good blood. The first remove from a
scrub where a pure-bred sire is used
shows an improvement, and four re-
moves will generally produce an an
imal that will pass for high grade
and possessing the good qualities OF
the breed it has been graded up with.
Happily, the day of bred scrubs !,
about past. Very few genuine penny
royal steers are to be found now, and
each year they become fewer. The
scrub made so by lack of care and care
less feeding is still too much in evi
dence. 1t will not disappear as long a:
corn stover is left in the field for cat
tie to forage on during the winter. NJ
profit can result from any kind o.
scrubs, and the man who allows then
to remain on his farm and continue t.
be scrubs will be the one who is ready
to testify that there is no chance TO-
him to make both ends meet.-Farmer'
| Voice.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09
PIGEON HOUSE AND YARD.
ost desirable accompaniments to

most desirable Accomplishments to
rural life.
Where pigeons are kept it is too
often the practice to house them in
some low loft under the caves, where
it is inconvenient to visit them and
where the birds often suffer neglect.
If possible it is better to have quarters
upon the ground floor and preferably
in separate building. The pigeon
house may well be made an ornament
to the place. With this idea in view the
accompanying illustrtion is given.
This represents a small and mex
,pensive house built in attractive lines
and thoroughly suited to the purpose
for which it is intended. A small hall
way runs through the center, giving ac-
cess to a commodious room on each
side. A flight" on either end of the
house opens out from these two lofts.
Such little house, stained and COW
cred with vines, will make very at
tractive addition to any country place,
and will do much toward getting the
children in love with country life and
interested in the companionship of an
finals. Such result will prove bene-
fetal in all ways, and the influence will
remain a lasting impression through
llfe.-American Agriculturist.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-02-09
REDUCTION 70 TIE TRADE.
The Fraternal Fee1ing 81 = House
Painter for an Artist
Patron.

There is saying that two Of trade can
never agree, but there is reason to believe
that there is more fraternity of interest
than is generally supposed An instance to
prove this theory is found in the case of an
artist in the suburbs who had the front Of
his cottage painted last week. 1t wasn't
much of job, but it was done very well, and
the painter was told to bring in his bill.
Three days later the man Of the house was
"Tell him to leave the bill and TIL send
him check" was the impatient answer.
He was informed that the painter wanted
to see him in person, SO there was nothing
to do but to show him up.
8. "Well?" said the man Of the house rather
Il hope you like the job" said.the painter,
with mysterious smile. u
He was informed that it appeared to be all
right:
rather throwed myself on this when found
out who you was"
$50 you found out who I was, did YOU"
eyes. When went to the drug store at
the corner for putty, the clerk told me you
was painter, and one of the best in this
country. asked why you didn't paint your
house, then, and he said you had got your
hand out now, and didn't paint anything
but pictures. So when found you was in
the trade I did my prettiest. And here is
the bill-$l8.60- it amt no more than
knock off the 60 cents.
To the everlasting credit of the cele.
brated artist be it said that he kept his face
straight and accepted the reduction in the
spirit in which it was offered.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.