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The age-herald., 1899-09-23
MEETING AT sAGE's HOUSE

From the New York Press.
 When the great account is rendered. when the final balance is struck, it may be found that Uncle Russell Sage has credit with Kingdom Come. On earth for the last twenty-five years the old miser has been the butt end of all complaints Many a manufactured story of money meanness has been fastened upon him because he was good tackle to carry it. His hospi- tality also has come in for more than one score. The latest is about a meeting of a board of directors Having no other place so cheap, Sage invited the members to his house, where business was transacted in the dining room. On the table was a mag niticent basket of fruits, and visions of wine and salads, brandy and cigars, arose. Refreshments, however, failed to material ize and when the old man left the room a director said, sotto voce, "Gentlemen, there being nothing else in sight I shall help myself to a pear" The action was suited to the word, but the pear was wax.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
THE BAKER FAMELY's APPEAL

From the Boston Herald
 That is a very homely phrase which de- scribes people as 'biting off more than they can chew" but it is already demonstrated as applying to the action taken as regards the Baker family of South Carolina in this city. Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett has exploited these unfortunate people in the manner she has selected until sine appar- enty sees no further use for them in this kind of service. She now surrenders them to the public, and some one writing over Mrs. Bakers signatur makes d pathetic appeal for charity to this stricken family They seem to be appropriate subjects for it. and it is to be hoped they will not be allowed to suffer It is not their fault that they are brought into destftution in a strange land. They were offered aid and comfort by Miss Jewett, and in their in- experience in knowledge of the world it is not strange that they should have lent a credulous ear to her promises. More rella- ble persons may now well put them in the way of earning a livelihood without their being used as a spectacle.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
"rHE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY

Edmund Clarence Stedman.
 Could we but know The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel, Where lie those happier hills and meadows low An, if beyond the spirits inmost cavil Aught of that country could We surely know,
 Who would not go?
 Might we but hear The lowering angels high ina glned chorus, Or catch, betimes, with wakeful eyes and clear One radiant vista of the realm before us With one rapt moment given to see and hear,
 An, who would fear?
 Were we quite sure To find the peerless friend who left us lonely, Or there, by some celestial stream as pure, To gaze in eyes that here were lovelit only This weary mortal coil, were we quite sure,
 Who would endure?
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
ARMOR PLATE TEST.
Krupp Demonstrates Its Superiority over
 Harveyized.

From the New York Herald. Washington, September 20.-Krupp armor | demonstrated it's enormous superiority over Harveyized armor in a ballastic trial today at the Indian Head proving grounds. A 5-inch Krupp plate eight feet square with stood the impact of 5-inch armor- piercing projectiles fired at velocities ranging be- tween 2,o57 and 2,099 feet per second. Not a crack developed. The greatest penetra- tion is estimated to foe not more than 2a tnches, and the metal at the points of inn pact showed combination of hardness and duetility which spoke well for the resist | ing quality of the plate. The plate was | manufactured by the Carnegie company and was selected by the Russian inspector at the works of the company, who believes it to be inferior to the other plates of the group, which comprise eighty tons of arr mor intended for the bow and stem of the battleship building for the Russian gov ernment at Cramps ship yards. "Under the terms of the contract" said General Mertwago, the Russian naval at tache, this afternoon "the plate was re- qpired to prove itself SS per cent. superior in resisting ability to a Harveyized plate of similar thickness. The test of today demonstrated that it is at least 50 per cent. superior"
 The result of the trial has been that Ad- miral oNeill will recommend to congress that 1t provide none but Krupp armor for the American battleships and armored cruisers under construction and proposed. Admiral O'Neill is very much gratified at the manner in which the test today verified his judgment in the superiority of the Krupp armor over all other kinds of pro- tection
 General Mertwago is congratulating him self that his government decided to pur- chase Krupp armor for it's latest ships though he admits that a much higher price has been paid for the armor manu- factured by this process than for any other. The plate was supported by twelve inches of oak backing and presented be- fore the trial a much smoother appearance than the ordinary Harveyized plate. The contract required that the velocities should not be less than 2,O5S feet per second.
 These are the velocities and results of the five impacts:
 First Round-Midyale armor-piercing projectiles, fired at a velocity of 2O6S feet per second. Estimated penetration two inches No cracks. Shell broke up in hundreds of pieces, head remaining imbed- ded in the plate.
 Second Round-Midvale armor-piercing proJectile Velocity 2,O57 feet per second. Penetration and result same as first round. Third Round-Midvale armor- piercing projectlle Velocity 2099 feet per second. Penetration and results same as first round.
 Fourth Round-MfdyaIe armor-Diercinp. projectile. Velocity 2099 feet per second. Results same as first round, though pene- tration might have been two and one-half inches
 Fifth Round-Midvale armor- piercing projectile. Velocity 2,0S2 feet per second. Results same as first round.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
IS HTS 20 BE THE LAST RACE

From the Worcester (Mass) Spy.
 The evolution of the racing machine has been gradual, but al last the yacht proper seems to have entirely disappeared. The Mayfower, Puritan and Volunteer like the original America, were yachts, and they were of service after the race. The Vig1- lant was somewhat in advance of these, but the Defender passedi entirely out of their class. Hitherto. the British have sent over serviceable yachts to contest for the cup. but this year. warned by exper- ence. the challenger has brought vessel modelled virtually on American lines, and now both boats are mere racing machines, designed for this single international trial of speed good for nothing else, and un- matched by any other vessel in the world. The Columbia and Shamrock have no com petitors nor is either likely to have until another challenge is due. It is no unrea- sonable prediction, therefore, considering the enormous expense involved. there will be no more America's Cup races if Sir Thomas Lipton goes home without the coveted prize.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

will be glad to know of Tusealoosas sue cess. Birmingham and the Druid City are very close together in trade, kinship and sympathy and whatever concerns tae one concerns also the other.
 The Hodge-Podge, a weekly newspaper, with Ben Harper as manager, will make it's first appearance today
 Hon. ". H. Skaggs, who returned from Chicago a week ago i'll, was down town yesterday MT Skaggs had been i'll a month before coming home.
 Circuit Judge s. II. Sprott, of Livingston was in town yesterday.
 Colonel Caldwell. of Jacksonville, spent yesterday in Birmingham.
 J. Warren Worthington has returned from New York.
 Colonel J. M. Fa1kner and State Auditor Walter s. White. of Montgomery; and Rep resentatiye John H. Banl1head, of the Sixth district, and W. P. Armstrong. president of the City National bank of Selma, are a the Morris.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
sUBsCRIPTIoN RATES.
Smashing Trusts at St. Louis.

The conference of governors and attor- nor Savers, of Texas, was very slimly at tended, but this fact did not discourage those who did attend 1t. The handful who came proceeded to lay down platform which calls for a great deal of cooperative legislation. both state and federal. They want both to make the trust business criminal. They want closer control by the states of all corporations. They want cor porations of a state excluded from other states except for interstate purposes. They want a New Jersey corporation excluded from all states. They want no corpora tions that grow out of corporations. They want law forbidding corporations to own stock in a corporation engaged in a similar business. They want all corporations driven out that become members of pool Or trust, and finally, they want no water in corporate capitalization.
 All these desires are laudable enough, but when forty-seven states and territories dld one nation are asked 10 carry them into statutes, it is plain that they will not effectively materaize very soon. Legis- latures are peculiarly susceptible to cor porate influences, and it may as well be assumed now, as it must be later, that nothing valuable will come from the St. Louis conference.
 h the long run it will be found that the oaiy way to attack tho trusts consist in an attack upon their basis, the robber McIIin- ley tariff. They are over capitalized to a scandalous extent, and they must raise prices in order to earn dividends at all They are organized for the purpose of raising prices to or near the tariff point. When the tariff is taken from under them, there will be no object in forming new ones, or even in retaining the old ones. The trusts of England are very few in number, and not one of them is harmful, simply because they cannot squeeze con- sumers. They cannot raise prices above the prices of other nations. Mckinley rob berism is the sole moving creating cause of trusts. Take it away, and the trust dan ger will be reduced to an unocuous nuis- auce, with no dangers involved in it to the public to consumers, or to any one else except to some employees.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
Massachusetts Elects DeIeqates.

William Jennings Bryan wins the first delegates to the national convention. First blood, in the language of the ring, is his. MT. George Fred Williams will head a delegation pledged to the renomination of MT. Bryan, and the reafflrmation of the Chicago platform. The Massachusetts democrats are not ordinarily winners of electoral votes, but the convention was as warm and as full of contests as a con- vention ordinarily is in a confessedly demo- cratic state-in Missouri for example. or Kentucky, or Ohio. The currency plank of the Chicago platform was particularly com mended, and the administration policy in the Philippines was particularly denounced. The Massachusetts democrats want more war against monopolies, and less against the Tagals. All through the platform shine "the ideas of 1S96." United States sena- tors, they say, should be elected by direct vote of the people; the initiative and ref erendum is commended, and public owner- ship of public utilities favored. The de- mocracy of Massachusetts are not mighty in numbers, but fin principles they are out spoken, and they are on truths picket line And they are to a man in favor of the re- nomination of William J. Bryan.
 Time is on the side of the Chicago plat form. That great document will become as historic as the Declaration of Indepen- dence It is new declaration against monopoly and privilege. If the plutocratic influences that the republican party has fostered and built up. are to be stayed, and the country saved from oligarchism of the most venal and debasing sort, it must come through the declaration of principles that the far-sishted men of 1896 framed. The pace that the democracy of Massachu- setts have set will be maintained, and in the convention itself there will not be any material opposition to either the man or the platform of 1S96 The ideas of 1896 are to prevail.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
PLAQUES DIFFUsIvE TENDENCY

From the London Mail.
 scribed at the sanitary congress at South ampton recently, differs from the old plague in being a travelling variety. Sir Joseph Ewart said it was worse than Asiatic cholera, germs of which were ex- hausted in three years, because it went on year after year with apparently ineX- haustible vitality. Herein lay the danger to England because the plague would traverse the continent and reach us that way more surely than by sea direct. Professor Simpson viewed it as the hardy annual of the east, with a diffusive ten dency, which plaques had not shown dur ing the last 200 years. We in England ought to organize defensive measures against it, and begin to study the disease itself by a special commission dispa tened to Portugal. Purity of soil would be of more help to us than anything else. Early notification and the use of Haffkine's serum were strongly recommended; the character of the danger did not admit of delay. Professor Percy Frankland con tended that health defense was as import ant as national defense. He supported the recent findings about the deadliness of lead glazes, and appealed to smokers to have nothing to do with ordinary phos- phorus matches.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
Southern Mills Buying Cotton.

The value of southern mills to southern producers was never mora plainly shown than it has of late hseu shown in the no stock in Mir. Niell or his crowd of bear operators. have Leen buying a years SUD- ply of cotton. They are taking all tbe cot tnn offered. "So we have" says the Co., iunbia State, "thls condition: The price of cotton in the cotton mapufactucing states of tue south is as high as in New York, ana in some pla5es bighei, white in New York it Is rels lively h;ghea thap in Live:pooi. Liverpool has been paying [ cents for middliag cotton. end mill towns
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
REFLECTIONS OF \ BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 girls ideal bathroom always has a long mirror on the ceiling right over the bathtub.
 You probably never met a girl in your life whose mother didn't have to work a lot harder than she does
 You can trust man just so long as you interest him; you can trust a woman just as long as sine interests you.
 When q girl acts like she was so fright ened when man kisses her 1t is generally because she is trying to keep her eye on the door
 When a girl Is in love she wastes lots of time wondering whether it is sweeter to kiss CT to be kissed that she afterwards spends wondering what kind 0f meat sho lad better order when the butcher comes.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
LARGE ENROLLMENTs IN SCHOOLS

From the Gadsden Voice.
 Bessemer, Birmingham, Atlanta and oth- CT places where the public schools have all ready opened, report the largest enrolment in their district. This augurs well for the future. Our schools must be well man. aged and we'll patronized if our people are to grow stronger and better. No other growth is so well worth nursing. Push those things that tend to real develop ment.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
A PRETTY FABLE SPOILED

From the Arizona Republican.
 few years ago the records showed that within one year fifty-two Baptist ministers died in the United States. Only five of them were under forty years of age. The oldest was nnety-nine, the youngest was thirty-seven. And yet we are told that "the good die youngi"
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
WHY ALARM Is FELT

From the Los Angeles Times.
 One of the worst features of this Trans vaal ruction is the danger that Alfred Austin may break out again at any mo- ment.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

The Vanderbilt estate will be called upon to pay about s4,OOo,OOO as an inheritance tax, and William Waldorf Astor, as a British subject, will have to pay about sl5O O00 as an income tax.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

From the Roanoke Leader.
 Candidate Jess Stallings was in this of- flee last Saturday and presented cigars to the entire force. Now, the Advertiser mustn't say any more that Jess is alto gether mean man.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Soon after the Dewey reception is nicely vound up the wild west will begin to cee- brate the coming of Funston and his Tel low-swlmmers of the Twentieth Kansas rfciment.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
MUST PLAY BALL NOW

From the Indianapolis News.
 Mir Mclean will have had the practice of some exhibition games before Senator Hanna gets into tha contest.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

The arbitrat ation plank of The Hague con- ference does not fit the Transvaal case, and it is now feared there will be many other cases it will not fit.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Jackson, Miss, is no longer isolated. Its single case of fever did not prove to be communicable, and even Governor Me- Iaurin has returned to his desk.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Mayor Carter Harrison hopes to carry the democratic standard next year in Hi governor, and he will conduct a very lively campaign.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

The December primary movement was flash in the pan. Primaries are desirable, but it is not necessary to hold them in December.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Between the desire for announcements papers in this state are in a state of mind.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

The esteemed court journal is doing a great deal of senatorial whlstlins in order to keer it's scheme up.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Mrs Merritt has put her Chicago foot on the proposition to send the old general To the Phiuppines.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

The Duke of Orleans must want an ex- citing life if he desires to sport a crown in Paris.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Aguinaldo's peace envoys are of the same old kind. They seek oIibes, and possibly Information.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

London papers are whooping up the war spirit in the familiar style.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

General Otis should be assigned to the uninhabited islands of the Philippine group.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Dom Paul Is not looking for any Dandy Castellane affair in his troubles with Great Britain.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

The bears have won one round on the Transyaal trouble.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Alabama has as many gumshoe asprants to the acre as any other state.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

Above the Ohio river the frost was on the pumpkin, and several other things.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

The Wall street panic did not extend an inch beyond Wall street.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23
JESS IS UAMPAIGNING

No babies are named after General Otis.
The age-herald., 1899-09-23

MT. McLeans enemies claim he Is gum shoeing.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-14

Chapter A of the laws passed by the
last Legislature provides that any town
ship or borough may apply for state
funds for the building OF m~acadamized,
or a telford or other stone road, or a
road constructed of gravel, oyster shells
or any good material, but after build
ing the municipality must keep it in
repairs. The property owners are to
pay 10 per cent, the State one-third by
the State and t%wo-thirds by the town.
ship or borough. Why should not
PENIS Grove Borough and U. 2. Neck
Township have some state aid in
the building Of good roads. We need
not build an expensive telford road. 1t
would pay to get state aid for the ex.
tension of the stone road such as is on
Main Street from the River to Oak
Street.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-14

1t is an old saying that when rogues
fall out just men get their dues. Mat
thew S. Quay was put on trial in Phil
adelphia, on Monday fol conspiring and
getting the use of the state money which
was deposited in the deiunct Peoples
bank by the state treasurer. Former
district attorney Graham, David Mar
tin, and former Judge Gordon are some
Of the prosecutors or instigators in the
suit. 1t has been publicly believed for
years that the ruling political machine
in Pennsylvania has been well oiled for
years by banks who got public moneies
on deposit and favorable loans were
made to politicians with a pull to get
the money deposited. Many of those
after Quay are no better, but they wish
to prohibit his reelection to the U. S.
Senate so others a get at the flesh pot.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-14

Victims TO stomach, liver and kidney
troubles as well as women, and all feel
the results in loss of appetite, poisons
in the blood, backache, nervousness,
headache and tired, l~istless, rundown
feeling. But there's no need TO feel
like that. Listen to ]. W. Gardner,
Idaville, Ind. He says: Electric Bit
tiers are just the thing for a man when
he is all run down, and don't cart
whether he lives or dies. 1t did more
to give me new strength and good APP
petite than anything l could take. l
can now eat anything and have a new
lease on life" Only so cents, at john
sons Drug Store. Every bottle guar
anteed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-14
Mnre Money Needed.

A Washington dispatch III seVeIHl
papers on Monday said, 1.-The necessity
for some means of currency expansion
for meeting the future growth of the
country, beyond the mean afforded by
the present bond secured circulation,
is being keenly felt at the U. 5. Treas
ury Department"
On March Goth, a dispatch quotes l.
S. Treasurer Roberts as saying, "We
have had no means of increasing the
supply of currency since the repeal OF
the purchasing clause of the Sherman
law in 1898, except gold production
and gold imports and the national bank
uote circulation. Gold imports have
been very heavy and have immensely
strengthened both the circulating cur
rency of the country and the Treasury
reserve"
The famine, droughts and locust pla
CUES the past two years in foreign coun-
tries made an extraordinary demand
for our wheat, of which we happened
to have an extra large crop and last
year the net imports of gold were Sl04,-
9S5, 2S3, and in 1897, S44, 653,20O, a
total of S145, G3S, 483, which Treasurer
Roberts says has strengthened our gold
basis. During the eight years previous
over 1913 millions of gold were export
ed, which caused hard times, another
name for falling prices, scarce and dear
money.
When we consider that the banks can
extend a credit business of "a on every
dollar of primary money we see how they
have made times Il little better in some
lines, because they got more real money
caused by foreign famines, thoughts,
and locust plaques.
But since February gold has ceased
to be imported and hence the time Is
1901 coming when the extension OF
credit must cease, and the L. S. Treas
uter already feels the pressure Of tie
demand.
There are two plans for increasing
the supply of money needed. The plan
of the National Bankers is to burn up,
or destroy the g~reenbacks, as is shown
by their answer in Tuesdays papers, to
questions sent out by the Republican
House Committee on Currency Reform
which will begin to sit at Atlantic City
next Tuesday and spend the summer
discussing how to give the people less
money by spending it in Congressional
reform (?) summer outing. That plan
means $3.50, 600, 900 less money.
President McKinley's plan is more
modest. 1t is to lookup the greenbacks.
A man locked up in prison is as much
use to his family as one in his grave.
The'dispatch says, that there are
more small bills in circulation than
ever before, but the immense volume OF
business throughout the country is
causing calls which tue Treasury is uu.
able to meet from us narrow maTglu Vi
available currency. The only remedy
suggested or contemplated by the gold
standard men is increase the privileges
of banks to issue %banknotes (credit,
promises to pay money! which draw
from 6 to 10 per cent. interest, while
greenbacks draw none.
The plan of the silver men, bimetal
lists, is for the government to make
more silver dollars, and more silver GER
t~iicates just like those now in your
pocket. That will supply the demand
for small bills. That is the peoples
money. Gold is the rich mans money,
You never see it.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-14

A dispatch from San Francisco on
Tuesday says: The Government supply
ship Bidston Hill, which. is to sail from
this port for Manila In a few days, has
in her hold, under tons of other cargo,
1900 cases of canned roast beef of the
same brand that was served to Ameri-
can soldiers during the Santiago cam
paign. Heaped on top of these cases
are 500 collins, in which are to be
brought back bodies of men who fell in
battles around Manila. The beef trust
and coffin trust has a death grip on the
administration.