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The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Stone each came to the convention with weaker supports than General Hardin had. They proceeded therefore to form a com bine against him. and finally to decide every contested seat-oyer one hundred against him. This packed the convention. But the two members Of the combine could not themselves agree throughout the first five days of the convention and every pos sible disgrace that could attend conven- ton was incorporated in the subsequent proceedings. Nothing of that nature was omitted, including two or three resorts to naked fists.
 The convention consists of about 1,5OO members, but it's great size is not the bot tom cause of the trouble. The seat of the disease must be sought in the rotten representative system. There is no need of convention. This is the only country in the world that employs them-the only one that writes platforms that no one afterwards respects. England has party government, and so has republican France and intensely republican Switzerland, but none of these countries hold conventions or put out platforms. No other country does. Direct action by the people is every where the rule, and parties are judged by what they do and not by what they say they will do. There is no reason in the world why the democrats of Kentucky should not in primaries select a candidate for governor-none whatever. In that way tens of thousands of democrats would have voice in the selection of the party's leader, instead of bowling moo of 1,5GO who are ready to trade and combine with out regard to the popular will. The Ken lucky convention will have served an use- ful purpose if it promotes the transfer of party rule from the politicians to the peo- pie. Direct action by the people is the one true remedy for all public ills. The people can be trusted, but whether they can be or not, no one has a right to deny them a full and equal voice in the man. agement of their own affairs.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28
Charbon m Mississippi.

The Mississippi state board of health has issued an order making it compulsory that the bodies of all animals dying of charbon be cremated by an owner. The disease has, it seems, gained a foothold in Warren and Isaquena counties, having been before con fined to Louisiana and Texas It has long existed in Europe, coming down in fact from Roman times, from whence it has spread to all European countries. It is known in Russia as the Siberian plague.
 Charbon is Q French name for splenic fever or authrax, and cattle and sheep are its chief victims. It sometimes attacks man, and is thus sometimes called the wool-sorters' disease. The germ theory was originated in connection with this dis case, and the bacillus anthracis will ever remain as the origin of the new discovery in the causation of disease. The disease itself has long been combatted by serum that has been attenuated by repeated in- oculation of animals with the bacilli.
 The germs of this disease are very long lived and hardy. They remain dormant in the soil many years, and it is recorded that freezing does not affect them, nor does boiling destroy them unless it be continued more than five minutes. This hardness of life in the spores accounts for the order of the Mississippi board of health, which re- qures cremation in every case.
 The germs are conveyed from animal to animals in pasture sor stables through the air passages. The eating of infected meat conveys the disease in the case of man, al though the disease can be contracted in other ways, especially in slaughter houses. Malignant pestules which culminate in car buncles and dangerous general symptoms attend the disease in man. Among cattle and sheep it is very fatal, and the only pre- ventive consists in inoculation, which is now largely practised in Texas and Louis jana.
 The district in Mississippi in which the sippi river, and is, therefore, as far from Alabama as any part of Mississippi can be, but cattle ralsers in this state should study the disease and the methods of prevention, for it seems destined to spread in America very much as it has spread in Europe, and it will ever be found a stubborn foe and one hard to stamp out even with the aid of the best scientific methods.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

From the New York Press.
 Half the time woman judges mans morals by the way he parts his hair and knots his tie.
 A woman pays compliments with the same sincerity she pretends to spank the baby when she doesn't.
 A man couldn't get any fun out of doing wrong if he didn't know it: knowing it spells woman's enjoyment of doing wrong.
 When satan wants to entrap a man he will pick out most any woman that is handy to do it; when it is woman, he attends to her himself.
 When a woman learns that her name has been mentioned scandalously with a man $ she is furious with everybody but him, and she respects hims
The age-herald., 1899-06-28
A Direct Line to Huntsville.

The Huntsville chamber of commerce has called an industrial convention, in which it hopes to have all southern states and cities represented. The scope of the discussions in the coming convention will be as broad as the south section of the country, and everything relating to mine, forest or field will be in order. The cotton grower the cotton buyer and the cotton manufacturer will be alike welcomed, and given time for the presentation of their respective wants and opinions. The up-building of this sec ton of the country is really the subject be- fore the convention, and it will not care in how many ways that up-building is prose- cuted-the more the better.
 This city should be well represented in the Huntsville convention. It should be well represented there on general grounds, but a special ground exists. Huntsville is seeking and is determined to have a direct line to Birmingham. Our people should promote it's ambition in every reasonable way. "The field" says the Huntsville Mer- cury, lis an inviting one to capital It is an easy matter to show a business man that a direct line south from Huntsville in- to the very heart of the mineral belt will pay. The coal business alone will pay in terest on the investment. The new indus tries now being located will require enor- nous quantities of coal and it can be ham, died principally from Alabama mines if the proposed road be constructed.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

anathemas at every white man in the state sec no remedy for the wrong. and am sorry I cannot find consolation in the fact that it has worked to the real benefit of the negro race. If it has had the effect to inn part useful knowledge to the negroes and they have used this knowledge for their own advancement and the public veal, no man will begrudge them the benefit, or seek to withhold it from them in the fu- ture.
 This Is one of the great questions in the negro problem-the negro situation or the nigger muddle, just as you please to call it. Sooner or later the state, the trustee of the sixteenth section fund. will be called upon to settle with it's wards.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28
SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS
om the Huntsville Mercury.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The east can never regain it's prestige in cotton manufacturing while the staple sells below eight cents per pound in south . ern markets Southern manufactured goods will soon become factor in the market and then competition will preclude the possi- bility of dividends being paid by eastern mills. The difference in freight alone, not to mention fuel will be a burden too heavy for the eastern mills to overcome.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28
JOHN GOODMAN. THE PREAcHrR

OOhN OOODhhNs n F. HhEACHER John Goodman, the preacher, came out of
 the east The seat of much learning, where leyite and Boss clergy and laymen and fix moral rules And brand other peoples as heathens and
 fools, And sound their own praises in sermon and But never conceive in themselves any
 wrong. John, finding perfection inside his own
 gates, Felt called to enlighten the neighboring
 states, And reading of lynchings and barbarous
 crimes, Committed by whites in these modern
 times, Way down in the south, on the African
 race, He hasten'd well loaded to the rescue
 apace. He mix'd with the darkeys, and pitied their
 woes. And spent half his money in buying them
 clothes; He took one and taught him just how he
 should teach The wrongs of his people in plain, open
 speech, He groomed him and drilled him in ways
 that were good, And furnished him lodging, and furnished
 him food. But once while away in his pastoral field, His pupil of color, both filched and con-
 cealed, His fancy gold watch and his best Sunday
 suit, And insulted his wife-then tn ungrateful
 brute Departed by night from the scene of his
 crime, With razor and pistol. and had big time. John Goodman returned, and in terrible
 plight, He shot every nigger that came in his
 sight, And vowd that the darkey was saved as a
 beast In tn ark of the deluge, and hurrid back
 east, Where he stunn'd all his brethr'n, and
 fired their wrath, When they saw how he'd strayed from
 their orthodox path. He boldly affirmed, and defied their control. That tn nigger was never possess'd of
 soul, This doctrine so shock'd his old friends in
 the east, They marshaPd a mob which was led by
 the priest, They seized him and beat him, when added
 by fright, They tarred and they feather'd John Good
 man that night! And now in the west he doth loudly pro-
 claim, That frai human nature is almost the
 same In the north. in the south, in the east in
 the west, And that self-righteous peoples are never
 the best That theory and logic most often will fail. Wheres sternest conditions will rule and
 prevail. -J. L. Burke, Guntersville. Ala.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28
THE WARRIOR IMPROVEMENT

From the Mobile Herald.
 The securing of a continuing contract ap- propriation by Congressman Bankhead and Underwood, aided by the rest of the Ala bama delegation in congress, places this i'm portant work in most favorable position, but it's importance must never be lost sight Of
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The Kentucky convention shows what politicians can accomplish when they fall out. When they pull together their work is below the surface, and is even more baneful Direct action by the people is the true remedy.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28
A SPLENDID MEDICINE

From the Indianapolis Journal.
 Ever since I have been in Santiago" said Major General Wood q have prescribed liberal doses of the United States consti- tuition, and the treatment has been remark ably effcacious." It is good medicine and warranted to keep in all climates.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The feuds of Kentucky can be cured by were it not for the fact that they would lose much of their fighting propensities if they were unrestrained.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Mrs. Barrows plea of guilty lessened years All three of the kidnappers are now working for the state which fostered them.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Small subscriptions will enable the dem ocratic committee to conduct a reasonable campaign against Hanna's millions. There is $15O,O 900 now in bank.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The Hanna Mckinley faction in Ohio pro- poses to put General Grosvenor in Sena- tor Forakers seat, and their firing line is now in Illinois.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28
HE SHOULD Go TO KENluoKY

From the Louisville Dispatch.
 If General Joe Wheeler is looking for q real active war, it is strange that he has not sought an assignment to Kentucky.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The question is where are Aguinaldo's arsenal and supply factory located? This question is up to Rear Admiral Watson.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Complete models of the Maine, Olympia and Oregon are to be exhibited at the Paris exposition to add to the envy of na- lions.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Nothing could be more proper or more na- tural than the selection of a Birmingham man as the Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks of the Universe.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The tin plate workers of Pittsburg could not agree upon a new scale. but that is no reason why the mine workers and oper- ators of this district should not reach an understanding that will be mutually ben efeial.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

WITH \ HAIR-TRIGGER ATTACHMENT From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
 Life in Kentucky is full of double-bar- reled excitement
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The Alger-Pngree plot to grab a seat In holy alliance # J s.-a-44-l.J 4-l4A-.- .-,-il-.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Major Brandon certainly takes the cake as an optimist when he says he can and will take Mr Bankhead's seat, just as the latter has risen to leadership. with the speaker5hip in sight
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

General Otis outranks even Spanish gen. erals in the bulletin line.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The Cubans are beginning to appreciate this country's friendliness.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

This city has never held a finer body of young people than it now shelters in the members of the Alabama Educational as socation.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

MT. George Dewey is accommodating bric- a-brac and honors as he sails.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

A POTATO DIGGING PARTNERSHIP From the Indianapolis News.
 Alger and Pingree will dig potatoes in the same patch.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The Filipinos still continue warlile, al- land. They may not know it. however
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Up in Boston they are warning singers against singing songs which they do not believe, ragtime melodies included.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The tin plate workers of Pittsburg could not agree upon a new scale, but that is no reason why the mine workers and oper- ators of this district should not reach an understanding that will be mutually ben efeial.
 Major Brandon certainly takes the cake as an optmist when he says he can and will take Mr. Bankhead's seat just as the latter has risen to leadership, with the speakership in sight.
 Nothing could be more proper or more na- tural than the selection of a Birmingham man as the Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks of the Universe.
 
 This city has never held finer body of young people than it now shelters in the members of the Alabama Educational as sociation.
 The Filipinos still continue warlile al- though General Fred Grant is on the is land. They may not know it. however
 Up in Boston they are warning singers against singing songs which they do not believe ragtime melodies included.
 The men who are trying to buy the hills, ss well as the lakes, of Killarney must have an eye to heather growing. 
 Hagen g. Pingrees attempt to run Alger on an antitrust platform places him high up among the practical jokers.
 "The Man With the Hoe" is so true and go strong it has brought both fame and wealth to it's teacher-author
 The Anniston Hot Blast intimates that in the next Alabama convention Kentucky history will repeat itself.
 
 Chairman Redwine must feel that he has had enough of the convention business to last him lifetime.
 Cyclist Murphy should ride before the locomotive instead of after it if he wants to lower his record.
 Adjutant-General Brandon evidently in- tends to be the Pooh-Bah of Alabama.
 Mrs. Eddy denies the reports of her death just to prove her cult true.
 MT. George Dewey is accommodating bric- a-brac and hOnors as he sails.
 
 General Otis outranks even Spanish gen. erals in the bulletin line.
 The Cubans are beginning to appreciate this country's friendliness.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The men who are trying to buy the hills, as well as the lakes of Killarney must have an eye to heather growing.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

''The Man With the Hoe" is so true and so strong it has brought both fame and wealth to it's teacher-author
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Mrs. Eddy denies the reports of her death just to prove her cult true.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Hagen g. Pingree's attempt to run Alger on an antitrust platform places him high up among the practical jokers.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Chairman Redwine must feel that he has had enough of the convention business to last him a lifetime.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Adjutant-General Brandon evidently in- tends to be the Pooh-Bah of Alabama.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

The Anniston Hot Blast intimates that in the next Alabama convention Kentucky history will repeat itself.
The age-herald., 1899-06-28

Cycist Murphy should ride before the locomotive instead of after it if he wants to lower his record.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16
N aid of Honor.
the lead.

The management of the Denver
Festival of Mountain and Plain to be
held September 25 to 80 have decid.
ed to have Maid of Honor from
each county elected by newspaper
ballot, in the same manner as two
years ago.
Each copy of the county papers
from now until the contest closes on
September 5, will contain ballot.
Cut out the ballot, write in your
choice for Maid of Honor and deposit
it with the county clerk. You are
entitled to as many votes as you can
secure blanks to vote upon.
The successful candidate wIrl re-
ceive a round trip ticket to Denver,
and entertainment at the Brown Pal,
ace Hotel during the Festival.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

THE DESIGNER for September is re
plete with dainty fashions suitable
for the autumn. Trimmed Skirts
are given especial notice and are
most sttrsctively illustrated, and the
Millinery pages show some very sty-
lish hats and toques for fall wear.
Charming pictures accompanied by
full descriptions of the same tell
maids and matrons, also the little
folks, just how to wear their hair
most becomingly and fashionably.
Apart from these pages which are
devoted to feminine adorument this
number of The DESIGNER contains
Horticulture Advice, Book Notes, Di.
rections for Tatting, Knitting, Gro.
cheting and Fancy Work. Photo.
graphic Helps, Two Short Stories, A
Continued Story, A Little Comedy
for Child Players, chapter on ..Odd
Furnishings" an installment OF "For
Health aud Beauty" explaining sim.
pie Massage, the opening chapters
Of "The kindergarten at Home y
amply illustrated, hints foi House
keepers, and last but not least, re-
ceipts for Twenty five Different
Ways of Cooking Apples" In its
own particular line of publications
tho September DESIGNER easily take.
the le ad.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

The Missouri Legislature has passed
law that makes it penitentiary
offense for man to desert his wife
before he has lived with her ten
years. The Legislature probably con
sidered that to make man live ten
years with Missouri woman was a
sufficient punishment for marrying,
anyhow, the law makes no provision
for compelling him to live with her
longer than ten years. These Mis-
sour women must be tough set, If
the terrors of a penitentiary must be
invoked in order to keep their hos
bands at their side.-Ex.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

and without any complaint from
them about the haritack aud bacon
which was about all they got 10 eat,
and now in their old age they are
neglected. 1t is hardly a spec,
sacle calculated to arouse patriotism
to high pitch.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16
The Wall Street bears had an e.

The Wall Street bears had an ex
perience this week which was an eye
opener as to the extent OF the Nc
Kinley prosperity in the land. They
chose the summer season when usu-
ally the rest of the country borrows
money from New York to move crops,
and worked up the money famine
scare, and advanced the interest rate
to. double what it had previously
been. Their surprise was great when
their supposed victims, the western
farmers, flooded the market with
money to loan and broke the interest
rate to the lowest point in years.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16
Sees 3 New Light.

The Fort Collins Courier was one
of the former republican papers that
bolted McKinley's nomination in the
interest of silver. The prosperity ar
gument, however, has been strong
enongh 20 change the views of its
editor, and he is now not only back
in the cid party, but supporter of
the gold standard as we'll The fol.
lowing is an extract from an open
letter by the editor iu late issue of
the Courier:
'.It is my sincere conviction, born
of the experience of the past two
years, that the single standard Of val.
ne, and that standard gold, is the
only financial policy which will in
sure public confidence and national
credit at home and abroad and which
will best promote the investment OF
capital in the enterprises of COM
merce, trade and Manufacture as will
insure remunerative employment to
the farmers, mechanics and wage
earners of the United States. The
logic of events has also forced the
belief upon me that the silver pur-
chasing act of 1890 brought about
the panic of 1898, proving to my
mind conclusively that this govern
ment cannot maintain the free coin.
age of silver at ration OF 10 to j,
unaided by the great commercial
nations of the world"
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

The silver republican cause in Col
orado is indeed getting desperate,
In order to hold even remnant of
the party together it is necessary for
Teller, Shsfroth and Stevenson to
write letters once month announc
ing that free coinage is coming sure
and if it don't get here on the next
train 1t surely will on the following
one.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

Some of the democratic leaders in
Kentucky threatened to kill Bryan
last week if he came there to mix in
their party quarrel. The republican
governor however promptly came
forward with an offer to protect him.
Mr.. Bryan is too valuable man to
the republicans to allow him either
to be driven away from the state or
killed.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

The eight hour law was declared
unconstitutional and the state board
of arbitration proved itself useless in
attempting to settling strike. Thus
the lsboring men have found that
the sop thrown out by the fusionists
to get their votes has only brought
them trouble. The smeIter strike
has cost the strikers 500 each in
wages, and the laboring men of the
state at least half million. Some
of the smeltermen have lost their
jobs also, the rest are returning on
the terms offered by the managers
before the strike. They have to stand
the loss. The paid agitators and the
fusion politicians lost neither wages
nor sleep, but are now busy inventing
q new scheme to catch the labor vote
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

July, the first month of the lew
fiscal year, starts out by making a
new high record for exports by this
country. The career of the Dingley
bill is one continuous succession of
triumphs.
The Lamar register., 1899-08-16

The Colorado volunteers will reach
home sometime this week, and will
be given rousing reception. After
it is all oyer perhaps the state can
find little time to look after the old
veterans up at Monte Vista-''old
fossils" Bryan calls them-who aie
about TO find even the doors of the
poor house closed against them. They
served their country well for years
where these newer soldiers served
months, and for about one. third the
pay. They faced hunger, privations,
trials and prisons, which the present
generation can never know. Their
country was saved by their sacrifices,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-01

HERE is question for some
biologist: Bostw ick a. Acers, real
firm of this city, have number of
Mason's fruit jars which were filed
with wheat two years ago and
hermetically sealed and have never
been opened since. The jars have
been handled frequently, as the
samples of wheat are very nice and
have been shown to nearly every in
quiring stranger who came into the
Office and no living thing has ever
been noticed i'm them until the other
day when they were found to contain
lot of little winged insects. Each
of the jars show the same phenomenon
score or more of gauzy- winged
creatures, about half as big as house
flies fitting about in,the inch or so o
space between the wheat ana the tol
of the jar.