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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-02-16

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The age-herald., 1899-06-27
Exalted Ruler Allen.

Tho Age-Herald congratulates the city of Birmingham and it's Lodge of Elks, 2i0 strong, upon the election of Judge B. M. Allen as Grand Exalted ruler of the United States. It is an honor which many cities north and south aspired to. Yet Judge AL len was elected by an unanimous vote of the grand lodge in meeting at St. Louis. Judge Allen is one of the ablest lawyers at the Birmingham bar gentleman of sterling qualities and extraordinary bril- liancy-ln every manner fitted for the high office.
 The Elks is one of the strongest orders in America. It numbers 55,O00 members and has 550 lodges. Heretofore the exalted ruler has always hailed from the north. Judge Allen is the first southerner to reach the high office. The honor is full worthy the grand and enthusiastic reception given him upon his return last evening.
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than Alabama, but it's possibilities of wealth are far below those of this state.
 Why then do Georgia Hs's, due in 1915. command 129, while Alabama fs. due in 1920, are worth par only? The constitution of Alabama forbids any increase in the public debt, and the mineral resources of Alabama are superior at least. It's agri- cultural resources could be made superior The reason must be found in the taxation limitations of the constitution, which are in some cases below the needs of govern ment. These limitations have hurt the credit of the state, and they have long been very expensive in the management of the state debt. This state is paying interest at the rate of five per cent, and on temporary loans has paid higher rates, while Geor- gia readily secures loans at three per cent. interest
 The truth is, limitations upon tax rates arc piece of humbuggery. No people was ever known to unduly or progressively tax themselves. Limitations upon the power to bond arc always wlse but lmi- tations upon the power to tax themselves are unwise and unnecessary. Such limita- tions exist in only a few states-in perhaps five out of the forty-ive. It is a matter that should be left to the people as they go along, for experience shows that people will not oyertaX themselves, although they will often oVerband tbap,eol,oe
 Alabama should go along until her 3's are worth as much as Georgia's S's would be worth. An Alabama bond is as good in every respect as Georgia bond, and it should command as high a price. Before 1905 1t will become plain to all that Ala bama 3's are a good investment, and any refunding scheme that demands q higher rate of interest should be rejected.
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leave his bedroom by the end of this week. It is contemplated that MT. Parker shall go away to the mountains for recuperation.
 It is understood that Hon. ". P. Pinck- ard. now in New York. was largely inter- ested in the deal whereby the great fur mace properties at Sheffield were transfer red to the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Rail- road company. Everything seems to be coming MT. Pinekard's way now as the popular phrase goes, and everybody in Bir- mingham is glad that this is so His fee in the Republic Steel and Iron company matter respecting the rolling mills and the Pioneer properties in this district made him independent, in so far as the worlds goods go, and now he receives-a a princely compen- sation in the great Sheffield deal. Truly the "wind sets fair'' for one of Birmingham's 8 best citizens!
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
suBsCRIPrIoN RATES.
Yellow Fever in Cuba.

Cases of yellow fever in Havana are by no means rare, although they are much rarer than cases were last year. but there are some cases, and at Santiago the fever has appeared in rather violent form In spite of General Woods excellent precau> tions The time and conditions have not come when the disease can be kept from appearing in Cuba. The most that can req sonably be expected are fewer cases in less violent form.
 This Is encouraging, but on the other hand the increased travel between the mainland and Cuba renders the situation in this country fully as critical as it was last year, when no one could return except under military surveillance. The Marine Hospital service is watching the ports with all possible care, and if port towns and interior towns in the Gulf and South At lantic states were thoroughly cleansed, so that stray gems of the fever could find would be little need of apprehension. The greatest danger now is filth at home, in some little interior town. The larger towns know the value and importance of cleanli- ness, but in many small towns there is filth on every hand-filth in stables, pig pens, out-buildings, wells, springs, pools, sluees, alleys, and under living rooms. It is filth of this sort that permitted an out break of the fever last year near Oxford in Mississippi. uncleaned wells are a great source of disease and all towns that have public water supply should compel the filling in of wells There are many wells in this city that should be filled, as well as much filth that should be removed
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
The New French Ministry.

The new French cabinet which Senator Waldeck- Rousseau has organized is regard ed as the best possible combination for car rying the country through the troubles that will necessarily attend in one way or an- other the re-trial of Captain Dreyfus. From the great lawyer at it's head to the least powerful member of it this cabinet is thoroughly committed to the doing of jus tice in the Dreyfus case, so far at least as the accused himself is concerned. But this does not mean that it will cover Captain Dreyfus with honors beyond those that may be awarded him by the court-mar- tial, nor does 1t mean that the guilty Drey- fus generals will be punished; it simply means that the cabinet will sustain any Vndication of Captain Dreyfus' honor that the Rennes court-martial may award It means that all possible justice will be brought to him. The impossible will not be attempted. It is the first cabinet organized solidly in favor of justice in the famous case.
  with eanings towards the radicals and socialists. Whatever strength it-may lose on account of the Dreyfus case among the moderate republicans it will make good among the socialists and radicals. M Mill lerand, the new minister of commerce, is the leader in the house of deputies of the socialist group. All socialists demand fair trial for Dreyfus. The Marquis de Gallifet the new minister of war, is an out-and-out revisionist as is M Delcasse, the foreign minister. But for that matter every mem- Der of the new cabinet is revisionst, and none of them are half-hearted or treacher- ous in this respect. It is a Dreyfus minis try, the first the country has had.
 Its formation ct this time is very im- portant to the peace of the country, and to Captain Dreyfus. There must be radi- calls and socialists and moderate republi- can enough to give it all needful support in the lower chamber. The president him. self is popular, and the new war minister, De Gallifet, is thoroughly respected. The indications are that order will be main- tained throughout the Dreyfus trial, that justice will be done, and that the cabinet will survive the ordeal
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
ARDIOR PLATE PLANT

From the Nashville American.
 Birmingham is going to take up the ques- tion of government armor plant, and the Alabama delegation in congress is to be asked to help out the project Of establish ing the plant in the Iron City.
 This is a commendable move whether or not anything tangible comes of it It will serve to enlighten congress and the nation upon the possibilities of steel making in the south, and it will also show that at no point in the world can an armor plate plant be established and maintained more economically. Nashville would like to have the plant, should the government decide to establish it, but while this city has many points of vantage, it is only fair to say that Birmingham and Sheffield, Ala, have superior advantages for this class of work.
 If the government should decide to en- bark in the making of it's armor plate something we do not anticipate at an early date-the fight for the plant will unques- tlonably be between Pennsylvania and Ala bama, and in that event we are first. last and all the time for our sister state The Iron and steel interests have too powerful a pull, however, to permit congress to pass bill providing for the establishment of It's own armor plate plant, and we look for the manufacturers who have heretofore secured the contracts to get them for q good many years to come The rapid rise Tn the price of iron and steel will also in Huehce congress to yield to their demands when 1t reconvenes in December
 In the meantime every southern congress- man should keep his eyes open, and aid thls sectlon In getting the prize if it is ever given out.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
MESSMATES

He gave us all a goodbye cheerily At the first dawn of day; We dropped him down the side full drearily When the light died away It's dead dark watch that he's a-keeping
 there, And a long, long night that lags a-creep- ing there, Where the trades and the tides roll over him And the great ships go by. He's there alone with green seas rocking him
 For a thousand miles around; He's there alone, with the dumb things mockng him, And we're homeward bound. It's a long lone watch that he's a-kcepin' there. And dead. cold night that lags a-creep- ing there, While the months and the years roll over him, And the grea. ships go by I wonder if the tramps come near enough, As they thrash to and fro, ef- And the battleships bells ring clear enough To be heard down below; If through all the lone watch that he's keeping there, And the long, cold night tgat lags a. creping there, The voices of the sailor men shall comfort When the great ships go by him.
 Atlantic Monthly.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
THE POLITICAL BOSS
Professor Nicholas Murray Butler IfDiUarSitV nf Miob;o,,

Professor Nicholas Murray Butler at the
 University of Michigan.
 A boss never leads; he drives The dis unction between a political leader and a political boss is perfectly clear The leader studies only the public good and party suc cess as contributing toward it. He draws to hlinSelI the strongest, the wisest and the best Of those who bear his party's name. He urges forward talent and ca- paclty; he represseS presuming ignorance ana Sen-Seeking. By sheer intellectual strength and vigor of will he attracts men to him and to his policies. So Hamilton and Jefferson, so Lincoln and Douglas. so Gladstone. The political boss, on the other hand, is below the horizon from which the public good is visible Party success is his highest aim, and party success is inter- preted in terms of his personal supremacy He surrounds himself with the weak and the obedient, with those whose conscience is held safe prisoner behind the bars of ambition and of desire for gain. He bases his hope of victory upon effective political machinery, upon a lavish expenditure of money and upon promises of preferment His arguments are alternately exhorta- tions and threats. If victorious his first thought is the aggrandizement and en- richment of himself and his family and, if possible, of some of the more important of his followers. If defeated, he is at once in secret communication with his triumphant adversary for such share of the spells as will serve to support him and his until the next contest occurs. More than one state and not few cities can frame particular visage in this outline.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
LEAVE TO THE SOUTH

From the New York Journal
 The race problem in the south will ulti- mately be settled by the southern people, It cannot possibly be settled by anybody else The attempt to solve it by outside force was made and failed in reconstruc- tion times. The attempt to compel a solu- tion by outside criticism will be equally futile now. The ultimate settlement will probably come from the drift of popula- ton to the cities. Most of the trouble between the races occurs in tho country where homes are widely scattered and un-. protected, and the legal safeguards of or der are rudimentary. When the great ma jorlty of the people live in cities there will not only be safety for this majority, but organized society will have a reserve of strength for the protection of the minority remaining in the country. Meanwhile in the present transition period, the enlighten- ed of both races will have to do their best to diminish the occasions for enmty.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
CrGns and Trade.

Cotton is declining because the conditions of it's growth are very favorable The pres ent acreage is so large that favorable condi- tions mean a twelve-milllon- bale crop. The crop grown last year would have crossed that line if the picking season had been favorable, but it will prove on September l to have been 0 little below an eleven- milHon-bale crop. So it will be seen that present weather conditions, however fa- vorable, do not determine the size of the crop. It may be a ten-million-bale crop, or 1t may be record breaker-no one can at present tell which it will be. All be, and base perhaps their bets or future offers upon such guesses. At present the market people incline to the belief that the crop will be large one. Present prices are based on belief that the crop will exceed eleven million bales.
 Wheat prices slowly declined last week for reasons similar to those that caused last week a decline in cotton, namely, inn proved crop prospects. Farmers are freely marketing old wheat, thus showing that they think the new crop will amply meet all demands There have been rains, too, in Russia, and the outturn there will be larger than has of late been predicted. In France there has been too much rain. In this country conditions have as rule been favorable. Much of the winter wheat has been harvested, and the crop of spring wheat is promising. A total crop in this country of GOO,O0O,OO0 bushels is not regard ed as improbable, as against 675,OOO,OOO last year.
 The growing corn crop is also looking well. Timely rains in the south have res- cued the crop from serious injury and in the northwest all conditions are favorable, and corn prices declined last week.
 The iron and steel trades are very pros porous. Instead of reactions. prices are steadily advancing. Deliveries for next year are being looked after, and always at stronger prices. In some respects there is much nervousness over apprehended high prices next year. Twenty dollar pig iron be- comes every day greater probabilit New enterprises are becoming more nu- merous in every part of the country, and prosperity seems to have set in with much promise of continuance
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
END THE WAR

From the New York Journal.
 It is semi-ofilcially admitted that the ad- minis istration is going to enlist 0 majority, if not all, of the 35, 900 volunteers authorized by law for the suppression of the revolt in the Philippines.
 Good. Whatever force may be needed to maintain the supremacy of tho flag should be provided at once. The American people have not the Spanish patience that would enable them to sit quietly down and see an unnecessary war drag on for ten or fifteen years for lack of vigorous measures to end it. They want peace, and if they have to fight for it, they want the fighting to be sharp and decisive.
 It will not be well. politically, for the administration to be fighting Aguinaldo within twenty miles of Manila at this time next year.
 Send as many men as may be needed to end the war at once. 4r
 And one thing more, MT. Mckinley.
 Send a general
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
Alabama and GeOrqIa Bonds.

Georgia 31as having 27 to 30 years to run 25 to 40 years to run are worth in Wall street III, and her 4h's due in 1915, com mand 123. It will thus be seen that her bonds are worth enough to bring her real interest rate down to three per cent.
 The Georgia bonded debt is larger than that of Alabama by about twenty per cent; the state possesses no coal. and therefore no Iron ore that can be economically smelted; 1t has no broad belt of fertile cot ton land corresponding to the Black Belt; It's river system is inferior. It is larger
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
NO USE OF ARGUING

From the Mobile Register
 Some of the state papers are still wor- rying over the assertion of the Montgom- cry Journal that the state press has lost it's influence" When 0 newspaper editor deliberately confesses that he daily fills it's editorial columns with matter which has no Influence whatever with anybody, what is the use of arguing the question with him? Accept his confession as the truth and let him alone.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
REFLECTION OF A RACHEL OR.

From the New York Press.
 Charity begins at home, and 1t ends at the back door.
 Because marriage comes of love, love doesn't come of marriage.
 There are few of us who are not brave enough to bear up under the misfortunes of others.
 A man seldom fails to do a good deed for another if he sees more in 1t for himself than for the other.
 What a woman can't understand is how she understands to make fool of man without understanding RbX-
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
"JEssr TALKED roo MUCH
From the Huntsville Mercury.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 It appears that his Richardson letter punctured Congressman Stallings' guber- natorial boom early in the action. Now Colonel Wiley has announced for congress from the Second district, and Jess may experience trouble in holding his present political job It frequently occurs that politicians talk too much and this appears to be one particular instance.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
From the Ashland Standard.

The press and people are still demanding that Gen. Wheeler be elected governor. Of the POO papers published in Alabama per- haps there arc not twenty-five but what are warmly supporting him, and it is only necessary for him to nod now to get the nomination. He says over his own sigma ture that "I am under no obligation to Stal- lings or any one else not to run for gov ernor" and with this assurance the people can go on and nominate him. There is not a man in the state that can beat him there is not a man in the state that will oppose him.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

State conventions that last into the sec vorite to withdraw mean that direct action by the people is to be preferred in every case.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
sELF-EVIpENT FAGTs

From the Detroit News.
 Nothing could be clearer than that Gen. eral Otis needs either more soldirs or less territory.
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President Gates, of the American Wire company, cannot frank sections of his bar bed wire fence, and is thus placed at a dis advantage. for Senator Cullom Is still dis tributing seeds.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

Four different scales are before the United Mine Workers, and the hope Is ex- pressed that an agreement with the opera tors will be reached today, so that both capital and labor in this district can begin a new year under the happiest circum- stances.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

The teachers of Alabama meet here to- day, and Birmingham extends to them the experience what good public schools are, and what they accomplish.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
A GREAT TEMPTATION

From the Mobile Item.
 The empire of Morocco is entirely with out newspaper but Governor Johnston will remain in Alabama.
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NONE WE'RE PULLED

From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
 So far We have heard none of the newspaper people attending the Press asso- citation in Birmingham were pulled for violating the anti-Spitting ordinance.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
EFFECT OF BOOr-LEG wHIsKEY

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
 A Maine man claims to have caught blue lobster. Happening as this did, in a prohibition state, there is, of course, no re- course but to believe it.
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From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 About the only way to suppress q Ken tuck feud is to vaccinate it with the Cat ling gun.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

Dr. Summers ended his poem with the line,
 I've lost life's fight" thus showing that he cravenly left battle that should never be considered lost while life and strength remain.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
From the Marion Standard.

The fight for control of the next general assembly will begin at once. Johnston has fine organization and Senator Morgan's prospect Is one of great activity to com- bat the Johnston faction. Senator Pettus is said to be preparing to adopt the same course as Morgan, and Is one in sympathy with him.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

The annihilaton of F1ndland by the czar is leading to a considerable increase in the arrival of Films in New York They are desirable immigrants.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
SENATORIAL AND GUBEKNAToRIAL

From the Tuskegee News.
 The democratic party in Macon county would be delighted to see the present gov ernor enter the race for a third term. It would rejoice at the opportunity of aiding in burying him beneath an avalanche of democratic votes.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

The late MT. Dingley's successor is a MT. Littleheld. who has local reputation for beauty. In that respect he surpassed the man of tariffs and statistics.
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General Miles desires to be sent to the Philippines, but Mir. Mckinley does not propose to anger the only Alger or to pro- duce a rival.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
From the Nashville American.

It is safe to assume that there are power- seeking politicians in Alabama who would rather know that Gen. Joe Wheeler was serving his country in the Philippines than to feel his presence in the gubefnatorial contest at home.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
From the Florence Times.

We hope Gen. Wheeler will consent to &C., cept the nomination. His acceptance would simplify Alabama politics nightly and bring order out of chaos. Besides, he would make a great governor.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27
From the Alexander City Outlook.

F
 Senator Morgan is coming home to spend several months among his own people. Ranking today as one of the leaders in the United States Senate and regarded every where as a man among men, it is absurd to say that he must be busted for the sake of those politicians who believe themselves to be in the saddle. The people will doubt less demand of their representatives to stand by the venerable statesman.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

It was Wendell Phillips who defined his tory as a series of lies agreed upon.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

Wars are not won by censorships, as MT. Alger will perhaps ascertain if he does not become too much absorbed in his senator ial contest
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

Admiral Kautz, the letter writer, refuses to talk or write for the magazines. He stands forgiven.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

Speaker-eXpectant Henderson will not go to Europe before the plum tree harvest.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

When General Henderson becomes speak CT, the Iowa delegations in either house promise to be the most influential in con gross.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

Up in Michigan it is to be double event. Pingree and Alger arc matched against McMlllan and Burrows.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

The woods of Duluth are filled with mos the south is not without it's compensations.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

The Sfax will soon land Captain Dreyfus, and France will be more on trial than he is.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

The Montevallo issue Is becoming as pointless and long, -winded as the Schley- Sampson constroversy.
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THE ONLY WAY TO STOP IT

There are $40 saloons in the city governed by Reformer Sam Jones'
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

The attention of the Montgomery Adver- tiser is again called to the fact that Chi cagos stadium is still great issue in that city.
The age-herald., 1899-06-27

Spain is rid of her expensive4colonies, and will now turn her attention to home poli- tics.
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The government is making sore arms in Cuba as rapidly and thoroughly as it once did in this city