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The age-herald., 1899-02-09
GORMAN AND BRYAN

From the Washington Times.
 The friends of William Jennings Bryan were highly elated last night over the sit- uation. They claimed the ratification of the treaty as distinct victory for their hero When MT. Bryan resigned his com mission in the volunteer army in Decem- Der and came out against expansion but in favor of the ratification of the treaty, he offended German, Jones of Arkansas, and other veteran democratic senators, who imagined that they had charge of the fu- ture of the democratic party What in- did not consult them before giving his 'or- ders,' so to speak. Had he done so the result might have been different. But German seized upon Bryan's discourtesy as a pretext for antagonizing him. I've do not need MT. Bryan's advice," said MT. German disdainfully eve are senators; MT Bryan Is only common citizen" And yet MT. Bryan's influence probably may have had something to do with saving the day-that is, at this session. It was dIe to his efforts, it is said by his admirers, that Senator Allen and the silver senators voted for the treaty. Germans idea was un- doubtedly to sidetrack Bryan and the silver issue and make himself the commanding figure of the democratic party. But in the judgment of impartial observers, MT. Bry- an is the complete master of the demo- cratic situation. His nominat ton by the democratic party for president next year, they believe, is assured.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
Steel and Iron Combinations.

These are exciting times in the iron and steel trades. The Federal Steel company has brought another Richmond into the field in the towering person of MT. Andrew Car negie, ironmaster, author and tal-twister. The Federal Steei-ha not only left the but they had left out the very lively tin- plate trust, and the more than lively Car negie. King Carnegie proposes to vindicate his sovereignty. It is now a battle of giants, rPierrcpont Morgan and his Eng fish packers are lined up against MT. An drew Carnegie and the tin-trust. Or rather they are said to be. The people are in the position of the wife who was the spectator of the fight between her husband and the bear.
 The Alabama furnaces seem to be the dark horse of the contest and if they main tain that position, they will win all possible advantages in the long run. They vii. as exporters obtain greater advantages in an independent position than they can win as tHt tai. Shu Oi CithSi thS IhOISdH the Carnegie combination.
 The chances are, however, that MT Car negie is not engaged in forming a new and gigantic combination. The chances are that somebody has some securities-water-to sen and that they are using MT. Carnegie's name in an unauthorized manner MT Car negie, like the Alabama furnaces, can best get along on independent lines He can command a great trade, no matter how many combinations are formed, just as the Alabama furnaces and mills can command under ordinary circumstances a handsome export trade, and will be able to underseu tia world when the Warrior Improvement Is completed.
 The Alabama interests are deeply inter- ested in the opening of the Warrior to slackwater navigation. When that work :s completed, they need not concern tenn selves over the Chicago and Ohio and New York schemes of watered securities and speculative interests. That great ronmas- ter and watermaster. Pierrepont Morgan, cannot terrorize this district when iron and
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
Revenue and the Schools.

The Montgomery Advertiser insists that practicable way in which the common schools can receive the help they so much need, and it insists that the legislature should have the courage to take this step. better way, and the Age-Herald has re- repeatedly urged that a courageous and straightforward policy be pursued towards the public schools. It has not named the tax rate. indeed, nor has it said that the money to meet the excellent house appro- priation cannot be raised in some other way. The legislators who study this ques- tion are the best judges of the ways and means involved in the house appropriation The subject will in their hands be safely and justly conducted and concluded.
 Neither house can afford to leave an ap- propriation unsupported by revenue, and especially an appropriation so desired and treasured as the house appropriation for schools. Says the Jasper Advertiser:
 HIS 5Sol lhS odSpci SChOOl ulSllIcl VIII receive little more than $500 from the state and county appropriations Now that the state appropriation has been almost doubled and the corporate limits extended, the amount for next year will almost reach the magnificent sum of S1 1,20O. This will greatly increase our school facilities and should be an incentive to our corporate authorities to proceed with the erection of the school buildings, and that without de- lay. Three hundred children at least will knock for admittance to our city schools next session, and we should be prepared to receive and accommodate them. This increased revenue will enable the city to erect the building without crippling the school in the least. This being true, there should no longer be any hesitancy on the part or those in control. We trust and be- lieve our corporate authorities will de- eide to take care of our educational inter- ests and will adopt plan at their next meeting which will ensure the erection and completion of the building by the time the next scholastic year sets in"
 This may be said to be an illustration of what every township is expecting, now that the house has named an adequate sum for the purpose of keeping the schools open six months in the year. The disap- pointment and bitterness that will follow any refusal to back up and fully carry the house appropriation to fruition will be something. easier imagined than described
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
Eauan's Remarkable Sentence.

Eagan's declarations and letters outside of his testimony before the whitewash board go to show that he is a chronic black guard; and yet this man who violated in the most marked and indecent manner the plainest rule of military disciplme-who was found guilty in thirty minutes by his broth CT officers of conduct unbecoming gentle man and an offieer-this man has by the president and MT. Alger been let off with out adequate punishment. He really is not to be punished at all. In some respects he has been rewarded. Foul-mouthed and de- structive to discipline as his language and conduct were, he has actually been re- warded by President Mckinley He has been relieved of his duties as commissary general and of all other army duties, yet his pay as a brigadier general goes on with out the break of single day. The people are, therefore, condemned to pay the man, who struck army discipline a severe blow, handsome salary--a salary of about six thousand dollars year. This salary be- comes d gratuity, because no service during six years is to be rendered by the powerful Mr. Eagan.
 Nor Is this all At the end of six years he is to be retired on the pay of brigadier general, unless he be in the meanwhile pro- noted to higher rank as he might be and probably would be if Alger and MT. McKin- ley stay in office to the end of his term of suspension. If MT. Mckinley be reelected. he will be in the white house when the term of suspension is ended. and Eagan is re- tired All things, therefore, have been made very lovely for the man with striking vocabulary. No witness before the whitewash board has been so handsomely rewarded as Eagan will be- No man pre- scented before the board the Alger side of the case in such striking language. The sentence in the Eagan case is simply addi- tional proof-superfiuous proof-that Alger- ism stands for and Is the administration. The sins of the one are the sins of the other. The man that pleases the one pleases the other, and General Eagan was the man that hit the bulls eye. Army dis cipline is not in it when Algerism is at stake.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
SPANISH WAR HELPS THE SOUTH

From the New York Sun.
 The general rise in the price of spot cot ton came too late to benefit the planters to any great extent. Most of the crop had been gathered and marketed before the rise, that which was left being the blue or last picking, which never realizes much. But, notwithstanding the fact that cotton has for the most part sold for less than the cost of production the cotton-growing states are in better financial condition than since 1892. Naval stores, tobacco, especial ly the cheaper grades, iron and timber have shared in the better prices, and southern banks show larger deposits, loans and dis counts than ever before.
 The most remarkable advance in prices has been due to the war. Lumber, upon which there is a good profit at $12 a thous- and feet delivered at any of the southern or southeastern ports, readily sells for $50 in the West Indies. Large sawmills have been established everywhere, and the un- employed have secured employment at good wages as cutters, logger5 and mill men. The price of timber lands is from 100 to 1000 per cent. higher than a year ago. The system employed by the lumber concerns is to purchase the timber alone, thus leav- ing the land practically cleared and pine that has formerly been burned as so much rubbish in order to clear land is proving Klondike to landholders. Shipping is busy and wharfage and wharf labor have been benefited in proportion Some idea of the magnitude of the trade may be had from the contract recently let to a Florida con- cern by the government to deliver 16,000 ,0G0 feet of sawed lumber to Havana.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
PEACE
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Thank God, the treaty is passed, and the American nation can look other nations in the face, like country able to conduct it's international affairs on the common lines of sanity and sef-respect.
 The people salute the senators who have supported the administration with admira- tion, and even with gratitude, notwith- standing they have, like soldiers, done no more than their duty
 The honor-roll back of the treaty, count ing those paired in its favor, is:
 I. Forty-three republicans, or the solid party strength, with the exception of the two calamties, Hoar and Hale.
 II. Eight populists silver republicans, namely, Alien, Butler, Cannon, Harris, Jones, Kyle, Stewart and Teller.
 III. Last but owing to the stolid opposi- ton of their party as whole, perhaps the most conspicuous, were ten democrats.
 We will name them together with their states, in order that every honor may go where it is due:
 Clay, of Georgia.
 Faulkner, of West Virginia.
 Gray, of Delaware.
 Kenney, of Delaware.
 Lindsay, of Kentucky.
 McEnery, of Louisiana.
 McLaurin, of South Carolina.
 Morgan, of Alabama.
 Pettus, of Alabama.
 Sullivan, of Missouri.
 McEnery and McLaurin turned manfully to support the government after Sundays battle at Manila.
 Come what may there will always be a pleasant place for these sixty-one senators in the memory of their countrymen.
 The ratification of the treaty brings peace, and takes from the country a crushing weight of uncertainty and discredit
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
THE RED STAIN
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Cnlcago TrlDune.
 If the wanton attack of the forces of the adventurer Aguinaldo had been delayed two or three days the Hales and Hoars in and out of the senate would have said with sanctimonious complacency: 'I told you so." If it had come after the ratification or rejection of the treaty of peace it might have had the sembance, if not the sub stance of imaginative Justification. But on the verge of the proposed action by the senate 1t has another and a sinister aspect. The irrisistible conclusion Is that the mis- guided Aguinaldo expected to bring pres sure to bear against the treaty by forcing a battle He was warranted in forming this conclusion, for the possibility of such conflict has been urged insistently by the anti-expansionists as an argument against ratification. Then why should he not give them deeds to add verisimilitude to their words?
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
COURTESY IN THE SENATE
om the Mobile News

From the Mobile News.
 The story from Birmingham that Eenatoy Cunningham intends to demand that the senate accord him the courtesy of votins against the bill to abolish the commissions CTS court of Jefferson county, and that if the senate refuses he will resign Is incredis ble. Courtesy cannot be so Straincd. The question involved is not strictly local-ths entire state is concerned. We trust that Senator Cunningham, who is one of the best and ablest men in Alabama, has form- ed no such intention. The bill will pass the senate.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
WILL BE TOMLINSON

From the Mobile Daily Item.
 "Who will secure the appointments on the railroad commission?" is still a live ques- tion at the capital. The first week has been such turbulent one in the legislative halls over the discussion of the revenue bill, the dispensary bill and the bill to abolish the commissioners court of Jefferson county, that the two appointments have been tenn porarily overshadowed.
 The applicants and their friends have been active, however In the opinion of posted politicians, the race has practically narrowed down among five of the appli- cants. Opionion seems to have crystalized on the appointment of Colonel John w. Tominson, of Birmingham, as practically certain. Colonel Tomlinson has a very strong indorsement from the democracy of the state.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
From the Huntsville Mercury.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 It is safe to say the voters of Alabama are about evenly divided on the Moody dis pensary bill. In some counties, where whisky is too freely sold, the bill has many friends and in other counties, where pro- hibition prevails, it meets with vigorous opposition. Even in Senator Moody's own district, the newspapers and people are about evenly divided in their support and it must not be inferred that the dispensary bill is opposed solely by those engaged in the liquor traffic, neither does it appear to be championed by a considerabl per- centage of those opposed to the sale of whisky. If correct rules for governing the dspensaries could be rigidly enforced, and the law applied to the entire state. it would certainly invite the approval of the entire conservative element, which is hedged in by the two extremes above cited. The action of the legislature is still doubtful. The opposition centers in Birmingham, where the largest whisky interests exist. and the fight being made from that city has seldom been equalled in the assembly hall.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
THE GREAT PRE-LENTEN POEM

Is this a fast-to keep The larder lean and clean From fat of veals and sheep? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still to fill The platter high with fish? Is 1t to fast an hour, Or ragged to go-or show A downcast look, and sour? No! 'Tis fast to dole Thy sheaf of wheat and meat Unto the hungry soul. It Is to fast from strife From old debate and hate, TO circumcise thy life. To show a heart grief-rcnt; To siarve thy sin, not bin And that's to keep thy Lent.
 -HERRICK.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
 Man seeks: woman searches.

From the New York Press.
 Man seeks; woman searches.
 After a girl finds she is in love with man, she is generally a lot less conceited about the way she loves the Lord.
 Women are all right as long as they have plenty of clothes and their own way; man is all right as long as he has plenty to eat.
 Of all women who go wrong, half do so because they are better than the men, and half because the men are worse than they are.
 No girl has any right to get married until she knows nine ways to use up stale bread and how to fold dress suit so when a man wants to wear 1t he won't have to pay dollar to get the wrinkles pressed out of it.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Congressman Bland has recently cele- dings in his experience. He married Mrs. Bland and he was welded to silver twenty five years ago.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

MT. Quay is a man of resources as we'll as of assurance, for he is endeavoring to have the law of Pennsylvania changed to suit his view of his case. The Pennsylvania legislature has passed the bill.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
IN OTHER COUNTIES

From the Huntsville Tribune.
 We wonder if the idea that an irregulari- ty is sufficient cause for abolishing the com missioners' court does not make the hair on the head of every commissioner in Ala bama rise.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

There is no difficulty in getting self moving carriage, but there is real difficulty in getting a convenient and popular name for it. "Autobat" is one of the latest sug- geStions.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
THE SENATE LEADERsHIp

The retirement of MT. German from the senate in March .eHves the place he has long occupied as the most astute of the democratic leaders vacant, and already thereis talk of this man or that one sue ceeding him. MT. Jones, of Arkansas, is
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Messrs. Hale, Smith and Murphy would have voted for the treaty, if it had needed more votes. MT. Hale is a republican, but MT. Smith is a democrat of New Jersey, and MT. Murphy Is the democratic colleague of MT. Tom Platt.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
THE SCHOOLS OF rHEPEOpLE

From the Collinsville Clipper.
 The lower house of the legislature. on the lst instant, by a vote of CT to [, raised the appropriation for the common schools of our state from $35O,OOO to $500, ,OOO. This Is the best move ever made in Alabama for her advancement and development.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Now that the peace treaty is disposed of the appropriation bills will absorb a good share of congressional attention. The river and harbor bill will be discussed at length in the senate.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

If the president gains the right to appoint four major generals from the volunteer force, Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee should represent the states in Dixie land.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The salary proper of a brigadier-general is $5,5O0 and the Eagan literary outburst will, therefore, cost the country $33 900. This beats Rudyard Kiplings best prices.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Eighty per cent. of the energy in coal goes up the fiue in smoke. This accounts
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
THE DIsPENSARY

From the Jasper Advertiser.
 The dispensary bill has crept into politics and will be a living issue in our future elections. Representatives, and possibly governor, will be elected on the platform two years hence.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The consent of the governed in the Philip pines will have to be expressed in one hundred and twenty-three dialects.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Senator Hoar's desk was not decorated with flowers on Monday. The venerable senator will soon begin to feel lonesome.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Birmingham's bank clearings in January. 1897, were s1,6S4 269; in January 1898, they were $2,162.O40, and in January, 1899, they had risen to $2,265, ,S9O. And they are still going up.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Twenty-ono centuries will nod from the ,ombs of the Pharaohs to the trolley cars labelled "Cairo and Cheops."
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The Mobile Register fears this country will, at it's present pace shortly arrive at
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The wood pulp trust Is the chief obstacle to treaty with Canada It is also the chief obstacle to reasonable prices for pa- nor
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The republican party should levy duty the Winnipeg factory to affect the people.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
From the Jasper Advertiser.

dispensary, dispensing knowledge to the children of the state is by far more prefer able than any other kind of a dispensary we know of.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The Germans will have to eat their own sugar, for America will prefer cane sugar from her new possessions.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Agoncillo has fled to Canada and in Mont real he is engaged in seeing reporters. He doth protest too much.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The work of benevolent assimilat ton will now Do carried forward on original lines in the Philippines.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The organs are engaged in abusing Gen. eral Miles.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Tho Filipino is a lightweight, rarely weighing over 115 pounds. He should keep out of General Otis way.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

The half-war-half-peace condition was ended by tho vote in the senate. It will soon be all peace.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

steel and manufactured goods can be barged to tidewater at the rate of twenty-five cents a ton
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Gomez takes it out in American gold dol- lars instead of gold whistles.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

onav and Addlcrs both propose to win. or
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

Today the thermometer is not an expan- | sionist.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
TIE SCHOOL OUExTION

Gomez seems to have horse sense enough to make A good American citizen.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09

literally deadlock the legislatures they dominate.
The age-herald., 1899-02-09
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-08-03
THE LITTLE ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Shoes made Of porpoise leather are
absolutely impervious to water.
Moscow's orphan asylum, founded
by Catherine H., is supported by taA
on playing cards.
The Tibetans have a week of five
days, named after iron, wood, water,
feathers and earth.
The Mexicans are the most inordi-
nate smokers in the world. Even wo-
men and children are habitual smok-
ers.
A snake does not climb tree by
coiling round it, but by holding on
with the points Of It's scales. A snake
could not climb glass pillar.
Spiders are serious plague in ia
pan. They spin their webs on the tele-
graph wires and are so numerous as to
cause serious loss of insulation.
Sweeping the wires does little good
as the spiders begin all over again.
There is fish found in Hudson Bay
which absolutely builds a nest. This
1t does by picking up pebbles in its
mouth and placing them in a regular
way on selected spot on the bottom
of the bay, where the water is not very
deep.