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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-29
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hcbSters Drug Store.
OFFICE HOURS. IL To II ana from l30 70
ana 10 5 +. NJ. sundays from ii 10
12 a. NJ.
RESIDENCE, So WINTHROP STREET.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-29
Business Cards.

Williamson & BURLEIGH,
COTNSELLORS-A
Offices over Granite National Bank, Wa
ter Street. Augusta, Maine.
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, Jr..
Notary Public.
LEWIS A. RT-RLETGH, City Clerk.
Collections a speciality.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-29

FOR SALE.-Ten R-IP-A-N-S for Z cents nj
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pans Chemical Co, New York. for 10 samples
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-29
CorSets

The largest line Of corscts 10 b.
found in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-29
em nothing added to taken from them; plain stor
bv RUSSELL & WESTON.
Just as the items read SO you will find them; ne
of bargain facts that you'll do well to profit by

shirts: made Of a splendid grade Of
cotton, cut extra large, finished with
felled seams, reinforced fronts and
back, linen bosoms. our price for TINS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-29
Big Wash Waist Show
The Kid Glove Season

Good kid gloves az Bargain. Prices
appealing to every woman who wears
gloves.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-29
White Goods

our styles latest and up-to-date
Quality the beet Prices lowest.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
The State Fair.

The average attendance at the fair last week was 5000 persons-a glorious patron age in a first week. The opening of the second week is. in the finest of fall weather; all the attractions are in place, including three hundred choice horses, and the indi- cations are that the average attendance will be doubled this week, thus making the fair remarkably successful in every re- speet.
 Preparations should be begun at once looking to the holding of a fair next fall. The buildings will need enlargement, and steps should be taken that will induce every one of the sixty-six counties of the state to send an exhibit next year, instead of talk ing about sending one, as they did this year. Excellent as this years fair is, the fair of next year must be made still better, and it can be made better if preparations for it's holding aFe begun at once.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
 MRS HAZEN's POLITICS

From a Washington Letter.
 A story is told of Mrs. Hazen, showing how interested she is in her brothers cam- paign in Ohio The day after the announces ment of her engagement to Admiral Dewey she was beseged by newspaper men, all asking for her photograph. Among the callers on Tuesday was correspondent of an Ohio paper, who stated that he wanted her picture to publish. Mrs. Hazen at once asked: "What is the politics of your pa- perP'' "It is independent was the reply. "Does it favor the election of MT. Mclean as governor" The newspaper man diplo- matically answered.: While my paper is independent, think it leans toward MT. Mclean and know it has said some very nice things about his campaign" This seemed to please Mrs. Hagen. and she said: "I will let you have a picture. but don't want my picture to appear in a paper that is fighting my brother
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
MULE IN PEACE AND IN WAR

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 Nobody ever heard of a Georgia mule stampeding. He will finch and dodge, and go through other performances. but he never runs from anything. He has a bat tery of his own as efficient at close range as a Maxim or Gatling gun, and on tiiis he depends absolutely. Moreover, ele never wastes his ammunition nor misses Ilis aim.
 Speaking, therefore, in behalf of the southern bred mule generally, and the Georgia raised mule particularly, we could wish that the British commander, in at trbutng the capture of two of his regi- ments to stampeding mules, flad included a brief biography of the mules in ques- ton, in order that full justice may be done So far as our observation and experience go, neither the music of many bands nor the war of artillery has any effect on the Georgia mule. He might object to a showy uniform, or to the too gaudy trappings with which vain men deck themselves, but he does not make his objection known by stampeding. On the contrary, he stands bis ground and makes his influence felt in other ways.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13

tied with a weekly capacity of 1000 tons. One sloss and one Ensley furnace were blown in last month, and none were blown out for repairs. Two additional furnaces have been or will be blown in this month. and an addition of two furnaces a month may be expected in this state until the maximum is reached. If furnaces never needed repairs the. production of Alabama could be carried beyond 25OOO tons a week. but the chances are it will not be the year through.
 Stocks are still falling. Furnace stocks were reduced from 12O, ,541 tons on October l to Ill ,543 tons on November 1, and warrant stocks fell from 2,5OO tons on October to 16.4OO tons on November 1. The warrant yards are nearly empty. Were 1t not for lots tied up in litigation, scarcely any iron would be left in them. While stocks are going each month to lower figures it is idle to talk about a slump in iron.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
CAR ADVERTISING

E. S. Martin in Harper's Weekly.
 A report comes from Chicago that some one lately offered a great western railroad company $l50,0O0 a year for the privilege of advertising on the outside of all the freight cars of it's system. The offer was declined, partly because the company wanted to ad- vertise itself on it's cars, partly because of the fear that the numbers of the cars would be so inconspcuous as to be overlooked. Perhaps, too, the company objected to hay ing it's cars disfgured. but that is not among the reasons given.
 Railroads should be encouraged to be more attentive to comeliness and more intoerant of disagreement. The great roads in these days are much handsomer than they used to be, and few of the impor- tant steam roads allowed even the outside of their cars to be used for advertising; but the interior decoration of street cars and trolley cars is still geneally regarded from the financial rather than from an esthetic standpOnt.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
Uniform Text Books.

Following the example of Tennessee, the will probably pass, an uniform text book law. The senate by an unanimous vote has already passed a bill providing for the adoption by the state of a uniform system of text books in the states public schools Under this bill commission would be ap- pointed composed of the members of the state board of education and five other citi- zens, who shall serve without compensa- ton for period of five years.
 The duties of the commission consist in selecting the books best suited to the use of the public schools of the state. and in se- curing competitive bids for the furnishing of such books. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved, in order that any effort at combination on the part of publishers may be defeated. All contracts made with publishers are to remain in force five years. The counties are IOrDluuen to enter Into contracts with publishers. The bill provides for bond of s5O,OOO. to be approved by the governor of the state. and such bond is to be required from each and every pub- fisher who contracts to furnish the state with school books. The bonds are to be guarantees of the faithful carrying out of contracts.
 The bill provides that the books selected by the commission shall be used in all the public schools of the state, the only excep- tions being '1ocal systems supported by local taxation" It is indeed questionable whether such exceptions should be made The school in the country is entitled to as good text books as the city school has, There is no reason why there should be any difference whatever. The city scholar
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
THEY ARE LIGHT SMOKERS

From the Washington Evening Star.
 You may have noticed that the Japanese who visit America are very moderate smokers" said a prominent Japanese now travelling in the United States. Those or my countrymen who do indulge in the weed mostly smoke cigarettes or preferably the smallest pipes filled with the mildest tobacco obtaina ble Of course, there are Japanese Who, like some Americans, nave such a craving for tobacco that nothing less than the strongest cigar or the largest pipe will satisfy them. But such smokers are exceptionally few among the Japanese. As rule, my countrymen, while at home and abroad, are satisfied With short smokes such as cigarette or a tiny pipe affords.
 '"The Japanese are moderate smokers, not So much because they are small people, but for the reason that up ito within recent years very little tobacco came into Japan a poor but frugal race, tine masses pur- chased only limited quantities of the weed, which, as a matter of economy, they have been taught for generations to smoke in only the tiniest of pipes. These pipes, the most popular of, which hold about as much tobacco as would fill an ordinary thimlble are a survival of the days when money was scarce, tobacco dear and the tariff high. In another generation or two, when Japan shall nave taken her place among the wealthy nations of the world, my countrymen will no doubt smoke large quantities of tobacco, and then she small pipes will be abandoned for big ones, such as Englishnlen and Americans now smoke"
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
October iron Production,

On October 1 there were in this country capacity of 27S,65O tons; on November the number had been advanced to 2S7 with weekly capacity of 2SS522 tons. This is pro- duction at the rate of 15 5,OOO,OO tons a year. and is unexampled in the history of the country's iron trade. One year ago there were 196 furnaces in blast, and their weekly capacity was 1885 tons. The furnaces that are now in each successive month added to the list are, as a rule, of small ca pacity. Nearly 100 furnaces have been blown in since November, 1898, but they have not increased the yearly capacity more than two million tons. There may be fifty more furnaces in the country that can be put in operation, but they will do remarka- bly we'll if they add a million tons to the yearly capacity. There is no reason as yet to expect production in 1900 beyond b ,000- 900 tons.
 Alabama has seven charcoal furnaces, of which three are in blast, having a weekly capacity of 7O4 tons. The charcoal furnaces of the state are light weights in these years of great production There are 37 coke fur naces in the state 2i of which are in blast. The Shelby furnace was blown in last week, and the Trussville furnace will be blown fin this week. thus reducing the number out of blast to eleven. Five or six of the eleven will be blown in by or before February l. But all are of small capacity, and it is in- deed doubtful whether the weekly capacity can be carried beyond 25,00o tons. The twenty-seven furnaces now in blast in the state have a weekly capacity of g 2S4 tons. At this rate the output would, if steadily maintained be 1,2O0,O0O tons a year. The eleven coke furnaces out of blast are cred
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
Examinations of Teachers.

The Russell Register objects to the dis criminations that the statutes have estab- lished in relation to graduates from the va rous colleges of the state. It says:
 person. male or female who has taken a graduation course at any normal school in the state is granted life certificate to teach a public school in the state without exami- nation, whereas, any person who may be graduate of the State university at Tusca- loosa, or the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn, no matter what degree he has taken or how we'll educated he may be, has to go before the board of examiners for H. cense to teach the public schools of the state. Why is this? Are not the university and the Polytechnic institute state insti- tutions? Both older, with as good faculties and as high curriculum as any of the nor nal schools? Then why this discrimina- tion by the state against one class of it's institutions of learning in favor of another? If the university and the Auburn college be not as high as they should be, why not bring them up to the proper standard Of excellence? What advantage has a normal school over the university? It seems to Us that the state of Alabama, by such dis crimnation reflects seriously upon her two best institutions of learning.
 The very best way to abolish discrimina- tions of this nature is to abolish all exemp- tions from examination. If a person who has been graduated from a noraml or any other school cannot stand the tests that the board of examiners may make, then they are not equipped for teaching in the public schools. All should be put to one test. There is nothing but favoritism in the pro- visions of the law.s Let all be subjected to a common test. Let all be placed on a com mon footing. It will make the normal schools more careful in the preparation of students, and it will be justice and equity all around. The normal schools should not demand special privileges in this respect. They should send out men and women who can defy any board of examiners. They should not skulk behind provision of law that is neither fair nor wise.
 The Register is wholly mistaken as to the questions asked by the board of examiners The board, if it err at all, errs in the direc- tion of leniency. It has tempered the wind to the shorn lamb in this particular period of school progress. It has granted cer- tfieates to men who would not be able to get them in two-thirds of the states. It has been extremely merciful, as the Regis ter can readily ascertain. The Register frankly admits that its information as to examinations is imperfect and The Age Herald feels sure that tine more informa- ton it acquires as to the board of examin- CTS the less apt will it be to condemn the board in any particular.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
SeIectinu Iefferson's Senator.

The codrt journals efforts to select a senator for Jefferson county are praise worthy. It selected MT. Frank 5. White, ard did not little growing over its astute ness. but. alas the best laid plans of mice and men aft gang aglee. It is safe to say, that the esteemed court journal will no lon ger insist that Mir White shall represent Jefferson county in the upper house of the next legislature It has dropped him as it would hot potato. It mo longer loves or admires its own selection. This is sad, but true.
 However there is Mir. Burltlah5er, ale original choice of the court organ; and tho situation seems to demand an explanation from the court organ as to why it dropped MT. Burkhalter even for d season. Nheta- er it was done for a reason or without one, it is plain the esteemed court organ must now return to it's first love. Such fchle- ness deserves rebuke at least It is not seemly. It is not calculated to hold or to win over votes for its choice There were reasons why the court organ should llaye thrown MT. Burkhalter overboard for hr has been loyal in .se-.ssv4i ....,
 season, in bad weather and good wear her. and he has just cause for complain. against the fickleness of the esteemed or gan at court.
 Strange as it may seem the voters of Jef- ferson county will take hand in this mat ter next April, and if the court orEaa 0..,= not exercise more care and more steadfast- ness, more loyalty to the truly loyal its or ders and wishes will not be wholly and al- Together regarded. Fickleness will not be honored in this senatorial district.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
HOW THE NEWS DOES NOT COME .nm L'he New York World


 Great Britain completely controls all the South African cable routes and practically all of the inland telegraph lines. Dis patches sent from any part of Cape Colony that is under British control are read and edited by at least two British army off, cers-one at the place where the dispatch dispatches start on tine long journey up the west coast of Africa.
 News from the two republics goes over the telegraph to Lorenzo Marques, on Del agoa bay-a Portuguese port. The cable winch leaves there is under Portuguese control, nombnaly, only as far as Zanz- bar. There England and EngHshmen take Glo,d again. After leaving Zanzibar tae ca ble does not touch the surface again until it has rounded Cape Guardafui and has eIriered the British port of Alden. There sits a British army officer to "censor'' all dispatches whether coming from or going to Europe.
 Undoubtedly the British government will in the end bitterly regret having resented to such mediaval and Jnort-sg1lted poli- cy. when by isolating only the Transvaal she could have accomplished every legiti- mate object of a censorship The censors ernment will mislead Itself and the people.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Com PanI in His Hnma

The Transvaal sun was already high in the heavens when at 6 o'clock I called upon President Kruger, writes Allen Sangree in Ainslee's for December. found him sit~ ting on the front porch with his feet props ped up against one Of the Barnato lions. Nearby sat Mrs. Kruger, placidly knitting a pair of gray woolen socks for her hus- band and occasionally smiling at the quaint salHes of wit which he flung out for the benefit of some country burghers who were occupying the steps. q
 As we approached the gate Dom Paul got up, and, knocking the ashes from his pipe on Hon, said something which made his hearers explode with laughter.
 He shook hands with me on being intro- duced and immediately began to speak to my sponsors with such rapid flow of lan- guage that I can only describe it as a splutter He used the Taal dialect, a de- teriorated form of Holland Dutch spoken by the Boers, who also employ many KafIir words in their cssAversation.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
As SLOW OUR SHIP

Thomas Moore. AS slow our ship her foamy track
 Against the wind was ceaving, Her trembling pennaat still looked back To that dear isle twas leaving. So loath we part from all we love,
 From all the links that bind us So turn our hearts, as on we rove,
 To those we've left behind usi When, round the bowl, of vanished years We talk with joyous seeming With smiles that might as well be tears, So faint, so sad their beaming; While memory brings us back again
 Each early tie that twined us, O sweets the cup that circles then
 To those we've left behind us! And when, in other climes, we meet
 Some isle or vale enchanting, Where all looks flowery, wild, and sweet, And naught but love is wanting; We think how great had been our bliss
 If heaven had but assigned us To live and die in scenes like this,
 With some we've left behind usi As travellers oft look back at eve
 When eastward darkly going, To gaze upon that light they leave
 Still faint behind them glowing So, when the close of pleasures day
 To gloom hath near consigned us, We turn to catch one fading ray
 Of joy that's left behind us.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
Mrs. Kruger Is a Good Wife

Mrs. Kruger is a woman of great worth and character, and has had no little infiu- ence upon her husbands career. Her maiden name was Du Plessis, a famous South African family of the same lineage as Cardinal Richelieu. She is niece Of Kruger's first wife, who was also a Du Plessis. By MT. Kruger's first marriage he had one son, who died By the second wife there were sixteen children. Of this num- Der seven are living, all within the neigh- borhood of Pretoria. There is very large offspring of grandchildren, but none or the younger Krugers seem to be of the Dom Paul caliber
The age-herald., 1899-11-13
REFLEC rIoNs OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 If women really looked like they do on fashion plates the men would shoot at them.
 The cruelest and meanest people in the world always have smile and kind word for little dog.
 The only man who was murdered after the trouble at the Tower of Babel was the one they caught talking gawf.
 A man can make a woman mad in a street car any time by looking at her feet and sort of smiling to himself.
 A man never feels quite so brave and daring he does when he Is taking a girl across field and there is a white COW there and she tries to act like 1t was . bun.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13

questions is keener than ever. if possible No more admirable type of the southern gentleman could be found in ever so many days journey.
 T. w. Pratt of Huntsville has been spend ing day or two in Birmingham. Mir. Pratt is a city builder of immense energy. He is president of the Huntsville chamber of commerce, president of the West Huntsville cotton factory, vice-president of the Hunts vile electric light and street railway com pany, district manager of the American Cotton company, and director in ever so many enterprises. His efforts are doing Huntsville world of good.
 Elder J. M. Barnes, of Montgomery, was in Birmingham yesterday. Elder Barnes is perhaps the oldest preacher of the Chris tion church in this state, and is one of the most successful school teachers Alabama ever had. Last year he established a new boarding school on large scale at Clover dale, a beautiful southern suburb of Mont gomery. During his long career he has prepared hundreds of teachers for their work.
 Representative Bowers, a member of the Georgia legislature from Bainbridge, came to Birmingham Saturday in a private car, accompanied by party of friends consist ing of MT. Robinson, Mrs. Walter Taylor, Miss Taylor and Miss Draper. The party were guests of Jack ". Johnston, and on Saturday evening MT. and Mrs. Johnston entertained them at an informal danee They visited the State Fair Saturday. The party left yesterday afternoon on their re- turn to Atlanta.
 Sheriff Oscar Fulgum, of Madison county, is in Birmingham.
 Hon. Tennent Lomax returned last night to Montgomery. He was unable to make longer visit to Birmingham, because of du- ties in the city court of Montgomery, which is now in session.
 Mir and Mrs. O. Whitfield, Miss Fannie
 
 Whitfield, Master Newton Whitfield, Miss Fannie Cooke, and MT. and Mrs. c. D. Smith and two children, constitute party from Brierfield who are at the Morris
 J. H. Donahoo of Talladega, is at the Morris.
 Colonel w. A. Henderson, of Washington, D. C., general counsel for the Southern Railway, is at the Morris.
 N. E. Wilhelm, A. J. Black, w. H. Lee and J. H. Knight, of Fort Deposit, and R. P. Ellis, of Letohatche, are at the Florence
 W. c. Stiff, of Centre, for thirty years proprietor and publisher of the Cherokee Advertiser at that place, was among the visitors at the fair last week.
 V. O. Prowell and w. w. Bruce, Of Day. ton are at the Florence.
 State Senator s. c. Jenkins, of W1lcox' is at the Florence.
 The supreme court of Alabama meets ln autumn session at Montgomery today.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13

Hereafter The Age-HeraId will be strictly a daily newspaper. It will go to it's subscribers every day in the year, Mondays and all hoii- days Includea. It is the only daily newspaper in Alabama.
The age-herald., 1899-11-13

would in that way lose the advantage of the low prices that the state commission would surely obtain, and removals of child ren to the city from the country or vice versa would involve the purchase of two sets of books. The exceptions are wholly unwise and wholly unnecessary.