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The age-herald., 1899-09-12
Primaries in the Tennessee Valley.

Uniformity is not failing of Tennessee valley counties. Jackson holds December primaries in which it will select delegates for county, senatorial and gubernatorial conventions, including representatives to the legislature and indirectly representation in Chicago. It will at one fell swoop de- termne the course of it's entire political business for two years to come. Colbert has also called primaries to be held in De- cember, but in these primaries candidates for county offices alone will be selected. Limestone has selected a December day for holding primary elections, and it has increased the variety of politi- cal action in the Tennessee valley candidates for county offices and for repre- sentative in the legislature. It is difficult to see how another county can adopt new variations. In Jackson and Limestone the fought out in December, and in Jackson choice for governor will be expressed.
 It is regrettable that uniformity in action in point of time can not be secured, but that seems to be impossible as matters stand. The transfer of political business from beat meetings and conventions to primaries is still immature in this state. and the best plan will come as the new system crystallizes, and is confirmed in the popular mind, as it assuredly will be- Un- iformity of action in point of time and the very strongest safeguards against dshon- esty in the polling and counting of the vote will be needed. and these will come when the system is studied and frankly accepted by all.
The age-herald., 1899-09-12
STILL FLAMING TIE BEARS

From the New York Times.
 About points, that was Tennessee Goals advance yesterday, close to 2O,O0O shares being traded in. Many interesting tales went the rounds apropos of the new spurt but few were new, most of them repre- sentlng the chastened feelings of bear spectators impaled on logic and precedent Tennessee Coal can't stay up they argue because Tennessee Coal is not worth what it is selling for: and, continues their argu- ment, Tennessee Coal cannot stay up be- cause Tennessee Coal never sold so high before. But Tennessee Coal does stay up, and seems able day by day to jump up more. Of recent Wall street transactions not one has represented as much adroitness or so much superiority to current specula- tive prejudice does this pool in Tennes- see Coal It is TO trivial generaship that can catch mapping such genius as conceived old-time Nickel Plate deals and was able to wind in and out of Richmond Terminal labyrnths.
 MT. James R. Keenes friends deny that he is one of the unfortunate Tennessee Coal shorts. MT. Keene has always thought well of Tennessee Coal.
The age-herald., 1899-09-12
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Spread of the Fever.

The appearance of a case at Jackson, Mississippi, and of several cases and one death at Port Tampa City go to show that the disease will probably run course not unlike that of last year. The patient at Jackson is the city clerk, D. P. Porter, and he is said to be afflicted with a malignant type of the disease. The cases at Port Tampa City are isolated in hospital, and the suspected case at Miami has been car rled five miles away. The cases in Missis- sppi City are in two houses, both of which have been isolated to the utmost possible extent Only three cases have appeared in New Orleans
 Were it not for the appearance of a ease in Jackson, Mississippi, there would still be hope that the disease would this year cling to the coast and to New Orleans, but when an unexplained case appears at Jackson it is reasonable to assume that the disease will be apt to spread until frost comes throughout Mississippi Great caution and vigilance will be needed if this state is to be kept free from the scourge this year. Extreme vigilance during the remainder of this month many give the state full im- mnnity. It is worth a igh tof the most stubborn sort, for there is nothing more dangerous than fever epidemic.
The age-herald., 1899-09-12
VALUABLE BANK STOCK

From the New 1ork Press.
 For nearly half century, when writers wanted to express absolute confidence in a man or an institution, they have used this simile: "Oh, he Cor iDis safe as the Chemical bank" or "as sound as the Chemical" or "as good as check on the Chemical" We know that the stock of this remarkable bank is quoted today at 410O. The par value is $100. It has paid high as 15O per cent. per annum on it's $500 900 of stock. Its shares sold as high as $4,9S0 It's enormous individual deposits are nearly S26 6O0O. .O0O, on which not a cent. of interest Is paid. The Produce Exchange Trust company, which is fighting the clearing house in an amiable way, would pay 212 per cent. for the privilege of hand ling this sum.
 But there is a bank in this country whose stock is held at bigger price than the Chemical ever touched and that is the German bank of Buffalo, 5000 a share. But don't worry; the par value is $1,0O0. The Fifth Avenue bank is climbing rapidly up behind the Chemical, its shares now selling at 8, ,1OO Next comes the City Na- tional at s2.050, and then the Garfield Ma tional and the New York County at $1,5Oo each. Among trust companies the Central leads the way at $2010. with the United States at S1 600, the Farmers Loan at $1,- 45O, the New York Life Insurance and Trust at 8, 1,45O, and the Union Trust at $1 400. If banks were required to pay interest on deposits their shares would fall considera- bly.
 It appears odd that two of our larger banks should have developed from water and drugs. The Chemical Manufacturing company was chartered in 1924, with bank ing privileges. It was owned by drug men. After twenty years it's charter expired. when it's line of deposits was s600.0O0. A new bank took its place with a capital of $9O0 00O, and the business of the drug man. ufacturing company was taken over by the Chemical National bank. For five years 1t failed to pay dividend, but2the first that it did pay was 12 per cent. From that it leaped to IS, 2i 36, 60, 100 and 15O per cent. The Manhattan company was to supply water from tank that held a few hundred gallons.
The age-herald., 1899-09-12
AsToR REFUSES TO SELL OUT

New York Letter in Chicago Tribune.
 William Waldorf Astor has no idea of selling his property in America, even though he has shaken from his feet for ever all other American soil, Congressman Jefferson M. Levy, arriving from Europe today on the Umbria, told of the failure of his syndicate plan to purchase MT. As tors real estate, the value of which has been currently estimated at S120 900 900.
 "I feel certain that MT. Astor, since he did not accept my offer. will accept no other.' said MT. Levy. "So it's no use trying to buy him out
 "Our offer was not a proposition of 8 certain lump sum for all his holdings. was to- take all the property at a valua ton to be fixed by appraisers 10 be ap- pointed by Mr. Astor and myself.
 'We proposed to sell the property in turn to the people of New York city through a company to be organized It was a good chance for an investment, and the public would have benefited by il, but MT. Astor' s refusal blocks the plan.
 Harry Mergenthal. who, I understand. is on his way over to make MT. Astor a pro- posal might just as well have staid at home"
 MT Levy, it appears, did not deal direct ly with MT. Astor
The age-herald., 1899-09-12
Frances Conviction and Punishment.

France stands condemned, because she put an army officer on trial, after five years of barbarous imprisonment, and asked him to prove his innocence. His guilt was presumed or assumed, and he was practically asked to prove that Henry and Esterhazy sold army secrets, because such secrets had leaked out and if he did not prove that some one else was the guilty party. then he must suffer for it.
 And when he desired through his lawyers to call >as witnesses the German attache who procured the secrets, he was denied that privilege. He was expected to prove his innocence, and yet he was not per- mitted to have the witnesses that could establish it. This is why France stands condemned. She stands today the victim of her immense army. That huge creation has escaped unharmed by making a scape- goat of a member of an unpopular race.
 The second verdict is much more dis graceful much more monstrous, than the first verdict The first verdict was no doubt an honest mistake outside of Henry, the suicide. and Esterhazy the exile. In swell of indignation over the leakage of army secrets Captain Dreyfus was con- victed chiefly upon the forged bordereau. In the second verdict the case was clear to every unprejudieed man; and yet in or der to save the general staff and lot of generals from the effects of their mistake in 1894; in order, too, to preserve esprit du corps. it was deliberately determined to sacrifice Captain Dreyfus. It was so deter mined by the army, because public senti- rient in France Is unjust towards the Jews. The army saw its opportunity in this un- just public sentiment.
 A great wrong was therefore dop~ t-
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and caution were required In order to pre- vent the passengers and crew from know ing that the ship was receiving the dead; as travellers and sailors alike strenuously object to going to sea on vessel which bears lifeless human body. One of the strongest rules of the steamship companies is that no human remains shall be con- yeyed by passenger steamer. But in this instance the demand of an ambassador and a Eustis was compiled with It was the only instance of the kind known to me in my somewhat extensive experience of pas senger vessels"
 Vice-President William Berney of the Bank of Montgomery. was in town yester- terday.
 Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks B. M. Allen has returned from lengthy sojourn on the North Atlantic coast.
 
 pr. Davidson Is spending a week or two at Blount.
 The residents of the South Highlands are discussing the advisability of the city cut ting down the Twentieth street hill before 1t puts the property holders to the expense of paving Twentieth street. They claim that the hill is steep that it is difficult to use it now for vehicles, and that when paved it will be more difficult to use It has been suggested that even 2-foot cut on the top and a 2-foot fill on the bottom could be made without injury to adjoining property owners, and that this could be done without even lowering the sidewalk a retaining wall being put in instead of the curbing. It is suggested that the city engineer should take this matter up and try to get this done before the work of paving the street is started.
 Distinguished Montgomerans in town are Former Governor Jones. Colonel J. M. Falkner and Hon. Alex Troy.
 State Senator G. B. Deans, of Shelby, is in Birmingham.
 Walter Prescott, of Chicago, is spending a day or two with his Birmingham friends. Today is the first anniversary of the death of the amented Colonel Henry Clay I ompkins, of Montgomery, the widely known leader of the Alabama bar, mem- ory of whose good deeds and noble worth is treasured throughout the state.
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part on account of the demands of a great standing army. and in part on account of the unsoundness of public sentiment. A nation that is deliberately capable of in justice is rotten, and that is precisely what ails France today. She Is rotten through out She can be as cruel and as unjust and as brutal as Rome was. No wonder then that she is decaying. No wonder that her population is stationary. that her arms are not victorious; that provinces are flched from her; that her capital became the source of the German empire; that she quailed before England at Fashoda and that she holds today her colonies by suf- ferance of that same England. Poor de- erepit. decadent, unjust Francel
The age-herald., 1899-09-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A girl always acts like sine was mortified when you speak of garters as "coquet- ish."
 The only members of their own sex who can fool some women are their own daugh- ters.
 After a girl gets married she can never understand how she escaped some terrible dangers.
 When a girl is thinking of saying It to some man. she tells him that such ex- pressions as dear heart" are too sacred to be used to any one but ones mother
 The girl who acts like she was unsophis- tlcated because she thinks the men like it is bound to give herseh away to her girl friends. And they give her away to the men.
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MOST COSTLY DRESS IN THE weRLl

From the Philadelphia Times.
 Of course it comes from Paris-the home of strangely extravagant ideas. young lady of noble family is determined to get up costume far more gorgeous than any ever before worn by woman. She is now having the designs made according to her notions. She was acquainted with the the ory that added brillancy is given to jewels by the sheen of healthy skin, having often noticed the fact that diamonds and pearls flash more brightly on shining necks and shoulders. She has, therefore given orders for entire costume to be made of onthhng but precious stones and precious metals.
 The pearls, diamonds and rubies are to be so set that they will be in immediate contact with the wearer's' skin. The lower part of the costume will be almost solid, the gold and silver being beaten very thin, so as to be extremely pllable and light. The arms, hands, feet, neck and shoulders are to be almost covered with loops of pearls, stars of diamonds and rings of all kinds. The breast will shine with stars and crescents of rubies, emeralds and dia- monds.
 The rest of the body will be covered
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Society in St. Clair

"The Desolated Blue-Eyed Duck" writes to the Springville News these interesting society notes:
 Our girls are wanting to see Mir. Chandler again.
 We will soon have our pencil used up MT. Wash; hurry up.
 We would like to know who it Is that writes such long letters to Miss Perlie. Does any one know?
 Wonder where Frost was going Sunday, ha, ha. He had his hat with him this week.
 The blue-eyed duck wears a desolute ex- pression and is as sad and lonely as a mourning dove since brown-eyed duck has left her.
 We saw MT. Frost pass down the road Monday; he looked like he might have talk ed to the ladies.
The age-herald., 1899-09-12
GRAM MAR
From Judy.

From Judy.
 He Ca suitor)-Grammarians have never been quite sure of the proper distinction between T shall" and "I will" but to my mind there is no difficulty.
 She-I don't quite know the distinction myself.
 He (thinking he sees his opportunity)- We'll take the question, "Wil you marry me?" Supposing I ask you. your reply would be not 'I will" but
 She (emphatically)-I won't.
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Four Documents Sold By Somebody.

Before the Dreyfus case is crowded out of mind by the swift rush of events, it may be well to recall the nature of the charge against the accused. It is charged that while a probationer of the general staff he sold to an attache of the German embassy four documents, as follows:s
 1. A note relating to Madagascar affairs.
 ?. A note on the covering of troops.
 3. A note on the changes in artillery for nations.
 1. A note as to a hydraulic brake for gun 12O, heavy field piece, and as to the action of the brake over rough ground.
 The court at Rennes refused to ask for the testimony of the military attache of the German embassy in 1891, although he is alive and well and very accessible, No attempt was made to show that the notes were actually delvered no attempt was made to follow them farther than the doe uments in the secret dossier and the bor- dereau went. All these documents were under suspicion, some of them being known forgerles, all DelhS or uoup14ui hieo"iiie W importance. No effort was seriously made to sift the matter. Two of the court, how ever, declared Captain Dreyfus innocent of treason and the public long ago determln- ed that Esterhazy and Henry and Du Paty de Clam were guilty of treason, and that they succeeded in shifting the blame upon Captain Dreyfus because he twas born
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THE EDITORS
 AND THEIR TALK

The Montgomery Advertiser thus hits a ten-penny nail squarely on the head:
 When a man is forever boasting that he is a self-made man he fails to realize that most of his hearers are reverently thankful that the Almighty had nothing to do with the job.
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of the brilllants will be purchased in IuAe rough and cut into shapes which best ae- cord with the places in which they are set. That the costume when finished will dost a large fortune goes without saying. F.
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FROM A I'D IZZAkn

From the Boston Globe.
 Boston's Labor day parade started at the public library and ended at ehe postofIice both resorts of men of letters.
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Prosperous PrattvilIe

The growing town of the famous Daniel Pratt is putting on airs. The Progress says:
 The Prattville postoffice has been made a presidential office, and beginning with the next quarter the postmaster, pr. c. A. Edwards, will receive a salary, also an al- lowance for rent, lights and fuel.
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A Fufauia Freak

The Eufaula Times has discovered a three-legged chicken:
 MT. M. D. Britt has strange curiosity in the shape of a three-egged chicken. The chicken is now four months old and the legs are all well grown. The third leg. situated between the other two is of no assistance to its owner but uselessly draps the ground.
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Ma adison'R Ten Williams

Huntsville and Madison county continue to expand. The Huntsville Mercury says:
 The prosperity of the city is shown by the fact that the valuation of city prop erty was raised about $360,0O0 and that of the county only s66,000. The total valua- tion of property in all of Madison county is now something like s10.O00.OOO.
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Popular Dick Kelly

The people of Autauga are very fond of the good Chancellor Kelly. The Prattvile Progress says:
 Chancellor R. B. Kelly held court in this place last Monday and Tuesday, The chan cellor is very popular with all our people,
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HOW ABOUT THE AMERICAN CUP

From the St. Louis Republic
 What's in a name? Shamrock was built in England by a Scotehman and hasn't an Irishman in her entire crew.
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Caibert Candidates

The Tuscumbia Dispatch prints the cards of thirty candidates for county offices Jackson county now shows up with fifty two such candidates.
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If Mercier and his crowd can accomplish it, Colonel Jouaust will soon be a general. If boot-icking will win promotion in the French army, Jouaust can have what he wants.
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Browns university, with keen business perceptions. made MT. Rockefeller's pastor its president and now It has become sharp rival of Chicago university for Rockefeller plums.
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Ad Went tourting

The Sulligent Lightning thus ''gives away" one of it's esteemed fellow-citizens:
 Ad Hill has taken a couple of days off this week to go "courting," and he still wears that alluring and expanding smile.
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Advice to Miliionaires

The Fort Payne Times gives this advice, evidently intended for it's millionaire read CTS:
 Look carefully at every $5 bill that you receive and see that the letter A appears in the upper right hand corner of the face of the bill.
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A Twenty-nine Dollar Tree
The Florence Herald says:

A Mr Kant, of near Gravelly Springs, cut one hundred and fifteen railroad cross- ties out of one tree recently. The tree was within fifty yards of the Tennessee river and ties brought 25 cents apiece.
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The Lowndes County News wants this state to adopt bi-cropism as we'll as oi- metallism, as a steadfast policy. It wants something besides cotton and politics.
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Next week Johnny will go marching off to school in this town.
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. Great Sale of Pine Lands

A great sale of pine lands is noted by the Troy Messengers:
 There Is on file for record at the probate office a deed made by the Knowles Pine Land company. of Alabama, transferring s2O9S.36 acres of land to Jesse P. Williams, of Pensacola, Fla, for a consideration of STA, ,9S6SS
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Limestone county has decided to have one wet" and one dry primary. The establishment of the dispensary is the di- yiding line.
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Rennes has by the verdict won an un- enviable reputa ton among cities
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A Hint to O,r Jess

While Mir. Stallings is busy talking to the alleged "sovereigns" in the several coun- ties, the Mobile News rises to remark:
 Greenville oats have not been quoted re- gently.
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Esterhazy says he wrote the borderau, but the court preferred to believe Dreyfus did 1t. The court was built that way.
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Query

The Mobile Register comes forward with this very important question:
 Has Midway, Alabama, a Plaisance?
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It is reported that Esterhazy is coming to America to lecture. He must covet close contact with the stale-egg crop.
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The Shamrock has been painted green and Is a come-on.
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The Birmingham complaint is spreading to Anniston. House rents are going up in that town, and the people regret the change.
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Montgomery and Troy have adopted the Huntsville factory two-step and are step- ping around lively in a search for shops of all sorts.
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In a certain sense the Rennes verdict has discredited republics, but France is really ruled more by it's huge army than by the people.
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Emperor William displays tendency to be lboth the church and the state.
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The Carter case is now in it's second year of waiting on the calendar of the republican party.
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The crop of cotton may be short in this state, but the commonwealth is Hong" in politics.
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Colonel Jouaust is the best example of an epauletted boss that the world has seen in a long tme
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Little or no evidence and many cock sure opinions made up the Dreyfus case
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Toledo Sam Jones was his own guberna torial convention.
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"Former Ambassador Eustis, whose un- expected death will cause general regret. was the perfect type of the southern gen. tleman as he used to be-" said an Ala bamian who had enjoyed the honor of the dead statesman's acquaintance. "He was a striklngly handsome man. His bearing was noble; his sense of courtesy such as that ascribed to princes. Neither in speech nor manner or movement did he ever suffer himself to fall into the common inele- gancies of our day. He bore himself with dignity and benighty. America has not been represented at Paris in a generation by any man so well-qualified and so worthy as Mir. Eustis, this country's first represen- tative to bear the title of Ambassador to France. It was whilst he was in Paris, in 1897, that his wife died. Mrs. Eustis, with a son and daughter, was staying in Ireland on an estate that the family had leased for hunting and other sport, when the end came to her with terrible sudden ness. I was in Queenstown at the time
 and MT. Eustis telegraphed me, saying that his wife's remains, in charge of his son, would arrive at that place on the next night for shipment to America by the pas senger ship leaving the following day, and asking me to give his son such assistance as could
 The remains were conveyed in the special funeral car provided by the railway for distinguished dead At o'clock on a cold, rainy morning we had a tug along- side the railway station, and the casket was taken down the harbor to the great liner an, quietly placed aboard. Darkness