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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
Maryland in Line Again.

Maryland is again a democratic state,
and old-time majorities may reasonably be
expected hereafter. The trial of republican
rule has chiefly resulted in republican dis
sensions nearly all of which were unwhole-
some and dlscreditable to the state. The
raid against Mr. German in 1895 handed
over the state to the republicans. and they
have since controlled il, but in a short time
all departments of the State and of its CHIEF
city will be in democratic hands. And the
democratic nominee for president will next
year receive the electoral vote of the state
a considerable loss to Mr.. Mckinley.
Beyond all question, the manner in which
Admiral Schley has been treated by the adj
ministratio had weight in the Maryland
| election. Says the Washington Posi- in this
| connection: "The persecution of Admiral
4Schley by the navy department has cut
more or less important figure i'm this result.
1t is only natural, considering the pro-
found resentment and disgust of the people
at large, that Maryland, Sehley's native
state, should take special notice of the
scandal. The president was warned on this
point months ago. and those who warned
him were in position to know whereof
they spoke. We can believe without any
effort whatsoever that a very considerable
republican element has been alienated by
this discreditable and odious episode 1t
has impressed US during the past twelve
months as a disgrace to the administration,
and we are not surprised to find it regarded
in the same light in Maryland
But the chief cause of the change must
be sought in those who had become disgust
ed over the pandering to the negro VOTE
the acts of nsrule and the amending dis
sensions of the republicans. Practically
speaking, all democrats have returned to
the fold, and the state is again as demo-
cratic on all occasions Missouri. She is
again in a normal condition. She is herself
again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
Mr.. Henry NeilI, Cotton Expert.

The crop estimates of Mr.. Neill will be
wholly discredited or wholly vindicated by
the outturn of the present crop. If the crop
be Il 100000 bales Mr.. Neil's judgment will
be confirmed and his standing will be
dangerously high. 1t is greater now than
any fallible man should command, and a
eleven-million crop this year would add to
the weight of his prophetic words.
But a crop of ten million bales or less
would dlscredit him as thoroughly in other
states and other countries as he now is
discredited in the south. 1t is believed in
this section that he will be thus discredit-
ed. As an umpire he would thus be over
thrown. As governor of prices he would
be powerless. His utterances would be but
the words of an average man engaged in
the cotton trade.
Perhaps the remedy is to be found in the
proposed warehouse system, under which
producers would become Independent of Mr..
Neill's premature opinions. If a producer
of 100 bales can at reasonable rates store
his cotton, securing on it at once the
money he needs, he can snap his myers az
all of Mr.. Neills opinions that he has rea-
SON to believe are unfounded. No other
remedy is perhaps SO thorough. The mere
overthrow of Mr.. Neill will not suffice, for
other false prophets would arise, and some
of them might not be as cautious as Mr..
Neill is Two or three lucky crop-guesses
makes a prophet. Every neighborhood has
scale He aims to do crop-guessng for the
whole world, while most of his brethren
are content with a local reputation. The
list of lucky crop-guessers is large, and the
suppression of Mr.. Neil, who Is a chronic
bear, will not put an end to the evil.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
Hemminu in AuuinaId0.

General Otis is trying to bag President
Aguinaldo, or General Aguinaldo, or Aguin-
aldo without title: as the reader may prefer
to speak of him. His scheme consists in
shutting him up in the valley that the rail-
road to Dagupan, 1870 miles long, traverses
Wheaton is at the Dagupan end of the sack,
and Macarthur at the Manila end. The
bag it will be seen, had two ends. There is
hole also in near the center of 1.-THE
valley Of the Agno that leads to the mount
aims in the eastern part of the island.
Lawton is scouting in close proximity to the
Agno line of retreat. Tarlac and Bayam
bang are points at present threatened by
these movements.
Aguinalde cannot go west of the railroad,
because that would be but to run in a trap.
The district west of the railroad is narrow.
His only line of retreat is to the mountains
east of the railroad. Whether the
movement to capture him succeeds
or not, the willy chief will be
forced to leave the railroad line,
inadequate supplies but he will also find
natives who do not like the Tagals. Doubt
less as the dry season approaches, and
General Otis army is carried to high num-
beers, Aguinaldo will have to be alert and
nirnble in order to escape capture. He
seems to have abandoned all efforts to
stand against the American troops. He re-
treats from one line to another as rapidly
as his line is uncovered. This kind of war;
fare is perplexing and tiresome, but it is
plainly the kind of warfare that the ad-
ministration will continue to encounter I'M
less indeed it can capture Aguinaldo and
his entire outfit. That is what Wheaton
has been sent to Dagupan to accomplish.
Tarlac will then cease to be the Filipino
capital and some mountain town will gain
for awhile notoriety as capital city.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
Public Education Again.

The Livingston Southern Home is op-
nesed TO taxation for public schools, on the
ground that part of the money thus raised
is thrown away on a race made worse by
education If the contention of Uhe Home
could be snbstantiated, the south would
indeed be in a pitiable situation. 1t would
he weighted down with a hopeless mass of
illiterato blacks. Every southern state
would drift deeper into the abyss of Hitter
aey until the South American level was
reached.
But there is not 9 bit of foundation for
the assertion that the blacks are made
worse by education. Thousands of them
have been educated at Booker Washington's
school in Tnskegee, and at President Coun-
ellis school near Huntsville, and a sur
prisingly small number OF them have be-
come criminals. Education. when long
maintained, does not make criminals any
where. 1t is the great improving force of
The age in we1ich we live, and every ad-
vanced nation in the world is utilizing 1t.
The figures that the Home quotes, de-
strate not so much the effects of education,
as of Inferior training in a period of change
old to the new involves some trouble and
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
KOLB's CONGRATULATIONS
To the Democrats of Alabama for Adopting
His Platform

Editor of the Choctaw Alliance.
I have noticed several editorial para
graphs in the issue of your valuable paper
of date October IS, calling on me to become
a candidate for governor again. A call
of that kind from you must command great
respect from any one so honored.
The people of Alabama are now united
upon the principles which you and I ad-
vised them to embrace and live by ten
years ago. THE democracy of Alabama is
now the reunited white voters and they
will put up no leader who does not stand
for the supreme doctrine equal rights for
all and special privileges for none," which
bound us together through years of strug-
gle.
No candidate for the highest office in the
gift of the people ever had a constituency
more representative of the great masses
than l had, and no candidate was ever
prouder of his following or more consecrat-
ed to their welfare than myself 1t touches
my heart with tenderest memories to know
from you and hundreds of others from
whom have recently received letters, that
1 am still remembered with an affection by
them. that adversely can not shake nor
time impair.
l am glad to know that you agree with
me, that the right thing for my former fol-
lowers to do is to return to the democratic
party and advise every voter to take part
in the democratic primaries and thus Sc
cure representative delegates to the next
democratic state convention.
Very truly yours,
r. r. KOLB.
Birmingham, Ala, October 90, 1899.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

John B. Gaston. City Court Clerk Henry
Mathews. c. Z. Westeott and B. W. Walk
er, of Montgomery. are In the city.
Hon. Joseph J. Wiliett of Admission, is in
the city.
II. L. Mckee, of Selma, and Cecil Browne,
of Talladega, are in town.
Editor Simpson. of the Tuscumbia Dis
patch, is in town.
Charles G. Sherman, of Chattanooga, is in
Birmingham.
State Superintendent of Education John
w. Abercrombie. Agricultural Commission
er l. F. Culver, Major A. r. Ninninger,
Major A. A. MADISON and DIR. w. T. Ken
drick, of Montgomery, arrived in town last
night.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
LiDDITE
From the New York World.

FROM the New YORK World.
General Joubert has protested to General
White against the use of lyddite, on the
ground that its use is a barbarism, intoler-
able in civilized warfare.
Lyddite is made by treating carbolic with
nitric acid. 1t is therefore picric acid. But
picric acid is so enormously explosive in its
impulses as to be incapable of use or even
of safe handling. In the manufacture of
lyddite picric acid is subjected to a secret
process which renders 1T safe to handle
as ordinary gunpowder without in the least
impairing its terrific explosive force.
Lyddite is the most destructive explosive
that can be handled with safety by its user
Ounce for ounce it is from five to seven
times more destructive than nitro glycerne
and from forty to ffty-six times more pow
ertul than the best gunpowder.
1t is safe to handle, and no other high ex-
plosive is 1t gives off no sickening fumes.
1t can be fired from ordinary guns without
danger of explosion from conclusion.
A shell full of lyddite thrown into asregi-
ment produces the same effect as dynamite
exploded in a stream full of fish--plus
blood and mangling and the sounds of crea-
lures in anguish. =
would doubtless call the quintessence of the
glory of 1.-THE strenuous life.'
II the word 'civilzed" were not so out
of place as a qualification of warfare it
would be easier to decide whether or not
lyddite belongs with poisoned arrows and
explosive bullets. -,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
GENERAL wHEELEK's STATUS
When Sworn in Representative He
Loses His Commission

From the Washington Times.
UNLESS General Wheeler has already left
the Philippines he cannot be present at the
organization of the house of representatives
on December A. remarked a prominent Off
cial of the treasury department this MORN
ing to a Times reporter. ut takes over
thirty days to make the trip from the
Philippines to this country, and as General
Wheeler is still engaged in quelling the
insurrection in those islands, 1T will be seen
that he cannot be in the house on Deem
Der 4. a.
at is not likely that any one will ques-
ton the generals right to take the OATH
or, rather be sworn in as member of
congress, for by that act he WILL 1t is
claimed forfeit his commission in the army
His position now is different from what it
was when he was first commissioned a
majorgeneral. AT that time he was
member of the house, and Representative
Bailey, of Texas, held that by accepting a
commission in the army General Wheeler
had vacated his seat in the house as a rep
resentative- from Alabama. And the gem
eral never attempted to exercise any of
the prerogatives of a representative except
oi the last QdS VI the Session Wnen he
made several Intellectual efforts to catch the
speakers eye, but Speaker Reed ignored
him.
This time General Wheeler must be
sworn in anew, and I think it will be held
by the authorities that if he is sworn in
as a member he Will by that act va
cate his command in the army.
ut is incompatible with the constitution
of the United States,' concluded the treas
ury official, "for man to be both an officer
of the army or navy and member of con-
gress at one and the same time
General Henderson of Iowa, who will be
the next speaker of the house it will be
remembered, made report to the house
last session on the Bailey resolution, de-
claring that by accepting a commission in
the volunteer army for the war with Spain
General Wheeler had forfeited his right to
a seat in the house. OF course the house
never acted on the report, for the reason
that owing to the lateness of the session the
representatives refused to consider the
question:
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
To, subtle for the Engiishman

General Benjamin r. Tracy. who mas res
turned from the Venezuelan boundary COM
mission in Paris, gained quite a reputation
as wit during his sojourn abroad says
the New York World. Cine of his sallies
was during tihe DreYfus trial. He was ex-
planning to one OF the French councillors
the method oR procedure at law in thSs
country. The French lawyer interrupted
thin, saying:
But, according to What you say, my dear
general, l don't see how, by your American
methods, you ever succeed dn eonyicting a
man.
EXACTLY retorted the general. And
by your French methods, l don't see how
you ever succeed in acqubtting a mani
Some time afterward General Tracy was
engaged in a discussion with another Amer
lean on Professor Markhan's much-tallSed-
of poem, 1.-The Man With the Hoe An
Englishman who was listening to the argu-
ment asked who the man with the hoe was.
1.-The Man With the Hoe?" repeated the
general. "Why, that is the newspaper
man
Somebody had to hammer treatise ON
printing presses into the Englishman's head
before he saw the point.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
DAY BREAK

wind came up out of the sea
And said, 80 mists, make room for mer'
1t hailed the ships and cried, "Sail on,
Ye mariners, the night is gone.'
And hurried 1andward far away,
Crying, Awake! it is the day.
1t said unto the forest, ''Shouti
Hang all your leafy banners out!''
1t touched the wood-bird's folded wing,
And said, 20 bird, awake and sing"
And Ger the farmers, 80 chanticleer!
Your clarion blow; the day is near"
1t whispered to the fields of corn,
'tBow down, and hail the coming dnorn!'
1t shouted through the belfry tower,
Awake, o bell! proclaim the hour!'
1t crossed the churchyard with sigh.
And said, mot yet! in quiet lie.'
Henry w. Longfellow.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

would Change the Ratio

The late M. Seheurer- Kestner yice-presi-
dent of the French senate, was a scientific
writer of great ability, a distinguished
chemist and predetermined philanthropist,
says the Saturday Evening Post. 1t was in
these capacities that he was known to the
public, of which few knew the other side
of his character. His intimate friends
knew him as raconteur and wit. Many
of his epigrams afforded amusement to the
literary world of the French capital. Dur
ing the Dreyfus excitement he remarked:
'Voltaire said we Frenchmen were half
monkey and halt tiger. Were he alive to-
day he would change the ratio to the dis
favor of the kingly carnivora.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

Bill Fletcher is a lineman for the Michf-
gan Telephone company, and is known to
be witty. He doesn't like to wear a hat
on hot days, either says the Electrical Re-
view. kind-hearted old lady saw Bill,
the other day, near Saline, digging away
bareheaded at a post-hole. So she went
into the house and got one of her husbands
old hats.
cts too bad Won haven't got hat; take
this ONE, said she and not wishing to Of
fend her, Bill accepted the proffer. When
the job was completed he went to the door,
and, thanking her, said that he could not
keep the hat.
"But you must keep it," she said. "You
will bake your brains cut If you don't wear
something over your head this hot
weather"
"Oh, no, I won't" said Bill. 81 haven't
got any brains. If had | wouldn't be dig
ging postholes." =
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
The Compliment Was Lost

When President Mckinley was governor
of Ohio, during the first term, me and his
wife, who was then more an invalid than
she is now, lived at the Hotel Chjttenden,
at Columbus, relates the Indianapolis jour-
nal The governor was the ex-otfcio
trustee of the various state institutions.
and made semi-annual calls. Each time flfs
visit was scheduled a any of the institu-
tons, the inmates would make elaborate
preparations, as would THE officials in
Charge, to make the governors visit a
pleasant one. During a visit to the Deaf
and Dumb Institute one evening, the gov-
errnor watched with delight the movements
of the mutes who "recited" by graceful
signs and gestures The governor became
SO interested that after one of the young
ladies had "signed" 'dle Lords prayer and
took her place near the governor, he ex-
tended his hand and unconseiously said:
II am sure your recitation was very
beautiful" but The pretty compliment was
lost.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

Washington, November 1e-The Novem-
Der report of the statistician of the depart
ment of agriculture will give 25.2 bushels
as the average yield per acre of corn, ac-
cording to the preliminary returns of the
departments correspondents. The prelimi--
nary estimate last year was 24.s bushels:
that of 1897 23.7 bushels. and the mean of
the preliminary estimates of the last ten
years, 24.0 bushels.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELoR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
A revival has about the same interest for
a woman that man feels at prize fight.
Every man, the first year he has baby,
has his times when he wishes he could go
somewhere and throw 1T away.
1t says in the Bible that all men are liars
1t doesn't say anything about the women,
because the man that wrote ii was married.
The women have an idea that when one of
them has just accepted man, he always
kisses her hand and then skips around AMI
acts like schoolboy.
When woman's instincts do not lead her
not to wound the man she loves, either
there is something wrong with her ms tincts
or something wrong with her love.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
THE CITY OF RIRMINGHAM

From the Florence Herald
The phenomenal growth of the city of
Birmingham is always a matter of pride
with the people of the entire state of Ala
bama. The Age-Herald of Sunday, in a
magnificent issue CT forty pages. sets forth
this marvellous increase in a splendid man
city of population equal TO that of the
Magic City.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
wILLAKp's HOTEL 10 BE TORN BOWS

Times.
Wizards hotel landmark of Washing
ton, is to be torn down and a new hotel
with the same name viii be erected on the
site. Mr.. Willard has formed a company
for the purpose The hotel is not only
Washington Landmark, but has a place in
American history 1t was the headquarters
of the secession sympathizers after the first
election of Lincoln, and it was to combat
the operations OF the secessionists at Will
lard's hotel that the first, Union League
club was formed
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

Hereafter The Age-IIeraId viii be strictly a
daily newspaper 1t will go to It's subscribers
every day In the year, Mondays and ALI heii-
days includes. 1t is the only daily newspaper
in Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

teacher in Westchester. and never knew
any of the qualify I like 10 see man
rise. but I fear society has somewhat
turned Bourke's head. He is very airy
these days. and he is as conspicuous at
every great function as Chauncey DepeH.
1 near he has turned out a coat-of-arrns
and nYeries
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
Itveryone to His Trade

The recent death Of Nine. Aubernon de
Neville in Paris recalls a reply once made
to her by Dumas fills, who did not enjoy a
certain kind of lionizing, relates the
Chicago News. At a dinner at Nine. Au-
bernon's one evening he set next to a GER
tain German general, who was Disconnected
by Dumas chilly manner.
"Why do you not tell the general some
of your witty stories?" asked the hostess,
in whisper.
mon Deu Madame replied Dumas in
his most ingenious way, everyone to his
trade-I was waiting for him to fire off
eannon!"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
Ex-Conyiet Hanged

stephensville, Tex, November 1p.-Thomas
Wright, an ex-convict, was banged today
The condemned man killed John Adams, a
farmer because he believed the latter was
the cause of lhis being sent to the peniten-
tiary.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
From the Demopolis Express.

The Age-Herald has taken great step
forward in printing a Monday paper. 1t
has always seemed strange to us no Ala
bama daily was really daily. The blank
between Sunday and Monday might be
filed with the most important news but
people would have to get it from other
papers. Now that the Age Herald gives us
a Monday issue we feel that we are once
more in touch with the world.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
Eetter IL Reversed

Here is story which is told of the
Princess of Wales. On one occasion she
visited the museum of Scotland Yard, where
she saw the photographs of countless
rogues, and also some of the methods en-
ployed for the detection and the punish-
ment of crime, says the Baltimore Herald.
1T is all very clever said the kindly
princess, with little sigh, 'but if the
world were only as anxious to discover and
reward good men as it is the bad how very
pleasant life would be-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

Oholly Knckerbocker in The New York
Journal.
The steeplechase will have the very best
of weather-ideal, in fact. 1 have never
known it more dnvigoratang on Long Island.
The island is vying with Tuxedo in gayety.
The hunt breakfast at Sands Point on Sat-
urday lasted until nearly dark. 1t was the
contribution of Bourke Cochran to the
hunt. His house at Sands Point with it's
addition, is very beautiful place now, and
the affair was elaborate in the extreme.
These days one speaks of Bourke as a
fixture in society. How odd from a few
years ago, when ne was a travelling school
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
From the Greensboro Waterman.

From the Greensboro Watchman.
The Birmingham Age-Herald of last Sun
day was paper of forty pages The man
agement announces that in future the paper
will be printed every day in the year-hofi-
days included The Age-Herald under. Mr..
Rarrett's administration has been growing
and prospecting. which fact is most crafty
ing.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
From the Hamilton News.

We are glad to notice that the Birming
ham Age-Herald is now issuing paper
every day in the week. This will increase
the popularity of the paper two-fold, and
We take pleasure in congratulating the
management.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, who is q
Divorce, uses her maiden name in private
life, retaining her married name in her
books at the dictation of her publishers.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
SEVEN DAYS IN THE WEEK

From the Gadsden Times-News.
The Age-Herald now issues a Monday
paper, and is truly daily paper. 1t has
improved wonderfully since e. w. Barrett
gained control of it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11

All lies from South Africa are now blamed
upon the pigeon post, because the pigeons
themselves are speechless.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
From the Gurley Herald.

fIOlH unS AuTiey HERALD
The Birmingham Age-Herald issued a
very handsome forty-page state Fair Edi-
tion" Sunday. They announce hereafter
they will Issue paper every day i'm the
week. We are glad to know they are pros
perng.