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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-23

The Flllplnos refuse to accept Otis cabled
Intelligence that the war is over.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-23

What is wanted now is pianist who is
enough of genius to get along with short
H. fr
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-23

A jackrabbit sausage factory is in sue
cessful operation in Kansas.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-23

1t is a question now whether Cecil Rhodes
will relieve General Methuen, or vice versa.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-23

I.awton and Mckinley were both private
soldiers at the beginning of the civil war;
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-23

Capsules filled with sand, taken after each
meal, constitute the new cure for dyspepsia.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-23

OF all days in the year Christmas is the
day when men should be sober and decent.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-06-23
R0IXAL 81! 4! ss*":s s$*::s
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
PURE

Ike grining hy@nas. Oh! | wish l was
making bread again. All this triohtens
me-"
The tears ran from her eyes, her
hair had become looscncd, and the roy
al tiara was hanging from the tangled
strands. She was ludlcrous even in
her grief.
:You will soon get used to it,
said, as consolingly US 1 could.
"Iou don't get used to being skin
ned alive. But it pleased Popa," she
added, with pitlful attempt at bright
ness. Hes all | have. and, if don t
please him, IN not worth red cent.
You don't know how good he's been to
me. Look at all this. Oh, I'd give
my eyes to do it better. You re real grit,
and won't tell You found me like this,
will you? Popa doesn't understand
and, as you say, l shall get used to it
soon-but it makes me kinder sick
when they laugh. An I see it all.
But being the father of a countess
pleases Popa, an, SO long as he doesn't
know, it don't NATTER And this was
my last meeting with 'Melia Ann
London Outlook.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-06-23
\ MIST AXE RTGHTED.

he rattle OF cups and SauccrS and
the sound of laughter and talk met my
ears as | was ushered into the draw
ing room of my cousin Mrs. Darrell
Bruce, one afternoon early in Novem-
Der.
had not seen her for nearly six
years. Then she was Helena Graves,
and now, after many weary days and
nights, after hunger, heartaches and
wearness, | had come back to my ma
tive place, to the home Of my fathers.
l wondered dimly if Helena would
recognize me. True, she expected me
some day soon, but l have changed,
and from the merry, laughing young
fellow I had gone away had come
back sober man, with hair well
streaked with gray and deep lines on
my face, caused by hardship and sor-
row.
[ need not have worried over such a
trifie, for no sooner had l entered the
door, before even the stately butler
could announce me, than Helena gave
little cry of Bert = and rushed pell-
nell INTO my arms. l had not received
such welcome for many long day,
and somehow it brought sob into my
throat and tear to my eye.
1t was certainly home at last. He
lena at once brought her husband
whom | remembered as boy about
my own age, with whom l used to
have pitched battles occasionally lly-to
me and told him that | was her own
dear cousin, who had returned at last
like the prodigal son.
Bruce shook my hand heartily and
said that he knew more about me than
l probably knew about myself.
"Thats libel, Bert, isn't it p cried
Helena, pouting.
| was on the point of making a
laughing rejoinder when out of the
twilight, as it were, there stole slen-
der figure in widow weeds, and a sad,
sweet voice said:
And do you remember me!'
Did | remember her? Oh, heavens,
do | remember myself, my troubles,
my fighting with relentless fate in the
hope that my feeble strength might
perhaps present the turning of the
wheels of fate? Do l remember the
endless pacing on my floor night after
night or the days spent in seeking to
forget in pleasure ahd excitement?
"You are Mrs. Ludington," I said,
rising.
She held out her hand. and | took
it in mine once more. At that mo.
ment | did not feel thankful that | had
seen her again, as had prayed to do
so often only felt that fate, indom-
liable fate had once more seized me in its
merciless grasp, and the old memories,
which | thought | had stamped out of
my heart, rose as strong rs of yore.
After my cousin had assertained
that intended staying with her for a
week or two, or as long as she wanted
ne, she said, which her husband added .
would he forever, she fitted away to
attend to her other guests, some of
whom were staying in the house and
others who were merely callers.
Mrs. Lulington leaned back in her
chair and looked at me steadily. She
wished to examine me, to see if | had
grown taller or shorter, stouter or
ugicr or better looking.
"Uglier, fancy" replied with a
sigh. | felt old and tired and gray
beside these society people.
''IIandsome is that handsome does"
she said under her breath. Was |
mistaken or was there catch in her
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-06-23
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voice as of tears unshed? She did not
look happier or younger than when I
saw her last i'll spite of it all.
Then l am frightful indeed and
laughed aloud at the idea.
NO" she said in curiously quiet
tone. ''Handsome would be too weak
word to use in describing you. should
call you hero, martyr, match
maker, and, oh, above all, the destroy
er of your own happiness and mine"
looked at her in amazement.
~ our intentions were good" she
continued, and her voice grew bitter.
Il have no doubt you thought YOU
were doing me kind action. Ah,
you men, how little do you know, when
all is told, of woman and woman's ma
ture! When girl laughs and talks
with man. you at once jump at the
conclusion that she is IN love with him.
1t never occurs to you that it is the
quiet one, the man who thought he
loved her SO much that he was willing
to give her up to insure her happiness,
that she loved.
Her voice ran loud and clear through
the keserted room. My cousin and
husband had gone to speed the part
ing guests, and we were alone.
rose hastily and TODD in front of
her. She must know all. but who
told her. No he, surely and not |. We
were the only two that knew.
"Madge," said in an agitated tone,
unconsciously using the old name,
"what do you mean?'
"l am speaking to the man who de.
liberately gave up the girl who loved
him and who thought he loved her to
another, and that brute, who made her
life miserable for four years"
Was this woman, who stood before
me with flashing eyes and trembling
lips, the girl | knew long ago? The
girl with whom I stood on the old
wooden bridge and told her, as the
suns last CLEANS shone on her bronze
hair and lit up her pale face, that l
was going away to war and might
never come back again.
The lights grew DINNER and DIM
mer i'll the room, the noise and hustle
in the streets indistinct, and there in
that hour she told her story. How
she loved me, and only me, from the
beginning. How she laughed and
hirted with Godfrey Ludington be-
cause she thought l was indifferent to
her and only married him at last be-
cause had gone away and he grew
so persistent
''And then, Bert she continued,
and her voice grew sad, "when God
frey was dying he confessed all that
he had pleaded and begged of you to
exchange regiments with him, and af-
ter night of misery, out of your great
love for me, you consented to do so.
Bert, l hated my husband at that mo-
ment, dying though he was. After he
died wandered the wide world over
in search of peace and found it not.
Then l came home again. met your
cousin, and she told me that you were
alive and well and were soon to return,
and now" | said softly.
You are safe" she replied.
"And you?' p | asked, holding her
hands so that she could not hide her
face
81 am happy in the thought that
you were not eaten by cannibals, mar
ried to squaw, killed by wild ami
mails or captured by savages." And
she tried to laugh, but it was poor
attempt.
"But instead have come home like
a christian, to marry the best girl in
all the world and live and die happy
ever after. Eh, Madge?"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-06-23
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Shc-Did you argue the matter with
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He-Ies. We had sort of run
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If you have more money than you
can spend just hand the rest to your
wife or mother in-law.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-06-23

1loetrn.

poetrn.
JUST HALF.
If half the thoughts we think each day
Were nearer heavens holiness,
Our feet would tread higher way,
Our lives would blight no more, but hl .sS
If half the words Spea each day
Were of a sweeter, gentler kind,
Our lives would fuller be of May.
With less OF winters chilly wind
IL half the deeds we do each day
For nObler purposes were done,
Our souls would not so often say.
"A wasted day at set of sun.
If half the life we live each day,
Were filled with broad and generous love,
The world would better be; the way
OF earth more like the life above.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
PERPETUATING AN ESTATE.
Levi II. MOrton's Plan for Saving His
Property to His Children.
Philadelphia Times.

L
More than nine-tenths of the American
fortunes accumulated before the present
generation have been for variety of rea-
tba 19 the aston and %anIer
Tilt fortunes constitute the most conspic-
uous exceptions to this rule. In some cases,
like that of A L. Stewart no children were
left to inherit and increase the estates OF
those whose lives had been devoted to the
successful accumulation of money In
great majority of instances the CHILDREN
of successful financierS seem to have in
herited keen faculty for spending mon
ey as their fathers did for accommodating IT.
This obvious tendency Of great fortunes TO
melt away into nothingness after the death
of their founders appears to have impressed
Levi p. Morton, former Vice President ana
Governor and the senior member OF the
firm of Morton. Bliss & co. He has an
nounced his intention to try the experiment
of perpetuating both his fortune and his
the Morton Trust Company. he makes
public statement to the effect that his Cd.
ject is to preserve TO his children some OF
world which would otherwise disappear
with the final dissolution of the firm with
which his name is SO prominentiy f tIn new
corporation contains the names OF john
Jacob Astor. Henry NJ Flagier, Abram =
Hewitt William G. Whitney and other we'll
known and eminently successful financiers.
While Mr.. Morton is not the first he is
the most conspicuous f1nancler VINO mas UNI
dertaken to perpetuate his weait IN. ana name me
is one that may be widely followed: stephen
Girard, Peter Cooper. George Peabody and
others have perpetuated large fortunes for
beneficent public purposes by the corporate
method which has a continuous existence;
and the successful adoption OF this method
to the administration Of estates left for
charitable or educational purposes has
doubtless suggested to Mr.. Morton its APP
plication for the purpose of perpetuating
an estate in a family name regardless or
the ability or lack of ability of the descend
ants of the testatOr to administer it success
fully.
For the present Mr.. Morton's method OF
perpetuating a family name and estate VIII
attract little public attention. III II should
be generally followed by the wealthy, how
ever. and result in the maintenance of nu.
merous great fortunes in perpetutulty IT
will undoubtedly arouse popular disappro-
val. If, in practice. it shall be found that
the perpetual corporation does for the
wealthy class in the United States what the
law of primogeniture has done for the land
holding class in England. that is, perpet-
uate the wealth of the country in the hands
of the few, legislature and courts will sure
ly be invoked to impose some very severe
restrictions upon the practice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
New York Evening Post.


Western farm mortgages have bad name
with some Eastern investors, who put their
money into them without making proper In
vestigation as TO the character Of the Sc
curity. The great trouble in almost all such
cases was gross recklessness on the part
of those furnishing the Eastern capital, ag-
gravated in some instances by dishonesty
as we'll as recklessneSS, on the part OF those
who placed the money In the West. But
shrewd capitalists in the upper Mississippi
valley region know that there is no safer
investment for money than mortgages On
farms in the best agricultural districts OF
such States as Minnesota, Wisconsin, ILL
no we bsye beard Of
case where a fortune of two million dollars
made in manufacturing in Western State
has for years been invested almost exclu-
svely In host of mortgages upon farms
in such districts as we have mentioned and
there has never been a single foreclosure,
while delay in the payment of interest oc.
ours in only an infinitesimal proportion of
cases. The chief complaint of the holder
of these mortgages Is that the rate of inter-
est is steadily falling. and that the farmers
are paving off the principal too fast In
deed, the farmers I'm that part of the coun-
try are coming to insist upon clause In
thereof" may be paid when the Interest;
falls due annually, SO that they may clear
up the obligation If all goes we'll and they
feel disposed. in comparatively short time.
The case to which we have referred Is not
an exceptional one There are scores of
millions of dollars invested In such farm
a showing. That portion OF the agricultural
population in the upper Mississippi valley
which is located in fertile sections is I'M
doubtedly the most prosperous element of
the human race that is engaged In the cul-
tivation of the soil. More than that. the
testimony of the best judges agrees that
these people are more prosperous now than
they ever were before. They live on better
food: they occupy finer houses, which are
furnished more comfortably: they have
larger opportunities of society and recre-
alton: I'm sort. they get more enjoyment
out of life than their fathers did. There
are large sections of country beyond the
Mississippi. notably the western counties
of Kansas and Nebraska. which are not
fit for cultivation and which never
ought TO have been settled. In such Sec
tons there has been suffering the part
of those farmers who were deluded into
taking up farms, and reflex suffering on
the part of those Eastern people who were
equally deluded into furnishing the money
for opening up a region which Is largely
desert. But Western land which is fit for
farming will richly repay the industrious
man who tills 1t. and there b no safer in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
TESTERS Sister Explains.

SHAWNEE, o. T., July 2-Public opinion
in the Jester case has led to severe and
harsh criticism of Mrs. Cornelia Street, Jes-
ter's sister, who wrote the letter to Sheriff
Simmons. of Wichita, informing him of her
brothers identity and alleged crime. Owing
to the severe and continuous censure of Mrs.
Sweet she has issued an explanation, in
which she says:
1T i5 not true that wrote the letter CIV
ing my brother away to keep him from get
ting married. / wrote the letter because of
my brothers cruel treatment of me and
his threats. / knew he was bad man and
/ wrote the letter in self-defense. / knew
nothing of his intention to be married for
the fourth time until after he was arrested.
God knows 1 had selfish motive in
writing the letter. 1t has been reported that
/ said did not know the name of the muir
dered boy, but L did l saw his father sew
eral times, and saw him dig up HIS son 8
trunk. which had been split into fine pieces
and buried on our farm by my brother. 1
saw my brother arrested with my own eyes.
My brother says that my fathers name was
Hill. who was his stepfather. Alexander
Jester never had a stepfather. Alexander
was born in North Carolina and not in In
diana. as he says, and is seventy-four years
old, instead of eighty-one, he says. He
has. TO my knowledge, been married three
times, and has six children instead of three.
For twelve years he tried to get the pension
w. A. HILL but never succeeded until he
applied two years ago in his right name,
Alexander Jester"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
Publishers, Notes.

There Is a rumor that among the first
fruits of the alliance between Harper &,
Brothers and the Doubleday & Mcclure
Company will be the announcement Of a
great encyclopedia superior 10 anything ever
published.
CasseIl & Co., and West Eighteenth
street New York. are about TO publish the
Royal Academy Pictures for 1893. in one
volume, cloth, gilt edges. So: also in five
paper-bound parts at 40 cents each A Rem
by the president OF the Royal Academy. ap-
pearing In this years exhibition forms the
frontispiece TO the volume.
Harper Brothers will have ready about
Sept. l new and complete edition in thir-
ty-two volumes. OF Abbott's Biographical
Histories" The copyright of this edition
viii not expire until 1912 and in consequence
no other set can be made as complete. This
hrm Is also preparing two editions OF Cur
tiSs 'Prue and /. one illustrated by Albert
~. Steiner. and another with portrait and
three illustrate
ID. Appleton & Co. will bring out stimuli
taneously with Elder & Co. of Loa1on. TIE
new story by G.. Colmore entitled 1.-The
Strange Story Of Hester wynne. Told by
Herself Mr. Colmore is the author OF "A
Knox and a Daughter of Mu-t-." but
nothing has come from his pen .or some
time. The qualities of this writer appear to
De an assured grasp OF motives ard the
maintenance OF deep interest in character
Anna Katharine Green's attest detective
story, which G. r. Putnam's sons are Pub
fishing. concerns weak but amiabIe, young
man. an adventures who holds him in her
power. friend who has an instinct for
solving mysteries, good young girl. an
aged. wealthy lady. who Is killed by a knife
thrust. and this lady's servant The book
begins with the discovery OF the crime. and
only ends when the hand that welded the
knife Is surprisingly revealed The title OF
the tale Is Agatha Webb"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
NOT FATAL TO TRUSTS.
The Indiana Decision Not LikeIy to
Effect What Was Hoped.
New York Independent.

Some of the daily newspapers say that a
diana sounds the death kRell of trusts"
because 1t holds that a corporation may for
felt its charter by combining with another
TO suppress competition and nix prices. This
Is not a new doctrine and ii has no terrors
for combinations Of the modern type. The
memorable suit of the State of New York
against corporation which was a member
of the original Sugar Trust about ten years
ago brought 1t clearly sbefore the public
and FASTENED that transition from actual
trust to great corporation or incorporated
combination which has since taken place.
In some instances the change may not have
dustrial combinations hereafter must pro-
coed against corporations not trusts, for the
trust form of organization has been laid
aside. Old trusts have taken corporate char
tiers, and the newly formed combination,
duly chartered in New Jersey Delaware or
some other State where the corporation stat
utes are adapted to its needs, is a corpora
ton which carries on its business in dozen
or a score of factories, scattered, ii may be,
over half dozen States. Ii will not forfeit
its charter by combining with other corpora
tons; the combining took place when IL &C
Quired its several factories. Thus the sit
uation, so far as proceedings against combi-
nations in the courts are concerned, has
changed. The transition in the case OF
what was originally the Standard OIL Trust
takes place slowly, but Ii may soon be com
peted by the recent increase OF the capital
stock of the corporation known as the Stand
ard OIL Company of New Jersey from 49,
100000 to S110 600 900. and the acquisition
of the various subsidiary concerns by this
company through an exchange of securities
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
LIQUID AIR AS A FORCE.
Elements to Be Considered Before Ii
Is Available.
Baltimore American.


The possibility of putting liquid air TO
scientific men at present. Two inventors IN
New York claim to have worked cut the de-
tails of manufacture in such way that the
cost of the liquid will be so low that il the
expectations are realized its application will
become general. They expect to make liquid
Ion, which will be equal in energy TO one
and half horsepower operating for one
hour. An equal amount of steam power
would cost one and half cents. but there
are certain elements, IL Is claimed, among
which Is portability, that will make liquid
air superior to steam for practical purposes.
When liquid air was first made the cost was
over 81 600 gallon.
The problem of the safety of LIQUID air.
one of the most important connected with it,
the inventors claim to have solved. A prac-
teal test under rigorous conditions must of
accepted. This latter objection was form
erly made to compressed air, but compressed
air Is now used safely for various purposes.
If the expectations OF these and other scien-
tific men who are working along the same
line are realized, among the most important
applications of liquid air for motive power
will be for propelfing street cars. The adj
vantage of every car carrying with 1t power
Tor propulsion would be such that its adop-
ton would be swift Electricity Is a good
agent for this purpose, but as yet storage
batteries are too expensive There is a wide
field for the discovery and use of a cheap
agent In the movement of vehicles and ma
Chinery of all kinds. Gasoline petroleum
and steam are now doing for automobiles
what was undreamed of a few years ago.
The questions of safety and cost are the
two chief determining elements i'm all appli-
cations Of force to do work. 1t is probable
that these questions will be speedily settled
one way or the other.