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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-24

You never know what form Of blood
poison win follow constipation. Keep
the liver clean by using DeWitt's Little
Early Risers and you will avoid trouble.
They are famous little pills for constipa-
ton and liver and bowel troubles. Bob
bitt-Wynne Drug Co.; w. III. King;
Adams & Moye; VIM. Simpson.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-24
Kentucky's Trial Trip Today.

Gloucester, Mass, Nov. % -The
United States battIeship Texas, Captain
Charles ID. Sigsbee, arrived here this
afternoon and came to anchor outside
the breakwaiter. She is under orders to
leave. here at daylight and take her po-
sition as one of the mark boats for the
trial run of the new battleship Ken
lucky which is scheduled for tomorrow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-24
Would-be Train Wrecker Arrested. q

VaIdosta, Ga, Nov. % Sylvester
Hawkins. a young negro has been arrest
ed charged with attempting TO wreck the
Georgia Southern and Florida train at
Lake Park Sunday morning. Hawkins
broke down and confessed his guilt inn
plicating another negro named Loyelace
Young He says the object Of the at
tempt was to rob the mail and baggage
cav
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-24
Troops to Leave Fort Mcpherson,

Atlanta. Ga, Nov. Battery G, Of
the Second artillery under command Of
Captain Schenck, now at Fort MoPher-
son, will Leave the post Saturday FOR
Fort Screyen. Ga. The other two bat
teries of the Second artillery which came
here from Havana during the summer
have been ordered to Saint Helena, 5.
c.. and Fort Morgan, Ala.
One company of the Seventh infantry
will be left to garrison the post.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-24

But few people are able to appreciate
good thing until after they lose it.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
Increased Cost of BuiIdinq.

The Mississippi Valley Lumberman esti- mates that house which would have cost 5000 in 1898, will this year cost s2,7OO-per- haps more, and delays and trouble will beset the house-maker at every step. He will pay about 35 per cent. more for build it when he can get it. Orders are not fll- ed promptly nowadays. The Lumberman thus sums up some of the advances of the present year:
 "The item of lumber has advanced 35 per cent The first of August 1S9S lumber sold in this market on a basis of $l0 August l. 1899, 1t is on a $13.50 basis, and will prob ably sell at that much more freely than it did at $10 year ago. Nails have advanced since December last rom $.42l2 per basis keg to S205, little more than IA per cent. Locks, hinges and such builders hardware has advanced 8 per cent. and while plate glass has made no advance in that time, it had advanced just previously 10 to 50 per cent, Plumbing costs 33 1-3 per cent. more than it did a year ago, besides having made substantial advances the year pre- vious. Heating plants have advanced on the average 50 per cent. Labor is earning from % to 2S per cent. more than year ego Heavy structural iron, such as beams, channels, arches, Ts, etc, has advanced this year from $1.40 to S2.25 per hundred, or over 60 per cent. Steel plate, which is extensively used in large building opera tions, has advanced from s11O to $2.5O per hundred or over 127 per cent"
 When the entire list is summed up and averaged, it is found that an increase of 35 per cent all along the line has taken place.
 What of the future? Will prices go back, or will there be another advance of S5 per cent? No one knows. No one has an opinion that would be worth the paper that would be consumed in the writing of it. But after all. the true rule seems to be. build for present needs. and let the fu- ture take care of itself. It is wholly un- likely that the low prices of 1S95-sS will ever return. A compromise may be established but the man who meets present needs will not in any case miss the best opportunity very far
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

cent. Here is pretty how-de-doo. Here Is stationary France staring us in the face.
 If Mir. Newbold's estimate be correct. we will next summer be fully 100000 short of the number that the mean ratio of the last twenty years would have given us. Instead of 7S,oOo,OOO we will have about H. 0oo.oOO. One million and a half of the loss will be due to the decrease in immigration. but the cause or causes of a farther loss of two and half millions must be looked for elsewhere. This loss is due of course to a decrease in the birth rate, black and white. In 1890 there were 1.s0O,OOO less chil- dren under ten years of age than the ratio of the previous ten years led people to ex- peet, and the decrease In the present de- cade promises to be stlll greater. The loss es extend to both whites and blacks. be- ing greater among the latter
 The movement is one of long standing. It simply shows that the country Is reach ing maturity. Cheap lands are no longer in sight. Competition is having it's full ef- feet. Families are becoming smaller. and the European level wih soon be reached The increase of native white population that once was 35.10 per cent in decade, has been steadily falling, and MT. New bold thinks it will be fortunate indeed if it does not cross the 25 per cent line in the present decade
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
sunsCRIPrION RATEs.
Cotton Deterioration Widespread.

If MT. Neills estimate of 100000 bales ious other ills to which the cotton crop is every year subjected, be reduced 10 per cent. the crop would then be 1O,SOO 900 bales. and this amount would be needed by the world, and would be taken at reasonably good figures-fgures at least cent in ad- vance of ruling prices.
 It is difficult to see how the crop can exceed 1O,SO0,oO0 bales. If one-half of the reported injuries to the Texas crop ma- terialze, the crop in that state will be cut down from 100000 bales grown lass <season to 100000 bales this season. Such a reduction would certainly reduce MT. Neills estimate 10 per cent. The crop has deteriorated in other states, but in order to be conservative let us estimate the crop at 10SC0o0O bales.
 This amount is needed in these days of business activity and enterprise. Good means wider demand for cotton goods. Then, too. the cotton wearing world Is steadily broadening, especially in China and Africa, and, as MT. Toombs might have added, the islands of the sea- Just as soon as a railroad can be pushed through the heart of China to the western boundary of the country, and the Cape and Cairo line can be built, the world will fairly be ready to pay tribute to the south ern cotton fields King Cotton will then rule over an entire world. His feecy pro- ducts will be woven into cloth for the use of every land the sun shines on. As things stand the demand for cotton goods is an- nually increasing.
 The Age-Herald looks for higher prices for cotton in the immediate future, partly on account of ascertained damage to the growing crop and partly on account of the increasing demand. It believes MT. Neill has over-estimated the crop at least 10 per cent, and crop below eleven million bales should bring higher prices.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
SECRETARY HOLLs' READY WIT

From the Philadelphia PoSt.
 The peace conference at The Hague may have been a political failure, but it has been an arena in which the American delegates have won many laurels. The least-knowrs member of the body is the one who has at tracted the largest amount of the world attention This Is the secretary, Frederick w. Holls a member of the New York bar. He is admirably qualified for the post. His father, a German by birth, is an eminent Lutheran clergyman, and the son speaks both German and English. His selection as secretary was warmly advocated by Com- missioner Seth Low, who had before this recognized MT. Holls fitness for the office.
 His plan of international mediation and arbitration was marked by simplicity, ef- ficiency and equity. The phraseology was so excellent as to receive the praise of the great European jurists who were opposed to his ideas. Digests of his plan were pub lshed with full credit, by every European nation.
 Of MT. Holls' career as a lawyer many stories are told, of which the following is one.
 On one occasion in the court room Mir. Holls was interruted with the question:;
 Suppose there were three defendantes-"
 That, my dear sir, retorted Holls, lis question of grammar and not of law"
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
.URN FOR D40V MESS
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia IlmeS.
 The mayor of Atlanta having given solemn promise to the city council not to get drunk again during his term of office, and the city council having thereupon dropped its efforts to remove him from of flee d woman writer in the New York Sun says that if this had happened to a woman mayor in any of the equal suffrage states the opponents of equal rights would have rung the changes on it from now til Christmas. Without stopping to inquire why Christmas rather than some later date shou,d be guessed at sss .'.e time al whicA the ringing cease. it may be said that an average city council would accept in good faith a woman's promise of reformation even more quickly than they would that of a man, and that there would be less ring ing of changes upon such forgiveness. This question is not likely to be put to the test. however, as in the past eighteen years there have been sixteen women elected mayors throughout the country as against about 1,S00 men.
 The incident may fairly be taken then as one which has happily occurred too infre7 quently to base upon it any deduction, and the rather extensive publicity which has been given to the Atlanta case is distinctly salutary as a warning to all other mayors of either gender. Nothing indeed would go so far to discourage that peculiar weak ness which results in intemperance as to make the world acquainted in e h individ- ual case with the ineffectiveness it produces in whoever yields to 1t, and the injury 1t brings in loss of material prosperity and position. se f
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
Decrease in American Births.

statisiclans are discovering that the de- crease in the birth rate is not confined to France. This country shares it-this coun- try. which is the land of the free and the brave, but Is not land of plenty for all to that degree 1t once was.
 Accurate birth-rate figures are not ob- tainable In this country, because immigra- lion and the birth rate are hopelessly in- tertangled, but the rate of increase Is fall ing very fast The rate of increase be- tween 1870 and 1880 was so0S per cent. be- tween 1880 and 1890 it had fallen to 2ISG per cent, and Statistician Newbold of the ag- ricultural department thinks the rate be- tween 1890 and 1900 will be but 1891 per
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
------- MONEY IN FRANKLIN LENDS

From the Russellville Times.
 In 1896 MT. J. H. Mcintosh bought the Anderson farm. 16O acres east of town. pay ing therefor s1,soO. His three years net .-- come from it was SS00 net cost $1,00O. Mon- day the property was sold for $7,000 cash. MT. J. F.. Wilson bought ninety-one acres in 1894 for Sl ,6O0, and sold Monday for $10,1O0 cash. Wilson & Co. bought a one-fourth interest in the Hill land for 5000, and re- ceived in royalty s1,OOo and sold for s9,COo. Can any county beat these few samples we wonder. And still there are "others."
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
HEREDITARY

Thomas Bailey Aldrich. soldier of the Cromwell stamp, With sword and psalm-book by his side At home alike in church and camp: Austere he lived, and smileess died.
 
 France; Within her veins Ut blood like wine She led her Rounhead lord a dance! In Grantham church they lie asleep; Just where the verger may not know. Strange that two hundred years should keep The old ancestral, fires agiow!
  In me these two have met again: To each my nature owes a part: To one the cool and reasoning brain;. To one nhe quick. unreasoning heart.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
NATIONAL EM8LEMS

From the New York Press.
 Just now Russia is represented by a bear, England by a lion, France by the tricolor, Germany by a black eagle, Persia by three tigers, the United States by a bald eagle, etc. Strange to tell, the French emblem used to be lion, and afterward the fieur-de-lis. That of the Saxons was a horse. The Phrygians had a SOW, the Thracians, Mars; the Romans an eagle, the Goths a bear, the Flemings a bull. the Danes a black raven on red ground The eagle predominates to this day. We find it on the standards of Ger many, Russia the United States, Mexico and Poland. :.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
GREAT MEETING FOR BIRMINGHAM


 Hon. A. E. Caffee, proprietor of Caffee Farm, Marion, Ala, has recently been elected president of the Alabama State Fair and Agricultural association. This is most excellent selection of a chief execu- tive by the association, as Judge Caffee Is not only thorough and successful busi- ness man, but one of the leading and best posted horsemen in the entire south, and the affairs of the organization he will rep- resent will be looked after with a jealous care and untiring energy and ability. The association will hold meeting in the city of Birmingham, Ala, the ten days includ- ing November ' to IT. Birmingham has a magnificent new track, new buildings and elegantly equipped grounds now under con- struction at beautiful Smith park, within few minutes journey of the center of the city. The association has ample wealth, in- fiuence, industry and enterprise behind it, and the meeting this fall will be pushed to success. The meeting will be at the end of the southern circuit, in line with Louis- vile, Lexington. Nashville and Atlanta, and the horsemen, after finishing in the east and west. will have a most attract i've, inviting and profitable circuit through which to continue to campaign their horses.
 The purses and stakes for the Birming- ham meeting will be on liberal scale, being for $500, s1 900 and s1 1,5O0, and will be paid from the judges stand after each race is finished. Heretofore trotting and pacing racing has virtually come to close after the great Lexington meeting, but now with Nashville, Atlanta and Birmingham in the line of the great meetings. the horsemen will have a full month longer of racing in the most delightful season of the year and in the finest climate on earth. Besides this, they will have the advantage of the convenience of wintering their horses on the last battle ground If they so desire There has been no other movement in re- cent years that will prove so profitable to the breeding interests of America as these late southern meetings, and they should receive every encouragement possible at the hands of the horsemen and the breed- ing public. The logical result of the Ala bama State Fair and Agricultural associa- ton will be to extend these meetings on to Montgomery, Selma, Mobile and New Orleans. The success of these southern meetings is matter of supreme interest to the breeders of the country, and they will give them the liberal patronage that the enterprise merits.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
TRULY iNDEpANi,ENr

From the Cherokee Sentinel.
 Some people know more about other peo- rles business than they do about their own It has been repeatedly asserted that this paper was to spout Joe Johnstonisin In the future. We know nothing about the future policy of the paper more than what the new proprletors say. They say they intend to publish merely a local newspaper similar to the one they now publish in Att talla. So far as we are concerned we don't care a continental. It is none of our busi- ness.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
REFLEUrIoNs or A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 Two girls can love each other unless there is some man for both to love.
 When humor strikes a woman she acts like she was caught in lightning storm
 Unless a man tells girl what he doesn't think about her he can never hope to en- joy her respect.
 Lots of girls who don't know enough to go in out of the rain know enough to send in their best hats
 A man finds out about each of two girls wtho are friends from the other, and both of them find out about him from each other. .hA
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
Cattle for aa0h i 00n nt

The supply is less, in other words, by nearly 100000 head. while the population has risen from sixty-two millions to about seventy-four millions. The National Pro- vlsionor thus shows the course of prices:
 "A comparison of the market for beef cattle the hoof in Chicago and Kansas City for August 10 1897, 1898 and 1899, shows that the following top and average prices were paid by the packers at the stock yards in open competition for handled and choice western beef cattle: August 10, 1897, prime cattle. live weight, $4.S0 average, $4.15, making the prime dead meat cost S790, or nearly cent per pound, to pro- duee. The buthcers paid less for it. Au gust 10, 1898, prime stock fetched $5.2o; average good heifers brought s4.5O. This made prime dreesed beef cost SS50, or Sl5 cents per pound landed. August 10, 1899, prime beef cattle sold for $620. average good, $5.25. making the carcass of. prime cost landed 1925, or 9A cents per pound.'
 The recent sharp advances are due in part to the diminishing supply and in part to the abundance of work at good wages, which makes more consumers of beef.
 The truth is, the country has not re- covered from the effect of over-production in the early eighties. Very much capital was about that time put into cattle ranges, the stimulus being the ewly-discovered refrigerating process, and reproduction followed, reslting in ruinous prices The pendulum has never swung back, but a the prices of beef cattle are now higher than they have been in many years. it Is not to be doubted that 1t will swing back and the number of cattle will be steadily increased. Beef cattle are not quickly grown, and the new movement will require for its consummation about five years.
 Vast herds on boundless ranges are no longer possible, but millions of farmers and the aggregate will be fully as satifac- tory The great corn crop of this year will accelerate this increment. At any rate it is plain there cannot be cheaper beef until the farmers of the country grow more cat tie and heavier cattle. The aggregate quantity must be and assuredly will be in- creased. Alabama should take a hand in this effort. Cotton seed meal and hulls are the best fattenng material in this country.
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 No matter what combines may be formed by politicians, the people of this mineral district know that the experience and training of the.r representatives in con gress at present must be retained in order to finish the Warrior improvement and secure an armor-plate mih. Green hands need not apply.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
STATE COMMITTEE SHOULD ACT

From the Anniston Republic
 It is perfectly evident that the people of Alabama want general primary, but will the state executive committee order 1t? If not, then the counties can follow the ex- ample set by Jackson county.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
Why Beef is Hioh.

The supply of cattle is decreasing. It high-water mark was reached. We pre- sent below the government figures of cattle other than milch COWS:
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
ONE GIRL CLASSIFIED

From the eDnver Post.
 Miss Ivy Crabtree of Carmi, H., is &C., cused of poisoning four persons. She seems to belong to the poison branch of the ivy family.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

Cigarettes are called "coffin nails'' ir Chicago, where movement is progressing to stop their sale to young boys.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

M. Bertillon has scheme of handwriting Identification that is warranted to if all cases for which fat fees are ready.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

From the Denver Post
 We arise to inquire if this secret dossier Is anything like the late Mr. Luetgert's 8 sesamoid bone?
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
MOBILE FARMERS ARE COMING rom the Nohfla I tam

The famers of Mobile county and the manufacturers of Mobile should aid the committee of the Commercial club in its undertaking to prepare an exhibit of our products for the state fair at Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

The only proper question before 'aMr. Willetts of Alabama" is this--how best can utilize all this free advertising? Jot should get down to business at once.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

If the democratic national convention is to meet in February. as some say it will. the Jackson county primary will be in the nick ot time.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

If tho gathering of opinions a Rennes goes much longer, the conclusion will be reached that a plebiscite would have been easier and more satisfactory.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

There is a woman at the bottom of the Dreyifus case. but the woman changes as rapidly as the witnesses do.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

While 'tMr. Willetts'' is in charge of the Van Wyck boom. and MT. Hoke Smith of the Cleveland boom, the south does not feel wholly neglected.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

Toledo Sam Jones Is to travel over Ohio in an automobile. accompanied by a singer who beats the band.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
EVERY TRIAL HAs Irs MYSTERY

M. Guerin still lives, and so does the re- public.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

A steel cage, as the Huntsville Mercury asserts, would keep one Nashville editor at the duelling ground but then the other one could not be drawn up to it with oxen.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

Party discipline is good thing. but pop uiar rule is even better.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

Bets are freely made that Dewey will arrive in New York September 2S, exactly on time. He was on time in Manila bay last year.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

Toledo sam Jones' Golden Rule" plat form is before the people of Ohio.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

MT. Jo Bailey is so quiet that people be- gin to think he has struck oil or found q zinc mine. E8S
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

The good queen dislikes another war in hor reign, but she bends with her. usual good sense to the exigencies of the case in the Transvaal.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

The New York Press thinks the nurse of the Van Wyck boom must feel very much like bulcoed "come-on." .
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

The sale of the Montevallo school lands is now up to the general land office and congress.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

M. Laborl should mount this countrys lecture rostrum, even if he cannot speak English.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

It will be observed that the English are betting on uae Shamrock. They are very clever.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30
Workmen Get the Benefit

Altogether all authorities agree that the 'boom' is only fairly on, and that in re- hecting the prosperous condition of this country the iron trade is in for a period of unequaled good times.
 The workmen are receiving a large share of these benefits in the way of continued work at good wages, with the prospect that their services will be in demand for years should present conditions continue. Reports from the west and south are that any skilled mill worker may have employ ment that, in fact mere such men are wanted than can be had.
 Besides this, many of the mills have ad- vanced wages voluntarily and 1t is believed that there will be a general advance in wages in the iron and bituminous coal dis tricts about the first of the year.
The age-herald., 1899-08-30

There will not be an extra session of congress. The reports are founded on er- TOTS.