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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-04

FRUITS,
AFPLEs--Per Dbl 5.00a5. so: California 81. 60
per box; fancy Oregons 81, 70 per box.
BANANAS.-Per bunch SI.T5sl200, packed: :
loose 81. 50Sh.T5.
CoCoANUTS- hundred $500.
LFMONS~-$3. SOFA so.
ORANGES Louisiana $500: California ma
vets 800; California seedlings $780,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-04

Carload lots. (, o h. cars from miliers. deal.
ers charge from store haloc more per 100 lbs
on bran. Ease per bushel on oats and corn.
and 10afl5c per 100 lbs on hay.
HRAN--Ilc; corn bran. 67iac per 100 lbs
CIi0rPEp CoRN.--7sc per 100 lbs
CORN--No. 2. sacked. iodiic per bushel.
) OATS-Texas 3tfi36c per bu.
WliEAT--SiORTS--S5c per 100 lbs,
WHEAT SCREENIN GS-7of soc per blu.
HAY--Alfalfa $12,00dfls,s0 per ton. timothy
S12. 5t4ll3 So. South Texas prairie hay S. 900
3 oG, North Texas s9.0odli000.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Filling Mr.. Hobart's Place.

The far west proposes to deprive the far
east not only of the speakership, but also
of the vice-presidency. 1t is now claimed
that Ohio is an eastern if not an Atlantic
state, and that Mr.. McKinleys mate should
be a est-of-the-Mssissippi man. The far
west, is in fact, beginning to assert itself,
now that the Reed domination has been
broken, and the Tom Plat slate smashed.
1t is also charged that the slate which
has for selfish reasons covered the coun-
try with trusts should not be permitted
to have a name on the presidential ticket.
Republicans have a way of becoming very
virtuous just before election time: Mr..
Hobart expects and seeks a denomination
He is a member of several corporations
leaning naturally to tho trusts He is
nothing if not corporation man. To turn
him down is to turn down the corporations,
and all republicans know it would not be
wise to turn them down before campaign
subscriptions are secured.
New Jersey and Mr.. Hobare will fight
for another vice-presidential term. The in
1iated corporate creations of New Jersey
laws will be asked to contribute hand
somey towards the expenses of the pre-
liminary campaign, for they and Mr.. Ho-
bart are allied, and must stand or fall to-
sether AT least that view of the case will
be pressed upor. item. The farther west
will have none of it, They are willing to
consign the entire New Jersey outfit to
Hades. The war is pretty one, and the
democrats are enjoying the fight that has
sprung up between the far east and the
far west.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
THE CHINEsN TRYaT,7ENT

From the Washington Times
There has been an example of Christian
Science in Chinatown-New Yorks China
town. famous as q resort of the oueerest
of queer characters Perhaps the more de-
vout of the votaries of American mental
healing would hardly call the ceremonies
which took place in the joss house Chris
tan" Science but at all events the meth
DDS were much the same
a Chinese gentleman was taken ILL., His
associates did not send for a physician be-
cause it never occurred to them that a phy-
stefan would be of any use. They put him
on the floor and stuck some bamboo splin-
tiers into him, and walked around him.
chanting songs and waving fans This
was to drive out the devils which had
taken possession of him. The man himself
was firmly convinced that this was the
flght treatment, and earnestly desired that
the devils should go.
The medication will be recognized bv all
who have observed the workings of CHS
tian Science as bearing 4 strong reseu1-
blance to that of the Christian Scientists
They, it, is true, do not stick bamboo
splinters into their victims, nor do thew
wave fans, but they talk to him about the
grandeur of the subconscious rnani-
festation of the how, and most people of
ordinary intellect would just as soon be
used for pincushions as listen to that sort
of thing The Scientist also believes in
the efficacy of song, and though the Chi
nese type of vocal music strikes the Ameri-
can ear as being very much like a COM
bination of the waiing of cats and the
song of the circular saw, the Monaghan
likes it-and that is enough. Probably he
would not appreciate Gospel Hymns No
2 any more than the singer of those hymns
would appreciate the finest efforts of a
Chinese orchestra.
Then let it be observed that, according
to Chinese belief. disease is caused by
devils. This Is only the crude oriental way
| of expressing it. The more subtle Ameri-
| can says it is lack of faith or malgn in
| fuences or something of that sort that
! makes a child choke and strange when it
| has bad attack of diphtheria The
! Christian Scientist explains that there is
| no devil, and no pain. and nothing bad any
| where so that the disease cannot be real:
| it is only the lack of faith that is real at
| least real enough to cause considerable suf-
| fering. The Chinese doctor does not be-
| lieve that devils are real in the sense of
being tangible. He does not expect to
| catch them in his hands or trap them with
| mosquito netting He expects TO pur-
suade them to come out. The Christian
| Scientist expects to persuade his patient
| that there is nothing the matter with him.
What is the difference?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
Publicity of the Peace Conference.

Reporters are still excluded from the
committee rooms and the general sittings
of the peace conferences, but the seal of
secresy has been removed to the extent
that reports are to be furnished to the
press both of the action of the committees
and of the conference itself. These re-
ports will not include the incidents and
friction and collisions that reporters would
discover and report, but censored as they
will be, they will keep tho public informed
of actual conclusions reached. positive as
well as negative
it is far beyond anything that some of the
it is far beyond anything that soc of the
members of the conference have been ac-
customed to, and is. therefore, regarded by
them as great concession to the general
public, which they hold in contempt as a
rule.
Public interest in the action of the peace
conference has been largely diminished of
late because of the want of publicity. This
was unfortunate, for the best work of the
conference consists in the bringing about
of a change in public sentiment-of a
change against war and in favor of peace
methods. Full publicity would have great
ly promoted such a change. The conference
consists of picked lot of men, nearly
every one of whom holds in his own coun-
try a high place. The influence of discus
sions among such men would have had
great weight among the masses of men in
all countries, but in obedience to ancient
custom this has been denied. The conces-
sion of the conference in favor of partial
publicity will do something towards con-
Meeting the original mistake. 1t may even
revive public interest in the proceedings of
the conference, and in the important prob
lens which have been brought before it.
Beyond all doubt the conference at The
Hague is of deep historical value, even If
1t be not productive Immediately of prac-
teal peace measures. No one expects it to
abolish war, but all do expect it to lay the
foundations for such glorious consumma-
ton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
Population Figures of Next Year.

Three experts have recently filed guesscs
as to the county's population mex. June,
emitting the new Americans in the islands
of tho sea. Assistant Director of the Cen
sus Wines thinks 100000 is about tie
true sum, while Prof. Pritchcil, superin-
tendent of the coast survey, puts the num-
Der at 77,4720Oo, and the government ac-
tuary, Mr.. j. S. Mccoy says people to the
number of 77G76,OOO will be found in the
country next June. Even Mr. Wines fig
ures call for an increase in ten years of
about twelve and half millions-a very
considerable popula ton in itself-more
than Persia holds or any South Amerl-
IAN state except Brazil, and just about
as many as there are in Mexico.
The rate of increase cannot be MAIN
tanned as the country becomes older and
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
OoM pAUL,s POSITION .sszass

From the New York Tribune.
Nobody disputes that loom Paul. is the
greatest Boer in the world, but the Aus
tralian paper which styles him the pig of
South African politics ovcrgilds his civili-
cation of the COW in the kale yard; is not
a polite or plant figure; has, in fact, the
toughness. stubbornness, and occasional
weight of heel of the Transvaal jackass,
and is stuffed as full as a Dutch sausage
with all kinds of absurd and obsolete ideas.
AS his share of the recent conference with
Sir Alfred Miner. at Bloemfontein con-
sisted only of grunts and denalS, Dame
Brittania will now have to take hold of
him, administering to him the discipline
suitable to such a political pachyderrm
Since the discovery of gold in his terri
tories which neither ho nor his fellow
Beers would have found for themselves in
a thousand years, he has Waxed fat and
kicked to an extent inviting counter kicks.
which will not be wanting when the time
comes. As he collects nine-tenths of his
taxes from the Outlander, whom he does
not admit to any representation and who
exceeds numerically many fold all the
Beers in his bailiWick, and as Great Brit
ain disputes with him her right of suze-
ranity, always heretofore accepted but
which he now wishes to threw overheard
his situation, politically speaking does not
seem to be particularly secure or particu-
larly enViable.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16

larger, but 1t will undoubtedly be higher
throughout the twentieth century than the
rate in any European country. During
the present decade it has undoubtedly been
reduced by the hard times that were in
augurated in 1893. lasting down to 1899. I'M
migration was checked in all that period
and is only now beginning to go back to
former figures. The want of employment
and low wages keeps down the natural in
crease, and it would not be surprising if
Assistant Director Wines did not prove to
be the best foreeastcr of the countrys
population.
In 1880, the total population of the coun-
try was $685. S3; in 1900 It will be, say
76,oOooOO. Who will say what it will be
one hundred years later? In this century
1t has been increased fifteen fold If it be
increased five fold in the new century, it
will be one of the greatest countries in the
world, even if it be not the most populous.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
THE AKIsTooKArIC HAT ssIAsnER

From the Philadelphia Times.
Prince Christiani now knows the cost of
hat When he gets through with the four
years Imprisonment, to which he was SEN
fenced yesterday he will have thought it
all out, and long before that time he will
be very, very sorry.
This princeling is a man of ripe years
who does not understand that he lives in
the nineteenth century. On the Auteull
race course, ten days ago, he struck at the
president of the republic and broke his hat.
For this he has been tried and convicted
of common assault. In the old days, which
he evidently wished to restore, his SEN
tence would have been the penalties of nigh
treason, and he could have found his way
to the block. AS matter of fact, he comes
off easy. He not only struck the first citi-
zen of the republic, for which he is justly
punished, but he aimed blow at the re-
public itself. 1t is no fault of his that his
attack, which in itself was cowardy and
effeIainate, did not lead to revolt and revo-
luton. In his poor, weak way he tried to
effect as much, and the odium OF his pun
ishment is really the lightness of his pun
ishment. His purpose deserves a trial for
high treason, his method invites the pen
olty of O sidewalk brawler, and that is
what he &as received. The promptness OF
its infliction and the estimate of the man
which the courts have taken will make him
and his class as contemplate in fact as
they were long before in public estimation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
WHAT DO TnE 1900 THINK

From the Chicago Democrat.
Just a week ago 90 per cent. of all the
mills belonging to the window glass trust
shut down.
On the last day of this month 10 per cent.
of these mills will close their doors.
BY this action 1900 wor1ingmen, trained
to labor along special lines and not able
to find remunerative employment in other
kinds of work, will be walking the streets,
with nothing to do and no hope of finding
anything to furnish support for themselves
and families.
Hanna thinks that the question of trusts
will not be q political issue in 1900.
1t would be interesting to Hanna to know
just what those 1900 hungry and desper-
ate men think about this
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
ALL OUT an THIRTY-sEyEN

From the New York Press.
With one accord they all rise up and cell
Fitz an old man-too old to be active and
take punishment-scant of wind! Bahi
There is no easier life than the prize fight
er's. At thirty-seven, or forty, or even
forty-five, he should be in his very prime.
1 saw Judge Roger A. Pryor going down
Broadway on Saturday, and as he started
to cross Maiden Lane he ran into a team.
His long raven hair nearly stood on end as,
with a leap and a twist, a dodge and q
duck, this aged lawyer and jurist escaped
masceration. At seventy-one his agility is
that of man of twenty. Fitzsimmons is
all out at thirty-seven! L suppose the in
tense strain of attitudinizing champion
takes good deal of startch cut of a genius
of the roped arena.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
SHORT STORIES !
OF THE DAY

Governor MeMillin, of Tennessee, who
was for many years in congress- tells a
writer for the New York Tribune that ono
of the funniest things he ever saw in the
house was a verbal set-to between Cox
and Cannon. Cannon gestieulates almost
solely with his left index finger" says
McMillin, land the way he'll point it at an
opponent in debate to emphasize point is
caution. One day Cox said something
Cannon didn't like, andNCannon said;
Mr.. Speaker, want to interrupt the
gentleman
I'll let you have the floor on one con-
dition,' said Cox, pausing. I'll let you
have the floor on the condition that you
stop shaking your forefnger at me. I'm
afraid it might go off,
g All right, said Cannon, and with that
he stuck his left hand in his trousers pocB-
cts, and began to speak. Just as Can
non got warmed up he got excited at the
sound of his own voice, and out came his
left forefnger. and instantly he was point
ing it with deadly emphasis at Cox.
Mr.. Speaker, said the latter, break
ing into Cannon's speech, the gentleman
has broken his contract, and I refuse to
yield him the floor any longer and then
Cox went on in his best vein and gave
Cannon a pretty lively faying. The house
burst into roars, and it was a good joke
for month" ,.A
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
BRANDON VERsrs BANKHEAD

From the LIVINGSTON Sun.
The editor of the Sun was coming home
from Birmingham on Saturday on No. 8,
Alabama Great Southern railroad, and on
the train had conversation with Captain
A. B. McEachin, the well-known and pop
ular attorney of Tuscaloosa, and asked him
how Tuscaloosa as between Bankhead and
Brandon stood. He replied that he believed
that no man could carry Tuscaloosa county
over Colonel Bankhead. So with the pros
pect Of defeat in his home county, Bran
don's candidacy amounts to little.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16


another, and SO it goes on accommodating.
This could be easily prevented by running
a light sprinkling cart through the streets.
It is astonishing that the merchants quietly
submit month after month to the present
unsatisfactory plan, for the dust not only
makes their store fronts dingy but much
of it works its way inside the stores and
damages goods. More than this, the stir
ring up of so much foul dust is certainly
detrimental to the public health Often I
see travellers sitting in front of the hotels
driven inside by the dust for safety; and
the remarks they make are far from being
complimentary to Birmingham"
J. ]. Willett, of Admission, was in town
yesterday.
William T. Little, late of South Carolina,
who spent several years in the United
States consular service in South America,
was on yesterday admitted to the bar in
the city court of Birmingham; he having
previously passed examination before the
supreme court of Alabama, as the law di-
reefs. Mr.. Little is very considerably in
terested in Birmingham property, he hav-
ing made investments here several years
ago. He is a young man of the world of
rare accomplishments, and is cordially well
coined to Birmingham.
John Lake Parker has been confined to
his private apartments since last Monday,
painfully i'll. Monday morning Mr. Parker
was taken with a chill, in his drug store.
in First avenue, and his physician directed
him to go home. His has ever since had
a disturbing fever, and it is now feared
that the fever is of typhoid type.
H. e. Stringfellow, Of Montgomery, is in
town.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
TIE TORNADO

John r. Musick in Kansas City Indepe
dent.
All day the angry clouds had swept
Athwart a saffron sky, II
All day the restless winds had wept
To natures fearless sigh;
Twas eventide and eager eyes
Still watched the braZen west
With fearful gaze, while aching throbs
Filled every anxious breast.
Then, suddenly came from above
A thing of awful form, +,
The rolling chariot of Jove,
The monarch of the storm;
With thunderous and deadly roar
And black as Satan'S frown,
On came the raging, baleful thing
That doomed the happy town.
ely for your lives! It's coming down"
The people wildly cry.
But roar on roar their voices drown
Those luckless ones must die.
The coursing courierS Of the air,
The storm kings midnight steeds.
Come laundering down the raven sky,
And naught their course impedes.
Now round and round, in mazes dark
The whirling monster goes,
And from the inky heavens vault
A shrieking hurricane blows;
All, hear the screams of wild despair,
And see-that mangled form
Goes kissing through the angry air.
There's murder in the storm!
With crash and roar the houses fall,
. Or soar aloft on high,
To mingle with the blackened smoke
That fills the weeping sky.
A moment and the monsters gone
We pause to gain. our breath,
While DER that smoking ruined path
There broods the hush of death.
The widows sob, the orphans cry,
The groans that fill the air,
The trembling hand the fearless eye,
Bespeak supreme despair,
And ell night long the faithful toll
Beneath the ruined heap
Until each mangled form IS found
And then sit down to weep. = =
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16

Just before Christmas, 1897 says a cor
Dewey was a commodore, which grade he
had reached in February, 1896 He knew
that in two years, or In December, 1899, he
would be retired for age He therefore,
asked for command of a squadron. He was
serving as president of the board of in
spection, and had nearly ten years of short
service just behind him.
War with Spain was threatened, but not
Immediately probable. Commodore Dewey
applied for command of the Asiatic squad
friends of Commodore Watson, Ken
lucky man with New England associations,
and was about to appoint him to the COM
mand of the Asiatio squadron over the
head of Dewey, who was five numbers
ahead of Watson, who was then governor
of the Naval home at Philadelphia
Dewey was expecting to be laid on the
shelf, but his friends went to Senator Proc
tor, of Vermont. The senator made hur-
ried trip to the white house and laid the
that the secretary proposed to put a junior
over Dewey's head and thus rob him of
squadron command before his retirement.
The president looked into the matter and
then wrote a letter which read, substan-
tally: -
Dear Long-Appoint Dewey to the
Asatic squadron, January 3, 1885," -
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
ROSE BusH WITH e,eoo BLOOMS

From the Philadelphia Record.
A crimson rambler rose bush that con-
tains $500 blooms is the remarkable feature
of the garden at the home of John Parry
Last year the bush was considered Won
der, but then tho blooms numbered only
e,560 Every day hundreds of people visit
Mr. Parry's place and admire the bush,
which its owner displays with great pride.
Each cluster of the roses is a bouquet in
itself. The bush is ten feet in height and
spreads over quite an amount of space.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-16
COTTON MANUFAcTUKING IN SOUTH

From the Ny. Journal of Commerce.
Within the first five months of 1899 def
mite arrangements have been made, and
in many cases the execution is completed
or far advanced, for adding 100000 spin
dies and 900 of capital to the cotton
mills of the south that are producing yarns
and piece goods Comprised in this are
fifty new mills now in process of construc-
ton, or the capital for which has been
raised which will involve an investment
of 81 500,0 900 and contain about 700 900 spin
dies; and thlrty-nine mills are now adding
about $1,000, 600 to their capital and 100000
splndles to their means of production.
From 1890 to 1898 the increase in the num-
Der of spindles in southern mills was less
than 50 900 900. The greatest increase in
one year was $4,000 spindleS in twelve
months ending August 1895. 1t is evident
therefore, that even if changes of plans
or other circumstances should materially
curtai the present apparent increase since
the first of January the increase in the
number of spindles in the past five months
will still be far greater than in any pre-
ceding year, and will equal large per-
centago of the increase of eight years.
These mills represent the production OF
fine as we'll as coarse goods, and some of
them are particularly designed to produce
for export. If the profits of southern cot
ton mills are not what they were at first,
when perhaps the dividends included
moneys that should have been set apart for
depreciation and renewal and If the mills
around Greenville, S. c., whose profits we
referred to recently, are more prosperous
than many others, It remains evident that
the profits of southern cotton mills are
tempting to capital, and that the advan-
tages of spinning the cotton near the field
where it was picked have not been ex-
hausted. Most of these extensions of the
cotton industry are in the two Carolinas.