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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
TYRANNY OF THE BOERS

From the New York Journal.
The constitution and laws of the Trans
vaal, which reflect the personal wishes and
religious prejudices of Paul Kruger and a
few other Dutchmen, forbid the Catholic
to share in the law-making for the country.
England demands that this discrimination
against Catholics cease.
, The Transvaal laws forbid any Jew to
share the law-making power.
England demands that this discrimina ton
against the Jews cease.
There are 100000 whites in the so-called
Boer republic, but only $4,000 are Beers.
The Beers declare that they are merely
asking the right to live" What they really
ask is the right of six men to tyranze over
twenty, of 10000 to rule 100000. and rule
them unjustly The Boer attitude is not a
demand for freedom. 1t is strictly an at.
titude of denying freedom to Others The
Boer bosses controlled by Kruger maintain
a government by aristocracy, an aristocracy
based on birth-Dutch birth
III the Dutch who settled Manhattan
Island had insisted on keeping the island
strictly Dutch; if they had refused to any
save Protestant Dutchmen all share in the
law-making power; If they had forbidden
children in the public schools to be taught
anything save Dutch and miserable bastard
Dutch, they would have acted in America
precisely as the Beers are now acting in
South Africa.
The Englishmen, the Americans, the Irish
the Scotch, the Jews of various rationale
ties who have settled in the Transvaal
found the Dutch republic a bankrupt insti-
tuition. They have made it's ruler, Kruger,
multi-millionaire. They are forbidden to
share in the government of the country
which they have created.
President Kruger is trying to enforce up
on 100000 progressive, intelligent, liberty
loving men the primitive bucolic Dutch
ideas which mark the progress of the great
trek of which he is survival. The idea
of liberty entertained by him and his asso-
ciate bosses is liberty for the Dutch and
nobody else" His government is the incar-
nation of A. P. A-ism on working basis
President Mckinley will not interfere to
uphold the Dutch bosses in overruling the
decisions of their own supreme court in
taking those who are not represented, in
depressing citizens for their religious be-
liefs.
He will reject any petition to interfere
that may be presented. Those politicians
who have signed petition, acting in dense
ignorance of Transvaal matters, will do
well to revise and withdraw their action.
The time for interference with England
is not now A very good occasion for such
an action was seized by this country when
the Venezuelan controversy arose. There
will be other occasions, and the Journal
hopes to perceive them and insist upon
them, but 1t will not indorse any sickly
sentimental, Ignorant movement to back
up $4,000 Beers in expressing 100000 ener-
getic men who have created their prosper
ity and have a right to share their govern
ment.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
THE FATNEss or THE LAND

From the New York World.
That the country is richer than it was
a year ago, and that tae people are living
better, appears in the fact that during the
month of September the imports of foreign
merchandise were so 100000 worth greater
than during September a year ago And at
the same time our own manufacturers sold
more goods than ever to Americans.
Going back further the imports for the
first nine months This year exceeded those
of a corresponding period last year by more
than hundred millions of dollars.
That is to say, the American people are
having better time than they were a year
ago, With more good things to eat and
money jingling in their pockets.
And when We ask where The extra wealth
comes from, the just published government
report from which tlle foregoing figures are
drawn promptly answers. During Septem-
Der of this year we exported more Ameri-
of last year by 900 worth, while for
the first nine months of this year our mer-
oClandise exports exceeded even our vastly
increased imports by no less than $S17.,-
292, 402. That is to say, since January la st
We have sold more goods abroad than we
Figures are often dry. But these are
juicy in their significance Of widespread
and increasing prosperity.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
Lumbermen Are Happy.

The Alabama lumbermen are very happy.
Every foot they can saw Is wanted by wait
ing customers, and the price is named by
the producer. He needs no association now
to help him. He names his own prices,
and they are freely paid.
No one better deserves a period of pros
perty than a lumberman in the south.
Prices of yellow pine began to decline in
1872, and from that year down to last jan
uary the lumbermen's condition went from
bad to worse. Since January 1 prosperity
has come to the saw mills in a wave-a
wave that has almost assumed the proper
tions of tidal wave. A lumberman recent
iy explained the change in this manner:
Heretofore the conditions were simply
this. Instead of waiting for the buyers to
come to us, we went north and hunted them
up and begged them to allow us to ship
them a little lumber If they were at all
cocky about it maybe we offered to pay
them something for the privilege of shipping
them bill of lumber. Anyway, we We're
glad to get almost any kind of an order
and did not examine the schedules too close
ly, taking our chances of coming out even
in the end. Now the conditions are exactly
the reverse The manufacturers send their
agents down here to beg us to sell them
lumber They do not ask what our terms
are, but what can you give us and when can
you give it to US. 1t is not so much ques-
tion of prices as ability to deliver the
goods"
Like iron, lumber is in demand at almost
any price. 1t is wanted in the construction
of mills and cars and ships, and homes for
the people, and great business houses Like
iron, it enters into nearly all construction.
Even home orders are filled with difficulty,
and the delay in building in this city is
largely due to the fact that orders for lum-
Der cannot be filled.
If the present demand should be main
tained the most serious question will relate
ITO the supply. The south will reap a har-
vest, but the crop can not be renewed in a
life time. There will not, it is true, be a
ter ten years, when the white pine is prac-
tically exhausted-what then? This is a
question that students of forestry should
answer, and that legislators should heed.
Young pine trees need protection against
fire and against vandalism
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
G.ftLE sOSG
BY James Whitcomb Riley.

By James Whtconb Riley.
The maple l.rews the embers of its leaves
Der the lageard swallows nestled meath
the caves:
: And the moody cricket falters in his cry
Babye-bye--.
And the lid of night Is falling Ger the sky
-Baby-bye-
The lid of night is falling Ger the sky!
Il
Tine rose is lying palid, and the cup
of the fron.cd Gala lily folded up;
And the lreeZes through the garden sob
and sigh-Baby-bye-
Ger the sleeping blooms of summer where
they lie-Baby-bye!
Der the sleeping blooms of summer where
the- lie!
Yet, Baby. oh my Baby, for your sake
This heart of mine IL ever wide awake,
And my love may never droop a drowsy
eye-Baby-bye!
Till yola- own arc wet above me when die
Baby-bye.
Till your own are wet above me when die
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
PROF. COUNCIL IN THE CONVENTION

From the Huntsville Tribune.
Prof w. H. Council is a familiar figure
in our city. His speech in our judgment,
contains more of the pure germs of intel
lectual thought than any address delivered
before that body. 1t is not from local par
TALLY that we consider his address super
Tor to that of his great contemporary
Booker Washington, but we have arrived
at this conclusion after careful perusal
and study of the two great addresses, and
we consider both addresses great in intel
lectual thought, great in deep study of the
subject. Still Prof. Council penetrated
a little deeper, evinced more tact as a
pathfinder of an intelligent solution of the
race problem than did his contemporary.
Either speech is worthy of close study and
fair impartial comparison. Our judgment is.
If the negro race will follow the paths of
industrial labor blazed by Prof. Councill,
and the white race will regard his kind eX-
pressions as true and be governed by them,
that much good will result.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
THE COTTON CROP

Galveston, Tex, October 16-"Have cabled
my house that the maximum yield OF the
American cotton crop would be 9,oOo,oOo
bales" This was the reply of A. j. Bus
ton senior member of the firm of A. j.
Buston & Co., one of the largest cotton
brokerage houses of Liverpool, to the ques-
ton as to cotton crop conditions in the
south. Mr.. Buston arrived here today after
having completed his annual tour of the
cotton belt of the south. He is close OBJ
server, and has thoroughly gone through
the cotton section, and speaks from an
ocular view of conditions.
IN North and South Carolina and Geor-
gia the conditions are the worst have ever
seen there. In Alabama and Mississippi the
plant shows the best Of any of the states
1 have visited, yet there the yield will be
below last year. In Texas the conditions
are the worst 1 have ever seen. In the
northern part of the state there are assures
in the earth six inches wide. The creeks
are all dry, water is being hauled for stock
and the whole cotton belt is parehed on
account of the unprecedented drouth. The
cotton planters themselves do not realize
the shortness of the crop. In Texas the
major portion of the crop is picked clean.
There will be no top crop for the reason
the plant is dead, and picking generally
will be over throughout the south by the
end of This month. Liverpool, New York
and New Orleans believe the crop is TO-
100000 1 am rather timid about estimat ting
the yield, but my candid opinion is the
crop will not exceed 100000 1t may be
much less. When Liverpool realizes the
true situation there are going to be great
times in the cotton market. How soon the
music will begin 1 can't say, but L want
to be in Liverpool when it commences.
The American spinners were wise in max
ing their purchases early in the season. The
English spinner held aloof, discrediting the
reports of a short crop, and now he will
have to purchase at an advance or not get
the staple, as the south is able to hold
despite the efforts of Liverpool, New York
and New Orleans markets to shake her
out"
Mr.. Buston leaves In the morning for
New York via New Orleans, and will sail
on the Majestic for Liverpool on the 25tn.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
WHAT COCAINE Is

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Cocaine is am alkaloid of small shrub
found in Peru and Bolivia. The official
name of the drug as used in medicine is
cocaine sulphate, a salt derived from the
shrub treated with sulphuric acid. Cocaine
is composed of carbon hydrogen and nit
rosyl reduced to a sulphate. Each element
of the compound has a direct influence on
the nervous system, blood and lymphatics
1t possesses the singular property of kill
ing all sensation of pain in the parts where
it is locally applied, while elevating the
mind of the patient to pitch of exalta-
ton absolutely without parallel.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
RAILROADS IN AFRICA
From the Railway Age.

Africa has now nearly 10000 miles of rail-
way, and offers an unlimited field for ex-
tensions. The dream of a great line ex-
tending the. whole length of the country
from Cairo to Cape Town, some $500 miles,
seems likely to be realized early in the new
century. On the north end about LOO miles
are in operation, and on the south about
LOO miles, leaving something like $500
miles yet to be built through the Dark Con-
tjnent, which locomotive headlights will ere
long illuminate.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press t.e
The trouble with love is that you always
have trouble with it.
If women had pockets they would be a
lot mere likely to keep their hands where
they belong.
AS soon as IA man gets so he can afford to
keep hired girl his wife begins ITO go Wis
iting and talk about all the trouble she
has with 1.-THE servants"
The first thing Eve said when they got
outside of the Garden of Eden was proba-
bly, that matter how nice it was he
knew she always did hate to be coopee up
in there
When the average man stands up to get
married he looks to the woi.en like a hero,
but he looks to the men more like a curly
haired bull at prize fair with pink rib
bon tiled to his HORNS
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
sehiemaugk TO be brought Back

Berlin. October 1s.-Application has been
made by the United States embassy for the
extradition of Max Schiemaugk maic, of
the United States volunteers in the war
with Spain, who was arrested here some
months ago for obtaining money under
false pretenses and subsequently identified
by Postal Inspector Wheeler, of Washing
ton, who charged him with forging postal
orders in the United States. The United
States government sent special agent
from Washington to bring him back.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
wall hoog nou is ons helder lug" says
the Beers national hymn. Even Britannia
can hardly fail to break something if she
persists in going up against such an cleo
tion yell as that.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Florida was purchased as Were the Philip
pines, but there the parallel ends, for We
sent General Jackson to Florida soon after
the purchase to look after the Indians, and
he was no General Otis. He had no blue
pencil. He was not fussy.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

General Fred. Funston did not bring back
the war can be ended in six months if the
Manila end of the campaign be properly
conducted.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Acquiescenee in the decisions of the DEM
ocratic state executive committee are as
general The party itself. Even Mr.. Jones
OF Lauderdale has fallen into line.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

The Huntsville Tribune does not hesitate
to say that Professor Councils speech be-
fore the Huntsville convention was much
the best delivered before that body.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

There are not cars enough to carry the
tonnage that is offered, and the railroads
are not waiting for the coming of ice in
lakes and rivers. They are beginning to put
up rates already
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
HIS DPEFi'L OUTLOOK

From the Baltimore News.
Mitigating circumstances evidently pre-
vented the Arkansas criminal who was
sentenced to lis years Imprisonment from
g>Ltinfs 4 l:fo term.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Dom Paul talks as if his sole dependence
was Providence, but his acts show that he
is depending more on rifles in tae hands of
mis- trusted burghers.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Vice President Hobart can secure all the
rest he needs by simply being vice presi-
dent, and nothing beyond. He should drop
the go-betWeen business.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

The strawIhat season in New Orleans
was not ended this year until October 10.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

First skirmishes and advances of an
enemy on the spot do not disturb the grim
commander of the British forces, Sir Red
yers Butler. 49,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

The Dewey arch in New York is mot
readily turned into marble. Gold must pre-
cede the marble, and 1t is not thus far forth
coming.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

France fergets Madagascar and FasAoda
and straightway proceeds to rasp England
ON the score of territorial greed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

The filth of Oporto is fully up or down to
the oriental standard, and the bubonic
plague continues to spread.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

good wind today will establish Amer
iea's supremacy in the yachting business,
but not in the carrying trade.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

The famous "Gibson girl" grew from
models. Such work is never strictly i'm
aginative, any more than the models are.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

1t now turns out that General Funston
was willing to stay in the Philippines, but
Otis did not ask him to stay. Otis wants
no rivals.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Huntsville wants an opera house" and
a wagon yard. How would theater and
some hitching posts do?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Dried apples, favored with raisins, is the
latest recipe for cider at two cents glass.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

alone be worth a trip from any part of the
state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Mr.. Atkinson does not appear to have
been present at the watch presentation in
Boston. 1t may nave oeen his cooking day.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Kipling is outranked in Vermont by
Dewey, and he offers his home for sale.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

The worlds temple of Janus is wide open,
and this is the year of The Hague peace
conference.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19
A BATTLE CRY

Arch art is growing in this country. 1t
has even reached Atlanta.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

Captain III. c. Reynolds, of Montevallo
was in town yesterday
Colonel A. NJ. Shook and Mrs Shook, who
were recently the victims of a carriage
accident in Nashville, continue to improve.
Colonel Shook hopes to be present at the
beginning of steel making by the great
plant al Ensley about four weeks hence.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-19

?. Sid Jones, The restless and indefatig
able Louisville and Nashville immigra ton
agent, is spending two or three days in
Nashville. 1t is scarcely possible to know
today where Mr.. JONES will be tomorrow.
For him there is never a morrow; it is
always today. He is deeply interested in
Vinemont, Cullman, Crosby, and more
Things generally than you could shake a
stick at
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-04-08
HERE AND THERE.

The irregularity of supplying salt
to animals is detrimental to the best
results. 1t is essential not only to
health and vigor, but it aids digestion
A mich cow will rapidly lose if salt
is withheld.
Whenever chick is killed by
gape-worms it should be burned, to
destroy the pests that killed it. Don't
bury it, but burn it. Disinfect the
yards or runs with sulphuric acid, ono
pint, and water, ten gallons.
Every breed ef fowls has its own
virtues, and is good for some special
end, but the general purpose fowl, all
things considered, is the best TO be
had. Beauty, with many, is the very
first consideration and perhaps too
often.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-04-08

And to be honest about 1T, have noe
the farmers themselves become weaned
to some extent from the simplicity,
frugality and common sense CO their
predecessors? DO they not imagine
that when they want a thing they
must buy it, instead of making it as
they should. Their present policy is
to produce one or two low-priced sta
pie crops and buy everything else. The
characterization of an agricultural idi-
OF used to be that he couldn't make
hoe handle.
Where is the farmer now who ever
thinks of making a hoe handle, an
axe helve, or a pillow stock? The
Yankee manufacturer must now make
these things for him, and he must go
&c town and buy such things when he
wants them. The heavy importations
of beef, pork, bacon, lard, sausages,
potatoes, cabbages, beets, carrots and
a hundred other articles show that our
farmers are not doing themselves JUS
tice. The design of the farm is that it
should be more nearly self-sustaininy
than any other field of labor; that
farmers should buy less than any 9TH
er people; that while others must of
necessity live from hand to mouth, the
farmer should always be amply sup
piled with all things needful. If the
receipts for even Accent cotton could
be used to permanently better the
farmers condition, instead of paying
his debts or purchasing what BIS
should himself produce, there would
be less to complain of. 1t may as well
be realized now that financial improve
ment from the farmers standpoint is
only in the distant future. The policy
of the government, the power and
prevalence of giant trusts, and their
ability to control legislation in their
own interest and to violate with inn
punity any law intended for their con-
troll, will not be changed until revo-
luton in public sentiment is brought
about that will cause the producers of
the country to act as one man and
cleanse the Augean stable where athou-
sand political cattle lave been fatten-
ing for many years. The truth may not
always be pleasant to look at, but err
rors cannot be eradicated by turning
out backs on them.-Texas Farm and
Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-04-08
LOOK FACTS IN THE FACE.
Tho Farmer Must Keep Abreast of tn,
Times II He Would be suc-
cessful.

Times change, and farmers change
with them. Other people change as
much as farmers, and if they can
stand it, why can't farmers do the
same? Some changes are for the bet
ter; some are not. Farmers have bet
ter advantages for enjoying life than
they once had, but it is certain that
they enjoy life more than their fathers
did? They eat better food, as rule,
wear better clothing and live in better
houses. and have more of the artificial
conveniences than they once had. But
they are not happy; there are many
pessimists among them; they COM
plain that the world is becoming a
mass of corruption, and they are not
far wrong about it. But who is re-
sponsible? Did they not whopp 'em
Up at the primaries and then vote for
the very men they charge with polit-
ical corruption? Do they not habit
ually elect to Office men who are not 1T
for anything else, nor for ONCE either?
And has not this brought on the hard
times they complain of-the scarcity
of money, the low prices of products,
ard all of the financial and political
dtvilmeat OF which they complaint