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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
The Worlds Ore Supply.

Practically the ore mines of Spain are
pitted against those of the United States.
There are mines in England, Germany,
France and Russia, but in these countries
there is need of high-grade Spanish ores.
They cannot we'll do without it, in compe-
tition with the furnaces Of the United
States. England expects to get ore from
Sweden within the Arctic circle, but the
mines in that land of extreme cold have
not been fully developed, and it is indeed
doubtful whether ore can be brought from
there at reasonable rates,
Let US see, then, what the Spanish sup
ply is The Bilbao district in Biscaya prov
lnce is the chief source OF supply, although
iron ore is mined in eleven other Spanish
provinces. We present below table show
ing the shipments from all twelve provinces
in the last two years:
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
FRANCHISE TAXATION IN MISSOURI

FRANCHISE TAXATION IN MISSOURI
From the Chicago Evening Post.
The new policy in regard to franchise
taxation has received an impetus in conse-
quence of the victorious legal fight in
New York. Officials elsewhere have been
stimulated into more intelligent perform
anee of their duty and exercise of their
authority. Thus the Missouri state board
of equalization has unanimously decided
that, even in the absence of special ex-
press legislation to that end, franchises
may and ought to be taxed as property.
There was a bill before the late Mis-
souri, legislature for the assessment and
taxation of all franchises carrying special
privileges, but it failed of passage. The
governor emulated Roosevelt and sent
strongly worded messages urging the
adoption of the measure. but, though both
houses wore controlled by his own party,
the lobby was powerful enough to prevent
action. Trickery and subterfuge killed the
bill at the eleventh hour.
1t is for the courts to decide whether
under the laws in regard to taxation as
they stand franchises are subject or ex-
emit. The attorney general of the state
is satisfied that their taxation is strictly
proper ana lawful and be makes out a
good case. The courts, he says, have re-
peatedly held that franchises were prop
crty and certainly all property is taxa
bic The statutes speak of tangible and
intangible property" and franchises are
within this description. Up to 1865, it APP
pears the constitution of Missouri left it
optional with the legislature as to what
species of property should be taxed, but
since that time no option or discretion has
existed The new constitution provides
that all property should be taxed except
that expressly exempted. Churches, pub
lie buildings educational institutions and
similar things are so exempted, but fran
chises are not included, hence they are
to he taxed property.
This contention will be resisted, OF
course. and a test case is to be brought
by thc Suburban Railway company, of st.
Louis which has been taxed 81 ,793 500 on its
property The effort of the state board
will doubtless lead to legislation along the
New Yorl; Ford law lines, for the diff
entities of the franchise tax problem are
tuch ms to render express provisions and
a uniform system necessary to the accom-
plishment of equity.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
The TransvaaI Republic in Peril.

The Uitlanders have found champion
in the present English government These
Uitanders are almost wholly Englishmen
engaged in gold or diamond mining. Their
enterprises far exceed in Importance all
the farming and stock-raising that the
Beers carry on. Their chief town,
johannesburg, contains over 100000 people,
while Pretoria, the capitol of the republic,
contains about 5000 people. The Uitland-
ers pay the greater part of tho taxes; they
are compelled to do military service, and
yet they are not permitted to have a voice
in public affairs. They are not permitted
to vote or take part in even strictly local
elections.
As the South African republic is q de-
tendency of England in all foreign rela-
lions, England does not propose that the
Uiuanders shall be maltreated by Dom
Paul-and his colleagues in the land of the
Beers. They demand political equality,
and the stubborn Dutchmen propose to
make 1t a matter of years They say the
Uitlanders can apply for citizenship now
and obtain it two years or more in the
future England does not propose to ac-
cept any such delay. Equal political rights
are wanted now and they must be con-
coded now, or else President Kruger must
face the British Lion. The British Lion
will be moro in earnest when he again
meets the Beers of the Transvaal. These
Dutchmen are brave and stubborn, and
they shoot straight, but they viii be over
matched when England sets out this time
to obtain justice for Englishmen in the
South African republic. There will be no
compromise this time. Mr.. Gladstone ac-
copied a compromise in local affairs when
the Beers put up a good fight about ten
years ago. Mr.. Chamberlain will not show
the Beers much mercy If they stubbornly
bring on a war and great expense and
possibly some slaughter The chances are
very good that at the end of it there will
be one less republic and the Beers them
selves will become British citizens. They
would prefer to be let alone, but as they
did not let the Africans alone, and as they
ere not acting justly towards the tax
paying Uitianders, no one will be apt to
weep over their fate, much less to help
chem out of the trouble they have gotten
enoselves into
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15

Of an argument. In his use of figures he
reminds us of a local Judge who confessed
that when he got beyond his first million
all other millions and billions conveyed no
specific notion toehis mind. In a word,
they were all the same to him.
Here is a specimen of the judges abso-
Lutte disregard of the meaning of figures.
In discussing the cost of the republican
presidential campaign of 1895 he said:
After McKinley's nomination Mark
Hanna engineered his collection and raised
the largest campaign fund ever known in
the United States. amounting, it is be-
lieyed, to over $4,000 O00."
By whom is this preposterous story of
a $50,0O00O0 campaign fund believed?
As matter of fact, the total disburse-
ments of the national republican CAM
paign committee in 1896 were less than
81 100000. OF this just under one million
was expended in printing and postage. 1t
was campaign of literature. But $1,000,-
900 will print and distribute literature by
the ton.
The balance of the fund was paid out
for clerk hire, for stump speakers and for
halls and travelling expenses.
The apocryphal $50 O00 &c., which Judge
Tuley might as well have made $500 900, 600
without straining his imagination, would
have paid for at least seventeen such
campaigns as that of 1896.
Really Judge Tuley ought to get some
decimal point ,..,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
DEWEY FUND LAGGING

Washington Cor. of the Chicago Tribune.
Naval officers, especially those who know
Admiral Dewey, deplore the condition of
the fund which a government board of Of
ficers is trying to raise to honor that Off
GER The board has held a meeting and
declared something must be done to save
the whole thing from defeat 1t will take the
personal efforts of the members to accom-
plsh this and those who possess influence
in various sections will be counted on to
make good the promise and preserve the
effort from utter failure and ridicule. Mr..
Vanderip, for instance, will see some Chi
cago men, Adjutant-GeneralC orbin will So
licit aid from some New Workers, and AS
sistant Secretary Allen is aid to have been
assigned to the task of calling upon rich
New Englanders Subscriptions are drop
ping off and the scheme threatens to de-
generate into benefit performances, anna
teur shows, advertising ideas, and all sorts
of undgnifed methods of collection. Most
naval officers have criticised the whole af-
fair unspairingly as being unnecessary and
as something to which Dewey would not
approve
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
The Ministry That viii Try Dreyfus.

The new premier of France, NJ. Raymond
Poineaire, deputy for Meuse was minister
of public instruction when the Dreyfus
courtmartial was held in 1891 He believed
that injustice was done at that time, and
he believes that justice, though leaden-
healed, should be welcomed now. He is,
too, thorough-going republican, a radical
and progressist, and he will give the
peasant president all possible support
against all reactionary elements.
NJ. Dupuy whom NJ Poincaire succeeds.
has long been a presidential aspirant, and
there are suspicious that he was none too
loyal to President Loubet. He is known
to have had advanced information of the
royalist demonstrations at the Auteuil
races and yet he took no steps to check
them, or to protect the president. This
ment. He has thrice held the premiership,
but he Is not and never has been popular
leader.
1t is claimed, too, that he did more than
his uuly ldSl Ouludyb Wllcu lio plGSldehb
went to Longchamps He did too little at
Auteuil and too much at Longchamps. His
policemen in the latter Instance cudgelled
the socialists who were shouting viva
Loubet," and the like.
The best that can be said of the Dupuy
ministry is that it skilfully educated the
French people up to the point of justice in
the Dreyfus case. By letting them have
from time to time pieces of the now evil
dence, he brought about public sentiment
that admits of fair and peaceful trial of
the unfortunate officer. NJ. Dupuy should
have credit for this change in public sem
timent. But all French ministries are
short-lived, no matter how hard they work
to deserve support. In twenty-nine years
there have been thirty-seven cabinets, that
of NJ. Polncaire being the twenty-eighth.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
lie Trust Tariff Conspiracy.

In re ten months of the present fiscal
year ending with April, the exports of
manu- ..red goods aggregated $275,97S, 800,
as agains. 1924 1871 ,OO2 in the corresponding
months Of est year. The increase was
about II Pc cent. The trusts propose to
extend and dey:e.op this demand for manu-
featured good
They propose do it in accordance with
the German PLAN they will sell regardless
of profits, in othe. words, goods to other
countries selling eed be below cost and
at the best not muc above cost, and they
will turn about and - home consumers
profits possibly up to - tariff point. They
will have one price for The foreign buyer
and one for the home buJ and the home
buyer will have to pay the crger price.
While this is an unpleasa~ programme
made possible by the present -@riff, yet it
is hardly the whole truth of tn case. The
Capitalization of the America trusts,
unlike those of Germany has no 'efercnce
TO their real value. The over-ca,-. alization
in American trusts is something enormous,
and the chances are that profits will be
sorely needed from both foreign an domes-
tic consumers. Both vii be squeeze. TO the
utmost and in the struggle for t@Sue ex-
tension this country vii lack the fee hand
that Germany possesses. American greed
in the formation of trusts stands in the
way. In some cases perhaps sufficient
profits can be obtained from domestic con-
sunlers. but as q rule that cannot be done
because Of the extent of overcapitaliza-
ton.
At any rate, home consumers must pay
high prices to the trusts, md w,iea these
prices are affixed to materials that enter
into various forms oe manufactured goods,
it Is plain that very many manufacturers
at home will be seriously handicapped. and
the export of these goods to other coun-
tries will become an cconrinic possibility.
When domestic competition is ended by
the formation of trusts in every industry,
and tho export trade Is Handicapped by
oyer-ca pitallzatiou, we will begin to reap
The punishment that the trusts AID the
tariff working together can infic; There
Is no room for grumbl!ng on the part of
tie people; for the people passed the tariff
and created the laws u.Iler which the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
From the Pen of Evarts

When Former Senator William NJ. Evarts
had the full use of his eyes and was able
to enjoy outdoor life, says the Utica OBJ
server, he took great deal of pride in the
quality of live stock ON his Vermont farm.
One hot summer day Ellhu Root called to
see MIR. Evarts. He found him just sitting
down to luncheon in the large kitchen of
the old-fashioned farm house. The table
was spread before the empty fireplace,
which was big enough to hold three men
standing upright. Mr.. Root stood In the
fireplace to cool of, while Nr. Evarts be-
gan to carve a boiled ham, taken from one
of his own pigs.
Root" said Mr.. Evarts, ibid you ever
hear of the - Magazine?'
Seems to me l have" was. the reply.
Just started. Got a drag net out for we'll
known contributors"
Just So" continued Mr.. Evarts THE
editor has written to me for something
choice from my pen. l think I'll send him
a slice Of this ham,"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
PHILOSOPHY or THE EYES

From the New York Herald. ~
Blue eyes are said to be the weakest
Upturned eyes are typical of devotion.
Wide open eyes are indicative of rashness.
Side glancing eyes are always to be dis
trusted.
Brown eyes are said by oculists to be
the strongest.
Small eyes are commonly supposed TO in
dictate cunning.
The downcast eye has in all ages been
typical of modesty.
The proper distance between the eyes 10
the width of one eye.
People of melancholic temperament rare
" have clear blue eyes.
Eyes with long, sharp corners indicate
great discernment and penetration.
The white of the eyes showing beneath
the iris is Indicative of nobility of char
aeter.
Gray eyes turning green III anger or ex-
element are indicative of a choleric tenn
permanent.
When the upper lid covers half or moro
of the pupil the indication is of cool DELHI
Grafton.
An eye the upper lid of which passes
horizontally acress the pupil indicates
mental ability.
Unsteady eyes, rapidly jerking from side
to side, are frequently indicative of an I'M
settled mind.
1t is said that the prevailing color OF
eyes among patients of lunatic asylums are
brown and black.
Eyes of any color with weak brows and
long, concave lashes, are indicative of q
weak constitution.
Eyes that are wide apart are said By
physiegnomists to indicate great ntclli-
gence and a tenacious memory.
Eyes of which the whole of the iris Is
visible belong TO erratic persons, often with
4 tendency toward insanity
Wide open staring eyes in weak coun-
tenanccs indicate jealousy, blgotry, !ntol-
GRANGE and pertinacity without frmncss
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
SHORT STORIES
OF THE DAY

The story telegraphed from Havana about
the conspiracy to overthrow the American
authority in Cuba reminds me, writes w.
e. Curtis to the Chicago Record. that
similar scare was once attempted in Porto
Rico One morning a man from one of the
interior towns came to headquarters and in
a most imperious manner announced that
it was imperative that he should see Gen.
eral Henry alone. He was shown into the
generals office without ceremony, and
asked to state his business. With a great
many preliminaries and mysterious airs he
whispered that a conspiracy was on foot
to assassinate all of the American officials.
overpower the soldiers and seize the gov
eminent. He admitted that he had reluct-
antly Joined the plot, but was remorseful
and was willing to reveal the details and
give the names of the men engaged, pro-
vided he was we'll rewarded and assured of
protection
General Henry had been looking him over
and Sizing him up during the interview.
and when the visitor finished his narration,
remarked indifferenty:
rs that allY' fas,.l = ~,
Eyes" replied the stranger.
"Well," said General Henry, you go
home and advise your friends to commence
digging graves at once. They will need a
good many, for the first time that a shot
is fired in hostility to the United States
1 will hang every man who is engaged in
the conspiracy, directly or indirectly, and
1 know them all. Good morning."
Nothing more was ever heard Of the out
break
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
THE LAY OF A BROKEN LEG

DR.. Cyrus Edison in the New York World.
Just a minute or two of your leisure I beg.
To sing you song of a mans broken leg,
And one of those ultra remarkable cures
That may serve you turn should you
ever break yours.
John Pringle, the grocer, one day put his
heel
On the business part of a banana peel;
In describing what followed 1 can't be
exact,
Suffice to say, Pringle's femur was tract.
When mis- friends and the neighbors had
put him to bed
And declared 1t was lucky 1t wasn't his
head,
They called in a doctor-a lady was She
Who happened by chance a faith curist to
be.
She invoked and demanded Divine interview
ton,
And turned up her nose at both splint and
extension;
Now faith cure, or nature or some occult
spell,
Cured Pringle completely-the femur got
we'll
Grew firm and rs strong as a femur could
be,
But his leg It was shortened by inches
just three;
Good only at fads and at Science" to
kick,
While he hobbled about with a crutch and
a stick.
While Pringle was kicking, one day to
him came
Another faith curst who was also dame:
1.-THE leg is we'll healed" she was heard 10
declare,
"To lengthen It's simply matter of
prayer"
She left him with promises, went on her
way,
And, 10! Pringles leg grew little each
Delighted he watched It as time quickly
flew,
And little by little. 1t heightened, 1t grew.
1t reached to the other and still It grew
stronger.
1t passed by its mate, and grew longer and
longer:
Poor Prngle was now in the greatest dis
tress,
For the good. praying dame hadn't left her
address,!
He spent all his money in vain Advertising,
Yet still on the leg toward heaven he's ris-
ing:
While the lady enthusiastically knows
where
TO apply T. 7. d. to the leg n good prayer
Hoec fabula docet that folks should be-
ware
OF applying n remedy powerful MS PRAYER
For repairing of fractures the good Lord in
tended
That srints should he used and the men,
Der extended.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
Jonas Had Hard Work

When Mr.. Jonas Howard, an esteemed
citizen of Jeffersonville Ind, went to
Washington from his congressional district
several years ago, says the Detroit Free
Press, he left behind him a devoted and
affectionate body of constituents in town
and county, who fancied that great per-
sonal benefits would come to them through
Mr. Towards powerful presence in the
halls of national wisdom. One of these
rural adherents, a small farmer, WITH some
momentous political design his mind,
followed Mr. Howard to Washington, in
eager pursuance of that mysterious object.
He returned in about five days, seemingly
not much elated.
'Welh BILL" a town acquaintance salut-
ed him, did you see Washington and Mr..
Howard, and did you get what you went
after?"
"Ya-as; I seen Washington" he replied.
grumpily, land 1 seen Jonas: but Jonas
couldn't do nothin' fer me; ne was a-hav-
In hard work to keep from gittin' tramped
on hisself.''
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n the last two years:

IOtalS... ,..f,bl5,t 0o G,lzo,OOU
1t will be noticed that the shipments
we're decreased in 1898 about five per cent,
and a further decline in shipments is ap-
pretended The ore mines in Spain have
been worked a long time, some of them
centuries, and they are well-nigh exhaust
ed. Poorer ore is accepted, ore that a few
years ago could not have been sold at all.
1t is now proposed to wash and pick over
the rubbish heaps of the old mines. This
would afford a good many tons of ore, but
1t will not afford ore at low prices.
Altogether it is becoming palmer each
year that iron and steel making will fall
as a heritage to this country. Some iron
and steel will be made elsewhere especially
in Russia, but no country will be able to
make either as an export article in close
competition with the United States The
bare fact that the worlds supply of iron
and steel is to be drawn from this country,
and that basic steel can be made at lower
cost in Alabama than elsewhere, should
convince every Albanian at least that
Jones valley is destined within twenty-five
years to be full OF mills-and people.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
How Fighting Fob Got His Title

Fighting Bob Evans did not get his
title for anything he has done since he
entered The navy. 1t was given to him
while he was a student at Annapolis. When
he reached the naval school he had with
him a framed copy of the Lords prayer,
which his mother had given him. He hung
1t on the wall, over his bed. The rules at
Annapolis forbid ornaments of any kind
being hung on the walls. The inspecting
officer ordered Evans to take it down. He
refused and drew himself up in a warlike
attitude. Finally an appeal was made to
the secretary of war Meanwhile, Evans
had written home about it. His parents
got up a petition to the secretary, and the
prayer was allowed to remain. 1t is hang
ing yet ON the walls of Evans old room.
And he was nicknamed Fighting Bob in
consequence of the incident.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15

From the New Orleans Picayune.
In Denmark, it Is the law that all
drunken persons shall be taken to their
homes In carriages provided at the ex-
pense of the publican who sold them the
last glass. Great Seottl that rule applied
here would break up and bankrupt all the
clubs in city. Every member would pre-
tend to be drunk for the sake of a carriage
ride home
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
The man who cannot weep at the right
time is not fit to soothe a woman's tears.
A woman has got to pretend something
even If it is that she is a fool when she
isn't.
After she has been bride for six months
a woman begins to realize that she is doing
the loving for the family.
A woman never finds fault with the sell
fishness of the man who is selfish enough
to want all her time for himself.
When a man insists on making the after
dinner coffee his wife is a good deal more
generous about praising and liking. it than
he is about her biscuits.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
THE POSSESSION OF WEALTH

From the WORKMAN Telegraph.
When man is lifted out of the position
of irksome poverty and can have plain,
wholesome food in a clean, sanitary home,
after this the additions made by album
dance of money go for very little. They
may crafty love of show, feelings of self
consequence and abnormal cravings, but in
doing so they do not increase happiness but
lessen it. The one great chasm is the
chasm which separates real poverty and
hardship from a reasonable competence.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15

trusts are organized Both are evils of the
law. Both came from the people. Neither
of these monsters can be undone until the
people rise up in earnest and drive the
twin schemes for the robbery of the many
out of existence. It rests with the people.
They have all needful power, but thus far
they have not exercised it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN OF 1895

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
When Judge Murray f. Tuley, for whom
the Times-Herald cherishes the highest
regard, puts aside his judicial mind and
lets his political fancy rove he becomes
one of the most diverting polenlics that
ever reveed In the figures and inyectivez
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-15
STRIPES ARE IN FAVOR

From thc ST. Louis Globe-Democrat
Nj kinds of bunting are steadily adyanc-
ing la price, in anticipation of Dewey's
homecoming. The visible supply is only
- ou1CG1 yards, and as every man, woman
and child will want at least ten ya~GC, the
deficiency will be something enormous.