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The age-herald., 1900-05-22
THE IRON MARKET

From the New York Evening Post.
 When talk of a break in our iron market first became current some six weeks ago, a curious result ensued Prices of Ameri- can iron yielded somewhat, but the Glas- gow market fell much faster. There was rather sharp decline on the New York stock exchange in shares of the steel and iron companies; but at Berlin the stocks of sim liar 'industrial' concerns broke with a violence not imagined here. This singular response was witness to the revolutionary change in this country's position on the worlds competitive manufacture markets. Commercial Europe instantly recognized a face which commercial America, absorbed in contemplation of the "record' prices, had overlooked-that with a slackening of the enormous home demand, and a fall of American prices to the level of the outside world, the phenomenal expansion of our export trade in finished goods, which began in the hard times of 1S96 and was only partly checked by the advance in commer- cial prices three years later was certai to rise to unprecedented volume. The foreign trade statistics for April, published this week, suggest what is probably before us in this regard Exports of other than agricul- tural commodities, of which three7fourths are manufactured goods, were thirty-seven million dollars in April 1898; forty-six mill lions in the same month of 1899, and more than fifty-four millions in 1900 Even dur ing the recent heavy home demand we ex- ported twenty millions more per month in manufactures than we sen. out two years ago. What our producers will do in the fife of foreign trade, if they have to face genuine problem of "overproduction, is not easy to predict.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Inday's Battle in the Senate.

Today Senator Morgan will face the transcontinetal railroads and the Panama sehemers and the administration in an eff fort to have the senate consider at once the Hepburn bill. Aabama's veteran senator doubtless could overcome the agents of the French scheme and of the railroads if he did not have to contend also with the ad- ministration, which is trying to adjourn congress at the earliest practicable moment. It has loaded the administration with un- in White House circles that it cannot be ad- journed too soon for the good of the repub- lican party. That party pretends to be friendly to the Nicaragua canal, but It is more friendly to an early adjournment than to anything else.
 The twenty-six democratic senators can, however compel the consideration of the Nicaragua canal bill. They can prolong the session indefinitely unless it is consid- cred. There are several ways in which they can do this. and the people of the south anu ol tHe MiSSlSS1ppl valley VIII SuSldlll them in any efforts they may see fit to make in that direction The Washington Times well expresses the situation when it says: 1he democrats in the senate are be- ing closely and critically watched by the country. If they allow the session to end without a persistent and fearless fight for the American canal they will live to be sorry for it-every man of them"
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

and as such the greatest possible precau- tions should be taken in 1t. New Orleans should know who are coming in from the San Francisco way. It should know what goods are shipped from California to 1t. Household goods, and articles of food are especially dangerous. Chinese delieacics are believed to be the chief germ carriers of the disease. Their importation and use should be forbidden in all American towns
 Beyond doubt this disease which sprang up in southern China to encirele the globe, will be spread in one way or another by the Chinese, and a census of the pig-tailed Ce- lestials would be useful, because any ad- dition to their number could then be de- tected.
 The plague does not respect the color line. It attacks a black man as quickly as it does a white or brown man, and an out break of it in a dense negro quarter would be difficult to overcome, and extremely damaging. The Age-Herald has no desire to play the part of an alarmist, but 1t would be lacking in duty If 1t did not place the situation plainly before it's readers. San Francisco is as near US today as Atlanta was before railroads were built.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

Mississippi. February 2i. 1861; John II Rea- gan, Texas March 6. 1861. 1862 and 1863.
 
 pr. l. D. Morgan of Eutaw was in town yesterday on his way to Charleston to att tend meeting of the surveyors of the Southern Railway company.
 Chairman John " Smith of the state democratic campaign committee arrived in town yesterday engaged rooms at the Nor rls hotel for headquarters, and issued call for the committee to meet next Fri day, May 25. Upon the arrival of his pri- vate secretary today Chairman Smith will begin at once to dictate about no letters to party leaders in the various counties. Much preliminary work needs to be done. For example, there is no list of the chairmen Of the county executive committees, and no specific information as to the condition of affairs political Colonel Samford's next public speech will be delivered at the col lege for girls at Hartselle this week.
 William B. Bankhead and his young wife, who was Miss Sledge of Memphis, and IS we'll known in Birmingham, had apart ments in one of the buildings burned in Huntsville Sunday. All their personal eff fects, including bridal presents, were de- stroyed; and so the loss 10 them is griev- ous. On Saturday before the fire MT. Bankhead took out insurance policy for $l,0OO, which is s2.O00 less than the total loss he and Mrs. Bankhead suffered.
 Charles Lenoir of the Cawthorn-Coleman Drug company of Selma is in town
 
 Hon. Joseph J. Willett of Anniston is in town.
 Joseph Neuman of Greenville is in Br- mingham.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
Bubonic Plague in San Francisco.

The comfortable reading of reports of plague outbreaks elsewhere is at an end, for the dread disease has gained a firm foothold in San Francisco, and Chnamen will soon leave Chinatown in order to es- cape rigid rules of sanitation, going here and there but always to some city capable of infection. The problem is a repetition on a still larger scale of the problem in Honolulu. where fire and water and con- finement and inspection and fumigation were employed. So far as is known the disease has been stamped out in the Chi nese quarter of Honolulu, and perhaps after a long and expensive battle it will be in San Francisco.
 But there is danger elsewhere, for a half dozen rail lines now stretch across the con- tinent. One of these rail lines terminates in New Orleans. and the location of New Orleans, and the condition of good quar- ter of its people render that town a dan ger point. It Is at any rate in this war against tho invader an outpost of the south.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
On a Dangerous Course

Berlin, May 21.-Replying to an intcrpel- la tion in the lower house of the Prussian Diet today, the minister of the interior, Herr Von Rheidenbaben, said that in case of wage disputes, the government left their setlemtent to the parties concerned, but the street car employees had entered on a dangerous course. Thy had placed them- selves under the leadership of the social democrat trades union and had been in- duced to make demands incompatible with discipline and the maintenance of orders He concluded by saying the police had done their work admirably and while the fact of their having to charge the crowd was regrettable, it could not be helped. If the police had been ineffective, he said, troops would have been employed.
 The ministers remarks were vocifrously cheered.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
THIS COUNTRY AND THE noERs

From the New York Sun.
 The Boers were beaten when the army of Lord Roberts entered the Free State, and the war is now almost over.
 There comes from Pretoria to this gov ernment request that it will intervene in the Boers' behalf. Such action Is not possible.
 The republic of the United States IS strong in it's fellow feeling for republics elsewhere, and no nation sees the aboll- tion of anothers independence without re- gret. But, instinctive is our sympathy with the people of the Transvaal we can not make their quarrel ours.
 President Monroe's doctrine that the American continent was for American con- trol, as the European continent was for European control, is a cornerstone of our national security which cannot be too strongly respected or emphasized by our word or deed
 If one of the great European monarchies should decide to crush out the republic Of Switzerland, we couldn't help it. No more can we preserve the life of republic in Africa.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
SOME nIaMINauAM hUIsANCEs
To the Editor of The Age-Herald

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 Misery loves company" sometimes.
 Although l do not rejoice that others are afflicted and tortured by the fiddler men toned in your article of the 16th am glad that he has attracted the attention of so influential a medium as The Age-I1erald, and I wish thank you for the public ex- pression of your opinion.
 l suggest that some concerted action be taken to lay this matter before the proper authorities with the request that morbid, deformed mendicants, musicians @ and tin-horn and cracked-drIm advertisers be kept off the streets.
 Not a corner in the business portion of the city but has from one to four beggars, during some portion of the day, with ire quently one to three extras between cor ners some so loathsome in appearance as to shock and disgust ladies' to such an ex- tent that the memory remains for days and weeks, if not permanently, as a dis agreeable reminder of otherwise attractive localities.
 Seldom a day passes that my office is not visited by from one to six applicants for aims, some drunk as to be unable to state their demands, others vulgar and repugnant as to cause ladies to leave the office in horror.
 l sincerely trust that you will inaugurate a movement, and use your potent influence, to have these nusances abated. Yours truly, w. L. WOODRUFF.
 Birmingham, May 21, 19OO
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
Carpeibagism Revived in Cuba.

It would puzzle a detective to explain why carpetbaggers are sent to Cuba to hold local offices, handle local funds, and conduct local business. The late postmas- ter was a carpetbagger, and yet the money he handled and the business he supervised were strictly Cuban. The entire lot of thieves were carpetbaggers who had been appointed to places that should have been filled by Cubans. There are Cubans in Governor General Woods cabinet, and there are plenty of capable and honest Cubans whose services could be had in strictly local offices
 If the money to be expended were American money, the case might be diff ferent. If Cuba were to become part of America, it might be different. But Cuba is paying her own way, and Cuba is to be free and independent republic; and the filling of her local offices with cav. ~t- baggers is an outrage and scandal. . '--s se.i,sc-.s was given autocratic pow CTS in the Cuban postal service is a fair example of the whole lot. He is from Ohio. He was one of Mark Hannas act i've lieutenants, and on January 13 1898, a committee of the Ohio state senate charged him with bribery. The committee in it's report shows that Hanna, Rathbone. Dick and two other men constituted a ring that procured by bribery the election of Hanna to the United States senate They attempted to buy the vote of one Otis. Rathbone himself refused to appear before the committee, although subpoenas were sent to him. He fled the state, and the Ohio senate could not procure his at- tendance as a witness. It was proven, however. that Rathbone offered to give Otis $1OOOO if he would vote for Hanna. Otis did not vote for Hanna, and he pro- ceeded to expose the attempt to bribe him, in which Rathbone was conspicuous
 Rathbone was straightway sent to Cuba as director of posts with power to do as he pleased No one was to supervise his acts He put into fat places a swarm of carpetbaggers, like unto himself, and the rest followed as naturally as night fol- lows day.
 Instead of recalling tho carpetbag crowd, who are to man interlopers the admin istration has sent there Hcadsnan Bristow and another lot of carpetbaggers. Besides the governor general, the governors of the six provinces, and the army. there should l1a and the convention at Kansas City should make this point an issue ir the coming campaign.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
Value Total

It cost to make S3, ,9O0, GOO pounds of the stuff in the last fiscal year s5.91o, .67, or 7.09 cents a pound. It is sold in the south at from 20 to 9 cents a pound. About 5,OOo,O0O pounds are exported, leaving S'- 0O0OO0 pounds to domestic consumption; and the southern states are expected to take no small share of this amount. II It were distributed evenly there would be pound of the compound to be eaten by ev- cry man, woman and child in the country
 It will be noticed that comparatively It, tie cottonseed oil is put in it. Three fourths of the mixture consists of oieo oil neutral lard and milk. Oleo oil is rendered from leaf fat of beeves, and the lard comes of course from hogs by the neutral process of rendering In all thirteen articles are stirred together, and the product is put upon the people in fraudulent manner and the great profits gathered in it's man ufacture and sale prevent the passage Of laws that would put an end to the fraud as an article of food.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
His Ideal Rudely Dispelied.

There is an interesting story told of the minuet which is, perhaps, the most popu- lar of all Paderewski's compositions, says the Chicago News. Paderewski, while professor at the Conservatoire of Warsaw, was one evening at the house of Polish poet SwicZtochowsh, who expressed the opinion that no living composer could com- pare with Mozart in beauty and simplicity. At the moment Paderewsh merely shrug- ged his shoulders; but the following even- ing he appeared, and asked permission to play his host a little thing of Mozart's which, perhaps, he did not know. He play ed the minuet. Swicztochowsd was enrap- tured and cried triumphantly:
 "Now, you must acknowledge that a piece like that could not have been written in our time!
 Well" said Paderewsld, that happens to be minuet composed by me-
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
GENERAL WHEELER
The Victim of Representative Aldrich'
 Pun

Washington, May 21.-(Special.) )-Repre- sentative Aldrich of Alabama and General Wheeler were calling on the postmaster general the other day to urge-the appoint ment of an Alabama man to a position, when MT. Aldrich was guilty of a pun. It will be remembered that the rumor has been revived several times that General Wheeler is engaged to Mrs. George w. Childs. General Wheeler during this call courteously asked MT. Aldrich to make the statement to the postmaster-general, and MT. Aldrich smilingly said something to the general about love making an old man timid.
 "They are telling a lot of fairy tales about me-" said General Wheeler.
 You mean Childs stories, do you not, general?' replied MT. Aldrich.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
PHILIP, MY KING
By Dinah Muloch Craile.

By Dtnah Mulocn Cralie Look at me with thy large brown eyes,
 Philip, my king For round thee the purple shadow lies Of babyhoods regal dignities. Lay on my neck thy tiny hand With loves invisible sceptre laden; I am thine Esther to command Till thou shalt find thy queen-handmaiden.
 Philip, my King Oh, the day when thou goest a-wooins,
 Philip, my King When those beautiful lips are suing, And some gentle hearts bars undoing, Thou dost enter, love-crowned, and there Sttest all gloriGed -Rule kindly, Tenderly over thy kingdom fair, For we that love. ah! we love so blindly.
 Philip, my King! I gaze from thy sweet mouth up to thy
 Philip, my Knig; Ay, there lies the spirit, all sleeping now, That may rise like a giant, and make men As to one God-throned amidst his peers. My Saul, than thy brethren higher and
 fairer Let me behold thee in coming years! Yet thy head needeth a circlet rarer
 Philip, my King! 4 wreath, not of gold. but of palm. One
 day,
 Philip, my King. Thou too must tread, we tread, way Thorny and bitter and cold, and gray; Rebels within three, and focs without Will snatch at thy crown But go on,
 glorious Martyr. yet monarch! till angels shout As thou sittest at the feet of God victor ''2hilip. my XinE!"
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
THE NEW SECRETARY

From the Selma Journal.
 MT. John c. Pugh was on Friday elected secretary of the democratic state execu- tive committee. MT Pugh has a number of friends in Selma who congratulate not only him upon the honor bestowed but the party on having secured so active and capable an official. MT. N. l.. Miller, who has held the position for several years and declined reelection, deserves all the nice things said about him. He has been one of the most efficient officers the state com- mittee ever had, and much of the suc- cesses of the party are due to his efforts.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
An Occasion for Rejoicing.

''If the bishops had had my experience in the lecture feld,'' said Indiana delegate to the Methodist conference in Chicago, to a writer in the Chicago Tribune" they would be glad to be relieved from the work. I remember on one occasion I was billed to lecture in a small town in Illinois. The minister in whose church the lectures were held had had trouble with some of the at- fractions in his course. He was apparently glad to see somebody whom he knew and upon whose discretion he could rely.
 q am glad to see Dr. Smith here to- night" he said in introducing me, and you will be glad when he gets through"
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
COL. SAMFORD IS A MIXER

From the Selma Times.
 Colonel Sanford will make an active can Vass of the state this summer. He pro- poses to go around and get acquainted with the people That is right. He does not feel that he is above the people just because he has been nominated for gov ernor. The Times believes that Colonel Sanford is going to make one of the great est governors Alabama has ever had. In the first place. he is going to try to gov ern the people wisely, ana fin the second place. he is not going to let ambition get the better of his judgment
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
kEFLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A woman never begins to paint her face till she finds she cant blush.
 Probably no woman ever wore a fancy lace nightgown that didn't have some pins in it.
 When a woman is ugly the men are all expected to say that she has striking face"
 If cats took to staying out all night the women wouldn't think any more of them than they do of husbands.
 There are only two kinds of women in the world: the woman who would rather have a man tell her she. is beautiful than to squeeze her hand. and the woman who would rather have man squeeze her hand than to tell her she is beautiful.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
Oleomaruarine Facts and Fiqures.

The southern states are deluged with the fraud known in commerce as oleomarga- rine. It is sold as butter at butter prices. What it consists of has been made known by Secretary of the Treasury Gage, and what the ingredients are worth has been made known by Secretary Knight Of the Dairymen's union. We add the table thus prepared
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
McEnery and Foster Nominated

New Orleans, May 21.-The democratic caucus at Baton Rouge unanimously de- cided upon Senator s. D. McEnery and Governor Murphy J. Foster as candidates for the United States senate. They will be formally and unanimously elected tomor- row. gel
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
Queen Reviewed Troops

London, May H.-The queen at Wind sor today reviewed detachment of the guards which is proceeding to South Africa. Her majesty addressed the troops, wishing them success and expressing the hope that she could see them all back at no distant date.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
UNwuIs KERED PorULIsrs

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 The nomination of Bryan and Towne, two smooth-faced men, is a great blow to the bewhiskered style of popu1sm in vogue four years ago.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

What the governor of Montana really said they met will perhaps never be known. It is believed, however, he used the big D several times.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

Hanna named Rathbone, and Fairbanks named Medley, and these two noble senators constitute the kitchen cabinet of this ad- ministration.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

The Cuban carpet-baggers who charged .tneir clothes to Uncle Sam doubtless thought the apparel oft proclaims the man. It certainly does in the light of present revelations.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

It is practically "stermined by the admin gope.1 1lment until the carpet-bag officials say she is capable of it. Neeleys opinion has not been made public.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

The up-to-date Spriggs sent Senator Clark his vindication by telegraph. He was afraid Governor Smith would use the tele- phone.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
THE WATERING SIEGE AND OTHERS

THE WATERING SIEGE AND OTHERS From the New York World.
 Mafeking was besieged 211 days if relief came last Tuesday, as is indicated in an Amsterdam dispatch.
 Khartoum was besieged 341 days.
 Sebastopol was besieged 327 days.
 Paris was besieged 167 days.
 Kimberley was besieged 123 days.
 Ladysmith was besieged 11S days.
 Plevna was besieged S4 days
 Lucknow was besieged S6 days.
 Saragossa was besieged 62 days.
 The garrison at Mafeking originally con- sisted of 1150 irregular troops under Colonel Baden-Powell. The officers under him were Lieut. Col. c. O. Hare, Major Ballie, Major l.. E. Anderson, Major c. B. Vyvyan, Major A. J. Cooley, Major Lord Edward Cecil Ca son of Lord Salisbury, who was wounded in one engagement), Capt. F. c. Marsh, Capt R. J. Vernon (killed), Capt. c. Fitz- clarence (wounded), Captain Sandford Ckilled), Lieut.. Lord Charles Cavendsh- Bentnck (wounded), Lieutenant Patton Qxilled), Lieut.. W. D. Smith, Lieut. The Hon. A. H. c. Hanbury Tracy and Lieut. H. T. c. Singleton.
 Lady Sarah Wilson, an aunt of the Duke of Marlborough, was in Mafeking through out the siege, except while she was pris- oner of the Boers for short time.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

From his stronghold in Tennessee in the low-water season Governor McMillin hurls defiance at England, France and Germany combined
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

oregon's election in June will be the first real straw of the year.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22
Cecil Rhodes Has Namesake.

There is an amusing story of a christen- ing at Swellendam Ca pronounced Boer cen ter in Cape Colony, in which Cecil Rhodes says the London Danily Mail, was concern ed. It was the period of the strange Dutch religious festivity, known as "Nachtmaal," and local burgher and his vrouw took the fourteenth child to the church to be chris tened. When the father was asked the name of the infant he holdly exclaimed Cecil John Rhodes" Something like an electric shock went through the congrega- ton, and surprised and indignant glances were exchanged.
 Even the gentleman who was officiating at the ceremony looked startled. The fath- CT remained calm and determined through it all and as there was no law to prevent man naming his child after MT. Rhodes the infant in question was thus solemnly christ ened. Perhaps the most curious part of the incident-especially in view of recent events in South Africa-was that the surname of the child is Steyn!
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

Everything in St. Louis motor circles has struck except the lightning. Even the clocks have struck.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

Senator Clark is a lightning change art ist. He farewels one day, and re-appears with full-fedged credentials the next morn ing.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

Muncie. Ind. is becoming as well known as the home of Hanna himself
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

Corbett aspires to congress on the strenu- ous platform, which is fast becoming a fad in Rooseyeltville.
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

The Boer envoys do not seem to keep in touch with the news from Pretoria
The age-herald., 1900-05-22

The Northern Methodists seem to have accumulated some worldliness which they are employing in the election of bishops