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The age-herald., 1900-09-14
Galveston's Appalling Calamity.

The graphic statements of eye-witnesses Is about the best description of the dread full wreck of a once beautiful city that will ever be furnished. The dead number about 5,000 The exact number can never be known, because many were washed out to sea during the storm, and many bodies will have to be burned, without being seen, in the piles of wreckage.
 No such disaster ever before occurred in this country. Johnstown's calamity has been exceeded. The dead at Johnstown numbered 2142 out of a population of about 25 5OOOO In Galveston 5000 perished out of ST. 900. The disaster at Galveston will always stand as one of the greatest catastrophes in all history. More property was destroyed in the Chicago fire but at place within the confines of civilization and records has there been greater loss of life.
 If all the great disasters in this country the Chicago and Boston fires, the St. Louis cyclone, the Johnstown flood, and the Charleston earthquake, were summed up in the respect of loss of life they would not equal the disaster at Galveston and in the of the island and the heat of the climate render the affliotion worse, and altogether the disaster must be considered as the greatest in recorded times.
 In the case of the Chicago fire the several States contributed $3,S46G32 as relief fund, and Europe sent $973,ss7. In the case of Johnstown, New York gave $500,0O0, Phila- delphia like amount, and the rest of the country S2,oOOOOO. So much was given that a widows fund amounting to s1S3,2S1 was organized, and also an orphans fund amounting to $10S,50O
 The dreadful suffering at Galveston ap- peals deeply to the entire country, and at least a million dollars should be dispatched to the relief of the stricken city. Every dol lar that is contributed will be sadly needed, and every dollar will be placed where the need is the greatest. The dreadful suffering will thus be lessened to some extent. The entire country is keenly sensitive to the ap- peals for aid, and 1t is not to be doubted that the responses will furnish all the help that money can furnish This district should respond liberally. It is prosperous, and fund of 5000 should be quickly rolled to- gether in it. The homeless need help The stricken and the shattered appeal to us A wider and deeper effort should be made to assist a city that is afflicted beyond all history.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
PROTEST ENTERED
Against Treatment of an American
 Woman By English Police

London, September 13.-The United States charge d'affairs Henry White, protested as the foreign office today against the treat ment to which Mary E. Rowe of Denver has been subjected by the police of Vest gate-on-the-Sea. On September she was arrested, accused of smuggling, and searched by men. Mrs. Rowe alleges she suffered indignities, was not allowed tS communicate with friends and was locked up over night. ,ui5tlE;H
 Her nephew, MT. Goad, who is a prom inent resident of Westgate-on-t the-Sea, and who married daughter of former Senator Rollins of New Hampshire, got Mrs. Rowe out of the police station and induced the United States embassy to protest. The po- lice say it is case of mistaken identity.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
AN INDUSTRIAL.THUG

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 We noted last week the report of the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer-Sun of the ex perience of some of the cotton mill men and other citizens of Columbus in a hope full venture which they projected for the conversion of the waste of their cotton mills into a profitable product by building and operating a 'wadding' or batting mill. The capital needed for the enterprise was readily subscribed in the city and the mill was half constructed when the Cotton Waddng Trust heard of the enterprise and at once notified its promoters that they would be promptly frozen out if they per sisted in their efforts to start an independ- ent mill An investigation on the part of the leading stockholders showed that the trust had the power and was prepared to crush any outside mill, and the effort was abandoned and the half-completed mill stands today memorial to monopoly.
 A little later, we learn from the Chat tanooga Times a similar mill was organ ized in Chattanooga, and dts stockholders believed that they were strong enough to build and conduct independent mill. They have learned better. Those who had the enterprise in hand, says the Times, after thorough investigation, discovered that "the opposition of tine Cotton Wadding Trust is so strong, persistent and determ- ined as to render useless all efforts to se- cure a mill in Chattanooga
 So that this one trust, acting strictly on trust lines, has throtted two new and promising cotton manufacturing enterprises in the South within a few weeks time and by the exhibition of it's power has practi- cally discouraged any further enterprise of the same character in this section for some time to come. With so many cotton mills already established there should be a num- Der of wadding mills to utilize their waste and there would be one in every mill dis trict but for the trusts threats and its assured ability to enforce them.
 It would be interesting to learn who are at the head of this. particular organization of stranglers of industry, where their own mills are located, and what are the brands of their goods. The information would be of general interest and would be of use to good many people.
 Our esteemed correspondent MT. J. A. Norwood, of Greenville, is a cotton mill man by the way, and would doubtless be profted by the establishment of a cotton wadding mill in or near Greenville. We cannot help wondering whether he regards the Cotton Wadding Trust also as a benehcent institution, and if so why?
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
Presidential Tickets.

It is believed the entries for the race of 1900 are complete They are a round dozen in number, as the following list shows:
 Republican-For President, William Mckinley of Ohio; for Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt of New York.
 Democratic-William J. Bryan of Nebras- ka Adai E. Stevenson of Illinois.
 Silver Repubican-William J. Bryan of Nebraska; Adai E. Stevenson of Illinois. Fusion Populist-William J. Bryan of Ne braska; Adlai D. Stevenson of Illinois.
 Mid-Road Populist-Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania; Ignatius Donnelly of Min nesota.
 Prohibition-John J. Woolley of Illinois; Henry B. Metcalf of Rhode Island.
 Social Democrats-Eugene V. Debs of h. diana; Job Hartman of California.
 Social Labor-Joseph F. Malloney of Massachusetts,; Valentine Remmell of Pennsylvania.
 United Christian-J. F. R. Leonard of Iowa; Charles NJ. Sheldon of Kansas.
 Anti-Imperialist-Willi J. Bryan of Nebraska; no endorsement.
 National-Donaldson Caffery of Lousi- ana; Archibald M. Howe of Massachu- setts.
 Ohio; Samuel T. Nicholson of Pennsylva- mia.
 As a matter of fact electoral tickets will not exceed three in number in three-quar- ters of the Subsequently but two in some of the States for the Middle-of-the Readers will not Contest many of the States, even to the extent of placing an electoral ticket before the voters. It is, however, prudent Co assume that there will be three electoral tickets in nearly all of the States, for when the Middle-of- the Readers do not present ticket the Prohi- bitionists or the Social Democrats will. The voter will have the two great party tickets and one eccentric ticket at least before him, and this will be quite enough.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
BRYAN AND A SECOND TERM

From the Washington Times.
 The rumor that in his letter of accept ance, which will be issued in a few days, MT. Bryan will declare that if elected he will not seek a second term is no surprise to many people in Washington who enjoy the confidence of the Democratic standard bearer. It has frequently been intimated by close friends of Mir. Bryan since his nomination at Kansas City that he still firmly adhered to the principle he laid down immediately after his nomination at Chicago four years ago, which was con- tained in voluntary written pledge that if elected President he would not ask for reelection, believing, as he did, that second term in the White House was not for the best interests of the Republic So far as known, nobody has had the hardi- hood to ask MT. Bryan direct question on this interesting point, and presumably he has not felt called upon to renew the pledge of 1896, since that would be a work or supererogation and an unnecessary bolstering up of his well-established repu- tation for consistency in all things. If MT. Bryan renews the pledge of 1896 in his forthcoming letter of acceptance 1t will have the two-fold effect of drawing to his support an element of the party that is still little lukewarm and of presenting another argument against the reelection of MT Mckinley.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
THIS COUNrKY's POPULATION

Washington Correspondence of the New York Evening Post
 Several weeks ago it was stated in these dispatches that census experts did not ex- pect the returns this year to show popu- lation greatly. if any, above 75,OOO,OOO, with the chances of it's going below quite as good as of its going above. Since that time the newspapers have been full of census estimates ranging from 76,000,000 to S2,OOO,- 900, the favorite guess continuing to be about 7S,000, 900, In view of the persistence of such estimates of our population, 1t may be interesting to see what the count shows as far as. it has already proceeded, and. while the figures below have not yet been officially announced, your correspondent vouch for their trustworthiness.
 There are 52,S77 enumeration districts in the United States; of these 27,942 had been counted at the close of business last night. They showed a population of 8, ,625. As suming that they are fair index to the whole, our total population would be 75- 452,4S0 which is certainly much below the prevailing estimate, and very strongly cor roborative of the figures presented several days ago in these dispatches.
 
 counted may be thus taken as a basis of further computation is question of some dispute. They necessarily vary quite lit- tie. For the last four days the general average has been ten persons higher than it was week ago, or about 1,4S0 persons to a district. It has generally been as- sumed that as the count proceeded the average would tend to fall, instead of rise, on account of the coming in of the frontier regions, where the general average is low. That there will be much further decrease in average size cannot, however be as- sumed, and, so far as the figures at present reveal good guess is that our total popu- lation will be from seventy-five to seventy five and one-haf millions. Certainly the S0,00O,000 estimates are wide of the mark, and should no longer receive consideration.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
COMAON THINGS

From The Spectator. Give me, dear Lord, Thy magic common
 things,
 Which all can see, which all may share. Sunlight and dewdrops, grass and stars
 and sea, Nothing unique new, and nothing rare. Just daisies. knap-weed, wind among the
 thorns; Some clouds to cross the blue old sky
 above; Rain, winter fires, useful hand, heart. The common glory of woman's love. Then. when my feet no longer tread old
 paths
 Reep them from fouling sweet things
 anywhere), Write one old epitaph in grace-lit words: Such things look fairer that he sojourn-
 ed hera-"
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
End of the Boer War.

The arrival of President Kruger and if his chief assistants in the Transvaal Gov ernment at Lorenzo Marques, marks be- yond doubt the close of as heroic a strug- gle as the world has ever witnessed The Boers staked all on a fight for complete n- dependence. They made their preparations for it carefully and deliberately, taxing the Outlanders heavily, and then they courage ously faced one of the greatest powers in the world.
 Their weakness consisted in part in their inferiority In numbers and resources, but in part in the olgarchic nature of their government They had not treated either the natives or the Outlanders whom they had invited to come in, well. They had not given them their just rights, and this de- prived them of much sympathy, if not help, that they would otherwise have com manded. It at any rate gave Great Brit ain plausible excuse for war and annexa- tion.
 The Boers prolonged the struggle to the SHu Ol HSdiiy d year. lASy HldrCHeu Into Natal in October of last year, and they give up the struggle in September of this year. History will say that people never fought great odds more bravely than the Boers did. They never had a chance of winning, for as soon as competent officers and a sufficient force could be dispatched to the scene of hostilities the power of the Boers vanished. England won by dis patching Roberts and Kitchener to the
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

in the United States Senate equal to that of New York, with perhaps 100000 lnhabi- tants. That is recognition in fact of State- hood, or the practically vanished quality of State-sovereignty; but incidentally 1t per- tains to the minority.
 
 Red Mountain and the other mountains hereabout are beginning now to take on autumnal attractiveness, and to lovers of the woods they have charms not surpass- able A lovely woman wandering on Red Mountain saw many things to attract, and she thus tells of some: 4,
 -lszasai 1 Beneath a shady tree they sat;
 He held her hand she held his hat; 1s I held my breath and lay right flat; They hssed-I saw them do 1t.
 He held that kissing was no crime, She held her head up every time, I held my peace and wrote this rhyme. They thought that no one knew it
 MT Aubrey Harwell, a former bright newspaper worker of Birmingham, Is achieving notable success as a general ad- vertising agent in New York; fact that will be gratifying to a great many people In Alabama MT. Harwell married Miss Lewis of this city, a daughter of the late Hon. Burwell B. Lewis, a former Ala bama member of Congress, and almost the most distinguished president the Alabama University ever had MT. Harwell and Mrs. Harwell, who have been recently visiting Mrs Harwells mother, Mrs. Lewis, in this city. have left on their return to New York. ,Dls4zidsszI Dr. Frank Irving Disbrow of New York City is now in Birmingham with the inten- tion of taking up permanent residence in Birmingham and becoming one of its physi- clans.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
Council of Sioux Chiefs

Fort Yates, N. D.. September 13.-A large gathering of all the chiefs of the Great Sioux Nation from Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Cheyenne and lower Brule, is being held at Standing Rock. They are discussing the Black Hill treaty. They claim that the treaty is invalid as three-fourths of the Indians did not sign Chiefs are desirous of claiming the hills, but are willing to ne gottate new treaty on an equitable basis. A delegation will go to Washington to dis cuss the mattar.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
colonel reyton Dead

St. Louis, September 13.-Colonel Henry Peyton, who for three years was attached to the staff of Gen. Robert B. Lee, com- mander-in- chief of the Confederate army, and who since the war has held positions of trust and honor, died at the city hospital today of pneumonia.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
RESTRICTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 The less girl bushes the more she tans.
 Lots of men you never would suspect are not only married, but in love.
 It is funny thing, but there is some thing about being too fat that makes man more apt to tell the truth and treat his wife we'll
 There seems to be as much difference between calling woman an old maid and a bachelor girl there Is between calling her a duck and an old hen.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

In choosing between Stanchffeld and Odel1 the voters of New York will choose between a man of known integrity and high purpose, and spoilsman in private as well as public life.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14
Dry Co .ds House Fails

Baltimore. September 13.-The failure of the wholesale dry goods house of Hobbs Bros of this city is announced. The receiv- CT appointed gave bond for s150.000, indicat- ing assets of half that amount.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Prince We-Heva of Korea, who has been sent to this country to study political methods, is hunting for Messrs. Addicks, Quay and Mark Hanna.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

The isthmean canal commission recog- nizes the fact that the work in hand is headed by Five-mile creek and that ex- Mayor Van Hoose is it's prophet.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Croker is not willing to go to the senate from some wild and woody State like Mon- tana, but he insists upon busting the ven- erable Platt or the esteemed Depew.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

The administration is in a pickle in Pe- kin. It does not know whether it is best to stay or to go. Either is difficult, and one is unconstitutional.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Some men flop quickly in the polling booths, but the professional Hopper fops with a great and visible splash.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Ex-Speaker Tom Reeds speeches are ad- dressed to the gentlemen of the jury
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

No Nicely or Rathbone has thus far been come of the islands exceed the outcome.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

MT. Stanchfeld has MT. Colers honesty of purpose without his political enemies.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

They are now printing lists of the living in Galveston, as the shortest and surest way of telling the terrible story.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Porto Ricans do not know where they stand politically. They are simply colo nists until the Supreme Court can act on case that arose from the island
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Our Bobs said he would go home in Oeto- ber and 1t begins to appear that he knew what he was talking about.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

If MT. Cleveland's letter in support of the Bryan and Stevenson ticket is not soon forthcoming mind reader will be engaged.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

The rubber trust has closed a factory, thereby annihilating small Connecticut town This is but trust incident
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Wharton Barker is keeping very quiet in the middle of the road.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Galveston needs present help and year. time in which to overcome the effects of the great storm.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

It now appears that ex-Speaker Tom Reed and John G. Carliste are spellbind- ers
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

The Deutschland is a five-day boat but what the world wants is a three-day boat between Halifax and Queenstown.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

The independent voter is the spectre that haunts the Hon. Marcus Aurefius Hanna
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

South Bend, Indiana, finds that one man does sometimes make a difference. It has 35, ,9s9 population, when it might have had 36,00O
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Maine went this year as it did in 1S4O for Governor Kent
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

Dispensary beat Prohibition in South Carolina's second and decisive primary.
The age-herald., 1900-09-14

The condition of the anthracite coal miner is distressing.
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 He wants what's left behind
 And included In the term expansion"
 Greater Birmingham can take care of itself, and the more care it takes of the rest of the State the better for the State for Birmingham means good, enlightened, llb- eral, progressive government. There is no community in America or out of it more in- telligently or keenly alert to the business of being than Birmingham. This Is a commun- ity of practical people with practical aims and objects, and they have no time for fogyism, bigotry, intolerance, or hide bound gnat-straining-elephan quarrelsomeness. a4 The General Assembly which shall con- vene next November will be under the ne- cessity of re-apportioning the represen- tatives according to the new census. It is now clear that to the County of Jefferson will be apportioned at least nine members in the place of the six which the county now elects. Under the constitution, which inhibits disregard of county lines in forming senatorial districts, Jefferson cannot get the three Senators to which she will be entitled upon a popula- ton basis. That is all wrong; for it Is clearly taxation without adequate represen- tation But a wise provision of the consti- tuition is that no county as a county shall be without representation in the lower house of the General Assembly. It is one of the few instances in our national political life wherein Is recognized the common principle of morality that minorities have rights Similarly the State of Nevada as . State, with it's 50.000 inhabitants has vote
The oasis., 1900-07-28
Heartburn.

When the quantity of food taken is too large or the quality too rich heart burn IS likely to follow, ard especial ly so if the digestion has been weak ened by constipation. Eat slowly and and not too freely of easily digested food. Masticate the food thoroughly. Let six hours elapse. between meals and when you feel fullness and weight ia the region of the stomach after eating, indicating that you have eaten too much, take one of Chamber lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and the heartburn may be avoided. For sale by L. w. Mix X Co.,, Druggists.
 NOTICE.
The oasis., 1900-07-28

charmed with Mexico and It's people and he looks forward to prolonged and pleasant stay in this country.
 Mexican Herald: Messrs. James and P. Mehan, lumber men from Ml'- waukee, Wisconsin, have arrived in this city with the purpose of looking over the lumber interests in Mexico. These gentlemen have been engaged in this practical industry 'or the best part of their lives and rank high among the wealthy lumbermen Of the northern states. A Herald represen tative called yesterday and found the elder bro, her looking over some good maps of this country comparing the same with the data which he had brought with him. MT. Meehan re- marked that the names of the various districts and towns seemed to roll quite easily from lips of those with whom he had talked since entering Mexico but it was difficult to recog- nize them on the map and he never tried to pronounce them himself.
The oasis., 1900-07-28
To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

To WHOM TIT MAY CONCERN:
 All parties are hereby notified that the mining claims in the Cananea mountains, District of ArZpe, Sonora, now being offered for sale by l.. Lind say are in conflict with patented grDund belonging to the "Cananea Consolidated Copper Company" So- eject a AnoDima, and that any parties purchasing said claims from Lindsay will acquire no right except to litigate CANANEA COPPER CONSOLIDATED COMPANY. Sociedad Anonima."
 By w. c. GREENE,
 Director