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The age-herald., 1900-12-31
REIGN OF COTTON AND sHoDDY

From the Boston Herald.
 Under the conditions of the present pro- tective tariff the prices of materials made from wool have been so increased that there has been what cannot but be considered tremendous falling off in the use made of wool fabrics. There is no material that so well satisfies the wants of our people, par ticularly those in the northern part of this country, who are subjected In the winter months to an extremely rigorous climate, as those coverings whichsare made of wool. There is not the least question that, as arti- cles of covering, wool textile fabrics can be rated as necessaries of life. But the price is approximately approaching the pro- hibitive, so far as millions of our people are concerned, and as a result these latter are compelled to adopt the poor substitute or cotton, which, as every one knows, forces them to endure the colds of winter without adequate protection from them. If, instead of an extravagantly high duty on wool, importation was prohibited, it would, in all probability, merely increase the number who are thus deprived of proper covering from the cold, but would not, to very great extent, increase the production of this country.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
COMPETE ABROAD.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 The reported combination of fourteen of the largest steel manufacturing corpora tions in the Untted tSates to divide up the country between them and to fix a set price at which their products shall be dis pred of in the home market is new and startling manifestation of the disposition and the power of these tariff-made mono- plies to arbitrarily control the domestic market for their wares. They will sell their steel plates for BPS per ton in this country. Tn foreign countries they will compete; in this country they combine. This they are enabled to do under the aegis of protection. They plunder the American consumer un- der the pretence of benefting the American workingman.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Undue Punishment.

Whether it be the railroads, or the sheriffs' association, or both, that is be- hind the law which sends to the peni- tentiary, for periods varying from six to eight months, those who are caught riding on freight trains, that law should be changed. No matter who procured the passage of the law, or who is behind it, it should be changed, for it is not good policy to throw such offenders for such an offense into the company of hardened criminals. They come out disgraced, hardened and re- vengeful themselves.
 Recently thirty-six men were brought up from counties in South Alabama all destined for the coal mines. Twenty four of the number were guilty of rid. ing on freight trains and nearly all of the number were white men. The fines imposed were not heavy, but when costs had been added the result was sentences to hard labor in the mines varying from six to eight months. Such a punishment does not fit the crime. It laps over too much. The subject needs attention not at the hands of opposing interests, but at the hands of the Legislature.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

From the Chicago News.
 Baggage smashers are to be found on every trunk line.
 The woman who is fond of home isn't necessarily homely.
 Many a man keeps tis neighbor honest by locking his door. The shirt waist for men may be coming, but it isn't becoming.
 The man who lives on promises alone is not long for this world. Z You will observe that men who pose as fancy whistlers seldom amount to much
 Men are not necessarily lazy because they try to do things the easiest way.
 When the average man succeeds in rais- ing the wind he begins to blow about it.
 For every fault you observe in your
 Time may be money, but it takes a lot of coin to enable some men to have a good time.
 In order to succeed a man must work to- day. Yesterday was reality, but tomor- row is fictitious.
 Conceit Is to character what paint is to beauty; 1t is not only needless, but impalrs what 1t is supposed to improve.
 All a man has to do in order to make other men believe he is wise is to give them advice corresponding with their own individual opinions
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
For Birminsham's Good.

Tt may suit the purposes of individuals to peryert facts of public interest, but the only hope of bringing about a decrease in crime and a bettefment in the morals of Birmingham is to constantly expose the prevailing lawlessness," said a noted law yer
 of all the records of crime and general defiance of law in Birmingham, the tale of 1900 Is the worst. According to official records Birmingham is the most criminal city in America, showing that the arrests even with our insufficient police force, in the city were 24S to every thousand of pop ulation, against 221 to the thousand in At lanta, the next most criminal city. Birm- ingham pays the lowest sum per capita for public schools of all the American cities except Charleston, s. C., and it probably shows more bankrupt petitioners than any other city, for the last record read showed Alabama to be the third State in the Union in bankrupt petitions, as it is in murders, and the first of all the States in the number of insolvent or pauper petitioners in bank
  a great number of bankrupts in this the most prosperous city of America the Age Herald publishing in one day a list of over 500 persons who had failed to file proper petitions for the full protection of the law.
 Tn the name of law and order and de- cency, let no honest man try to conceal or belittle these shameful records of Birming- ham, but let every citizen face them at the beginning of the New Year and swear that there shall be less lawlessness in 1901 than ever beforel Let us all work for the good of Birmingham"
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Metri,
"oNcE UPON A TIME"
By Eugene Field.

By Eugene Field. My little child comes to my knee And tuggdng, pleads that he may climb
 Into my lap to hear me tell
 The Christmas tale beloye6 so we'll A tale my mother told me,
 Beginning Once upon a time" It is a tale of skies that rang
 With angel rhapsodies sublime:
 Of that great host. serene and white,
 The shepherds saw one winter night And of the glorious stars that sang An anthem once upon a time. This story of the hallowed years Tells of the sacrifice sublime
 Of one who prayed alone and wept
 While His wearied followers slept And how His blood and Mary's stears Commingled, once upon time. And now my darling at my side, And echoes of the distant chime. Bring that sweet story back to me,
 Of Bethlehem and Calvary, And of the gentle Christ who died For sinners once upon time. The mighty deeds that men have told In ponderous tones of fluent rhyme,
 Like misty shadows fade away;
 But this sweet story bides for aye; And, like the stars that sang of old. We sing of "Once upon time
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

excellent likeness of Colonel Thompson. which Is accompanied by an interesting sketch of his life. It shows that he was born in Tennessee ifty-six years ago. and during "the great war drama of the six tles'' he was in the Confederate army be- ing attached to the escort of Gen. N B. Forrest-"as gallant soldier as ever filled a saddle" Colonel Thompson had the honor of starting the movement which cul- minated in the formation of the Southern Industrial Association.
 The Age of Steel prints also a fine like ness of Hardy Henry Hargrove president Of that association, and gives an interest ing story of his career.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for Mon day, December 31. 1900.
 New Years Eve.
 Seek work. travel and deal before noon."
 Balance thy accounts with thy fellow men,"
 Do not speculate; with care thy busi- ness will increase much, and thou wilt ex- perienee an active and, on the whole, a suc- cessful year."
 "A child born on this day will be general ly successful, whether in employ or in bus iness for itself, and will rise in life'
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

so. Mobile is the one port of the State. and that one port should not have an outer bar that shuts out the ships that can use the channel in the hay
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Great Alabama.

Alabama. eighteenth State in population and third in the number of murders. is the sixth in the mileage of new railroads built during 1sOO" said an observer of material development.
 ''The awful disgrace of surpassing all the States but two in respect to murder, with out reference to population, is in some small part atoned for by being the first but five in railroad building, without refer ence to population.
 We murder more people, on the average, than any other State except Texas, and with 192 miles of new railroad in 1900 we are surpassed by only Texas with S19 miles; Pennsylvania, PIT miles, Iowa, 267 miles; Minnesota 251 miles, and West Vir- gina, 225 miles. The total for the whole country is 4922 miles, of which 1716 are in the States of the South.
 - If the figures for 1900 and previous years could be ascertained, I am confi- dent that the increase of money in circu- lation per capita would be found to have been greater in Alabama than in any other State of the Union. There Is vastly more money in circulation in Alabama now than at any other period of the States existence - not only vastly more in volume, but more per capita The Christmas week trade of Birmingham alone is believed to have ex- ceeded two millions of dollars!'
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
NEW cENTURYs FIRST DAWN.
Where It Will Earliest Touch and How
 1t Will Creep Over the Earth.

From Pearson's Magazine for January.
 If the change of the centuries took place at either of the equfnoxes-March p or September 22-ther. since on those days the earth's axis is at right angles to the plane of the orbit, and there is equal day and night all over the world, the matter would be very easily decided. The dawn line would coincide with the date line, and from
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
A GhastIY Fraud.

An amusing instance of the general ignorance displayed to the New York man ufacture of special cablegrams' to the yel- low journals is found in the very recent long special from London to the yellowest of all the sheets, setting forth elaborately and acircumstantially the appearance of the ghost of Mary Queen of Scots at the Tower of London" said a lawyer who Is a student of history
 We are told in detail of the appearance of the ghost on the parapet, somewhere about the constable's tower section of the castle, where Mary was imprisoned and from which she was led across the quad rangle and beheaded, and so on; that tra- dition says that always preceding the death of an English sovereign Mary's ghost ap- pears at the town, where she was inn prisoned and from which she was led to the headsman,' and gives three loud shreks' to show that the sovereign is about to die; that the appearance of the said ghost this Christmas had not been made known to the Queen, for fear it would have a fatal effect upon the venerable lady, but that the coming of the apparition had become publicly known and was causing gloom to spread all over England
 Every schoolchild knows that Mary was imprisoned at Fotheringay castle, about as far from the Tower of London as Wash ington is from Philadelphia, and that she was not only not led across the quad rangle of the Tower to be beheaded, but that she never saw the quadrangle in ques- ton. and never during her eighteen years of imprisonment was she within much less than a weeks journey of London More over every student of English folklore and literature knows that there is no such tradition as that placing shrieking ghost on the Tower of London before each sov- ereign dies that Christmas special cable gram from London, written in New York, being clearly based upon the ancient tra- dition of the White Lady of Berlin
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Gifted Printer.

'"William Wightman Hudson, linotype machine man In the Age-Herald composing room, is, believe, the best printer in the whole south," said man who loafs around this office.
 Hudson is a genius. The other day he set up a table three columns wide and about a half a column long, together with about five hundred words of letter-press, and in all that work, including difficulties and precision of position, Hudson did not make an error of any sort. The proofsheet of his work was perfectly clean. Last Sat urday he set up a column and quarter from the deplorably bad copy of-the most finicky person who writes for the paper, and the writer of 1t himself read the proof and was unable to find an error And so Hudson works constantly. The proofs of his work are miracles in a newspaper com posing-room. And Hudson is mighty good fellow withal."
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

The statutes directed against Kidnapping will be popular this winter, especially those that provide for something in the nature of boiling oil.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Pat Grove has been seen in all the States except Alabama He should not neglect a State that means Here We Rest"
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Senator Hanna-our Mark-says he is anxious only to establish the principle of the ship subsidy" Any road agent can do that.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
pare the Trees.

Tn Second avenue, between Eighteenth street and Twenty-third street, there is but one shade tree, and it presents mournful spectacle" said lover of trees.
 '"rhe tree is cut almost half down by the teeth of horses, and up amongst the branches are two weather-beaten boards, unsightly advertisements of some sorts of business, similar to the cheap board adver- tisements nailed to trees and offending the good taste of everybody who travels on every trolley-car line of Birminghaml
 Tt is sad to observe the destruction of shade trees in Birmingham. The other day I was passing along Twenty-first rect when I saw somebody's thirteen cents-a-ride horse biting off big pieces of the bark of a beautiful tree to which the animal was hitched. It was outrageous. and was tempted to cut the horses rein and drive him off, but that would have caused me more trouble than if I had cut the animals owner. You may stab or shoot men and escape punishment in Birming- ham, but if you damage property of no value you will be jerlsed up."
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

An uniform divorce law by Congress would be quite in line with the centraliza- ton that goes with imperialism.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

The increase in the number of poets in this country is attributed to the rise in pig iron and other commodities.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Grover Clevelands negativeness as to his vote is not wholly satisfactory He may have pumped for Woolley.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
The Cant of Humbuas.

'The insincere, the dishonest, the holfer- than-thou, these two-faced and double lived humbugs always give their games away" unused the wayfarer at the crossing of the streets.
 Trust no person who is suspicious of the motives of his neighbors for in ninety and nine cases out of every hundred he Is unreliable Observe this in politics, in so- ciety, in business, in even religion, and you will come very nearly finding all the knaves The hit dog howls, and the cor ruptionist in the daily walks of men is al- ways crying down corruption. He breaches morality whilst jingling the coin of his own purchase in his pocket, and scheming to sell out to the next one who will buy.
 "Just now we are seeing and hearing a great deal of this sort of thing all over the world. On the eve of national elections the Republicans in New York offer S25 000 for proof of the corruption of the ballot, and the Democrats offer $25OO for similar proof, and then each side proceeds to do the best. or worst, it can at the polls. And listen now to all this Hay-Pauncefote treaty, transcontinental railroads, Stand ard oil, Bryan-Cleyeland gabble and scan- dal together with the shocking mess of filth daily dshed up in New York politics!
 Across the sea, they have similar scan- dals, blackguardism, suspicion, perjury: in England on account of the Boer war; in France on account of everything imagin- able; in Germany on account of the agra rians, the brewers and the pork butchers; in Austria-Hungary on account of mem- bers of Parliament and the government selling themselves to contractors; and so on in similar villainy in lesser countries. Russia alone is free from such conditions, because Russia has Tsar who would cut off the heads of rascals of that sort Hap py Russia-free from political scandals."
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
THE COPPER PRODUCTION.

From the New York Sun
 The copper production of the entire worlt is the subject of an exhaustive study bJ M. Leon Demaret of Belgium. The follow ing table summarizes his statistics:
 Copper produced, 1S00-1900: Metri,
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Mr. Bryan will not need a circulation editor. The overworked postmaster at Lin coin is sufficient.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
A Leader In Development.

Col. N F. Thompson. "a leader in South ern development" as he is described by the Age of Steel, Is in Birmingham. That in- dustriai publication of St. Louis prints an
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Bryan can ''come at him" four times to his one
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

MT. Pat Grove is still free and opulent citizen
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

The details of the West Point idiocy are becoming wearisome.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Nineteenth century affairs are preparing to make their final bow.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

itOI, and W dshInBtoH Hds COmpItteu Q Olympia costing $1, coco
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Don't put on the new century the things that belong to the old, worn and jaded one
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Don't resolve to keep a diary throughout the new century-it is too hard.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

The Boer rank and file are having at any rate a chance. even if Democracy is not.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

Scapegoat Alger proposes to put Principal Mckinley in his true place.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
,w the centuries do slip away!

Canned roast beef Is again an issue.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

End-of- the-century marriages are now in
The sun., 1900-09-14
RELIEF WORK GOING
AHEAD IN TEXAS
Continued From Page One.

are in conIused neaps in une nam strers
of the city. Along the gulf front human
bodies are floating around like cordwood.
Intermingcd with them are to be found
the carcasses of horses, chickens, dogs
and rotting vegetable matter. Above all
rises the foulest stencil that ever emanat-
ed from any cesspool, absolutely sicken-
ing in it's intensity and most dangerous to
health in it's effects.
'Along the Strand, adjacent to the gulf
front, where are located all the big whole
sale warehouses and stores, the situation
almost defies description. Stores of fresh
vegetation have been invaded by the in
coming waters and are now turned into
garbage piles of most befouling odor.
The gulf waters while on the land played
at will with everything, smashing in
doors of stores, depositing bodies of hui
man beings and animals whore they
pleased and then, receding, leaving the
wreckage to tell its own tale of how the
work had been done. AS a result the
houses are tombs, wherein are to be
found the dead bodies of human beings,
almost defying the efforts of relief par
ties.
SIN the piles of debris. along the street,
In the water and scattered throughout
the residence portion of the city are
masses Of wreckage, and in these are TO
be found more human bodies and house
hold furniture of every description.
Handsome pictures are seen lying along
side of ice cream freezers and perhaps
beside them, the nude figure of some man
or woman. These masses of debris are
not confined to any one section of the
city
1.-The waters of the gulf and the winds
spared no one who was exposed. Whirl-
ing houses around in its grasp, the wind
piled their shattered frames high in con
fusing masses and dumped their contents
on top. Men and women We're thrown
around like so many logs of wood and
left to rot in the whitening sum-
The sun., 1900-09-14
Genernl alnrl.ets.

New York, Sept. 49,
FLOUR STATE and western ruled Inactive bu
maintained sloldv und4riona Minnesota pat
cnts, stlaat.35, Win8ef stfaisals. S3Aja3.60; win
ter tXttas sa7agt3; winter patents, SS.a5ai.
WHEAT Dali Hit considerably frmer on small
spring wrat receipts, steady English cables ant
higher ~ side markets; December, Sl3saS2Ae.
May, sfiastac.
RYE-null; state, 53a5lc., i, f., New York
No. western, 51e., + o. b., afoat.
CoRN-Fairly active and steady on cables an,
with wheat; December, 4l$sall5sc.; May, AIS
4Ac.
OATS - Dull; track, white, state, 251sa33c.
track, white, western, 25laaS3c.
PoRK-Easy; mess, Sl2a125O; family, $15al5.T5
LARD==Weak prime western steam, 7.171kc
BUTTER Steady; state dairy, 151Aa2oc.; cream
cry, 161sa21c.
cHEEsE-steady; large white, 1o7sc.; SINAI
white, 1012a10ssc.
EGGS-Steady; state and Pennsylvania, II,
1915c.; western, loss off, 1sa19c.
SUGAR-Raw strong; fair refining, 4Ac.; cen
trifugal, go test, Sc; refined firm; crushed e55c.
powdered, 625c.
MoLASSEs- Steady; New Orleans, 4sa5sc
RICE-Steady; domestic, 4Sa65sc; Japan, "A
a5c.
TALLow-Dul; city. 47-1ec.; country, ~
4%c.
HAY : Steady; shipping. 72i4a7Sc.; good
choice, soa90c. IN ,4ssssssftszepssssss
The sun., 1900-09-14
THE PENDING STRIKE.
Anthracite Miners Preparing to Quit
Work on Monday.
OOLLIERIEs SHORT HANDED.
Hazletpn Merchants, In Self PrOtec-
tion, Refuse to Deliver More
Than u Few Dollars Worth
of Goods on Credit.

Hazleton, Pa, Sept 13.--The excite
ment caused here by the receipt of Pres
ident Mitchell's order has died out, and a
better feeling prevails. although every
body fears the consequences Of shut
down of work if the order from Indian
apolis is obeyed throughout the Hazeton
region.
Some of the collicrics are short handed
but all are in operation. II was not until
late hour that the official order declar-
Ing the strike and requesting all miners
to quit work on Saturday evening was
circulated here, and consequently few
members Of the union remained at home
believing that the strike was TO take eff
feet at once.
Various estimates of the strength of the
Mine Workers union and the number Of
men who will strike have been made, but
no one is in position to say just how
The sun., 1900-09-14
AT TEXAS CITY.
The Dead There Being Buried Along
Miles of Coast.


Houston, Sept. 13.-Mr. John l.. Moo
dy, a member of the committee sent from
Houston to take charge of the relief sta
tion at Texas City, reports as follows:
"To the Mayor:
''Sir-On arriving at La Marque this
morning | was informed that the largest
number of bodies We're along the coast of
Texas City. I'ifty-six were buried with
in less than two miles, extending opposite
this place and toward Virginia City. 1t is
six miles farther to Virginia City, and
the bodies are thicker where we are now
than where they have been buried. A cit
izen inspecting in the opposite direction
reports dead bodies thick for 30 miles.
''The residents Of this place have lost
all-not habitable building left-and
they have been too busy disposing of the
dead to look after personal affairs. Those
who have anything left are giving it to
the others, and vet there is real suffer
ing ! have given away nearly all the
bread / brought for our own use to hun
CRY children. 4 number of helpless wo'
mon and beggared children were landed
here from Galveston and had no place
to 90 and not a bite to eat. Tomorrow
others are expected ffom the same place
every ten feet along the wreck lined
coast tells of acts of vandalism. Not .
trunk, valise or tool chest has escaped
riaing. We buried woman this after
noon whose finger bore the mark of a re
Gently removed ring. Other details are
too long to enumerate."
The sun., 1900-09-14
Five Killed In a Wreck.

Carbondale, His, Sept. 13. - Duncan
Clark's lady minstrel company, travelling
in special car $40 from New York
city and touring the central west, was
wrecked short distance from Mounds
a station on the Illinois Central railroad
only few miles north from Cairo, Ills,
and five were killed. The car was at
tached to the regular south bound fast
mail train. While here it was noticed
that nearly all the occupants of the car
We're asleep except two of the male occu,
pants, one of whom failed to return to
the car before leaving. The train reach
ed Mounds, and as it was passing into
the yards the axle on the rear part of the
cnr broke