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The age-herald., 1900-03-23

and the supreme court of the United States has now said that a corporation doing ousi- ness in a state must accept the laws of that state.
 The ptuport of the decision Is that any state can protect her own people in almost amy manner she alay prefer A New Jer- sey trust can do nothing dn restraint of trade in Alabama if AEabama lawmakers so provide. Amy state law directed against restraints of trade wdll stand. This is prac- tieafly the purport of the decision of the court of last resort. In the Texas case the court alesds That the state laws had dm- posed conditions that the oil company had accepted by doing 5business in the state. and were bound to respect. Let no state therefore complain about. the action of trusts within the states own l.nits, for the power to compel obedience to state laws Is now supreme and unquestioned. In this respect the recent decision is i'm portant, and dt will beyond doubt lead to large extensions of state regulations of trusts
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
FIRST DIsPENsARY ARREST
Negroes at Athens Said They Got Wbis
 key from Grocer

Athens, March 22-QSpecial.) 1.-The first ar rest has been made in the interest of the .dispensary, and the mayor has just been called upon to try the case. Two negroes charged that AIr. J. J. Trlbble, a grocery merchant of this place, had sold them whisky,~or that his clerk mad. in his ab- sence and on tis information a warrant for the arrest of each was sworn out and they were bHougtht to trial, and it was shown that they did get whisky at Trib- ble's, but it was on an order from them, and sent here, as the evidence showed, from Decatur and delivered by Tribble, and this ended the case in so far as the city was concerned. The men were discharged.
 The city council at a recent meeting had passed an ordinance making it an offense against the city for any person to sell whisky in this place save at the dlspensary, and fixed the fine at $50 in each case, and half the amount to go to the in'former The negroes then made complaint, it is said. hoping to each become $50 richer by the same, as there were two cases each against the men.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
MT. TomIinson Before the People.

The state campaign, 1t should be remen- bered, will overlap the national campaign, and as the two will be concurrent, at least at the startsof the latter they should be one in spirit and inwardness. MT. Bryan is to carry the democratic standard again, and 1t would be fitting and altogether ap- propriate, if his devoted friend and advo- cate, John W. Tomlinson, should be called upon to carry the state banner this year. It would bring symmetry and harmony to the canvass in this state; for 1t must be conceded that no other aspirant for gov ernor stands in the same relation to MT. Bryan that MT. Tomlinson does. No other aspirant enjoys MT Bryan's confidence to the extent that MT Tomlinson does. Some of the aspirants may be loyal to the Chica- go platform but assuredly no one is so de- voted to 1t, so imbued with it, as Colonel Tomlinson is.
 This feature of the canvass should appeal to the young men of the state at least Col onel Tomlinson is a young man himself, and so is MT. Bryan, and they both have the enthusla sm that young men naturally and properly have. Colonel Tomlinson's canvass appeals more directly to the young men of the state, and to those who sup port the Chicago platform without any "ffs" or "buts" whatever. He stands on that platform in heart and soul, and all 1t implies, and he does not ask for a change in it so far as affairs that happened before 1896 are concerned. He is a young mans candidate, a Chicago platform candidate, and he goes to the people with all conf- dence, knowing that the young men and the Chicago platform united cannot be beaten in this state.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
WHY ToMLlNsoN N sHOULDB BE GOVERNOR

To the Editor of The AgeLHeraid: Will you please do me the favor to pub ish the following reasons why Colonel
 John W. Tomtnson should be nominated
 and elected as the next governor of Ala
 bama?
 1. As far as I have ascertained up to date, he is the only candidate now Before the people flor this honorable office who stands squarely on the Chicago platform of 1896.
 2. Being thus in harmony with this plat form, he Is the only candidate, so far as I
 have ascertained, who is in perfect line
 with our great national leader. Hon. Will liam Jennings Bryan.
 g. He Is the only candidate who is fight ing the nefarious book trust, by which the children of the state are made to pay from twice to three times as much for school books as the children of Tennessee have to pay for their school books, and in conse- quence of his bold attack upon this nefari- ous book trust the book trust is fighting him. 4. The defeat of MT Tomlinson in this election would be not only state, but also a national calamity.
 g. MT. Tomlinson has been for years A
 noble, gallant and a courageous defender
 of democratic doctrines, not only in Ala
 bama, but all over this nation, fighting
 protective tariff, fighting for tariff for rev
 enue only fighting for the free and unlim-
 ited coinage of silver at the proper ratio of 16 to 1.-the ratio that prevailed until 1873, when silver was virtually demonet- ized.
 And lastly, MT. Tom1nson is the only
 candidate from Jefferson county for the office of governor that was unequivocally
 willing for the democratic primaries to be
 held April t to decide which of the candi-
 dates should have the Jefferson county del- egation. ID. A. WRIGHT. Birmingham, March 9, 1900
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
PULLMAN AGAINST MORGAN

From the Washington Times.
 It appears that something has occurred to bring about such an estrangement between Senator Morgan and Tillman that their diff ferences are now cutting a figure of no mean proportions in the Alabama cam paign Senator Morgan's reelection, it is said is not yet absolutely assured, and since his latest change of view toward the Nicaragua canal enterprise it seems that his enemies at home have been able to make some headway against him. The South Carolinian, it Is reported, is lending aid and comfort to the enemy by flooding Alabama with the numerous speeches he lately has made against the retention of the Philippines, for which Senator Morgan is one of the stoutest advocates in the sen ate. It seems that the foxy Tillman is do- ing this in lieu of going to Alabama and taking the stump against Morgan. This, 1t is alleged he had promised to do under the guise of advocating the establishment in Alabama of the dispensary system which he established in South Carolina. But, it appears that he thought 1t wiser to stay away from the state and adopt the indirect method indicated by sending his anti-Phil- ippine speeches by the wholesale to Ala bama.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
Texas Antitrust Law.

Texas passed in 1889 and in 1895 two very stringent laws directed against trusts and monopolies, and a case against the Stand ard oil was carried to the supreme court of the United States. The decision of the court has been rendered, all the justices agreeing except Justice Harlan. The de- clsion of the court was handed down by Justice McKenna who was formerly a corporation lawyer, and who favored on the California bench corporations.
 The Texas laws were particularly di- rected against illegal combinations or re- stradnt of trade" and the suit against the Standard on concern was based on the Iact that It had required persons dealing with it to agree to buy from 1t only and to sell what it bought at prices named from time to time by the seller. The court dn which the suit was brought in Travis county decided that such contracts were in restraint of trade; the court of civil ap peals in the state affirmed the judgment,
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
General Oates Out of the Race.

The untimey death of Colonel Roquemore Is now followed by the patriotic withdrawal of General Oates from the race for sena- tor, and the electors will now choose be- tween Senator Morgan, whose capacity Tor service in Washington is known of all men, and Governor Johnston, who says he is well fitted for such servce-who, in fact, says he can outdo Senator Morgan at Washington, hands down.
 General Oates letter announcing his with drawal from the race is as candid as 1t is patriotic. He sees that the people of the state should be placed in position to choose between the two chief ,aspirants for the senatorship, without any distractions whatever. His own strength in the Wire Grass counties will not be disputed but he sees that the anti-Johnston strength should not loe divided, and he therefore withdraws his name. The people of Alabama will cer- tainy keep in mind one who has served them so well in both peace and war, and who places the welfare of the state above personal ambition.
 His action is in striking contrast to the personalism that has characterized the campaign of one of his opponents; but the campaign is now narrowed down to the question, should Senator Morgan be shelved in order to give Governor Johnston an op- portunty to exalt himself at Washington, and to fortify his machine at home? Should the state lose at this juncture the service of a senator who has done more than any other senator to build a canal ties? Governor Oates has very much sim plified the issue. The planter, the business man, the mechanic. the toilers of all sorts can now take their choice. There are no side issue, no third choices. It is now a choice between a tried and experienced man. and one who knows little of national methods. or of national men. Senator Nor gan's efficiency was never greater than it is now. and there never was an hour when he WAS not an efficient senator. He is a man horn for senatorial harness. His mind runs in that direction. He is equally at home in foreign affairs, in constitutional law. and in great home subjects. No one in the senate is so well equipped. He is the best all-round man in that body Shall he be turned out to make room for an untried man2 General Oates withdraw wal brings all ehe voters of Alabama up to this one ques- tion.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
MRS. BLAINE,s EFFORTS

From the New York Press.
 Mrs. Emmons Blaine has sufficient money with which to gratify her every whim, and she may originate something worth patent ing in her eight-hour service experiment. q larboard watch with dog watches in be- tween. ships bell is to toll off the time of day and night, and the name of the but Ter iS to be changed to bosun. When ser wants depart for other places they will take ship leave as we'll as French. Here is a possibility: "Oscar, have my rainydaisy pressed, as I shall probably go out golffng al o'clock" q regret that cannot oblige you, madame, as I go off duty at B." ''Then tell Narcotic to attend to it." Narcotic does not return until the second Watch. madame" Then-d-.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
shelley Speaks at Huntsville

Huntsville, March 22-0Speclal. .)-General Charles M. Shelley candidate for the demo- cratic nomin4tion for governor, addressed a large audience at the county court house last night. The speaker announced himself as being in favor of eliminating the negro vote, considering it to be the best method of preserving political harmony and ad- vancing the prosperity of the negro race He favored the expansion of industrial ed- ucation for both races, and stated that the boys of today are being taught matters that they will never need, while much is being left out of their education that they will need continually during their progress in life
 General Shelley favors a constitutional convention or any other method that can 0e taken to eliminate the ignorant negro vote.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
Open the Warrior Speedily.

The reported sale of 100000 tons of Ala bama coal to English buyers for use in England should demonstrate the need of the Warrior improvement. It should spur congress to a hastening of this much need ed work Until slackwater navigation can be had in the Warrior, coal must be loaded in cars and trundled out of the hills of Ala bama, across the state of Mississippi, to the Mississippi river, where it is placed on barges to be lowed to New Orleans. When the Warrior is opened to tows and barges no railroad transportation will be needed. The coal will go from mine direct to barges and the barge will lie alongside ship until dts load Is transferred, and the cost of duced to a minimum.
 When that is completed America can com pete with the world in selling coal. We can then undersell the world, and if congress and surest and quickest way to do it con- sists in a quick opening of the Warrior to slackwater navigation. Instead of taking two years in which to build the needed locks and dams, they should be built in two years. They are to be built, as all know, and the sooner they are built the better for the countrys export trade. The reported sale to an English syndicate is but an indi- cation of the possibilities of Alabama coal when a waterway is provided for it to the sea.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
RESTRICTIONS OF AlBAUHELoa

From the New York Press.
 The fat women always do the most fast ing in Lent.
 After man has been married three years. Arbor day Is a lot more important to him than his wife,s birthday.
 The average woman will think a man wants to marry her if he tells her she seems so different from other girls.
 If every woman who has any had to take her oldest child to her club with uher, they would be ashamed to have any meeting
 When woman says she has been shut up in the house all day Sunday, it gener- ally means that she has stayed indoors all day making her husband miserable because she wouldn't go out.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
STORYETTES.
Kept Him Black and Blue
ris.
a New Ynrk Tribnne.

From the New York Tribune.
 The Rev Dr. HIillis of Brooklyn the other day told a story showing the unsettllng effects of the higher criticism. It fell to his lot to attend the funeral of negro sharing the service with colored minister.
 As the two clergymen were riding to tho cemetery the brother in black suddenly asked Dr. Hillis how he got along at his church with the higher criticism. Dr. Hill lis replied that it was not a disturbing ele- ment at Plymouth.
 We'll" said his companion, 'it's making things pretty hot at our church. One of my deacons who is down on 1t comes to my prayer-meeting and prays, Q Lord, bless our pastor and help him to bring old treasures out of the Word while another deacon who believes in it follows and prays, Q Lord, bless our pastor and help him to bring new treasures out of the Word and betwixt those two deacons and the Lord they keep me black and blue
 pr. Hillis naively added that he supposed the deacons kept the minister blue, while the Lord kept him black.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
Obtained the Passes

From the Commercial Advertiser.
 Chauncey M. Depew was walking down Fifth avenue the other day with a certain politician who was trying to induce the senator to give him some railway passes. He was making an impassioned statement of the reasons why his needs should re- ceive the enlightened consideration of Mir. Depew, when an old, tattered beggar in terrupted him to get something in his turn from the senator.
 Look here,p said the politician to the beggar. You work the other side of tthe street; this is my side.'
 MT. Depew laughed and gave to the poli- tieian the desired passes.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Hard Work Ills Early Lot

Not long ago one of MT. ClarlSs friends asked him for a short autobiographical sketch. The following characteristic com- munication was the response. states the Saturday Evening Post:
 Your request that I tell you all about myself and throw in two or three stories, all in seven hundred and fifty words, re- minds me of an introduction heard a ru- ral chairman give an ambitious candidate. Ladies and Gentlemen: MT. We're de Vera will now tell you all he 1znows-in ten min utes.' When was a boy back in the hill country of Kentucky heard a man preach who knew much more about theology than about grammar. After reading his text, he said; Brethren and sisters, the whole gospel is squz up In that one little verse When Abraham Iineoln was asked by the compiler of the Congressional Directory for particulars of his early life he replied: They may all be compiled in one poetic line-"The short and simple annals of the poor"-an answer literally true and full of pathos. If my biography were all squz up in a few words, it would run thus; 'Forty-odd years of unremitting toil.' can't remember back to a time when I was not at hard labor of some sort-on a farm in a store, teaching school, editing a. news paper practicing lAw, serving as a legisla- tor. I began teaching before I was 15. and was president of college at 23.'
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
WOOD PULP IN MEXICO

From the Philadelphia Record
 varietey of spruce tree grows in Mexico from which wood pulp could be advantage ously produced for the American market. But for the tariff duty on pulp paper the spruce forests of Canada and Mexico might for years to come furnish cheap supply. Wood pulp Is put to so many commercial uses in addition to the making of printing paper that the quest of the raw material has become a matter of immediate import ance for a great number of industries.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
He Knew Something About Battles

From London Tit-Bits.
 They were discussing the war, of course, and criticising our generals in that free and-easy fashion peculiar to the irrespon- sible and ignorant.
 "Buller's to blanfe,' said the local plumb CT. 'TWhy didn't he go slap at 'em and smash 'em?"
 Ut was Whites fault" replied the baker ''I1e should have attacked in the rear"
 'In my opinion" sagely put in the tailor. "everytbody's to blame"
 Bah! What do you fellows know about war;" demanded the little man in the cor ner. 'You should leave such questions to men Like Roberts, Kitchener and me-"
 "Your' roared the others.
 Certainly" was the calm response. Roberts and Kitchener are tacticians so am l. Anyhow, I've been married three times and have been rate-colector ten years, and I'm stiE alive"
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

erly of Montgoniery. and later of Gadsden, is in the city. Hon. ". c. Jemison, mayor of Tuscaloosa, and editor of the Tuscaloosa Times, was in town yesterday.
 = B. J. Wiel. of Montgomery. Is in town. Former Congressman Gaston A. Robbins of Selma is at the Morris. W. H. Weller of Anniston is at the Nor ris.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
An.Ofiice Is an Office

Nothing Is So dreadful in prospect or so unimportant in the retrospect as defeat for office. The people give; the people take away; blessed be the name of the people
 "I knew a man who was candidate for probate judge; but the people defeated him for that position, and the same day elected him justice of the peace. He was happy as a clam at high tide-he got an office, and to him an office was an office just as, &C., cording to Tennyson, "A lord is lord
 1.-The sweetest recolections of my profess sional life is that while prosecuting attor- ney, though I sent a good many persons to the penitentiary, I let twenty-five off with fines or jail sentences whom I could have sent to the penitentiary. They were boys indicted for their first offense Of the twenty-five, twentyfour are good citizens today. The other was an incorrigible, nat ural-born thief. and served a term
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

From the New York Post.
 St. Louis has no curfew Jaw but many of the owners of the mills and factories have agreed to have their factory or mill whis- ties blown in the evening, to warn the chil- dren that 1t is time to go home. The whis- ties will be blown al o'clock in the win ter, and at o'clock in the summer, and the plan will be continued for a year.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
How It Fee.sit be Defeated

''The happiest hours of my life were when I graduated, when I married, and when my children were born; the saddest when two of them died. A sweet baby Is the greatest luxury in nature.
 . q have been defeated once for nomina- tion and twice at the polls. Have been elect ed several times. A newspaper reporter once asked me how it feels to be defeated. That depends on circumstances and tempera- ment The first sensation is that produced by an fce-water bath. Then one of anger. Then determination to pick your flint and try it again. That's the effect on healthy, robust, resolute man. Some have had their hearts broken by. defeat-Horace Greeley, for instance
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
Not His Deal
From the Detroit Free Press.

U
 May you take this lesson home with you tonight, dear friends concluded the preacher at the end Of very long and wearisone sermon. '4And may its spiritual truths sink deep into your hearts and lives to the end that your souls may experience salvation. We will now bow our heads in prayer. Deacon White, will you qead?"
 There was no response.
 Deacon White" this time in a louder voice; "Deacon White, will you lead?"
 Still no response. It was evident that the good deacon was slumbering. The preacher made third appeal and raised his voice ito a pitch that succeeded in walk ing the drowsy man.
 'Deacon White, will you please lead?"
 The deacon rubbed his eyes and opened them wonderingly.
 ''Is it my lead? No-I just dealt"
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
Guriey Has MunIc,psl EIectlon

Huntsville, March 22.--Cspeciai) )-The city election held at Gurley resulted in the election of the following ticket: L. H. Lewis mayor; J. B. Burks, John T. Bran- mum, A. M. English, B. F. Graham and A. J Williamson, aldermen.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23
Gratitude His Greatest Fee

'"rhe longer I practice criminal law the more firmly I believe in two theories: CD Any man is liable to commit homicide; (2) He is liable to do it about nothing, prac- ftically. For instance, cleared man for killing his brother who had killed another brother. Those two killings were produced by quarrel growing out of the rent of four corn rows. The man I cleared is now a preacher in good standing.
 'Later I cleared a celebrated evangelist for nearly killing a man by sticking knife into him. That cutting was caused by a contention about 50 cents.
 "In the first case cited none of the three brothers cared much for the rent of the -four rows of,corn; in the second case neith- CT of the men cared much for the half dol lar. I believe that criminal law is the high est branch of the law.
 ''What was the greatest fee I ever re- ceived? The love of men whose lives saved and the gratitude of their wives and children"
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

Governor General keary of our province of Guam is issuing his last proclamation, as his successor has been named by the innperial government
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

The illinois and New York inheritance taxes are Infringing in big rnloney, and they are oorrespondlngly popular.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

Congressman LSibley of Pennsylvania has advanced so rapidly in republlcanism that he now considers himself eligible for the nomination for governor.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

presidential campaign will not disturb business this year. People are too busy to pay much attention to dt.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

Cecil Rhodes is mad because he was not relieved to the neglect of all others. MT. Rhpdes wrll see after a while that he is not the whole thing.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

The republicans in the senate are still very wobbly when the Porto Rico tariff is mentioned.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

The Christian spirit 'tflat the parson- editor imported did not take" among the shareholders of the Topeka newspaper.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

l War in Luzon is oyer as much as it ever
 | awfM be. There will always be some war in | spots in that island.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

Jimmie Woodruff is still trying to out wind Haze Pingiree dn the remote districts of the west.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

All South African armies are aware that Pretoria is the focus of the situation.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

The Rev MT. Sheldon will now proceed to explain the wide difference between theory and practlce.
The age-herald., 1900-03-23

When Tim. Woodruff encounters Hetty Greens son down in Texas there will come thc tug of weskets. Tims may be the most gorgeous, but Greens is the largest.