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The age-herald., 1900-02-12
HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
John Ruskin. Democrat.

Andrew Carnegie is by no means alone in believing that a man who dies rich dies disgraced There are others, many others; and among the number was John Ruskin, whose prose poems will be read by millions while the language lasts. Ruskin inherited a large property, and from the outset he questioned the wisdom of having leisure class in the world. All, in his view, should be todlers, and his contempt for idlers was measureless.
 He gave away his large fortune, while he lived retaining only s6O,OOO, invested in con- sols, to supply s1SOO year. on which he said any man ought to live or, if he could not. he deserved speedily to die
 In no respect was the man who spoke He was indeed remarkably prudent and bhrifty. He published his own books, merous they were, and these brought him an income of not Hess than $l50O0 year, rising often to $3O,OO0 a year This income was year by year distributed where 1t would tell best for art and for the ele walton of mankind. Against mere accumu- aation this princely writer entered his pro- test early and late. At heart he was a democrat aohorring caste although forced by circumstances to accept what he could not control. He once wondered while sit ting in an elegant chair in a choice loca- ton at theater why the shilling gallery upon whose tail the leisure class were de- pendent, did not arise and toss himself and his colleagues out of the house.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
DON'T TAKE IC1o HEART
McManus in the Rams Horn.

$. B. McManus in the Rams Horn. Don't take 1t to heart, Httle friend
 When the world seems to use you unfair; Just believe that the worst soon must
 mend
 That the drear.est road has an end;
 And that some day a full, measured
 share
 Shall be given to you as your part, So don't take it too much to heart, Don't cry when endeavor proves vain.
 To work out some sweet, kindly deed. You may feed all the hurt and the pain For the loss that yours, but the gain Was the trying to do, and the need God will give unto you by and by; So take heart of His love, and don't cry. Don't take it to heart if your best
 Is rcckoned of not as much worth, A failure is gain oft confessed, And God sees it. blessing and blest.
 As a gracious, sweet gift to the earth Why seek for the worlds empty smile. God will make 1t all right in d while Don't cry when you see your years speed
 As cioud-shadow under the sun, And you stand d wind-broken reed, Weary, waiting helpless, in need.
 And the sands of your glass nearly run; God VIII call you up nome by and by Be patient, dear heart and don't cry. Take nothing to heart but the thought
 That God knows us just we are: That He misses no sheaf we have brought. That He knows all we have yearned for
 and sought.
 That He judges all kindly and fair; Dent fret, then. dear heart. neither cry Gods kingdom will come hy and ha-
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
AGAINST MACHINE BUILDING
.e Tuscaloosa Gazette

From the TUSCALOOSA Gazette.
 There is one amendment needed to our states constitution and needed badly. It has been tine custom of past governors of this state to commence building a machine for promoting them to the United States senate as soon as they are inaugurated. It seems that their highest aim is to reach the senate, and In furtherance of this aim they are willing to prostitute patronage given them The only feasible way to for the senate for at least four or six years after the expiration of his term of office as governor.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
The railroad pass is an issue in Kentucky.
Macrum is as defiant as he is mysteriou
CHANGE FOR AMERICAN COAL

From the Atlanta Constitution,
 War, which brings disaster to one na- ton, is often the means of building up the prosperity of another.
 That this is true in regard to the present Boer-British war Is made evident in many ways. The factories along the Mediterran- can have always been supplied with coal from England. Since the middle of Decem- ber the price of English coal has just dou- bled, and the consequence Is that hundreds of French and Italian operatives are idle on account of the shutting down of work, because of the dearness of English coal. In this emergency attention has been drawn to the United States as basis of supply. Several ships have already taken cargoes from Norfolk to Mediterranean ports, and this experiment once proving successful, cannot fail to build up a permanent busi- ness The growth and development of coal consumption in the United States alone would be sufficient to lead to great &C., tiv1ty in mining, but when ito this demand is added that of Europe as well as of South American, it may easily be seen how valu- able will become the coal deposits of our entire country. From Birmingham to Mo- bile, Alabama coal can readily reach hign water, while the markets of Pennsylvania coal are already we'll developed. This com- bned demand will lead to the rapid opening of coal properties, and will be the means of large addition to our resources.
 While this single incident is of over whelming importance, 1t must be recolect- ed that it Is but oue of the many by which we can build up American trade and usurp the business which once belonged to oth-
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
Bessemer's Prosperity
From the Bessemer Workman.

From the Bessemer Workman.
 Bessemer continues to move right along, notwithstanding some hard licks, and we believe the growth to be permanent and substantial. Business men are building handsome brick stores and improving their property in way that leads one to believe that 1900 will be year of undoubted pros perity. The increase in the business of the Southern Express company for 1899 was 25 per cent. over that of 1898, and although business Is always at low ebb in the month of January, the express company in Bessemer did 50 per cent. more business in January, 1900, than it did in January, 1S99
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
Sidewalks and Roat tls

From the Tuscunioia Dispatch.
 The property owners of this town are cheerfully complying with an ordinance enacted by the municipal authorities re- quining the budding of suitable sidewalks where none existed, and soon Tuscumbia will enjoy an improvement in this direction possessed by other progressive North Ala 0ama oGties and towns. Colbert county of which Tuscum'oia is the county seat, ranks among the leading counties of bhe state fin the matter of good roads, 100 miles of macadamiZed roads in every direction Throughout the county having been built within the last six years at cost of $2OO, GOO.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

have staggered von Roon. the great Prus- sian organizer Kitchener is nothing but mathematics. He was trained as an engf- neer. He makes war according to the school on Von Mo1tke He will organize; he will sacrifice pawns; he will disregard lives; his eye will be fixed on the end. and neither political exigencies nor public ciamor, nor the apparent need of haste will swerve him. When he is ready he will move, and move to victory.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

From the New York Press.
 Men are all alike, and it's lucky for most women that they're not all different
 Getting married is a lot like laying out a corpse; you have to have a special talent for it.
 Every old maid Is living monument to some woman who didn't make good man miserable
 Lots of our real duty to the Lord has to be done on the sly, so it won't hurt good peoples feelings.
 Every woman thinks she knows how to got along with the men better than the other women do.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
NEXTI
From the New York Mail and Express.

From the New York Mail and Express.
 TO be vice-president of the United States is too distinguished an honor to be hawked about the country among the Impossibles or the Reluctants. Few men are equal to it, themselves in either light are generally mis- taken. =.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
What England is Fighting For.

Whether one accepts the natural but very African war or not, it is well to understand what England is fighting for-what the awful waste of life and treasure really means. In a word, England is fighting for the civilization of interior Africa, really for the right to carry her civilization to three fourths of the Dark Continent. and particu- larly through the heart of it. Those who believe that England stands for progress and freedom cannot but sympathize with her heavy struggle in South Africa. Coun- tries, like Germany, that desire to possess Englands great opportunity, are. of course, overjoyed over the reverses she encounters. This is also the case with France, whose ambition was crossed at Fashooda. Rus sia, too would like to see her ancient ene- my humiliated and weakened. But those who believe in Anglo-Saxon civilization and progress cannot we'll join this coalition of unfrlendly interests. America cannot in all gratitude after the war with Spain, be un- friendly to the motherland, to the home of Shakespeare, and to some of her best .tra- ditions.
 The Boers have physical vigor, but their best friends do not contend that they would in even a century's time, If ever at all, &C., complish anything in the way of civilizing the vast districts and vast populations of Central Africa. They have never shown in- chnations in that direction. They are home bodies, narrow, tyrannical and oligarchic. By their constitution Jews and Catholics are expressly excluded from suffrage and offfce-holding. Up to the time of war all were excluded from participation in the government except Boers or lAfrfkanders. mentally, politically and socially, but pos sessing the physical vigor that springs from aSrlculture, StOck-Br0WlnS, nunllnS ana the like.
 The real world question Involved in this war relates to the power of such people to stop the building of a railroad from the Cape to Cairo, and to block the progress that would follow the building of such a line The world would be heavy loser in a Boer victory-if such thing be possible while all the world, and particularly the United States, would gain largely from British ascendancy in South and Central Africa. This country would thus gain wider markets for her products, and Christianity would gain by the check that Mohammedanism would thus receive Everything of a desirable nature would be promoted, and everything reactionary and unprogressive would be checked, and in the end overthrown. This is Englands chief and enduring contention.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
LET HIM HAVE IT

From the Annston Hot Blast.
 The Hot Blast does not believe in contest ing Russell. Let Jodie have it, for it is about all he will get. There is very little question but what the grossest frauds were perpetrated in that county, but to undo last Saturdays action would probably work considerable hardship to several innocent candidates
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
THE NATIVES HAVE NO MONEY

From the New York Post
 In his new volume of New Guinea pr. F. Hagen describes 23 species of parrots and S9 of pigeons that are observed there. Among the flowers he found many that tains rise to height of 14,0OO feet. The natives have no money. but live by barter
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
INCANDEsoENr BULBs AS WEAPONS

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat
 "Of all the outlandish weapons ever em- ployed in a fight" said a business man of the Southside, ''I think I brought the most fantastic on record into play one night last week. My family are always on a visit at present, and I am keeping bachelor hall out at the house. On the night to which I refer I was aroused at about 3 a. m. by noise somewhere in the region of the dining room and thinking I had shut up the dog came downstairs in my night clothes, with out so much as a pocketknife. When I opened the dining room door I was startled to see big, rough-looking man bending over the sideboard at the far end of the room, and after we had stood there en tableau for a moment the fellow made rush at me. I leaped back into the hall and glared around for a weapon. On a table near by were dozen incandescent light bulbs, which I had brought home to re- place some that had burned out, and purely by instinct grabbed one of them and threw it at the burglar. It hit the door casing close to his head, and. to my amazemen-, exploded with noise like a young lyddite she'll I supposed 1t was stil greater sur prise to the other fellow, for he let out yell and broke for the rear. followed by a rapid-iire bombardment of six-teen-candle power incandescents. which I continued to chunk at him as long as he remained in range They smashed against the furni- ture with series of crashes that alarmed the whole neighborhood, and have been gathering up fragments of broken glass ever since. The burglar must have thought I was chasing him with handgrenades. It was the first time I ever knew incandes- cents made such row when they broke. An electrician tells me it is caused by the air rushing into the yacum.'
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
The Boys Reform School

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 What became of the movement to supple ment the state fund and build a boys re- form school? Alabama is badly behind in this important particular, and her citizens should encourage uhe movement with kind words and liberal cash dona tions.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
----------------- BUT Nt>E IN REAL LIFE

From the Boston Courier.
 The idea of turning de jure and de facto governor out of office on general principles by round robin' would be quite Imaginable in a comic opera.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
Freemasonry in DeKalb

From the Fort Payne Journal.
 The tenth Masonic conference of Dekai5 county will be held with Valley Head Lodge No. 39i at Valley Head, Ala, Thurs day and Friday February 22 and 23, 1900.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
Price Of Cotton

From the Greensboro Watchman.
 Cotton reached eight cents in Greensboro last week. We fear it will not be near that prdce next fall. judging from the prepara- tions that are being made to make cotton the present year.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

The trouble in Montana during the sena- torial election was that legislator could not go to his room without finding a new roll of bills that the mice had brought in.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
Telephone at Roanoke
the RandO,ph Leader.

From the Randolph Leader.
 Mr G. R. Cheney, manager of the tele- phone exchange, informs that he ex- poets to have the system in operation by the 15th The pole are being put in posi- tfon.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
MERGENTHALER's LAST WORK

From the Philadelphia Record.
 In the summer of 1898 Ottmar Mergentha- Ter, the inventor of the linotype machine, who died in Baltimore recently, spent two days at Gainesville. O., studying the work ing of a basket machine, which he after ward modified and improved, and which was the last work completed just before his death. This machine as completed is as linotype has proven to be in typesetting. Where an expert operator formerly pro- duced 300 grape baskets daily by hand, the same operator with the machine with great CT ease can now produce 4,OOO baskets daily, and these machine-made baskets are said to be superior in every way to the hand mace article.
 The machine is of one horsepower, and can easily be attended by girl, its capacity being the same as that of twelve hand op- erators It is practically a self-feeding machine as the supplies of bottoms, strips for the sides and bands are placed in stocks near enough for the wonderful iron hands to reach out and seize, and while one watches these wonderful hands reach out for the material the basket is finished, and the machine as it were, holds its breath, or rather its hands, for second while the basket is delivered, when 1t immediately be- bins again its wonderful performance.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
HOW TO START

From the Fort Payne Herald.
 The right way to reform the country is to start with yourself.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

The members of the Montana legislature simply stumbled upon those $100O bills. It was not'bribery, far W. A. Clark and his witnesses have said it.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

Edward Everett Hale harbors fifteen cats under h.s piazza. His love of nocturnes must be eccentric or else he has an ample supply of bootjacks.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

Colonel watterson evidently does not en- joy his Louisville and Nashville pass.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

The republicans in search of a running mate need not despair, for there Is Macrum or Web. Davis, both South African heroes.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

Governor Leary of Guam has about de- cided to reduce his subjects one-half, and he is hesitatng over the method.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

General Ewell s. Otis knows low to synr- pathize with General Butler. but he will
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
The ColIinsvlile Confiagration

From the Collinspllle Clipper.
 ~ The business section of fre7swept Collins ville-Collinsville. the bright gem of the valley-atoday presents a scene of desolation and distress which naught but the deft hand of an artist can portray in its rudity.
 From the railroad to the creek with the exception of three store-rooms, both sides of Market street presents a picture appall- ing to a people less energetic than our own enterprislng citizens. They, however, feel no Encouragement, but view their losses philosophieally, determined that, like the fabled Phoenix of antiquity, Collinsville shall rise from its ashes, revivified-a new CT, brighter more substantial city, and shall continue it's old-time prestige as the best market in North Alabama.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

There is not a ford or rock in the Tugela that General Butler Is not personally ac- quainted with.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

Phladephia's last hope in that Hanna check matter is said to consist in a progress siye euohre party.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

London. Kentucky, denies the allegations and defies the allegators. It has eight churches and university.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

The war in South Africa is not ot the Cor bett-Jeffries sort. It is all fight. and no talk
The age-herald., 1900-02-12
WITH THE EDITORS
 OF THE STATE PRESS
Gadsden Board of Trade

From the Gadsden Times-News.
 The permanent organization and thorough equipment of the board of trade means much our business men seem determined to push this movement until its highest usefulness has been attained.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

Califorma's Bard may impart new flavor, if not tone. to the valued Congress- iona Record.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

Kentucky begins to think she hasicapftals to burn. It Is a case of over-capitalization
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

Editor Sheldon is now engaged in explain ing detached sections of his record.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

It was not bribery in Montana; it was an overfree distribution of s1 900 bills.
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

need sympathy himself when General Joe Wheeler uncovers his real record in the Philippines. Ters
The age-herald., 1900-02-12

Peace conferences are held every day at Frankfort, Kentucky
Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1900-07-19

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Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1900-07-19
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Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1900-07-19

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Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1900-07-19

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Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1900-07-19

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Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1900-07-19

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