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The age-herald., 1900-12-30

A cabled story from Paris displays tho fact that Count Boni de Castellane has spent about $5,OOO,OOO in the past six years of the Jay Gould money. It was further shown in the suit brought by tradesman against Count Boni that Mss Helen Gould, in order to relieve his financial distress, re- gently made him present of s6OO.0OO The counts attorney, who is endeavoring to save him from his creditors, is setting forth the plea that he is "a simple and conHdlng man of whom everyone took advantage" Castellane bought $2OO0,OO0 of objects of art from one dealer, giving notes in payment of much of it. On these notes the suits are now brought and Castellane's attorney is making an heroic fight to save the rem nants of Anna Gould's fortune.
 French counts are apparently expensive luxuries to support and maintain.
 Mir. Bryan has announced that he will print the first issue of his paper. The Com moner on or about the 18th of January. The newspapers all over the country are offer ing his paper in a clubbing scheme with their own issues. The outlook Is that he will get several hundred thousands subscribers That being the case, MT. Bryan will make more money out of his weekly newspaper than the office of President would have paid him. There Is nothing so profitable as weekly newspaper with a great circulation. It is said srlatt the advertisements of a newspaper with hundred thousand circu- lation would pay all expenses, while the money received from circulation is profit. Thus it would seem possible that MT. Bryan can make a huadred thousand or more a year out of his paper if he pushes it from the business office.
 Speaking of newspapers, The Age-Her- aids new perfeo'ting press has been shipped and will be installed and in operation with in a few weeks. The Age-Herald will then be able to print anything from four to g. twenty-four page paper on its press at one time, and will have an equipment equal to that of any New York or Chicago news paper
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
RocKEFELLER's RENEFAcTIoNs

From the Boston Herald
 MT. Rockefeler's latest gift to Chicago University makes total of about $9,500,00O which he has given to that fortunate in- stltution, which he founded in 1890. This makes an average of nearly a million dol- lars year for each year of the decade. Nor have his gifts been confined to that university. A year ago he gave Brown University s25O,o0O, and he has added large sums to the endowment funds of Newton Theological Institution. Wellesley and other colleges. In addition, he has been generous in his gifts to church, charitable and missionary enterprises. If all his ben elections during the past twelve years were summed up it is calculated that they would exceed S15,OOO,OO 900.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
RRYAN's "coMMoNER."

Lincoln, Neb., December N.-W. J. Bryan announced tonight that the first issue of his weekly paper, 'The Commoner," would be issued shortly after January 15. It will be in magazine form, Il by 141s inches, three col umns to the page and with eight pages, to be enlarged as soon as patronage war rants. There will be no advertisements in the first issue It is said he has received seven thousand subscriptions.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
Ten Years Hence.

The Knoxville Journal-Tribune prints this list of the six leading counties of the cotton States, as follows:
 | Orleans parish CSew orleans). ...... PSI 1Oi 2 Shelby County (Memphis) .......... 153557 g. Jefferson County (Blrmingham) ... 14O 42O I(Dayidson County (Nashville) ...... 122s15 5. Fulton County (Atlanta). ............ n7S6s c Henrico County (Richmond) ........ u5112
 It claims that Knox County will become No. in 1910, as it has but 2569S people to gain in ten years, and its factories are in creasing in number and in size. growth of 8 per cent. in ten years ought not to be impossible in mineral-laden east Tennes- pce and doubtless the anticipations of the Dourna-Tribune will be met.
 Bat the most interesting feature of the new race will be that between Shelby Coun- ty, Tennessee, and Jefferson County, Ala tema, both being entered to cross the 200, 900 line. Let us hope both will do it, for the common good of this section. Jefferson certainly will, but will Shelby County? Memphis is an enterprising city on a great river. Its freight rates are admirable. But these are drawbacks. It has just lost ear works plant, and its iron industries may all gravitate towards cheap fuel and cheap iron and steel. Its hardwood and lumber industries are based upon disap- bearing quantities.
 There is really no rivalry between the two counties, for the growth of Jefferson
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID.

James Whitcomb Riley. When over the fair fame of friend or fo( The shadow of disgrace shall fall; instead Of words of blame, or proof of thus and SO Let something good be said. Forget not that no fellow being yet May fall so low but love may lift his
 head; Even the cheek of shame with tears IS wet If something good be said. No generous heart may vafnly turn aside In ways of sympathy; no soul so dead But may awaken strong and gioriheo, If something good be said. And so I charge ye by the thorny crown, r And by he cross on which he Saviour
 bled, And by your own souls hope of fair re-
 nown,
 Let something good be said-
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
Editor Walker to Wed.

Mir Harry Walker of the Tuscaloosa Times was in Birmingham last night on his way to Athens, Ala. his former home It is given out that MT. Walker will on January be married to Miss Memory Me Clellan of Athens, daughter of the late Col. Robert A. Mcclellan wko was one of the strongest ard best men of North Ala bama. MT. Walker is young newspaper worker of rare accomplishments and great promise
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

The country declines to consider the woes of Chief Ripley of Chicago or of Chief Dev- cry of New York Both are undoubtedly great men, but they are not great enough to overshadow all else in the land.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
JUSTICE TO ROBSON.
Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald
 Lieutenant Hobson will not have gone through his serious illness in vain if the sympathy. of his countrymeh prompts them to give due recognition of his hero ism. It is time that the small jealousies that have interfered with his promotion were buried beyond the chance of resur- rection.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
Christmas Eve.

z Christmas Eve spl, .zuls .-... -iz- th Mar sdi Gras ataaz azaa forced upon this clnate a D. rsal.g. These orgies, il, malntai4ea. cad to bloodshed and se4.oaz a#I@ EH -ea wholly out of place. and saa4a. #n5=d.
 Another contributing cause sue#'5 ne as overlooked. Tglo turning loose of asai,1 oae hundred I. ty offenders on the day befora Christmas is a custom without much law behind it, and it is one at any rate more honofed in the breach than in the observ- ance If a general jail delivery become de- sirable, let it occur on some day not con- neeted with a holiday.
 Atlanta had adopted this custom of re- leasing prisoners by the wholesale-a cus- tom by the way that smacks of royalty on festal occasions; but the authorities of Att lanta decided that any repetition of the GUS tom at Christmas time would be resisted Mayor Woodward wisely concluded that royal methods should not be repeated in his city this year, and no prisoners were re- leased except those whose terms had ex- pired.
 The custom should be abolished here, and on top of this reform, notice should be given that repetition of the scenes of Christmas Eve would encounter a police force that could cope with and subdue it, even if thousand arrests had to be made.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

The North Pole is in great danger of de- lection. It has maintained isolation long time but next summers attacks will test severely its defences.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

Mrs Nation has burned all bridges be- hind her, and thrown her huband out of court. She ought to have waited until the new century came in and then declared herself the Joan of Arc.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

Sheriffs' bondsmen in India have to set tie with widows of lynched men. One lot of bondsmen recently paid $4OOO in settlement of a case.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

The twentieth century prohibition ticket should be Woolley and Nation, with an axe or a rock in the air as an emblem.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

John G. Woolley is trying to ascertain whether his vote in New Jersey was unduly swelled by Grover Cleveland.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

If the Pat Grove brigade should carry off Manchester very grave problem would arise in Pa Zimmerman's mind
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

The temperance people of Wichita mean we'll, but they will soon see that they can not sing Mrs Nation out of jail.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

When Congressmen return from their constituents they will be ready to fight the Hanna subsidy with redoubled energy.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

An antiLvice crusade in one town means that the next town Is to acquire a double quota of crooks and cranks.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

General Alger reopens the canned roast beef question in fine style, but he forgot to recall to the stage his old friend Huide- koper.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

The prophets of 1799 did not foresee that concentration and monopoly.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

Is assured. Nature has made 1t 90. But the crossing of the 100000 line by Shelby County depends upon the hustllng quail 'as-of it's people. For the good of this sec
 hey should begin the work at once. He6 =nunty desires company when it
 "q0 line, and Memphis is it's
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

Prince Russell is in Washington trying to ascertain why he was dropped so summa- rily from the army rolls.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

w. T. Stead carries into the new century his usual stock of nightmares and scares.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

Special writers on the new century will soon make us wish we had stayed in the frayed out-at- the-elbow's nineteenth.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

Pettigrew is preparing to pay Hanna with interest for all he did to him in his own State.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

The quail alone fingers in the woods that were once full of other game.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

While this country has a high tariff il cannot consistently object to such thing: in other countries.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

Prosperity is not lingering around the Baltimore banks.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30

France always falls back in dull times on the Dreyfus case.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
GLEANINGS FROM a YOUNG LIFE
THAT"PERISHEDIN IT'S PRIME

Som eighteen or twenty years, ago
we used to see some occasional verses
in the Goldsboro Messenger that i'm
pressed us as clever both for thought
and melody. We now and then refer
red to them with words Of appreciation
The writer of them was for years con-
nected with that newspaper and was
really a young man Of gifts. His name
was Nixon Poindexter Clingman, a cou-
sin of the late General T. L. Clingman.
so well known in the political history
Of our state in the past. He died IN
his thirty-seventh yea on 18th OF July,
1885, at the home of his brother-in-Iaw.
Colonel Lotte w Humphrey, a we'll
known lawyer at Goldsbo.c. We have
before us a neatly printed volume Of
153 pages entitled "A Poet and His
Songs" Being a minion and a selec-
ton of mis- best Ssays and poems, pre-
faced by a few poems of his mother,
Emily Magee Clingman. edited by Or
rim Chalfant Painter. a cousin. Balti-
more, The Arundel Press. John S.
Bridgers & Co., 1900. Mr.. Joseph E.
Robinson, editor Of the Goldsboro Ar
gus contributes an entertaining me-
moir Of the dead author. From it we
learn that young C1ingman was born
at Huntsville, n. G., on the LIST Of No.
vember, 1S7. His father was Henry
Patila CEngman. NJ D.. who still
lives aged eighty-seven, and his grand
father was the well known Presbyte-
rian minister and teacher. Rev. Henry
Patilla, D. D., NJ. D.. Of Granville
county. In bid times the name was
spenedPatillo. but in the memoir it Is
as We have given it above. We have
read but few OF the poems in the vol
ume. We found merit in those called
Growing Old" a tender tribute to his
mother 'Ravenswood," Lines on the
Death of Diana Simms." "A Requiem
THE Dead Maiden and In Memo
RAM, Land Of the South" Doubtless
there are many others Just as good,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

The Mckinley crowd are great on
denying. Practice makes perfect.
They are arraigncd before the great
American public and they all as one
man plead not guilty" But they are
guilty all the same and deserve the re-
lection and detestation Of all genuine
American patriots and freemen- 1t is
really a campaign of denial. It has
been said and truly:
Mckinley and his cabal have not
even the courage of their convictions
to win them followers.
They have been accused Of imperial
ism. They deny it.
They a W been accused Of militar-
ism They deny it.
They have been accused of foster
ing he trusts. They deny il. They
Yer go further and deny the trusts"
Hanna and Mckinley try to sneer at
the idea Of militarism, but it Is mo
go" h army has 25. 900 strong: now
1T is 100, 900, costing s135 900, 900. and
there are fools even in the south who
wish 1t to remain a permanent fixture.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
CANNOT BEAR BRYAN.

The American Wood and Cotton Re-
porter of New York has a very poor
= opinion of Bryan, cannot respect him
O. or trust him, says he has a vicious NOR
al nature and so on. He is a politi-
zeal adventurer of the baSeSt descrip-
1on-" says this organ of trusts and
nabobry. He is without truth and COM
nonsense, quoth this tool for Hanna
and Mckinley. Now all a sort Of
rot and rubbish will not hurt Bryan in
the least with any honest, upright man,
but will rather help him. The Charles
ton News and Courier notes the bad
things said at some length. The fol-
lowing fits here and we quote it be-
cause of its truth:
1.-The fact is, we believe. that the man
Bryan has not endeavored Hto infiame
the passions of one class against an
other, but only to stir up the people
generally, the millions OF victims of
the class in question, to break its hold
on them and it's control over them, and
" the democratic government or
more strictly speaking the republican
government for their own relief and
And this simply because,
like many other statesmen of his coun-
try, he regards the rule and practices
of the class as inimical to the welfare
of the people and the stability of the
republic itself"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

danger and he censures DIR. Hirsch for
his letter written in the interest Of the
Mckinley crowd. He writes:
Remembering that Eirsch's letter
appeared in the Chicago Tribune, and
was made the subject Of one of It's edi-
~torials. and learning now that II Is
being circulated among the Jews for
campaign purposes as a sort OF pastor
al. / do not hesitate to characterize 1t
as unworthy the notice Of respectable
American Jews. / feel no reluctancy,
in the face OF this letter. to declare to
you or the whole world. in my individ-
ual capacity, not as a rabbi. nor a Jew,
but IS an American, that / shall not
vote for the candidate OF b republican
party for the office Of president"
He discusses at length the dangers
which are manifestly menacing this
country and IT'S free and glorious insi-
tutions. He touches upon the trusts
and the betrayal of the civil service He
concludes impressively in these warn
ing words:
Il have no message as a Jew to the
Jews. nor would I at this juncture de-
liver one IL / had but speaking as n
American citizen to another I recall the
famous warning given by the decree of
the ancient Roman Senate to Lucius
Opinius. Let the Consul see TO IL that
The Republic doe not come to harm" /
mean to heed that warning by voting
for w. j. Bryan"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
n REPUBLICAN, RABBI FOR BRYAN

Rabbi Samuel Sale. of ST. Louis. a
distinguished member of the American
Hebrews, is out in a letter. He has
beeen a republican all along, and was
chaplain Of the republican national
convention at St. Louis in 1896. DIR.
Sale has announced ttaI he Will sup
port Bryan and says that imperialism
will destroy the American republic.
He, therefore renouncas his party and
will cooperate with those who are
uniting and essaying to so save free
institutions in this land of the free.
Rebuking an eminent Jewish ecclesias-
tic for trying to induce Jews ito band
together and vote as man in IN
coming election DR.. Sale says thus:
You know as we'll as I do that aAJew-
ish minister la no other influence
over his co-religioniSts than tina OF
reason and moral suasior. and that
they are not a flock of sheep to be led
by a bellwether. So far as any polite
capital to be gained thereby is concern
ed, such letters might just as well re-
main unwritten, but the injury which
may be done to the Jews is incalcula-
BILE"
He sees that the republic is really in
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
WHAT ABOUT SMALL COTTON
l.

We do not know how true il is but
there is opinion circulating hat the
large mills are more reliable. more
satisfactory than the small cotton
mills. 1t is said that results establish
this. Unless one had the reports from
all the mills in the south the conten-
ton could not established. The New
York Commercial evidently prefers
the large mills although saying that it
knows only one mill, among those
whose stock is listed. whose shares are
nc considered to be worth within 30
per cent of their par value. while the
stock of several would be eagerly snap
ped UP at so ITO $50 per cent. above par.
But then it thinks it unsafe to con-
struct a mill wen where the cotton is
with less than 10, 900 spindles. We can
say as to the accuracy of this opinion.
The Houston Post says that as a mat
ter of fact it is stated that the only
while h big ones are uniformly pros
porous with their stock held at a high
figure in consequence Of large divi-
dends."
We would like ito hear more on this
point. How has 1T Jared with the
smaller class of mills in North Caro-
Ina? We had been led to think that
the best thing for every community to
do was to build a small mill where 1t
was not possible to build one of the
larger mills. Have not the small cot
ton mills of North Carolina paid salts
factorily during the last two years?
Who can give information as to this
interesting matter?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
THE

President Albert Ross Parsons of the
for Bryan. Tt is said he is a patriot
and "a practical student of American
history.
Cleveland is against Bryan. Nothing
new in that. He was against him in
1896.
Democrats still cheer themselves by
saying Illinois is in doubt. But is it?
The same thing is said of Ohio. But
the republicans are confident of both
states.
Bragg as the republicans do they are
very insistent as to two things-they
say send in more hundreds of thou
sands of cash. and that every republic
can should register and vote. There is
none to spare it seems.
One of General Grants sons is sup
porting Bryan. The Newport. (va.,)
Herald says:
There is nothing strange about 1t
at all. General Grant was a great man
and had a peculiar way of doing the
right thing just at the right time. 1t
is not strange that his youngest son
should have inherited this popularity"
Senator Wellington, republican,
says Maryland will go for Bryan. He
also says he is confident of his election.
He is a German and declares that so
per cent of the German vote will go to
Bryan. He says that he will give the
Bryan administration his unwavering
support in the senate in every policy
it advocates and firmly believes he will
have the opportunity to do so.
The coming over to Bryan of ex At
torney General Monnett, of Ohio, will
help no little. He is a lifelong repub-
lican, but leaves that party of the
trusts. A dispatch from Chicago says
thai his fight in the Standard Oil
was displeasing to the republicans and
every effort was made to kill hir
litically. So much in earnest was he,
however, and SO great a hold had he
obtained on the people of Ohio that the
scheme failed and today he Is a strong
er man in the state"
Bryan had a great reception at Han
mas own home in Ohio. Thousands
heard him. His audience numbered
%, 900. He is thus reported:
referring to the financial legislation
of the last session of congress. Mr.. Bry-
an said thai there were many little
congressman who knelt regularly
every morning and prayed to. Senator
Hanna to give us this day u daily
opinion" The remark was greeted
with laughter and cheers"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

but up to now our reading has been
limited to few Of the poems. We expect
to read others. There are some ami
mated, inspiring sfanzas In h last
named and which closes h volume.
We think tina Mr.. Cfingman had a gift
for versifcation and the music of his
best lines are apparent. There is a
tinge Of melancholy pervading much Of
his verse. It seems to be q prevailing
note. so far as We merely glanced az
h poems. IN those we read this note
OF revery and sadness Is clearly seen.
He was hardly what you would criu-
carly designate a an original voice.
but they are pleasant. flowing minor
verse with a suggestion OF being de-
rivative. Not that they were not his
own. bu. that he had read the great
poets and like hundreds Of pleasant
writers of tender-hearted verse he was
a reflection more thar a genius strug-
Cling for utterance. The pathos and
yearning regret are prevalent and there
rs something OF "a haunting and meian-
choly beauty In much he wrote He
wrote good prose and was one OF North
Cardinals surest and best poets.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
IN CHINA.

If any thing has ever happened in
the world in the last two or three CEN
turtles that is as satanic and mean and
dispicable as the looting and disten-
ton of Pekin by some of the allies, it
has failed to come to our remembrance.
The whole thing is a tremendous dis
grace and outrage, a huge monument
erected to barbarism by ~barbarians,
for they are nothing better. The
e are described as without paral-
lei in history, and valuable articles were
hawked about the city so desecrated
and Quilted by the barbarfans guilty
Of the Internal work. A special states
thus:
The general c~oncensus of opinion of
the American and British ministers and
generals is that seldom if ever in the
history of the world has any city been
more completely looted and Quilted
than Pekin and it is mainly due to the
influence of General Chaffee and the
British general, GaSelee, that the sacred
city itself has not suffered the same
fate"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
IN PRICES.

The increase in prices since McKin-
ley took office has been most marked.
The high McKinley-Dingley drag net
the robber tariff-and it's m~ultitudinous
progeny-the truSts-have done this.
Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson. who is speak
ing in New Jersey, said at Bridgeton
that in three years over 600 trusts had
grown up with a capital of $4,000 OO0,-
00O-ten thousand million dollars. 1t
takes line upon line, and the people
must be informed OF the robberies per
perpetrated by the high republican
children, the robber trusts. Barbed wire
has gone up from $1.s5 to "a per hun-
dred weight. asst iron stoves have
advanced 20 per cent. A stove that
you bought for 81 is now worth $3.50.
Two inch pipe has advanced so per
cent-you pay $3.50 now for what you
bought at 81. Water pals have gone
up II per cent. Window glass double
in price. Tinware so per cent. You
pay $3.50 for what you bought at 81.
Bromos have advanced from s1.75 20
sz.S5. Tacks advanced from s1.50 gross
to s2.70. Matches from $3.50 gross 10
$3.50. Salt, per barrel, from 20 cents to
s1-10. Laundrysoap from s2.35 per box
to s2.s5. Starch has doubled. Sugar
Is much higher-some J cents a pound.
White meat is much higher. Other
things in proportion.