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The age-herald., 1900-07-08

wall hung Walkers broadsword his only
 weapon. Many Walkers have no weapons at all. It was the same sword that Walker weded bravely and effectively when in battle he laughed to brave death where Forrest led his immortal band to victory and victuals in the dark days of internecine
 strife. Laying hold of this sword Walker
 turned upon his murderous pursuers, and
 instantly became guilty of the impolite act
 of cutting off the head of one of his neigh
 bors. He cut the unneighborly neighbours
 head clean off as dexterously as if the
 had cut in two turnip to feed the milk
 COW of the Walker family on frosty
 morning. Yes, sir: cut the head off as
 neatly as d Boxer might decapitate a
 Christian. Having thus displayed uncom-
 mon rudeness, Walker fourished his trusty
 rusty sword and very impolitely and like
 wise cut the second neighbor off from all
 prospect of ever gitten offen nuther mule
 and hitchin it to any tree whatever
 Walker then wiped his sword, and paid a formal visit to the sheriff to apologize for having been rude to neighbors.
 | A former South Carolinian, now an Ala l bamian, remN rked under the shadow of the | awning at the corner yesterday on the in- | teresting associations of San Souci," Mrs. 1 Perry's girls school, with educational in- huences. He said: '"The builder of San Souci first built himself! He was one of
 the few self-made men, as Bishop Wilmer
 used to say, that are wel-made. B. F. Perry was a high example in life and was thus living teacher. He grew to be six feet two on his New England fathers farm in one of the upper counties of South Car olina, where he and a large family of broth CTS were born. He was born, by the way, l within that charmed and natural radif of ! Augusta, Ga, where Calhoun, McDuffie | Crawford, Toombs, Yancey and numerous l other immortals first saw the light.s 1 don't suppose Perry ever drunk in his l life or that he ever swore idle oath, oI ever committed an immoral act of his owr
 accord. He educated himAGlf and married | into one of the aristocrahc families oi | Charleston. He built the house to take his
 girl wife 10 before he married her, on six
 months notice, too, and built near his law | office at Greenville from his law fees. His
 education never ceased a moment after il i began. Every winter after he had finished
 his work in the Court of Appeals and the |, Legislature at Columbia he would selcc
 and send up home several hundred dollars
 worth of new books. He generally edited
 d weekly newspaper at Greenville ant
 wrote probably 800 very charming ske tche:
 of eminent Americans for his paper.''
 l Everybody knew Perry was not college l bred, yet with So much consideration wa: he held that when the great South Carolina
 College was at the zenith of its fame ant
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
Iron and Steel Markets.

The iron masters met yesterday in New York to consider the situation. It could not well be worse, and it is plain that fur ther stubbornness on the part of the iron and steel manufacturers will not better 1t. Buyers are not buying, because consumers cannot, or rather will not, buy finished goods at the prices that the boom of 1899 established. All sorts of enterprises have been postponed, or abandoned, because of such prices.
 1t is reported that the Carnegie Company contemplates the abolition of all official prices, thus making the steel market at least an open one. This would be such market as exists in free trade England and in other countries, where combines are i'm possible. A similar course in the pig iron trade would soon bring back market, for at present there is none. No one can say that iron has a price-whether it is worth s1O a ton or $15 a ton, or any other price, because no one is buying. Dulness and weakness says Bradstreet's, "are most marked in products of iron and steel" If the ronmasters would knock off all off cial prices, as the Carnegie Company pro- poses to do in steel products, prices would soon be put on level that would attract buyers, and restore activity to the great industry.
 The buyers are masters of the situation, because they are backed, or they back up to the consumers, who refuse to pay more for iron and steel products than reason able profit above the cost of production. The time has come to demand a restoration of normal conditions, and in such restora ton this district has nothing to fear. Iron, and therefore steel can be made here at prices that cannot be approached elsewhere, and there is no reason why this district should stand still in order to let other dis tricts secure prices that suit them. An open market is the only road to adjustment, and this district should invite it, and even compel it.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

The Tammany delegation from New York in their factional fight against Hill and his supporters disgusted the conven- ton. Croker attempted to subordinate the convention and the success of the party to vent his spleen upon Hill. Yet Hill comes out of it all in flying colors and Croxer has won the ill-wll of Democratic from all sections of the country.
 Carter Harrison. Mayor of Chicago, made the public statement last night that the conduct of Tammany in the convention was dirty politics, adding that not a single ward in Chicago would disgrace itself by resorting to such dirty tactics. Indeed. from all sections there has been the most severe criticism of Tammanys conduct.
 Carter Harrison, by the way, says the ticket and the platform make victory in Illinois absolutely certain. Shvely of In- diana, says his State will go Democratic and indeed, among all the Democrats from all sections there now exists a feeling of much confidence.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
Dayiiaht in China.

Ruz1as has agreed to give Japan a free hand in China, and this action will doubt less be followed by like action on the part of the other powers. Germany intimates that it is ready to give Japan a mandate, and the other powers assuredly will fall into line.
 There are many reasons why they should. The task is by no means d light one, and as each power is jealously watching all the rest not much could be gained for any one of them from a common victory over the Chinese mob. That mob is doubtless arm ed with modern guns, and the task seems heavier the more it is contemplated. Rival armies, too mean rival interests, and rival contentious and rival leadership. The allied powers are too far away and too greedy and too contentious for the task in hand.
 Japan, the other hand, is close at hand with large and fully equipped army and fleet eager and ready for service She seized Tien Tsin in 1894, and got ready to march to Pekin, but was prevented by a combine formed by Russia. She is again ready, and this time Russia and the other powers are willing. The capable and sys- tematic generals of the Japanese army have studied the situation carefully, and when they set out to march to Pekin they will go there. They will not arrive in time to save the lives of foreigners but they will arrive in time to restore order and to stop the terrible scenes that are en- acted daily in that capital
 Japan will be master of the situation when she holds Pekin and the Pei-ho dis trict, and the diplomatic settlement that will follow will assuredly exalt her among the nations. This plan of settlement will afford the administration line of retreat from it's present unconstitutional position, and will beyond doubt increase the oppor- tunities for securing "the open door. Japan wants Chinese trade more than Chinese territory; and ii a mandate be given to her by the powers, Secretary Hay should proceed to congratulate himself without constitutional warrant He may be able to secure a real open door through the courage and skill and foresight of Japan
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
zes0suea~

crossed upon the loving old breast resting al last of it's glad burden of love lived and duty done. It is to love and be loved, all in alto love and be loved so long as there be stout hearts and brave; so long as there be virtue and faith; so long as there be truth and mercy, gentleness and char ity so long as love finds resting place. in human hearts! That is Gods significance of woman.
 When a man gives a woman his honest love he pays her the best tribute then with in his power to give. When he follows his love-giving with that unswerving loyalty which is conservation, and gives her gentle courtesy, tender consideration watchful concern, ever-present helpfulness, hopeful ness, ,unselfishness, deep and earnest and un- questioning trust and respect, he then has done for her all that within himself rests to do! Angels could do no more. Love lis woman's whole existence" It lis of mans life thing apart" A woman never for gets and never quite forgives a man for loving her. Whilst she really desires the deep soul-love of but one man and to but one gives herself, she joys in the loving vows of all for whom she really cares. Women love to be sought, prized cherished, loved by men. That is as life to them. The more men at their beck and call, the brighter and happier and sweeter their world. They attach a real value to love- making, for it is of real value, since it brightens and thrills, and gratifies per- fectly natural longing. The absence of lov- CTS is as wormwood and gall to proud sensitive woman, who has dreams of fire side of her own, with her own, somewhere somewhen, in the afterwhile. And that dream is the dearest in the soul of every womanly woman. For the young woman looking eagerly for the first bar of light upon the golden-glowing peaks of her own undiscovered country, the gods are best when they send her troops of lovers, lan- gushing or masterful as they be, pleading or demanding.
 Woman is the profoundest reality of life in the world. She is all of life's romance She is all that is absolutely and goriously beautiful. She is-everythng noble and good.
 Dunn vivimus, vivamus! Yea, and while we love let us love! Fare ladye, adieu! Merrie gentilman, she is thine. To each is fondly attached
 THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
Bryan and Stevenson.

The more the ticket and the platform of the Democracy are studied, the plainer it appears that the Kansas City Convention acted wisely. In a country that stretches over thousands of miles of territory ab- solute uniformity of belief is out of the question, and the best that can be done consists in a compromise over contested policies. The convention succeeded in this respect wonderfully we'll It has presented candidates that every Democrat can sup port, and it has placed them on a platform that represents the views of the National Democracy better than any proceeding platform had done.
 The excellence of the platform is best seen by comparing it with the Philadelphia platform. The latter is when closely an- alyzed, a constant plea for privilege-for the trust-creating Dingley tariff, for ship subsidies, for colonial tariffs for govern ment by carpetbaggers, for monometallism and the national banks. The Democratic platform demands equal rights for all. It strikes at all privilege. The difference is very great-so great that it is best ex- plained by Mr. Bryan's plea for the man as against the dollar.
 Besides this the one looks as steadily to- wards change in the nature of the re- public the other demands a return to the teachings and the methods and the precedents of the fathers The one looks to sovereign states, and the other to a system of colonies that can be exploited by to small regular army, while the other contemplates a great standing army and greater navy The one would make the rich richer and the poor poorer, while the other would limit privilege and restore the happy mean of the better days of the re- public. Between the two there may be a choice in the minds of milionaires, but it is difficult to see how there can be hesita- tion in the mind of the average citizen.
 No man in the republic doubts the in tegrty of MT. Bryan-not one. No one distrusts Mir Stevenson's old-time, old fashioned honesty of purpose. MT. Bryan will best attract those who dislike privilege and see dangers in unconstitutional changes, while Mr. Stevenson will attract the old-liners who recall the Democracy that made the country great and glorious. All in all the ticket and the platform will be considered in all schools of thought within the party as representative, progress sive and thoroughly American within the wise limitations of the constitution.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

From a Kansas City Dispatch
 One of the Massachusetts men contract ed bill to the amount of 50 cents in the court house tonight. He handed out S20 bill. In return he was given a half-dollar and 19 large round silver dollars. At the Midland one Tammany man fiatly refused to load himself up with this stuff. The propretor sent East for dollar bills, and when the word was passed around the rush for the greenbacks was something to be- hold
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
SOUTH ArKIoA's COAL DEPOSITS

Lionel Phillips in the Contemporary Re-
 view.
 Immense coal seams, conveniently locat- ed some of which are of excellent quality, within 10 per cent of the best Welsh steam coal, and deposits of iron, lead and other valuable minerals abound. I do not be- lieye that the most snguine of those inti- mate with the country realize what great future lies before it, or what millions of surplus people from overcrowded countries it is destined to hold. Its mineral wealth will pioneer the population required to awaken its resources, but the exhaustion of its gold and diamonds. which is scarcely probable in the next century, will not re- suit in any withdrawal of white men, who by that time will be far more numerously employed in other industries than that of mining, which is paramount today.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
THE CANDIDATE FOR vICE-PREsIDEN7

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 The Democratic party can be congratu- lated on happy result as the selection of Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson as it's candi- date for Vice President. MT. Stevenson made considerable reputation as Repre- sentative in Congress from Illinois. Dur ing Mir Cleveland's first term he was se- lected for the important position of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, in which he became well known to the entire coun- try.
 In 1892 the Democratic Convention nom- mated him for Vice President and he was elected. No man ever filled the chair of President of the Senate with greater dig nity or with more satisfaction to Senator's During all his life MT. Stevenson has been an active, working Democrat, and today possesses the good will and esteem of all factions of the party. While he has the faculty of thus standing well with men of divergent views, he is open and pro- nounced in his opinons on all public ques- tions He supported MT. Bryan Loyalty in 1896, while many of his closest friends and relatives refused to do so. He is in the prime of life, is good speaker and cam paigner and will add greatly to the streng tn of the tickt, especially in the doubtful States.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
--~-------- ELECTRICAL KITCHENS
From the New York Sun.


 In Utica, N. Y, a block of new apart ment houses has just been furnished with complete installation of electric cooking utensils in each flat The electrical kitch- en furniture consists of three round plat ters or stoves, an oven and broiler. It is declared, apparently with reason, that meats broied on the electric grdiron are much more palatabe than those charred and scorched in the ordinary way over hot coals. The most remarkable feature of these electrical kitchens Is that the stoves, etc., are simply placed on an ordinary kitchen table, and when the cooking is completed can be stored away in a con- venient closet, leaving the kitchen free of even a trace of cookery. Space is thus saved, and the kitchen can be as small as the conscience of the architect will permit because of this saving, and also because the electrical utensils give ffno heat. All of the heat is used in the cooking, and not in warming and vitiating the air of the room. The flats in Utica are also provided with electric curling tong heaters much approved by the feminine tenants
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
John A. Williams Dsad

Little Rock, Ark, July 7.--Hon. John A Williams, judge of the United States dis trict court for the Eastern district of Ar kansas, died today in Manitou Springs, Coo of apoplexy. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Harrison in 1S9G
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

To the Clark-Daly vendetta in Montana Missouri and the Croker-Hill ruction in New York. But the brethren will all get together under the new banner.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Indeed, the top of admiration; worth Whats dearest to the world! Full many a
 lady
 I have ey'd with best regard; and many a
 time
 The harmony of their tongues hath into
 bondage
 Brought my too dilgent ear: TOT several
 virtues
 Have I lik'd several women; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace owd And put it to the foil: But you, o you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creatures best.
 The most adorable of women treasure most in men the adorable quality Of gentle courtesy In the polite world civility is the badge of breeding Yet it may be &C., ouired by any man, from however rude race he spring. Even pigs may be taught tricks.
 Courtesy is the brthright of every wo- man. It is due to every man, whether ne be @ scavenger in the street or Judge upon the seat of judgment whether he be blackfaced and in tattered garments, or proud patrician in the raiment of fashion; whether he measure rum for honest man or brawler or teach the way to righteous ness: whether he be slave or master; a weary wanderer begging aims by the way side or some one 1ounging surfeited in the place of riches! Whoever is he, or where, how, when he be found, civility is due unto him as the sunlight is-as the shadow, rest, sleep.
 Rudeness is not within the right or privi- lege of any man to display toward another. And whosoever is given to rudeness is unclean of heart, is spotted of the world, is within the confines of spiritual darkness. Rudeness is born of the coarser forms of selfshness; and there never was yet selfish ness that was not rude.
 Thou shalt not say to any man in mis- chievous wantonness that he lies, or is fool: that he islanders, is base; that he is given over to wickedness, or is immoral! Thou shalt not.-save to prove myself worse than he.
 The rowdiest blackguard who is readiest to commit murder is he who hears the truth expressed that he is not a gentle man. Half the murders that stain with deeper dye the record of crime were com mitted by ruffians who were reminded that they were not gentle.
 The woman you love and the woman you do not love possess alike as of heaven
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

It is now constitutionalism against rough riderism. The spineless Mckinley is only nominally in it. s
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

If their nerves will stand the shock, Will liam Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt will this week be notified of their nomination at Philadelphia.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Hiram Maxim is indulging in dreams of wealth and blood. He invented the rapid fire gun, and he thinks the world is about to engage in it's greatest wars
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

David Bennett Hill is both a Democrat and a national figure. He is booked as MT Bryan's successor as tenant of a house in Washington.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

John Chinaman has accumulated, it is reported from St. Petersburg, 9OO,0J0 Mau- sers and St. Petersburg does not like to look into their muzzles.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

The New York Democrats could meet the desires of the national party by nominat- ing David Bennett Hill for Governor.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

The Republicans who are doing much talking over Montana Democratic politics. should remember that they have Gas Ad- dicks.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

The universal judgment is that the Kan sas City Convention did a difficult task in fine style. They fitted the platform to the candidates, and the candidates to the plat form.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

The delegates have bidden goodbye to the seventy-sx hills of Kansas City.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

The three victims of circumstances will soon be Aguinaldo, Dom Paul and Prince Tuan
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Governor Teddy is trying bravely to pull Mckinley through despite the latters nu- merous blunders
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

No one was permitted to Lemquigg the Democratic platform. It is we'll written and complete summary of the political sit uation.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Minister Wu is not exactly sure whom he represents. He may, indeed be the man without country.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Ii Hung Chang considers Canton a bet ter summer resort than Pekin.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

As between Croker and Hill the Con vention preferred the latter.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Kansas City will long remember its Fourth of July in the year 1900.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Boss Croker was opposed to Hill, but the Convention was not.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Admiral Dewey's Presidential anxeties are postponed to 1904.
The age-herald., 1900-07-08
sILyER,s THoRNY GROWN

The country is still asking, Who is Kel- lar?
The age-herald., 1900-07-08

Many words and few facts come ever the cables from China.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-12
GnAIN. PRovIsIoNs. rTc.

New York. Dec. Il.-Hlour market ouiet
aud a little stcadier on tho Improvement
~ wheat Rye nour easy. fair 10 RotI.
= Sos. 10. choice to fancy g. iSn3 g. Corn
meal dun. yellow Western. SIC
rive steady. No Western. 5sisc
harley dun. Barley matt dun. Western.
sun
Whcat-spot nrm. No rod. xs4c. op.
uona were extremely dun ali day. but
lrmly sustained Ola light offerings. steady
English cables liberal decrease in
worlds stocks and small Northwest re-
ceipts. Closed nrm IL isGiiac net advance;
sales Included No. rcd, March closed
ne. May. 7s'.c December. 7gac
Corn-spot steady. No 2 45isc. option
market Was inactive. bat steady in line
with higher cables. continued poor grad
INK or Western arrivals. the rise in
wheat smaller country acccptances and
local covering. closed steady at 10 de-
cline on December ana &c advance on
May: closed. ~. December. &c..
oats-spot hrmer. No. .. &c. options
quiet, but stcadicr
Beef firm
cut meats easy; picked bellies. sqolkc;
picked shoulders. a.Msr.
Lard easy Western steamed. 81 20. re-
hncd quiet
Pork steady.
Butter firm. creamery. isac6c. factory.
i2Ql5i.c
Cheese firm. fancy large fall made. iii.a
li'ac. fancy small fan made. lla,al2c.
Eggs firm. state and Pennsylvania. 274
3lc. Western regular packing az mark,
1031c
Potatoes quiet.
TAilow easy.
Petroleum dull
kosin quiet. strained common TO good.
$40
Turpentlnc dun.
Rice firm. ls
MolasseH steady.
Cabbage quiet
Frcighta quict cotton by steam. sec:
grain by steam. 2itd
coffee futures opened steady az a De.
cline Of 5 points and further declined s
points under local liquidation and foreign
selling In keeping with lower cables. heavy
receipts ii.eo.Oo0 20 10000 bags esti-
mated Tor both growing crops. aud an en-
tire absence Of speculative support The
close was steady ~ net loss OF . 10 10
points Total sales i77iO BAGS. Including
January 81 5.sDc. March. 6 05as To-. May.
9, i5Q5 DC apt coffee. Rio barely steady.
No. inyoia. nc. mild quict. Cordova.
9i4uLg.c.
sugar Raw steady: fair refining.
3 i5-igc. centrifugal 9s-test. 47li6c. Mo
lasses sugar, gii-i6c refined quiet