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The age-herald., 1900-06-15
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
DOubIinq the Navy.

The Navy Department acting under the authorizations of Congress, is preparing to build five battleships costing $S,6OO,Ooo each, six cruisers at $4,25O,OOO each, and three Olympias at $2, 2,SO0,OOO each. These ships will practically double the fighting power of the navy, for they are each and all to be the most formidable vessels of their respective classes.
 The five battleships are each to have 16,- coo tons displacement making them much heavier, as well as 100 feet longer than the Oregon Each of them will be able to han dle two Oregons, strong as that vessel is, and they will be able to outsail the Oregon by at least three knots an hour. These bat tleshps will resemble the Pennsylvania, but they will be as formidable as any ships in the world, as strong in every respect as marine architects and builders can make them.
 In all the world there cannot now be found such cruisers as Congress has au- thorized. Each of the six is to have a dis placement of 14OOO tons, twenty-three knots speed and 5000 knots steaming radius. Each will have three times the fighting power of the Brooklyn, and each will be armored from stem to stern
 The three protected cruisers of the Olym- pia class will in fact be about twice the size of the Olympia, while preserving the best features of that vessel Each of the three will be able to carry enough coal for steaming three times across the Atlantic, and the speed of each will be twenty-three knots.
 That such vessels can be planned and built in this country is as great credit to all Americans as their operation afterwards will be in war or peace.
 There is no reason why the keels of all these vessels should not be laid this year, and all can be completed and placed in commission in 1902. The American navy will then be strong enough to be a factor in the control of the seas, and no nation will be inclined then to needlessy tread on Uncle Sans corns.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
NEW COTTON MILLS OF 1900

From the Boston Globe.
 Textile manufacturing in the Southland continues it's remarkable growth. The in- crease of the price of raw cotton to nearly 10 cents pound added $200,0O0,000 to the wealth of that section of this country in a. single season. New mills have been
 erected rapidly, the present year represent ing a partial investment of the amassed
 capital. The old factories are making
 money.
 Mr.. J. A. Stewart says in the current
 number of the Scientific American: "Al- though healthy competition may arise, no serious antagonism is anticipated be- tween the industrial interests of the North and South. The outcome will undoubtedly simply be that the entrance of the South into the arena of cotton manufacturing will
 bring about readjustment of producing centers. It is aptly pointed out that as
 our textile manufacturing grows, it is fast
 becoming separated into distinct classes, each class starting about some special place. Thus Fall River leads in the manu- facture of prints. Providence is the center of the worsted industry. New Bedford sets
 the standard in finer white cottons, and Lowell in coarser goods. New England is
 coming year by year as whole to finer counts. As long as TO other part of the United States was engaged in manufactur- ing coarser goods, New England retained her grasp in that field, leaving the finer makes to foreign looms. But each year sees finer product from New England looms. Climatic advantages over the South in the way of the essential degree of hu- | midity will always be in favor of New England"
 Only one-thrd of the cotton grown in this country has hitherto been used here. We have been shipping 5000 100000 pounds
 raw cotton annually at from to cents a
 pound when we might have been exporting
 manufactured products worth 15 to 25 cents
 a pound. With commercial expansion in
 the air. Yankeeland and Dixleland should fight shoulder to shoulder, advancing to the capture of the textile markets of the
 world. Americans, united are invincible in
 the arts of peace as we'll as those of war.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
Campaign of 1900.

Next week the Republicans will formally and fully inaugurate their campaign, and the Democrats will follow suit about two weeks later. The nominees of the two parties are already named, and the old battle of 1896 is to be fought over, so far as nominees are concerned.
 But new issues have come in. The Re- publicans will exhort all to stand by the President, but not his scapegoats-to sup port expansion, Porto Ricoism, the gold and national bank bill, and Dingleyism above all else. Greed and glory will be couched in the Philadelphia platform in hgh-sounding phrases, but those phrases need not, and probably will not, mislead any one.
 The Democrats will adhere to the money of the Constitution, while they attack in downright earnestness the trusts and mili- tarism. They will assail the policy that promised freedom and independence to Cuba and yet withholds both; they will assail colonialism as displayed in Porto Rico, and they will urge that the destruc- ton of the Filipino republic was and is unwarranted. They will demand return to the basic principles of the republic. And above all else they will demand a suppress sion of the trusts which, based on the Dngley tariff, are over-taxing consumers, destroying competition, and creating un- told suffering among employees.
 It Is impossible to believe that a majority of the people have become so changed and corrupted that they will again support party that, led by MT. Hanna, draws its campaign resources from trusts and mo- nopoles-that is known to be in close alliance with the leading plutocratic in- fuences of the country-that seeks to fasten colonialism and Dingleyism upon the country, either of which is wide, dan- gerous and expensive departure from the republic of one hundred years ago. It is. as Mr. Lincoln once said, impossible to fool all the people all the time, and it Is scarcely conceivable that a majority of the people will vote to keep MT. Mckinley in the White House four years more, when they can put in it man who stands for the masses instead of the classes who believes in the republic of Washington and and Hanna.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
Japan and Russia.

All the world feels that Japan and Rus struggles that no peace conference can render avoidable will follow. Russia de- slres to enlarge her half-frozen Siberia by the control, if not annexation of Manchuria and Korea, and Japan, possessing suzerain rights in nearby Korea and a grudgc against Russia for her action at the end of the Chinese war, will fight to the death be- fore she will permit Russia to dominate Korea or grasp an undue proportion of China.
 On Japan's part 1t is a fight for national road is completed all the military power
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
SEEN THINGS.

By Eugene Field. l aint afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs,
 or worms, mice An thing at girls are skeered uv I think
 awful nice! I'm pretty brave, I guess; an yet hate
 to go to bed. For, when I'm tucked up warm an snug
 and when my prayers are said, Mother tells me Happy dreamsr and
 takes away the light, An leaves me lyin' all alone an seein' things at night! Sometimes they're in the corner, some
 times they're by the door, Sometimes they're all a-standin' in the
 middle uv the floor; Sometimes they are a-sitting down, some-
 times they're walkin' round So softly and so creepylike they never
 make a sound! Sometimes they are as black ink an other times they're white But the color aint no difference when you see things at night! Once I licked feller at had just moved
 on our street, An father sent me up to bed without
 bite to eat. I woke up in the dark an saw things
 standin' in a row. A-lookin at me cross-eyed an p'intin' al
 me-soi Oh, my I wuz so skeered that time ]
 never sep a mite It's almost alluz when I'm bad I SCI
 things at night! Lucky things I ain't a girl, or I'd be
 skeered to death! Bein' I'm boy, I duck my head an hold
 my breath; An I am, oh, so sorry, I'm d naughty
 boy, an then I promise to be better an I say my
 prayers agin! Gran'ma, tells me that's the only way to
 make 1t right When a feller has been wicked and sees
 things at night! An so when other naughty boys would
 coax me into sin, I try to skwush the tempter's voice 'at
 urges me within, An when they's pie for supper, cakes
 ats big nice, I want to-but do not pass my plate fir
 them things twice! No, ruther let starvation wipe me slowly
 out O sight Than l should keep a-livin' an seein'
 things at night.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
THE NEsTOK OF THE SENATE

From the Boston Herald.
 The venerable James w. Bradbury of Maine has now scored his 9Sth birthday, which is a remarkable old age, even for the oldest living ex-senator of the United States The hope is expressed that he may live to round the, century mark, but it is doubtful if it is realized He has been in very feeble state of health for some time past and his life has been despaired of several times of late. It is scarcely to be wondered at that the infirmities of old age have laid a heavy hand on a contem- porary of Longfellow and Hawthorne at Bowdoin College, and of Webster and Clay and Calhoun in the United States Senate.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
Bars After the August Election.

The union Springs Herald cordially sup ports MT. Pettus' resolutions, which aim to make Democrats the judge of Democratic nominees by shutting out of the party's primaries and conventions those who re- | fuse to support it's nominees at the polls The sentiment of the Herald is the senti- ment of the Democratic press of the State, with scarcely an exception. In the words of the Herald those unprincipled voters who have dined at the Democratic board and then smitten the host in the back under the cover of darkness, are to be excluded if they refuse to support Demo- cratic nominees in August,
 Mir Pettus' resolutions are more than offer forgiveness and full restoration to the historic party of the State to all who vote for Democratic nominees, both State and county, in the August elections. The resolutions were adopted by the State Executive Committee, containing repre- sentatives from every Congressional dis trict, and they are party law, and will remain party law until they are repealed
 An. efficient party cannot be at loose ends. Loyalty and consistency and truth must underlie any efficient party, and the State Executive Committee has acted wisely in shutting out the in-and-outers after one more trial of them. They said that Barker and Donnelly supporters have no right to consider themselves Demo- crats. They have said that the man who Populist or Prohibition ticket, State or County, is not Democrat. And they have said that after the August election only Democrats will be recognized in Demo- cratic primaries and conventions. The party, in other words is to be compacted and solidified, instead of being a fabby association of all sorts of men.
 MT. Pettus and his associates have left the bars down until the August election, thus permitting all recalcitrants to re- turn and any rule more liberal than that would simply invite Reorganization and anarchy. A Democrat it should be under stood, is a Democrat He is not Popu- list, middle-of- the-roader a Prohibition ist or an United Christian; and the test will be the votes he casts in August. Let the rule be enforced, for it is both a good and a liberal rule.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
 The proper name of Pekin is Shun-Tien- Flu; it's literary name, Yen. In China it is referred to by the loyal as the Purple For bidden City" The royal palaces are there. It has been the capital of the empire since the beginning of the fifteenth century The English and French forces entered 1t in 1860. The population is variously estimated at from 5OO,OOO to 1,O0O,0O0 No official cen- sus has ever been taken. The resident at mosphere is distinctly hostile to all for eignerS
The age-herald., 1900-06-15

most of his time there. not coming to the city except when really necessary.
 Supernumerary Judge A. H. Aston was in town yesterday on the way to his home in Barbour, though he will stop in Mont gomery to attend the meeting of the State Bar Association. He has been holding the Circuit Court of Blount County.
 Captain w. N. Knight of Greensboro was in town yesterday.
 Sneak thieves are growing bolder," said Leonard Hobart. the popular young clerk at the Morris Hotel. ''The audacity of chicken thieves is extraordinary, as fre- quent stories in the newspapers go to prove. I know a family who have fancy for raising fine chickens The fowls can be kept to the fowl-house of nights; they fly up in the trees and onto the fences. The other night the place was raided by the boldest rascal in the valley. He made for some chickens that were roasting in sight of side porch on which couple Of young lovers were sitting, looking at the moonlight and listening to the soft voices of the night. The thief began his work by picking out the tender frying size chick ems. working coolly and carefully in full view of the young folk on the porch. The young man shouted to him and threatened to shoot. You go on with your loving-T m after chickens, not you! answered the thief. The young man was paralyzed with anger and couldn't move."
 
 A chi ,otn hac begun the publication of the autobiography of the late Richard Malcolm Johnston, and it is sure to arouse wide public interest Everybody in Birmingham will feel some thing of a personal interest in the auto biography and will look with eagerness for its publication in book form; for MT. John ston became personally we'll known and admired here during his occasional visits to his son, MT. Richard F. Johnston. His charming literary work is the common heritage of the American people.
 Horace Silsby of Seneca Falls, New York, is at the Morris
 Murphy Young bas returned from Lous- vile.
 E. Parker or London, Ky, and 5. E. Hirscher of Montgomery are at the Morris.
 
 Sheriff 'Brien went to North Alabama yesterday.
 Congressman John Lawson Burnett of the Seventh district is at the Morris.
 
 Major David M. Scott of Selma is at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
Wants Gocbel Election Law Repealed

Louisville, Ky, June H-In an extra edition of the Evening Post (anti-Goebel DemocraD declares w. J. Bryan has writ ten to Senator J. S. C. Blackburn advising that the Goebel election law be repealed When asked about the matter Senator Blackburn said:
 q have received several letters from Mr. Bryan, but he has not outlined any specific line of proceedure."
 "Is it not likely that such steps will be taken at the Democratic convention?"
 Senator Blackburn smiled and said:
 That will come out later"
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
Iniunction Against Miners

Little Rock, Ark June 4.-Federal Judge Williams granted temporary in junction today restraining union coal miners and citizens of Russellville from interfering with imported negro labor in the coal mines. At a recent mass meeting in Russellvile a committee was appointed to induce the negro miners to leave the community The mine operators repre- scented to Judge Williams that they were thus deterred from filling their orders in other states, thereby interfering with in- terState commerce.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
THE GROWING INDUSTRIAL SOUTH

From the New York Sun.
 The rapidity with which capital is pour | ing into southern manufactures is enough to make the professional Bryantes and | coddlers of calamity in that region sniff and groan. The Manufacturers Review recounts some of the industrial improve l ments projected in the last two weeks. In Georgia and South Carolina new cotton
 mills and additions to old ones and the development of water power are the usual story. Cotton mills to cost from $40,000 to $500 900 are to be erected in these states, in which small mills have been paying enor- nous profits In Georgia at least, much of the capital for the new enterprises | comes from the Crackers themselves. | Banks are springing up in the smaller | towns. In Greenwood, a Palmetto village, a fire insurance company with capital of S100, 900 has been organized From time to time we read of New England cotton man. ufacturers who are going to move to the | South.
 | In Tennessee a $500,00O cotton mill is to l be built in Chattanooga and disused mill | in Memphis is to be set to work. Coal mines are opening, coke ovens and fur | naces are building. Same story in Ala | bama, where the Birmingham district is booming vigorously. Iron, steel and cotton
 mills all busy and new ones coming. So 1t
 goes throughout the South. Lumber mills,
 sawmills, oil mills sugar mills-mills of all sorts, grinding or getting ready to grind. Technically, the Mississippians abominate trusts, but they show no horror at the plan of a cotton seed oil combina-
 ton to build a s2OOOOO refinery in one of their towns. In Texas, as any reader of | its country weekes knows, every place that thinks even tolerably well of itself is bowling for a mill. Cotton mills and oil mills are shooting up. In spite of their
 rema rkable Legislatures the dweers be- heath the Lone Star are willing to take all the root of all evil they can grub up.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
He is q Good Teacher

Talladega Home: H. J. Willingham, president of Lineville College for seven years, has been elected president of the Fifth District school at Wetumpka. In our opinion no better selection could have been made for the Wetumpka school. Pro- lessor Willingham is a thorough teacher, fine organizer and splendidly equipped for all work in the school room. During his term as president of Lineville College he gave complete satisfaction and his resignation was accepted with profound regrets by the trustees and patrons. He will do work at Wetumpka for the cause of education.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
 

From the New York Press.
 The only good imitation of love is the real thing.
 The pen is mightier than the sword, but 1t was a sword that nibbed the first goose quill
 The average woman has an idea that the Government ought to let her send anything by mail from jelly roll to a guinea pig.
 A woman is generally pretty happy dur ing the first hour or so that she tries to buy a new hat that looks well on her hus- band.
 Not even @ homeless cat in back alley looks as mean and draggly as a girl that and brown stockings on.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
Heavy Rain Fell at Memphis

Memphis, Tenn, June 14.-The rainfall in Memphis and vicinity for the period be- ginning last night at 12 o'clock and ending today at ? p. m., was a record-breaker, the precipitation being 5.4 inches. The low dis tricts of the city suffered considerable loss. Reports from Mississippi, Arkansas and Western Tennessee state that the rainfall has been unusual for this season of the year, and the potato crops have been seriously damaged.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
WITH THE EDITORS
 OF THE STATE PRESS
Lovers in Junetime

Lovers in Junetime
 Camden Progress: June is quite a popu- lar month for marrying this season.
 Jasper Eagle: It is rumored that we will have a wedding in town soon. We are betting on our popular lightning singer Our sweet sixteens' enjoy picnics every week.
 Evergreen Courant: June always bfings marriages It seems inevitable that Ever green will have its share. We have sharp ened our pencil for some early write-ups. Listen for the wedding bells
 Jasper Eagle: The couple by this time had reached the probate office and had Judge Shepherd engaged in issuing a license. They gave their names as J. w. Vincent and M. E. Chitwood The judge made inquiry to their age, being always careful that the contracting parties are of legal age. The man said his age was 40 and that his blushing bride -to-be was 47, but that he hardly thought she was quite that old. He said he had been widower for seven years and that she had worn the weeds of widowhood for fourteen years These explanations seeming satisfactory to the judge that they had a legal right to marry, the license was issued and the judge neatly and quickly pronounced them man and wife and they departed as happy and contented as a pair of doves sitting on a swinging limb,
 Bodine and George Manasco were in Kings Saturday. I think their best girls live near here. Both wore very broad smiles
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
MYSTERY THAT WILL LAST CENTURY

Wash. Cor. of the Chicago Tribune.
 Locked securely away in the big safe which is such a conspicuous feature of the office of the Librarian of Congress is a package which ranks in mystery with 'The Man of the Iron Mask" It required the efforts of four able-boded men to place the package in its present location, and the quartet remarked at the time that it was the heaviest job they had ever handled. This package, whatever it con- tains, is donation to the government by a noted collector of curios, the only stipu- lation accompanying the gift being that it should not be opened until the close of the twentieth century, or 100 years hence.
 A Congressional Committee composed of members of both Houses, whose duties are to look after the affairs of the library ac cepted the gift and its proviso and turned the bulky package over to Librarian Put nam for safekeeping. Securely sealed and otherwise protected against prying eyes of those who might seek to unravel this mys- tery, the wishes of the donor will be sacredy respected, at least so far as this generation of custodans may be cerned.
 Inscribed upon the covering is the date upon which the package was received, to- gether with the names of Librarian Put nam and Chief Clerk Alvord, both of whom attest that its contents un- known even to themselves.
 Naturally enough, however, the mys- terious parcel has given rise to all manner of conjectures as to it's contents the most generally accepted theories being that 1t is some priceless manuscript or else an an- cient stone, contemporaneous with the obelisk brought from Egypt several years ago by Commander Gorringe for exhibi- ton at the Metropolitan Museum in Gen. tral Park, New York.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
Some of the Editors

Guntersville Democrat: The Gadsden Times-News advertises for a man to act as local editor who has had experience, who is not lazy, and does not drink intoxi- cants. There is always a demand for men of this kind in all lines of employment
 Talladega Home: Isaac l.. Balew, editor of the Ashland Standard, was in Talladega last week. MT. Ballew is giving the people of Clay County good paper and should receive liberal support.
 Ben P. Hunt in Huntsville Post: The condition of my health demands my re- tirement for some months, at least, from active work on the Post. I have leased the plant and newspaper to Edwin R. Jor- dan and Roy O'Neal, who assumes charge with this issue. They have engaged MT. Robert H. Watkins as editor. The policy of the Post, I assured, will continue as established.
 Camden Era R. E. Loveless, Esq, one of the leading citizens of Uniontown Ala. and editor of the Canebrake Herald was a welcome visitor to our city last Wednes- day. His many friends were glad to see him.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15
Four Little lStOries
Carrollton News: Just to fill out thi column.

Carrollton News: Just to fill out this column.
 Jasper Eagle Ed Smith, little son of our friend Dick Smith, is the champion fisherman so far as we have heard this year. He landed 167 perch in a few hours last Friday out of Tanyard creek
 Tuscaloosa Times: The city is filling up with visitors to commencement. The uni versity is the Mecca for a host of beautiful young women and gallant young men from all over the state.
 Anniston Hot Blast Wheat is up, and just as the south is harvesting big crop too. The south will strike it yet, especially if she keeps on raising wheat, hog and hominy; with cotton and iron on the side.
The age-herald., 1900-06-15

President Mckinley has been asked by his lican machine, which is as much alike the Republican machine of any other Southern state as two peas
The age-herald., 1900-06-15

Convention after convention Is rolling up MT. Bryan's unanimous vote, but the con- ventions are not a unit when it comes to the selection of a running mate