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The age-herald., 1900-02-14
THEuANNEK BANKKUpr

From the Chicago Times Herald.
 Francis P Owings, formerly interested largely in real estate matters in Chicago, lras filed the banner petition In bankrupt cy He asks relief from debts aggregating 5564 ,917. This is conceded to be the largest schedule of liabilities ever presented under a Bankruptcy act in this or any other coun- try. Owings' petition was filed in the United States district court yesterday
 The Owings building, now the Bedford, at the southeast corner of Dearborn and Adams streets, which was the first sky scraper in the west, is one of the buildings erected by Cwings. He was also interest," cd in the Lincoln theater building on North Clark street, in the property at 2257 Wa oa.a avenue. 1412 Michigan avenue and in other real estate Throughout the city. He had purchased the leasehold interest in property around town and had assumed number of mortgages, which were after ward foreclose1. Little by little he lost ali his interest in these premises. and the ''as- set column in his petition Is blank, ex- cept for sum of S5 52O which is for debts due on account and considered worthless.
 All the principal creditors are Chicago people, many of them being scheduled as being unknown to the petitioner. Some of
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
Two Winston ChurchiIIs.

Rarely indeed are two names so similar and so prominent before the public as those of the two Winston churchills. Both are sons of American women, but one is an Englishman. while the other remains an American. The difference between them is Shakespeare belongs to both; and in some other respects the difference is not very wide
 Both were cadets Both are under 30 novels. Both arc clever. The English Wins ton is a lieutenant in the army, but the American Winston, although a graduate of the United States naval academy, is no longer serving under superiors.
 Our Winston is best known, almost who'll 1y so, by his story. "Richard Carvel" historical romance that is laid on both sides of the sea, and that intermingles George Washington and Charles James Fox, thus again illustrating the common ~erftage The author of "Richard Carvel," is a Kentuckian, but of his personality not much is known.
 The English Winston is better known through his aggressive personality than through his books. His father was a famous Englishman, Lord Randolph Churchill, and his mother is well known throughout the British isles. His "River War" a story of Lord Kitcheners cam paign up the Nile valley, was well received by the public, but his "Savrola," work of historical fiction. just issued, does not promise to sell up to it's American rival. Ten years later the English Winston may write an acceptable story, but at present the public are much more interested in his adventures in South Africa He is a war correspondent, ready for any adventure from an armored train to escapes from Boer prisons. and when peace again hovers over the Victorian realm, he may be able to give the world a book that will be worthy rival of "Richard Carvel."
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
A HOTEL CORRIDOR GROUP
Bonanza Kings and Child Who VIII In-
 herit S4O,OOO,OOO

Four men, two women, and a little girl formed a group standing in the main cor rddor at the Waldorf-Astoria-
 'I doubt very much," remarked a citizen of Butte. Mont, to a New York Times re- porter, 'thak you ever saw so remarkable a group before, or that you will ever see another like tt. That little girl there is the richest lnedress in America Yet she is scarcely known in New York" In the group were Senator Thomas H. Garter. Peter Larson, Thomas Greemough, Thomas Cruise, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Larson, and Miss Mamie Cruise all of Montana
 That old man," continued the gentleman from Butte, 'fs Tom Cruise, banker and mine owner, and the little girl is his only child. They are together whenever the op- portunAty offers. Mamie never knew her mother, who died when she was an infant. She is thirteen years old now, and heiress to more than s4O,OOO ,OOO Why. the Goulds are not in it wSth l1er in the matter of wealth.
 "Tom Cruise has had remarkable career. He came ito New oYrk from Ireland forty four years ago, practically penniless. He at once went west, and in 1860 he found himself in Montana. He was continually prospecting. but not until 1870 did he strike it rich. Then, by an accident, he located claim which subsequently, developed the Drumlummon mine.
 "He had little money and to get at the gold it was necessary to dig a tunnel. He could not interest any capitalists in his un- dertaking. Only one person, Senator Car ter's sister had any faith in what he said
 She helped him occasionally. Cruise would go to his claim for three months at a time. working energetically all the time, until his provisions and money gave out. Then he would return to Helena, work awhile for others, saving every cent possible to enable him to buy more provisions He made seven trips to his claim, and persons who knew what he was doing called him Crazy Tom my Cruise. But he never despaired for a minute.
 "Finally he struck 1t rich and he found plenty willing to help him. He soon became rich, sold the mine to the ROthschilds for $6, ,0OO, 900, and married Miss Garter. ''Then he started a bank, bought more mining property, and speculated in real es- tate. Everything he touched seemed to turn into gold, and to-day he is immensely wealthy, and that Mttle girl will get all the money"
 Larson and Greenough have been very successful in mining and railroad building, and are very rich. Carter's career is well known.
 "Yes, it is most remarkable group"
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
EPIGRAMs BY A MINI-TER

From the Chicago Times Herald
 The following are from tine Rev. Dr. Frank Cranes sermon at the Hyde Park Methodist Episcopal church Sunday.
 The church's business is not to accuse sim ners nor to excuse sinners, but to save sin ners.
 The function of faith is to purify the con- science. and the function of the conscience is to purify faith.
 A purely intellectual belief is immoral; |; the true belief is the assent of the moral in Stincts.
 Conscience tells us to do right, but it does not tell Us what right is.
 The basis of right is not the Bible, but tIhe moral instincts; the Bible is. of au- thority because it truly expresses these in- stincts.
 Judtasm and Christianity have their best claim to superiority over other religions in that their principles will work well in the social state.
 Commercial morality and society's moral tty are each a compound of vice and cum ming
 An honest conscience is the best ortho- doxy; it clears away the non-essentials and will not believe simply for the merit of be- lieving.
 A maI5s faith Is true only as he obeys it.
 The object of religion is not to regulate conduct, but to develop the conscience so that conscience can regulate conduct
 Our belief in the future Is false in propor- tion as it is circumstan tially exact.
 To see the truth to believe in the truth, to obey the truth, these three hath God joined together, and let no man put assun- der.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
No one crossed the Tugela yesterday.
PAsrEBOARD ROOFING IN JAPA

The Japanese Times states that the To- kio Card and Pasteboard company, the largest in its line in Japan, is now makins a thick, tarred pasteboard as a substitute for shingles in roofing The paper shingles are in active demand, being about 50 per cent. cheaper and more easily managed than the wooden article. The Indian Textile Journal, commenting on the above, says that it is doubtful if Japan is as well off for vegetable fibrous materials as India, but Japan is enormously in advance of h. dia in the knowledge of paper-making and in utilizing it's natural resources. What is required for the production of cardboard is assupply of course fibre and a cement to hold it together India lacks neither of these although they have not yet received sufficient atten.ion. Waste sugar cane pro- duces fibre eminently suited for cardboard making, and the contained sugar is an in- gredient that could be fixed chemically as a cement. The milk of the cactus, so com mon has been used for closing letters. An antiseptc would be required to arrest fer mentation in many flores; but the sub stances used in size preparation are well known and easily procrrable in India. The uses of strong and well-made cardboard are so numerous as to offer strong in- ducement to the manufacturer. They in- clude boxes, panels, particions. roofing, ceilings. hookboards and advertisement cards of all sizes. The tanred cardboard would not suit on a roof in India on ac- count of its disposition to heat in the sun and soften. IL would also require to be pre- pared with pitch of a very high melting point to stand even the shade temperature. paper roof would be far superior to sheet
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
Unequal Railroad Facilities.

Our valued Memphis contemporary handles the S300O0 proposition very adroity and crcumspecty It carefully avoids saying pays $3O OO0 S0000 10000 1000 towards early morning train The sum does not pay may very age but the it does pay would not change the votes of a Montana legislature
 The Age Herald stands ready to pay for early morn- ing train to the Tennessee valley price equal to that which it's Memphis contemporary pays and if it could secure train at that price would show both Nashville and Memphis that Sheffield Tuscumbia and Florence still Alabama towns caring little nothing for Tennessee methods Tennessee political gibbersh The Commercial Appeal wholly mistaken when says that readers not by sentiment It that in the Alabama section of the Tennessee valley they should forget state pride and traditions sentiment in order that they may lack ga does not fit the Tennessee valley in Ala bama The people who live there Alabamians, not they intention of swapping horses when invited to do by goldbug antB Bryan newspaper
 The CommercialAppeal can drive The Age Herald out of the three Alabama cities just long it pleases the railroads favor Memphis and dscountenance Birmingham When the district that furnishes railroads than ten Memphses could furnish given railroad facilities equal those of Memphis the boased superiority of the Commercial Appeal will disappear like the mist of the morning The question the railroads that waxing fat from the tonnage of this district
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
RUSKIN,S RLuE NErKTIE

From the London Chronicle.
 Once Ruskin lunched with the Tennysons, and what the present Lord Tennyson re- corddng his visit remarked principally, was his "blue tie" The trivial personality might be forgiven even in book that set out with preface against gossip, for the mas ter's tie was in truth a masterpiece. It was of very pure blue, almost crude beside the mixing colors of modern taste, and-blues always helping each other-it emphasized the blue of MT. Ruskin's eye, in any case the bluest eye in England. These ties were of special manufacture, the little bow being attached ito an old-fashioned stock; and one or two of them are treasured by friends as relics. just as the red caps of cardinals are sometimes to be found under glass eases tn favored households abroad.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
COUNTING THE COS [

By Caroline Leidigh.
 To head Padereswsk play-just that and nothing more-costs a dollar. It is too much to pay, too much for those into whose needless ears God pours his match less music, the song of bird and breeze and brook, the fairy dance of sleet against the pane, the great majestic dirge of ocean all free and all, alasl unheard. Ah,> yes! ! For these, it is too much to pay.
 To hear Paderewsfi play, and to appre- ciate his perfect art, costs years of patient, unremitting toll. Years of baff1ed hopes and urfulfiled desires, of deathless longing for prize forever unattained, of cease less and vain-striving to urge mere talent to goal that is for genius alone. All this it costs to see another take the longed for prize and reach the shining goal on winged feet-to see and know that 1t is just. Yet there are few who pay that grudge the price.
 To hear Paderewski play and to compre- bend the deepest meaning of. sC1is music costs-a life of pain. Go ask of hffn. who through fire of temptation, flood of mis- fortune and tempest of despair, is led by the masters touch into the very living presence of the masters soul there for one holy hour to uhro5 with that great soui's mighty passions. To know the keen- est joys, the fondest yearnings the Sdeep- est woes, the darkest despair and the most sacred sorrows of the Great Almighty Gods creation, the soul of genius.s Ask ye. Inquire ye! Return again and ask, oh And F; dare not answer. "'Tis too much to pay"
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
A BALLAD or VEGETABLES

From the Philadelphia Record. = A potato went cut on a mash
 And sought an onion bed; That's pie for mel ooserevd the squasf
 And aE the beets turned red. "Go 'way" the onion. weeping, cried;
 Your love l cannot be; TEe pumpkin be your lawful bride
 You cantaloupe With me- But onward still the tulber came,
 And lay down at her feet; You caulifiower lby any name
 And it wfll smell as wheat; And I, too am an early rose,
 And you I've come to see; So don't turnLp your lovely nose,
 But spinachat with me-" "I do not carrot all to wed, So go, sir, if you please!"
 And lettuce, pray, have peas! Go, think that you have never seen Myself, or smiled my sigh; Too long maiden have been
 For fayors in your rye!' "Ah, spare cuss!" the tuber prayed; My cherryshed bride you'll be; You are the only weeping maid
 That's currant now with me!' And as the willy tuIber spoke
 He caught her by surprise, And, giving her an artichoke,
 Deyoured her with his eyes.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
"rHE CLEAR VISION"
Whittier.

Whittier. l did but dream! I never knew
 What charms our sternest season wore, Was never yet the sky so blue,
 Was never earth so white before. Till now I never saw the glow Of sunset on yon hills of snow, And never learned the bough's designs Of beauty in its leafiess lines. Did ever such morning break
 As that my Eastern windows see? Did ever such a moonlight take
 Weird photographs of shrub and tree? Rang ever bells so wild and fleet The music of the winter street? Was ever yet sound by half So merry as yon schoolboy's laugh? o Earth! with gladness overfrought.
 No added charm thy face hath found: Within my heart the change is wrought.
 My footsteps make enchanted ground.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A man who doesn't talk too much is mystery: a woman who doesn't talk too much is a freak.
 Reason would probably be about as mucn use to a woman the fur tail she carries around on the side of her muff
 Every woman claims that she spends so much time with the hired girl that she hasn't time to attend to her social duties"
 It always makes a fat woman mad in street car when a thin, scrawny woman looks at her sort of funny right after she has crossed her legs.
 There is only one thing more uncomfort- able than to have a man coming at you to pay him money you owe him, and that IS to have him going around telling every one else you owe money to that you've paid him.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
Rioting in Martiniaue

Fort de France. Martinique. February 13. The riotous disturbances in this island continue A house was burned yesterday at Deschampes and today there were risings at several points. A mob of 1,2OO rioters invaded LaMentin and LaSoudor, where they obstructed the thoroughfares to such an extent that traverels were barely able to pass when accompanied by gen. darmes. Some 300 rioters occupy Morine pavilion and there is an uprising at Vierve Salee which has no troops to protect it. numerous band of rioters has assembled at the Ladilop Iron works four kilometers from here.
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In Keeping With His Career

In one sense, the manner of his death was quite worthy in another sense quite unworthy, of his character His was not the spirit to have borne with bad wound which would have erfeebled him for life. For major-general to be pottedN in an ex- change of shots for which skirmfsh is too disnihed name is appalling to the msi- tary mind. For La wton Ito fall while he was passing along his firing line doing the work of a lieutenant was wholly in keep ing with Lawton's career. He died with out knowing he was a brigadier in the reg uar service but with the satisfaction of knowing that another town of those he rad taken Was being garrisoned.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
BATTLE HOUSE SOLD
Famous Old Hotel Sold to a New Or
 leans Man

Mobile. Ala, February 13.-The half cen- tury old Battle house. the leading hotel in the south in dts day, was sold today by the Battle House company to Anthony Wizard, of New Orleans, a check for one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars covering the transaction. P. D. Barer, the present manager. signed lease of the hotel today for three years. The hotel will be practically rebuilt inside, and brought up to modern requirements. the new owner ex- pecting to spend as much in Improvements at the hotel cost him.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
MACIsUM
ouisyille Courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 Exit-Consu Macrum is back, and says that just as soon as he gets his breath he will talk. There is no need to hurry, and as as little need for him to talk at all. His case is pretty well understood already; and the best service that Macrum can do himself is to do ail he can to help Ameri- cans forget him.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
CREMATION IN NORWAY

From the New York Post.
 Norway has a law dealing with crema- tion. According to the act, every person over 15 years of age can be cremated after death if he or she has made a declaration in the presence of two witnesses. For those under 15 a declaration on the part of the parents is necessary.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
ALESsON FOR OTHERS

From the Sumter County Sentinel
 The University lands were sold at private sale. They were not put up and sold in broad daylight, thus convincing the people that their interests were best subserved. There is lesson to be learned from the sale of those University lands.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
STRANGE OVERSIGHT

From the Chicago Record Qnd)
 Montana doesn't seem to have made any serious attempt to put in the penitentiary those members of the legislature who couldn't go to their rooms without finding money.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
TOO MUCH ON HIS HANDS

From the Chicago News.
 It is rumored that John D. Rockefeller is to retire from the perngicous activities of the Standard Oil trust in order that he may have more time for standing off pr. Harper.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14
INDEFINITELY POSTPONED

St. Paul Pioneer Press
 By the way, what has become of that Fe- nian raid into Canada? The space writers are losing a golden opportunity.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

A chance to directly vote for candidates for governor and for senator is what the people of Jefferson county demand.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

The Dewey arch fund will never be built by New York's Astors and Vanderbits, who are strict accumulationists of the Rus sell Sage school.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

The rapid spreading of civilization is shown in the use of smokeless powder by mountain assassins who cannot read and write, but who can shoot.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

The empress dowager of China is not a suffragist and the only club she is famil- far with is unorganized.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

Some seek gold by going to Cape Nome. while others seek it by running for the leg islature in Montana.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

The only Addicks has reappeared. He desires to take the place that Clark will soon vacate.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

Honolulu is locking the stable door too late. The plague came in before its pure water supply did
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

Ex-Governor Bob Taylor is very versatile. being at once a fiddler, lecturer and book maker
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

MT. Prick is probably trying to break his late partners monopoly of the library busi- ness.
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iron as a protection against the sun, and paper panels with an embossed device on them would offer a very neat, light and substantial filling as panels for screens.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

Some high-tariff booty will be disbursed among the lawyers in the Frick-Carnegie row.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

The esteemed MT. Hanna is Ohio's favor ite son, and Colonel Chinn is Kentucky's.
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Could Not Keen Out of the Fight

1t was as hard for him to keep out of the thick of the fighting as for some small boys to keep out of mischief. When the bullets were unusually thick he would take off his white helmet and hold it between his two hands as if ne was trying to dis cover why it attracted them. His staff begged him again and again to discard thts helmet, which made him prominent -he was always standing or on horse back-as the churchsteepie in the landscape of town viewed from a distance. He only laughed and said:
 Its very comfortable Keeps my head cool. Bought it at Suez for a dollar and a half. Bargain, wasn't it?''
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

Sea power is the only possible protection of the Nicaragua canal.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

Business on the Tugela justifies the start ing of penny ferry line
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

Mir. Macrum had. 1t seems, too active nerves, but not enough nerve.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

The mystery is no longer mysterious Great Macrum is an idealst.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

Andrew Carnegie desires less Frick-tion in his Pittsburg business, that's all.
The age-herald., 1900-02-14

The valued Hanna has not succeeded ir clustering s1OO,OOO out of Philadelphia.
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shown in the use of smokeless powder by mountain assassins who cannot read and write, but who can shoot.
 The Dewey arch fund will never be built by New York's Astors and Vanderbits, who are strict accumulationists of the Rus sell Sage school.
 A chance to directly vote for candidates for governor and for senator is what the people of Jefferson county demand. 
 The empress dowager of China is not suffragist, and the only club she is fami- far with is unorganized.
 Some seek gold by going to Cape Nome. while others seek it by running for the leg islature in Montana.
 Honolulu is locking the stable door too late. The plague came in before its pure water supply did.
 The only Addicks has reappeared. He desires to take the place that Clark will soon vacate.
 Ex-Governor Bob Taylor is very versatile. being at once a fiddler, lecturer and book maker.
 MT. Prick is probably trying to break his late partners monopoly of the library busi- ness.
 Some high-tariff booty will be disbursed among the lawyers in the Frick-Carnegie row.
 The esteemed MT. Hanna is Ohio's favor ite son, and Colonel Chinn is Kentuckys. The valued Hanna has not succeeded in clustering s1OO,OOO out of Philadelphia.
 Andrew Carnegie desires less Frick-tion in his Pittsburg business, that's all.
 Even Colonel Chinn considers the con cealed weapon habit cowardy.  The mystery is no longer mysterious. Great Macrum is an idealist.  Mir Macrum had. 1t seems, too active nerves, but not enough nerve.
 ---- Business on the Tugela justifies the start ing of penny ferry line.
 Sea power is the only possible protection of the Nicaragua canal.
 
 The British are using the Tugela accom- ing and a-gwine.
 
 Edward Everett Hale's cat harbor shames insomnia.
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Even Colonel Chinn considers the con cealed weapon habit cowardly.