davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
NED BRACES SUNDAY CHAT.

The miners should be conservative in their demands. Many of them have been asso- ciated with the companies operating the mines and furnaces for ten years, or more They know what the companies have done and they know what they are earning to- day. Both sides should be conservative with one another, and only ask that which is just and right If the conservative men in the miners convention control, there will be no strike; otherwise, fear much injury to the Birmingham district.
 There is nothing capital seeking invest ment so fears as a section stirred up by virtue of turmoil existing between opera tives and operators.
 General Joe Wheeler has gone to Chicago to assume his duties under his new ap pontment in the regular army. His duties in the regular army, however, will be brief. He will go upon the retired list in few months. Then the Little General" will again desire political honors. I hear from Washington that he expects to be candi- date for the United States Senate to suc- ceed Senator Pettus. Of course, Senator Pettus will be a candidate to succeed him. self; and l hear Congressman John H Bankhead will also be in the race. So we are to have another lively Senatorial con test in Alabama, beginning. next year.
 
 Speaking of politics, there seems to be tidal wave of sentiment sweeping through out this broad land within the past week in favor of making David Bennett Hill the
 
 cratic ticket to be nominated in Kansas City ten days hence. The New York Dem ocrats say that Hill Is the only man who can carry New York against the Republi- can ticket with Roosevelt on it. The ques- tion is, will Hill accept the nomination? Naturally, he might not desire it, but he cannot decline if it be thrust upon him.
 Undoubtedly, Bryan and Hill would make a strong ticket in both the West and East !; and it being manifest that the Democrats must lose some of the Western states car ried four years ago, it is necessary to carry New York. There are several prospective candidates from New York, all of whom are possessed of much political strength, but up to date Hill is undoubtedly the strongest man mentioned Indeed, it is ad- mitted on all sides that Hill can poll more votes than any other Democrat in New York.
 
 From the latest telegrams, it would seem that an actual state of war exists in China. Chow Tzchi, the Chinese consul at New York, in an interview on the situation, thinks that the diplomatic corps in Pekin will be found safe. When asked about the missionaries, he said:
 I'm afraid good many missionaries
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

regret to see this gas question up again | in Birmingham. I have decided views upon it-so decided, indeed, that by expressing 1 them I make enemies, and because of in- sistence upon dollar gas there are those who assert that such means opposition to all corporate interests and an effort to keep out corporate investments Far from it. Franchises granted by the public of public rights for the supply of necessities to the public should. in a measure, be reg ulated by the public That regulation should. however, be based upon legiti- mate profit to the investors in any concern owning a public franchise.
 Now I recognize it only to be natural on the part of the owners of the Birmingham Gas Company to get a long time contract with the city on the best possible terms Of course they want high price and great profits On the other hand the citizens want a low price, and they are as much en- titled to dollar gas as are the citizens of Atlanta. Gas can be made cheaper here than in Atlanta or Knoxville, both having dollar gas because coal is cheaper. It is sold at a good profit for dollar a thous-
 
 not so here? Aldermen who bind the city to higher price can but make themselves obnoxious to the people they represent.
 
 Mayor Drennen expresses himself in favor of buying the gas plant for s650OO0. I un- derstand the owners of the gas plant are willing to take s650,OO0 of per cent Bir- mingham bonds for the present plant. It would make fixed charge from the city of $32500 annually in interest. I hear the | Gas Company made 5iO0O,OOO cubic feet of gas last year; that they sold one-sixth of this as fuel gas at $1.00 per thousand, re- | alizing on the same 5000 and they realized from the remainder s69 GOO, making a gross | income of $72,000. The peculiar part of this | statement is that the Gas Company only made 54,000,000 cubic feet of gas last year. | If the price for gas were lower it would | seem that at least twice this amount would | have been consumed.
 It might be well for the city to own it's | own gas plant, and, on the other hand, it | is the experience of many cities in this country that a municipality cannot operate a plant of this character as cheaply as a private corporation. Certain it is, however, that Birmingham is right now entitled to dollar gas.
 There seems to be a fear abroad in Bir- mingham that the mine owners in this dis trict and the coal operatives will fail to agree, and that strike will be the result. A strike at this time would play havoc with the business interests of Birmingham. And I can see no good to come out of it for either the operative or the operator
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
ze)6saza
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

of flight with luminous wings, amongst the flowers that blossom upon the confines of chldhoods garden of gladness. She lives to love and loves to live in the fragrant morning time that makes for the hour which calls for larger love for herself, larger hopes, the larger fruitage of the noontide of virtue and devotion. With the uncounted riches, the incalcuable wealth of youth, her little tawny head strikes the stars while the flowers kiss her little feet. In either little hand she rolls a rainbow, and in her little heart is writ every pure promise of maiden ambition. Lithe, lissome, swaying, laughing, fair Catherine is reg nant in a thousand hearts, the sovereign of a thousand hopes, the prayer of a thousand petitioners!
 At worship last Sunday was little boy with stout, bare, brown legs, round, freck- led face that was a trifle soiled, tangled hair and with soiled garments. It was evident that after he left his mother to an- swer the call of prayer, he played by the wayside and lost his Sunday neatness. But perhaps he was no worse for that. As he lounged in his pew high up towards the high altar, close to where pray the yelled Sisters. haidmaidens of Faith, he looked the model boy, the ideal of all ones fancies of boyhood without burden. He carried large prayer book, which he kept open at the well-worn familiar places, and whilst his boyish eyes turned now and then, con- trary to his teaching, he still attended to his pious duties, knelt or stood and fol- lowed the words of the father When he prayed his eyes could scarce reach above the pew in front to the crown of thorns on the great crucifX, but he did look and his little heart was filled with thanksgiving for blessings past and prayers for blessings to come. His great round eyes wandered, but his perfect rogush little lips hailed the Mother and appealed to the Son. Very pa- thetic, very touching very beautiful was the sturdy little figure kneeling in adora- ton of that which the blessedest of all human faith had taught him to adore. The dim light the atmosphere of incense, tho soft, resonant. fatherly tones of the sancti- fled teacher, and the subdued notes of praise-music, soothed him infinitely, and by and by the little boy slumbered with open eyes. It may not have been proper, and it was sinful of him who watched to watch; but emotions were stirred that made for better life, soul was moved to better purposes. The restless boy at rest was preaching of infinite tenderness, proclaim ing another child who marked the way of the resurrection and the life.
 The little boy moved as if in happy dream. The book lay open upon his legs that were restful at last His open left hand rested at Our Father his right lay listless at his side. THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
REPUBLICAN PARTY

From the New York Evening Post
 Today the party is strong where it was weak forty-four years ago, and weak where it was then strong. It has on it sside an overwhelming proportion of the capital of the United States. Diverted from its orig nal purpose of protecting humanity into protecting class interests, 1t became long ago the champion and the favorite of those powerful interests. On the ether hand, it has lost its old hold upon the conscience and enthusiasm of the more unselfish class of voters, who supported it with all their hearts while it still remained "the party of great moral ideas"
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

and native Christians have suffered. They were away from the protected places. They were the ones the ignorant and vicious Boxer element most detested.
 Tt is these protesting native Christians that have been the cayse of all the dis turbances and outcries against foreigners and foreign innovations" declared the con suI with a good deal of warmth And they are mostly bad lot, too," he added with distinct emphasis.
 There are six million of these protesting Christians of all sects among my country men, and I do not believe that six hun dred, or, for that matter, even sixty of them, are sincere in their professions the better for their prorestations.
 'The missionaries are, most of them, good men of excellent intentions. 1 do not criticise them or their work They do much good, undoubtedly. But they un- knowingly cause an infinite amount of trouble, too There is a great rivalry among missionaries to get my countrymen into their churches. Some of them even pay people a regular salary per month for attending the missions"
 ''They also take the part of any of their
 
 trouble or law suits, and by appeal to the magistrates secure for them in many in- stances an undue advantage over their un- converted fellow citizens.
 Now, if low-class Chinaman thinks he can benefit in material way by becom- ing a church goer and a Christian, he in stantly goes to the missionary who has most influence with the local magistrates and joins his church. Then, under protec- tion of it's aegis, and backed by its influ- ence, he sets to work to defraud and inn pose upon his neighbors, confident that if he be arrested or sued the missionary will get him out of trouble.
 'Is it strange, when these conditions are considered, that the lowest classes, whose ignorance is absolute, hate and detest the native mission Christian, and that their resentment frequently extends to the mis- sionary? They are blankly ignorant re- garding all things outside their own en- vironment They think the foreigners they see among them are the only foreign devils alive, and stirred up by the lies of the Boxer leaders, who appeal to their ter TOTS and supersttions, they are easily led into campaign with the extermination of foreigners and their native pupils as its object.
 Those who have investigated the situation know that there is much truth in the state ment of Consul Chow At least many American merchants and Consular officials in China have made similar statements.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
The Man That Was Not Counted.

Nashville and Atlanta are the respective hesdouarters of The Man that was not Counted. He lives in those towns in great shoals-shoals of 40,eso or moro in each case. Each of thcso worthy elites had determined that 1t contained 1e5.e99 people, and the premonitions of the new census go to show that each ka6 cvcrshot the mark therefore demands a Eew census Each is determined to have new census if it has to zend cut into its highways and byways
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
KErLECriONs OF A BA. HELcR

From the New York Press.
 Probably the spider first tried to engage himself to the fly.
 There is very often girl behind the man behind the gun.
 Most married men would be at home cf- tener if their wives were at home less.
 A man never knows whether a woman is really beautiful or not till after he has seen her without her corsets and with no collar on.v
 Every woman has a story about a man whose wife died and his !iair turned gray :n a single night.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

clamoring that she be stoned to death in accordance with law. It was bidden that he who was without sin should cast the first stone. Every hypocrite of them all fled in guilty and cowardly terror. The present successors of those hypocrtes Of the Judean hills of two thousand years ago are the self-righteous, sef-commissioned censors of charity and all the virtues, and are unacquainted with any motive that is not of self for self. You know them my beloved. You have no need to hire detec- tives to discover or create them. You see their names in public prints, their faces in the places of prayer. God placed them here as examples of what men should not be; and they therefore serve useful pur- pose, whilst serving the devil and prepar- ing for that perdition to which they are hastening, crying for new-fashioned gods, words, creeds, heavens and hells!
 But there is enough of virtue to outweigh all the worlds affction of wrongs, all the repulsive deformities and accursed sins of selfishness, all the monstrous forms of cant all the damned spots stained of moral degradation. All the eternal years of God are truths, While error, wounded, writhes in pain, and dies at the feet of her worshipers.' We may not have purple and fine linen, but we may have raiment that be not stolen-not obtained by false pretense In our souls we may build bless ed altars; our mites we may give to char ity We may not drive abroad in chariots, but the earth is ours to walk upon. Car pets of velvet may not deaden our tread, Ia a11,. feet Precious jewels may be not ours to challenge envy, but drops of dew we may kiss from the hearts of violets. Advancing heralds may not make way for us through surging throngs but birds of song call to us from boughs that bend in beauty. Our honor may be not drunk from brimmng goblets of gold but cool springs bubble with beverage without price, The mystic music of the dreamy waltz may be denied us, but our daily walk may be dance of joy and the ballads of the streets tuneful sweetness. And after the end of it all shall come, we may not rest beneath sky kissing shaft of marble, but we shall rest in our little six feet of earth peaceful as kings turned to clay.
 :
 'Given health and a day, and we shall make the pomp of emperors ridiculous" All the splendors and vanities of the world were not worth one smile of Catherine She, widc-eyed and radiant, hand in hand with joy, romps the world in beauty and light and sweetness; a queen of youth and love and laughter and innocence She pauses tiptoe to drink of the viewless in toxicant of all-abundant life and light and bliss, and away she speeds, as a creature
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
Expected 1t
From Iife

From Tife.
 He-Would you mind little temporary inconvenience, dear; few years of poverty when you marry me?
 Good gracious. Don't you expect to live any longer than that?'
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

The happiest boss is Boss Platt, for he is we'll nigh rid of Teddy, and he beat the Ohio boss in manipulating the Philadelphia Convention.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

The Dowager Empress will attempt, 1t is thought, to consider the Boxer move ment as a St. Louis affair." but the powers that have troops on the spot will ask time for more thorough Investigation. At any rate the troops will tarry a while.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Buffalo Bill Teddy Roosevelt did the spec tacular at Philadelphia in good time and style, selecting the broad central aisle of the Convention hall each time.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

The Administration organs are beginning to abuse David Bennett Hill thus prog nosticating his nomination for the Vice Presidency.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Helen Gould modestly reckons herself an old maid, but no one else does. The coun- try will never admit that she is.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

President Henry Wilson fretted kim self to death in the V. D cage, and yet the Rough Rider is expected to enter it. The Democracy will come to his rescue.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

The present generation is equally entitled to dollar gas, which is dear gas as gas is made and sold nowadays.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Boss Hanna selected a temporary chair man without putting the customary motion. He knows the boss business.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Roosevelt is expected to put life and hope in the whole ticket but he cannot vitalize a scapegoat administration.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

- The Emperor of China feels that he needs the help of all the powers before he can overcome the Dowager Empress.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

The Empress Dowager declines to be con- sidered the Dom Paul of the Orient Dom Paul is not bit oriental.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Dom Paul is the most stawart goldbugger of the period. His train load of gold bars always has steam up.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Roosevelt's boom was as obstrperous as the bronchos of his rough riders.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

being ruined. The damage to the cotton crop is very great.
 Editor Ketchum of Oneonta, the widely known ''Kid' of the Alabama Press As sociaton of ye olden tymc, was in Bir- mingham yesterday.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

The Boer envoys and Webb Davis did not shine at Philadelphia.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Berlin is to follow St. Louis in the fair business. It has bespoken 1907.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Aguinaldo's ghost is expected to accept the new proclamation of amnesty.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Harvard was booked to win at Phladel- phia, whether the nominee was Long or Roosevelt.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

The people will save Governor Roosevelt from that Vice-Presidential cage.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

Director Merriam will be very unpopular in the directory census cities.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

The cries for recounts are drowning the cries of the politicians in a presidential vear
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

St. Louis still has it's posse comitatus, and the study of Latin is proceeding apace.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

As the nights begin to lengthen the heat and the moisture begin to strengthen.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

 Ohio boss in manipulating the Philadelphia Convention.
 the help of all the powers before he can overcome the Dowager Empress.
  Helen Gould modestly reckons herself an old maid, but no one else does. The coun- try will never admit that she is. Boss Hanna selected a temporary chair man without putting the customary motion. He knows the boss business. Roosevelt is expected to put life and hope in the whole ticket, but he cannot vtalize a scapegoat administration.
  The present generation is equally entitled to dollar gas, which is dear gas as gas is made and sold nowadays. The Empress Dowager declines to be con- Paul is not bit oriental. Dom Paul is the most stalwart goldbugger or 1ne period His train load of gold bars always has steam up.
 Harvard was booked to win at Philadel- phia, whether the nominee was Long or Roosevelt.
 The cries for recounts are drowning the cries of the politicians in a presidential year.
 St. Louis still has its posse comitatus, and the study of Latin is proceeding apace. As the nights begin to lengthen the heat and the moisture begin to strengthen. The people will save Governor Roosevelt from that Vice-Presidential cage.
  Aguinaldo's ghost is expected to accept the new proclamation of amnesty. Roosevelts boom was as obstrperous as the bronchos of his rough riders. Berlin is to follow St. Louis in the fair business. It has bespoken 1907.  Director Merriam will be very unpopular in the directory census cities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-21
II the Scuttle Policy Had Prevailed.

The brilliant speech of Governor
Roosevelt at St. Paul has knocked
dizzy the "militarism' and ''anti-im
perialism'' section of the Kansas City
platform. 1t was most effective adj
dress, and has stirred up the Bryanites
all over the country to realization
that the strenuous Rough Rider will
have no mercy on them in the coming
campaign. One of the strongest points
of the speech was the quick and logical
use made of the Boxer uprising in
China in pointing the moral to sim
liar revolt in Luzon. Had the scuttle
policy prevailed which the Democracy
very likely be duplicated in Manila.
In China" he declares, eve see at this
moment the awful tragedy that is fol-
lowing just exactly such a movement
as that which the so-called anti-im-
perialists have championed in the Phil
ippines.' THE Boxers in China" he
insists. ARE the precise analosues and
representatives of the banditti who are
following Aguinaldo." And he con-
tinues:
Had we adopted the policy of
scuttle' in the Philippines, the policy
which our political opponents now
champion, the streets of Manila would
have witnessed such scenes as those of
the streets of Pekin. To allow the Fill
| ipino rebels to establish their own So
called government and then to protect
them against other civilized nations
would be exactly as if we now sided
with the Boxers in China, demanded
! for them the liberty to butcher their
neighbors, allowed them to establish
their own independent government,
and then agreed to protect them from
the wrath of civilized mankind
The desperate and bloody conspiracy
of the Chinese Boxers comes just ir
time to sound emphatic warning and
to deal a death blow to the contrac-
zionist junta The parallel drawn by
Governor Roosevelt is unanswerable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-21
MARKET REPORTS.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKE.,
The Features Of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York, July 20.-The stock market
made a greater show of strength than
for some time past and the advance in
price from the low point to the highest
were in many cases fairly impressive
During the period of the advance the
market looked strong and varied But
closer analysis of the days results shows
that the strength and animation were APP
parent rather than real Sugar was the
central feature of the market all day. the
dealings in the stock far outnumbering
those in any other in the list. The ground
for the advance was the very large bust
ness reported in the Sugar industry
Other points of strength were the To-
bacco stocks, the Leather stocks. the
vances of from l to rs There was a late
advance in Lackawanna of 81 and in
New Jersey Central of IA. The whole
market turned downwards in the late
dealings when profit taking became evil
dent in Sugar. That stock lost about two
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-21

points and reactions In some other stocks
EXTENDED from one to two points. The
foreign exchange market was strong and
moved up q, but the foreign exchange
houses report that Paris is still the point
Of greatest attraction for gold and that
the next shipments will probably oe made
there instead of to London. A favorable
owing to the continued movement Of cur
rency from the Interior which II is
thought has offset the losses to the sub
treasury bv more than 100000 The
ket continue to engage conjecture. The
band market continued irregular and very
quiet. Total sales, par value, $1,05O,00O.