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The age-herald., 1900-04-02
Special Election in Utah.

The first state to speak this year will
 be Utah, which today elects her single rep resentative in the lower house of congress. She elects a man to take the place Of the rejected Roberts. In this contest church lines are not drawn, as each candidate is a Mormon in good standing, but neither is polygamist. Both are said to be men well fitted for confessional service
 But party lines are very definitely drawn, and the canvass has been conducted on the platforms and records of the two great parties of the country. James T. Hammond carries the Hanna Mckinley banner. and William H. Ring stands for democracy and the ChYcago platform, and William Jennings Bryan. The republicans are preoarins to do good deal of growing over the Utaa first gun, because it is scarcely reasonable to expect that the vote of 1S96 will be duoli- cated in spring special election for a member of congress. In 1896 Mckinley re- ceived only 1s.OoO votes out ol soooo. and any loss in democratic majority will be treated in republican journals as evidence of a change in public sentiment, when the truth is, the election of Mir King by even 1000 majority will show that the state will cast heavy majority for Mir Bryan in November. Tine chances are that MT. K.ng will carry nearly every county, and that his majority will be suostant:al one. The gold standard bill has been put plainly before the people of Utah, and no change iri public sentiment in favor of a single standard is probable. The republicans claim that the drift Is as strong in Utagl as it is in Vermont, and they are expecting great changes. They are even anticipating the election of MT. Hammond.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
FItiURE THAT TALK
l the Hartford Courant.

From the Hartford C0ufant.
 Alabamas handsome and well fixed sea- port does not seem to have any visible req son for lying awake nights to hate this republican administration, or even to hate the Dingley tariff.
 From letter just written to Mobiles principal newspaper. the Daily Register, by the secretary of Mobiles chamber of commerce, MT. E. E. England, we take few eloquent figures. The total value of Mobiles exports in the year 1S94-the sec- ond year of President Cleveland's second term-was g, ,S23, ,69O. But in the eight months that ended March l. 1898. Mobile exported goods valued at $6 145, ,3O4; in the eight months that ended March 1, 1899, her exports rose to s6,659,772. while in the eight months immediately preceding this pres- ent March they jumped to $9,235 ,226 Her total imports in the year 1894 footed up $652, ,113 But in those eight months of 1S97- '9S she did an importing business of $776, ,115 in the corresponding months of 1S9S-'99 it rose to $SS7, ,3S7, and the value of the inn ported goods landed at Mobile in the eight months immediately preceding this present March is reported al $1,S14,S97. That is to say, Mobile is importing more than twice as much merchandise now as she did back there in 1894, in President Cleveland's time, while her exports have quadrupled
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
This is the day of days to register.
A WE'LL yyORDED REPs.Y

The Montgomery Advertiser, like The Age-Herad, the Atlanta Constitution and a number of other southern newspapers have been threatened with libel suits for printing the news.
 The Montgomery Advertiser well ex presses the sentiments and views of all well conducted newspapers in the following editorial, which was printed yesterday. The Age-Herald not only reproduces it hs5 is in thorough sympathy and endorses this state ment:
 "Editor Wear, of the Opelika Indus trial News, charged in his paper that the aldermen of that city had been bribed, and they in turn hotly de- nounced hlm. So much even he must admit to be facts.
 "The Advertiser published tae facts simply as news, without any comment. and without expressing or intimating the slightest opinion upon the merits of the controversy For this Editos Wear threate the Advertiser with a libel suit, and as preliminary demanded a retraction.
 'As the Advertiser made no charges against MT. Wear and as the things it chronicled had happened, it was at q loss to understand what statement Mr. Wear conceived the Advertiser should
  being desirous that no injustice should 7 be done him he was asked to indicate what he desired
 His reply is that he has fulfilled the . requirements of the law, and the mat ter is now in the hands of my attornevs.'
 Here the Advertiser might well leave the matter. It. however publishes elsewhere what MT. Wear himself had to say with reference to the controversy between him and the aldermen of .Ope- lika.
 "The Advertiser has never Intention ally done any injustice to any one and in a controversy between an editor. and public officials concerning public mat ters it Is more than willing to prevent injustice to publishers of newspapers. It has always fearlessly published the news and will continue to do so. If Editor Wear, after he himself has given wide publicity to the objectionable mat ter in h.s own columns and after de- clining to indicate what he desired the Advertiser to do to set him right, and after this publication. Is minded to wage law suit the Advertiser has only to say the courts are open to him.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

The latter held, says the New Orleans Pcayune that the warrants were issued by the state as money, and had been ac eeoted by the slate as money, and the state in both acts was within its rights and powers. On the point that the war rants were void because issued in a time of rebellion the court said, supposlng the warrants were illegal on this account still the actual receipt and acquntanees given we're not for this. reason void as between the parties. In other words, the contract having been fully executed by the company and the state, neither party having chosen 10 refuse to perform it's terms, neither party, as between themselves, can there- after act as if the contract had net been. performed, nor can the state pass an act which shall impair the obligation which springs from it's performance"
 The general purport and drift of this de- cision is to uphold contracts made in the war period, whether made by states or by individuals. Even at this late day such a decision is far-reaching and eminently in the interest of morals and order and law. What was law at that time is law now.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
Civil War Contracts.

The supreme court of the United States upon the validity of transactions in the civil war period. n may not fully determ- inc all questions involved in such transac- iions, but it plainly shows an intention on the part of the inghest court to uphold ell settlements in that stormy period. It shows an intention 10 prev5ent a reopen ing Of old scores
 The case arose over the validity of cer- aain evidences of indebtedness issued bv tine state of Texas in the days of war. The state used these evidences of indebt- eGness as money. and the Houston and Texas Central railroad turned in hi or this money in payment of debt it owed the state. The state, long after the War claimed that these payments were mol valid, because the money turned int, t1o treasury was issued during the war for the purpose of carrying it on. and uas therefore illegal and void, and that the payments made by the railroad were in fact not payments at all.
 The state courts of Texas upheld this contention, but the supreme court did not.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

You can most always catch tow or three horses tied in front of millinery window, laughing to themselves.
 Boy babies always holler louder than girl babies when they are first born, be- cause they know they will never get much chance afterward.
 A woman always tries to chase a man and catch him; man finds out which way a woman is going and sneaks around a side way and heads her off.
 A woman will always manage to put up with a bad hired girl till she thinks she has told her all she Is going to about the other people in town that she worked for.
 When an old bachelor finds he is walking behind woman whose hips have slipped and got way around sideways when she didn't know-it. he gives the first beggar he meets a nickle
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
One Of the Daily Ira gedies

To rejoin Middleton at the time of his learning to swear. The whole life goes on at such high pressure that everybody is on the verge of madness. It is the strain Of the thing that counts Middleton had his turn with the rest Once, when slipping he saved his footing by hanging to the sledge His partner feeling the drag, promptly cursed him for adding to the bad. When Middleton got down and pushed harder to make up for lost time his parner sulked and his head reeled with the added effort When one of the dogs dropped on tie snow to rest, the sledge stopped and each man turned furiousIy on the other The words came hot and fast. Middleton nc ticed all at once that he was not talking but simply screaming, and that he could not help it. Then things went away from him When he came to himself his partners arms were around him, and his partners voice, as tender as a womans, was saying to him:
 ''There! there. Take a brace, old man. In minute you'll be all right
 In ten minutes Middleton was all right, and they were both laughing and plodding as before. It is this sort of thing that makes up the daily tragedy of the trails.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
The Aqe.HeraId Leads.

Printers Ink, the well-known advertis- ing journal of New York, which is ac cepted as the standard for this country, in an editorial article on Sunday News papers," in it's issue of March 2Sth has the following in regard to Alabama news papers:
 "In Alabama the Birmingham Age BerdId IS entitled to first consideration from its accepted actual issue ,of G,SS4 in 1899, aohile the Mobile Register and Montgomery Advertiser, both reliable substantial mediums, aCith strong pro- penstty for claiming more and G some aohot persistent reputation for acithhold- ing defnite Information, are rated, the former lDith an estimated issue in ercess cf 2,25O copies, and tue latter in e1cess of 4,000. The Advertiser in 1894 sho,ped c smallest issue of 5,7O0 and the Register in 1887 had daily arerage of 4,G77. There IS nothing tater in detaiI from either paper. The Directory re- ports seem to indicate that the output of the Register and Advertiser combined may not noW erceed that of the Age Herald" "
 Asezf7erald does not, a rule, in dulge in 5"blowng' and boasting of it's cir culation. It is striving for a daily circula ton of 25,OOO. and when this point is reached, which should be within the next twelve months, then The Age-Herad Will be at liberty to feel proud of itself In the meantime, it is gratifying to The Age Herald to make acknowledgement of the above purely voluntary statement on the part of Printers Ink.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
McDonalC,s Streak of Lurk

This is the story of Alexander Mcdonald. one of the best known characters in the Yukon valley. He is a great, numbering Scotchman-born in Nova Scotia-who up to the time of the Klondike discoveries never had an idea of winning a greater fortune than that of a day laborer. He worked from mining camp tc mining camp all along the northwest. He was at Dawson shortly after the first locations were made on the Klondike. He went out with numerous stampedes, but never arrived in time to locate paying claim.
 Finally he stumbled across a newspaper man named Hunt, who had a claim on Bonanza creek. Hunt, who had become dis couraged because he had not the funds necessary to develop 1t. This claim Mc- lars and set about developing it in his usual slow and aimless fashion. Finding the claim fairly rich. he put on a force of laiborers and in a few weeks had taken out eighty thousand dollars. This sum he used immediately to purchase other claims.
 All that year. he bought right and left everything of any promise that of- fered to him, often mortgaging the claims thus bought to buy still other ground Many of the ventures came to naught, but few gave such phenomenal returns that he speedily took the rating of a million aire. Out of one claim on Fl Dorado creek twelve hours.
 Today he is probably worth between two and three million dollars.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
BUT IT Is DOUBTFUL

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
 The effort to induce the dear girls to buy birdless Easter hats deserves success.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

A party that has the Porto Rico tariff bill and General Woodruff's pink weskits on its hands is overloaded.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

Despite the confessions in Kentucky the name of the murderer is withheld.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

me New York Sun would mourn the loss oI hoke smith from journalsm-that is to say, from newspaperdom
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

The thistle and shamrock are bearing in about equal proportions the white mans burden in South Africa
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

The final figures in the Clark case make the proven cost of the senatorial seat to the contestee $32S 900.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

John D. Rockefeller insists that Dr. Har- per shall get from his enemies a sum equal to his own gift. He kills two birds with one stone.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

The federal government has endorsed the Taylor government, but the federal govern- ment counts for less in Kentucky than one active Winchester.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

To trek north in Boerdom means more not weather rather than Hess. Things in the weather line go by opposites in South Africa.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

Jack Chinn has not been put on the stand In Kentucky. He may know thing or two for he was on the spot.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

Lecture committees are negotiating with Colonel Jack Chinn on the basis that his gun shall be left at the hotel.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
Profanity is 2 safety Valve

The first important thing Middleton learned was to swear. Everybody swears in Alaska. There is belief that nothing of moment can be accomplished there with out profanity. It is the safety valve that keeps men from madness when the press ure of the conditions becomes excruciating Only SWedes do not acquire the habit and perhaps it would be better if they did Their natural slowness of speech keeps them quiet under trouble but the feeling is there just the same The stress of bitter hardship is on all alike, and the effect is cumulative when it is not worked off.
 story to illustrate the virtue of swear- ing. concerns Swede who had struggled through a long half day Of small disasters. His patience was marvellous. He was wet and chilled. He righted his sledge after upsets n grim silence, and with a courage worthy of better luck But along in the afternoon, where the trail skirted a hill, some sudden freak twitehed the dogs off 10 one side and sent the sledge and it's load rolling down into the valley beneath It was nothing worse than had happened before, but somehow it snapped the last cord of his resistance. He stood for a mo- ment his hands above his head and his then with a yell he dashed after the team, pulled an ax from the leashings, killed the dogs one after another. and smashed the sledse and load into little pieces.
 Suddenly reason returned. He sat down in the snow beside his ruined outfit and cried like a child.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

At this season of the year all baseball teams win, in their minds and the news papers within reach, pennants.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

In the Porto Rico muddle the fat flyers are simply getting down to business.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
COULD FIND PLENTY OF WORK

From the Toledo Blade.
 Who intervened so successfully in the war between Oosn Andrew Carnegie and General Prick?
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

If hot biscuits could be shot into Mafe- King, the besieged would be ready to fight 1t out if 1t took all summer.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

Greece's tax upon bachelors seems to be misfit in the cases in which the lady asks to be excused. -
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

Rhode Island is too small and it votes too early to set the fal fashions in voting.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

Up in Chicago they say the March lamb has been inside the lion den throughout the entire month.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

The new Carnegie company is, of>course an infant industry. It is not month old.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

The peach crop liar hesitates, and he who hestates in this crisis is lost to profits.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

The dowager empress will be treated to the spectacle of seeing the doors kicked open by the powers, for opened they must De- no matter how much the old lady ob- jects
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

but all who could vote in 1867 and all their descendants are excepted. This is "the grandfather clause" in all its vlgor and rigor Four years ago a republican was elected governor. but the whites have been largely consolidated by the race troubles in Wilmington. and democratic victory is anticipated.
 The fourth early-bird state Is Alabama, the election occurring on the sixth day of August. On the seventh day of August Yer mont will go as strongly republican as Ala bama will go democratic. Georgia will on October wind up the early-bird series. None of these states are closely balanced or closely contested, but still they may throw some light on the presidential race.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

In the stock markets choice spring lambs are in pientiful supply.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02

Macrnm should star with Colonel Jack Chinn.
The age-herald., 1900-04-02
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
uarhshIns of the Trails

Here Is a typical Illustration of the ex- treme hardships of the life in Alaska, writes Warren Cheney in Ainslie's Maga- zine. Middleton was a young Englisfrnan. slight and small, and accustomed to all the refnements of civilized life. He had enough money to buy a modest outfit, but had never camped out or roughed it before this time. He and his partner went in by the Chilcoot Pass in 1897 and tramped the whole way. They had a sledge and four Irish sefters, with twelve hundred pounds O. freight. The partner being the stronger, he buckled himself into the harness and pulled as leader of the team. Middletons duty was to walk behind the sledge and push. There are no roads, properly speak ing in Alaska. Except in winter the trails gre sloughs of icy mud worked soft by the feet of the gold seekers. The slush is al- ways over the shoes, and an unguarded step will plunge the walker to the waist. The Canadian government has done noth- ing to better the condition of the trails. This fact, coupled with the exor1otant fees charged the miners by that government, have led the prospectors at more than one point on the trails to set up boards with this derisve motto:
 Millions for tribute, but not one cent for roads,
 The gold seeker himself carefully refrains from doing anything more to the trails than will serve to help him out of present difficulties and to carry him on his way.
The broad ax., 1900-05-05

steady income and would never take
undue chances. He never undertakes
to discuss public question until he has
studied II in all its phases, and so he Is
not one of those who rush promiscu-
ousiy into debate. When he addresses
the senate he Is always sure OF close
attention.
He Is nothing Of an orator. Public
speaking has no glitter or charm for
him. He speaks only when he feels
that he ought to. and not because he
likes the sound CT his own voice or
looks for the responsive tingle Of popu-
lar applause.
Gen. Joe" HaWley, his colleague. Is
an effective public speaker. He has q
genius for swayins audiences. for STIR
ring the emotions and for inspiring
applause. Plat recognizes this as a
gift which he does not possess. Among
his friends he sometimes talks about
It, occasionally with regret, but never
with even an innnitesimal touch OF
jealousy or envy. 81 am not like HaW-
ley" he says. and q Is Just a. wen TO
recognize the truth. ] always hesitate
to get on my feet In public. I know
that there viii never be anything e.
pecially entertaining In what say, and
I feel that am tolerated rather than
admired. The best I can do Ii to talk
along without any oratorieal frills and
without expecting to get anybody ex-
cited. I usually say what I want to
say, and try to tell the truth. ]
haven't any pretensions beyond that
Hawley can't even walk to the plat
form without bftaginE his auditors to
their feet yelling and cheering. It Is
Hip, hip, hurrah. fer Joe HawleyP
from the minute he puts In an. ap-
pearance until he gets through That
is the genius Of the man. It's some
thing I never had and never can have.
I am sorry, but what's the use Of wor-
rying about it,"
The broad ax., 1900-05-05
cocKRELL's LIFE SAVERS.

Eating apples for lunch has become Q
fad In the senate, and Senator Francis
II. Cockreli of Missouri is responsible
for its introduction. For some time II
has been the custom Of the Missourian
to steal away from the senate chamber
after the morning hour and 60 to the
democratic cloak room for q lunch
Upon the senator's midday menu there
is Just one article Of diet. and that Is
apples. At IS Senator Cockrell dis
plays a capacity for work which IL the
marvel Of the senate, and he at
tributes his splendid health largely to
his free use OF apples and especially to
his daily lunch on apples exclusively.
Taking notice Of the hissourian's good
color, steady nerve and notable en-
durance, other senators have adopted
the apple habit and find It beneficial.
Senator Cockrell Il one OF the veterans
The broad ax., 1900-05-05
WOMEN AND EATING.
Serious Results May Follow CareIessnss
of Diet

Serious Results May Follow Carelessness
of Diet
Women are VIGOROUSLY careless
about their own food. One could wish
that those who neglect the duty OF
properly and efficiently nourishing
their own bodies would study the stat
istics Of insanity and its increase
among US. The old Latin proverb tells
rs that our aim should be to keep q
sound mind In q sound body, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. Drink and hur-
~ and worry send most OF the men to
an asylum" says a doctor, while love
affairs, combined with q lack Of food.
throw most Of the women on their bal
ance." The love affairs would have
but little influence over them II they
were properly fed. but among the illu-
sions in which girls and women in
dulge Is. that, as they care very little
about their food, so the lack OF 1t can
not have much effect upon them. They
rather despise men for being careful
to have regular meals, whether busi-
ness presses or not, and are inclined to
vaunt their own superiority In such
respects. But II this disregard Of the
natural instincts Of hunger leads rs In
the same path as drink and hurry and
worry" leads men, and II we are to be
Inundated by Representatives, In
love affairs. how pre-eninently does
male common sense stand out In the
matter!"
The broad ax., 1900-05-05
o..-H.it IN. ,ron.r M..t.d.

The great machine, L'Assistance Pub
lique, which dlspenses charity to the
Paris poor. undoubtedly is the richest
charitable establishment In the world.
II draws from real estate investments
$3.50, 900 and from the government in
yestments $4,000, making an income
Of over 81, zoe. 00o.. It Is an enormous
sum to dispense In charity and II
would seem sufficient to make It Ger.
tain that nobody need 90 hungry in
Paris; but the complaints are constant
that worthy people are refused assist
ance and that the poor die Of starva-
ton, and L'Assistance Publique Is ae-
cused of squandering its millions Of
francs. Il Ii charged that nve-ninths
Of the income is spent In paying the
functionaries who handle this great
sum.