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The age-herald., 1900-09-16
Mir, keiII's Surrender.

Henry NJ Neil has left the bear camp and joined the bulls. He now says the crop cannot exceed nine and three-quarter mil lions, "and may be much less." He fur ther shows that if consumption be reduced this year to ten million bales-a fall of 1,2TO,O0O bales from that of the previous year-there will be on September l of next year less cotton by 250,0O0 bales than there was at the opening of the present month. His estimate includes both the visible and invisible, or mill, supplies. In other words MT. Neil looks for continuing high prices throughout the present crop year, and at least good prices in the next crop year.
 The crop is moving in a snail-like man. ner, and the spindles are very hungry, es- pecialy in England, and 1t seems inevita- ble that prices will remain up to the end of the picking season. The receipts at New Orleans are about half of those of corresponding days of last year, and the movement to the English and continental mills Is distressingly, to them, slow. Liver pool is not naming the price this year. Short selling from that quarter has dis appeared and the English mill owner for once is at the mercy of the American plant CT.
 The purchase by M. c. D. Borden of 5OO,- 900 pieces of print cloths at Fall River is leading to a change in the prices of cotton goods There is still room for much i'm
 
 price of cotton becomes fully established the price of goods will conform to it. All that is needed to make goods prices what they should be is reopening of the Chi probable every day.
 Even if the crop be but nine million bales, yet at 10 cents pound it would be worth $450O00,000, or about one-quarter more than last years crop was worth The gain to the planter will be about one hundred million dollars. Think of it Think what such a gain is to every interest in the Southl! It means prosperity through out this section that has long been absent. It means profits that have long been striven for but rarely reached. It means a world of progress, the starting of many deferred enterprises. It means a condi- tion of prosperity that will enhance the happiness of all, and it is full of promise throughout even another crop year. The South has never felt such an impulse as it is now sharing and enjoying, and it be- gins to look as if the worlds consumption of cotton will crowd the worlds production of that staple for years to come. A naked big as it is profitable,
The age-herald., 1900-09-16
Bills of Allies Against China.

The appearance of Chinese commissioners authorized to negotiate terms of peace sug- gests at once the big blls that the allies will present, and that China must In one form or another pay. She particularly desires to avoid payment in land, but 1t is difficult to see how she can avoid guarantees in land which may in time become permanent ces- sions.
 The size of the bills that America and Japan and Europe will present will be very large It has been suggested that it will take s2oO, 900, 600 to square the account of the United States alone, including the bills of missionaries and merchants and railroad promoters. as we'll as the expenses of the war the administration begun and carried on.
 + all the powers present similar bills, the total will be about a billion dollars. and
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else for years," said he 'besides the study and practice of love. One must master its science and art, if he would know the heart of a woman, and then he will fail, where greenhorn will succeed. When you have thought al said all, and done all, you have gained nothing. True love is spontaneous and involuntary, like the pull sations of the heart. False or artificial love is better than the true. The latter is gentle fire which must daily be fed and kept bright, the former is a consuming furnace which burns up its victims like an Indian funeral pyre. My experience is that of Thomas Hood:
 The time I've lost in wooing
 In signing and pursuing
 The light that lies in womans eyes Has been my hearts undoing.
 Here Smith, the cynic, spoke up In his oracular way: "You boys think you know lot about love, but you haven't discov-
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Aaes)0,oea

helpless is not law for the rich and the influential. The rich man does not suffer for the offenses which send poor men to the gallows. black man who filches handful of peanuts suffers severer pen altes than the bank officer who steals thousands of money and leaves or phans and widows to starve. And so swine butchers amongst men who rob helpless toiers of their earnings build palaces and buy offices and are the elect, whilst the poor gentle man is turned aside because he is without money to squander in riotous sinfulness.
 So from the viewpoints of law and socie- ty men are not free and equal, and there is no hope that they shall everabe. The rich are the masters, the poor are the slaves.
 But there is a great host of folk in the world the latchets of whose shoes the vaill- glorious and vulgar-mannered swineherds of the social organization In general are not worthy to loosen.
 The worthy of the world have king dom all their own, and into its inner privacy the swineherds ostentation can never enter. His invitations, written in vulgar English worse foreign tongue, may enter by hand of the postman; but he, with his scofing and scorning and sneering at gentle virtues, shall come no nearer to finding his way thither than he shall find way to heaven.
 The good folk, the gentle, the true, the unpretending-these have their own, they have one another and they will be dilgent in ;well-doing. Their women will be dil- gent in keeping their souls tidy, their hearts fresh with the dews of a spirit of youth that shall not pass; will be diligent in keeping themselves unspotted from the world, untouched by their foes in what ever guise.
 For every good woman upon whom rests awaits opportunity; but so long as she de- serves the guardianship of the angels just long shall evil be powerless to harm her Whose would give his tongue evil speech concerning her is the devil poorly disguised; for so fair flower is woman's good name that even the breath of the liar shakes it rudely as noxious breezes bend lilies low.
 Women are the roses, and we love them so reyerentially that our loving is virtue! Red as the wine of forgotten ages,
 Yellow as gold of the sunbeams spun;
 Pink as the gowns of Aurora's pages;
 White as the robe of sinless one
 Sweater than Arabys winds that blow
 Roses, roses, love you so!
 May the Father have you in His holy keeping, my beloved
 THE MURMURER
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can see those eyes as distinctly as ever. They were golden brown, very soft and velvety, with slight cast that was very fascinating. As 1 say, I was madly in love. I have never loved since. Cynics may say what they please about man being in love more than once, but it isn't true. I admit that man seldom marries his first love. I did not marry mine. She went off on visit for several months, and when she returned am ashamed to say it, but my love had completely burnt out, and I could not stand the girl. ac- tually disliked her. I will never cease to be ashamed of myself long as I live, but it is a fact. PerhapS you think it was not true love, and pos. .oly it wasn't. Yet it seemed such while it lasted. only know I have never loved any one since as I did that girl"
 At this point Lane, as a recognized au- thority was called on. q have done 4ttle
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not rich are filled with hope and bright prospects-so what's the difference?"
 
 There may be a bit of fun; aye, scln- tilla of facetiousness in the above but there is a difference. The old town of three years ago and the town of today, with It's stirring thousands-every man on business bent and every woman wisely wandering among the shops and bargain counters seeking to invest the profits of her am- bilious lord or father in tasty raiment or comfortable house necessities and adorn- ments-are unlike a town of the an- cient and modern ages.
 There is something to Birmingham today. That something is a substantial foundation of greatness. There is greed, but the greedy are everywhere Every man has an object in view, and he has no time to waste on the wayside telling of what might have been or of his past hopes. He has ambitions. He is pursuing them. Hotels of new and modern architecture are rearing themselves above earth and smoke stacks are growing about the district like stalks in an aspara gus patch. Even the mendicant fiddler on the street corner wears a new coat, a smile of contentment, and the tin cup of the lap, has been replaced by nickle-plated fun nel-shaped bank with brass lock and key. So it goes. Smiles are abundant and pros perity plentiful.
 I was in Chicago several days last week. Both the Democratic and Republican Ma tional Committees have their headquarters in Chicago. The Democrats have their quarters in the Auditorium occupied by the Republicans four years ago. and the Re- publicans occupy the quarters of the Demo- crats of four years ago in the Auditorium Annex.
 There is not much apparent enthusiasm or excitement on either side. The Repub- Ecans say they will have walk-over-the Democrats, that they are facing a hard proposition. AS was the case four years ago, the Democrats are short of funds, while the Republicans, though with much less than at that time, yet have sufficient to flood the country with orators and printed matter.
 Hearst's paper-the Chicago American is the only newspaper in Chicago support ing the Democratic National ticket. It is making a great fight but against fearful odds. Throughout the West and Northwest nearly all the newspapers are supporting Mckinley, and in the South many Demo- cratic papers are not supporting Bryan. Notable among these are the Nashville Banner, Chattanooga Times, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, Dallas News, one or more of the New Orleans papers, the Sa- Vannah News, Charleston News and Cour- ier Mobile Register, Richmond Times and others.
The age-herald., 1900-09-16
Soldiers and Books,

The city hall is In dry, healthful portion of the town, and there is no reason why it's basement cannot be rendered by a compe- tent architect airy and well ventilated, and even light in the daytime, as any floor in the building. The ground floor could be raised step or two more than is custom ary in order to render the basement more attractive. Vaults under the sidewalks, cov- cred with glass, could be utilized and every possible objection obviated to the use of the basement by the citizen soldery of the city. The entire basement should be given over to the National Guard.
 Such a use of the basement would not only give the soldiers a convenient home and place of assembly, but 1t would take from the rest of the building a great ssrain for when even fifty men marc htogether a strain is imposed that is very tryng upon any structure. This use of the basement Is thrown out as suggestion to the archi- tects.
 The top floor could then be given oyer to the dead weight of the public library, which could rapidly be developed to proportions worthy the city and adapted to its wants. There are indeed great possibilities in the new city hall, and these possibilities should be worked out
The age-herald., 1900-09-16
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

Be diligent, let who will be idle. Be din- gent in all well-doing; especially in seeking after happiness. Thereby shall be overcome the devils of care and wrong. Although athirst for knowledge, there will be little promise of drinking deeply; and searching for truth may lead too far.
 Truth concerning all things is not need full nor desirable to know; for there are many forms of fact that are of no avail | and are discomforting, even repulsive nameless. Whose would dine well shall not so much as glance into the place of cooking. If a woman would be regal under her piled-up crown of glory she shall not be observed with the needful pins between her lips of love, nor shall she masticate in public places as timid hares hidden in the wild fields; neither shall she be slipshod, nor bedraggled, nor run down at the heeis None would wish her to be true in love if she be false in grammar. She shall love art and poetry, romance and song. piety and prayer. Above all things in life shall she love prayer and the holy things signi- fled in praying.
 O God, O God, a prayerless woman! a woman who does anything, knows any, thing, believes anything, hopes anything which she may not name in pious prayer silent voicefull
 The devil rejoices in the upbringing of little children who grow to the years of sin untaught and unstrengthened of moth CTS prayer.
 Let him belieyeth who will, but it is not given to any soul this side of eternity to scoff the religious convictions of any other soul. And apart from the monstrous nega- ton of divine teaching, scoffing is vulgar, unseemly, unrighteous, vain and silly. So also is scofiing the arts, learning and any or all of the evidences of culture and re- fnement. And likewise is it vulgar to scoff and sheer at sentiment or song, or any honest emotion of souls which appear to be striving after the finer qualities and possessions of the higher life. Persons who so scoff and so sheer to the woundng of finer natures are Philistines made of con- mon clay and whilst they are to be avoid ed in the intercourse of the enlightened, still may good examples by good women be set them and their unworthiness re- membered to be condoned, they knowing not what they do.
 The inequalities of humanity are as dis That all men are born free and equal is political fiction, and politics is uncleanli- ness. It was as untrue when first it was uttered as it is untrue today. Men are nor only not free and equal before the law but they are hopelessy so in the social life of the world. The law for the poor and
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Of course. the attitude of these papers but even in quarters where the Democrats should be most enthusiastic there is a fully apparent lukewarmness. It looks bad. It is disheartening. There must be in- -spiration and more earnest work or the cause will fail. There is no use in being untruthful These are the facts.
 While the Republicans claim walkover yet they seem to feel that the situation is a difficult one to figure. upon exactly. They have been unable to make the close cal culations which were made four years ago. At that time they had poll of the votes of nearly every county in the supposed doubtful States. This year they recognize that there is tremendous floating vote vote which up to date cannot be counted upon definitely as on either side The Re- publicans, like the Democrats, are more short of funds than four years ago. Han na does not see one-fourth of the money in sight today that was on hand four years ago. He and his assistants are ap- parently annoyed. They don't find the same degree of enthusiasm among those who furnished funds as they found before. They find kicliers who declare that a cam paign fund is not necessary, and, there fore, they will not contribute. They find many who contributed four years ago who refuse to give anything this year.
 It may be that they are after funds now and will seek votes later, but it is mani fest that even with the Republicans, the enthusiasm of four years ago is lacking.
 This of political campaign is expensive. The Re- publicans are said to have expended over a million dollars four years ago in printing and distributing campaign literature in the form of posters, booklets and circulars. They had scores of artists making car toons and flooding the newspapers with them in the form of cuts for publication Their speakers bureau alone cost them sev- eral million dollars Every man who goes on the stump gets his expenses paid and many of them are extravagant in expense accounts. The Republicans spent as many hundreds of thousands four years ago as the Democrats spent thousands. The rent of the Republicans headquarters in Chi- cago alone cost several hundred dollars daily, while the Democrats with modest funds must be economical. The Republican campaign this year, on the scale it has started, will probably necessitate Hanna raising ten millions of dollars. If the Dem ocrats get as much as a half of one mill lion dollars they will exceed present ex- pectations.
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Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you"
 The night rose-lipped summer died a man sat behind some vines which shivered in the Wind-borne rain that came out of the windy darkness to conceal the footprints of the flowers. The unsteady dripping of the fall- ing water sounded dirgeful against leaves that were faded and cast upon the ground to die. The vines Tapped like wetted sails In a fallen gale at sea, with the echo of the sWishing tide as the whisper of tide of time stilled there to lave the fair cool shore of maiden's mystery. The voices of the night were the low soft humming of the stories telling of glad days and sad which had been melted to make that hour there behind the vines, and give forth some shadow of promise leading yonderward into the far sea where breaks the light that shall not fade. The wrath of the rose-lipped carnation of all-time swayed inward and swayed outward amongst the shadows and the glooms of the tombs of garlands with bright-bars falling aslant atween.
 o roses, roses, we loved you so.
 Red as the wine of forgotten ages;
 Yellow as gold of the sunbeams spun;
 Pink as the gowns of Aurora's pages;
 White as the robe of a Sinless one;
 Sweeter than Araby's winds that blow
 Roses, roses, love you SO.
 
 Behind the vines that shivered the young girl drew her mantle about her as the white robe of sinless one and laughed lowly seeking courage of her own soft voice in the shadows falling there where was fallen her rose-lipped summer, of which herself was wide-eyed daughter of joy through dusks and dawns and perfect days. The hour lent her to retrospection, rare quality in the young, and she babbled O many a mystery of many a meeting with joyfellows betwixt the rose and the russet, Junetime and aging September. It was the this and that and the he and she of her beautiful little life, full to songful abundance of goodness and generousness and sinlessness; unspotted from the world and soul-tidy, yet of the world worldly; bearing no blem- ish of self-righteousness, setf-sanctification, self-love, or pharasaism which vaunts Itself as charity; covetousness, sptefulness, or unmaidenly self-seeking vanity. She was abundant in joyousness, girlshness; abun- dantly in love with the world and every body, and by everybody abundantly be- loyed--truly just desert of her fair young life
 As was spoken unto the maid, so also shall be spoken unto all; for she is but type of purity in world that strives for purity.
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cred the very potent fact that love is q mental disease Who ever heard of a sane man falling in love- Only callow youths whose brains are soft are afflicted with this distemper. Who tells us about love anyway. Nobody but poets who are half crazy as class, and write just to sec themselves in print. Do scientists fall in love? Any doctor will tell you that love Is a kind of fever, sort of abnormal cou- dition of the blood"
 T don't agree with you at an," said the sentimentalist. 'Love is but a glimpse of heaven seen from the earth. It is the one thing given us, that makes us feel we have not lived in vain; it Is the
 Here the dinner hour arrived and ono paid further attention to the sentimental. ist. F. H. M
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Another Case at Glasgow

Glasgow. September 15.-Another plague case has been reported here, making total of IT, In addition, there is one suspect and 115 persons are under observation.
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Mrs. Fitzsimmons Is as loyal today to her husband as she was when at the ring side she exhorted him to "jab him in the slats, Dribbs; jab him in the slats."
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When one lone bandit holds up fifty cow- ards on a railroad train, they deserve to lose all they have.
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One of the Galveston lessons is that every one should always carry something that will lead to identification.
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Field Marshal waldersee Is pushing to the front at the rate of twelve knots an hour. It is the best he can do.
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The man with a full coal bin in the hard coal country is the happiest man on the fence.
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Chicago and New York should swap sur plus populations. Chicago has 51,755 too many men. and New York 25.000 too many women
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It is plain MT Kruger now. President Sehalkburger Is in charge of what is left of the Transvaal government.
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Helen Gould has ordered 5O,000 army ra- lions sent to Galveston. This young wo- mans life makes one willing to overlook Bonny.
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MT. Wu has been engaged allN summer long in promoting the businessFp pf Cape May. k
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The country feels that General Joe Wheel CT could not be kept op the retired list ex- cept by force, if another war should break out
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The man with an empty coal bin in the hard coal section will soon want to know who made fuel scarce and high in price.
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In ocean steamers there is limit to ex- pense. but none to speed development.
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On November will be dropped a deal of fuss and feathers that now disturbs the peace and business of the country.
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The lone bandit will go ahead until he strikes . aa&s ss real grit in a passenger car
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Governor Pi kree will be Republican when Mark Hanna ceases to be one.
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One Congressman is in the madhouse and several more are overdue there.
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Field Marshal Waldersee Is pushing to the front at the rate of twelve knots an hour It is the best he can do.
 
 MT. Wu has been engaged all summer long in promoting the business bf Cape May. ~S In ocean steamers there is a limit to ex- pense, but none to speed development.  Governor Pik.ree will be a Republican when Mark Hanna ceases to be one.
 One Congressman is in the madhouse, and several more are overdue there.
 It was Dom Paul who was staggered by the war instead of humanity.
 American and English sailors will not long play second fiddle to Germany.
 Women cannot enter politics. for Mark Hanna himself has said 1t.
 Gen. Joe Wheeler fought for and against his present country. Lydenburg was easier to Butler than the Tugela river.
 The independent voter lies in wait for ma chine tickets. .,,i,sJ No one reads a 13 00O- word letter,
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It was Dom Paul who was staggered by the war instead of humanity.
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American and English sailors will not long play second fiddle to Germany.
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No one reads a 18.OOO-word letter
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Women cannot enter politics. for Mark Hanna himself has said 1t.