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The age-herald., 1900-11-30
COTTON EALING.

From the Liverpool (Eng) Daily Post
 The United States consul for the district of Reichenberg, Austria, says that the Low ry bale is very favorably reported upon by spirners. "The old square bale, they say. caused great waste of cotton They allege, besides. that it gave opportunity for fraud; that stones and other heavy foreign sub stances were sometimes found in the heart of the bale. put there apparently to increase weight. By the new methods of balng, the machinery employed rejects all foreign sub stances; and not only is the item of waste eliminated but the possibility of fraud is reduced to a minimum. From the current talk among cotton buyers in this district, I infer that the general use of the new baling methods will tend to increase cot ton exports from the United States, which to this empire-declined last year in com parison with former periods British India, reaping the benefits thereof. Local cotton importers generally say they will buy no more square-baled cotton. The trade of this section is worth cultivating, as the consular district contains 1O1 cotton-spinning mills. with 1,102 454 spindles in active operation"
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
Ship Subsidy Bill.

Senator Frye announces the intention of the ship subsidy crowd to loot the treas ury immediately. They intend to press the bill to passage at the short session, and there seems to be no way to prevent this heavy raid upon the peoples prockets un- less MT. Pettigrew decides to expend his parting Senatorial breath in talking it to death.
 The scheme calls for s90OO,O0O a year, and as the life of the bill is to be thirty years, the total steal rises to $27O 000,0OO. This money will be taken. in an indirect way from the pockets of the people, and trans- ferred to perhaps one hundred over-rich ship owners and ship builders, every one of whom were contributors to Mark Hanna's slush fund. In other words, they have paid for this steal, and the Republican party has agreed to open the treasury doors to this new lot of robbers.
 The excuse for it is found in the fact that American tonnage is confined at present al- most wholly to the coasting trade. We have in the foreign carrying trade only 97 good-sized ships. This result is due to the tariff and navigation laws that the Re- publican party keeps the statute books for the benefits of its favorites; and instead of repeating these robber laws it proposes to add privilege to privilege in the ship subsidy bill. It is robbery of the many all round for the benefit of the few. The Republican party is built on that plan.
 There are no subsidies in England, and the British flag floats over every sea. Barely per cent. of British ships receives public funds in any form, and the payments that are made strictly for carrying the mails. The British shipping is a striking commentary upon our tariff and navigation laws which have driven the American flag from the seas.
 Commissioner of Navigation Chamberlain formerly advocated free ships and free raw material for ships, but he has seen a light and he now favors subsidies, although the ship owners and ship builders are in bet ter condition than they were ten years ago. They are not suffering at al But the bar gain has been struck; the campaign sub scriptions have been paid over and ex- pended, and 1t has been decreed that the Hanna-Payne bill shall become a law. Ship owners and ship builders are to re- ceive $9,OOOOOO year from the sums an- nually collected from the necessares of life in the custom houses.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
THE UNPARALLELED CENTURY.

From Success.
 One hundred years ago! What a remark able story the panorama of the closing cen tury reveals! In 1900 our country was a plucky fiedgling, healthy, vigorous, ardent in hope, high in resolve. Our total popula- tion was less than 5,5O0,OOO. Germany and Britain each had four times our number Spain twice as many, and even little Por- tugal had as big a family of sons and daughters as Uncle Sam West of the Mis- sissippi all was wilderness. We had thir- teen little states, and few cities of proml- hence except Philadelphia, New York, Bal timore, Boston and Charleston. The entire revenue of the United States government under our first administration was only $4,5O0,OOO while it now costs annually $9S,- 100, ,313. B to defray the expenses of Greater New York Washington was then new settlement with only q few thousand popu- lation and had only been lately made the capital. The total wealth of the country was roundly estimated al $20O,0 900, or very little less than $40 per capita
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
QUIET DAY
In Washinston-Presdent Mckinley
 Attended Church.

Washington, November 29.-Thanksgiving Day was generally observed in Washington. All the executive departments of the gov- ernment were closed and deserted save for a few officials who came to attend to the mail. Many of the government employees left the city to spend the day in other States. The municipal offices and most of the stores were closed.
 The White House bore a deserted appear ance.. President Mckinley spent a little time in the morning in his office, and at Il o'clock entered his carriage and was driven to the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, where he attended Thanksgiving services. Rev. Dr. Frank Bristol, pastor of the church, conducted the services. The President went alone. MT. Smith took a short drive, returning in time to send the carriage for the President. The day was spent quietly by the Presidential house. hold
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

children at home. It is true that those who will claim the privilege may send their children free for as long time as the pulp lie funds will run the schools. Rather than enter their children as the children of pa rents who are unable or unwilling to pay the fees assessed, many people let them remain out of school and grow up in ignor- ance. This system is evidently against the policy of the law. The intention of the State is evidently to have free schools, and I have insisted that, when a supplement Is paid, it be used for the purpose of length ening the free term, and. where the people who pay the supplement are unwilling to do this that the free term be closed before the pay school is begun. This should be required by law. I trust that the time is near when every common school will be a free school'
 the entire report is clearly, even ele- gantly, written. and it is replete with in- teresting facts and statistics. The Age Herald is loath to believe that the people because of an unwritten law in politics. The office should not be considered polit- ical, and Mir Abercrombie should be ask ed to serve the State by caring for it's 6Oo- 900 children as long as he will. Every add ed year will make him more useful and valuable to this army of children to the future State.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
Ratify the HaY-Pauncefote Treaty.

Senator Morgan favors the ratification Of the HayPauncefote treaty, and he is who'll ly correct in the position he takes. The treaty has been misrepresented and dis torted. It is not a violation of the Monroe doctrine. It does not hand over rights that this country needs; it does not rob the country of any canal it may build across the isthmus.
 It should be remembered that it would do away with the Buwer-Clayton treaty, which forbids the building or the owner- ship of an isthmian canal by the United States It had been assumed that ths treaty had been outworn by tme but it has not, and it stands today bar to canal building by this country on isthmian lines. It is certainly better to repeal this bar by friendly treaty than to ignore it.
 The new treaty provides that the proposed canal shall be an international highway, and that its neutrality shall be guaranteed by the powers. If the great investment IS to become profitable it is better that the canal be placed on an international footing, as the Suez canal has been; and when war comes, the nation that controls the sea at either end of the canal will control the canal wholly regardless of a treaty or of a dozen treaties. War is no respecter of treaties. War is simply and solely force, and sea power will in war time decide the control of the canal The American navy can give us control of the canal in war time, and nothing else can. In times of peace we would want every flag to feel at home in the canal. We would then ce hunting for canal tolls.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
RERNHARDT's MANY TRUNKS.

New York Letter in the Chicago Inter-
 Ocean.
 Mime. Sarah Bernhardt is a happy woman. All of her trunks have at last passed through the custom house, and her maids can now furnish her with whatever article of apparel she may have a fancy to don. Thus. if madame has any particular pref erence for her 12O pairs of shoes her whim can be satisfied. Shoes are one of Mime. Bernhardt's fads. Her favorite Parisian bootmaker is constantly turning up with some new crea ton in kid, or peau glace or peau de suede, or satin, some times even of leather, providing it be dainty enough for the foot of a goddess. Mime. Bernhardt knows her weaknesses.
 q recognize that I have at least three crazes," she said to friend-"a craze for cloaks, a craze for hats and a craze for shoes"
 She has been very modest in the matter of headgear this trip. She has brought with her only sixteen hats, and a trife of nine toques-these latter mainly creations in furs. As for her costumes, they total up to sixty. This includes the costumes for La Dame Aux Camelias," six for "Frou Frou," three for La Tosca,' five for the role of 1Roxane in "Cyrano de Bergerac, two for Hamlet" two for "L' 'Aiglon," and one each for three other parts in her rep ertory which may be played here. Add these figures up and you will find there are twenty-six theatrical costumes in Mime. Bernhardt's wardrobe. For non-the- atrical purposes the great tragedienne has only matter of eight for costumes for travelling, and not more than twenty-five peignoirs, dinner dresses, walking dresses, afternoon dresses, and so forth. Sixty trunks were required-some of them as huge as wardrobes-for Mime. Sarah's personal ef- fectS
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
OUR DUTY TO SEIZE MEXICO.

From the Springfield Republican.
 Gen. Joseph Wheeler addressed a relig- ious gathering in New York Sunday on the trade rather than the religious advantages of holding the Philippines. He prefaced his remarks by saying that amy one who has ever seen our flag raised under such cir cumstances as 1t was at Santiago, in Cuba will never want to see it hauled drvsin." This indicates that the general is in favor of holding Cuba, and a religious gathering aware of the nations pledge in the matter, seems to have had no word of protest to of- fer But proceeding to the Philippines Gen. Wheeler paid high tribute to the 'charac ter of the people there, particularly m one respect accorded to the women, and he went on to say that 'tthe inhabitants of the Phil ippines seem to me much superior to tbose of Mexico. In those islands this country will find new market for its products"
 It would seem to be, then, that much larger market for our products would be- made out of Mexico if that country were placed under American sovereignty. This follows inevitably from the conclusion that we can only hold a market in the, Philip pines by holding political control there also. As a commercial necessity, therefore, the annexation of Mexico becomes as ur- gent as the holding of the Philippines, and the greater incapacity of the Mexicans for lf-government obviously calls for the seizure of that country as a colony of the United States in more emphatic terms than were afforded in the case of the Philip pines Accepting Gen Wheeler's statement as true, does not even greater duty de- voive I1non iis to take Mexico and hy force If need be? Does not providence and des- tiny speak even louder in this case? We cannot see why they do not But perhaps the friends of Philippine subjugation- whether for commercial, religious or duti- full reasons-can. If so. they should ex- plain.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
BEARS WILL BE IN PARADE.

From a Nogales, Ariz,, Dispatch.
 Washington will see two black bears in the inauguration parade on March next, as a result of an election bet between w. H. Hooley, collector of the port of Noga- les, and William Taggart of this town. The bears were captured in the Santa Rita mountains by Mark Lully, local hunter TIoley was for Bryan and Taggart for Me Kinley, and the terms of the bet were that in the event of Republican success Hooley should take the bears east and lead them in the parade. After the inauguration the animals, which are fine specimens, will be presented to the Washington Zoo.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

and attend the opening of St. Yincents Hospital He sung in the choir al the early morning dedcatory mass in the hospital chapel.
 Steiner Brothers bank will, on Satur- day, December 1, place at the disposal of the city s15O,0O0 on account of the city hall and school buildings bonds" said city of- ficial What immediate disposition the city will make of this money I cannot say, though Alderman Grays resolution offered in the City Council some time ago provided that s25, 900 of the money should be placed on deposit in each one of six banks in Bir- mingham. The bond bill as passed by the Legislature provides for the borrowing of $250, GOO, but the bonds to cover that money have not yet been printed. What immedi- ate security if any. will be given to Steiner Brothers for the money I do not know; don't know that they will want any se- curity or that any will be needed. My un- derstandng is simply that Steiner Brothers will have ready on Saturday $1500OO."
 
 Col. T. T. Wright of all the United States who had been in Birmingham for day or two in consultation with Maj Frank Y. Anderson and others respecting the pro- posed international exhibition in Birming- ham in 1904, left the city yesterday. He ex- poets to be in Birmingham again within a week or two.
 Mir R. E. l.. Neil and Mrs Neil of Selma were in Birmingham yesterday.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
THE HUMAN SEASONS.

John Keats.
 Four seasons full of measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind Of
 man: He has his lusty spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with easy span; He has his summer, when luxuriously Springs honeyed cud of youthful thought
 he loves
 To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven; quiet coves His soul has in its autumn, when his wings He furleth close, contented so to look On mists in idleness to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his winter, too, of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his moral nature
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
Kentucky Official Returns.

Louisville, Ky, November 29-With off, cial returns from every county in Kentucky the Courier-Journal announces Bryan's plurality as 1915 and Beckham's as 351S. The vote will be canvassed at Frankfort on December 8, and the result officially an- nounced
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
tmas should be loaded.
RECALLING BECOMES.

From the Cleveland Leader.
 Even the financiers of London are amazed at the prosperity of the United States Still, four years ago the people of this country were told that the bankers of London controlled the money market of America
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
Miss Johnston Married.

London November 29.-Nfiss Helen John ston, niece of ex-Ambassador to France J. B. Eustis was married today to Captain Ainnesiie. The marriage was quiet and was performed by Monsignor vaunghan. The honeymoon will be spent in Parts.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
PLANT OF A TIRED SOUL.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 It is to be hoped the nation will be per- mitted to plunge into the coming century without any further wrangllng over the date of it's commencement
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
CHEAP POSTAGE IN JAPAN.

From the Kansas City Times.
 If Japan did an express and freight busi- ness through the malls as we do in this country 1t could not afford to carry a let ter anywhere in the empire for post age stamp worth one-seventeenth of a cent.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
NO ROOM FOR ARGUMENT.

From the Cleveland Leader.
 American manufacturers are now said to be invading the markets of South Africa, in spite of British competition. That is kind of expansion to which Americans can- not object q
The age-herald., 1900-11-30
HERE'S A RAY OF HOPE.

From the Denver Republican.
 Now that the Sultan has bought an auto- mobile and intends to run 1t himself may be Uncle Sam can collect that debt out of the life insurance.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Dr. Dowie supported the administration and the administration is now supporting him by admitting his lacemakers. Turn about Is fair play
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Kitchener Is not doing worse at any rate than Sheridan did in the Shenandoah Val ley. War after all was accurately described by General sherman
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Governor Tanner calls his opponent, Sem ator Cullom, old lumber legs, and he thinks he has got him beaten to a fare-you- we'll No one else thinks so however
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

You are not in fashion unless you are booked to attend the last meeting of some thing or the other of the century.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

The devine Sarah Is said to be as mag neiie and artistic as she was thirty odd years ago My! how time flies!
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The New York horse show has brought irJto prominence the burrs that 2 human brutes put as bits in horses mouths.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Dom Paul receives plenty of encourage ment in the streets, but none in the foreign offices.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Kitchener Is not doing worse. at any rate than Sheridan did in the Shenandoah Val ley. War after all was accurately described by General sherman
 The New York horse show has brought Into prominence the burrs that human brutes put as bits in horses mouths. You are not in fashion unless you are booked to attend the last meeting of some thing or the other of the century.
 The devine Sarah Is said to be as mag neiic and artistic as she was thirty odd years ago. My! how time flies!
 Between bankruptcy and matrimony and crossing the big seas our new "dook' is a pretty busy young man.
 New York's latest sersation Is the new Vanderbilt baby's laye:te. Layette is a swell word for duds.
 The Republic of Acre, in the rubber woods, lacks the consent of it's suzerains, Brazil and Bolivia.
  Abdul Hamid is very Crank and open as to all subjects except the one relating to overdue bills.
 Webster Davis is at present casting long ing eyes towards Paris and his old friend, Dom Paul.
 The porch climber seeks not only the top but any loose valuables that come i'm his way.
 The ex-professors of Sanford University ought to do good work on a football team. War taxes cannot be repealed because the ship subsidy men must be paid off.  General Ma, the Chinese general, has met the Germans, and he is theirs.
 Mir Mckinley had no warmer supporter than the esteemed Dr. Dowie.
 Lord Butler of Ladysmith'' is a queer tumble to say the least.
 The Czar will remain with us to help on the peace of the world.
 
 The corn corner has come and gone.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Between bankruptcy and matrimony and crossing the big seas our new "dook' is a pretty busy young man.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

New York's latest sensation Is the new Vanderbilt baby's laye:te. Layette is a swell word for duds.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Lord Butler of Ladysmitha is a queer tumble to say the least.
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Mir Mckinley had no warmer supporter than the esteemed Dr. Dowie.
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The Republic of Acre, in the rubber woods. lacks the consent of it's suzerains, Brazil and Bolivia.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Abdul Hamid is very frank and open as to all subjects except the one relating to overdue bills.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

General Ma the Chinese general, has met the Germans and he is theirs.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

War taxes cannot be repealed because the ship subsidy men must be paid off.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

The Czar will remain with us to help on the peace of the world.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

The ex-professors of Sanford University ought to do good work on football team.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Webster Davis is at present casting long ing eyes towards Paris and his old friend Dom Paul.
The age-herald., 1900-11-30

Mir R. E. L. Neil and Mrs. Neil of Selm were in Birmingham yesterday.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-01
GOSSIP OF WRITERS.

When travelling Tolstoi takes the
slowest train he can find, because he
holds that the charm OF travelling Is
inversely proportioned to its rapidity.
Herbert Spencer never made any
money on his books, and in several
cases lost some. On his eight volumes
OF principles OF Sociology" for ex-
ample, there was n deficit OF $4,000.
DR.. Murray, Of the new English die
tionary, wants early instances OF the
use OF intentions" In the sense Of
wishing to marry. He has been un-
able to trace the word further back
than 1884.
DIR. Il. A. Z. Petzel, Of Cleveland, O.,
wrote poem not long ago on Ger
many, ITO My Fatherland," which was
copied In the Berlin papers, and
brought him a congratulatory letter
from Emperor William.
Some time ago the Princeton New
Jersey university presented to the
British museum $50 specimens OF
North American birds eggs-many
OF them of rare species, Now the Brit
ish museum reciprocates by present
ing to the Princeton university 1000
mounted birds, including brilliant
specimens from India, Australia and
the Malay islands.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-01
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS.

Just cause aud impediment."--
Cause or just impediment." (Book
Of Common Prayer.)
'"The even tenor OF their way
'yrhe noiseless tenor Of their way"
(Gray's Elegy.)
Fresh fields and pastures new."-
Fresh woods and pastures new
(Milton. Lycidas)
-"Make assurance doubly sure."--
MAKE assurance double sure" (Mac.
beth. Act ~. Sc. ~
sBenedict the married man. should
be "Benedick the married man" Much
Ado About Nothing)
"Falleth as the gentle dew
"Droppeth as the gentle rain" (Mer-
chant OF Venice. Act lV. Sc. -
Yrhe man that hath no music In his
soui."-"The man that hath no music
in himself" Qbid. Act V. Sell
''Charity covereth multitude Of
sins.'-"Charity shall cover the multi
tude Of sins" t.Peter 4;s)
The tongue is an unruly member
but the tongue can no man tame; it
is an unruly evil" (James 3;s)
Falls like Lucifer Never TO rise
again. Fails like Lucifer Never to
hope again." Henry VIII. Act III.
Sc. -
"Thick as autumn leaves in Vallom-
brosa. Thick as autumnal leaves
that strew the brook in Vallombrosa."
(Milton. Paradise Lost, Book ~
"A man convinced against his will
viii hold the same opinion still."-"He
that complies against his will Is OF his
own opinion still" Butler Hudibras.
Part I'LL
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-01
SOME MEXICAN PROVERBS.

There's no gain without pain.
To the hungry no bread is dry.
Wind and good luck do not last.
lie who has little has little to fear.
Flies cannot enter closed mouth.
Don't take a pawn that must be fed.
A cat In gloves will never catch
rats.
The good laundress washes the shirt
first,
A book that Is shut makes no
scholar.
A frugal, rich father and spend
thrift son.
II the pill were not bitter 1t would
not be gilt.
No word is III spoken II II is not ill
understood.
A tongue may inflict n deepr wound
than sword,
He who never ventures will never
cross the sea.
No evil will endure hundred years.
When the river is passed the saint
is forgotten.
Do not trust your money to those
who keep their eyes on the floor
make an outward sign OF piety).