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The age-herald., 1900-01-25
Bryan Birthday Club

Chattanooga, Tenn, January A.-The Bryan birthday anniversary club met to- night to make preliminary arrangements for the clubs annual banquet on March 19, MT. Bryan's birthday. Committees were appointed and covers are to be laid for 400. F. H. Hood, president of the club, has as- surances that MT. Bryan will be here. George Fred Williams, of Massachu tts, has sent note to say that he will be here if business engagements will allow. Sena- tor Tillman, Mayor Carter Harrison, Ex- Governor Hogg and John R. Mclean are expected to be among the invited guests.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
COURT JOURNAL. ROT

From the Talladega News-Reporter.
 The following bit of demagogy is a sam pie of the tact which the Johnston forces are taking to galn favor with the element he depends on for strength. namely the ignorant and prejudiced. They say through their Montgomery meubhpeee: Senator Morgan's little democratic party was born on Brussels carpet with a silver spoon in it's mouth and mint ready in the glass" On the contrary Senator MoTgan's party was born in the heart of Jefferson, over a hun dred years ago whoe wisdom has enabled the people to rise from painful pepury and want t1 comfort and refinement. If 1t be a disgl ace or is disloyal to be clean and com fortable, then Jefferson is to blame, for he made it possible. But he demanded that elegance and refinement should be acquired thu ough justice and fair dealing. Does the Journal say that Senator Morgan ever got a dollar through shady transaction? Can IL say those it is so intimat tely acquainted with never did? The Journal is playing to the galleries with such rot. Talladega county isn't made up of prejudice and H. ,iteracy, therefore 1t is one or the strongest Morgan counties in the state. And Nor gans rival was raised here too.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

tremest measures are taken to stamp the disease out. The government has appro- priated $25OOOo to the effort to drive the plague out, and is remodelling even the sewerage system with that object in view. The disease is very difficult of eradication under such circumstances as exist in Hono- lulu.
 In the better residence and business DOT lions of the Hawaiian capital, there Is little danger. Some alarm is felt in those dis tricts, but thus far there is not much ground for 1t. All cases are, as a rule, fatal. and this enhances the nervousness in this outpost of the mainland.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
LeuislatIon in Mississippi

The Mississippi legislature is in session, and it is full of reform measures. These have been grouped together as five proposi- tions, and it is reasonable to say that ac- tion will be had on each one of them be- fore the day of final adjournment.
 In the first place, Mississippi needs. a new state house, the present one being beyond repair or addition. It is hopeiessly insufficient. The favorite proposition looks to sale of the present state house, and the building of a new one on the penitentiary grounds in the residence section of Jackson, the total cost to be about million dollars.
 The state proposes to do without a penbtentlary building in Jackson at least. Propositions looking to a penltenuary cotton mill and to tlhe purchase of penitentiary farms are pending. The raising of cotton by convict labor has heretofore been very successful in the state The addition of a cotton mill to one of the convict farms would afford employment in the cases of those convicts who are not fitted for labor in the fields.
 sentiment has grown up in the state in favor of a compulsory uniform primary election Jaw, and it is believed a bill of that nature will be passed. Wherever primary system has been tested it effectu- ally ousts the old-time clique system. Alabama is following in the footsteps of her sister states. An uniform text book law will probably be passed, thus bringing ito the common schools the best books at the lowest rates; and law compelling the people of each district to build and keep in repair better public highways, will also be passed.
 The measure that arouses t.e most op- position is the bill that Senator Adams has introduced in response to Governor Longino's recommendations as to lynch ings. Public sediment is divided, but the chances are that the heirs of d victim will be given 5000 by the county in which the crime of the mob occurs, and sheriff from whom a prisoner is taken for the purpose of lynching him will be incon- tnentaliy bounced. The state is agitated over this step in humanitarian progress this effort to enforce respect for law, but 1t is supported by the best men in the state, and may become law.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
REAIEMBRA zCE

Bayard Taylor. Joy is a goblet that soon is drained; It cracks in our needless hands; But the cup of Remembrance forever stands, Filled witch the libaticus the wormwood of tears have stained We lift it against the dying sum- We drink till the eyes run over; We drink till the heart will contain no more, And surfeited turns from The Lebhe it has not won.
 a For all can look around and before, But few can steadily turn Where the unextinguished beacons burn, Far back on the c,ffs of the lost, un- reachaole shore Few can sit at the board of the Past, The Barmecde feast of the soul And catch and sing over its songs as they rol Tor the heart strings attuned to their burthen are broken at last.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Coke Ovens Wanted

If this district had 5,00O more coke ovens its development would be greatly quick ened and broadened. Furnaces now idle would be blown in, and capital could be att tracted to the building of new furnaces if it did not at the same time have to provide a new supply of coke. The prevailing coke famine prevents, in other words, any ma terial increase in the production of iron in were added last year. but the district needs 5,OOO additional ovens. Coke is always in demand, because it bears freight charges better than coal. There is no danger that an investment in coke ovens will ever prove improbable.
 The production of coke has not been greatly increased. In 1906 the coke produc- ton in this district was 1,6S97O3 tons. Dr. Smith puts the production of the first nine months of 1899 at 1,267 200 tons, thus indi- eating that the production of 1899 will not greatly exceed that of 1896. The sum of production named as that of 1896 may be found on page 366 of Dr. Phillips Iron Making in Alabama" If the figures are correct cokemaking is at a standstill in this district; but whether it is or not, the movement is not satisfactory. It does not meet the demand, and the energies of the district should be turned in greater volume towards cokemaking, because development in other directions is now hindered if not prevented, by the inadequate coke supply. Five thousand more ovens are needed in this district. and that number will con- tinue to be needed. There is an abundance of ore, stone and coal, but famine of coke, although the burning of coal into coke is simple and inexpensive, and the construction of ovens calls for neither a great length of time nor the expenditure of great amounts of money.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
THE HERO OF CLARKE

From the Annlston Hot Blast.
 MT. Sidney J. Bowie returned from Clarke county Monday morning and has been the reciprent of hundreds of congratulatory re- marks upon the disastrous overflow of Governor Johnston in that county on Sat urday, very largely due to the splendid work ot MT. Bowie. The Hot Blast read CTS are acquainted with the conditions that existed when he was sent into that county q week ago and how the governors organ relted :a m daily for his "unseemly and ungentlcman'y conduct in appearing and answering the speeches of the willy Jo- seph. The county was practically con- ceded 10 the governor when MT. Bowie went into it. But he brought a glorious victory from expected defeat and his friends now name him "The Hero of Clarke"
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
What the Boy Waited For

An inspector of Irish schools tells a good story, says the Newcastle (England) Clron- icle At a school where he made a surprise visit a little boy happened to come in for the first time and stepped up to the in- specitor at once
 ''Sit there for the present" said the in- Spector, indicating the desired spot.
 The boy obeyed readily, and when the inspector had finished his multitudinous inquiries into the knowledge of geography, grammar, and arithmetic possessed by the d1lldren he found that the boy still sat in the same spot.
 'Wlnait are you waiting for, my boy?"
 Please, sir, Fm waiting for the pres- ent."
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
For the Benefit of Foreigners

Upon one occasion, at Vienna, a Bavar- ian noble was uttering phlippic against the Hungarian spelling and orthoepy, re- lates the Chicago News. pr. Maurus Jo- kal, who was present, listened with grave attention until the noble had concluded. Then he rose, bowed, and remarked:
 We do spell badly, and pronounce even worse, but, your excellency, that is a part of our national courtesy; we do it to give foreigners an excuse when they try to speak m our beautiful language"
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
rHia PREACHER PAYS DIvIpENDs

From the London Chronicle.
 Much interest has been displayed in all parts of the kingdom in remarkable ex- pertinent undertaken by the Rev. c. D. nacle MT. Crouch is devoting himself to business pursu1.s, so that ne may be free to apply himself to the work of the minis try without payment from 2is flock He congregation, in which he states that his efforts have been so s!grally blessed that he was able to return their offerings at the rate of $50 in the first year, e100 in the second and in the year upon which they are just entering tine return will be 9150. Considerable criticism" adds the reverend gentleman, lis aroused by the course which I felt led to take, but the conviction that I am in the way of the Lords will determines me to go forward" MT. Crouch was an old pupil of lhe late MT. Sturgeon. with whom he was on the most friendly terms. For some years Mir. Crouch was a Baptist pastor, but four years ago he cut himself adrift from denominationalism, and now carries on divine worship at the ta tabernacle at Worthing, with what success the preced- ing information will indicate The par ticular business to which Inc applies him self during the week is fruit4growing. of which Worthing Is the great center in the south.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Forgot That He Was In Enelaud


 Here Is a Kipling snake story that is true which is more than can be said of most snake or Kipllng stories that are floating about on the journalistic seas, writes a London correspondent in the Saturday Evening Post. Odd figures sometimes give better idea of the extent of the British empire than even a map of the world would. So here,- before really beginning the kipling snake-story, be it told that last year more than 5000 of our fellow-sub- jects in India lost their lives by being kill ed by wild animals. Snake bites aceoun. for large proportion of that 25 0OO As a consequence of the frequency with which venomous snakes are met with Anglo-In- dians spend their whole life in thinking of their lives and watching out for snakes When MT. Kipling reached London from India in his search for fame and fortune he lodged in some small rooms on Villiers street, Strand updwo flights of stairs. One morning friend called, and when he found himself in Rudyard Kipling's sitting-room he was surprised to see a handsome mirror which stood over the fireplace smashed to smithereens."
 Snakes said Kipling, noticing the look of astonishment on his friends face.
 "I was dozing in my chair yesterday evening and my foot slipped out of my shoe, which for comfort I had unlaced. Half-waking, I felt with my foot for the shoe and began slipping it in when my. toes touched the leather tongue. Snake! flashed across my sleepy brain; gave one desper- ate kick, and when the shoe struck that mirror realized that I was in London, and not in India"
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
Not on to the Wiles of Politicians

When James Everett Butler, a grandson of Governor Mount of Indiana, is in the office of the governor the attaches of the office walk straight" says the Indian apolts Press. A day or two ago, while the governor was almost buried under mass of state papers in his private office a man walked into the office and asked if the governor were in.
 'aEIe is not in just at present." said Pr-- vate Secretary Wilson, in his most suaye manner.
 70 yes, he is,' said James Everett But Ter 'fEIe's right in that room there,' and MT. Wilson nearly collapsed as the stranger walked into the private office
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
REFLEOrIONs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 Never count your chickens till you're dead sure they're not geese. 7
 No man who isn't married can appreciate what ''the white mans burden" is.
 A mistake is never much more than half a mistake till you are fool enough to talk about it.
 The woman who can put on her shoes without sftting down on tlle floor is about as rare as the man who doesn't nang up this necktie on the gas fixture.
 The average woman has a lot of muslin night gowns for her husband and one pink silk one with lace on it that she wears when she goes away to stay all night with some other woman.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
ECHOES FROM
 THE MEGAPHONE

From the Clogtown Megaphone
 Smallpox has developed in Clogtown The editor has been vaccfnated and has had the virus rubbed on his press, type, stove and every available piece of furniture in the office. You can safely call and pay your subscription.
 We wish to return thanks to John Wad- dleton for a payment on subscription in the form a young alligator. It is quite a curi- osity in Clogtown, and has been the means of alluring men into the office who have owed us for seven years. They have not been in the office before for years and years. O. how we have been dunning and collect ing from this kind, and this alligator has proven the best collector we have ever seen. We receive anything on subscription.
 
 Some man broke into our residence last week and stole our shoes. No honest man would do such a low-down act, and we shall rejoice to see the perpetrator hung as punishment for the crime. Larceny from editors receives capital punishment in this state. This accounts for our delay this week. We have been trying to get our feet accustomed to being seen in public in very uecOilelle uTSSS, Us we nave llO OIhSi ShoSS on hand
 travelling theatrical troup played at the academy last night to an audience consist ing of the editor and family and the mayor and his wife and eleven children. We were the only people in all Clogtown who had been able to secure free tickets. Clogsown can't appreciate any kind of amusement if it costs money.
 We have been doing the cooking this week. as our wife has joined the womans club and her entire time is taken up sewing for the orphans home and collecting for the missionary society. If this missionary fund is ito be donated in Clogtown we wish the committee would call and see how very much the editors family can be benefited with the contribution. We need bread
 The editor is just in receipt of stick of dynamite with the compliments of the send .er, who forgot to sign his name This is just what we have been wanting for a long time. The loafers' club hangs out at our office and we shall handle ithis dynamite in a very reckless manner when the gang Is in and the way those fellows will sail away will be a caution J. IL. d'
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
LAIsEI.s NECE.sARY

From the Bessemer Herald-Journal.
 The Montgomery Journal complains that The Age-Herald cartoonlst has been com pelled to label the governor. Evidently the Journal does not like to have atten- tion called to its man. But the governor was necessarily labeled in the Birmingham paper of yesterday. No one can recognize Jodey just after John T. gets through with him
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
A Youthful Idea of Patriotism

There is small boy at Islington whose father is a Frenchman, but who himself was born in England and has lived there all his life, says London Tit1Bits. Conse- quently he considers himself to be an EngHshman. He has recently gone to school, and has been taking fis first les sons in English history. The other night he looked up from his book, musingly, and said to his father:
 Papa, we licked you awfully at the bat tie of Waterloo, didn't wei"
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
shiloh Battlefleld Commiss,on Adiourns

Chattanooga, Tenn, January A.-The Shiloh battlefield commission which has been in session here for two days adjourned this evening. The committee let the con tract for supplying the memorial tablets and battle line markers to the Chattanooga Car and Foundry company of which Pen sion Commissioner H. Clay Evans is pro- prietor, the bid of that concern being the lowest.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
A Grave for Ruslkin

London, January 24.-The Dean of West minister has offered a grave Tn Westminster Abbey for the remains of John Ruskin. This honor, however, has been declined by MT. Ruskin's relatives. who say in their reply to MT. Brady that dit was the au- thor's own wish to sleep in Conistan Churchyard where his remains were in- terred on Thursday.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
SENATOR MoRGAN,s REPLY

From the Fayette Tribune
 Senator Morgan's reply to Governor Johnstons letter is the whole thing within Itself. He very plainly shows the culpability of the governors connection with the university land deal, and also his influence in organizing the New Jersey trust.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

people of this section have not forgotten the fidelity and courage of John T. Mdrgan during the dark days of reconstruction. Neither have they forgotten his memosQble fight against the force bill. If 1t had not been for the fight that Morgan and men like him made against carpetbaglsm and negro supremacy, where would Alabama be today?
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
The Prussian School System

Berlin, January 24.-Emperor William, 1t is said, intends to take up again his plan for modifying the Prussian school system, especially in the higher classes, believing that the studies ought to bear more upon the practical demands of the newer callings. It is believed that his proposals will ma- teriaize this year.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
Generat stanton Dead

Washington January 24-News has been received in this city of the death of General T. H. Stanton, formerly paymaster general of the army in Omaha, this even ing. He was known as the fighting pay master. because of his insistence on place in the line during the Indian outbreaks.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
HOW HE WILL FEEL

From the Tuscaloosa Iunes.
 Johnston is now like the little boy the calf ran over; but We opine when Morgan and the people get through with him he will feel like stamoeded herd of Texas steers had passed over him.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
Cigar Makers Locked Out

Boston, Mass, January A.-Twelve hun died union cigarmakens were locked out in this city as the result of a demand upon the manufacturers for an increaso in the rate of certain kinds of hand work.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

If the American coal company did not sell its lands at si95O an acre, the esteemed court journal is hereby requested to name the price it did sell them for.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

New York state is still puzzled over the location of its real capital. Geographers say it is at Albany, but the knowing ones locate 1t at No. 40 Broadway.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
Fighting AIabama's Best interest

Governor Johnston daily ridicules on the stump the Nicaragua canal declaring it will never be built. Those who believe it will be speedily built, and especially those who desire a waterway to the Pacific for the passage of Alabama coal, iron, cotton and lumber, are naturally supporting the champion and early-and-late advocate of the Nicaragua canal Read what the Mo- bile Register sys:
 Now, what does such a canal mean to Us of Mobile? It means that we shall be on the highway of commerce instead of being in the cul de sac; it means that the Gulf of Mexico will be made the Medfter- nanean sea of America and that the trade
 of the world will pass through it seeking
 our western ports and the ports of South
 America, China, Japan, Australia and the Indies. And in the trade Mobile will have
 her part. Being on the shortest line of rail and water communication with the coun- tries east and west, great part or th-5 trade will certainly pass through this port. Mobile will become a great mart, mag 1 nificent seaport. She has every advantage now that a port so situated can have ex- cept this outlet through the isthmus to | the countries bordering on the Pacific. This l port is directly north of a whole line of | important seaports on the western coast 1 or SOuun Amef1ca. The shortest pOSSADle | route between those ports any any manu- l featuring point in the United States will be via Mobile. We have everything to hope for from the construction of the canal and Senator Morgan Is the personifcation of the spirit that means to construct the canal while Governor Johnston stands confessed as the spirit of obstruction. Governor
 Johnston might as we'll propose to block up our port as oppose this canal project. If he should do so, he would commit him self no more decisively against our com merclal interests"
 All that the Register says as to the value
 of the proposed Nicaragua canal to Mobile,
 Is applicable to every other part of Ala
 bama in almost equal degree. Whoever
 ridicules that project, or in any manner
 decries it. is trifing with the most impor-
 tant interests of the state-is obstruetng
 the states growth and prosperity; for Ala
 bama with her magnificent river system
 Is admirably located to gather from the
 Nicaragua canal the greatest possible Dene- fits. Alabama wants no man as her repre- sentative who decries the Nicaragua canal
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Quay is drawing the party line pretty firmly, although it involves the swallowing of all good precedents against governor made senators. All such senators are jobs.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Non-committal legislative candidates. who appeared from the arena altogether That trick was too transparent to deceive any body.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Chicago nominates President Bolden- week, of its drainage canal, for chief of the Nicaraguan enterprise. St. Louis refuses, however, to second the nomination.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

The Duchess de Marlborough has the most war-like husband, and the Countess de Castellane the most expensive one.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

We sell Great Britain annually $65O 900 900 in agricultural products We cannot afford to twist that lions tail.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

From the Mobile Herald.
 This defeat of Governor Johnston will be a severe blow to him. It means that he has no showing in South Alabama. The
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Russia has decided to stick to the Julian calendar and its Christmas will, after a while, occur in midsummer.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

St. Louis is getting much good advice from Chicago as to the best manner of cooking water imps.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

After a a-sixty-day effort the prosecution in the Molineux case has rested. The de- fense will now take its sixty days, and then come the innings of the rebuttals and sub end of it.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Rudyard Kipling has gone to South Af- rica. He will supplement the work of the magazine generals
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

In Biaeknore's incomparable story of Lorna Doone there is this ''old saying" of far, fair. incomparable Exmoor:
The age-herald., 1900-01-25
CLARKE COUNTY

In Chicago there is a clamor for buffet street cars.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Chicago reminds St. Louis that to tho pure all things are pure, even Chicago sewerage.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

The favorbte race-horse name next seasor will be "Aguinaldo."
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Bom Castellane does not outrank Jay Gould on the bourse.
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

In the Clark-Quay combine pot cannot call kettle black
The age-herald., 1900-01-25

Marcus Daiy and w. G. Clark are tarred with one stick.