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The age-herald., 1900-02-19
A MEMORY OF GOEBEL

Willis Abbot in the Chicago Journal
 met Senator Goebel in Chicago last Au- gust, and had, I suppose, the usual experi- ence of the man who meets him for the first time-perhaps that even of those who have known him long. Never was there a man of less prepossessing manner, never one of less of what we call personal mag netism''-or used to so call, for everybody must have noticed that that term, which gained its greatest currency in the days of MT Blaine has of late almost disappeared from the American vocabulary. In manner he was chilling. though courteous, in con versation reserved to the point of tacftur- nifty; evasive of eye, clammy of aand and seemingly unresponsive to any generous en- thusiasm.
 The inherent and involuntary coldness and lack of enthusiasm in Goebel must have been heavy handicap to him in his endeavors to secure leadership in Ken lucky. Gcc1el was type Of his own. His
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Might Have Been An Artist

The Infant Baden-Powell showed a quiet contempt for the toys that brighten the average child's life. He was quite happy if placed in possession of a stump of lead pen cil and sheet or two of plain unruled- he insisted on having 1t unruled !--paper With these parliamentary tools of the artist he would sit by the hour evolving from his infantdle brain the weirdest sort of original drawings, some of which, achieved at the age of years. are preserved as family relics. They are not copies-"B.-P," even in those days had too much faith in himself to copy anybody-but self-conceived and self executed little pencil drawings which for a child of years of age are surprisingly clever If R. s. s. Baden-Powell had not been a brave and distinguished soldier he would have achieved greatness as an artist probably of the impressionist school Young Powell was given thorough and useful schooling at Tunbridge Wells, after ward by a private tutor, and then at the Charterhouse school
The age-herald., 1900-02-19

posed, because it would both lessen their share of spells under bin they had con cocted and pushed, but it would also build up general rivalry. and it would aid the southern ports, none of which objects are germane to the bill as the liners have drawn it, and as the esteemed Hanna de- sires 1t to be; for he has an eye single to his campaign fund.
 As the bill stands il would take about ten million a year from the people for the purpose of enriehing a half dozen ship owning monopolies that are already very rich J. J. IIirs line from San Francisco would waIlow in wealth, and so would the Atlantic lines that the Standard oil con- trols, and such lines could make rates un- der the Hanna bill that would starve out inc. tramn steamers that fill southern ports. It is practically bill to ignore the south, and aggrandize the east.
 The bfll will be reported in each house -favorably reported; in the senate to please MT. Frye as well as MT. Hanna; in the house. to please MT. Grosvernor; but It will then be permitted to rest undisturpeo on the calendar until the short session IS ready for business, when 1t can De talheo to death in the senate. This shameless ex- tension of the tariff principle may there fore he considered dead. It certainly is until after the November election.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
New York's Dewey Arch.

Another slow scandal has been inflicted upon the country by the AstorbiIt city of New York The acuumulators and grab- hers of that great city have no civic pride, mo patriotism ito boast of, no thought of the children of the land. and they simply go on accommodating in order to be able to leave English wills that will be monuments to themselves as vulgar accumulators The entire Astor-vanderbilt scheme of accu- mutation is a reflection upon every thing that is noble in American life, and the sooner the remainder of it is transported across the Atlantic the better for all on this side of the sea.
 A fund of a million dollars is needed, al- though oneIhalf of that amount would an- swer. New York's millionaires have sub scrbbed to date about ,s27, and the rest is to become lingering burden upon the country, to be eked out in the public schools, in theater benefits, in bazaars, and dn other ways that reach the masses, for the classes have failed ito respond in prop CT proportion. The experience of the Grant monument Is to be repeated. After years of drumming and scheming it was accomplished, and perhaps the children in the schools may live to see that Dewey arch pass beyond the dream stage.
 New York should be forbidden by public sentiment to start such projects. The man ner in which its millionaires rise to such schemes is a reflection upon American character, and the country is becoming tired of the entire business. The present condition of the project must be source of modification to Admiral Dewey, as well as shame to New York itself. The latter does not care, but the people who admire Dewey are grieved by the failure, and they will feel relieved when the scheme Is either wholly abandoned or perfected. In either event New York should go out of the me morial business, for it Is city without civic pride, at least among it's Four Hun drad
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
HURLEY AND RUSSELL

From the Washington Post.
 Sol Smith Russell has a double in the sen- ate His name is Hurley, and he is a sena- tor from Tennessee.
 If MT. Hurley should wear the Hon. John Grigsbys clothes and stove-pipe hat, he could go on the stage anywhere. and there isn't an audience in the United States that would know him from Russell. For Mir. Hurley has a smooth-shaven. pens.-e coun- tenance. like Russell, is dark-haired, and dark-eyed, and moves around with Russeils easy step and quiet voice. He has not that peculiarly pathetic, yet penetrating tone that Russell possesses. but his voice has enough resemblance to be quite marked. Indeed Senator Hurley exactly fills the typical picture of a country lawyer of Grigsbys time, with his long 6rock coat and his low-cut vent showing wide ex- panse of shirt-front, and his small black cravat. It does not appear, however, that he ever went upon the stage on the con- trary, his life has been devoted to the law. sn which profession he has made an envia- ble reputation and to which he is desirous expires.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
" SENATOR HOAR AS A PROPHET

From the Boston Herald.
 Theodore Roosevelt continues to insist that he never, never will be the republican candidate for vice president. He wants to be governor again, and he wants to be nothing else. This would seem to leave Platt no alternative but to aequiesce, un- less he can change Roosevelt's mind. He has one resource, though we are not sure that this can be effective. He can say to Roosevelt that he will not accept him as governor. On Roosevelt's own theory of action, he ought not to strive for that qf- flee unless Platt sanctions his having 1t again. This it will be remembered, has been his course as governor-to take no step in that office until Platt had been conciliated. But Roosevelt may now req son that he compelled Ptatt to accept him against Platt's wishes two years ago, and, with his self-confidence, he may have the conviction that he can do the same thing once more.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Appointment Was a Surprise

At the age of IS he left Charterhouse with the intention of studying two years at ox- ford, and then going up for the army as university candidate. "B.-P." entered himself for the July army examination so as to learn what kind of subjects would be required of him in the future. It was not his intention to pass before the pre- arranged stay at Oxford. To his great surprise he received in September-the month before his proposed taking up resi- dence at Oxford-a formal notification from the commander-in- chief, the Duke of Cam bridge, that he had passed second for the cavalry and fifth of the whole 71S candi- dates, and that the duke had already ap- pointed him lieutenant in the Thirteenth Hussars. Young Baden-Powell had no al- formative but to abandon all thoughts of Oxford and to forthwith join his regiment in India.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Lessons of the New Weapons.

Julian Ralph, the well known correspond ent of tbe London Daily Mail, now at the l front near Modder river, makes plain the | changes that have taken place in warfare changes as great almost as the Merrlmac and Monitor wrought in sea warfare forty years ago. "Dig trench" he says, "and
 line 1t with good shots. supported by mod
 ern artillery. and no enemy can advance in
 the face of them. They may be outlanked
 or starved, but, while their ammunition
 holds out. none can oust them. for they can
 fill the whole plain over radius of at
 least 4,0O0 yards-over two miles-with such
 a whitening blast of shrapnel and rifle bull
 lets that no troops can stand in the open
 before it."
 Speaking of the battle of Magersfontein, MT Ralph very truthfully adds: "The Boers there demonstrated the fact that, given a plain, field glasses, modern magazine rifles and quick-firing small guns and the whole German army itself could | not dislodge the 65,0OO men of the two Boer republics by frontal attack on those l grassedged trenches. Not 900 British could l have beaten those 15,00O Boers, except at | such a sacrifice of life as no commander | would require or could be pardoned for
 occasioning. For frontal attack the old
 military manuals declared that the attack l ing force must be three times that of the l defending force, but today, with the new l weapons, 1t is said that ten men must at- l tack one."
 ern warfare is the invisibility of the foe. There are men who have been in five or six battles who have never seen Boer. | Noise or flame can be heard or seen, but not Boer. Fighting in this way, one Boer l becomes ten men. and all ten invisible. l Instead of moving on its belly, a modern army must fight on it's belly, says Mir. l Ralph, in conclusion: "If Germany got in a world could advance and be slaughtered 1 but not all the world could oust the Ger | mans from that trench"
 l These facts explain the difficulty of the l task that Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener l have in hand. If they succeed in solving 1t, they will not only become England s
 greatest soldiers. but they will stand in history as the men who met new and dan gerous conditions and overcome them. They | and all the other heroes of less strenuous l times
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
RoosEvELT's PERSISTENCE

From a Speech Delivered at Plymouth,
 Mass, Five Years Ago.
 The tree our fathers set covered at first a little space by the seaside. It has plant ed its banyan branches in the ground. It the gulf. It has spanned the Mississippi It has covered the prairie and the plain. The sweep of its lofty arches rises over the Rocky mountains and the Cascades and the Nevadas. Its hardy growth shelters the frozen region of the northwest It's boughs hang over the Pacific. And in time-in good time-it will send its roots beneath the waves and receive under its vast can opy the islands of the sea.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
A Keen Lover of Actiue Sport

Baden-Powell was great success in India, socially as we'll as professionally. He proved an adept at pig-sticking, which, before he had tried Boer hunting he de- clared to be his favorte sport.
 On one of these excursions the young of- ficer was suddenly and violently flung from his horse and appeared to alight on his head. When his comrades galloped up. fearing the worst, they were received with a smile from the recumbent ''B.-P.,' who seemed little damaged by his experience. He explained that~as he was shot off the horse he realized that he was going to fall on his head, and, remembering a feat he had learned in the gymnasium, he perform ed a half somersault before reaching the ground, and thus saved himself from a probable dislocated neck.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Poet Growing Portiy

From the Troy Standard.
 upon a time 'boss poet" of the Alabama Press association, was in the city Wednes- day. Joe Is growing more portly as the though none the less handsome than when, a decade ago. he captured the honors of the association with his poem. Southeast Alabama" We hope that long life and proseprity may be hiss-
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
"United States" to be Defined.

The republican managers, who are bound of the tariff robbery scheme, propose to es- tablish tariff for Porto Rico that Is 75 per cent. below the Dingley-M Mckinley schedules. At present Porto Rican products are paying. when imported by Americans full Dingley rates; and a Boston firm has paid under protest some duties on Porto Rican goods, and will proceed to bring suit for the recovery of the money. This is per- missible under the customs laws When this suit or some similar suit reaches the supreme court. and is decided, then we will know what the United States consists of.
 At present it is held by the party in pow CT to include Alaska .but not to include Porto Rico. If Porto Rico is not part of the United States, then it is a colony, to be ruled by the president and a subservient congress outside of the constitution. The word has been passed all along the tariff llre that Mir. Mckinley must be reelected In order to have in the executive office a man who will maintain in every possible way the tariff wall. The reciprocity trea- ties have been marked for defeat, because the benefcaries of the tariff scheme demand their pound of flesh in every instance.
 In other words the republican policy is to consist in the maintenance of the tariff at its maxomum even if a colonal scheme has to be inauguarted in order to support it. The constitution and the nature of our system of government are to be changed that the tariff robbers may continue to fill their pockets at the expense of con- sumers. The moment the Porto Rican bill becomes a law that moment the nature of this government is at least temporarily changed, and the tariff robbers will be given at least two years more in which to work their schemes of merciless spoliation of the many. It is money they are after, more thar governmental theories. It Is robbery first and usurpatior collaterany and inci- dentaliy afterwards.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
G. A. TOWNSEND ON c. M. pEPEw

Cath in the Kansas City Star.
 Our Chauncey Depew has at last become a senator by the consent of MT. Platt. De- pew was an anomaly in New York in that he combined literary power with railroad employment The two things were not more harmonious in him than in Andrew Carnegie who combines roasting iron and guarding books. Every time Depew att tracted admiration he inspired the second thought that he was too brilliant to man. age railroad. Then he had his rivals, who never failed to talk about his inca pacity as a railroad man because he was such noble speaker.
 It is said that the Vanderbilts wanted to make him minister to England so as to drop him out of their railroad system. So many Ohio men in New York wanted to be minister to England that Mckinley actual ly took a Massachusetts man at last
 Depew is a senator, and just what he ex- poets to make out of it is not clear. New York has lost interest in her senators since they do not senatoralize. Conkling. with all his defects, and before him Seward. were the two New York statemen. The interests of New York are so closely at home that Washington city is far remote from the metropolitan mind. Depew is pleasing rather than original, and seldom brings to the front concrete idea which will nurse and grow.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
OFAY IS SET BACK
Washington Correspondence of the Chicago Tr

Washington Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.
 Matt Quay and his chances received blow today squarely between the eyes, and, curiously enough, it was adminis- tered by no less a person than Senator Cullom of Illinois, who recently announced his intention of voting to seat Quay As has been previously explained in the Trlb- une, large percentage of the republican senators who will vote for Quay whenever the case comes up are by no means adverse to having the matter deferred almost in- definitely They have decided to press one important bill after another for the pur- pose of keeping Quay on the outside with out having to come to vote. Therefore, when the financial bill had
 been disposed~e of by a preconcerted arrange
 ment among the republicans. Senator Gull
 lom was recognized, and moved to proceed
 with the consideration of the Hawaiian
 bin Thereupon Senator Chandler of the
 elections committee, who Is favorable to Quay and his manager, attempted to head
 CuIlom off by moving for an executive
 session.
 This is a motion which almost invariably carries, and 1t is almost traditionary to vote for 1t when made. The understanding was so we'll arranged, however, that Chand- er's motion got only or votes besides his own, and Senator Cu1lom was then per-
 mitted to secure consideration for the Hawaiian bill, which makes that measure
 the unfinished business of the senate every day at the conclusion of the morning hour.
 When the Hawaiian bill Is disposed of the Porto Rican measure will be ready to take its place, and a series of appropria- ton bills will be provided to fill up gaps when needed
 The senate has therefore deliberately postponed the Quay case in spite of the fact that a maority is probably ready to vote for the Pennsylvania boss if 1t be- comes necessary.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Natives Called Him the "Impeesr,

This is the fourth campaign in which Colonel Baden-Powell has been engaged and he has been mentioned in dispatches three times. Until recently his best work was done in the Matabele war of 1896, when he led troop of irregulars. During that war he proved himself without rivial as a scout, penetrating alone during the hours of darkness into the enemy's strongholds, spying out their positions, and gaining oth- CT information of the utmost value. The Matabee grew afraid of the "Impeesi." as they called him, meaning The that creeps about by night" and they frequently de- clared that he had been seen in several places at one and the same time!
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Stephenson His Godfather

Colonel R. S. s. Baden-Powell who is so galiantly resisting the designs of the Boers on Mafeking, was born in Stanhope street on February 22 1S57.ssays. the London Daily Mall. His father was a well-known cler- gyman. theologian and mathematician. and one time Savilian professor at Oxford. The colonels mother was daughter of Adnni- ral Smyth, K s. F
 Baden-Powell's list of friends includes many men whose names are household words. and one of the first distinguished personages whose acquaintance he made was Robert Stephenson. the engineer. This was in the colonel's very early days, for MT. Stephenson filled the office of god father to "B.-P..'' and gave him the names of Robert Stephenson Smyth
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Ship Subsidy Bill Dead.

ble a trifie worse than the Dingley- Me. |. klnley tariff. Is probably to be shelved m- ail after the November election. This great scheme of spolfation has been stayed by the treasury. One crowd wants wide dis trioution of the booty. one that will tri- ciude sailing ships and tramp steamers. To this the rich corporations that own
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
CRoKER CASTS HIS oRUiCHEs ASIDE

From a London Cable Letter.
 Richard Croker has almost recovered from his accident. He has discarded his crutches, and now walks with a stick. For the first time since his leg was broken he was today driven into Vantage. He is still little lame, and confinement has pull ed him down good deal He hopes in a fortnight or so to start for Paris on his way to the Riviera, where he will stay till the middle of April, when he will return direct to the United States for the cam paign. MT. Croker does not disguise his regret at being obliged by his return home to miss the racing season here. His horse Americus is to be raced this year, and is thought highly of for the Newmarket.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
Concerning Public Spirit

From the Anniston Hot Blast
 Quite a lot of correspondence is coming in already to the projectors of the yarn mill, and Anniston is being advertised in the industrial journals os lone of the south ern cities which is exhibiting much enter prise and public spirit" Provided we do not let the movement drop until its success is assured a great amount of profitable adver- tising will be the result.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19

From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Nothing is too good for the man who knows how to get 1t.
 The first time a girl kisses a man she tries to pose just like the actress she once saw kiss in some play.
 The Lord probably made man first be- cause He was afraid Eve would insist on advising Him about making Adam.
 Every woman secretly longs to be put in a position where she will have to smile while she knows her heart is breaking.
 AS soon as a child realizes that its moth- CT is pretending to spank 1t harder than she really is it begins to holler harder than 1t hurts.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
WITH THE EDITORS
 OF THE STATE PRESS
The Committee Meeting


 From the Pratt City Herald.
 The local politicians are in a quandary as to what will be done next Wednesday by the county democratic executive committee at their called meeting. No one knows what action will be taken as the call is so worded that they have power to give att tention to anything which may be brought before them. It is to be hoped that they will arrange for direct vote at the pri- maries on the candidates for governor, sen- ator and representatives. There is no sem sibe or honest reason why the candidates to fill these offices should be chosen in convention. and the others nominated by primaries. Such division savers very strongly of political jobbery and dishonest methods in favor of somebody's scheme and the committee should not be slow in ar ranging to nip the trick in the bud.
The age-herald., 1900-02-19
ALL BUT JESS

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The Washington correspondent of the Der of congress from Alabama favors the reelection of Senator Morgan except Con- gressman StalHngs. If Jess opposes the senior senator he Is very quiet about it, and will do well to remain so. He will have all he can do to be elected governor without the i'll will of Senator Morgan's friends.