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The age-herald., 1901-05-20
tion in the last ten years:
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AOioA ss..O'oiVVVO,VVV The average annual yield in the decade was 561 100000 bushels. The estimates for the new crop show a shortage of about 10O,0O0,00O bushels. But this estimate is very untrustwor- thy, or rather very uncertain, as a brief survey of the facts will show. The acreage in winter wheat is put at 2s,2S7 900 acres. If the spring wheat acreage be equal to that of 1898, we will have this year in wheat 46,585,- 5S9 acres, or an excess over 1898 of 2,529,S29 acres. The condition of win ter wheat this May is 7.6. points higher than it was in May, 1898, and in that year the total production was 600,OOO,- 900 bushels.
 If the weather holds favorable, and the insects are quiet the present crop will be more apt to exceed 500,0O0, 900 bushels than to fall short of that az gregate. All conditions are now fa- yorable, and great crop may be har- vested.
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
Reciprocity With Cuba.

It seems to be settled that annexa- uon of Cuba is to be deferred through the acceptance of the Platt amend ment by the Cuban constitutional con- vention. There may be annexation efforts later on, but for the present there will be republic of Cuba to be dealt with--not exactly sovereign re- public, but still one that controls it's home affairs. There will be one that will want better tariff terms from this country.
 Reciprocity will be the keynote no doubt, but at every step the general tariff fetish as well as heavy special interests will be antagonized, and it will not be at all easy to arrange a re- ciprocity treaty.
 The island cannot be prosperous without an American market for its products. Its nearest and richest cus- tohioi udo PIoulpilifc Idiiu luii Ol ridiculous rates. Heretofore the high tariffites have been able to defeat re- ciprocity treaties, on the general ground that the Mckinley -Dingley law should not be touched even to the crossing of a ''t" or the dotting of an T." The robber interests are afraid of even the slightest breach in their privilege, lest it should lead to more and greater ones. They are we'll en- trenched; they have Mark Hanna as a leader, and they feel secure.
 But change Is surely coming. The billion-dollar steel trust which sells its products to the foreign consumer at low price while it feeces the home consumer, Is more than the mass of the voters will stand, and if MT. Bab- c.ck and the reformers in the Republi- can party are turned down by the com bination of greedy interests, then re- lief will come through a change in the control of affairs in 1904. The latter is the more probable of the two. The Democrats would not need any reef. procity treaties, because their tariff would be based on revenue, instead of robber, principles, and all nations | could trade with us on just terms. Now, we are shut off from efforts to secure better tariff terms by the fact that our own tariff is the worst on earth.
The age-herald., 1901-05-20

correspondence circle was formed which admitted persons and societies located in any part of the world; and for a small charge corresponding members. receive Ars-several numbers 8 year. Many copies come regularly to individual Ma sons and lodges in Alabama Mir. speth was not only the secretary of Lodge Quartuor Coronati from it's beginning, but he was also the editor of ATS. He was a man of wonderful energy. The correspondence circle numbers nearly B. 00O That means a heavy mall. MT. Speth answered all letters addressed to the secretary and those of scholarly in- quiry were answered exhaustively. No Mason in the world, perhaps, ever had so long a list of correspondents. speth was always calm and cheerful and was never to busy to stop his work to well come visiting brethren to his office and converse with them. All American Masons who called on him found in him a charming companion Mir. Speth's funeral was largely attended by notable members of the order but ther1ast offices at the grave were extremely simple.
 ''In conclusion will state as a singular fact about Lodge Quatuor Coronat that it has never conferred degree, and &C., cording to it's bylaws. never will, its work being in letters and not in forms and ceremonies.'"
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
Jefferson and Mckinley.

T was glad to be present and partici- pate in the reception given to President Mckinley in New Orleans famous old Cabildo." said George Lynch of New Or leans last night
 The occasion was and will remain his- toric. The Cabildo was in turn the seat of the Spanish, French. and American ter ritorial governments of Louisiana, and in the chamber where President Mckinley received the people was signed the docu- ments of the Louisiana Purchase, nine and ninety years ago.
 Tt was peculiarly fitting that the President who, .naxt to Thomas Jeffer- son, added most to the territorial gran- deur of the United States should be hon. ored upon the spot where Jefferson Purchase was finally consummated. Jeff ferson won by few millions of money in peace, Mckinley by hundreds of mill lions in war; but the great fact is, both won for the United States.
 ''The Cabildo of today is the seat of the Louisiana Supreme Court. It was erected in 17ss, upon the site of the orig inal and the second Cabildo the first of which was built in the seventeenth century. and both of which were de- stroyed by fire. 'Cabildo' means literally the house of government"
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlABAmi
and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
 Hamlet.
New York's Biu BrIdue.

The building of great bridge across the wide North or Hudson river, which separates the metropolis from the west and south, is no ordinary event. The width of the river will call for bridge fully two miles long, and .le traffic upon it will demand, it is said, fifteen tracks, and the bridge, raised high in air above the masts of sailing ships, must be so strong that trains can be run at full speed. The engineering science of the day is equal to the task, and the flnanciers of the day are ready to advance the money, knowing as they do that the business pressing toward and from the mighty city will justify the outlay.
 The North river ferries, befogged and beiced as they are at times, will not, however, be abandoned. None of the Brooklyn ferries were abolished by the building of the Brooklyn bridge, and none will be because a second bridge has been built across East river. The proposed North river bridge will not render ferries valueless, because they will continue to be convenient means ot crossing to near-at-hand peo- pie, but the traveller from a distance will cross the bridge. All trains from a distance will be sent over the bridge and the incomer will be landed in the heart of the city, very near the theatre and retail store district. What is more important to him, he will go in wholly regardless of fogs or ice or vessels of any sort. Whether freight will follow passengers remains to be seen; it usually does; but the average traveller is not perhaps interested in that fea- ture of the case. All he wants is a safe and expeditions entrance and exit when he visits the great city, and this wlil be furnished over the proposed $S0,OOO.OOO bridge.
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
A WALL STREET DICTIONARY.

From the New York World.
 Watering-To increase the quantity of stock without improving its quality. Carrying-To hold a stock with the ex- pectation of an advance.
 Irish Dividend-An assessment upon stockholders.
 Tip-Private information in advance of the movement of a stock.
 Hunch-A tip based on ones instinct or impression.
 Big Board-The New York Stock Ex- change.
 On 'Change-The floor of the Stock Elk change.
 Bucketlng-To execute orders in stocks without dealing on any regular exchange. Lamb--A new speculator without knowl- edge of the market or it's methods. Bull-One who has bought stocks, ex- pecting an advance.
 Bear-One who has sold stocks and who gains by a decline.
 Short-One who has sold stocks for a decline.
 Long-To have bought for a rise.
 Loading-To buy stocks heavily.
 FOOl-lDo StOCh dilu money CuIllTiDuleu by clique to carry through corner. Covering-Buying stock to satisfy a short sale on the day of delivery.
 Block-A number of shares bought or sold in a lump.
 Averaging-Buying or selling stocks on a scale
 Slump-A sudden decline in the price of stocks.
 Boom-The opposite of a slump.
 Bottom-The lowest point or price reached by a stock.
 Top-The highest quotation of a stock Insider-One who causes a movement in the stock market.
 Scalping-Buying or selling stocks on slight fluctuations
 Piker-A small speculator.
 Plunger-One who deals heavily in stocks, taking great risks
 Blind Pool-A close corporation; one which does not issue any statement of expenses or earnings.
 Crazy Market-One which fuctuates violently without apparent reason. Collateral-Any security given in pawn when money is borrowed.
 Squeeze-A sudden movement of the market which forces the bulls or bears to close out their stocks at a loss.
 Bulge-The upward movement of a stock
 Break-A sudden decline caused by stringency in the money market.
 Unloading-To sell out stocks which have been carried for some time.
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
LITTLE JOHNNIE ON STOMACH

LII EE JOr1NNiE OIN St 0WASuS From the New York Herald.
 The stomake is the place where ise- creem, candy. sugar buns pys, sharlot ruses, sodes and lots of other good things go. I wish I was grownup bekause in a grownup the stomake is about a foot long and about four inches akros and has a hole lot of room in which to place things that taste good.
 The stomake is a queer baglike thing and don't look as if it was of much akount, but 1t is bekause 1t Is the place where all the food Is dumped and mixed up with the gasstrik juse which changes 1t into a grayish fluid called Kline which is carried to every part of the body.
 am glad have a stomake. but wish the ake had been left out. The stomake Is not like a junkshop. And you can't throw any old thing into it and expect It to act as if 1t liked it. It Is not good sents to mix isecreem and kake and
 sode and peanuts and by and candy and sourkrout and plumpuding and beef | stake and turkey with cranberry sauce all l together at the same time in the same l stomake. If you do there will be trouble,
 and you will feel as If seventeen million
 Karlile Indians were playing football in- | side of your middle and you will groan and yell and think you are going to die. l and then you will get we'll and be redy to eat a whole lot more.
 A gun went off once and blew a hole in mans stomake but he did not die and doctor put a window glass over the hole r,,I tHa,, Pa4 H Alz and sat down and watched to see what the stomake did with the food that is how we know so much bout the stom- ake. I think 1t was real kind of the man to let the doctor do this.
 Doctors know hole lot more about the stomake and so do but 1t is never wise
 to tell all one knows at one time and so I will stop.
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
WHY HE COLLAPSED.

From the New York Telegraph.
 What" he exclaimed, as he hurried to where the crowd had gathered, was the ambulance called for?'
 They've just taken a man away in a precarious condition"
 Do you know what happened to him: Tt was a case of heart disease. He had made an appointment to meet his wife here on this corner at o'clock pre- cisely."
 "Yes?'
 'He got here exactly on time."
 And he had to run so hard to do this that his heart went back on him?'
 NO. He didn't run at all. He found the lady waiting when he got here"
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
The Best Pollced City,


 Louisville Is perhaps the best policed city in the Ohio valley" said travelling man. Tt has a police force of 300 men one and a half for every 1000 of it's popu- lation. Many cities. and Birmingham is one of them, have only one policeman for every thousand people. This proportion may do for quiet, fenced-in towns, but 1t is certainly inadequate for rapidly grow ing communities. New Orleans, how ever is a growing town, and 1t main tains police department of considerably less than one patrolman to the thousand. But that the Crescent City is sufficiently policed, am not prepared to say. It's police force was badly worsted a few months ago. but that was not because of numerical weakness so much as lack of stamina"
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
New Wheat Crop.

The cutting and harvesting of the new crop has been begun all along the Gulf and in the extreme South Atlantic counties, and each day the click and whirr of the reaper will be heard fur. tner and further northward, until in the early days of September the crop of Manitoba spring wheat is secured Estimates of the new crop are now freely made, the range being from 45O, ,0OO,O bushels to 472.000,000. All estimate of 460, ,O0o bushels may be considered an average guess of the new crop.
 We give below the figures of produc ftax, in ha 1ook k1x
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
A Widely Known Freemason.

''very few Free Masons have had so wide a reputation in Masonic circles as George W. Speth. who died at his home in England recently" said we'll inform ed member of the fraternity. MT Speth, together with General Sir Charles War ren, W. J. Hughan, R. F. Gould, Sir Wal ter Besant and several other Masonic scholars, assisted in founding in London twenty years ago the students lodge, known as Quatuor Coronati, No. 2o7e. The active membership was limited to forty Master Masons and only literary brethren with archaeological tastes were eligible.
 At each communication of the lodge profound papers. either of an historical or philosophic character. are read. and these papers are afterwards published in Ars Quartuor Coronatorum-the official journal of the body. In order that Ma sons and Masonic organizations whereso- ever dispersed might enjoy the benefit of the discussions in this students lodge, a
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
MRS. EDDY's FAvoRITE BOOK.

From the New York Herald.
 'I will tell you the books and writers that I have loved best" said Mrs. Eddy to a correspondent last week at her home in Concord. ''They are: Young's Night Thoughts Alexander Popes poems. Fe- licia Heman's poems, Ruskin's works, Robert Browning's poetry, Elizabeth Bar rett Browning's poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry and essays and Amos Bronson Alcott's works.
 Dear old MT. Alcott." she continued ''how well I remember him coming to me at Concord in the dark days when every one seemed to be assailing me for my book, which had just been published. Do not give way he said to me. You are on the right path. After all your book is Transcendentalism, and that is the true road"
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
Loyalty to Royalty.

'The leading illustrated weekly jour nals contain pictures setting forth views and incidents of McKinley's tour through the South. Decatur, Ala, and Vicksburg, Miss, showing up especially we'll" a public man at a news stand said yes- terday.
 But there is the smack of monarchy in the references to loyal citizens. One of the best of the weeklies gives a fine picture of the President being received by the loyal people of Houston, Texas. That is the precise form used in stories of public receptions to King Edward, the German Emperor, and other sovereigns. That word loyal is royal in that Houston sense always. It is one of the signs of the passing of the Republic
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
THE WALL STREET COLLAPSE.
From the Iron Age.

TOut lHc lTOfl Abc.
 The panic in the stock market last Thursday Is regarded as beneficial rath- CT than injurious to the country at large The losers of course cannot think so To them 1t was an overwhelming calam- ity But 1t will undoubtedly do good in sobering the people. who were in increas- ing numbers being drawn into the whirl- pool of stock speculation. A shock of this kind was needed to awaken them to a realizing sense of the dangerous game in which they were being attracted. For some time the stock market Is likely to be left to the professionals and to those who are wealthy enough to engage in the exciting sport without fear of the consequences. The attention of others will probably be diverted during these prosperous times to ventures which are considered not quite so hazardous as stock speculating and may be of more benefit to the country generally.
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
WHY MEN BECOME DRUNK.

From the New York Evening Post.
 A paper just published by Sir Lau Brunton and Dr. Zunnicliffe upon "C tain Apparently Injurious Constituenn Potable Spirits" goes a long way tow explaining the reason for the varlH physiological symptoms arising fIF overindulgence in alcoholic liquors, n ticularly whisky. Their researches st that while intoxication is undoubtI caused by the ethyl alcohol fin the liqi the actual way in which inebriates drunk, or get sober after being dni depends on the quality of the liquor taken Of, and that this quality is pt lively determined by the amount of organic impurity called "furfural" whi the whisky contains. The source furfural in the manufacture of whisky class of substances known as pent sans; these are derived from the cell lose of the grain huslxs, and under t influence of heat in the presence
 acids, are in the wash stf1i convert. into furfural.
 This furfural in the body tends to ps into it's corresponding acid. thus dimi ishins the alkalinity of the blood. whic according to most physicians, favors occurrence of gouty deposits in the joi ! The physiological action of pure furf} on animals and man was studied and to interesting results. It gives rist appears, to paralysis of the voluns muscles and to clonic and tonic coif sions.
 The odd point, however, about ,ta symptoms Is their transient nature
 nediately after the injection of the
 the animal would fall completely lyzed, convulsions would ensue ane animal would then become rapidly,
 nal. Two human subjects who ' brave enought to take this active poh in the same dose suffered from throbtl headaches, which lasted for a day. nI result leads to the most interesting ya of the research. It will probably be
 erally admitted that the commonesis suits of too free potations on the h H subject Is bad, throbbing headache,H this headache appears to be dir caused by the furfural impurity Of 2 liquor.
 The reason that old whisky is less, to cause headache than new is that N turation dimin1shes the amount of [ fural which 1t contains This effe r maturation can also be obtained by @ tilling the fresh spirit with phenyl-h, E zine-sulphonate. By this means
 authors were able to obtain a furflY free whisky. and to watch the effec,H it upon animals, comparing 1t with tiV of the same spirit before distillatics They found that in the case of u orisa..' spirit srunkenness nal appeared perfectly normal and food with relish. Curiously. all ''rM me-ups." such as citrate of caffeine,
 just such substances as neutralize
 flIral A
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
caot. w. c. Ward is Better.

Captain W. C. Ward, who was reported by The Age-Herald yesterday as being very i'll on Saturday, was better yester- day. The form of his illness, an ailment of long-standing. made a mild surgical operation necessary and from that he derived much benefit. A speedy con- valescence Is expected, although this distinguished and beloved citizen. and hero of the Confederay, Is well past the three score years and ten.
 So much stronger had Captain Ward grown yesterday that his family felt 1t not imprudent to inform him of the death by drowning of his cherished nephew. MT. W. c. Ward the younger of Selma Captain Ward was very tenderly attached to this one,' his only nephew.
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
SENATOR VESTS POSITION
'om the Boston Heralt

From the Boston Herald.
 The attempt of MT. William J. Bryan to make mischief among the Democrats of Missouri by obtruding upon them an outworn issue, has received a rebuke at the hands of Senator Vest of that State Senator Vest is one of the sages of his party. His health is so feeble that he has abandoned ambition for further political honors. and his advice is that of entire disinterestedness He tells them, as what is not unlikely to be his parting counsel, that silver will not be an issue in the next contest for the presidency. and that, therefore, it Is folly for the party to make 1t an obstacle to is reunion at present.
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
THE LARGER VIEW.
leric Lawrence Knowles.

By Frederic Lawrence Knowles. In buds upon some Aaron's rod The childiike ancient saw his God; Less credulous. more believing, we Read in the grass-Divinity. From Horeb's bush the Presence spok To earlier faiths and simpler folk; But now each bush that sweeps our feN Flames with the Awful Immanence! E To old Zacchaeus in his tree What mattered leaves and botany
 His sycamore was but a seat Whence he could watch that hailowi
 street.
 But now to us each elm and pine Is vibrant with the Voice divine, Not only from but in the bough Our larger creed behollds him nov. To the true faith. bark, sap and stem Are wonderful as Bethlehem; Nc hill nor brook nor field nor herd But managers the Incarnate Word! II Far be 1t from our lips to cast Contempt upon the holy past Whate'er the Finger writes we scan In manager, prophecy or man. Again we touch the healing hem In Nazareth or Jerusalem;
 We trace again those fauitless years The cross commands our wondering tear Yet If to us the Spirit writes On Mornings manuscript and Nignre In gospels of the growing grain. Epistles of the pond and plain, In stars, in atoms as they roll. Each tireless round Its occult pole. In wing and worm and fin and fieece, In the wise soils surpassing peace Thrice ingrate he whose only look Is backward focused on the Book. Neglectful what the Presence saith. Though he be near as blood and breathl The only atheist is one
 Who hears no Voice in wind or sun; Believer in some primal curse,
 Deaf in Gods loving universel
The age-herald., 1901-05-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 It is probable that even the innocence of an angel would pale before that of a little dog.
 lift is so that matches are made in heaven, the good girls are mighty impa- dent.
 It is the irony of fate that makes some men bow-legged and gives some women boards.
 Heaven is probably place where a man will be able to do all of his business while he Is away on pleasure trips.
 wonder what all the Greek statues would have looked like if the women had worn straight-front corsets in those days.