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The age-herald., 1901-05-03
RAILROAD FIGHT.
Great Contest Going on to Establish
 Transcontinental System.


 New York, May 2.-Discussing the Un- ion Pacific situation, the Mail and Fix press has the following:
 From the current tremendous market movements in Union Pacific and Atchison stock, big advances occurring in each day it became clear that fight is going on between great money interests over the establishment of transcontnental sys- tems.
 It now appears that this fight centers around the plans of George J. Gould and E. H. Hartman to establish a vast net work of roads from the Atlantic to the Pacific and w. K. Vanderbilt and the Pennsylvania Railroad people, seeing what was up, have made up their minds to frustrate them.
 With the Gould and Hartman people on one hand, are said to be Kuhn, Loeb G Co.,, who are identified with the Union Pacific management, while MT. Morgan is believed to have lent his influence to the Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania forces
 The Rockefellers who are identified with MT. Gould in the Southwestern deal, are said to have stood aloof from the Union Pacific incident and to have done nothing which could be criticised by Mr. Morgan with whom they are associated with in many affairs.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
Immortal Words of a Mortal.

Well McDuffie spoke, as by invitation. The court house square was full of flour, and brandy wagons and wagoners, clad in russet jeans from their wives looms. No man spoke like McDuffle. The wag- oners hung around on the borders of the crowd to see a nullfierl There were no nullifiers In North Carolina; John Tyler was almost the only one known in Vir- ginia. The wagoners pushed their way further into the crowd as McDuff1e more and more beat the air with two cinched fists and cast tremulous words abroad to the winds. When the orator turned to find his hat, he was seized from the rear by the wagoners, shouting with wild en- thusiasm, and on their shoulders they bore him across the square to the hotel, the. whole audience following in shouts!
 Nobody reads McDuffie's speeches. which seventy and sixty years ago, charmed the world Nobody reads Toombs' speech bidding farewell to the Senate. In 1881 The curious would be amazed to see how little MT. Jefferson Davis said. in his oft quoted farewell on the same occasion, and how much Toombs then said. A generation from now. readers will wonder why one of these speakers to the SeMte was upliftec and the other cast down when the great est intellects the South could command were most needed for her service.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
WITH THE EDITORS OF
 THE STATE PRESS
FourYear Terms.

From the Anniston Star
 There is talk in Montgomery and else where in the State of a movement to lengthen the terms of state officials from two to four years. Any movement that will tend to reduce the number of elec- tions will be good move for tue people, and the lengthening of the terms of state officials. Commenting on the advantage that would result to the officeholder from the proposed change, the Birming- ham Ledger says:
 It is becoming more and more costly to get an office, and our state offices do not pay very tempting salaries By the time a man makes canvass of the State in his own behalf he will find that he has spent $500 to $500. He then gets $20O0 of fee, and has to live in Montgomery, or travel between there and his home, and finds almost invariably that he has got ten into debt before his term expires. That is the almost certain destiny of man who takes state office.
 With two-year-term he cannot hope at best to do more than cover his ex penses. It is no wonder then that men are considering the idea of a four-year term, so that the necessary campaign ex- penses in the middle of the offieeholder's public life may be avoided. We have got ten into this four-year habit, and it is not to be wondered at that the proposition to make the term four years should be brought forward now.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
WHY HE GOT WELL.

From the New York Mall and Express.
 The Man with Clear Conscience bought pair of tan shoes with the ad- vent of spring, and, while going home in the street car conjured up a mental photograph of himself stroling along the sandy beach of a summer resort with his pedal extremities encased in his new purchase That night he was taken Ill. For four days he contemplated his new shoes with his head on a downy pillow. When he recovered the Man said:
 There was only one thing that worried me while I was sick. I couldn't get those tan shoes out of my head What if I should die without having had a chance to wear 'em Such a contingency seem- ed to furnish an additional and potent reason why I should get well. I just made. up my mind I was going to live long enough to get my feet into those shoes and-well, I did"
The age-herald., 1901-05-03

If Alabama can secure capital enough. she will drive West Virginia out Of the southwest and Mexico. especially after the Warrior is opened.
 In Alabama S,O2S,472 tons of coal produced 1,7s7 ,sos tons of coke, or 5s per cent. as against 6s per cent. In Pennsylvania. and 50 per cent. in West Virginia. These figures are not, how ever, considered accurate. as in many cases weights are estimated, much of the coal going into the ovens un- weighed.
 The fifteen establishments in Ala bama had capital of $s,S55,S7s. They employed 1892 men, paying them dur ing the year $535, ,622. These establish ments turned out 1.7s7,S09 tons of coke. 15, ,437 ,23O pounds of tar. S71,1SO gallons of ammonia liquor-all being worth $3.2S2. .937, gain in ten years of nearly one-third.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
ANOTHER COAL DEAL.
Morgan's Syndicate Buys Many Ohio
 Coal Mines,

Columbus, Ohio, May "A dispatch to the Dispatch from Athens. Ohio. says.
 From an authority which seems indis- putable there comes the information that almost the entire coal industry of the Hooking and Sunday Creek valleys will come under the management of< the gi- gantic combination of capital of J. P. Morgan and Company.
 According to the information it Is the intention of the syndicate to get control of all the mines now in operation, and to secure as many acres as possible of un developed coal lands. This deal will prac- tically include all the coal lands and mines in the three counties of Perry, Athens and Hooking.
 "Conservatvely estimating the amount Ct the deal it can be approximately placed at from seven to ten million of dol lars The total daily output of all the mines in these three counties when they are operated at their full capacity is con- servatively placed at 30oOO tons. It may be readily more, and certain that the out put is not less.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
SOME LARGE WINNERS
 IN WALL STREET LATELY
New York Correspondence Philade

New York Correspondence Philadelphia
 North American.
 The rise in stocks since the boom start Cd about six months ago shows q gain of about s2. oOo. GOO 900.
 Who got the money?
 The inquiry opens up fascinating sub ject and gives great play 10 the lmagin- alton as well as infinite latitude for a plain statement of facts. The bulk of the appreciation must be placed to the credit of the whole of the permanent holders of the securities but aside from that class there are thousands and tens of thou sands of speculators who have made enor- nous sums of money.
 The Standard oil crowd, with John D. Rockefeller at it's head has made the largest winning. and if it could realize in cash on the vast mass of stocks and bonds held by it the profit would show not less than s40O, ,OoO. oOO, and the aggre- gate might be $50. GOO 900 higher. MT. Rock efeller alone is better off by $250, 900, 900 than he was six months ago.
 The Vanderbilt family comes next on the list with profits of at least $50, GOO 900,  ties of the railroad systems with which the Vanderbilt name is identified. The fam fly interest has probably not been in- creased in New York Central or Lake Shore, but has undoubtedly been expend- ed in Union Pacific, Northwestern and the Western end of the combination.
 The Gould holdings would sell for s75- 900, 900 more than could have been ob- tained for them three weeks before the reelection of Mckinley. The substantial syndicates which for years held the con trol of the Pennsylvania, Louisville and Nashville St. Paul, Rock Island, Illinois Central, Atchison and the Pacifics can safely add 50 per cent to 100 per cent to the appraisement of their assets on the basis of quotations six months ago.
 These syndicates are, for the most part, located in Boston, New York, Philadel- phia, Chicago. London and Amsterdam. The men composing them are among the most solid bankers and capitalists in the world, and they never appear in speca- lation, as the phrase is commonly under stood.
 What J. Pierpont Morgan has made mo- body can say, and in the present incom- plete stage of many of the enterprises in which he is interested no estimate of his status would have value. He may be s5O, 100000 or better off than he was last fall, or he may be 600 to the good. He stands in the position of underwater or indorser on securities of the par value of g, 900, 900, GOO. These securities are now in high favor and in great public de- mand.
 The second class of millionaires, whose fortunes have been fabulously in
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
SENATOR MORGAN.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 If he has not been right all of the time, he has been right part of the time. If he has not been wholly right. he has been half right and that is more than can be said of most of his party associates in the Fifty-sixth Congress. Starting with a grand old man who Is half right, there Is reason to hope that before many years have elapsed he will be reinforced by a great many Democrats who will be all right It is certain that much inspiration Is to be found in the example of the one Democrat in Congress who appears tc have turned his back upon the incapable. and to be addressing himself laboriously and honestlly to the task of applying Democratic principles to the questions of the day.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
Manufacture of Coke.

The census bureau hasa sent out a bulletin relative to coke, but it relates to coke in the calendar year 1899, and is therefore not statement of the in dustry at the present time. It con tains, however. many interesting facts. The number of by-product ovens has risen since 1893 to l020, producing 006.534 tons of coke. The product of all the ovens had risen in 1899 to 19,- e40.79s tons valued at s34, 4,633,41S, a gain in ten years of 110 per cent The average yield per oven in 1899 had risen to AT tons, against 306 tons ten years before.
 In 1899 there were 7,142 ovens in the country, of which Alabama had 4S72 beehives. 120 by-product ovens and 214 of other styles. There was a gain in Alabama of 1513 ovens in ten years. Only 90 ovens were idle in the State in 1S99 The ovens in operation con sumed in this State 3,02S,472 tons of coal, worth s2,5s6.71S. In production Pennsylvania ranks first with 13,245,- 694 tons of coke to her credit; West Virginia is second. turning out 2,27S,- 679 tons. and Alabama is third. her product being 1,7S7, 1909 tons. The other States are minor producers. althotxh some coke was made in twenty-two States. West Virginia has clambered into second place. having showed Ala bama down point. The race between these two States will hereafter be close. West Virginia, possessing great capital. will perhaps ship more coke to other States. while Alabama will make more for use in her own iron furnaces.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
A CAUTIOUS MILLIONAIRE.
n the Richmond Dispatch.

From the Richmond Dispatch.
 MT. Midas (about to make will)--In dis posing of my estate, while I am anxious that my son should have the benefit of a goodly share of 1t, do not wish him to become possessed of it in bulk
 Lawyer-Exeuse me for saying 1t, but the inference of that instruction seems to do your son injustice. He has always seemed to me to be young man abso- lutely free from any tendency to dissi- patton.
 Mir. Mldas--Very true. but you cannot tell to what channel ambition for noto- riety may lure him; he may take 1t into his head to become a United States sena- fpr
The age-herald., 1901-05-03

In the course of a century such debts have been increased 1900 per cent, white the population has increased but 150 per cent The increase has been in round numbers 29 thousand million dollars. of which vast sum one thous- and million dollars was created by the United States as one effects of vast civil war Great Britain added two thousand million dollars to the aggre- gate. all on account of wars Frances contribution of four thousand millions Is largely the result of wars. The Ger mans have been more fortunate. They have large national debt, but the net increase in a century has been less than a thousand millions, or a billion of dollars. Russia has added three thousand millions to her indebtedness, but much of this was due to railroads and other Improvements, although some of it sprang from wars. Italy, never forebonded. added to the great sum two thousand millions.
 Here then from five great countries tho United States. Great Britain, France. Russia and Italy-twelve thousand millions of the net increase is accounted for The remainder, sev- enteen thousand millions, was incurred and is now borne, generally as griev- oiis burden, by q large number of lesser <States. All that can be said in pallia- tion of the vast increase is that about one-third of it grew out of productive public improvements. leaving two thirds of it to stand as the expense of human brutality and ambition.
 Some think the creation of national indebtedness has not outrun the crea- tion of wealth in the nations in ques- tiop. but this is a difficult problem to solve. and there are men who can present strong facts pro and con. The tendency is still towards larger and still larger indebtedness. and it is very probable the present century will pre- sent-not an incraase of 1900 per cent but an increase in amount much larger than that of the past century.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03

Toonbs' house few weeks before he left there. to avoid capture. after the surrender He kept a gray mare saddled at his back door. He painted his hair and beard red and wore suit Of russet jeans. The Yankees came to the tall front steps calling for him; Mrs Toombs met them in the hall they asked for the General: he was not in
 Where is your husband madam?'
 He Is not in, sir
 We will burn your house over your head if you do not produce him.'
 ''Toombs would repeat this scene in later years with great relish He added to the conversation in the hall, this:
 When they came down to the point and threatened to burn my house. Julia said. burn and be d-de
 He never saw a day of married life that he did not adore Julia My God! isn't there Julia in every full rounded life?
 Governor Toombs rode, under ficti- tions name through southwestern Geor- gia to the coast of Florida, whence he took sailing boat to Cuba He returned in few years from Europe and called on President Grant He told the President It was rule with him to make his respects to foreign ruler when he visited his capital Grant is said to have invited the Georgian to the sideboard, so much did he enjoy the visit.
 Whilst in Cuba Toombs was happy in seeing much of the late Major Suther- land of Danville. Va, who. with Mrs. Sutherland, spent some months in Ha- vana Mrs. Sutherland still lives In good health, noble type of the southern gem tlewoman as she was and still. praise God, young and happy still at two and seventyi Mrs. Sutherland spends much of her time, and is at the moment. the guest of Mrs Edward Ware Barrett of Birm- ingham, her noble and devotedly cher ished grand daughter"
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
Toomhs and Yancey.

''Toombs and Yancey were blood rela- tions. In 1850 the two orators spoke from the same stand at Montgomery most rare treat of reason The contrast in the men, physical and mental, was very marked. Toombs spoke first and Yancey followed. They argued from the same premises Both were then and at all times logicians. These two prodigies of intellect, as was the case with most of the other leading statesmen of the South were promptly ignored, set aside or de- graded by the civil authorities of the Confederacy. The greater the man the more earnest was Lincoln in keeping him in the public service. Lincoln, by in stinct, saw that Lincoln at best must lean heavily on the strong arms of others"
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
A MEMORY.
gv orth Fl ste,n

By Orth H. Stein Last night as leaned from my window. High over the darkling street, A song came floating upward,
 Broken and incomplete. The words were lost in the chasm Where traffic rumbled and roared- It was only the melody reached me. But 1t pierced my soul like sword. What was 1t? God. know not; I stood with my lips apart, While it slip't like sands escaping From the troubled grasp of my heart What sorrow, dead and forgotten, Haunted the vagrant strain. We bury such things, like pauperss In the potter's field of pain. What delicate wrath of passion, What ghosts of the yester years Twas something as sweet as kissee. Something as sad as tears. Rising only to vanish,
 Baffling, yet half revealed. As pang of the flesh may tell ug f Where a wound has long since healed.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
THE NEWEST MUSICAL PLAGUE.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 Sweet Annie Moore" has taken the place of Because" My Honolulu Lady" Just One Girl" and all the other songs that everybody used to sing and whistle In New York 1t is said that thirty-nine out of every possible forty people to be met in the streets are now singing or trying to sing Sweet Annie Moore" the chorus of which runs as follows: Sweet Annie Moore, sweet Annie Moore, I'll never see my Annie any more.
 She went away,
 One summers day,
 And I'll never see my Annie any more.
 After reading the words it Is easy to understand why Sweet Annie Moore is a craze. The song writer who can get up lines that are absolutely foolish is always sure of success. Such stuff as Sweet Annie Moore" never fails to get into the great throbbing heart of New York.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
Who Is the Author?

Somebody demands of this place of The Age Herald to be informed as to the au- thorship of these lines:
 'She whose luscious lips to me gave
 sweet caress,
 Shall not stop there, but still more deep
 ly must progress"
 At the moment the author Is not dis coverable. Few things so significant or suggestive have been writ in our tongue The words apply with extraordinary force to Southern gentlewomen, and may not, need not be analysed here, because because, Southern women ain't built that way you know.
 'The fair, the chaste. the inexpensive she, we have in As You Like It, and, You are the cruelst she alive" is a dear creature in Twelfth Night whom every man has known in real life-in the living presence of his old sweetheart, some other mans wifel ''She whom I love now doth grace for grace and love for love allow mad MT. Romeo Monta- que said of equally mad Miss Juliet Capulet. Thus it comes at some time to every man.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
Missionary Society.

Washington. May 2.-The submission of reports largely occupied today's sessions of the women's home and foreign mis- sionary society of the general synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church in the United States in twelfth annual conven- tion here Miss H. Morris, corresponding secretary, reported that there are twenty one syndicodal societies, FIG auxiliaries. with total membership of 20,07s: also 43S life members. Articles aggregating in value $7.S00 were sent to missionaries. The total contributions for the past two years were $55,332 including a memorial thank offering of s4,S52. For endowment of beds in the Inia hospitals 5000 also was raised
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 The older women get the less they re- mind you of angels
 Probably old tombstones get so worn by ghosts trying to butt out their own in- scriptions.
 Its your brainy women who fall in love with fools. and it's your fools that fall in love with brainy women.
 Men may be wicked villains. but after all they don't go home and sit right down and copy each others bonnetsi
 Probably old tombstones get so worn feels almost as important as the man did the first time he ever travelled on a rail- road pass.
 Women never consider themselves real ly intimate with one another until they have told each other how they first met their husbands.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03

creased by reason of the extraordinary boom Tn prices, includes such men as Marshall Field. of Chicago. who Is s95 Oooo0o richer; Norman B. Ream of Chica- go. profits s15,0o0 QUO; John ". Gates and L N. Wood of Chicago, each $l5. GOO. coo; II. H. Porter s20.OOO.0OO; D. H. Hartman S25, GOO, 0OO; w. II. and J. H. Moore, eacn s2O 100000; D. G. Reid of Richmond. Ind. Chicago. Ill. and New York, si5,oO0ooo; w B Leeds, his associate $10,OO0 GOO: ". c. Whitney, sl5.00O 600, and Harry Aliver. Pittsburg, Sl0000,00O
 Coming down the scale a little further we have s. NJ Nlckerson. former presi- dent and majority owner of the First National Secretary Gages) bank of Chicago. who has cleared $4,000O0 through association with II. II Porter. MT Nickerson is now resident of New York and it is said, intends to establish great banking trust concern, of which Secre- tary Gage may be asked to become the president
 John Dupee the veteran New York and Chicago stock broker, has cleared g. .O00. .OOO since the first of. January pulling the granger stocks Peter Kimberly of sharon. Penn, has cleared up about s5.- 100000 on the sale of ore properties to the big steel combine.
 Everybody identified with the steel properties taken into the United States Steel Corporation has prohted enormous ly, not only by reason of Identification with the deal, but in general speculation there has been a great deal of plunging by these fortunate gentlemen, with al- most no losings to be charged against them.
 Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago, son of the martyred President is said to be ahead of the game 5000. 0O0 He doesn't speculate, but was very fortunate in his investments on account of his close asso- citation with N. B. Ream and Marshall Field. MT. Lincoln is one of the trustees of the George M. Pullman estate, out of which he has drawn fees to the extent of s5OeO0O.
 Frank O. Lowden, who married into the Pullman family, and would like to be United States Senator, is said to have pulled s2000,0OO out of the stock market General Horace F. Porter, United States. minister to France, can count his profits in the seven figures. He has dealt at long range and very conservatively most of his gains being due to legitimate advice on his investments.
 W. H. White, who startled Washington two years ago by winning $1500,OOO from a shoe string, and lost 1t again, has made back his fortune and added considerably thereto, his winnings during the last six months having been close to $2,000 900. White moved over to New York a few months ago in order to be close to the game he is playing.
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.

From the Baltimore American.
 The acquital of Callahan in Omaha, the man charged with complicity in the kid naping of Cudahy, is misfortune. It Is one of those strange miscarriages of jus tice which sometimes occur in jury trials. It does not appear that the jury vas tempered with. It. was, however. prejudiced. and care was taken by coun- sel to appeal to these prejudices. It is diff f1cult to realize, however that twelve av- craze men of an intelligent community can all be so hopelessly the slaves of their passions and prejudices as to be unable to perform honestly the duties re-
The age-herald., 1901-05-03
STRIKE THREATENED.
Trouble Feared in Louisville Over Rec
 ognition of Union.

Louisville, Ky, May "A general strike in the building trades is threatened in Louisville as the result of demands for recosnitiont of the building trades council. Upwards of 200 men quit work on various buildings throughout the city ttoday and labor leaders declare that un- less all the contractors agree to employ only unitn men a general strike in all tthe building trades will he ordered by tomorrow night. Such an order would throw nearly 3,0G0 men out of work and tie up building all over the city