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The age-herald., 1901-02-09
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Mabini Sent to Guam.

Marbin is not a soldier. He is a law yer, an old man who is partially paral- yzed, who did live in Manila. He lives now in Guam General Macarthur has transported men beyond the seas" This is what Jefferson charged the British with doing. These are the words of the Declaration of Independence. We are doing what George III. did, that is all.
 Mabini was not tried; he was simply deported. This is the record as made up by General Macarthur:
 Mabini dsported, a most active agltator, persistenty and defantly refusing amnesty and maintaining correspondence with in- surgents in the field while living in Manila, I.uzon under protection of the United States; also for offensive statement in re- gard to recent proclama ton enforcing laws of war. His deportation absolutely essen- tial.
 There was no trial, no evidence pro- duced, no defense permitted. Just an CTQGF lTOu MGCAItHuI, onlP HI thC harbor and walk up the gang plank. The ship did the rest. The Filipino law yer is now in Guam, ward of the naval officer in command there. He was ac- companied by thirty-one other Filipinos, all civilian leaders, who would not con- form to Macarthur notions.
 It is doubtful indeed if Russia ever sent thirty-two political prisoners to lonely and distant isle without trial of some sort. The trials may have been hopeless, but Russia gives the con- demned hearing General MacArthur did not. His order was all there was of it. The Rosecrans was ordered to sail January 16 for Guam, and she carried there thirty-two deported insurgents" so declared without trial, whose term of Imprisonment promises to be lifelong. Deportation absolutely essential,' says General MacArthur, and that was all there was to it.
 When militarism can thus readily out run Russian methods, it is plain the possibilities of imperialism are very great The correspondence further shows that deportation without trial is approved by President Mckinley, by the Cabinet, and especially by the Sec retary of War. And yet 1t is difficult to see how Citizen Mabini can be deported and Citizen John Smith of Connecticut cannot be- In the long run Citizen Ma hini and Citizen John Smith must stand or fall together.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
RECEIVERS FOR cAsTELLANE.
George J. Gould and Helen M. Gould
 Will Collect Money.

New York, February S.-Judge Lacombe In the United States Circuit Court today appointed George J. Gould and Helen M. Gould receivers of all income of the Coun- tess De Castellane in excess of $2e0 000 per year. This action was taken yesterday. brought by Eugene Fishhof an Austrian creditor. against the Countess of Castellane and against George J Gould, Edwin Gould, Howard Gould and Helen M. Gould, exc cutors and trustees under the will of Jay Gould. This suit is a general class bill brought on behalf of the plaintiff and all other creditors of the Countess of Castel- lane who may come in and join the plain- tiff in this suit. If for the benefit of all creditors, puts all on equal footing and pre- vents some from getting preferences over others
 The bill alleges that the Countess owes in. England and France about 20000, coo frances and that her income since her fathers death has averaged GOO, 900 aollars per annum.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
The Senate's Strategy.

The war revenue bill having passed the Senate, much progress has been made to- ward lessening the burden of thd internal taxes imposed in order to proyne funds for the prosecution of the war widh Spain The members of the House ways and means committee, and most of the mem- bers of the House for that matter, are not satisfied with the bill as the Senate amend ed it. and they are inclined to make a sharp fight to have their own bill agreed to. Now the Senate finance committee is always shrewd enough to insert amendments to a revenue bill for which 1t does not care, but great precautions are taken to hide from the House the identity of such amendments. These amendments are fought for, energet- ically for a while and then abandoned that the House conference may think they have secured some vital point and their pride is accordingly satif1ed. Then the Senate con- ferees insist on the things they regard as vital with the natural result that the House yields. The Senate bill differs so much from the House bill that almost every Sem ate amendment will have to be accepted or rejected, for they depend on each other. The fight between the two houses promises to be rather prolonged, but usual the Senate will probably win on the points on which it especially insists. Senator Ald- rich, chairman of the finance committee is too experienced as conferee to lose.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
f'r. O'Brien and His Duiv.

By the official act of introducing In the lower House of the General Assem- ply a bill that would permit bookmaking on the racecourse in the grounds of the ham whilst the annual fair was in prog ress, Representative Frank P O'Brien of the business men of his constituency and the views of thousands of others in Birmingham and Jefferson County
 MT. O'Brien introduced the bill at the request of the best merchants of Bir- mingham and that request was backed by nearly all the respectable business influences. These men who make Bir- r'ingham believed that the so-called "O'Brien" bill was good for Birming- ham end absolutely essential to the suc- cess of the annual State fair, and they believe so still. They are business men of the highest character, and that criti-
 
 "O'Brien" bill was framed in the inter- est of gamblers and the ends of vice.
 MT. O'Brien introduced the bill in be- half of the merchants of Birmingham and multitude of others, and he did right. Doubtless he would now intro duce a similar bill if requested by his constituents to do so, no matter what his own views might be.
 MT. O'Brien is one of the best of the good men of Jefferson County. He is practical Christian, and so far as gam bling and vice go, he never took strong drink in his life and never played at cards.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
Three Old Maid Farmers.

"The ideal farm of eighty acres of all Alabama is on top of a mountain in Tus- caloosa County, and is owned and worked by three spinster sisters" said Lawyer William P. Mccrossn of Birmingham, who has recently had frequent legal engage ments In the county of the State Univer- sity
 These three women farmers bought their lands in the woods hewed out the logs to build their dwelling and all their outhouses, rived the boards for the roofs, and did all the work of construction them selves, adding afterwards wide piazzas to their comfortable home, and providing stable, cowhouse, chickenhouse, and all necessary conveniences. They then felied the timber and cleared their fields, built spacious dtchen-garden, and at the bottom of the hill, some hundred yards from the house, built dam across a never-failing stream flowing from bold spring of cold water. forming a pond two or three acres in extent for their stock and geese and ducks.
 All the time and to this day they have done all their work and are prosperous and happy. The very spirit of tidiness and cleanliness pervades their place. It is the tldiest and cleanest farmhouse and farm stead have ever seen. The floors are kept scrubbed white, the beds are perfect all the furniture spotlessly clean, and alto gether those women have an ideal farmers home.
 And they do all their work-are their own servants and their own workers in the field, in the woods, and around the house, everywhere; do their own marketing and make their own trades and attend to their own business. This year they cleared two bales of cotton, which gives them all the money they need and more, for they grow on their farm almost everything needed in their daily lives. When I visited their place a few days ago their crib was over flowing with corn they had a plenty Jf potatoes, peas and the like, a plenty of hogs and an abundance of poultry, eggs, butter and milk.
 'tThe peaceful deeds of these three wom- en farmers of Tuscaloosa County should make to blush a hundred thousand men farmers of Alabama, not one of whom in all probability lives as well, as inaepen4 ently, as industriously. as wisely as these toiling old maids of all work. If nineteen out of every twenty farmers in Alabama could visit those womens farms and tue wives of the formers could see that scrupu- lously kept log house on the top of the Tus- caloosa hill there might be worked won ders in agricultural reform and progress in this State. These are the names of the noble old maids of the ideal farm:
 Sarah Harriett Newell,
 Mary Ann Newell,
 ss- Elizabeth Newell
 They deserve a place high up on the roll of honor of the peoplei'
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
The Spooner Bill.

Senator Aldrich thinks that the Spooner bill, or some measure, which will give the President practically the same authority, can be passed this session Of course, If the Supreme Court announces an opinion on the insular cases sustaining the conten- tion of the government that the constitu- tion does not follow the flag, the opposition to the Spooner bill will practically be ue- stroyed, and that such decision will per- suade Democrats to support the bill, but that it will show them that opposition is fruitless and make them see that their duty Is to permit vote to be had on the meas- ure, leaving the responsibility for the legis- lation to the maiority party.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
Please to Give Small Sums.

I've beg the people In every walk of life to understand and fully appreciate the fact that every possible individual donation of money is earnestly desired for the fund to provide suitable present for the battleship Alabama" said Culpepper Exum. chairman of tho Commercial Clubs special commit tee to raise money for the battleship fund.
 Tt is desired to make the subscription in the widest sense popular, so that everybody will be represented in A1abama's gift to the Alabama, and the committee are most de- sirous to receive individual donations rang ing from ten cents each upward. The more single dimes we get and the more single quarters, halves and dollars the better will 1t be, for that will enable all the people, whatever their circumstances, to give some thing and thereby acquire personal interest in the gift from their State to the great ship which bears their States proud name!
 Come, everybody! Come with ten cents or twenty-five or fifty cents, or a dollar any sum you willing to give-and thus take your part, an Alabamian's part. in upholding the honor and good name of Alabamal
 "The committee begs every man, woman, and child for help in this noble cause of the States pride and the States glory And to this end the list will be held open throughout next week, and the committee sincerely hopes and believes that hundreds and thousands of the people wish each to add their share to the fund. 1 am sure the Age-Herald will be glad to receive and knowledge all gifts of money from ten cents up. Send in the money!"
 In reference to MT. Culpepper Exum S stirring words, it may be said in this place that the Age-Herald will gladly receive and acknowledge all money paid to it for the Alabama fund.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
Old Colonial Money.

bill of paper money nearly one hundred and twenty-slx years old and believed to be one of the oldest in America, was shown in this newspaper office last night by MT. N. A. Griffin of Demopolis. It is North Carolina currency bearing date August 21, l175. The unique bill has been brought down to MT Griffin through the genera tions from his great-great-great-gra grandfather, John Lusk Easton, of Granville County, N. C., whose brother was a member of the Provincial Congress of that province of the British Empire. The number of the bill is 1224 and its face value is ten dollars. It bears this obligation:
 This bill Entities the Bearer to Receive Ten Spanish M4lled Dollars or the value thereof in Gold or Silver, according to the Resolution of the Provincial Congress held at Hilsborough, August 21, 1775.
 Andrew Knox, Sam Johnston, "R. Caswell, Ed Cogdeal''
 The bill is endorsed by James Fairson to John Dubois It is excellent state of preservation. It seems that the bill had been forgotten, but recently MT. Griffin, in looking through old family papers, discov- cred it and at once appreciated 1t as a fam fly heirloom and as valuable relic of the colonial period in America.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09

tonholing every one of them who will listen to their well-paid-for inventions.
 The uniform text book law needs no defense. It is as plain as a nose on a mans face that one set of text books is enough in this State-one set selected by capable men, capable teachers per haps, and it goes without saying that low price for such books is preferable to high price. There is really no req son why the people of Alabama should be fleeced by the book trust, while the people of Tennessee, for example, are not-why Alabama school children should pay ten cents for copy book, and Tennessee children three cents for one quite as good, made, too, in their own State.
 The Gunnells bill is of even greater importance, for it is bill to make the schools of the State free schools, open to the poor as we'll as the rich. The Gunnells bill is all-important, for it will bring to those who most need 1t public education. In the pay" schools of the State no self-respecting children of poor parents can now go. Shall this remain the rule in this State?
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
No Action on School Bills.

The people of the State desire to see the public school system perfected from session to session of the Legislature. All things cannot be done at once, and only two measures are perhaps needed at the hands of the present Legislature. These two are the Gunnells bill which will abolish the pay" schools, and an uniform text book law. Both of these measures are encountering selfish in- terests of no little potency.
 The book trust is working under the surface. It is not bringing forward its customary army of prominent educa- tors"; 1t is not filling the air with mis- statements, but its agents are slipping around among the members and but
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
Judge Thomas R. Roulhac of Sheffield was in Birmingham yesterday.
ECONOMY AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Washington Special in Pittsburg Dspa teh
 The President will have to live little more economically after July 1 than he did in the twelve months preceding. He will have to see to it that the gas is turned low when the room is not in use. He may have to resort to the practice common in Wash ing ton of having the ashes from the furnace screened in order to keep within the allow ance made to him by Congress for the ex- pense of the executive mansion, When Uncle Joe' Cannon put the pruning knife to the various offices as to what amount of money they will need he decided that go, 900 is enough for keeping the executive mansion lighted, heated and repaired. He decided also that the sum allowed is suf- ficient to meet the expense of occasionally having the grass cut and the flowers water ed so that the front yard will look decent. This allowance is $10,000 less than was ao- proprated at any time during the last four years, but economies are necessary when the expenses for the army, navy and pen sons amount to $3i5, 1000 year, and the Fifty-sixth Congress win have a total of appropriations exceeding a billion and half.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
Mir. Zoos is Here,

Robert H. Foos, one of the most wealthy men of the rich town of Springfield O. is at the Morris. Mr Zoos was formerly very largely interested in mineral property in the Birmingham district, and he may still hold large interests, but the bulk of his property. so far generally known, was transferred to the Republic Iron and Steel Company in the famous deal that was so ably planned and successfully carried out by that astute and far-seeing financier, Hon. William Peyton Pinckard. some eigh- teen months ago.
 MT Foos is believed to possess rich hold ings in the Republic company, and it is further believed that his present visit to Birmingham is not unconnected with fur ther proposed investments of great impor- tance
The age-herald., 1901-02-09

From the Chicago Record. If the Wall street reports are correct An drew Carnegie has sold nis stock holdings ili the Carnegie Company to the syndicate of which J. Pierpont Morgan is the central figure and Mr. Rockefeller is factor. The principal industries which are embraced in the Carnegie group are the manufacture on a huge scale of iron and steel biets steel rails and other ralroad-track necessities, car axles and wheels ship plates, car coup- lers and castings and structural iron. The industries in the group already controlled by the Morgan syndicate embrace iron and steel and steel rails, and in addition tubing and wire. For number of years there has been suppressed hostility between the rival combinations. MT. Carnegie would be dic- tator or nothing. Every encroachment on what he considered his domain was followed by movement against those who menaced him. Relatively the two groups are much the same as far as capitalization goes, rang ing in the neighborhood of $3OO, O,0O0 each. The combining of the two groups will de. stroy all competition in some lines of iron and steel manufacture.
 There is yet unassimilated a group of industries having iron for their basis which are known as the Moore group, and which embrace the National Steel Company, the American Tinplate Company, the American Steel Hoop Company and the American Steel Sheet Company. How far this group is an obstacle in the way of the new consolidated industries is not yet apparent Presumably the Moore group in the end will be drawn into the Morgan group.
 The Morgan group, previous to the Car negie purchase, has been rather more cen- tral geographically to Chicago than any other city. The Carnegie interests are grouped about Pittsburg and the Moore group for the most part is in Ohio When the three groups are brought together the Morgan group will control the Lake Supe' rior iron region, the railroad and lake trans. portation required for it's business the coke fields and many collateral industries. By the combinat tion of the three properties there will be formed as nearly as it is possible to do so in that class of industry, fully de- veloped trust.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
WITH THE LAWMAKERS
 AT NATIONAL CAPITAL

Age-Herald's Bureau, 509 Fourteenth street N. w, Washington, February s. Special. 1.-The Senate Is now making much better progress with legislation and the clogged condition of business in that body is disappearing. The fact that the shipping bill Is not now being permitted to impede appropriation bills is responsible for more rapid action on them and seems to have lessened the determination of the opposition to fight 1t unduly. There Is now a better prospect than heretofore that the Senate will be able to dispose of the business be- fore it at the present session, and the ship ping bill is in better shape than at any time yet. Senator Aldrich whose judgment on legislative probabilities is never known to have erred. insists that the shipping bill will be passed this session, and the situa- tion certainly seems to justify that view. The night sessions are very effective in weakening the oppoition and the probabil- ity is that before the end of this week the shipping bill will either have passed or a time for vote upon it will have been fixed. It is now likely that the vote will be had about the middle of next week, and as soon as that agreement has been made the night sessions will be dispensed with.
 It seems, too, that the numerous army appointments the President is now making has an influence in destroying the force of the opposition. It is difficult for Senator, fighting the shipping bill and using dilatory tactics in his fight, to face the President and ask for the promotion of some consti- tuent or some relative and Senators are not above trying to help those of their own blood along.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
--------------T SOUTH CAROLINA TEA.
From the Atlanta Journal

From the Atlanta Journal.
 It has been demonstrated that good tea, both green and black, can be raised in South Carolina, and that when properly planted and cultivated it may be made a profitable crop. Dr. Shepard sold $35O0 worth of tea from his farm at Pinehurst Gardens, S. C., in 1899, and for some he re- ceived $1 pound.
 Dr. Shepard gives it as his opinion, based on experience, that good tea can be grown in his section of South Carolina for 15 cents pound and that such tea will bring from 30 cents to 50 cents pound on the market He says an acre in tea properly attended to will bring 400 pounds. The en- tire expense of the crop will not be over s6O at the outside, leaving profit of from $60 to over $100 an acre.
The age-herald., 1901-02-09
Preacher in a Row.

A row between preacher and a manu- 1acturer was an incident of hearing on the Child Labor bill before the Legislative committee at the capitol yesterday" said a Birmingham business man who returned to the city from the State capital last night.
 The participants were R. A. Mitchell. the widely known cotton manufacturer of Gads- den, and the Rev pr. Gardiner Murphy of the famous Episcopal Church of St. John in Montgomery.
 Mir. Mitchell was making a speech in op- position to the bill and pleading with the committee to kill it. when he was inter- rupted by the preacher who disputed his assertions and rather hotly demanded that MT. Mitchell should 'retract, retract, re- tract!
 MT. Mitchell answered ovilly that he would retract nothing and that he refused to be interrupted by MT. Murphy but de- clared his entire readiness to do the proper thing afterwards and make all amends that might be proper or Just. Meantime, as the manufacturer insisted the preacher must hold his tongue
 Subsequently after the hearing was closed, MT. Mitchell approached MT Mur- phy, whom he saw in the corridor or TO- tunda, and said to him:
 MT. Murphy, l sorry I gave you offense; I didn't intend to offend you, and II l made any wrongful or unjust assertion that wounded you I shall be glad to with draw my words or explain to your atis- faction.'
 Sir said MT. Murphy with lofty dig nifty, you have placed yourself outside the pale of decent discussion, and I'll have nothing to say to you
 See here-you! if you will make the effort to get over the line and will kindly step outside and away from the ladies, I'll give you something more than discussion, and that mighty quickly! said MT. Mitchell in calm wrath.
 MT. Murphy said no more and declined MT. Mitchells invitati The affair caused much gossip about the capitol and town, and 1t seems there was a good deal of un- favorable comment upon an alleged state ment of MT Murphy that our Southern peo- pie were prejudlced against the negroes and unwilling to give them fair showing in any practical effort to better their con dition; and furthermore that MT Murphy was accustomed in conversatio to give to persons of the negro race the courtesy titles of Mr. and Mrs, which is not customary in an old Southern town like Montgomery. the cradle and first capital of the Confed- eracy though just what all that had to do with the row between MT. Murphy and Mir. Mitchell 1 did not learn. Presumably it was held that negroes might be employed in cotton mills in place of white children if the Child Labor bill were law"
 Reuben A. Mitchell, who is here alleged to have 'called down" the preacher, is the widely known and successful manager of the famous Dwight cotton factory at Ala bama City, near Gadsden. the largest cot ton factory in Alabama. He is ma tive of Tallapoosa County, and formerly resided at Opelika where he was postmaster from 1885 to 1889, and for nearly twenty years he has been one of the most active and suc- cessful of the younger developers of Ala bama.
 The Rev. Dr. Gardiner Murphy is the rector of St. Johns Episcopal church,