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The age-herald., 1901-06-17
PiQ Iron in May,

The reports of the Iron Age show that on June there were 252 stacks in operation. having weekly capacity of 314,505 tons-a gain of about 5000 tons since May i. More stacks were ih operation one years ago, but the weekly capacity on June has never been exceeded in the history of the industry in this country, or for that matter in any other country. It is a new record, but it will not stand long.
 The South all told had in blast June II fifty coke and seven charcoal stacks, and their weekly capacity was 41,773 tons, or at the rate of about 2,200,00O tons a year. These furnaces are dis tributed as follows: Alabama, 2S; Virginia, 13; Tennessee, II; Kentucky, 3; Georgia, 2-total, 57. The weekly capacity of the active Alabama fur naces is now 25.797 tons; or at the rate of 100000 tons a year.
 The consumption is enormous, for in May furnace stocks were reduced over 30,000 tons, and warrant stocks were slightly decreased.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
Outinu of Alabama Editors.

The Alabama Press Association will meet at Montgomery on June 20, and 1t is expected that nearly every paper of the State will be represented in that meeting. After the business of the association has been dispatched, the rest of the day will be devoted to an outing on the Black Belt farm of Col onel Faulkner, where much improved farm machinery can be seen and dis cussed.
 On the following day fully one hun dred members of the convention will start upon a two-weeks' tour to and through California, going to San Fran cisco over the Southern Pacific. The party will spend three full days in the city of the Golden Gate. In the course of the return trip they will stop at Beaumont, where they presumably will witness a gusher when in full opera tion.
 These members of the press will spend three hours of the next Friday evening in this town, and a trip to Ensley would be pleasant feature of this welldeserved outing Two cars should be clurteded, and every men, btr of the association shonld be given an opportunity to see a blast furnace at night when it's vast wierdness and picturcsuucness is at its best.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
HOW THE CIRCUS INsTRucrs.

From Golfers Weekly.
 when one of the big American shows first arrived in Europe, appearing now in the cities of England, now in those of Germany, Austria and Hungary, the phase of the American circus which most astonished military men was not so much the show itself as the manner in which 1t was moved. Two or three incidents will serve to illustrate the curiosity with which the transportation department of the English and continental armies views the organization, discipline and ingenuity shown fin moving, without halt or hitch, such large amount of property and so many persons.
 While preparing to open at the Olym- pia, the Madison Square Garden of Lon don, the building department of that city told the owners of the Olympia that a new proscenium arch of steel must be built. This arclf was to frame a stage at one side of the edihce and was 2S0 feet wide by 70 feet high. The material was brought into the building, and the arch was put together, bit by bit, flat on the ground.
 When compelled. the British workmen were confronted by the task of lifting the heavy frame into place. Days were spent in futile attempts until at last the show proprietor said that if they would turn the job over to him he would raise the thing of steel. He then called to his 300 American workmen and in three hours they had the arch in position and secure, using for the purpose only the circus par aphernalia which he had brought with him from America
 A London newspaper printed an edito- rial urging the government to detail one or two officers from the engineering corps of the army to travel with the cir GUS and thus acquire knowledge that would be of practical use in moving mili- tary material. The government acted upon this advice, and throughout the tour several army officers were always present to witness the loading and un- loading of the cars, the transportation to and from the grounds and the erection of the tents.
 The reigning monarch of the one of the European nations himself came to the show incognito. He did not come to see the performance. but devoted the night to a personal inspection of circus opera tions, such as the taking down of tents. their movement to the train and their loading on the cars. He said that he re- garded this as one of the most important objest lessons in the movement of heavy material that he had ever witnessed and that he intended that officers in his army should familiarize themselves with it.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
Rnti-School Proposition.

The landowners in the constitutional convention have framed conditions of school taxation to suit their own pur- poses. and no friend of public educa- tion need ae. .ude himself into thinking that in suppol ting the scheme of the committee he is promoting public schools He would be doing directly the reverse.
 State taxation has been cut down to the extent of ten cents on s100 of tax able property, and this reduction in State taxation is offered to the coun- ties or towns provided majority of taxpayers "in numbers and in value of taxable property" consent. The laws of the States of this union could be ransacked in vain for provision that matches this. It is distinctly and ab- absolutely provision that is inopera- tive, and that will not be applied in a single county or single town in the
 
 State. Tn it can be seen the selfish hand of the landowner and the cunning hand of the politician. aud nowhere in it is particle of comfort for the bare foot girls and boys of the State.
 It is a provision to all intents and purposes to reduce the school fund, and as such 1t should be met and ex- posed in the convention by the men who believe Alabama should be lifted out of the slough of illiteracy-by all who do not want the States name to become reproach and by-word. Bet ter by far to readopt the retrogressive sections of the present constitution than to adopt this compound of sell fishness and cunning.
 The excuse for it is that the Demo cratic party stands pledged against any Increase of taxation. The man who says that optional authority in the people is an increase of taxation sim ply distorts the truth to serve his own purposes. I>xation would not take
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The New Industries Reported Tn the
 South In a Week.

Chattanooga, Tenn, June 16.-The more important of the new industries reported by the Tradesman for the week ended June 15, include bracket and pin factory at Athens, Tenn; s2O,00O cigar factory at Tallahassee. Fla; a $100,O00 coal mining company at Walch. W. Va: s3O,OOO coal company at Belton, Texas; another with capital of s20.0o0 at Pineville. Ky: coal mines at Lebanon, Tam. a $24, 900 coal and land company at Petros, Tenn; a con- struction company at Fredericksburg, Va; $2Oo.o0O cotton compress at Dallas. Texas; a $20,O00 cotton gin at Round Rock, Texas; cotton gins at Little River Acade- my. N. C.. Campbellsville, Tenn, and Blooming Grove, Texas; a s9oO. 900 cotton mill at Newberry, s. C.: s5O,000 cotton mill at Cameron, N. C.: $50, 900 develop ment company at Richmond, Va; electric light plants at Albany, Ga, and Bardwell, Ky: an electric light and power plant at Sardis. Miss: a Touring min at West Appomattox. Va: a furniture factory at. Mt. Airy. N. C.. a grain elevator at Reidsville, N. C.: a s25.0Oo hardware conn pany at Anderson, s. C.: $9O,oo0 ice fac- tory at Mckinney, Texas, a $20000 Ice. light and telephone company at Arcadia, Fla. a s4o,OOo land company at Anniston, Ala: line and twine mill at Elizabeth ton, Tenn: a lumber company at Angus ta, Miss; lumber mills at DeIand, Fla; manganese mines near Rome. Ga: $5o.- GOO oil company at Newport. Tenn. an oil company at Sunnybrooi. Ky: a s25o,oO oil and gas company at Galveston, Texas; oil and gas companies at New Decatur, Ala. and Louisville, Ky. an oil and rice company at Lake Charles, La: a s10O, 900 oil and supply company at Lufkin,, Texas; a $2O0,000 oil mill at Houston, Texas; a s4O,Ooo oil mill at Henderson, Texas; an oil mill at McRea. Texas: blow factory at Chattanooga; sash, door and blind fac tory at Jacksonville, Fla: saw mill at Ueavine. Tenn; $S5o0o0 silk mill at Athens. Ga, spoke and bending plant at Greensboro, s. C.; gteei hoop and cotton tie mill at Ensley, Ala; a $s0 900 telephone company at Beaumont. Texas; a tobacco stemmery at Louisville, Ky, and toy factory at owensboro. Ky.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
CHIEF JUSTICE EuLLER.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 Chief Justice Fuller has been favorably mentioned as 8 suitable Democratic nom- fnee for the Presidency. He would have had stronger claim upon the admiration of his party if with the weight of authori- ty and arguments in his favor he had been able to carry a majority of the jus tices of the Supreme Court with him on the decision of the insular cases. But even then the place he holds would have been the place for him to stay in. The Supreme Court is not proper matching place for Presidents.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
CONFINEMENT

2, Ernest McGaffey. To glean the fields of life and take tho
 grain
 With thorns or peoples as the gods de-
 cree; To lightly jest at winters wrath and see Flowers In frost upon the window panel To build our airy castle walls in Spains However bare the near surroundings be-s This is the secret of content; the key Which men have given all the world td
 gain. We find 1t where the sun and shadows
 meet In sylvan spaces cloistered from tho town,
 Where vague, yet clear, it's presence may
 be seen; It rustles in the dead leaves at our feet. It catches at the ruffle of your gown, And .beckons on with happy eyes serene.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
NEW PENSION COMMISSIONER.
President Mckinley Appoints Ex-con.
 gressman Peters of kansas.

Chicago, June 1s.-A dispatch to the Record-Herald from Topeka, Kan. says:
 Ex-Congressman S. R. Peters of this State today received a dispatch calling him to Washington. where he will be rendered the office of pension commission CT. succeeding H. Clay Evans. President Mckinley has had under consideration the names of ex-Congressman Blue and Peters for this position, and MT. Peters summons to the White House settles the appointment in his favor.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A woman is ''sweetly reasonable" when she is reasonably sweet.
 It is one of the ironies of life that a woman never has enough faith in her husband till she has too much
 Love your neighbor and do good to them that tell your wife what their husbands have told them about you.
 When Eve bit into the apple she proba- bly told the snake that she was tired of forever taking her husbands advice.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
Bad Handwriting and Worse.

That every public school teacher shall have fair knowledge of penmanship as we'll as grammar. and that every pupil in the public schools shall be taught the art of eligible handwriting. might well be incorporated in the new constitution" said travelling man as he vafnly en- deavored to decipher some strange signs,
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
AMERICAN TIN PLATE
 IN FOREIGN MARKETS
BY ALBERT HALsTEAD.

eight to ten times those of 1899, while the importations of tin plates into the United States promise to be little more than one-tenth those of 1891, the year of the largest importation of tin plates into the United States, and but about one-fifth of the average annual importation during the five years prior to the establishment of the tin plate industry in the United States.
 The record of tin plate prices during the past two years shows a remarkable fluctuation, largely due to the unusually high price of material in 1900. Quota tons for tin plates furnished to the Treasury Bureau of Statistics show the price per box of 100 pounds of tin plates of Bessemer steel in New York in April, 1901, as s4.20, the uniform price since Jan uary l. 1901; in January, 19oO the price was $50. while in January, 1898. it was $3S0 Meantime the price of Straits tin used in the manufacture of tin plate. has increased from 1882 cents per pound in January, 1898. to 34.62 cents in July, 1900, and thence downward to 262 cents on April 19. 1901, and again advancing to
 
 lets increased in price from S15 ton in January 1898 to s35 per ton in January, 1900 since which date the price has f1uc- tuated considerably. finally becoming practically stationary at $2S per ton in March, 1901.
 <<<<>~-~-<-~-<-<>->-<-~ to a crab large helpings of two kinds of seaweed in different stages of diges- ton.
 But doubtless it is fact that fishes live for the most part on animal diet, and it is obvious that this must consist largely of some other class than their own. If fishes ate fishes only. the race would soon become extinct. Fortunately the sea is full of life, and for those which cannot or will not eat seaweed there are worms innumerable, jelly fishes. star fishes and sea urchins. the great host living in shells. from the oyster to the periwinkle and the limpet, crabs and all other kindred, and lastly other fishes. The appetite must be capricious. indeed. which cannot find something to tempt 1t among all this vast array.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
TRAMPs AFLoAT AND AWNING.

From the Washington Star
 New Jersey is preparing to seated all the mosquitoes from it's territory and Pennsylvania is making arrangements to get rid of tramps. This looks like hard luck for the other states.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
Florence Delegates.

Florence. June e.-(Special.) )-The Flor ence Industrial Club has appointed Messrs. Emmet O'Neal. John B. Weak ley. John T. Ashcraft, M. W. samper and W. M. Bunting delegates to the Commer- cial and Industrial Association of Ala bama which meets in Montgomery June 20 aud 21.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
THE uNpgR.gpucArEp MALE.

From the Wichita Eagle.
 So many girls are graduating and so few boys that the only way in the future a man can get his wife to look up to him will be to pick out a short woman for his bride
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

standing for proper names on a hotel register last night.
 ''1t Is amazing that not one person in twenty nowadays can write respectfully or leglbiy. I doubt # any of the schools make honest efforts to teach penmanship; and as for commas, semi-cofons, colons and periods, the average writer of letters doesn't know them from fyspecks.
 And there is a silly habit which some men who travel have of abbreviating the names of their home towns. Here you have 'Mfs' for Memphis. 'Cin' for Cincin- natl, N. O. for New Orleans. N. Y for New York, 'washn for Washington, 'Louisv' for Louisville, 'Mtgy' for Mont gomery, 1ndplis' for Indianapolis. and so on, and 1 am looking for At for At lanta; all of which is very silly. But silliest of a1l is 1903 for St. Louis. It seems that there Is going to be fair in the Missouri town in the year 1903, if it can be got ready, which some people seem to doubt, and so some persons from that town on their travels write 1908 after their own names on hotel registers. Here now you see what appears to be 'Vmid, [ put IL IS meant IOT oIHltD.
 "One man who wrote his name in a frealSish and undecipherable way On a Birmingham hotel register the other night, evidently under the impression that his ignorance was smartness, suf- fered a serious backset and was glad of it. An important telegram was re- ceived at the hotel for this smart Aleclx, but the clerk seeing no such name as the one on the telegram envelope on his books told the messenger that there was no such person in the house. The mes senger carried the telegram away with him. The man came in after awhile and asked If there was anything in his key box, giving the number. The clerk said no. He repeated the question several times during the next two or three hours with the same result. and then he went to the telegraph office and found the eagerly awaited telegram. He came back storming at the clerk, saying that the delay had cost him s250. The clerk promptly called him down, and sent for the proprietor The mysterious sigma ture on the register was examined, and the irate person was forced to admit that nobody could make it out. The clerk hummed, And the Cat Came Back"
 About Persons.
 N. II. Froliehstein of Mobile Is at the Morris.
 A. E. Paxton of Louisville is at the Morris.
 J. R. Collins of Nashville is at the Met ropolitan. F. J. Jones of Selma is at the Metropoli- tan.
 John B. Edwards of New York Is at the Morris.
 Dr. Percy Nixon returned yesterday from Montgomery.
 J. E. Henderson of Troy is at the Nor ris.
 
 R. D. Walker of Selma is at the Morris S. A. Hobson of Woodstock is at the Morris.
 R. B. Kyle and Mrs. Kyle of Gadsden are at the Metropolitan.
 
 w. F. Herbert of Montgomery is at the Metropolitan.
 William L. Gardner of Columbus, Miss, Is at the Morris. Charles J. Newman of Philadelphia is at the Morris. W. H. Young of Fairburn, Ga. is at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Professor Tubbs, who was bounced from -Iethodist college in Kansas for heresy, says that if he is heretic all the bishops of his church are heretics. Heresy is becoming dreadfully com mon
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Col. Marcus A. Hanna is going up the military ladder by leaps and bounds. He is getting ready for a tus- sle with Teddy.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
A CONJECTURE.

From the Wichita Eagle
 Lipton is mighty calm and sportsman like in public. but he must peel the wall paper off with his language when he gets alone.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

The Houston Post proposes to wipe out coal mines at one squirt of the gushers, thus saving the lives of min CTS. But the miners do not want to be saved in that way, and this is demo- cratic country.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
Butchers, Strike Ended

San Francisco. June 16.-The butchers strike was formally ended today. The striking journeymen butchers decided to withdraw their demand that a union card should be displayed in all retail shops.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
PUTTING ON AIRS.

From the Boston Herald.
 In Paris nowadays only those families who own private balloons can really con slider themselves in the upper circles of society.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

The Sultan of Morocco has present. ed King Edward with a complete cir GUS, less a ticket wagon and license.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Mark Hanna knew how 1t would come out. He does not declare his part of third term of"
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
Dowie is a clerical Russell Sage.
kANsAs

From the Salt Rake Tribune.
 It is great state: the soil is prolific in wheat, sorn and full harvest every year of cranks.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

From tip to toe-a long distance candidate Fairbanks endorses Presi- dent McKinley's third-term ideas.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

All who took hand in the South Carolina squabble came out of it with many scars.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

spent fifteen days in flanking the if teenth amendment, and both contes- tants are still in the ring.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Washington, June 16.-(Special)-A ing rapid gains in their attempt to enter the foreign markets of the world. To be sure, their exports are yet small as com- pared with the domestic demand which they are meeting. but they are again re- ducing the imports, which temporarily increased in 1900 under the excessive de- mand and extremely high price of ma terials, and are at the same time in- creasing their exports in manner which proves interesting to those who have watched the development of this com paratively new industry in the United States The figures of the Treasury Blu reau of Statistics show that the exports of tin plates from tho United States, which in the ten months ending with April, 1899. amounted to only 1S3955 pounds, and in the ten months ending with April. 1900. to 275,990 pounds. were. in the ten months ending with April, 1901, 1S0e,100 pounds. In imports of tin plates the figures for the ten months show a material decrease as compared with the quantity imported during the same period of the preceding fiscal year. being 9s,6O9,722 pounds. as compared with 123.5sS773 pounds fof the ten months period of last year.
 Our total exportations of tin plate In the fiscal year 1901 seem likely to be from
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Champ Clark was recently fited to a shirtwaist, and he hopes to be meas ured after while for toga.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

New Jersey wants at least one pipe line straight from Texas if petroleum will kill mosquitoes.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

The tramp that broke into a house and took bath was simply ont of his wits.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

The hazer has met Uncle Sam face to face, and has come of second best.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Chauncey Depew can now say that he smoked the president out of the third-term canebrake.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

The inventor of the gas meter is dead. and he has much to answer for.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

The balloons are the only real air ines.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Dr. Depew did not nominate any one for president yesterday.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

William Mckinley denies the emper- or charge.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer IRaphael's prophecies for this day. Monday. June r, 1901:
 Court and marry before noon"
 Heavy and serious losses threaten thee in thy business, this being thy birthday; beware of sickness; thy family affairs will proceed more smoothly than thy business; avoid all speculatIons."
 The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will have a quiet career, although much will depend on the hour of It's birth; 1t will be quick in temper and will have much trouble in it's domestic or love affairs
The age-herald., 1901-06-17
WHAT FISH EAT.

From the Newport News Herald.
 There are many thousands species of fishes, and naturally there is a great di- versity in their food. Nevertheless, 1t is possible to divide 1t into seven distinct classes. Now. all the animal life rests on a foundation of vegetables Plants store up the vital forces in the air and sunshine and pass them on to the great army of vegetarians, who in their turn yield them up to the animals which live on flesh. One or two additional steps may sometimes be interposed, but the result Is the same. A caterpillar eats a cabbage. an ichneumon fly quarters her brood on the caterpillar, an insect-eating bird snaps up the fly, and bird of prey pounces upon the f1y-catcher and finishes the story The inevitable order is plant. vegetarian, flesh-eater.
 The vast majority of fishes feed on fishes or other animals foup5 in the sea. Probably, however, the vegetarians are more numerous than are generally sups posed. For instance all the textbooks de- clare that gray mullet feed on the liv- ing matter obtained by straining sand or mud in It's mouth which doubtless Is true, but they go on to explain that ow- ing to the peculiar construction of it's throat larger ~cd'es are prevented from
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Queen Alexandra's pin money i $165.O00 a year.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

Presidential bees were never so npm- erous or busy.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

We are safe now until 1913 against 2 third .ermer.
The age-herald., 1901-06-17

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