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The age-herald., 1902-03-17
Looking for Standard Bearer.

''The Democratic party is looking for a standard bearer for 1904 and I hope sin cerely that a winner will be found" said a staunch Democrat of thirty years standing.
 ''1he party has tried Bryan twice and has lost. Grover Cleveland is the only Democrat who has got to the White House in my day. and if the party is wise it will nominate him again.
 'I believe Clevelan1 could be elected in 1904 If he cannot lead the party to victory, who else can?
 ''The free silver issue has been a fiat failure. The business element of the coun- try demands the gold standard. Cleve- land is sound on the money question: He Is sound on the tariff and he is sound on many other issues. But a party should have only one issue in a campaign. Low tariff would be a strong issue for the sage of Princeton.
 "I am inclined to think that Cleveland will head the ticket in 1904"
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
soLILoouY OF RICHARD III.

By William Shakespeare. Now is the winter of our discomfort Made glorious summer by this sun Of
 York;
 And all the clouds that lour'd upon our
 house. In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious
 wreaths;
 Our bruised arms hung up for monu>
 ments;
 Our stern alarums chan'd to merry meet
 ings.
 Our dreadful marches to delightful meas
 ures.
 Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his
 wrinkled front: And now, instead of mounting barb-ed
 steeds
 To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a iaby's chamber He capers him bly, in a lady's chamber But I, that am not shap'd for sportive
 tricks,
 Nor made to court an amorous looking
 glass; I. that am rudely stamp'd, and wal .
 loves majesty IT To strut before wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtaird of this fair propor-
 ton,
 Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, u, uHliniST u, sent DeIOTe ny Into this breathing world, scarce halt
 made up,
 And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descent on mine own deformity; And. therefore, since I cannot prove a
 lover.
 To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a william And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous, This day should Clarence closely be
 mewd up, About a prophecy, which says that c Of Edwards heirs the murderer shall be. Dive, thought, down to my soull Here
 Clarence comes.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

dent of the Republic Iron and Steel Com pany is at the Hillman.
 W. K. McNein of Louisville is at the Morris.
 J.P. Cunningham of Cincinnati is at the Morris.
 B. M. Boyd of Cincinnati is at the Metropolitan.
 Walter windham of Stone, Ala, is at the Metropolitan.
 Dr. F. J. Phipps of Milwaukee is at the Metropolitan.
 Capt. wm. W. Seldom of Montgomery is at the Metropolitan.
 " R. Reynolds of Montevallo is at the Metropolitan.
 Hugh Rolston of Mobile is at the Me tropolitan.
 W. W. Williams of St. Louis is at the Florence.
 ". G. Ledbetter of Anniston is at the Florence.
 J. D. Lassiter of Selma is at the Flor ence.
 H. M. Smith of Montgomery Is at the Florence.
 M. L. Shower of Piqua, Ohio, is at the Florence.
 Victor Graetz of Vienna, Austria, is at the Florence.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
An Alabama Combine.

'Just as certain as Birmingham steady increase in the way of new industries will be the merging of all or nearly all the iron and coal companies in this dis trict." said large stockholder in one of the strong companies.
 'I do not pretend to know when the consolidation of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, the Sloss-Shef- field Steel and Iron Company. and the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Com pany will take place. It may be next year. or the year after or some other year. But these companies will finally get together and become one. Modern methods and economics would seem to demand a consolidation.
 "When the large concerns unite the independent furnaces are not apt to stay outside. If all the companies were to unite right now there would be saving enough in the cost of operations to pay interest on the joint bonded indebted ness"
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
MANCHESTER CLOTH MARKET.
Fluctuations of Cotton Somewhat Be. WiIdered the Operators.

Manchester, March 16.-The cloth mar ket during the past week was fairly firm although the fluctuations of cotton some what bewildered operations. The main factor of the week was the absence of re- spunse from the over-sea markets to the advance here. Irregularity was the main feature. China was small. There was plenty of inquiry from India for fabrics but this rarely led to anything, although some orders for printing and finishing cloths were placed.
 The political troubles in South America and the uncertainties in Central America also exerted depressing influence on the market. Mediterranean outlets improved slightly. Yarns were fairly steady and the possibility of a further curtailment of the production strengthened the views of the spinners.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
King Edwards Subjects.

Many of King Edwards subjects are dissenters-Baptists, Methodists. Congre- gationalists and Presbyterians-who are as a rule tee-totalers, and who regard horse racing as a sinful amusement" said an Englishman, now located in Bir- mingham.
 But while 1t is true that the dissenters are growing strong enough numerically to be reckoned with the members of the Church of England and others who are broad in their views constitute the great majority. In other words the Englishmen who like Edward all the better because he visits brownies and attends races, are four or five to one of those who abhor the Kings sporting proclivities."
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
Vegetables for Canning.

"A s10,00O cannery will be erected in Birmingham next spring that will use large quantities of cucumbers and to- matoes," said man who Is in close touch with the canning trust.
 The factory would have been built this year. but the company behind the project was not assured of getting vege- tables in sufficiently large supplies. The truckers of Jefferson County will be able to produce the cucumbers, if they will only prepare for large acreage in time.
 This cannery scheme was brought to the attention of the truckers last fall Much interest was manifest ed on their part. but when they see the factory start ed they will take hold of their end with real earnest"
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
Havana No Longer a Fever Port.

The report of Mayor W. c. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer for Havana, for the month of January, is a very in- teresting paper. Although Hanvana is as populous as New Orleans, yet in January there were but five deaths from typhoid fever and three from diphtheria. From September 28 to the date of the report, February 15, not single case or yellow fever had oc- cured, although the disease had been epidemic there 200 years.
 Mayor Gorgas believes Havana can hereafter be kept free from yellow fever, but sanitation alone will not do it. He bases all his practice upon the extermination of the Stegomyia mos quito. He believes that that kind of mosquito is the sole means of trans mitting yellow fever, and it must be admitted that results confirm his view of the case. In January 17,000 houses were inspected, and in only All were larvae found.
 As Mayor Gors,s is about to give way to Cuban official, he thus sums up the work he has done:
 "The army took charge of the Health Department of Havana when deaths were occurring at the rate of 21,252 per year. It gives 1t up with deaths occurring at the rate of 5720 per year. It took charge with smallpox endemic for years. It gives it up with not a single case having occurred In the city for over eighteen months. It took charge with yellow fever endemic for two centuries, the relentless foe of every foreigner who came within | Havana's borders--which he could not es- l cape, and from whose attack he wei
 knew that every fourth man must die
 It found Havana feared as a thing un. clean by all her neighbors of the United States, and quarantined against as toe 1 anything that she had touched, to the un. | lolu lindncldl lOSS or DOIn Havana and the United States. It leaves, after care- full study of the question of yellow fever | by its officers. undeterred by personal risk-for several of the investigators have died of the disease, contracted at their work. It has established the fact that yellow fever is only transmitted by a cer- tain species of mosquito. discovery that in its power for saving human life, Is only excelled by Jenner's great discovery, and as time goes on, 1t will stand in the same class as that great boon to man. kin1"
 This is not one bit too strong if 1t be true that the Stegomyia mosquito is the sole carrier of yellow fever germs, and scientists are' more and more inclined to accept Mayor Cor gas bold theory. Let us hope at any rate that the signal results gained by Mayor Gorgas will not be lessened h Cuban hands. Cuba could not make a greater mistake, and in fact Cuba will not be permitted to let Ha- vana become again a pest of the Gulf and menace to all our Gulf States.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
HANNA's POWER OF ATTRACTION

Washington Dispatch in Springfield Re-
 publican.
 Senator Hanna, late in the afternoon entered the House of Representatives and took a seat, gathering a group of beet sugar advocates around him. This group increased in size and the senator before long attracted much more att tention than did the speaker, a large crowd gathering from all parts of the House to hear what he was saying con- cerning reciprocity. It was impossible to secure the attention of the members to the business in progress until Sena- tor Hanna discontinued this levee.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
JOHN BULL TAKES A BRACE.

From the New York World.
 Nobody expected that England would "stagger' long under the news of the defeat and capture of General Methuen. It is not J. Bs way to weaken under rebuffs. The War Secretary yesterday stated in the House that 5000 yeomanry would be immediately embarked with large drafts of cavalry and infantry, as endorsements for Lord Kitchener. Lord Rosebery's declaration, we have got to see this thing through" expresses the na- tional determination.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
APPROACH TO COLON GUARDED.
Beef, Provisions and Vegetables Are Becoming Scarce in Panama.

Colon, Colombia, March 16.-All ap- rroaches to Colon are now guarded by small attachments of troops. The gov ernment is throwing up embankments at certain advant ageous points in the center of the town, and from 200 to 300 troops are kept moving up and down the rail- road line. These are necessary precau- tions to avoid an insurgent surprise and attack similar to one of last November.
 Beef provisions, vegetables, etc., are becoming scarce in Panama, as small boats are no longer able to communicate with the neighboring coast towns. Pan- anna is receiving its supply of beef from Carthagena by way of Colon.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
The Shamrock,

The Irish-American is a model citizen. He is noted for his high intelligence and his thrift And with all his loyalty to the stars and stripes his heart is ever in sympathy with old Ireland.
 Every son of Erin will bear the sham rock today and will speak lovingly and proudly of the green isle and revel in recounting the glories of St. Patrick.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
Enhancement Announced.

Uniontown. March 16.-(Special)-Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland A. Terrell have an- nounced the engagement of their daugh- ter, Miss Isabel Terrell, to MT. Robert L. Coleman. The wedding will be sol- emniZed in April.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
The Hotels.

Saturday and Sunday are usually dull days with the hotels. The arrivals are comparatively few on those days. A hotel that has two pages of it's register filled on Sunday Is doing remarkably we'll
 Monday is a good day, but Tuesday is a better. From Tuesday until Saturday all the Birmingham hotels are we'll filled.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Many Chicago professors are going to other institutions, but no one wants Triggs, and the Inter-Ocean begins to think that nothing save a fire sale would take him.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Mir. Carnegie now says a public should not purchase a novel that is less than three years old. This is a good rule. It should shut out alto gether all of last years output, for in three years no one would want one of them.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Cecil Rhodes, one of the worlds plutocrats, is dying without child. The vanity of this life must be appar- ent to him.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

President Roosevelt has gained thirteen pounds in the White House. Fighting the office seekers does not worry a Rough Rider.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Mrs Astor says kings and princes must come to her, if at all, properly accredited. She is becoming particu- lar in her old age, which is 75.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

The strains of Die Yacht am Rhein" will have a familiar sound to Prince Henry on the other shore.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

There is money in beet sugar, that is plain, for the Oxnardites are not working for their health.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Filipinos are not able to see that the new Philippine tariff benefits them any.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

All see now that John P. Altgeld was a sincere, honest man, who did his own thinking.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

The chief strike in this country is the beet root strike in Congress.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Young Teddy is out of doors, but he wears cap nowadays.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Marbles, tops and sassafras bark are signs of spring.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

American anarehists can assail Prince Henry now by wireless teleg- raphy only.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Lord Methuen's incompetency is as chronic as it is swell.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

The proposition to make ex-Presi- dents life Senators is but small step of imperialism.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Fighting Bob Evans goes to the command of the Asiatic squadron next month.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Today is tho time for Cuban reef procity-no manana fits tho case.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

All favor pure food laws except un- dertakers.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

Funston talks as strenuously as he fights.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17
About Persons.

G. c. Boughton of New York is at the 1illman.
The age-herald., 1902-03-17

The rocked baby is an unhealthy baby.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23
ELOPED IN WILKINSON COUNTY
And Game from There to New
OrIeans-He Was
JAILED IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
He Will Be Returned to Port Gibson
In a Few Days,

Port Gibson, July 2l.-Tonight on
the 1916 northbonnd train Sheriff G.
H. Neyland, of Wilkinson county,
arrived here for the purpose of max
ing affidavit before Mayor Robert
Anderson against Rev. Jean Skyles,
Christian minister, who on the 24th
of June, eloped from Woodyille,
Miss, with Miss Theresa milestone,
daughter OF II. NJ. Milestone, repre-
sentative of that county IN the state
legislature. They came to this city
and were united in marriage at the
residence of Mr.. @. w. Bnrch by
Rev. J. E. Tally of Utica. After the
ceremony the couple departed for
New Orleans. Since then an inves-
tigation has been made and it has
been ascertained that Styles had
been previously married five times.
Sheriff NeyIand has had Styles
taken into custody at San Antonio,
Texas, and came here to get the nee
essary papers and will leave for
Jackson tomorrow morning to get
requlsition papers to return Sykes
from Texas to this city. Skylss has
two living wives in Washington, two
in Arkansas and one in California.
He is a man of about thirty-three
years Of age, we'll educated and is
graduate from California college,
and is we'll known throughout the
South. Skyles procured the mar
riage license in this county, and Will
be brought back here by Sheriff Ney-
land for trial.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

There were four legal hangings in
the state yesterday and it was not
Friday either. There will be others
in the state within the next few days,
one of them IN Hattiesburg. 1t is a
noted fact that hanging by law is be-
coming more frequent in the state,
but still lynching goes on just the
same. Men are impatient. 1t is
human nature to be impatient.
Where n heineus crime is committed
the slow process of the law and often
the uncertainty of the result will
naturally make men impatient
and they want to take the law
into their own hands to relieve
themselves of the anxiety. OF course
it is wrong, but people often do not
stop to count the wrongs. Every
man Is sworn practically to support
constitution and obey the laws, but
we sometimes become impatient ard
overstep the bounds Of our oath. But
the frequent hangIngs in the state
may have a good effect. Then the
people are certain that justice will be
mated out to a criminal in quick-step
time and has a wonderful effect and
greatly relieves their patience. And
1t will finally have the effect to check
so much lynching.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

and MIXED and the milk sold to the
customer on the spot. Thus the Gus
toner can see that the milk is not
adulterated. The cows In Hatties-
burg are not led around and MIXED
They do the leading act alone, but
are not MIXED. for it would take
forty of The kind that lie around on
the streets to furnish one family.
Their only object for being around on
the streets is to ring their little bells
and their big bells and to eat up all
the old paper boxes and do other
devilment not necessary here to
mention. The man who would drink
the milk given by one of these cows
is hard up for milk. Cold beer would
be preferable.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

Convictions and punishlnents, like
charity, should begin at home. If
the state failed to convict and punish
those connected with the treasury
embezzlement in this state why
should it want to send to Tennessee
for a man no more guilty than
Raiford or Rush or Showers? Gov
ernor McMillin was not far wrong
when he refused the requisitlon
papers asked for by the governor of
Mississippi
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

McAllister's idea regarding the
best policy fer the future of the dem
ocratic party is a good one. We must
first have a reunion and then talk
about the most available man to put
up for nominee. Bryan succeeded
well in dividing the east and the
south and making divisions in other
sections and these places must be
closed before the party undertakes to
make the nomination. Bryan is do
ing all in his power to keep the party
split and the sooner the party ignores
him altogether, which it viii have to
do, the better it will be for it. He IS
no wolf in sleeps clothes. He is the
wolf, clothes and ALL
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23
THAT POLICY CLAUSE.

The Progress with many other pa
pers in the state advocated the call
ing of a special session Of the legisla-
ture for the purpose of repeating or
amending the valued policy clause of
the insurance law. The reason the
Progress desired to see the law
changed, necessitating the converting
of the legislature and thereby IN
curling considerable expense to the
taxpayers, was that the burden OF
5he Insurance, if the law was not
changed, would fall upon the farmer,
While this remains true yet the
Progress, since studying the subject,
believes there is a negro in the wood
pile and that the threat of the insur-
ance people that since the blanket
insurance can no longer be resorted
to the risks on cotton will not be so
freely taken if at all and that the ex-
pense will be much larger and will
fall on those less able to bear it. All
this may be true, but it is noticed
that the insurance companies and
the compress companies are the main
ones doing the most complaining and
appear mostly interested in the pro-
posed change of the law.
The Progress does not contend that
the law should not be repealed, but
before the state is put to the expense
of the extra session of the legislature
the other side should be heard and
those members Of the last legislature
who so readily voted for the bill
should be heard from, and more par
ticularly the gentleman who intro
duced it.
Since it is fact that the insurance
companies threatened to withdraw
from doing business in the delta
country on account of having to pay
the levee tax, and since it Is also a
fact they have re-entered the delta
and are now taking all the business
they can get, notwithstanding they
have the tax to pay, it would appear
a little suspicious in the valued pol
icy clause matter that what they are
now giving to the public is nothing
more than a threat, like the other,
aud if the clause is not repealed the
risks Will be taken as before and that
there Will be no increased burden on
the cotton producer.
AS stated the Progress has not
given up its advocacyof the repeal Of
the law, but it is conservative
enough and honest enough and be-
IHeves 1t is nothing bat justice to both
the insurance companies and the cot-
ton handlers to have both sides of
the question discussed before the
governor takes final action. There
should be a minority as well as
majority report.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

Some of the papers of the state are
throwing bouquets at Governor Lon
gino and thanking him "awfal" for
not committing the sentence Of Cooke
and Lauderdale. We are all pleased
to see that the governor took such a
bold stand in the matter, but he only
did his duty and to thank him for
doing his duty would be left
handed apology and would leave the
impression that other governors Of
the state aud not been in the habit of
doing their duty. The Progress is
very much pleased to see that the
governor did his duty in this case.
but the Progress and the people ex-
pect him to do his duty in all cases
and feel that it IS unnecessary to
applaud him every time he doss so.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

It appears now from the action of
Cooke on the gallows he was not
hanged before his time came. If he
had been hanged at early date per-
haps he would have saved his rela-
tives and family the humiliation of
hearing him use such profane lam
guage as it is stated he used on the
gallows. He cursed everybody, in
Guiding the sheriff, and no doubt that
gentleman felt good when the time
came for cutting the rope that landed
Cookies soul into eternity.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

Cookies last words were go to
hell, all of you" The construction
of the sentence was rather faulty.
AS Cooke was already on the excur-
sion train thatswas just then pulling
out of Greenville for the lower re-
gions, he should have said, "Come on
to hell, all of you" OF course the
polite invitation would not have
been accepted except by Laudecdale,
but it would have shown that he
possessed better knowledge of the
English Language.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

There were four hangings in the
state yesterday, two whites and two
colored. The northern newspapers
will please take note of the fact that
the south sometimes hangs a white
man.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-07-23

A negro man killed negro woman
at Kosciusko the other day because
she would not marry him. Good !!
He then went off and killed himself.
Gooderl