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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
ROYAL Baking Powder
 Absolutely ly Psar'e A NEW RAILROAD SYSTEM
To the Age-Herald:

To the Age-Herald:
 Brief mention was made in your val uable paper the other day of a new rail- road company that had been formed to build and operate a railroad system in the Birmingham district The full sig nificance of this new enterprise was not brought out in the brief mention made. It is undoubtedly one of the most i'm portant movements since the consolida- tion of the great mining companies with the Tennessee company. A New York paper gives the names of the leading spirits in this new railroad system, and they are the heavy stockholders in the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway com pany. They are Woodward, Inman, Simonds, Moore, Baxter and Roberts. This new railroad system is evidently a movement on the part of the Tennessee company to connect their mines and fur naces with short line railroads and to build and operate these roads themselves. It was given out year ago that the Tennessee company had in view two great enterprises. One was the building of this railroad system. and the other was the erection of a $1, ,000 900 steel plant in the Birmingham district. These con- meeting links of railroad will be the first step, and the steel plant will follow. It is readily seen how the Tennessee com pany can save money by owning and operating its own railroads. 1t will save the tremendous freight bill that they pay to the railroads now doing their hauling It will enable them to make iron cheaper, and thus undersell all other producers By having their own rail- roads they will never be delayed in the hauling of ore coal and iron. The ex- isting roads are now overrun with busi- ness, and delays are frequent. Some idea of the saving in freight that the Tennes- see company will effect by owning its railroads can be gained by noticing the earnings of the railroads in the Birming- ham district The trunk lines that pen citrate this district show in their state ments that their earnings in the Bir- mingham district far exceed their earn ings on any other part of their lines. The Birmingham Mineral railroad is now doing a larger business than ever be- fore in its history. and is often block aded. The tendency of the railroads to advance freight rates will hurry up the Tennessee company in constructing its railway system. M.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
THE JURY SAYS IT IS TRUE,
Continued From First Page.)
Johnnie Howe.

Johnnie Howe.
 He said am years old. My name is Johnnie Howe. Never went to school Father married a year ago. My step mother has been mean to me. Was at home last Friday. She told me to take my little brother to the back porch and clean him. She made me put faeces in his mouth. She took the baby to the back porch and whipped him and threw him over the baniSters. She went out and picked him up and brought him back and tried to get him alive. She put him in a tub of hot water I know MT. Carter; he and Mrs. Carter came over that morn ing. Emma Thornton and Mrs Hughes came. She whipped him on the day be- fore she went off to Mrs. Hughes. I was standing at the end of the banisters. My stepmother struck me once in the eye with a strap and nearly put it out. Showed a slight lump) I told papa about this after baby died. She told lot of people that hurt my eye on soma grape vines. My stepmother made me and Harry run Fred away from home. She called him an "old fool" Choked the baby on Friday and struck its against the floor
 The little fellow was stripped to the waist and showed scars received, so he said, by whipping inflicted by his step mother.
 The next witness called was one who Idu UOue InucH IOWdTu SelllnS eN1uence for the inquest and who was of invalua- ble aid to the coroner. He was
 Officer G. E. Devine.
 He said: I am police officer and live in Jonesville, one and a half blocks from Mir. Howe. had he little boys make statements to me prior to this examina- tion. They were about the same as now, only little brighter then. Mrs. Howe also made a statement to me- She said there were no other marks about the child's body other than those on the back of his head, and she said that was all she knew of it. She showed where she claim ed the child had fallen and pointed to a knot in the floor. l felt of it with my thumb and it was perfectly smooth. It is about g feet from the top of the banis- ters to where the boys said the child had been thrown on the ground. Ellen Moore said when she'first saw the baby it was lying near the door with it's head on it's arms. She did not see Mrs. Howe throw it. Mrs. Howe called her. Ellens statement was about the same to me as before the jury.
 John w. Laird,
 The grandfather of the dead child, was next introduced and said: My name is John w. Laird and I live at Fountain Heights at Thirteenth street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues. Am an engineer by occupation and work at the electric light plant. Know Mr. and Mrs. Howe. Howe's first wife was my daughter and the dead child and Howe's other children are my grandchildren. Was never at the house since the second maria ge but three times till the death of the little child. The children came to my house considerably, but never told me of the cruel treatment of their step mother. Went 10 Howe's house Friday morning. Mrs. Howe said the child walked out on the back veranda and fell backward on the floor and she found it unconscious Didn't say it had convul- siens. Said she bathed it with hct water.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
MISAPPIIED TERMS.

Ambassador Bayard is receiving much attention at the hands of certain class of American journals. He made the as- sertion that it took "real man" to gov ern the people of the United States, and immediately a number ofnewspapers pro- ceeded to bounce upon this statement and amend it by saying it takes a real snob to be an ambassador
 The New York Press, most rabid of anti-everything papers, has much to say on this subject. It seems a pity that the word American" is so little understood even in our own country. To be Amer ican it is not necessary to be rude, un- cultured and absolutely devoid of those finer graces which distinguish the man from the clod-hopper and clown. Nor is it yet to be -unduly aggressive, loud mouthed and offensive. A man is not necessarily a snob because he is pos possessed of a share of the worlds goods any more than he is not gentleman and true man without a dollar to his credit. Such things are not measured by the bank account. In the particular case of Ambassador Bayard we have man who has given offense to the Press and other papers by the mere fact of being suc- cessful, coupled with the fact that Cleve- land appointed him.
 So far he has not been wanting in American spirit. His country has been respected, its rights held inviolate, and it has been in the quiet, firm tone of dig nifty, not in the swaggering insolence of the bully.
 Right here in our own country the word American is too often confounded with the word bully, and too often the term snob is given simply when gentle manners" would answer. There IS both distinction and difference.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
NTSVlllE.
Generous Contribution of the Council -Whoe-
 sale Grocery Firm DissoIyes.

ootc OIoICiJ iHlII DlSSoNtS,
 Huntsville, Sept 5.-(Special Core spondence.)-The city council has con- tributed $25O toward the fund for getting up city and county exhibit for the Cot ton States exposition at Atlanta, which, with what the county and individuals have contributed, will enable those in charge of the matter to collect and place in the Alabama building one of the finest and most varied exhibits that will be seen from the entire south MT. Tracy w Pratt of the West Huntsville cotton mills deserves special praise for the unselfish and extensive work he has done and is doing in this behalf.
 Work is progressing on the construc- tion of the sidetrack of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway from their main line to the factories in West Huntsville. The contractor, w. S. Wells. began laying the rails today, and will soon have the track completed This Sidetrack is but another evidence of the enterprise of that great railway, and opens up some of the finest locations for factories around and adjacent to the city.
 The wholesale grocery firm of Halsey, billiard & Lyle has dissolved by mutual consent, MT. R. s. Halsey retiring The other two gentlemen will continue the business.
 It was reported today that a company of gentlemen were buying up the stock of the fair association for the purpose of getting hold of controlling interest, when they will take steps to have the association dissolved, buy in the beauti- ful gre A ids and lay the same off into lots for 3esidences or factories, for which they are admirably adapted. Huntsville and Madison county have not held fair in several years. It Is believed our citi- zens are making a great mistake in al- lowing It to 20 down and if is hOnod some plan will be adopted by which it will be revived. The fair association has done more than all other factors in making Madison the banner county of the state in it's magnificent agricultural and stock products.
 The foundry addition to what was the Lownes wrench factory, now the Na- tional Manufacturing company, has been completed and made its first run success fully. The famous pipe wrench will also continue to be made on an enlarged scale. A machine shop Is also to be established in connection with the establishment.
 The City infirmary is succeeding be- yond the expectations of it's most ardent friends, and the rooms are all now occu- pied with patients. An experienced and professional nurse has been engaged and is now in charge, and the patients are all doing we'll. As an object lesson of the need of such an institution, it may be stated that some time back two young men came here from the north for work and soon obtained employment, and from their exposure in some way became sick with fever, and were taken at once to the infirrnary where every attention can and is being shown them. The good women of this city, aided by generous public, will continue this noble work un- til Huntsville has one of the best equip- ped and most useful infirmaries in the country
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
THE AGE-HeRALD READING ROOM.

The Age-Herald has fitted up a neat reading room adjoining it's business office, where daily papers from all east ern, southern, western and northern noints will be kept on file for the benefit and information of the public. Papers from the following cities can always be found there: Boston, New York, Phlla- delphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Charles ton, Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta. Cln- cinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Montgomery, Mobile. New Orleans Galveston, Houston, Dallas and many other cities not named.
 Citizens of either of the cities above named or any party desiring to read are welcome to call at any and all times night CT day, as the reading room will always be open.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
No War for Them

Every tramp arrested in Cuba these days claims to be a newspaper corre- spondent and calls on the American con- sul for protection. Then the jingo press declares it to be an international affair and demands war with Spain. It would be well for the state department to let these "enterprising" wanderers know that if they go to Cuba with intent to mix up with the insurreotion in any way whatever, they will do so at their own risk. Nobody in Cuba has invited them to come.-Menphis Scimitar.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
THE EDITOR AT LARGE.
A Farewell.

My sweetest child, I have no song to sing
 you,
 No lark could pipe to skies so dull and
 gray But ere go, one message I will leave you | For every day. 1 Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be
 clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day
 long; And so. make life, death and that vast for
 eyer, One grand sweet song.
 CHARLEs CANON KINGSLEY.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
Good Stuff.

The four speeches delivered by Secre- tary Carlisle in May and June, at Gov ington, Memphis, Bowling Green and Louisville, are now printed together in pamphlet of sixty pages. They are an absolute exposition of the laws of money with application of these laws to the con- ditions of the present time. Nothing else of equal value on this subject has been given to the American people since the days of Alexander Hamilton.-Portland OregOnian
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
Don't Prove Anything.

"One leg of pair of trousers" it is announced, was found in the stomach of big shark caught near Annapolis, Md, a few days ago" Time was when such discovery could only mean that a man had been drowned. It is not so now.-Exchange
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
Posted.

The Atlanta Constitution declares that we have reached that age where 'the counting rooms control the editorial opinions of the newspaper" As the Constitution is best acquainted with af- fairs and circumstances in its own office it's statement may be fairly regarded as in the nature of confession.-Exchange
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
Hardin Doesn't.

Mir. Bland has reconsidered his pur- pose to stump Kentucky because the platform adopted by the Louisville con- vention was so at variance with demo- cratic coinage principles in it's indorse- ment of Cleveland and Carlisle that I concluded it would be best to cancel my engagements" Brother Bland ought not to allow a little thing like plat form to bother him. m.--Courier-Journal.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
A Misfit Notion.

There is no pleasing some folks. Half the time the Washington papers rail at Chicago because it is wild and woolly, and the rest of the time they complain because it is too national conventional Chicago Tribune
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
Heather Chinee Is Peculiar.

That child-like and bland heather Chi nee, Ii Hung Chang, may have lost his peacock feather and yellow robe, but he has evidently not lost his nerve or his grip upon the Celestial Empire.-Phila- delphia Record.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
Bowler Returns the Papers.

Washington, Sept. 6.-Comptroller Bowler today returned the papers in the sugar bounty case, decided yesterday adversely to the claimants, to Auditor Baldwin of the treasury. They will take their usual return course, and through Secretary Carlisle will reach the United States court of claims next week and be Droperly docketed.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
They Are Learning.

The wearing of dress suits in the day time in Chicago is gradually going out of style A conspicuous Chicago society man said recently that he would never think of wearing a dress suit before o'clock in the afternoon.-McKeespo Times
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
The Proper Pronunciation.

The name of Lord Dunraven's yacht, says the New York Sun, is pronounced Val-ki-ree with the accent on the second syllable. The word signifies "chooser of the slain. ."-Norfolk Virginian.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

Fer the use of the editor. the word ''hound-puppiness" has been coined over in Georgia. During the next campaign it will doubtless be used freely.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

hy EXCLUSIVE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED PRESS, NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK Asso- GATED PRESS, CABLE NEWS FROM ALI PARTS OF THE WORLD AND SUPERB SPE" GAL STATE SERVICE.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

An exchange says: "The coming gen eration would be better off if they were taught to carry testaments in their pock- cts instead of pistols" They better make 1t Hast will and testament" for it's the other man who generally has a pun.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
To Act Indenendantlx.

Washington, Sept. 6.-The United States government has decided to enter forthwith upon an independent investi- gation of the Cheng Tu riots with the CO., operation of Chinese representatives As at first arranged, the inquiry was to have been made in cooperation with England, but there has beena a change of plan with in the last few days, occasioned partly by the fact that the British consul at Chung King, who is to conduct the inyes- tigation on behalf of his government. and to whom, with the concurrence of an American missionary member, 1t was at first proposed to entrust the preliminary at his post and it is said will not be able to begin the inquiry for month or more.
 There are also understood to be other reasons why the state department has decided upon an independent inveStiga- tion such as France has decided upon and such as England will make later, The department is not yet prepared to make these public.
 China is expected to lend her support to the American inquiry to the extent of supplying an escort to the persons who will conduct it, but who have not vet been designated, and will probably fur. nish an official who will cooperate with the American investigator at the Ku- cheng investigation. The investigation is expected to be made by some officials now on the Chinese coast. It will prob ably take month to reach Chenk Tu, which is the capital of the interior pro- vince and lies some 1500 miles from the nearest ocean port.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

"The danger to Democracy lies not in the strength of the enemies but in the division in its own ranks says the Au- gusta Herald If Democrats would only realize this as clearly as do the Pops and Republicans, there would be less glee in the alien ranks.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

The Atlanta Constitution informs the Washington Post that a paper can be on the fence without performing the billy goat act The Consti ought to be well posted on that subject as it has been on both sides
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

In spite of the many reports the bright and well-edited Gadsden Times-News will not part with its hyphen. It is to continue publication under the same name, but Brother Johnston retires. leaving Brother Meeks monarch of all he surveys.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

The Commercial-Appeal says W. O.. Bradley, the Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky, is the sort of war horse that snuffs the battle and says, I'm off This is one paper that has got MT. Bradley spotted.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

The editor of the Nashville American evidently does not expect to go to the Atlanta Exposition. He has referred to one charming woman as the most beauti- full in Atlanta. It would have been more polite to have referred to her as one of many.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

agThe present management or the AGE-HERA LID has no claim against advertisers or SubScrio- CTS prior to February 11th, 1850. Under decree of court accounts up to that date have been soio and transferred. hence Canceiieo as between the debtor and this paper
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

Editor Charles P. Dement, is getting his baptism of fire. His F. c. has been calling him names, and he is only four days old, editorially.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

The Star-Eyed Goddess has decided not to go abroad till next spring and will devote his time to the lecture stage dur in the interim.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

In Mrs Caroline S. Lowell Birmingham has an artist of whom to be proud. Her work is exceptionally good, and has won praise from men of wisest censure.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

The Spaniards are surely defeated; ; they are hanging women. It is the surest test of downfall.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

Pennsylvania papers are commenting daily on the recent large orders for basic pig sent to the Birmingham district by Pennsylvania steel manufacturers.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

America is to have many distinguished visitors, Henry M. Stanley, Lord Rose bery and Hall Caine being among those mentioned,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

tSomebody must have put bent pr in the seat of war In Cuba" says tht Rome Tribune. This is what the Ash
 vile Aegis would call "startingly witty
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

MT. Free Silver Pop Congressional Howard has been in the North devoting himself to the promulgation of the doc Urine of one Ida B. Wells. He is rep resentative to be proud of, yea and yer
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

Nazrulla Kahn, the son of the Ameer, has at last gone home. England heaves a sigh of relief.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

Bowler has decided against the sugar men. One of these days he may be sing ing about cat that came back
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

Mrs. Potter Palmer sent to Mrs Joseph Thompson check for $500 to be used at the discretion of the latter in the wom- ans building. It is stated that the money will be used to entertain the Chi cago board of women managers when they come to Atlanta.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

They will charge MT. Cleveland with the earthquake next.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

Says the Wiregrass Siftings: "Wom- ans charms have captured a number of editors in our state this year. prominent among those to get married being both the president and secretary of the Ala bama Press association. But the Siftings furnishes the bachelors with a member that will stick" "IIe that thinketh him self to stand" etc. Be careful, brother
 The joke seems to be on the Mail and Express. It called Marse Grover to taw for using the phrase, "One grand sweet song," accused him of plagiarzing it and finally wound up by intimating that every one of education ought to know the line was taken from one of Marie Correlli's books. Almost any school child could have told the editor of the Mail and Express that Canon Kingsley wrote the line in poem called "A Fare well" reproduced elsewhere in this issue.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
THE LEADER CAPTURED.
One Hundred and Thirty Suspects Under Arr >rest-Unted States Will Conduct
 Separate Investigation.

London, Sept. GA dispatch to the Pail Mall Gazette from Hongkong says the leader of the Kucheng massacre has been captured by the authorities The total number of persons thus far arrest ed for participation in the outrage in Kucheng is 190, of whom twenty three. have been convicted.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-15
An English View or American Politics.

London. Aug. Recommending on the
New York dispatch which details veSter-
days doings OF the Democratic silver con-
ference at Washington city and the inn
pulse 10 the return TO prosperity through
out the United States. the News in an
editorial. says; THE dispatch would fur
nish a good text for the speech which
Lord Farrar is announced 10 deliver az
next Saturdays meeting OF the Cobden
Club. Nobody ever believed the vase
earning classes of the Great American
cities would abandon all hope and turn 20
the silver dollars. The tendency TO turn
against protection is the more interesting
because less generally expected. SIX
months ago the election of another pro-
tectionist president was confidently
counted upon Our correspondent informs
us that the prospect rs now changing
An enormous increase of trade followed
the passage Of the Wilson bill and proved
in a rough and ready way most effective
" 10 the electors that Mckinley did not
hold the only key TO the industrial para
disc. II is not clear that there is any
man Of sufficient power and popularity 10
win his support from all sections of the
country. but the feeling against increas-
ing the tariff will probably induce the
Republicans TO drop H..