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DEMAND FOR AMERICAN WHEAT.
Reasons why There Isl Gooh Market In
Australia.


The reason why so large n quantity OF
American wheat was imported into Aus
tralia lest.year is explained by Daniel W.
Maratta, GATED States ConSul General ut
Melbourne. 1t appears that wool growing
is regarded by Australians as much the most
important industry, and in pursuing that the
Australian farmer is often ieti to neglect the
cultivation of wheat. As a Iule, the larger
.'souatters," or ranchmen, do not care to de-
vote their time to farming, preferring to give
ali oil their attention to sheep raising.
''The consumption OF wheat In this col
ony." writes Consul Maratta, sis at the
rate OF six bushels to the Acre, and as the
eron last wear only yielded four and two
tenths bushels to the acre. 1t will readily be
seen that the colonists werp short Of their
requirements nearly two bushels to the acre.
To meet this deficiency, the first for q great
many wears, largo imports Were made from
lie United States. These shipments were
made from Sau Francisco, with the excep-
tion OF one or two vessels from New York"
II Is becominga common custom among u
tralian ranchmen to rent 6their land for
wheat-growlng on shares, &the ranchmen
furnishing the land and the ed and some
~neighboring farmer doing alY>he work. As
the woodworking industry. however, Is con-
stautly tending to GROVE o Ehe wheat cui-
tiyation, there Is II prospect that increased
demands upon America for wheat supplies
will be made IN the future.
Mr.. Mura.ta says: at has 4een wondered
how it is that Australia can produce wool,
and. for that matter. sheepSEo much more
eheaply thar America, and % answer, too,
Is very simple. First, the adv ntage lies inthe
climate. Here you have a eli ate where the
sheep can, and do, safely spa every night
during the year in tho open aud without
covering. Then the pasture Y unlimited and
virtually free. The COST Of LIbor is cheaper
thar with us, ard station living cheaper,
animal. You can purchas Vat n retail
butchers bore in Melbourne prime lamb and
mutton at from five to six cent 1per pound
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1t is reported OF Artemus Ward that he
once offered his flask Of whisky to the driver
of the stage on which he was riding through
n mountainous section. The stage driver
refused the flask in most decided tones. Said
he:
az don't drink; 1 won't drink. I don't like
to see anybody else drink. [ am OF the
opinion Of those mounta 'ns-keep your top
COOL They've got snow, and I've got brains;
that's all the difference"
There is a grea, deal OF wisdom in his re-
mark-"Keep your top cool" Without q
sound brain man is not OF much use in the
world. Alcohol, whether In beer, cider,
wine, brandy or whisky, is a foe of the braini
and when 1t gets there inaames it n rem
ders 1t unfit for use. Be like the honest stage
driver and resolve to ''keep your top cool"
Youths Temperance Banner.
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E OF GREECE.
Olga IS Tall and Stately and Popular
With Her Smblects.

Olga IS Tai and Stately and Popular
With Her Subjects.
Queen Olga of Greece is the most popular
queen in all Europe, and after her plucky act
the other day in defying the Russian throne,
there is not a native of Hella who would not
die for her. Queen Olga is q Russian prin-
cess, and was an honorary Admiral in the
Russian fleet. she has just returned her in
sigma 10 st. Petersburg, with the remark
that she cannot hold rank in a fleet that has
fred upon the Greeks, Olga is the eldest
daughter OF the Grand Duke Constantine o.
Russia, an | a niece of the late Gar Alexan-
der III. She is tall and stately and realizes
the traditional idea of a queen in her mp
pearance and manner. She is a blonde, will
brown hair, regular features and a beautiful
neck mud shoulders. She goes about Athens
unattended, even by a maid, and dresses in
the most simple fashion. On state occasions
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posTmAsTERs TO HOLD FOUR YEARS.
Decision of the Mckinley Administrators
--Reiuoval Only for Cause.

Decision of the Mckinley Administration
--ReIuoval Only for Cause.
Postmaster General Gary has made the
definite announcement that the Adminlstra-
ton, after delibsration, has decided to ad-
here to the four-year-tenure-ot-omce policy
for all postmasters. Ho stated that, except
In n few cases where removal for cause was
required on account Of delinquency, incom-
potency, or other instances OF unsatisfactory
conduct or administration OF the Office, all
pOstmnsters, fourth class as we'll rs those OF
Presidential appointment, would BIS allowed
to serve out q term OF four years. This on
cial statement OF policy. onu of the most i'm
portant so determined upon by the Admins
~tration, has been awaited with great interest
by the entire corps of postmasters, and by
the patrons of 7O,675 p~ostofices t throughout
the country.
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she costumes herself royalty. She is very
fond OF pearls. and has a small fortune in
these ornaments. She never deports herself
in the manner assumed by royalty in general,
and. while dlgniGed, is gentle, ufrable and
lovable. Olga Is a great scholar. She loves
science and the classics, and can speak flu
emily in Russian, Italian, Greek, French,
German and English. Lately she has mas
tered Albanian also. She is interested in
music and art, devotes much of her timo to
charity and public education, and has found
cd one or two prosperous schools in Athens
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ATHLETICS WITH AND WITHOUT ALCOHOL.

An ex-President OF the Cambridge Uni
versity Athletic Club, whose letter appears
in the Temperance Chronicle, says:
81 am not now q teetotaler. but q very
strong advocate of temperance. When at
Cambridge, during my first year, when l did
my best times in long-distanco racing, l
was a total ~abstainer, and trained entirely
without alcohol. During my last two years
idrank alcohol occasionally and very mod
erately, chiefly in the form of beer, claret.
aud sometimes port; but tho stubborn fact
remains that l never boat or equaled the
times I accomplished in races, of very
severe bodily strain, when l took nc alcohol
In any shape or form. Ii l were-f 80 in
training now for a long race l should be
strongly inclined to do 1t entirely on water
Gas far as liquor is concernsd) as Of yore."
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TEMPERANCE
A MODERN FRErsooTK1.

n HcbHhN hbG9Ooi
Mans life ID a war!are-'t.s harl to with.
stand
The foes that assail us by sea and by lamb.
To meet their attacks let us wisely combine;
And pray without ceasing for succor divine;
And that we may not suffer shipwrecS or
less, .
Let faith BIS our shield, and our standard the
cross.
The passion for drink, so degrading and
low,
Has become for the millions the mightiest
foe;
On life's stormy billows this pirate pursues
The best laden vessels to plumber their crews,
Till, pillaged and wrecked, ia mid-ocean
they sink,
The most helpless of beings, the ''ctims OF
drink! -
All Christians should ever this enemy fly
And, like true disciples, the flesh mortify-
Should fly what is sinful, and gladly alb
stain,
To conquer the demon, the goal to attain;
Should fervently pray for assistance the
while,
And fly all indulgence degrading and vile.
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DR.. A. Baer, of Berlin, says; 'Alcohol is
not a food in the sense that it gives one the
power OF endurance or preserves strength
aud health. 1t rather produces the opposite
effects, for 1t destroys the body and RUNS its
health" Instead OF being a preventive of
malaria, cholera and other diseases. alcohol
actually predisposes one to these evils. The
mental aud moral effects OF alcoholism ARE
beyond description terrible. "Aleohol des-
troys tho individuality of men, paralyzes the
will and the physical energy, makes the In
diyIdual q slave OF his passions"
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More than two thousand years ago the re-
suits of alcohol on the body were compared
to the bite OF a serpent and the sting of an
adder; and alcohol has aot changed its ma
ture since. At the present timc alcoholic
beverages abused are certainly the most in
VI death and destruction that exist, and the
annals OF eriminal cour;s prove that the in
temperate arc IN aggravated public nuisance
generally.
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Miss Frances E, Willard writes that Mrs.
Helen NJ. Stoddard, President OF the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union OF Texas.
has been appointed National Organizer OF
the Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
Union for Mexico as a result OF her recent
trip to the City of Mexico, where. in confer
ence with the missionaries OF that country,
extended plans were arranged for introduce
ing the ribbon movement into Mexico.
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lo~ng-standing cases. Professor Haffkine's
serum had been administered to 2341 per-
sons, OF which number only two had been
attacked, and neither OF these had died. The
people were coming In more freely TO be in
oculated, and the Government OF Bombay
was organizing depots for incubation,
DIR. Yersin has had q large experience with
oriental plaques and has fought CONTAGIOUS
disease in such noted centres Us Hong Kong
and Canton. He is utterly fearless.
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The French line steamer Vile de st.
Nazaire has been lost at sea. she sailed from
New York, March 6 for West Indian ports and
was abandoned March $. There were eighty
people aboard Captain BERT @na thT ss
the schooner Hilda, were landed at Perth
Amboy, n. J.. There wero four dead in tho
boat. Nothing Is known Of the fate OF the
nthnra. - -
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FLOODS IN ARKANSAS.
Thousands of Cattle Drowned In the HIgf
Water,

Thousands OF Cattte IN inc hiER
Water.
The destruction to property in Arkansa,
from high water aud rains is unprecedented
Reports from the section covered by the
White, Ouachita. Little Red, and Black
Rivers all say these streams are bank full,
ami in Hsahy places have submerged the
country for miles in every direction. Fec
pie are fleeing TO higher ground, in m1ny
instances leaving their stock aud household
goods to the mercy of the food.
Governor Jones has received many ap.
reals for aid aud will convene the Legisla.
lure within the next ten days to take action
on the matter.
All the streams in the State are higher
than ever before. Business is practically al
a standstill everywhere. At least l0,00J
horses, hogs and cattle have persisted so far
in the high water.
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While blowing in a neli which had been
under constant cultivation until last year,
n colored farmer OF Hogansyille, Ca, un.
covered a jar, buried beneath Two big stones
and an iron plate. containing $1,000 In
gold. Apparently the money had been
stolen. The burial place was marked by
a circle OF small field stones,
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nis IA to hnra n cat farm.

x nois Is to have n cat farm.
Great drought prevails in Bolivia.
The island oil Pitcairn has been annexed
to New South Wales,
The Salvation Army holds over 100000
services during the year.
The official reports from Bombay, India,
show tina the plague Is abatiug.
The New Hampshire Legislature has ra-
fused to repeal the bounty on b mrs,
It is said tina a new steel plant, costing
81 200, 900, will be built ut Buffalo, N. Y.
Among the new patriotic societies Is one
composed solely OF tbs descendants Of the
Colonial Governors.
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Kentucky Republicans VIII.

The five new State Senators, four Repub-
Iicans and one Democrat, were sworn IN at
Frankfort. Ky. The Blackburn Senators at
tempted to refer the credentials. but they
were oulvoted. This means that tho kepub-
licans will be able to elect a United States
ASenator at this session,
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A GREAT WAGON TRAM.
sixty Horses Hauling 1t to tnA De La MAJ
Mines in Utah.

+. n. MeKeon lett Milford, ptah, for De
Tn Mar the other day WITT the heayi-
est team train ever undertaken under like
condition of roads. With sevfA iy-five miles
of yery muddy roads he Is Attempting to
transport with sixty horses $4,000 pounds OF
heavy machinery loaded on three wagons.
This outfit Is accompanied ~ other outfits,
and as the train pulled out OYER the hills to
the west ii looked not unlikeJEco sue circus at.
tempting to iuvadethe weste ~iu3untry.
1t will require an immense gyeonnt OF oats
and nav TO feed the teams, a%4fssill keep two
fonr-horse teams busy hauling water. 1t "a
exnected that for miles thel axles OF the
heayiest-loaded wagons will Dig the ground.
This machinery is for the D. a Ma mines.
machinery. nearly all Of which Is now on tho
road etween Milford and the nine.
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RANGE CATTLE DESTROYED.
One North Dakota ItancbunIn Pats His
Losses at 81 100000.

IUssbs W "EfVVVf"'Vs
Specials from MauIan and Dickinson,
North Dakota, state that it is believed gem
orally among cattlemen that seventY-lye per
cent. OF range animals have already sue
cumbsd to the winter, the chinook coming
too late TO save them. II Is impossible to
travel over the range and no exaet figures
can be had.
"Bad Lang range, which has been over
crowded the past few years, will have but
few cattle this season. 1t is stated that
Pierre Wibaux, the big cattle mai OF Wibaux.
Montana and North Dakota, puts his losses
at 81, 900, 600. Last fall he put $50, 900 young
cattle on the ranges aud all are dead.
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soc1An!u1rY AND SUCCESS.

A fellow must be sociable to get along.
This is one Of the commonest excuses for bad
habits among young men. If he drinks to
excess on some occasion, II he stays out un-
reasonably late Mt night, or does anything
else for which he is properly chided by those
who naturally have M interest In him. the
first thing the young man pleads in se;f-de-
tense Is the necessity OF sociability. He must
be sociable to get on! A moments sober re-
Election would show even him the foolish
ness OF this excuse. 1 What does he uEder-
stand by sociability? He probably could
not define what he means by the term IL he
were asked to do so. Certainly, he would
utterly fall to demonstrate how the cultiva-
tion of bad habits becomes ~contributory to
success IN any worthy application OF the
word. One OF the first fruits of yielding to
temptation is the stimulation Of guile, and
the person who Stops to do q mean and
shameful thing will not hesitate to lie to
cover his tracks, 1.-The deems it convenient or
expedient to deceive those who question his
acts. We would say. continues the Catholic
American, to all young persons, whatever
their conditions or surroundings, begin your
habits of sOciability at home, practice amia-
bility and cheerfulness there, cult vate thess
virtues first of all for domestic use. and they
will serve you and promote your welfare in
a practical sense where it will do the most
good. But above all, do not be dishonest
with yourselves, false to you best friends
mud disloyal to yuur own highest purposes
of life by masking the culture OF vicious and
dangerous habits under the specious plea OF
sociability. Misanthropy is q Thousand
times better than that love of companionship
which finds expression in dissolute acts.
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Joseph Colt. in the United States Circuit
Court at Boston, ordered tho public sale OF
the Atlas Tack Corporation, known as the
Tack Trust, now In the hands OF n receiver.
1t owns five mills and has S200, 600 cash in
hand, besides a large sum in bills receivable.
Its properties are mortgagei for 1900, 900.
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woman EIeeted rax collector.

In Holden Mass town meeting Mary E.
Hubbard was elected Tax Collector,
receiving 81 votes to 81 for Levi W.
Howe aud rs for William J. Prendergast.
So far as there is II record, this is the first
time a woman has ever been elected to that
office in Worcester County.
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he steel Tired Wheel Company, q cor
ration TO control steel ear-wheel produc-
lion in the United States, has been formed.
Rhode Island started QUITO erect q 81, $780,
! Ol capitol. and Is now informed that
ti.s7il s9 more is needed to complete tho
building.
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MIuIster KiIlcd by a Train.

The Rev. George H. Wells. of Dover, III,
hity-eight years old, and unmarried, was
killed by n train. half a mile west of Wan
watosa, Wis, Hs was a patient at the sani-
sariun, anJ it IL bAlievel ha committed
suici 10 q
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AMBASSADORS NOMINATED.
John Hay 70 Represent Us in Great Britt
ain, Horace Porter in France.

The President seat to the United States
Senate the following nominations:
To be Ambassadors Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States:
John Hay, OF the District Of Columbia, to
Great Britain.
Horace Porter, of New York, to France.
Henry White. OF Rhoie Island, to be Sec
rotary OF the Embassy Of the Unitcl States
to Great Britain.
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Train pyna,nlted In Cuba.

The Spanish report General Gomez seri-
ously wounded. Cubans dynamited a troop
train in PInar del Rio, killing or inlurlng 25J
aoldiara
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WARsHlPs FOR CHINA.
Three Protected Cruisers BuildIn: for the
Celestial Empire.

Atthe Vulcan shlpbu'lding Yard, Bre low,
near stettin, where the Chinese torpedo
eunboat Eel Wing was built in 1895, three
protected cruisers for the Chinese Govern.
ment are in hand. They are sister ships OF
1850 tons, 32S feet long, with Al feet beam
and l6X feet extreme draught. Protection
is given by steel decks, varying In thickness
between ~ and az inches, and the guns
are TO have steel shields.
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Corn can be- bought at the Vermilllon
(south Dakota) market at eight cents a
bushel.
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Double, double.
Vice and trouble
Come to man -
When he sees double.

The women IN Jackson, Mo-, have them
selves assessedso that as taxpayers they can
sign tho remonstranees to prevent the
saioon-keepers from securing licenses. A
watch or a sewing machine will do to make
them Taxpayers.
There are more brewerles in California
than there are in Illinois; moro distlller,es
In Massachusetts, than there are in Ken
lucky, and more cigarettes manufactured ia
New York state than In all other States OF
tho country combined, says the Lever.
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John Corbett, of InditeA sy., /
out a fire In a railroad tImagf tep4ggec
ward an eighty-daY passsove, ilne.
rode around, carrying far1te 10 nei,
boring towns where he So ash,
realized a nice little sum.
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WE MUST LIVE.

"There was an old lady" says Sir Wilfrid
Lawson, "whom 1 knew in London n couple
of years ago, who was II guardian of one OF
the large unions in the West Of London.
There came a man on the licensing day TO
nave his public house license renewed, and
this good lady came and said: Don't renew
the license, your Worships. The old women
from the workhouse whore l Am guardian go
over there and get drunk, and 1t causes a
deal OF evil;' and the chairman said: We'll,
what have we TO do with that2 Do n great
many go2' oh, yes the lady said, "a great
many what docs it matter to u.s. he said,
If hundreds go2 The man who comes for
the license must live"
Now we have the whole thing in a nut
shell. Men engaged in the liquor business
say, "We must 1--we" To all such we might
reply, rs DR.. Johnson did to the beggar who
urged the same plea, "We must live. I'VE
see no necessity at all for that" Ger
tainly the community would lose by tho
death OF some people, but when did it ever
go into mourning for the death of n rum
seller? The man who cannot live but by the
ruin of others had better not live at all. 1t
is a libel on the character OF God to suppose
tina men cannot live under His government
and support their families without continue
ing to be knowingly and voluntarily aces
sorry to the ruin OF their fellow-men.
II saloonists must live, better the COM
munity tax itself for their support than tax
Itself to support, as 1t now does, both the sa-
loonist and his victims. -Natlonal Temper
ance Advocate.
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advertisements
TAE

late Wholesale Prices OF Country FRO
duce Quoted In New YORK.
70 MILF AND CREAM
The average price paid for the surplus on
he nlet forms has been a., 30 a can of41 quarts.
Receipts of milk and cream ut the different
r~ailroai distributing points in and neat ths
sity for the week have been as folloTs'
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NEW ARMY POLICY.
The Public No Loager to BE Allowed to
Visit Forts.

General Miles, commando, the III
States army, has issued a q raj order
hibiting, IN the strictest term lthe admit
al nny person, except oifteef% OF the
or Government employees, to III lake o
coast defenees without a nit from
commandant OF the place. ~preover,
tnry nos and under n NIXON
written or pictorial descrlptf Nucl
lenses 10 be made without p Dosty
the Secretary of War.
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The saloon Is sins chief agent. sntan's
head servant.
The saloon is the e~orrupter OF politics, the
tool Of politicians the dictator OF misSovern-
ment,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-28
INSURGENTS GROW BOLDER
Two Towns Entered and Store
houses Raided.
DARKNESS FAVORED THEM
Palma Says independence or Death is The Cry
DIR. Agramonte Arrives in New York
Spanish Officers Despondent

Havana, via Key West, Nov. 27.-On
the night of November %. a band of
insurgents entered the town OF Santa
Rosa, Havana province, and under cover
of darkness remained three hours, during
which they raided several stores. A
SERGEANT of the garrison and fourteen
privates, while reconnoftering, came upon
the emmy and were met with volley of
musketry resulting in the loss of the SER
geant and three privates.
An insurgent force commanded by
Colonel Gayo, led by Captain Blanco, re-
Gently raided Paso Viejo, a suburb Of
Pinar d4l Rio city They retired at 8
o'clock in the morning, taking with them
a great deal of plunder. The official re-
port says the Ramon Velasquez, his wife
and two-months-old babe. were machetsd d
by the insurge nts and they also killed
Carlos Rajo, who acted as guide for the
Spanish.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-28
JAPAN AND HAWAII
Must Settle the Matter Now at Issue Among
Themselves.

Washington, Nov. 27.-The officials here
know nothing of the interltion ON the
part of our government to advise Ha-
wall 70 pay JAPAN immediately, without
waiting fora~bitraii0n, the sum o m 3ney
demanded by japan for the truning back
OF Japanese ernigianas from THE island
On the contrary, it is stated that .he
state department has carefully refraired
fre,n ain expression on the gettlement be-
tween Japan and Hawaii of the master.
1t is not understood hire that the nam
ing by Japan of the sum of $200,0 900 as the
claim for indemnity biads Hawaii TO pay
that much.
When shown the Honolulu dispatch
concerning the progress of '.he nego tia
tons between Hawaii and Japan, Min
lister Hatch, of the FORMER country, to-
night said he had no advices confirm9-
tory of amy par tof it. He added that
when he left Hawaii very rscsnily the
Indicators were faytrsibie 20 ths settle
nlent of the disprf ffoy arbitration.
"Untli annexation is accomplished he
said. Hawaii must pursue her course as
sln sEsiependent ma ion, and it Is not prob
able that tha United States will urge the
Hawaiian government to adopt anything
looking to a surrender of her dight to
regulate imma grafton. IA right which this
country is constantly exercising"