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The age-herald., 1897-12-02
MAY SMIRCH WEYLER.
Further Developments in Havana Slaughter
 House Frauds.

From llhe Chicago Inter Ocean.
 Havana via Key West, Fla, Nov. 9o.- Many irregularities have been found in the books .seizsd yesterday at the city hall by the magistrate who is investigat- ing lle frauds committed in the mana ge- ment of the Havana public slaughter house.
 The magistrate also seized the minu.es of the municipality and has found that Hhe records of the ninety-seven g:ssions held by the city council were missing. According to law, they must be written out by the secretary and signed by dhe mayor In these stssions of which the minutes have disappeared it is believed that most of the resolutions wtire passed which gave the slausihter-house manage nent to syndicate that bribed the city councillors. The scandal is making "a great stir, and tomorrow more Sensa tional de- veIopments are expected.
 The city council of Hayar,a is com posed, for the most part of members of the uncompro missing Spanish party, La Union Constitutional, which is now op- posed to Sagasta and Blanco. The mayor, now absent, is Don Miguel Diaz, per
 
 elevated to that office by Weyler. No Cubans are l1nown to be city councillors. The slaughtsr-houSe management was given as a monopoly to "a syndicate of merchants in Havana in the days of Weyler. According to a statement made two weeks ago to the altorney-g1sneral of Havana by a Spaniard manned Don Jose Curbeto, an editor, gnea> robberies are committed thera. The attorney-gen- eral did not heed Curbsto's protest, but a cable dispatch on Saturday gave the news that some cattle ownsls repeated the uevela tion, after which a magistrate, with several clerks and a notary public, seized Ghe books of the municipality to investigate the frauds.
 In a private letter from Havana re- ceived i'm tIhis city, it is said, referring to the statement made by Curbeto, that the slaughter-house frauds began in a partnership between the syndicate and Weyler, who cleared, before leaving for Spain $20O, 900 profit in the business. Weyler, in September and Octoben last, according to dispatches from Havana, authorized the great thefts of cattle com mittsd by the Spanish troops in the neislhbothood of Havana.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02
Pittsburo or Birmingham.

There is at least one New York paper is altogether lovely-one that does not desire to place the governmen In a posi- ion to encounter similar demands and snubs. We fancy" says the New York Commercial Advertiser. a modern arm r plant, not too large. would ba very handy for the department. It would enable the government to do it's own expert menting on new ideas in armor pate. ent whenever we got into snarl with a contractor. and establish a standard for price and quality As check upon the contractors, a club to hold over their heads, and resource for emergencies. 1t might in the long run be worth what ever extra expense it might bring"
 The Advertisers broad, reasonable and conservative view expresses the senti- ment of the country outside of Pennsyl- vania. At any rate nothing of con- trary opinion has been expressed in the western press, GIT in the papers of the Pacific slope. while the south is solid in its advocacy of a government plant. It may also be said that public sentiment has crystallized in favor of a location in the south, chiefly because this section of the country has not been favored with any manufacturing plant of either the army or the navy
 But where in the south shall the plant be located? The people can all down this way fight for a southern location, for all in the south would be benefited; but if tine struggle is to be hard one, it is clearly best that no weakness or dissensions should arise in the south's ranks. The situation is quite plain. If a northern location Is preferred, doubt less the proposed plant will be located location is considered preferable, the Birmingham district will certainly be considered the one best adapted to the purpose. No unbiased man will gain in Studying the problem, we may be sure this is the view taken as to location. It Is the common sense view because the two districts, the one in the north, the other in the south, offer the greatest abundance of pig iron for the making of open hearth steel, fuel skilled workmen, transportation. and favorable distances to various ports.
 May the south rot then In ali reason ask that the southern strength be cen tered and combined upon Birmingham, as all the strength that Pennsylvania can muster will doubtless be in favor of Pittsburg? Division among ourselves will certainly be hurtful and may turn the scale altogether. Pennsylvania Is not in the habit of yielding in such mat ters, and the south should not make the mistake of thinking that press opinions settle such questions. The south must act unitedly and heartily, if it would se- curne such a great inSlorsement of the southern iron field-a field that almost cuts the south in two extending as it does from Mason and Dixon's line to streams that empty into the gulf.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02
MEN AND INCIDENTS.

Prof. Ou,dde, of Munich, who is talked of for a place in the reichstag. has the most poisonous tongue of any scientific man in Germany. He Is deeply learned In ancient history. In politics he ap- plies this learning to very questionable uses Like Mommsen, he is an extreme radical, CT democrat. Prof. Quidde lsapeli into fame several years ago by the publication of a pamphlet assailing the emperor. The pamphlet was entitled "Caligula," and aimed to prove by his toric parallel that the German emperor resembles the Roman monster net only dn his character, but in his career. Without mentioning any event within the last 1,5O0 years, he accused the Ger man ruler of every chime which made Caligula infamous. He cited the early promise of better things given by the Roman tyrant. He traced the steps of his gradual degeneration, his dismissal of wise councillors, his growing love of pomp and e4travagan and hfs final fall into vice, cruelty and unnamable crimes Qu1dde wrote his pamphlet so cleverly that, try as the prosecutors would, they were unable to obtain a hook against him.
 The book was read by nearly every man and woman in the German empire, and was discussed all over Europe. It passed into its twenty-fifth edition and made the reputation of Prof. QuDdde.
 The fighting in the Austrian pa-lia- ment recently directs attention to the undgnified manners of representatives in the various legislative bodies of Europe. To be sure, a battle with ink stands, chairs, etc, Is not a very fre- quent occurrence. However, fighting is @ common thing among deputies. Every body can recall the hand-to-hand con- fiot in the house of commons when G]adstone's last home rule bill was brought up. The Duke of Tetuan's nose pulling exploit in the lobby of the Cortez is matter of few weeks since. The proceedings of the Italian chamber of deputies have been characterized by the utmost disorder in the last five years Day after day the parliamentary record of the Roman house of representatives has been spotted with interpolations such as Growing disorder osl the f1oor," ''The president appeals for peace," "Sft- ting suspended" or Adjourned by the president until tomorrow" Its represen-
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

opportunity to other cotton growing countries, but form that admits of the growing of home supplies and the spln- ming of the crop very close to the fields where it grew.
 The north as well as the south-Massa- chusatts as well as Alabama-is interes-- ed in the maintenance of the crop as against Brazil. Egypt Turkestan, India and China. The south should grow and spin all it can. provided it at the same time grows its own supplies. The Springfield Republican should advise it's readers to buy more looms. and send its spindles to the cotton fields. where the crop can be economically prepared for uze in those looms.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02
DON'T.

Don't try to live without your income. Live within it.
 Don't throw stones at the baby when trying to rock dt to sleep.
 Don't quarrel with the cook until after you have eaten your dinner.
 Don't carry a half-open umbrella in a crowd; either put up or shut up. Don't forget that the wisest owl occa- sionally hoots at the wrong time.
 Don't think that a gunboat is required to enable you to shoot rapbds.
 Don't swear before a lady. A gentle man will always permit a lady to swear first.
 Don't be so miserly that you are afraid to laugh at your own expense.
 Don't marry girl who thinks sine may learn to love you. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
 Don't do any disagreeable thing today that you can just as we'll put off until tomorrow, Perhaps tomorrow you won't have it to do.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02
POINTED PARAGRAPH s.

From the Chicago News.
 All the world practices the art of act ing
 Love and a canal boat are both inter nal transpo1ts.
 Apple sauce seems to have been the source of all mans troubles.
 It is impossible to make both er'ds meat in railway sandwich.
 It is the people who come early ito avcld the crowd that make the crowd.
 History repeats itself every time the cylinder is placed in the photograph.
 The book that is not worth replrnt- ing becomes in time rare literary cu- rioslty.
 It Is not the best fighter but the best runner that wins the political battle.
 A man never tries to convince you that he is perfectly sober ur!ess he is par tially drunk.
 but the circus tumbler holds about half a keg.
 No man is so strong CT so great that he is not afraid of somebody, and in nine eases out of ten that somebody is a woman.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

talaves rarely resort to ink bottles. pre- feru.Ing paper rules and open hand fight ing. In the reports of these conflicts the dispatches frequently represent the members as rushing toward each ether with cJlnched fists. This is a technical error A foreigner never clinches his fists in sorlmage of this sort He pre- fers the open a1and method of asttack and usually advances upon his adversary in the attitude of woman pulling hair. He doss not understand the noble art of self-defense. That there has been a call for teachers of boxing lately in for eagn capitals may be attriubalt1e to the daputy's desire to learn.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02
The English Engineers Strike.

The stubborn strike among English it seems as far from settlement as it did at the beginning. It is no so much @ contest over wages, as 1t 6s dlffersnc over the use of labor saving machinery. tition. The English manufacturer has mot taken steps either to establish tech nical schools as Germany has done, or free public schools as America has done; teflligence dn his worlsmen, he proposes to gain advantages over both of his chief competitors by at once introducing American machinery and cutting down wages. The employees say he shall do neither without first obtaining their con- sent. The manufactures, on the other hand, says he must be as free in both respects as his American competitor is The issue Is one that cannot readily be compromised especially that branch of 1t which relates to the use of Iabor-sav- Ing devices.
 The truth is. these movements are preparations for the great industrial warfare of the twentieth century. At Germany, the United States and Great Britain. Count Goluchowsld. the Aus trian minister of foreign affairs, is so
 afraid of American competition that he desires to form against it league of European countries. The Austrian
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

The special gas committee of the board of aldermen should keep in action. The people insist upon dollar gas. Annull the present contract and force the company to furnish gas at that price. The city has full power to do so4
The age-herald., 1897-12-02
A Handsome Gift.

New York, Dec. 1.-William H. Sage. of Ithaca, and Dean Sage, of Albany, have presented to Cornell unive- sty the magnificent residence of the late Henry w. Sage, for students hospital ond be- sides squipping it, will endow it w.Uh s100.000. Tshe property is worth ss0,o0o.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

If President Mckinley were to take half as much interest in Cuba as he is at the present. time manifestng toward Hayti in the controversy With Germany, Americans interest and American ottt- zens would be in better position to have thrown about them that much needed protection about which so much is said but so Little done
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

MT. sRoden will. I'm time. believe the people mean business when they will in- sist that his corporation shall be made to respect a contract the same as the law forces individuals to do.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

The board of alderman and the water works peopls should get together like business men and give Birmingham the quality of water needed and at a reasona-- ble price. The quicker all the facts are brought out and this matter setI,led the better for the city.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

If it should take congress as long to provide relief for the famine stricken people sn the KlondGlke as it does Ito en- act wholesome and much needed legis- lation, the chances are those who need to death long before anything is dOnP
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

William c. Whitney has so far recov- cred from the New York election to be able to purchase a lot of bang-tai1ed Kentucky thoroughbreds. He may be following in the rhcrse steps of MT. Croker.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

If Editor Yerl1es, street railroad mag nate, and the new editor of the Chicago Inter- Ocean, is to be believed, Joe Me dill, editor of the hated rival, the Tri- bune, is out of his element when not in the penitentiary Chicago journalism is fast reaching the street car barn stage of personalities.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

There is no use of the people becom- ing alarmed att the report of a number of war vessels in the South Atlantic waters. It is not alt all probable they wtlt steam within sight of the Cuban coaSt
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

It would seem that the ertfre outlook man even more rugged and perilous than does the famous Chillroot Pass to the Klondyke traveller.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

The supreme court of the United States has lost nothing by the voluntary retirement of Justice Field, which took place yesterday. It is minus one less paid attorney for certain corporations which were frequent Ntigants bsfore that tribunal. The retirement of Field marks an epoch in the history of the supreme court, beneficial to the people.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02
Election. of Senators.

The need of change in the manner of electing United States senators is at- tracting more and more attention each year. It will not down" at the bid ding or pedifogging of politicians. The djcxering and scandals that attend elec- tlons by legislatures is becoming each year more tiresome to the people. Only party dictators and millionaires are con sidered on the senatorial eligible list, and ths contentious among them is a con- stant source of weakness to the country. The trouble is not confined to either party. Millionaire Payne, of Ohio, took George H. Pendlston's seat in much the sam. way that a Michigan lumber man or far western miner secures a senatorial tcga. Nor is this dlsreputable business confined to any one section of the coun- try. It affiiets the west as much as it does the east; and even the south has known the evil.
 Georgia has had since reconstruction times at least one senator who did not owe his election to a consistent and patriotic course in politics, and the two Virginlas are today in part represented by men who lack popular support. Su- gar in double sense is not unknown in Louisiana's legislative contests. But as 8 rule the south has not so much felt the power of mondy in senatorial cleo tions as it has the curse of dickerings among it's politicians. In such deals the people are altogether forgotten.
 Two remedies have been suggested, casting aside constitutional amend ment as too slow and difficult When the constitutional provision committing the selection of a president and vice president to a small and select body of men broke down, a remedy was found without resort to an amendment of the constitution. The senatorial elections, now committed to like lot of men, are also breaking down. and like remedy is sought after. In South Carolina a senator is selected in the primaries. The hate Senator Earl was selected in that way, and MT. McLaurin has also received the Endorsement of the primaries, and will doubtless be chosen by the legisla- ture.' The action of the primaries, when consolfda ted, operates as an instruction by the people to their party representa- lives in the legislature.
 In Ohio and Illinois instructions go from the state conventions; but as these bodies are manipulated by professional jection that applies to a legislature, it is not believed that experience will lend its sanction to such change. The South Carolina primary plan seems the better of the two. It is at any rate plan that VIII keep the senate reasonably free from bosses and plutocrats.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

a revenue ss that patronized by the men. The world progresses but not always i'm the proper direouton
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

There are several Alabama negroes who would have journeysh to Augusta yes- terday had they known negro votes were up to $15 each.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

If black votes in Georgia bring s15, how much should white votes sell for.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

The bar for women in John Jack As- to be as popular and yield as handsome
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

Ir is no longer Senator Pat Walsh. It is Mayor Wal h. The Gs'orgia editor was yesterday made mayor of Augusta.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

David Bennett Hill appears not to be loved for the enemies he has made.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

MT Roden may think he is the "boss" of all the pipe lines.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

The gas pipe line does not seem to carry a "oinch" with it.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

Negro votes at s15 head over in Au- gusLa are expensive luxuries.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

Alderman Drennen s plain spoken on the water question.
The age-herald., 1897-12-02

Desperate Measures.-"How dreadful in Dr. Smith to marry his cook"
 'I don't know; probably she had threatened to ave."-Detrolt Free Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
WESTERN INVESTMENTS.
Why They are Temporarily Unpopu

Why They are Temporarily Unpopu- lar Down East.
 New England capitalists are rep
 uted to be as shy of anything Western
 as the capitalists of old England are
 just now of anything American. West ern men seeking capital in Boston com plain that the safest investments i'm aginable can scarcely get a hearing. A Boston authority on investments is quoted to the effect that in the past ten
 years New England has sunk not less
 than $500000, 900 in Western railroads, farm mortgages town lots and similar investments. Six years ago thirty Western investments and loan com panies were doing business in Boston;
 only two of them survive, and the losses in the others are estimated at fFom two
 to ten million dollars apiece. Of course
 much of this money was most inju- diciously invested. Money having been
 made in Western town lots, farm mort
 gages and railway securities, everyone who had money to invest rushed into ventures of this character, with little inquiry as to the merits of the pro perties acquired or to be acquired. At one time it was a very easy thing to organize a Western investment com pany and sell it's securities in New Eng
 land; it was so easy that men of little
 ability and capital did it, and they loaned their easily-obtained funds inn prOvidently. Western farmers had loans pressed upon them, and farms were taken as security for loans that
 exceeded rational estimates of the value of the property. Bank Commissioner Briedenthal of Kansas estimates d farm indebtedness of forty millions in
 the state wiped out in eight years by foreclosure. but while the borrowers l. st their farms, it is quite likely that the | creditors lost more than they. New
 Hampshire savings banks are estimated to have lost about twenty millions on Western farm mortgages, and yet the | fact that in the past eight years Kansas ] farmers have paid off $160O00,0OO of
 mortgages shows how many good in-
 vestments of that class there were Journal of Commerce.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
EH ESH f R E.

Dec 23.-The death of one of the old Wednesday morning at g o'clock. Mr. Joseph H. Rogers, who had been failing for the past few years and had become nearly blind, died at the residence of MT. Samuel Moss of Moss Farms, where he had lived since the death of his wife three years ago. MT. Roger was ninety-three years of age. Some years ago he was at work getting out new geography, but owing to failing sight was obliged to give it up. He was a man of much learning and deep re- search, and well known in the town. He leaves one son and one daughter. His funeral took place on Friday af- ternoon at o'clock at the home of Samuel Moss. The Rev. I. ?. Hoyt of ficiated. Interment was in St. Peter s cemetery.
 The fair and festival given by the la dies of St. Peters church Monday eve- ming last week was well attended and very successful, netting the society about $50.
 The next meeting of the Cheshire lit efarY cluD VIII pe uelu DtCSIlDeI with Mrs. IT. H. Rice in the E. A. c. building
 The public schools closed last Friday for a two weeks vacation, or till Janu- ary 3, 1S9S
 MT. Harry E. Valentine has accepted 8 position with the DeMora Cigar Co. of Springfield, o.
 Last week many of our farmers were in the field ploughing the ground. Sat urday night killing frost'' came around and put veto on that kind of business
 The annual Christmas celebration for the Sunday school children of the Con- gregational church will take place next Wednesday evening, December 29, :n the church.
 The Methodist church Sunday school will have it's Christmas gifts and en- tertainment for the children in the church next Monday evening.
 The St. Peters church Sunday school will hold it's annual Christmas celebra- tion Thursday evesing ill the church, December 30.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-24
CHRISTMAS TREES IN STACKS.
Air Made Redolent by Fire and Pine
 in Santa's Headollarters

Air Made RedOlent by Fire and Pine
 in Santas Headquarters.
 In hundred places all over the city, when Christmas comes, as many open air fairs spring suddenly into life. A kind of Gentle Feast of the Tabarnacles possesses the tenement districts es- pecially. Greene -embowered booths stand in rows at the curb, and the voice of the tin trumpet is heard in the land. The common source Of all the show is down by the North River in the dis trict known as "The Farm" Down there Santa Claus establishes head quarters early in December and until past New Year. The broad quay looks then more like clearing in a pine for est than busy section of the metro- polls.
 The steamers discharge their loads of fir trees at the piers until they stand stacked mountain high, with foothills of holly and ground ivy trailing off toward the land side. An army of wagons is engaged in carting these away from early morning till late at night; but the green forest grows, in spite of it all, until in places it shuts the shipping puL OL SlSul dllOSelHeT. The ar IS redolent with the smell of balsam and pine.
 After nightfall when the lights are burning in the busy market. and the homeward bound crowds with baskets and heavy burdens of Christmas greens Jostle each other with good -natured banter-nobody is ever cross down here in the holiday season-it is good to take stroll through the Farm, if one has a spot in his heart faithful yet to the hills and the woods in spite of the latterday city. But it is when the moonlight is upon the water and upon the dark phantom forest, when the heavy breath ing of some passing steamer is the only sound that breaks the stiffness of the night, and the watchman smokes his lonely pipe on the bulwark, that the Farm has mood and an atmosphere all its own, full of poetry, which some day a painters brush will catch and hold.-Century Magazine.