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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-13
NEW ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT.
several Clerical Changes in the Life
Saving Service.

saving Service.
Several changes occurred today in the
office OF the life-saving service, Treasury
Department. Mr.. Montgomery Cummings
OF Georgia chief clerk at 5000. was re-
moved. Mr. w. X. Upton Of New Hamp-
shire. assistant general superintendent at
$500. was reduced to chief clerk at s., 1000.
Mr.. H. L. Piper of Maine, a $1,000 clerk,
was promoted to be assistant general super
intendent at $500. Mr.. Piper formerly
held the office to which he is promoted,
put was reduced during the last admins
tration and his place given to Mr.. Upton.
tary that Mr.. Upton was reduced merely
to permit the reinstatement of Mr.. Piper
IN his original place and involved no re-
hection on Mr.. Upton, who. 1t Is further
stated, Will be given another place as good
as the one he relinquished at the first op-
portunity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-13
Government hcceipt,.

Government receipts from internal rev.
enue. s3i1 .7o4; customs, 1858. .7s9; miscel-
laneous, $13.375. National bank notes re-
ceived today for redemption. Sill ,76l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-13
Capt. Bnrtlett retired.

Capt ]. r. Bartlett has been placed on
the retired list of the navy, on account
of disability incurred In the line Of duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-13
NEW TORPEDO BOArs.
Awards Will De Made as Rccom-
mended by the Naval Hoard.

Secretary Long has decided to accept the
recommendations of the majority of the
board of naval bureau chiefs as to the
award of contracts for building three tor
pedo boats. in which case the contracts
will go to the Harlan & Hollingsworth
Company of Wilmington, the Morris
Heights Gas and Engine Company of New
York and Wolff & Zwicker Of Seattle.
Wash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-13
SILVER DOLLARS COINED.
During the Last Fiscal Year The,
Amounted to n FOB, 7O1.

statement prepared at the mint bureau
shows the number of silver dollars coined
at the United States mints during
the last fiscal year was u ,203, 7O1 on which
the segniorage, or profits to the govern
rncnt. amounted to 1885, 1O4. The profits
have been turned into the treasury from
time 20 time as the coinage progressed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-13
Whereabouts of the war.hipx.

The gunboat Wilmington has arrived at
Brunswick. Ca. for the temporary use of
the Georgia naval militia. The Dolphin ar
rived at Washington yesterday. The Texas
is at New York and the Michigan is at
Mackir2c
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
VAGARlES OF A DREAM.

Burton had set his alarm for 5:30, as he
 had some writing to do and knew that he
 couldn't steal time for that purpose during
 the day. When the alarm changed he
 awoke, sat up in bed, thought lazily for
 moment and utterly forgot his writing. It
 was 5:42-for he looked at the unwinkng
 face of the dial-when he settled back for
 an involuntary doze-one of those quick lit-
 tie maps that overpower a man in the short
 hours of the morning.
 A few moments later he was standing in
 small enclosure surrounded by log walls.
 A brown horse stamped beside him, and a
 woman-bearing marvellous resemblance,
 in face and voice, to his wife-was trying
 to tell him something. He shook his head,
 disengaged his arm from her restraining
 hand and frightened the saddle-girth upon
 the brown horse. On the horses back he sprung, the walls opened, and he sped out, while behind him came streaming a tumul- tuous rout of horse and foot soldiery in blue uniforms whom he had really failed
 to notice before, but who evidently belonged to the walled inclosure.
 The air was cool, bracing, delicious-the
 skies bright blue To right and left rolling hills of considerable height were crowned
  deeper woods extended to the background | He noticed that the leaves were resplend- | ent in red and yellow, and he recalled that | October was in all its glory.
 | Somehow the ride must have been short. | There was whirl of dust and coach l whizzed by-not a stage-coach of the west, | but one of those affairs with broad tires and cushioned seats so much in vogue for | talyho parties He found himself, horse | and all. by the side of log wall again, and | the coach passed inside. The next instant | he noticed a puff of white smoke up on the 1 hillside, about 1000 feet away. Then came other white puffs and the leaves flew in 1 spots on either side of him. He called his men-called in a voice which seemed to give no sound, and there was no noise &C., 1 companyng the white outings up there l among the underbrush. His men begun to ] skulk behind trees and walls, and opened | fire upon the places whence the white l clouds kept rolling.
 l A man in black ran out upon the hillside, l emerging from a clump of brush. There
 was general firing, and the man stag | gered As he fell Burton noticed that he 1 had changed his costume in the moment of 1 the fall and was now arraYed in blue l gray uniform. He picked himself up and l reeled back among the trees. There was l more firing, and Burton awoke.
 l Fully believing himself hours behind his l office time he looked at his clock. It l registered 5:46. All the events of the dream 1 had passed before his drowsy mind in four 1 minutes of actualty.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
Railroad Construction.

The prnt'h annual report of the inter- state commerce commission brings its usual variety of interesting statistics. It shows that very ljttle ground was gained in the ycar ended June 50, 1896, in new construction. The year 1895 was the lowwater year. and 1896 was only sixty one miles letdar--the total construction of the lattzr ye1q being 1884 miles. Not q foot was laid in eleven states and ter rbtories, and i'm five others the new track 6.d not exceed mile and a quarter in eaeh. A9abama's record of 2S02 miles is not comparatively low. Tn Iowa only seven miles ware laid. in Arkansas ten miles, in Kentucky eight miles, in Mas sschugotts two nflss. in Nebraska. eight miles, and in Ternesuee seven miles. It was not 3 ra1aroadzbuilding year. Ala bama n4ll make a good showing in 1S97
 Alabama has 7.24 miles per 100 square miles of e,rratoly, while Georgia has 905 muss. and Mississippi 5.45 miles. The average fin the country is e15 miles. Ala bama has 22a3 miles per 10000 inhabl- tar.s. being q litNe below the general average of the country, which is twenty a.X miles to each ten thousand people. The constructions of the present and conlug var w1n doubtless bring Ala bama's ratio of mileage to the popula- tlo up to the country's average. The states mileage as to population now ex- ceods that of Kentucky, Louisiana, Con necGcrt, Maryland, Mississippi. New Jersey, New Y1orll, North Carolina, Ohio,
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
Liyinq Expenses North and South.

The special committee sent to inveati- gate southern cotton mills by the Ark wrght club of Boston, reported that it would not be possible to reduce wages Uo .hose of southern operatives. since that which spffces for a comfortable liveA- h5od in the south would be entirely in adequate in the north." The committee touched rocll-bottom in this declaration, and it is ah7ut he only part of their re- port in wllch they did.
 If northern operators would carefully consider the differences in tie two sec tons .a li~ng expenses they would have a much clearer and more accurate view of ,he pro5.anls involved than they seem tp have at present. They would not be so neqlbly shaken up when they are told thatSAe aaauH-rs of some weavers in she sov.h are lsss -aan a week. Tine ay~ craze earn.nss ln th= northern mills will. uadeI the recen5 cpt be but $7 a week. aea The Aga-H rad ventures Jbe sus- ges8on ;hat 2i a week in the south is rsahu. Jetlr .ban s7 .a week in New i.1Sland.
 1t is a7fa b assume a9 begin 0..A that rents are oue-haaf cllnapca. in the south. In :he small towns, especially in North CarcHr7 t'la dirererce n0med wl more th7n hold geod. In the matter at fuel tas difference is w'asr slil.. w'.ethe~ the fuel be wood or eoal F ttsn7t ovsr-st .te1nent ta say That cael is two-lh,ris cheaper tn the south, and that the euantity needed ia one-haf less. These may be astonish- ing proportions. but they wifi be found to be reasonable. Coal, the only fuel, is worth from S5 to T ton in New Eng land; in the south 1t ranges from $1 in Alabama and Tennessee, ta g elsewhere. And in the districts that burn wood, zhe
The age-herald., 1897-12-28

and she began life again without penny. In some way she get cheap boarding house, and she was shrewd and made 1t pay, and her business grew and prospered, and when knew her she had a private hotel, which was paying we'll. and though she was the most hopeless cynic I ever met, she was content and busy giving her children a good education, and satisfied with her monotonous routine of duties. l don't know if looking in the glass night and morning made her happier It should have done, for she did not look bit what she was-a hard, business woman but big, overgrown cherub. When first went to stop at the hotel I wanted some change in my room, and asked to see Mime. Ia Pro- prietaire, and when I went in the dining room, where she was giving some orders, I was positively stunned.
 She was very tall, and though not stout, her proportions were rather of the Venus of Milo order. Her skin was so white and fine-grained that it positively glittered, her eyes were the deepest blue, and her hair was bounteous crown of gold-the soft, fiossy gold of the hair of child of in- stead of woman of 30. Her mouth had the fresh red of perfect health, and she was really such vision that I could only gasp out: How in the world am I to tell a beautiful creature like you that the bed in my room is hard and uncomfortable.
 She smiled delightful smile and said: "The bed which belongs in that room has gone away to be made over, but hope 1t will be returned today, and though you are good enough to say that I am beauti- full, shall try and make you quite as com fortable as if I were ugly" And she did.
 A pretty woman is generally at least good-natured in her selfshness. Her good looks do give her good humor, and often beauty of face and beauty of character go hand in hand.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
To Suit Gr0sven0r.

General Grosvenor of Ohio, a member of the house of representatives will no doubt take great delight in the decision rendered by Judge Rodgers of Arkansas upon the time to time in this paper, as well as in other papers, Mir. Grosvenor has been and is still yielding his battie-axe, desiring to pulverize for all time to come what he terms the iniquitous civil service law. Judge Rodgers has rendered decision which will no doubt be pleasing to Presi- dent Mckinley He can, under Judge Rodg- CTS decision, remove every democrat in the public service, and place in their stead re- publicans of his own selection.
 Judge Rodgers though a democrat, has rendered great service to the present ad- ministration. He has blazed the way for General Grosvenor and his cohorts Noth- ing will satisfy General Grosvenor nor a majority of the republican party more than to smash down the civil service barrcade, hurl democrats from power and place none upon deck save those who yelped for Me- IInley in the last campaign. General Gros- venor can point with pride to Judge Rodg- CTS decision and shout to the American people that the civil service law has met it's Waterloo.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
Iron in December.

The iron industry continues to have u promising outlook. Prices are distress ingly close to cost, both in this city and in Pittsburg. but consumption goes on so rapidly that it outruns production, high as the latter is
 Pig iron production in this country, is in fact, larger than it ever has been. On the first of November last there were 1S3 furnaces in blast, with a weekly capacity of 2131 159 tens: on the first day of the present month there were 191 furnaces in operation, turning out each week 226,- 024 tons. One year ago there were only 147 furnaces in blast, and their weekly capacity was PTS tons. And yet stocks on hand we're 723.SS5 tens. against 753, 537 tons one month previous.
 There is a Hopeful feeling in the great industry. The orders for iron cars are heavy, and many other large orders are coming in. especially In Chicago. De- spite the low pices prevailing, there is a feeling that the months just ahead will disc5ese many things of a satisfactory nature to ths industry in all it's branches.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
Good Farming in Alabama.

From the great amount of advice which lawyers and legislators ard edlJcrs are just now offering the farmers of the state, one might form the opnjon luhat there are n0 good Alabama farmers. Such an opinion would be erroneous. Ther are good farmeus in every part of the state. Plenty of poor ones, of cuurse, but also plenty of good ones who do not need advice from Atlanta or Memphis or anywhere else. The Pfnckard Pilot mentions one. It says:
 MT. E. B. Jenkins, who lives five miles east of Pinckard gives us the following record of this years crop: Four thousand pounds of pork, GAO barrels corn, lth.Htty-two bales cotton, six barrels syrup, 100 bushels potau-ss, an abun- dance of fodder and $40 worth of hay. MT. Jenkins made this produce with five blows, despite the fact that his communi- lty was visited during the summer with a protracted drought and two severe hall storms. MT. Jenkins has not bought pound of western meat in ten years, and owes nIo man a dollar.
 That's the kind of man to have in @ oommunf'ty-a man that makes the right kind of a crop year in and year out. He makes a very fair crop even when suns parch his land and haLlstCrms sweep over it. Such men are a credit to Ala bama. One such man is more to the state than a regiment of politicians, talk ing them as they run. And if his neigh bors would get together and send him to the legislature. the state would have the benefit of his clear head and practical sense. He practices, not this year alone, but all years of his busy, useful life, what others preach. If practice is not The Age-HeI1ald is poor judge of hu- man effort. It can be repeated there are others-many others; but there is room for moETe-many thousands more.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
The Prospect Is Hopeful.

The bank failure in Philadelphia does net. and should not, cause any uneaoi- ness There will doubtless. in these closing days of the year. be other failures among firms and corporations that have been in critical positions bong time spections and plans incident to the cl-l5e of a year inevitably lead to damaging dis closures. The close of every year brings some business disalters. There will be some as the new year comes in, but they will not be unprecedented in number or liabilities. When the failures of 1897 are summed up, as they soon will be, 1t will be seen that a change for the better has taken place; and the new year promises to be beltaer still.
 If congrss can be induced to take hold of the Warrior rVer improvements in earnest, starting work on every needed dam and lock as soon as the preliminary surveys and corl5ract-letting will permit, there will be no uneasiness next year in the mineral district of this state. Bir- mingham itself viii begin that steady climb to greatness that assuredly awaits the central city of such mineral wealth. There may be dra wbacks and dlsappoint- ments and an occasional failure, but in the main the coming year is to be one of steady gains and accumuhting hope fulnesS.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Women like womanly woman, but they hate a feminine one.
 Misery runs the biggest road-house on the turnpike to happiness.
 Every poor girl believes it is wrong for man to marry for money.
 Next to a mosquito, a girl is the most aggravatng thing in the world
 In lifes race a man runs better if he has a woman to set the pace.
 If the average woman could be born a widow she wouldn't get married.
 If a man is thirty, he suffers less from love than he does from rheumatism.
 A woman never feels so important as when she goes to buy her first baby car riage.
 A man always boasts about what fine coffee he can make unless his wife's around.
 The main reason why women don't like flats is because there no garret to save uD old trash in.
 When a woman has fully made up her mind about thing, she goes and asks mans advice.
 The woman who will scrimp for a month to wear a stuffed bluebird on her hat cries her eyes out when the eat gets the canary.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 Financial circumstances altar legal cases. The Christmas tree will soon begin to bear fruit.
 How strange it is that only sensible peo- pie agree with you.
 Every one but the joke writer win have something new for Christmas.
 "The eternal fitness of things" would often be more appropriate.
 The baseball and the football have re- signed in favor of the fishball.
 The man who anolor2es never has to ex- plain how he happened to get black eye. Balloons will probably go higher next summer, thanks to the Hon. Nelson Ding ley.
 It is said Chat woman shares mans gfief, doubles his joys and trebles his expenses. A girl has q right to look into the future, but she should never be forward-looking. The Christmas stocking is doomed; it will be hung this evening.
 An appropriate present for a chicken hearted lover would be a scarfpn in the shape of a wishbone.
 The man with dollar. nickel and a hole in his pocket invariably loses the dol lar and retains the nickel and the hole.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
Senator Morgan and the Seal Fisheriei


 From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 A contemporary that always Is mug wumpian, which is the same as anti American, in tone laments that in conse- quence of that which it considers to be a result solely of the acts of Senator Nor gan this nation is about to pay $464,O to Canada for seal fishery damages, whereas at one time the case might have been set tied for $425,500. In the affairs of nation $S5 900 amounts to little; still it is worth saving if it be saved without sacrifice of honor. If the paltry saving involves sac riice of honor it is not to be thought Of. Senator Morgan was not the sole opponent of the first claim, which might have been adjusted for $425, ,000. With him were Con- gressmen Hit and Cannon and ultimately all the republicans, then minority in con- gross. The objection of the republicans and of such democrats as followed the lead Of Senator Morgan was not to the amount of the award, but to the circumstances on which 1t was based.
 The award of $425 900, sanctioned by Pres ident Cleveland and by Secretary Gresham, and by them urged upon congress, recog- nized the vicious principle of compensation for prospective damages. That is to say, it was an offer to pay to certain Canadian seal fishers compensation for damages &C., tually inflicted on them by detention and seizure by United States cruisers. but also for the conjectural loss of money that might have been earned by them during the season in which this country treated Behr- ing a closed sea. But England had de- nied our better claim to consequential dam ages in the matter of the Alabama and other southern privateers, and the Geneva tribunal had decreed upon this matter:
 Whereas, Prospective earnings cannot properly be made the subject of compensa- tion, inasmuch as they depend in their nature upon future uncertain contingencies, the tribunal is unanimously of the opinion that there is no ground for awarding to the United States any sum by way of indem- nifty under this head.
 So that it would have been illogical and unjust for us to have paid to England S colony damages based on grounds that England had denounced as illegal and that the Geneva tribunal has ruled to be in- valid.
 Senator Morgan and his adherents spoke and acted as Americans of full growth and strength in opposition to Cleveland and Gresham, both of whom were little Ameri- cans" The mugwump press is little Amer ican; it measures all things by dollars. The American people are otherwise. What we justly owe to Canada, under the Paris award, be it a dollar or a million of dollars will be paid cheerfully. But not a dollar should be paid for claims based on grounds to which Great Britain a few years ago was strong and successful objector.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
A PLrAF3a PETTY #cmEN.

There is a popular theory that pretty women are exceedingly vain aud selfish and. like many other popular the0ries, one accepts this without question.
 But my own observation and knowledge of pretty women have led me to think oth- erwise, says Q clever writer. A pretty face does not always change the heart or the soul; it may assist circumstances to develop the character this way or that, but the germs of what she is to be are in the baby girl, whether she be white or black or pretty or ugly The most beautiful wo- man ever saw had no vanity. HersheaUty was perfect ineontestable, absolute; and maybe. that made her consider il as a thing of no moment. It had not brought her much happiness; she married a man who neglected her, and finally went away and left her with two children to support
The age-herald., 1897-12-28
A Curious Bit of Wood.

A St. Paul (Minn.) carpenter named Hauge has run across piece or maple that may excite new interest. It was cross grained bit of maple that Carpenter Hauge was blaming. In 1t was a bunch of black veins, showing the outlines of human face Fearful of spelling the image by en- tering deeper, the carpenter cut out the section and polished it. The wood then showed a wonderful combination of three heads. Held at distance it is a likeness said to be excellent of Sir Walter Raleigh. Held nearer, the upper portion is cameo- like representation of Queen Elizabeth sEuff and all-with the smooth dressing of the red hair characteristic of the portraits of that notable irascible dame, whose love was deep, but not lasting, and whose lovers had their heads laid on the block. Below the head of Elizabeth is the face of Shakes peare. Report has it that the portrait or the poet is correct except that portion of the pointed beard and of the upper left temple is missing. The bit of wood show ing this remarkable trio of portraits, put there by the hand of nature; is two inches long and an inch thick.
The age-herald., 1897-12-28

price is the cost of the cutting and hauling.
 Provisions, too, are cheap and abun- dant in the south. Eggs can be bought alt least six months in the year at 10 cents a dozen, and chickens and fowls are sold at retail from 15 to 9 cents apiece. Beer has a wider range, but. as a. rule, the best cuts can be bought at 10 cents a pound Sweet potatoes cost at the cotton mills about 40 cents a bushel. Cows are fed upon cotton seed hulfs, and they are expected to graze the year around for any coarse food they may require. This means cheap milk. No article of food is higher A good grade cf flour is sold in the south today at $5.50. and home grown and ground corn meal Is abundant and cheap.
 Further details are scarcely necessary. The truth seems to be that the operatives in the southern factories are, all things considered, fully as comfortable as the operatives of the mills in the north that pay perhaps higher wages. If the Ark wright committee had investigated this branch of the subject more exhaustively, they would have made clearer the differ ence in wages in the two sections. The southern opera lives do not need and are not bidding for the sympathy of northern operators. They are doing pretty we'll, and are quite content with the wages paid in this section of the country