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The age-herald., 1897-09-04

Ground was broken Wednesday for tn, paving of Meridians streets
The age-herald., 1897-09-04

BARGAINS FOR SALE Two brick residences, North Side, $6, ,0OO Brick store, 2d avenue, $15,000. Brick store. 2d avenue, s7500. Brick store, 1st avenue, S14 900. House and lot 4th avenue, S2, 900. Brick store, 20th street S16,000.
 w. B. LEEDY & CO.,. Telephone 42. 114la N. 21st. St.
The age-herald., 1897-09-04
MISCELLANEO

--<-------~~~>-~-~---- YOU should become a member of the Ma tional Corresponding Bureau They will place you in correspondence with their large list of members of ladies and gentle men who wish to correspond. Many wealthy and wish to marry. Membership fee % cents You will find it both in structive and entertaining to correspond with their members, and you will posi- lively be well pleased with the small n- vestment. Address National Correspond ing Bureau, Richmond, Va. S-29-6t
The age-herald., 1897-09-04

There is probability of a railroad from Natchisz to Gulfport.
The age-herald., 1897-09-04

The Standard-News thinks there is more in the use of a mouth than in the shape of it. Tt says:
 Miss Evangelina Cossio Cisneros is said to have a mouth that is nsither too small nor too large. This would indicate that it is about rIght-unless she uses it too much"
The age-herald., 1897-09-04

The Huntsville Mercury would like to know if the people expects President Me Kin1ey to have a high old time Sundays.
The age-herald., 1897-09-04
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Yazoo City is having it's public schoo building repaired.
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Tho Capture OF Rivera.

h report of the Spaniards that they
have captured Gen. RIVERA seems unhap.
PLY too we'll founded, c%onfrmatory nc.
counts coming through Cuban channels.
Now the eyes of the world are directed to
what Spain will do with this brave soldier,
taken wounded In fair fight, after having
borne a noble part in a war which has been
carried on with many a pitched battle and
with varying fortunes for two years.
Whatever they do, the loss of RIVERA,
though grievously felt by his patriot COM
rades, will not a from them one jot of
heart or hope. AS the fall of the lamented
MAcEo only nerved them to greater deter
mination. so will it be with the capture of
his successor in the command of Pinar del
Rio province. while for RIVERA, in turn, a
worthy successor will be found.
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From that early period of the Cuban war
in which JosE MART fell at the front until that
in which ANTONIO MACEo was killed near Ha-
vana, and until this time, the military leaders Of
the revolution have exposed their lives to dam
gors which, 1t seems to us, might sometimes have
been avoided without disadvantage to the Cuban
arms. The aged NJ rushes into the thick of
the battle, often leading tho charge sword in
hand; CALIxTo GARCIA does the Same thing; SO
do other Generals. The result has been the loss
Of a large number of competent commanders. A
General properly may set an example of courage
to his army; but the needless exposure of his
person to tho enemy's FIRE may be tho worst
thing for his army, and be the cause of It's failure
In battle. 1t is the Generals duty to direct the
movements OF his army in the field; 1t 10 not
always his duty to rush ahead Of his troops. or
to get shot at the front. Confusion in tho ranks,
Or defeat in the combat, may DO the consequence
of his untimely fall.
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Emperor wTLiIin would. however. incontest-
ably be advsntageous to Greece and II the offer
Of II should be mede in good faith and without
sfterthought there 70 no reason why Greece
should not accept. 1t would cedo to Grcoce all
tho territory in Epirus that was contemplated
by the Congress Of Berlin in 1878, and besides
restoring the frontier marked out in $3.50, would
in addition give tho important strategic position
Of Mctzovo, between Macedonia and Epirus, and
would place the starting point on tho Aegean, at
tho mouth Of the small stream, the Mavronoro.
the Blackwater, or Kara.suO of the Turks. well TO
tho north of Mount Olympus, and for war pur-
poses would give Greece n thoroughly defcnsiblc
frontier. That some sense of justice should be-
gin TO appear in the dealings OF the great States
with the smaller is tribute 10 the influence OF
public opinion. 1t also goes to show that the
advantages arising from the discord Of the
powers are being transferred from the Sultan to
tho people he once oppressed.
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There is much uplifting of head and
heart in Boston because the Police Commits.
sioncrs of that town are said to have walked tho
streets for five hours one night without seeing
a single soul too deeply saturated with strong
waters. nthc route of the excursion of these Com.
missioners were given, the value of their obscr.
vattons might or might not be apparent. Thoy
must have begun their walk at six o'clock, when
everybody in Boston Is too busy escaping cars IN
dare to put an enemy In his mouth; and they
must have ended their ambulstions by eleven,
for after that hour nobody in Boston is allowed
to stay himself with fiagons. Now. where did
the Commissioner walk for those five hours !
Perhaps IN tho innumerable little alleys into
which no intoxicated geographical instinct ever
steers. Perhaps in lone and stately regions of
the Back Bay. where nobody. drunk or sober
ever was seen or ever will be. Boston is u 1ne
old town. but these peregrinations OF her Police
commissioners arc Il little unconvincinG. Do
the Commissioners sec well in a strong dark
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SUNBEAMS.
H PEREIRA MEpA

The oldest house In Maine 70 said to be the syl.
veater house. at Small Point, the ago OF which IN
put % 100 yeara-
On q train betwoen Boston and Portland q NAH
eisfk discovered q letter addressed to Frankforton.
the-Aain which was being sent TO Maine.
Robins and Mayhowers have already been re-
ported In various paris Of Maine. while other parts
or the State Arc stnl in the ihroes OF winter.
"A Utican paid o visit recently for the nrst time
In hfty-one year, to Alexandria, Va, to make n
search for tho house where he boarded In ls@S
while recruiting for the Mexican war.
Ne nettie shirt 70 needed by the clergyman who
has charge OF the German Baptist churches at To.
peka and At"hison. Kan. who 10 reminded OF his
obligations every time he Is addressed. he is the
Rev. Eiibetrue.
There were regrets In Emporia. Kan. that SEIZED.
uiea had not been differently arranged when an ad.
NertiIement OF q railroad excursion TO Port Arthur
appeared in the pap"r. setting forth that .rhere will
DO no charge for hirths for the trip. provided TWEEN.
ty.hve persons desire TO avail themselves Of th,. a..
com nodation."
-onera OF too much for ones money are regard.
Cd with sSepticism In parts of Missouri. where the
Fopuiisf's trail Is visible stii. as q Springfield dry
koods store found out when II offered TO sell durirE
one and ons-haif hours OF a certain day nve cent cal.
loo At one cent per yard and drew a crowd y, : ooo
persons. 10 sell only ESQ worth OF goods I'm ALI
John rarshai. an army veteran. died at hi,
nome In indianapolis on ST. Patrick s Day at the aH,
OF 90 years. He was a driver or an nmnpp,r,o,
wagon In the Alexander expedition sent 70 Sal,
Lake City TO force Brigham Young TO vacate hts
once In favor OF the successor appointed by Presi.
ue"' huchahan. and helped 10 burst in n gate that
Nop' 'o oesiesins party out OF the capital. Tie was
A'so ONO OF the biz mon VINO buried wilkes Booth.
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ish forces on the Thessaly frontier would
and themselves in q bad position and I'M
less heavily reinforced might even have to
fall back behind the Vlstritza toward
Kojani and verria, with their back toward
Salonica. The possibilities Of a campaign
being in favor of the Greeks are now greater
than they were a month ago, provided al.
ways that non Of the powers hamper the
action Of Greece in favor Of the Turks, az
they are doing In Crete.
TIL statement that Col. VAssos Is again
in direct communication with his Govern
ment by means of flash signals between
Crete and the nearest Greek island, is i'm
portant. The truth Of what is going or in
Crcte will now be sent out to the world
over the heads of the Admirals, unless the
powers prefer to keep the world in dark
ness by seizing the island.
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Bureau Of Statistics. The Consular Bureau
Is to be taken away from the State Depart
ment, although consular officers are still to
be under the control Of that department
when they have to do with diplomatic and
not strictly commercial matters. 1t does
not appear that complaint Ia made OF the
working of these various bureaus and ser
vices under the existing arrangements. To
shift them over to n new department may
be gratifying to an orderly mind, but Il a
not be regarded as necessary.
Anybody who has watched the Depart
ment of Agriculture can Judge Of how much
benefit to the manufactures and
Of the United States a Department of Com
merce and Industries would be. For our
part, we believe as a matter Of Democratic
principle that the less the Government has
to do in an administrative capacity with
the manufactures and Of the
country, the better for the manufactures
and and the better for the Gov
eminent. A lot Of new officers and salaries:
that Is about all the new department would
amount to.
Still, the big blunder was committed
when the humbug Department of Agricul-
ture was created or promoted from a simple
commissionership. That step made 1t sure
that new attempts to enlarge the Cabinet
would be made. Departments Of Mines and
Mining, Railroads and Telegraphs, and what
not have been proposed. Where is the
thing to stopi And how many men en-
gagged in commerce and industries want
Mi. FRYE's bill to become a law7
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1t Is unfortunate that statements em,.
mating from Berlin about the Intentions n, tho
Emperor WILLIAM toward Greece have so onon
proved erroneous, or one might express n ccrt,in
satisfaction in tho news that he had PROMISED
or was about TO propose TO the Sultan n rectiaco.
ton OF the Greek frontier. In the interest NJ
European peace and for the credit of Germanr
1t Is to DO hoped 1t may bo true. The Greeks
however nave a re,cntivo memory, and do not
forget that In 1889, just before the MARRIAGE .,
the Princess SOPHIE to tho Crown Prince Con.
srANTINF, certain subsidized German NJ pcrs
ihSinunted that Crete, which was then I'm
revolt against the abrogatlon OF the privi.
ieses accorded by tho Halepa compact, should
be presented to Greece as tho wedding Gift NJ
inc Emperors sister. On the strength of this
an enthusiastic reception was given 10 the
rrihoesS. the Emperor and his suite, and the
mayor OF Athens, who had coached up tho Gar.
man language for the purpose, road an address
mat was not tho least remarkable part of the
ceremonies. but the Emperor went away. and
the expected wedding gift was not part of tho
frlncoss's doWry. The threats of Prince BIs.
hARoK In 1881. that prevented Greece from
aVailing herself Of Mr.. GLApsToNE's oner IN
support her In demanding tho full execution NJ
the decisions Of tho Berlin conference of 1890
tho Thessaly frontier, arc also frosh
In tho Greek recollection. To conyincs IN.
Greeks that tho Emperor WILLIAM ia aincsrs
WILL therefore, require something more than
mere Berlin newspaper report, which eyerv one
understands the relations between Az
fress Bureau In the Berlin Foreign Omoa ana
tho Newspaper ofioos knows the value a.
frontier said 70 be suggested by tie !
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The Trip Of the Laurada.

Although accounts differ somewhat as to
the exact character and quantity Of the mil
itary material landed in Cuba by the Lau-
rada on her last voyage, there is no doubt
whatever of its great value to the insurgent
cause. OF special Importance, perhaps, was
the artillery, delivered without the slight
est trouble to c CALIxTo GARCIA, who
can now move with greater confidence
against Spanish fortified towns. The Lau.
a also took back the Cuban Wal Minis
ter, CARLOS RoLoFr, who did not hesitate
to forfeit the money value Of his bond to
our Government, for the good tidings and
practical aid he could carry.
But perhaps the most striking feature of
this voyage was the bold landing of the
blockade runner in the face Of Spanish
forces, at no less a port than Banes, with
the town of Gibara near by. Her success in
receiving her cargo and her passengers some
where off the New Jersey coast, after clear
ing from Baltimore nominally for Phila-
delphia, was of a piece with the skill now
become familiar to us in these enterprises.
Our Government, 1t is true, after finding,
to its chagrin, that the revenue cutter Man
haitian had arrived too late at B~arnegat,
uiu succeeu IN stopping, 1Or u time,
the Bermuda, which, 1t is said. was to nave
Joined the Laurada at a fixed rendezvous.
In Cuba all was made ready, and a strong
insurgent force began a concerted demon
%stration at Banes, once a f%lourishing port of
export for fruit, but recently burned by the
forces of the republic. AS the story goes, the
Laurada boldly landed at the wharf, while
the patriot commander notified the garrison
of the fort that any attempt to interfere with
the landing would bring destruction to the
garrison, and the warning was needed.
Thus the port was as useful to the Lau-
rada as If wholly an insurgent possession.
With the landing Of RoLoFF, accompanied
by the son Of JOSE MART and not n few
other notable persons, including several
skilled artillerists, and with the delivery !!
of the guns, ammunition, and medicines,
1t was made clear how little real Importance
there is in the objection to the recognition
of the patriots that they hold no seaport.
The fact is that they take in cargoes all
along the coast, and even, as in the case of
Banes, sometimes use a s~o-called Spanish
port as II their own The journey both
forth and back, In the Laurada, of DR.. Cas-
r1LLo, representing the Cuban Junta,
further suggests the routine business charac-
ter which blockade running has assumed.
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Tho Man OF tho Week.

Having no further voice or part in the
making Of laws, the Hon. WILLIAM L.
WILSON of West Virginia ia expressing his
ideas on the subject Of q new tariff by the
kind permission and through the courtesy
Of our e~nterprislng contemporary, tho Ne,o
York Herald. The tone of his letters IL
worth remarking, for 1t is characteristic.
In his light, PROFESSIONAL way he discusses
the Dingley bill with the consciousness Of
superior theoretical knowledge, and q mild
eatire which Is almost as acidulous as very
weak circus lemonade.
Mr.. DINoLEY's efforts to make o tariff
seem to amuso the Professor. He affects to
regard the dead-in-earnest man from Maine
as q profound humorist, bent on causing
the whole world to laugh at the schedules
he produces. "The agricultural schedule"
says the Hon. WILLIAM L. WILSON, ais
q fine piece Of humor." Again, says Prof.
WILSON, Chairman DINGLEY Is not sur
passed by previous humorists." Again,
"the Dingley bill has another scarcely less
humorous feature In its so-called reciprocity
provisions" Such is the attitude of the
gentleman who made a tariff which pro-
duced a deficiency averaging about $780,.
VVo,Oov rh'hHi'yy boWdTu buo SCuOlcu1dn
who is endeavoring to the best of his great
ability to replace that disastrous tariff with
a tariff which shall produce a revenue ade-
quate to the needs of the Government.
We beg leave to assure Prof. WILSON
that he is widely mistaken both as to the
character Of his successor in the Charm an
ship of the Ways and Means, and as to the
temper in which the American people are
now watching the latter's experiment. It
Is in no humorous or pleasantly controver-
spirit that NELSON DINGLRY of Maine
has undertaken the tremendous task of cor
recting the appalling mistake and amend
ing the failure and the public calamity to
which Prof. WILSON 30 blithely attached
his name. There is no person In Congress
less affected by the lighter considerations
that bubble in Mr.. WILSON'S brain than the
man who will call tomorrow for q vote
upon n measure honorably conceived,
framed in grim earnest, and honestly in
tended to restore prosperity to the people
OF the United States.
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mont AZ interpreters in either Glass In
"Polish and Hebrew.T'
Hebrew, the ancient Hebrew of literature
the veritable Hebrew language, IL written
by several thousand people in New York,
but is not spoken by any considerable
number. 1t is understood, as are Latin
and the ancient Greek, by some students,
n is used in the ritual Of worship in
synagogues as Is Latin In the Catholic
churches and Greek In those of the East
ern rite; but Hebrew would be Of about
as much practical use to the court inter.
prefer as the dead Latin or Greek. Again,
Polish, the Polish language Of literature,
is spoken and understood by only an In
significant fraction of the total population
Of New York city. In the colloquial uses
of ordinary New York courts, "Polish" is
an unknown tongue, and, as in the case Of
Hebrew, the Civil Service Commissioners,
examiners, and advisers have fallen into the
error of confounding the mongrcl Yiddish"
language, spoken by many thousands Of tho
residents of New York, especially on the
east side, with the Hebrew and Polish, a
mistake which a Civil Service applicant
would make at great peril of his percent
age IL his papers should obtain the
scrutiny Of some well-informed person.
The two languages which the Civil Service
Commissioners have made the mistake of
supposing to be extensively spoken in New
York are covered by Russian and German,
the east side dialect being a sort Of Rus
sianized German, with a few Hebrew words
intermingled, the Jewish characters being
used In printing and writing.
A language In much greater use In New
York city, and especially in court proceed
ings, than either Hebrew or Polish, Is tho
modern Greek, quite extensively spoken
here nowadays. Hungarian is largely
used also. Still another language with
which court interpreters might be familiar
lied advantageously is the Czech, or Bo.
hemian language. In the criminal courts
Of this town the number of Poles arraigned
in a year is less than a hundred; the
number Of Greeks is in excess of four
thousand. The number of litigants hav-
Ing knowledge Of ancient Hebrew may
be two hundred in a year; the number
OF those speaking Hungarian is in excess Of
a thousand. 1t would seem from this that
the Civil Service Commissioner who have
arranged the schedules of examinations do
not know quite SO much as they might on
the subject Of examinations in languages;
though they are l%audably precise in their
of female junior clerk and
driver and trainer of green horses"
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From Blackshear, Ca, Mr.. A. p. BRANT-
LEY, the head Of the Sea Island cotton planters,
informs the Atlanta ConstitVtion that raw cot.
ton should have an import duty put upon 1t be-
cause. among other reasons, several great cor
porations in Europe have formed q trust there"
and tho spool thread companies Of the United
States are not in n trust
We don't know about the European trust or
the American non.trust, but we know that of
tho two great parties in political economy the
tariff for revenue only" or Democratic party
of 1892 was honestly bound to put a tax on
cotton, and the Republican or protection party
Of 1896 can tax cotton or not as It thinks best.
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For a Department. OF Commerce.

The Hon. WILLIAM PIERCE FRYE Is one of
the ablest men in the Senate and a particu.
larry good specimen of an American citizen,
but he let his instinct for organization 70
too far when he prepared a bill for the estab.
fishing of an executive department, to be
called the Department of Commerce and In
dustries. The proposed department Is to
look after manufacturer and foreign and
domestic commerce, although matters of
customs and internal revenue will continue
to be within the jurisdiction of tho Treas
ury Department. A lot of affairs now un.
der the control of tho Treasury arc
to DO transferred to the new department,
among them the Bureau of Steam.
boat Inspection, the Bureau of Naviga-
tion, the Life Saving Service. the Marine
Hospital Service, the Coast and Geodetio
anssesthe Bureau of Immigration. and the
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Driver and trainer Of green horses.

Female Junior clerk.
Driver and trainer OF green horses.
Typographical draughsnan-,
Clerk Building Department.
Interpreter OwO clssses). for salaries OF 1000 and
loss; and for 5000 and over, per annum. Exaniina.
lions in English. German, Polish, italian. Russian, and
Hebrew.
The interpreters employed in this city's
various judicial tribunals receive VARYING
salaries: 8 $4,000 are paid to the Supreme
Court interpreter, $4,000 to the inter
prefers In the Courts of General and Special
Sessions, 81 800 In the Police and City
courts. and 81 200 In the Civil District
courts. No Interpreters are employed at a
stated compensation of 5000 or less, and
unless there be a prospective vacancy In
the office of the Sheriff for q lingulst able
to translate Plattdeutsch into English,
there is now no vacancy existing, author
lied or contingent for an interpreter of the
" class Of $500 a year or less. Why then,
hold an examination for such q post and
why interrogate the applicants for appoint
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Poor IrcInne,a prh, tn Tho nn...


from london TrrM.
Inc banquet given last week by Lord cadoo.n -
rour,ierS ana officials was a remarkable yidenc. .,
the Dad taste from an Irish point OF view. which 4,
u ss displayed by Irish viceroys. and accounts for
many phases OF th' Irish que 'tion. Why smph,s,,.
IN Irish minds the fact OF the neglect OF s,r,v "
especially at time when the Sovereign, who con,s on,"
give Ireland twelve days out of all the years. "a go
ing over six weeks on the Riviera? Tho Jr,,h do no,
sruose The Queen a holiday. nor any OF the hon. an'
receives In the other portions OF her dominion rhn0
10 resent however an attempt to make Thorn appe.r
nsa,s.t ~ =, ao'ee. 'oadiea' grateful oven for royal
ehnthed
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Dean Helen Auecaoee-

To THE EDrroR OF THr suS-sfr: After reading in TEE
sun OF last Friday morning the much appreciated :"
story by Dean Hole about the boy. the man, and thu
hat. had an indubitable ringiue in the earn m a
chestnut bells. l took from Q bookshelf q volume en-
Titled American Religion. ''by John weisa, taat most
brilliant of the Observation-Disclosures, published BY
Roberts Brothers. Boston. 1871. Al pages seo.e1. in
. chapter on Tho American Soldier" read:
tall oneer trotting by on q little mule, beneath
an enormous beaver, received the running nro OF tbo
whole line: Come down out Of that hSti I EnoS
you arc there-I sec your boots!" ~
Perhaps TIE sus. after rcllshins the deans story.
may be able to tell whether It had already reaobe1
the nucamentaceou stage of anecdotic evolution yben
1t was related by Weiss. May It resume its indie.
hiscence in despite OF ~deciduity and deans.
NEW YonK. March Qs. JOHN n c,yrro,,
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fifteen TO One Too Much.


scene Tin" ward of a metropolitan hospital; in ono
pea Is lying a member OF the sporting fraternity. 10
MIN enter a surgeon. attended by fifteen eager and
oosequious dressers. Surgeon. to the dresser OF tho
case. after an able and exhaustive account of the symn-
toms: " now Mr. Smith. would You operate on this
case! Nr' smith tdresserl: NO.. sir, l should not {"
anu you ana you and you ?" indicating the Others.
unanimous negative. well, gentle men, you are ALI
quite wrong, says the surgeon. with conscious nrd.
" l intend to operate" Voice from tho bed. .No
you don't, gov'nor Fifteen to one agin it-no obapnr.
Ere n'iSs' ! say give me my clothes; I'm orr,