The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-29

the oute5me L n-t a mater of doubt. He
concludes; THE rred.c.ion Is made by my
friend in Hhvana than Weyler will have
the island under subjse ion. by lie end of
the year. After two years the Cubans
have been unable to take or to hold a
single town OF province They have
burned and slaughtered. They have
sealped the dead They have murdered
more men than Weyler's soldiers have
dome. They have violated every law of
morals. And now, after having needl So
" sacrificed the lives of hundreds of
thousands and caused the Destruction of
millions of dollars worth of property,
they are about to lay down. Poor Old Go
mez; cowardly old Cisneresr'
Kentucky man is to get pension
fer a burned heel Stephen A. Harper
enlisted early in the war in Company A,
Tabrd Kentucky infantry. Some time in
the COURSE of his service he was a btacked
with typhoid fever and sent TO the hos
piftaly while in he'd. unconscious of what
Was going en- Ground him, some Attend
ant discovered THAT his fset were cold,
and Thought they shauI1 be warmed. He
went out ard get a large stone and, after
dlea ting it, put Ut In bed ait the sick mans
feet. He had miscalcuiated the tempera-
tnre of the ghone, and it proved SO hot
that 1T etst1 ghe bed clothes on fire, and
before the fire could be extinguished the
left heel OF Mr. Harper was burned to u
crisp. THE sseldier recovered from his
fever and was afusrward hono.ably DIS
charged. lAIcng in 1891 it occurred to him
that, when pensions were b;ing granted
SO freely, he might as we'll get PAID for
that hen, and made his application in tho
regular way. The commissioner OF pen
sions. when the case reached him, said
they were not paying pensions for BURIED
heels. Assistant Secretary Davis, of the
irleTicr department, looks at the matter
differently, and when the case was APP
pealeld to him he reversed the decision of
the commissioner, and Harper will gSt
hts pension. with pack pay until 1891,
the date when his application was flied.
Pioi. Erman, a German Archaeological,
has beian investigating the famous
Sphinx, near the Pyramids OF Gzsa1, and
at recent meeting of the Berlin
academy delivered "a lecture about its
probabIa age. According to him careful
resIsan-Llss show that it could rot have
been built previous TO the so-called Mid
Ole Kingdom" en- about 1000 years tB. C.
Between hsr front paws theirs was origin
ally the image of a deity, all trace of
which has at the present time disappear
cd For the building of the colossal
work more than twenty years must have
bsen necessary, even If 1900 men had
been employed all the Time
England's flag will not be carried into
future battles. Lord Wolseley, COM
mander-in-chief of the British army, has
SO announced. In presenting new colors
to a regiment recently he said. "In flu
tIle 1T would be madness and a crime to
order amy man to carry coiors into action.
You might quite as well order him to be
assassinated The Germans carry the
poles on which The co[ors used to be, so
that they attract no notice in action.
We have had most reluctantly to abandon
Practice to which we attached great
Importance and which, under past and
gcG.e conditions of fighting, was invalua-
Bile in Keeping alive the regimental spirit
upon which our British troops depended
50 much.
A market has been found for the horses
in this country rendered useless by the
substitution of trolley and cable oars for
Ghia OLD horse cars. "A New York mer-
chant who returned from Europe the
other day has brought an order from the
street railroad companies of Germany
fen five thousand horses, which have been
employed in drawing cars in this country.
He has also an order from the German
government fer number of horses for
military purposes. -
$3.50 and $500 straw hats now 75c. at