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The age-herald., 1897-11-23
THE GAS CONTRACT.

 The gas company's contract with the city is as follows:
 This contract, made and entered into. by and between the mayor and alder msn of Birmingham, Alabama, a mu- nicipal corporation, party of the first part. and the Birmingham Gas com- pany. a private corporation, party of the second part:
 'Witnesseth-
 "That the party of the second part hereby agrees to furnish the party of the first part, for a, period of thirty (S0) years, from the first day of May, 1891, with all the gas that it may need or de- sire, for lighting, the streets and public buildings of the city, at and for the fol- lowing rates:
 Gas for public buildings at the rate of one dollar ($D per thousand feet. Gas for lighting the streets at the rate or one and 25-O0O ($1.20 dollars for each lamp post that the city may use and the party of the second part hereDy agrees and contracts with the party of the first part that neither it or its as- signs nor it's successors shall charge pri- vate consumers in the city for gas at a higher rate than one and 4S-100 Q.4S) dollars per thousand feet, during the said term of thirty years.
 'In consideration of the foregoing agreement and stipulations made by the party of the second part, and in further consideration of the party of the sec ond part furnishing the party of the first part gas free of cost, for fifteen QO street lights, from and after this date, during the period of this contract. upon any of the avenues and streets of Birmingham, as may be ordered or di- rected by the city authorities, and where gas mains are laid, which the party of the second part hereby binds and ob1i- gates itself to do.
 'The party of the first agrees and con- tracts that it will take from the said party of the s:cond part the BirnfnSe fIam Gas company, during said period of thirty years, from the first day of May, 1891, all the gas that it may need or use fer lighting its public buildings or streeitsN
 And it is agreed and understood that at any time during said period flhe party of ths first part sllall have the right to change the location of lamb posts to any poinlt where it's mains may be laid.
 t'It is further agreed gfnat once att ex- pi1ladjon of each and every ten years, during said psuIod of this contract, the cost of gas to the city for public build ings and lamps, and for private con- sumsns, is to be compared with the price of gas paid for in other cities, in the United States, of like size and popul la- tfon and the prices rsgulated and adjust ed between the parties, so as not to make the gas in the city cost exceeding the price that othsr cities, in the United States, of like size and population. and private consumers therein, are paying. '1t is also agreed that the party of the first part will pay it's gas bills monthly, as other city bills are paid,
 "Wtnsss the hands arli seals, in du- plicate, of the respective parties hereto, this 2Sd day of April. A. D.. 1891.
 (Signed) Mayor and Aldermen of Bir- mingham,
 Per A. O. LANE, Mayer.
 The Birmingham Gas Company,
 By B. F. RIDDEN, President. Attest:
 (Signsld) THAD WEATHERLY.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
AMONG THE RAILROADS

All of the railroads centering in Bir- mingham have resumed full op rations of their trains. Yesterday the Louisville and Nashville road was opened in it's entirety, and trains are running through from New Orleans ito Cincinnati. This was the last line to resume full opera tions.
 The last bulletin in the service inau- gurated by Charles A. Wickersham of the Alabama Great Southern was issued last night. It simply calls attention to the fact that railroad traffic is once again unhampered by quarantine regula- tions. The bulletin service has proven of vast benefit to the trainmen and the general public.
 A HARMLESS STRIKE.
 The Courier-Journal acknowledges the receipt from the passenger traffic man. ager of the great Plant System of beau iliful match safe, which will be an orna- ment to any parlor, dining room or office. It was probably imported from Japan by President Plant, who has just returned from a visit to that country, and who has no doubt brought with him a ship load of these beautiful safes. They will (, and will serve as continual reminders of the luxurious facilities the Plant System supplies to the people who visit the Flor ida resorts during the winter.
 The Travellers Official Railway Guide for October gives its theory of the match safe as follows
 "A general strike throughout the coun- try is being brought about for which Col. w. B. Wrenn, passenger traffic man. ager of the Plant System, is responsible. We venture the prediction that those who are concerned in 1t will find that they have met their match. It is believed that when the true inwardness is known, although there must necessarily be more or less friction, 1t will prove to be a mat ter which may be made light of, and will undoubt edly end in smoke. In the mean time. the Plant System will continue to be kept before the public eye, and Col. .rWrenn is prepared to furnish explana- lions to his friends "-Louisville Courier Journal.
 LIGHTING BY ELECTRICITY.
 The manner of lighting cars has caused the railroad companies considerable worry. Many attempts have been made to solve the problem, but they appear defective. The most promising experi- ment has been made by generating the electricity from the car axle.
 The Santa Fe is rapidly equipping all it's passenger cars with electric lights. having adopted the system of generating the iHuminant from the car axle. The system has proven satisfactory after six months of experiments.
 MANY MILES OF RAILROADS.
 A statement recently issued credits Illi- nois with 10,625 miles of railroads. not counting the second. third and fourth tracks. During the present year the new construction amouTts 10 only forty miles.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

upon the substantial capital invested. The company should not exact more. Will not this company come up to the full measure of its duty to the people, and show to them that it's rates are reasona- ble. not by vague, intangible deelaFa- tions here and there, but by facts and figures that practical man can take hold of and understand?
 '.I make thfse suggestions, having a personal interest in the subjsct asa con- sumer, and desiring the information in common with all other consumers.
 The company, from the standpoint it maintains, cannot object to granting the request
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
One of the Best Firms in the South.

The eminent electricians, Messrs Har- ris & williamson, are entitled to no small credit for their part in making the new Mecca the most magnificent saloon in the south, for all the electric effect therein are of their designing, and without them the place would lose much in beauty. The same firm has just finished putting in the lights of the Industrial Institute and College, at Columbus. Miss, 450 in number, the greatest number in amy one building in Mississippi.
 The firm has gained a reputation throughout the whole south for the quaEty of their work. Their place ol business is 1915 Second avenue. Blrmng- ham, Ala.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
The Mary Lee Company..

The Jefferson Coal and Railroad con- pany, successor to ths Mary Lee Goal and Railroad company has completed it's new improvements. Among other things was $40,000 coal washer plant, with capaIcitB of 800 tons daily. The company has enlarged its running opera tions and increased its coke plant to 132 ovens. Tlhs entire plant is nipw in opet'a- tfon, q1Eas daily output of 750 tons. James Sloan, Douglas Gordon and H. s. Jenkins, of Baltimore, Md. are heavily interested In the company.
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
No. 1904 Second Avenue

championship of the state will no doubt defend it against the new conner. Cusaek has s:nt the following chai- Ienge to The Age-Herald:
 1T have just arrived in the city. would like very much to arrange a match with any man in the state of Ala bama for a limited number of rounds or to a finish. No one barred Eugene McElroy preferred. An answer through The Age-Herald columns will receive my attention.
 "JOHN CUSACK"
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
MarrIape Iicense

Tom Johnson and Miss Martha Corne- Illus.
 J. Y. Hall and Miss Docia l.. Taylor. E. c. Clark and Miss Clara Cumphrey. J. c. Rochester and Miss Julia Rad. Clarke
The age-herald., 1897-11-23
McELROY PREFERRED.
John Cusack, of Milwaukee, is Anxious to Meet
 Any Man in the State.

John Cusack, "a pug1nst Of Milwaukee, Wis, arrived in the city Friday and is anxious to arrange match with any man in the state of Alabama.
 Eugene McElroy, who claims the
The age-herald., 1897-11-23

You can't get the news un- less you read The Age Herald; neither can your sweetheart get that S5OO piano unless you cut out the sixth-page coupon and vote for her.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
Good Money Is Good Anywhere.

While government can within it's
territory define that which shall con-
stitute a legal tender in satisfaction of
contracts past and future, it cannot by
legislation fix the purchasing value of
its money, for money is a commodity,
and its value is determined in the mar
kcts of the world under the laws of
trade, and the laws of trade, like the
laws of nature, are stronger and more
far-reaching than any constitutions or
statutes. The best money is the money
of greatest purchasing power, and that
money has the maximum of purchasing
power which is eXchangeable at par,
not only in the country from whose
mint it is issued, burt also in the mar
kets of the world.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
EVOLUTION OF MONEY.
Unwnrranted Government Interior
cnce Prevents Easy Transition from
One Substance to Another.

Unwarranted Government Interior
cnce Prevents Easy Transition from
One Substance to Another.
Money is simply commodity that is
generally recognized as a universal
equivalent, and it's degree of goodness
or efficiency consists in the unanimity
of the recognition of the fitness of the
commodity used as money to perform
the essential functions of money. Many
commodities have been used as money,
and they have remained in use as long
as they met the essential requirements
of money among the people where used,
or until some other commodity APP
peared the fitness of which commended
itself to the intelligence as being su-
perior to the commodity then being
used.
Aspeople have advanced in discriminat-
ing intelligence they have discarded in
ferior commodities and adopted in place
thereof something that was superior;
these changes kept taking place until
finally gold and silver became the COM
modities that were recognized by the
people of most countries as being the
best for use as money. Sociological
transition is constant. Change is the
natural order of things, and changes
come about naturally and are therefore
effected easily if the natural process is
allowed to 60 on undisturbed; troubous
friction ensues only when there is OBJ
structive governmental interference at
tempting to delay or defeat the natural
order of things.
In our own day the stage coach has
been supplanted by the steam railroad
and stage coaches have practically be-
come thing of the past. The tallow
dip was succeeded 10y lamps filed with
burning fluid or oil, and lamps by il
Illuminating gas, and gas by electricity.
These and many other changes were
accomplished with no serious disturb
ance whatever, and so it would be with
commodities used as money in the alb
sence of governmental obstruction.
There would be no threatening money
question in this country to-day, endan-
gering the continuity and perpetuity
of all business activity, if the United
States was not engaged in the banking
business.
Among the civilized people the days
of usefulness of silver as money, except
in subsidiary forms, are numbered, and
silver is going out of use as surely as
has the stage coach, and the tallow dip,
and for exactly the same reason; civil
Zation has outgrown the conditions
which necessitated its use. No money
has ever come into use at the behest of
government, or because of statutory
enactments, but solely because of recog-
nized ability to perform the functions of
money.-Austin W. Wright, in Sound
Currency.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
Volume Regulated Automatically.

That it was the function of the gov
eminent to furnish a country with its
supply of money was never supposed by
anyone until it had undertaken to do
that as a measure of war financiering.
If the government coins the bullion
brought to its minis and regulates, not
the volume of, but the conditions under
which, bank currency may be issued, it
discharges its duties in full, and the
business world will, as it invariably
has, provide the currency and regulate
the volume in accordance with the
varying needs of trade.-Iron Age.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
Japan in n New Light,

Now that Japan is on the brink of
placing her currency on the exclusive
gold basis, we presume that we shall no
longer be worried with fearful visions
of her growing industrial supremacy,
which was alleged to be due to the sill
yer standard. 1t was affirmed that
whatever goods Japan sold in this coun-
try, being paid for in gold, practically
doubled the sellers income when the
proceeds were converted into silver.
And this tremendous advantage the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11

his Notes" he observed that the high
price which Spain paid for gold had a
tendency to draw away gold and to
leave US only silver. He thought, there
fore, that 1--WE might with safety lean
to a proportion somewhat above par for
gold"
Free silver democrats are not Jeffer-
son democrats. They should either
abandon their false doctrines or wor-
ship at another shrine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
japanese now reIinquish.
Our Own Experience.

In this country since 1865 the wage
Garner has received his pay in dollars
which have on the whole steadily APP
preciated in value, so far as general
commodities are concerned, so that the
purchasing power of HIS wages has
nearly doubled, while interest on cap
tal has steadily fallen and now ever
ages scarcely half what it was.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Original Demonstration of Silver
Effected by Jef3erson's Order.

He Was at All Times Opposed to
Cheap Money EuJ EepuGintiOn of
Debts-BeIieyed that Coinage Ra"
ito should Stick Close to the Mar
kct RatiO-FGyorcd Use of Both
Metals, But Showed n Moderate Pref
crence Tor GoId-COuld Not Have
stood on the Chicago Platform.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
emit ExDOrt Laws.

No civilized country can conline its
citizens within its own territory or pro-
hibit all commercial intercourse with
other countries. Every country, there
fore, needs money which can be used in
purchase from and in payment of its
debts to other countries. Yet, howso-
ever absolute may be the power of its
government, its laws can have no ex-
tra-territorial effect. No government,
therefore, can prescribe the standard
by which its currency shall be valued in
any other country, or compel the citi-
zens of another country to receive its
currency save at the bullion value of
that currency in the markets of the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
More Information wanted.

A Kansas City cycler says the BIZ
Gle has made him baldheaded. He fails
to explain whether he rode so fast that
ell his hair blew OF or whether he re-
fused to buy a new wheel for his wife.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11

-Pesky flies are a nuisance. Get your
houses screened. All sizes at Ed.
Stoves & Sons. stiff
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-11
bicycles Packed in Trunks.

The bicycle trunk, novelty only a
few years ago. is now more or less
familiar article of baggage. There are
some bicycle trunks made to carry two.
There is also made for the safe car
rying of individual bicycles a wicker
trunk, which is shaped as is the or
binary bicycle trunk, but is made of
willow basket work. Then there are
made collapsible crates, in which BIZ
cycle may be carried to the seashore or
the country.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24
THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE.
LING Troubles and Consumption Gan
be Cured. :.
An Eminent New York Chemist ana
Scientist Makes Free Oter TO of
Readersi;" :"

Tho distinguished chemist, T.. A. Slocum, @
New York City demonstrating his discovery "a a
reIisble cure Tor Consumption (rulmohar!
Tubercnlos:s bronchial, LUG, anG chesutrouo
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His "Ntty Scientific Treatment has, chre9
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Science daily develops new wonders. ana TINS
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TTaars has produced results as benehclal TO M
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His assertion that lung troubles and consump-
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from those cured in all parts OF the world
The dread Consumption, uninterrupted, means
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Sufferers should take instant advantage OF MS
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Please tell the Doctor that you saw this III ID
JOURNAL.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24
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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24

There is a series of small and large
caverns in the marble rocks of the
Cuban mountains which are being grad
ually filled up, and that, too, in a most
remarkable manner. The common land
snails, of which there are so many spe-
cies and varieties in Cuba, make these
caves resort during the dry season
They congregate on the floors of the
cayerns in immense numbers and mil
lions of them never leave. The reason
IS this: The water which drops from
the roofs or ceiling of the different cav
arns contains large per cent. of car
Donate of lime. When the water evapo-
rates the lime is left behind, and, acting
rs a cement, it CLUES great layers of
the snail shells together every year.
This process going on season after sea-
son. is gradually filling up the Cuban
caves, and it is only question of time
when there will not be single cavern
left on the island
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24
Broken Bow, Neb. May Is, '97.


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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24

PuNGEN. PARAGRAPHS.

= -Harry-"Yo say Maude sings like
an angel. Why, I never heard her sing
at all!n,. Penelope True, but did you
ever hear an angel sing ?"-Harlem
Life.
Mrs. Dahlgren-"Ah, MIR. Phipps; I
saw you in church last Sunday" Mr..
Phipps-"Yes, it rained,, you know.
Was that the reason you were there,
too Cleveland Leader.
Reason to Be Thankful-'Was your
ofice-seeking trip to Washington sue
cess?" Yes; in way" you got a
placer" mo. But my present en-
ployers. didn't dock me for the time it
took to make the journey" Washing
ton Star.
- nay have bitten OF more than
can chew, remarked the boa constructor
as the young gazelle disappeared with
in it's capacious jaws, "but, thank for
tune, 1 don't have to chew!" And it
curled itself up for six weeks nap
Chicago Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24

The Duchess De Dino, who is an
!. f.eri an by birth, is remarkably
~righ ~: mess woman, personally sup
erv:sing Ter large estate herself She
recently ordered a history building to
pe erected in New York, and before COM
plet.on she has rented eight floors, tb.
contract for the rental of the fourth
floor for q term of years having now
been completed for $4,000. Some time
ago tie duchess purchased valuable
businc IS site for $500 900, and it was
there sc had thea above mentioned build
ing erected.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24
Thousands are Trying 1t.

In order to prove the great merit of
Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure
for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have pre-
pared generous trial size for 10 cents.
Get it of your druggist or send 10 cents to
ELY BROS, Sc Warren ST., N. Y. City.
Isufered from catarrh of the worst kind
ever since d. boy, and I never hoped for
cure, but Ely's Cream Balm seems to do
even that. Many acquaintance have used
it with excellent results.-Oscar Ostrum,
IS Warren Ave, Chicago, I'll.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no cocaine,
mercury nor any injurious drug. Price,
SO cents. At druggists or by mail.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24
1t Makes a Difference

She was SO happy when her engage
ment was announced that her friends
could not refrain from commenting
upon it.
You used to assert with great
emphasis" they said to her, "that you
gloried in your independence
YES she replied. "That was before
mad the privilege of being dependent
upon the right kind of man.
There are lots of people who like to
give the opinion that necessity is a
privilege.-Chicago Post.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-12-24

Don't be persuaded into buying
liniments without reputation or merit
-Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs no
more, and its merits have been proven
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as the following, from L. G. Bagley,
sHueneme Cal. are constantly being
received: "The BEST remedy for pain
I have ever used is CHARACTERISTICS Pain
Balm, aud say so after having used
4 n my family for several years. 1t
Dures rheumatism, lame back, sprains
Rnd swell ings. Sold BY all Druggists