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The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-03-18
4. CLAY EVANS HoNoRED.

Tho Tennessee Republican Leader to BO
Pensions Commissioners.
WASHINGTON, March l2.-H. Clay
Evans, of Tennessee, has been rendered
the position of commissioner of PEN
sions, and probably will accept, as It
is one of the most important in the
departmental service outside of the
cabinet. Mr.. Evans has long been
recognized as leader among southern
republicans. He represented the Chat
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-03-18
Occasionally Recalled.

"Your husband died a year ago? You
must miss him greatly"
"Not SO much. His mother throws q
cup at my head occasionally now
n. Y. Journal.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-03-18

Fashion is all powerful, but she
cannot vanquish the shirt waist, which
will be worn as much as ever the com.
ing summer.--Atchison Globe.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-03-18
LONG CRIMINAL RECORD.

= VII F1]-'SHHANs Wv ~AS NV OIYPOS
the policy of delay.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-25
Missouri Freak.

The other day a man and a woman
went to a justice of the peace in Kansas
City and told him that they wanted to
be married. AS they gave the same sur
names the magistrate asked them il
they were related. and the man replied
that the woman had been his wife for
the past eight years. Each year they had
the marriage ceremony performed with
the understanding that at the end of the
twelve months if they were tired of
each other they would get divorce.
The justice considered the matter and
declined to marry the couple, saying that
he could not perform the ceremony when
they were already married.
People will laugh at this as freak,
but it has more significance than ap-
pears on the surface. In England and in
this county there are writers and al
legged social reformers who insist that
marriage is nothing but a civil contract,
andthey advocate matrimoni al unions for
stated periods. Perhaps the lax divorce
laws in some of the states have con-
tributed to this state of affairs. 1t is
natural that many people should hold
the marriage tie in light esteem when
they see how easily 1t is broken.
Divorce is necessary evil, but the.
lawmakers and courts should make it
difficult to obtain except in cases which
plainly require it. The laws on the sub
jet are so loose and lead to so many COM
plication that it would probably be a
good thing to have general federal law
regulating the matter. Unless some
thing is done the Missouri experiment
may be tried elsewhere.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-25

From the Detroit Journal.
There Is a summer visftor in Detroit
who knew Mark Hanna when he was a
young man and before he left the country
homo to Try his fortunes in Cleveland.
mark was always practical and out
spoken" says this authority. HE was
inclined to express Us opinions when
called upon to do so, and under such c,r-
cumstanees he was apt to disregard The
conventionalities. Ore thing that he Gil
in my presence have always remem-
'bered. 1t was a small matter in itts1f,
and YET it showed a characteristic of the
main for which he has never received
full credit. He happened to be a guest
al a house where was visiting, a widow
and her SON. who was very intimate with
Mark, constituting the analy then at
home. We had poached eggs for break
fast and when we were helped there was
but one left on the plate. This evidently
troubled the sen, who was fastidious in
his tastes and had a really lavish DISPOSE
ton as host. Twice he suggested to His
mother that they had better have more
eggs, and she passed the matter over
with a great deal of tact. My own i'm
preston is that there were no more eggs
in the house. Once more the son returned
to the subject, and before The old lady
could reply Mark put further discussion
out of the question. There are eggs
enough here, and one to spare. Quit
bothering your mother and help entertain
/ your company, said the future president
maker. And 1t pleased me, though I was
a young woman with carefully sense of
p.opriety. Mark was always consid rate
of his elders and kindly towards those in
trouble. That fact leads me to beEeve
that he is never hard or inconsiderate in
dealing with men in his employ. Where
he had personal knowledge of a wrong it
would be his disposition to right it at
OnceA' -
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From the Cleveland Leader.
mo-" said the soap fazer to group
of people that had gathered around him,
''there is no use talking to me about the
innocence of the countryman. He may
buy gold brick occasionally or sign a
blank check and loss his farm, but as
a rule he can take care of himself just as
well as the next one, and generally a lit
tie better. If I knew as much as some
farmers l wouldn't be in this business,
and you can gamble on that.
why say, do you know what happened
to me the last time I was down in the
country? I got pinched, that's what
done. Il got my sachel out in front of the
hotel in a little town about thirty miles
out east here, and b@gan to do few
tricks to draw a crowd.
"After I'd made an egg disappear and
pulled few knots open for them, says:
Now, gentlemen, I'm going to show you
trick that nobody else on earth has
ever attempted. You see my hat here?
Well, We'll imagine for the time being
that it's flower pot. Out of this hat
I'm goin to make a bush grow up, and
when I've done that I'll make every leaf
ON it turn into a five-doHar note
what! Ola 90 II! VI courSS L dlu.
But, say, do you know what come of it ?
Blamed If they didn't arrest me and
fine me SIS for raisin' bills, which the
justice of the peace said was contrary
to the statoots made and provided
well, I sort of had a hankerin' to
know whether thy done it in good faith
or just because they thought was easy
pickin,' and what do you think I found
out? Why, the people of that town
hadn't paid amy taxes for eight years.
They'd actually been runnin things by
pluckin' just such innocent fellows as
me-
Now, gentlemen, there's 81 bill In
one of these little packages. Who will
| give me 10 cents for the first choice?"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-25

ducts of the fields mines. mills and fac
tories would keep us busy and enrich us,
and prevent another panic for at least a
generation to come. Such policy would
turn the fields into gardens. build up
Alabama's seaport turn Birmingham in
to Greater Pittsburg and dot the stale
With thriving cities whose fiourishlng in
dustries would employ a host of happy
wsge-workers, and thus bring new and
profitable markets to the doors of the
farmers. The extension of the foreign
trade is the most important subject that
can engage the attention of the states
men, and it Is a matter in which every
American citizen should be deeply inter-
ested.
The road to prosperity runs southwark,
and it should not be abandoned to Eng
land and Germany without an effort to
seize and hold The right of way.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-25
WOMEN OF NOTE.

Mrs. Beasely, of Philadelphia rejoiees
in an income of $4,000 a year derived
from an invention of her owrs-a ma
chine that hoops barrels.
Mime. Sarah Grand has returned to
london after some months stay on the
continent, bringing with her the manu-
script of the new novel upon which she
has been long occupied.
Miss Nellie Patterson, of Mount Car
mel, Conn.,, has completed four years ap-
premiership to the machinist trade, and
will undertake toolmaking as her par
ticular line of work.
Among the pastels which Rosa Bon
heur has been recently exhibfting in
Paris, the most inter- sting, from an
American point of view, is the picture of
bison on snowy plain, for which she
secured models from Buffalo Bits Wild
West show when this was in Paris.
Mile. Bopheur is now rs years old.
Queen Adelaide, widow of Dom Migu-
el, King of Portugal, has taken the vows
at the Convent of the Benedictines, at
Schemes, France, iaf.er having passed
through novitiate of one years dura-
ton. Queen Adelaide was born in Fran
cony ON the Sd of April, 1881, and was
married in 1851 to King Miguel. She is
the mother of seven children. . r.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-25
Chance of Climate,
According to DIR. E. S.ICurry, western
scientist, Alaska was once blessed with
a mild climate. The doctor says

According to DIR. E. S.ICurry, western
scientist. Alaska was once blessed with
a mild climate. The doctor says:
Alaska and the region about it figure
conspicuously in my early history, as
early ais when that part of America had
temperate, almost a tropical, climate
and | am waiting for the accounts Of
surprises when the miners shall discover
the ancient works of man and the re-
mains of semi-tropical plants and ami
mails / expect that buried cities of a
vanished civilization will also be I'M
earthed in the search fer gold.
1--WE read in the Bible that the days
of Adam. after he begot Seth. w+re 500
years; and he begot sons and daughters
These children drop out of the sacred
record, but tradition cares for them and
locates many of these sarly inhabitants
of the earth in Alaska and the extreme
northern parts of the Canadian Domin-
ion. The climate of the country was then
mild Suddenly a great change in the
climatic condition of th+ great region oc-
Cured, and an arctic temperature drove
the inha bitants southwark or caused
those who remained TO take refuge in
caves. The people who migrated south
ward SETTLED finally in Chill.
Athabaska was an important center
of population Off the Alaskan coast,
which went down beneath the ocean in
great cataclism. The city was famous
for its golden wealth. These early in
habitants of America made pottery and
built citiss on the extreme arctic coast.
The implements used by those ancient
people will surely be found in Alaska"
If the scientist is right in his conclu-
sions, those who hold that the climate
is changing will be strengthened in thsir
belief. A thousand years hence it may
be that the poles will Shift their posi-
tons, and some parts of the United
| States may become uninhabitabl=. But
this is a mere speculation, and in this
busy age people have no time to waste
| in guessing at conditions so far In the
| future.
The disastrous predictions of the scien-
| lists do not disturb ths plans of the capt.
talists who contemplate the erection of
| twenty-five story buildings.
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EngIand's Indian Problem.

Reports from India indicate protrac =
ed campaign and despera e fighting. The
revolt is spreading among the mountsan
natives, a brave ard intelligent race OF
people and led by their fanatical reli-
gionists. it is likely that they will be
hard to subdue. A well informed writer
says:
That revol in india is far more impor-
tant than people on this side of the water
suppose. When. a ma ion whose p9ul2t.on
numbers one-fifth the entire population Of
the globe shows signs of going to war it
is time for thinking There are 300,000,OOO
inhabitants in India, and. of these only
100000 were born in he United Kingd dom.
I'm the whole popula tion only 23S, 1919 speak
English. OF British and British descent
- of the whole ennlire 200, 600 would be a
fair estimate, ard these few people rule
India with the help of an army of 74o00
Britigrh troops. I'm the native army there
i are 145,6S0 men, and they have been for
years trained and trained again by the
British until the native army is a formid-
able one, OF which England has more than
once boosted in the face OF Europe and
with it threatened her European fots.
ID is a mistake to think ahat the native
army Is officer ed almost entirely by Eng
1ishmen. There are 2.759 native officers in
that army, as agains. 1880 Englishmen.
was the British non-commiss.oned officer
who made the Ird:an army effective, but
in the whole Indian army there are only
three British on-ccmmisSioned officers
outside of the eighty-four who belong to
the scientific corps" of The Sappers and
Miners, or. as we would say in the United
States, the Engineer Corps. The revolt
of the Sepoys lin 1857 was child'ts play to
what the revolt of the Indian army would
be now. To the present Indian army the
Epc nc IT,, =
they made the sand around Delhi they
mustered only 10000 men.
If the uprising becomes general Eng
gland will lose her eastern empire, and
the people may then expect to see every
strong nation that has grudge against
her go to work to get even. Sometimes
powerful nation suddenly collapses.
when France wen. 10 war vi tn Germany
many expected to see her win an easy
victory. But the whole French military
system was affected with a dry rot. The
officers and men were half-hearted and
demoralized, and the equipment of the
army was inferior.
1t may be so with the British. They
have relied too much upon their old pres
1ige. They have s. God still while the de-
spsed foe have been getting ready for a
conflict. THE struggle in India is some
thing worse than an ordinary nbellion.
II Is a holy war started by the followers
of Mahomet, and they believe that if they
are killed in battle they will at once enter
rhe gates of paradise. Such fanatics are
dangerous fighters.
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seeDdants Of the Gothic conquerers of the
RJ7rsnncan peninsula, who retained the
blonde hair an1 the pale complexion of
the German race. Among the fair-haired
people the veins of the skin are generally
Visible on the hand as we'll as upon the
forehead. Thlsy appear of blush tint,
while the blood vessels of the dark hair
ed races. with ofive-colored complexion.
cannot be seen through the skin. The
ignonant masses of the subjugated tribes
believed the blood of the blonde raess
to be really blue. Speaking of families
of "blue blood" meant the ruling class.
the aristocracy of the nation, Lamartine,
the French poet, in figurative language.
mentions 1.-The red blood of the Gauls aad
the blue blood of the Germans
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-25
More Customers Needed,

Alabama ard her sister states OF the
south, to say nothing of ether ,ections
should use all the influence they have
with their senators and representatives
to persuade the government to adopt
settled policy which will extend the trade
in Spanish America.
England has for a long time cultivated
close commercial relations with southern
republics, and the American consuls lin
their recent reports call attention to the
fact that Germany is pushing the Briti:h
in this inviting field OF traffic. Germany
sells millions of dollars wortlrof iron and
steel to the Argentine republic every year,
and is increasing her exports to the South
American countries. She is selling the
very products which Alabama should be
selling to the people south of the United
States.
Not only arc the statesmen negligent
in looking after the commerce. but the
big merchants and manufacturers are
SLOW to adopt the proper methods. Ger
many sends first-class business agents to
COulu AInSilCd, dlfu tney study the wants
Of the people, turn out goods to suit them.
box and pack them as they desire, and ac-
commodate them with long credits. The
Spanish Americans are, good customers.
They do not like the idea of cash pay
mepts or short credits, but they are
honorable in business, and citizens of the
United States who have lived among
them unite in declaring that they are as;
good debt payers as can be found any
where on the globe. They have their pe-
culiar whims and. customs. but they will
stick to those who treat them Well.
1t is all nonsense for this country to
rely so muchcapon it's home market when
there e.,s hundreds of millions of profta-
bic customers beyond the borders whose
trade can be had il uhey VIII ask for it in
the right way.
If this country would push her COM
merce in Mexico, Central and South
America. the new demand for the pro-
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the newspaper Office The presses were
then running, making powerful lot OF
noise dn bhe press room. AT every half
revolution of the presses there was a
great sound louder than all others. mads
up my mind the p.esses were out of order,
and perhaps the pressman did no. UNDER
stand his business. -
I asked a printer what was'.he cause OF
that unusual Il BE at every half revolu-
ton OF the press. :
oh" he says, that's when the press
is printing the editorial page This paper
prints hot stuff, and it's mighty wearing
on The press
Think MontgOmery's a lovely town.
Ai5f5.y nice people Hope to go there
again some day. l want to get up next
to that editor. I Ike him. He PRINTS the
stuff. He knows his business. He's got
great head on him, he has. A man who
won't take anything bus gold in his Of
fee Is q dttle peculiar, and I admire him
fer his principles.
Tie ought & move his paper to Klon-
dyke. That's where he can get the kind
of dough he likes beet. Expect he might
consolidate with the editor of the Klon-
dyke Klaric'n, and l tell you they would
mike a hot political AMI society paper up
there. 1t would ceartainly please the
Klondykeis. They are dead SCI on get
ting gold
They wouldn't have any big bills from
the Associated Press and many ether con-
Germs every week. All the readers would
want would be gold news. He could
build his presses out of gold, put up gold
Mergenthaler machines, aid If necessary
could cast his tyne in gold That's
where L think a geld paper should be
printed. Not in Montgomery. where there
is so little in circulation. except silver.
fights with the governor, and great
churks of editorial wisdom which the peo-
pie do not believe in. 49,.
When a paper has got to go through
blood, HI and high water for its news
| things are becoming desperate. With
good newspaper-one On the side of the
people-news is never a. scarce article
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-25
VIII Make His Mark.
From the Pitfsburg Dispatch.


Hiroshima is the name of Japan's
most famous tattooer, who is coming to
New York next week. This son of the
Prince of Wales bears the mark of his
skull on his wrists, and Henry Have
meyer, the son of the sugar king, has a
marvelously fierce dragon ON the calf of
his leg, tbs work of the great Hirsohi-
ma. London's gilded youth, and even
young society women, have been raving
over Hiroshima, and are sorry that he
is to leave for this bloomin' country.
The four hundred will soon be marked
for life.
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How He Won Her.

From the New York Journal.
You cannot" shrieked A1gernon Fitz-
Altamont, pull the wool oyer my eyes. I
SEQ but too plainly that you have already
resolved to reject mel"
The woman to whom he addressed
these impassioned words gazed at him
with cold, cruel eyes. She reclined upon
the sands, the waves breaking at her
feet, but breaking far enough away from
those dainty extremities to preclude the
possibility of the sea spray injuring her
bathing costume.
Algernon Fitz Altamont waited for her
answer, but answer came there none
Still he sat waiting, waiting, with hope
in his heart and sand in his shoes.
But there was sand in the moral make
up of Algernon Fitz Altamont as we'll
as in his low-cut russets. And he did
not propose to give up so easily Indeed,
he proposed to win. Therefore, while he
depressed himself, he pressed for reply
Seeing she took kindly to it he pressed
her some more and still again. At last
when his arm was tired, she spoke, but
in light, bantering strain that betoken-
ed the fiimsy fiippancy of her nature
Il may not, Mr.. Fitz Altamont, be able
as you observed half an hour ago. to
pull the wool over your eyes but per-
haps might succeed in pulling the wool
over your hands. Have you any idea
of what a mitten Is made off,"
A CHASTITY pallor overspread the feat
ures of Algernon Fitz Altamont. "Ahr
he cried, in despairing accents, y see
what you are driving at. You mean to
infer that mitten is nit goods?"
Cold, cruel, calculating coquette though
she was, the infinite wit of Algernon Fitz
Altamont so pleased her maiden fancy
that when he pressed her again, as he
subsequently did, for Algernon was a
slayer from Stayersville. she promised
to be his forever and a day. Which means
until September Is by the seashore and
the 10th of October in the mountains.
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IN REGARD TO EATING.

AH pies should be eaten the same day
they are baked. To prevent a soggy
crust in lemon or custard pies drop the
white of an egg ON the crust after it has
been placed in the tin, wash the crust
around with the egg and then pour 1t out.
The x-rays are now used in Queen Vic
toria's kitchen as an instant and infalh-
BILE finder of stray f1sh-bones, plum
stones, etc, which may have accidentally
got into The royal food. The ray lifts a
great weight of responsibility from the
cooks head.
The following laconic but expressive
phrase is said to have been invented by
q Chicago waiter. 1t was restaurant
where there is no attempt to put on
style" and where the walters have a
code of their own. A guest entered, took
his seat and modestly asked for poached
eggs Oh toast. Adam and Eve on a
raft" yelled the waiter. The guest
| changed his order. II think I'll have
those eggs scrambled" he said. :'Wreck
EN- bawled the waiter.
In England the consumption of tea
amounts to five and three-quarter pounds
year for each person, children included.
Some persons insist that the excessive
drinking eff tea is what ruins the Eng
hshwoman's beauty, as it has tendency
to make the tip of the nose red.
Fried bananas are very good. Slice
them iengthwise, fry ITO a crisp brown in
butter and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Lemon waters may be served with them.
Tommy (surprised)-"Why, papa,
thought that one spoonful of sugar was
| always enough for my coffse?"
Tommy's Papa-"This is restaurant,
| my son; take all the sugar you want
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North Carolina has produced sensible
girl who threw aside fortune and family
to marry the man she loved. The best
part of the whole thing is that the young
ly is tn equal of the girls people in every
respect, and is honest enough to make his
own way in the world. "A girl who mar
ries the man she loves ard in /sfiance of
parental authority is the noblest work of
God,
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Meaning of the Term "Bluc Blood,
From the Baltimore Sun.

Il ioii oiiC oditiHfo1c 0uHs
Blue blood, in the sense of aristocratfc
blood, is from the Spanish "sangre azur,'
which implies the notion that some of the
Oldest and proudest families Of Spain,
never tainted by intermarriages with the
Moorish invaders, kept their blood Of
purer tint than that of the common peo-
pie. William H. prescott, the American
historian, speaks of the anxiety shown
by the modern Spaniard to prove that the
sangre azur, blue blood. flows through
his veins, uncontaminated by any Moor
isf or Jewish taint." Before the invasic n
of the Moors the kings and mobiles Of
Spain were almost without exception de-
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in mind that Birmingham Is prepared
TO send them some colored people who
can teach them the cake walk art in all
its glory and gorgeousnezs. Making stesl
and armor plate are not the only accom-
plishmsnts Birmingham possesses.
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Their Nemesis.
Victor Smith inrthe New York Press.

Victor Smith in rthe New York Press.
Remarkable confession of a Mosby
guerilla. 1.-The thing we feared most was
"a Saber. We could stand fire, but when
we saw a saber charge coming tell you
we made tracks. Some of us never stop
ped running. We had mortal fear OF
the Eleventh Illinois cavalry, one of the
crack regiments in the yankee army. It
makes me shiver now to think of those
fellows coming for US with drawn sabers.
IIRhr -
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The grass on the lawn at Canton has
ben rehabilitated, and the office seekers
will be at home again when President
Mckinley returns there next week.