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The age-herald., 1898-08-14

never classed with Georgia Crackers and Craddock's ideals. They have been ig- nored in the general scheme that includes the queer and picturesque. The Alabama mountaineer is, however, holding his own and is becoming the true and tried friend of the summer visitors. The mountain air possesses peculiar fraternzng qualities.
 The summer sojourners, leaving. work and anxiety in the great cities beyond, are finding rest and comfort and peace in this garden spot of nature. They are writing back of the bright sunshine that brought forth smiles. of the beautiful surround ings that make an environment that al- ways calls forth the best that is in ones nature. They are hearing the stories of the good old days" before the railroads when people travelled in carriages to the springs, and caravans of the entire house. hold were no unusual sight in the noun tain passes during April and May.
 The subtle traces of tradition have been eliminated by the cosmopolitan aspect of later years. s The beauty and charms of the hills, however, have been abiding, and the August days have sent larger coterie of visitors than any past season.
 ANNIE KENDRICK WALKER.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
The Problem of the Orient.
Editor

The Mobile Item believes "an overwhelm- ing majority" of the American people favor the retention of the entire Philippine group. This, together with the building of the Nicaragua canal, with which it is in- separably linked, unquestonably consti- tute the chief problem left unsettled by the protocol signed on Friday
 The fact that troops ordered to Manila are to go forward without reference to the suspension of hostilities will not escape the eye of the watchful reader. Another ex- petition is about to sail, and all troops ordered to go to Manila will be sent. This goes to show that the administration has no intention of forestalling in any manner the determination of the peace commission. The administration has shown no inten- tion of crossing public sentiment in this matter. Spain is still looking for help in recognition by the United States of DOT ton of Cuban debt, although she has thus far been relieved of the payment of a money indemnity This country has pended an immense sum in war expenses, and it is believed pension and other expen- ses will swell the grand total to s500, ,0000 900. It will be strange indeed, if indemnity in some form be not demanded to meet this expenditure.
 The prosperity of this country through the coming century depends upon the ex-. tent of its Pacific trade. It is they-ffne of growth. The Nicaragua -3aTfM and ample bases jn Afswsn. in the Ladrones and the Philippines should be the contribution of tins war; and this century to the great work that the twentieth century has to do fin the Orient. And it may be that access to half of the worlds population, living in China, is hurrying to a settlement in this century If so it is all the more important that we secure bases from which equal trade facilities can be advantageously de- manded.
 The latest news from China demands united action on the part of the open-door countries. Germany alert and intelligent should join the countries that desire an open market and a fair chance only Stolid Russia and degenerate France de- sire middle-age trade restrictions, but Ger many should be ashamed to ask such privi- leges. But whether she stands for fair ness and justice or not, England and Japan and the United States should, and if they have the courage and sense to stand firmly for an open China and to stand together, S@ ta xxytt thn,,t 1nh 6rit, of gun.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
Pull Down the Fences.

The residence portion of Birmingham could be greatly improved and beautifed by the removal of front and line fences. All over the country the movement has been introduced and in most cases estab- lished, but it In this city 1t has not taken root. Every residence street is disfigured by fences, ill-kept front yards, and gen. eral air of untidiness. Smooth lawns" says a recent writer merging one into the other, shaded by a few trees, give a much better effect than the rows of little boxes stuffed with a heterogeneous collection of plants and shrubs which formerly did duty AS front yards. With good walks about the dwellings, smooth pavements in front, bor- dered on each side by well-grown and we'll kept trees, set in not too narrow strip of turf, quite park-like expanse is secured and an elegant effect produced, though the buildings themselves be modest"
 All this holds good even if an expanse of turf be forbidden by the climate. Trees and such grass as will grow will do. The plants and shrubs should be relegated to the rear premises, now occupied by the ubiquit- ous tin can, and the open front yard given over wholly to sweetness, order and light. The hdeous fence, genrally out of repair. serves only to gather dampness and rub bish, and when it is gone neatness will be- come contagious, and the beauty of the street and of the district will naturally and easily be improved
 This is really a matter that touches edu- cation, society and even material wealth. Any object that the eye rests upon is educa- tive, and surely where children are brought up there should be love of beauty. The re- moval of the fences prevents a neighborly feeling and neighborly interests; and when a street is rendered attractive property be- comes marketable and prices go up. A street without fences and a street with fences are contrasted by every passer-by, and the verdict is always in favor of the
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
THE NAvY'S SECRET.
A Range Finder Accounts For the Good
 Shooting of the Navy.

The explanation which the Boston Tran script gives of the extraordinary marks manship of the gunners in our navy is that we have range finder that is perfect. It says:
 Since the welcome news of Admiral Deweys remarkable victory at Manila on the first of May was published throughout the civilized world, it has been a matter for wopder everywhere, not Jess in the United StateV than in Europe, that the American gunners were able to destroy Spanish squadron in a Spanish hafbor without the loss of a single American life. When history repeated itself at Sam tiago two months later the wonder was intensified.
 Tn the government building at the ns-Mississippi exposition is an exhibit which in a measure explains the mystery. This is naval range finder, the invention of United Sates naval officer. Up to date no one outside of Uncle Sams service has been able to discover how it is operated. The instrument is shown in a glass case, with various other nautical paraphernalfa, and, of course, the attendants refuse to an- swer questions as to it's method of work ing.
 In showing the enormous advantages derived from the use of this instrument, one of the naval officers in charge of the exhibit says:--
 Tt is fact that no other navy has any means of finding the range that does not involve mathematical calculation. This implies a good deal of time lost, and in most cases they find it quicker to get the range by actual experiment. The Spaniards, for instance, have to fire sev- eral shots before they can get the range of one of Uncle Sam's ships. If their first shot falls short they try again and then they are apt to overshoot, and by that time the position of the vessels may have been NItered and they are still at sea. Meanwhile the officer in the coming tower of the American ship has located them al most exactly with this instrument and re- ports the range by telephone to the va
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
THE CHARMS OF
 ALABAMA'S HILLS

The mountain places of Alabama are teeming with life this season, and the movement to these resorts is still contin- uing. The summer days have not only brought newcomers in search of rest. but a great number of Alabamians are taking their outings among these hills.
 In other seasons the majority of people who prefer high attitudes have sought out the picturesque spots in Tennessee, Vlr- ginia and other mountain places, but the remarkable showing of the summer hotels and the increase of the cottage colony at the country places in Alabama indicate that the tides have turned. It is not the result of the war or any critical financial state of affairs. It is the cool breezes that blow down the valleys and the charms of Alabamas hills.
 The accessibility of many of these places is greatly in their favor. They are pie turesoue and inviting, and health-giving sThoe who go in for charm of scenery, or for the calm of mountain solitude will ma it in these hills. It is here that you Will catch the sweet aroma of the trees, tie freshness of the valleys, the scent of the hay, the breath from the meadows. Ihose who have left the crowded cities in search of rest from the whirl of a busy life have found it among the peaceful hills nearby. They have learned to know by fire 1uent jaunts the subtle and thronging life in nature. The great masses of thicaet that envelop the hillsides, and the sweep Of faint-hued fields below, have drawn them to these mountain places and sent them back refreshed. The faint stirring of wood a pathway up the mountain side, noun taineer's cabin against a mellow pack ground. and below the wind-swept valley s.
 You do not. hear so much of the B.i,e Ridge, the crest of the Alesheaics, or the charm of the Smoky mountains. In- stead you hear of a continual rush to frs. one country place an1 then the other that is nestling in Alabarla's hills
 E The mountaineer people that are consid- cred types" are unlike those in other mountainous districts. It Is true, they fird their way down the mountain side to the hotels and expect the city people so buy daily anything they may have for sale. They take possession of the verandas and use them for fruit stalls just as other mountaineers are wont to do but the av- craze man and woman who have been nurtured in Alabamas hills have in some way escaped that hard, hopeless. look that one expects to in mountaineers. They are not, even with this peculiarity in their favor, picturesque figures, but that is be- cause Alabama has not had a Charles Egg bert Craddock to immortalize her moun- taineers. There may be "moonshiners" on the crest of the hills, but they have not bsysi regarded of sufficient picturesqueness to figure in Alabama romances. This mountaineer element apparently is not an interesting type of humanity, for it is
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
Colonies of Christopher Columbus.

The acceptance by the Spanish people of terms that temporarily at least sweep away their colonial system is not the least surprising thing connected with the sign ing of the protocol. Even the chronic Carlist pretender cannot find ground to the richest Spaniard in the world. Gen. eral Weyler no longer gains an audience when he attempts to tell what he could and would do. The republicans have not a to be glad that peace has come again, and perhaps all thoughtful men are glad that the country's troublesome colonies have at last been eliminated. The ships that rest on the bottom of the sea are not missed in the elimination of the colonies-
 The work of Christopher Columbus stood unimpaired, though slightly disfigured at the opening of the present century. Spain at that time owned New Orleans and Cali fornia and all the country clear down to the Horn. as well as the islands that are involved in the war settlement now pro- gressing. She owned at that time the ground that St. Louis now occupies. She owned two-thirds of the western hemi- sphere. All of Iowa belonged to her, and the site of the Omaha exposition was in the unknown depths of her vast empire. This at the opening of the century. At it's close not a foot of Christopher Column bus East Indies remains to the discover ing nation. The vast empire that the gen. jus and daring of the great navigator brought to her had been lost, and she stands stripped of all colonial glory, new illustration of the great Roman empire that conquered the world only to lose it.
 That America, born but yesterday, should become the residuary legatee of Spain's colonial possessions, and should be found in combat with survival of the ancient Roman empire, is stranger than fiction itself. And stranger still, the last deadly shots of the war drove upon the beach of the island Columbus discovered a war ship called the Christobal Colon. Those shots closed a story almost as dramatic and even more pathetic than the fall of Rome itself.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
on the Washington Star.

From the WaShIngtOn Star aN
 The victory of Governor Stone over MT. Bland in the Missouri democratic state con- vention on the subject of territorial ex- pansion will cause no surprise. It follows naturally the recent result in Texas The democracy's drift is all that way. The country has spoken, the navy and army have triumphed and Spain yields. Terri torial expansion is as good as a fact ac- complished. Why declare against bound aries which, practically, have been run and confirmed? Hawaii has been annexed and Spain releases her hold on Cuba and Porto Rico, the former to the United States as the representative of the Cuban people, and the latter to the United States for its own uses. MT. Bailey and MT. Bland in their opposition were simply behind the times.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
Greater Birmingham.

Nashville. that town of mixed flour and a single railroad system, Is rejoicing over the building "of great terminal station" The station building may be great but it can scarcely be very terminal, for Nashville is a way station of the Ellen N. There is, however no harm done in considering it's new station terminal as we'll as great, if the people of Nashville insist upon it.
 But the esteemed American of Nashville, in celebrating the building of a new depot in it's town, and its emergence because or its new depot from 'provincial ways into those of a metropolis" goes out of its way to belittle Birmingham. It takes the cen sus figures of 1890, and proceeds to glorify Nashville. It seems to have grown jealous of the free advertising that Birmingham gets and that Nashville does not get. "There was no great blow made,' it clas- sically adds, about Nashville's growth, and yet it grew. And the census of 1890 is again paraded.
 The truth is, the census of 1890, and all  Birmingham is concerned. The furnaces of Birmingham light the sky in every di- rection, but because of lighter taxation Birmingham's municipal bounds do not in- clude many of those furnaces. We have a pent up municipality, but an ample in- dustral district. The census puts good share of the population within our furnace lights, and within the range of our trolley and dummy lines in other civil divisions than that known as Birmingham. We do not receive full and proper credit in the census We are governmentally robbed of a portion of glory.
 The true test is in the population of Greater Nashville Greater Atlanta and Greater Birmingham Davidson county represents the f1rst-named, Fulton county the second and Jefferson county the last of the trio. The three counties are not very dissimilar in size. As Nashville is now metropolitan, having ceased to be pro- proposition Let the three counties be counted, or await the official count of 1900. That shall be the test of the standing in the tables of population of the three towns. Jefferson county will stand at just about 125,OOO, every man of whom can ridS to the court house in a trolley, dummy or steam car. If Fulton county Georgia, or David son county, Tennessee, can beatn6lnGm figures, the fact does not-Sin1 lllllC probably it never will officially appear.
 In ll99116 l916G Greater Birmingham will be so far in the lead that Nashville and Atlanta will simply be suburbs of the steel center that the esteemed American now fiauts with the census tables of a dying century. Their proximity to 1t will then be their greatest honor
The age-herald., 1898-08-14

rious gun captains. This has xnly con- stunned few seconds, and while the Span- iards are still trying to get their range the shells from the American guns are sweep ing their decks.
 "The peculiar thing about the instru- ment," continued the officer, "is that while it is one of the simplest things in the world foranyone who knows its secret, the most expert mechanic or inventor might examine 1t as long as he wanted to and still be un- able to discover how it works. This is why representatives of other navies have been completely baff1ed in their efforts to find it out. They have range-fnders of their own, but none that gives the same instantaneous and accurate results. And as long as they can be kept in the dark we will be able to outshoot any nation on earth, even if there was no difference in the skill of the gunners."
 There is another advantage in the use of the instrument which amounts to con- siderable in the course of half a dozen naval engagements. It costs $1 .360 to fire a pair of 13-inch guns once. If the Span iards go into a fight they must fire at least two shots to secure the range. Frequently these do not answer, and they go on shoot ing $6SO charges in the air, while every States gun is utilized. The ability of the American gunners to obtain the exact po- stion of the enemy before a gun is fired saves thousands of dollars in ammunition in every engagement"
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
NOT A spoILs APPOINTMENT

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 President Mckinley has done credita- ble thing by appointing Judge Hobson, father of the hero of the Merrimac, post master at Greensboro, Ala. Judge Hobson is a democrat, and there may be some ob- lection from that class of partisans who are too jealous of the spells to admit that any circumstances can justify the appoint ment of a political antagonist to office, but the presidents action will be commended by vast majority of the people.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
INDEMNITY
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

From the Chlcag0 Inter Ucean.
 Porto Rico may be said to indemnify us for the loss of the Maine. All the territory over which the flag of Spain ever waved would not atone for the killing of our marines who were aboard the battleship on the night it was destroyed. but for the property loss Porto Rico may be set down as just about fair indemnity, All things considered, the Philippines, with one of the Ladrones, would serve to indemnify us for the general cost of the war Anything short of that indemnity would be inade- uuate.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
THE PASSING OF POPULIsM

From the Huntsville Democrat.
 The fact that Governor Johnston got practically the entire vote cast in Madi- son county at the election last Monday shows clearly that populism has run it's course with us, and that the populites have returned to the house of their fathers, the abode of the democratic party.
 The same condition of things seem to pre- vail throughout the state.
 To the liberal, tolerant and wise leader ship of Governor Johnston is chiefly due this happy reunion of our white people.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
A KISS

By W. J. Hampton.
 Surrounded by admirers
 At Long Beach, Hobson stood, < As any hero under |. Such circumstances would, - And with his heart in tempest, Il His surging soul in swirls, i'll He calmly faced the muzzles ff4 Of half a hundred girls. There were eyes of skyey blueness, There were eyes of beaming brown, There were eyes of gray and hazel There were eyes to bring one down From heaven to Long Island To wear the hero's crown. And Hobson stood among them, While batteries of smiles Were turned full on the hero In varying forms and styles, Which filled the air with heart-throbs And strewed them round in piles. At last one dainty maiden, A dream of pink-white bliss, ,j From saintly old St. Louis with more of them like this), Reached up and handed Hobson ,.i A large and luscious kiss.
 G. Then out spake Hero Hobson: By all the gods,' said he, 'Tf any one had mentioned i That this would come to me, I For sinking that old vessel ' ri Down in the Cuban sea, ; I'd not have been contented To sink a single one, iI' But would have sunk a million e,, Before the job was done." tl' IT
 
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 ! Now here's to Hero Hobson, Il { A true man and a good! r.. Who wouldn't be hero I To stand where Hobsn stoodf 4,
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former. Such a sentiment turns into monetary values after a while. But the love of beauty alone should induce the change. Blrmingham's residence streets can be made beautiful.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14

The nomination of Senator German as please a large section of the country. MT. German is an American everywhere and on every occasion.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14

Next Christmas Admiral George Dewey will become, through the retirement of other men, the ranking officer of the navy. He will then be outranked by President Mckinley only.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
A GLORIOUS VICTORY

From the Eufaula Sun.
 The democratic party has won a glorious victory in this state on it's merits, and one of the chief factors that have made this great success possible, has been Governor Joseph F. Johnston and his admirable ad- mnistration of the affairs of the state.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14

When congress has nothing else to think of. it may conclude to give Richmond Pear son Hobson chance in the line of the navy. The promotion Is prevented by con- gressional non-action.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14
Same "Anti-Everything''
From the Sheffield Reaper.

Territorial expansion does not in any way conflict with the Monroe doctrine, neither does 1t involve this country in "en- tangling foreign alliances" Our anti-"im perialsts are anti-everything, anyway, and are always found struggling at the rear of the procession.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14

The drop from war to pugilism and base ball is a severe one. But, as MT. Depew recently remaked, we will have to accus- tom our systems to them.
The age-herald., 1898-08-14

The Spanish soldiers at Portmouth, New Hampshire, ate one day mince pies, and they are now convinced that there are greater horrors than war affords.