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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

stone wall. On 1t they should go to the
country.
The majority bill cannot be defeated in
Mr.. Reeds house, nor can 1t be defeated in
the capitalistic senate If brought to vote,
but the democratic party of the country ex-
poets its representatives. acting with the
populist senator's. to see that vote is not
reached on this question until an appeal
can be taken to the country. They can and
should do this.
AS Colonel Bryan said at Lincoln this
question must be met now. 1t is a vital
question 1t is, in many respects, ques-
tion of popular rule as opposed to corporate
rule. This is the parting of the ways-gov-
eminent by injunction. or government by
the people. The senate stands between
complete militarism and the people, and the
country expects every senator to emulate
Mr.. Allen, of Nebraska.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
TO ADMIRAL DEWEY

C. F. s., in Chicago Times-Herald, on
reading that he had declined to write an
account of his victory for monthly
agazine.
Oh, Admiral George Dewey, all in tho
Philippines,
We love you for the things you've done,
You and 1.-THE man behind the gun
Heaven keep you safe from danger and
from monthly magazines.
II.
When every other fighting man has seized
his ready pen,
And hastens to record his claim
To popularity and fame
Till the clamor of their stryings Jars upon
the ears of men;
III.
When the shekels of the "monthlies" make
our captains all forget
ne noble silence that the great
Observe to dignity the state.
Surprised ashamed, indignant, We have
one solace yet.
We have at least one admiral as modest
as he's bravej
Guarding well his countrys glory,
Well content to tell his story
Through the mouths Of shotted cannon
laundering DER the eastern wave.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
Alabama Fisheries.

Alabama has short coast line, but the
distance is pretty fully utilized. 1t yielded
last year, at wholesale rates, 1884, 43S This
handsome sum came from a catch that in
cluded 204,500 bluefish, 1SS0O0 catfish 21S, 900
channel bass. $1,000 founders, $1,000 group
ers 5s7 800, mullets, $4,000 pompano, $500
sheephead, Ss5,OOo red snapper. $500 Span
ish mackerel, $4,000 spots and croakers 1885,
100 trout, besides 1,7S5,43S oysters, 10000
shrimp, and 24,4OO crabs. The total catch
of the year numbered 4,699.sS1, or about 49,
900 day, Sundays included
The fishing business of the five Gulf
states aggregated last year Salts, $780, Flor
ida heads the list, followed in order by
Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama.
When the length of coast is considered, AL
ALBANIA and Mississippi stand at the top of
the list, the two states far outrunning the
great stretch of coast in Texas, and excell-
ing per mile either Louisiana or Florida.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
The Joyous Season.

Whether st. Nicholas came down the
chimney last night or whether his coming
be delayed by overwork until tonight, he
carries an unusually large number of pack
ages. The country is Enthusiastically pros
porous, and this always means more pack
merry Christmas will be had in all parts
of this broad country, for every part of 1t
has cause for rejoicing; but perhaps none
has more, IL quite much, as the iron
and coal districts of the country, in which
great industries are pushed to the utmost
In their efforts to supply the demands of
the world For all the world is now Amer
ica's market, and American pig iron and
American rails and American wire and
American nails are sent to every quarter
of the globe.
This Christmastide finds the people of
Jones valley full of hope and energy and
faith in the resources of their district.
They begin to see the fulfillment of their
dreams Before another Christmas festival
occurs they will be able to see their rich
brown ores, even the old "hard red" of
their famous mountain, turned into goods
ready for the peoples consumption. In
stead of pig iron, Birmingham is preparing
to turn out rails and nails and wire and
rods of all sizes and sorts. In anticipa-
tion we. can rejoice this Christmas day
~ tl,,;,
mas day we will rejoice over it's realiza-
ton.
The state, too, is full of peace and con-
tentment and happiness, as it should be
on Christmas day. great CROP and a
constitutional convention have come to-
gether, and no one doubts that the coming
year will see the state put on a footing
that promises both peace and progress.
Not since the days of long ago, the days
before the war, has Alabama known a
more hopeful holiday, and The Age-Herald
hopes every child in the state will become
a sharer in this new hope and new en-
lergy.
The nation, too, is stronger than 1t ever
was before. Uncle Sam stands out In all
his strength as a friend and protector of
the helpless and oppressed. He has car
ried or soon will carry freedom and gov
eminent to millions of people who have
never known these blessings except by
hearsay. Santa Claus clambered into the
homes of all those millions last night, car
rying in his pack these very blessings for
everybody in them. All In all the old gen.
tleman carried more this year to the island
ers than he did to those on the continent,
and he missed no one, but he had to make
amends for the past, and thus it happened
that he had to show Partially and favor
itism on this particular anniversary. But
1t fills every heart with joy on this glad
Chistmas morning to think, as the peace
commissioners come sailing home, that
light and liberty have been carried by our
brave sailors and soldiers to islands that
have never known either, and thus this
great fact becomes our universal, even it
may be our best, Christmas gift.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
AFTER TENNESSEE COAL

From the New York Times.
The activity and phenomenal strength
shown In Federal Steel securities is likely
to be accounted for to some extent by an
early announcement that other properties
than those now comprising the Federal
Steel company are to come under the same
control. One of the properties so to be con-
trolled-if Wall street forecasts can be re-
lied upon-is the Carnegie plant at Pitts
burg.
Further progress than with the Carnegie,
however, is said to have been made toward
the acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron properties in Alabama and Tennessee.
1t was disclosed yesterday that representa-
tives of the Federal Steel company are
now in the south making a special investi-
cation into the physical condition of the
Tennessee Coal plants. In yesterdays stock
market Tennessee Coal was one of the espe-
cially buoyant stocks, rising to figure
not touched for long time past. Intima-
-tions were current for a long time shrdluu
lions were current that the controllers of
the Tennessee Coal company merge
their property into the Federal Steel by an
even exchange of Tennessee Coal common
stock for Federal Steel common stock, al
though there is at present wide disparity
in the market quotation for the two stocks.
1t is said in Wall street, however, that the
plan of an even exchange of Tennessee Coal
for Federal Steel common was preached
and practically agreed to at a time when
the two stocks were practically at parity.
Tennessee Coal, as well as Federal Steel, is
now overstocked with orders. and contracts
recently offered have been refused.
A conference between financiers identified
with the Federal Steel company was held
In Wall street yesterday with a view to
the completion of the Tennessee Coal deal,
so Wall street authorities represented.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
HISTORY WILL DO 1T
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-JournaI.
After all, this is not a question of prin-
cple, but of destiny. We may say what we
will, but the inevitable tendency of events
will finally make the tombs of Jackson and
Lee as dear to the American people gener-
ally as those of Grant and Sheridan. His
tory will establish that the contest was not
one where treason strove on one side and
patriotism on the other, but a great con-
troversy born from the womb of events,
that could only be settled by the arbitra-
ment of arms.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Pres.
Least wed soonest mended.

From the New York Pres. =.
Least wed soonest mended
With most women belief is better than
proof.
Next to babies a woman judges her
friends by their underwear.
Husbands are necessary only once
month-when the bills come in.
When a woman likes a man her idea of
having him happy is not having him belong
to some other woman.
Having ideals means to a woman resolv-
ing in bed to begin the day with noble deeds
and then beginning it by slipping chocolate
over a late breakfast and planning new
hat that will consume her friends with jeal-
ouSy.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
Remains Col; nab Ia

Bermuda. December 22.-The Spanish war;
ships Infanta Isabel and Condo De Ven
daditi bound from Havana for Spain. ar
rived here on the 10th for coal and provis-
ions and remained in quarantine fer obser-
walton. The Condo De Vendaditi is said to
have on board the remains of Christopher
Columbus in transit for Spain.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

IT makes but little difference to the
average young American citizen-or
4 old American citizen, for that mat
ter-whether this, the twenty-ffth day
of December is really the eighteen hundred
and ninety-eighth anniversary of the birth
of Him in whose honor this day Is cele-
brated. The fact that this day in the
closing days of the year has been agreed
upon by all Christendom as the day which
shall be celebrated in commemoration of
that great event, is accepted without ques-
ton, and very few, apparently, ever stop
from their prayers or merry-making, as
the case may be, to inquire into the exact
date of Christ's birth.
1t is very well. perhaps, that they don't,
for, Notwithstanding the researches of the
theologians and students Of biblical his
tory during all these centuries, the date
of that eventful night at Gallilee is still
wrapped in mystery. After all, it Is the
event, and not the date, that We love to
celebrate. Easter Sunday may fall on any
day, almost, of March or April, but it
loses none of it's impressiveness or religious
significance, because of the vagarious
moon, by which the Easter day of each
year Is fixed. Nearly all the critics and
students of biblical history have fixed the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
MoNrGoMERY's OVERWHELMING

From the Montgomery JourhaI.
There will be thirty-three delegates at
large selected by the democratic state con-
vention as delegates to the constitutional
convention. They should be the ablest men
In the state, who have the confidence and
respect of the people. The friends of Hon.
Tennent Lomax, of Montgomery. are urging
him to permit the use of his name for this
honor from this district, and no man so
well deserves such an honor at the hands
Of the party.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

iOtai..'sss ...ZlU,S0b
The allotment of 100 square feet to
mines and metalurgy is the giving OF a
space about equal to the ground-fioor space
Of three stores possessing a depth of one
hundred feet. Such exhibits are bulky,
and space 1oox75 feet is not very liberal.
If the mines and factories of the Birming-
action will very soon be necessary The
space allotted will certainly be very much
in demand.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
NOTHING WOULD BE SURPRISING

From the Philadelphia Record.
When the southern veteran pinned con-
federate badge upon the manly breast of
the president he fairly beat the president al
his own game. Surely, the union has been
restored! If jeff Davis should now rise
from his grave and wave the Stars and
Stripes it would not astonish u.s.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
Three BOYS Drowned

Albany. N. Y, December 24-Three boys
were drowned this morning at the old
Tivoli reservoir. They were Alfred
Schewes, aged 6; Willie Schewes. aged IA;
Frank Rapp, aged 8. The boys were play
ing "shinny" on the ice when 1t broke and
they went under
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
START THE PETITIONS
n the Alexander CITY Outlook.

Trom the Alexander City outlook.
We agree with the Birmingham Age
Herald in its suggestion that petition be
circulated in every township in the state.
to be presented to the general assembly
when 1t reassembles next month.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

A good way to remember the children
petitions that may be the means of helping
hundreds of thousands of children in the
state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

General o. o. Howard offers in the word
bureaucracy a new definition of Alger-
ism. The new word does not change the
smell of the article, however.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

The Porto Ricans know on which side
their bread is buttered when they are bus
lily engaged in picking up a few English
words daily
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

The one thing that Alabama demands
from the national government is an expend-
iture in the Warrior river equal to the
amount expended in the Monongahela.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

island business at present. 1t Is considered
best to push it for all it is worth. The
Walkers will not object
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

Governor Tanner could not keep the grip
away from himself even with a Calling
gun. He was one of the first victims in Illi-
nois
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

The sun is now veering northward and
the days are growing longer, but, like most
early growths, the new one is scarcely APP
parent.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

Mr.. Depew grated at Buffalo. but he for
got to say. as the expectant senatorial rep
resentative of the Vanderbilts, how large
a standing army he will contend for.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

Senators Hale and Caffery could make
ratification unanimous inside of week af-
ter the holiday recess.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

The county press can alone render feas-
ible general petition movement in favor
of better schools and longer terms.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

The shortest day-for many-will this
year be December 26. instead of the 21st.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

Santa Claus has in this country today but
one rival, and his name is George Dewey.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

The New York SUMS copy of the Paris
treaty came by faster line than the peace
commissioners sailed on
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

Alabama coal and iron should swell the
country's exports, and the opening of the
Warrior will do it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

Mr.. Hanna at least knows that fapdoodle
does not win southern delegates of the re-
publican persuasion. He knows, however,
what does, especially in Alabama
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

There must be in every township one en-
ergetic man who loves the children.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

Grip epldemics are largely made up of bad
colds and bad scares.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
America in Paris.

Commissioner General Peck has secured,
all told, 21O S36 square feet of space in the
Paris exposition buildings of 1900, which
are to be located in the heart of that great
America, five acres in extent, will be set
up in Paris in 1900, to be reviewed by the
people of all nations, and not only re-
viewed, but used as samples for orders on
the spot and to come.
Five acres Is a considerable patch of
ground, but the following table. shows that
the allotment to Birmingham's specialties
is not very large:
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

The Bennington has been ordered to hoist
the flag on Wake Island AS we are In the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

Be full of sunshine yourself at Yuletide,
even il the weather is not.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25
Christmas Gift to Russia

St. Petersburg. December 24.-The Grand
Duchess Xenia, sister of the czar. has given
birth to a son.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-25

The Grand Duchess Xena eldest sister of
Emperor Nicholas. was born in wap. 1875,
and is the wife of Grand Duke Alexander.
a son Of the Grand Duke Michael, who is
the grand uncle of the car.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-29
THE DUT,Y.OF MoIH3rERs.
Daughters Should DO oase.p,,,
Guided IN Early womanhood, I

What suffering frequently resale,
from . mothers ighoranee; or ma.
frequently from a mothers nsvlsst I.
properly instruct her daushteri
Tradition says woman must su..s, ,
md young women ara so taprb,
There Is q little truth and n great al,
OF exaggcration in this. II a you,.
woman suffers severely she n.sS,
treatment and her mother should i.
that she gctsit & 4
Many mothers hesitate 10 take ,h,I,
daughters to q physician for exanip,.
ton; but no mother need hesitate /, !
write freely about her daughter !,
herself to Mrs. Pinltham and secs,.
the most efficient advice wi,bop,
charge. Mrs. Pinkhamts addre. |,
Lynn, Mass. NJ
The following lctterfrom Miss Nam
F. JonSsoS, Centralia, Pa, shows wh,,
neglect will do, and tells how Nh
Pinkhum helped her:
"My health became SO poor that
had TO leave school. ] was tired all IN,
time, and had dreadful pains in nv
side and back. I was also troubled
with irregularity OF menses. I va,
very weak, and lost SO much flesh ths.
my friends became alarmed. M
mother, who is q firm believer In your
remedies from experience, thoughtpr.
haps they might bcncftm me, and wrot.
you for advice. I followed the adries
you gave, and used Lydia Z. Pinkh,n',
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pillsu
You directed, and am now, rs we'll as Z
ever was. l have gained flesh and h.r.
q good color. lam completely curedo!
irregulhrity."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-29
Tr.liir A,,oel.ilon Rate,.

: NEW YORK. March cs.-The mana
gers OF the joint traffic association have
recommended basis for ,west-bound
rates from Wisconsin to Michigan
points across Lake Michigan. A per-
centaye basis for east-bound rates from
points on the Detroit & Lima Northern
railway is recommended on the basis OF
so per cent OF Chicago-New York rates.
Proportional rates on lumber, etc. from
Ohio river crossings. etc, to trunk lines
western terminals have been approved.
Rates on railroad ties from Kentucky
and indiana points to Pennsylvania and
New York points have been scheduled
attwelve cents per one hundred pounds.
The rate on sheet bars from West Viz
tginia 10 Pennsylvania points Is fixed at
81 10 per gross ton.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-29
! RIVER oLsEN's STORY:
He Discovered the Bottom Plates TO Have
Been Blown Inward. ID ~

- 80 e y ' b 81. 4
CHEF Gunner's Mate Olsen, OF the
United States steamship Iowa, told how;
he had been sent to Havana for the pur-
pose OF doing diving duty on the wreck.
He had descended four times, making
about eight or nine hours OF total ex-
animation. Olsen told how, on his first
descent. he went over the forward part
OF the ship. To use his own expression.
he said. II found the wreck all blowed
up. ! found a lot OF CRATE bars down
there. X 8
The second time he went down further
forward. and there located lot OF ten-
inch shells. Forward OF these the plates
were bent inboard over them.
Asked II he imagined himself looking
forward he stated that he did. Going
over the plates. no struck into lot
OF six-inch shells with the sings on
them. Going 10 the right, witness stat
ed he found a lot OF wreckage. 1t seem
cd TO have been blown over the star
board. Olsen stated that he put his
hand into the cracks and brought out
several slx-Dounder shells.
The next time he went down, Olsen
testified he went outside the ship for
ward OF tho crane on the port side. He
followed the bottom along and found
that the ships side was blown outward
and alongside the crane. 1t could be
walked on. VIZ "
AT the part where she is blown up
completely" witness said, part OF: her
bottom plates are turned up. Then you
follow the bottom from there up, and
the plates are blown outboar,l. At the
top and underneath the bottom they,
are blown in board and bent In About
three feet forward of that spot. there Is!
a piece of iron laid along the bulkhead.
The skin OF the inside OF the double. bot
toms Is curled like a sheet OF paper In.
board from stem to stern. 4. }' B ~
Amidships, on the same place. there is,
an armor plate, one plate complete, the
top Of the plate standing UP. The plate
Is inclined over the starboard COM
pletely. 1t stands up with the thick,
part OF the plate; down. It Is inclined
forward and over, TO starboard. 81
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= ann
!iy over TO starboari. folding The for
over and top OF thu after part
4 This was. in the opinion OF the court.
caused by the partial explosion OF two
or more OF the forward magazines OF the
Maine. &
s. Al frame IL the outer shell OF the
ship. from point eleven and one-half
feet from the middle line OF the ship
ard six feet above the keel when In It's
normal position. has been forced up
30 us 70 be now about four feet above
the surface OF the water; therefore
about thirty-four feet above where Il
would be had the ship sunk uhinjured.
The outside bottom plating II bent Into
q reversed V shape, the after wing or
which. about fifteen feet broad and
thrty-two feet In length tfrom frame
Il TO frame 25) Is doubled back upon
Itself against the continuation OF the
same plate. extending forward!
At frame IS the vertical keel is bros
ken In two and the nat keel bent into
an angle similar TO the angle formed BY.
the outside bottom plating. This
surface OF the water. and about thirty
feet above It's normal position.
t1nithe opinion OF the court, this effect
could have been produced only by the
explosion OF n mine situated under. the,
bottom OF the ship at about frame Is.
and somewhat on the port side OF the
ship. IN "a N az 81
@. The court finds that the loss OF the
Maine, on the occasion named, was not
In any respect due TO fault or negh-
gence on the part OF any OF the officers
or members OF the crew OF said vessel.
z. In the opinion OF the court. the
Maine was destroyed By the explosion
of n submarine mine. which caused the
partial explosion OF two or more OF her
forward magazines.
s. The court has been unable to OBJ
tain evidence fixing the responsibility
for the, destruction OF the Maine upon
any person or persons.
VT. SAMPSON. Captain U. S..N.
" President.
a. MARK, Lieut.. Commander U. S. 81.
) Judge Advocate.
The court having finished the inquiry
II was orGeredsto make, adjourned at II
a. INTO await the action OF the con-
yening authority. -. z 1
W. T.. SAMPSON. Captain U. s. ".
President.
A. MARK, Lieut.. Commander U. s. ",
Judge Advocate.
U. s. FLAGSHIP NEW YORK,
March %, 1893.
on Key West, Fla
The proceedings and findings OF the
court Of inquiry IN the above case are
- "a sIcARD, Rear Admiral,
Commander-In.Ch Chief Of the U. S. Naval
FORGE on the, North Atlantic Station.