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The age-herald., 1898-03-19
FORESTRY SCHOOLS WANTED.
America Should Treat Her Primeval Woods
 Purely As Crops.

From the Helena, Mont, Independent.
 There is no forestry school in the United States A few colleges have departments of forestry, but no practical work is being done. Here in Montana we have the forest close to the school, where many practical lessons may be given the student. sen- timent will thus be cultivated for the noble monarchs that have looked down on many generations of white and red men, We may learn to love the forest, ana treasure it as does every other civilized country in the world.
 From Austria to Russia we find admira- ble care taken of the forest. Everywhere we find 1t treated as a crop: so treated that each cutting improves the forest conditions. In our noble land we cut but once, and the resulting waste land is a constant menace to our waterhow conditions.
 We must have timber for our mines thirty years from now, and should get it in our own state, but under the present policy our large timber will be cut in that time, and we must look to other countries for our supply Any lumberman in this stae will bear me out in this. Some may think my figures too large. AS a matter of fact, our annual timber growth will supply the present demand more than four times, but between the axman devastating 20O square miles annually and the forest fires averag- ing between 300 and 400 square miles every year, alarming inroads are made upon our forest empire.
 Something must be done, and done soon. The slaughter of timber is worse in Mon tana today than in any other state. Not so much danger Is to be feared on account of the loss of timber, but on account of the terrible changes brought about in the Wal terflow. We can import timber, but we cannot import water, and there is limit to the engineering skill in holding back spring floods. Must the people of Montana wait forty years, as Pennsylvania has done, to learn this lesson?
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
Foul Streets and Alleys.

The alleys at least, if not the streets, of this city need attention. In the alleys there is a great deal of filth, and the rear premises of very many lots should be in spected. The heated season is near at hand, and when heat and filth conspire together foul smells at least arise. Malo- dorous accumulations are not pleasant in any town. Foul smells, too, indicate course of decomposition that is detrimental to health. Money spent now in making town pure and clean and sanitary is money well spent, even if an epidemic be not near or not feared It gives at least feeling of security against disease, and 1t assur- edly wards off minor ills among the weakly, especially among children.
 Every alley, every lot, every house, as well as every street, in this and every other Alabama town should be inspected and reinspected. by or before the first day of May The very gathering of troops and movements of ships and transports, even if war does not occur, increases the risks of this section in the matter of yellow fever. If war breaks out and the occupation of Cuba becomes an incident of it, the south will indeed be compelled to be clean in or der to be proof against another epidemic.
 The Age-Herald does not desire to become an alarmist, but it does desire to put the people of Alabama upon notice that this is emphatically the season, when every street and alley and lot should be freed from filth of every kind whatsoever. There is scarcely any town in the south that needs more attention than Birmingham does today. There is not wholesome dis ease-proof block in the city. The scaven- ger is everywhere needed.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
Action is eloquence.
 -Coriolanus.
The Negro Vote in Louisiana.

The figures presented in the Age-Herald yesterday showed that an attendancenun yesterday showed that an alternative edu- catonal and property qualification, and a clause covering the veterans of the war would make voters of 114,760 of the 13O 74S white males of voting age in Louisiana, and that at least one-half of the disfran- ehised whites are unnaturalized foreign CTS. It must be conceded that these pro- visions would be reasonably satisfactory among the whites, but how would they affect the blacks of Louisiana?
 According to the census there are 119,S15 negro males of voting age in Louisiana. An educational qualification would cut this number down to 37,Sl8, and a property qualification would raise the latter number to 3S, ,751. The electorate of the state would then stand, says the Tlmes-Democrat:
 Whites ..........................14 .14 ,76) Negroes 3o, o,f0l
 White majority .. ................... 75, ,OO9
 The city of New Orleans would have a. white majority of 96,051, and the parishes a similar majority of 39955. In eight par ishes the negroes would, however, have a small majority. The belief seems to pre- vail that the only constitutional and prac- tical method of preventing negro supre- macy in the eight parishes consists in a poll tax, paid six months in advance of an election. In Mississippi the requirement
 
 than half of the negroes. who are entitled to the ballot, from voting.
 The Times-Democrat is confident that the choice of a remedy so far as the eight parishes are concerned, lies between trick cry and a poll tax, and it unhesitatingly advocates poll tax. The Tlmes-Democrat believes that poll tax so provisoed that we can abandon it when it ceases to work well or when we no longer need 1t, Is to be preferred thousand times over to ne- gro majorities, or to any system of fraud that can be devised to keep down these majorites. And it says this with all the more earnestness because 1t appreciates the fact that the poll tax plan, while the best for the state as a whole, and particu- lary for those parishes with large colored populations, has its defects, and will not work as we'll in New Orleans and in some parts of South Louisiana as in the north- ern and central portions of the state. But, however imperfect it may be, 1t is the only safe, honest, constitutional propos- tion as yet laid before the convention whereby every part of Louisiana can be repdered safe against the negroes"
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

tented mind Feed men well and they make good citizens. Bad food is productive of crime good food of forbearance."
 Translated into the diet of language as 7 the one who uttered these sentiments can translate the raw material into products of food alike tempting to the palate and nourishing to the blood, were the utterances of one Paul Gilartloni yesterday.
 Do you know Paul? Everybody who knows anything about Birmingham knows Paul. Not to know him is not to know the good things of life. He is the most scientific culinary artist In this neck of the woods. He can prepare more good things in more varied styles than any chef this side of Paris.
 T can eat anything but billy goat," said a fastidious customer, a certain banker who knows his business. burt is short in the market of knowledge of the world, to Paul, a few weeks ago. "This may not be billy to tough slice of beef.
 You are right. It is bad. My chief cook and myself happened both to be away today. But, my dear. friend, anything is good when it is well cooked. I will some day give you a billy goat to show you," said Paul
 The remark went unnoticed, but it was the intention of Paul to prove it.
 A few weeks thereafter Paul gave a little dinner The banker was one of the guests.
 The dinner consisted of thirteen courses. Each and every course was consistent of one or more parts of an aged but fat and furious billy goat, whose habitation had been the south side of Sand mountain in his young days. Later years had been spent between the shafts of wagon of a youthful ragpcker.
 This dear old billy goat was made into consomme lamb chops, roast beef, chicken outlets, pattees, Salad, pickled lamb tongue
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
Intervention. Not Recoqnition.

The disaster to the Maine will soon be officially explained, and due sttlement and satisfaction will follow. No one need have doubts as to that. But the Maine is but an incident of deeper struggle and trouble Cuba must be dedicated, not to America, but to freedom. The policy of starvation and extermnation must be ended Peace and commerce and sanitation must be reinstalled, and to that end the Spanish and Spaniard domination must be driven back to their source. It is Cuba, not so much the Maine, that makes the problem very difficult and very serious.
 There is only one settlement that will settle 1t for all time, and that settlement rests with us. Actual intervention-inter- yention by force, as MT. Mckinley describes it in his first annual message, is the only way out of the trouble. Recognition would be ineffective. Anything short of interven- tion by force will not answer. Diplomatic intervention would be even more meaning less and futile than recognition.
 There are plenty of precedents for armed Intervention, and there is no need to go far back in the past to find them. The moral intervention of the powers in Armenia, and the armed intervention of the same powers in Crete in neither of which did the cru city, the actual starvation and loss of life among non-combatants, approach the losses and atrocities of Cuba, are recent exam pies. Senator Proctor says 100000 men, wo- men and children are on the verge of starv- ation in Cuba today, almost within sight of the headands of Florida. Who shall say that armed intervention is not warranted after so many years of warfare and Wey- lerism?
 Intervention is necessity, and the duty of enforcing it rests upon this country, and upon this country alone. Of the silly war stories. none have been sillier than those
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and various and sundry dishes with French and Italian names. Each was prepared by the touch of an artist. There were sauces, flutes and furbelows galore Palates were tickled, digestive organs satisfied, and the first intimation those who sang the praises of the dinner will get of the fact that 1t was all billy goat will be in the reading of this.
 Paul told me confidentially. He Is pre- pairing another dinner of really good things. which would be good without the culinary artists touch at which he proposes to tell the story, but it is too good to keep.
 If there are any other facts in connection with this dinner they might be gotten by application to Gen. E. w. Fucker.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
PERSONNEL OF COURT OF INQU

\ From Havana Letter to the New York
 Mail and Express.
 Now that the nature of the Maines in juries are being fully understood, there Is a great deal of surprise among naval offi- cers both here and at Key West over the composition of the board of inquiry. The consensus of opinion now, particularly among the staff officers, is that there should have been an engineer on the board. The attention of Capt. Sgsbee was called to this today and he said that those who were laboring under the impression that an engineer would have furthered the scope of the investigation were laboring under a deluson. Speaking as an individual, and not as naval officer,' he said, ''I should venture the opinion that nearly all, if not all, of the work of the board was and is in the line of ordnance"
 But as showing that the disaster could not have been caused by the explosion of boilers, would 1t not be well to have an engineer on board"
 Well, I cannot discuss any matter con- corning the board. dare say its members will learn everything that is worth learn ing"
 Charles Morgan, the chief diver of the government forces, was very much sur- prised when the Montgomery arrived to find his shore liberty cut short. Morgan, since his arrival from Key West, has spent his evenings outside the Inglaterra Hotel, tossing coppers to the horde of beggars who always flock around there. Like all the line, staff and petty officers detained here for examination, Morgan, with Car penter George Helms and several others here, had their bills at the Inglaterra and Pasaje paid by the government, the men being technically known as shipwrecked on the department books Morgan has en- joyed this short turn of shore life very much, there being something desirable if getting to the hotel in the evening after 9 hard days work under the water 5
 The coming of the Montgomery gavs Capt. Sgsbee an opportunity for sending Morgan aboard ship and yesterday, much to his disgust he involuntarily substituted his quarters at the Inglaterra for a cubby- hole on the little gunboat. Morgan is . very affable chap, and, while he has talked quite a little with the reporters, he has given them little or no information cons corning the condition of the Maine inforS nation which he is known to possess, and which would go long way toward clearing up number of important points that have yet to be made public.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
Royalties Who s n2
From the Rival.

Few outside the intimate court circle at Berlin are aware that the kaiser has a very fine baritone voice, and that he is exceed ingly fond of singing German and English ballads, which he does with good deal of expression and feeling.
 It Is King Oscar, however, who possesses the finest baritone voice In Europe, and ex- perts have declared that had he been forced to sing instead of to reign for living he would have surpassed every professional baritone now on the stage.
 Our queens third daughter, the Princess Christian of Schleswig- -Holstein, belongs to choral societies in London and Windsor which give public concerts In these the princess takes an active part. Nothing is more inspiring than to hear the Prince of Wales singing on Sunday at church, at the top of his voice, his favorite hymn, 'On-
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
PAUL GILLARDONl
 AND HIS. BILLY GOAT

Everybody admires the one who can do well that which he pretends to do There are characters in every town noted for theis acts in one capacity or another There arc characters in Blrmingham-many of thems but the greatest, cleverest and most versa. tile Is an Italian of more fame than for< tune. His fame comes from knowledge of his profession. But for his generosityf his geniality, his big heart, he would bd rolling in wealth to the weight of his rotundity. But wealth is neither here non there to him. He loves his profession and his neighbors. No man hungers in his neighborhood.
 "Good foods make the body healthy, and a healthy body makes clear and cons
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
CURRENT FUN.

Insinuative-She-I have had my picture taken once a year every year of my life.
 He-How did you manage before photog- raphy was invented ?-London Judy.
 His Idea-"Davy, what's the use of call endars?"
 "so's we won't miss the Fourth of July" Puck.
 Impure-Bacon-Is the water you get at your boarding house pure?
 Egbert-No; there seems to be lot or milk in it-Yonkers Statesman.
 Great Forehead-First Boy-My papa knows more than you papa does.
 Second Boy-I bet he doesn't Did you ever see my papa? His forehead reaches down to the back of his head.-London Tit Bits.
 Too Bad-She-It seemed so funny today to see young men in overcoats taking young ladies in to treat them to ice cream.
 He-Y-yes Too bad left my overcoat at home!-Cleveland Plain Dealer
 What He Would Give-"Well," said the young man with the long hair after the editor had handed him hack his spring poem, What would you be willing to give me for it?'
 "Oh, about ten years, if could have my way the discourager of genius replied Cleveland Leader
 A Blissful upposition-"Mistuh Pink ley,' said Miss Miami Brown. "does you know whut bird of paradise is?'
 Well" was the reply, 'of cose doesn't know foh sure. But when I gifts ter de nex' worp I wouldn' be bit supprize' to discuvuh dat it a spring chicken.'- Washington Star.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
THE WONDERFUL SOUTH.

From the Springfield Republican.
 The south is receiving high praise from the northern press for the unanimity with which its senators and representatives voted for the $50, 900 appropriation for national defense The south is the most interesting part of this country. It has more inherent poetry and romance than all the rest of the land put together; it's his tory contains the most impressive drama of modern times, and it has produced states men and soldiers as great as amy in the English speaking world since William the Conqueror.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
PREMONITORY,

From the Boston Courier. Spring is coming, spring Is comingi l can feel the lum-te tumming or that metric ebullition that the season
 inundateS-
 Feel the lyrical vibrations That in hmitess creations Every editorial sanctum and the ba,aam
 bag o'erfreights. By the generating sonnets By the talk Of Easter bonnets And the resurrected seeds that pose in
 every market stan By my overcoes oppression, By the grciyrty bike proc ssion, can certify the springs about to make
 its annual call. And in full appreciation Of old -ltures propa gation Of the l,, esramme that doth year OH year
 her normal laa1or's sum, I've concluded notwithstanding My conV tions comma ndirg. That I'd best resign my whims and let tha
 thing proceed to come.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

Senator Proctor cannot be accused of having any connection with yellow jour nalism, yet his statement of the condition of affairs in Cuba bears out all the so- called yellow journals have printed, and of old fogy, sore-headed editors who have been paid cash for opposing the cause of their own country and taking the side of Spain. Senator Proctor saw things on the island of Cuba just as have all the honest newspaper correspondents who have writ ten of the scenes as they actually exist.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
Attendance at Berlin University

There are at present at Berlin university 5,921 students, 2,OOo of whom are studying medicine 1291 law. AS theology. The theo- logical department is on the decline and has the least students of any time in the past five years. There are over 500 foreign students in the university, 100 from the United States
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
THE LOUISIANA SUFFRAGE PROBLEM From the New Orleans Times-D Democrat.

With the poll tax matter settled, 1t will simplify the suffrage problem and the con- yention will find little difficulty in reachi1s a conclusion. The poll tax will do away with amy reason for some of the ingenui- ties and niceties of the suffrage commit tee in framing the ordinance-there will be no necessity for 1t. An educational or al- formative property qualification, with pro tection assured the 1867 voter backed by the required payment of the poll tax in ad- vance, will render the state safe against negro supremacy in any part or quarter of it.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
INTERVENTION IN CUBA.
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
 Americdn intervention is Inevitable. The whole question relates to the time and form Shall it be early or late, direct or indirect? The president has the whole country behind him-not, of course, for the purpose of picking a quarrel, but for the altogether worthy purpose of ending one of the bloodiest quarre,s in which even Spain has ever engaged.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

It matters not how much Weyler denies the genuineness of the letter printed in yesterdays Age-Herald, no one will be- lieve what he says. When Weyler was in the most conspicuous liar of modern times.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
Love Is Blind, Too

From the Gate City.
 There is said to be twice as much blind ness among men there Is among women This may account for some of the proposals of marriage certain women receive but It doesn't explain why some other women &C., cept certain men.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

The name of the Chilean ship, the o'Hig- gins, has c ught the ear of the country. Buy her, MT. Long; paint her green. i'll her with Irishmen, and turn her loose.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

T. Estrado Palma, the head of the Gu ban junta in this country, talks like man who means business, and is willing to keep up the fight for Cuban independence.
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Let no one be cocksure that Spain would come out second best. for Major Genaral Nelson A. Miles is in command of the American forces.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

Nashville and Atlanta will soon reach the 200 900 point. When one takes school census the other uses the directory fig- ures as basis. They. have about eigh- teen months left in which to exploit popu- lation estimates. What a fall then, my countrymen!
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

The Congressional Record is dropping be- hind. The hand of It's editor seems to have lost It's cunning. There are no streaks and spots of red on It's pages.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

come tax is proper and right. By the way. who was 1t that appointed Justice shirae? Perhaps Mir. Harrison is becoming an am archist
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
A Course Dinner

From the Philadelphia North American.
 Some Kansas City veterinarians helc a banquet and dined on horse meat But this is not unusual. Racing men often dine on horse stakes.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

From the Columbia Breeze: The Breeze favors a man for state superintendent of education who will pledge himself to use every possible means in his power to im- prove the condition of the country schools. Not man who Is wholly devoted to higher education, but one who will come "off the roof' and work on the foundation. We are getting tired of trying to publish paper in a state where so many people are unable to read.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

American per cent. bonds are worth 123 in London; Spanish per cent. bonds are worth 50, and weak at that. That is the story of the two countries in a nut she'll
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

Senator Mason is the challenged party, and has the choice of weapons. Let him select "spellbinding at ten paces." He would not only knock the Spanish Don into the sea, but he would be apt to lay waste at least two provinces.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

Spain's army on & peace footing con- sists of only SO,0Oo men. When Uncle Sam has his war paint on he can summon an army ten million strong.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
GOOD OLD GEORGIA.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 The state of Georgia pays annually in pensions to invalid Confederate soldiers or their widows $5SO000. This is certainly creditable to the state.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

Of course Spain will not pay indemnity. None but the enemies of this nation honor have ever talked of it.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

There is one thing the war scare cannot obscure-the baseball campaign Both LOOK to active hostilites.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19
ONLY THE BEST WANTED.

From the Chicago Record.
 In the matter of battleships the United States evidently is not going to be con- tent with anything but the up-to-date, 9S chainless pattern.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

When Spain says it is not preparing for war it will be just as well to believe that it is doing all within its power to promote hostilities.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

No internal accident has happened to the Vizcaya. although she has been in Ha- vana harbor much longer than the Maine was.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

Under the cover of the war cloud and the Dingey bill, the trusts are multiplying beyond the powers of enumeration.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

In 920 Italian duels last year one man was killed. Spanish battles in Cuba are not wholly dissmilar.
The age-herald., 1898-03-19

The United States is digging a mighty trocha around Spain which it will hardly be able to cross.
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Total NtoVo
 The expenditure of money in the laying and manufacture of these submarine lines has been roughly estimated at $ZWVOooo. These are big figuresIba they will be larger as the network of wire spreads on ocean bottoms
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The Cable Mileage
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. The following table shows the mileage and number of cables now in use:
 Cables under five miles in length.... I6l Exceeding five miles ......... .....:::.... zs5 Exceeding fifty miles ana unoer fV."' oo Exceeding 100 miles and under 500... b5 E,,ceex1ing 800 miles and under 1,00O...... t4 Exceeding 1000 miles and under 2,0OO.... 29 Exceeding 1000 miles .......... ......'.
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ward Christian Soldier" the rolling ''r's' giving It something essentially militant and military.