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The age-herald., 1898-07-14
The Water Supply.

The Age-Herald would do no man nor corporation an injustice In an editorial printed yesterday, by virtue of bad hand writing and typographical errors, an injus- tice was done some of the gentlemen who manage and own the securities of the B,r- minsham Water Works company. It is but just to say of MT. P. H. Earle and Major w. J. Milner that they have man- aged the affairs of the Birmingham Water Works company we'll and have made every effort to provide the city with good and pure water. These gentlemen are residents of Birmingham. interested in the health and prosperity of the city. and are men who stand above reproach
 The Age-Herald is, however, of the opin- ion that the water supply of Birmingham should be owned and operated by the city. It believes that the citizens of Birming- ham. mentioned above. and others interest," ed in the securities of the Water Works company, are of the same opinion. It is but natural that the owners of property
 
 handsome dividends, but at the same time water must. of necessity, be used by every resident of Birmingham. The supply should, therefore, by owned and operated by the citizens through their accredited agents, elected by a popular vote. It win not be difficult for the city and the Water Works company to agree upon terms for the purchase of the latter. The Water Works company should be paid a fair and just price for their holdings. Terms can undoubtedly be agreed upon. The city can then issue bonds to the amount of the pur- chase price, and it is quite evident that many of these bonds will be accepted in payment by the individual holders of the present securities of the water works. The city can operate the plant as cheap as it's present owners-perhaps cheaper The people would be better satisfied if the op- eration of the plant was in their hands.
 The mayor and board of aldermen should at once begin negotiations with the officers of the Water company or else a commits sion of respected citizens should be ap- pointed for the purpose of communicating with officers of the Water Works company, looking to the purchase of the same, and report to tthe council. Then if necessary, the matter of purchase should be submit- ted to the Neope at an election, and let them vote upon it.
 Whatever be the cost, the city of Bir- mingham should own its own water sup DlV.
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-------------77 MARSHAL SAKE AGAIN.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 On May Il, 1745, the French army under Marshal Sake gave battle to the allied forces under the Duke of Cumberland on the famous field of Foatenoy. The strug- gle was fierce and bloody. The great mar shal was prostrated with dropsy, but his soldiers spirit rose high within his breast As he could not mount his horse to direct his troops, he had himself placed in a litter, and was carried from place to place on the field in order that by his personal pres enee and example, he might win his eoun- try's battle. He gained victory that will forever echo through the long centuries of military achievement
 On July 1, 1898, there was a death strug- gle in progress on the heights that domin- ate Santiago de Cuba. General Joseph Wheeler, the hero of a hundred battles in our civil strife, lay prostrate with illness, as did the illustrieus Frenehman at Fonte- noy; and this latter-day hero, like heroes of the olden time, exchanged his horse for litter and was borne about the field, that he might direct and encourage his men, as they were falling by scores beneath the enemy's whitening fire.
 General Wheeler, like Marshal Sake, had no reputation for courage to acquire. Each had won it so completely that his very name had become a synonym for valor In the one case, as in the other, it was the spirit of the hero, rising to the resplendent height of a great occasion. Let us thank God that, in His providence, such men are born in every generation. They are the unerowned kings of the human race.
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DON'T BELIEVE IT.

From the Rome, Ga., Tribune.
 The Montgomery Advertiser and her maphrodtic journals of it's stripe, are just now making hullabaloo over the reported saying of Congressman Livingston that the democratic party is likely to abandon it's fundamental principles and adopt the her esy of the single gold standard, with Cleveland's back-boned policy of territo- rial stagnation, and seriously suggesting Cleveland as the logical democratic candi date for president in 1900. We don't be- lieve Livingston was ever fool enough to say any such thing. but if he did he Is certainly much gr ter fool than we ever suspected him to be. Had he given utter- ance to such ridiculous rot before the pr- mary in Atlanta he would have been smashed as flat as Hoke Smith.
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GENERAL JOE WHEELER.

From the Savannah Press.
 It is gratifying to hear the soldiers of the army around Santiago speak so hand somely of Gen. Joe Wheeler. The grizzled veteran was very active before Santiago. He rode up and down the lines at Siboney and directed the fighting in cool disregard of his own safety. The great cavalry com mander paid no more attention to the bullets of the Spanish Mausers than he did to the Mimic balls of the northern army in 1862. A trooper of the First cavalry said the Spanish didn't seem to be able to hit him. He was like the Brooklyn, which Admiral Cervera believed had charmed life He was perfectly cool, and seemed to understand the new methods of warfare as thoroughly as he had mastered the school of the cavalry soldier before the war. The regiments of Wheelers brigade, including the Rough Riders and the First cavalry covered themselves with glory at Fl Caney and Siboney. The western papers and the official gazettes have not said as much of old Joe Wheeler as they have of Shafter and Lawton and Kent and Hawkins, but the old warrior has been at the front all the time,. and whether he has been on horseback or on litter he has done his full duty. The testimony of Private Hoeckster is worth something. He told the Press yesterday that the soldiers of the United States cavalry idolized Gen. Joe Wheeler, and would follow him any where.
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GONE KILLED.o

Edwin L. Sabin in The Munsey. A brilliant victoryi Hear the shout Ringing through all the land! Enemy utterly put to rout-
 Vainly essayed a stand. The streets are crowded, men hurry acrossj A nation with joy is thrilled Because twas achieved with a trifling loss; But Jim-our Jim-was killed. The flags are Haunting exultingly, Proud in their arrogant scorn. Thanks arise for a victory
 With naught-almost-to mourn. Yet in my heart, like a cut from knife, A pain that won't be stilled- An insignificant loss of life
 When Jim-our Jim-was killed! "A marvellous thing that in such fight" Come comments over the wire, "The list of casualties should be light In the face of venomous fire. One dead is the sum, from bursting
 shelp'-
 O God, that Your wisdom willed, When otherwise all would have been Sd
 we'll,
 That Iim-our Jim-was killed!
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SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Rleh Youne soldier shoelng Horses

From the Cleveland Leader.
 The fighting of those New York sweils near Santiago brings to mind the case or a prominent young C1eveiander, who, at the time the first call for men was made came home to join the cavalry troop or this city and go to war.
 His parents are wealthy, and he has ae- ways held a prominent position socially when at home, but when a show of pa- triotism was called for he was not the last to be heard from.
 At school and college he went in for man. ual training, and learned blacksmithlnS. Now, what do you suppose he is doing at the present time? Winning glory on the field of battle? Galloping over hills and through dales. bearing dispatches from one commander to another. No! He is shoe ing horses at Chickamauga! And he isn't complaining, either
 Somebody must do this he writes. and if 1 can be most useful to my country in this way, why, 1 shall be satisfied. When l enlisted it was for the purpose of doing my best to win glory for the Stars and Stripes, in any way that might be assigned to me. But there are many more pleas ant things than working over an anvil in any climate
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The Micaraqua Canal.

The annexation of Hawaii and the con- ~ other supplies and for repairs and refuge in the Ladrone and the Philippine islands mean, of course, an effort to extend our Pacific trade, and particularly a demand for an open China. But unless the benefits of such an extension are to be sifted through San Francisco and Seattle and other ports on the western shore of the country. an isthmian canal must be con structed.
 Such a canal, both as a war and as a commercial measure, is commanding more and more support each month. Nearly every state convention held in the last thirty days has commended it's construc- tion. The democrats of Georgia and Ar kansas, of Texas and Tennessee, of Louis- jana and Missouri, are as warmly in favor of it's construction as are the republicans of other states. It is measure that has friends in both parties and in all sections of the country; and instead of being an 
 proposition will soon have substantial and earnest support behind it.
 It is, in point of fact, conceded by all intelligent observers that an isthmian ca- nal must soon be built; and as soon as three questions can be settled, there is lit- tie doubt as to the beginning of the work. Those fhree oueStions are however very important ones. One Is, where? The Pan- anna canal has advocates. Some say the interests in that quarter should be pur- chased, and the enterprise placed in Amer ican hands; but the weight of public sen- timent favors the Nicaragua route. But is Nicaragua canal feasible? This diffi- cult question can only be settled by ex- perts, and provision has already been made for commission to study the prob- lem on the spot. The third question re- lates to the manner of construction and the control of it after completion. In oth- CT words, shall it be built by a corpora tion, aided by the government, as the Pa cifc railroads were, or shall it be built and operated by the government directly ?
 All of these are very important ques- tions, and all of them will soon come up for consideration and treatment.
 All feel that a canal is needed. Such a work is needed alike in war times and movement of troops and ships from one
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 Man seeks the office, but the officer seeks the man.
 A piclxpockets work is done in a moment of abstraction.
 But few men are wise enough to render one word sufficient.
 All some women talk about is-weIl about eighteen hours daily
 Strength isn't one of the necessary quali- fications of a shoplifter
 It's only a mans heirs who are ever real ly interested in his ailments.
 Marriage often means the selling of ones liberty for a mess of affection.
 The titled foreigner who courts an Amer ican heiress usually talks brokenly. . Some artists know as little about a work of art as they do about the art of work.
 Spain may be lying low, but the indica- tions are that she is doing great deal of low lying
 There would be fewer bachelors if they were not allowed to associate with married men.
 There are few things that money can not buy, but the trouble is that not many people want them. his head instead of his hands is respect fully reminded that the woodpecker does the same thing, and is the biggest kind of a bore.
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Mines Fired by Lightning

From the Washington Post.
 During the thunder shower on Tuesday afternoon a bolt of lightning struck the switchboard at Fort Washington which controls the mines in the Potomac river near that point exploding three mines and damaging the system. Luckily no boats were near enough to the mine fields at the time to suffer damage, but the explosions were witnessed by a number of persons on shore and in boats. and the terrible com motion of the water left doubt as to what would have been the fate of any boat luckless enough to be near the fields when the lightning struck the wires. Colonel Chas. J. Allen, of the war depart ment, directly in charge of this work, or dered an investigation begun yesterday to ascertain the damage but will not receive a report for several days.
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Europe and the Philippines.

The Novoe, Vrema, in discussing on Tues day the political situation, proceeds to out line Russia's policy. Russia" it says, "has no positive interests in the Philippine is lands. If they were divided, the best part should fall to Germany, Great Britain and Japan, thereby strengthening them in the Pacific. Therefore, it is to Russla's ad- vantage that the Philippine islands remain in the possession of single power, whether Spain or the United States, and Russia would prefer to see the islands in the pos sesion of Spain and under the protection of the United States, who would keep out ton, Russia would not only uphold her own interests, but would serve the cause of gen. eral peace"
 There can be little doubt that the St. Pe- tersburg paper speaks with as much know- edge and weight as the London Times, for example, would command in relation to a policy in English affairs. It cannot be req sonably doubted that it explains Russias attitude. Russias attitude necessarily be- comes Frances attitude. England's posi- ton is well known Japan is devoted to the development of home intersts. Italy is bankrupt, and Austria has no ships worth mentioning. Germany is the only remain ing great power; but Germany sold us in the year ended June 30, 1898, goods to the value of $61 ,916,s09. We bought more from her than we bought from any country, ex- cept Great Britain. She cannot afford to throw away so much trade. To do so would create discontent at least at home. To say that in her isolation she will sacrifice great trade in this country for anything she could gain in the Philippines is to say her ministers eand parliament, who really govern the country, are as foolish as the | kaiser is in his public addresses. They are not They are level-headed, 1ong-headed | men. They have no intention of going be- | yond a little bluster and display at Manila. | The United States will be left to settle mat | ters in the Philippines as may seem to her bst at the close of the war. The fact that our gunners shoot very straight and that we fight when the hour for fighting comes, | will go long ways towards holding eff such powers as Austria and Italy. The | long and short of 1t is, Spain must settle with the United States without assistance | of any kind; and when she says she will
 
 never give up the Philippines, she is simply | talking through her hat
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BIRMINGHAM AMENDMENT.

From the Selma Journal.
 If we cannot have the constitutional con- vention and are determined to put it off indefinitely, then give Birmingham what she wants in constitutional amendment This, we repeat. is not the way to attend to the matter which Birmingham may have in hand and the constitutional convention is the proper plan; but if Alabama has made up it's mind to be a clam, then any old thing must do rather than stand still and do nothing for our material develop ment on account of the clogs put in the way by the old, out-of-date document
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THE DEMOCRATIC ROLL OF HONOR
m the Washington Times.

From the NaShlnSton Times.
 Here are the six democratic senators who voted on Wednesday to annex the Hawaiian islands to the United States:
 MIR. GORMAN. MIR. MORGAN. MIR. M'LAURIN. MIR. PETTUS. MIR. MONEY MIR. SULLIVAN.
 And here are the nineteen democrats who voted for the annexation resolution in the house, "Wednesday, June 15:
 MT. Benner, Pa. MT. Lewis, Wash.
 MT Berry Ky. MT. Livlngtons, Ga MT. Brucker Mich. MT. Marshall, Ohio. Mr. Cochran Mo. Mir. Meekison, Ohio. MT. Cummings, NY. MT. Norton, S. c.
 MT. De Vries Cal. MT. Osborne, Wyo.
 Mr. Driggs, N. Y. MT. Sulzer, N. Y. MT. ErnlSntrout, Pa. MT. Taylor, Ala.
 Mr. Griffith, Ind. MT. Vehslage, N. Y. AIr Lewis, Ga
 These twenty-five men form the demo- cratic roll of honor. Not one of them will live to regret his vote Not one of them will fail of that political reward which the American people reserve for those of her servants who, in great national crises, put country before party.
 It will be different with the democratic senator's and representatives who voted the other way The great national organization which for a century has stood for national expansion and material progress will live and flourish under the imperial policy of JeuerSOH, JdChSOn, FOLK anu MdrCy, anu It's voting masses will never fail to indorse that policy. It will not take long for the truth to come home unpleasantly to the unfaithful servants of the party, who have wrought sinfully in an attempt to make it false to its history and to the welfare of the country.
 The day of sugar dominaton and of mossback provincialsm as a determining influence in national legislation is past and gone. The American people are alive to the splendid possibilities of their future un- der conditions of naval and commercial competition on at least equal terms with other first-class world powers, and they are not afraid to accept the duties and re- sponsibilities which the new era of progress will impose.
 Democrats who, In the years to come, shall look back to the closing fortnight of this sesison of congress, and remember that their voices and their votes were raised and given against the prosperity and glory of the United States, will wish that the Congressional Record had never been in- vented.
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Commodore Schley said, before war had been declared that in his view and ob- servation the gunners of the United States navy were unequaled in markmanship and general service of their pieces. His eyes and brain did not deceive him.
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VOTE FOR IT.
Eufaula Times.

From the Eufaula Times
 The papers of the state are saying kind words for the Birmingham amendments to be submitted to the people at the Au- gust election. It is necessary for the peo- pie to understand that by failing to vote they defeat the measure. Vote for the people of Birmingham to be allowed to pay their debts. It will not cost you penny and will help them
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The old frigate Constitution had forty four guns, but in given time they could throw only 700 pounds, while the Iowa throws 5000. The pounding done by modern ships is something terrible.
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sea to the others; in peace times for the promotion of the great trade with the Orient which is within our reach if we proceed to seek it as all business is sought nowadays
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Cost of War Dispatches

From the Washington Post.
 Added to the cost of the press fleet it. self is the enormous aggregate of telegraph tolls from ut-of-the-way points through the West Indies. From Kingston, Jamai- ca, to New York, via Halifax, there is an English cable on which the press rate re- duces the cost of dispatches to fifteen cents per word. It is about five hours shorter run, however, to Port Antonio, and this difference may mean "a beat" which, in newspaper vernacular is getting your stuff into your home office ahead of the other fellow. Thus much of the news gathered on the south side of the island is filed at Port Antonio, where an addi- tional toll of twenty shillngs for 100 words Is charged to wire it into the cable office at Kingston. On a message of several thousand words this amounts to a good deal, but in these days a few hundred dol lars does not count in furnishing news to the public. On the day Lieutenant Hobson sank the Merrimac in Santiago harbor the New York Herald filed 2,000 words from Port Antonio for New York. The Asso- cated Press filed 4,0e0. and the other news interests represented were not far behind in space The cost of this sort of service is hard to calculate.
 On the other cable lines accessible the cost is much greater. There is a direct French cable to New York from Mole St Nicholas, Hayti but it costs fifty-one cents a word, prepaid in gold, to file stuff. Out of Kingston, when the wire is banked for weight hours ahead with press matter, there is a hole out by way of the Panama cable through Central America This lux ury costs $1.63 a word. but there have been numerous messages of 800 words each filed via this route in the feverish effort to get the news into home offices ahead of the other competitors in the field.
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''The effete monarchies' are just now en- gagged in saying pleasant things about Uncle Sans gunners and shipbuilders. Let orders for more of the same sort come along.
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The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks the Hawaiian commission is strengthened by the appointment of Senator Morgan, whom 1t pronounces "a man of wide experience and liberal views"
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procure an acceptance in the case of young "Colonel John"
 His regiment will be made up of the best young men of Atlanta, and will go out the best equipped of any which has left Geor-
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VERY MEAN.
BALL.,

From the Mobile Herald.
 It is very mean indeed for people to try to oust General Wheeler from congress while he is off fighting for his country.
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The spanlards, says a revived Chicago paper, made grave mistake when they neglected to surround their navy with a barbed-wire fence.
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It was Mr. Ramsden, the British consul at Santiago, who induced the authorities to remove Lieutenant Hobson and his fellow
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The barbed-wire trochas. will not bother American soldiers when they get their nip pers sharpened and oiled.
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Commodore Schley will draw a long
 have adjourned their degree factories.
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The popular verdict seems to be that the Hawaiian commission is made up of men exceptionally well-informed in Hawaiian matters.
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The boys in brown are preparing to take nip-at the barbed-wire trochas-before going in to battle.
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The Cape Verde fleet, including the Chris topher Columbus, is about to make its final exit.
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Keep tLe Birmingham amendment in mind in all dealings with people in other coun- ties of the state.
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Watson's 13-inch guns seem to be rather large for the first game in his line of sail ing-the Canaries.
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The British engineer who planned and watched the construction of the Spanish cruisers is dumbfounded. He cannot under tsand it.
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Schley and the Oregon were in the right spots at the right time.
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Since the Cuban insurgents drew new have, however, maintained their appetltes.
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Spain may be changing her cabinet for luck.
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The Oregon is glad she came.

Spain still has the Temerario.
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prisoners from Morro Castle to safer and better quarters
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From the W WaShlngtOn Ilmes.
 Here are the six democratic senators who voted on Wednesday to annex the Hawaiian islands to the United States: