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The age-herald., 1898-11-05
The Paris Negotiations.

Demagogues of the Foraker sort are rushing into print to say that they will never consent to the payment of cent to Spain. Such men, of course, overlook everything except the effect of their utter ances on the popular mind. They particu- larly overlook the significant taking of Alsace-Lorrane by Germany. In that case France was defeated, her capital was oc- cupied, and her people humilated beyond expression; and yet Germany assumed the Indebtedness that sprang from actual inn provements in Alsace-Lorrane. The con- building of canals in the annexed territory, and when a canal was partly in Alsace- Lorraine and partly without it, Germany took over a proportionate part of the debt
 This was not Forakerism or demagogry of any sort. It was the doctrine of "paci- fic expenditures" that the American com- missioners have adopted. 1t is said in deal- ing with the Philippine problem. The effort to build a golden bridge across which the Spaniards can retreat is finding support CTS in this country wherever fair-minded men are heard "We are," says the Nash vile American "in honor bound to assume the debt of the islands incurred for legiti- mate Improvements. Because we are con- querors it does not follow that we shall be plunderers, faithless to the obligations of nations"
 We are now nearing the last and most critical stage of the war. Thus far there has been no development that indicates settle ment unsatisfactory to the people of this country. In the end the demands of this country will be met These demands are far more merciful than Germany demanded from France; for she took valuable pro- vinces and an immense indemnity besides. Japan took from China all her outlying po- sessions and great money indemnity. The United States proposes to take over lot of islands that are valueless to Spain, and that she is In no position to recon qucr from the natives, and we propose to pay her for every internal improvement that we receive. If Spain does not con- sider these terms just terms, as conquer ors' terms go nowadays, then Spain should be left to obtain better ones by the sword.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
HIS PLAINTIFF PLEA PREVAILED

From New York Commercial Advertiser.
 homesick Japanese is as homesick man as can be- One who acted as cook on the Indiana last summer sent in the fol- lowing pathetic petition for his release: Excuse me. Honorable Offers. I am al- ways thanking for your kindness, that could not forget perpetually. Last month I higned for my work, therefore I have a duty to do to make my responsible for a year, but for the shake of could not un- derstand English language, I could not give you even a satisfaction and moreover I would often trouble my friends, by this have many sorrow. If I must bear with patience this work for a year. must take a sick surely. have to do much thing for my native country. Though you will refuse my wish I will never free away be- cause I believe God and have many honor. But my Honorable Offers please excuse me my work and give me free. !" It is pleasant to be able to add that he did not have to take a sick, for he got his free.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

son county Is attracting more. attention than any other in the state" remarked a politician and lawyer of ability st the Mor- ris yesterday.
 "Almost every other candidate in the state when he comes to Birmingham makes inquiries about this race for an office that I believe ranks first in importance of the solieitorships in Alabama. A singular CO., incidence is that this is the only vacancy which will occur in Alabama solieitorships where the present occupant will not ask a reelection Charles G. Brown, the pres ent incumbent. will step up to the office of encouragement in December. and the leg islature will have opportunity to fill the position with one of the ablest young law yers and most deserving democrats in the state. I refer to Dan Greene. Dan is one of the best fellows in the world, and unlike a great many men whom you hear termed as good fellows he is always to be found strictly at business. I think he would make an admirable solicitor. I shall always re- member a case he handled with great skill and ability several years ago. It was dur ing Jim Little's term as solicitor that Q man named Woods was assassinated out at Brookside. At the time poor Little was in New York under treatment, and his as sistant. Lee Bradley, was in Virginia talk ing special law course. So Dan Greene was appointed to prosecute the case. The charge of murder was preferred against five men, and there not a bit of evi- dence other than circumstantal to convict them. But Greene was equal to the occa- sion and so we'll was the prosecution man aged that all five of the accused men are now serving terms in the penitentiary rang ing from twenty-five years to life impris- onment.
 Tt is men of this stripe that should be made solicitors and believe the people of Jefferson county of the same way of thinking as myself Dan Greene has al- ways been hard working democrat and from the standpoint of party service no man is more deserving. As chairman of the campaign committee two years ago he did the party valiant service. and was largely instrumental in crushing out the op- position to democracy in Jefferson. I ex- pect to see Dan Greene winner. He is de- serving.''
 Burnett may not carry Marshall county, but he will give the populists a mighty fight" said State Solicitor John G. Win ston, of the Ninth circuit, last night. 1.-The popuist strength in Marshall Is due to the personal influence of Judge Street, father of the populist candidate for congress- But there are strong hopes of Burnett carrying the county anyway. We have got the ene- my frightened. The same is true of St. Clair. But. however those two counties may go, Burnett, the straightout democrat, will be elected to congress by the voters of the Seventh district We perfectly confident"
 Solicitor Winston was not in Birmingham on a political mission, although he is a candidate to succeed himself, and his pros poets are eecellent He expects to arrive in Montgomery next Wednesday for the pur- pose of opening up headquarters.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
THE SEA KINGS

Since the Golden Hind went round the
 Horn and circled world unknown, Wherever the tides of God have beat and
 the winds of God have blown, From the sunrise seas to the sundown seas
 by the storm and the spindrift whirled The sons of the men who sailed with Drake
 have ruled the water world. And whether they sail from Plymouth Hoe
 or out of the Golden Gate. They are brothers in blood linked heart
 to heart and to resistless fate; For the quenchless ardor to rule the seas
 which time can never slake, Makes the same blood race through Dew
 ey's veins that throbbed from tho
 heart of Drake.
 And all the way out of Trafalgar, down
 Into Manila Bay, Tie Anglo-Saxon has sailed and fought
 and struggled and won his way. Ard wherever the tides of God may beaf
 and the winds, of God may blow, It will he tomorrow as it Is today and it
 was in the long ago!
 Jas. Lindsay Gordon. In N. '. Sun.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 It doesn't hurt nickle when the street car conductor knocks il down.
 A woman with a low. sweet voice always wears a low hat at the theater.
 The good assures of the vegetable deal- CT should always come out on top.
 Time Is money, so tis said, and yet lots of fools throw away money to kill time.
 Spiritualists may tip the table, but the fellow who tips the waiter fares the best. Woman is a fair sample of divine contra dictiuns.
 wrathful answer doesn't always turn away soft people.
 Women of fashion are invariably in love with themselves.
 The easier man is to approach the harder he is to get away from.
 It always hurts young man little when some girl he knows tells him she is en- gagged. 1
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
The Contested Districts.

In every contested district in this state every democratic vote should be boiled This is as necessary in one contested dis trict as another; for if the republicans gain control of the house in the Fifty-sixth congress, the contest route will be wide open; and if their majority be narrow, as it will if they have a majority at all, the contest route will be very open, and seats will be vacated without reference to jus- tce or common decency. They would in that case attack the rights of any sitting democratic member against whom they can present plausible case They care noth- ing at all for justice or the peoples rights in the district they do fear public opinion in the country at large if they act without a plausible, although deceptive, excuse.
 Give them then, no opportunity to make a plausible showing in any district by turning out to man on Tuesday next, and voting for the democratic nominee. full vote in any of the contested districts will close the contest route in this state. and other states will be selected for the opera tion of the unseating process. If the dem- ocrats remain at home next Tuesday, no district is safe against a loss of real repre- sentation for two years in the house of rep resentatives in case the republicans gain control of it.
 The fact should not be lost sight of that the control of the next house is very much in doubt, with the weight of expert opinion inclining to the belief that the Republicans will control it by majority reduced from over fifty to fifteen or twenty. Keep this fact in mind on next Tuesday morning. The fair fame of the state calls to you to go to the polls next Tuesday. Take your neighbors along. Put a stop to the unseat- ing villainy by depriving the rascals of even a chance to make plausible case Democratic apathy is at the bottom of most congressional contests. Democrats assume too much. They knew their choice will be returned, but they do not stop to think that majorities must be overwhelming in order to preclude contests when Speaker Reed makes up elections committees.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
KoENIGsBERG's SOUTHERN MARTYR

. '-cOO Ah M Asc
 MT. Koenigsberg, the author of "south- ern Martyrs" reviewed in The Age-Herald last Sunday, has sent the following state- ment to The Age-Herald. The book is a history of the two Alabama white regi- ments:
 To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Conscious of the unbrided license usually accorded soi-disant critics, am re- luctant to find fault with the assertions made by Sidney Young in your issue of last Sunday concerning my history, Southern Martyrs" But a desire to &C., quit myself of the aspersions cast on Co., lonel E. l.. Higden by Sidney Young" prompts me to request the publication that my book contains no reference to the all legged ignorance of the commander of the First Alabama" I have waited until now to make this request in the hope that Sidney Young would read my book in time to discover his error and make ade- quate amends. It is told me that, perhaps, he drew from the following sentence an interpretation that reflected on Colonel Higdons rhetoric: Some comment was caused by the fact that the enlisted mans letter was better written than the colo nel's." If that be the case, am sorry Sidney Young's regard for Colonel Hig- don moved him to contort out of compli- ment to an enlisted man rather ruue ar raignment of the colonel's education.
 There was no intention on my part to espouse the cause of either faction in the First Alabama. I tried earnestly to pre- sent the claims of both sides and If l did not succeed in giving an exhaustive ac- count of the wrangle, my failure may be attributed to a lack of that sort of indus try which enabled my critic to make such extraordinary deductions as these, i'm pugning Colonel Higdon's grammar Re- spectfully, M. KOENIGSBERG.
 Monteomery, November A. 1898.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
The Cattle Tradc
From the Mobile News.

From the Mobile News.
 When the coming season shall have ended the port of Mobile will go on record second to none as a cattle shipping port. Last year, aside from few small cargoes, few cattle were shipped out of this port, but the present year shows a remarkable in- crease over all previous years up to the present time. Within the last four weeks over 5000 head of cattle have left this port for the island. A larger amount than any previous entire season. A large number of cargoes for Cuba have already been booked for future delivery. The Colombia will take on-today a cargo of about 400 head, while the Utstein is due during the present week for another cargo. The Snyder Havana line has secured the bulk of the business, and every steamer is being fitted out for the proper handling of this trade. However, the line does not discard merchandise for the island, as eachIsteamer leaving carries a quantity of provisions, dry goods, etc., to its fullest capacity. Upon the present outlook the opinion is based that within the next two weeks will see the entire Snyder fleet touching at Havana en route to the tropics.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
Southern Timber Lands.

tion to the steady advance in the prices of southern timber lands. The rise in prices is becoming marked. Recent sales," adds the Journal, "show that the time is not far distant when this form of investment will not only be favorite one, but will also be more and more difficult to secure. The large and unbroken tracts of
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
------------ - THEY APOLOGlZED
rom the New Orleans States.

From the New Orleans States.
 The other day an Alabama mob lynched the wrong man and they deeply regret it." tet
 They might do as a Texas mob once did. They hung man for stealing a mustang and shortly after learned that he was iii- nocent. After debating the question they decided that the captain should call on the widow and apologize. Riding up to the fence. he called her to the door and ex- plained the mistake that had been made, closing thus: Madame, the jokes on us."
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
New School Bills
From the Vernon Democrat.

From the Vernon Democrat
 Quite number of suggestions are being made relative to the betterment of our school laws by various educators over the stat There is nothing that Alabama needs more than a better school system, and we believe that our able member of the legis- lature-elect has under avisement bill which he will introduce to the next legsla- ture that will in all probably prove to be superior to any suggestion offered by any one yet. MT. Seay is an able educator, and has for quite awhile given his entire atten- tion to the public schools and the school laws of our state ,and will be fully prepared on this subject when the legislature con- venes.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
THE INDIAN NOT sO RAD

From the Brooklyn Citizen.
 Chippewa Chief Ned Gayburg Enanoway Rush negatives the assertion that there Is no good Indian, but a dead Indian. He sends word to Governor Clough at Minne- apolis that his band and he are friendly to the whites anrd will not with the multi tude of their brethren to do evil This is extremely handsome of Ned Gayburg and shows that the Indian is not always so red as he is painted.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The esteemed Washington Post would have the country believe that dividends squeezed out on watered stock do not in- crease the cost of transportation, but the country is headstrong and refuses to take Beriahs word for it.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

From the Selma Times.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is the neat est printed and one of the ablest edited papers that comes to our exchange table. Mr. Barrett is the only man who has ever been able to make buckle and tongue meet on that sheet We are glad of it. Birming- ham has always needed a good morning paper and the Age-Herald fills the bill,
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The Gadsden Times-News is confident MT. Burnett will carry every county in the district But that depends upon the demo- crats themselves. Let every one go to the polls.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
HANNA IN LABOR

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 Mr. Hanna, 1t is announced, is going to make a number of speeches in the close congressional districts in Ohio. He has, of course already prepared the notes for his remarks They will be largely ones and twos, with a supply of higher denomlna- tions for exceptionally close districts.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The annexation of Porto Rico has started cncle Sam in the telegraph business, all the wires in the island belonging to the government.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
TIE MOST ArTRACrlyE

From the Marion Standard.
 The ge-Herald is easily the most att tractively gotten up paper in Alabama and is ably edited in all it's departments.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The Tallapoosa glass works are running day and night, Gate City furnishing the sand, and this district the coal. This is a tip for the Commercial club
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
The Latest Humbug

From the Brewton News.
 The Jackson African limbless'' cotton, the seed of which sold at an exorbitant price last spring, is coming in for just share of abuse from planters who were humbugged with 1t.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

General Wood thought he was back in Ohio, when 2,O0O applicants in Manzanillo applied to be appointed to fifteen offices.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The Chicago Times-Herald is crying for the moon when it calls for magazine that is not devoted to war and corset advertise nnantS
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

M. de Frycient, the new war minister of France is an opportunist, and whatever the people want he will be apt to promote.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
STRAY THOUGHTS
 OF STATE EDITORS
Bury It Next Tuesday

From the Roanoke Leader. s..... =.
 Let us have no return to reconstruction conditions. Go to the polls next Tuesday and bury the last remnant of it.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The boys in blue will soon be marching to Havana. They will sail from nearly all the southern ports.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

Mayor Evans should invite Pratt City and Ensley to attend the Greater Birming- ham conference
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

If the democrats of the Fourth do not they should go to the polls next Tuesday.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The democrats of the Seventh can place their district in the democratic line by go- ing to the polls next Tuesday.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The European war clouds will soon roll by. They are built that way.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

Next Tuesday should be considered gen eral holiday in the Seventh.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

Spain is keeping shop herself at present.
 She desplses bargain-counter prices.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The white counties of the Fourth district should do their full duty.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

In November football players welcome rain and mud, and turkeys begin to gobbls for sixty-day armistice.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The outbreak of the bubonic plague in Samarxand threatens the Caspian sea dis trict, and really southern Russia and Tur- key.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

The Greater Birmingham conference wln outrank in Jefferson county next week the Paris conference
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

No democrat in the state can afford t ignore the congressional elections.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

Candidate Swallow is impartial in his de- nunciations.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

Turn in your guesses, all sealed. today. The winner will be forecaster of surpass- ing foresight. Hindsight will not answer :n
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

this contest. for it win be closed on Monday
 evening. esf
The age-herald., 1898-11-05
A VERY FINE PAPER, NOW

General Joe is sly except in battles front.
The age-herald., 1898-11-05

T believe the fight for solicitor of Jeffer-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-08-25
ABILENE WEEKLY REFLECTOR ABILENE KANSAS AUGUST U.s. s-1wt PAGES
TERRIFIC CL0uDBURST.


Pittsburgh. Pa, Aug. 20.-A cloud !.
burst up Sawmill run yesterday morn
ing caused a tidal wave In that
stream, endangering the lives Of
a dozen persons Five children are
missing and are supposed to have been
drowned. They are: Irene LOTUS,
Regis Lotus, Genevieve Shaughnessy,
Margaret Shaughnessy and Nellie
Sauls. The water in the run began TO
rise this morning and at nine o'clock a
great volume OF water came down. The
missing children, together with some
older persons, were standing on the
porch OF tenement house in Vio-
let alley, in the rear OF Main street,
near West Carson. This porch over
hung the run. When the great wave,
20 feet high came down, the porch was
carried away and the people went
with it. Mrs John Lotus, mother OF
the two children first named, and
two men were the adults In danger.
The woman made heroic effort to
save the children but to no purpose.
Near the mouth OF the run the sand
dredge Pittsburgh was moored and
when the men in it saw the wreckage
down the stream and the people
struggling for life they stopped all
else and went to the rescue. The men
and the woman were carried into the
Ohio river, but were saved by the sand
diggers. The great body Of water did
much damage
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-08-25
NOT WITHOUT FIGHTING.


New York, Aug. 9o.-A dispatch to
the World from Manila city, dated Au.
gust ls, via Hong Kong, says the hard.
est fighting at the capture Of Manila
was done by the Aston battery, which
led the advance. Brig. Gen. Macarthur,
commanding the brigade, compliment
ed the men in the highest terms right
In the midst Of the battle for their
valor and success. The Aston battery
led the column, supported by the Min
nesota volunteers and the Twenty.
third regulars. The Utah battery's
guns were too heavy to move
through the swamps. The march was
along the Pasay road, on the right of
the river Pasig, where the fleet could
give no assistance. At the junction OF
the Cingalon road the vanguard came
without warning upon strong Span
ish intrenchment. Suddenly the
enemy rained a deadly fire upon the
Americans, killing two men of the
Astor battery, at the same time wound
ing score Of others. Sergeant Crem-
ms, after he was shot, started to his gun,
fred it. and the next moment fell
dead beside the piece. The Aston bat
terry was forced to fall back from the
murderous fire, temporarily leaving
two guns. But the reserves under Col.
Ovenshine came up promptly, and with
their support the Astors charged the
enemy with only revolvers for weap-
ons, quickly regained their guns and
put both into action again with re-
newed vigor The Spaniards then were
speedily put to flight.
As the stars and stripes were raised
over the official residence of the gov.
ernor, Capt. Gen. Jaudenes burst into
tears and his suite hid their faces in
their hands Almost impregnable for
tifications had been stormed, including
four blockhouses and innumerable
street blockades. All were carried
with the pluck and valor character
istic of the Americans. In Gen.
Greene's brigade the Colorado and Cali.
fornia volunteers and Eighteenth regu-
lars drove the Spaniards back in panic.
East and west We'd In deeds Of bravery.
The soldiers knew on Friday night
that an attack was to be made. Re-
veille was sounded at four o'clock.
The troops arose singing and cheering.
For weeks they had been encamped in
swamps or lying in bitches filed with
water exposed to tropical rains. They
had waited patiently for the order to
attack, and when it came the demon
STATIONS were unanimous along the
lines. A heavy rain set in as the
troops left camp. The men marched
two miles In mud over shoe tops to the
intrenchments Each carried two
days rations and $50 cartridges
The American intrenchments ex-
tended from the beach on the left 1900
yards in a northeasterly direction,
terminating in rice swamp The
ground was covered with water, BAN.
boos and rank vegetation. The enemy's
trenches varied from 800 to 500 yards.
The one in front was 800 yards. To
the east of the beach is the Manila
road and 1000 yards away is the Pasay
road Both roads passed through the
lines into the city. Almost impassa-
Bile swamps lie between the roads.