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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1898-01-19
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gu peripifeln. 6enfel blieb inoelien be
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ltellt babe.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1898-01-19
Cine oar tranrige 0eidi6te
nit WcraI.

9un etnem, Der beim Mpno ii6erna1tet
llnb bolb erfrpren aufermadet
Dabet Inn ieine Spien fam.
9Bie es Die 2eute Wunber nabnt.
lluo lpie er bann onr6 beS @liides Walten
Gin 4aar anbere gum Seimgeben erbalten.
Wpn 9pbeI.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1898-01-19

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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1898-01-19

S1er aerietb er in eineu Greis frDbllder SedDer
llno neil er oud 9erne banbbobt ben 8etber
Sp perraunen uur gu 9eidpiub Die Stunben
llnb, eb ers bebatbt, mar Der Gag 9elfmnnoen.
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gebn
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iebn;
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Wiau oenfe, 8 muB d)redlid) geiueien iein.
SroB benz 3prn uno pilbem @rlmme,
Sbrt er bod oes WtrtbeS Stinlme,
Ser inS Sdbanflofal ibn ruft
lin bm au5ubdn9en etuen Quit
nuier sSreunb traut nod aae Glider aus,
uuo sine bann idwautenb aus bem 3aus.
aber IN Ieiuem tiefeu 9uIel
= Zen beiprtte 8ier uno fsuel
Sing er biuters Saus btuaus.
3o9 bprt 9leidb Die Soien aug
Gr pabnte, er iei 5u Saule mieber
uub le9t iid gum erquidenben Sd)lafe nieeer.
Sn oieier tieien, ndd1tlid1en Stllle
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ST frdumt nuu tbdumenoem Bier nno Dt6b6en,
8pn Yierbeu uio gieln unb auc) pom Sd)abden,
uno wdbreuo er 70 pertieft in ieine 2rdume.
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8dume.
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big
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Wia6t er nun in Der StaOt bic 8unse.
@tuian trauri9 gan8.perlaiien,
Starmt er burd bic ftiaen Saien:
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2as uatiirliob ausitrDnlte elm etnes Yariini
Wtutb uno nur nitbt peraa9eu, meiu Sieber
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pier bate er nod bic 2reppe gu ertlimmen,
8oh oroben Iab er ein SdmpDen nod 9limmen
Gr iteuert brauf bin uuo in cine @de,
s5n meldDer up1 ltQED etn leereS Vette;
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9ia
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peritebt,
ueber bic cabbage ibm baio e,n Sigbt aufgebt
Gr iudt ein Yaar Soien uno br,ngt fie aifs
GUNNER.
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taer;
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llnb eriu1te hieien ibH beim5nIabren.
God bier benfe Menfd nnb lerne,
arinfit bu and Elm tDeuig gerne,
uub ididft bann binterm pirtbsbous ein
aab nur Das GntfleiDen iein
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1898-01-19

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&c Spnsrs. Gramtuatipn bss epnrta.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
WEALTH OF THE NATIONS

Mulhall. the English statistician. has
lust made a calculation of the wealth
Of the principal nations of the world,
based on values shown by real estate
records. buildings, merchandise and
railroads. as well as the circulating me-
dunn Of each country, and places the
aggregate wealth of the United States
at sS1, 750, 000, 900. This is So, 200, 900. 900
larger than the aggregate Of Great
Britain. which holds second place
double that Of France, equal TO that OF
Russia, Italy, Austria and Spain COM
bined and more than seven times
greater than that Of Spain In con-
nection with his tabular statements.
Mr. Mulhal calls attention to the fact
that while most European countries
have attained their growth, the United
States is apparently on the threshold Of
an industrial development of an extent
" which it has never dreamed.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30

worked their interests so that they now
outvote the residents of the old town.
Therefore, it is not saying too much
to state that the leaders il the different
| sections are not in sympathy with one
lanother, and slowly but surely the day
| is arriving when there will be a grand
split, the division of the town will be
announced and West Upton win get all
shehas hoped for, for years, the rights
of citizenship in a town all her own.
When such thing comes to pass, there
will be noticed the great shrewdness on
the part of the people who run the
| West End and with this realization
win come a vision before the Upton
citizens of how completely everything
has worked against them.
| 1t will be pleasing to observe that
the new Upton high school building,
| which was the source of one of the
| fiercest wrangles ever held in Upton,
| will be just within the town to be called
West Upton, the beauty and wealth of
the place will all be confined within
the limits of the new municipality and
all that has to do with the development
of a town will be found in the new
town, to the disadvantage of the old.
| The location of the high school build
| ing, and the fact that the town only
! built the structure a few years ago,
| promises to form a feature of the fight
| against a division. and when the deal
is sprung, the very injustice of the
thing will be the chief argument used
| in the battle.
Today Upton has a good and com
| paratiVely fair existence. and a chance
| which is fairly good to develop in the
| future to thriving community, but
the division of the town will kill the
| hopes for future existence completely.
| west Upton controls the wealth, car
| les the power which runs the town
and is practically all there is to the
political machine of the place.
in the matter of politics Upton. like
! Hopedale and hundreds of other places
goes the way the rich and powerful
element wishes TO dictate but Freedom
to vote as the mind directs is NOT re-
stricted. Rich lslen generally. and az
course, those whom the working peonIe
have to depend upon for their bread
ana butter control things to degree
| Of completeness which is striking ana
while it can not be stated thai AN
| knowltons in West Upton dictate IN
| this manner there is a feeling in az
istence among the voting popnlation
! which luckily enough saves them tba
| trouble. tiie
Of course. the opinions, as expressad
Wlthin the hearing of The Spy report-
! er, largely indicate the disniaas, -
which the thought OF divisia,, .';, eire
and when talk on the matter is 5erss;
at West Upton, it is only of the NH MIA =
est type and Of a character which u
intended to develop the idea thai Moth
ing OF such a nature is entertained
! The subject concerning the divisio,,
q the town viii sooner or later come
Up and when the matter finally comes.
! y VIII be sprung quickly, and T'be
Spy's story will bear out in t il5u fa ne
cited above. 'iie lscts
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
ashiolls in
Funerals.
ART.
Amazing Progress in Past
Twenty Years.

When Gray wrote:
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of
power
And all that beauty, all that wealth
e'er gave,
Alike await the inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to the
grave
the poet was right. but he little
dreamed Of the different ways and
styles of reaching the grave which this
latter day progress has developed.
While all the other industries have
been taking giant strides onward, the
art of undertaking has not been back
ward. Strange as it may seem, fash
ions have come and fashions have gone
in the art of dying, until now it is an
actual fact that half the unpleasant
features formerly attending a death
and burial have been eliminated
In former days, although it may be
true that railroad and similar horrible
accidents were less frequent than they
are now, it is equally true that their
horror was prolonged through the in
ability of the undertakers to handle
them as they are handled nowadays
promptly and skilfully.
Yes" said one of the local under
man. the other day, there has been
much progress in the art of undertake
ing in this city within the past 20 years.
When l first came here there We're
only four undertakers in the city. Now
there are ten.
In those days they We're undertakers;
now half of them are undertakers'
agents. Then very few cloth-covered
caSkets were sold, collins being used
enfiralV bN rich and pOnr oiilxa IN
those days, too. ice was used to pre-
serve bodies and little was known of
embalming. Then a body could be
kept four or five days in the winter
time; nowadays by artificial embalm-
ing, body can be kept from month
to six weeks. Cavity embalming will
keep a body from four to five days"
There has also been marked in
crease in the cost of caskets. Formerly
when collins We're generally used, $2E
was considered high price. Now very
few baskets are sold, their use being
limited almost entirely to city cases
The prices of cloth-covered baskets
range anywhere from $35 to $3.50, but
of course, if a customer wishes to PAY
more, an undertaken can accommodate
him.
1.-The methods of conducting funerals
have not changed so very much, the
principal change being among the Pro.
testant undertakes, who have regular
4 bearers whose services they will fur.
/ nlsh in cases where they are required
4 In such instances the bearers selected
i by the friends act as little more thar
/ honorary bearers. The only noticeable
/ change in connection with Catholic flu
4 nerals is in their size. Formerly
/ Catholic funerals in this city were
/ monstrous in size, but within the pas
! few years they have not been as large
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
WHAT CUBA is LIKE.
How An English Correspondent Viewed
the Santiago Campaign.

How An English Correspondent Viewed
the Santiago Campaign.
6Charles E. Hands in the London Mail. }
have been trying to re-
construct for myself the city Of
Siboney as it was in the palmy
days before the American conquest.
fancy that under the rule of the
naughty Spaniards it achieved pros
perity and Importance as a great sew
erage center. The hills around slope
down in a sort of amphitheatre to the
little cliff-surrounded cove Hence an
abundant water supply. The hills are
rich in iron ore, and down by the shore
there is a narrow gauge railway, rum
ming on the west to Santiago and on the
east to the first landing place, Daiquiri,
The houses are dotted about on the side
of the little foothill which rises behind
the cliff, and are arranged in such a
manner that the drainage of each one
of them runs under the flooring of
every other. The houses give unmis-
taxable evidence Of Siboney having
been largely concerned in the COW keep
ing and pig raising industry, for the
houses are Just slnglestoried wooden
cowsheds with sliding wooden shutters
for windows.
\
cowshed painted in blue stIipes-so fine
that some grandee must have lived In
4 it. That is the worst of the Cubans
! They get the best Of everything in this
/ war As our ships or our troops have
frightened the Spaniards out of their
! houses the Cubans have come swarm
! ing down from the hills and taken pos
| session Of everything.
CUBANs SEIZE EVERYTHING.
At Daiquiri the Spanish commandani
had to leave in such a hurry after our
| gunboats began to throw crackers al
/ him that he had no time to finish a lit
/ tie store Of good old-landed Spanish
| claret, which he kept in bottles in a sort
4 Of rabbit-hutch in his bed room. Be
i tween the time the last shot was fired
4 and the first boat load of troops sprang
4 ashore not five minutes elapsed Bui
! FIVE minutes were more than enough foi
4 in the ground and collar everything
4 that was worth anneXing. or was not
worth anneXing, and all that our men
4 found was a sacked and looted village
The Cubans had even eaten all the
4 fruit off the trees. There was not a ripe
mango to be seen, nor even many I'M
1 ripe ones Only the cocoanuts had es-
capped, and that was because the Gu
bans had q surfeit Of cocoanuts while
they were living in the woods
NO HORSES FOR ROUGH RIDERS.
There were a dozen or so of good
horses which the Spaniards had not
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
KAFFIR MARRIAGES.
The Wife Sometimes Asks Her Husband
to Get Another One.
(From the wide-world Magazine


(From the underworld Magazine
That which makes Kaffir marriage
binding is, in Kafirland, not the perform
ance of a ceremony, but the transfer of a
certain number Of cattle, as agreed upon,
from the husband or his friends to the
father or guardian Of the woman. The
regulations respecting Kaffir marriages are
very strict. No matter though the bride
groom and the bride have seen each other
a hundred times before vet on the day
of the Inauguration of the wedding cere-
monies etiquette REQUIRES that they should
meet as total strangers, going through q
formal introduction. All the friends ana
company assembled are smiling and pass
ing pleasant remarks, and the brlqegroom
is Fastening toward his shy lady love.
After the formal Introduction is over the
bride accompanied by her father, mother
and friends, is ready 70 acknowledBe her.
self IS the wife of her lord. The ~ enbo.
or Yes" being uttered, the dance Of the
bride is proposed. This dance is some
what Of a trial 10 The bride, as the critics
are the bridegroom's party The brides
dance finished. the feastfng commences.
No formal invitations are issued to the
feast. 1t is soon bruited about that a
marriage between Kenebo and Mpunzany-
ana is impending, and that the ceremonies
are fixed for n certain date. Human ma
ture is much the same all the world over,
and should there be a likelihood Of plenty
of beer and meat, many friends Will put in
an appearance, The kaftir wife is hard
worker, She tolls in the garden. growing
the Kafiir corn, and in thousand other
ways, being mnchtmore Industrious than
her lord She is sometimes SO overbur-
dened with work that she says to her
husband, ut is only fair that you should
take another wife to help me IN the work.
| have been a good working woman; my
industry and thrift obtained the means to
enable you to acquire much cattle: your
riches come through me. Now, il is only
| az na my
earnings that You should expend some in
fresh marriage contract. and so my la
bors would be lightened. And the man
is generally agreeable TO fall in with her
proposals The Kafir women. wives Of
the same man, agree well together, ieel-
ousies being seldom exhibited.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA
Criminals Often Brought to Justice bv
Accidental Photographic

BY both accident and intention. on nu-
merous occasions, the art Of the photo
grapher has proved of immense utility
in comprising the conviction Of Grimm
ais
An amateur photographer in Chicago
city cunningly concealed an automatic
camera in the tapestried wall Of his
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
A MARITIME NATION.

THE Dutch were a great maritime
nation once. weren't they, dad?"
Yes, my boy
George Bingler's father says tAe
take it?f ttA
With water. my boy; with water"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
WHAT KISSING SIGNIFIES.
1From the Philadeiphia Pross.'

Kissing means different things ac>
cording to where YOU happen to be
at the time In West Africa the natives
New Hebrides when they see enything
beautiful. The Basutos applaud pops
ular orator in their assemblies by hiss>
ing at him. The japanese, again, show
their reverence by a hiss, which has
somewhat the force of the
hush" with which we command ST.
lenca
The age-herald., 1898-03-27
THE BRIGHT PUPILS
 OF HENLEY SCHOOL
Entertained a Large Audience at the Opera House Yesterday
 For Benefit of Library.

The opera house was crowded to it's ut- most capacity yesterday afternoon, the occasion being an entertainment by the pupils of the Henley school for the benefit of the public library.
 It is almost proverbial in Birmingham that when the Henley school takes part in anything it aIways proves grand suc- cess and yesterdays entertainment was verification of the fact.
 The entertainment consisted of presen- tation of the operetta "Littlte Red Riding Hoods Rescue" which was interspersed by drills and songs.
 The operetta which, of course, deals with the wonderful story of little Red Riding Hood, was most faithfully carried out in song. Little Miss Claudio Sandman as Little Red Riding Hood,' was the star" of the play and took her part most creditably. Little MT. Chairsell, in his Wood Chopper song. was excellent, and displayed an ease and naturalness that would have done credit to professional actor.
 The blue bell drill, which was participate ed in by an hundred little tots attired In blue tarlton frocks, with jingling bells, was a feature of the entertainment
 "Mother Goose was there with her won- derful family, each character being faith fully represented. There was "Llttlte Bo Peep," "Old King Cole,' Little Miss Muffet," Jack and Jill' "The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe," Jack Be Nimble," and many others of the funny people who are dear to the hearts of all children. "Old Mother Goose" fell asleep, and as each came in they repeated familiar words from the rhymes and when all had assembled "Mother Goose" was awakened and led them through series of drills which were well executed.
 Prof. SpeidelPs class in dumb-bell drills and other gymnastic exercises was also good.
 The entertainment was greatly enjoyed bv the large audience, and especially the many little folk. Quite neat sum was realized for the library fund.
The age-herald., 1898-03-27

before me, that the act of the board amounts to a cancellation or revocation of the rights of the Birmingham Gas com- pany to occupy the streets, but the inten- tion of the board is so clearly expressed d that it admits of but one construction. It Is possible that to now issue permits for the contemplated work would operate as waive on the part of the city of the act complained of in the report of the committee.
 Your honor may have the right to issue or direct the issuing of the permit, but as to the propriety of doing so you must be the judge. Respectfully submitted,
 R. J. LOWE, City Attorney. The mayor then sent the following let ter to the gas company:
 MT. B. F. Roden, President Birmingham Gas Company.
 Dear Sir:-Answering your request for permit to lay pipe on Twentieth street, I beg to say that do not feel at liberty to issue permit pending final action of the board upon the question of the rights and franchises of your company.
 When the board meets I shall present your application and ask for action there on. Respectfully,
 F. " EVANS Mayor.
The age-herald., 1898-03-27
woodlawn and AvondaIe

Woodlawn and AvondaEe have a few troubles of their own, as we'll as Cleveland beat, though theirs promises to be the easiest remeded.
 Our neighbors on the east are somewhat mudled over two legislative candidates they have out at Woodlawn, J. B. Gibson and Major E. L. Higdon.
 1t seems that on Thursday night the democrats of Woodlawn met and nomi- mated nine delegates to the county conven- tion, all of whom, 1t is slaid, were Gibson men. Their names were published in The Age-Herald.
 The Higdon men got pretty sore over this and said they thought that the Gibson people had rubbed 1t in on 'em," as Hig don had the support of at least half of the voters of Woodlawn and that he was enti- tied to representation in the delegation.
 Matters came to a crisis Friday night when the Avondale democrats met. Avon dale and Woodlawn are in the same beat They said that Higdon had not been treated right at Woodlawn and insisted that the democrats of that city revise their deosga- tion and make 1t more equitable.
 To set Woodlawn a. good example they then nominated a ticket which~is said to be impartial; that is, delegation that will recommend to the county convention the names of both candidates. The following are the names: Dr. H. L. Martin J. R. Ellard, T. c. Culverhouse, w. s. Meroney, w. R. Starbuck, S. A. Jones, Horace Walters and c. P. Beddow. For beat com nitteeman they nominated R. L. Summer.
 Besides this, it is also said that Gibson, who is at present beat committeeman at Woodlawn wants to his successor, and that the Woodlawn democrats on &C., count of the alleged mistreatment of Hig don, will put out another candidate against Kennedy.
 MT. Gibson when seen by an Age-Herald reporter yesterday said that all this mud dle was entirely unintentional on his part and that no one was sorrier than he that it had occurred He said that there was intention to exclude Higdon men from the delegation. He said that he would see that the matter was corrected even if he had to give all of the nine delegates to Higdon.
 The friends of both candidates are at work adjusting matters, and they say that there is no doubt that the whole thing will be amcably settled