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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-08

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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
DEER RAID AN APPLE WAGON.
They Consume Lot of Choice Fruit Intend
ed for ar Harbor.

From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Deer are becoming so tame in Maine be-
cause of the protection afforded them by
law that they are regular nuisance. Many
stories have been told lately of their dep
relations among the market gardens of
the, state but the most audacious piece OF
thievery happened to a Dedham farmer
last week while he was driving load Of
apples to Ellsworth, which were destined
for the Bar Harbor market.
Mr.. e. c. Spencer is one of the oldest
guides in Maine, and the most sussessful
apple peddler in the county. 1t is eighteen
miles from his home to Ellsworth, and he
makes the trip at night in order to be on
hand for the earliest customers in the
morning. On his last trip to town his for
ward tire became loose, and when half
way to Ellsworth the wheel gave out en-
tirely.
After few mutterings about his hard
luck, Mr.. Spencer decided to bivouac for the
night. He embarrassed his hore and fed
him a telegraph pole, and after I'M
loading the crates and barrels he rolled
himself in horse blanket and stored HIM
self in among the apple crates and soon
was fast asleep.
How long he slept he does not attempt to
say, but when he awoke he was surprised
to find that his blanket and whiskers were
covered with apple pomace and his crates
and barrels scattered in all directions over
the ledge. Three deer were chewing away
at his choicest market beauties. Mr.. Spen-
Ger grabbed a club and drove them into the
woods, but they returned again to eat the
apples while he was mending the wheel.
81 haint swore for seven years." said Mr.
Spencer, "but 1 vow that madded me clean
to the core, and I sore at everything. If
I'd had a gun I'd shot them fellers, law or
no law, and 1 would er found who's what,
afore I'd pay forty-dollar fine on any
of 'em.
"'Tan't no wild deer that does thing
like that: it's some of those fellers that
folks have been making pets of all sum-
mer."
Mr.. Spencer's load did not reach the har-
Dor.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
Secret Ballot in Primaries.

Atlanta is delighted with the use of the
secret ballot or booth system In primaries
The contest on Wednesday for a mayoral-
ty candidate was exciting, close and in
some respects bitter, but nomination was
made, and not a single complaint was
heard against the system although it was
to the voters of Atlanta new and untried.
''They entered the little booths,' says the
Atlanta journal, with a feeling of curios-
ity, and came out praising them and the
new balloting system"
The ward workers and heelers were out
in the cold when the voter was transacting
public business in the booths. Hereafter in
Atlanta the selection of choices for public
office must be made in the booths where
the ward-worker can not come. An official
ballot only is used and all look alike when
they go into the ballot boxes Promises
made outside may or may not be fulfilled
in the booths-no one knows, and no one
should know. The chances are very good
that the man in the booth gets even with
his tormentors outside by voting contrary
to their wishes.
AT any rate the system has so commend
ed itself to the people of Atlanta that no
city primary will hereafter be held without
it. The people who voted today, says the
Journal, will demand its retention. The
booths are the freemans castle The
workers" can not storm it. They cannot
even approach it. The machine is crippled
ing it's proper function. -
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07


and railroads. he was finally driven back.
He defended Savannah; and at the time of
Lees surrender had been promoted to the
rank of lieutenant-general, and by the
death of Stuart had become senior cavalry
general of the confederate armies. In bat
tie he had been wounded three times, and
had had sixteen horses shot under him.
In 1863 at Mobile, was published, for use in
the confederate army, General Wheeler $
Revised Cavalry Tactics, for Single Rank
Formation" The coarse and thin, but
tough, paper and poor presswork of this
little manual make 1t curious memento
of the south's privations during the block
ade.
After the war General Wheeler studied
law, and has been a member of congress
from Alabama almost constantly since
1881 and was appointed regent of the
Smithsonian institution in 1885, Among the
truest of reconstructed patriots, General
Wheeler donned the blue again at three
score years, and reached the front in time
for the active leadership that has made
him doubly renowned in the reunited ma
TONS first important war on foreign soil.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
The Chippewa Battle.

rrSsThe battle in Minnesota was fought far
from Lake Superior although the accounts
of it speak of steamers and of a high sea-
Leech Lake is in northern Minnesota
about as far from Duluth as it is from the
western line of the state. 1t is a central
northern lake of the state. The neighbour
hood is full of pine forests, lakes and In
dian reservations. A branch railroad leads
from Brainerd on the Northern Pacific
railroad to Walker, a point the west
shore of Leech Lake. On the south and
east side of the lake is a large Indian res
ervation. The lake may be fifteen or TWEEN
ty miles in length and breadth. The Chip
pewas occupy the reservation.
The trouble in that neighborhood seems
to have been the outgrowth of white occu-
patton and Indian resistance and pillaging.
The Indians and the lumbermen and set
tiers did not get on well together. The In
dams have left at times their reserva-
tions, and have done no little harm, in
Guiding many acts of lawlessness. The
troops that endeavored to chastise them
and to bring them to terms of peace and
order and law were veterans of the Third
infantry, a regiment of regulars fresh from
Santiago. They certainly cannot COM
plain of inactivity and garrison duties,
coming as they did from the concentrated
fire of Mausers at Santiago to the am
bushes of the Redskins at Leech Lake
The Chippewas have only 600 fighting men
all told, and the entire trouble will doubt
less soon be ended, and the recalcitrant
Indians will be brought into subsection and
order restored in the Leech Lake country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE SOLDIERS.

From the New York World.
The war department has issued boast
full statement setting forth that out of ga
III officers and men engaged in the war
with Spain only 2,910 have died from all
causes, being LOSE per cent.
But there were only $4,000 troops all told
sent to the war. This includes all the men
sent to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines. The rest of the 274, 717-outnumber-
ing the entire British army all over the
world-were senselessly called into service
either under an absurd scare or for politi-
cal purposes. They were sentenced to long
terms in pestilential camps and to all the
suffering that the incompetence of the
Sons of Somebody" in staff positions could
inflict upon them.
AS a consequence, while only 31S men were
killed in battle and died of wounds, 2 4So-
nearly nine times as many-died from
disease.
If only the army actually used-54 900 men
had been called into service, a death rate
of LOSE per cent. would have buried only
512 men instead of the 2,910 for whom collins
were actually provided.
In matters of this kind mismanagement
and stupidity and the com missoning of in
capables to do the work of experts are
very nearly akin to crime.
The war investigating commission has
met none too soon. It's inquiry cannot be
made too thorough or too searching.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
SECRETS oF LIFE.

From the Philadelphia Times. r# iI,i J
Eight hours sleep. f.izl.,I -
Sleep on your right side.
Exercise before breakfast
For adults-drink no milk. $3.50
Have change of occupation.
Have a mat at your bedroom door,
Daily exercise in the open air.
Keep your bedroom window open all
night.
Do not have your bedstead against the
wall
Avoid intoxicants, which destroy those
cells.
Eat little meat and see that it is well
cooked.
Eat plenty of fruit to feed the cells which
destroy disease germs.
No cold bath N the morning, but bath
at the temperature of your body.
Take frequent and short holidays.
Limit your ambition, and keep your tenn
per.
Allow no pet animals IN your sleeping
rooms. They are apt to carry about dis
ease germs.
Live in the country if you can.
Watch the three D's-drinkng water
damp and drains.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

From the Chicago News.
1t doesn't take a blooming idiot long to
go to seed.
The average Kentuckian is above the
high-water mark.
When the king loses he always comes
within an ace of winning. - ~'!
Gossip is always short-lived Unless it is
properly ventilated.
It's never too hot in summer or too cold
in winter for the ice man.
OF course, women are naturally credulous
when their portraits f1atter them. IL
We never heard of husbands and wives
quarreling about which loved the other
most
Satan never gets tired of jollying peo-
pie who imagine they are prize beauties
It's always tough on the tight-rope walk
er when he steps from the straight and
narrow path.
Some actors are like some eggs-they go
upon the stage when they are no good for
anything else
Whenever a girl begins to lecture young
man ON financial economy, he can safely
ask her to name the happy day.
Probably the happiest day In the average
farmers life is when his best pig takes a s.
prize at the county fair.
An old bachelor says there is but one
thing sweeter than loves young dream, and
that is to wake up ana find yourself still
single.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
GEN. wHEELER's BOOK.

Richard Henry Stoddard in the New York
Mail and Express.
Major-General Joseph Wheeler's book on
the war is announced for immediate publi-
cation by Lamson, Wolfe & Co. 1t will
be called 1.-THE Santiago Campaign" and
will include, besides General Wheeler's per-
sonal narrative, a series of dispatches that
passed between the generals on the field
and other documents, forming an official
story of the campaign; and also a steno-
graphic report of the conversations be-
tween General Toral and the Spanish COM
missioners on the one side, and the Ameri-
can commissioners on the other, while ne
gotiating terms Of capitulation in front of
Santiago.
AS a cntributor to 1.-THE Century War
Series" and in his writings elsewhere
General Wheeler's direct and vigorous
style is already known; and it is safe to
believe that his story, amounting to an
official record of the land engagements in
the war with Spain, will prove, from mill
itary standpoint, a timely and important
book
Born in 1896, General Wheeler is now 50
years old. He was graduated in 1859 from
the United States military academy and
received the full rank of second lieutenant
of cavalry within a year, but resigned
when the civil war broke out, and in the
confederate service rose rapidly to q
brigade command. He led the cavalry
troops in Bragg's invasion of Kentucky;
commanded the rear guard of the confed-
crate army when 1t retreated into Tennes-
see, and in contesting Rosecran's advance
attacking his TANKS, raiding in the rea r
and destroying trains proved one of tn
most formidable opponents to the federa'
forces. He led the cavalry in Longstreet'
attack on Knoxville and during the siegt
and covered Braggs retreat from Mission
airy ridge and Lookout mountain, In the
face of Sherman's march to the sea, he OBJ
posed every movement ana fought almost
daily, often with his men dismounted.
He failed In an heroic attempt under
Hoods orders, to break Sherman's commu-
nications; and though successful IN de-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
A Cotton Mill Trust.

The selling agencies of the Fall River cot
the hands of five managers, and the Boston
Herald regards this step as the first to-
wards the formation of cotton factory
trust The object of such a trust would
ostensibly be to reduce selling expenses;
but when a trust is once organized and is
found to be practicable, 1t may advance
far beyond the original intention.
The Herald thinks, however, that the pro-
posed trust will ecessarily be confined to
mills that make standard goods-sheetings,
drillings, print cloths and the like. Stand
ard cotton goods can Of course be handled
as readily as sugar or petroleum
are. The fashion in one does not change
much oftener than in the other. But in the
cases of mills that make variety of goods
based upon the caprices of fashion, a trust
becomes more difficult. The manager of
such an institution might be outwitted by
an antitrust mill, and then the trusts
goods could not be Sold New ideas and
new fashions go with diversified goods,
and a trust cannot always be depended
upon to keep up with such things.
Doubtless the proposed trust will be con-
fined to mills that turn out standard goods,
and it will thus work in direct competition
with the southern mills. If the new
scheme should prove injurious to the SOUTH
ern mills, the remedy is plain-organize a
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
NO FLOWERS FOR GOV. BLACK.

From the New York Times.
If Black is too heavy load fgr the re-
publican party, then the republican party
is too heavy load for the people. The
only fit candidate, the only truly repre-
sentative candidate, was Black. 1t was
cowardice, it was hypocrisy, to thow him
over for having bee ma too faithful serv-
ant in applying republican principles to
the administration of state affairs. They
reject the agent they retain the princl-
pies. They even have the colossal i'm
pudence to commend Blacks administra-
ton as statesmanlike, careful and econom1-
cal. If this was not reckless lying, then
Black deserved a denomination.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
ROBSON IN DANGER.

I dSI1IIB
In the satisfaction which every American
must feel in consequence of Lieutenant
Hobson's triumphant salvage of the Span
ish cruiser Maria Teresa it should not be
forgotten that his success will bring deep
sorrow to many a fossil beaurocratic heart.
His superiors or most of them, had shown
conclusively that the thing could not be
done, and his action in doing it after that
can only be called little short of insubordi-
nate. If the young man lives he will be
made to feel this, and we earnestly exhort
him to square himself by disclaiming all
credit and declaring that he foated the
ship entirely on plans issued by Sampson
in a circular letter last spring.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
MINNESOTA REPUBLICANS ALARMED


The Minneapolis Tribune has Joined the
Pioneer Press In appealing to the republic
cans In this state to wake up or the flu
sionists will score a sweeping victory. 1t
says: '"The truth is beginning to dawn upon
those who have taken the pains to make
careful observations during the past week
that the republicans, as a rule, are over
confident. This is especially the case with
some Of the most prominent leaders, and
especially with some of the candidates for
the chief offices. 1t is time for the republi-
can managers of the campaign, state and
local, to wake up Money for necessary
campaign expenses should be raised at
once. The army of republican campaign
orators should be modified without de-
lay."'
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
DISAPPOINTMENT.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Dark the theater, hushed the music, for the
play Is Ger tonight
And the actress driving homeward, sits
with lips compressed and tight.
Roses red and white and yellow, litter up
the carriage space
Tributes to her mtachless acting-yet a
tear slips down her face.
What if hundreds did applaud her?-what
If we'll she played her part?
People were like driven cattle-could they
read a woman's- heart?
All the loves that night she'd acted-all the
hates and hopes and fears,
Filter through her tired brain cells-come
out purified as tears.
Men, my brothers, men, the workers, when
the world has used us rough,
Round our hearts we strap our armor-wo-
men are of softer stuff.
What to her was this nights conquestf
What the flowers and success?
For the modiste disappointed-never semi
her satin DRESS
Never sent the dress she'd hoped for
trimmed with panses down the sidet
Jewel trimming ON the shoulders, round
point sixteen inches wide!
Well she knew that with that dress ona
Solomon in all his pride
Couldn't hold a candle to her-ah, no wons
der that she criedI
Then she smiled-for on the morrow when
the papers told her hits.
She would go to that old modiste and
would give the woman fits!
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BAtHELCR

From the New York Press.
Without her foibes woman would be only
a female.
Only very weak woman can make a
very strong man weak.
A woman is furthest from being beaten
when she will admit that she is.
If the average boy was always as polite
as his mother tries to make him act before
cmopany he would grow up to be useless
man.
The Indignation which every woman
shows when she sees a widow and wild
over making up to each other is generally
intended as a warning to her husband
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
THE ALABAMA BCRIBES.


A great many of the Alabama papers are
commenting on the actions of a few indi-
viduals in saying that Birmingham does not
want a permanent camp of troops. The
Guntersville Democrat says:
Naughty Birmingham intimates that she
does not particularly desire to have per-
manent army camp at her door. she thinks
the soldier boys are too gay and festive.
She has enough to look after the Festive
youth of her own.
Editor Nelly should read of the action OF
the Commercial club as a whole.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
Yellow Fever at Home.
element.

A great deal of talk has been INDUCED
in over the cleansing of Havana harbor,
and the driving out Of yellow fever from
our new acquisitions. All this is, no doubt,
very feasible. as the history of Kingston
and Vera Cruz very plainly show but it
would be wise to first begin the thorough
sanitary work at home.
Last year Louisiana and Mississippi and
several other states were afflicted with a
fever scourge, and this year the aftiiction
prevails again in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Ii we cannot keep the plague out of states
in the temperate zone, we certainly cannot
keep it out of islands in the tropics. The
sanitation process is more needed at home
than it is in distant islands.
Nor will it do to say that If Havana were
rendered healthy and free from the fever,
there would be no fever in this country.
No one pretends that the fever of the pres
ent year came from Havana for until very
recently Havana was sealed port. There
is plenty of fever in Mexican ports, and in
the Caribbean sea, and all along the South
American coast. There is but one remedy
thorough sanitation. Louisiana and Missis-
sippi do not know the meaning of the word.
They are strangers to the process. They
cannot hope to become fever-proof without
it, however.
Sanitation must be supplemented in the
gulf states by eternal vigilance. Alabama
and Texas and Arkansas and Memphis are
not as clean this year as they should be,
but they are vigilant, and they will doubt
less, escape a second visitation. The au-
thorities of Mississippi are certainly in
efficient. They were confessedly inefficient,
last year. when they permitted the dis
ease to get foothold at Ocean Springs;
and they repeated their ineffieiency this
year, in Lafayette county, where the dis
ease was permitted to spread thirty days
before it's nature was discovered. At jack
son, too, it got foothold because the board
of health paid no attention to negroes,
whom they considered immune. Louisiana
suffers in similar way. At Wilson, in
that state, the disease had existed fully
thirty days before a hand was raised
against it. The New Orleans situation is
unknown, but all do know that city needs
renovation fully as much as any Spanish
town.
Eternal vigilance and thorough SANTA
ton is the price of freedom from fever cpl
DENIES Florida pays the price, and secures
the immunity that Philadelphia and Nor
folk and Charleston and other cities and
other states have long possessed Florida
is a gulf state. 1t is almost within the trop-
les. Havana is just across a narrow ferry.
And yet that state is free from fever. If
some cases come along, as some did at Key
" est this season, they are speedily crushed
out. What Florida has done. is doing, and
proposes to do hereafter, Mississippi and
Louisiana and Alabama and Texas should
do, and until the latter states adopt the
Florida plan, we should do less talking
about Havana and other infected ports.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
PERFECTION PALS.
Charles Dudley Warner.

CnaTIGS DuuIey
Is there anything more unsatisfactory
than a perfect house, perfect grounds, per-
feet gardens, art and nature brought into
the most absolute harmony of taste and
culture? What more can man do with It?
What satisfaction has a man in it if he
really gets to the end of his power to inn
prove it? There have been such nearly
ideal places, and how strong nature, always
working against man in the interest of I'M
tanned wildness, likes to riot in them and
reduce them to picturesque destruction!
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
MRS. CURZON NOT THE FIRST.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mrs. Curzon Is not the first American
whose husband reached the station of vice.
roy of India. The wife eof the Marquis of
Wellesley, one of the rulers of India, was
Miss Cation, of Philadelhia, granddaughter
of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. Her Sec
ond husband was the Duke Of wellington.
Her sisters married the Duke of Leeds and
karl of Stafford.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07
Sun Glints and Flowers

Editor Williams, of the Talladega Noun
tain Home, always makes the world full of
sunshine and flowers, even during the
dreary, rainy day. This week he says:
Longfellows rainy day, or what is more
descriptive still, Paul Haynes rainy day,
has been with US, but the sun glints forth
again. The woods are still ahame with
goldenrod and starred with astors, spangled
with purple bloom, and dashed OCCASION
ally with scarlet and what is more prac-
teal, the crops emerge beautiful and I'M
wrecked.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07

Editor Graham, of the Selma Journal,
veteran of the ar between the states, in
commenting General Wheeer's testi-
mony before the investigating committee,
says:
In reading General Wheelers evidence
one is forcibly struck with the conviction
that it is a great soldier who is speaking.
The language is generous, brave and can
did, just such a statement one would
expect from such source.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07

From the New York Tribune.

Inc vegetarians of Chicago are saying
that the slaughter of cattle, sheep and
hogs is the prolongation of the red hand
of war, and barbecue is most inappro-
pirate form of peace jubilee banquet. They
further declare that prunes, caulifiower
and tomatoes are, from an epicurean point,
the real emblems Of pease.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07

Spain proposes to fight before she will
give up the Philippines. If she does not
hand them over, she will have to fight the
insurgents. But Spain may conclude, after
all. that peace is preferable to war.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-07

The nomination of democratic candidates
for city Offices in Atlanta was conducted on
Wednesday under the Australian or secret
ballot system, and all concerned in it are
praising the operation of the new plan.
Such a plan is needed in Alabama.