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The age-herald., 1898-08-18
The Evacuation Commissions.

The commission appointed to determine the details of Cuban evacuation consists, on the American side, of General Wade, of the regular army, Admiral Sampson, and General Butler, of the volunteer army. Every one of them is we'll adapted to the handling of heavy responsibilities and difficult tasks. General Butler was dis tinguished officer of the confederacy, and he afterwards represented South Carolina many years in the United States senate.
 This commission will have to determine the manner of deportng an army we'll nigh 900 men strong, and it will have to consider, too, the pro-Spanish feeling of towns like Havana, and the anti-Span- ish feeling of the interior districts. It will be called upon to minimize the friction that the rubbing together of American rule and Spanish prejudices and Cuban hate will surely involve The lesser questions to come before it relate to the navy yard in Havana, to military and naval supplies, to gunboats in the hidden inlets of the island, and to many other questions inci- dent to administration in a time of radical changes. The work of this commission may cover considerable period of time.
 The Porto Rican commission consists of General Brooke, of the regular army, Ad- miral Schley, and General Gordon, of the volunteer service. General Gordon is resident of Savannah. He served in the confederate army, and is man 61 years old. He is a brigadier-general of the vol unteer service. He is highly esteemed in Georgia. He should not be confounded with General John B. Gordon, to whom he is not related even distantly.
 The Porto Rican commissioners will not have to deal with more than five thous- and regular Spanish soldiers, and 1t is very probable that whatever plan is adopt ed for the deportation of the Spanish regu- lars in Cuba will be enlarged-so as to es.r-- brace the spanfsn regulars in Porto Rico. The other P2a 10 Rican problems will not prohak1u lificult. The volunteers of forto Rico will resume their civil relations, and the people of the island are believed to be favorable to American rule.
The age-herald., 1898-08-18
A RECORD AS AN ISSUE

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Senator M. A. Hanna is reported as predicting that the next presidential cam paign will be fought on the republican war record. Such a declaration, if official, will be likely to raise the question: Upon what part of the republican war record?
 Will it be fought upon the record of republicans like Alger in the war depart ment. or upon the record of republicans like Roosevelt in the front?
 Senator Hanna's reported suggestion that war records will control in 1900 should con- vey very strong intimation to the ad- ministration that if it does not take pre- ventive measures now, 1t may be forced to fight the presidential campaign on AL gers war record, irrespective of it's own desires.
The age-herald., 1898-08-18
DooLEY DILATEs ON ANGLo-sAxoNsu

From the Chicago Journal.
 Well" said MT. Dooley, "I see be tn pa-apers that the snow-white pigeon iv peace have tied up tn dogs iv war It's all over now. All we've got to do is to tn pathrites an make tn reconcenthra- dos pay tn stamp tax an be r-ready fir to take a punch at Garmany France or Rooshia or amy counthry on tn face of tn globe
 An I'm glad iv it. This war, Hinnissy, has been gr-reat sthrain on me. To think v tn suffrn' I've endured! FIT weeks I lay awake at nights fearin' that tn Span- sh ar-rmadillo'd lave tn Cape Verde is- lands, where it wasn't, an take tn thrain out here an hur-rl death an desthruction into me little store. Day be day tn pitiless exthras came out an beat down on me. Ye hear iv Teddy Rosenfelt pugin' into am- bus-cades an sicrety iv wars, but dye
The age-herald., 1898-08-18
P OINTEDPARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News. to face the powder.
 A large supper embraces such things of which dreams are made.
 Life is short, but it only takes two sec- onds to fight duel.
 It's better to marry and be boss than never to have bossed at all.
 business man always reads the post script of a woman's letter first.
 There's something crooked about the business of a corkscrew manufacturer
 The Spauiards try to avoid engagements, but the summer girl isn't built that way.
 A girl never acquires a reputation as @ vocalist until she begins to render her songs.
 Whenever woman reads of man go- ing wrong she always wonders what the woman in the case was like.
 A mans meaning is the same during countship and after marriage, but it is expressed in different language.
 The wise man always knows enough to cast his lot with woman who has enough money to build a substantial house there on. t-
 The command to increase and multiply is a back number. Now the increase is brought about by division in the divorce court, which makes two of one.
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Washington Letter in Nashville American.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson said that after few weeks rest in the north, now that peace was assured, he would make his annual trip over the country, going south as soon as the weather became cool enough.
 q would like to see every state do what Alabama has done" he said. "She has appropriated $2,5OO for an agricultural ex- pertinent station for each one of her con gressional districts. She is the only state that has done 1t, and it is accomplishing an immense deal of good. What with her growing mining and manufacturing indus tries, Booker Washington school at Tus- keege and William H. Councils at Hunts ville-and I am glad that the admiral work of these two remarkable colored men is aided and encouraged generously by the white people of the state-and the recent revival of interest down there in the most approved methods of farming, Alabama is altogether in a very healthful condition of advancement in all her material interests.
 Speaking of Alabama" said the secre- tary, just before we parted, what of Wheeler? Are they going to send him back to congress?"
 Assured that the doughty little general of cavalry would likely be elected with scarcely any opposition, Secretary Wilson said with enthusiasm:
 "IIsnt he a glorious fellow? Who would oppose him? Why, republican as I am, if I thought they were going to try to beat him, I would go down and stump the state for him myself. Of course, the republicans will vote for him. w. B.
The age-herald., 1898-08-18
CHAM

W. J. Hampton in New York Sun.
 An age of wonders has dawned on Guam. The Sun. Aug. g.
 An age of wonders has dawned on Guam, Benea tn the touch of Uncle Sam! A time of restessness and light To take the place of peace and night! An, Guam, asleep upon the oceans breast, Lulled by the soft Pacific into rest, Unending as the sea is, and as still, Why need you wake to wonders and to i'll? You are so very little. Guam, that you Are but misty spec upon the blue Infinity of earth, and, Guam, Although 'tis well to be of Uncle Sam, That is not all of peacefulness nor rest, As you have known them on the gentle
 breast
 Of your Pacific, where through all the years You never knew our world of hopes and
 fears.
 An, dear delicious, distant, doleless isle, Asleep for ages where those soft skies smile How rude would your awakening be Reused by new worlds energyl An, gentle Guam, keep shut those eyes of
 yours,
 Care not for that is not upon your shores; You are so little. Guam, away so far, The busy world might leave you as you are.
 An age of wonders, sorrows, cares, In which each state and nation shares! They call 1t dawn. GSam, is such a light A greater blessing than your night? It may be, Guam; or if it be or not, What harm can be, If only one small spot On all the earth is left still unoppressed, Where man may stop and berathe and rest?
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

The protocol spoiled General Miles we'll planned campaign, but it did not prevent quest of the Philippines. He sent some ships beyond the reach of dispatches, and these ships will finish the job. Dewey will now proceed to hol dem Philippines,
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

Consul-General Wildman of Hong Kong has been an active factor in the Manila campaign. He has been alert and all his his projects have proven to be sound and friend.
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General Merritt will have 23,O00 men when Philippines. This does not look like sur render of all that George Dewey's genius and guns have won.
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Those who think England. Japan and the United States will look on while Russia, France and Germany carve up and appro- priate China, have poor conception of the uses of hattleShipS.
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

Joe Wheeler's luck in getting into the war is a subject of envy among his brother officers. They do not know how active the little general is when he has mission on hand
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

The Texas and Missouri platforms simply ournne the road along which Jeffersonian democrats are travelling.
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

MT. Marcus Aurelius Hanna and a Chi cago editor are now preparing new key ,r1r
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It is said that Warriors Dave Hill and warranted to last through a campaign
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

The pope is dying from old age. The college of cardinals will do well, indeed, if they can find man who can fill the shoes of Leo XIII
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

The stamp tax of the civil war lasted un- til 1885, It is freely predicted the present stamp tax will last twenty years also.-
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

The Hon. Thomas c. Platt Is between the rough riders and canal scandal and the latter is the rougher of the two.
The age-herald., 1898-08-18
In the Shadow of the Wreck

From the PhiladelphiaNorth American.
 'Schley," said Sampson, "how these newspapers do talk"
 "Yes," replied the Commodore with q twinkle. land so far away from the fight Ioo."
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The un-American censorship should be withdrawn among the other ships.
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

All fought at Manila blissfully ignorant of protocols signed or unsigned.
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

The war correspondents hope to be or dered to China.
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none for the European powers. For once they are not in it.
 The anti-annexation party will win out in Spain. Weyler's views of the peace protocol are about due. Dewey's guns opened and closed the war. - n.,dnd
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We speak the English, not the British. language.
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There are no spheres of influence pro- vided for in the peace protocol-at least,
The age-herald., 1898-08-18
ALAnAMA,s EDUCATIoNAL WORK

The navy began the war and ended it.
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Dewey's guns opened and closed the war
The age-herald., 1898-08-18

Whenever a woman reads of a man go- ing wrong she always wonders what the woman in the case was like.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14
QUAINT CURACAO.

For One Hundred Years an Asylum for
 Political Fugitives and Home of
 South American Exiles.
 Washington, May 16.-Curacao is a Dutch colony and the quaintest little island in the world. It is not bigger than the District of Columbia, but has about forty thousand inhabitants and has played an important part in the history of America. It has belonged at different times to England, Spain and Holland and it's cozy harbor has been the scene of many bloody battle be- tween the navies of the old world, as we'll as between the pirates and bucca- neers that infested the Caribbean sea for two centuries. It has been for one hundred years and still is an esylum for political fugitives, and many of the revolutions that rack and wreck the rublblics on the Spanish main are matched under the shelter of the pre- tentious but harmless fortresses that guard it's port. Bolivar, Santa Anna and many other famous men in Span ish-American history have lived there in exile, and until recently there was an imposing castle upon one of the hills, called Bolivar's tower There the founder of five republics lived in ban ishment for several years and waited for rescue.
 The houses are built in the Dutch style, exactly like those in Holland; the streets are so narrow that the people can almost shake hands through their windows with the neighbors across the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14
I'm sure his tusks looked larger than a

I'm sure his tusks looked larger than a mastodon's.
 "He was right over me and one of his tusks grazed my duck coat, and Jim caught him between the shoulders. lay flat on the ground, reaching for my knife as the boar toppled over.
 "That's the closest shave I ever had. Catch me fooling with those magazine shotguns any more! 'Trombone'-thats s what the crack Reliance man calls himself-may break bluerock with them, but I'll take a rifle and forty four calibre Colts besides when l go after wild hogs again.
 What we should have had was lot of good dogs. Then there would have been a pretty fight. I'll bet that old boar would have made it warm for the best dogs in the country
 sWhen Jim fired the boar fell directly across my body and I couldn't get out from under him till Jim ran up and helped to roll the big brute over. He did not look quite so big when he was stretched out as he did when standing over me with his head ready for a gouge but he was a vicious-looking rascal just the same. We each have one of the big tusks as souvenir.
 ''On the way. home we bowled over another. An old SOW and two pigs were roofing acorns under an oak. This time we had 'cinch,' for we were right on them, and while I put load of buckshot into one of the pigs Jim caught the SOW right under the left shoulder. Then our troubles began again. How to get them through the brush was the next question. We final ly decided to take the pig and let the old woodchopper take the SOW, if he wanted her.
 That night we had feast in his cabin. He dressed the pig, did the cooking, and we did the rest. tell you we were hungry"-San Francisco Call
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14
WHERE WEBSTER FIsHED.

Many and many a time," pensively remarked the proprietor of the Clinton vile trout streams, as we stood beside a miniature lake in the woods, T have seen Daniel Webster standing on the bank over there in front of us, and casting a fly in this pool by the hour to- gether." Chiltonville Is part of Ply mouth and so Is Cor was) Marshfield, where MT. Webster had his favorite dwelling place. It was still, pleas- ant, showery kind of day, and as we gazed at the placid waters of the his- toric pool it seemed to be no longer in- habited, as if the finny race had de- parted in disgust when the great statesman passed away. But the pro- prietor carried on his arm an iron pot full of highly colored scarlet matter, which was said to be raw liver, finely minced. Scooping with huge wooden spoon a generous portion of this delica- cy, he cast 1t into the pool, and there upon at least a dozen trout, two pounders to judge from the size of their tails, which momentarily flashed above the surface, made q dash for the meat. The surroundings have changed somewhat, but not violently, since MT. Webster's time. In his day there were no trout preserves or trout hatcheries except those conducted by nature her. self, and the spot where we stood was simply an open space in the woods-a sedgy meadow through which flowed a stream, widening at one spot to form the pool just described.
 Everybody knows that MT. Webster was an ardent fisherman. When he ! was member of the Massachusetts legislature the only law which he drew | up and caused to be passed was one for the protection of trout and other game fish. His piscatorial career be- gan at the age of four, when he was | provided by his father with rod GU! | from a hazel bush, a line, and hook | baited with a worm. The child, in obe. | dience to his fathers instructions i dropped the hook in a deep pool and presently caught pound trout; but, 1T | his eagerness, the boy fell headlonf | into the pool himself, and would have
 been drowned had not his father fishet him out, still clinging to his rod, witf
 the fish trailing after. What did MT | Webster look like?" we inquired of the
 proprietor. "well,'' said he, after z
 short pause, 'in his prime he was {
 black, raven-haired man, with an eyt
 as black as death and as heavy as {
 loins-and no lion in Africa ever had { voice like his; and his look was like {
 ions-that same heavy look, no
 sleepy, but as if he didn't care abou
 anything that was going on about hin | t.4, 1I, Jx,r{ y1@1
 he was thinking about anything; but al | if he would think like hurricane if h' | once got walked up to 1t. It wasn't b,
 any means an empty look, this of MT l Webster's, but one that didn't seem t
 see anything going on worth his while. | Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14
A FLORIDA INSECT.

Some parts of Florida are infested with an animal of extraordinary char acter, which has about the same rela- ton to cockroatch that whale bears to hornpout. It is gigantic bpt ex- tremely lively creature, which sudden ly appears from almost anywhere that comes in it's way. The strongest man will jump like girl at the appearance of it. It seems to be particularly abundant up at Lakeland, where the Massachusetts and New York soldiers are. Shortly after the arrival of those troops a New York journalist of deli cate sensibilities went up to Lakeland and found that he had to stay all night By dint of much persuasion he ob- tained permission to put up at @ local tavern, whose proprietress seemed to have a. deeply grounded objection to entertaining any guests at all. She gave him a candle and he went up- stairs. Presently he came rushing down in his shirt and trousers, bearing the candle, which had been extin- guished by the rapidity of his flight. On his face was an expression of terri ble alarm.
 "See hereH' he said, "there are cock reaches as big as rats running all over my bed!''
 The landlady sighed deeply. why" she said presently, you ain't afraid of them, are you? Why, they get into our table drawers and eat up our postage stamps on us as fast as we get 'em!''
 That was all the newspaper man could get out of the landlady on the subject. He had to go back to his room and sat up wondering what sort of ta- ble drawers they could have in Florida that these creatures could get into them, until he fell asleep of actual ex- haustion.-Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14

way, and the walls are as thick as would be needed for 8 fortress. The Dutch governor lives in solemn-look- ing old mansion fronting the Shattegat, or lagoon, that forms the harbor, guarded by company of stupid-look- ing soldiers with few old-fashioned cannon. The entire island Is of phos- plates, and the government receives a revenue of five hundred thousand dol lars from companies that ship them away. There is not a spring or a well, or any fresh water and the inhabitants are entirely dependent upon rain-water for existence, or upon supplies brought in barrels by schooners from the Ven- ezuelan coast, ninety miles away, or upon distilled sea-water. AS some times it doesn't rain for a year or two the natural supply is often exhausted, and glass of imported water is worth as much as the same amount of wine or beer.
 Curacao gives it's name to a celebra- ted liquor that was formerly manufac- tured from the peel of peculiar spe- cies of orange growing there, but most of the fruit trees have been destroyed ny LiiC dHu tllC supply lioW comes from other of the West Indian islands. The inhabitants are mostly negroes. A few rich merchants, repre- senting all nationalities are said to have made their money by smuggling. It is a free port. No duties of any sort are charged, and as the amount of mer- chandise imported annually is about twenty-five times as much as the in- habitants can consume, and the harbor is constantly filled with little schooners that seem to be always loading and un- loading, there is good ground for the
 belief that contraband, trade with the
 main coast is still going on. Each steamer leaves enough goods upon the | docks at Curacao to last the popula-
 ton an entire year. What becomes of it is question for the customs officers | of Venezuela and Colombia to answer Chicago Record.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14
HOW TEN DOLLARS GREW.
Savings Bank Accumulation of Fift.
 n-a vooro

Savings Bank Accumulation of Fifty
 One Years
 Fifty-one years ago a wellknown Norwich merchant deposited ten dol- lars, the first money he ever earned, in the Savings Bank of New London. Wednesday he was in this city and for the first time had the interest added to his book. He was somewhat surprised to learn that the ten dollars had grown to $1360S, which is a striking example of how rapidly money will grow if the interest is allowed to compound.
 The number of his bank book was 1039, while now the books of the bank show that there have been over forty six thousand depostors since it's or ganization.--New London Day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14
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The Stock Market-A siump That Sur-
 prised Most Speculative Observers.

The Stock Mariset-A slump That Sur-
 prised Most Speculative Observers.
 New York, June 13.-The slump in the stock market to-day was surprise to most speculative observers, who looked for an advance in prices after the ap- parent abandonment of last weeks per- sstent attempt to secure reaction. The underlying cause of to-days vio- lent decline was not very clear and many suggested solutions of the puzzle, all more or less ingenius, found curren- cy. Superficially, there was evident some sympathy with the dropping of the bottom out of the wheat market, and there were very heavy sales of se- curities on the New York exchange on telegraphic orders from Chicago. A decline in the price of wheat does not necessarily imply harm to railroad property, as was seen in the notable advance in the grangers last Friday on favorable government report, but so violent a decline in wheat as that of to- day arouses some question whether the farmers will find a profit in the sale of the years crop, and the railroad com panies are of course dependent for their prosperity on the prosperity of the pop ulation they serve. Furthermore, such shrinkage in values as that in grain to-day involves a large liquidation of collaterals, and it was this that caused the chief damage to prices of stocks. Weakness permeated pretty much the whole list, but was especially marked in the grangers, Peoples Gas and some of the high priced specialties. This acute selling pressure from Chicago | pending large failure in Chicago in | the grain trade.
 But there was also an ingenius sug- | gestion to the effect that a large spec ulative combination in Chicago was manipulating the markets with a view l to going long of wheat while going short of stocks on the prospect of the | inevitable rumors of crop damage be- fore harvest time. Damage to the crop or even widely credited reports of dam- l age, would certainly result in a bulge in the wheat market and in sharp re- action in stocks.
 It is perhaps worthy of note in this connection that in Spite of to-day's l heavy selling of stocks for Chicago ac- count New York exchange went to thir- | ty cents premium in Chicago. There I was an appreciable hardening in the l tone of the local money market to-day | and rates for time money were quota I ply higher. Sterling exchange declined one-half to three-quarter cents both fol actual and posted rates. Preparations for the government issue were thus
 manifest in the money market and may possibly have made an impression alst on the stock speculation.
 London bought freely of stocks here at the morning decline and thus helped to weaken the exchange market. Int rally in the last hour of the stock mar.
 ket was plainly on covering by profes sional traders, and reduced the losses
 in many stocks by point or over. To-day's activity in the bond marke was at the expense of values, as wa!
 the case in stocks. The total sales az
 gregated $2,300.00o.
 United States new fours coupon ad vanced x and the registed fours, botl
 old and new, 4 per cent. in the bit
 price.