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The age-herald., 1898-03-26
MANY ARE
 ENL|ST|uC For Service in the Volunteer Squadron---WiII Be Organ ized in a Few Days.

The recruiting station of the volunteer squadron which is being organized by Capt. J. B. Morson, of Troop D.. at the headquar- ters of that company in Third avenue pre- sents lively appearance.
 The sign calling for 400 volunteers for cavalry service which is hung in the front window of the building is attracting much attention. Almost every man who passes along that street stops to read it and many inquiries are made concerning the conditions of the situation.
 The list is being rapidly filled, about 150 names having already been secured It Is thought that the entire number will be se- cured in a few days when the troops will be organized.
 As has been before stated in The Age Herald the squadron will consist of four troops of 100 men each in charge of officers who will be commissioned by Gov. John ston.
 In the event of war with Spain the squadron will respond to the first call for troops and would probably be assigned to the department of the Gulf under Gen. Graham, with headquarters in Atlanta.
 The boys are anxious for a tilt, and some ''warm war talk can be heard at the headquarters almost every afternoon, where members of the volunteers gather to discuss the situation.
 Capt. MorSon, who will be commissioned major of the squadron, has given orders for the officers of the different troops to meet at headquarters every afternoon for instructions in order that they will be pre- pared to take charge of their respective commands on a moments notice.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
EFFORT TO HAVE FORCE INCREASED.
Move Will Be Made to This End in Police Com
 mission Meeting.

At the meeting of the police commission MT. Garrett will introduce and advocate resolution asking that the police force be increased.
 Only short time ago committees from the city council and police commission met in joint session and passed reso- lution, that, while recognizing the fact that the police force of Birmingham is not sufficient to properly guard the property and citizens of Birmingham, the municipal finances are not in the condition to stand the outlay that would be necessary to an increase of the force.
 Notwithstanding this, Commissioner Gar rett will endeavor to have his resolution passed. The commission and city council are unanimous In the opinion that the police force should be increased, but they are extremely careful of the peoples money They will have to act together if the force is increased because one hires them and the other pays them.
 Commissioner Lesser, when asked about the proposed resolution yesterday said that he had heard nothing of 1t and did not believe that one would be introduced.
 "There is doubt that Birmingham needs more patrolmen," said Mr. Lesser, but the force will not be increased. It takes all of Birmingham's spare cash to pay the interest on It's bonds. There will be no increase in the force."
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
-A.- ED M. MORRIS,
 A MACH|N|S7 Tells of the Situation in Cuba Hard to Secure a Passport
 to Leave the Island.

Ed M. Morris, an expert machinist, is in the city, having just arrived from Havana, Cuba, where he has been for some time past. MT. Morris left Havana two weeks ago last Sunday.
 His account of the condition of affairs as they now exist in the capital of the island is an interesting one. He did not go all over Cuba, but went far enough into the interior to see the misery and distress which is now being so graphically depicted in congress and by the press throughout the country. MT. Morris says that he went only twenty-five miles, but that was enough for the average man.
 He says that Americans are having hard time in Havana now, being openly treated discourteously It is easy enough to get on the island, he said, but to get away is a hard matter. In order to. leave a passport must be obtained, and to do this the applicant must be identified by a resi- dent of Havana, which is in many cases inn possible. Even after you have, found some friend who Is willing to assist you the in- terpreters put one off from day to day with oma-tomorroW"
 "'Why don't you go to Gen. Lee?' have been asked" said MT. Morris.
 "This question is easily answered. Gen. Lee has about one thousand callers a day, and as much as he likes to accommodate all Americans, affairs of state must al ways come first. and it is hard for man who wants only a passport to get to the consul-general When you do get to see him, however, he receives you politely. though urging you to state your business promptly. Gen. Lee is fairly worshipped by every American in Havana.
 Unless you are a good strong swim mer 1t is impossible to get out of Havana without a passport. A fact that I don't think has ever been published in any of the papers is that the Spanards have torn away the wharf at the city and it is now necessary to enter the boats which are to take you out to the ships by means of a rope ladder. The boats land and receive passengers from this point only. There Is no hurry or rush to enter the boat. The soldiers at the top of the wall which sur rounds the harbor keep the crowd back and those who have passports go down the ladder one at time.
 "The same difficulties are experienced in getting your mail. After you are iden- tified the mail Is handed out to a censor who tears it open, reads all of it carefully and then gives it to you. If there is any, thing suspicious In It, you do well to es- cape immediate arrest.
 "The citizens of Havana, as a rule. keep their mouths pretty well shut. I believe that in case of war two-thirds of them would sympathize with the Cubans. They think the war will be short and horrible"
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
CoIored Der,nocrata

There will be a called meeting of all the colored democrats of Jefferson, Bibb, Hale, Perry and Blount counties, comprising the Ninth congressional district of the state of Alabama, at Union hall, in this city, on the 2d day of April, 1898, for the purpose of furthering the cause of free silver and the success of Alabama democracy.
 All of the colored democrats of the Ninth district are earnestly requested to be pres- ent at this meeting; and the white demo- crats are requested to call their attention to this notice and to assist them in being present, as matters of importance will be discussed and decided in said meeting David Parker, editor of the Tuscaloosa Chronicle, will address the meeting on the silver question.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
THE WAFER COMPANY
Will Submit New Schedule of Rates-Special
 Committee to Meet in Few Days.

A meeting of tile water committee will be held in the next few days to prepare a report to be laid before the city council at the next meeting.
 One of the members said yesterday that everything was ready except as to the question of rates. The water company will prepare a new schedule of rates and sub- init it to the committee. It is said that there will be a radical change for the better in the prices that the citizens of Birmingham will pay for water in the fu- ture. The water company will prepare the schedule, but the water company will see that they are favorable to the people.
 The committee will not recommend that a filter be put in. Chairman Meighan said to an Age-Herald reporter that he was of the opinion that the water was Birmingham GO GO GO eoOpl7El7El-- pure and hea5thful from the fact that Birmingham is healthy city and It's death rate compares most favorably with that of other cities.
 However, it is we'll known that citizens have been paying too much for water, and the committee will see that this matter is properly adjusted. Major Milner himself said on the witness stand that he believed a more equitable contract with the city could be made.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26

sold The thieves, or their friends, most of them negroes, take them around the next day from house to house and sell them for whatever they can get. The good housewives never stop to question, but when an expensive palm is priced at quar- ter, or when some other equally as cheap bargain is offered, they buy them will ingly.
 "Ive about given up in disgust" said an ardent flower enthusiast to an Age-Herald reporter yesterday. After all the trouble and expense I've taken with my flowers this spring, I awoke the other morning and found my whole front yard uprooted All my new bulbs, rose bushes and every thing gone I'm not the only sufferer, either I know of numerous others who have had their flower gardens despoiied. One friend of mine has suffered to such an extent that he has set trap gun, the muzzle pointed straight toward a tempt ing bed of bulbs.
 "We've lost all hope of ever getting po- lice protection for the residence portion of the city, the only remedy l see Is for the housekeepers and flower fanciers to quit buying flowers from peddlers, and buy them from local or foreign dealers.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
Government Places Big 0rder-Captain Ham
 lin Explains Its Use.

Gen. Flagler, chief of the ordnance de- partment at Washington, has ordered from the Dittmar Powder Works, of New York 300 tons of high explosives, to be used in the event of war with Spain.
 Capt. G. r. Hamlin, the general manager of the Dittmar company, is in the city, and yesterday explained the uses and compo- sition of the explosives. Capt Hamlin said
 '"This is the highest explosive known and consists of 92.8 per cent. of nitro-glycerine and 7.2 per cent. of gun-cotton. It Is in a gelatineous form and is to be used in mines and projectiles. Its consistency is such chat it can be pressed into shape for use in any gun, and is the same which is used in the dynamite guns of the Vesuvius. . It is to be delivered at New York, Philadel- phia and Baltimore.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
FLOWER THIEVES
Getting in Their Work-No Police Protection
 Citizens Must Take It Up.

The annual epidemic of flower thieving has begun. Complaints are being regis tered from all over the city crying out for protection and for some remedy to stop this nuisance.
 The modus operandi of the thieves seems to be as follows. They go into a front yard late at night and steal everything that smacks of the floral, and carry it off, Beautiful flowers are cut and put up into attractive punches; bulbs of various kinds arc uprooted from the ground where they have just been planted; palms, ferns and all other kinds of pot plants are taken off bodily. provided they are light enough to be carried.
 Where the real trouble seems to lie is In the readiness with which these flowers are
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
STOCKHOLDERS
Of the Avondae Cotton Mill Met and Elected
 Officers.

At the annual meeting of the stockhold- CTS of the Avondale cotton mills the follow ing directors were elected:
 N E.. Barker, w. J. Milner, M. V. Joseph, Robert Jemison, B. B. Conner, Messrs. Chadwick and Wilson, of Charlotte, N. C., and Messrs Thompson and Hutchings, of Providence, R. I.
 A meeting of the directors was held and resulted in the reelection of the following officers
 President and Treasurer-B. B. Conner.
 First Vice-President-B. F. Roden
 Second Vice-President-T. T. Hillman.
 Secretary-John T. H. Lewis.
 The office of superintendent was made appointive instead of elective, and will be filled later.
 Mr. Thompson, of Providence. R. l., and Messrs Wilson and Chadwick, of Charlotte, N C., were present at the meeting and yesterday. accompanied Robt. Jemison on a visit to the Indian Head mills in Walker county.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
SUPeRSCRlPTI0NS
On Postal Cards Made Permissible by an Ord z
 of the Department.

The rule that has heretofore existed ex- cluding from the superscription of a postal card words indicating the occupation or business of the addressee has been revoked by an order of John A. Merritt, third as- stsant postmaster-general, issued March 22d.
 In the future, these additions others of a like general character will be held to be constructively part of the address and will therefore be permissible.
 No doubt many merchants will take ad- vantage of this opportunity to advertise their respective lines of trade while it is yet a novelty.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
WANTED TO HIRE. Twenty scraper teams. Ap- ply to Geo. l.. Young, 1919 4th avenue.
A Young Tragedian
8-26-2t.

Mir. James Young's brief engagement in this city left good impression. His hand some face and graceful manner are in his favor, but, best of all, Is his intense mag netism, that so we'll fits him for difficult passages in the works of the masters. He presents the soliloques of Hamlet with rare force and beauty, bringing out mean ings that perhaps the nearer had not be- fore perceived. In the course of a few years of work and study the world will hear much of the new star He is one of the bright men of the stage, and his life is very much before him.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
POLICE RULINGS.
Unfortunates Taken in Charge by the Guard
 ans of the Peace.

James Bellingsley, an aged negro. was arrested yesterday by Officers Culpepper and Baker for stealing seven blocks of leather from the store of D. B. Luster. Billingsley is a shoemaker, and had some work in his shop which was to be done, burt alas, there was no leather to complete the job. He proceeded to Luster's leather store, and it Is alleged helped himself to enough to finish the work he had on hand. But the police were on to his scheme and arrested him for larceny.
 It seems that the house of Washington Is degenerating in these closing days of the nineteenth century Two namesakes of the immortal George were locked up by the police yesterday. However, the color was slightly in contrast with that of the Father of His Country The modern Georges were charged with stealing 1.-two blts'' from Her bert Wells, and were arrested by Officers Perdue and Cahill.
 The other degenerate of the illustrious house is said to have been participant in
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
South HigIllanders

The bi-metallic club of the South High lands met at Prof. DuBose's school house last night and decided to call joint meet ing of the club with all democrats of the beat for next Friday night. That meeting will slate the delegates.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26

lands, met last night at it's hall in Jones' vile and slated the following delegates to represent their beat in the county conven- ton: #f .4s
 Dr. Lewis Whaley, D. R. Copeland, D. A. Penn and c. W. Austin.
 No instructions were given them.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
Woodlawn Democrats

The following gentlemen have been slated as delegates to the county convention from Woodlawn:
 J. s. Kennedy, c. H. Simms. Prof. J. M. Dewberry, A. B. Parks, M. F. Wood, J. T.. Terry and Joe H. Hood.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26
Little "Red Riding Hood"

ETI0Tt Htu HIUIIIR TIUUU'
 All is in readiness for the charming little operetta of Red Riding Hoods Rescue" which win be presented at the opera house at o'clock this afternoon. As previously announced in The Age-Herald over 275 pupils of Hamlen school will take part, and in the grand chorus alone there are over 1So voices.
 The admission price will be 25 cents, and the proceeds will go the public library.
The age-herald., 1898-03-26

. quiet little game Of craps, and was "jerked" by Officer Scherber.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-19
BREAKFAST CEREALS.
They Contain Essential Elements For Per.
feet Nourishment of the Body.

They Contain Essential Elements For Per
feet Nourishment of the Body.
Cereals and fruits should form the
base of breakfast foods, . writes Mrs.
S. I. Rorer on Breakfast Cereals and
Fruits in her cooking lesson in The
Ladies Home journal. "They will sup
port muscular action, preserve the heat
OF the body and strengthen the brain in
its nervous activity. Whole or steel cut
oats and whole wheat, from which our
nineteenth century bread should be
made, contain the essential elements for
the perfect nOurishment of the human
body. The great objection to cereal
foods is their difficulty of digestion, not
from any fault Of the foods, but, first,
from lack of time in cooking and, second,
from lack Of proper mastication. Raw
starches are indigestible. The first step,
then, toward the digestion of starches
is over the fire. Each little cell must be
ruptured, and for this long and careful
cooking is required. The second step to
the digestion of starches is in the
mouth. They are there converted from
the lnsoluble starch to soluble sugar.
If they are swallowed quickly, without
mastication, they miss this digestion,
entering the stomach as strangers. This
organ not being prepared to receive
them, they are cast out into the small
intestines to be entirely instead of part
ly digested. This organ, now compelled
to do, in addition to its own duties, the
work of the mouth, soon becomes over
taxed, and we have, as a result the
disease most common in this country
intestinal indigestion.
''Of the breakfast cereals steel cut
oats head the list. Any of the wheat
germ preparations are good. After these
come the rolled wheat and barley and
rice preparations. All these foods, how
ever, must be thoroughly cooked and
eaten without sugar. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-19
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-19
why He Left the Stage.

There is in Philadelphia man who
abandoned the theatrical profession be-
cause he could not lift Fanny Daven-
port. He was member of one of the
local stock companies about 20 years
ago, when Miss Davenport came to
Philadelphia with one of the men of
her company sick. She applied to the
manager of the theater in which the
young man referred to was employed
for some one to take the sick man S
place, and as the young actor was not
in the cast of the play then running his
services were loaned to Miss Davenport
He was cast for the part of Caius Lucius
in "Cymbeline, and the business of
the part required that he.should take
Miss Davenport in his arms and carry
her off the stage. The lady weighed
considerably more than he did, and
when he attempted to pick her up he
found that his strength was not equal
to the task His struggles caused the
audience to laugh, and that spoiled a
good scene. He was so Inundated that
he left the profession after that engage
ment. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-19
j. G. PARKS. R. E. BELL.
ESTABLISHED 1876.
Insurance Agency of
JIG. Parks &CO.
Dawson Ga.

IS now entering upon the
twenty-t1rst year of its success
full operations in this commun.
ity. During the past twenty
years this Agency has paid
many thousands of dollars in
losses, and has always dealt
fairly with the insuring public.
Companies represented are all
strictly frst-class and are the
Oldest and strongest in
the land. Policies issued at
reasonable rates, insuling
against loss by fires, storm,
and accidents; also for persons
desiring to give bond for any
purpose.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-19
Why take JOhnsOn's
Chill and Fever Tonic Z?
Because it cures the
most stubborn case OF
Fever in ONE DAY.
NE VS. AND VIEWS.

There are in Kansas twenty we'll built
towns without single inhabltant, and
Saratoga, in that state, now absolutely
uninhabited. has, among other build
ings, $4,000 theater.
The name "Rothschild," so famous in
finance, signifies in German cred
Shield" and is taken from sign of a
shop in the Jews quarter, Frankfort,
where the foundations of the family for
tunes were laid.
The water famine in Kansas is said to
be getting very serious, says the News.
At Emporia it is found necessary to haul
water long distances. In other places
they have TO haul water as much as
thirty-fve miles.9
One reason why female physicians are
so plentiful in Russia is that the cOun-
try includes among it's inhabitants over
Il, 900 Mob ammedans, who do not allow
male physicians to treat women.
A California Judge has decreed that a
wife can be compelled to support her
husband. This is giving the new wo-
man more rights than she bargained
( for
There are only four hours of daylight
upon the Klondike just now, and TWEEN
ty of night. No trouble to get the boys
up for breakfast we imagine.
Lights at premium at Dawson City,
Alaska. Coal oil sells for S45 gallon
and candles are as high as $50sa box OF
one hundred.
Since 1874 the population of Fiji has
has decreased from 10000 to 10000
The mortality among children is Al pen
cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-19
PROPOSED TRAMPS' FARM.
Senator Pavey's Plan For DiscipIining
New York City's Migrants.

The farm colony bill introduced in
the senate of New York state recently
by Mr.. Pavey provides that New York
city shall appropriate 500, 900 for the
establishment of an institution to be
known as the Farm Colony For Va
grants, governed by board of five mem
bers, appointed by the mayor, with a
superintendent in immediate charge
This board may establish the colony any
where in the state that it deems most
desirable.
The colony will consist Of buildings
and grounds equipped with such me-
chanical and other assistance as shall
make effective the labor of the inmates.
These inmates are limited to that class
of male persons who may be convicted
in the courts of New York city of va
grancy or habitual drunkenness, but
who are not insane or mentally or
physically incapable of being benefited
by instruction in agriculture, horticul-
ture and handicrafts.
Magistrat ties in New York will have
power to commit misdemeanants of this
GLASS between the ages Of 16 and 80 for
an indeterminate term, but the board
may not retain person so sent for a
longer time than three years. It>may
parole the prisoner when there is a rea-
sonable probability that he has reform
ed, but until the expiration Of the three
years he will be i'll the legal custody
and under the control Of the board. Il
he violates his parole or is about &c
lapse into vagrancy or drunkenness, che
board may issue a warrant for his arrest
and return him to the farm colony.
Every inmate, in the discretion OF
the superintendent, shall receive com
pensation for his work from the earn.
ings Of the colony New York World