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The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Post B is the banner post in the state and is fast increasing in membership. President Hart has hia. eye on a report for double membership at the state con vention. All the boys have promised as sistance and his report will make them feel proud of this effort
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Col. Higdon is "hustling'' day and night for new members, and is meeting with much success.
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Many of the boys are in from the "sticks," and report trade just "so-so."
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Reindolar, "Old Patent Medicine" came in yesterday, but no one knows from where.
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Post B intends to go to the Mobile state convention with more delegates than the rest of the state combined.
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Post B is glad to see Dan Rogan join the association. Dan is always with the boys.
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Post B boys are all straight "ten-cent ers," and you can't fool em on cigars
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

At an early date the jobbers and manu- lecturers will be asked to join Post B. President Hart has already secured many assurances of success in this direction "Friendship and success" are the watch words of the order.
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Joe Lantznster says it is right for every travelling man to belong to he Travellers Protective association. Joe can can speak from experience, as he has been drawi ing S25 per week while he has been laid up with a sprained limb.
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Any one who owns an Al bulldog and will guarantee him to put up good fight, can find sale for him by correspond ing with the secretary of Post B. Nothing but full English goes.
The age-herald., 1898-01-23
Fill in Orders.

Fill in Orders.
 The boys were pleased to have President D. M Scott with them at the smoker" Dave knows when he gets 'two-fer." Post has the best president of any post, not alone in Alabama, but in the tire association, President Loui Hart has the interest of the association at "hart" at all times, and never fails to land the new members.
The age-herald., 1898-01-23

Col. R. Cunningham. chairman of the Alabama railroad committee says the boys must not dispair about the 2c interchange able mileage that the Southern States Pas senger association is the only association
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The evening times., 1898-10-21
Reward or Punishment,

On the whole, ii was well that the
Alger Relief Commission postponed its
trip to the camps until the rewards of
evidence favorable to the War Depart
ment and the penalties for truth-tell-
ing had penetrated the understanding
of all possible witnesses. Only persons
who are now in the military service of
the Government, and therefore under
the control of Secretary Alger, are
called 10 the stand. Only over such
persons can the hope Of reward and
the fear Of punishment be held That
not even General Breckenridge could
escape the penalty fixed for those who
criticise either the department or its
favorites, is warning enough to subor-
dinate officers. The testimony of doc
tors and others, all selected witnesses,
is to be read in this light Wherever
there is an officer who might be dis
posed TO tell the truth and locate the
fault, regardless of his own future, he
has no chance of being asked to en-
tighten the Commission.
One of the witnesses examined-a
surgeon-in-chief of volunteers-would
not pretend that everything had been
lovely. On the contrary he found the
conditions about as bad as possible.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
FRIDAY, OCTOBER p, 1898.
One Republicans Opinion.

Last Sunday the Rev. Lyman Abbott.
the successor of Henry Ward Beecher
in Plymouth Church, expressed the dis
trust Of the Alger Relief Commission
a which the whole country feels. 1t has
deceived nobody. The other day. being
in Pennsylvania, DR. Abbott spoke on
the general question. He is a Republican
and he accounted for the apathy of the
masses Of his party by charging it TO
the cruel sufferings inflicted on our SOL
diers by the incompetent head and sub
ordinates Of the War Department. He
noted that there is AN attempt to cover
up the shortcomings of the War De-
partment'' in the recent war, and he
said:
Such course is certainly 60 ng 10 mean d I ?
10 the Republican party in the coming election.
[ believe that the misconduct of Affairs during
the recent conflict VIII cost US the House OF Rep
Tesentatives.
No matter what may be done to cover il up.
the War Department is responsible for the fail
ures OF the recent campaigns. Tae appointment
OF favored sons and other political appointments
as officers 10 have charge OF the veal or woe oi
our sons grave error. The American soldier
is the superior Of any the world over, but il Wa-
q crime 10 place him in the charge OF men wlosa
only experience was in exercising the influence
secured to them by their fathers or the acquaiut-
ance OF some politician. II is a serious matter
to place the lives Of brave men in the hands of
such incompetent characters As these. Why the
investigating committee can discover nothing
when the fact is apparent everyone else, Is one
OF those mysteries OF politics.
Here is truth from a Republican who
dares not shield Wrongdoers His whole
life has been a warfare against wrong.
He says what many other prominent
Republicans only think The masses Of
the party are parents and patriots first,
and when their party becomes the de-
fender of Alger and Algerism under
which their sons died or were wrecked
needlessly and as a result of the abuse
Of the power of appointment in the
hands of politician, they are deaf to
the appeals even Of the President. The
placing Of the lives of the sick SOL
diers in the hands of a horse doctor
because/of his political influence, is the
sort Of thing that filled the cemeteries
and the loss is still too keenly felt for
them to rally to the defense of the
chief culprit.
The President had his opportunity to
choose between the welfare of the army
and the country, between his obliga-
tions TO the people and his obligations
TO Secretary Alger. He chose the latter
and it is unfair as well as futile for
him TO ask the people to support him
until peace is effected" AS one Re
publican has frankly said, if he will
drop Alger he will not need to ask for
popular support.
The evening times., 1898-10-21

The men suffered all the needless
hardships that have been described by
others, and the epidemic of disease
might have been prevented. But he
asserted that the company officers
were to blame. OF course they were
They should all have been as well ac-
quainted with sanitary laws as Colonel
Waring is-every man ought to be and
is to blame for his ignorance. Yet, the
Government took the company officers
into the service with the full knowledge
that they had never been trained in
sanitary science. 1t was the business
of the Medical Department to prevent
the company officers from making sani-
tary mistakes. Unfortunately, the Off
GERS of the Medical Department were
quite as ignorant of sanitary science as
the company officers or the enlisted
men, having been appointed through
political influence. The chief medical
man in charge Of one of the camps was
a horse doctor. The Government had
no reason to expect the company Off
GERS of volunteer regiments to know all
dboul cam -lldhlUss anu ponce hOIh
for the prevention of disease.
While the Commissioners welcome
this sort of testimony, it is bound to
make their report very funny. Some
of the witnesses have testified that
there was no neglect anywhere, that
there were rations TO throw away and
that the deaths were unavoidable. A
fair summary Of it all will be that there
was no suffering, no lack of provisions
and no avoidable sickness; and that
the suffering and starvation and need
less sickness and deaths were all due
To the neglect of the company officers.
This is the natural result of extracting
testimony from witnesses by the brib-
cry Of promotion and the menace of
punishment. Every officer whose tes-
timony has been favorable to the War
Department, has been taken care Of"
and every officer who has reflected on
the efficiency of that department or of
its favorites, from General Breckin-
ridge down, will be disposed Of"
The evening times., 1898-10-21
4 Great MINIS Dinner.
CFrom the Chicago News.l

Agassiz, when a Young man, paid visit to
the great German naturalist, Prof Lorenz Oxen.
The professor received his guest with en-
thuSiasHI, but apparent enbar assment. lie
showed his vi-itor the laboratory and the stu
dents at work, also his cabinet, and lastly his
splendid library Of books, collection well de-
serving the glow of pride which the owner mani
tested as he eNpatated on its excellence. Ths
dinner hou- came, and then the emblrra> >sment
of the great German reached its maximum
point. N. AgasSiz, lie said, with perturbation,
Ito gather and keep up this library eSacts the
utmost husbandTy of my pecuniary means. To
accomplish this | allow myself no luxury what
eve. Hence my table is restricted 10 the plain
est fare. Thrice a week our table boasts of
meat: the other days have only potatoes and
salt | very much regret that your visit has
occurred upon potato day And so The splen-
did Switzer and the great German, with his
students. dined together on potatoes ard salt
The evening times., 1898-10-21
COurane.

II is not they that never knew
Weakness or fear who are the brave;
Those are the proud, the knightly few
Whose joy is still to serve and save.
But they who, in the weary night,
Amid the darkness and the stress.
Have struggled with disease and blight,
With pitiful world weariness.
They who have yearned to stand among
The free and mighty of the earth,
Whose sad. aspiring souls are wrung
With starless hope and hollow mirth--
Who die with every day. yet live
Through merciless. unbrightened years,
Whose sweetest right is to forgive
And smile divinely thr ugh their tears.
They are the noble, they the strong.
They are the tried, the trusted ones,
And though their way is hard and long
Straight TO the pitying God it runs
George Edgar Montgomery
The evening times., 1898-10-21
Yict0ria's Cigars.
(From the New York journal.

Queen Victoria has great dislike OF smoking
and will not tolerate the use of tobacco in her
immediate neighborhocd. And yet the cigar bill
for her guests is very heavy one.
The principal item is the brand Of the finest
Havana cigars, which specially made for her,
ard sent 10 Windsor in glass tubes hermetically
sealed Queen Victorias could net be had even
in Cuba at wholesale prices under 1 dollar apiece
The men who make them receive thirty cents
for each cigar, and none but the Oldest and most
skiilful wcrhmen are entrusted with their manu-
facture At this rate they can earn quite small
fortune, for 500 cigars a day can be turned out
by the most expert
The evening times., 1898-10-21
4 WONDERFUL CLOCK.

In Kankakee County. H., is a clock that
is as near as any mechanism has come to
perpetual motion We are told by the
Chicago Chronicle that the owner is not
a perpetual motion crank. but is an ex-
Ceedingly ingenious jeweler named Peter
NJ Ravenskilde. of Cabery, husting
town in the southwestern portion of Kan
kakee County. The clock is the product
of many years of study and labor and
considerable expense. 1t keeps accurate
time and will run for year without the
least attention from its owner.
The clock proper is run with wheel 81
inches in circumference. From the outer
surface of the circumference are suspend
ed l20 cups, each one-half inch in diam
eter and q third of an inch deep. Each of
forty of these cups. which are successive,
contain steel balls three-eighths of an inch
in diameter Every minute and half as
this wheel turns by the weight of these
balls. one of them falls out of its cup,
rolls down an inclined plane 20 inches
long. when by its own weight, ii re-
unites broken circuit of electricity and
is again elevated by little car travelling
along a sleeper inclined plane to the top of
the wheel, where it falls into a cup which
stands vertical for a short time. After
the car discharges its cargo ii returns TO
it's original station from its own weight
From the time one of these balls is drop
ped into a cup until it is again dropped
into another cup 1t travels 36 inches. Thus
the work done by all the balls is equiva-
lent to one ball travelling over l mile a
day; 400 miles in one year and during the
lifetime of person living three score
years the distance around the globe.
The electricity used is generated in an
ordinary storage battery, which does not
require any attention for fully a year.
Another clock owned by Mr.. Ravenskilde
is of a similar construction, but consider
ably smaller This clock is used to attract
attention in the store A porcelain globe
is placed back of the clock and at night
green. red and white electric lights re-
feet their rays alternately on the face
of the clock. the colors being changed
each time the ball is discharged from one
of the cups on the tfmepiece.
Mr. Ravenskilde has had many offers
to exhibit his clocks, but refuses to do so,
and so far he has not had the mechanism
patented.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
4 Hundred Years Ago.

tFrom the Chicago Journal)
There was not a public library in the United
Sta:es.
Almost all the furniture was imported from
England.
An old copper mine in Connecticut was used
as prison.
Every gentleman wore queue, and. powdered
his hair
Thee was only one hat factory. and that made
cooked hats.
CroekeEy plates were objected to because they
duled the knives.
Virginia contained fifth of the whole popula-
ton of the country.
\ man who ieered at a preacher or criticised
tre fined.
\ gentleman bowing to a lady always scraped
hi> + at on the round.
Two stage coaches bore all the travel between
Nrw York and Boston
4 day-labgT,r considered himself we'll paid with
> shllings a day.
When a man had enough tea, he placed his
spoon across his cup 10 indicate that he wanted
10 more.
The church collection was taken in a bag fas-
tened At the end OF pole with a bell attached
TO rouse sleepy contributors.
The evening times., 1898-10-21

If we could have an investigating COM
mittee intent on learning facts about the
incompetency of the War Department it
would not need TO go further than the
suppressed report of Colonel Roosevelt.
and neglect of the quartermaster COM
missary and medical departments. Be-
cause it would be fatal TO the calcimine
purposes of the Alger Relief Commission
it has never been called for. The Com
missioners are as shy of that as they are
of General Miles.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
A Queer Feeder.
(From the New York Sun.

Among eccentric feeders DIR. George
Fordvce an eminent anatomist. His theory.
based on the habits of the lion, that one
gorsing repast day was amply sufficient for any
human being. He ate only once in twenty
four hours and then at O. clock in the afternoon.
At this meal he consumed half b-oiled chicken.
a pound and half of rump steak vegetables and
cheese He devoted an hour and half to the con-
sumption Of this meal, and in drinking a tankard
of strong ale. quart bottle OF port wine and a
half-pint of brandy. DR.. Fordyce continued this
regime for twenty years. and during that time
he enjoyed perfect health
The evening times., 1898-10-21

Gen. Breckenridge has been closed. He
has turned over his corps command at
Lexington to his successor, Gen. Wilson,
and will return within a few days to
Washington, where he will once more oc-
cupy his desk and be ever under the
watchful eyes of men who regard Shaf-
ter as the prime factor in the army.
Poor Gen. Breckenridge! He made the ia
tai mistake of showing wisdom and cour-
age in front of the enemy.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
From Cigarettes.

Louis McCarty, fourteen years old. OF Jere-
miah McCarty, employe of the Big Four Rail
way at Wabash, died yesterday from the excessive
use of cigarettes. The lad had been addicted to
the habit for several years, and. though pleaded
with repeatedly by his parents, seemed unable
to quit smoking. His system was saturated with
nicotine poison. death coming as welcome relief
to end his sufferings.
The evening times., 1898-10-21

Whatever may be the destiny of Cuba
the system Of administration inaugurated
by General Wood in his proclamation to
the people of Santiago Province is exactly
what the situation requires. If the peo-
pie are to be Independent the experience
which they will require under this sys-
The evening times., 1898-10-21

In borrowing the American interview
the English newspapers have also bor-
rowed the habit of inaccuracy, which is a
characteristic of a few of the New York
intervtewers. Or is Mr.. Chamberlain like
some of our own public men-ready to re-
pudate truthful report OF his conversa-
ton because it doesn't read as well as it
sounds?
The evening times., 1898-10-21

At any rate, the military activity of
France will draw attention from the per-
ennial Dreyfus case and diminish the dan
ger of riot from the strike Perhaps this,
more than an intention to defy England,
is the cause of the activity.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
The Republicans of Pennsylvania to

The Republicans of Pennsylvania, too,
appear to be apathetic. Algerism on top
OF Quayism is more than most Republi-
cans can stand. They think the President
calls for more holding up than would be
necessary if he had less regard for the
welfare Of the incompetents and rascals
and more care for the welfare of the
country.
The evening times., 1898-10-21

In the return of General Breckenridge
10 Washington. deprived OF the command
of an army corps to which he was ap-
pointed by general order 163. all army Off
GERS may see the result of criticising the
War Department and its favorites.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
Times Changes.
rom the Indiapapolis JournalA

From the Indianapolis JournaL)
''How women change said the man who has
been married year. 'My wife used to write
TO me and send me bushel Of kisses in her
letters-'
.'Um," said the man who has been married
quarter OF century.
.'But now, when leave for the office. she Just
gives me peck, and short one at that"
The evening times., 1898-10-21
Interpretation.

Teacher-In this stanza, what is meant by the
line THE shades of night were falling fast?
Bright Scholar-The people were pulling down
the blinds.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
CURRENT HUMOR.
Our Language.

(From the Indianapolis Journal.)
Watts-You opened at Punkvile, did you notH
Barnes T9rmer-Yes-and stood pat.
'.What do you mean|'
az mean we didn't draw"
The evening times., 1898-10-21

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The evening times., 1898-10-21

If General Chaffee is correctly quoted.
his ideas require reorganization worse
than the army does. He is reported as
saying that our forces had too little op-
portunity in the field to test present or
ganization and to indicate what, If any,
improvements or changes may be needed.
We think the general must have been
misrepresented, because what he is al
legged to have said is nonsense. The
United States army, prior to the present
war with Spain, organized as armies
were in the time of Frederick the Great.
The Franco -Prussian war showed the fu-
tility of that organization under modern
conditions, and it did not require any re-
cent experience, or the lack of it, to dem
onstrate the desirability of radical re-
form.
The evening times., 1898-10-21

"our country, SIR roared the Yankee. "knows
no East, no West, no North, no Southv'
''Indeed?' said Mr.. Flyppe. of London "what
a confoundedly ignorant country
The evening times., 1898-10-21
; Not I,nteIv

(From the indianapolis Journal.)
He-You have heard of the old, old story that
is ever new2
She-Yes; but haven't been to a minstrel show
for two yelrs.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
What He Got.
(From the Boston Transcrint \

(From the Boston Transcnpt.)
Gretson-So you brought suit for damages for
injuries received in the smashup Did you ever
get anything?
Dorster-I never received anything for myself
but | got enough out of the company to support
years.
The evening times., 1898-10-21

I'VE are of no more use here than three
schoolbcys." said one of the Evacuation
Commisz .oEers at Havana There has
been no dissent from this up to date.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
Her Object.
(From Judge.)
A Natural Inference.

Madge-She is going on a trip out West.
Majorie-Pleastire or divorce?
The evening times., 1898-10-21

Communications intended for publication in
THE TIMES should be tarsaly and plainly written.
and must in ali cases be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. Rejected com
municstions will not be preserved. and only man
uscripts Of obvious importance will be returned
o. their authors.
The evening times., 1898-10-21

tenn is essential as a preparation for their
responsibilities. If they ever desire an
nexation by this country they would be
accepted only after they had learned such
principles of government as General
Woods scheme applies. From its opera
ton we shall be able to judge how nearly
ready Cuba is for independence.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
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The evening times., 1898-10-21

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ing and Sunday. will be mailed to addres,
for FIFTY CENTS per month Addresses changed
ms often as desired.
The evening times., 1898-10-21
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