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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
THE COOPERATIVE MILL

From the Huntsville Mercury.
Judging from the informal discussions OF
the cooperative cotton mill product, at the
recent meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, Huntsville people may build several
cotton mills. 1t may be truthfully said that
a greater number of people are interested
in this concern than in any previous in
dustrial enterprise.
Huntsville has nothing in the way of in
dustriaI investments that pay half so well
as her cotton mills. Twenty per ceRt divi-
dends are attractive and they are common
with the smaller cotton mills in this sec
ton. Under these circumstances it is by
no means strange that people with a few
hundreds or thousands should desire their
savings thus invested.
The Mercury hopes that many citizens OF
Huntsville will attend the meeting tomor-
row evening at the court house, which is
called to consider the subject of the new
cotton mill and which ought to interest
every man in the city, for the simple rea-
son that this project if carried out or con-
templated, Is Intended to benefit every cit-
zen. 1t will be a savings bank for the
for 500 worth of stock and pay for it at
the rate of S5'per month. To the man who
has large amount to invest 1t will be
better than money loaned at any attainable
rate of interest
The fact that no one will be allowed to
subscribe for more than $1,000 worth of
the stock shows the desire of the Iroprie-
tors to interest all parties in the enterprise
The carrying of this project to a success
full ending will do more to encourage the
coming of other factories here than any
other investment which can be made
When the stock is all taken the managers
will select the nearest and most available
site and buy and pay for the same, unless
some liberal minded citizen wishes to do
nate it. We believe THE theory of running
1t purely as a cotton mill is the correct
one for this enterprise and that the mill
should have no investments whatever in
company stores and company houses, and
We think it much better for all concerned
If the employees could be paid weekly, in
which case they would spend their money
in small quantities at whatever store they
wish.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
ELEPHANTS rox PHI TpPfS Es

From the Washington Post.
The war department gets its quota of
suggestions, too. 1t got one the other day
from a man who signs himself "Scipio
Caesar MacCord, Warrior" dated Sedalia,
Mo. Scipio Caesar advises the war depart
ment authorities to Immediately seize all
the elephants now in the United States
with circuses and forming part of the me-
nageries of geological gardens, and to make
up an elephant battalion to assist in carry
ing on the war In the Philippines
"Yu noe" Seip adds. ''mr. sekertry that
a elefant is horid loking best and A
hunnered elefants with gatlin guns on
Their baks wud SIMPLIFY raze hei with
Themm greesers and skar Themm intoe
tho mex Whirid.'
"Scipio Caesar Maccord. Warrior" was
duly informed through the medium of a
printed circular that his elephant idea
would be considered later. 1t is not deemed
likely, however, that the suggestion will
be adopted, for the war department is a
bit inclined to side-step on all propositions
that look to the introduction of unaccli-
mated animals into a foreign country since
the dreary fizzling out of that bunch of
reindeer for the Klondike.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

privatioh and heavy beard had changed
him considerably. but the manager reeog-
nized him as Mason at a glance.
=" Didn't you used to work for me? he
asked.
NO. replied the man. 4 was never
south before in my 1ife.'
WELL, said the manager, L have no
work for you. but you reminded me at first
of a fellow 1 want to see, fellow named
John Mason
1.-The applicant stood for a while irreso-
lutte. I used to have a partner by that
name, he said, finally, maybe 1t was him.
What was 1t about?
1.-THE manager looked him in the eye. L
wanted to tell him that that woman wasn't
dead he replied.
mason grabbed hold of the window sill
and turned white as a sheet under his
dirt His jaw trembled for minute and
then he began to blubber like child The
manager came out, led MIN in kindly, and
as soon as the Englishman saw the letter
he admitted the story of his flight was
true. The reaction was so great that h.
became half hysterical, but at last was
persuaded to go to his old quarters for the
he would make arrangements next day for
his immediate return to England"
"Well?" asked several listeners.
That's all there is to the story" said
the old reporter. Next morning John
Mason wasn't there. His bed hadn't been
slept in; nobody has ever seen him since.
Where he came from, what became of
him, who he really was, nobody knows.
The manager wrote to the mother and got
no reply. and the question arises, Was 1t
his mother. after all? Might not the let
ter have been decoy? How did the writer
learn his address? True, the manager
might have settled some of these prob
lens by further inquiries at the English
end, but he is a wise man and has learned
that 1t is not well to mcddle with detached
chapters. 1t is an excellent rule
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
Cox,s case Continued

New Orleans August 22.-The case of
William A. Cox of Chicago, wanted for
embezzlement in Cuba, and who is resist
ing the effort to return him to the island
was not heard on its merits today as the
representatives of the government said
they were awaiting extremely important
papers from General Brooke which had not
yet arrived. Cox protested against con-
tinuance, but the court granted the delay
requested on the part Of the Unit II tes
government and set the case esr trial Au-
gust 80.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
YELLOW FEVER AND QUARANTINE
From the Philadelphia Times.

FROM the Philadelphia Times.
The rapidly with which the yellow fever
outbreak at the soldiers home has been
suppressed and public confidence restored
Is due entirely to the effectiveness of the
government sanitary system by which 1t
was possible to cope with the epidemic by
the only effective method. that of isola-
ton. Yellow fever can be certainly
stamped out if it can be fenced in, and
the federal health authorities succeeded in
fencing it in at the locality in which 1t
first appeared. Under the old method of
dealing with it no one would have ex-
pected the ravages of the disease to abate
before October at the earliest, and a shot
gun quarantine would not have prevented
its spread. Under present methods the
epidemic has exhausted itself within two
weeks, although it made its appearance in
the hottest of the midsummer season.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
Care of Confederate Dead.

The proposition of President Mckinley in
favor OF national care of confederate GEM
eleries was not carried into law during
| the short session of the last congress.
| Nothing whatever came of it, but Con-
gresham Mann of Chicago proposes TO
about four Thousand dollars for the inn
provement of the Confederate mound in
cakwoods cemetery in that city, and to
make an annual appropriation afterward
for the care and protection of the sacred
spot of ground.
In Confederate Mound lie buried 4,039 con-
federate prisoners of war who died while
tenants of Camp Douglas in that city.
These bodies were first buried in the Chica-
go city cemetery, but We're afterward trans
ferred to the mound in which they now lie.
The cemetery has been greatly improved,
but Confederate mound has not been
and 1t now needs very considerable atten-
ton in order to bring 1t up in general ap-
pearance to its surroundings.
Congressman Mann's bill is even more
important as the beginning of a national
movement to care fer the graves of all
soldiers who fell in the civil war. A re-
united country demands in this respect re-
united action. The southern people,
says the New Orleans Picayune, "can have
no objection to the proposed legislation.
The day has passed when any person of
decent disposition and bringing-up any,
where would be willing to do dishonor to
the memory of the brave men of the south
who died for what they believed was right
and their duty. Within a few days past
the emperor of Germany, in unwilling a
monument to the German troops killed in
the war with France, and buried at Metz,
took occasion to eulogize the courage and
devotion of the Frenchmen who died in that
war and are buried there. If such
spect can be shown by the Germans to the
French dead of the great war of 1901, it
Is time that all rancor and bitterness of
feeling towards the men of either side who
gave up their lives to the greater war OF
1S61-6o should come to IAN end"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
INGERsOLL ON SMOKING

From the New York Press.
A Cincinnati man once said to Robert G.
Ingersoll "Mr. IngersoIl, I'm poor, hard
working man, have a family to support,
and want favor"
''Well," said Ingersoll, what can do
for your"
81 want to call a brand of my cigars
after you and permission to use your pho
tograph," answered the man.
Certainly, my man. and will give you
a motto, IL you desire"
II would thank you If you would" re-
sponded the man.
Colonel Ingefson gave 1t to him as fol-
lows: 1--WE shall smoke in this world, but
not in the next" Some months afterward,
while passing through Cincinnati, Colonel
Ingersoll was informed the man made $1,000
off the brand of cigars in less than year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
Beers and British to Lock Horns

The requests of Mr.. Chamberlain for
commission to investigate the effect of the
proposed franchise reform of the Trans
vail government upon the Uitlanders has
been refused by President Kruger, and war
Is seemingly inevitable The trouble is of
long standing, and it has now reached a
stage that threatens the welfare, IL not the
integrity. of the South African republic
In considering the problem the fact
should not be lost sight of that the Orange
Free State and Cape Colony itself both
contain majority of Beers. or descendants
from the early Dutch settlers. The gov
eminent of Cape Colony is now to some ex-
tent In their hands. Premier Schreiner beat
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
NATURE

AS fond mother, when the day is Ger,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthings on the
floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly treasured and comforted
BY promises of other in their stead, -
Which, though more splendid ray not
please him more
SO Nature deals with us and takes cfNays
Our playthings. one by one, and by the
hand
Leads us to rest so gently that we go
Scarce Knowing IL We wished to go or
stay, =
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what
we know. -LongfelIow.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

ANGW
If girl babies always stayed babies women
would tell the truth about their age.
Money is the root of evil. but poverty is
the trunk, branch, stem, leaf and every
thing else of it.
When a woman is knock-kneed she puts
on her clothes and laughs; when she is fiat
below her chin she doesn't cry, because
she can fix that, too.
One good thing about a woman's clothes,
Is that she can have awful short legs and
appear distinguished, but when a man has
got them he is just squat.
4. If 1t was the fashion to do it a woman
would come out Of swimming in only pair
of stockings; a man would be bashful about
it even If he had on dumb-bell diving suit.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
A COLONY OF LEPERS
Are Said to Exist in the Northern Part
of Washington

Washington, August 22.-Commissioner
of Immigration Fowderly has finally de-
cided the case of Mrs. L.. NJ. Todd, Brit
islh subject, who is now in the San Fran
cisco pesthouse, suffering with the lep-
rosy. The commissioner directs that she be
sent back to the Hawaiian Islands and
confined to the leper colony there. Inspect
ors have recently reported it is their belief
that a colony of lepers exists In the north
ern part of Washington.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
NO ALLIANCE PROJECTED
South America Will Not Combine
Against the United States

Rio Janeiro, August 22.--The Noticia, in
an official article today, classes as basely
false the rumors of a projected alliance
of the South American Republic against
their best customers for coffee, the United
States, and bitterly censures the specula-
ticn, which, it says, is having depress-
ing effect upon business.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
PUDDLERs GOING SOUTH

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Thomas Cunningham left last night for
Birmingham. Ala. with about twenty pud-
dlers whom he had induced to go south
TO work in the Birmingham Rolling COM
pany's plant. There Is steady demand
Tor experienced puddlers in the southern
iron manufacturing districts. The pud-
dlers said they are to get S. ton until
September, when they are TO be advanced
to $6.25 per ton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
TRUST LOGIC
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
The beef trust is logical. In hard times
it keeps UP the price of meat because cat
tie are so scarce. In good times it just
advances the price peg or two because
tthe people eat so much that it is impossible
to supply the demand.
1t is easier to catch weasel asleep than
it is to catch trust without good sound
reason for its extortion.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

Estcrhazy has the audacty to say he
wrote the bordereau, when whole lot of
French generals say he did not. He is a
great prevaricator and general scoundrel,
but he certainly knows what he wrote.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The Iowa democrats did not in any man.
ner endorse the Eastern programme, for
they said at the outset in their PLATFORM
1--WE unqualifiedly and unreservedly en-
and in detail"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
Roca Returns to guenos ayres

Buenos Ayres, August 22.-Genefal Roca,
president of the Argentine Republic, and
lis suite returned today with t.c Argentine
squadron from the recent visit paid to
DR.. Campos Sales, president OF Brazil.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
EDUCATION ALL NEEDFUL

From the Columbiana Advocate.
What the masses need is more education.
The farmers and laboring class of every.
kind should take more interest in educat-
ing themselves and their offspring.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
CAUSE OF TIE TEA RS

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
If President Kruger weeps at his war
councils the British have no occasion to
take courage He is probably weeping for
them.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

General Joe Wheeler will let no Philip
pine grass grow under his feet. He pro-
poses to bag Aguinaldo and return in time
to take his seat in congress. He Is a
hustler, and he is in the habit of doing all
he contracts to do.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
II Diogenes were still looking for an
honest man he would not waste much time
in the courtroom at Rennes.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

General Joe Wheeler was undoubtedly
looking for a clearinghouse yesterday in
Manila, and looking also for way to
catch the esteemed Aguinaldo. mapping.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

Mrs. Leases determination to give up
stump-speeking is not taken seriously in
Kansas, where her facility for changing
her mind is we'll understood.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The stricken condition of Senator-elec'
Hayward, of Nebraska. reduces the re.
publican majority in the senate to rather
narrow figures.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The United States will soon be one of
the great military powers. and 1t Is the
intention of the plutocrats to keep 1t there.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

Mrs. Langtry says she is 80, marked down
from some indefinite figure up about 50.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

II the Sultan Of sulu should con nde to
visit the home country, bringins sl.,s fouE
hundred sultanas along. social problems
as high as Olympus at least would arise.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The Boors tasted on Sunday, but their
rifles were laid away the night before
well FURNISHED in dry places
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The man or woman who thinks this town
rent a house.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

John Brown is running for governor ii
one state. and John Smith in another. Plair
names are having an inning.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The ten new federal regiments just mus
tered in will cost each family in the. land
one dollar more year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The Gadsden Times-News says "goo'
times will come" So they will, but, m.
colonel, they are already here.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
CHARGE 1T TO TuE aT1.,MoRIIE

Serious structural defects were discov-
cred in the Gustus Van wycl boom.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The Jersey Lily's husband is much
younger than herself both in years and
experience.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

Dom Paul viii not lecture whatever may
befall him, for he Is neither ccneeited nor
good looking.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

= There will not be two democratic tickets
before tho people next year in this state
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

The one recruit that is needed in the
Philippines is Nelson A. Miles.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

From the Spokane Review
The horse cannery at Linnton Ore, is
running full time again.
Evening journal., 1899-10-30
HIS IDENTITY UNCERTAIN
BODY or UNKNOWN MAN FOUND
IN THE CHRISTIANA YESTER-


BODY or UNKNOWN MAN FOUND
IN THE CHRIsTIANA YEsTER-
DAY.
At 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the body Of an unknown man, about
As years Of age, and supposed to be
Patrick Reardon, was found floating in
the Christiana river.
The discovery was made by Bridge
tender Rice, of the p, W. & b. cut
off, who secured the remains and noti-
hed the coroner. who removed them
to the mOrgue.
The body was badly decomposed,
having evidently been in the water sew
eral days. Among the articles found in
the dead mans pockets was a pay en-
velope, on which was written Patrick
.eRardon, No. 10, October IA, 1899. e"
Several addresses were also found, and
"a note signed "Sue Cunningham" the
contents of which speaks of Mr.. Rear
don as being a good shoemaker was
among them. In a time-boOk was
marked the name f. Blumenthal- & Co
The deceased was about six feet tall
and had grey hair and mustache. Cor
oner Vandever will hold an inquest to-
night, and if the body is not identified
by that time, it will be buried at Farm
hurst.
Evening journal., 1899-10-30
LOCAL NEWS NOTES

Try Clayton House TOnsorial Pal-
ace. Opens a. IN. Six chairs.
United States Commissioner S. Rod
mond Smith heard more testimony in
the Arlington Mills Manufacturing
Company's case in a disputed claim OF
the receivers. amounting 10 $4,000.
The interior of the new building at
Tenth and Market streets will be push
ed vigorously, the galvanized iron cor
nices having been put in position and
painted
City Clerk William Marshall. OF
New Castle, has resigned, alterations
being found on the tax books.
Sand barge, No. 3, is at the Charles
Warner and Sons Companys wharf,
loaded with river sand.
Sometime during this week the
Enoch Moore and Sons Company will
lay the keel OF the new oil tank barge
for the Standard Oil Company.
p, w. & B. railroad tracks at
Fourth street are being repaired
Several oyster boats arrived at the
Church street wharf on Saturday from
Crisield, Nd
Jacob A. Null has petitioned the
Superior Court for a divorce from his
wife, Annie Null.
An attempt is being made to reor-
ganize the Carpenters Union, once
prominent in this city.
Instead Of building a clubhouse the
Wilmington Bicycle Club is now con-
templating the purchase of the house
No. 500 West street, now occupied by
Ephraim T. Walton.
Foreman Duncan Thatcher, of the
Harlan and Hollingsworth machine
shops, reported for work this morning
after a weeks illness.
Francis Hyatt, boss of the Pusey
and Jones COmpany's stable. slipped OF
an iron plate on Saturday and was Sc
yerely injured
-Pie-eating contests are becoming
the fad about the various shops in thu
city.
j. II. Hoffecker on Saturday re
ceived the first long-d'stance telephone
message that has been sent from Vic
tOria, Tenn.
Delaware Baptists will hold thei
annual meeting at Sycamore on No
vember II and y.
George F. Matthews. superintend
ent of an electric plant at Fernandina
Florida. has purchased fine farm
near Dover.
AT a meeting in this city on Satur
day afternoon the Farmers Associa
ton of New Castle County for the Re
covery of Stolen Horses and Mule:
elected officers IS follows: X. Levi
Armstrong, president; /. p. Foreman
vice-president; Calvin w. Crossan, SEE
retary and treasurer.
Tho clearings Of the Wilmingto
banks last week were S7S5, ,752, con
pared with S626.765. for the same perio
last year.
Sergeant Eugene Massey will begi
. his duties as house sergeant at the pl
lice station on Wednesday next
John Tilghman and Robert Bale
colored, were whipped by Kent couI
TVS sheriff at Dover on Saturday.
Evening journal., 1899-10-30
FoRTY-FIRsT CONVENTION

OF LOCAL PREACHERS TO BE
HELD AT NEWPORT ON NOvEM-
BER 10.
The Local Preachers and Exhor ters'
Association OF the Wilmington NJ. K.
Conference will hold its forty-first an
nual convention on November 10, IL
and u, at Newport, during which the
following program will be rendered:
Friday evening, November 10
Preaching by DR.. D. S. Clark; alter
nate, Joseph Wilkinson, followed by re-
vival service.
Saturday morning, November IL
$50 o'clock, opening service, followed
by address of welcome by Daniel
Green Response by Rev. A. w. Da-
Wis. After reading Of the minutes OF
last meeting, the following order will
be taken up:
Relation of experience and work for
last six months, by members.
win all persons who die without
saving grace receive the same degree OF
future punishment, and all Christians
the same degree of reward?" John B.
Roberts.
Written sermon or essay by A. w
Davis.
Essay on Family Government and
Family Religion" by Daniel Green.
Essay on "Class Meetings, Their
Importance, Their Efficiency, and the
Necessary Qualifications Of a Leader
How to Lead a Glass" Joseph Derrick
son.
rs Faith the Gift Of God to be Exer-
cised at the VIII Of the Possessor?" c
| c. Case.
Saturday evening, 73O o'clock
Preaching by ]. w. Fryer; alternate
Hugh Toner, followed by revival ser.
! vice.
Sunday, November 12-9 o'clock a
m. love feast; 1890 o'clock. preaching
by William FAIRIES; alternate, w. T
Hammond o'clock p. m, Sunday
school 7.30 o'clock p. m, preaching
lby A. w. Davis; alternate, A. Atwell
followed by a revival service.