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The age-herald., 1899-07-08
The Yellow Fever Situation.

Havana, Santiago and other Cuban towns have some yellow fever cases fewer perhaps than they customarily have at this season of the year, but still they contain very considerable number of people who have contracted the disease, and they will continue to have cases until the hot and wet season is ended next fall. The disease, too, is very prevalent and vio- lent at Vera Cruz and other Mexican ports.
 But Surgeon General Wyman of the ma rine hospital service is confident the pre- editions he has taken will suffice to keep the germs of the fever out of this country this season. Not only is every port and every city in the gulf and South Atlantic states closely watched, but great care is tawen in Cuba to disinfect all baggage that dsmantled ship has been fitted up with steam chambers and other appliances for killing fever germs. Havana is under close observation, and the entire Cuba situation Is well in hand.
 If to these precautions were added high degree of sanitation in all southern ports and interior towns, there would be little cause for apprehension. But it is well known that the average small town in the imperied district is as ill-kept this year as it is wont; and stray germs that return ing soldier or traveller may bring in can readily find therein plenty of filth to breed and multiply in. Surgeon General Wyman and scientists can do, but they cannot render the country secure against the ad- mission now and then of a few invisible fever germs. It is beyond human skill and wisdom to do that much, for the little imps will live and travel under almost any cir cumstances.
 Southern towns should be willing to aid the battle against them to the extent of the removal of all filth They should do this for the sake of the general health, to say nothing of the reappearance of yell low lever. NO town III the SulI states IS fever-proof unless 1t be clean-clean in alleys, backwards, wells, cellars, buildings and all other localities within it's borders clean everywhere, and especially clean in | the matter of pools, standing water, ditches, gutters and sluices. Pure drinking water is the first requisite to health, and clean surroundings are next in order.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
TiIi; BETTER PART
Long fed on boundless hone

Long fed on boundless hopes, o race of man, How angrily thou spurn'st all simpler fare! Christ" some one says, was human as we are; No Judge eyes us from heaven. our sin to scan; We live no more when we have done our span" Well then, for Christ" thou answerest. "who can care? From sin which heaven records not why forbear? Live we like brutes-our life without a plan?" So answerest thou, but why not rather say Hath man no second life? Pitch this one high! Sits there no Judge in heaven our sin to see?- More strictly, then, the inward Judge obey! Was Christ a man like us ?-Ah, let us try If we then, too, can be such men as He!
 -Matthew Arnold.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
The War and the Treasury.

The exact figures of the fiscal year are not yet made up, but Secretary Gage has enough facts in hand to justify him in declaring that the years deficit will be only $SS SOOO,OO0. This is $24,0OO,OOO better than he expected one, year ago, when he sli2.0O0.O00 Imports have been increased; evcn the internal revenue receipts have ex- cecded expectations, and the sudden end- creases in expenses.
 The prosperity of the country Is shown Tn the treasury returns for last month. It was emphatically a booming month. The governments revenue rose 10 st7,l26,a ,al5
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while the expenditures fell to $31SS2,i62, thus showing a surplus of $15,74l, 15S for the month, against a deficiency of $143 ,96S in June of last year.
 In the absence of exact figures the re- eeipts of the fiscal year 1899 can be put at $516 ,O00,OGO and the expenditures at $6o5,- 000.GO0 But an item connected with Pa cifc railroad settlement amounting to get at the true situation. This would re- duce the receipts to $505 600 GOO, thus show ing that the years real deficit is just about s1G0 COG. .0Oo.
 The deficit of the fiscal year 1900 depends largely upon the expenses that will be in cured in the Philippines An army 5o,0G0 strong, operating against the elusive Ia gals, will cost $50 GOO 600 year, and no one can estimate the present fiscal years Philippine campaign are ascertained. MT. Mckinley is trying to speedily crush the insurrection, regardless of cost, with the possible effects of the effort constantly before his power-seekng eyes, and Secre- tary Gage cannot reasonably hope to make an estimate that will come even within $2i, 900, 600 of the years outcome. The years expenditures cannot be foreseen. The es- teemed Aguinaldo is the only one who knows much about what the eXpenditures of the year are likely to be.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
They Were Not Le.is,ators

Eufaula sent delegation to a big picnic on the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee. and the visitors were not received like At lanta received the Alabama legislature. The Times says:
 The boys who went insist that ther, more pretty girls, more big watermelons. more hospitality and more fun to be had in that particular part of Georgia than anywhere else in the whole country, And the dinner. They do say the way Wiley cargill and Tobe Smith headed the hungry delegation from Alabama and charged the heavy laden table was a caution. The boys stood right up on the firing line. Not 8 1 man was afraid and the damage they did was terrific.
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Snare the Yrees

Outrageous vandalism is about to despoil beautiful Tuscaloosa of it's chiefest glory, The Times says:
 The grand old poem "Woodman, Spare that Tree" should be printed in letters of light and posted up in a dozen places on the university campus before the unholy axes are placed at the roots of the venera- be cedars there.
 With the ancient oaks falling before the modern axes around town, and the sacred old cedars biting the dust at the universi- ty, the Druids will no longer find congenial shades to sport in here, but Scott's Last Minstrel" may visit the bald-headed cam puo of our state university to harp another lay of "Old Times are Gone, Old Manners Changed"
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From the Nashville American.

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 General Wheeler has been ordered to tho Philippines, and the newspaper correspond ents can now hunt new topic. When the general gets to the Philippines he will do his duty manfully, as he has always done, and if hard fighting falls to his lot he will be found in the forefront of the battle. It is relief, however, to realize that the controversy over General Wheelers mili- tary future Is now ended, even if he has to go to Manila in the rainy season. The controversy was becoming insufferab1y~ an- moving to the true friends of the general for they knew he was not party to it and had not authorized it.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
The Chat shall Not Pass

Mobile is to be heartily commended for standing guard at the portal of that gulf upon whose further shore yellow death loves to abide. The Item says:
 General J. ". Burke, collector of the port, reports that the health of the port Is lirst-class and that shpmasters are keep ing their vessels in good sanitary eondi- tioa. He avs Mobiles quarantine is so rigid that gnat cannot get through the lines.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
Ex-Jutign,a son Enlists

The friends of Former Chancellor II. Austill will read with interest this para graph from the Mobile News: MT. Robert E. Austill, son of Hon. H. Austill, who left Mobile with the Second regiment during the war, has re-enlistcd in the regular army and left yesterday for San Francisco, whence he will go to the Philippine islands. It is MT. Austills in- tenton to study for a commission in the army
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4 Monatrous Theft

Some person utterly lacking in con- science and thoughtful kindness has rob- bed the editor of the Greensboro Watch man, and there is no redress-unless the editor rob somebody else in like manner He says:
 The person who picked up our umbrella last Sunday and went oft with it will please return same to this office. The plea that you don't know whose it is will not hold in this case, as our name is on the handle in plain letters.
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Deadheads Abuse Newspapers

There is a great amount of truth in this from the Centreville Press:
 When you hear a man abusing his home paper, nine times out of ten he is a delin- quent and owes for the paper he has been reading for a year. Ask the next kicker if he takes the paper, and if he does has he paid for it. Watch his face and you can tell if he is speaking the truth.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
REFLECTIONS Oiss,sA BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press. .s
 Womans greater longing is to love: mans to be loved.
 Give a woman her own way about any thing, and she will want it about every thing.
 who are least curious about it know what a curious thing it is.
 The worst thing about saints nowadays is that you can so seldom be perfectly sure that they are Christians.
 When you want a woman to really want a thing very bad, you have got to begin by taking it away from her.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
FOOD FoR REFLECTION

From the Greensboro Watchman.
 There is a tinge of sadness to the thought full in the fact that Ex-Governor Rufus Cobb made the race for mayor of Wood lawn, Ala, a suburb of Birmingham, and was defeated for the position on July f. The mighty moguls in the political world should take day for reflection.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
Bless the soda Water Girl

Blessings upon her who deals out non- intoxieants are called down by the Gads- den Times-News:
 "Bless the soda water girl.' exelaims the druggist as he counts 1000 dimes. "Bless her. feryently repeat hundreds of other business men across whose tired path she trips late these sultry summer afternoons.
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A Word for the PennIe.

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Denson Is All Right

The Gadsden Tribune has kind words to speak of Colonel Denson:
 Hon. ". H. Denson of Birmingham has been mentioned recently by the press as q possible candidate for governor in the next race. Colonel Denson would make q strong candidate who could win as easily as any man who could be nominated; and when elected, would make the state one of the best governors it has had for many years.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
That Little Lamb Again

The cleverest writer of advertisements in the state is the proprietor of a dye estab- lishment in Montgomery. The Age-Herald gives this free, from the Advertiser.
 Mary had a little lamb,
 It's fleece was white as snow;
 She didn't like it worth a damb, And dyed 1t indigo.
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Etowah Lnga I,ehind

The people of Etowah county declared by ballot last Monday that they did not 1e- sire good roads, and the Gadsden Times News remarks:
 We are surprised that our people de- feated this issue, for it would have meant much for Etowah county. As it is, the news goes out that our people are back ward and do not want to progress.
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Beautiful Blonde

Tom Garner, of the Tuscaloosa Times. is a man with a soul Hear him:
 She is a strikingly beautiful girl of the blonde type, with rich eyes, hair and com plexion as poets like to rave about, and she is withal so sweet and winning in her manner that none who met her failed to admire her.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
THE EDITORS AND THEIR TALK

The Mobile Item very pleasantly observes that Birmingham usually gets there. The Item says:
 Birmingham has seooped in the Boys Reform school. to be established by the state Birmingham people have a habit Of getting together and gong after what they want. They usually get 1t, too.
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Strife in Tuscumbia

Editor Bunting of the Florence Herald is pained to note that there is strife between his Tuscumbia contemporaries, and sug- gests a remedy:
 The North Alabamian and the Dispatch are at war. We suggest that a special commission be sent by the Alabama Press association to patch up peace beteen Edi- tors Ragland and Simpson,.
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The rainy season in the Philippines is be- gun in May, when all army operations be- come impossible. It is as certain as any future event can well be in this world that General Joe Wheeler will return bearing new laurels next May.
The age-herald., 1899-07-08
CARLOAD OF wATERMELoNs.
Mrs. Bryan Declines to Accept the Gift of
 Luscious Georgia Fruit.

Chicago, July 5.-A special to the Trib- une from Lincoln, Neb, says: William J. Bryan has refused, by proxy of his wife, to accept either a carload of Georgia watermelons or the unpaid freight bill for the same. Some warm-hearted southerner, whose idea of the silver mans eating pow CTS was apparently somewhat oyerdrawn, sent from Marion, Ga, a carload of the southern product, with his compliments and the wish that the Nebraskan might spend the happiest sort of a Fourth of July. The shipment was received a day too late. As MT. Bryan is out of the city and as the family feel unequal to the task of dispos- ing of the fruit, Mrs Bryan declined with thanks to accept the melons-or the unpaid freight bill.
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The Printer Mas EnrpOt

Editor Stevenson. of the Roanoke Leader, thus gives a timely hint to Farmer Slaugh- ter
 The first load of home-rased melons brought to Roanoke this season arrived on the last day of June, and were raised by Tom Slaughter. We don't know whether they were good or not, as Mr. Slaughter forgot the printer.
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From the Gadsden Tribune.
 The Age Herald is the most enterprising daily in the great state of Alabama, and we are glad to know it is receiving a lib- eral patronage in this city.
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Board of Trade day is rapidly assuming glorious proportions. It is to be Birming- hams great holiday, and this town wants all its friends to join it on that suspicious occasion.
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Editor Gre er,s Hanpy Lot

Editor Greer, of the Marion Standard, declares that "watermelons and cante- loupes are plentiful,' and says:
 The newspaper mans lot is not so bad after all. Among the nice things sent the editor by his rural friends the past week were roasting ears, beets, potatoes, apples, watermeons and cider.
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The Blind Burglar

Blind-foldod justice has run a blind bur glar to earth, and it is curious to note The Selma Journal says:
 There was 2 somewhat novel case dis posed of in cne city court this morning, and Doc McAbee, white man. who is to- tally blind, was found guilty of burglary The deed was committed last November
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%Estimated.

Large as the current crop is turning ont to be, the stocks at the seaboard and in the leading southern interior markets were on July l only SOO,oOO bales in excess of those of the corresponding date of last year. These figures go to show how rapidly the worlds consumption of cotton is increasing.
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MT. Hanna must have overlooked the un- employed drummers when he told the peo- pie of the effete monarchies that every man in America who wants work is now em- Doyed
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PRosPERiTY HAS NOT REACHED US

From the Washington Post.
 A number of prominent southern states men are in town for few days stopping at the Metropolitan. Among them are Representatives Maddox and Adamson o1 Georgia, and Representative Bankhead of Alabama, while Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, left last night. Represen- tative Bankhead said that the political sit- uation in Alabama was very quiet at the present time Now that the elections were tion in other directions.
 "The wave of prosperity that we hear so much about" said Mr. Bankhead, doesn't seem to have oozed down into Alabama yet. The good times that have reached some sections of the country haven't yet touched our state. We hope that they are on the way and there are few places where they are waiting for them more anXlously, but for some reason or other they still keep their distance.
 Tn some directions, however, our peo- pie are doing very well. The iron trade is booming in Alabama, as I understand it is everywhere. Our mills have far more work before them than they can promptly han dle. In Birmingham the other day pig iron was being sold at $l4 for shipment to Bre- men, with cost of s4 for transportation, which shows the demand there is for it across the water. The lumber men are also doing well, understand"
 Representative Bankhead was reticent about discussing political issues. ''We all ways go democratic, anyhow" said he, and we will follow the platform however it is made. As to the candidacy of Bryan. or the question of silver in the next cam paign he had nothing to say.
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Very Fresh Eggs

For all lovers of fresh eggs this state- ment from the centreville Press will have an abiding interest:
 Dave Kennedy, of Selma, received box of eggs from Faunsdale, a station about forty miles distant. The lid was removed from the box and it was found that two chickens had been matched out in the box
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CAPT. KoLB AS A JOKER

From the Oneonta Democrat.
 Captain R. F. Kolb declines to become candidate for governor of Alabama by say ing that he is not eligible, having twice been elected to that office. The captain knows how to turn a joke.
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This is a world of uncertainties, for just General Joe Wheeler would not be sent to the Philippines, he was sent there post haS
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haste.

New Orleans is becoming anxious to see a sheet mill established in this district It to be built in its proposed shipbuilding yards.
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Our Jess Sows Oats

Editor Milton Smith, of the Anniston Hot Blast, prints this interesting agricultural item:
 MT. Stallings is sowing big oat patch in this section of the state. What will the harvest be?
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General Leonard Wood recoils from carnage in it's most frightful form, and so declines the proffered presidency of a street car company.
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The Argentine republics president is try ing to form combine of Argentina, Chilli Brazil and Uruguay Latin America be- gins to fear absorption.
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GETTING DOWN 10 FACTS

From the Fort Payne Journal
 The popular song, T Was Bred In Old Kentucky" should be changed to q Bled In Old Kentucky"
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Advertising Pays

The Chocktaw Alliance has a good run of advertisements this week, and is moved to say:
 The Miller tolled our space pretty heavy this week. See Agent Hughes, old boy, and order you d condenser
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A June convention would afford a cam paign of reasonable and customary length. Many of the November states do not hold conventions until September
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near Tilden. in being proven to the satis- faction of the jury that though blind. the man broke open a store and helped himself to whatever suited his fancy.
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The Julyest on Record

The Selma Journal, having recovered froHa-the Fourth, reviews it's exchanges thus:
 All the papers are insisting that the Fourth of July this year was the Fourth of Julyest on record, and could not have been Fourth of Julyer.
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There is certainly one person who should be brought within the Chicago universlty's rule against undue public loquaeity," and that man is Chauncey M. Depew.
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The president would miss Alger, for he has no other available scapegoat.
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ENTERPRISE WINS PATRONAGE

An amigo is hostile" in the disguise of friendship
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WHEELER AND THE PHILIPPINES

From the Memphis Scimetar.
 Old Joe Wheeler's cup of joy is full. The president announces that he is to go where the trouble is.
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The trusts have already thrown 35, ,00O drummers out of employment, and reduced the wages of 25, 900 more
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The greatest strike year in the history of the country was 1886, and there are some indications that the efforts of wage-earners to secure a slice of prosperity may in this year or in the next outdo it.
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The truly loyal papers are also turning against Alger, and this leads the general public to conclude that he is to be turned out.
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Mime. Sarah Bernhardt says Hamlet should be presented as a slim youth of 20 summers. Sarah does not fill the bill.
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American tyranny in Manila is now as- suming the form of free public schools.
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In the firm of Pingree, Alger & Co. there is no silent partner.
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The verdict of war experience is in favor of the magazine rife used in the army, and the calibre of the Lee rifle, used by the marines, is to be changed to conform to it.
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If things go on unchecked Adjutant Gen. eral Corbin will soon be the entire admin istration.
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The Roanoke Leader says General Wheel CT can take a late start and then beat any of his competitors.
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Even giant frecrackers did not on the na- or run away.
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The Bridgeport News, an extreme repub- liean organ, is also warm supporter of the administration.
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President Mckinley is doctor of laws seven times repeated, with more colleges to hear from.
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J. Courtney Hixon, of Bullock county, whom the Alabama congressional delega- tion has recommended to the president for a maorjity under the latest call for voun- teer soldiers, was captain in the Fifth United States Volunteer infantry, common- ly called the Fifth Immunes, and saw a years service with his regiment in Cuba. He was for time commandant of the state university. After leaving that position he opened a law office in Union Springs, and practiced law there until the spring of 1893, when President Cleveland appointed him United States consul at Fouchow, China Whilst he was consul( there occurred the notorious massacre of American and Eng fish missionaries about thirty miles above Fouchow, and Consul Hixon distinguished himself by proceeding, practically unat- tended, to the scene of the crime, and giving aid and comfort to the surviving members of the Anglo-American colony After being relieved of his consular duties, al the end of the Cleveland administration, he travelerd extensively in Asia, Africa and Europe.
 Former Speaker Newton N. Clements, Of Tuscaloosa, was in town yesterday on his way to the upper portion of the state for the benefit of his health, which is in a very unsatisfactory condition. Colonel Clements is regarded as a candidate for governor.