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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
The War Indemnity.

The joint effort of Congressman Wheeler,
Hopkins, an Illinois republican, resulted
on Thursday in shutting the item of s2O,OOO,-
900 as payment to Spain under the peace
treaty out of the sundry civil bill. 1t was
piece of contemplate politics, utterly
useless and senseless in every respect. The
treaty will be beyond doubt ratified by the
cortes next week, and the ratifcations
should be speedily exchanged, as they
doubtless will be, so that the position of
the United States in the Philippines may
be fortified and fully legalized. The pay
three months from the exchange of ratif-
cations.
Unless an appropria ton be made by the
present congress, an extra session would
become necessary. What is to be gained by
forcing an extra session for that purpose?
The money is in the treasury, many times
over, and it is not drawing interest. The
whole matter in the house was contempti-
Die ana 1oollSn IN the extreme. Inc declar-
alton of Kntucky Wheeler that he would
resist any such appropriation on principle
was idotic. There is no principle in an op-
position to the payment of sum that this
nation has contracted to pay as soon as
the treaty is fully ratified. There is a want
of principle.
The discussions of Chairman Hopkins in
the committee of the whole have been sin
gularly fruitful in creating distractions to
public sentiment. One of his decisions gave
the Nicaragua canal a black eye, and now
he has muddled an appropriation that is
needed in winding up the war and settling
with Spain. 1t does not mean much, except
delay and confusion, for some way will be
found for Incorporating both matters in
the sundry civil or some other approprla-
ton BILL If it cannot be done in the house,
it can doubtless be done in the senate. Sen-
ator Morgan has already given notice that
he will move to attach the Hepburn bill to
the river and harbor bill. The latter al
ways has enemies to encounter, and it's pas
sage will not be facilitated by the addition
of the canal scheme.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
AUTOMOBILES IN PARIS
From the Scientific American.

FROM the Scientific American.
Consul General Gowdy, in his report,
states that during the past year there has
been marked increase in the adoption of
automobiles not only as pleasure vehicles
owned by private individuals, but in the
way of cabs serving the public for hire and
Tor business purposes in the way of deliv-
cry wagons especially for long distances
1t is announced that the beginning of the
next year there are to be 100 motor cabs
driven by electrical power running in the
streets of Paris. And if the experiment is
successful the cabs will be increased to 1000
with this project in view, large plot of
ground has been acquired, where the build
ing of works necessary for the housing of
cabs and machinery for electrical supply is
being rapidly completed. We have already
referred to the training ground for cabmen
The automobiles which use petroleum pro-
ducts are objected to by the public by rea-
son of their odor, noise and vibration.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
Beef! Beef |! Beetl!!

The desperate fight that Alger and Corbin
aioed and abetted by George Washington
mckinley, are making for canned beef, is
not difficult to understand. It's the fight
OF the commissary department and its army
contractors. The former is tired of the
trouble OF driving beef on foot. and of keep
ing cattle in good condition. Such cattle
are always open to inspection, and the conn
missaries are tired of such troubles. By
using canned meat inspection is cut off,
ior canned meat cannot be seen at every
turn and by every oficious person; it can
not be seen at all when it leaves the hands
of eommissares; it can be handled conyeni-
entity and readily; it saves the commissaries
trouble, and they care very little about the
effect 1t has upon the health of the SOL
diers who are expected to eat it. The con-
tractors favor it. because it means great
fortunes to them, and Alger & Co., favor
1t, because it means great contributions to
the campaign fund from the contractors.
The men who suffer from it's use are the
no one had been found who was brave
enough to speak up for them, until General
Miles took up their side of the case The
present attempt the part of the admins
tration TO crush General Niles is due to mis-
courage in defense OF The common soldier.
1t is a mistake TO say that the stuff is
taken without complaint by armies in other
countries. France, corrupt France, is the
only other large consumer of canned beef
for army purposes, and scandal very SIM
liar to The one pending in this country has
arisen there Urban Gohier brought the
scandal out, ana an army ring in France
is attacking him very much as General
Miles has oeen attacked in this country.
Gohier says in his ''L'Armee Contre la
Nation:
In the active army the French soldier is
poorly led and poorly clad. we have wit
messed il the Third Regiment OF Cuirassiers
al Hours loJ soldiers poisoned by preserved
meat; the same thing mas happened at
Nancy and also al Tdrdscon. Now, in time
Oh war, preserved meat will be the princi-
pal food Tor troops. The Commissary De-
partment, which was unable to provision
100000 men in 1870, and which left the 1900
men at Madagascar wholly unprovided, can
not pretend 10 supply with regularity the
needs oil the o,U00,UO0 combatants that
France would draw up on the frontier. That
is 10 say, the local resources once exhaust
ed, the soldiers would De reduced to piilage.
With poisoned meat for food, We shall not
go far. The army eorpS will go to pieces
before they meet the enemy, just il they
We're all commanded by General Duchesne.
The poisoned meat that Gohier attacks is
American canned beef-the identical sort
OF stun that turned every stomach that
tried it In Cuba and Porto Rico, that de-
stroyed the Santiago army inside of three
months. 1t ruined thousands of vigorous
constitutions; anu yet the one who mas had
the courage to face Alger, Corbin, and the
illustrious Mckinley, and the contractors,
is to be driven, If possible, out of the serv-
ice
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
THE RHYME OF THE sEAFARING MAN

Holman F. Day. in Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
l purchased glass of stiff Maine grog for
a salty son of the sea,
And he confidently leaned on the bar and
spun this yarn for me:
"'Twas down on the aidge Of the Saragos'
in the nineteenth lattitood
That think see the dumdest sight that
ever a sailor viewed.
I'VE was dobbin' along with dumpy sails in
a nigh about dead calm
When the forward watch give a good long
squint and he yapped loud alarm.
"And there af1oat, two points to port, was
a shark-a reg'lar he 'un,
The biggest shark I've ever seen outside
the Carribeun.
1.-THE old man fired a mighty cuss and he
yelled to the second mate,
"Sling over the biggest hook we've got
with good big plug O. bait?
1--we dragged 'er 'astern and his nobs come
on and then with a mighty splosh,
He gulped the pork, he bit the rope and
away he went, by gosh.
"'But when he skipped two miles to lee
and begun to wopse and wheel,
We figgered he found the lunch he had
a-rayther too hearty meal.
"Yet, right behind in the quarter wash the
the critter swum next day.
And though, he gobbled the bait we threw
he allus got away.
"And at lest, do We know, we liked the
cuss for the way he showed his spunk.
So we named him Pete and we shared salt
boss and tossed him daily Junk
HE got the orts of the fish we caught and
all in all, I'll bet
two-hoss wagon wouldn't hold the grub
that critter ct.
"Then one day Jones, the likellest man we
had in all the crew,
Went Off the rail with a swinging sail and
Pete he ct him, too.
From that time on we tipped our CAPS TO
the razor-backed old brute,
We tipped our caps and pulled a bow In a
most profound salute"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
MONEY MADE sY BEEF EnBALMEns

FROM the Salt Lake City Tribune.
The New York Journal prints several tel
egrams that passed between the Armour
d Company agent and the house. One bear
ing date of aJnuary IA of this year orders
for great beef contract, and the dispatch
includes these words: Not necessary to
be particular about quality" 1t seems to be
certain that some great money for poor
beef was realized last summer. The punish
ing of General Miles had better be post
pond. -.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Truth died when Adam lost his rib.
woman can think all right until she gets
q chance to use her brain.
The good thing about disappointments is
that after the first big one the rest come
easy.
When a man is first in love he would de-
spise himsek for a brute If he had no ideals /;
afterward, If he had any, he would despise
himself for fool.
OF the people whose consciences trouble
them one-half worry because they are
afraid they'll be caught; the other half be-
cause they are caught.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
From the Demopolis Express.

1t is a good thing for the advocates of the
dispensary bill that they got vote on it
in the house before this blizzard. We
venture to say ''the boys would look over
their hands, now before they would vote
to curtail in the slightest the sale of such
a warming fluid.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

he has won public confidence. Personally
he is one Of the most interesting and COM
panionable of men and is deserving of his
wide popularity"
Former State Senator W. J. Bullock, of
Franklin, was in Birmingham yesterday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
1t is still a solid north-frozen solid.
ErHE REPRESENTATIVE CANDIDATE

From the Sumter SUM-
Governor Johnston would make a. great
mistake not to appoint Colonel John w.
Tomilnson member of the Alabama rail-
ROAD commission. Besides being fully quail
ined, ne represents the silver democrats of
the state-those men that made Governor
Johnston's able administration possible by
defeating the goldbug ring.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

The Third Regulars are not suffering
from tameness of life or sameness of
scenery. They fought at Santiago, sum-
mered at Montauk Point, suppressed the
Pillager Indians in Minnesota in the fall,
and are now en- route to Manila.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

Mr.. Alger should have taken Friend
appearance of the precious pair in one car
riage would have filled the air with cries
of "beef!" "beef!"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

The canteen on board ship has been abol-
ished by Secretary Long, and the canteen
in some Alabama counties is trembling in
the legislative balance.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

Spains sympathes for the Filipinos will
not help them much while they persist in
getting In the way of Mr.. George Dewey
and General Otis.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
HEIGHT AND GENIUS
From tn Medical Record.

From tn Medical Record.
Here are a few statistics bearing on the
question of height in relation to genius:-
Tall men, Burke, 5 feet 10 inches; Burns, 5
feet 10 inches; Sir R. Burton, over feet
Sir Walter Raleigh, 6 feet; Peter the Great,
feet S12 inches; Thackeray, 6 feet inches
Lincoln, feet inch; George Washington,
feet 8 inches. Medium stature, Lord Bea-
consfeld, feet inches; Byron, feet S1s
inches; Voltaire, feet inches; yelling
ton, ) feet inches. Short men, Balzac, 8
feet inches; Beethoven, 5 feet inches;
Keats, 5 feet; Napoleon, 5 feet IA inches
Nelson, 5 feet inches; DeQuincey, feet
inches.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

When Mr.. Kipling has a chance to look
around and see what the trusts are doing,
he will begin to appreciate what the white
mans burden Is in this country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
I'M the Gadsden Times-News.

Only nine counties in the state out of
sixty-sx are included in the Moody dis
pensary bill as it passed the house. This
makes the whole matter a farce. Better
kill the bill if it does not apply to the en-
tire state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

AguinaldO Is a prudent man. He has
made General Luno commander-in-chief.
while he himself retires to his movable
capital.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
THE TOWNSVILLE SCHOOLS

From the Roanoke Leader.
The bill that has passed the lower house
of the legislature, raising the appropriation
for public schools to 100000, will not
amount to much after ALL unless a system
of revenue Is adopted which viii place the
necessary funds in the treasury. We must
wait and see before we rejoice over what
may prove to be a fruitless triumph to
the cause of education
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

The cold wave brought out in all parts of
the country counter wave of charity.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

1t is stated that the frosts nipped every
thing in New Jersey except the trusts.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

Second-story snow drifts are the fash
ion in the lands to the north of us.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

Lord Beresford is coming this way, and
his open-door policy will grow in favor as
the season advances.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

The sunny south is bravely endeavoring
to regain its grip upon good weather, and
to forget the zero mark.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

When Dewey comes sailing home he can
report an empire gained, and not a man
lost on board his ships.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

The only danger in the Philippines con-
sists in the rumor that the strategy board
of the war department is to be recon-
yened
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

Aguinaldo's army has lost it's appetite
for attacks upon General Otis, whose guns
are always ready to go off.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

A mercury trust is needed in some parts
of the country. 1t was sadly needed in
this section a few nights ago.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

Coal famines are fashionable throughout
the country, even in centers of coal pro-
duction.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
THE DISPENSARY

From the Dothan Siftings.
The state will get the dispensary on the
installment plan.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

General Eagan can now devote all his
time to an enrichment of his vocabulary.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

Spanish revolutionists of tho professional
type are believed to be at the bottom of the
Filipino trouble.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
From the Fort Payne Journal.


The lower branch of the legislature at
Montgomery, with a blare of trumpets,
voted an increase of $3.50, 600 in the school
appropriation, but when they found this
would necessitate an increase in the tax
rate, they backed down. 1t should have
stood and the taxes should have been in
creased to meet 1t. The public school sys-
tenn of Alabama is a disgrace.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
From the Florence Herald.

From the Florence Herald.
The one mill tax proposed in the house
for the purpose of raising the 100000 re-
Gently appropriated for the public schools
has been defeated In the killing of the
proposition the lower house of the general
assembly has committed a glaring crime,
because the defeat of the one mill tax
serves to blot out all the good work that
had already been accomplished. Why
vote an increased appropriation, raising to
the sky the hopes of the friends of educa-
ton, and then turn squarely around and
refuse to vote the only means whereby the
appropriation can be raised. Lack of
courage is at all times pitiable sight, but
the legislator who could toady to the ignor-
ant and vicious element at the expense of
the children of the whole state should be
read out of the public trust. Let the con-
stitutional convention be made up of men
of brains and ability and courage instead
of lot of legislators of the young man
of-his-shadow'' variety, and let them
settle the educational question for once
and all in Alabama. The children are the
only ones who will suffer, and their dis
appointment is indeed a hard thing to wit
ness quietly. Let the voters take their re-
venge into their own hands at the next
election.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

The long-expected northeastern mails are
BEGINNING To arrive in carload lots.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
From the ozark Southern Star.

From the Ozark Southern Star.
The appropriations for the public schools
in Alabama has been increased from $S5O,OOo
to $780, 900. A very small sum indeed, hard
ly enough to be perceptibly felt by the
schools of the state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
FROM the Coosa River News.

This journal will support no man for dele
gate to the constitutional convention who
does not openly attest allegiance to a radi-
cal Improvement in the public schol system
of the state. There has already been too
much wind-jamming about this matter and
so far as this paper is concerned 1t pro-
poses to take the short route in this prem
Use. We repeat the assertion and shall con-
tinue to do SO from time to time.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18
From the Marion Standard.

From the Marion Standard.
The public schools are the training
schools for the rich and poor alike, the
backlog of public education and are as es-
sential to the advancing age as church and
society.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-18

When every man and woman is drunk or
upsy at a great public function caution is
thrown to the. winds. Men of the world
usually require walters to exhibit the cork
that is drawn from a bottle OF champagne,
to prove its genuineness, but in the small
hours of the morning this habit is cast off.
The walters, taking advantage of the stu
alton, ring in cheap American champagnes.
the bottles minus labels, and still preserv-
ing the corks clear for their own account
81 quart. The corkage, as you know, is
fifteen cents for pints and twenty for
quarts.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-05

Mrs. Julia q. Chase ard Miss Qneenie
OGDEN will leave by the n. j. next Nom
dag for three months visit in West Va.
Ohio, Kentucky and Tenn.
A letter from o. NJ. Moore last night
states that Geo. Mcmillan had just re-
turned from Alaska. says he sold II i'al;
interest in his claim for So 900 and that
Jack Cooper had without doubt "struck
it rich" Good for the boys.
Landlord Lamping, OF the New York
hotel, received word Monday night Of II
serious accident to his brother in Colo
RADIO. In Il runaway he WAS thrown
from a horse, his loot caught and was SO
badly mutilatcd that amrnlatioh was
necessary.
The Post-Intelligenrer OF sunday an
nouncc,l the appointment Of MIR. Geo. W.
France as postmaster here. This is IA
good appointment for IA very worthy man.
MIR. Richardson has served four full years
on Oct. /. and has made careful and
conscientious officer. Mr.. France will
take charge as soon as his bond is &C
copied and commission issued.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-05
ELAlA
From Elma Chronicle.

From Elma Chronicle.
There is not store room on Main
street now that is not occupied.
We are informed that Mrs. Slater is
about to redeem her milling property and
again assume the management thereo.
Charles Wakefield and Miss Minerva
Pickett, the minors who ran away last
week, have returned to Elma, legally
man and wife.
Nearly every express train that leaves
Elma bears celery to some distant point.
Great quantities Of it are shipped TO
Portlan and other large cities.
The first OF next month, Wakefield Il
O'DonnsIl will move into the Odd Fellows
building, B. r. Martin will move into
the Wakefield 4 O'Donnell building, and
the Chronicle will take possession of its
new horne in the Taylor 4 Bum build.
ing.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-05
COSMOPOLIS,
From Cosmopolis Enterprise:

From CosmOpOlis Enterprise:
Those travelling the road say that first
class work is being done at the Cosmop.
oils end Of the North river road.
Aberdeen is growing and its pay rolls
are increasing. The public spirit being
shown by the people Of Aberdeen il
worthy Of imitation.
We made a mistake when we said that
Road Overseer Dstler had already com
pleted the work OF placing his section Of
the North river road in good condition.
What we should have said was that he
was going to divide the road money availa'
BILE in his district between the North river
road and the road to the Neuskah valley,
doing as we'll as he can by both roads.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-05
Dissolution If Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the partner.
ship heretofore existing between l.. $.
Norm and NJ. G. Nelson has been dis.
solved by mutual consent. In the future
Nj. G. Nelson will conduct the Hotel
Stockholm, and l.. S. Norm the store for
merly operated by the firm. All debts
due the hotel will be paid to NJ. G. Mel.
son, who will pay all claims against the
same. L. s. Norm assumes all claims
against the store and will receipt for all
debts due the firm on its account.
Dated Aberdeen, WASH, Sept. ~, 1909.
J.. S. NORM,
52.3t. NJ. G. NELSON.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-05

position that the constitution Of the
United States may be over-ri,ldcn by
treaties with foreign nations. Truly we
are making progress. The constitution is
to he squared to the necessities Of imperi-
alism, and where the work will end if we
enter on the imperial road no man can
foresee.
II firmly believe that the American
people will be with us on all these great
issues and that the result will be the ig-
~ 'ninious defeat Of The republican party
H. 1900. l also believe that the people Of
the state Of Washington will be with US
at that time. The republicans have been
minority party in this state for the last
eight years. They are so still. In the
light Of the grave and momentous ques.
tons presented to them the clash Of indi-
vidual ambitions and the rivalry Of
warrin elements will be stilled. The op.
positi /" will come together and make it's
strenel'. manifest. From this time forth
the int est will grow. BY the time the
parties Il IN themselves it will have be.
come Intensified 10 point that will make
union II certainty. And with union will
come Wet ny. How, or upon what basis,
union will come about we need not now
discuss. When the people will have be.
come sufficiently alarm to see the neces-
si'y OF union they will bring it about in
their own time and their own way"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-05
GrayA HarhOr Laundry.

The Grays Ha,bor Laundry desires to
say to the people OF Grays Harbor, that,
under its new management, it's machinery
and building have been thoroughly over.
hauled, a new mangle and centrifugal
wringer have been purchased and are
now on the way from the east, and the
plant has been 80 improved as to permit
as good laundry work as can be produced
on the coast. We solicit the patronage Of
the people under guarantee Of the best
OF workmanship, careful handling OF the
clothes and prompt delivery.
At BRIsCO Bros.