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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17

EXCELLENT lunches served daily from
= % : o'clock. Cafe Halbe. $40 Second.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17

TOILET sets, purses, holiday goods, all
kinds, at Barrington's drug store.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17

NAME put on leather goods free of
charge. Denhy-Coryel Co. 71s First AVA
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17

$4,000 worth of damaged goods. 2. c.
Miles Co.'s place.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17
Felt Slippers.

Felt shoes and slippers are fam
ons for their euArnfh and comfort
gfbing. More good styles here than
at any other store In the NORTH
Oest. and prices are especially ion.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
Second.Class Mail Matter.

.-- Postmaster General Smith recalls atten- tion to the wholesale abuses of the rate intended for bona ide periodicals only. The rate is one cent a pound, a very low rate, and the people are wholly content that legitimate periodicals, dissemenating public information, should have the benefit of this How rate The rate was established on broad public grounds. It was devised for the good of the people who desire informa- tion. But it has been largely used for private gain. A thousand sorts of adver- tising sheets of almost every description have been registered, and novels, house or gans and long list of other articles are distributed under the rate intended for neriodicals only. It is easier to say what is not distributed as second-class matter than what is
 The postmaster general says the goyern- ment is paying millions of dollars in the transportation of articles that serve private purposes only. Were it not for this abuse the postal department would show su 'rlns instead of deficit of s6,00O,O0O The actual annual loss in carrying the stuff that is illegitimately registered as second-class matter is put at s12SA612. Instead of pay ing one cent pound such stuff should pay one cent for every two ounces or fraction thereof It should be sent as third-class matter instead of second-class.
 The abuse is expensive to the depart ment and unjust to the taxpayers, for it is a use of public transportation at unprofit- able rates for private gain. It postpones many improvements, including one-cent letter postage. As tho postmaster general nuts it. ..it is sheer wanton waste of $2O,- 900 or upward year" The remedy consists fin the passage of a law that will stop the abuse. The Loud bill of the last congress will doubtless be re-introduced and the passage of this bill by the present congress will put an end to an abuse that has many ramlfcations. No one desires to alter the law so far as legitimate periodi- calls are concerned, but there is no reason why goods of private nature should not nav a reasonable rate. Favoritism in such goods is injustice.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
ypEACE WITH A CLUB

From the Philadelphia North American.
 Ambassador Choate is evidently of the opinion that valor is the better part of discretion. It takes a brave diplomat to use such language in public as he employed at the dinner of the American Society in London.
 How we have progressed!' the Am bassador exclaimed.
 First it was San Francisco, then Ha- wall, then Guam, then Manila, and one step more and we will be at the open door of China.
 And who shall dare slam the door in our faces?"
 It was said not long ago that the state department had requested our representa- tives abroad not to speak at public func- tions where their words might be miscon- strued. It looks as if the paddock had been taken off Mir Choatc a little prematurely. There is too much of the Kaiser's mailed fist about his tone to be entirely pleasing to Americans Like William, he wants peace, but it is peace kept with clubfj
The age-herald., 1899-12-08

mistress of the seas, has eight armered cruisers. every one of which exceeds in. size the New York. This takes no account of her battle ships, of which she is building nine.
 France has four armored cruisers, each larger than the New York; Russia has two; Japan has five, each as large or larger than the New York, and Germany has three. Italy alone of the naval powers is below the United States in the weight of armored cruisers.
 The United States is weaker in this re- spect than England, France, Japan, Russia and Germany While the country is cut in two by the want of an interoceanic canal, it is certainly best to have ships that are both strong and swift. The voyage around the Horn or through the Suez canal is a very long ofre, and this country cannot af- ford to be tailender in the matter of &C., mored cruisers. Secretary Longs recomz mendation of a greater number of large, swift and powerful cruisers of great coal endurance is certainly well taken, and pub lie sentiment will certainly sustain congress if it sees fit to make provision for hand some increase in this respect of the navy
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
AQujnaIdo as a Prisoner.

Aguinaldo is not yet prisoner, and per- haps he will not be. Perhaps it would not be wise to make him prisoner. General Young has made him fugitive, and he is influence for mischief is no doubt great, and he will beyond easonable doubt continue to stir up discontent and disorder, if not actual war wherever he is; but still his actual capture would lead to troublesome questions. At the end of a humanitarian century he could not well be hung by an advanced nation. If he were turned loose, pandemonium would be inaugurated again. He is indeed troublesome citizen free or bound
 If General Young does not crowd him too close he may escape to the mainland from which he cannot be extradited. at least not from Hong Kong, for he is not a criminal, and English law is dominant in Hong Kong. If he escapes to the mainland he will conspire and conspire again, but that is perhaps the best place he can be driven to from an American point of view-the best solution of difficult problem. A de- tective or two would then watch him in stead of an expensive army of GO,OOO men.
 But he may decline to escape to Hong Kong. He may prefer his present touch and-go schedule. He may become chronic insurrectionist in the hill districts of Luzon In that case the present situation will be indefinitely extended, and none of the troublesome questions that have been sug- gested will arise. He seems to be able to flee from point to point without difhculty' carrying a pretty considerable force along with him. How he subsists such q force IS a mystery. How he procures ammunition is another mystery. Altogether his cam paign is very mysterious, and 1t Is too soon to prepare plans for his disposal as prisoner. Hare pie should never be made ,,stil the hare is caught, as the old recipe teaches
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
Cruisers Wanted in the Navy.

Secretary Long calls attention in his an- nual report to the fact that we have but two armored cruisers, the New York and the Brooklyn. He means that We have but two large ships that are both strong and swift. We have lesser cruisers, but of the class that can fight as we'll as sail we have only two. The New York is of 9,125 tons displacement and the Brooklyn of s. 200 tons.
 We have come 10 a period in naval war fare when numbers do not count-when one good armored ship can whip fleet of weak vessels. Admiral Dewey's victory in Manila bay Illustrated the value of strong ships, and the defencelessness of weak anti quated ships. Let us then see how we stand comparatively speaking. England.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
PRINCE WILLIAM OF WED
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Prince William of Wied, whose engage ment with Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is regarded in diplomatic circles as an assured fact, is the second cousin of the Queen. Giving him his full quota of names he is Prince William Frederick Henry of Wied. He is lieutenant in the Prussan regiment of Body Guards, now stationed at Potsdam. Prince! William is the, second son of the Prince of Wied and her Royal Highness, Wilhelmina- Frederick Elizabeth Ma rie, Princess of Holland. It is through his mother that he is related to his fiance. He was born on March 2S, 1S76 Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania, is the aunt on the paternal side.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
1.-THE GROWN OF LIFE"

A book fresh from the press of the F. A. Stokes Company Is "The Crown of Life" by George Gissins-a story of the early sos, laid in London and the north of England, with just enough love to make the story and lots of everything else to remind the reader that this is the nineteenth century, and Cat date of compositiom there's an England against an Ireland, and Glad stone, and home rule bill, and parlia- meat, and stalwart English cranks-cranks on English expansion, and cranks on Eng fish leadership, and cranks on English war. But nicely interspersed are passages of sweet, pure moralizings and paragraphs of description, whose alternating light and shadow, form and color ring of the truly artistic.
 The book is thoroughly English in every detail, and displays the authors varied powers throughout.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
ECHOES FROM
 THE MEGAPHONE

From the Clogtown Megaphone
 We have received great many letters asking why our paper has been so late this week. First. it has been late because it has not been printed. It has not been print ed because the editor has been sick. Last week Louis Jacobs brought us twelve pound ham on subscription. and as we had not ate any meat for several weeks, not having any, we had our wife cook the whole ham, of which the editor alone consumed ten pounds. The remainder was bone, of which our wife made soup as her part We must confess that we ate too much at one sitting, and as a result the paper has been delayed. We were careful to see that our wife did not eat too much of the indigesti- ble portion; hence. she had the soup.
 The Megaphone man likes to go to the theaters, and he does not like to go He likes to go to see the pretty girls in abbre- viated clothes, who look like they are out in company before they have finished their toilet and he does not like to go because he dislikes to see some big. burly actor taking privileges with the aforesaid pretty girls which the editor himself is forbidden doing. Some of these days the Megaphone man is going to be an actor, and how he will make up for lost time so far as standing in with the pretty actresses is concerned!
 
 The editor has been invited to deliver lecture at the educational meeting next week on How to Keep House on One Dol Tar a Week." This is very appropriate subject for an editor, and we hereby jump for our pencil and paper to acknowledge our acceptance of the invitation.
 A sign in Clogtown reads as follows: Millinery Work and Washing Done Here. Apply Within"
 Dr. Collins, of Youngsville, was .n town yesterday, and called to see the editor. The doctor is an up-to-date physician, as is at tested by the. fact that he proudly points to the tombs of as many silent patients any other doctor in the county. We wish him continued success.
 This is the season of the year when the doodle bug ceaseth to>doodle. and the coal dealer egotistically takes his place and im- pudently sells you 1,5O0 pounds for ton.
 J. E. G.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Adyancina the Prices of Fertilizers.

The Savannah News urges the commis- soners of agriculture of the cotton states ito investigate the statement of the new fertilizer combine to the effect that the materials used in the manufacture of fer tilizers have been advanced in price to such an extent that the price of fertilizers must be advanced also. The increased cost of fertilizers will next season be two to three dollars a ton This means that very con- siderable tax is to be levied on the farmers of the south.
 Whether this additional tax is due to the price of materials or to the water in the new combine is a question, and the News is right when it asks the commissioners of agriculture in the several cotton states to investigate and report. The investigation should be thorough and speedy. In exact figures the facts should be set down. In fact, well-informed commissioner of agri- culture should be able in an hours time to present all needful facts. He knows, or should know, what the materials used in fertilizers are, and any full market report Wlll snow the Ndfue ot SUCH indiciidis- A file covering a year will show the changes in such prices fin the year. Let the facts be brought out.
 The seat of the new trust ranges from Virginia to Florida. It has not, however, entered this state or the states west of us, SO far as the absorption of plants is con- cerned But the goods of the trust are sent far and wide. It aims to make the price of all fertilizers. It is therefore best to see what its new prices are based upon.
 An advance of even two dollars ton in fertilizers would be severely felt by the farmers of this state and of all other cotton states. Cotton is bringing a fair price this year, but there is no assurance that it will bring an equally fair price next year. The price of fertilizers becomes, therefore, matter of deep interest Let every farmer know, then, how much he is unduly taxed. Let the facts be brought out. If water is at the bottom of the increase, all should know it. The commissioners of agriculture should wake up and proceed to furnish the information they were elected to furnish.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
SALE OF HARPERs' TEXT HOOKS

New York Letter in Chicago Tribune.
 An officer of the American Book company in this city said today that the purchase of Harper Bros school and college text books by his company was effected some time ago, before it was known that the Har- pers were in financial difficulty The amount involved in the transaction, he said, was in- considerable as compared with the whole business of either party.
 The sale was made in accordance with the announced policy of the Harpers to trim away all unproftable branches of the business in an effort to get into shape again.
 To publish these school books separate department had to be maintained by the Harpers. The American Book company could profitably handle these books, and their addition to its lists was desirable and would strengthen them.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
. MEMS DRESS ON THE STAGE

i, From the New York Sun
 It is the opinion of an authority on the subject that the dressing of men on the stage has no influence whatever on the modes of the men off 1t. Yesterday a Sun reporter talked to the tailor on the subject. The tailor looked through his plate glass his head decidedly.
 Maurice Barrymore was for years re- garded as the worst-dressed man on the stage He would not even take the trou- ble to brush the dust off his clothes, and his entire idea of elaborate dressing was confined to a pair of patent leather shoes, with light-brown tops, which he was ac- customed to wear, and to dress waist coat cut perfectly round in way to dis play an abnormal breadth of shirtfront, which would have been possible only if the shirt had been especially manufactured for the purpose. These were always the two principal features of MT. Barrymores ap-' penrance on the stage, and baggy trousers, shapeless coat and a general air of un- kemptness used to be the prevailing impress sion he gave But that was before he was regenerated by acting in Vanity Fair and began to be careful about his dress as well as his art. Charles Richman is another actor who shows plainly that he has a New York tailor. MT. Richman is quite without any style or distinction that comes from his clothes. He is the sort of man who thinks because he wears gray suit that he should also wear gray necktie to go with it, and the result is that he looks perfectly coloress. The matching idea Is Fat ta1 eli in
 I used to have some students come to me from the smaller colleges who wanted their first suit of New York clothes, and they used to be matched in the most astonish- ing way Some of them would wear check suits with check uppers to their shoes to match, and one had a check hat made of the cloth in the form of an Alpine. The local tailor told them that this was the proper thing, and they believed him. It was only when they came down to the big college events that they saw well-dress- ed men from the other colleges and realized the mistake they had made. Mr Richman is still at the matching stage in dress, but he seems likely to get out of that. as he has already improved so much in dress, and after while he will probably have his hair cut ia the way that well dressed men wear it in England and New York It is quite different from the theatrical style in which it Is BOW arranged James H. Hackett is another specimen of we'll dressed actor in American clothes. He all ways looks dressed: in fact, very much dressed: but he lacks style completely. He is broad-shouldered, has fine figure, and is a handsome fellow. His clothes are usu- ally in the fashion, but there is never any suggestion of smartness about them"
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
MoNTEyALLo LAND DEAL
From the Talladega Mountain Home.

Sundays Advertiser gives the gratifying news that the Montevallo land sale is off, having been forfeited by MT. DeBardeleben. This fortunately ends what promised to be prolonged ugly affair, and teaches an im- portant lesson to commissioners and agents having charge of public lands; and that is. that no sale of land belonging to the peo- pie should bear any semblance to private sale or transaction. Such sales should have the widest publicity. The location of the lands, with descriptive numbers, and whether valuable for timber, coal. iron or other minerals, or for agricultural purposes, should be widely advetised, and bidders in- vited and encouraged. The people want no more secret sales of their property.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
THE TRACKWALKER

Xm H. Woods in Youths Companion With 1ead bent low and shoulders stopped And slow, home-keeping eye Fixed on the rails, a silent shape,
 The track-walker goes by. A five-qnile srip on grimy stones,
 Edged with an iron band, Is all this world. une snows that drift In daisies OCT the land. He needs not, nor red autumn flakes
 That rustic down the air, Rail, bolt and bar to keep in place
 This is fnis only care He quits his task three steps before The rocking train shoots past, Then stoops, while still the pebbles whirl. To make a loose bolt fast. The ruin hid in sudden flood,
 Slow rust and silent frost Iris his Ito fend; and men ride by
 In cushioned ease at cost. Of his long march and lo"cly watch,
 Nor give backward tn ought To the bent shape and plodding feet
 Whose toll their safety 5ought. Morn is to him a sentry beat
 To tread through sun and ain. His noon a place to turn anI start
 Back into night again. A ceaseless traveller all his days.
 New lands Glc ne'er may roam m- In wonder orchard is his house,
 Here 'twixt the rails his home. Unmourned. unmissed, he dlas to find
 1.-The last lone mies all irod; ,-i That whoso walks a railroad track
 Alright has walked with God s
The age-herald., 1899-12-08

which he has brought with him to exhibit to such persons as may be interested. MT. Cooke is convinced that Birmingham is the best point in the country at which to estalb- fish factory. He has the highest testi- rsonials from practical and successful far mers as to the value of the implements he has invented.
 Colonel Cornelius cade left last night for his home in Cincinnati, after spending several days in Birmingham seeing old friends and renewing old acquaintances. His visit gave great pleasure to every body here who has the happiness to know him. No man has dwelt in this district who has been more highly honored or more sincerely esteemed than Colonel Cadle
 Amongst the notable arrivals at the ho- tels last night were Charles B. Compton, general freight agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad; P. P. Watson, Martins vile, Va; Captain L. Y Dean, Eufaula; Captain H. c. Reynolds and W. B. Key holds, Montevallo, and Mrs. J. H. Haverly, New York, who joined MT. J. H. Haverly at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
GENERAL GoRDoN,s POSITION

Minneapolis, Minn.y December 6.-Gen. John B. Gordon. of Geogia, now and for the confederate veterans of America, made declaration on the Philippine question to- day. He said:
 My sympathies go out to the men who are fighting under the stars and stripes, wherever they are. and I am not in favor of pulling the flag down. I guess that shows where I stand"
The age-herald., 1899-12-08

Raleigh. N. C., December 5.-An opinion was handed down by the North Carolina supreme court today, holding the Southern railway liable to the law imposing a fine of SlOO0 for issuing a free pass in this state The case was sent up in April, the South ern railway being indicted in Burke county for giving a free pass to T. N. Hallyburton while he was doorkeeper of the house of the North Carolina legislature in 1S97
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
REFIECrIONs OF A BACHELOR,
From the New York Press.

A fool is very seldom an old bachelor and an old bachelor is very seldom a fool
 Half the time when q man kisses a girl he does 1t just to keep her from thinking.
 The main advantage woman has is that she can be bow-legged and only few men will ever know it.
 Men don't kiss each other before people the way their wives do, because If they did they would never be able to do anything with the women.
 A woman will eat a whole pla .eful of Spanish onions with vinegar on them for supper and then cry most all night be- cause she is afraid her husband doesn't love her as much as he did at first.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
po,,arLoes in Butler

The shipment of Alabama timoer ana lun Der is reported from many or the coun- ties:
 In the lower part of this county the snip n,ent of poplar logs is something immense A few days ago sheriff Shanks was at Garland and he says that the whole laee Of the earth around the depot IS covered with large logs of that spieholo tiiiioei IIis attention was called to the amount or lumber that was in one tree-it amount ing to 6.03O feet. and there were other logS nearly as large.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
Turnips and Human Editors

A good housewife has been kind to the editor of the Springville News:
 Mrs H. f. Robertson, of Odenvlle, has our thanks for a nice lot of the largest .turnips we have seen this year. Mrs. Robertson never Gorgets that the editor is human. and appreciates such tokens of friendship
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
Fare Fruits in Marengo

The Demopolis Dispatch says: Mr. T. F. Howze has had fruits at his store lately, that are seldom seen here. Last week he had case of pink shoddock fruit, very large and perfect. This is the first time we have seen this variety of the orange family here, and the specimens were very fine. Recently he had cluster of grape fruit containing five perfect spec imenS,
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
MORGAN NOT A pLUroCRAT
From the Selma Time.

The court journal is trying to make 1t ap- pear that the Morgan men are using money. Bless you, where does 1t come from? John T. Morgan only owns the house he lives in. and he has only recently lifted the mort gage off of it. John T. Morgan never made any money speculating in school lands. In all of his career no man can say that he has ever betrayed a trust to i'll his own nncketS.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
Man Behind the Baby Carriage;

The Camden Progress has this gentle fling at a contemporary:
 The idea of an old bachelor. such as is the editor of the Dothan Siftings, talking thus: "A great deal has been said about the man with the hoe,' and the man with the gun but the one who needs sympathy is the man behind the baby buggy.
The age-herald., 1899-12-08
No Women Were Likely There

A queer party was held in Carbon Hill the other night. The Carbon Hill Star says: The cent-for-every-year- -old-you-are party at the residence of J. s. shannon last Thursday night was quite an enjoyable af- fair and A handsome sum was realized for the benefit of the Methodist church.