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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-12-12

Entire las cesanttas que dictarAu los
republicanos de Maysgiiaz susarrase Ia
del Bi5liotecario don Alfredo Vigo, que
hace % aiios desempeia ese destino.
huchas familisS quedarGn sin pan por
la notorla intranSigeucia de los republi-
csnoa, que hacen caSo omisO del m6rito,
para fiarse solamente en- la fliaci6n po,
Utica.
Quien siembra vientos. ...
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-12-12
NOTlCIAS

En- ell vapor Caracas ha llegado hoy
a Ponce, la esposa de nuestro amigo
Mr.. Albert Myer, Comandante Militar
de este distrito y AlosIde accidental de
Poncu.
CeaeamoS la distiuguids DANA gra
tsG impresiones en- ests ciudad, dondG
tantaS simpatfas sc ha graugeado Mr..
Myer por Su rectitud 8 Unparalleled.
Ell Gobernador ha dispueSto que las
trsslaciones de presos &c hagan por me
dio de Ia policfa, utiliEando Ia insular
en- las poblaoiones donic hsga eStscio
mes.
En- Quebradillas reina much0 entu
sissmo por parte de los fedrraeS. La
ljuventud de nueStro partido Ia tornado
, un subcomit6.
liza tornado possession lie Ia alcaldta dc
San German, el cspitan de caballerfi
Mr.. William 4. Henry.
La Correspondence ss qupja de gu,
reolbe con mucha irregularldad la De.
RoCRAcIA J noSotrOs lie enviamos nues
tro periodioo todoO los diaa.
lQu6 paSa enel corrcn:
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-12-12

Espl6ndida result6 la manifestation
polttica calebrsda en- Utusdo con mott
70 de la Inauguration del Club Federal
de aquella oiudad, ataIays del partldo
federal en- Puerto Rico.
Antes de anoche, de cuatro aciDoo de
Ia mahana, quiso ser asatads la quinta
de nuestro amigo y correligioDario don
Jose Sohr0 Ter, donde yive su familis.
Llamsda la policfs, escaparon los la
drones sin ser habidos.
Nal cariE viene preseataudo Ia tran
quilidad pdblea de slgunos dfas a esta
parte.
La pOlicfa sorprendio anoche a un tai
Bcscsna en- Buenos Aires, cuando re-
gistr9ba los bolsillos de un americana
que dormia en- un balloon.
Ell rateTo corri6 dandose a la fuga
Sc lie msnd6 ell alto de ordenanza no
deteni6ndose la poliots dispar6 tres tt
ros, uno de los cuales hirl6 al pr6fugo,
ell que esta en- ell hospital.
T0dO anunCiO, communicate 0 inser-
clones, que SO publiquen en- este dia
rio ssraR satifeChOs pOr adsIantadO.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-12-12

Continua eufermo de gravedad nues-
tro estlmado amigo don Baudilio Ra-
baine.
Hacemos votos porque recupere ouan,
to antes la Salud.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-12-12

$50 Bibliotoea de LA DEmOCRACuA
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-12-12

Sc encuentra bsStante delicada de sa.
lud la honorable esposa de nuestro ami
90 don Luis Gautier. Deseamos un
pronto restablecimiento 4 tan digns
matrona.
The age-herald., 1899-04-30
BIRMINGHAM IS THE
 BOSS TOWN FOR STEEL

Correspondence of the Fall River Evening
 News.
 Birmingham, Ala, April 14.-This- city has grown in less than 20 years from 2,000 people to a population that, urban and suburban, is estimated at 75O0G. The se- cret of its progress is found in the hills which surround it. It is one of the greatest centers of iron and steel making in the world, because the valley in which it is located is walled by coal ore and limestone of such quality and in such quantities. that it can make iron and steel at prices which are likely, if not certain, to dictate the prices of such products in the markets of the world. That tells in a word why 50 many people went to Birmingham within three decades, and why it has eveluted from village to city of considerable size and international commercial connections.
 It is hardly necessary to say that great cities are never accidents. They first de- pend upon their location and surroundings, and next upon their inhabitants. Birming- ham seemed destined for a big manufactur- ing center and it has already demonstrated that that belief was not fallacious. The people here are a unit in the faith that the citys progress in the past is naught com pared to what is going to be attained in the future.
 Birmingham had the resources, energy "boom." Rooms are almost always boomer
The age-herald., 1899-04-30
UmdiscOVered1SilVer Mime
 Over i'm St. Clair County

secret from them. Some of the whites even went so far as to get "Old George" drunk, but this only sealed his tongue the tighter. At another time there was an epidemic of measles among the Indians, and through the attentions of the whites the disease was greatly mitigated. In their gratitude the Indian mothers offered to do almost anything except reveal the secret of the silver mine; they said it would mean eer- tain death to the traitor.
 Finally it was determined to follow "Old George on one of his pilgrimages, and an adventurous party of white men was form ed for the purpose. They followed, and the old man led them merry chase. He knew that they were following him, and after loading them by circuitous route for two or three days, he brought them back to Talladega without having picked up a sia- gle chunk of the precious metal. After that the white men let "0ld George alone.
 The Indians occasionally took some of the raw ore to the blacksmith's shop to be melted up into bullets and from the best analyses tho whites could make, about GO per cent. of the stuff was lead, about 10 silver and the remainder silicu, or some thing else.
 This is about as much as the whites could ever find out about the ore itself. Judging from the direction in which the Indians went after the metal it was supposed that they crossed the Coosa river. and found the silver in the neighborhood of Bear or Wolf creeks. Some of the whites thought the Indians went as far the upper edge of St Clair, or even as far as Jefferson coun- ty
 Silver is sometimes found in the strata underlying coal formations, and 1t is sup posed that this was the case with the h. dian's treasure The few pieces of ore which the whites saw looked as if it had been hacked off with a tomahawk.
 Mir Stone says that his father left him a memorandum of all he knew concerning the silver, in case it would ever be of bene- fit to the son in discovering the treasure, but the papers were destroyed in the burn ing of house in Talladega some years ago.
 About 1883 the last of the Indians remain ing in Talladega left to join their tribe in the west but "Old George" 1t is said would not go. He survived the tribes departure only a short time, however. and 1t is re- lated that the whites buried his body in one of the large Indian mounds which sur round Talladega. His remains still sleep 1t is supposed under one of these pictur- esdue and almost everlasting monuments which the Indians so loved to build in hon or of their dead.
 Speaking of Indian mounds, said MT. Stone "reminds me that some very valua- bie relics have been obtained from the 'n- dian mounds around Talladega. Mrs. Cru.k- shank, of that city, mother of George Cruikshank of this place. has a collection of Indian relics which is probably as valua- ble as any in the south."
The age-herald., 1899-04-30
as a
 Place. of Residence
RY ANNIE KENDRICk wALKER.

There has always been tendency to crit icise the fashionable manner of living which is fast making of Birmingham a conserva- tive city in many respects. Fashionable society, criticised the world over by some who claim that degeneration has set in, has the advantage, at least, in this young and beautiful city of escaping comparison of it's present period to that of even quarter of a century ago. Had Birmng- ham traditional and romantic past old timers would say that society has changed more than has the society of any other American city. contrast of social fife, then and now, would as it does in the older cities, create feuds and the present state of affairs would be as young United States senator. a representative of fine old family said of the city in which he lived. Do you know" he said, what has too long been one of the troubles of our great city? Let mo tell you. It is this ty- ranny of respectability-a formal respecta- bility that lives in the past and judges everybody now by what some one else did one hundred and fifty years ago.
 This distinctiveness of the Birmingham of today in escaping sharp comparison
 
 cosmopolitan plane, or for that matter, near the coast of Bohemia, which has been the result of the experimental period of residence of everybody in Birmingham
 This Bohemian element has largely been replaced by what can now be called resi- dential Birmingham.
 That there is still Bohemian atmosphere no one would deny, or certainly would not wish to, for it constitutes ono of the great est charms of existence, but Birmingham untrameled by tradition, is after all follow ing in the foot steps of the old conserva- tive cities of the south and the brilliant so- cfal functions are now graced by represen- tatives of residential Birmingham, who are establishing the permanent customs and ex- elusive coteries that are found in all the aristocratic American cities.
 The quick adjustment in matters social, which does not mean the narrowing of lines, because that matter regulates itself. has been a natural result of the inclination of the persons who are the arbitors of every thing social. Much of the population of Birmingham is made up of the creme de Ia creme of other cities. They brought with them that love of luxury that finds express sion in fine houses, where those brilliant cotories have created that atmosphere of elegance and refinement, which one finds in the old centres of southern aristocracy. Thus it is that the luxurious life of the wealthy class of this new city is repro- duction of what one might call the fine old days" It has all the elegant inheritances of arstocracy without the dilapdation It has the glamour of an invisible past with out suffering by contrast.
 The elements which are making of Eir- mingham an ideal place of residence have not any too early met the demands of the fast growing city. The social set, aug mented yearly by the most charming falni-
The age-herald., 1899-04-30

also three large rolling mills in this dis trict, and it's coal output last year was 4,04S,0 ,05i tons.
 The city of Birmingham was founded thrty-eight years ago, or rather was laid out in 1871 by large company. It's projec- tors believed that a great city could be built where rich ores, fine coal and lime stone were laid by nature in unlimited quantities within the radius of a few square miles So they built the city with broad streets and on lines that would per init easy expansion. It took Birmingham ten years to get 2,000 population. Then the "boom'' came and it grew. like all possessed. When the reaction arrived, it stood still for a while and then began a steady, ,apid growth in population, indus tries and trade. It has some fine buildings, it's stores are large and attractive. and its people arc a hustling crowd. When it comes to discussing the relative merits of towns, they can talk an Atlanta man to draw. which is saying a great deal.
 Besides pig iron and steel, there is con siderable machinery made in th's city, and it also has bolt engine and other factories. In fact its general manufactures are al- ready varied and extensive.
 For the past five years it has been inter- ested in the cotton trade, too. It has two large cotton congresses and a number of eXtens ve cotton buyers It's trade in this line jumped from 100G0 bales in 1S92-93 to over 100000 bales in '9S.
 Judging from the annual death rate among whites, which is 106i to each 1000, Birmingham must be a healthy place for residence. It's inhabitants say it is.
 It is located in a narrow valley between two ore and coal frilled ridges, and has eX- celent natural drainage and q chance to grow for miles in either direct on.
 Any student of industrial development will find much to interest him in Bir mingham
The age-herald., 1899-04-30

angs. But city that can make iron at SC a ton and land 1t in Copenhagen, Liver pool, Manchester, Marselles and Hamburg at a freight cost of $3 per ton, can not be long retarded in the race for trade and pop ulation.
 "The Birmingham district" said a san gu:ne citizen of this city twill dictate the price of steel to the world by next fall, when the steel and iron products made in the new plants in this vicinity will be ready for export.
 "It costs Pittsburg Chicago or Cleve- land about S9 a ton to make iron, and the Brmingham products get to Europe for about the amount that it costs in Pennsyl- vania and the west to just turn it out of the plant. Not only is the average profit on each ton of export Birmingham iron $3, but Alabama is master of the situation, and is equalled nowhere for the proximity of raw materials and the cheapness of labor, and is. scarcely eXcelled anywhere in facilities for marketing it's products.
 It used to be claimed that good steel would not be made from the common red ores of the Birmingham district, but two years ago a basis steel mill began opera tions here, and was so successful that two other immense plants are ROW being com pleted at Ensley, a suburb of Birmingham, and will be in operation the coming sum- mer. One or these plants Will cost one million dollars and the other double that sum.
 When one speaks of the Birmingham dis trict it practically means Birmingham city. This district produces about 70 per cent. of the iron manufactured in the southern states and is the center of the pig iron, coal, coke, cast iron pipe, car wheel, ma chine and foundry business in Alabama. There are twenty-five furnaces within twenty niles of this city, and the average daily output of each is 175 tons. There are
The age-herald., 1899-04-30

'"There is an undiscovered silver mine somewhere in St. Clair county or just over the line in Jefferson, which used to be the source of great mystery to the citizers=of Talladega~ county in the early days of The state, over half a century ago." said J. E. Stone of this city, the other day. zt,vss
 "The causes of it all were the Creek In- dians many of whom remained in Talla- dega county until 1883, twenty years after the Creek war. They used to have silver trinkets of great value the metal for mak- ing them being obtained somewhere within three or four days journey of Talladegd. Of course they, refused to tell the white people where they mined it, and although the latter tried hard, they never succeeded in obtaining the information. The last h. dian family finally died and took his secret to the grave with him. To this day 1t has never been discovered"
 From MT Stone and other former resi- dents of Talladega, the following narrative of the mysterious silver mine is obtainei: The war with the Creek Indians was fought in 1913. As a result of the contest. the red men were badly defeated and they were compelled to pick up their belongings and move off toward Arkansas.
 Many of the Indians did not go. but re- mained there in their old homes and were for over twenty years on the best of terms with the whites.
 One of the chiefs left behind was an old man who acted in the capacity of ieweer to the remnant of his tribe. He had his cabin on the plantation of Isaac Stone fath- CT Of J. E. Stone, Robert Stone and Mrs. Lyman, of this city, and there he carried on his jcwerly business.
 He made rings, bracelets necklaces and many other kinds of trinkets which were q delight to the Indian woman's heart and they were all noted among the whites for the purity of the silver of which they were made.
 The mystery was where this old Indian obtained his silver. At periods he would arr range all his ponys traps preparatory to a Journey, and then set out through the woods alone. After an absence of from five to ten days, or more. "Old George" as he was called by the whites, would quitely return with his pony heavily burdened. He would then shut himself up in his cabin, and after period of industrious labor, he would emerge to begin selling the trnkets he had made to the Indians, or to anyone else who would buy them.
 Sometimes the old man was accompanie1 on his trips to his silver treasure by other Indians, and it was generally admitted that every Indian in the vicinity knew where the mine was situated but try asl they would, the whites could never get thel
The age-herald., 1899-04-30
Easy Promotion

From Puck. Gibson-I saw Grabber, the defaulter,, in South America.
 BonGs--How's he getting along?
 Gibson-Fine. He's way up in society. Told me he wasn't there over a mon tn before all the ladies in his family were Daughters of the Revolution.
The age-herald., 1899-04-30

lies, must have in addition to private en- tertainments on a magnificent scale, it's club houses in town, and the latest move by men prominent in the social world has been tho organization of a driving club, and work on the country club house has al- ready commenced. The fine country roads have long invited the erection of a country club house. The Birmingham Assembly" which was organized last winter and which gave its first ball just previous to Lent, was pre-eminently tho exclusive function, and its managers intend that 1t shall pre- serve the traditions of society in the best estate. 2 The musiel, art and literary cotcries made up of the men and Wornen many of them whose names are known in kindred circles of larger. cities, have generous foster- mother in this young and untraditional city. With it's fiuctuating years of prosper ity and panic there has been the steady growth of the intellectual life. The musical colony form a brilliant coterie. unequalled by any musical centre, and the art clubs and literary clubs typical of an old regime in point of classic study and basis of culture.
 Thus it is that a typocal Bipninghamlan is but an exponent of the luxurious regime that cannot be called of "old Birmingham" but regime that in a way has been graft ed from the older cities upon the brilliant life of the newer.
 A noticeable fact which has been com mented upon frequently of late in the daily papers, and which has also given an np- portunity for a little moralizing in regard to "booms' has been the demand for more residences. The real estate news printed in tho papers tells its own story of the per manence of residential Birmingham, and that the migratory period Is past The families who were content at first to 1.-Two in tbn hotels and boarding houses in a vanishing minority. and arc clamorous for homes in residential Birmingham.
 The charm of life here every Birming hamian will tell you is indefinable. 1t is an interesting city because it is cosmopolitan enough to present attractions for all classes of people There is so much to attract one in the very life of the city itself. The bril- liantly lighted avenues, the flashing line of equippages the familiar sights of any great city. make the streets of Birmingham but a reproduction of other crowded thor- oughfares, but the beauty of some of her less her Highland avenue or Cullom Place were to ''be removed bodily"
 MT Richard Harding Davis tells the story of dear old lady from the country who said to her equally dear old husband in New York horse-car, "Henry, do you ap- preciate the fact that we are on Broad way?" Broadway to her was great name and place, that she thought would always be a name. and she found herself a part of it and it thrilled her simple old heart.
 I saw her prototype a few days ago in an incoming suburban car. young girl who was sitting at her side said:
 "Auntie, do you realize that you arc at last in Birmingham?"
 The dear old lady nodded srningly. There was not the slightest doubt of her apprecia- tion of the fact.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-05

There is no surer and no quicker way
to do poor advertising than to wait until
the paper is ready to go to press and then
dash Oft your ad copy in ten minutes.
says Profitable Advertising. You can't
write a good advertisement on the spur
of the moment. This is an in1exible
rule ard ought to be posted up where it
will greet the optics of the advertisement
writer daily. Advertisements-bus
ness-bringing advertlsementS-are the
concentrated essence of business brains
They require much thought and much
knowledge. and the more thought and
the more knowledge that is brought tc
bear upon their construction, the more
satiSfA .ory are the results obtained
To the above may be added that when
advertisements are brought into the
newspaper Office in season they are sureI
of better display than those which are
brought in on publication day. Every
printer makes personal appeal to busi
ness men to get their copy for ads in or
time.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-05
DEWEY DAY IN VERMONT.
Ground Broken for Dewey Hall at the Nor
wich University.

NORTHFIELD, VT, May l.-GrOund
was broken today for the Dewey Me-
mortal Hall to be erected on the hill now
occupied by the buildings of Norwich
University, the military school of Yer
mont. where the hero of Manila was a
student in the fifties. Capt. Charles +.
Clark, formerly of the Oregon, himself
Vermonter. dug out the first spadeful
of earth. This cable message was sent
to the Admiral by President Brown;
Dewey, Manila;
Congratulations. University hail excava
ton. BROWN
This morning Captain and Mrs. Clark
came down from Montpelier and were
received by commander A. d. Brown, L
S. N, retired, president of the school
and escorted to the buildings where a
captains salute of nine guns was fired
In the chapel there were brief exercises
and each pupil and the faculty were pres.
ented by name TO the captain. He did
not make speech to the boys, but sal
on setiee and chatted Informally with
them. They gave him three cheers wher
he arose to go.
7
the local organizations. There were 200C
people to hear the speeches A glee clul
of 20 sang several selections, one being
/ the "Dewey Song" written by Presden
Brown soon after the Manila battle anC
sung to the old Norwich tune of "ThC
Old South Barracks"
Capt Clark said Dewey's achievement
nd Ia Of Ia lat ht
of the most eloquent tributes. IL
esteemed his own part enviable, that o
beginning the work, which shall be con
tnued till Dewey hall is completed. Tn,
Hon. Kettredge Iiaskins of Brattleboro
speaker of the Vermont legislature, de
lvered the principal address, in which h
said that the university had held II
place in the thoroughness of instruction
and went next to West Point and An
napolis of all military schools in tn
country. He did not believe that an,
Norwich graduate would ever lend ali
or give information to the cOuntry's enc
mics. He said Dewey's statute shoul
be placed in front of the state capitC
alongside that of Ethan Allen.
After the speechmaking the crowd ad
journed to the Broad Green, to the sout
of the buildings, where a space had bee
roped of. Into this stepped Capt. Clarl
President Brown, and the trustees of tn
university. Capt. Clark put his foot o
new spade and turned the first sod G
the excavation for Dewey hall. The col
: nerstone will be laid on commencement
day in June.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-05

The truth of the proVerb concerning the
quality of the wind when blows good to
some one was realized by the local theatre
going public last evening, when they had an
opportunity of seeing Lyman II. Howe's
Warograph, which is now at the opera house.
The idea is distinctly novel and original and
one that all seemed to enjoy. Patriotism
was al white heat throughout the naval bat.
ties and applause vociferous at the showing
of almost every picture. one must not con.
fuse this entertainment with a merely .mov-
ing picture machine performance, for it is
much more. The spectator not only sees the
picture of the naval BATTLES and the display
of pyrotechnics, but the powerful thunder of
the guns is wonderfully in evidence, and all
the effects are as naturally reproduced as
though one had been transported for Il few
moments to the scenes of the conflict. The
crumbling of fortilicatiOns, the cries of the
wounded and means of the dying and all the
hideous realism of war are given in way
that will inspire the auditor to give vent to
his fee ings with cheers ard shouts. The
pictures shown are not drawings, but are
the exclusive property Of Mr.. Howe. These
truly remarkable ana Interesting views will
again appear this evening. 49, Harrisburg
(Penn) lndependent-Sta