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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06

marshal. He received 60 votes. while the
regular nominee (Welchl received ZIG.
A tobacco farm is one Of the innoya tlqIS
of this section. Joe Ashby, OF Kentucky,
has prepared land for az extepsive ''Yeedp
farm two miles from Alexander City, and
his methods will be eagerly watched by
others.
Despite the landslide In democracy
favor last August, it seems that handful
OF populist politicians are still on hand.
They have called a primary to be held
April Is to elect delegates to the constitu-
tional convention.
Prof George w. Brock, of this city, has
been appointed one of the state board Of
examiners by Superintendent John w. ABB
ercrombie. Prof. Brock was not an appli-
cant for the place, and his appointment Is
purely one OF merit His peculiar equip
ment for the place and thorough knowledge
of school work easily gave him this recog-
milton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06

Paint Rock Valley railroad, originally pro-
Jected several years ago from Gurley to
Winchester, Tenn. The original plans for
the road fell through, though great deal
of money was invested and several miles of
the route were graded. The plans, how
ever, have never been entirely abandoned,
and Major E. c. Gordon. a well known pro-
moter, who is backed by plenty of capital,
has revised the plans with the expectation
of carrying them through. The directors
of the railroad held a meeting Monday.
The proposed line runs through a rich Sec
ton of the country and it Is believed the
railroad would be a paying investment.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06

For Sale-75 fresh horses
and mules at Geo. g. Phillips
stable, 24th st. and Morris ave.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06
STRUCK IN THE EYE.
Robert Campbell Meets With Serious
Accident at Gadsden.

Gadsden, April 5.-(Special. )-Robert
Campbell, superintendent of the Hoffman,
Billings and Weller pipe works, had the
misfortune to be struck in the eyes with a
piece of red hot iron and 1t is feared that
the sight will be destroyed
The Hoffman, Billings and Weller pipe
works is again branching out, making the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06
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1.-THE American Porter"-riyals the
English Stout, Porter and 'alf and 'alf-
In refreshment and mldness. new brew
of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Assn.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06
white Hadn't Heard 1t

Berlin, April 5.-Andrew D. White. the
United States ambassador, informs the cor
respondent of the Associated Press In reply
to an inquiry on the subject that he knows
nothing OF the report that he has been ap-
pointed to represent the United States at
the peace conference called by the czar,
which is to assemble at The Hague on May
is.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06

Hoods Sarsaparilfa insures good digestion
and strength to the vital organs. Insist up
on Hoods.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06
May Build O Railroad

Huntsville, April 5.-(special.) -There is
great activity among the business men of
Gurley because of the Frightening pros
poets for the building of the Gurley and
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06

Washington. April 5.-Gen. Otis has cableo
the war department that the transport
Sherman has left Manila with one hundred
wounded soldiers, which included all that
were able to be sent home at that time.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
FLYING ENGINES TAKE WATER.
Tanks Are Beplenished While the Loco
 motive Is Making speed


 On many of the railroads centering at Chicago it is no longer necessary for train to stop to enable the engineer to replenish his boilers with water. All travellers have now become accustomed to seeing the narrow trough, 1,200 to 1,400 feet long, at various dead level points along the road and they know that the strip of water which it con tafns is scooped up by the engine as it speeds over the tracks. But people from foreign countries often ask dues tions about the water between the tracks and marvel when they hear the story about drinking the engine on the fly. What seems a marvellous me- ehanieaI contrivance is an extremely simple thing. A pipe with scoop end is fastened to the tender. It is : shaped, with the top end pointing into the water tank and the bottom eufied under the body of the tender. By 9 series of levers this end may be dropped until it reaches the level of the ties. When the engine reaches the trough the fireman drops the scoop end, which is 97a inches high and 12 inches wide, into the trough. ia5.' which it sinks a distance of about six inches or within an inch of the bottom. It may wabble slightly without doing any harm, because the trough is "A incbls wide. Dropping the end is all that is done, for the motion of the en- giz1e does the rest. The water rushes into the pipe and thence into the tank with a rush and force that suggests to the uninitiated the use of powerful en- zines. The most remarkable thing about the water-taking scoop" said railroad official, .is the fact that the speed of the train must be reduced when the water is taken on. IL reaches the bend in the pipe with such force that if the train were allowed to go at it's regular speed the metal would be seriously strained, so we reduce the speed to about thirty miles all hour and have the best results" While the engine is passing over the trough at the rate of thirty miles an hour 1t takes up about 4,000 gallons of water about as much as wou77a be contained in 100 spirit barrels.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
INSECTS TO IMPROVE FIGS.
They Have Been Introduced in GaIifor-
 nia After Many Trials.

They Have Been Introduced in CaIifor-
 mia After Many Trials.
 The larger part of our fig supply comes from Asia Minor. the Spanish peninsula and the south of France. Those of Asiatic Turkey are considered the best. Certain insects of the genera blastophaga and sycophaga which fre- quent the wild fig enter the minute ori- flee of the receptacle, apparently to de- posit their eggs, conveying thus the pollen more completely to the stigmas, thus insuring the fertilization and con- sequent ripening of the fruit. By some the nature of the process has been questioned and the better maturation of the fruit attributed merely to the stimulus given by the puncture of the insect, as in the case of the apple, but the arrangement of the unisexual flow CTS in the figs renders the first theory most probable. A year ago the depart ment of agriculture began a series of experiments on the introduction of the insect which fertilizes the Smyrna fig. an agent was sent to Europe to obtain cuttings of all varieties of the wild fig and to send over the fruit containing the live insect. By good fortune some Of the insects succeeded in penetrating tne closed flowers of the Capri figs and laid their eggs and really established themselves in California. It is. now be- lieYed that the insects will continue to breed and that in the near future fig will be placed upon the market which possesses the same superior flavor as that which has given the imported Smyrna fig it's present popularity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
HAIR PLANTING.
Successful Experiments of Turkish
 Physician.

Successful Experiments of a Turkish
 Physician.
 A Turkish physician has been ex- pefimenting successfully on the trans planting of hairs one by one to bald parts of the scalp. His results seem to show that there is no impossibility in the complete renewal of a lost head of hair by this means The physician, Dr. Menahem Hodara, according to a foreign paper, tried his experiments i'll the case of a disease that had re- moved part of his patients hair. His plan was to searify the bare surface and to implant thereon hairs removed from other parts of the patients head The hairs used for the purpose were trimmed with, scissors at each end. Some four weeks after implantation a certain number of the hairs were found to have taken root, and in no long time goodly new crop was pro- duced. Encouraged by these results, Dr. Hodara has since applied the method Ill other cases of badness fol- lowing fayus, and he thinks himself justified in stating that "clinically there can be no doubt as to this very curious f3et-that small bundles of hair stems cut with scissors and im- planted in the incisioHs made with the searifier can take root and grow, form ing in time long and visible hairs. !" 6y microscopic examination he has satisfied himself that after some weeks a real new bulb forms at the lower end O. the implanted hair. Dr. Hoda- ra s results are interesting in them- selves, and still more in the promise which they appear to offer of further results. undreamed of, or at any rate unmentioned. by the ingenious experi- menter. Why, asks the New York Herald should not the same treatment be applied in cases of ordinary bald ness? Many bald men would gladly submit to have their scalps plowed and afterward sown with new hairs if there was a reasonable hope of even a moderate harvest.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
FenaaIism in Hungary.

Ineonceivab1e as the anachronism may seem to the western mind, the agrarian system of Hungary has not yet issued from the feudal form. The Hungarian farmer of today is virtually a serf. bound to his master, the hered- itary owner of the soil which the peas ant tills, by the tangible tie of per- sonal liability. The Hungarian feudal lord of today is entitled to fifty days labor from each male adult who dwells on his land. The seignior fs at liberty to demand this feudal contribution at whatever time may seem best to him, with the frequent result that the ten- ant farmer is employed in gathering his masters haryests while his own crops are rotting after rainfall or are being consumed by an early frost or suffer damage from one or more of the many possible causes which ren- der destructive the slightest delay on the part of the harvester in gathering the fruits of years labor.-S. Ivan Tonjoroff, in Arena.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
A CHINAMAN,S OATH.
The Celestial Was Particular and Caused
 the Court Lots of Trouble.


 The various forms of eath-making, even in this country, are of consider able interest. It would not, however, be easy to find an instance in which anything like so queer medium of attestation was employed as a gull lotned black eockatoo. But no less an extraordinary medium than that was what the police of a country district h New South Wales had to provide the other day for fnical Ghinaman, who declined to swear on anything else. Headless fowls were brought, but in vain, and as the matter was impor- tant, even q black swan, a luxury surely for Chinese witness, was sug- gested, only to be immediately refused. After some time had elapsed, and when the representatives of the law seemed quite at their wits end, dead cockatoo of the required hue was strangely discovered in a hut Nj one of the other eelestials, who mulcted the anxious officials in $250 for the bird. Then the solemn and peculiar oath was duly administered, on which the diffi- cult witness with bland and childlike expression, declared he knew nothing .p5e0t the case and sat down smiling!
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
Colossal Monument.

The most colossal monument on the continent of Europe and second alone in dimensions to the Liberty statue in New York, is that of the fabulous Tu- rull bird recently erected on the sum. nit of the Banhida mountain in Coun- ty Komorn, Hungary, in commemora- tion of the Hungarian millennium, which was celebrated with stupen- dous amount of patriotic influence in 1S9b in all portions of the kingdom. The site is well chosen, seeing that the monument occupies the spot where Ar pad slew Swatopluk, the Slavic chief tain, on his invasion Of the Hungary of today. It was mainly due to the exer- tions of tke famous Magyar romancer, Jokal Nor, that the collection for the monument was started. This bird, fa- ble has it, has played an extraordinary Dalt in the destinies of the nation, so that the poorest moved to enthusiasm by the eioquence of the popular poet, contributed the copper he could i'll af- ford to spare to the general fund. The conception of the monument is that of the Magyar sculptor, Donath Gyula, the metals used being copper and iron. The height from the claw to the tip of the wing is sixty-eight feet, the out spread wings are forty-six feet long, and the sword of Arpad, which the monster bird holds in it's claws. meas ures forty feet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
xls.rurI,s < rresenrs.

The preser ts sent to Queen Victoria on her eightieth birthday almost equal those of the last jubilee. The most magnificent came from Indian princes, who have of late sought every oppor- tunity of exhibiting their loyalty. These include many rich specimens of oriental and lacquer work-so many, indeed, as to be almost embarrassing to the officials at Nvindsor.-New York Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
.owEn or SHORT WORDS.
A Paragraph Illustrating It, and Attri.
 Duted to Horatio Sn,,,.


 " Aol40Wlng paragraph, attribut- ea to Horatio Seymour, the writer nrac- tees what he preaehessinee there ia m word in it with more than two svlla- @ 05ss, save such as are quoted for the purpose of illustration: we must moi oaIy think in words, but we must also eS to use the best words and fhoaA . @4len lh speech will put what is in our ililnos Into the minds Of others. This ls the great art which those must gain E1o wish to teach in the school. the cRnrch, at the bar, or through tbo press To do this in the right way they should use the short words which we @ learn in early life. and which have l9e same sense to all classes of men me english of our Bible is good. Now ana then some. long words Are found. al5a they always hurt the verses in winch yea find them Take that which says On Ee generation. of vipers. who natn warned you to flee from. the wrath 10 cone3. There is one long word E1llch ought not to be in it. namely, generation. In the old version the old word brood is laed. Read the verse verse with the term, and you will feel its full verse: toh, ye ,viper.s brood, Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?' Crime sometimes does not look like crime when it is set be- fore us in the many folds of a long word. When a sman steals, and we call 1t dedication, we are at q loss to know if it is blundef or crime. II he does not tell the truth, and we are told that it is case of sprevarication. 1t takes us some time to know just what we should think of it. No man will ever cheat himself into wrong-do- ing, nor will he be at a loss to judge of others, ii he thinks and speaks of acts in clear, crisp terms. It is a good rule. f one is at loss to know if an act is right or wrong to write 1t down in short, stgaightout English"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
NEW WAY OF MAKING STEEL.
1t Is Cast in Vacuum and Tempered
 with Liquid Hydrogen.

Just as Americans begin to feel that they are upon the verge of developing superiority to Great Britain not only in shipbuiiding, but in the steel trade, in which a number Of valuable foreign contracts have lately been taken by our manufacturers in the face of Brit ish competition, and just as nature seems to encourage the American as= piration by showing that the English coal mines will be exhausted within another fifty years. science seems to be coming to the aid of the Britisher and may be about to oper new fields Of competition in steel, in which America must take part if she is to maintain her hard earned prestige. The dis ccvery has been demonstrated in Lon don and Is being made much of by the English press that the ability to pro- duce perfect steel by casting it in vacuum made by liquid hydrogen with process that it is not proposed to make public, has at last attained prac- ticability. A company has been formed -WitAr capital of 30,000 pounds to eX- perinIbtally develop the process, and If the plan is successful as Prof. Dewar, the discoverer, presumes it will be, the ar bubbles that now cause flaws and weakness in steel will be done away With, and metal will result such as the world has never seen. To say that aNhis means a possible revolution in the lsteel trade is to put it mildly, and if the English government can control the process, as it is now intimated may De the case, then American scientists and those of other countries will be put upon their mettle to get even with lhe Britishers. Liquid hydrogen, which is the great agent now discov- cred, is described as clear, eolorless, transparent and very volatile fluid, no clearer than pure water, but only one fourteenth the density of water. Tn its lightness it is out of all proportion to any known liquid. A piece of paper when placed in it sinks. The differ sence between liquid hydrogen and Lqai air is as great if not greater &lhaa4he difference between the ordi- lary temperature and liquid air. Liquid ydrogen places temperature at within kAenty degrees of absolute zero, which
 Represented by 494 degrees Fahren-
 and 279 degrees Centigrade be-
 zero. The boiling point of liquid
 gen is 252 degrees below zero,
 (el it capable Of enormous
 BcoVefy must affect
 physics. and chemis-
 fias are Ill li1nita a hle..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
Bana.nas.

New York Tribune: \ virtuous ban ana company has withdrawn from the 1nrfghteous banana trust, shocked and hurt because 1t was asked to help force the price of bananas up from s1.15 to S2.50 bunch. The public value of this news is that bananas can be proftably produced at s1.15. bunch. Now, a good bunch contains at least hundred bananas, and there
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
HOW GLOVES ARE GATHERED.
More Used in America Than Any Other
 Country.


 More cloves are said to be used in America than in any other country England and France following in the order named.s In this country and in Great Britain they are used almost wholly as a continent. b@t in France they are used largely in the 1nanufac ture of certain liqueurs. To some de- gree they are employed in medicine for their tonic properties. The nsne clove is from the French clou, meaning q nail. The tree is an evergreen, grow ing from forty to fifty feet nigh. with large, oblong leaves and crimson flow CTS at the end of small branches in tree belongs to the same family as the guava, the pomegranate and the rose apple The cloves are at first white, then light green, and at the time of gathering bright red Pieces of white cloth are spread under the trees at the harvesting time, and the branches are beaten gently with bamboo sticks until the cloves drop. They are dried In the sun, being tossed about daily until they attain the rich dark color which proelaims them ready for ship ment. A clove tree bears at the age of about ten years, and continues un- til it reaches the age of 75 years. There are two crops a year, one in June anG the other in December Hot weather Is favorable to the crop, although little fog is said to improve the flavor New York Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
NATURAL TRAP
tn Gulch Captures or Asphyxiates
 Many Wild Animals.

Many Wild Animals.
 Death gulch is a small and a1oc,,,,
 Zine in the northeast corner of +ba.
 Slowatone national park, says An-
 ton's Monthly ..In this rex.on the
 kss which fill the ancient basin of he park rest upon the Hanks of noun ains formed of fragmentary volcanic
 jecta, while the hydrofberrnaI forces of the central portion af tba E bark. show but feeble manffasfaffon If heir energy ln the almost extinct hot kpring areas of Soda Butte. Lamar
 ger, 4aehe creek and Miller creek"
 Ait45s1 hot water no longer flows
 ffo4hese vents, gaseous enanations
 are IW s1Fen off in considerable vol
 nmf on Cache creek, abolit4 two
 nailfab9aye its confluence with Lamar
 rly4 are deposits of altered and crys-
 AR traz'ertine, with pools in the violently efferYescing= locally. 'sa IS due to the eopious emission of e0aa& Above lthese deposits the creek as into 2 bank of sulphur and gravel stfINdnted by tAis material, and few " beyond isl the debouchure of a lateral gully coming down from
 aatain side. In it's bot In is a
 ream of clear and cold water, 4E es4th sulphufic acid, and flowing down a narrow and steep channel cut in beds Qf dark gray volcanic tiff. As eending this guleh the sides, closing together, become very steep slopes of white, deeomposing rock. The only springs now flowing are small oozes of water issuing from the base of these slopes or from the channel bed, forming a thick, creamy, white 7 deposit about the vents and covering the stream bed. This deposit consists largely Of sulphate of arumina About 150 feet above the main stream these oozing springs of acid water cease, but the channel of the guleh remains the same. The odor of sul- phur now becomes =stronger,. though producing no other effect than slight irritation of the lungs. Climbing through this trough, a frightfully weird and dismal place, and occupied by only a tiny streamlet and an ap- 4SAAld6 9A14g We dE 1GASlu Q4SGOYGIGQ some brown furry masses lying scat tered About the floor of the ravine about 1 quarter of mile from the point where we left Cache creek. Ap- preaching cautiously, it became quick ly evident that we had before us a rlarge group of huge. recumbent= bears. The one nearest to Us was lying with his nose between his paws, facing us, and so exactly like huge dog asleep that it did not seem possible that it was the sleep of death. To make sure. l threw a pebble at the animal, strik- ing him on the flank The distended skin resounded like drum head, and the only response was beleh of poi sonous gas that almost overwhelmed us Closer examination showed that the animal was young silver tip grizzly (Ursus horg8bilis). A few drops of dark red blood stained his nestrils and the ground beneath. There proved to be five other carcasses, all bears, in various stages of decay; careful search revealed oval areas of hair and bones that represented two other bears, mak- ing total of eight eareasses in all.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
Into tlle Iistern.

Last Monday little Jeanette Bates. of Richmond, Ky, was playing around the eistern. when one of the boards broke and let her fall in. The three year-old tot. though. held onto the chain and kept her head above the water until her papa and some neigh bors got her out.
 Forgot the Fireoutfit.
 Reattle. Kan. lad a fire the othkr
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-31
SheWas Too oung.

Charles Barneysgraff, q, and Mary Schemiski, IT, both of Cincinnati, wanted to be married in Covington yesterday, but Deputy County Clerk Bud MeQuerney refused to grant 1i- cense unless the girl could induce her mother to cross the river and give her consent.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-03-16
OLD STONE TABLET FOUND.
nine VIII Prove OF Great
Historic Interest,

According to the Runic characters ON
. stone tablet found in, Minnesota
swamp, adventurous Norsemen pene-
trated the American continent as far as
Minnesota 130 years. before Columbus
planted the banner Of CASTLE ON the
shore of San Salvador.
Ii is likely that the tablet with this
history-making inscription will soon
become the property of Northwestern
university at Evanston, Ill. Prof.
George Curme, of the German depart
ment of the college, has secured q copy
of the inscription, and is impressed
with the idea that It is a genuine his
torical treasure.
The stone was found by Norwegian
laborers near Kensington, Mimi, and
bears the date 1862. Historians who
have heard OF the strange writings on
the tablet are intensely interested in
the outcome OF the present investiga.
ton.
DR.. Henry Wade Rogers, president OF
the university, said to-day that the au-
thenticity of the inscription had not
been proved, but that it would be fully
determined in time. II the relic proves
to be genuine it will doubtless become
the property of the university.