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The age-herald., 1899-11-25
NOW, WATCH THE ALUMNI

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The Alumni Association of the University of Alabama will investigate the recent land sales through its executive committee, next Tuesday at noon, at Montgomery. At the coming meeting the executive committee of that association will decide upon what steps to take regarding the sale of the University lands.
 The first thing the committee will ask, is. Why were the University lands sold for s125O per acre when other lands no more valuable are being leased for $9 per acre per annum?
 The second question will be, Why did the governor oppose leasing S,4O0 acres of the 44OO acres sold flor 5000 per annum when the proceeds of the 4,400 acres will only pay 2,2OO per annum?
 The third question will be, Why was the matter of selling these lands sprung upon bare quorum, at a meeting called to elect professor of pedagogy, after1 the sale was declined by the full board ir June? G '
 If the executive committee of the AlumnI Association receives satisfactory answers to these questions 1t will be a great sur prise to the people, The general opinion is that there is crookedness behind tine September executive session of the board of trustees. If the coming meeting of, the Alumni Association ferrets out the real reason for the land sale, 1t will do the atate a great service.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
STORY ABOUT APPRAISER BYNUM
Victor Smith in the New York Press.

Victor Smith in the New York Press.
 Bynum at last is arrived He has been appointed to an office that should last him for the rest of his days-at $7 900 year. As the labors of a general appraiser are light he will find ample time to continue in the practice of law, at which he now is earning some $15,000 year. When Bynum was run ming for the speakershp of the Indiana general assembly he tackled Hoosier who was serving a first term. ''I want your vote" he said. 'Youre all right, Dallas" returned the member from Posey county, "and I'd just as lief vote for you as any body, but I don't believe in the idea of eectng a speaker. It seems to me that every member of the house should be al- lowed to do his own speaking for himself"
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Improvements at Demopolis

From the Demopolis Express
 Out at the Cooperage company they are as busy as bees getting things in readi- ness for the veneer machine, which they expect to have in operation by the middle of next month. When this machine is added to the plant it will increase their sstave output fully twenty thousand. At present the worlSmen are busy on the ce- ment vats, which are seven in number, and will occupy a space 10 feet wide by 160 feet long and will be ' feet deep. The new machinery will also do away with the most troublesome pieces of machinery in. the present mill, namely. the foot joiners and the stave cHtter; these will be supplamted Iby the latest and most approved ma chimes. machines so perfected that they do the work much faster and better and without danger to the operator.
 In connection with this we learn that
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
THE WIDOW Ar WINDsop

Ave you card of the Widow at Windsor With hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? She as ships on the foam--she as millions at 'ome,
 An she pays us poor beggars in red COW, poor beggars in redD There's CT nick on the cavalry 'orses There's 'er mark on the medical stores, An Ter troopers you'll find with fair wind .be'ind,
 That takes us to various wars. (Poor beggars ,--barbarous warsD Then eres to the Widow at Windsor,
 An 'ere's to the stores and the guns And men an the 'orses what makes
 up the forces
 O Missis Victoriers sons Poor ars!!-Victorier's sonsD Walk wide O the Widow at Windsor, For 'alf O creation she owns; We ave bought her the same with the sword and the flame, An we've salted 1t down with our bones (Poor beggars--it's blue with our bones) Hands off O the sons O the Widow, Hands off Q the goods in er shop, For the kings must come down an the em- peFors frown
 When the Widow at Windsor says .Stop!'
 Poor beggars-we.re sent to say '.Stopi'O
 Then eres to the Lodge O the Widow From the pole to the tropics it runs ITO the Lodge that we tile with the
 rank an the file,
 An opens in forms with the guns!! (Poor beggars-it's always them gunsD We ave 'eard O the Widow at Windsor, It's safest to let er alone; For Ter sentries we stand by the sea an' the land,
 Wherever the bugles are blown ePoer beggars-an' don't we get blownD Take old O the wings % the morning, An flop round the world till you're dead, But you wont get away from the tune that they play
 To the .bloomfn' old rag over'ead. Poor beggars-it's ot over'eadD Then .ere's to the sons O the Widow, Wherever. owever they roam. 'Ere's all they desire an if they re-
 .uqfire
 A speedy return to their 'ome. Poor beggars-they'n never see omeD
 -Rndyard Kinlins.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
CHANGING ras ROUSE CARPET

From the New York World
 The new carpet for the house of repre- sentatives will be red this session. It is that shade every other year. Green is the color in the intervening years These shades are chosen because they are not so liable to fade, and because they tend to brighten the chamber. The carpets are made under con- tract, and one of the stipulations is that the manufacturer shall not duplicate the pattern. The old carpets are renovated and placed upon the floors of the committee rooms. This year the carpet contractor is a MT. Peterson, who also keeps hotel''
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Needs a Flaming Mill
From the Tuscumbia Dispatch.

From the Tuscumbia Dispatch
 Never before was there such demand for dressed lumber, doors, sash, and many other things in this line that are used daily and are being ordered every week by our citizens. Lumber is plentiful near us, and we know of no enterprise as much needed a blaming mill It will only require a small amount of capital, and we trust that some one will become interested and in a short whileerect mill that will bring trade in this line to our city, as well as giving employment to number of good men.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
University Receives File of Papers

From the Tuscaloosa Gazette.
 MT. Mont l.. Burton has> presented to the library of the University of Alabama a file of the Tuscaloosa Clarion, 1S29-32, neatly and substantially bound MT. Bur tcm was editor of the Clarion, and it gives the news of the time in a very attractive manner. Such files are of great value, and the University library is very proper place for them. To them the historian of the future will turn for his facts. In the library they are reasonably sure to be pre- served. They will there be accessible to many more people than if kept in private library.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

these Improvements will be used for the first time in tais state, if not the south. MT. D. H. Thompson, of Indianapolis. is the patentee of the machine which over comes the great difficulty that has always existed in cutting veneer slaves. Hereto fore they have been too stiff to work prop erly. but MT. Thompson, at the suggestion of MT Jim Carey, has been at work for several years trying to invent something to make the slaves pliaIole, and this ma chine is the result of his genius.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
REFUSE TO 8E AssIMILATED

From the Columbiana Advocate.
 It will be cold day in August when the populsts Of Alabama go into the demo- cratic primaries. The populst principles can never be forgotten long enough for the party to disregard them and return to the corruption of either of the old parties. This kind of stuff gotten up by the trick sters will not be considered for a moment by the populists of Alabama.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Imports for The Week.

New York, November A.--Imports of specie this week were SIS gold; and $72,- 0l9 silver.
 Imports of dry goods and merchandise at the port of New York for this week were valued at s969l 53S.
 Exports of gold and silver from this port ito all countries this week aggregate $5S5 610; silver bars and coin and $20o2 gold.'
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
REFLEorloNs oF A BACHELoK.

From the New York Press.
 Teeth dig more graves for people than spades do.
 A woman judges a man by what he says; a man judges a woman by the way she says it.
 A man can always get on the right side of a woman who weighs over a hundred and forty by calling her little girl"
 The average woman makes less fuss over shaving a cancer than she does over having a house with not enough clothes in 1t.
 If man laughed out loud at his wedding all of the women there would look at him like they thought he must be q Blue Beard.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Congress and Mir. Roberts.

No one seems disposed to let the Rob- erts case rest, and the multi-marital mem ber seems to enjoy the peculiar fame that has been thrust upon him. At any rate he is full of fight and he proposes to be on hand until the last phase in the contest is ended.
 Roberts has, it Is reported, been indicted for bigamy or trigamy in his own state of Utah. Under the precedents of the house of representatives he cannot be tried by the house for an offense committed in state. If he be guilty of polygamy the state must, under former rulings, try him, and if he be found guilty congress can then take cognizance of the offense. This is the extent of former rulings and dec- sions in the house. Precedent is unmistak- ably on Roberts side.
 But on the other hand, the house is the judge of its own members. The house that meets next month is an absolute judge of it's own members. It is not bound by pre- cedent or by anything else, except it be common sense, and the usefulness of con sistency. When the constitution says that congress shall be the judge of the qualif- cations of it's own members there are no limitations upon its action. It can set up a new precedent It can make polygamy a bar. 1t can make a particular command ment bar. It can do many things, but it will not be apt to do anything ridiculous or unwawanted. It will stick as closely to precedent as 1t reasonably can.
 It is as difficult to say what the house will do with the much discussed Roberts case as it is to say where the new line, if there is to be one, will be drawn. A new rule of morals might be involved. The rule must proceed on general principles, and not on the Edmunds anti-polygamy law, for that law is not in force in Utah. It is in force in Washington, and perhaps after all Roberts will have to be judged on what he does in Washington. This man. ner of reaching and treating the case might, too be searching and inconvenient. It might, logically at least, lead to an un- due degree of misrepresentation. Alto- gether, the case is full of difficulties.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
unlontown.s Cotton Mil

From the Selma Times.
 Over in Uniontewn day or so ago some one said something about building cotton mill. The conversation soon became eac- nest Then it got to be enthusiastic, and in one and half hours 51OO0 of the capital stock of $1Oo,OOO cotton mill had been sub scribed. That is what we call enterprise. The mill IS a go and has been named Ella. white in honor of the wife of Mir J. II. White Uniontown's merchant prince.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Plenty of Sugar Cane to Chew

FTOm Ine OZNFk SIar.
 The sugar cane crop Is about made up, but there will be plenty on the market un- til after the holidays for all who like to chew it. The farmers say 1t has been no trouble to make sugar this season, and some report having made very fine grades of this table necessity.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Pottery Plant Resumes

From the DeKalb Times.
 Work is being pushed at the pottery plant in this city, with view to resuming opera tions at an early date. Preparations are being made to build two more kilns for the purpose of burning their ware to better advantage. This industry will be a great help to Fort Payne and we are proud of all such enterprises.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Library Building for Florence

From the Florence Herald
 A movement is on foot for the erection of a handsome three-story library building in this city Dw. A. D. Bellamy has started the subscription list with a donation of $500. The Herald will give full particulars next week.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Mail Contract Annulled
From the Gadsden Tribune.

From the Gadsden Tribune.
 The contract for carrying the mails be- tween Attalla and this city by the Union car line has, we understand, been annuled by the superintendent at Atlanta. The req assigned is the failure of the electric car line to make proper connections. It is to be hoped that the matter will be ad- justed in some way, so as to continue the business on the electric car line.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
WHO |. Ei.7RzIlE IsUICHERY !

Isrom the Florence Herald.
 If Governor Johnston could butcher his opponents as he butchered the Queens Hznglish In his Athens speech, he would certainly be the next senator from Ala- hama. ez |,
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
THE EDITORS
 AND THEIR TALK
Tax the Dogs

From the Gadsden Voice.
 Albama dogs should be taxed at the rate of about $2 a year, and the money turned into the school fund. More schools and less dogs would be a blessing to the state.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Spoke and Handle Factory

From the Greenvile Living Truth
 Books of subscription to the capital stock of the Alabama Spoke company were opened last Friday. Within thirty minutes the entire capital stock of S12000 was sub scribed. parties representing 5000 more came too late to get in.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
More Life in the Old Land

From the Ozark Star.
 The farmers are busy improving their farms, fences, houses and the like this winter. For several years past the pros poets have been so gloomy that they did not care to make the expenditure; but things have changed now, and it really looks like there is life in phe old land yet
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Stove Works to Enlarge

From the DeKalb Times.
 The Standard stove works are clearing off ground for the purpose of making a large addition to their plant. With their present capacity they are unable to keep up with their orders for stoves hence the necessity of more room and more worhmen.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Value of small Industries

From the Gadsden Voice.
 Our people should not forget the value of small industries in times when large ones are in prospect. The small industry is duly important and should be fostered carefully. Every worthy enterprise, large or small, should receive hearty encouragement.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
EIdridge,s Prosperous College

From the Carbon Hill Star.
 The West Alabama Male and Female college, at Eidridge, has over 200 pupils enrolled, and the enrolment is growing every day. Under the able management of Professor W. M. Riddle this college is forg- ing to the front and is already rated as among the best colleges in the state.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Roanoke Wants Electric Lights

From the Roanoke Leader.
 Now that the telephone is assured, why may not infant Roanoke take another step and let us have an electric light plant? If any place does need it, this rough, crooked town is one. The promoters of the telephone should talk up uhis enterprise also.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
couNrRY,s WA STE nY TIRE LAsr MONTH
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.

From llle MllWdukee WISCONSIN.
 October was another month of large fire loss-larger than in the corresponding month of either of the past two years. The value of the ash heaps piled up in the Unit ed States and Canada during October, 1899, according to returns collected by the New York Journal of Commerce. was $l2,- 040,250. In October, 1898, the fire loss was only $7, 539, ,34OO In October, 1897, it was $l1,- 3S9500 The fire loss for 1899 is now close upon $15,000,0O0 ahead of the first ten months of 1898, and nearly s2O,00O,O0O ahead of that for the corresponding period of 1897, the figures comparing as follows?
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 Perhaps the worst feature of the heavy loss for last month is that the figures were swelled by general carelessness throughout the country-not by any destructive confia- grafton The heaviest losses of the month, each less than half d million, were caused by the burning of a storage warehouse at Brooklyn and a department store at Des. Moines. The number of fires during the month involving loss Of a0,00O or upwards from that amount was 195.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Congressman Roberts is accustomed to two-thirds vote.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

When the British capture Mrs. Kruger's s wardrobe then they will have something to match against Mrs. Aguinaldo's.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

The Carrollton West Alabamian is SUD- porter of Senator Morgan, but it thinks joint debates are not profitable in any re- spect. No principle of government, it says, was amplifed or adorned in Limestone.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

The country regards with equanimity the possible succession of a man who has writ ten more and better poetry than Senator Thurston did.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25
Greensboro's Cotton Receipts

From the Greensboro Beacon.
 The warehouses at the Greensboro depot had received up to noon on Monday 6,762 bales of cotton. Of this amount 4,100 has been shipped. Cotton seed were selling in Greensboro Monday at 141A cents a bushel.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

All legislative candidates should be out spoken on the senatorial question. Common honesty demands frankness on this issue.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

General Lawton is camping on Aguinal- dos trail, and the latter's presidential ca reer is growing short.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

The multiplicity of Morgan legislative candidates an given county is all the dan- ger there is left in the campaign.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

"A number. of extraordinary human freaks, that have never been placed on .ex- hibition, are known to exist in different parts of the world' said an old time show man yesterday, but they belong to a class that we lump together as 'unavailable' That includes everything that exctes the least degree of fear or disgust, and some times it is very difficult to draw the line In my opinion the most remarkable of the unavailable is a Russian peasant, who lives near the Aus rian frontier. He is now a man of forty, or whereabouts, and has the frame of an athlete, combined with head no larger than an ordinary nutmeg canta- loupe. All the other little-headed freaks I ever saw or heard of were idiotic, but this man is fairly intelligent. He has good fea- tures in miniature, bright, merry eyes and a thick black beard. The effect of that tiny head perched on his enormous, muscular shoulders is indescribably strange and grotesque, and he seems more like some huge mechanical doll than an actual human being. When I spoke of freaks that had never been exhibited I referred, of course, to exhibitions in the United States. This astonishing peasant has been, shown at the great annual fair at Novgorod, Russia, and it was there I saw him myself. He would create a sensation if he was brought here, but half the people who saw him would be frightened out of their wits. The least ob jectionable of all freaks are giants and dwarfs, if they are well formed and sprightly, as is frequently the case They please the children, and that's a point of the first importance in the sideshow busi- ness"
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

There is a feeling in republican circles that the result in Ohio was not wholly sat- isfactory. The vote that fellow Jones got is a thorn in the ear flaps of the g. 0. p.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Mrs. Aguinaldo at least did not follow the fashions of the Garden of Eden. whatever she may be doing now.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Kentucky election methods are not ideal, phia.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

General Joe Wheeler seems to think fight ing Filipinos in the mud is better than eight months of congressional oratory.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Mrs. Aguinalde is the woman who has nothing to wear.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Philadelphia has concluded it can get along without clean politics if 1t can secure clean water.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

The only way to beat back typhoid fever consists in securing to oneself pure air, pure, wholesome food and, above all else, pure water.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

The election in Kentucky is still progress- ing-in the courts.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

The entire country takes deep interest in Senator Morgan,s canvass
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

The markmanship at Fort Ringgold fell below the Tagal standard.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Little Brooches is now the Ameficar Prince of Wales, the heir in waiting.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

MT. Hanna announces that the Payne Hanna subsidy bill, involving a steal of S9- 900 OOO year, is to be put through the com ing congress.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Agunaldo still refuses to be surrounded. He prefers to slip through.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

A Morgan club has been organized in Cole bert county. Every county should have one.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Theodore Thomas is the tail end of the Dreyfus case.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

''1t is very gratifying said a speaker at the Morris yesterday, ito nC.e the great trend of the cotton mill industry to the producing fields of the south. To greater extent than ever before is this country free ffcm the Liverpool market making the ruling prices for the staple. This is due al- together to the fact that the cotton-7mills of the south are now a considerable factor in the consumption of cotton. It will con tinue to be so more and more, because every year adds to the number of mills built in the south Within the past few years some of the largest mills in t.ne coun- try have moved their old plants from New England or built new ones here. In Ala bama it might be nc.ed that the Merrimacl mills one of the largest in the east, have decided to locate in this state; the Dwight mills at Alabama City came from the north and have this year doubled their plant; the Indian Head mills at Cordova, one of the largest mills in the south and one of the best-managed, came from New England; and examples of these migfvl be cited in- definitely"
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

The red flag business in Paris has lost fts acuteness and venom.
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

Did you ever notice the great amount of fruit which people eat nowadays?" asked a Morris avenue merchant of the Lobby man, yesterday. 1t is simply great when you come to watch it While. These Italians and Greeks have more ready cash fre- QUently than their more pretentious com petitors who do business indoors. Only few days ago." he continued, "a friend of mine who runs a good grocery business heed hundred or dollars, and you would be surprised prooaoly to learn ulaE he went out and borrowed the amount from one of the Creeks on the corner whom you would hardly suspect ever had half that much ir ready cash. One evidence that there is some money in this line of business is that these fruit stands nearly all have a day and night shift to attend the sales You just notice the people who buy, and it will surprise you
The age-herald., 1899-11-25

1.-The health of the city of Birmingham said County Health Officer Barclay, .'is as good now as it has been for many months past. During the month of October it is true we had quite a number of cases Of malaral and typhoid fever, but it was not the worst form of these diseases. We had them pretty well in hand, and the fa talities were low. The sanitary conditions of the city are good from an all-round standpoint"