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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-08-03

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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

things have been gained therefrom. The
Spanish legation has been of the greatest
interest to her ever since she heard who
lived there.
Does duchess live there. mother?" she
asked one day in passing. "A really. truly.
sure enough duchess?'
Yes" answered her mother.
"A duchess like Alice SAW" she persisted.
Yes" said her mother, who hasn't read
alice" in twenty years. The little girl
pondered the matter. and every day for
week passed and repassed the legation with
her nurse At the end of the week she
came to her mother one day with a look of
the keenest disap pointment.
you said a really duchess lived in that
house." she said sorrowfully, "but it isn't.
so. I've watched and watched, and today
1 saw somebody come with a letter and
ring the bell. There was just plain man
came to the door. They isn't any frog foot
man at ALL 1 guess you was mistaken
about truly duchess living there"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
LARGE PROFITS IN APPLES
thiladelphia Record.

rIOm IIle fudlduelpnld RECORD.
Tacoma, Wash, November 1.-THE farm
ers of Washington have transferred their
allegiance to winter apples, for, while hor-
ticulturalists have everywhere generally ex-
perienced a bad year, they have just har-
vested the largest crop of winter apples
ever grown in Washington. Great interest
is centered in the result of this years CROP
since 1t has not been certain just what re-
suits would be obtained from Embarrassing
on an immense scale in this state.
Though fortunes have been made this
year in peaches. pears and prunes it is to
winter apples that the far-seeing hortlcul-
turist has decided to devote his chief atten-
ton This is because The apples are better
keepers, and thus offer wider range of
market, insuring higher and moro stable
prices.
In the Sunnyside valley there are TWENTY
acre farms which have brought In over 81
900 this fall from the sale of apples, pears.
peaches and alfalfa hay. One of these is a
place that has been rented since the sage
brush was first turned under, six years ago.
1t is results like these that are turning
the attention of scores of farmers now
coming here from the middle west to ap-
pie raising on irrigated lands.
New settlers are coming into the Sunny
side district daily, and the irrigation COM
pany is already planning to extend its
canal. This particular canal parallels the
Northern Pacific railway for forty-two
miles, and, with it's 800 miles of branch
canals and laterals, waters nearly 10000
acres.
AS it stands today the Sunnyside canal is
the greatest irrigation enterprise in the
northwest. 1t has been brought to its pres
ent great success by the land department
of the Northern Pacific railway under the
direction of Walter N. Granger. The object
of the railway has been to demonstrate
that irrigated land is the most profitable in
the west which fact is now firmly estab-
lished.
Sugar beets grown in the Sunnyside vail
ley have given phenomenal percentages of
sugar juice, numerous analysis running as
high as q per cent. in sugar contents and
95.7 per cent. in purity. These results have
directed the attention of the beet sugar
manufacturers I'm California, Nebraska and
elsewhere, who have sent their experts into
the country to report upon the feasibility
of establishing sugar beet factories.
The fertility of the volcanic ash soil is
further shown by the results obtained in
Mr.. Changers garden Of quarter of an
acre. where 80 kinds of vegetables, embrac-
ing total of rs varieties, were grown this
year in sufficient quantities to supply the
entire neig'hborhood. 1t is claimed that this
quarter of an acre produced a greater
quantity of vegetables than has ever be-
fore been grown on similar area
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
POCKETS IN THE STOCKINGS
From a New York Letter.

FROM New York LETTER.
Stocking pockets are the latest fad, says
a dry goods man. They are made to hold
roll of bills, jewelry and valuables that can
be stored away in small space. The
pockets are worked into the top of the
nose, above the knee and are made with a
fastening so that there is no danger of
their contents failing out. There are so
many sneak thieves Who steal from bed
rooms while the family is at dinner from
carriages and from other places where
women are obliged to leave their money
and jewelry when they are not in use,
that some safe receptacle about the cloth
ing of the owner is an absolute necessity.
Pockets are not generally found in wom-
ems dresses, and the stocking pocket has
suggested itself to some inventive genius
1t looks as If these new pockets would be
as safe as any that could be devised.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. PALAcE

Chicago, November 2o.-Chicago engineers
are designing the eanJhquake-proof steel
palace for tine Crown Prince eff Japan,
which is to mark the advent of American
steel construction in the Mikados land, and
the Imperial government has appropriated
So, 900 for it's erection. Foundations are
being laid with a. view to rearing the frame
work in February Around the skeleton of
beams and bars will be built a house of
granite and marble, expected ito eclipse in
beauty and design anything lin the orient.
The palace will be the royal home of the
Mikado in Toxic, and 1T will be spread to
extreme dimensions of 270x40O feet rising
to height of 60 feet. The architectural
plans partake of the French renaissance.
DIR. Takynama, chief architect of the i'm
perial household, who came to America to
let contracts for the new palace, has COM
missoned E. c. and r. NJ. Shankland, of
Chicago, who designed the construction of
the Manufacturers building ait the Worlds
Fair, to prepare framework plans.
Still another Chicago engineer, Charles
M. Wilkes, was called upon to map out an
elaborate heating and ventilating plant. In
UdNitioH " lHeSe, <AHlSlicdi Will dlSO
contribute an ice manufacturing and cleo
trio light system
Steel construction, with its rigid elias
ITCHY, is expected to revolutionize the build
ing industry in the Mikado's land, where
earthquakes have on several occasions
played havoc with structures supposedly
solid. The new palace will rest on 400 deeply
anchored steel columns, imbedded in con-
crete piers, and the constructing engineers
say this magnificent pile will resist all
shocks. Part of the palace will be devoted
to government Offices
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
SPEAKER HENDERSON

From the New York Press
Our national house of representatives
after December Will have had two speak
ers of foreign birth-Charles Frederick
Crisp, born in Sheffield England, and David
Bremner Henderson, of Old Deer, Scotland
Henderson was brought to the United
States at the age of 6, and taken to Iowa
three years later, where he was reared
ON farm. At 81 he went to the war and
lost leg at the battle of Corinth, which
caused his retirement from the conflict
Otherwise, he would now be a full gen
cral. At Fort Donelson he was Shot in
the neck, but refused to give up the charge
until the union forces We're victorious, see
ing which he fell down exhausted from
less OF blood On the floor of congress
Henderson was noted for fiery eloquence,
stamping about promiscuously and not
too noselessly on his artificial limb | be-
Heve he is the first one-legged man to
occupy 1.-THE speakers chair
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
Admiral George Dewey.

Heroes rise and fall, appear and disap-
pear. Our own Hobson, without fault of
his own, is case in point. He is now
faithful unrewarded hero, serving his coun-
try in far-away waters as best he can.
Gen. Joe Wheeler was long an idol of the
nation, but he is now a brigadier in the
mud of Luzon, out of favor with the ele-
ments and the fussy, jealous commander
in-chief in that island. But the greatest
hero of all, Admiral George Dewey, has
also fallen, much to the relief, no doubt, of
many politicians in either party.
Dewey's marriage was to some extent a
damper upon intense hero worship. 1t did
not seem to be just the thing a national
hero should do, and yet 1t is not easy to
say why. And when he transferred to the
new wife-who was herself a widow-the
house given by a grateful people, then in
deed the time had come to remove from
the pedestal another national hero. The
house has since been transferred to Ad-
mral Dewey's only descendant, a son, but
the latest transfer cannot wholly reinstate
the hero in the popular mind. He must be
content hereafter to serve at the head of
the navy, and trust to history for fur
Their reward.
Popular admiration is easily lost and
rarely regained. In Admiral Dewey's case
1t is gone beyond hope; and yet, no one can
name wherein Admiral Dewey is less wor-
thy or less deserving of his country's APP
plause than he was when he first returned
to his native land. The proposed arch in
New York should be built. The spasm of
indignation now prevailing will pass away,
and then a calm view of Admiral Dewey's
achievements will be had but the period of
hero worship, in his case, will not be re-
stored. There Is no need of It. The coun-
try will not cease to honor George Dewey,
but 1t will never again bow down to him
and worship him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
SIGNIFICANT SILENCE

From the Huntsville Mercury.
Those who expected Governor Johnston
to explain the Montevallo and University
land deals at Athens last SATURDAY. were
disappointed The governor did not mem
ton either. He discussed everything except
his connection with the land sales-the
very things the people were most anxious
to hear
1t may be that Governor Johnston will
not explain his connection with the two
land deals; he may be content with denying
any improper actions in that connection.
but such denials will not satisfy the peope.
There is well founded suspicion that both
land deals were crooked and the people
will believe they were crooked until proof
to the contrary is submitted.
Unless the governor can clear his skirts
of the charges made against him and his
appointees concerning the sales of the
Montevallo and University lands, he will
save money and trouble by withdrawing
from the senatorial race. His chances. are
poor at best and he certainly has no chance
whatever to be elected with vast majority
of the people convinced as they are that
he has allowed the educational institutions
to be robbed
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
Wheeler. Soldier and Congressman.

General Wheeler is not coming home to
take his seat at the opening of congress.
He is not coming, 1t seems, to attend any
part of the next or first session of the fifty
sixth congress. The veteran cavalry gen.
eral has enlisted, it seems, for the war.
The war, it is true, may break down soon,
and then all hands will come home, except
a few regulars, but until then it is plain
General Wheeler proposes to stay in the
Philippines regardless of the meeting of
congress.
He does not propose to resign his seat,
so far as now appears, and If he should the
Eighth district might decide to re-elect him.
Until he does resign or until the house of
representatives declares his seat vacant, it
is plain nothing can in the light of prece-
dents be done.
The case is one that fuller information
will excellently serve; but in the absence
of fuller information it is plain that the
house of representatives will say that the
warrior VINO Is nBnllHB out Wal
can we'll be excused from attendance for a
season, even If that season covers the first
session. He is not drawing pay for congress
sional service, and the local interests of the
district are attended to by General Wheel
er's brother members.
There is a clique in the Eighth district
that is endeavorng to unseat General
Wheeler, but that clique cannot afford to
intrigue against him when he is on the
firing line. and they are not Matters In
the Eighth will be apt to remain unchanged
until General Wheeler returns, or until he
formally tenders his resignation as a men,
Der of congress-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
Garrett AUGUSTUS Hobart,

The death of the vice-president of the
republic will be widely mourned as the
death of "a great man, but he was not
great man. He never claimed to be Web
ster in law or Calhoun in deep research.
He was a man, however, more useful per-
ness man and man who had, and applied
on all occasions, common sense. He had
no sharp corners; he was not eccentric
Just a good worker in harness. And when
you come to think of it, such men are the
Kind now needed, the kind that can be
most useful in this country at its present
stage of development. The day of ex-
FOUNDERS OF the constitution was long ago
ended The civil war and circumstances
are doing the expounding nowadays.
Mr.. Hobart's common sense was shown in
his determination to form a harmonious
part of the party and administration he
was elected to serve. Instead of holding
aloof, he courted his official and party su-
perior. He worked in harmony with him.
himself part and parcel of the administra-
ton. Henceforth ce-presidents had, as a
rule, awaited the succession in an indie
pendent, not to say hostile, frame of mind
They were not therefore, consulted and
whenever they have succeeded to the pres
idential office they have as rule adopted a
new line of policy.
Mr.. Hobart did nothing of that nature
1t is believed that he would, If he had been
called to the presidency by Providence,
have retained the entire cabinet now in Of
fice 1t contains at any rate one who was
his personal friend and fellow townsman.
Whatever he would have done in the way
of cabinet reconstruction, he would have
held steady to the policy of the present ad-
ministration. He was a vice-president who
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
THE ONLY WAY

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Governor Johnston, after meeting Sena-
ter Morgan ait Athens, feeling the weight
of THE latter's tongue and sizing UP his
Physical condition, seems to have decided
that the only way he could beat the sena-
tor was to kill him. Hence, the governors
sudden challenge to THE senator ito joint
debate all over the state, in spite of the
fact that he had previously refused ITO
meet him outside of Athens. The governor
appears to calculate that the senator will
not be able ito stand the hardships of a con-
tnuous campaign, and the longer and
rougher the fight, the surer the senator
will be to fall by the wayside. This con-
clusion is fully warranted by the governors
sudden Change of front. and The Inference
is in entire accord with his well-known
cold-blooded selfishess.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
DEMOCRAT FOR EXPANSION

From the Chicago Record.
Senator Morgan, Senator Daniel Senator
CaffeTy, Senator Lindsay and other strong
democrats are expansionists, and propose
ITO take active part in the debates this win
ter in order that the republicans NAV not
be able to claim the entire credit for the
increase of Uncle Sans territory. This
Will be rather confusing to THE democra tic
politicians and editors outside and the
members of the next national convention
GU mat party, but the southern democrats
say their people are for expansion. and
they are compelled to follow. 1t lis prob
able that nearly all the senators from the
south will turn out to be expansionists.
Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. Pettus of Alabama.
Mr.. Mallory of Florida: Mr. Clay of Geor-
gfa, Mr.. Lindsay of Kentucky. Mr.. CAT
fiery and Mr.. McEnery of Louisiana Mr..
Sullivan of Mississippi, Mr. McLaurin Of
South Carolina, Mr.. Culberson and Mr.
Chiffon of Texas and Mr. Daniel of yir-
ginia have all declared themselves that
way
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Races on the Rio Grande.

The south has become accustomed to
race problems, If not race troubles; but 1t
was left to the extreme southwest to fur
nish pitched battle on race lines between
Mexicans of mixed race and negroes of the
regular army. Rio Grande is a town on the
river of that name, about midway between
Laredo and Brownsville, at the mouth of
the river. 1t is not a railroad town, al
though the Mexican National road ends at
San Miguel, near it. San Miguel is a Mexi-
can town. A company of the Ninth United
States cavalry is stationed at Fort Ring
gold, at or near Rio Grande city. The
population of Rio Grande city in 1890 was
1865 almost wholly Mexicans.
The accounts thus far received do not ex-
plain the deep-seated hatred of the Mexi-
cans for negro troops-a hatred that exists,
it is said at all points on the Mexican
frontier. 1t is all the stronger because
color prejudice is almost unknown in
Mexico, and considerable percentage of
the blood of that republic is of negro ORR
gin.
1t is certainly novelty in this country
to have a race war take the form of a
pitched battle in which three thousand
rounds are fired against the army of the
United States. Altogether the case is a re-
markable one, and fuller information will
be awaited with interest
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

was loyal to his chief and to his party. This
is to his great credit. and 1t is all that need
be said of him. He has set good prece-
dent for future vice-presidents of either
party. Hostile or Indifferent vice-presidents
are indeed fifth wheels in this government;
but Mr.. Hobart lived to show that loyal
vice-presidents are not superfiuous and UNI
necessary. He has demonstrated that they
can in their turn be useful and respected,
thus vindicating a provision of the consti-
tuition.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
STEAMSHIP ABLAZE
Flames Were Extinguished Before Sc
rious Damage Occurred

New York, November 22.-The Cromwell
line steamship Hudson which arrived at
her pier in North river today, was on fire
at sea Monday night, but the blaze was
extinguished before much damage was
done. Nothing could be learned of the ex-
tent of the fire from the officers of the
boat, but at the office it was admitted the
cargo in the after hold was on fire. Some
smoke could be seen coming from the YES
sci and the matches were battered down,
the officers being afraid to open them. The
steamer arrived from New orleans with
thirty or forty Storage passengers and car
ried cago of cotton and molasses
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
OUR LoNLINEss

Charlotte Perkins Stetson.
There is no deeper grief than loneliness.
Our sharpeSt anguish at the death %
friends
Is loneliness. Our agony of heart
When love has gone from US in loneliness.
The crying of a little child at night
La the big dark is browning loneliness.
Slow death of woman on a Kansas farm;
The ache of thee who think beyond theia
time;
Plain unassuaged of isolated lives
ALI this Is loneliness. :
Oh, we who are one body of one soul! !.
Great soul of man born into social formi (
Should we not suffer at ACKNOWLEDGMENT? !
A finger torn from brotherhood; an eye 4
Having no cause TO see when set alone.
Our separation is the agony
OF uses unfulfled--of thwarted law;
The forces of all nature throb and push, |
Crying for their accustomed avenues;
And we, alone, have no excuse to be- |
No reason fei- our being. We are dead
Before we die, and know II in our hearts.
Even the narrowest union has some joy,
Transient and shallow, limited and weak;
And joy of union strengthens with ito
strength.
Deepens and widens as the union grows;
Hence, the pure light of long enduring love,
Lives blended slowly, softly, into one.
And the fierce thrill of patriotic fire I
When millions feel as one!
When we shall learn
To live together fully; when each man
And woman works in conscious interchange
with all the worid-unon as wide as man.,
No human soul can ever suffer more
The devastating grief of loneliness.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

From the Troy Messenger.
The opinion of the average citizen in this
section as expressed is that it would not
only be calamity to Alabama" for Sem
ator John T. Morgan to be removed from
the United States senate, but it would be a
calamity to the SOUTH" Morgan has been
a faithful servant of the state for twenty
three years. He has had opportunities 10
use his trust for personal gain, but he is yet
a comparatively poor man, and when he
shall retire from the place entrusted to him
he will do so with clean record. No sus-
picion attaches to him as a public servant.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Love is poetry; marriage is prose- And a
man without either can never appreciate
the other.
The trouble with a problem novel is that
it's generally too much problem and not
near novel enough.
When woman first reads the fable of the
sirens she goes and sort of smiles to herself
in the looking glass.
No man really appreciates what a wife
might be to him till he gets sick and has to
pay twenty dollars week to a nurse to sit
and make him take his medicine
To be happy. a man before he falls in love
ought to keep both his eyes wide open;
when he is engaged he ought to keep one
he ought to keep both eyes shut.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
viii Welcome Our Warships

London, November 22.-The Capetown
correspondent of the Daily Mail says:
Preparations are being made to give the
United States warships a hearty reception
in order to emphasize the appreciation by
the colonists of the meaning of am Ameri-
can naval display in South African waters
at the present juncture.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
HER IDEAL WAS SHATTERED

From the Washington Post.
A little girl I know has recently come to
Washington to live, and her home is only
block or two from the Spanish legation.
"Aiice in Wonderland" which her nurse
has read to her again and again, is her
favorite book, and many Of her ideas about
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
A Beautiful -fokon for sc,,iey

New York, November pa solid silver
loving cup was received at Tompkinsvilie.
8. l., today for Rear Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley. 1t came from the citizens of st.
Louis and was sent out to the admiraI's
flagship. the Chicago. which is lying Off the
government anchorage.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

Senator Morgan is not lonely in his view
of the Philippine question and trade ex-
pansion. Senator Sullivan on his left and
SENATOR MoLaurdn on hi right have lined
up with him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

The esteemed Mobile Item says Captain
Reynolds is the discharged president of
the Montevallo school, and is not entitled
to a hearing. But why was he discharged?
Was it land?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

The court journal assures a waiting world
that the Mikado always has answers ready.
His answer to Treasurer Fits must have
been delayed in transmission.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

The Mobile Herald is mistaken when it
says Alabama is building many cotton
mills as Mississippi. This state may be
buying as many spindles, but Mississippi is
planning more small mills
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

When the boss rejects party authority
democrat from snout to tail, he plainly
intimates that he intends ITO be the whole
hon
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

Senator 1hursttons defense is, that that
poetry was of the vintage Of 1874, and that
he has not since that time been guilty of
a similar offense
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

The primary has become the UNIVERSAL
political method in this state. The state
conventions will also be called after a
while. They are wholly unnecessary.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23

The demand for more light on the secret
land deals is broad and universal in the
state, extending in some cases beyond the
hounds