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

Ex-Mayor Van Hose is very naturally
of Van HOSES canal, and his earnest sem
fences at the recent annual meeting of the
Commercial club were warmly received
and seconded. The club can be depended
upon to do all that in it lies to promote
the opening of a waterway to the sea, and
it can command at all times an eloquent
and enthusiastic advocate in Mr.. Van
Hose.
But all of us are at times over-impatent
and to some extent unreasonable. This is
a large country, containing many interests
and many rivers, and the Warrior and its
interests can not monopolize the attention
of congress. We must take what we can
get, and we may as well accept uncom-
plainingly whatever congress can be in
duced to grant.
Mr.. Van Heose shares the prevailing i'm
patience of this district He showed that
$500 900 was appropriated to the Kanawha,
and as much more to the Upper Monon-
gahela-both small streams-and then he
wanted to know why Alabama is not en-
titled to as much as Pennsylvania.
In the first place the Upper Monongahela
and the Kanawha are in West Virginia;
but one obstacle in the way of quicker and
larger appropriations for the Warrior, is
found In the great sums-over four millions
charged to Alabama on account of the
dollar of the money expended on the Mus
Gle Shoals should have been charged to
Tennessee. A loop of the river lies, 1t is
true, in Aabama, but the improvement at
Muscle Shoals is almost wholly Tennes-
see scheme, for the benefit of Tennessans.
Its merits or dement's do not need discus
sion; the fact stands that the four millions
expended there brings the total river and
harbor appropriations in Alabama up to
eleven million dollars-a sum that has been
exceeded in New York, Illinois and Michi-
gan only. If the Muscle Shoals improve
ment had been charged to Tennessee, as it
should have been. Alabama would not be
charged with an attempt to hog river and
harbor appropriations.
But Messrs. Underwood and Bankhead
ana their colleagues have at length sue
ceeded in placing the Warrior improve
tinuing contract class, and work to the en-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
An Armor Mill Needed.

The ar:nor plate combine refused to fur
nish bid for armor plate under the act of
congress which names $500 ton as maxi
mum price. Not bid was received by the
navy department. The hold-up is complete.
The combine says to congress, "give US our
price or do without American armor." 1t
is 1.-THE stand and deliver ''of the stage days
of the plains transferred to new scenes.
Congress will not be apt to take kindly
to the Pennsylvania process; for no one
claims that outside of the cost of the plant,
it costs $500 ton or any sum approaching
that amount to make ton of armor. Ar
NOR is, as a rule, made out of Alabama
pig which was once worth less than Sc
ton, and is now worth less than SO a
ton. The heating and rolling and hammer
ing and hardening of Alabama pig does not
carry its value up to even $500, and every
body knows it does not. The plant is ex-
pensive, but its cost should not be con-
tinuously taken out of Uncle Sam.
AS this is to be a great naval power, the
government should have its own armor
plate factory, just as it has its own rifle
factory and cannon factory There is no
government factory in the south, and the
mineral district of Alabama is beyond pos
sible attack from the coast, and yet is
conveniently near the Gulf and the Atlantic
coast and the Nicaragua canal route. An
armor-plate mill should be erected here,
and if the Commercial club would appoint
q strong committee, putting on it men will
ing to work for an armor plate mill and
who knew how, to work effectively the
location of such mill in Jones valley could
be secured Mr.. Underwood put up a splen-
did fight in Birminghams behalf in the
last congress. The prize is a rich one,
both in itself and as an endorsement of
the iron and steel of this district, and every
possible effort should be made to secure it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
The Attack Upon Senator Morgan.

Tht Russell Register is an ardent repeal
organ, but repealism should not lead it so
far astray as to induce attacks upon
senator who has served the state oyer
twenty years at Washington-served it so
well that he has won for himself an in
the credit of sending to the senate the
best known, the most influential, the most
widely-respected senator that stands for
the south and for southern sentiment and
southern traditions. And yet the Register
goes out of its way to attack him. The
repeal issue ought not to demand such at
tacks upon Alabama's veteran senator. 1t
is not seemly and it is not creditable to
the state.
When the war with Spain came on the
administration decided to borrow s2OO,O0O,0OO
at per cent. interest. Events have shown
that the sum had to be secured in some
manner and the Register claims it should
have been secured through the issue of
more greenbacks. 1t goes on to say that
the United States conducted the civil war
by issuing greenbacks. The truth is, the
United States issued at that time all the
greenbacks and bonds it could push out
or SELL It sold long bonds and short bonds,
temporary bonds and bonds that have
lasted in one form or another to this day.
And it also issued greenbacks until specie
payment was suspended, remaining sus-
pended many years. The example of the
United States in the civil war does not
sustain the Registers contention in any
respect
Senator Morgan's offense consists IN sup
porting the governments plan of raising
money at the outset of the war. The re-
rublcans and goldbugs and bondholders
do not recognize a friend in our senior
senator; If there is one thing more than
another that he stands for it is tho re-
mcnetization of silver but when a war
with a foreign state was coming on he did
not deem it wise to oppose its method Of
raising reasonable sum for its prosecu-
he plan. He simply did not consider II
his GJty to embarrass the government IN
an emergency of foreign wa. This is all
there Is in the matter, ano the Register
will find that the verdict of history will
be that Senator Morgan and his colleagues
in either house acted wisely under all the
circumstances of the case.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

talked about all over the nation. and In
time would bring into existence other good
hotels. Within few years most of those
miserable houses misealed hotels would
disappear, be starved out, There are very
few good hotels of any sort in the south
perhaps not over two or three in all Ala
bama; and Mr.. Bankhead ought to start
at Fayette a hotel reform movement"
Governor Johnston is expected back in
Montgomery tomorrow, after a visit OF two
weeks in New York on private business.
This is probably the longest period the gov
ernor has spent outside the state at any
one time since he entered office in 1896.
Senator Pettus left the city at noon yes
terday for Blount Springs, where he will
spend time taking the waters. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Pettus. A great num-
Der of friends called on the senator at the
Morris yesterday.
It is said that there will be larger at
tendance of visitors at the university COM
meneement at Tuscaloosa this year than at
any other commencement for many years.
There will be several prospective governors
present.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
The Dreyfus Revolution,

The court of cessation, the highest court
in France, forty-nine in number, has set
aside the judgment against Captain Alfred
Dreyfus, decreeing that he shall have an
other trial before a court-martial convened
for that purpose. AS no new evidence has
been discovered and as all old evidence
has been refuted or dscredited. the vindi-
cation of the unfortunate artillery officer
must soon be complete. This noble and
inspiring result has been obtained under
the full blaze of publicity before all ma
tons, and it will forever stand as historic
testimony to the value of truth.
In the rejoicing over this splendid victory
for justice and right, the remarkable skill
and devotion of President Loubet and
Prime Minister Dupuy should not be over
looked. First by bringing the case before
forty-nine judges, they disarmed criticism
No one could say that forty-nne such men
could be bought by all the wealth of the
Rothschilds. Then, too, some one contrived
to let the evidence taken before the court
of cessation leak to the widely circulated
Figaro and the publication of 1t, although
bringing upon the publisher of the paper
condemnation and a fine, turned public
sentiment All saw that an innocent man
had been prosecuted and deeply, terribly
wronged. One year ago the bringing back
of Dreyfus would have been the occasion
of ri, re
streets of Paris; now the case does not
arouse public interest, and his acqufttal and
vindication are regarded as matter of
course. When he arrives in Paris about
July he may even be applauded. He may
become popular favorite. Stranger things
have happened in Paris.
1t may be asked, what will become of
General Mercier and the other army Of
ficers who brought about the great crime
against Alfred Dreyfus? They were hon
estly misled, and it is difficult to see how
the French people, who were also honestly
m'sled, can call them to account. The en-
tire nation as body is guilty of a terrible
mistake and about all that can be done is
to restore to Captain Dreyfus all the hon
ors that are properly and justly his. The
tools of the army ring are either dead or in
exile, and there is no installing the punish
ment the living members will receive.
In substance. Captain Dreyfus was con-
victed on the famous 'bordereau," which
was forged by Count Esterhazy, one of the
greatest scoundrels connected with the
case and on seven documents handed in
by the war office-by General Mercier-snd
secretly held by the court-martial-with-
held, that is to say, from Captain Dreyfus,
so that he was convicted on papers he
could not see. These seven papers con-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
When most girls get into a hammock
they try to look awful lonesome there.
Children are no more heartless than
grown-up people; they are just more hon
est about it.
AS most girls get married merely to find
out what it is like, 1 wonder tWhy widows
get married again.
When mother Is shedding tears over the
neglected, misunderstood child in the story
book she boxes the ears of her own If it
interrupts her.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
OWNERSHIP OF SERMONS
From the New York Herald.

TIUIII tIIO 4NVW iOIh IlGI ttIU.
A clergyman who has recently come to
the pastorship of a prominent church
copyrights his sermons and restricts their
verbatim publication to two newspapers
that pay for this privilege. Sermons ere
the didactic results the pastor gives for the
salary the church pays him. Hence the
nice question, who owns them, the pastor
or the congregation that supplies the
salarY2 I4si.,. III Slflslai
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

tent Of $4,000 Will soon be done on It.
The Warrior Improvement is plainly. Sc
cured. Even Senator Frye, who fought the
current appropriation, admits that water
way must be opened from tho heart of the
mineral district to the sea. The appropriate
tions needed will hereafter be secured as
rapidly as may be, and the agitation and
work proposed by Mr.. Van Hoose will
prove useful and helpful, but the chief
help after all consists in keeping oscar w.
Underwood and John H. Bankhead in com
gress. Their experience and skill and pa
tient endeavors can accomplish more for us
than all other agencies combined. They
are the immediate representatives of the
mineral district, and they should be kept
where they are. We can not safely spare
either.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Miss Daisy Rowley's opera will mark the
close of the theatrical season in this city;
but when the birmingham season is closed
the East Lake season will bloom in all the
glory of vaudeville.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

No one would have thought ten years ago
that the time would come when the stock
holders of the Elyton company would be
assessed, but an assessment now may lead
to dividends in the future
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
GOV. JOE WHEELER

From the Elba Clipper.
If General Wheeler should enter the race
for governor, the other candidates would
doubtless act sensibly and come down.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
SECRETARY CAGES SUCCESSOR
lie Selma Times

From the Selma Times
tThe Montgomery journal proposes Gov
ernor Johnston as Bryan's running mate.
That is caupital Idea. If Governor john
ston should get to be vice president, Hood
would probably be secretary Of the treas-
ury. 5, =. ,,..,,. ..
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Henderson stock is rising. Mr.. Hender-
son is jollier of the stallings sort, who
cannot say No and mean it. He was
born in Scotland, and he may be tho first
man of foreign birth to reach the speakers
chair
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Texas will accept nothing from New Or
leans except telegraph messages Even the
voice of the New Orleans telephone ex-
change girl is not heard in the Lone Star
State.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
7rom the Alexander city outlook.

Governor Joe Wheeler! Out of that
name Alabama may find good old demo-
cratic symphony. Say yes, general, and
the people will be delighted. II
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

From the Clanton Banner, Pop)
The little general is one of the most
popular men in Alabama and if he really
wanted the gubernatorial nomination it is
quite on the cards he could get it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Andrew Carnegie and C. P Huntington
are unanimously of the opinion that
good educational start in life interferes
with the grabbing of a hundred millions.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

The City of Paris will never try the
across-lots or cattycornered route again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Opelika's panjerandihollerem is coming
on apace. 1t is to be held in the fall sea-
son.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Franco, in trying to Boulangerize Mar
chand, forgets to be unjust TO Captain
Dreyfus.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

The first case on the docket of the inter-
national court of arbitration that the
peace conference proposes to organize,
should be the Alaskan boundary dispute
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Mr.. Storer is in Madrid and the Due de
ARGOS in Washington, and the Fifth i'm
munes have been mustered out, and peace
is doing the brooding act.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

General Wheeler's friends may encounter
a constitutional objection when they try
to make him governor, for Mr.. Bailey has
not been heard from.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Germany buys from Spain the islands
this country did not want
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
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From the Selma Journal.

From the Selma Journal.
The sentiment i'm favor of General
Wheeler for governor is rapidly gaining
strength in Alabama. Almost daily fa-
vorable expressions from some new paper
is added to that already published, until in
a short while the press will be practically
unanimous in favor of the hero of San
tiago. Fortunate will it be for Alabama,
and especially fortunate for the democratic
party of the state if General Wheeler can
be induced to make the race. He will
bring into it a prestige and personal popu-
larty in this particular emergency which
cannot be equalled by any other candi-
date. Besides this, in him Alabama would
have governor in whom the entire state
would be proud, for his purity of character,
his courage, his lofty patriotism, his energy,
his broad minded ideas and his intelligence
eminently fit Inn for this responsible posi-
ton at this critical period Of Alabama's
history. General Joseph Wheeler is the
good pilot that can carry the democratic
ship safely over the present dangers that
beset our political waters in Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

The Clark abduction case seems to have.
been a silly attempt to secure a ransom,
and the silly business was chiefly done by
newspaper people.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Where was Atl1naldo when General Joe
Wheeler was discussing home patriotism
in Boston?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

The calmness OF Paris over the Dreyfus
case is accounted for by the presence of
Major Marchand who is the country's
safety-valve.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Cotton milling is becoming profitable
even in Fall River. Amid the cotton fields
the mills are gold mines.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

The papers in the northern states take
Commander Stones encyclicals addressed
to the G. A R. too seriously.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Mark Hanna has again made it plain
that he owns Ohio republicans. Judge
Nash is his henchman.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

The reorganization of the Elyton COM
pany is made possible by the prosperous
condition of this district.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

OF all the liners, American, English or
German, not one is today as fast as the
City of Paris.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

What a tame world this would be If the
conference at The Hague should actually
abolish war and war heroes.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

The members of the G. A R. in Boston
who were with Sherman coula at least
recall General Joe Wheeler.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

If, as some esteemed journals say, Ohio
be the pivotal state then Marcus Aurelius
Hanna has indeed become the national
pivot.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

In a serious antitrust campaign this
country would be compelled to quarantine
against New Jersey.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

Alabama il. getting right into the swim
when she talks of making a hero of two
wars governor.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

At the late anniversary of the birth of
Brigham Young eight inconsolable widows
were present.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
From the Selma Times.

Our personal choice for governor would
be Dr. Cunningham. For the good Of the
party we think Joe Wheeler is the man.
DR.. Cunningham is patriotic enough to
look at the question the same way. He
would not stand in the way of party har-
mony for one moment. We have not heard
Cunningham say this in so many words,
but We know him so well that we make the
statement almost with as much confidence
as If 1t were authorized a....,. Aas..........
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04

There are certain directions which ambi-
tious desire takes that elevate mankind,
ennoble our race and make for the worlds
redemption. Whosoever is not given over
to lustful purposes walk these ways 1t is
the supreme duty of every man to acquire
a competency "To build home for child
rem and wife. that is the pathos and sub
lime of human life
1t is not needful to rob and plumber and
deceive; it is needful only to be up and do
ing, and to be provident, thrifty, saving of
the earnings OF honest endeavor De-
sire that takes this direction is noble. 1t
is indentical with the purpose to do right
because it is right; to deal justly with all
men; to promote the general welfare; to
enjoy the privileges of a spiritual life, re-
moved from the corroding and corrEpt1ng
influences of the mere fortune seeker the
vulgar, loud-mouthed, loud-appareled swag-
gerer, whose sole object in life is to Pile up
wealth. The desire for a vineclad cottage
wherein there shall be peace and plenty
and virtue is UNNECESSARILY more praise
worthy than the rude ambition of the vul-
gar pork-butcher to build palaces, buy da-
monds and purchase ancestral portraits
from dealers in junk.
THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1899-06-11
FOR SALE.

$1.750-Lot 60x100 feet, corner 4th avenue and 18th street. Please show us something else as cheap as this If you please $150-Each: choice lots near Fowler sta- tion, Woodlawn. Why pay $500 for lots no better than these?
 $3,0o0-"There are things which cannot be explained" proves true in this case. No. 1319 11th avenue, South. See this and then explain why it does not sell at once. $1 ,S00-Third cash will buy neat 7-room cottage near in, and well rented on 4th z avenue.
 $300-100x15O on corresponding corner ex- Governor Cobb, one block back from car line, Woodlawn.
 Many other bargains in woodlawn vacant and improved, but we want to call spe- cia1 attention to 100 feet in front of Burris' store. Price, $750.
 $25-Cash, balance $s per month choice lot, good well. 4-room house, near car line, East Lake. Price, $525.
 $1,100-On payments, or per cent. discount for all cash, lot 10ox2OO feet, Groom house, vineyard, fruits, strawberries, raspberries, good well, outbuilding, southern front, good neighbors; in fact, this is an ideal home Actual value, about $1,500. 9th street, one block north of car line, East Lake. We have many bargains in East Lake.
 Lot 50x3OO feet, fronting Georgia dirt road and next to Methodist parsonage, Avon dale; new Broom 2-story house, good cis- tern, fruits and grapes, lovely shade trees, etc. Price, $500 on payments. $450-61a acres, one Broom house, one g. room house, 900 grape vines apples, peaches and plums in abundance; good spring, four miles southeast of city; good neighborhood; immediate possession; great bargains.
 $1, ,00O-Neat broom cottage, corner 24th street and Avenue H; one-third cash, bal ance like paying rent. Remember, this is today's price. It may be cheaper later on, but we would not advise you to take the chance.
 s3,000-Now just listen! Three 6-rNom houses, vacant corner lot, 0 -sh hat cost $400 one block north of car line, be- tween 3Sth street, city and Elm street, Avondale, or coming right to the point, the entire Abernathy property. The four lots alone are worth just S7oO. s2, ,600-Is what it costs you to get clear deed to No. 716 30th street. South S. 500-On payments, or 10 per cent. discount for all cash. will buy splendid 10-room house, lot 100x1So feet, Juniper avenue; worth $0
 s, $3,000-S-room 2-story modern house. with all the lots you need, 18th avenue, South Highlands; outbuiiding and one of the best wells in the county; great val ues: hydrant gas. etc. $500-100x140 feet, 3 houses on macadamized road, Avondale.
 $250-Spot cash will get the Brance house and lot, Avondale. and just now we have placed In our hands houses at Cain sta ton, Avondale, at prices ranging from s450 to s1.50o.
 $60-Each, , choice lots, ? very good houses, at Arlington station. near Woodlawn. Eureka, Eurekai 50x100 feet on Ed avenue between 18th and goth streets. only SIP GOO
 LACY & SORSBY, Phone 367. 202i First Ave