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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-03-09

The Burlington route. advertising
from its office in Omaha recently, Of
fered a cash prize Of s1OO to the per-
son who would send them the best plan
for encouraging immigration to Ne
braska. Among the letters received
was the following:
Republican City. ncb., January 81,
1899. ]. frances. & p: l saw youer add
in your paper asken advise Of how to
settle nebraska, for my 20 years expe-
rience that the crate part of nebraska
is old batchus and air longen for a
wife or housekeeper and the eastern
world is full of old mades and widoes,
now II the railroads wood trasport
the old mades and widoes to nebraska
free theair woodend bee no further
truble about settlers. I tell you tn
wimen heair that hain't ingaged air
scaris then henes teath and most OF the
girles marcy when theair Is. now II
theas old mades and old batchus go to
keepen house and the men heair that
all the widoes heaiv ship to nebraska.
you felowes wood Just half to put on
extra traines to car:ay the men.
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Mrs. E1,zApnI IynrE.ocK; Maspo.
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col conditions:
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taking your Vegetable CompouilN anu
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

foot the Monroe doctrine, was brother Of
the Austrian emperor. and son-in-law of
the Belgian king. He was an estimable
man personally, but he ruled in true Aus
TRAN fashion, condemning to death with
out trial all who took up arms against him.
A Mexican soldier fighting for his country
and Juarez was thus declared bandit.
AT the time we had in this country troubles
of our own; but as soon as these were dis
posed of the French troops and the Aus
TRAN emperor" were told to get out of
Mexico. The French sailed away, but the
Austrian was apprehended, tried, and shot
to death. Senior Aspiroz was a Mexican
soldier, and he became Acknowledgment in
the trial of Macmillan. He became such
in the course of military detail, and he did
nothing that any soldier in his place would
not have done. Practically speaking, Max
imilian was tried, condemned and shot by
the United States, in the course of vim
dication of the Monroe doctrine. The
bet upon the weakness and division of this
country, and they lost To visit upon Senior
Aspiroz, at this late day, the troubles of
the unfortunate Macmillan is not only il
logical, but it is an affront to this country
and the Monroe doctrine.
The Belgian minister, Count Lichtervelde,
and the pink-tea circle in Washington seem
to be at the bottom of the conspiracy,
which has for its object the discomfort of
the new Mexican ambassador. If they per-
sist in their social boycott they will GER
tainly make the new ambassador even
more popular and more efficient in official
circles than Senior Romero was, and that
is saying a good deal The Belgo-Austrian
boycott should be called off.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
The Mexican Ambassador

scnor Manuel Aspiroz has been named as
the successor of the lamented Romero, ard
the diplomats at Washington, following The
examples of the Austrian ard Belgian rep
reseatatives, propose to snub him 10 the
extent of making his official life unpieas-
. ant, and perhaps unbearabe The scheme
Will not, however. prove feasible. The new
Mexican ambassador will be persona gfata
with high officials OF the United States, and
: he will be warmly welcomed by the peop.e
of this country. His personal happiness and
his official efficiency will be increased.
rather than decreased, by the snubbing pro-
cess that has been threatened.
The new furry relates TO events that oc-
Cured thlrty-two years ago. Maximilian,
Z who came to this contlnSnt at the instance
OF Tie Third Napoleon 10 rramplc under
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
The Prices of StapIe Goods.

The prices OF staples are undoubtedly an
index Of the condition of trade If prices
arc going down, trade is decreasing in VOL
ume; if prices are advancing, it is reasona-
bly, certain that business is generally good
Bradstreets for April 10 shows the changes
in prices during the month of March.
Fully one-third of the commodities named
were advanced in prices during March,
forty-tve were unchanged. and less than
one-quarter show decreases In compari-
son with prices of April 1 of last year
prices are per cent. higher, and they are
DO per cent. higher than they were on Oc-
teber l, 1896, when the low-water mark of
recent years was reached.
During the month OF March live stock.
hides and leather, metals, oils, building
materials, chemicals, butter and cheese,
sugar, salt, rice, hemp, silk, flax, cotton
seed oil, rubber, paper and hay commanded
higher figures while there were decreases
IN cereals, eggs, tea, coffee, peanuts, cotton,
wool, alcohol and tobacco. The difference
is in favor of Increased prices, particularly
IL all lines OF iron and steel. The general
level of prices is higher than it has been
in several years, and the tendency is still
upwards. Some staples are higher than
they were on April /, 1893 period preced-
ing the panic of that year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
Buying Coffee.

The friends that we have and their adop-
ton tried always to have some cheap thing,
to recommend to us. If X buys a suit of
clothes for $13, and is persuaded that it is
worth sos, he comes in to show it off and
make you feel bad because you haven't got
one like it. If u is using coffee for which
he pays Is cents a pound he declares that
your coffee is excellent, "but old fellow,
why don't you let me buy you ten pounds
like mine? l get 1t at 80 per cent. discount.
You can't beat 1t in New York. You let
him buy, and damn him ever after. "Why
do you pay 81 a pound for tea? Say, can
get the best tea in the market for so cents.
Do you know how 1 manage it?" "Noi
and don't care to know. I'm sick and
tired of these cheap things. Tea and coffee
and sugar are so cheap at the highest
prices that any laboring man can afford
to buy EN-" "Shucks! 1 can go down to
a tea-taster friend of mine and get the
finest quality-the same kind that Lii Hung
Chang and the Empress of China drink
for q cents. Just so there and tell him 1
sent you.''
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
Tennessee joi rs Georgia.

z Another state has been heard from. Ten
nessee, through it's central organ, the Nash
! Vile American, and Cabinet Correspondent
McDavid, sustains Governor Johnston in his
effort to disrupt the democratic party of
Alabama. Tho American is very unanl-
have political nerve of high order-nerve
enough, adds the esteemed American, ito
triumph in the end" The convention bill
will probably" be repealed. The white
democratic voters are against the conven-
tion, in tho opinion of the American, and
the American then proceeds to say that the
legislature should indorse Governor John
ston's position. The American leaves the
The Johnston campaign is now we'll for
mulated. The Atlanta Constitution is to
lead the left flank and some Mississippian
at present unknown, the right flank, while
the Nashville American charges down
through the state at the head of an invinci-
bic center. Just what position will be as
signed to the janitor of the Atlanta state
house is not now known, nor is it known
where Editor Yancey will cross the Tennes-
see river. If he will take our advice, he
will not attempt to ford it anywhere in the
present stage of it's water. But still, he may
as well open the grand campaign ON the
Tennessee as in a district lower down in
the state, where he would be apt to en-
counter something worse than water
Before the American unfurls the Johnston
banner in the state it should call it's asso-
ciate tQs,Chattanoogs for a conference.
If the conquest of Alabama is to be accom-
plished-if tho voters of Here We Rest
are to be instructed and commanded by out
side teachers and leaders, great and noble
as they unquestionably are-it Is important
that they should act in concert. They
should get together. We say this in all
kindness. Our journalistic heart, as the
Huntsville Tribune might remark, is SYM
pathetic and untiring. The Constitution is
tagging. 1t has never said that Governor
Johnston's nerve Is of high ORDER nor has
1T said that repeal of the convention bill
is more than probable" The Constitution
was fulsome, but not prophetic. So we say
again, the esteemed American and the es-
teemed Constitution should get together.
and we beg to name the Point hotel on an
unusually breezy day as the place of con-
ference
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

fetal papers. because they were asked for
in the name of Jos. F. Johnston, Gov
ernor," and there is no public reason why
these replies should be withheld from the
public. The fact that they are withheld is
evidence that the load is heavily charged
with populistic plumber. It is at least cer-
tain that a majority of the democratic
members Of the two houses will not vote
ali discipline out of, and all diseord into,
the democratic party. A large majority Of
the democratic senator's and representa-
tives win stand by the party and by the
convention bill, and the furry that Gov
nor Johnston has precipitated will soon
pass away, and the convention bill will
stand, and a convention will be called, and
in due time an instrument will be sub
mitted for approval or disapproval. All
will be free to vote as they please as to
ratification or non-rathcation. This should
meet all objections, and satisfy every shade
of opinion, every division of public senti-
ment, while it would preserve the integ-
rity and strength of the democratic party,
which is necessary to the peace and pros
perity of the state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
FIGHTING JOE WHEELER.

From the Washington Times.
The president has at last ignored the
wishes of the war department ring and APP
pointed General Joseph Wheeler brigadier
general in the new provisional army author
lied by the last congress. The strongest
kind of pressure was brought to bear to
keep General Wheeler out, but the presl-
dent decided to give heed to the strong pop
ular sentiment throughout the country in
favor of the retention of Wheeler in the
military service. 1t is likely that General
Wheeler will be ordered to the Philippines
right away. He Is better adapted perhaps
to handle the peculiar kind of warfare that
will be probably carried on in the Philip
pines for some time to come than any other
man in the country. The president will
make no mistake if he subsequently places
General Wheeler in command of the Amer
lean troops in the Philippines. He can, it
is believed, come nearer to bringing the
Filipinos to terms than any officer in the
service. His past record proves this fact
conclusively.
81 know" said an army officer yesterday
'that General Wheeler will be given
chance to show his mettle in the Philip
pines right away. He will be given an i'm
portant command, and inside of the next
three months the chances are more than
even that he will be in supreme command
in tho Philippines. He VIII undoubtedly be
retained in the regular military establish
ment during the remainder of his life."
Wheeler's appointment is regarded as an
other nail in Mr.. Ayers political coffin.
The Alger influence was exerted against
Wheeler, and the fact that 1t has failed is
significant. 1t shows that Mr.. Ayers in
fuence with the president is nothing like
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
A man never really loves a woman till
he loves her too well to try to teach her to
play whist.
At certain periods every girl has so many
oul-yearnings that Sc has hardly room for
a square meal.
The prophet Elijah ought to have let the
boys alone; then they would have grown
up to be baldheaded themselves.
IL there is anything at all in the transmi-
grafton theory, it is probable that every
woman has at some time been cat.
The reason why married man can never
go down to business the day before his
wife comes back from a visit is because
he has to stay at home to wash up all the
dishes he has used.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
APRIL

o April, bright, capricious thing
Dear spoiled, petted child OF spring: &
You're welcome to these hearts of ours
AS summer sunshine to the flowers.
O bme-eyed April, tell me why
So hayward, wanton, coy, shy!
No other month"; l must confess,
Has half your witch.ng lovellness. d
r
Your skies are fairer, brighter, too,
Than royal summer ever knew; b
You smile and weep with laughing eyeST
And ever bring some new surprise.
And for the love of memory, =
Sweet April, 1 would cling to thee!
Thine are the same soft, sunny sk'es.
That gladdened first my infant eyes,
But many Apriis. bright and fair,
Have blossomed since those days that wcr9
Yet somehow, Aprils sunny skies
Are always spanned with rainbow dyes
Mrs. Mary Ware.
North Highlands. Birmingham. 5sssfe --,s.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
Coffee Countries.

Before and Immediately after the war
people of means would not be tempted to
drink any coffee but genuine old Govern
ment Java. The soldiers had to be content
with a beverage made of parched potato
cubes, which is just as good as coffee If
people could, hide their prejudice. Every
body who was anybody had bag of old
Government Java. Rio was for the mig
gers" and ''po' white trash" In these
days we are drinkng-the world, mean
over 500,O00,000 pounds of Rio annually and
only S500O,00O pounds of Java. And there is
no more genuine old Government Java"
If you include Santos, Victoria, Bahia and
Ceara in the Brazilian crop we will have
together with Rio over 1,40O, 100000 pounds.
Nicaragua produces a nice coffee, about
10eG0,000 pounds q year. In Porto Rico we
own a coffee producing country and the
quality is not bad. The output is about
3S000,000 pounds year. 1t should be in
short time 1o0,OOO,O0O pounds.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
What Was Ordered For the $40 Jefferson
ian Dinner.

From the New York Herald.
Ten thousand oysters.
Sixty gallons green turtle soup.
One hundred and fifty pounds of fresh
mushrooms.
Three hundred and fifty pounds of brook
trout.
Three hundred Holsters.
Twenty-four spring lambs.
Ninety-two dozen sweetbreads.
Ninety-two dozen squads.
Four hundred heads of lettuce.
Four hundred tomatoes.
Fifteen hundred picked Bermuda pota-
toes.
Fifteen hundred forms ice cream.
Eleven hundred Democratic Club tiger
mold punches. .f,.e-4.-te
Three thousand quarts champagne.
Thrty-six hundred quarts other wines.
Twelve hundred quarts apollinaris.
Twelve hundred quarts White Rock.
Twelve bushels each of potatoes, onions,
carrots and turnips for Kitchen use.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

From the Galveston News e.
Tho fevers, malarial and otherwise, which
seem to be the principal scourge of Philip
pine life, are largely bred in the jungle.
Given the advantages offered by sanitary
science, there is no reason to believe that
the climate of Manila would prove less
healthful than the climate of Europe or of
most of the United States.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
Teas In America

We are catching up on the tea question,
and soon will be raising our own plants.
They grow well in various parts of the
south Our tea costs us about $11 900,
and our coffees about $50, coo 900 annually.
This, of course, is before the tea tasters
and the coffee roasters, the Arbuckles and
company, have made their profit. We can
buy coffees anywhere from to IS cents a
pound, and teas all the way from IS cents
10 $3.50.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

The Samoan question is in the hands of
Mr., Bartlett Trip of Yancton, South Da-
kota, who is the American commissioner:
Mr. Eliot, of the British embassy at WASH
ington, and Baron Speck Won Sternberg,. of
the German embassy. And there are no
flies on them, not even on the last named.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

The famine in European Russia threatens
the lives of 2O,OOOOOO people, and yet her
land grabbing and railroad building goes on
unchecked in Asia.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Spain may decide to take that s2o, 900, 900 in
wire nails, cotton goods, flour, mess pork
or other articles in Uncle Sans unrlvalled
stock of goods.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Italy, with one eye on Uncle Sam, has de-
cided to collect her Ceruti claim from Co.
lumbia by diplomacy without the aid of a
WarShiD.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

If General Wheeler holds his new COM
mission to the retiring age he will be COM
fortably pensioned, at least.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

President Mckinley and President Lou
bet have become very chummy, but the lat
ter has another chum, and his name is
Nicholas.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Those who celebrated Thomas Jefferson
by proxy escaped with painless heads. Even
at the dollar dinner bottle to the plate
was served.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Fighting Joe" will win new laurels in
the Philippines, and he is already the>nost
popular army officer in the country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

The good, old pope lives right along as
Leo XIII regardless of the superstition
connected with that number.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

-Four thousand cans of roast beef were
thrown into Havana harbor recently, and
there is hope now that the yellow fever
germs have met worthy foe.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

When General Joe Wheeler arrives in the
Philippines, and is ready to back up Apache
Lawton, the Tagals will think the fighting
has begun.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Helen Gould has been made an honorary
member OF the Cincinnati fire department,
with gold badge thrown in. And there is
no politics In 1t. What ails Ohio?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

The Pennsylvania Legislature is to be
wound up next Thursday, while the Quay
trial is still progressing.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

The organs now speak of the hated one
as Mayor Samjones, of Toledo.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

The barbarians who mutilate dead antag-
onists in Samoa are not the kind the late
Robert Louis Stevenson met at his island
home.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
From the Mobile Register.
From the Fayette Tribune.


The Tribune is decidedly of the opinion
that the letter of tho governor is unwiso
and unprovoked. The party mas spoken on
the subject in caucus, in the act itself,4by
the executive committee, and through.sall
its members in state convention. Besides.
the governor himself but few weeks ago.
attached his sign manual to the bill in APP
prevail thereof. 1t has been but q little
while since he recommended the passa sc of
such a bill in an annual message to sthe
general assembly. In addition to all This.
there is no reason to believe that such
call would accomplish anything. There in
no evidence that the members of the legs-
lature have changed their opinion as to- aha
wisdom of the act. There are all reasons
to conclude that they have not done so.
The recent platform of the democratic
state convention by which the party is
pledged among other things to submit the
proposed constitution to tho people for
their ratification or rejection has removed
all reasonable objections thereto. The ~
ernor is evidently beside himself. 3
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

If he can escape taxation Willie Waldorf
Astor is willing to stand up and be counted
as an American, but Willie will not be per-
mitted to settle the matter in that way.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

From the Decatur Advertiser.
We are on the side of holding a eonstiz
tuional convention.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

And now the Danish West Indies want to
be annexed. How to keep them out is fast
becoming a problem.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

From the Admission Hot Blast.
the governor is only wishing and trying
to Johnstonize Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
EngIand's Tea.

The consumption of teas of every descrip-
ton in England is about six pounds year
per capita, equivalent to forty-eight gal
Ions of the beverage. or, If made weak, as
in China fifty-four gallons. The coffee of
the United Kingdom costs $17.0o0000 year,
while the price of its tea is $500 coo. ns.H
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

From the Tuskegee News.
Governor Johnston cannot afford to do 50
great an injury to the party and to !he
state as would result by an extra session
of the general assembly.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Still another Jefferson birthday dinner
will be pulled off this week.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

The trusts that New Jersey sends out to
dcspoil the land are giving her an unen-
viable reputation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Grover Cleveland tasted, it seems, on JEFF
ferson's anniversary birthday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Admiral Won Dederichs is not laundering
in Samoa.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
From the Demopolis Dispatch.

Il IOHl the IeAHopOl.S DiSPeiiSAs
The Dispatch is opposed to an extra SEES
sion. Let the voters say in July whethe
they want a constitutional convention q
not. .f., 4.-4-. !
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
From the Selma Journal.

And this, too, under the ridiculous plea
that it is necessary to the welfareeof DEM
ocracy that this strange proceeding should
be had. AS well say that the stroke of a
broad and keen axe on the middle of the
human body would be necessary to pre-
serve it's life and component parts, as to
urge such a method as a means of pre-
serving the democratic party in Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18
From the Clayton Record.

The party has spoken on this question:
and the governor has no more right to try
to undo what the party has done than the
humblest individual in it. The Record and
it's editor stand for the convention and OPP
posed to any interference with the act call
ing it on the platform of the party as am
nounced at Montgomery. 1t seems to US
that the easiest way to create formidable
opposition to the party is for the party to
back down whenever the opposition shows
its head. Let's fight it out along the lines
mapped out and win.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Colonel Funston, of Kansas, is as popular
in the far west as our Joe in the rest of
the country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-18

Mr.. George Dewey says the Aguinaldo
government ''is a severe form of military
depotism. -