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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
nclude AZ 4s4 bv northern spInners

include 40. 4s4 by northern spinners.
Since the close of the commercial year.
stocks at American ports and the twenty
nine leading southern interior centers have
been increased lS9 62S bales, against an in
crease for the same period last season of
e7.4l5 and are now 1855 more than at
this date last year.
Including amounts left over in stocks at
ports and interior towns from the last crop
and the number Of bales brought into sight
thus far for the new crop, the supply to
date is ], OF 1902, against 5o6,7S7 for the same
period last year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Relief In Six Hours

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and back, in male or female. Relieves re-
tention of water almost Immediately. II
you want quick. relief and cure this is the
remedy. Sold by Collier Drug Co.. Bir-
mingham. Ala.
2-2S- thurs frj-sat-1yr
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
Taylor School opens Mon
day.
Drink Moerlein Beer.

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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

NEW SCHEDULE TO JACKSONVILLE.
The new schedule In effect via the Gen.
trail of Georgia Railway makes close con-
nection at Macon with the Dixie Flyer for
Jacksonville, giving first-class sleeping car
service and fast time. Scion Jacobs, Com
mercial Agent 2Ol5 First Avenue.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

Mr.. Samuel D. Murphey has returned
from Ashville where he has been spending
the summer His distinguished father, DR..
A s. Murphey, of Eutaw, is now visiting
HI
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16

New Orleans, September 15.-Secretary
Testers New Orleans cotton exchange
statement, issued during business hours
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Archer Brown, the millionaire ironmaker,
began life I'm 1872 as a reporter on the Gin
cinnati Gazette, saved 5000 from his wages
and with that for his capital laid the foun-
dation for his present fortune.
Buffalo BilI' is building a house for his
daughter, Miss Cody. on the shores of Irma
lake, which was named for her. i'm the Big
Horn basin. Miss Cody was herself the
architect of the house, which is to be built
OF logs, two stories high. The style is
Moorish.
1t is announced that Professor Edward
Won Hoist is suffering from nervous collapse
and will not be able to conduct his course
during the autumn term at the University
of Chicago. DIR. George W.. Northrup. head
professor of systematic theology, at the
same institution, has been compelled to re-
sign because of I'll health. He is seventy
years old.
Beecher and Ingersoll were always great
friends. Mr.. Beecher had a celestial globe
in his study, a present from some manu-
facturer. On it was an excellent represen-
tation of the consultations and stars which
compose them. lngersoll was delighted with
the globe. He examined it closely and
turned it round and round. It's just what
L wanted" he said; who made it?" Who
made it?' repeated Beecher: who made
this globe? on, nobody, colonel. it just
happened
Milton Brown, a porter at a hotel in Pitts
burg, has been carrying around a veritable
gold mine in his own person and yet he
didn't know it, Mr.. Brown speaks the Chi
nese language, the most difficult of all the
languages to learn. and besides he can talk
Spanish like a native. Recently his accom-
plishments became known TO the War De.
partment and he was summoned at once to
Washington, where he was appointed to the
position of Interpreter and probably will be
sent to the Orient.
Tolstoi's new novel, The Resurrection"
which the Cosmopolitan declined TO con-
tinue. after printing several in~stallments,
is now being sold I'm London in a most GU
rious guise. 1t is issued by the Brotherhood
Publishing Company in the form of a coll
lection of tracts. 1t il unbound, being made
up of a parcel of loose leaflets. wrapped in
coarse paper and secured by a rubber band.
on the cover of each OF these smaller
packets is a motto text from the New Tes-
lament. The different parts of the novel are
sold for a penny each.
C.. S. Batterrnan, one OF the ~best-known
mining men in the Rocky mountain States.
was on the stand as an expert in an i'm
nortan mining case I'm Nevada, and was un-
der cross-examination oy a rather young
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

The meager dispatches summarizing ex-
President Harrison's closing argument be-
fore the Venezuelan arbitration tribunal
probably conveyed no idea of it's scope and
force. Senior Andrade, a Venezuelan states
man who was present, says: 1T was not
only a superb piece of oratory, but was
unanswerable." Senior Rojas, another
Venezuelan, says: General Harrison
summed up the main points of the case as
If he were telling a fascinating story. 1 was
sorry when he stopped, and so was every
body else. He did one thing in this case
that nobody else succeeded in ~doing-he
made 1T interesting to the listeners No
person acquainted with General Harrison's
skill in arraying facts and his wonderful
clearness of statement doubted that he
would make a great speech in this case.
One of the Venezuelan statesmen above
quoted refers to a point in which the ex-
President is peculiarly gifted as an orator,
namely, that of investing a naturally dry
subject with interest. We venture the as
sertion that when the proceedings of the
tribunal are published in full it will be
found that General Harrison's speech COW
cred the ground better and more effectively
than any other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
DODGING THE REAL ISSUES.

The gas meters seem to be occupying
much more attention in the campaign than
they deserve. considering that such substi-
tuition is an impossibility and that no one
who is likely to be in the next city gov
eminent is in favor of il. Other trivial
matters have occupied much attention. This
Is doubtless due to the fact that the mayor
and his friends propose to divert public at
tention from the real issues. II he were
able he would not dare to take up one by
one the acts of the past two years and ex-
plain them as the head of a great corpo-
ration like the city of Indianapolis should
be able to explain them to the stockhold-
ers. Several days ago, in a resort to the
aspersions of Mayor Taggart upon his adj
ministration, Mr.. Denny told Mr.. Taggart
that all the improvements he claimed to
have made were paid for with borrowed
money and that he can make no more be-
cause the Constitution of the State stands
In the way. To the charge that under May
or Taggart's administration the per capita
expenses of the city have been increased
TO reply has been attempted. much less
made. To the figures showing that asphalt
pavement mas COST the taxpayers OF lnUldn-
apolis more per square yard than in any
other city of its class no explanation is
made. For the increase of the street gang
at an expense of more than 100 a week
above the average no explanation Is given
by any of Mr.. Taggart's orators. Indeed,
the mayor and his associates talk of gas
meters and like matters which have no con-
p1of;1p ;t fho rond;c- aIaot;,
In ignoring all these important questions
and the leading acts of his administration
Mr.. Taggart makes open confession that he
dare not consider them-dare not. Because
he dare not Republicans should press these
matters I'm all their meetings. They can and
should show that the current expenses of
the city have increased during Mr.. Tag
CARTS four years i'm a most marked man.
ner and that his park and other policies
have greatly increased the burdens of the
people.
All these topics the Republican candidate
for mayor has touched in his addresses and
he has promised that If elected the abuses
of the Taggart administration will come to
an end and that there shall be an econom-
ical and efficient management of the affairs
Of the city. This Is the change the taxpay-
ers demand. All questions relative to more
efficient municipal control have more inter-
est for the people than the man whom a
candidate has employed to paint his house.
or where a candidate purchases his clothes
and like childish matters having no bearing
upon the management of the affairs of a
city which expends nearly a million and a
quarter of dollars a year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

The conference of charities which will
take place in Lafayette Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday of this week should be
made a more important occasion than
many people regard such gatherings. Indi-
ana spends several millions each year
through the state and local governments in
caring for those who cannot care for them
selves and for those who are either GRIM
inals or have criminal tendencies. The best
methods of caring for the improvident and
aupers have not yet been discovered, but
great progress has been made. The meth
DDS will be discussed by the conference. We
have just begun to know something regard
ing the treatment of those who are GRIM
inally inclined or are now in prison as
criminals. A prison director said, a few
days ago, that the management of peni-
tentiarieS is a science, the greater part of
which has yet to be learned. Whether or
not the great number of those whose only
inheritance is the weakness or viciousness
which makes criminals can be regererated
from the influences of heredity is yet an
unsolved question. The greater menace of
the acknowledgements because the num-
Der is increasing-has scarcely been touched
by those who have undertaken to find a
remedy. These are questions of far-reach-
Ing Importance; in fact, the most important
that can be considered by those who have
the welfare of the people at heart. 1t is
cause for encouragement that most of the
intelligent men and women who are devot-
Ing their attention to consideration of these
great problems have passed beyond the SEN
timental stage where compassion rather
than judgment directs all effort. Not less
compassionate than the impulsively kind
hearted. they take the well-being of the
whole into consideration when the relief or
the reformation of the defective classes is
considered. This is the case in this State
as we'll as elsewhere. Pauperism is an evil
that will spread if 1T is not treated with
irmness and intelligence as we'll as kind
ness. The one problem to be solved is to
make the defective classes self-supporting
and to devise means by which their ranks
shall be thinned rather than increase. For
some of these menaces heroic remedies may
be necessary. The conference of charities
should prepare the public mind for such
remedies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

and smart attorney. The question re-
lated to the form that the ore was found
in, generally described as kidney Jumps"
Now, Mr.. Batterman," said the attorney.
how large are these lumps-you say they
are oblong-are they as long as my head?''
Yes" replied Mr.. Batterman, but not so
thick. The attorney subsidized. and even
the judge could not help smiling.
Utah claims a town of $50 inhabitants.
not one Of whom is a woman. Not only are
women not allowed as residents, but they
are forbidden to enter the town limits. This
unique village is named Sunnyside, and is
situated in Whitmore canyon, near Price.
II is a coal mining camp. and is not, as
might be supposed, the property OF pro-
fessed woman haters, but of sordid business
men. The company which owns the coal
mines has not yet secured a perfect title to
the lands which form its property. Until
the title is secure any one establishing a
home on the land might claim property
rights and force the company to buy him
out, and 1t was to prevent any such con-
tingency arising that the company issued
the edict against the miners wives living
In or even visiting the place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

Harpers' Bazaar of Sept. 30 has a portrait
of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. which will
interest old residents of Indianapolis who
remember her as a young woman. she Is
arrayed in a negligee costume-apparently
a Mother Hubbard"
The October Critic gives the place oil
honor TO Becky Sharp" the frontispiece
being a colored Autograph Of Mrs. Fiske as
she appeared on the night of her first per-
formance of the play. A review OF Nit
cheirs dramatization of vanity FAR II
the story.
Some curious things get into current fc-
ton. In a story in McClure's Magazine.
THE Man for Sheriff. a young man from
Boston distinguishes himself when a prairie
fire threatens the North Dakota town by
being the only one to think of the device
of fighting IRE with fire. He had herd OF
II In a lecture by a traveller years before.
and. recalling 1t at this critical tIncture,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

want a more responsible and a cleaner man.
agement OF the city's affairs than they
have had the past four years. This is the
only issue. Furthermore. instances have
been reported where men have declared
they will not do what they can for the Re-
publican ticket because they have not been
recognized in some meeting or on some
committee. This ia childish. Mr.. Book
walter and the other candidates are not
all there is in the election for anti-Taggart
men TO consider by any manner of means.
They are simply the instruments chosen to
make the changes the city so much needs.
To sulk or refuse TO help in the work be-
cause some other man has been noticed
Is childish and is unworthy of grown men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

A London correspondent, reviewing the
activity of the British War Office and the
straining of England's military resources
since the Transvaal trouble began, says;
THE British public. at least that portion
not lingo mad. is already asking if the little
South African republic strains English re-
sources to such an extent where would the
country be in a war with a big power?'
That would depend. If il were principally a
naval war she would be right in it," but
if it were a land war, particularly one re-
quiring the mobilization and transportation
of a large army, she would be at a decided
disadvantage. The seat of British SUI
premacy is on the sea, and a land war on
foreign soil with any first-class European
power would show her weak side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

There are about a thousand Americans
in the Transvaal, most of them engaged
in gold mining. who may plead their ma
tionality and ask for government protection
i'm the event of war. 1t is understood the
United States has decided to furnish pro-
lection to all American citizens who have
not affiliated themselves politically with the
Transvaal government by declaring an in
tention to become a subject or citizen.
Probably this would include nearly every
American in the Transvaal. If al attempt
should be made TO impress any of these
into the Transvaal army this government
would interpose to prevent it. and it will
go as far as possible to protect American
rights and property.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
CRITICIsEs "LEGIONARIEs.-
Says EuIogist of General Morgan Has
Not sound Loyalty

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
1t would seem idle 10 spend much time
and money in teaching patriotism I'm the
public schools IL we are TO have many books
like THE Legionaries,' recently published
in Indianapolis and said to have been writ
ten by a judge OF this city. 1t should be
blacklisted by all patriotic citizens. for
while the literary execution of II shows
reasonable. at least calculated TO confuse
In the minds OF the rising generation the
line of demarkation between loyalty and
treason.
In the first place the mouthpiece of the
author. the II" Captain Trenham. was
educated az, West Point at the expense
of the United States 10 defend the integrity
of the United States. His father moved
into Indiana. purchased a farm and estab-
lished his home here. thereby adopting the
State of Indiana as his own. He died in
1861. leaving his widow and her property
still subject TO the protection OF his adopted
State. Captain Trenham came too In 1861.
taking his fathers place and making In
diana his adopted State. Yet he deliberate
iy turned his back on Indiana and the
United States. deserted the nation that
trained him and the State that had taken
him and his into her bosom and was pro-
tecting his mother and her friends and
property and Joined that most fragrant OF
marauders. John Morgan. TO invade his own
State of Indiana. his own county of Har-
rison. the very neighborhood OF his mother
and her friends for the purpose OF killing
people and destroying property. True. when
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

This book is a protest against society as
it Is now organized and an appeal for re-
form. 1t comes pretty near being a pro-
test against human nature as it now ex-
lists and a demand for complete change.
The author, j. Howard Moore, is dissatis-
fled with the s~elfishness and egoism of the
present day. which, he assumes, is worse
than at any former period. He feels that
II Is short-sighted, mischievous and I'M
necessary, and he thinks there must De
reform. He insists that prevailing systems
OF education are fundamentally wrong, in
of selfishness. He outlines an altruistic
education and urges it's adoption. He has
a clear and forcible style. and has written a
book calculated to make intelligent men
and women think on social problems. 1t rs
published by the Ward-Waugh Company,
Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

Lieutenant Colonel James W. Pope, in Re-
view Of Reviews.
TO attempt to detail all the difficulties
which confronted all the departments Of
the army, especially that having the most
numerous and varied functions, would oc-
cupy too much space, and only a few of
the most important can be CLOSED over.
Contracts. had to be made for coaiing and
unloading transports with the poorest labor
on the face of the earth and with contrac-
tors the most INSCRIPTIONS, accustomed TO
a state the perfection Of corruption; to
secure transportation where natives
summed, from sad experience, dealing with
government; to find fuel Of a new and poor
er kind In a city practically ~beleaguered;
TO seek quarters in a city overcrowded in
ordinary times, but now having II, 600 Span
fsh prisoners and an American army of
greater numbers; to provide forage of a diff
ferent kind and to be brought from without
semi-hostile lines; to get clothing where a
cable requisition might require three
months; to seek storehouses, launches,
cascos (as native lighters are caiied:) to
buildings for hospitals; to settle numerous
claims for 1t has been to the honor of this
occupation that just claims have ever been
fairly adjusted;) to hire laborers for the
innumerable necessities in the midst of an
il-disposed population OF drones and idlers
to do all this constitutes a small part of
the problems that confronted the admins
tration of the quartermaster's department
at Manila during the early days of the oc-
cupation and since.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. MONDAY, OCTOBER q 1899

ingman will say that this Is an encroach-
ment on the rights of laboring men.
The pain truth is that the resolutions
adopted by the Muncie Trades Council are
an insult to all patriotic Americans. espe-
cially 10 patriotic workingmen, and a dis
grace to those who adopted them. Their
obvious tendency is to array class against
unworthy motives. 1t is not true that a
union labor man who joins a militia COM
pany is a traitor to the cause of organized
labor. They are traitors to that cause who
try to- array it against the established in
stitutions of the country. and against. law
and order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02

In 1897 Mr.. Taggart's election boards de-
prived at least 1,SOo Republican voters OF
their votes on the pretext hat their ballots
were mutilated. This year anti-Taggart
voters should give these officers no such
pretext, and they cannot If the voters and
others interested IN the election of Mr..
Bookwalter will make it their duty during
this week to warn their friends to be care
full In marking their ballots. The safe
thing to do is to make the " inside the
circle over Mr.. Bookwalter's name and
make no other mark on the ballot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
Short Stories.

The popular taste for short stories ELECTS
a generous response from authors who are
gifted in that direction. Two volumes OF
such stories are at hand "Frivolities."
written by Richard Marsh and published by
l.. G. Page & Co., and "A Little Legacy
written by Mrs. l. b. Walford and pub
lished by Herbert S. Stone 4 Co. The
authors are both English. and the stories
are of English life. "Frivolities" contains
an even dozen Of stories addressed to those
who are tired of being serious" and "A
Little Legacy contains six stories besides
the one that gives its title to the volume.
They are all bright and readable, and both
volumes are p~rettily bound.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
The Carter Decision.
Washington Special in Chicago Pos

Washington Special in Chicago Post.
The Presidents action leaves those VINO
have bean attacking him for his alleged in
tention to shield the great criminal without
a leg to stand on. The Presidents detract-
Ucsition. They have been doing their dirty
work from the start on a wrong hypothesis
and now find that they were mistaken. The
conclusion of this case is a welcome relief.
Speculation as to the probable result has
been filling altogether too large a space In
the press and in public attention. The gov
eminent has been moving slowly in the mat
ter for the simple and sufficient reason that
its Importance merited the most careful con-
sjderation and scrutiny. 1t cannot be urged
now or in the future that the criminal did
not nave a fair show or that injustice was
done him. His punishment loses. nothing
in severity by the delay and the ends OF JUS
tice and discipline are fully subserved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
Ex-Presidents Were Absent.

New York Letter.
There will be two figures missing in to-
morrow's land parade, two notable figures.
and 1t is a surprise that no one has
thought of doing more to bring about their
attendance. With Dewey in the harbor.
it is but natural that the people should
have forgotten that there are two ex-
Presidents alive who by all means should
have been asked to participate. Former
President Harrison is in Paris, and per-
haps his attendance at the diplomatic
tribunal which is probing into the Ven
ezuelan boundary muddle made 1T abso-
lutely impossible for him to come here.
But what is the matter with ex-President
Grover Cleveland? / do not recollect read
ing that the committee extended him an
invitation; in fact, / think his name was not
mentioned once in connection with the ar
rangements. Was not the occasion great
enough to drop narrow political prejudices
overheard and come to New York to share
In welcoming the third admiral of the
United States?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
Our NAVY I'm Time oS War.

This is the title of a small volume by
Franklin Matthews, being one of Appleton's
Home Reading books. Beginning with the
fight between the Monitor and the Merri-
mac, the writer gives a description of every
navy participate to the destruction of the
Spanish fleet at Santiago. Each of these
descriptions is supplemented by a diagram.
the projectiles and other means of destruc-
ton used during the entire period. Now
that naval affairs are attracting so much
attention this book is of especial interest.
Published by D. Appleton & Co, New York.