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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-11
HAD A DOUBLE LOAD OF GRIEF.
Unlucley Chance Made sister E1vira
Mourn Two Husbands Mt Once.

Mourn Two Husbands Mt Once.
Eyes, had good many queer expert
ences while was In the South" said tho
woman who had travelled. 1.-THE dueerest
Of them was my meeting with an old col
ored woman In little Virginia town.
II was Monday afternoon and I was
prowling about the outskirts of the place
In search of washerwoman. Suddenly,
as neared cabin which stood little
way back from the road. heard sounds
which indicated extreme despair. The
cabin itself was what Southcrners call
a straight up'n down boa'd shanty.' and
the chimney was of mud while the
broken window panes were reinforced by
old hats and multicolored rags, which
served to keep out wind and rain. Tho
appearance of the whole place was so
mean and wretched that I stopped. Won
dering II some great calamity has just
hefallen It's inmates and II could be Of
service to them. While still hesitated
the door opened and n stout old colored
woman came out. She had an air OF
Importance and she carried a dingy tin
pail, being evidently on her way to the
spring.
1.-THE opening of the door not only
brought the sounds Of grief more stlainly
to my ears, but 1t also gave me a glimpse
of an Interior crowded with colored peo-
pie Of all ages, all wearing the same air
of solemn importance. BY this time
my curiosity had quite got the better OF
me, and said: Good afternoon, auutie.
Is there anything wrong In the house?'
'Yessum, deed dey Is: dey sholy is.' she
said. as she set down the pail and put
her hands on her hips. OATS Sist' Elvfry
moahnin' Huh secon' husban' done daid.'
g Is that SO? I am very sorry for the
poor woman / said, ashamed OF my
curiosity.
" 'Yessum, OATS so. He was er mighty
poah excuse. Nose was Sist' Elviry.
she met up with him whenst huh fust
husban' was jest daid. He done ask huh
to mahry him right erway an Sist' Ell.
viry. she take him. case of she waited
she mightn't git no NOAH chanst tub git
married agin She done feel right bad
though. case she amt moahned Ike
propah. an whenst she done live erwhile
wiz dat Nose she boun' tub depreciate
Ike mon evah.'
"'oh. see. She is mournin' him now,
is she?
well, honey. y see hits disaway:
Nose. he was took mighty poahly erwhile
back. an Sist' Elviry, she see he CANT
live much longah, an she made up huh
mine tub moahn Ike propah whenst Nose
die. So she done wuk huh fingahs amos
tub de bone tub git ready In time. When
she hadn'tino mon got huh Grape vein
bonnet ready, Nose he die. Now. Sist
Elviry say she got err chants tub moahn
Ike de right way, but by-'n-by people
comes In sayin' how good Nose was, now
he's done gone, an Sist' Elviry begin tub
feel dat way. An anyhow, she say er
poah husban' am bettah'n no husban' at
all. So she's naoahnin foah bofe of 'em
now. an sometimes 1t do seem as eff dat
woman's load OBJ grief am mos too
heavy tub bear
'And, shaking her head she took up
her pail and vanished around the corner
of the house, leaving me speechless.''
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-11


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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-11
Two Blackfeet Customs.

The Blackfeet have reluctantly given
up many of their old customs, but TO two
they persistently cling, and will until the
end. They will not exchange their re-
ngious belief for that expounded by the
various missionaries. nor will they re-
linquish their peculiar and homicidal doc
toring of the sick. They believe that the
sun IL the supreme ruler OF the universe,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-11

90 big 70 b considered that the little
points OF military etiquette couldn't be
thought about.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

clusion must have been before the Statist
when 1t presented these figures:
1.-THE worlds output of pig iron in 1898 is
computed at s5OOo.o0o tons. That Is, on the
usually accepted basis of two tons of ore
to one ton of pigs, represents 7o,o00.0OO tons
of irohstone Are the known resources Of
the producing countries equal to a con-
tinuous drain on that scale? But the out
put of pig iron this year. if America
reaches her 100000 tons, Great Britain
makes up for the Welsh stoppage of last
year and more, and Germany continues at
present rate will be, say, 3S.000.000 tons,
which represents 7600O,O0O tons of ore. AS
a matter of fact, however. more than two
tons of ore must be reekoned to one ton of
pig iron, for while we absorbed, as shown
aboVes nearly 20, 1000 tons of ore last year,
we only produced 1851 ,151 tons of pig iron.
OF course, there were stocks of ore on
hand, in transit, and in process included in
reputed consumption, and not repre-
scented in the returned output of pigs; but
VIII" an d4loH@ iiSS III 'ii'I t44o wv ~ "iiO
measurement is not sufficient. For the an
tciFated make of pigs, then, at least So
100000 tons of ore will be needed. Where
is it to come from? Last year the United
States mines produced 2S,OOOO0O tons, the
Spanish mines 100000 tons, the German
mines, say, 100000 tons, the British mines
100000 tons-in all, CO. 600 900 tons. Amer
lea, Great Britain and Germany alone con-
sumed 100000 tons last year, and this year
Will need at least g.. 1000, 600 tons if the prom
ised production is to be effected"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
TO FIGHTIN, JOE WHEELER

Thomas J. Feeney in the Boston Herald
Say, Joe, you onery little Gus, we're mighty
glad to greet yer,
An to the love O. Boston town we hereby
duly treat yer.
Nigh forty years have glided by Since we
fought one another,
But, dang it, joe, that's past and gone
we love you as a brother.
But who'd ha' thought, in those days-noe
cen the widest squeeler-
That Boston town would ever cheer for
Fightin' Joseph Wheeler!
Nigh forty years have passed and gone;
my eyes are CROWN DINNER,
Tine flag with but single star seems
like a blurrin' grimmer.
That star now mingles with the rest-an'
as for eolors telin'
The gray runs into blue so quick it brings
the tears a-swellin.
My OF heart thrills at "DiXie" now and
one but a noodle
q know you'd say would fail to cheer at
hearin' Yankee DOODLE
An you, OF friend, I see you've changed.
the years have made you grayer,
But now, 1 know, 1.-THE Union" is your
fondest, dearest prayer.
An you've grown color blind, 1 see, in uni
FORMS selection,
Where once you proudly wore the gray
the blue is your election
While as for flags today, I'll bet, you'd
all acquaintance sever
With anyone who'd not applaud The
Stars and Stripes Forever"
I'm glad that Time has softened both, I'm
glad of that OF Quarrel,
Today the graves of all who died we'll dec
crate with laurel,
No matter if they followed Grant or
Lees fortunes plighted,
Today were one in sympathy-one nation
reunited.
God bless you, joe If you keep on and
don't again grow cranky,
You'll-(if you're not already, Joe)-becoms
a darn good Yackaa.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
The Worlds Ore Supply,

The Statist, published in London, thinks
iron must go higher because of the short
and shortening supply of ore. To use its
own words pigs in sixties, if not seven
ties. Instead of forties (shillings) may in
duce larger output of ore.
1t is indeed difficult to see where Eng
land is to get an adequate amount OF ore
adapted to steel making and to existing
plants when the supply from the Bilboa dis
tri9t in Spain fails altogether. The quail
ity is falling off more rapidly than the
quantity. Last year England took from
Spain 46S4,s 1873 tons of ore. Add to this 7S4.-
062 tons from Algeria, Italy, Greece and
Sweden, and we have the extent of Eng
lands foreign supply last year. That sup
ply was half million tons less than the
like supply in the previous year. 1t can-
not we'll be enlarged from Spain, where the
ore is apt to be in pockets, or to be of poor
quality 1t may soon give out altogether,
and this is what the Statist is considering.
Germany and France both seek Spanish
ores, and when that supply is exhausted.
as it must soon be, the European furnaces
will be in distress indeed, unless, indeed.
the supply from Sweden within the Arc
tic circle can be heavily enlarged AS mat
tiers now stand, England is dependent on
Spain for nearly one-fourth of her entire
ore supply, and for more than two-thirds
of her supply for steel making purposes.
The English ironmasters will not ex-
pend vast sums involved n a change 10
the basic process if they see that thew
would be undersold by the United States.
Che iron and steel situation in England
is in other words rather gloomy. The home
supply cannot be materially increased; the
Spanish supply is short, both in quality
and quantity, and change to a different
process of steel making or to the devel-
opment of a new source of supply calls for
much time and much money.
The moral seems to be that the United
States holding a practically unlimited and
inexhaustible supply of ore. is destined to
be the seat of the furnaces that make the
worlds supply of iron and steel. This con-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
A GIANT, AND STILL GROWING

Paris Correspondent of London Telegraph.
Among the hospital patients of DIR. Luz
cas- Championniere is a man seven feet
four inches in height. He is q years old,
and is still growing. He takes after his
father, who was seven feet eight, whereas
his mother was of short stature. At the
age of IS he was a youth below middle
height, but after an illness he grew four
inches in few days. A second illness pro-
duced another rapid increase of his height.
After this he had several successive at
tacks of a facilitating complaint. On re-
covery he invariably found he had grown
several inches, till when at y he went to
serve in the army he had reached seven
feet. He was the youngest of twelve child
rem, and fortunately for them is the tallest
of them all by a foot or so.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
The GriIIo Case in New Orleans.

The appearance of single case of yel-
low fever in New Orleans is not alarming,
provided there are not more cases of a
less positive nature behind it. The case
arose in a house that did not harbor a case
last year, and it's origin can not be traced,
direction. 1t is pronounced a sporadic case.
The Age-Herald declines to think that
sporadic case is impossible in New Or
leans. In 1879 General and Mrs. Hood
were attacked by the yellow pest, and
died from it, leaving a large family of
children, and no one else caught the in
lection. The Illness of the unfortunate
Italian girl may, therefore, have been
strictly sporadic.
The Louisiana state board of health
seems to have frankly and squarely dealt
the Grillo case, and it should continue to
be wholly ingenious and candid in such
matters, thereby gaining the confidence of
all neighbors who have o right to know
what Is gong on III lHeIr own trade CEN
ter. As matters now stand Mississippi and
Alabama are inclined to await the appear
ance of at least another case. Texas has,
however, closed her towns against passen-
gers, freight or express goods from New
Orleans.
We are inclined to think the boards of
health of this state and of Mississippi are
acting wisely, but the appearance of an
other case within ten days will be pretty
clear and convincing evidence that the
fever has foothold in New Orleans, and
has probably been there, in modified form,
several weeks. Another case means the re-
Introduction of the shotgun quarantine. 1t
Is a pretty poor remedy, but in the absence
of better quarantine regulations it is about
the only effectual remedy in sight.
The shotgun quarantine and all other
guarantees should be preceded by sani-
tary measures of the most thorough sort
in every city and small town of this state.
The town that does not clean up has no
right to expect freedom from the scourge
The germs of the disease will seek and
reach filth, there breeding and spreading,
and shot-guns cannot keep them out
Thorough sanitation and shot-guns will do
In case the disease reappears at New Or
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
MR.. BANKHEAD ON NEGRO SUFFRAGE

Washington Cor. of the Chicago Tribune.
In speaking of the race troubles in the
south Representative Bankhead, of Ala
bama, said today:
81 am firmly convinced the government
made a grievous mistake in granting the
right of franchise to the negro race If
the negroes had been given their liberty
and the right to hold property, but not tho
right of franchise, and there had been in
augurated a systematic course of civiliza-
ton of the race it is conceivable that in
the course of time they would be ready for
all the rights of citizenship.
Conditions are growing rapidly worse
year by year. and there is confronting us
perplexing problem for which we can see
no solution. The best minds of the south
can suggest nothing which will solve the
problem. and the two races are growing
more restless. There is a settled deter
mination on the part of the white people
to rule the south. 1t is possible, and many
men believe it is inevitable, that there will
be a race war. The feeling between the
races at this time and that existing ten,
or even five, years ago is different, and
far moro strained and dangerous. These
conditions indicate that the next ten years
may carry matters to the breaking point.
Many states have passed laws limiting the
right of franchise by the property and
education qualifications, and in a short
time all the other states will follow this
example,"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
Cleanse City and Suburbs.

This city and its more crowded suburbs
need attention, and they need it without
delay. There are foul smells and foul spots
a-plenty. We are not germ proof, despite
porous soil, healthy atmosphere and
the vigor that should attend the residents
and man alone is prolific of Accommodations
of vileness. We speak within bounds when
we say that this city was rarely fuller of
vile smells, which proceed from accumu-
lated filth.
The city council should turn ITS attention
to the alleys, the drains, the streets, and
particularly the back yards of the city.
Not one in ten of the entire number is
clean and wholesome and germ proof. Such
neglect at the opening of the season, when
fever germs may be brought in any day
from Havana, from Matanzas, frJm innum-
cradle other places, not including New
Orleans, which may be languid fever nest,
is inexcusable.
The Age-Herald demands tho cleansing
OIL lHe CITY Ut once, anu IN lnS most InOF-
ough manner. Yellow fever is filth DIS
ease. 1t cannot exist in Jones valley with
out the aid of filth. Clean up. II he whole
valley should HAY : attention. There are a
dozen vile pools of stagnant water along
the East Lake line. They should be drained.
Pratt City should have good attention, and
so should every other populous locality.
Jones valley is fever proof if it be put
in sound sanitary condition. If vaults and
barns and pools and drains are permitted
to remain filthy, there is no safety even
among the great hills and on a cherry soil.
Every bit of soil over which people live and
sleep should be inspected. The hogs and
dogs should be looked after. Cleanliness
Is the price Of safety from the yellow
scourge and nothing else will answer.
The officials Of this city should get out
the municipal brooms and hoes and rakes.
They are sadly needed. There is not a
wholesome street in tho city Moral re
forms are all right, but at present a back
yard reform Is moro needed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
YELLOW JACK IN NEW ORLEANS

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
The startling announcement is made that
one death has already been reported from
yellow fever in the Crescent City. 1t is
startling because of the youth of the sea-
son, and because of the long tine before
frost. That any alarm should be felt of a
general spread of the pest is not believed
because the New Orleans authorities are
fully alive to the necessity of stamping it
out and they will go about the task with a
will.
The action of the Texas authorities in
quarantining is ridiculous, but it is easily
understood. New Orleans and Galveston
are the modern Rome and Carthage. and
they are waging a relentless and bitter
commercial warfare aga INST each other, and
Galveston takes advantage of every cir
cumstance to injure it's commercial rival
New Orleans would probably do the same
thing did the opportunity offer.
But the rest of the country should use
common sense and avoid being driven
from what is safe and rational. The frosts
of last winter. unprecedented in their in
tensity, should minimize the dangers of
spread if sanitary science is not wholly
at sea.
The fact that the solitary case of fever
admitted that it is fever-occurred in a
house where the disease did not appear
either last year or the year before, con-
vincingly demonstrates that it is of a spo-
radio Character, which found it's genesis in
some particular cause that exists nowhere
else
Meantime the country will expect to be
taken into the confidence of New Orleans
health authorities. New Orleans has suf-
fered sorely and unnecessarily in the past
because exposed cities were led to believe
that the true condition of affairs was not
being revealed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
suBsCRIPTIoN RAVES.
Prices Are Fixed BY the Surplus
Editor

The size of the crop, be it wheat, cotton
or what not, determines tho price If 1t be
staple wanted in many countries, it IS
the worlds crop of it that fixes the price.
When the worlds demand has focal
point, as wheat has and cotton has, and
most other crops have, then the dealers at
that focal point adjust the demand to the
known supply and thus 1t comes about
that Liverpool is said to fix the price of
ties, wheat or cotton. Such dealers cannot
determine price regardless of crop, for
if they do, or # they mdsjudge their pun
ishment is assured. The price of a worlds
crop must be adjusted to a worlds supply
and worlds demand.
worlds demand for surplus of a
country very naturally fixes the price at
home 1t certainly operates to sustain the
home price. If, for example, there should
be no foreign demand for our surplus cot
ton or our surplus wheat or our surplus
pig iron in years when We have such
surplus, prices at home would be sadly de-
moralized and no one would be crying out
against Liverpool or London or Hamburg
because they want our products or fix our
prices.
A Liverpool dealer in cotton first tries to
ascertain what the crop of the year is
likely to be; and when he becomes satisfied
as to that he then estimates the probable
demand throughout the world, and then
he determines what he is willing to pay.
IL a hundred cotton dealers in Liverpool go
through this process of ascertaining the
price, no two of them reaching the same
r result, then these men arrange themselves
into two parties, the bulls and the bears,
and the struggles of the two parties de-
terinine the price of this country's surplus
cotton, and that in turn determines the
price at home. The bears could not, how
over, turn bulls and put the price up re-
CARELESS of the CROP nor vice versa, for the
surplus crop itself would come tumbllng
in. or the reverse, and confound and upset
their plans.
1t is in a word the old law of supply
and demand applied in a divide way,
and no one can afford to disregard 1t. A
cfop must by its bulkiness or other weak
ness be strictly local, If it's price is to be
determined at home. The price of pump
kins is determined at home, but the price
of apples is not, because apples can be and
are shipped to other countries.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
TENNESSEE COAL AND IRON

From the New York Press.
Lots of good people are tangled up with
Tennessee Coal and Iron, and it's recent
manipulation has left many high and dry.
An important move was made in the prop
erty last week, which may tell in the mar
lket. Nat Baxter, of Nashville, was here at
the Fifth Avenue hotel. He is president Of
the company. He was standing behind Col
onel e. w. Cole when the latter fell dead.
His business in New York was to close
finally the negotiations which led to the
sale of $1,1O0,000 worth of non-paying rail-
road properties to the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad. The furnaces are running
day and night, the output being 10000 tons
a month. This will be increased. All past
contracts are nearly filed. and new ones
are limited to six months.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
EDWARDS LONG WAIT

Chicago News
The Prince of Wales is IS. His honored
mother is so and seems good for. many
years to come. On the face of the returns,
Edward VII will have at least one dis
tinetion when they finally crown him at
notwithstanding will be older by several
years than any other new-crowned British
king An odd coincidence is found in the
fact that the last Edward before him-Ed-
ward VI.-was the youngest British sover-
eign ever crowned.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Maybe they used to spell them Satan
slippers
Whisky makes trouble, but soiled wrap
pers make havoc.
1t isn't that a woman cares so much
about losing a man; she just doesn't want
some other woman to gain him.
The meanest boy that ever lived never
tortured starved cat the way a "jelly
good fellow" can torture his wife,
When a man is smoking and slapping and
waving to keep off mosquitoes a woman in
a Iow-neck gown and open-work stockings
will sit still and smile and just swear in
wardly.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
THE SCHOOLS ARE LOOKING UP

From the Tuscumbia Dispatch.
In looking over our exchanges from
every portion of the state we notice q
marked increase of interest manifested in
the public schools. Each paper stating
that the close of each school was far more
remarkable than in any previous year.
Education in Alabama is increasing, and
her citizens are realizing the great impor-
tance of educating the children and plac-
ing Alabama at the head of the states in
this direction.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02


what was 80 rare as day in June" was
not a southerner for not even poetic
soul could find real comfort at noondme in
June time in this beautiful beloved south
of ours.
Former Congressman NJ. ". Howard of
Fort Payne, was in town yesterday.
Secretary Asa Rorntree stated yesterday
for tickets for the Alabama Press associa-
tion's excursion to- Niagara Falls, which
leaves Birmingham June To- Though other
applications are expected, Secretary Roun-
tree is much gratified by the comparatively
large number that are now at hand. The
association meets in Birmingham ON the
nth inst.
DR.. ]. II. Phillips, the able superinten-
dent Of the Birmingham public schools, re-
turned last night from Selma, to which
city he went on Wednesday for the pur-
pose Of delivering the annual address to
the Dallas academy, selma's justly famed
high school. DR.. Phillips received a very
cordial greeting and on audience Of LEO
listened to his speech.
Representative Burnett is in town. 81
Representative Bankhead has gone to
his home in Fayette. Mr.. Stallings is still
here.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

leans. and in the meanwhile sanitary meas
ures should be pushed on to. the utmost
They cannot be carried too far. 1t is san
itation more than quarantine that gives
Florida immunity although the state Is
fiat and swampy and more exposed to in
lection than any other state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02
GUBERNAToRIAL AND SENATORIAL

From the Livingston Southern Home.
A number of newspapers in Alabama are
suggesting General Joe Wheeler for COVER
nor The suggestion seems to meet hearty
approval throughout the state.