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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23
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II ID sdAu tudL IuIAy 1UU,VUU persons
in London work all night.
About eight million tons Of coal are
annually consumed in London.
It is considered heinous offense to
ride bicycle anywhere near the city
of Constantinople.
Two hundred thousand families, 1t
has been calculated, are living in Lon
don on about FL week.
Women are employed at railway
points and crossings in Italy, because
they do not get intoxicated.
It Is believed that diet OF corn
bread makes bigger men, physically.
than bread made of wheat flour.
The highest inhabited spot in the
world is the custom house at Anco-
marca, Peru, $4,000 feet above sea
level.
Gold-plated plumbing will be used in
some of the new private residences
now being built in New York.
Mexico is now in the hight Of COM
mercial prosperity, and her foreign
trade is rapidly increasing In volume.
Thirty-three years ago the first pos
tal-card was made in Vienna at the
suggestion of Prof. Hermann OF the
Technical Institute.
Long engagements are rather ex-
pensiye affairs in Russia. The bride
groom-elect Is expected to send his
financee a present every day.
Kaiser Wilhelm distributed 2,4s7 or
ders throughout Germany on New!
Years Day. Last year the number
was 1908, ana the year before 1915.
Grimsby-so you are going to make
a pianist of your son? Has he an ear
for music? Flimsby--I don't know
anything about his ear; but see what 4
head Of hair he's got.-Boston Tran
script. /,
Bergen, Norway, is going to facili-
tate the entrance Of vessels into the
harbor in stormy weather by placing
tanks Of oil on the breakwater and
spreading the oil on the water by
means Of small pipes. s.
Newton's law OF gravitation will
have to be modified. NJ. Maurain, in
the Journal de Physique, asserts that
careful measurements show that tho
Intensity Of gravitation III .s}e.ladds Il
greater than OF continents New
York Sun, ss,.. 4 ~
"A housekeeping school Is about to
be opened by a clever woman at New
York, who will teach a thorough
course Of housekeeping. embracing all
branches, and At Its graduates to be-
come the graceful and accomplished
niistresses OF households,
Il want to ask one more question. !,
said little Frank, as he was being put
to bed. WELL" aeouiesced the tired
mamma. when holes come In stock
ings. what becomes OF the piece Of
stocking that was there before the hole
came "-Lo ndon Tit Bits,
You need not believe writes
Kansas boy in Manila, that us fellows
are all going to marry over here.
There amt any Of US 30 fascinated as
We thought We would be with the Ian
guorous eyes and other Oriental
charms. ! wouldn't trade ! curly
headed Kansas girl for all the charm
err on this side Of the big water.
b The amount Of powder required to
propel cannon projectiles ID about half
the weight Of the projectile. A pro-.
jectile four inches In diameter weighs
IS pounds: hve inches, 50 pounds; sixi
inches, 100 pounds; eight inches, 80
pounds; ten inches, 500 pounds;
twelve inches, $50 pounds; thirteen
inches, LOO pounds; sixteen inches.
2,37s pounds.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23
~ s,exers -Fall.

4 Iowa FAILS, Jnne 10. Chas Bruce,
: carpenter In the employ o. bowman
e Brace, contrsrtoFs, sustained sc-3
we're fall. narrowly escapfng with his
life. He was ~ work on theigable ct
y bpiMinR on the i farm b. W.
Gte4ii. md lost his balances. FALLING To-
Eaelk toand, : distance Of tSiLty-twO
lxeE nnd striking i sceH0ldi 3sfs
N e s.dly INT \
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23

A story at the expense Of theseolo-
NAL secretary is going the rounds.
Mr.. Chamberlain, when a httlesaboy
was playing one day with his SIM n
a game Of '.battles"-each childhhy-
ing regiment Of toy soldiers
popgun to fire at the enemy. Thaalt-
tie girls soldiers went down quickly
under her brothers heavy firing md
he was proclaimed the xtctor.
thoughtful child, he had gluAdS his
laSfl to the floor! III
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23

Gen rally spssklnss
.Heres an nd dat nays Sley IN auss la. y.
" N, 9to do general worle.
What kind Of work ~ dat q ss5s
II s.Dunno, butt bet IT'S eAd easy iosEs
y rs ever heard or . general dom 81
any hard worlk??'' ssss
e FxhlbitC NJ Talas. IN 3
There will be large EXHIBIT ron lnSj
this country ut the Paris xposit. 2u q.
1900. which will prove very interesting
70 Al. but no more SO than the Inc neMa
that the famous American r .,1
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, Wit
dyspepsia, indigestion a Y: c :.
zion. TO all sufferers 9 trial y ls'sS
mended.
Ks The more q man has in hlmselIs5
less Others can be to him 80 'ce
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23
Are You Using Aliens FSse- IIase.

Are You Using Aliens KGess Ease?
It is the only cure for Swollen,
Slnarting, Burning, Sweating Feet
Corns and BuDions. Askgfor a liens
Foot Ease, a powder to besshaken into
the shoes. At all Druggiats5and Shoe
Stores, csc. Sample sent FREE. Adj.
dress. Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23

Dumas the elder was not u u
habit Of counting his money, "A "a
so once, afterward leaving IL 4
mantel while he left tire rooms
few minutes. When he retnrneS IA
was giving some instructions to x 4
want, he mechanically countsdth s
pieces over again, and found q a0ptl,
missing. .Well,' lie said, with ssh
considering that mover conntedsmly
money before, l can't say it pays. as
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23

3. Moves the bowels each day. IA ord
to be healthy this is necesa4 Ac
gently on the liver and lSidnA Cur
sick headache. Price IS ann ~ &c
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23

Drive thy buainess: ii not that drive
thee. fAnklin
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23

Franz Ebert. the Liliputi I'm, was
. naturalized in New York il5t week,
when he foreswore alleginAee to The
(xniser Ri NSssSHs sss$ s5{Ssft Us
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23

A great deal of the opposition pal
rents express Mt their daughters mar.
riage, is pure bluff. .sSs
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23
Lanes Family Medieis

In Westminster Abbey /, ~
have been buried. ssSSs
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-06-23

Nothing but wheat: what fgAs,
call sea OF wheat" Is whAt nah
by q lecturer speaking Of WGD4eEs Can
ada. For particulars as to 70 yaf
way fares ETC., apply to SUPP e1ndei
II immigration, Department InkSs1pts %
tawa.3 Canada, or to NJ Barth63
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
COTTON SEED OIL.
Consul Harrison Sends an Interesting
Report on the Subject.

Washington, March 1o-(Special. Rob
ert P. Harrison, consul to Marseilles
France sends to the state department
some very interesting facts relative to the
importation to that country of American
cotton seed oil and its products. He says
in part:
The statistics relating to imports of
American cotton seed oil for 1885, which
have just been collated, together with the
fact that an extraordinary quantity of oil
is now in transit for this market has con-
tributed to the sharpness of the fight which
has for some time been waged between in
terests which oppose the introduction of
American oil at the existing rate of duty
and those which desire the maintenance of
present conditions. A side chapter in the
controversy is furnished by the recent ar
rival of soap stock in considerable quanti-
ties, for which it is not too much TO assume
that steady demand will soon be estab-
liShed. AT first glance, the arrival of
American crude soap in Marseilles seems
like the carrying of Goals to Newcastle; but
inquiry leads to the conviction that a trade
in this commodity will speedily assume sat
isfactory proportions. The soap stock which
has arrived is product of cotton seed oil
caused by the refining process, the thick
and fatty parts of the crude oil being pre-
for the purpose named.
The American cotton seed oil trade will
be interested to know that the arrivals of
the oil during 1898 at this port amounted to
51,OO3, 097 kilograms Q12, 461,3 29 pounds, or
2S7,7S9 barrels as against 1902, 1872 kilo-
grams, or 1898 barrels, in 1897. The i'm
ports from England for 1898 amounted to
1,791 1888 kilograms, and from all other coun-
tries 1858 kilograms, making the total i'm
portations 52,962,673 Kilograms Q16, 76l, 3SS
pounds or 9,790,54S pounds more than during
1897.
The arrivals from the United States are
catalogued as follows: Edible oils, 1854
barrels; for soap manufacturing purposes,
lab, 739 barrels. The total stock On hand of
American oil on December 81 was 1900 600
Kilograms Q6,537,5oO pounds. The average
price of the American oil during the year
was 41.121a francs per 100 kilograms (s7N
per 22046 pounds). The average price for
English oil was 40.25 francs (s7.7S) per 100
Kilograms.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
Public Sentiment and the Schools.

Public sentiment plainly approves the
addition of a mill to the rate for the bet
terment OF the public schools As rule
increased taxation is unpopular, but the
needs of 100000 children are overcoming
any opposition in the present instance.
Says the Centreville Press, referring to the
Bulger bill: This is one of the best laws
passed by the legislature, and 1t will be the
means of greater good for the state than
any other BILL" The Lafayette Sun is
thinks, Will be returned two-fold. In point
of fact it will be more apt to be returned
twenty-fold. but even the Suns conservat-
ism calls for a dividend of one hundred
per cent. Even the populist papers praise
the legislature, which was democratic to
the core. Says the Ashvile Alliance: I'VE
note that some of the democratic press OF
the state is raising howl over the in
creased appropriation for school purposes,
notwithstanding the platform utterances of
their party during the campaign. We most
heartily endorse this step in the cause of
education, and think 1t is in line with popu-
list teachings"
If any of the democratic papers of the
state are opposing the increased tax for
school purposes, the fact has escaped the
eagle eye of The Age Herald We have
seen no unkind criticism, and We do not
exnect to see anv at This late date In the
nineteenth century. When New Mexico has
educated her greasers, it is time that Ala
bama bestirred herself, and she has done
so in fine shape, and every man in the state
ger bill in the course of single year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11

H. Wines of Illinois. who Is a statist OF
reputation; but what can statist do when
the statistics are to be gathered by heelers
and compiled by the favorites of politi-
clans? 1t is to be a repetition of the elev-
enth census, which was a travesty upon
truth. Mr.. Wines will do all that one man
in such a concern can do. but he cannot
gather figs from thistles.
Every republican senator and representa-
tive will be allotted a share of the spoils,
and he will call to his help the heelers of
his locality, and they will call in the worst
elements in the community. 1t is to be 4
census of the people by and for the good
of heelers and bosses, including Mr.. Nc
Kinley himself.
OF all things, a census should be con-
Quoted by scientists and statists The COM
ing one will probably be worse than its
predecessor, although Mr.. Wines is a vast
improvement over anyone that had charge
of that census. 1t was thought bottom had
been struck in the eleventh census, but the
indications are good that lower level Will
be reached in the census to be taken next
year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
SPINAL MENINGITIS.
Death from the Disease Occurred At
Jonesboro.

Bessemer March 10.-(Special )-George
Sanders, aged ID years, died Wednesday at
Jonesboro of spinal meningitis, and was
buried yesterday. There are no other cases
of the disease in this vicinity as far as
known.
The Bessemer Athletic Club has elected
the following officers: President, Charles
j. Sharp; vice president, H. L. Bains; sec
rotary, Earle Mcdonald; treasurer, Will
Golson. The following constitute the board
of directors: Messrs. G. E. Roamberg, J.
G. Huffman, George Houston, c. B. Will
lis, r. r. Fulton, George Marsh and ]. S.
Winters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Moulden, of
Charleston, s. c., left today after a week s
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Percy 7. Whilden.
The ''Martians'' will give a large fancy
dress cotilion tonight at the Grand hotel.
A number of young people from Birming-
ham will be present.
Miss Roberts, of Blount Springs Is the
guest of her sister, Miss Bessie Roberts.
]. B. Thomas, tax collector of Birming-
ham, was in town today.
w. H. Walker, of the Bessemer Auc'' N
Store, is in New York buying large stou.
Of goods.
The Rev. Mr.. Brown, of East Lake, will
preach at the Baptist church on Sunday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
The CIaytOn-BuIWer Treaty.

Away back in 1850 treaty was concluded
between Great Britain and the United
States, who did not then know that they
were chips off one block, that really related
to the exploded Tehuantepec route, Mexi-
can grant that was considered feasible In
those crude engineering days. The terms
of the treaty are, however, broad the con-
tracing parties agreeing that they would
not erect fortifications on the banks or in
the vicinity of the proposed interoceanic
canal, and that they would not assume do
mnion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the
Mosquito coast. or any other part of Cen
trail America.
Just what the status of the treaty is
at present it is difficult to say, 1t being
claimed that both parties have trans
crossed It's terms, and that no part of 1t
is now operative. So Senator Morgan now
holds and he Is an authority upon such
subjects.
But the better way would be to negotiate
its abrogation. The two countries can GER
tainly reach a basis that would be mutually
satisfactory. The United States will build
the canal, and 1t must control it; but Eng
land can be guaranteed the amplest use
in times of peace of the canals opportuni-
ties. No country can have excep-
tional opportunities, and England only asks
a fair and even chance anywhere. That
much should be guaranteed to her, and
then England should get out of the way
and let the United States spend millions
upon millions in dredging and dirt-throwing
on the Nicaragua route.
1t is understood that this government has
begun negotiations with such a change in
view. There is no need of great haste In
the matter, but when congress meets again
a treaty should be ready that wipes out the
document signed In 1850, and that gives the
United States free hand in the construc.
ton of the great canal.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
A Great Spells Bureau.

Under the bill that provides for the taxi
ing Of the twelfth census Governor Mer-
riam, an old politician from Minnesota,
will control more patronage than the pres
ident Of the United States. He will ap-
point or control the appointment of, $4,000
employees in the presidential year, $4,000 Of
WHOM Will be brought into direct contact
In that critical year with the voters of the
republic. Not one of the $4,000 is to be Sc
lected under the operations Of the civil SER
vice law. The partisan deals of the late
session chiefly related to this matter and
In the end the republicans gained their
point They are proceeding to organize
gigantic and effective spells machine. and
Governor Merriam. spoils politician, has
been selected as Its fit and appropriate d.
rector.
The assistant director is Mr.. Frederick
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
ANOTHER aiILLIoNAIRE

From the Washington Times
The breaking of the senatorial deadlock
in Nebraska has resulted in adding another
millionaire to the United States senate
Judge NJ. L. Hayward, who has been Sc
lected to succeed the Hon. William Vincent
Allen Is estimated to be worth at least
$3,000,00O He had the backing of the rail-
roads and corporations of the state. The
new senator Is in his Goth year and is said
to be a fluent talker. The new senate will
more than ever deserve the title of mil
lionaires club. Nearly one-half of the SEM
tie are men that are rated in that class.
This winter has been particularly favorable
to wealthy men with senatorial aspirations.
Among the millionaires added to the sem
ate this year, are Chauncey NJ. Depew
John Kean, Jr., Nathan Bay Scott, Joseph
V. Quarles, A. j. McCumber, w. A. Clark
A. G. Foster, and NJ. L. Hayward. There
are four states yet to be heard from-Dela-
ware, Pennsylvania, Utah and California.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
MIR. HEWITT NOT A TEACHER

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
In your issue of the 9th instant, in men,
tioning the names and occupations of the
various candidates for delegate to the con-
stiutional convention you put me down as
teacher and farmer. Now, as 1 would not
have any one to vote for me under mis-
apprehension of the facts l would be glad
you would state that l am not teacher,
but just farmer. r. G. HEWITT.
Birmingham, March 10.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
",IOTHER LOUBET"

From the New York World
This morning the World publishes pic
ture which tells at glance why the mon
archial press of England and the continent
thinks and says and shouts that the French
people are crazy and in the last stages of
political and social chaos. t'1=
1t is the picture of the mother of the new
president of the French republic
What but the gloomiest view could mon
archists and especially title-hunting jour-
nalists take of a nation that would select
as its leaders the sons of such women as
plain old Mother Loubet." when it might
be led by the sons of noble and even royal
mothers? The vulgarity of 1t must seem
sickening the insanity of 1t alarming. For
who knows what ideas such ''goings-on
may put into the heads of the English
masses, the shop-keepers and peasant far
mers of Germany?
But as Americans look into the face of
this woman of the people they begin to
realize the truth about France, the real
France the France that is filled with just
such plain people as our own, toiling and
struggling that their children may inherit
the promise" We see that France has
shaken off the traditions of caste and privi-
lege, that she has become land of, for
and by the plain people. And VIC know
that through such homely virtues as shine
from Mother Loubet's face-the virtues of
simplicity, shrewdness, frugality and in
dustry-France is and will remain great.
Mother Loubets face has also a reassur-
ance for us, beset as we are by plunderers
and privilege-seekers. 1t tells us that SO
long as we have our masses of plain people
leading quiet and useful and Industrious
lives, educating their children, training
them In morality and democracy, so long
win be great and free and strong and
progressive.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
To woman whose heart really mourns,-
crane ought to seem ridiculous.
Job probably never rented fiat with hot
water furnished from the basement.
The average woman hates to have her
w. hair cut off most as much as she
does to give up trump when she plays
whist.
Every man in his heart believes that it
would be an honor to any woman to marry
him. If he didn't, he wouldn't deserve that
any woman should.
Until she is really in love a woman can
never understand how she can be miserable
and at the same time know she would be
a lot more miserable If she weren't.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
WHEN PA GETS SICK

From the Boston Courier.
When Pa gets sick he always knows
He's gonter die, and Tommy goes
For Doctor Quack, an fore he 'rives
I'm hurried off for Doctor Ives,
An Ma an Bess an Auntie, too,
For liniments an gruels go,
An plasters an the warmin' brick
An everything, when Pa gets sick.
No one of us is lowed to play,
The baby's sent across the way,
The 'potheeary's boys about,
The hull time runnin' in an out.
The house so with his groans is filled
Folks stop to ask who's gettin' killed,
An misery is piled on thick
For every one, when Pa gets sick.
We never have no table set,
Cold vittles is the best we get,
For cook is busy to the brim
Contrivin' dainty things for him,
An studyin' 1t In my mind,
I'm good moren' half inclined
To think-although l dassent kick
We suffer most when Pa gets sick.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
THELAIK or TIE WILD GOOSE

From the DeKalb Qll) Chronicle.
The greatest fight of wild geese known
in many years in the southern part of the
state is now on. For days past these har-
bingers of spring have been massing the
big prairies eastward in Illinois as far as
the okaw river, where they rest at night
and spread out over the green fields to feed
in the day time. From the bluff at Alon,
on the east side, geese are seen in thou
sands. The farmers up in arms, and
the local hunters are out with arms of all
kinds, making fat bags of the big game
birds,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11

chairman of the state republican COM
mittee, and Postmaster J. w. Hughes, of
Birmingham, favored Mr.. Fowler. Post
master Hughes spent week in Washing
ton. returning home yesterday. Mr..
Vaughan has sent messages in Mr.. Fow-
ler's behalf. Mr.. Fowler is appointed.
And thus is ended an interesting contest
in the republican party.
Representative ]. C. Cameron, of Tai
ladega, Is in town.
Former Senator and Solicitor L. D. Cod
frey, of Pickens, is in Birmingham.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
HE NEEDED A NAP

From the New York Commerce al Advert
ser.
Here is the direction given in the south
to a bewildered New Yorker desirous of
finding a certain man who had some lum-
Der to sell: "When you come to Fonso
Payne's gate-you know the fellow what
owns Jim Grey-turn to your left and ride
on two or three hundred yards till you
come to a frame house. in a locust grove,
where the Porters-John, you know-lived
fob the war, and some English people lived
there some time ago, but they're gone.
Reckon it's rented, for I saw a hawg in the
house yard Then keep up the hill till you
come to a blown over chestnut, somewhat
down this hill there's gate; turn in an
keep the mountain road for two miles, and
then turn to your left, and you'll come to
the hollow, an reckon GOSSIP be there.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
THREE GOOD WARRIOR MEN

From the Demopolis Express.
There was not a better, more conscien-
tious or ADLER representative in the halls CT
the Fifty-ifth congress than Hon. George
w. Taylor, of Alabama, and not single bit
of legislation that affected his state was
passed or defeated that he did not have his
full share in furthering rejecting. Here
to Bankhead, Underwood and Taylor. three
men of high character and untiring energy
in their, duty to their constituents. Let us
continue sending such men as these, ana
our interests will never suffer.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
THE HERO OF THE WARRIOR

From the Tuscaloosa Gazette.
The action of the county commissioners
and number of private citizens in tele-
graphing thanks and congratulations to
Colonel Bankhead for his brilliant achieve
ments with the river and harbor bill is
most commendable. He is deserving of the
heartiest gratitude, and he has it along
with the admiration and esteem aof this
whole community
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-11
indiana supreme Court pecisions

Indianapolis, Ind, March 10.-The supreme
court today decided that assessors have
the right to examine the books of building
associations to determine whether or not
that their stock has escaped taxation. The
appellate court also handed down a decis-
ton holding that telegraph companies
receiving messages by telephone for trans
mission are liable to the same extent for
error as they would be IL the messages
properly were written and handed in at the
Office.