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The age-herald., 1900-02-03
Improve ment of Weather Bureau.

IA bill to reorganize the weather bureau is one of the most important measures which has come before the present session of congress, seeking as it does to perfect and extend the usefulness of that branch of the agricultural department of the gov ernment.
 While the bureau and its prognostications have been the subject of much wit and good-natured criticism, its benefits have not been overlooked by those most directly in terested, and 1t is doubtful if there is a state in the union which has mot received some benefit from the splendid yet ham, pered system.
 The work of the bureau is of vital import to nearly. if not quite all, the personal and property interests of this great country, and the expense of maintaining the bureau is insignificant as compared to tine vast amount saved annually by its warnings.- -4FHi4fis Fa4fiiss- bill was Introduced by Hon. James w. Wadsworth, chairman of the agricuh- uraa committee of the house It provides for reorganization of the weather bureau by grading the employees from the lowest to the highest; provides for rigid examina- tions as to capacity and fitness for promo tion, grade by grade, and also for the re- tirement partial pay of officials who have grown old or become disabled in ser vice. This retirement, or rather civil pen sion, is not to cost the government one penny, as the bill provides for the creation of a retirement fund by withholding about per cent of each employees salary; and it will not be available until the fund shaM be self-sustaining. It is an excellent measure, one needed to encourage deserving officials, has the hearty approval of ahe entire force of the weather bureau and should receive the favorable consideration of the peoples representatives dn congress-
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
THE HAGUE TREATY
Senate Considers the Question in Exec
 utive Session

Washington, February 2.-The senate in executive session today took up The Hague treaty There was a brief discussion of it, but no decision was reached The decision would have been ratified but under the rules it was laid over twenty-four hours after having been read.
 Senator Pettus, of Alabama, said that he thought dhere ought to be two-thirds of the senate present when the vote was taken.
 The extradition treaty wiun the Argentine republic was considered, but went over for the same reason as The Hague treaty. During it's consideration MT. Berry said there was treaty with Argentina that the foreign relations committee had not re- ported. He alluded to the reciprocity treaty. He thought that ought to be brought before the senate.
 Senator Warren. of Wyoming. who op- poses the reciprocity treaties, especially the Argentine treaty, replied, saying the Ar kansas senator was member of the public lands committee, and that he (Warren) had seen a number of bills before that commit tee that had never been reported He sug- gested that the foreign relations committee should not be criticized hastily. Senator Davis protested that there were many questions iD.eriected into the treatiies, and that it was necessary for their con sideTation.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
WAR AND wHIsKERs

From the London Chronicle.
 Lord Roberts does not comply with the Queens regulation directing the shaving of the chin, writes a correspondent on the subject of war and whiskers. Lord Rob- erts' father, according ito his portrait in whiskers, but shaved the upper lip. At Majuba Sir George Pomeroy Colley wore a beard, which is common on active service; at Halifax, N. S., the wearing of a beard is compulsory in the winter months. The late General Wauchope shaved the upper lip, and, indeed, the whole face, just as did Major "Roddy' Owen; some young officers 6ave 1ateGy been reprimanded for 1oing the same. The "Captain with his Wthiskers" of the Dundreary style was a contempora- ry of Lord Allcash in Fra Dtavolo," but a small side-whisker extending as low as the 9obe of the ear was worn by military officers until the days of the Zulu and Af- galan wars, when 1t went o,rt of fashion, though hts royal highness :he Duke of Cambridge stuck to his, which are even d trifie larger. Naval officers must either be clean-shaved, like Lord Charles Beresford. or must wear full beard Nike his royal highness the Duke of York. Bluejackets formerly had ito be clean-sfaved, reeeiv- ing permission to wear boards from Mr. Childers.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
McAllister Armor Plate,

Representative Mallon, of Pennsylvania. has introduced bill appropriating a sum of money sufficient to have the ordnance officers of the navy department make thorough test of the armor plate invented by c. A. McAllister, a young officer in the revenue cutter service. It is claimed for this armor that a six-inch plate will stop a projectile that will pierce 12 inches of the ordinary Harveyized armor.
 Each plate is composed of really two plates, with celulose or some other sub- stance of that character between them, so that if the ships side is pierced the puncture will be closed by the swelling of the absorbent material. It is claimed that the MsAllister plates are. able to resist the penetrating power of projectiles for the same reason that it is almost impossible to drive nail through a plastering lath at any point between the studding.
 Whatever will resist modern projectiles welcomed. and the rubber principle may be as good as any other for that purpose. MT. Mahon, who is pushing the bill lives at Chambersburg, Penn, place wholly out side the combines territory outside. too, of all iron and steel interests. All he seeks is a test of the new armor plate; and the government should test not only the plate in question, but all other plates that promise to outdo the Krupp secret-process plan of hardening iron up to great resist ance power.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
ENVIRONMENT

Elizabeth Gallup Perkins in Boston Transs cript.
 A lily grew in garden far
 From the dust of the city street It had no dream that the universe
 Held aught less pure and sweet Than its virgin self; so chaste was it, So perfect it's retreat When night came down the lily looked g In the face of the stars and smiled Then went to sleep-to the sleep of death-<. As the soul of child Goes back to the clasp of the Father-soul Untouched and undefiled. A lily bloomed on the highway close To the tread of the sweeping throng; It bore the gaze of a hundred eyes
 Where burned the flame of wrong; And one came by who tore its heart
 With a ruthless hand and strong. It caught no glimpse of a garden fair,
 It knew no other name For a world that used and bruised 1t so
 Than world of sin and shame: And hopeless, crushed its spirit passed
 As the evening shadows came. And who can say but the sheltered one
 A sullied flower had been Had its home been out on the highway close To the path of shame and sin7 And the other forever angel-wnite
 Had it blossomed safe wtshin?
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
Law Questions in Kentucky.

The Kentucky case has about passed the military and shotgun stage, and is about to enter upon the legal stage; and very complicated and troublesome questions will arise in connection with it. Thus far the Louisville papers have refrained from tion under which Governor Taylor acted when he declared the commonwealth in a state of instruction, and named dis tant village as the place at which the leg islature should meet next week. However the clause may read, 1t is certain the courts will be called upon to decide what consti- tutes "a state of insurrection." This is obviously a question for the courts pri- marily at least of the state courts.
 Perhaps the legal questions involved will turn upon this issue: for if Governor Taylor had right to declare a state of insurrection and to adjourn the legislature to February 6, then it is plain that the subsequent acts of the legislature in ac- cepting the findings of the contest board and the swearing in of Mir. Goebel as gov ernor were invalid. But if no state of in- surrection existed, then the sitting govern ors acts were themselves invalid. and the courts will declare William Goebel govern or of the state. The legal questions must necessarily turn upon the existence or non-existence in Frankfort of a state of insurrectlon at the time Governor Goebel was shot down. As the sitting governor commanded all the armed men in Frakfort, bath militia and mountaineers, and the other side had none. it seems as If the in- surrection if any there were, was wholly on the Taylor side of the case. The courts would scarcely permit an official to get up an insurrection for the purpose of utilizing it to his own advantage. and yet that is what the Taylorites are attempting to do. It cannot be claimed that Senator Goebel was leading an insurrection when he walk ed with a friend or two to the capitol last Wednesday morning. The insurrectionists were inside the capitol armed with Win chester rifles and one of them shot down Senator Goebel he was proceeding to his seat in the senate chamber
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
THERE WOULD BE A RIVAL

From Turf, Field and Farm.
 It is stated that Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, of Topeka, Kan, author of 'In His Steps,, is to have a six days trial, beginning March 13, of conducting the Topeka Daily Capital, in all its departments, on the ba- sis of his much exploited question, What Would Jesus Do?" It might be well for the ambitious clergyman ito consider, In the first place, that about the last thing Jesus would do, if on earth, would be to conduct a modern daily newspaper, and MT. Sheldon had better follow in his steps. It might also be we'll for the owners of the Capital to reflect that the establishment of rival based on the general lines Of What would the devil do?" would be a moral certainty, and it would get all the money.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
TROOPS IN CUBA

From the Washington Post.
 q have been reading General Brookes report on the situation in Cuba very care fully, as we'll as the reports of his subordi- nates,' observed Representative Clayton, of Alabama, yesterday. "The conclusions I reached seemed to me Ito warrant the wjuhdraw wal of our military forces from the island as provided by a resolution that introduced in the house yesterday. I was particularly impressed by the report -of General Wilson, The population of Cuba is largely made up of intelligent white peo- pie, our soldiers are having lttle to do there at present. while the business inter ests of the island demand release from military control.
 Representative Clayton is one of the members of the house committee on insu!ar affairs, and has given considerable study to the situation in Cuba and Porto Rico.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
GENERAL wnEELEK's WHEREABOUTS


 From the Nashville Times.
 Representative Brewer of Alabam, a life long friend of General Joseph H. Wheeler. said yesterday that as far as he knew none of Fighting Joe's' Alabama friends had heard directly from him for several morI5hs. Judge Brewer says General Wheeler, according to the published orders of the war department. should have left the Philippines quite month ago and should have arrived at San Francisco by this time if he is returning by that route. He is beginning to feel little uneasy over the whereabouts of his old friend Whether or not General Wheeler will test the con- stitutional right to his seat in the house when he arrives in Washington Judge Brewer is not advised He states that if the general does apply for admission it will be denied him. Much as I like Joe Wheeler" declared Judge Brewer, 'I shall vote against him if he insists upon making a test of his right to seat in the house. If we should ignore the constitution and ad- init him we would establish a precedent that might some day pack the house of representatives with army and navy off, cers who could subordinate the civil to the military authority of the country. General Wheeler has been unified at me eyer since I declared myself against his retention of his seut in the dast congress. Until thus declared myself we kept up regular cor respondence when separated, but he hasn't written a line to mo since he went to the Philippines. I shah not permit this, how ever, ito destroy the warm friendship that has existed between us for so many years, and when he gets back ito Washington I shall greet him as cordially as ever-and then vote against his taking his seat in the house."
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
Ship and SIackwater Navigation.

In this district a six-foot channel in eX- tsting streams is all that men have hre- sunsed to ask the government to construct; but in Pittsourg and Ohio men are not 50 modest There they demand that a ship canal for vessels drawing ten feet of water shall be built from Lake Erie to the Ohio river. Such waterway would be 26 miles long, and a good many of the miles would be thre1gh a divide, and the estimated cost those of the Warrior improvement look small and cheap indeed.
 Pittsburg demands the building of the ship canal, because 1t wants the cost of
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
ECHOES FROM
 THE MEGAPHONE

From the Clogtown Megaphone.
 A deplorable affair happened here yester- day morning when Oscar Midrlff shot and instantly killed Waverly Noenegen in front of the Megaphone office. At the coroner's inquest it was proven beyond dispute that Noenegen walked up to Midrin and asked him this insulting question: "Is it cold enough for you?' Several parties heard this. and the jury promptly and correctly rendered verdict that it was a case of 1ustifiable homicide. The funeral will ae- cur tomorrow morning, headed by the Clogtown string band, which is no sloueh of band, either.
 Among the visitors to town this week was Adam Ingleside, of Moundville. MT. Ingleside has only recently gotten married and the number of persons who were yes- terday extending heartfelt sympathy to him only goes to establish the fact that no more popular man has ever been to Clogtown, unless it be the editor of the Megaphone.
 A small fire Friday did disastrous dam age to Albert Wiggleton. A defective fiue. as usual was the alleged cause, and as MT. Wiggletons only pair of trousers were consumed by the unsuitable flames he has not been seen on the streets this week. as it would not be proper.
 We desire to say that our contemporary across the alley from us is a low-bred cuss. No man would come into another mans office as he did ours and throw away our type. belabor the imposing stone. and threaten to wipe the floor with us if we spoke, except he be coward. We did not feel like talking back much, because there was no one in the office to pull us off of him. At any rate, we have no hesitancy in branding him as a eur of the most curry kind.
 After this issue we will have a society editor. Every woman who murders accent, plays cards, dances with men besides her husband, or who makes fancy work for the poor while her children are half starving because she does not mind her cooking will get her name in large type and be heralded as a society leader. Help us to make this column readable.
 Mrs Martin Williams passed the Mega phone office Monday and. as she happened to espy a rip up the back of our clothes, she turned up her nose at us. We wish she would have her husband pay us his long delinquent subscription and maybe we would be able to turn up our nose some ourselves. Turn about is fair play.
 Dr. Wheeler, a young man who has not yet become accustomed to the feeling that he has diploma, has just located in Clog town for the practice of medicine upon the unuspecting public We wish him success So long as he makes no effort to visit our family when we need a physician. Other wise we shall have him arrested for as- sault with intent to murder.
 J. E. G.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
WHITAKER IN JAIL
He Seems Very Glad to be Confined
 Just Now

Louisville, Ky, February 2.-Hariand Whitaker who was arrested at Frankfort shortly after the shooting of William Goe- bel, and who is suspected of being con cerned in the crime, is still at the county jail here. He is in the front part of the building the second floor. and occupies a room whJh a number of government prisoners from the mountains
 Whitaker seems to be very glad to stay in jail just now while suspicion is turned in his direction.
 He still maintains his innocence. Attor- ney Augustus E. Willson has called on the prisoner, and will take care of his interests While he remains here.
 Whitaker positively denies that he of fered a bribe ito the officer who brought him from Frankfort He says he is not worth thirty dollars, and denies that he said he had 5000 at home.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press. When a man doesn't marry his first love his wife is apt to end by wishing he had.
 When a man says he is sorry, he general ly only means that he's sorry she's sorry.
 The author who writes a successful book with the women is the one who knows how to write one so the last chapter doesn't tell how 1t turns out.
 Every girl thinks she knows some man who will turn pale and go away off some where by himself when he reads the notice of her wedding in the paper.
 A woman makes love to a man about the way d barber combs your hair It doesn't matter how you wear 1t, he will always try to plaster 1t down on your forehead just the way he wears it himself.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
IE ONLY DaIly NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Cotton at Eight Gents.

Seven months of the cotton year remain and in that time about two million of bales will be brought into sight. This section has therefore some interest still in the price of the crap, and the upward tendency of the staple is very gratifying. In some of the local markets holders in the cotton states are now asking eight cents, and the chances are very good that they will soon receive that price.
 AM statistics of the crop are against the contention of the bears. Mr. Hester shows that in the five months of the year that have been completed there has been de- crease of 2,0A,OO0 bales brought into sight, as compared with the movement of the previous year, thus indicating crop be- low 9,0O0,0OO bales. The full figures of cot ton brought into sight in the first five months are as follows: T,126,461 bales in 1897; ssS4s27 bales in 1888; S,S95 ,5s2 bales in ls99 and 6s5l4sS bales this year. There is v gas gavoit.. .'..--''s- nlain cQnepsions of
 Figures. If we add one-quarter to She . khus far brought into sight. we have all ega.e -ssf -s -rA,osaist 8 6eSe se1 bales The crop win be between that sum and nine million bales.
 It is believed that foreign spinners are becoming aware that their friend Nei1l ds not infallible, especially dn guessing at a cotton crop. He has cost them a good deal of money this year, for they must now fill their storehOuses with eig1ht-cent cotton, instead of six-cent cotton, which was avail able when MT. Neill began to name the size of the crop. Those farmers who could hold out against MT. Neill have seen their bales appreciate in value to reasonably remunerative figures, and they have we'll earned the increase by their fiTmness in standing by their own judgment.
 The one fear now relates to the nexs crop. Eight-cent cotton may induce farm CTS to pitch a great crop, and thus the gains of this year may be lost next year. All-cotton never was profitable, no matt ter what the price of the staple was and it never will be. The man who makes cot ton strictly surplus cash crop is the man who wins out whether cotton be high or i.loW
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
NOT JEFFERSON1AN

From the Nashville American.
 We have the higehts respect for the opin- ions of Senator Bacon, of Georgia, but the senator's prophecies relative to the danger of retaining the Philippines sound very iihe the dismal predictions made ioy antl-expah- sionists in the old days when the demo- crats were taking in every piece of territory get-at t-able.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
Fire in Chicago

Chicago, February 2.-Fire, which start ed shortly afternoon, did $25O,0OO damage to the wholesale grocery establishment of Sprague, Warner & Co.,, at Michigan ave nue and Randolph street. Several firemen were injured, two of them seriously.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
Disastrous Fire

St. Louis, February 2.-A special to the Past-Dispatch from Little Rock. Ark, says that a loss of $15O,OOO was caused today by fire that destroyed the store of the Dick inson Arms company, and paritlly destroy- ed eight smaller business buildings A quantity of dynamite and giant powder in the building occupied by the Dickinson Arms company exploded with tremendu- ous force, breaking at least $15,0O0 worth of window glass throughout the city.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
COURT JOURNAL No. 2

From the Marion Standard
 The Plain Dealer, the governors new Bir- mingham paper, should properly be called 1.-The Mule." as it presents neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
MONEY WELL INVESTED

From the Lafayette Sur
 Every dollar that is put into our puDuc schools is an investment that wall pay handsome dividend in the coming days
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
IN ETOWAH

From the Gadsden Times-News.
 The Morgan sentiment is growing ln uhis city and throughout Etowah county anu Morgan will have no trouble in carrying this county.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
Democrtic Course Endorsed

Jackson, Miss, February 2.-At the ses- sion of the lower house today a resolution was unanimously adopted endorsing the course pursued by the democratic element of the Kentucky legislature.
 The resolution deplored the attempted assassination of Governor Goebel and ten- dered sympathy to his relatives and SUD- porters.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The slanderous charge of corruption brought by the court clique against the democratic party can now be read in any populite paper of the state.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

According to all preeedents Russell will today go for Morgan, because the court journal. which has resumed the prophecy habit says Johnston will carry it.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The equilibrium of the world is at present maintained by Macrum, who is sailing on one side. and by Web. Davis who is slosh- ing around on the other side of it.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

Editor Sheldon has raised all rates of his unworldly editions, and he cannot con- plain If the paper trust marks up the price of Its paper.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The seventh session of Queen Victoria's fourteenth parliament is up against a very stirring public sentiment, and it may not survive the ordeal.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The Laurel county Beers will furnish plenty of Spion and other kops if the demo- crats are foolish enough to walk into their
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

From the Eufaula Times.
 If your girl is cross, don't pe aiaii''Su' Perhaps she has been Vaccinateo.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

Senator Clark's llngual advantages are suuerfuous as his pocketbook speaks whenever 1t Is necessary.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

Governor Johnston's school record Is crookeder than rams horn, as all school experts in the state know full well.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03
A SECRET IS OUT

Laurel should put its kopjes and artillery in fighting condition.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The regret of the public is that Helen did not inherit all of old Jays winnings.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The Kentucky motto should be, Keep out of a Laurel county laager."
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

spion Kop has obscured Majuba Hiil' but 1t has not avenged it.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

Senator Clark should be told to trek to Montana or New York.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The word ''kopje" In Dutch may mean hill, but the British are prepared to say it means hill with a trap on 1t.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

Baby carriages are to be marked up thir- ty per cent Thus is the Infant industry suppressed.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

Wall street has concluded that it cannot afford to become panicky over every British reverse.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The Astor and Vanderbilt families nave never furnished a Helen Gould.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

The Goddess of Liberty will no doubt courtesy when Mighty Macrum comes sail ing in.
The age-herald., 1900-02-03

Macrum and Web Days are trying to see which can look the moro mysterious.