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Arizona republican., 1900-12-17
FRANCES BIG NAVAL. BUDGET.
Provisions Made to Build Ironclads
 and Protected Cruisers.

Paris, Dec. 16.-The French naval estimates for the coming year amount to 762,266,OOO francs. Provision is made for the building of six ironclads, five protected cruisers, twenty-eight torpe- do-boat destroyers, 1S6 torpedo boats and forty-four submarine torpedo boats.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-17
DISASTROUS FIRE.

Sheboygan, Wis, Dec. 16.-The plant of Zschistsche & Sons, tanners, was to- tally destroyed by fire this morning. The loss is $1S0,OOO, fully covered by insurance.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-17
GROWING SERIOUS
TeIegrapher's Strike InVoIV-
 ing Trainnen.
CHANGING OPINIONS

Officials of the O. R. T. Are Firm and Claim tho Trainmen Are With Them - Rumors That a Boycott of the Santa Fe Will Be Sprung-Railroad Officials San guine of Winning.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-17
THE WEEKS WORK
Senate's Vote on Treaty Ex-
 peGted Before Friday.
NO OTHER BUSINESS

Not Believed There Will Be Time for Another Action on Subsidy CT Army Bill-Work of Minor Im- pOrtance to Occupy the Attention of the House Previous to the Holiday Adjournment.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04

pany, which consists of the Doseher and MoIlenhauer Companies, as well as the old National Companies. will meet it. The capital of the National Company is $2O,- 000, ,0O0 The Arbucl1Ies and the McCahan Company of Philadelphia are reckoned as fully independent concerns It seems to be understood that the National Company is controlled by the Sugar Trust and the National is to be used to fight the inde- pendent companies.
 It is conceded that the price of sugar is too high Even the general sales agent of the Sugar Trust says it will be lower in sixty days, when Cuban sugar will be- gin to come in. It would be lower now if the tariff did not keep out beet sugar. The tariff operates to keep money out of the treasury while it puts money in Trust pockets. It is the sum of all villanies, striking at consumers who are defenceless, and enriching and multiplying trusts that are expected to swell the campaign fund of. the party that put the tariff upon the country. Until the people what such indirect and hidden taxation really is, the vile work will go on, but when they do see it in it's true light it will have to go.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
SOUTHERN STREET FAIRS
From the Baltimore Sun.


 Street fairs are becoming a summer and fall feature in Southern cities. Several have already been held in Georgia and Alabama, and Roanoke, Va, closed a suc- cessful one a few weeks ago. The business men of Lynchburg, Va, are now consid- ering the propriety of holding one, and it has been favorably recommended by a committee appointed to consider the mat ter. The fair will doubtless be held should the railroads centering there agree to all low low rates of fare. and this concession will doubtless be granted. Rome, Ga, is to have a street fair beginning August 6 and continuing six days. This is the first fair of any description Rome has had for many years, and for that reason it is ex- pected to be a great success. An attrac- tive programme of amusements has been arranged for each day there will be a fine display of booths on the principal street and there will be floral parade and coro- nation ball. There will be fifty or sixty beautifully decorated vehicles in the pa- rade, with hundreds of colored lights. AL together the occasion promises to be one Of great pleasure and, the merchants of Rome anticipate, one of profit also as shousands of visitors are exepected.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
IKE 0KlY uaIlT NERspapER IN ALABAMA
Yellow Fever at Tampa.

The breaking out of yellow fever at Tampa is neither unexpected nor alarming. Tampa is nearly as far from this town as Chicago is, and there is little probability of the spread of the disease from that town, as there are no towns of good size near it.
 But it is not safe to presume that the dis ease will not appear independently in other Gulf cities, or in Mississippi valley towns. The first appearance of the disease is this year about month earlier than the first appearance of it last year. and severe vis- itatioE of the scourge Is not impossible. In Jackson. Mississippi, the work of construct ing d sewer system seems to invite the dis ease this year, although it will repel it after the present year
 It is well to remember that spotless town-a town free from filth stagnant water and rotting vegetation-cannot har- bor yellow fever. It is a disease that is bred from filth. Every town therefore that does not want the disease should look after its water supply, which may be choked with the abundant vegetation of the present season, after it's alleys, and streets and wells and rear premises. No town that is in thoroughly sanitary condition will in- vite yellow fever.
 It is not wise to assume that yellow fever cannot gain a foothold in this town, be- cause it never has. It never will if it is kept in a clean condition. It's present con dition is the reverse of this. Rear premises need attention in every block. Every alley in the town needs cleaning The water sup ply should be inspected from its source. The ordinances of the city should be strict ly enforced Clean up.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News. danger.
 The window with pained shutter Is eo,or blind.
 A sacrifice of principle to interest ayafIs but little.
 are Self-unmade.
 People resemble pianos when they are square, unright and grand a'S
 The less a man wants of a thing the more he is apt to get of it.
 A woman never reads the preface until after she has read the story.
 Philosophy of blockhead-If you would look spruce you must not pine. 2''ts
 To the hero of day the applause of the people is but a blast of hot air d.
 Bachelors frequently rail against the mar ried state, but spinsters never. 2.
 If you would have good servant, praise him in public and reprove him in private.
 Honest ducks dip their heads under water in order to liquidate their little bills.
 Chicago has a pugiHstic auctioneer who recently knocked down a row of brick houses.
 < Men are seldom as homely or women as handsome as they appear to be the first time you meet them.
 The St. Louis detective who recently ar- rested savage blow has still further dis tinguished himself by catching a bad cold
 The woman who offers you a generous slice of her angel cake probably means well. but somehow you never feel quite sure of it.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
COSTLY CHINESE FANS

From the London Mail.
 The Chinese crisis will not interrupt the price of fans, except possibly of very rare specimens of very high value.
 China, perhaps, was the home of the fan, though the honor is also claimed by Ja- pan. The idea of a fan originated, no doubt, in the palmetto leaf, borne to and fro by the breezes, folded delicately and compactly by natures hand. Either ex- banded or undeveloped it is suggestive of the two principal methods of making fans, which preserve the natural beauty of the leaf, are made in China. In Chinese rec ords there is mention of the use of fans to keep the dust from the wheels of the char iots as far back as the Chow dynasty, 11O6 B. c.
 The artists of the Celestial Empire were probably the originators of caligraphic and pictorial decorations on fans The Negroni collection, sold in London in 1866, included many of the famous album fans so long and so greatly popular in China. Some of these fans were sold for 1900 apiece.
 They were richly ornamented and cov- cred with amorous and complimentary in scriptions, and were supposed to have be- longed to the Emperors and Expresses of China The first fan of this sort of which we have particular mention in Chinese poetry was that of the Princess Pan A D. 550. The Princess was for a time the fla vorite of the Emperor Chi -eng Si of the Ham dynasty. Finding her star on the wane, she sent him a circular fan on which she had written verses describing herself as an Autumn or neglected fan. Ever since in China neglected wife is called an Au- tumn fan.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04

Colonel Tompkins' will providing that his f only son should not come into his share of the estate until he should reach the age of 9 years. Hon. Alexander Troy, Colonel Tompkins former law partner is the ex- ecutor of the estate, which is valued at or about $SO,00O.
 In these terribly hot days one reads with envious feelings of the flight of pigeons from Alabama to the seaside at Philadel- phia, distance of 900 miles, to be cov- cred in the estimated time of forty hours. Flying through the air at the speed of twenty-two miles and a half an hour will be sufficiently cooling, one would believe. Eleven homing pigeons were released from the United States signal observatory, on top of the government building at Montgom- cry, yesterday morning, and are expected to reach Philadelphia early tomorrow morning, or within forty hours The birds were sent to Signal Officer Chaffee by the National Association of Homing Pigeons, Philadelphia.
 The Age-Herald of tomorrow, Sunday, August 5, 1900, will be a necessity for read ing and preservation in every enlightened household in Birmingham, in Jefferson County and in Alabama. It will contain much information never before published, and more general information than ever before appeared in any Alabama newspa- per. In the forceful words of the business office, now is the time to subscribe, leave orders for extra copies, and advertise.
 
 Former United States Senator Luke Pryor, who became suddenly and danger ously i'll at Athens on Thursday, was re- ported to be much better yesterday, and there is good hope of his recovery.
 Senator Pettus was in Birmingham yes- terday on his way to Gadsden, where he will deliver a public speech at Il o'clock this morning.
 w. G. Broadway of Gadsden and William A. Davis of Anniston were in town yester- day.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
Shiftinq Chinese Questions.

The recent sermon of the Emperor Will liam shows that America has as an ally fanatic who imagines himself a crusader, whereas he did more, Russia alone except ed, to provoke the Chinese outbreak than any other power. By his intolerant ag- gressions he aroused the patriotic spirit of the Chinese together with all their sav- agery, and he is not half so innocent as he looks when he is preaching sermon.
 The position at and about Tien Tsin is not explained, but the statement that the Americans, British and Japanese are ad- vancing should be taken with few grains of allowance The chances are that noth- ing of the kind has occurred-that no ad- vance will take place for month to come. The rainy season has set in; supplies have not arrived, and land transports and the number of armed men of the powers on Chinese soil are limited. If an advance takes place before September, most ob- servers of the situation will be surprised. It Is not probable.
 And in the meanwhile willy Ii Hung Chang, safely housed at Shanghai, will en- deayor by hook and crook to arrange a settlement of the trouble. He may succeed. Time and the weather and the jealousies of the powers are in his favor. The Rus sian combine does not see much prospect for grabbing Chinese territory under pres ent circumstances, and the Emperor Will liam is talking through his hat when he proposes to wade through blood to a hu- initiation of the Chinese empire. What he is really seeking is an addition to his sphere of influence. He is a member of the ring of robbers.
 America, Great Britain and Japan do not rying relief to their respective people in China they do desire an open China-a China open to trade, to missionaries and to all other enterprises. This request will be difficult to secure, for China does not want Western methods or Western ideas. It wants to be let alone. Force alone can induce it to accept foreigners. Left to her self, China would today expel every for e1Rher, ana IIle quSst1On dS u hOW lar HIS country should go towards compelling her to accept what she does not want is really before the President, when 1t should be before Congress, today Congress is the judge of such question, if a plain declara- ton in the constitution has any meaning at all; but President Mckinley has usurped that power in the hope that he can strike blows that will give him prestige and fa- vor in the pending campaign. He is play ing politics at the expense of constitutional provisions, and the country seems to think with Tim Campbell that the constitution is an instrument to be showed aside by pass- ing circumstances.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
A NEW DISCOVERY
Augusta (Ga.) Herald.

From the Augusta (Ga.) Herald.
 We have been told that it is not so much the surgeons knife that kills patients as the shock from ether administered to deaden pain. Surgeons are said to feel
 more alarm on this score than any other connected with their profession in peril ous operations. We now learn that, at a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Medicine Dr. Tuffier gave an account of three surgical operations which he had conducted. One was an amputation of the leg, another the removal of a kidney and the other laparotoiny. In all three cases he had operated after securing anaesthesia by injecting one centigram of carbohydrate of cocaine into the canal of the spinal column. Acting on the marrow and not on the brain the cocaine produced abso-
 lute anaesthesia and the patient submit ted, without the usual exhaustion incident to the use of chloroform, to an operation of which he had no consciousness what ever although his mental activity does not appear to have been interrupted. The
 transmission of sensation to the brain was interrupted; that was all. In order to
 spare the patient the sight of blood and
 the wound, the doctor takes the precau-
 tion to veil the face. He says that he has tried this method of securing anaesthesa eighty times. It possesses many advan- tages and no inconveniences that he has been able to discover
 We take for granted that our Augusta surgeons are aware of this discovery and will test 1t. We hear of 'beautiful opera tions," but with the accompaniment of death. A harmless use of cocaine after the Parisian method, may save many val uable lives that are now endangered by
 the present method
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
Arbuckle Cut in Suqar.

Arbuckle Brothers have sugar refinery, the Havemeyers. The last named are known in the trade as the Sugar Trust, or the American Sugar Refining Company, secured control of its rivals, but this seems to have been a mistake. because the Arbuckles have announced q cut that makes the net rrice of refined sugar 5.S3 cents q pound.
 The general sales agent of the Sugar Trust says his company does not propose to meet the cut but the National Com
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
CHAIRMAN JONES IS HOPEFUL

N. Y. Letter in the Chicago Tribune.
 q found things in satisfactory condi- tion in New York;" said Senator Jones, Chairman of the Democratic National Com mittee, today. T know of the efforts made by the newspapers to prove that feud exists between MT. Croker and MT. Hill. am confident the stories which one sees in circulation that there is such a feud be- tween them as will interfere with their support of the Democratic ticket are with out foundation in fact Whatever the per- sonal relations of the two men may be, I am confident both will loyalty cordially and heartily support the ticket. I expect good results from the harmony of all our people in New York"
 In speaking of the general outlook Sena- tor Jones said:
 T think everything is moving nicely in the country generally, and am hopeful I believe the imperial policy of the present administration is more heartily condemned by the great mass of the people than any other important position assumed by any party for many years past. The evident in- tention of the administration to organize a great standing army is popularly disap- proved. The lack of disposition on the part of the Republicans to control or restrain trusts is, in my opinion, condemned by pa- triotic Republicans as we'll as Democrats. It Is seen by all parties that, despite the fact that the Republicans had a majority in both branches of Congress, and the President, too, no sincere step towards re- strAining trusts was made, and, in fact it Is observed that they fiourished under the fostering care of this administration as they never did before."
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
Remember Mondays Duty.

Every Democratic voter is needed on Monday in order to render Colonel Sam fords majority more impressive-in order to render the mandate to the Legislature more obligatory. The people of Alabama want a new constitution. The old one is outgrown. It makes no provision for an intelligent electorate. It invites either ties or black domination-either political demoralization or the rule of the unintelll- gent. A full vote on Monday is needed that all may see that the State is ripe for con- stitutional reform.
 All the way from the Texas lines to the Potomac changes of this nature have been made or are in course of being made. The two States that have not acted are Georgia and Alabama. Georgia is discussing the subject with a view to action, and so is Florida, leaving Alabama the only State that is not preparing to render white su- premacy certain and assured.
 Until this Is done the white vote cannot be divided with safety to the State over questions that naturally call for divisions. Until this is done political action within the State will not be healthy and normal Un- til this is done divisions among whites will invite trouble.
 On Monday every Democrat should go to the polls and exnrcss his convictions on this subject. Let the State have the benefit of full expression. Let 1t not be said that mere handful voted here and there, and that they did no represent the public senti- ment of the State. Go out on Monday and vote, thus silencing all those who would take advantage of light vote.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
Mark Twain as a Campaigner

Only once did Mark Twain appear In public as political speaker. As consci- entious Republican in his political prefer ences MT. Clemens took an active interest in the Presidential campaign of 1880. While visiting in Elmira, N Y, in the fall of that year he made a short speech one Saturday night introducing to a Republican meeting General Hawley of Connecticut In the course of his remarks MT. Clemens said:
 Gen. Hawley Is a member of my church at Hartford, and the author of Beau tiful Snow Maybe he will nedy that. But I. am only here to give him a character from his last place. As pure citizen, I respect him; a personal friend of years, I have the warmest regard for him; as a neighbor, whose vegetable garden adjoiifs mine, why-why, I watch him. As the au- thor of Beautiful Snow he has added a new pang to winter. He is square, true man in honest politics, and must say he occupies mighty lonesome position. So broad, so bountiful is his character that he never turned a tramp empty handed from his door. but always gave him a let ter of introduction to me. Pure, honest, incorruptible, that is Joe Hawley. Such man in politics is like a bottle of perfume " in a glue factory-it may moderate the stench, but it doesn't destroy 1t. I have not said any more of him than I would say of myself. Ladies and gentlemen, this is General Hawley."
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
CHINESE BEURooMS
From the London Mail.


 Chinese bedrooms. even in the homes of the wealthy, are usually dark and poorly ventilated, and are like inside cupboards. The bed is canopied, elaborate affair heavy and beautifully carved, and this piece of furniture is often handed down from father to son through many genera tions. But there is nothing elaborate about the bed covering. In place of a mattress there is a mat. and the covering is the occupants clothing, or possibly "a wadded quilt. Extra clothing is provided for cold weather. and in the north, where the weather is extremely cold, the carved wood bedstead is not used There, in the house of every well-to-do citizen, and in the inns, there are divans of masonry be- heath which there are fireplaces, and on these divans the people sleep, and the fire is utilized for cooking purposes.
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
CHINA's CRACK REGIMENT

From the London Mail.
 All armies have their crack regiments Chfnas is known as the "Tiger Guards" :" Its members are supposed to be very ti- gers when turned loose in war. Then, too they are dressed in yellow, the Imperial color with stripes of black, in imitation of a tigers skin. The cap is, made of split bamboo and has aers to it.
 A bamboo shield, with a monsters head painted on It, completes the fantastic uni- form.
 A Tiger officer in full uniform, as he appears on occasions of review or parade is matter of no small interest and won- der to the stranger. A highly polished helmet terminating in a crest of gold and tuft of eolored hair on a rod eight inches above the cap; a robe of purple or blue silk, richly adorned with gilt buttons, and reaching to the feet, which are fncased in black satin boots constitute costume of picturesqueness and inconvenience His implements of war are in keeping with the uniform All of them glitter with gems and precious metals. What sort of fighters the Tigers" make remains to be seen.
 The general belief is that they are not superior to other branches of the Chinese army except when thoroughly fmpregrated with the spirit of fanaticism. Their repu- tation is largely based upon past glories, and they now appear to think more of their adornments than of the serious bust ness of warfare.
 They are carefully selected men, of good proportions, and enjoy numerous privi- leges On whose side they are fighting now is largely q matter of conjecture. They should be defending the Dowaser Em- press and the Emperor Kwang Su, if still alive
The age-herald., 1900-08-04
Interviewed By the New Reporter.

Lord Salisbury usually takes his lunch either at the Athenaeum or the Junior Carl ton, relates the Westminster Gazette.
 The Athenaeum, as everybody is aware is very solemn club. and consists of emi- nent doctors, judges, barristers. and. above all, bishops. It was one of those threaten ing days with which we have been familiar during this disappointing summer. and one of Lord Salisburys secretaries, observing that his chief was starting out for his lunch, rushed for his umbrella and offered it to Lord Salisbury.
 NO, no,'' said Lord Salisbury; I've lost too many in the AtheEaeum. cannot trust the bishops"'
The age-herald., 1900-08-04

to that institution by the Government Bet ter prices will be paid for mineral lands every year. except possibly during periods of unnatural business depression, and the longer the sale is deferred the greater the endowment will be when 1t is secured The chances are that within the next five years the prices of mineral lands will be doubled in this State
The age-herald., 1900-08-04

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The fact that no bids were submitted for the purchase of the Montevallo school lands should not be considered particularly odd under the circumstances. When the lands were offered for sale last year there was so much favoritism shown and such a row was raised when the facts gained public att tention, that buyers want to wait a return tn normal conditions.
 The Montevalio trustees have no reason to suffer uneasiness about the lands donated