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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

ing but completed battlesh ps am a.iiia
ing, 3 armored cruisers built and building.
IA protected cruisers built and 2 building, 9
unprotected cruisers, coast-defense YES
sells. 1 torpedo vessel. torpedo-boat de-
stroyers built and building and 20 torpedo
boats built and 20 building. Both nations
are building ships as rapidly as they can.
Both are preparing for a conflict of no small
proportions. Japan is strengthening her
army as well as her navy.
Russia win not be permitted to gain con-
troll of country that Japan freed in 1894,
and 1t is well known that her officials are
proceeding by adroit methods, consisting
chiefly of bribery, TO gain suzerainty over
Corea. This means war beyond doubt.
Japan will fight to the last Ito prevent this.
Whether in such a war other powers would
be drawn in, remains to be seen. England
and Japan ara friendly, but against Japan
single-handed Russia Will have no small
task Her ships and sailors are INFESTED.
She has never fought a naval battle, and
there is a belief that she is more at home
on land than at sea.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Appalachian National Park.

Up in North Carolina they do not see why
the national government should not estab-
fish park among the great mountains of
that state, as we'll as in other sections of
the country. What is good for one section,
they reason, is good for another, and as
national parks are now a fad North Caro-
lima is moving to secure one also.
In Eastern Tennessee and Western North
Carolina there are 4S mountains. each at
least 5000 feet high, or about three times
the height of Lookout mountain. It is
proposed to form national park that shall
include all, or nearly all, of the peaks, in
GLIDING of course the intervening forests
and valleys and waterfalls. 1t is really the
most picturesduely beautiful section of the
entire country.
The Appalachian National Park associa-
ton has been formed for the purpose of
inducing congress to take hold of the mat
ter of forming a national park in Western
North Carolina. The proposed park would
be within a days ride of the large eastern
cities, including Washington itself, thus
making the park national in one respect
at least 1t would be the outlying park of
the national capital. Yellowstone national
park is much too far away for the use of
any but the wealthy and leisurely, while
the toiling millions could hope to visit now
and then park in Western North Carolina.
The climate, too, of Western North Caro-
lima is inviting, and altogether, if national
parks are to be multiplied, there is not
any reason why North Carolina should not
secure one that would preserve her wood
lands and crystal mountain streams from
the depredations of the timber fiends
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
KING ALCOHOL

BY w. e. Horne.
From thy dominions, once more King,
And ruler DER the realms of pain,
l have escaped and now take wing,
Swift wing away from calling chain!
Oh, Alcohol What power of yore,
Created, crowned and prowess gave
Endowed thee with such wondrous lore,
And wand to make of man slave?
What passion cans't thou not assume
You walk with ease the muse along
With Romeo sing of JulieIs doom,
And kiss the wound of dagger's wrong!
With petal lips thou seemst abloom,
As fair of form as eartn ere grew
Yet ranker flower had never room
By 1agoons shore where passions spew!
In cottage where the honest poor
Has grief enough, God knows! you go
To pass on out the kindly door,
And leave behind you anguish, woe!
Then, too, in friendship guise you come,
To sparkle in a glass of wine,
Till wreck and ruin marks the home
OF all earth that is divine!
When vice your slave, you find with chain
And, feed Desire with passions flame,
Till cen Remorse brings back again,
To manly man, sense of shamel
You hiss and fang with scorpion sting,
And when Despair broods DER the brain
You flight the soul on shadows wing
Beyond the marge of Reasons reign!
You dim the stars-rob sky of flame
And arch the earth with gloom and night
Stroud paths that lead to honor, fame
And germ the world with Death and
Blight
The savage has some pity known,
To virtuous and to tender years,
But heartless King, you've never shown
A sympathy for youth or tears
Gentle, polite, artful, smiling
You give your hand in dance of Fate
To Hope and Love-still beguiling
Your wand then turns Love into Hate
The kindest and the most humane,
Your smiles betray and you depraye,
Till crazed, delirious and insane,
Poor wretch! alone The finds grave!
o! would had the power to scar,
Your demon eyes to make thee blind,
And send thee tottering backwards, where
The pits are yawning for your kind!
Go, monster, back into your den,
Where ver1nfn crawi-heli's crickets sing
And there mong ghouls, but not mong
men
Set up thy claim as Sovereign King!
Go back! thou foul, incarnate f1end,
Back to thine own Plutonian shore
And let man dream on to his end
And know thee never-nevermore!!
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

and will take their places on the routes be-
tween the upper and middle Niger and
the terminus of the railroad 1t is expected
to send every week form each end of the
line from four to ten of these wagons, each
able to carry about 1850 pounds of freight
One of the wagons will have accommoda-
tfons for dozen passengers.
1t is intended to keep the routes in good
condition for travel, but during the rainy
season the service will he suspended, be-
cause the roads will then be almost i'm
passaible. 1t will take only four days to
cover the distance between the railroad and
the river As the railroad advances the
automobile routes will he shortened and
after the completion of the railroad the
wagons will be transferred to the other
side of the Niger, which will be connected
by automobile routes with such important
places as Sikasso, Kong Say and .other
towns In the rich western soudan, where
the primitive porterage service is still the
only means of transport. 1t is said the
new transport service will ne much cheaper
IMAM human porterage, and that great
deal of cotton, skins, gums honey and
other articles that cannot now be trans
ported will be taken to European markets
when this cheaper service is fairly estab-
lshed
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
CARROLlC ACID
discretion

From the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Carbolic acid, so necessary for prevention
against disease, has jumped upward 100 per
cent. in price because the English govern
ment has prohibited its expectation. And
the English are to use it, not in the gentler
facture of the terrible lyddite Thus death
and the combat against death inter
twined, the means to kill and the means to
cure spring from the same root; and lest
there be lack in the former the latter must
be curtailed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
GEN. wHEELER's loUs E SEAT

From the Washington Times.
The congressional prospects of Gen. Jo-
seph H. Wheeler seem to be reduced to
about this: If he had resigned from the
army before the Fifty-sixth congress met
and can establish that fact by the official
records when he returns to Washington
from the Philippines he may be permitted
to take his seat in the house If, on the
other hand, he was technically an officer
in the army when congress met on Decem-
her he will not be permitted to take his
seat In the latter case Speaker Hender-
son will decline to administer the oath to
General Wheeler should he present him.
self at the bar of the house to be sworn in,
ard the seat he claims will be declared
vacant, so the governor of Alabama can
call a special election to fill the vacancy
for the remainder of the Fifty-sixth con-
gress. This was the consensus of opinion
of members of both sides of the house
spoken to on the subject yesterday Cen
eral Wheeler. 1t is thought, will reach
Washington before the end of February.
Until he gets here no formal action will be
taken in his case
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
TrolIv and Steam Roads.

Trolley lines are multiplied very rapidly in
and about northern cities, and every year
adds to their length, and these extensions
are apt to parallel existing steam lines. Lo-
cal passenger traffic on steam roads is thus
very abruptly disarranged and demoralzed
after AM entire generation of monopoly. In
all crowded districts trolley lines are now
formidable rivals of steam roads. So nu-
merous are these trolley lines that 1t is be-
coming possible to travel hundreds of miles
upon them. The gaps between Boston and
New York are very small, and will soon be
filled, as will be the gaps between New
York and Washington via Baltimore and
Philadelphia.
But the trolley lines have no intention of
restricting their business to passenger
travel. They carry baggage and feright and
express goods also. No town in the B.rming-
ham district has so good a freight service
us fHSiey HaS hOur times a day freight is
delivered there-all freight in less than car
load lots and this service is rendered by
the trolley company. So 1T is in many a
district in the northern states, and in many
sections full carloads are freely delivered.
The trolley is best fitted for suburban
service or as feeders of the steam lines,
but it is after all matter that will be de-
cided by the survival of the fttest Which,
ever can carry at the lowest rates and in
the most acceptable manner given piece
of traffic, be 1T of freight orr passengers,
mails or express goods, will secure 1T in the
long run. The fight between the two sys-
->tems has not reached its limits, and the
the struggle between the two goes over to
the next century.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
THE AUTOMOBILES IN AFRICA

From the New York Sun.
The Congo Free State is inquiring into
the ACCESSIBILITY of introducing horseless
wagons to carry freight in thickly settled
regions where white settlements have been
built and the water courses are not navi-
initiative in sending automobiles to Africa
for transport purposes, and, though the
value of their experiment remains to be
proven, the Congo state will probably fol-
low them.
The French now have a line of stations
along the upper and middle Niger. Freight
for these stations is carried on small
steamers up the Senegal to the head of
navigation at Hayes. It is then transhipped
to the railroad, which is completed as far
as BadunIbe, about forty miles, and from
that point porters carry it to the Niger
and are about two weeks on the journey.
The growing Importance OF these inland
stations makes this slow freight service
really embarrassing, and as the railroad
will not be completed to the Niger for sew
eral years the distinguished French ex-
plorer, Felix Dubois, conceived the idea
of utilizing automobiles.
Fifty-five wagons, each of nine or ten
horse power, with maximum speed of
eight miles an hour, have been specially
built in Paris for this service in inland AZ
RIGA. The utmost attention has been given
to details of construction and they have
been as fully adapted to the peculiar con-
ditions of the service as is possible at pres
emit. They ae now being sent to Senegal
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
Russia and Japan.

Nearly all thoughtful persons are con-
WINGED that the control, if not the possess
sion, of Corea is one of those things that
cannot be acbatrated. Japan won that con-
troll in battle and the fruits of that yictori-
Gus war were spatched away from her
through a combination formed by Russia.
That combination headed by Russia for
bade Japan to occupy any of the mainland,
because Corea had been marked for Rus
sian occupation. Russia will not, however,
be able TO seize a foot of Corean territory
except after a successful war with Japan
and this war will essentially be a naval
war.
AT present Russia has u battleships. 10
armored cruisers, 3 protected cruisers un-
protected cruisers, Is coast-defense vessels
s Special vessels. II torpedo vessels tor
pedo-boat destroyer and III torpedo boats
The vessels building for Russia are u bat
tleships 2 armored cruisers, protected
cruisers, l coast-defense vessel, special
vessels IS torpedo-boat destroyers and 6
torpedo boats. Japan is notably weaker at
sea than she is usually supposed to be, hav-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
CONDITIONS IN HAWAII

Washington Evening Star Qnd.)
Notwithstanding annexation, old condi-
lions largely prevail in Hawaii. The local
laws, speaking generally and the personnel
of the former government have been con-
tinued. So far has this policy been carried
that the election of a new Legislature has
been suspended by President Mckinley, and
the present body, whose term expires next
February, has been retained. The constitu-
ton of the island republic puts the legisla-
ture out of Office at that date, and there is
some doubt whether a presidential proclaim
alton can continue 1T as a valid legislature
beyond that time. The dorSa would be
happily settled by the passage of the Cul-
lom bill by congress.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press. s5
Every girl is a pin-sticker. ~
A woman never thinks much Of a toilet
case unless it has got at least three things
in it that she doesn't know what they are
for.
The average man likes to have his wife
potter around giving queer teas so he can
act like he never did have any use for it
and say, Now what's all this fuss about?"
When man makes love to a woman he
feels about the same as when he was boy
and used to slide on the thinnest part of
the pond. What makes 1t so interesting is
knowing that he is bound to get in sooner
or later.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
Gov. Lonqino Attacks Judge Lynch.

The new governor of Mississippi, Judge
Longlno, shows in his inaugural address
that lynching has long ago ceased to be
+ confined to crimes against women; other
laws are now disregarded. and men are
lynohed for a wide variety of al.ese1 Of
| lenses, none of them, however well es-
tal5llshed Governor Longino does not
think the evil should be left for correction
to public sentiment or moral suaslon; Tor
such a remedy has proven lamentably de-
fcient. We give Governor Loaginos rec
lamentations in full
81 therefore recommend to the legisla ture
the wisdom and expediency of passing
law giving to the family of any one who
may hereafter be lynched right to recover
in the chancery court heavy damages
against the county in which the lynching
occurred, and the right of recovery should
be predieated alone upon the fact that the
lynching was done in the county where rhe
recovery is sought. AS it is not unusual
that prisoners are taken by m3bs from
jan ana lTOu the cuslOuy VI bllltti9,
would further suggest law providing that
the office of sheriff or constable shall De-
come vacant whenever a prisoner is ta!-e1
from such officers custody. Tie time :
at hand for stringent measures, and l
hope the legislature will be wise in provid-
ing them
These recommendations, together with
of the state, are very promising indlcati tons
that lynching may become hazardous in
Mississippi. The inaugural address of Gov
ernor Longino is largely. devoted TO the
subject, and every line of 1T shows that he
intends to compel respect for law during
| his term of office if he can possibly do So
| He certainly will be able to do so If the
| legislature, now in session, puts his recon-
mendations into laws The need of stopping
the frequent injustice and the unavoidable
| Generalization that attend the lynching
| need of vigorous action Public sentiment
| is sadly distorted in connection with this
| question, and Governor LONGING deserves
high praise for his courageous stand in the
| face of a demoralizing public opinion. He
| is very much in earnest, and If the legisla-
ture does not prove wanting, he will either
stop lynching in Mississippi, or know the
| reason why.
Mississippfs example would prove con-
| tagious, and Governor Longino may be the
| Moses who will lead all the states back
to respect of law, and away from anarchy,
for that is what mob law is.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

From the Chicago Record.
If Mark Hanna is in earnest when he says
he would like to have the country take him
seriously, why does hejdeclare that the re-
publican national committee is in need of
funds?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
Duke of Teck Dead

London, January 21.-His Highness, Fran
els Charles Louis Alexander, Duke of Teck,
who in 1866 married Princess Mary Ade-
laide, daughter of Prince Adolphus Freder-
lex. Duke of Cambridge, seventh son of
King George I'LL, died this evening at
White Lodge, Richmond Park, in his esd
year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
CIV. "oH1sr-,U- CLEAN PKrsoNEr

u y. 'OB Z - CLEAN PRISONER
- SO New York Tribune
The following story of Lord Roberts gain
Cd Greg c''-lsancy in the British army few
years 200 Tho dirtness of the Afghan Is
proverb!al, and it is said that on one oc-
casion General Roberts captured native
who was 50 exceptionally dirty that it was
thought, necessary, for the safety of the
whole carap, that he should be washed
Two genuine Tommy Atknses were told
off for that purpose. They stripped the
Prisoner. and scrubbed him for two hours
with formidable brushes, and a large guam
t'ty of softsoap. Then they threw down
their brushes in disbust and went to their
captain
What is it, menu"
well, sir they replied, somewhat ex-
citedly. we've washed that ere Afghan
chap for two hours. but 1t warn't any good.
After scrubbing him, sir, till our arms were
like to break. blessed If we didn't come
upon another suit of clothes!''
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

New York is afflicted with a machine
politician, who is known as Lou Paine"
and the unloading of him is the toughest
problem before the state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

Hoar's speech is the man the people are
looking for as keenly as Otis is hunting
for Aguinaldo.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
GENERAL wHEELER's CHOICE

From the Chicago Record.
General Wheeler would be well pleased IL
he could arrange to have General Otis run
for congress against him in his Alabama
district.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

If Quay is to be admitted because of a
charming personality, then Roberts should
one
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

The heavy firing has ceased at Frankfort,
but it is still heard in Natal.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

some exhibitors were shut out by the date
of closing. but fully 1000 were in good
season.
Vaccination is good in South Africa
against everything except Mauser bullets.
Dom Paul quotes Psalm whenever he
advises his soldiers to shoot straight.
The country is so prosperous that dollar
banquets are not satisfying enough.
The administration seems to be proud of
its Standard Oil side partner.
The heavy firing has ceased at Frankfort,
but it is still heard in Natal.
Wauchope has become the martyr of the
South African war
If Uncle Sam builds the Nicaragua canal
he must own it,
May Day is now Dewey Day and always
will be.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

Wauchope has become the martyr of the
South African war
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

There are English sparrows in Natal,
but they are not nesting this summer-it
is summer therein the cannon of either
CT
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

Dom Paul quotes a Psalm whenever he
advises his soldiers to shoot straight.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

The administration seems to be proud of
its Standard Oil side partner
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

The country is so prosperous that dollar
banquets are not satisfying enough.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

Vaccination is good in South Africa
against everything except Mauser bullets.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

If Uncle Sam builds the Nicaragua canal
he must own it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

May Day is now Dewey Day and Away
will be.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

Republican ex-congressmen in Kentucky
carry two revolvers, and democratic con-
gressmen are presumably walking arsenals.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

In Montana currency is not pressing
problem. 1t was expanded in the Clark
senatorial election.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

When General Butler found the Beers of
Potgieter's Drift in bathing, he refuted the
current stories of their uncleanliness.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

The battle of Frankfort now passes along
!; with battles in Luzon into history. The
former was the deadlier of the two.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

The reign of the revolver has been tried
in Chattanooga and Frankfort and has not
proved satisfactory
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

Peoria finds more water in its Illinois
river, but it can discover no Chicago in its
color or smell. This distresses st. Louis.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

The entries for American exhibits at the
Paris exposition has been closed No doubt
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22

William Jennings Bryan is as broad an
expansionist as any reasonable man can
wish for.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-15
COURSE is APPROVED.
State Committee Approves Denison's
Course of Study.
STATE COLLEGES ARE OPEN
To Denison High School Graduates
Without Conditions. a Step in
Advance.

To Denison High School Graduates
Without Conditions. a Step in
Advance.
Supt. Failor is in receipt of the fol-
lowing letter which will be good news
to the patrons of our public schools.
From the Committee on Secondary
School Relations of the College De.
partment of the Iowa State Teachers
Association.
Iowa CITY, Iowa, May 1, 1900.
Mr.. FL. V. FAILoR. Supt. of Schools,
Denison, Iowa,
Dear Sir: AS the Recorder of the
Committee on Secondary School Rela-
tions of the Iowa State Teachers AS
ISOLATION college DEPARTMENT., I have
the honor to inform you that in accord
ance with a recent action of the Com
mittee, the Denison High School is ac-
credited for the ensuing year as making
full preparation in its General course
for one or more courses of the several
Colleges of the Association, which are:
The State University of Iowa, Iowa
College (Grinnell), Cornell College,
Drake University, Parsons, Coe, Penn,
Tabor, Luther, Simpson, Western Col.
leges, Upper Iowa University, Iowa
Wesleyan University and the Iowa
Agricultural College at Ames.
A copy OF our analysis of your course
L nf nd 10 yuif Of
tlce to the Superintendent of the City
Schools. Pupils of the Denison High
School who present Certificates signed
by the Principal or the Superintendent,
stating that the work accredited as in
dicated in our analysis has been sue
cessfully completed, will be admitted
to the Freshman class without any
other condition than such as may be re
quired of all candidates for admission
and which may be found clearly out
lined in the respective catalogues in
connection with the accredited list as
published by each College. Blanks fol
the required detailed statements OF
work may be obtained from the Presl
dent of the College the student desires
to enter and should always be returned
by September 1, of the year of mat,
REGULATION.
| BY order of the Committee.
j. j. Mcconnell, Recorder.
Charles o. Denny, Chairman.
Thomas Nicholson, Secretary.
1
j. FL. 7. Main. Charles Eldred Shelter
r. G. Hughes ]. j. Mcconnell.