davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

building the city on it's old site. MT -McGee brings scientific evidence to show that the island on which Galveston is located is gradually sinking beneath the tiers of the gulf. All that region of the gulf coast, like the New Jersey coast, is undergoing a sub sidence more marked than that which has placed Hollands cultivated fields thirty feet below tide level. The present rate of coast subsistence in Holland is about one foot in a century. That of the New Jersey coast is estimated at two feet in the same length of time. Mir McGee says the geologic indi- cations go to show that the subsistence of the gulf coast is nearly as rapid as that in New Jersey and is certainly not less than a foot in a century.
 The region affected extends from Mobile Bay to Galveston HaBbor. and Galveston is in the worst situation because it lies at the end of the long line of coast islands or keys and is open to the widest range of gales. The distance of these keys from the coast and the deep water intervening are among the peologic indications of subsistence. The disappearance of Last Island, the New Or leans pleasure resort. with most of it's in- habltants. just fortyfour years before the Galveston disaster, is ascrlbed to the same cause. on 5elze Bayou stands the skeleton of an old Spanish magazine built 200 years ago. At the time the Eads ietties were built 1t Was noted that there was ten feet of water above he doorsill of his old struc- ture. Nineteen years later the water was again measured and showed an additional subsistence of nearly a foot Engineer Cor thell, the successor of Eads. has estimated from this that the. coast at the mouth of the Mississippi in sinking at the rate of five feet in 9 century.
 Galveston is built on the last of the nat ural embankments of this coast to remain unsubmerged and MT. McGee believes it is "bound to be overwhelmed by one of the few great forces of nature to which human ingenuity and strength must bow" He thinks inevitable disaster will follow the re- building of the city on it's devastated sand bank. But as it will take couple of cen turies to lower the present level of the island to the surface of the gulf at the present rate, his statements will probably give the Galveston people little alarm. They may defeat the encroaching water as sue cessfully as have the Hollanders The un- pleasant fact of coast subsistence, however, should not be ignored. but should be pro- vided against by artifically raising the level of the city site IL should not be a great task to offset subsistence of a foot or two in q pfntI1rv
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
GRAVE DIGGER'S SONG

By Alfred Austin. The crab, the bullace, and the sloe, They burgeon in the spring; And when the west wind melts the snow,. The redstarts build and sing. But Deaths at work in rind and root And loves the green buds best: And when the pairing music's mute, He spares the empty nest.
 Death! Death!
 Death is master of lord and clown, Close the coffin and hammer it down When nuts are bown and sere without And white and plump within, And juicy gourds are pass'd about, And trickle down the chin: When comes the Reaper with his scythe, And reaps and nothing leaves, Oh, then it is that Death is blithe, And sups among the sheaves.
 Death! Death!
 Lower the coffin and slip the end:
 Death is master of clown and lord. When logs about the house are stoek'd, And next years hose is knit. And tales are told and jokes are crackd, And faggots blaze and spit; Death sits down in the ingle-nook Sits down and doth not speak; But he puts his arm around the maid that's warm,
 And she tngles in the cheek.
 Death! Death!
 Death is master of lord and clown
 Shovel the clay in, tread it deHn.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
txnort Iron and Pipe.

This district would be in real distress We're there not an outlet for iron and pipe on cotton ships The domestic markel is overloaded; iron is still accommodating. On October 1 the furnace stocks stood at 661,- 99s tons. and the warrant stocks at 21,S0O tons. At that time 213 furnaces were turning out 223 169 tons a week. This is at the rate of about 1l5G0,G00 tons year, but even this reduced production is in excess of home consumption.
 The hope of the South lies in export iron. In September, Alabama sent across the sea 52963 tons. or more than one-half of the production for on October the twenty-two coke, and four charcoal stacks in blast in this State had a weekly ca pacity of 20,S3S tons, or about S5 GOO toms a month. Out of S5,eO0 tons produced 5296S tons were sent abroad.
 If. this movement can be maintained, there will soon be no burdensome stocks in this district. This movement burdened wish railroad rate of $1.90 ton to New Orleans shows what is possible when the Warrior river is opened, and the rate to the sea is cut down to 5 or 40 cents. Every possible effort should be made to hasten the opening of the river. There is nothing ill sight of equal or even approximate importance. The immediate heed is an appropriation of $l5OO,000 this Je. lao orIs work that will relieve the domestic market and handsomely swell the country's ex- ports of iron, steel and coal
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
Bright Prospects for Coal and Steel.

It now looks as if the coal strike in Penn sylvania will be settled in a few days. but with the coming of cold weather the de- mand for coal is greatly increased. and the outlook Is that the Birmingham district will have market for every possible ton of coal it can mine during the present winter-and market at good prices II also appears from late reports that the market for steel is improving and is better than it has been for many months.
 The Navy Department At Washington has just issued statement allowing an addi- tiona period of four months to contractors Of torpedo boats because the ''steel-makins plants thrughout the country are crowded with work and decline to enter into any new contracts"
 The board of construction of the Navy Department in it's report to the secretary, advising extension of time for the conStrue- tion of torpedo boats, says that lowing to this great activity in the business the price of steel has advanced to a higher figure, ~ O'S4 we're the shlp-OuIiders 10 place contracts they would be obliged to pay such high prices that they would make no profit on the contract"
 All of this would seem to mean a bright future for the Birmingham steel plants and would indicate prosperity for this diserict during the next year.
 It is probable that the little strike at the Ensley steel plant will be settled in few days, there has been no question of wages raised.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
THE STIMULUS OF FOOTBALL

From the New York Press.
 Football in our representative colleges never deserved more popularity than it does today. The moldy joke of the ath- lete's diploma is about as earworn as the more ancient and cob-webbed old-girl joke which elngs to the atmosphere of every scholastic campus.
 As a matter of fact, the football eleven as it faces a rival one in the struggle for the season championship is as representa- tive body as could be imagined It is a handful of young men who have added to what is at least the average scholarship an amount of beef, of brain, of pluck and of physical endurance which makes them the residuum after long and careful testing and sieving. As such members of the varsity team are a type, and an unvary- ing one, of the college man. Each one be- comes an example 10 4lis fellow students and the object of a profound and whole some admiration in all forms of prepara- tory schools.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
Heavy Reqlstration in New York.

In round proportions the increase in the registration in the cities of New York State is nearly 20 per cent over that of 1896 This increase is shown alike in Greater New York and in the other numerous cities of the State. The growth of four years does not account for this increase, for the registration of 1896 was very heavy. : II is difficult to interpret this increase in New York but it certainly shows that the real. The people are not wasting money in banners and demonstrations, but they intend to go to the polls. The feeling Is deep rather than superficial. It should be remembered that registration in New York is strictly personal No one can register any one else's name. Everybody must at tend personally to the business, and this of itself goes to show that full vote will be cast.
 No one knows what this unexpected regis tration movement means Thus far the New York papers have not attempted to explain it. In fact there are so many in- dependent voters in New York that no one can see what the fullness of the registra- tage from it, and We will not know which tells the truth until the shower of ballots in November is assorted and measured.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
Honnes plths M eet

Knoxville Tenn, October 16.-The Sev- enteenth annual session of the Southern Homeopathic Medical Association con- vened in this city this morning About 100 physicians are in attendance.
 The convention was opened by the ad- dress of the president of the association, Dr. H. M. Duffield of Huntsville, Ala.
 Tn his address he urged the raising of 8 fund with which to fight a test case attack ing the practice of appointing the majori- ty, and in many cases all members of state examining boards from the alopathic school of medicine. He also recommended that every member of the association pledge himself to secure at least one ad- ditional homeopathic in his respective To- cality The convention will continue for three days.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
Growth of Christian Science.

Few appreciate the growth of Christian Science in this country. Mrs Eddy's doe srines are rapidly spreading throughout the country. From her New Hampshire home she now sways a vast army of faith ful and devoted followers, and no one can say when the doctrine will run its course Its wide acceptance is shown in the fact that 9o0O persons recently assembled in a Chicago building to hear speaker discuss it.
 The Z!oaists that ''pr.' Dowie leads and fococs arc branch of the new church
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
sHAKEspE4RE AND TIE BIBLE

From the London Answers
 In Shakespeare's name lies the key to wonderful cryptogram. The spelling Shakespeare" was the poets nom de plume, while "Shakespere'' was his name an evident change from .Shakespear." In each of the two spellings last given are ten letters-four vowels and six conso. nants Combine these two figures and we have the number 46, the key to the mys- tery.
 Turning to the forty-sixth Psalm in the revised version it is found that the psalm is divided into three portions each one ending with "selah" Remember the num- ber-46.
 Counting forty-six words from the be- gining of the psalm one reads the word shake" in the first portion, and counting forty-six words from the end of the psalm one reaches the word "soeare." There is "Shakespear' plainly as letters can make it.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
HIsToRY-MAKING NATIONS

From the London Illustrated News.
 There remains in Europe four nations which continue to make history-namely England France, Germany and Russia. According to Montesqueu, they ought to be unhappy; it is a moot question whether they are, England's contribution to tre record of the worlds doings has been dur ing the last twelve months pretty con- siderable one; yet the most prejudicei ob- server would fail to see any signs of de- pression among During that period Russia and Germany have been revising and amplifying their history rather t,ta.n adding new chapters to it; they, also do not appear very low spirited
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
Hospital Thrown Open

Washington, Oct. 16.-Late reports from Commander Seaton Schroeder, who suc- ceeded Captain Leary as naval governor of Guam, have been received at the Navy Department.
 Governor Schroeder has issued an order opening all hospitals in the island to the civil patients and all who are suffering are invited to go to the hospitals for treat ment.
 The health of the islands is said to be fairly good. There are ne typhoid fever cases. and only one of fever and few of intestinal troubles.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

love a title!-to make his title a hereditary one; hence the young mans advertising tears For some reason, difficult at this distance to surmise, Lord Salisbury has made this man a judge. Possibly the good Queen herself had it done out of sympa- thy. The pay is s1550O a year, and the Russells are poor. The judgship is some- what similar as to it's duties to a circuit judgeship in Alabama; though some of the English judges occasionally sit as Il higher court in London"
 
 The condition of MT. Morton Kirke Moore is somewhat improved, and the Doctors Morris hope he will survive his present attack of appendicitis. No sur gieal operation has been performed, and no such action is now contemplated. MT Moore has suffered from appendicitis at intervals for three years; but has never undergone a surgical operation.
 
 Dr. Dabney Lucke, who has been for many weeks very painfully i'll, has again taken an unsatisfactory turn. He has been coming down town for several days, but yesterday he returned to his bed feeling very unwell
 Mayor o. E. Henderson of Anniston is in Birmingham.
 Hon. B M. Allen has returned from Co., lumbia, S. C., whither he went last week as counsel for the Birmingham man Billy" Smith, who is in jail on the charge of mur- der Smiths case was continued; but he remains in jail. According to South Caro- lima law the finding of a coroner's jury baf faeie evidence of murder. and the man so charged must remain in jail until tried except in case of habeas corpus proceed ings. Fifty dollars or a hundred dollars, no bail at all, 'is about the size," of some of the murder cases in Alabama. Frequently there is TO indictment found Dan s. Cue, a Montgomerian and one of the best and most successful commercial travellers in the country, is at the Morris. Fred Wannamaker of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, is in Birming- ham.
 r. deFuniak, Jr., of the United States Army, is visiting his brother, Ernest deFuniak.
 
 
 is at the Morris.
 Dr. H. M. Weedon of Eufaula Is in Birm- ingham.
 Capt. c. E. Wilson of Russellville is at the Morris.
 William F. Ellis is visiting his brother, Frank Ellis
 
 MT. Frank R. Allen, vice-presdent of the Trust Company of Georgia; MT. Stewart F. Woodson of Langston & Woodson, wholesale grocers, and MT. Thomas B. Paine, all of Atlanta, were in Birmingham yesterday.
 Renjamin Beall of Dolomite who had Glen a student at St. Bernard s, Culman, for several years. left yesterday for Rome, where he will enter the American College with the view of completing his studies for the priesthood. He will be ordained for this diocese.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
SOLILOQuIESO OF AN OLD M AID

The most interesting period in man $ life is when grass widow is flirting with him.
 A pointed statement may be a blunt ar gument
 some men.
 A husband tells his wife fairy tales when he returns at a. m. from a vaudeville show.
 A correspondent asks what constitutes the greatest happiness. It is when a boy first discovers that he has moustache.
 The man who fiddied his way into office had large audience dance to his music.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
POLAND ADVANCES IN MANUFA CrURE

Russian Correspondence in New York Post
 The great product of Poland is at present textiles of cotton and wool The growth of the city of Lodz (pronounced as though spelled Lootch), a manufacturing center four or five hours ride from Warsaw, is really wonderful and quite American in its rapidity and present proportions. In 1855 I.odz was small, dirty village of 10000 inhabitants. Today it is one of the busiest cities in Europe, with population; of 450, ,00o and ranks among the first as rnanufac- turing city. Lodz makes cotton, wool and chemicals, but particularly cotton and cot ton fabrics It is known as the Manches- ter of Russia.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
Ship Long Overdue

San Francisco, October 16.-The British ship Lansing, which left Port Blakely OH June 1. bound for Port Pierce, Australia is now out 136 days, and 20 per cent re- insurance has been offered on her. She has a cargo of nearly 100000 feet of lumber.
 A story is current in shipping circles that the crew has mutinied, killed Captain Chapman and located on Bonham Island, in the South Seas, after wrecking the vesel, but the report lacks yerification
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The leading article in the current num- Der of the National Geographic Magazine Is a discussion of the Galveston catastrophe by M. W. J. McGee. former member of the United States Geological Survey. What he says will not tend to reassure the peo- pie of Galveston in their brave work of re-
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
THE IMPERIsHABLE

Daniel Webster.
 If we work upon marble, it will perish; if upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will cruT1be into dust; but If we work upon our immortal mnds-- if we imbue them With principles, with tho just love of God. and love of our fellow man-we .en:-rave on those tablets so,nc- thing that will brighten through all etern- ty.D
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
HuntinctOn's Successor

San Francisco, October 16.-1he Call says: '"There is a strong possibility that Julius Kruttschnitt, the present genertl general manager of the Southern Pacific Company will be appointed by the big railroad system as successor to the late c. P. Huntington,
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Senator Sewell of New Jersey is another man who does not know trust when he meets it. He should visit the secretary of state of New Jersey
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Webster Davis will have to be dead ten full years before he can aspire to the Hall of Fame He is on the road.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Chicago should build temple to it's patron pair, Carnegie and Rockefeller. More tablets will not suffice
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

The balloon that went from Paris to kileo, Russia a distance of 1900 miles, re- fused to return, or to be guided in any manner whatever. It went where it listed. What is wanted is a balloon that will obey orders.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

EX-Presidents are not good enough as a rule to serve on tablets even. Only one secured a tablet, for Washington and Grant went through on their military record.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Brooklyn at the top of the baseball list and New York at its foot illustrate the versatility Of Greater New York.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Tie college eane-rush has been abolished but the college yell still stays with us a souvenir of d barbaric past.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

This is Mark Hanna's oratorcal week. and the trusts are accommodating money against another raid
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

The telephone transmitter stands con- demned as means of transferring disease germs. It should be sterilized as we'll as some of the messages that go through it.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

The new book of the Shah of Persia is going off like hot cakes No Persian's head is safely on his shoulders who does not own and read the book.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

The Republican spellbinders should get that the trusts are blessings, while others say there are no trusts. If both are right the people are going unblesed.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Shakespeare wrote plays only while Rockefeller wrote checks
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Mark Hanna's classical orations are po- litical misfits. He still says there are no trusts
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

The campaign forecasters are showing that figures can and do lie.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Sir Thomas Lipton has cornered the hogs of America, but not its beans or cups.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Unless the trusts erect a Hall of Fame. Mark Hanna will continue to be an Uit- lander.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

General Apathy was a sham general in the contested states.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

| 'A 'tii9 NOutu SttII lD mean q Drl2nt future for the Birmingham steel plants. and would indicate prosperity for this district during the next year. | It is probable that the little strike at the Ensley steel plant will be settled in a few days as there has been no question of wages raised. l ----------------------- The balloon that went from Paris to | Kileo, Russia, a distance of 1900 miles, re- | fused to return, or to be guided in any manner whatever. It went where it listed. 1 What is wanted is balloon that will obey orders. 1 The Republican speIlbinders should get l together for some of them are declaring 1 that the trusts are blessings, while others say there are no trusts If both are right the people are going unblesed. 
 The telephone transmitter stands con demned as means of transferring disease germs. It should be sterilized as well as some of the messages that go through it.
 
 A'N iS9iNNhtS diC ilOl SOOu eHOuSn as d rule to serve on tablets even. Only one secured tablet, for Washington and Grant went through on their military record. The new book of the Shah of Persia is going off like hot cakes No Persian's head is safely on his shoulders who does | not own and read the book. 
 l Senator Sewell of New Jersey is another man who does not know a trust when he meets it. He should visit the secretary of 1 state of New Jersey. Brooklyn at the top of the baseball list and New York at it's foot illustrate the versatility Of Greater New York. Tie college eane-rush has been abolished. but the college yell still stays. with us a souvenir of barbaric past Webster Davis will have to be dead ten full years before he can aspire to the Hal of Fame. He is on the road. 
 Chicago should build temple to its patron pair, Carnegie and Rockefeller More tablets will not suffice.
 This is Mark Hanna's oratorical week, and the trusts are accommodating money against another raid
 
 Mark Hanna's classical orations are po- litical misfits. He still says there are no trusts Unless the trusts erect Hall of Fame, Mark Hanna will continue to be an Uit- lander. The Hall of Fame jury decided that ex- Presidents are as a rule small potatoes New York won both head and tail in
 Sir Thomas Lipton has cornered the hogs of America, but not it's beans or cups.
 The campaign forecasters are showing that figures can and do lie.
 Shakespeare wrote plays only while Rockefeller wrote checks.
 General Apathy a sham general in the contested states. Chicago will buy but not sail the new Shamrock. There is no apathy in the foot ball field. Foot ball is nothing if not strenuous.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

The Hall of Fame jury decided that ex- Presidents are as a rule small potatoes.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

New York won both head and tail in the base ball ledgue It was a dog-fall.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

Chicago will buy but not sail the new Shamrock.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17
GALvEsTON's FUTURE DANGER

Foot ball is nothing if not strenuous.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

There is no apathy in the foot ball field.
The age-herald., 1900-10-17

'The young Lord Russell of Halloween. whom the Tory government has just ap- pointed judge of assizes in England. is the eldest son of the late Lord Chief Jus tice of England, and is the man who adver- tised his law practice several years ago by bowling against his hard fate in being an unwilling heir to a peerage," said q traveller last night Tt has been always held that a peer could not practice law; and when young Russell came up for his license there was some talk in the news papers concerning the old rule. He took ample advantage of it: and a young Tory peer also got himself advertised in like manner until Lord Salisbury. mataphori- cally speaking, spanked him. Russelrs father. formerly Sir Charles Russell a radical office-holder of the Gladstone stripe, was made Lord Chief Justice. It is required that the occupant of that office shall be a peer, either for life or with the title fixed to sur vive him. Russell, the radical, got Glad stone, the radicaI-how those radicals do