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The age-herald., 1900-12-18
GEN. WHEELER AND THE LADY.

Washington Correspondent New York
 World
 It was raining the other day. An angu- lar woman wearing a macintosh, sitting next to Gen. Joe Wheeler in street car, rose to get off at Fourteenth and F streets. General Wheeler noticed an um- brella leaning against the car seat. He grabbed the umbrella, ran after the wo- man, caught her at the door and said: Pardon me, madam, but you left your umbrella" The woman looked puzzled, but took the umbrella General Wheeler resumed his seat. Then woman on the other side of him gave a little scream and said: "Why, you nasty little man, you gave that woman my umbrella" Then she appealed 10 the conductor. General Wheeler apologized, but the woman said {: 'Now, you just get right off the car and get 1t for me, or I'll notify the police" Weekly the veteran of three wars tumbled off into the rain and ran after the woman with the macintosh. He made hurried explanation, got the umbrella and rushed
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
that shows first the park acreage. anC next the population per park acre:

Washington's acre to every seventy eight people consists chiefly of land belonging to the Federal Government. Los Angeles spends $55,OOO year on its parks, and it has an acre to every twenty-seven people, It is the best provided city in the country in that respect.
 Southern cities are not remarkable for parks Louisville has just voted $2i5,OOO for the purpose of buying more park lands, and Memphis is about to invest $25O,- GOO in a similar way. As a rule, cities have one acre of park to every 25o people and this ratio would call for about 16O acres devoted to park purposes in this city Its park acreage may be one-ffth of that amount, and much of it Is in an unim- proved condition. But parks are not per haps necessaries, although they relate to the health of the people at least in the larger towns Schools and streets out rank parks and it may be many years before Birmingham will consider the park question, and then land will be high and we'll coupled, except possibly on Red Mountain. ~~
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
THE sLIURAILs AND THE SPURS
From the Montreal Herald

From the Montreal Herald. The colors of the setting sun
 Withdrew across the Western land He raised the sliprails one by one, And shot them home with trembling
 hand.
 Her brown hands clung-her face grew
 pale
 An quivering chin and eyes that brim!- One quick, fierce kiss across the rail- And, "Good-by, Mary!" "Good-by, Jim.'' Oh, he rides hard to race the pain Who rides from love. who rides from
 home; But he rides slowly home again, Whose heart has learned to love and
 roam. A hand upon the horses mane, And one foot in the stirrup set, And, stopping back to kiss again, With, "Good-by, Mary; don't you fret. When I'come back'-he laughed for her 'We do not know how soon twill be- I'll whistle as I round the spur You let the sliprails down for me-" She gasped for sudden loss of hope. As with backward wave to her, He cantered down the grassy slope And swiftly round the darkling spur. Black-penciled panels standing high, And darkness fading into stars, And blurring fast against the sky, faint white form beside the bars. And often at the set of sun,
 In winter bleak and summer brown, She'd steal across the little run, And slyly let the sliprails down. And listen there when darkness shut The nearer spur in silence deep; And when they called her from the hut Steal home and cry herself to sleep.
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
Senator Davis Successor

The sad news comes from Minnesota that the rivalry for Senator Davis seat is so keen that two aspiring millionares have been laid on the shelf, much to their own disgust. Both had "bled" for the cause freely and when it came time to deliver the goods they were obstacles in the way Thomas Lowry, who owns the street rail- ways of Minneapolis St. Paul and Duluth thought he had cinch, and so did Thomas Shevlin, who Is not only lumberman of many millions, but he Is also the national committeeman of Minnesota.
 It is with tears-not crocodile-in our eyes that We are compelled to state that these two noble men have been turned down.
 The race is now between United States District Attorney Evans of Minneapolis and Moses E. Clapp, lawyer, of St. Paul. The rivalry of these two towns reappears much intensified in this contest. It is so intense that it has literally absorbed or run over the two millionaires who had paid for toga many times over.
 Minnesota is inclined to be odd and old fashioned. It does not recognize the new millionaire fashion, although Aspirant Lowry intimates that he does not propose to run street railroads and let mere Legislature run away from his desires. He proposes to assert his purchased ights. He proposes to know what campaign subscrip- lions mean, anyway.
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
A Record Breaker.

The Age-Herald of Sunday last eclipsed the advertising record for or dinary issues of a daily newspaper in Birmingham. In order to provide pages, of which about 151z were adyer- tisements. To be exact, it contained 52 columns of news and editorial mat ter and 92 columns of advertisements; and it was read by more than 30,090 people.
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of the most astute business men in New

of the most astute business men in New York
 Another Alabamian who achieved sue- cess in New York has just died," said a native last night. He was Charles K. Bill, described by the New York newspa- pers the well-known real esate broker Like the late Gustavus Clark Hopkins, sometime president of the New York Get ton Exchange who died last Thursday, MT. Bill was born in Mobile. He was in his sixty-third year. On going to Nsw York before the civil war he went into photog- raphy. Afterward he entered the real es- tate business, with which he had been con- stantly connected since 1860. His offices for years were in Liberty street, near the old Real Estate Exchange He leaves widow and a son, c. A. Bill. A brother, Edward Bill, who also survives him, dwells in Vir- ginia It is understood that the late Harry Bill, noted as a newspaper worker of Sel- ma many years ago, was related to the New Yorker. D.
 newspaper gossiper of Washington as- sumes that 'of course every one knows that nowadays Alabama is a rival of Penn sylvania in the production of iron and coal" and then refers to Senator Morgan, who remembers the time when the Alabama mineral district hills which are now covered with towns and furnaces were still in virgin forest. Even in those days, however, some enterprisindg men used to dig coal out of the hills on the banks of the Warrior liver and float 1t down to Mobile, making money even with the crude implements of mining and only flat boats for transportation. The lawyers who used to gather in the village at court time would discuss the stories then current as to the minerals which the hills contained.
 "T remember once, said Senator Nor gan, discussing the development of Ala bama, that at-une of these gatherings l predicted that some day pig iron would be made in the vicinity of where we were as- sembled and shipped as far as Baltimore
 ".As far as Baltimore? queried his Hs- teners.
 "'Yes,' said Senator Morgan, and the prediction seemed such idle and impos- sible dream that everybody laughed at me for making it.
 w. K. McNeill, popularly known as a commercial traveller for Mobile drygoods house. and familiarly called variously as Billy" Mac" and "Coosa," was down town yesterday for the first time since he was taken to his bed in the Morris sani- tarum, suffering with typhoid fever, Octo- Der 26. Many friends gave him cordial greet ing.
 Lucien " La Taste of Montgomery, for mer national president of the Commercial Travellers Protective Association, was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Representative L. D. Godfrey of Sumter County was in Birmingham yesterday.
 John M. McMaster of Bibb was in Birm- ingham yesterday.
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
MOST IMPORTANT POINT.

From the New York Herald.
 J. P. Holland. the inventor of submarine torpedo boats, held the attention of large audience to the end of his lecture, before the faculty and class of Manhattan college, last night It was the first of a series to be given on naval architecture
 - before the students
 MT Holland disclosed last night the great secret of his success. It Is to have the ballast tanks always full of water, never partially filled, otherwise the water bal last shifts, changes the center of gravity, upsets the boat and causes disaster. This one little fact is the Holland key to sailing and diving about like a fish under water. On 1t hangs the value of his patents.
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
Referred to Judiciary Committee

Washington, December 1Z-Tn the Senate today MT. Carter of Montana introduced resolution calling upon the judiciary committee to investigate and report to the Senate the following in the acts of matter of the charges against Judge Moves of Alaska. The resolution is more compre- hensive than that presented by MT. Brick of Indiana in the House, and covers all the allegations previous to the appointment of Judge Moves It was referred to the ju- dietary committee. The Senate al 1:20 D. m. went into executive session for the con- sideraton of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
Cave-in Accident.

Bridgeport, Conn, December 17.-As result of a cave-in of an embankment at Beaver Rock between Stretford and Hunt ington today, one man was fatally and two others seriously injured. All the in jured were Italians.
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back to the waiting car. As he handed 1t back to its owner he said: 'I trust you will pardon me, madam. I assure you it was all a mistake" The woman glared at him. T don't know about that" she sniffed. T don't believe you are any better than you ought to be-"
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
Parks in American Cities

European cities have as a rule a great deal of park space in proportion to popu- iation. but several American cities are do-
 ing well in that respect. We add a table
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
SATISFACTION ENOUGH.

From the Boston Journal
 His Grace. the Duke of Manchester may be excluded from the House Of Lords, but he must be more than reconciled by the fact that he has not been excluded from the house of the millionaires
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
TOO EASY.
From the St. Louis Star

From the St. Louis Star.
 The Mayor of St. Joseph appointed a weiner wurst man to the position of dog catcher and the Aldermen declined to con- firm him. There are some Aldermen, at been dGecreed to belong to Brazil, may least who stand by the people,
The age-herald., 1900-12-18
An Absolute Fabrication.

Paris. December 1.-The statement that Gen. Horace Porter, the United States am- bassador here, intends resigning, is an absolute abrication.
The age-herald., 1900-12-18

The dead and gone Mullhall was great statistician. Before a figure had become known he estimated the population of the United States at 76,2OOOOO. It proved to be 76, ,295, ,OOO
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The senate of New York University de- clines to heed the sectional clamor that has arisen over the placing of the name of Robert IL. Lee .n the Hall of Fame
The age-herald., 1900-12-18

In the last prize fight the brutality was not prolonged enough to suit the spectators, who were the bigger brutes
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MT Croker may protest until the cows
 come home, but in the end he must pay that British tax. It really serves him right.
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The effete monarchies will now have to contend with the Standard Oil Company, which has begun to move upon their breast works.
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Expeditions galore will seek the North Iole next year, and the Pole district may become overpopulated.
The age-herald., 1900-12-18

Chicago people think vice should be boiled before using.
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The Anglo lo-German-Japanese combine is very strong in ships, and ships dominate the Chinese situation.
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MT. Bryan and MT. Pettigrew are to be- come journalists.
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Senator Cullom is still the leader in the Illinois Senatorial free-for-all.
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The ship subsidy lobby in Washington Is well matched by the Continental Railroad lobby.
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Two isthmian canals are brought in sight by the schemings of the trans-continental railroads.
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Mark Twain says America stands piously for "the open door" in all cases where 1t Is not her own.
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Chicago's prairie fire was in her midst but still was not very destructive.
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Lord Salisbury will not recognize his ca nal treaty when the Senate has stopped mangling it.
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Even cup champions go to the junk pile. The once honored Defender has arrived there.
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Switzerlands new President declines tC be responsible for the crops of the ava lanches.
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Up in the snow belt Christmas shoppers are urged to go early and avoid the slush.
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The Senate considers itself the treaty smashing branch of the government.
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Chicago has just had a prairie fire 1T ward S6.
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Uncle Sams soldiers are now globe trot- ters.
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rank parks, and it may be many years before Birmingham will consider the park question, and then land will be high and we'll coupled, except possibly on Red Mountain. ~-  The dead and gone Mullhall was a great statistican. Before a figure had become known he estimated the population of the United States at 76, 600. It proved to be 76. .295, ,OOO.  The senate of New York University de- clines to heed the sectional clamor that has | arisen over the placing of the name of Robert IL. Lee ;n the Hall of Fame.
 The effete monarchies will now have to contend with the Standard Oil Company, which has begun to move upon their breast works
 MT. Croker may protest until the cows come home, but in the end he must pay that British tax. It really serves him right. In the last prize fight the brutality was
  who were the bigger brutes.
 Expeditions galore will seek the North I'ole next year, and the Pole district may become oyerpopulated.
 
 The Anglo combine is very strong in ships, and ships dominate the Chinese situation.
 
 Mark Twain says America stands piously for "the open door" in all cases where 1t Is not her own. The ship subsidy lobby in Washington Is well matched by the Trans-Continental Railroad lobby.
 Lord Salisbury will not recognize his ca nal treaty when the Senate has stopped mangling it.
 Two isthmian canals are brought in sight by the schemings of the trans-continental railroads.
 Swtzerlands new President declines to be responsible for the crops of the ava lanches. Even cup champions go to the junk pile. | The once honored Defender has arrived | there. Up in the snow belt Christmas shoppers are urged to go early and avoid the slush.  The Senate considers itself the treaty smashing branch of the government Chicago's prairie fire was in her midst but still was not very destructive. Senator Cullom is still the leader in the Illinois Senatorial free-for-all. MT. Bryan and MT. Pettigrew are to be- come journalists. Chicago people think vice should be boiled | before using. | Chicago has just had a prairie fire in I ward S6. l Uncle Sans soldiers are now globe trot-
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 Trade generally is better now than 1t was ever before," said MT. Emil Loeb, the New York resident member of the great f1rfn of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb MT. Loeb reached Birmingham night before last and will remain here until after Christmas He had the pleasure of seeing a great many of his houses customers yesterday afternoon, and declared himself delighted with the run of business.
 Tn New York it is practically impossi- ble to deal in an orderly and regular man. ner with the holiday shopping crowds, for they exceed in number and the ability to buy goods the crowds of any previous year. Every place is densely crowded, the streets. the stores, all places of business the ho- tels the cars and the places of amuse- ment. All dealers in every line, except dry goods, are more than gratified by the sea- sons unexampled business. For the dry goods men the season has been altogether too open and mild for a great trade, and therefore in that line there is grumblng. AS yet we have had no real wintry wealth CT, and here we are at Christmas. But general trade in New York and throughout the country is believed to be the best ever known"
 MT Loeb does most of the buying for his house in Birmingham, and is accounted one
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JUHN HA Y,
 PAUNCEFOTF

The Davis amendment adopted by the Senate, to be inserted at the end of section 5, article IT, is as follows:
 It is agreed, however. that none of the immediately foregoing conditions and stip- ulations in sections numbered 1, ?. 3, 4 and of this article shall apply to measures which the United States may find it neces- sary to take for securing by it's own forces the defense of the United States and the maintenance of public order.
The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-26
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AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH,

AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH,
Rey. w. NJ. Gilmore, pastor. Ser
vices today at II a. m. and p M; Sum
day school at 4 p. M; young peoples
meeting at 1915 a. m. Subject, China.
Led by Mr.. F. E. Twitty. All cordially
invited.
GOOD MUSIC
Special program ct First Baptist
chu ch today.
Morning Service.
Instrumental voluntary Miss Emil,
Wait and Prof. Deal.
Vocal voluntary--"Why stand ye
here idle"--By choir.
Offertory--"Trust in the Lori"-By
choir.
Eve ming Service.
Instrumental voluntary.
Vocal yoluntary-"Te Deum"-By
choir.
Offertory-"God is Love- Trio,
Messrs. Allen, Fleming and Wait.
Post1ude-'If l Were Voice" Mrs.
J. w. Wallace.
Choir composed of Miss Emily Waff,
organisti Prof. Deal, violinist; Mrs. G.
W. Blanton and Miss Gertrude Allen,
sopranos; Mrs. ]. W Wallace, alto; DR.
Blanton and Chas. Fleming, tenors, Ed
ward Alien and Howard Waff, bassos.
Miss Christie Winter will play the
violin In the Methodist church this
morning,
The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-26

FOR SALE-Cheap, handsome fur
niture. L. Times-Call.
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Will Be GREAT.
Labor Day Committee Reports
Progress.
Will Have the Largest
Parade Ever Seen
Here.

pThe committees from the differt mt
labor unions report everything ready for
the big celebration. A friend OF the
workingmen writes the following:
Labor Day is holiday recognized by
the U nited States government and by
our local government. The celebration
of labor day in Brunswick is an entirely
new thing, and as citizens, let us show
the world that We are keeping pace with
other cities Without labor our city is
worthless. The capitalist. manufacturer
and merchant would have to close down,
but with organized, intelligent labor we
can say to the capitalist, Invest, we will
furnish the labor.
Abraham Lincoln, Cardinal II Manning,
Bishop Potter, in fact. all of the bright,
est minds acknowledge and advocate or
ganized labor as the best means Of light
ening the burdens of the masses, making
their homes more cheerful, the hearts of
the people happier, their hopes and ass
pirations noble and braye. Labor un-
ions are the means of higher and bet
ter class of labor; they are the means of
education; they relieve the sick and dis
tressed: in fact, it is school and makes
better citizens. With one voice say,
"Let us celebrate labor day."
The work of arranging for this grand
celebration is in the hands of a few
working men. When they call on you
meet them cheerfully. Atlanta gives
Sc, 900 20 her workers. Savannah, Ma
con and all our neighbors recognize this
day, and let LIS do the same.
The colored American., 1900-12-22
DIR. NJ. Q. DUMAS.
For The Colored American.

For The Colored American.
With promptings tender, kind, sincere,
here extend word of cheer,
And trust that with the passing years
No thought, no dread, no trembling fears
Will ever cloud or mar thy way
Or keep thee from the golden day.
Through all thy years of work and wait
Thou dldst not trust alone 10 fate;
by task was always noby done
AS truly as tn unchanging sun.
No matter whether rich or poor,
With thee all find welcome door.
While vending down the lane of life,
Scarce ever are we free from strife
Yet as pass from childhoods days
With lofty peaks within our gaze
little cheer along the hill
Oft makes the burden lighter still
1t seems but yesterday to me-
When first grasped the hand of thee.
Those days are vivid with me yet
Those scenes | can not soon forget.
Twas in the old Admitted Row."
Down where the soldiers come and CO.
see those boys, that splendid list,
nobler set did e'er exist,
Yes, there were OleSon, Beeler, Rice,
Fer ready, faithful, prompt, precise,
And Barrow. but alas! poor boy!
He's reached the murmured waves of joy.
Then Cannon, Johnson, Brooks, and Moore
These all were there in days of yore,
And then Gallenne from New Orleans
Steps forth and smiles behind the scenes
And Simmons, Freeman, Taylor, ALL
This near completes those l recall.
Some names l can not think to write,
They've passed beyond my mental sight,
But in this little poem of mine,
Dumas takes rank far up the line,
Then Julius, Smith, Piozet, and West,
And CARROT, Parks, and all the rest.
And so this hope l here extend
May thy successes never end;
/ would thy way enrich and bless,
wish thee more can not less,
Thy manly life, refined yet plain,
All love again and yet againl
DIR. JULIUS J. CHILCoAT.
Dec. IS, 1900.