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The age-herald., 1901-09-02
DIR. Y. E. HOLLOWAY
 Physician and Surgeon.

Three-fourths of the persons who come to me to get cured of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea. Gleet, Structure, L o g [ Manhood and other private diseases have tried to get well by using oth. CT means. Why hot come as soon as you find that you are afflictedf It
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THE LOCAL MARKETS
Local Cotton Market.
Local Iron Market.

Local Stocks and Bonds. Corrected Daily by Caldwell & Ward Bankers. 2015 First Ave. Tele-
 phone 753. (see Card.)
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TAX NOTICE!.

will visit the following precincts of Jefferson County at the place of voting in each for assessing taxes for the year 1902, remaining one day at each place from 8 o'clock a. i'll. to 4 o'clock D. i'll. as follows:
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Local Staple Groceries.

Local Staple Groceries FIour-Best patent, s45o; HugIey's best ss e5: Tennessee patent. $40: half patent ssS5 ..
 sugar-Granulated, bssc; Y. C.. 5Ac. Cnfree--Green 1OlD13c. Arbuckle's pack ages. 1oso; Lion packages, 1oS0. Meats-Clear rib sides, 9c; bacon bel-
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NO. solid vestibuled train carries PIli man Drawing Room Sleeping Care p,r mingham to Buffalo and fron, ps. mingham to New York without .h,a Cafe and Observation. Car Birminshass Ala- to Raford. Va, and Chattanoo ~, q, Cincinnati. 'o No 1 carries Pullman Drawino p Sleeping Car Birming gham to I.ouis.,.r ] and Pullman Drawing Room Sisenins r.N .'e New Orleans to Cincinnati, Dinine Car New Orleans to Chattanooga. Sar No. leaves Birmingham at l.oa arrives at Meridian at s:65 D. m ' 'n'' No. leaves Birmingham at 4,lo arrives in Chattanooga at s:s7 D. ,p p 'n'' No. solid vestihuied trai- has .h.. Pullman Sleepers Birmsngnam sa vuen w Orleans and Birmingham te sbreva.ses"s .se" Dining Car. serving meals a Id sso soS Vicksburg to Shreveport. Dix~.f co,s.A'e' tion at Shreveport and New Orle, ,,s ~, 2, lines diverging for Texas. Mexico CI,i ~i,h fornia and the West.
 No. g. Solid vestibule train carr,a. n, man Drawing Room Sleeping Car c,,rc,n natl to New Orleans, also Pullman sIaa,. CT Louisville to Birmingham: Dinine Sa : Chattanooga to New Orleans. Direct con- nection at New Orleans with lines diverr- ing.
 FRANK s. CANNON. General Mana.
 ger. Washington. D. c.
 s. H. HARDWICK. c. P. A., washfne-
 tol, D. c.
 c. A BENscoTER. A. 0. P. A.. Chat.
 tanooga, Tenn.
 J. c. LUsK. T. P. A.. Birrnineham. Al,
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tFutt duo FFVtdSCs I,,,+ter-Clover Hill, pound prints, 26c; Eigin tstandard). 2sc: best creamery. s6c; M,ssi.stppi. best grade. 2oc; gooo country. saS,aeo. mixed country. loo. Irish Potatoes, sl6o.
 Rananas, F-sr Bdnch-cnlls. so17s cent: strais shts. s1.6@1N
 Eggs. 1Sc.
 Iemons-Per box, s4oo045o. Poultry-Best friers, 20c; medium. 1sc. hens. 25c: Pekin ducks, so@35c puddle Sraryn head and feet off. 121bc onions-Per pound, 2zc- Idrna Beans-Pcr pound. 7771ko- Dried Apples-Per pound. 7@9c.
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Southern Railway Co. The Great Highway of Travel North,
 East, South and West.
 Schedule in effect January is. 1901.
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Only limited number of maps left Subscribers snouid avail thonseives of tFiis opportunity to secure . house hold, office and school room necessity
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ARRIVALS.

No. 1 from Macon, Albany, Columbus Opelika, Americus, etc, S:35 D. m.
 No. from Savannah, Augusta, Macon. Columbus, etc., 1920 D. m.
 Elegant through sleepers between Bir- mingham, Columbus. Macon and Savan- nah on Nos and 4.
 Connection Is made at Savannah with the fast freight and luxurious passenger steamships of the Savannah Line from and to New York, Boston and the East For more detailed information, beauti- fully Illustrated matter. write or apply to SOLON JACOBS, Commercial Agent. W. D. HAMMEr. Travelling Passenger
 Agent. 1921 First Avenue.
 JACK W. JOHNSON. Union Ticket
 Agent. Birmingham. Ala
 J. C. HALLE. General Passenger Agent E. H. HINTON. Traffic Manager. sa.
 vannah, Ca
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Office open at Birmingham from October tO| December 3I for Regular Assessments
 for Precincts 2I and 37.

No list received unless the Real accurately described After the last day January all taxpayers who have failed make of their property, will be delinquent in the eye of the and will be charged fee in each and every whether demand has been made upon them and all payers fail make of their property by the first day February oo2 will incur penalty of per centum be added after demand has been made upon them for the The Assessor has discretion the matter of emng the penalty In addition delinquent fee of cents per cent for Commissioner will be added all Assessments made after first Monday in May oo2.
 NK~I ATIGIIT TN
Evening star., 1901-04-20

sixty wounded. They did not have ma
chine guns in those days. 1t has been call
culated that an average of 100 bullets had
to be fired to wound one man and 300 to
do one killing.
Prisoners I'm Chains.
Two contemporary drawings show what
they discovered in this prison. One. of an
allegorical character, represents the citl-
zen-soldiers assisting up the black stair
ways long-bearded old men, sickly youths
and broken down men of middle age with
their chains still on them. Others, crawl
ing on hands and knees. discover, in black
corners, chained to rings let in the walls
the bodies Of prisoners dead in their
shackles. A skeleton crumbles in an old
iron cage. 1t had been the fashion to deny
these horrors. They are not so easily de-
MED in the year 1901
1t is now known who took possession of
the cage and what became of it. The
diaries and notes of eye-WitnesSeS recently
brought to light are being published. One
drawing of the time, now in the Hennin
collection, shows the underground cachot,
in which the four forgers, Bechade, La
Roche, La Correge and Pujade, were found
and released by the populace. 1t is posi-
BILE that they were only vulgar criminals
but in that case what were they doing in
the arfstocratic prison of the Bastile? They
escaped and nothing more is known of
them than the accusation in the registry
of the Bastile. They had been languishing
in that black hole thirteen months. La
Roche was found chained to a curious ma
chine that looked something like one end
of a gun carriage.
1t held him always in the same reclining
position, his ankles, wrists, waist and neck
chained fast. Puiade was chained by the
waist to a heavy ring set nthe wall. about
ten feet away from the other. Bechade
seems to have roamed freely about the
room. while La Correge was chained by his
two wrists to the foot of a pillar that
served him for seat and bed.
When the citizens entered this dismal
abode the flaming lights of their torches
sent troops of ra,s scampering, while the
drawing shows two good-sized snakes try
ing to hasten to holes in still a deeper
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be irrevocably condemned. mistook their
rescuers for executloners come to put an
end to their lives. Some were so weak
that they tainted on seeing armed men.
Others, unused to so much light hid their
eyes from the torches. From the depths
OF the fortress they brought up horrible
trophies. machines whose use no one could
guess. There was one heavy iron machine
like great suit of armor that seemed to
have been invented to hold every joint
and muscle OF the victim in an eternal
rigidity. What torture could be more re-
hnedly terrible, when darkness. silence and
long years were added to ftp" asks the
Paris patriot of 1IS9 in his diary. He saw
the thing
The Comte des Loges. an old man and a
noble, had been favored with a high-ceiled
room, in which they had allowed him To
install a four-posted bed with a canopy TO
protect him from the drauGhts while Sleep
ing. He had a table. jug. a plate and
stool. His room was always in dull twi-
light that came through a single grated
window. Yet he was the best-lodged pris-
oner found at the taking of the Rastile.
The apologists of the Bastile thought that
they had reduced the number OF prisoners
actually found imprisoned in it's dungeons
to a dozen. and the new Larousse Encyclo-
pedals specialist, In the title Taking of
the BaStile." gives the names only Of seven
the four forgers before mentioned. Two
Evening star., 1901-04-20

operations, Is young man about fwen+r
eight or twenty-nine years old who nc
made modest fortune of something Tle
Sl0.Dooo within the past year and a half
1t is said that Chanslor was working as a
clerk in a Los Angeles grocery store when
ne became interested in the oil fields In
the Venture county district about two
years ago. He had no money with which
to take up land and sink wells but he
managed to raise 5000 on a note by prom
lsing to give the lender one-half Of the
proceeds. The 5000 sufficed to put down
three wells, two of which were profit ably
productive, while the third was a pIsher
1t Is said that within year of the time he
borrowed the money Chanslor paid the
man who loaned 1t to him $17SOOO which
represents very good rate of interest even
for California. ga
Chanslor and his partner were among
the hrst prospeceors of the Kern river
district. They bought up as much lana
as they could secure and were among those
who obtained land from the railroad cnnos
pany at $25O an acre. which thew would
not part with for less than 10000 ner
acre. Chanslor owns some of the f1nest
wells In the Kern river district, and Is in
a fair way to become one of the richest
men in the country. :"
Mad With Excitement,
T There are hundreds of stories less re-
markable than this only in degree going
the rounds in Bakersfield, and the town is
mad with oil excitement 1t Is a lively
town nowadays, in which every kind of q
Evening star., 1901-04-20

governor. used every effort, down to the
most perfdious Of ruses, to hold II. Hav-
ing let down the first drawbridge as IL I'm
surrender. he allowed a great number OF
the citizens to enter the first court yard.
Then he drew back the drawbridge and
massacred them at leisure. AS a proof
of the length to which his resistance went
1t Is now well settled that De Launay
in the last moments attempted to fire the
powder magazine and was prevented by
the soldier Ferrand. How was il, then
that this impregnable fortress could be car
ried by storm in four hours by mob of
undisciplined. leaderless citizens, armed ac-
cording to their fancy, having no plan of
attack and no common understanding?
1t is a mistake. They had a common un-
derstanding-it was to take the Bastile.
They were not an army of machines. but
ardent, thinking individuals. We have seen
the same thing hundred times Of late in
South Africa. We saw it in the Cuban
war in Hobson's exploit, il example be
needed. Under a CALLING fire from the safe
ly intrenched garrison the citizens of Paris
clambered down and up the walls of the
moat lowered the drawbridge, battered in
it's invincible doors, carried court by court
and room by room, to the death of its last
defender.
The garrison of ninety-five veterans and
thirty Swiss died to man. OF the be-
siegers there were ninety-eight killed and
Evening star., 1901-04-20

section. Wells have been put down in
some cases not more than fifty or seventy
five feet apart. This naturally followed
from the fact that every man was eager
TO develop his land as far as possible, and
Nhen his neighbor drilled two wells with
IN the space of ordinary city lot he
was compelled TO do likewise in self-de-
fense. The result OF this Is that the oil
sand Is being rapidly drained of it's brown
fluid, and the life of the local industry has
Undoubtedly been shortened. 1t will make
q great record while 1t lasts however for
down to the present time the Los Angeles
district has to it's credit more than seven
million barrels of oil. and the city has
firmly established itself as the headuuar-
ters of the industry in southern California
having a iourishing oil exchange which
does a business in oil stocks of more than
@ hundred thousand dollars a month al
though IL Is run very conservative
basis, being controlled by some of the
leading business men and oil experts of
the city.
OIL From Under the Ocean.
Probably nowhere else in the world Is
there such picturesque oil field as exists
AT Summerland. in Santa Barbara, where
9he wells have been pushed right out into
The F rific. and oil Is being pumped from
Peheath the waters of old ocean itself The
town Is situated beside the ocean on the
eioeS OF steep hills Between the hills and
the water there is a narrow strip of level
AAhu quarter of mile wide and mile
Evening star., 1901-04-20

Champ de Mars enter Paris tonight to cut
the throats of the inhabitants! Let us put
on cockades"' With that he tore a leaf
from one of the branches and put it in his
hat. The small, sickly trees of the garden
had no leaves left on them that night!
Many Were Killed.
These mobs in general and the enthu-
siastic reception Of unknown Camille Des-
moulins' daring words in particular, de-
cided the court to do the very thing the
unknown young man had unwarrantedly
predicted. The Swiss Guards were or
dered to hold the Champs Elysee, and a
German cavalry company was assembled
in the present Place de la Concorde. Prince
de Lambese, leading charge of his Ger
man cavalry, trampled and killed young
and old in the Tuilleries gardens. Under
the restoration the BourbonS named this
man a peer Of France.
The same night of July II the people,
enraged at the massacre, prevented the
nobility from entering the opera-now the
they are playing ''Quo vadis." On the
afternoon and night of July 13 the east
ern part of Paris was full Of barricades
Patrols Of citizens under arms walked the
street. In the morning of July IA the
mob pillaged the Soldiers Home Of the In
valides, took twenty-fOur cannon and 3d.
600 mixed rifles, pistols, swords and bayon-
cts. ITO the Bastile," was the cry. They
ran to the Bast1le.
Certainly the Bastile had always, been
considered fmpregnable. A recently found
stamp, dated the day after it's taking, is
seen to bear the legend:
'.This fortress, before which the courage
Of the great Conde oozed away and which
the greatest warriors judged impregnable,
was attacked on July Il and carried by
storm in less than four hours by the pro-
digious bravery Of the citizens Of Paris.
armed for the defense OF their liberty and
the salvation of their country"
Evening star., 1901-04-20
The Lenxthsnins,,Days.

From the Buffalo Ezpres.,.5 ,sis .aI
Now the days are getting lonsta, and the folks
who wake at dawn., Z.
AND can sleep II therdds anyanoise about
Soon VIII hear the merryIclatteEzof the mower on
And the garbage man who rollsthe barrels out.
How they'll toss and turn and tumble in vain
attempt to sleep =
When the rising sun shines in at four O'Clock;
How they'll growl and groan and grumble and
they'll curse both loud and deep
As they hear the mi1kman coming down the
block.
There's moment. then. of quiet. and one falls
into doze.
Then crash against the door-you're wide
awake! -
1t resembles bombardment but AZ everybodv
knows,
It's the way the newshoys leave the Daily Fake.
It's no use to try to slumber, for the world is
The trolley gongs are Changing as they pass
The nies are buzztng fercely and the neighbor's
I. chasing English sah sparrors of the grass.
Oh. we're glad the summers coming when the
snow Will disappear.
Ana when 1t comes Well wish the winter back
Ana the moral seems to be that every season Of
Has advantages that all the others lack.
Evening star., 1901-04-20

dungeon stairway, through whose top
ladder protruded.
Only dead bodies were found down there
Nineteen Years in a Cell.
The prisoner Tavernier, whom the white
washing historians have tried to make out
crazy man c'and it is known" they say,
that the art of caring for the demented
was in its infancy under the old regime,
when 1t was thought sufficient to merely
lock them up'D, has left an account of his
captivity which would have made
strangely lucid work for a crazy man. He
told his lberators that, during the thirty
years of his captivity. he had passed nine
teen consecutive ones without crossing the
threshold of his cell.
Exercise in the yard for those who on
Joyed this favor. was limited to an hour a
day, reduced to few minutes when there
were many prisoners to be exercised in
turn
The Able Duvernet. on receivine q visit
from the Minister Amelot, had complain-
ed of the causelessness of his imprison-
ment. You ought not to complain" was
the answer, because you have the priyi
lege of the prison library" Then he ask
ed, why are you here?' Because You
yourself gave some one a blank lettre de
cachet. with your name and the kings
attached to it. That person filed In INV
name and the trick was done. You ought
to know II" The minister expressed mild
surprise-and he left the Able Duvernet to
rot ten years more, until rescued on July
IA, 1883!
The Refinement of Torture.
Another newly discovered account, Illus
trated by very well-drawn sketch. tells
how the deliverers found the Comte des
Loges. "a prisoner Of the Bastile during
thirty-two years." Saber and torch in
hand. they explored every recess of the
dark fortress. Most of the living victims
they thus rescued, imagining themselves to
Evening star., 1901-04-20

gambling game is run wide open. Day
laborerS are receiving $40 and S12 for ten
hours work. and hotel prices make the
Waldorf-AStoria seem cheap by compari-
son. Nobody in Bakersfield believes that
the oil lands have reached the limit of
their real value as yet and great deal
of land speculation is going on So well
informed a man as Mr.. C. A Garfield said
recently that 10000 per acre was con-
scrvative estimate for the real value of the
land within the proved district. Should
the production of the wells come up to the
estimates of the oil experts who have ex-
amined them, the value of the territory
already exploited will amount to some
thing like SS0o.0oo,0o0.
There is a side to the California oil dis
coveries which renders them of widespread
importance. This is the probability of the
future development of oil as fuel. None of
the oil taken from the California fields is
refined for Illuminating purposes. but
wide field of usefulness is being found for
it as substitute for coal, for heating and
steam-making purposes Already two rail-
roads are using it in nearly all their loco
motives in California as fuel. These two
companies alone are using 100000 barrels
of oil a month for this purpose, and one
road recently placed an advance order for
10000 barrels for future delivery. In
addition to this the sugar beet factories
and other manufacturing plants of Califor-
MIA are rapidly replacing coal with oil. and
its uses for this purpose are likely to ere
ate steady and strong demand for all the
oil that can be produced in the California
fields for many years to come. The great
difficulty that has heretofore retarded the
industrial development of California has
been the high price of fuel. Coal costs on
the average about $3.50 a ton. Under pres
ent conditions oil sells at from 81 to 81. %
per barrel, and $50 worth of oil will do
the work of ton of coal, and, in the opn-
ion of many persons, will do it better than
the coal itself The oil, therefore, prom
ises to make it's own market and to prove
OF the greatest Importance to the whole Pa
cihc coast region in encouraging it's indus
trial development and making it one of the
great manufacturing centers of the United
Evening star., 1901-04-20
BIG BOOM IN OIL
Recent Discoveries of Enormous Value
in California,
Los ANGELES A CITY OF DERRICKS
Huge Fortunes Have Been Made
Almost in Day.
LAND AT HIG H PRICE S
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
Next to a gold discovery there is nothing
that can cause such a stampede the
finding of oil. The oil fever is a sort of
mental germ disease. and when the bacillus
gets into a mans mind he casts his steady
going business habits to the winds and
rushcs of on a search that terminates only
when he has struck it rich. or has Worn
himself out in a fruitless chase after this
will-C'-thc-wisp.
This is the situation in a large part of
southern California today. There has been
an influx of boomers. oil prospectors and
adventures Of all kinds that outdoes the
record OF Klondike or Cape Nome. Towns
have sprung up on the bare sand hills and
have advanced in few months to the rank
of cities. All over the region between the
coast range and the Sierra Madre noun
tains and from Siskiyou and San Berna-
dino. thousands of outfits are at work put
ting down wells, while the men who have
used up their available cash in acquiring
claims busy with pick and shovel try
Ing To dig down to the oii-bcaring sand or
are looking for somebody to stake them to
car fare back east so they float a COM
pany on the strength of their few acres Of
sage brush Men who valued their entire
worldly possessions a few months ago at a
few hundred dollars are now rated at hun
dreds OF thousands over the whole move
worthy to be ranked with the fuel of
Aladdin's lamp i'll its fortune-giving po-
tentialities.
The oil excitement has made some big
Changes in southern California within the
past year or SO 1t has transformed Los
Angeles from a quiet. pleasant residence
, town into city of derrickS with the smell
OF coal Oh! IN the air. and with a big De
troleum exchange in which fortunes can
be Won and lost as readily as they can in
w ali street Los Angeles is the ONLY mart
OF the region in which the DEVELOPMENT has
reached anything like its ma ximum point
and this restricted district is flowing more
IMAM i million barrels year
Derricks All Over Town.
The man who left Los Angeles ten Years
ago and returns there today will find it i'm
possible to recognize the town The rich
est finds in this district have been made
!. within the city limits. The boom was
H~started by two men who dug a well with
pick and shovel at the corner of Patton
and State streets, near the Second Street
Park.
When their strike was followed by others
on the other side of the city EVERYDAY
who owned a lot in the proved district de-
cidsd TO take try at oil hunting Men
who owned houses in the residence portion
OF the city caught the fever and proceeded
TO dlShSure their lawns with derrcks and
lengths OF oil pipe. On some of the streets
of Los Angeles one will see an ugly black
derrick IN front of every house, while at
least half the residences have a second
derrick in the back yard
MS q consequence of the fact that the
land in the City is split up into many small
holdings. no territory ever had a more
1apid development than this Los Angeles