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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
HuNTEas pEAREsT TRoPHN
sportsman's Ambition Marred Unless
 Hfc Has Killed q Bear.

From the Bangor Commercial
 A big black bear is the trophy that all sportsmen who have been in the woods are after. Shooting deer is all right, and a moose, of course, is d sportsman's am- bition until he gets one; then he must have a bear. It sounds so much bigger. you know. to say that you have killed a bear Bears are supposed to be very dan gerous and only shot after hand-to-hand encounters and thrilling escapes from death.
 A large number of bears have come down from the woods so far this fall, and it seems as if Maine bruin were either very plentiful or decidedly care less.
 Hunters from out of the state especial ly like to get bear Two stories of how the prizes are shot can never be proved out of the way, as a female with young does not wait an instant if brought to bay or if she thinks the young ones are in danger, from attacking q man or sev- eral men for that matter Bear hunting, however, Is not so precarious as the sportsmen often make 1t out to be. The
  across one in. the woods and shooting him before he can get away Then dogs are often used in hunting bears. While the dogs by their barking and snapplng are keeping the big brute excited the hunter has time to take a good aim and get his game. Bears are often found Tn their dens and smoked out. They are sometimes inclined to be ugly when this Is done but do not stand much chance against two or three 45-90s.
 Practically all bears which arc shot by sportsmen are brought out of the woods and either mounted whole or made into rugs. or the heads are set up with the mouth open to give them a fierce ex- pression
 Bears are outside the pale of the law in Maine and may be shot. trapped or killed in any other way wherever they may be found.
 Whenever a bear comes down from up- river the owner can always be found at the western depot. Perhaps he has deer CT moose along that he has to iden7 tify. After doing so he will always ask if 1t is necessary for him to prove prop erty in regard to the bear. and he smiles proudly on the crowds which are always gathered around the wardens.
 If the bear is all the game he has, why he will make a big touse about not being able to find the warden so as to identify his bear, for of course he wants to be sure that the bear isn't seized. He wouldn't have that happen for anything. Oh, no. Nor would he have the crowd remain ignorant of the fact that he got his bear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
British Cotton Mills unprofltabIe.

An Associated Press dispatch, from London, states that eighty-fve joint stock companies in Lancashire, with an aggregate capital of 25,175,0OO, and having e,6e7,oOo spindles, record a net loss of s715o for this year.
 Is not this evidence enough that there are advantages in placing the mills amid the cotton fields? There are just about an equal number of spindles in the south and in the eighty five mills in Lancashire The southern mills are making money, while the Lancashire mills are glad to get out without a net loss. One lot of spindles earns and distributes dividends, and the other does not.
 The meaning of these results is plain-the mills must come to the cot ton fields. There is, however, a com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
Plumblna in Rirmlnaham.

Birmingham has as honest and skill full plumbers as any to be found in the country" remarked a man who rents a house, but many of the cheap dwell 1ngs are ntted with inferior plumbing and the result is pipes burst and cause nc end of trouble and discomfort. Poor plumbing, indeed, seems to be the rule in the majority of houses. This should not be so. Houses In this city should be built with regard to winter comfort While we do not have as much winter here ss cities farther north we have enough of it to call for well-built dwell. ings and high class plumbing.
 Last winter the plumbers had tC work over time in order to repair burst pipes and it will be that way this win. ter. Good plumbing is costly but it pays in the end"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
o'NElLps STORE IS SOLD.

New York Letter in the Chicago Tribune
 The heirs of the late Hugh oNeil have sold the store known as o'Neilrs, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, on Sixth avenue to William C. Strange, manager of the businoss. and he in turn has sold it for ss,15o,ooo to the United States Realty and Construction company. The heirs take back mortgage for s1,7oo,- coo al per cent The store is to be leased for twenty years at sl5o,oO0 year to corporation. The stock of dry goods and general merchandise Is sold to the same company for s9ooOoO. This means, of course, that the business will be contin- ued. doubtless under the old name, by the proprietors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
DISCLOSURE OF OUTRAGE.
Senator Pueh Declares Canal Com
 mission Should Be Investigated.

From the Times-Democrat
 Washington, December A.-opposition is developing to Senator Morgan's bill fixing the Panama canal commissioners sala- 'ries at s5ooo each and requiring the com mission to meet and do business on the line of the canal. Those who have been seeking the commissionership are not near SO anxious for the job. Friends of the several applicants argue that the sal ary is much too small 10 pay for en- eineering or technical talent. But Sen ator Morgan is receiving congratulations for his bill.
 Former Senator Pugh of Alabama, who has been confined to his room for the past month and who was up and about today, said. speaking of Senator Mer- san's revelation. that the Walker isth- milan commission had been paid at the rate of s10o0 a month for two and half years. when they had actually worked only eight weeks, was the disclosure of an outrage that ought to be ventilated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
THE YELLOW FEVER CANAL.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 The case against Panama is now vir- tually complete. The difficulties pertain ing to the title and control of the canal strip have already been defined thorough ly; and the engineering difficulties have been set forth. But the hygenic obstacles have not been sufficiently emphasized. How great these are may be estimated from recent significant occurrence. Some three months ago the Washington detach- ment of marines sailed for the Isthmus of Panama for the purpose of assisting in fulfilling the treaty obligations of the United States in keeping the isthmian traffic free from Instructions. They sailed away eighty-.even strong. and they re- turned home but sixty-six strong. In short, nearly one-fo1rth of their number had been stricken with tropical levers and were either dead or had been left be- hind in the government hospitals. It will take at least ten years to build the Pan anna canal, and the strip along which it is to run is simply saturated with trop- ieal malaria. Many thousands of lives will be sacrificed in the enterprise. It has been tragedy from it's inception It dis graced the great De Lesseps and his coadjutors. It has already sunk over s2so, ,o0o. .000 It has sacrificed thousands of lives before, and to complete it now in- wolves inevitably the loss of many thou sands more of human lives It seems al- most criminal folly to embark upon such an undertaking. when the Nicaragua route is perfectly healthy. will save at least 1000 miles to the sailing vessels from United States ports, and can be built without acquiring either lawsuit of a revolution. Certainly this government cannot afford to be callous to the health of its servants in this enterprise. The sooner the Panama swindle is abandoned 1 the better We want that canal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
About Persona.

E. D. Smith of sylacauga is at the Metropolitan.
 J. T. Mitchell of Cleveland, O., is at the Metropolitan.
 John w. Abercrombie, president of the University of Alabama, is at the Morris Eugene Ware of Baltimore Is at the Morris.
 J. T. and W. J. Mullins of Clanton are registered at the Metropolitan.
 R. H. Riley of Alexander City is at the Metropolitan.
 P. O. stevens of Alexander City is at the Metropolitan.
 S. M. eek of New York is registered at the Morris.
 J. W. Johnston of Selma is at the Morris.
 L. G} Smith of Tuscaloosa is at the Metrop olitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
chrIstmaa Trade.

.1t is estimated that the volume of retail business in Birmingham during this month has been % per cent greater than that of any previous December said a First avenue man.
 'The christmas trade began earlier this year than ever before and all the mer- chants got a good share of it. Birming- ham is one Of the best shopping cities in the south, and thousands of people come here every season from points in Miss issippi, as well as Alabama, to buy their goods The retail merchants carry large and varied stocks and they are satisfied with moderate profits'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
NO ONE COMES HOME TO ME.

By Josie Frazee Cappleman. I sit in the still autumn evening,
 As tn night shades are drawing anigh, And with a dull, heart-faint feeling,
 l gaze on the passers-by; All lonely I look thro' the shadows
 As lonely as life can be- Tor each one has some face to look for, But no one comes home to me I know there are heart-happy faces
 That eagerly watch all aglow- Awaiting the steps of some loved one,
 Some form that they fondly know; I list to the hurrying footsteps,
 But none bring a thrill to me; For from all the plenty of passers.
 No one comes home to me. My heart fills up with emotions.
 Full many and strange to tell. Til like all woe-stricken women.
 The tears to my eyellds well; And I wonder if others are ever
 As lonely and heart-sick as I. And if, thr' the shades and the silence,
 Their hearts ever hungrily cry. With 70 enc to share in my sorrows,
 No one my efforts to share Always alone, thro' the shadows,
 The burden of life to bear; Yet l see hearts all around me
 Fer gladstone and ful of glee: Aye each one has some face to look foa.' But no one comes home to me. I question if life's worth the living Without Q companion-a heart That responds to our every emotion And forms of our fiber a part; The souls constant call is for kinship
 Of close and divinest degree. The many may pluck and possess 1t,
 But-no one comes home to me. All helpless and hopeless I ponder
 Til dreary and dazed is my brain, Til the shadows grow thicker and thicker
 And closely shut in all the pasn So truaed in sorrow around me, As far as the eye can see, And each one has some face to look for,
 Still-no one comes home to me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
Mir. TunstalI Here.

A. M. Tunstall of Greensboro, who is a candidate for the speakership of the next house of representatives of the Alabama legislature, is at the Metropolitan. He and his friends are confident of his cleo ton.
 A well-informed politician said last night: While MT. Wood, who is oppos- ing Mir Tunstall, may have a show of strength, the latter will be an easy win ner. l have taken some pains to canvass and am certain of good majority"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
What Castro most needs is a bundle of receipted bills.
The postman despiaes Atlas job.
Admiral Dewey Is stiII there.
SENATOR MORGAN AND LOBE

5ENAIOK MOHGAN AND LOBBY. From the Mobile Herald.
 Alabama's grand old man. senatoY Nor gan. almost despairs of ever seeing a trans-isthmian canal dug, and he is be- coming discouraged enough to believe that canal will never be dug. The railroad lobby Is very powerful, and it can do all most anything t wants to do and pfe- vent from being done almost anything 1t objects to, but the American people are determined on that canal. and they will have it. The venerable senator should not despair The canal will be dug, and he will live to see it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Purity is very sharp-eyed in looking out for impurity.
 A woman in rubber boots Is as harmon ious as a statue In petticoats.
 No woman's feet will ever get cold if she has a handsome fur around her neck. A woman's idea of being homesick Is being home, but having some one she wants there away.
 What fine Christmas present it would be for the world to give us a Christ mas without any giving of presents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
Negro Voters in the South.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
 An admirer of Theodore Roosevelt ob- jects to the Courier-Jourpar opinion that President Roosevelt, or Candidate Roosevelt, prefers to have the support of the negroes of the north to that of a white minority party in the south. The negroes of the north" says our objector, "are too insignificant in numbers to cut any figure in influencing Mir. Roosevelt's action, even if, as you say, he Is actuated by the motives of a mere politician"
 But are they so insignificant in num- bers?
 According to the census of 1900 the ne- groes have a considerable voting popu- lation in many of the northern states. For instance:
 States. Negro Votes. Illinois,. .....29, I62 Igndiana.... .... .......a ......lS,lSb kansas.... ..........l4,oJd Massachusetts. ..... .......lO, 456 New Jersey.... ...... ....... .........H H, f4 New York...... ...... ......... .......5l, 42o Pennsylvania. ........ol, b6S
 All of these states sometimes go dem ocratic; most of them have repeatedly gone democratic. In the majority of them the division between the parties Is generally so close that the negro vote would be more than sufficient to turn the scale.
 MT. Roosevelt is a better politician than our correspondent gives him credit for being.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

If New York continues to grant tunnel franchises there will soon be Il city below ground as well as right smart one above ground
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

The Castellane children did not know the flag of their grandfather when they saw it New York last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Germany and Great Britain are kick ing up a great deal of smoke off the Venezuelan coast, but not a drop of blood has been shed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Nothing but arbitration will enable the allies to let go, and they cannot advance on accoun. of the Monroe doctrine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Mrs. Molineaux has not gone on the stage, and her divorce is now consid- cred straight goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

The Prince of Wales does not find the son game di1icult, although the Czar and the King of Italy are still out of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Governor-elect Bailey of Kansas should see that that Plctsburg mob in his state IS duly brought to trial for murder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Governor-elect Bailey of Kansas be- gins to insist that his promise to marry was after all a campaign prom ise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

It was white Christmas throughout the land except in Dixie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
MRS. GRANT AND GRANT TOMB.

From the New York Sun.
 The letter which follows was written nearly eleven years ago by the widow of General Grant to the late Gen. Charles H. T. Collis and, of course, has never before been published:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Bloodless surgery should be supple mented with bloodless wars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

The postnan and the congressman should be allowed day off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Marconi calls two Kings 2O00 miles away, which is a safe proceeding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Dr. Marconi is treating the earths curvature with electric currents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Marconi will endeavor to kill the cable business by cut rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Between Dr. Monroe and Dr. Roose- welt Venezuela may yet regain it's feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

Sig. Marconi is making the twenti- eth century hummer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

The Monroe Doctrine is eighty years old, but full of vigor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27
"s East ooth Street.
January sth, 1892

January 9th, lS9z. General Collis-Dear Sir: I wish to communicate through you to the Grant Monument association. Some weeks ago Mir. Duncan the architect, who is to build the monument for my husband, General Grant. suggested, whilst show ing me the plans of said monument. that my remains should be placed in the same sarcophague with those of General Grant, this, he said, would save space. I wish now to most earnestly protest against this plan. General Grant must have his own sarcophagus, and my casket beside him.
 General Grants identity must remain distinct. Hereafter when persons visit this spot, they must be able to say Here rests General Grant Yours Nest sincere ly,
 JULIA D. GRANT" Mrs Grants wishes, thus directly and simply expressed, were respected in the arrangement of the final plan of the monument Most people we think, will be touched by her manifestation of a conscientious solicitude for the historic proprieties and a definite purpose per haps at variance with the natural i'm pulse of the wife.
 General Grant rests by the Hudson dif fers in one particular, so conspicuous that no visitor fails to observe it, from that other impressive tomb near the bank of the Seine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-27

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A Chr Load Of Dime.

One would naturally think that the nack.
age aye business was small industry. but
there - more than one million dollars worth
OF package dyes sold in the United States
every year.
One of the largest package dive factories
IN the world Is that of the Putnam Fajeless
Dyes Co, Unionville, Mo In this factory
alone, three million packages of Putnam
Fadeless Dyes are made every year TO
put up this amount of dyes requires the
handling OF seven million of envelopes. think
OF IT, seven millions of envelopes laid length
wise would reach distance of seven hum
ored miles; If laid one upon the other they
would make pile OF Putnam Fadeless DYES
~ miles high As each envelope has to be
handled five times before a package IS com
pete, the completion of three millions of
passages requires that they be handled
thlrty-hve million times. This of course
gives employment TO a number OF people
the ,futnam Fadelcss DYE Company alone
ehPloy almost a hundred people 90 per
eenI- OF whom are young ladies'
~ cdch package retails for Toe the weight
OIL the retail price of the three millions DacI,-
ages IN dimes is $1,000 pounds, or almost
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l am sure Piso's Cure for Consumntion
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Feb. II, 1900.
Every man over-estimates the value OF his
acquaintance. -AtcnIson Globe.
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The suez Canal eIoeked.

Suez, March 1.-THE canal is at
present blocked by the British petro.
leum steamers Herite. from MarseilIes
February -. and Bulysses. from Con
stantinople February "a, for Port Said.
The former is on fire and the latter is
ashore and abandoned.
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Ambassador White Will Retire.

Berlin. March 17.--Wnh expressions
OF regret the newspapers here print
a dispatch from Washington TO the
effect that Andrew D. White. the Am.
erican ambassador 10 Germany. will
retire next November.
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Most of the Washington hotels serve
four meals day breakfast. lunch.
con dinner and supper The latter oh.
tainable at some houses up to mid,
nighf
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Every man over-estimates the value OF his
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-01-01
NUMBER S5.
Lively College Boys in a Frolie.

Lyman H. Hoye's moving picture en-
tertainment this season Is assuredly
one OF the most attractive OF all its
brilliant predecessors. Mr.. Howe has
spared no expense in securing some Of
the most attractive and marvellous pro-
ducts OF the camera both In this coun-
try and on the other side OF the sea, pre-
sented in a manner that reveals the
wonderful improvement that has over
come that trembling motion which tires
the eyes. All the pictures are new.
Among them being one showing lot
OF frisky college boys, rs or 100 Of them,
in an exciting paper chase, which is
really the old game OF follow your
leader" The boys leap from high
places, tumble into all sorts OF queer
spots, jump into ponds and indulge in
other exciting antics. tis an exceed
ingly interesting picture, and delights
all who see it, especially the young peo-
Pile. The Howe pictures will be seen
at Assembly hall on Thursday evening,
January 18th.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-01-01
Four Persons Burned To Death.

A terrible calamity befell the family
OF John Eshbaugh, who resides near
Shannondalc, In Red Bank township,
Clarion county, on Friday morning of
last week. Mr. Eshbaugh got up about
three o'clock In the morning and
made fire In the cook stove, going
back to bed again. About an hour
later he awoke and found the house on
fire, the flames having gained consider
able headway. Besides himself, his
wife, his brother, and six children we're
sleeping up stairs. He tried TO awaken
them and get them out Of the building,
but with only partial success, as the
house burned so rapidly. Mrs. Esh-
baugh escaped through window, with
two small children, and one about seven
or eight years of age, the latter serious
ly burned. Mrs. Eshbaugh in jumping
from the window, through which she
escaped, broke one of her legs above the
ankle.
MIR. Esbbaugh's brother, aged about
25 years, and three children, aged nine,
ten and twelve years, perished In the
building, 1t being impossible to rescue
them. Everything in the house was
burned, including all the clothing of the
family. The condition of the rescued
ones was pitiable, exposed as they were
to the extreme cold. Mr.. Eshbaugh
tried to keep them warm by piling