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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-15
rhil.ae,phl. Municipal Politio..

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. l5.-The Munici pal league. an organization made up oi the reformers of both political parties held Q meeting behind closed doors to con slider the adviSability of nominating can dldste for mayor in opposition to Charles |, Warwick, the choice of the leaders oI the now defunct Republican combine
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-15
M.Ip Fer p..titat. PeepIr.

DENVER, Jan. i3.-The Burlington rAiI- read has shipped to the destitute people of western Nebraska 7B carloads of sup plies contributed tn Colorado.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-15

NEw YORK. Jan. l6-Ths passenzsa liss sf the steamship Persia. according soa dispatch received from Pierre. .. D. con tainsd the name of W. W. Taylor. and speculation was rife e to whether the pas senFer was ". V. Taylor. the dsfaultins treasurer of South Dakota. who is now a fugitive from justica
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-15
CHICKAMAUGA.
By Captain F. A. MITOHEL

ICopyrisht, 1894, by American Press Asso-ta-
 tion
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-15
Always Wear 1t

At breakfast. dinner. supper. At tea or at a lunch; At times when drinking beverage. Al moments when you m inch:
 T satisfy your ap2eute. The labor you wont sklrk: EsISansa it is | h ard when dressed up in our lovely Laun ry Shirt.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-15
HARD TO ANSWER.

"And if they Go women, Rats?" "Then God save 'em both. "
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-15

Soc cla& you get DANA's.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
IT WAS QUICK WORK.
Store at North Birmingham Satur- % day Night Now In Jail.

MT. Brown s store at North Birmingham was burglarized Saturday night and a large @ number of items taken therefrom.
 The burglars effected an entrance to th 6 building by boring a hole through tie floor from beneath large enough for them to climb through. A lot of canned goods, sugar, tobacco and other items and one pistol were stolen. sS
 The burglary was discovered yesterday morning and the sheriff notified. Deputy Sheriff Roebuck went out to North Birm. ingham and instituted a earch. He soon ran across Sandy Collier, colored, whom le found asleep in an unoccupied house in that vicinity. h the house were a number of the missing items, and Collier was placed under arrest and brought to the city and placed in the county jail.
 While on the way to the city Collier con- fessed 10 Deputy Sheriff Roebuck that he and George Roberts, another negro, had committed the robbery, and that if he would return later to the house where Collier was found he could catch Roberts. He said Roberts had gone to Pratt City to sell some of the stolen articles.
 Placing Collier in jail Deputy Sheriff Roebuck returned to North Birmin gham and had waited but short time when Roberts came in on him. The latter was arrested and brought to the county jail.
 When Roberts was taken before Collier the latter said he was not the right party but all the circumstances pointed to him and the officers concluded to hold him to await an investigation.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
Origin of Punch and Judy.

Boys and girls, old and young, who en- joy immensely the frivolities of Punch and Judy show will be glad to learn that the exhibition has serious side as well as comic one-is, in fact a direct lineal de- scendant of the ancient miracle plays which our ancestors were fond of some six or seyen centuries ago. At least that is the opinion of the Rev. G. R. Woodward, who on Saturday delivered lecture on Ancient Carols" in the chapter house of St. Paul's to members of the Plainsong and Medieval Music society. He con tended that the modern Punch and Judy show, with it's tambourine, drum and pipe, represented the triumph of virtue over vice. Punch Is very like Pons, or Pounce (Portlus) Pllate. Judy was in- tended for Judas, the traitor, or for Judith, who slew Holfernes, and Toby was evil dently the dog mentioned in the book of Tobit. He therefore discarded the Italian derivation of the word and held that the modern form of the old religious show was simply corrupted edition of a miracle play which had Pontius Pilate as it's hero London Telegraph.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
CARDINAL GIBBONS
Breaches From the Text (Which of You Shall Convict Me-" Evidently
 Referring to Ex-Priest Slattery.

BALTIMORE, March 31.-Cardinal Gib- bons preached at the cathedral today to large congregation from the text, "Which of you shall convict me.''
 His eminence evidently h ad in mind Ex- Priest Slattery and the riots in the south. He said in part:
 "The Catholic church is jealous of the honor and moral rectitude of her clergy. It is their constant aim that they should walk in innocence aud blamelessness of life. Whatever any of her clergy is known to have contracted any degrading habits, incompatible with his sacred callings he is withdrawn from the active pursuits of the ministry until he has given marks of reformation. The church has too much reverence tor God; she has too much respect for you; she has too much respect for the clergy them- selves to suffer an unworthy priest to minister at her altar.
 ''We find it very hard to please our ene- mics, They are very inconsistent. If we were to retain degenerate clergy in the exercise of the public ministry they would point the finger of scorn at us and say, See how low is the moral standard of the Catholic clergy.' If we dismiss one, they will forthwith praise him up from the gutter and receive this fallen minister in open arms and lead him about the country like some strange animal and ex- hibit him to the public gaze. He is sure, of course, to malign and misrepresent the kindly of the mother church = he had insulted and dishonered? They affect to believe this man in his fall and they would not listen to him when he was hon. ored in the sanctuary.'
 His eminence closed with an appeal to his hearers to treat the caluminators of the church with moderation, and in no case strike back at her enemies.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
KoHLsAAr,s BREAD SIGNS.
An Amusing Incident of the Chicago An
 arohy Scare Recalled.

An Amusing Incident of the Chicago An
 arohy Scare Recalled.
 "Chicago is so thoroughly recovered from tho anarchy scare," said all attorney while waiting for the colrt to arrive, that it can afford to laugh at many things that happened about ten years ago.
 II remember that about year before the Haymarket bomb was thrown the town was considerably worked up over the anarchist meetings on tho lako front, the processions with rcd banners and all that. There was considerable talk about the so- cial revolution, and the leaders of the movement were becoming very prominent
 "One morning when l camo down town l noticed on tho walls and fences big post CTS showing blood red flag with the word Bread aoross it in white letters. There was something very significant in the de- sign--the rcd flag of anarchy and tho threat of blood behind tho demand for bread. Every one on tho car was talking about the posters and seemed to think it was pretty serious matter,
 Well, sir, those things had been put all over town during that one night. It seemed as if there must have been q thor ough organization of the revolutionists to put up so many of tho posters. remem Der that one Of the prominent anarchists was interviewed as to the meaning of the red flags and the demand for bread.
 He said it meant that the social revo- lution was at hand; that the workmen were organized and would get bread for themselves and their families even if they had to destroy the capitalistio class to get it. Ho said the bread placards were simply put up to give the capitalists warning.
 "A few mornings after that more post CTS bearing red flags appeared in all parts of town, but this time each flag bore the words 'Aerated Bread
 ''The whole thing was scheme to ad yertise a new kind of bread being baked by H. H. Kohlsaat, who was then the big baker of tho town, although be had not become so well known as he is at present. It didn' tappear that he intended to fright en any ono. He simply chose novel method of advertising his improved bread, and people were ready about that time to attach dark significance to anything that was red
 But tho attempt of the anarchist lead CTS to adopt Mir. Kohlsaat's aerated bread scheme was one of the most amusing in cidents of the entire scare. "-Chicago RooorJ
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
Rushing the Business.

The following story Is told of a one time Pennsylvania legislature:
 The session was about to expire. In accordance with the usual custom, the chair was occupied by rapid worker, who was deaf to objections and blind to objectors. His name was Alexander Nc. Cure. Under his able management tho bills were going through at a lightning express rate when one measure was reach ed that was particularly obnoxious to a noisy minority. Utterly obliyious to the demonstration, MT. Mcclure declared that the bill had passed. ts Over in one corner of the legislative [ chamber one member was especially vocif- erous He would not be quieted, and Mir. Mcclure was finally compelled to notice him for tho sake of peace.
 n For what purpose does the gentleman risei' asked the chair.
 2 1T want to offer an amendment to the bill, |" was the reply.
 1 "Too late said MT. Mcclure without smile. "Offer it to the next bill. The clerk will read. Washington Post
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
THE PUZZLE IN ANCESTRY.
A Mathematician Tries to Clear Up Diff 3n ficulty In Family Descent.

It goes without saying that man has two parents four grandparents, eight great grandparents and so on, so that if we go back, say, ten generations, doubling at each step, we have 2.04S ancestors. This sort of argument has been used by super. fcinl genealogists to show that at tho time of William the Conqueror each of us had more ancestors than the total population ? of England; hence we must each be dc. scended from every Englishman of that day, including the immortal William himself.
 The absurdity of this sort of reasoning has been pointed out by Professor Brooks of Johns Hopkins. His immediate object is to establish a point in the theory of evolution, but he confutes all silly gen. ealogists at the same time While it ia true that we do have four grandparents they need no be four separate and distinct persons. First cousins have not moro than three separate grandparents If they are doubly cousins, they have but two. Sc in the tenth generation one's 2,048 ances- tors are never 2,o4S separate persons. They abound in duplicates, so to speak, as every one knows who has tried to trncd his descent, not in one line, but in all possible lines. These duplicates abound especially in small communities whose inhabitants have intermarried for years.
 Besides this the lines from given pair of ancestors tend to become extinct sooner or later, so as ancestry is traced back tho probability is that all the persons living in given community will be found to be descended, not from all, but from a very few-perhaps only one or two-of the inhabitants of the community as they were centuries ago. So instead of having all Englishmen of the year 1000 for our an cestors, the probability is that we arc de- scended from comparatively few of them --the number may bo technically many thousands, but one individual does duty for several scores, or even several hundreds of these the lines of ancestry conyerging upon him from many different directions. This is what Professor Brooks calls tho "convergence of ancestry. ."-Exchange.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
An Indian Baby.

If tho watchful American mother who carefully guards her baby against the cold and gives it daily bath in perfumed wa ter could follow Mohave Indian% child through its infancy, she would more than once be horror stricken at what she saw. Occasionally in hot weather the mothers bathe their children. The manner in which they do it is amusing. they go to a body of water strip the child, and plao-, ing strip of cloth under its arms hold both the ends in hand and swing the child over the water, sousing it vigorously for two or three minutes. Of course the child strangles, coughs and struggles to get its breath, but it never cries. When tho mother is satisfied, that the condition of. the child is sufficiently improved, she drops it on the ground and allows it to roll around in the sun until it's skin is dry. This treatment is given the child moro with the view of keeping it comfort ably cool than respectfully clean-Kate Fields Washington.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
The Worlds Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great in Ieav. ening power as f7e Royal.
THE SKY FOR APRIL.

NAVAL OBSERVATORY, WARRINGTON, D, O., March 31.-tSpeciai. l-Mercury will be a morning planet during the month of April, but will not be in good position for observation, because of its proximity to the sun. Toward the end of the month he will be on the farther side of bis orbit nearly in line with the sun.
 During April Venus will increase slowly in brightness. On the afternoon of April 27 the moon will pass Venus. Venus will pass Neptune, the former 8 degrees to the north of the latter, at D. m., April 29. Mars and Jupiter will be in conjunction in the western corner of Gemini on the even- ing of April 25. Mars will then be about a degree and half north of Jupiter. Both planets are moving eastward, but Mars much more rapidly than Jupiter, so that they will not be long together. The moon will pass by the two on the morning o f the 29th.
 Saturn will be at opposition on the morn- ing of April "A. and so will be visible during the greater part of the night.
 Uranus Is nearing opposition and can be observed during the latter half of th 6 night.
 Neptune is past good position for ob- servation.
 Mars is already far away and for more than dozen years Q90S) will not again be as favorably situated as he was last autumn.
 The monthly variations in the positions of the stars and the apparent changes in the aspect of the planets, which gives the sky new appearance from month to month, is produced in a simple law of nature that doubtless escapes the atten. tion of the many who otherwise admire the beauty of the stormy heavens.
 The earth moves 30 degrees in one month in it's orbit around the sun and this motion IS continually bringing different fixed stars into opposition to the sun, and such stars are on the meridian at midnight, hence the face of the heavens as we see it goes through complete change in year. So that all the different stars come to the meridian at midnight
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
DIALECT IN NOVELS.
The Time Coming When Good English Will
 Be Written.

Be Written.
 There arc indications-notv very marked as yet, but still indications-that tho day of the dialect versfier and story teller is waning. The literary epidemic for which he is responsible has ragged with unabated virulence in this country for the past ten years or more. But all epidemics exhaust themselves in time, and we are encouraged to believe that this one is nearly spent. A tabulGtion of the contents of our popular magazines would now, we think, show a smaller pi ioportion of pages unreadable for their lad spelling than would have been disclosed by Q similar investigation made two years ago. Many a literary worker is beginning to suspect that to misspell as many words as possible is not exactly the noblest of ambitions. We by no means anticipate the complete disap- pearance of the dialect element from our imaginative literature, nor would such reaction be desirable. But we do expect the time to come when dialect shall oc. cupy its proper place in composition and be treated as means rather than as an end. There is an important distinction between the story written for the sake of dialect and the use of dialect for the sake of the story. Tho latter practice is as ex- cusable or even praiseworthy as tho former is reprehensible.
 When used with discrimination and artistic restraint dialect is, of course, an admissible element in both poetry and fic- tion. English literature would be far the poorer without the treasures of Scotch dialect preserved in tho poems of Burns and the novels of the author of "Waver- ley" Likewise we could i'll spare tho work of the Provenoul poets from the lit erature of France, of Goldoni's Venetian comedies from that of Italy or of Reuters Plattdeutsch tales from that of Germany. Even in our country a similar plea may be made for the language of Hosea Big low, or of MT. Cables creoles or of Miss Murfrees Tennessee mountaineors. But the swarm of commonplace and uninspired scribblers of dialect that have descended upon our periodical press during the past decade need not hope to find safe refuge in tho shadow of such really significant names as have been cited. Their preten osions are too utterly without warrant and their productions too entirely without justiflcation.- n.-Chicago Dial.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
PERSONAL.

Rev. Dr. T. J. Beard left yesterday after noon for short visit to Mobile.
 Col. J. J. Altman went to Livingston last night to attend chancery court.
 MT. Frank Grider returned to his home in Winona, Miss. last night, after short stay with Birmingham friends.
 All ladies' high and low shoes at cost and 26 per cent reduction on ailmen's shoes, except Bannister's, until April l at r. .. king's..
 c. P. Jacobson, inspector for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, was in the city Saturday and inspected the local office here.
 MT. J. k. McGregor returned last night from Florida. where he has been soliciting business for the Queen and Crescent route the past two or three weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. Barton of Ensley City, MT. and Mrs. A. J. Riley of Pratt City and Misses Nora Sullivan and Annie O'Neill of this city, were guests of MT. and Mrs. John Bowling At Bessemer yesterday.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
BURGLAR IN A STORE.

HIS PRESENCE KNOWN, BUT HE EvADED
 CAPTURE.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made to burglarize the Ellis Drug company's store yesterday morning.
 About o'clock the two clerks, who oc- cupy a room over the store, were aroused by the night bell ringing. They discovered the burglar, ,who was upstairs, and pursued him down the stairway, but were unable to catch him.
 They retired and were again aroused about 6 o'clock by a noise in the room. This time they did not see the burglar, who made off as soon as he heard the noise made by ths clerks in getting up.
 How the man gained admittance to the store or who he was the clerks could not ascertain. It was thought, however, that he was locked up in the store when closing time came and that he escaped through an upper window while the clerks were looking for him down stairs.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
Why Not "Scientist?"

If soientia had not scire behind it, scien- tist would, accordingly, be every whit as good as aurist, dentist, florist, jurist, ocu- list and tho old copist. now oopyist. Where jndulged in 0 license was in oper- ating, not on the stem of substantive, but on that of part of verb, present participle. Surely, you would not quarrel with colloquist, determinist. funabulist, noctambulist, somnambulist and ventrilo- quist, which are only slightly different from scientistY
 Nay, who knows that, when grown viz orous. it may not got to be ambitiously propagatiye. engendering. to become radi- cated in usage, scientism, scientistio, sci entistically, scientisticalness, scientize sci entizing, scientizingly and scientization2 How do you like the rospect?-Academy
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
DERS FOR PRESIDENT.

LAPoRTE, Ind., March 3l.-Unless pres- ent plans fail of naturalization, Eugene V. Debs will be the choice of Indiana as the candidate of the Peoples party for president in 1896. Debs clubs, having for their object the capture of the Indiana del- egation to the national convention, are lie-' ing organized throughout northern Indi- ana. The promoters of the movement to. bring about an amalgamation of the indus-5 trial organization in the interest of the la
 bor leader are prominent members of the Knights of Labor, whose cbisftain, Grand Master Workman Sovereign, in an inter-l view at Columbus, O., Friday, nominated Debs for the presidency
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
PLAYS HAVOC IN THE OLD CHICAGO TIMES
 BUILDING.

PLAYS HAVOC IN THE OLD CHICAGO TIMES
 BUILDING.
 CHICAGO, March 31.-Shortly after 2 clock this morning fire broke out in the fifth floor of the old Times building, and in less than fifteen minutes the top floor was a mass of flames. A general alarm was sent in, and after hard fight the fire was sub- dued, but the building was flooded with water. The loss will not fall much below $40 ,000, the building being damaged to the extent of $10,0 ,00o. It is probable the Times presses are wrecked, and in this event the loss will be heavy.
 The Free Press Plant was considerably damaged, and losses were sustained by Severn & Ellery and the Simon Printing co npany and Smith, Rush & Co.,. dealers Ia. stationery.
 The fire is thought to have originated in a pile of rubbish from spontaneous com bustion
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
An Experiment Spoiled.

The late Professor Hyrtl was very fond of animals Some years ago one of his fellow professors undertook some experi- ments to ascertain the loss of weight in cases of starvation, using for the purpose a lot of rabbits. The subjects of the ex. pertinent were weighed every day, but, to the experimenter's astonishment. they gained flesh instead of losing it. It was some time before he found out that Pro- lessor Hyrtl had beer. keeping them we'll supplied with food.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
The Abbe's Retort,

l A good story is told of Mgr. Mioland the predecessor of Cardinal Desprez in the !archbishopric of Toulouse. He was pass. ing one day through the pig market when man shouted at him, There are only priests and pigs in this place." The abbe, as he then was, stopped and said to tho man, My friend, are you priest?" Not l." returned the other. "Then," said tho abbe, lyon naturally are the other thing. |" London Globe
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
THE BUILDER.

Out of the feckless marble of yon cloud With the fine tools of fancy can form Immaculate bastions that no foes may storm And no dark bannered myrmidons may shroud. Airier gardens than that monarch proud Hung under Asian heavens blue and warm Swift can fashion. a snowy swarm Of palaces with friezes fair endowed. Or spire on slender spire can I uprear To rival Milan's marvel that the sun
 Kisses to Alpine glacier hues at morn, Or shape such magic minarets-many a
 one
 As St. Sophia raises like spear Crowned with the crescent OCT the Golden
 Horn.
 Clinton Scoliard in Youths Companion.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
A COMING WEDDING.

The following invitation tells of social event which is to occur at an early day: "Mr. and Mrs. Rufus H. Haygood in. vite you to be present at the marriage of m.uh.f, shsr daughter, ,.s;, MSSrgaret to Mr. Lee April 10th, 8 o'clock, First Methodist church, Birmingham, Ala.'' No cards will be sent out in the city.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01
97 ORGANS at half-price and on install ments of $8 down and $4 a month. All grades.
 , .3I g SEALS BROS.
SUGGESTIONS WANTED
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ON THE SUBJECT OF ATHLETICS BY THE
 AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION.
 President W. B. Curtis of the Amateur Athletic union of the United States has is- sued the following address, which is of in- terest to all those interested in athletics:
 The board of governors 0. the Amateur Athletic union and their rules committee propose to thoroughly revise the constitu- tion, by-laws, general rules and athletic rules before the publication of a new hand book which must be issued this spring.
 They will be pleased to receive sugges. tions from any person interested in anna teur athletic sport concerning desirable changes in, or additions to, or excisious from the contents of the present hand book.
 All suggestions made, no matter by whom, will receive due consideration, and the new book, after revision, will be sub mitted to the Amateur Athletic union for approval by mail vote.