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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21
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WHOLESALE GRAB

OF CHINESE VESSELS BY JAPs--LI HUNG
 CHANG IN MORE TROUBLE.
 LONDON, Feb. 20.-The correspondent of the Central News at Pekn says: "Mr. Pethick, formerly United States vice consu at Dentzin, has gone to meet Lii Hung Chang to consult with him upon important mat ters. The emperor demands full explana- ton of the defeats with which China has met during the war, and also wants to know the amount and disposition of the war expenses.
 A dispatch from Foo Chow reports that numerous secret societies are being formed. whose objects are unknown. It is sup posed, however, that they are political or ganizations.
 nel waiting to intercept vessels with con- traband cargoes.
 A Central News dispatch from Tokio says that Admiral Ito reports from Wei Hoi Wei, under the date of February 17, as follows;
 'troday the entire fleet entered the har- bor. The forts on Liu Kung Tao island, the torpedo stations and the wRrships Chen Yuen, Chi Yuen, Ywang Chi, Chen Pin, Chen Chun, Chen Pi, Chen Nan, Chen Si ment buildings, were ceded to us, and our crews were sent to prepare the ships for sailing. The Chen Yuen will temporarily be sent to Port Arthur, and the other ves- 6elB VIII pc sent 10 Japan. All or the Iort6 are now held by crews from the Port Arthur naval station. The Ywang Chi was given up as a conveyance for the remains of Admiral Tiug.'
 INFERIOR COURT CRIMINAL BU5I-
 ..4--. .--, NESS.
 I can no longer take criminal business. 1 have more time for civil matters. Office and room at 108h North Twentieth street. Prompt constables.
 JOHN J. MCDAvID,
 Notary Public and ex-Oficio J. F.
 Or
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

Spring medicines and Hoods Sarsaparilla are synonymous terms, so popular is this medicine.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

"If in this life only we have hope ' we are of all men most miserable. '-Co- rinthians, xv, 19. heard you last night, Colonel Robert; You handled your subject with care; The words from y our mouth flowed like honey As you ''joIlied'' poor dead old Voltaire. l have never disputed your talent And although you have fallen from grace, And do not believe Tn the Bible, What
 Book
 Do
 You
 In it's placer Some say tha, you lecture for money We'll parsons all preach Tor the same And neither yourself nor tho parsons Can satisfy hunger with fame. But what an anxious to get at As lawyer, please take up my case If God is myth and misnomer, What
 God
 Do
 You
 In His placer Pm doubtful about my religion lis true r m not burdened with much For Pm "mixed' on the creed of the churches And "fogged' by the free-thnking Dutch. Voltaire I admire as student, But in none of his works can trace Where he helps us along with our future He Takes; sa;,
 Leaves Naught
 In it's place! I've just read your oration on Conking- It's masterly, scholarly, grand As a tear tearer, Bob, you're q daisy, And can beat any man in tho land But Pm anxious to wind up in Heaven, When on earth have finished my race. If you take my Ely ysium from me What
 Abode
 Do
 You
 In it's place? You remind me of men who are bathing. (We all of us want to be clean)-- We undreSs ere we plunge in the water And strongly object to be seen. If some one had stolen our clothing We'd never again show our face If the thief had departed and left us No
 Pants,
 And no
 Hat
 In it's place! What use are your doubts and dissensionsP They bother d man all his life. When peace by the Bible is offered Why lie on pallet Of strife? Don't imagine I m mad when tell you think, Bob, youre off Of your base When you take from the patriot his country And Give
 Him
 No @
 Land 2
 In it's place I'm DO hog, and perhaps r refuse it Ii offered the whole of the earth; For our dollars we cannot take with us No matter how much we are worth. Ihave been at the bedside of Christians And seen the sweet smile on their face As they thought of the home that awaits them Can n----..---- --lr.-.i L ---z 4s 5sear You Give
 such
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

READERS of Shakespeare have wondered how Portia, lady of fashion, should be so familiar with the law as to extricate An tonia from tho meshes that Shylock had woven round him. Colonel Ingersoll at- tempts to explain it, but misses the point. Shakespeare evidently foresaw this ques- tion, and he provided against it. He does not attribute the origin of the plan to Portia, but to her cousin, Bellario, a learned lawyer oi Padua. She writes to her cousin Bellario and lays the matter before him. He writes back, describing the method of procedure, and sending her the lawyers garb in which to appear in court. Shakespeare was great admirer of woman i, and invests her with all the virtues, but not with profound Knowledge of the law.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21
Give
 In it's placer

Some say that you lecture for money Well, parsons all preach for the same And neither yourself nor tho parsons Can satisfy hunger with fame. But what I an anxious to get at As a lawyer, please take up my case If God is a myth and misnomer, What
 God
 Do
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

GEORGE WASHINGTON has been obscured by Napoleon Bonaparte. Even the alma macs give the importance of February 22 to some other event than Washington's birth day. The almanacs, however, continue to give the events of Napoleon's life-his birth, his battles, his punishment. Even the newspapers make fun of Washington's s birthday, calling it Birthington's wash day. If Americans have transferred their hero worship from Washington to Ma poleon it is strange indeed, for Washing ton was the representative of a republican form of government and Napoleon of a monarchy. But perhaps it is the person. ality of the two great men that attracts and repels. Washington was good; Ma poleon had dash of the devil Tn him as James Whitcomb Riley expresses it: feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any
 theme
 When care has cast her anchor in the harbor
 of dream
 Tn fact. to speak in earnest, I believe it adds
 charm
 To spice the good trihe with a little dust of
 harm,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

Miss Amy Jordan came over from Talla-
 dega to be present at the Haskell Throck- morton wedding.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21
In it's placel

What use are your doubts and dissensonsf They bother man all his life. When peace by the Bible is offered Why lie on n pallet of strife? Don't imagine Pm mad when tell you think, Bob, you're off of your base When you take from the patriot his country And
 Give
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

The Philomathic society of Howard col- lege will celebrate it's thirty second anni- vsrsary Friday night, the 22d instant. The following Is the programme:
 President-W. 8. Britt.
 Marshal-E. V. Smith.
 Resolved, That the Mental Ca- pacities the Sexes are Equal.''
 Affirmative-C. B. Alverson and A. J. Thames.
 [ Negative-A. M. Collins and E. A. Jones.
 { Declaimer-W. A. Taliaferro.
 Orator-W. P. McAdory.
 Welcome by J. O. Goggans.
 A cordial invitation is extended to the public to these exercises, to be held in the college chapel at East Lake, Ala.
 Dr. and Mrs. l.. G. Woodson entertained a number of their friends Tuesday evening at o'clock with a card party, in compli. ment to Mrs. stephen Smith of Demopolis, Ala. 1t was an evening of great pleasIre to every guest present, and was, as all Mrs. Woodson's entertainments are, a complete and delightful success. Thsrs were five tables of players, and euchre was the game played. The prize, an exquisite chocolate cup and saucer, was won by Mrs. W 0. sns Mrs asns Mrs sS. score, cut for the prize, which was won ou the cut by Mrs. Estes.
 Delicious refreshments were served in courses, and completed one of the most charming of Birmingham's social events oi the winter. Dr. and Mrs. Woodson'i guests were: Mrs, Stephen Smith, MT. dpd Mrs. Addison e. Smith, Mir. and Mfs. w. e. Estes, Judge and Mrs. w. W. Will Aksrson. Mr, end Mrs. ". A. Cochran
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

| Miss Eloise Johnston is now visiting rela-
 tives in Columbus, Miss. She will be ab- | sent several weeks.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-21

THE New York Tribune calls attention to the criminal record of 1894, which the AGE HERALD published several days since. The Tribune, unfortunately, is falling into it's old habit of abusing the South, and it per- verts these figures to serve it's purpose. It says that the small number of legal eXecu- tions may explain the large number of lynchings, most of the latter being in the South. Now, let us see as to the number of legal executions. The figures show that there were l32 legal executions in 1894, and of this number Alabama had thirteen and New York State only two. Accepting the Tribune's hypothesis that legal executions are an antdote to lynchings and an evil dence of rigid administration of the laws, then Alabama is far in advance of New York. The State of New York doubtless had as many murders in proportion to population as Alabama, for three fourths of the murders are due to quarrels, liquor, jealousy and similar causes, that occur among all races and all classes, and, there- fore, the ridiculously small number of exe- cutions shows positively that the laws are lax in that great State. It may be added that only forty one legal executions oc-. cured in the North aud ninety -one in the South, yet the North has double the popu- lation of the South. There were $500 mur- | ders reported for last year, and at least COCO of them must have occurred in the North. The Tribune speaks of lynching as ia social custom which prevails in the South.' It is ''a custom more honored iu the breach than the observance. Its prevalence in the South is largely due to the presence of the "niggers,' the low down, trfing class of the negroes that will not work. Take the whites of the South, as compared to the same race of the North, and the South shows to advantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-15
SENSATIONAL ATTACK.

Rev. Frank Mallory Finds Fault with the
First Christian Church Entertainments.
Rev. Frank Mallory of the East Side
Christian church preached rather SEN
sational sermon at the evening session
of his church on East Sixth street yester-
day, in which he denounced the recent
entertainment given in the Christian
CHURCH on Topeka avenue under the
name of the Queen of Fame" as
''damnable and corrupt
His sermon had for theme, s'No Room
for Christ in the Inn" During his dis
course he said:
There are church socials and church
entertainments-and some of them have
occurred very recently-that are not even
tit for the low down opera houses"
He referred particularly to ''The
Queen of Fame" au entertainment
given at the Sunday school room
of the First Christian church
last Wednesday evening and declared
that ''keOple used the church as cloak
and will give such damnable entertain
ments in the name of Christ and such
entertainments will ruin and corrupt both
young men and women"
Tho Queen of Fame. was presented
by several Topeka young ladies last
Wednesday evening and will be repeated
at the Christlan church Tuesday even
ing and at the Congreg gatlOnals church IN
North Topeka Wednesday evening
A woman prominent in the First
j Christian church, and one of the fore
most in getting up the entertainment
referred to, SAID to JOURNAL reporter
/ today:
al cannot understand why Mr.. Mallory
! should attack this entertainment lie
seems to have more religion than he
has brains. As a matter of fact there
was not the slightest thing objectiona BILE
about the entertainment Certainly not
about the theme or.the language. If he
refers to the costumes he is still in the
wrong Two dresses were low necked,
| but no lower than all women wear in the
summer. Mrs. Henson, who repres enred
/ Xantippe, wore a trailing Greek cos
tune and her arms were exposed. Mrs.
Nanon Heron, who represented Joan OF
Arc, wore d skirt that did not reach her
ankles. In addition to that there were
! leggings to represent armor.
Il don't believe Mr. Mallory or any of
! his congregation saw the play at all.
We tried to sell some tickets to them,
] but could not I think there is a good
deal of jealousy existing over there any
way and Mr.. Mallory thought it about
time to say something that would attract
attention to him."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-15
NOT WORK FOR ALL.
One Hundred Men Apply for Work on
the Street Force.

One Hundred Men Apply for Work on
the Street Force.
Not less than 100 men reported to the
new street commissioner this morning
and asked for work on the streets. The
new administration was expected to find
something to do for all the men. Most
of the men under Street Commissioner
Naylor were discharged, but very few
were put to work. 1t was promised that
if Harrison could be defeated, work on
the streetss should be furnished to all
who needed it.
Street Commissioner Ramsey says he
will increase the working force as soon as
he becomes fam iliar with the work. Only
half dozen teams were put towork and
about twice as many men. sit is very
difficult to decide who to put to work, )"
says he. "a man will come to me and
tell me he has five or six children
who have nothing to eat, and
it is hard to refuse him work,
but there is not enough for
all. will probably follow the rule of
giving the work turn about, and those
who have had work continually on the
others, and they can afford to give up
their places. l will probably investigate
some of the stories the men tell me and
put the most worthy ones to work"
There was some comment which was
not at all favorable to Mayor Fellows or
his appointees when the changes in the
sewer force were announced It has
been the duty of two men to look after
the flushing of the sewers and other work
connected with them. VIM. Morgan who
as worked on the force for long time was
discharged and his place given to Au-
drew Lesser, who is said to be a Dem
ocrat William Windeman was allowed
to remain, and A. T. Potts, the Fifth
ward politician, was given a place
Morgan, the man who was discharged
was for Harrison at the primary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-15
WAS ROGERS DRUNK?
Investigation Today-UnIversity Students
Want 1t to Go On.


Want 1t to Go On.
There is small army of politicians in
town today all awaiting with interest the
opening and developments of the invest
igation of Senator William Rogers
Senator Rogers Is here with his attor-
neys Senator Solon o. Thacher and Judge
Z. E Foote, and Cy Leland chairman of
the Republican state central committee
who preferred the charges is on the
ground AIr. Leland said this morning
that he would be represented before the
committee by David Overmyer.
The Rogers committee is to meet in
the bank commissioners office at
o'clock but as Representative Lambert has
wired Chairman Wucoxson that he can't
be here until late, it is not likely
that anything will be done before to-
morrow
Senator Rogers said today that few
days after the charges against him were
filed young man from the university
came to him and told him that if he
would vote against Robert Moody for
secretary and treasurer of the university
the proposed investigation would be
dropped.
Senator Rogers says he learned that
Cy LELAND had a young man from his
part of the state picked out for NJ Moody's
place, which pays Il salary of 800 a
year, but that he told the young man to
go and tell his master that Bill Rogers
knew what to do without being told.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-15
HAD TO DEHORN THE MULE

The Ell<s' Plan of Advertisement Pro-
duced wild Scenes.
A mule was arrested today for street
walking The Elks, in order to adver-
tise the time when their charts would be
open. had hired two little coIored boys
and the mule for the purpose. The muIe
was little one, contrary aud indlHer-
ent 4 huge pair of elk's antiers
that have occupied a prominent place
in the Elks' lodge room were fixed on
the head of the mule, and after the boys
were uniformed, the trio marched up
and down Kansas avenue, or started TO.
One boy walked ahead leading the mule
and the other walked behind blowing
d horn. The mule was about tho same
color as a real deer, and the deception was
moderately successful. The procession
hadn't gone a block before all the horses
in sight were uneasy. Two of Weiss
delivery wagons were upset and every
hackman within radius of two blocks
was holding his team by their brides
and swearing at the little boys and the
poor mule.
When the procession had gone as far
as the Throop a policeman told the boys
to get off of Kansas avenue. Lee Jones
was there and told them not to pay auy
attention to the officer but 10 go abe All.
| The boys started back but SOON caused
| another uprising. aud finally Captaia
| Gardiner rushed out The boys rau, aad
! Gardiner took charge of the mule. The
captain wanted to read the mule TO Lne
! city prison, but the animal wouldn't bo
lied. 1t just stood still and finally began
to bray; softly at first, and then with
more volume, until big crowd of peo-
pie stopped and grinned at the sighs Of
a police captain trying to lead bray
ing mule, that wouldn't bulge an incn.
The mule, with possible vision of d
tine for resisting an officer, finally agreed
to go with Captain Gardiner.
In the meantime the boys had
rushed to the rooms of the Elks
and begged to be hid. they
said the police were after them. But
the police didn't come The mule was
kept hitched in front of the police head
quarters until several horses became
terrorized and then it was returned to
the boys with the understanding that it
should be dehorned and kept off Kansas
| avenue.
When Pick Smith and Will Haskell
were fixing the horns on the mule they
found some difficulty in arranging them
in place firmly enough to keep them
from falling off. "Say, boss" said one
of the boys, "if you kain't fix 'em on no
other way, you kin nail 'em on It
won't hurt de mule. Use hit him in de
head wild hammer lots O. times and he
never felt it,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-15
VOICE FROM WICHITA.
Republican Paper There Holds the Gov
ernor Over the Gridiron.

Republican Paper There Holds the Gov
ernor Over the GridirOn.
The Wichita Star, stalwart Republi-
can paper at Wichita, says:
"And so, Governor Morrill,. you have
expressed yourself at last. You do not
believe the law can be enforced where
the local sentiment is against it? Why
IL the world didn't you say so before
you were elected? Then we would have
found d man who did believe that any
law on the statute books of Kansas could
and should be enforced. You don't be-
Iieve the law can be enforced and yet
you swore you would enforce all the
laws of the state when you took your
oath of office.
"How do you know the law cannot be
enforced here? You have not made an
the word of lot of fellows who are get
ting some revenue out of the joints. You
have no right to say the people of
Wichita are all believers in any laws
violations until you have given them
chance to make q test 1t is your police
commissioners that are keeping these
places open by accepting bribes from
them. You made promises to part of
our people that you would appoint men
that would enforce the law
"Then you allowed Marsh Murdock to
dictate to you the names of a set of men
who never have and never will make an
effort to enforce the law. You say the
joints in this city are not very wide
open You are off There never was a
more outrageous, hagrant or open viola
tion than at present. 1t is an insult to
decent people, travesty on justice and
a violence to our form of government to
allow these hell holes to run in open viO-
lation to the laws of the state. Give
Wichita a chance. Two-thirds of the
people are opposed to the laws violation.
You have been listening to the balance
and their loud clamorings which you
have mistaken for public sentiment is
but the bubbling of beer they have i1n-
bibed Give Wichita a chancev"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-15
Morrilps prohibition utterances in q

Morrilrs prohibition utterances in a
forcible manner.
Governor Morrill, made the statement
in his interview that the prohibitory law
is violated in but three towns in the
state. Archison, Leavenworth and
Wichita
Replying to this DR.. Brumbaugh said:
sIf Governor Morrill, were partner in
the liquor business he could not have
taken a more desirable stand. SO far as
the interest of the traffic is concerned,
than the sentiments which he gave ut
terancs to in his interview.
Il have travelled on the Santa Fe road
from here to Arkansas City, on the Rock
Island road to the Colorado line. and on
the Union Pacific road to Salina, and l
am free to say to you that at nearly every
station along these routes 1 saw numer-
Gus beer kegs taken from the ex-
press car and left on the depot
platform for some local dealer
in liquor. l do not know whether the
governor has wilfully misstated the facts
in regard to the prohibition law, or
whether he is ignorant of the true situa-
ton l am sure he has travelled over this
state as much as l have, but according to
his statements he did not see things l
have seen. l cannot understand where
the governor keeps his eyes that he can
not see, or his nose that he can not smell.
If the governor will go with me l will
guarantee to take him into more than
three towns i'll Kansas where the prohibi-
tory law is openly violated"
Governor Morrill, said that the prohibi-
tory law could not be enforced where
local sentiment was against it. In reply
to this Dr. Brumbaugh said:
This is nonsense. l understand, how
ever, that an executive can net long sue
ceed in politics and enforce the prohibit
tory law in Kansas at the present time.
There is no use of lodging and lying
about the matter. The governor says he
is willing to face condition. yet he seeks
to avoid that very condition to which he
refers A year ago in Kansas we had
joints. Now we have no joints, we have
saloons. Recently have visited numer-
Gus small towns in the vicinity of Atchi-
son-cities of the third class-and l will
say to you that saloons run open In all of
them. I know this aud certainly the
governor must know it. Again l say that
prohibition is a failure and a farce. If
the governor was seeking to pave the
way for the overthrow of the prohibitory
law he could not have made a better
move than his recent utterances in re-
gard to this matter"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-15
BULL FIGHTS GRIZZLY.
The Bull Ring at New Laredo the Scene of
Another Encounter.

LAREDO April 15.-The fight between
the California grizzly and the Mexican
fighting bull ''Panther" took place today
as advertised in the bull ring in
New Laredo, Mex, but though it
pleased the crowd it was not
much of fight after all. Great
CONSERVATION was caused at one stage of
the game when the bear "Ramidan" be-
ing pursued in one of the corners by mad
rushes climbed out over the top of the
cage.
Old staid pelagic citizens and gov
ernment officers and business men
who mad not been obliged to move ac-
lively since their boyhood, all made a
rush for tho top railing and had not the
bear. falling to get over the barbed top
of the cage gone down the way he
went up these gentlemen would certainly
have jumped down the twenty-five feet
to the outside.
Anything with bull in it pleases tke
Mexican and a fight of great interest
will probably take place in Monterey.
Mex, next Sunday when one of the bes.
fighting bulls is going against the fight
| ing lion Parnell in the same big cage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-15
Diamond Cutters Are Watched.

Not only IS diamond cutting not a
specially high paid occupation. but it
is one involving a most humiliating
system of espionage to the worker.
Each man is held strictly to account
for the stones he receives on going to
work In the morning, and the count
has to be carefully taken when the un-
finished work is turned IN at night to
be locked up in safe against the re-
turn of the workmen the next day.
The possibilities of theft are great,
though dishonest workman knows
that an attempt to dispose of an nnfn-
ished stone would bring suspicion upon
him wherever the attempt was made