Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-07

The silver debate Is over and the Mex ican dollar remains steady at the former quotation of 53 cents The dog refuses to be wagg1ed by few wild hairs on the tip of it's tail.-Exchange.
 The device of the log cabin. adopted by the republicans, is very suggestive to the colored brother It says to him, Vir- tually, you know this, you are used to this, and we intend to keep you used to it-Bowling Green Sunday Post.
 His Whiskers, Peffer of Kansas, sor- rowfully admitted the other day that the silver agitation was dying out in the west, and that there are no more pubic meetings now. He thinks, however, that the check is only temporary, but he is mistaken. The marks of death are al ready upon the silver fallacy. Nashville American.
 Dr. Hawthorne is catching it for his foolish sermon against woman cyclists' and that is probably just what the doctor desired and expected when he preached such a harangue He's getting dead loads" of notoriety out of his perform ance; and this while the wicked laugh and the judicious grieve that he should Ego on" that way.-Chattanooga Times
 James K. Polk, it seems, kept diary 
 ident ought to do this, and publish 1t inn mediately after getting out of office. Cleveland's opinion of Bland, Vest, Nor gan and the rest of the democratic free silverites jotted down from day 10 day while the silver question was before con gress would make mighty interesting reading
 The Ohio populists have made their cause a legitimate subject or fldlcule py nominating the renowned Coxey TOT gov ernor Coxey is no doubt a well mean ing person, but when a man resorts .o grotesuue spectacular performances to draw attention to himself and his Ideas he must not blame people if they judge the end by the means employed to at tain it-Springfield Republican.
 No stronger argument can De offered for the defeat of Senator Bla ckburn than his defiance of the democratic party, nor should any other reason~b be necessary 10 arouse the democrats to sense or the humiliation that will be inflicted II they permit any man, even so dlstlnSulsheu and popular a person as kentucky senior senator, to ride over them rough shod The amount of money he has at his disposal is the least reason for hls retirement.-Danville Advocate.
 By suspending from an egg-shaped bal loon a bicycle gearing, with pedals to revolve a screw propellor, and adding wings at each side to steer with, an ll- yentor has devised a flying apparatus which the New York World has used with success, it says, and will use here after in almost daily flights to and ITO over New York city. The balloon gives buoyancy merely, the screw glIes mo ton and the wings guilds th< hyer 10 the right or left, up or down. If all that .1 oI1a la the problem of flight in still air or mild winds is pretty nearly solved.-Balti- more Sun.
 Our Populist Moses tells us, the Ameri- can chosen people, that, because we are great nation. we can cross dry shod the Red sea of independent free coinage; that is to say, make 50-cent silver dollar ac- ceptable to all men as 100 cents in value, and this despite the fact that no nation has vet been able to cross the free com age waters without boat called Com mercial Ratio." The claim is made that we can do this because we are a great people who should not wait for otner peoples to help us. It is clear that no one individual among our people can cross the sea, that is make 50 cents worth 100 cents yet the pretense IS made that 70,0000 900 of equally incapable cltl- zens can. by concert of action, perform the feat. The absurdity of sthe proposl- tion is evident.-Mobile Register.
 What next? The bloomer girl has add ed a pistol pocket to her cloth-devouring pantaloons, and carries real bullet nurl- CT in it. The authority for the statement is none other than one of the oldest ana most experienced cycling outhltters III the country, a man who has made more plain and double skirts for devotees of the wheel than any other tailor of either sex. The new fad is not confined to the bolder bloomerites, but instead has been boomed by the weak and modest wheel esses who have been annoyed by recent acts of ruffians on the road. When the pistol practice becomes part and parcel of the wheeling course those who poke fun at the cyclienes in "knicks" will take desperate chances. It has been dem onstrated that woman can ire bullet straighter than she can throw a stone or a skillet.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
 eff there is no way" says the Hartford Courant, "of bringing to justice the con scienceless scoundrels who lured the poor Carolina and Alabama negroes into Mex ico as into new land of promise, Worked them until the crop was in, cheated them out of the bulk of their wages and then turned them adrift among a people of strange tongue many hundreds of miles
  selves? Such a crime against humanity as tAat ought not to go unpunished" Of course it ought to be Finished, but how is it to be? Does the Courant happen to re- member what penalty was visited on the scoundrels who ran the Freedman's Bank as philanthropic institution? It was a plausible colored republican, by the way, who allured the poor Carolina and Ala bama negroes into Mexico, by the prom ise that they would be better treated there than in the south.-News and Cou- rier
 The finances of the government are in good shape, revenues are steadily in- creasng, the prospects are good for a continued and steady increase during the remainder of the fiscal year. There is also growing belief, and it is becom- ing more manifest each day, that the congressional elections next year will not result in the selection of a congress committed to the free, unlimited and in- dependent coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The present congress is not 8 free silver congress; even if it were the president would veto bill providing for free coinage under the terms now de- manded. The free silver movement may cause friction and trouble in the demo- cratic DartV in some Of inc So11tharp