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Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
The Irishman's Faith.

The Messenger.
 "One of the most remarkable cases of faith I have ever seen," said a we'll known physician recently, occurred when I was student in Philadelphia. I had patient, an Irishman, who had broken leg. When the plaster bandage was removed and a lighter one put in its place I noticed that one of the pins went in with great difficulty and 1 could not understand it. A week afterward. in removing this pin, found it stuck hard and fast, and I was forced to remove it with forceps. What was my astonish- ment on making an examination to find that the pin had been run through the skin twice instead of through the cloth. Why, Pat said I, didn't you know that pin was sticking in your TO be sure I did replied Pat, but I thought you knowed your business and so I hilt me tongue'"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
The Party Has No Use for Sore Heads.

An exchange very wisely remarks:
 "The man who says that he will bolt the democratic party if it fails to please his particular views upon some particu- lar issue is no more worthy the name of democrat than the devil is of being mis- taken for St Peter. Fight for your views with all your might, but if you are over powe cred then take up the cause of the majority in the fight against the common enemy-thls is the kind of democrats we need The party has no use for perpetual grumbers or chronic sore-heads."
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
England to the Reacue.

Says the Vernon Courier:
 ''The political field has been somewhat disturbed of late. It is said that Govern or Oates has signified his willingness to be governor again if the good of the party demands it. Captain Joseph F. Johnston is in the race also. Senator Pugh is can wasting the state in his own interest for reelection. Captain Bankhead has an- nounced himself for reelection from the Sixth. The populists and republicans are likely to fuse, with each party to have recognition on the state ticket. This will insure a large campaign contribu- ton from New England."
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

Mrs. Charlotte M. Clark CCharles M. Clay'), literary woman of note, is lying critically ill at the residence of her son, the Rev. Frank Pinckney Clark rector of St. Georges Protestant Episcopal church, Philadelphia. She met with se- 1:ous fall last August and has been com fined to her bed since then. Mrs Clark was born in Virginia sixty-four years .n. She was educated at Oxford, O., be- ing a sehoolmate and long-life friend of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. Just after the Franco Prussian war she was Paris cor respondent for several papers, and has written a number of successful books, among them Baby Rue" How She Came Into Her Kingdom" and "The Modern Hagar." She numbered among her friends Jefferson Davis and L. Q. c. Lamar. She is we'll known pei sonally and by her work in London. New York, Washington and the south.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

The Condition of Christians in Turkey.

New York Times.
 All the indications are that the Euro pean powers have either agreed upon some plan of division of the Turkish em- pire or have at- least decided for the time being to sink their differences and unite in wiping out the sultan's govern ment Just how soon or in what way this will be done is in one sense of little moment. In another it is of great mo- ment For upon it depends the rescue of the Christians scattered over the em- pire. No one supposes that the 5000, 900 of Turks, besides the Kurds, Circassians. Lazes, Xeibecks and other Moslem tribes scattered over the country will yield with good deal of humbug about the Turkish army. An organized army means an enormous expense, and the Ottoman treasury is bankrupt. But there are many ways of securing money besides drawing regular wages, and in these the Turk and his fellows are adopts. The more welearn of the disturbances in Err zeroum, Diarbekir, Ak-HiSSar and else- where the more it becomes apparent that one great object of the Turks was to enrich themselves at the expense of their Christian neighbors. Throughout the empire the Christians, not Armenians only, but Greeks, Jacobites, Syrians and others, are the richest in goods and money, the Moslems being chiefly land lords, farmers and shepherds. The shop keepers and bankers are uniformly Chris tians.
 Once let the impression get abroad through Asiatic Turkey that European soldiers are on their way to protect these Christians and the Moslems will soon
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

The republican congress to sit a month hence may take steps to direct the secre- tary to borrow. if necessary, from our own people first, and it should not go be- yond that unless to provide for the ap- pointment of an expert non-partisan cur rency commission to study the whole theme with deliberation and report the results of it's investigations to future session-BOStOn Traveller.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
Sunday Fishing.

No truth in the old saying that a fellow can't catch fish on Sunday. Says the Covington Times:
 ''OffTast Sunday and Sunday night MT. William Henry Wiggins of Wiggins reap ed a rich reward from his fish trap. Dur ing the day his trap caught about 100 large fish, and during the night it caught 1O5. This, we venture to say, beats the record for fishing, and it's not fisher mans yarn either but substantiated facts.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
Harmony.
Montgomery Advertiser.

Let's have harmony in the party in Alabama next year." enthusiastically re- marked a true and tried democrat yester- day "Why can't we all unite on Joe Johnston and make him governor with out a contest. He has been a true dem ocrat in the past and is large property owner and successful business man, and no man is more interested in good gov ernment than he. I want a peaceful, quiet time next year and do not want to see the party torn asunder by factionaI differences and contests"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
Lanes All Right.

From the reading of his paper one may we'll suppose that Editor Lane thinks he has a pre-emption right to oppose Gov ernor Oates He is exhibiting good deal of antagonism to the distinguished ex- ecutive, but wants to hold Editor Cole man down.-Decatur News.
 Let Editor Lane have his frolic. He's all right. It may be that he will have a shock of Oates at the head of his edito- rial column within the next few weeks.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
Declares for Johnston.


 While the Tuskaloosa Gazette may be on a quandary as to the financial ques- tion, it knows exactly where it is "at' as to the governorship. Listen:
 "The Gazette, thinking and knowing that Captain Johnston'S views on the money question have little or nothing to do with his fitness for governor, an nounces that between him and Governor Oates it will support the former. Cap tain Johnston has a great many political admirers all over Alabama who for three times have stood squarely by the opposi- tion when it's candidate was nominated, and it is the duty of that part of the de- mocracy to stand by him If he should be nominated, and if they have not the right kind of stuff in them to stick up to the nominee then they are not worthy of the name of democrats. The Montgomery Advertiser has argued that it's crowd would not stick up to Captain Johnston if he was nominated, and yet that paper claims to represent the simon-pure de- mocracy that should be entrusted with the destiny of great party. Captain Johnston's crowd has stood by the par ty through thick and thin and the Ad- vertiser says it will do so again and elect Oates for second term, and if this be true then it seems that this branch of the democracy is the one to tie to.
 we confess, however, that our de- mocracy is not the kind the Advertiser teaches, and not the kind, as it insin- uates, that composes the sound money element of the party. for we are going to abide by the decision of the party, it matters not whether it goes our way or not, and we think we speak the senti- ments of the sound money democrats of Tuskaloosa when we make this state ment."
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
An Unsought Honor.

The Decatur News, close friend of Governor Oates, in an editorial relative to thrusting the nomination for governor upon him says:
 But there is no necessity of thrusting upon MT. Oates this unsought honor. There are others who are perhaps just as worthy and competent for the office as he. And certainly there is no need for casting insinuations upon the oft-repeat- ed utterances of MT. Oates and ref1ecting upon his caudnr and political integrity, and attempting thereby and in other ways to create party distrnst and differ ences and dissensions. Let Kentucky's experience be a lesson to all, and let's harmonize and work together for the general party good and public welfare"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

The New Orleans Times-Democrat says: Never before in any American city has there been greater ned for rform than exists today in New Oorleans. With a municipal government that for inefli- ciency and corruptness has never been equaled and with criminal court in which it is universally conceded to be impossible to obtain justice, it would seem that there should be no division of sentiment on the part of all good and intelligent citizens as to the necessity for reform and as to the nature of what that reform should be-"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

A dispatch from Rio Janeiro is to the effect that there are rumors throughout Brazil of monarchical conspiracy in which Great Britain and Germany are in- terested to re-establish an imperial gov ernment in that country and to place Prince Henry, a brother of Emperor William II on the Brazilian throne. The alarm in Brazil is needless. No Europ- can prince will ascend a throne on the western hemisphere. neither in Brazil nor elsewhere
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
Pledged to Johnston.

rhe Evergreen Courant so concludes:
 Governor Oates pledged his support to Captain Johnston for the campaign of 1S96. when he was nominated at the last state convention. The people don't for get such things easy"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

Josiah Quincy, ex-assistant secretary of state under Gresham. has been nom- mated by the democrats of Boston for mayor. His election by large majority is conceded. The democratic majority on governor in Boston at the recent state election was 250O, and the democratic ma jority at the city election. which will oc- cur December 10, will be greater. The democrats also will elect a majority of the aldermen. and the democratic papers are demanding that the very best men shall be nominated.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

The Mississippi river levees are larger, stronger and consequently better pre- pared to withstand floods than ever be- fore. Work all along the line from Cairo down is progressing favorably on levees, revetments and dredges. Weak levees have been strengthened and old ones rebuilt Of the $2,665, 900 appropriated for the work enough has been expended to protect the lowlands of the Mississippi valley more securely than ever they were before,
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

At the close of his account of the Marl- borough-Vanderbilt wedding in the New York Journal MT. Julian Ralph tells this interesting little incident;
 Perhaps the full moral of it was best expressed by lady who sat beside the writer in the church. She noticed that he took notes and asked if he was a re- porter. Assured that he was one, she handed her card to him, saying: ''If you can put me among those who are In the private inclosure. 1t will be a great day for me"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

The Montgomery Advertiser uses over column space trying to explain out of warping it's interview with Governor Oates into an announcement that he was a candidate for reelection. Is 1t possible the Advertiser will not continue to con
 trol the politics of Alabama and dictate who the democratic candidate shall be?
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
Is Not Bigger or Wiser Than His Party.

Il
 Says the Montgomery Journal:
 "The best evidence that the impression is growing that Captain Johnston will be the nominee of the party for governor in 1896 is the fact that the populite and op- position papers have already turned their guns on him. The Wetumpka Democrat of last week is filled with criticisms of Johnston and his position on the money question. Its chief objection to Johnston, is his loyalty to the party It says among other things
 "'Captain Johnston must have an idea that the people of Alabama are a set of deluded cranks. In one breath he tells them the gold standard will ruin them, and in the next he says he will vote for it The welfare of the people of Alabama is dearer to them than Captain Johnston or his party
 Hike the Reform Democrat there are a great many people who cannot appreci- ate Captain Johnston's position. It is simply this: Captain Johnston believes that the gold monometallic system would be hurtful to the best interests of the people. This is an honest belief, which is shared in by nine-tenths of the thought ful and intelligent people of Alabama But if Captain Johnstons party, in it's combined wisdom. takes a different view of the monetary question: he like loyal and patriotic democrat. who believes that reforms of the monetary system can only come through the democratic party, is willing to yield his own judgment so far as voting for the nominees of the party are concerned. He Is not like some other public men. not the least of whom is q distinguished New Yorker. now occupy ing an exalted position at Washington who feel smarter and wiser than their party, and stabs if when it differs with them. It is pleas to know that Gap tain Johnston is a democrat"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
Do,ne Good Work.

The Evergreen Courant says:
 "Senators Morgan and Pugh are doing some good work for the cause of free silver. It is hoped that their speech making tour in Alabama will prove campaign of education"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
One Term Candidate. c the Everpreen Co,ira nt

says the evergreen COurant.
 Governor Oates was most emphat- ically a one-term candidate two years ago, and now is candidate for the sem atorship, and will continue to be. though reelected governor. The politicians whoo2ing the scheme claim that there should be no scramble within the party ranks for governor next year, and that this is the way not to have it. This sort of tactics has forced Captain Johnston to announce himself candidate; and if
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
A Straw Showing the Direction ofthe Wind

A Straw Showing the Direction ofthe Wind.
 The following from the Decatur News gold bug to the beth, shows how some of the over-zealous partisans are drifting
 ''If it be true that Governor Oates and Captain Johnston have entered the race for governor, the next thing out of order will be for their respective friends to engage in war of crimination and re- elimination and make it appear to the outside world that neither of them is morally fitting to be governor, and then Dr Bob Moseley's candidate will step on the arena and take the persimmon just like Bradley of Kentucky did,"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

At Conshohocken, Pa, on the 11th re- duction of 10 per cent was made in the wages paid at the rolling mills of the Alan Wood company and John Wood & RrOS
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

Governor Oates suffers himself made a tool of there will be the liveliest time Alabama has known in many years. Then the bitterness so engendered would so demoralize the Alabama democracy that 1t would sustain deserved defeat. It were sad for Governor Oates and his friends to have the Advertiser dupe them into so deadly a snare. Of course MT. Screws needs prop in his fruitless race for congress. and 1t would be nice to lean upon Governor Oates, encased within his bulwark of precedents."
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
EDMUND W. PETTUS FOR THE SENATE.


 There are still in Alabama a few who were heroes from '61 to 65, and who, with the same zeal, integrity and cour- age which made them heroes then, are today leaders among their fellowmen.
 Now that the political arena is stirred from center to circumference by the late victory of the republicans, it behooves us, who have been lifelong democrats and who wish the party of the people and for the people" led to victory, to se- feet one of these heroes as a candidate for the United States senate. At the siege of Vicksburg Edmund w. Pettus was the hero. In the days of 63, when telegraphed by his friends In the legis- lature of Alabama that they were going to send him to the Confederate senate, Edmund w. Pettus was the man who replied: "A soldiers place is at the front. and not in the halls of the senate" and with all that he was defeated by only two votes. Edmund w. Pettus is the man who never asked for a vote from any one and was never a. candi- date for any office. He is the leader of the bar of Alabama, a man who has the courage of his convictions, and who, if sent to the senate, would be an ornament to his state and a credit to his country
 He would make no canvass for any of- fice-he Is not politicfan-therefore let the democrats. who have the welfare of the party at heart, unite on this man, who has done more for his state than any other living man.
 A MEMBER OF DALLAS BAR
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
AL WA YS
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Ne7O amd styhsh 70 select /Yom oA2r establishment. Y you aVant to Aook WeU dressed aud hO be pea1eckly an Me Style, I0ok oOer our goods amd He br7ces wiU enable y0m to dmy.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

The Advertiser said Governor Oates would be a candidate for reelection. Echo: "Cuckoow
 The Advertiser says Governor Oates will not be a candidate for reelection. Echo: "Cuckoor'
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

The insinuation of Lord Dunraven that although a fraudulent input and output of ballast on the Defender was accom- plished at night, the deed was possibly done by the servants of Commodore smith and Mir. Iselin, and not necessarily with the knowledge of these two men. indicates just about the moral minitude of the English crawler. He fears to as- perse the masters, but is not afraid to islander the servants. An individual has been found who writes letter to the New York Evening Post in defense of Dunraven for this act of fine and safe discrimination.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20

Governor Oates has spoken in unmis- takable language as to his position in the yubernatorial race next year. He will not run. and the administration. sound money democrats will have to find an other candidate This they can and will easily do, one who will lead them to a glorious and triumphant victory in Au- gust, too. Montgomery Advertiser.
 The Montgomery Advertiser may name the gubernatorial baby in 1896, and if it fails to name it, may defeat the demo- cratic nominee for governor; but we can not believe either proposition just at this xvritinr. Even Governor Oates knows when to leave a sinking ship.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-18
How to Wash EmbroIderies.

In washing embroideries done with
crewels on a foundation of linen or
crash, the first time bran water should
always be used to set the colors. To
prepare the water pour gallon boiling
hot over a pound of bran. Let the bran
soak in the water day, stirring it oc-
casionally, then strain it well. Put the
article to be washed in the water when
it's lukewarm, pressing and squeezing
1t through the water until clean. Do
not think of wringing dry, but press out
all the moisture possible and dry in a
warm place without exposure 20 sun
light. When it is stiA damp, lay the
right side on flannel and press on the
wrong side. Use only the best crewels
If you expect them to wash well.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. s-y 4r.....
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-18
FAMILY SCRAP BASKET.

FREQUENT turning is the secret of
successful broiling.
ALWAYS use a wooden spoon for mix
ing cake, as an iron one discolors the
butter.
A DASH OF cinnamon In a cup Of
chocolate after it is poured Is said TO
add a piquant flavor.
WEAR well-fitting shoes about your
housework. They are less fatiguing
than loose, untidy slippers.
LoNG-HANDLED button-hooks are or
namented with sterling silver and the
manicure sets are charming.
In baking bread or rolls put sauce
pan of boiling water into the oven. The
steam will keep the crust smooth ard
tender.
ONIONS, potatoes and cabbages for
soup should always be scalded before
being used, to draw out indigestible
qualities. gu Jst Et .a.a-.
SHoEHoINs of polished ebony are en-
riched by the application of an exqui-
sitely chased scroll of sterling silver
upon the handle " 5 a"a .t Gees"
If the children have no appetite In
the morning, don't allow them to start
for school without first drinking glass
of hot milk. rit -.'s .....
MUcH Of the heavy cake and bread IL
the result of the oven door being
slammed when closed. Shut the door
gently as possible.
A NEW dainty for afternoon tea,
which can be cordially recommended,
Is macaroon sandwich. 1t is made
with two macaroons between which Is
placed a very thin slice of sage cheese.
IT should be universally known that
sand or -four scattered over burning oil
will extinguish it. Every household in
which lamps are used should have q
box filed with sand in a convenient
place, ready for all emergencies.-Farm-
ers' Voice. "' #"''a ' '''|.'
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-18

strip Of stiff paper three inches wide
by seven long, also covered with India
silk. For the outside, nine strips of the
crepe paper are cut 16 inches long and
three-quarters of an inch wide, and Is
strips the same width and 81 inches
long. The strips are laced evenly to-
gether, as seen in the illustration, till
all but four of the cross-pieces on both
ends are used, and these pieces are in
terlaced with brass rings. 1t is simple
in the extreme, but the effect is beauti-
full. AS this part is open work, the
cardboard foundation must be covered
plainly with the crepe paper or, if pre-
ferred, contrast in both material and
color would be pretty. These card
board foundation pieces are, of course,
first glued to a piece of paper for the
back, or hinge, of corresponding size to
that already given for the inside; and
the smoothly plated work is fastened
to the foundation with knot of blue
embroidery silk in the center of the
alternate blocks; the edges are then
turned in neatly and pasted or glued
in place, and outside and inside are
glued together. On the front edges
the ends of the strips are secured with
embroidery silk, which is worked into
the edge in coarse buttonhole stitches
and knotted around every strip of pa
per, giving q sort of tassel effect.
This sort of work would make very
pretty wall or newspaper pockets, or
cover for boxes; and could, in fact, be
turned to a multitude of decorative
uses,-Demorest's MAGAZINE.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-18
Deep Breathing Il HealthfuI.

Cultivate the habit Of breathing
through the nose and taking deep
breaths. If this habit was universal,
there is little doubt that pulmonary af-
fections would be decreased one-haf
An English physician calls attention to
this fact that deep and forced respira-
tons will keep the entire body in glow
in the coolest weather, no matter how
thinly one may be clad. He was him
self half frozen to death one night and
began taking deep breaths and keeping
the air in his lungs as long as possible.
The result was that he was thoroughly
comfortable in a few minutes. The
deep Inspirations, he says, stimulate
the blood currents by direct muscular
exertion, and cause the entire system
to become pervaded with the rapidly
generated heat. Egl sci fGnNu -&