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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-19
Weber's Brass and Reed

Wober's Brass and Reed
Band and Orchestra has with
in it's ranks the best musicians
in the city. Under the guild
ance of it's talented leader they
are fast becoming one of the
leading bands and orchestras
in the country. One of its
main features is it's strict at
tention to duties assigned.
Turn out and hear their great
programme at East Lake,
April 10. Weber in solos,!
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-19

Cures all Coughs Colds, Hoarseness,
Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Hemorrhage
and all throat and lung diseases. Ele-
CANT, reliable
25 cents at druggists. Prepared only
by DR.. H. Motley Atlanta, Ga.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-19

Our stock of gas and gaso-
line stoves is very complete.
Would like to show them to
you. Estes stove 90.
2-16-1r1
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-19
LEMON ELI XIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Tonic.

For Biliousness, Constipa ton, Malaria,
Colds and the Grip.
For Indigestion. Sick and Nervous
Headaches.
For Sleeplessness, Nervousness and
Heart Diseases, take Lemon Elixir
Ladies' for natural and thorough or
eanic regulation, take Lemon Elixir
Dr. Mozley's Lemon Elixir Is prepared
from the fresh juice of Lemons. COM
bined with other vegetable liver tonics
and cathartics. SOC and 81 bottles at
druggists.
Prepared only by Dr. H. Motley, At
lanta, Ga.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-19
INSURANCE
ON
LIFE

Has become a recognized feature of a per-
sons existence. In considering the matter
of LIFE INSURANCE, consider first the
STRENGTH OF THE COMPANY. For the
largest companies are not always the
safest; second, the PRICE PAID for abso-
lutte protection. And the largest companies
are not always the cheapest as the cost of
protection is in proportion to the EN-
PENSE of management; and, Third (and
most importanD the element of safety as
to maintenance of reserve, which is the
bedrock of a company's existence.
lean write you in any one of -FOUR REP
RESENTATIVE COMPANIES at a lower
rate than the "O1d Line" companies and
with better protection and assured results
Policies written your own Personal
Habits, Family History and Present Con-
dition Physically, and allow insurance as
to YOUR condition, not your grandfathers
1 would be pleased to call on you or have
you communicate with me personally or by
letter.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-19
A Prominent Minister Writes.

After ten years of great suffering from
Indigestion, with great nervous prostra-
ton, biliousness, disordered kidneys and
constipation, 1 have been cured by Dr.
Mozley's Lemon Elixir and am now a
well man.
REV. C. C. DAVIS
Ed M. e. Church South,
No. 2S Tatnall St., Atlanta, Ca
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-26
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-OF-
Two TransContinentaI
Route.

Via Spokane Minneapolis 81 Paul.and Den.
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eastemEcites. ....,,.,
OCEAN DIVISION.
Portland-San Francisco.
Steamers leave Ainsworth dock. Portland d
July. 40, 81 and August s, 9, 10, IS, 20, IS
and 30.
FaTe-Cabin, S.; steerage, $3.50.
WILLAMETTE RIVER DIVISION.
Steamers Ruth for Portland, Tuesday aud
Friday, at 1880 a. m.
For Corvallis Wednesday and Saturday at
SPIN.
Steamer Gypsy for Poetland, Wednesday
and Saturday at 1880 a. m.
For Corvallis, Monday and Thursday at S
p. m.
Lowest freight and passenger rates. Round
trip tickets very cheap. Tickets sold and
baggage checked through TO all points with
out extra transfer charges.
Foi full details call on Boise x Barker
agents, Salon, Oregon, or address.
Z. M'NEILL,
Pres. and Manager.
W. II. HURLBURT.
Gen'l Pas. Agt. Portland, Or
For full details call on or address
G.. NJ. POWERS.
Foot Of Tradest. Local agent
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-26

without knowing In any degree what they
mean. or what responsibilities ana uials
they bring. The highest and best tnlng
thai any woman can do is to bear and rear
healthy, intelligent children. Inc eceon'
niIshuieut Of this end depends almost en-
hrely upon her health and particularly
upon the health and strength OF the organs
d!sfiuctiv feminine The state OF the chil'
dren both intellectual and physical de-
neuds on the mother. II she doesn't care
enough for her own comfort and happiness
to take the proper care OF herseiI, snS Is.,
tainly ought to do Il TOT the sake ,ha % dssl S
children. To q very large extent tne ueN,
hnv and achievement OF a man Is deeiaed
IN the months before his birth. During
that dime is Determined whether or not he
h 10 be Of robust health and strong intel
leet During that time, his mind ana pooy
are started on the path that they VIII ionov
through life. Circumstances may mnu ~.
ence Rim. bat he cannot get away nom the
efIecta OF ORE. natal Influences. One OF the
principal uses Of DR.. Pieree's Favorte Pre-
scriptiou is the preparation OF prospective
mothera Tor the time Of trial and danger
that comes when child Is born. The rTe-
scription" Is strengthening and inyigorauhg
and lessons pain and danger II tnsuies ,ns
perfect we'll being aud the perfect health
of both mother and child. Every woman
should know these thinge before she teSlly
needs to know them. There are many
things IA DIR. Pierce's Common sense
Medical Adviser, {" that every woman oughs
10 know. This celebrated work has Eeaenso
a sale Of $50, 600 copies at 81: so each. Inc
expense Of production having thus oeen
covered. 500. 600 copies are now being given aa
away. A copy will be sent to any address
on receipt Of twenty one !aD one CENT
stamps 10 cover cost Of mailing 0HU.
address. WoRLD's DIsPENsARY MED
,caT AssocIATIoN. Nc. 66j Main Street.
buffalo, N. v.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-26

Inc counsel or
older women Is OF
inestlmable value.
A mistaken idea Of
M o de atty prevents
many girls from
learning the things
that they ought to
know before they
assume the duties
of matrimony and
maternity. Women
generally take these
most important
steps in their lives,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09

less defiance at the rebel brigadiers
before an applauding clientage flashed
before Barrett's eyes. He, too. would
emulate Blaine. He would fan into
flame again the slumbering embers of
burned-out fires. He, too. would re-
ceive the plaudits of an admiring con-
stituency, and who knows but he saw
a pathway to the White house opening
before his ambitious little eyes?
But Barrett is too late. In the folds
of the old bloody shirt no other presf-
dency Is wrapped. AS he shook out
its tattered remnants to the heavy air
of the chamber nothing at all fell out
Of it. Nothing but Barrett He went
headlong to the floor amid the hardly
checked laughter of his own side of
the house, amused to see fresh young
man playing politics with discarded
cards, and amid the derision Of the
other side, which had long since
learned to laugh at the old
herofcs of the Republicans. But
was 1t not hne spectacle, lnat
Of this household of Republicans, sent
down there by a panic-strfcken con-
stituency to save the country from the
ruin wrought and that threatened by
the terrible Democrats, with bond is
sues flying about and greenbacks tap
ping the treasury and business halt
ing in doubt, and a lot of fellows over
in the senate passing impossible free
coinage bills, and the old soldiers won
dering why something is not done for
them, worked into a ferment by so
trivial and petty a matter as the at
tempt to resurrect a dead and buried
sectional feeling by this very bump
tious youngster from Massachusetts? :?
What an opera bouffe it all is, to be
surei
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09
i'd. not do so. pupils would

did not do so, pupils would be
transferred from private to public
schools in order to secure the instruc-
tion Offered there. The free inter-
change of pupils and teachers between
the public and the private educational
institutions of the city indicates fair
average Of excellence among them all.
The Globe has already taken
occasion to comment upon one
inherent weakness Of the graded
system, in that it tends to lessen
the development of individuality
among pupils. This is, to some ex-
tent, corrected in the private schools,
which are, therefore, a valuable auxil-
iary to the work done solely by the
state. In estimating the extent and
value Of our local educational system,
these institutions, which care for so
large proportion of the children of
the city, and which do their work
with so much zeal and conscientious
emulation of the best, should have their
share of approval.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09
BUMPTIoUs BILLY BARRETT.

"Billy" Barrett is enc Of the fresh
young men who happened to be on the
crest Of the wave that swept the coun-
try in 1894 and carried him into con-
gress from Massachusetts,, state
whose first growth of timber for states
men was all cut off some time ago,
and which has to get along with a
rather scrawny second growth. There
seemed nothing for this young man to
do but draw his salary and mail doc
uments to his constituents until, in a
fortunate moment, Ambassador Bayard
made a speech somewhere in England
in which he told in plain speech what
kind of fruit grew on the tree of pro-
lection which Republicans have been
watering and tending so carefully all
these years. Then this bumptious
youngster from the land Of the scented
Goldfish saw his opportunity and"sprang
into the arena" as a Bostonese would
say, armed cap-a-pie, flaming with we'll
simulated indignation, and fired fiery
resolution at the speaker demanding the
impeachment Of the veteran ambassa-
dor who was a statesman while Billy
was, as Holmes says, getting his head
way from the spanker." He supported
his movement with a speech that we
doubt not is now being read by Billy's
constituents, or some Of them, with,
we venture to say, mixed feelings, de-
pendent on the intelligence and COM
mon sense of the reader.
Then came one Talbert, from South
Carolina, who was pricked by some
foolish statement about the right Of
secession. Here again Barrett saw his
Of trout rising to snap a fly. Our
Washington dispatches told the
story Of Barrett's indignant patriot
ism, fired by the South Carolinian, and
how he wanted his words taken down,
and then rose to offer a resolution of
censure, and into what a ferment of
excitement the house was thrown One
would have thought that another lot
Of rebellious Democrats were resisting
Czar Reeds rulings, and that Buck
Kilgore was kicking down baize doors
again. Visions of Blaine prancing
down the aisles and hurting hurt
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09
SERUM FROM JAPAN.

The Orient has given the Occident
given our poor, timid, dependent man
ufacturers; and too often the scare has
had ample cause, as when, for in
stance, the dread Asiatic cholera be-
gan its westward march, more resist
less than the incuEsions of the Sara
Gems. Hence it is most fitting that
out of the Orient should come the dis
covery of the means by which humanity
is rendered immune from the attacks
Of the invader. 1t is true that Dr.
Kitasato learned his first lessons in
bacteriology with DR.. Behring, in the
laboratory of Dr. Koch; but he took
his knowledge back to Japan with him,
and there enlarged the field by his
own Investigations, just as his fellow
countrymen came east to learn the
processes of manufacture which they
are now turning to good account in
their own country.
On his return to japan DR.. Kitasato
was sent by the imperial board Of
health to China to investigate the
causes of the plague, or 'black DEATH .
then ravaging that country; and the
result was his discovery of the bacillus
Of the disease, and the production of a
curative serum that was remedial If
injected within six hours after the
attack. Further than this he has gone,
and announces that that terrible dis
ease, leprosy. is the product Of bacilli,
and that the body can be rendered i'm
mune by the use Of a serum prepared
for that disease. He prepares, in his
extensive ~laboratories. where he has a
large number o6f animals undergoing
the process by ghich the serum is pro-
duced, the remedies for diphtheria and
lockjaw. 50
But his most + valuable ii discovery is
that of a serum for the prevention and
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09


cure Of Asiatie cholera The recent
epidemic of that disease in his coun-
try gave him an opportunity for ex-
perimentation, and the result Is
serum which reduced the mortality in
the cases treated by him to 33 per cent
The reduction would have been greater
had the patients been treated in ear
Her stages Of the disease some of those
brought to him dying within an hour
or two after being brought in. The
average mortality was 7O5 per cent, and
IN the 1913 cases treated by him this
was cut down to 80 per cent He has
extended his Investigations to a malig-
nant abdominal typhus from which
the soldiers who served in Formosa
suffered greatly, and is now engaged
In preparing a serum for the treat
ment of that bacterial disease. It is
reported also that he Is not content
with the experiments of DIR. Koch in
the development of similar treatment
OF tuberculosis, and that he is conf
dent that he can produce serum that
VIII conquer that most formidable of
all the ills that flesh is heir to.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09
Northwestern Patents.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-List of patents this
week to Northwestern inventors Reported
by T, D. Merwin. patent lawyer. 91O. Oil and
BIZ Pioneer Press Building, ST. Paul Minn
and Washington, d. C..
chart.
Francis NJ. Dean. Huron. s. D., track
sander.
Frank F. Foster, snohomish, Wash, over
shoe retainer.
Joseph Gregory, Seattle, Wash. self-extin-
gushing lamp.
Wallace a Houts, Parker, s. D., telephone
system.
John Mueller Hot Springs, S. D., combined
and music stand.
:, Lemuel C. Neal Lewiston, Idaho, clothes
line pin.
Arthur. o'Brien and C. B. Miller, Helena.
Mont, combined car-coupling and brake
George w. Parker, Minneapolis, Mimi.
hinge for blinds.
Wentworth Rice and P. 8. Farrar, Dead
wood, s. D., ore concentrator.
Orison Smith, Duluth, Minn., automatic
gripping device for inclined railways
Clarence o. White and M. B. Lloyd Minne-
apolis, Minn., reel.
Thomas H. Williams, Doland, s. D., potato
planter.
James B. Wolgemuth, Pierre, and G. s. En-
gle. Aberdeen. q. D.. shirt collar fastener and
adjusting device.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09

shall be perceptible even to the alien
hearer. The rflythms Of French poetry
have always fallen ineffably fiat, tinny
and unresonant upon the English ear,
attuned to nobIer measures VerIaine
has altered that and his subtle har-
monies have made it impossible for
the unbelieving foreigner to scoff here
after at the music Of Gallo verse In
his mastery Of rhythm, indeed, he may
we'll be called first; but matter as well as
manner is needed to make a poet great,
and the substance Of his poetry is not
such as greatness is wont to use
AS for the women of his poems, he
knows perhaps three types; the SEN
suous Oriental odalisque; the subtle,
feverisn, passionate Gaul, who may be
called the Bernhardt-woman, as we
have seen the great actress embody the
one type under many different names
upon the stage; and the feline type,
the cat-woman, who Is in one sense a
combination of the other two varieties
1t is Verlaine's melodies that are pro-
found and troubling, not his psychol-
ogy. His knowledge goes no further
than these types, and he knows them
only in decadence and depravity. Shall
we place this man among the prophets
and interpreters of womanhood? The
appreciation Of any individuals capa-
city for evil can hardly be styled full
comprehension. Doubtless the devil
knows very well what mischief we can
do, but we are fain to hope God un-
derstands US the better of the two.
Possibly this relegation of the poet
to the prophetic ranks is intended as
one Of the Chap-Book jokes, which are
more occult than VerIaine's measures,
and resemble in waywardness the wind
that bloweth where it listeth. Even
so. 1t would be sorry Jest and one
rousing to indignation, not to mirth
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09
THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.

One of the most noticeable literary
symptoms of the last two years has
been the up-springing Of many new
periodicals, all of which sell for a small
sum, and most of which have been sue
cessful. They may be divided broadly
into periodicals which appeal to the eye
and those which appeal to the brain.
Some, notably Munsey's, which has,
however, numerous imitators, have sue
ceeded through their reproductions of
attractive pictures; others have scored
a success by appealing to the taste for
the rocco. There is an enormous
number of people nowadays who like
the things that folks in general do
not care for; and dealers in caviare are
prospering as they have never done
before.
Let us consider three of the tiny
journals most prominent in the public
eye for the moment; the Philistine, the
Chap-Bo the Lark. They are all
clever, but the eleverness of the Phil
fstine is tempered by an irresponsible
pugnacity which may OF may not be
characteristic of East Aurora, whence
1t emanates, but which is certainly as
irritating to the soul of the normal
reader as soapsuds to the eyes; the
Chap-Book is characterized by divine
self-complacency, an assurance of in
fallibility which could not be felt out
(Nhipd no Tor rta aIyoe oft ~
prevalent temper of life on the Pa
cific coast where the don't-care mood
of the West takes an especially sunny
and cheerful turn, and life looks a big
ger joke than elsewhere in the Union
We tolerate the imperfections of these
magazinelets, and we appreciate them
for their piquant individual flavors.
Their existence establishes two facts;
first, that the taste for things clever,
outside the conventional lines. is wide
spread and deep-rooted among US; sec
ond, that this taste is one to which
the provinces" can minister better
than New York or Boston
These facts seem hopeful signs to the
patient watcher scanning the horizon
for heralds of the dawn of the hoped
for rena scence in literature and art.
Any great era in the arts must be an
age Of freedom and generous federation.
The catholicity of our taste just now
is an earnest of good things to come;
and perhaps-who knows ?-the dissem-
ination of literature from East Aurora
and Chicago and San Francisco may
be but the beginning of a sort of lit
erary millennium, when our country
will be dotted with centers not only of
appreciation, but of creation, thickly
as raisins are spread through a cake.
They tell us that medieval decoration
was universally good because all arti-
sans were artists who loved and were
able to make beautiful things, and that
it is only in such eras of widespread
appreciation and high average of abil-
ity that the greatest artists are to be
found. What is true of art is true of
literature, and we desire to point out
that the harbingers of a glorious tomor-
row are al hand
Should any scoffer urge that the
symptoms are not sufficiently pro-
nounced, we can only reply that at all
events, the day of small things pre-
cedes greater days; and the day of
small things is assuredly with US.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09

one of the colonies Of Great Britain.
This is the apology for the iron-clad
regulations which the Beers have
adopted; their only rampant against
the unlimited aggressiveness and
greed of England. For this rea-
SON; We are inclined to think
that the shrewd Dutchmen Of the
Transvaal will congratulate Mr.. Cham
berlain on his kindly, disinterested par
ticipation in their affairs; will assure
him that they are doing quite well as
they are, and decline his polite invita-
ton with thanks,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09
vERLA1NE AMONG THE PROPHETS


The current number of the Chap
Book contains an article by Mrs. Reg
inald De Koven, entitled "Verlaine-A A
Feminine Appreciation" 1t is a vivid
piece of writing; the characterization
of the double-natured poet is striking
and as truthful as vivid writing ever
is, and the comment upon his work as
related to BaudeIaire is picturesque
and admirable But when Mrs. De
Koven goes further and proclaims him
"the first poet of France" and "the
prophet and interpreter of women" it
is time to call halt. Her sisters
will hardly thank the author for pre-
senting them with such prophet; a
man who, as she observes, was vicious
and disreputable beyond all words"
Verlaine was a genius of the type
who feed upon their own emotions, as
vampires feed on blood Emotion was
the one absolute necessity of life It
made no difference in what shape it
came. Physical Or spiritual passion,
it was all one to him. Hence the curl
Gus quality Of his poems, which range
from spiritual heights to unfathomed
deeps Of sensuality. He did one great
thing, for which he should be honored.
He demonstrated that it is possible to
make melodies in French verse which
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09
AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS

ways accounts Of South Australian
railways for the year ending july 81
1898, contained some facts of value to
those who are studying the so-called
railway problem in this country and
especially to those who are advocat-
ing governmental ownership and oper-
alton The conditions of railway opera
ton are more nearly alike in this coun-
try and Australia than in this and any
other country. Traffic increases in pro-
portion to the density Of population,
while the cost Of service relatively de-
tion by the Australian provinces under
governmental auspices has been pushed
beyond the remunerative point and has
been made to serve political rather than
commercial ends The question was not
always so much one of public needs as
OF the division Of public expenditures
The entire mileage was 1855, with
gauges varying from three feet six
inches to five feet three inches, the
American standard being adopted in
New South Wales only. The cost of
construction of the 2,531 miles of Amer
lean standard gauge railway was
$72.315 a mile, exceeding the average
cost in this country, stated by the in
terstate commerce commission to be
$59,419 a mile, including the capital
stock and funded debt The net re-
turns on the cost of the Australian
railways show a wide difference in the
several colonies. Tasmania roads earn
but 81 per cent, Queensland reports
net earnings of 2.6S per cent, New Zea-
land 2.73 per cent, Victoria 274 per cent,
South Australia 3.12 per cent, New
South Wales $50 per cent and 5.44 per
cent in Western Australia The re-
port gives the rate per ton per mile in
but three Of the colonies, Tasmania,
New Zealand and South Australia. In
the first the rate is 388 cents, in the
second 5.88 cents and in the last 262
cents per ton per mile.
1t is interesting to compare
these rates with the average
in the United States, which
the interstate commerce commission
gives as 0.S6 cent in 1895. Did the
same average ton rate prevail in the
Australian provinces, there would be
heavy deficits instead of dividends or
interest on the cost of their construc-
ton. And, on the other hand, did the
lowest Australian rate prevail here,
the railways of this country, in 1895,
would have earned over $4,000, 900, 900
more than they did on their freight traf-
fic. Not all the facts needed to draw
correct conclusions from these figures
are given or readily accessible. 1t
would be necessary to know why the
cost of construction so largely exceeds
that in this country The relative pro-
portions Of mileage to population, not
as whole, but Of the regions actually
served, Is another factor. incidentally
it would be we'll to know how much
of the railway construction was made
with view to political gain,- rather
than to remunerative service So far
as conclusions may be drawn from the
facts known, they certainly do not
sustain the policy of governmental
construction, operation and ownership.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-02-09
Harbors for south Dako,a.

WASHINGTON. Feb. S.--Senator Pettigrew
and Congressman Pickler and Gamble or
South Dakota, We're before the rivers ana
harbors committee Of the house this morning
and made argument in favor of an appropria
ton of sl09. 900 for new works at Pierre, Elk
ments at these places We're ftly presentad
and IT is probable that adequate provision
Will. VIII be E. made Mad, Senator Pettigrew will ne
he is member of the senate cornmittee on
appropriations. W