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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26
A Fad for Eating Salt.

Coming home upon the Underground
the other evening, I read in IN even
ing paper of new habit which
threatens to decimate us-the salt
habit. People carry salt crystals
about with them, at which they con-
tinually nibble. In time they lose
their hair and eyelashes. Looking up
from my paper suddenly [ saw this
startling intelligence confirmed. A
man in the opposite corner laid down
his evening paper lit WITS the best even
ing paper), and took small packet
from his waistcoat pocket, which he
unscrewed. 1t contained white,
granular substance. Taking pinch
between his fingers and thumb, he
swallowed it. "Excuse me, sir--is
that salt?" I asked, leaning forward
excitedly. He smiled and pointed to
the article lin the paper. "Have
some?" he said. took it. Pail Mall
Budget.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26
WORDS OF WISDOM.

They never pardon who commit the
wrong. Dryden.
The meek enjoy almost a perpetual
Sabbath. M. Henry.
No one who cannot master himself
is worthy to rule.-Goethe.
When the Judgment is weak the
prediudice is strong. -O'Hara.
The truths a man carries about with
him are his tools. %. w. Holmes.
The greatest misfortunes men fall
into arise from themselves. Steele.
In manners, tranquility is the SUI
preme power.-Mme. de Maintenon.
Worth begets, in base minds, envy ;
in great souls, emulation. Fielding.
At touch sweet pleasure melteth.
like to bubbles when rain pelteth.-
Keats.
Education is our only political safe
ty. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
H. Mann.
A good discourse is that from which
one can take nothing without taking
the life.--Fenelon.
That which we are we are all the while
teaching, not voluntarily, but invol-
UNFAIRLY. Emerson.
Oh, what authority and show Of
truth can cunning sin cover itself
withal. -Shakesp care.
Our life's floor is laid upon eter-
nifty; no crack in it but shows the un-
DERIVING heaven.-C. Kingsley.
Often do the spirits of great events
stride on before the events, and in to-
day already walks to-morrow.--Cole-
ridge.
We seek advice in difficulties; but
in common speech we are apt to con-
found it with admonition. les
Lamb.
Meet the first beginnings; look to
the budding mischief before it has
time to ripen to maturity.--Shakes-
peare.
And though mine arms should con.
quer twenty worlds, there's lean fell
low beats all conquerors.- Thorn as
Decker.
A perverse temper and discon.
tented, fretful disposition, wherever
they prevail, render any state of life
unhappy.
have always said that the greatest
object In education is to accustom a
young man gradually to be his own
ster.-Sydney Smith.
If martyrdom now is on the decline,
it is not because martyrs are less
jealous, but because martyr-mongers
are more wise.-Colton.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26
Pounds of Fortified Oyster.

W. R. Mckinney has very re-
markable relic of the prehistoric age
in the shape of a huge petrified oyster.
Several days ago Mr.. Mckinney,
while walking in the vicinity. saw a
shell protruding from the blue clay
on the edge of the stream and took
the trouble to dig it out. 1t proved
to be a huge oyster shell, with the
oyster inside in perfect shape and
form, but petrified. The appearance
of the stone oyster is almost natural.
but the size is much greater than the
largest oyster that can be found in the
present day. Its appearance is natural
in all respects, and is almost attractive
enough to tempt the connoisseur to
taste it. The shell and oyster together
weigh several pounds. - Richmond
Dispatch.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26
How to Tell Her Age.

It is well-known fact that girls of
a marriageable age or older, especi
ally the latter, do not like to tell how
old they really are, but you can find
out if you will follow the subjoined
rules, allowing the young lady to do
the figuring to suit herself: First,
tell her to put down the number OF
the month in which she was born, then
to multiply it by 2, then add 5, multi
ply by SO, then add to her age, then
to subtract 365. Next have her add
1l5 and then tell the total amount left.
In this grand total the two figures to
the left will tell you her age and the
other the month of her birth. For
example, if the amount is S22 she is
% years old and was born in August
the eighth month. st. Louis Repub'
lie,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26

length into the air like diver and
does not turn until he is almost ready
to land. In the tuck he leaps straight
up from the springboard, gathers him
selve up like ball, and goes over at
once. In twister he turns his body
in such fashion that he alights with
his face toward the place from which
he jumps. In a pirouette he turns
twice instead OF once, as he does in the
twister. New York Times.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26

The gifted but impecunious literary
genius wrote an imprisoned letter to
a personal friend, asking him in the
name of sweet charity to lend him $40
to keep him from starving.
81 may not get the $lO," he solilo-
quized, bitterly, as he sealed it, "but
some day a mercenary grandchlld OF
his will get 500 for this letter. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26

old gentleman, dignified and wise, Go
not think it beneath them to go chsa-
ing around the place with babies on
their backs playing 'thorsey" with
them. New York Sun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26

Bacon was avaricious, and his greed
for money finally led to lis disgrace.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-26
4 FINANCIAL ALLEGORY.
A GOOD STORY BASED ON SOUND
MORALS.

An Easy Way of Paying Debts
Tried by Lonely Valley Farmers
Scheme Promised Much, But
Was Upset by the Village Store
keeper in One Night-He Made
the Rule Work Both Ways-A
Simple Lesson That Cannot Be
Too Well Learned.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
WORTHY OF NOTE.

Whatever we may think of the civil
service system when run beyond the cler-
zeal force, it Is very evident that the re-
publican party does not approve of it and
does not intend to enforce it, Harpers
Weekly gives US an insight into what we
may expect from republican rule in this
respect. 1t says:
ut is worthy of note that of late it is
mainly the republican party that pro-
vokes rebuke of this kind. Not only in
Brooklyn has it's greed for plumber put
itself ON exhibition. In Albany it has
delivered the police altogether into the
hands of the spoilsmen. In Massachu-
sets 1t has sought to undermine the
whole civil service system by most in
iquitous veteran law as hurtful to the
state as 1t is disgraceful to the veterans.
And in Maryland, where the overthrow
of the German machine, accomplished in
the name of reform last autumn, seemed
to authorize such high expectations, the
republicans have shamelessly falsified
every promise and inaugurated a spoils
carnival as scandalous as anything ever
done by Tammany Hall. That such re-
pulsive displays. which are characters
tic of the death struggle of the spoils
system, will not arrest, or even seriously
impede, the progress of civil service re-
form may be regarded as certain. But
they will be apt to turn up and to affect
the minds of many thousands of voters
at time when the republican party least
desires it,"
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
REPUBLICAN TRIMMING.

Neither the Ohio candidate nor his
convention had the courage to get down
off the fence which he and his party have
been painfully straddling for the last four
years. The financial plank of McKin-
ley's convention is the financial plank of
the party in 1892, which, it is now adj
mitted, was framed with intent to de-
ceive. The essential parts of it are in
the self-same words and the meaning is
as indefinite now as then.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer, Dem.
The Ohio republican plank is intended
to fit Mckinley. 1t means that he will
sign a free coinage bill. The Louisville
Courier-Journal sizes UP the situation
correctly Mckinley is straddle him
self. He has been on every side of the
silver question, except that of an unbend-
ing and Incorporating foe of the
degradation of our currency He cannot
be trusted to veto a 16 to l free coinage
bill, and such a man is unfit for the presi-
dency. To this personal straddle he has
now added a platform straddle. Major
Mckinley is the expectancy and rose
of the straddlers and the trimmers who
call themselves bimetallsts without de-
fining what they mean by the term"
1t is rather funny to find the old free sill
YER organ of Kentucky Directing to Nc
Kinley and all the old republican leaders
of the south indorsing him.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
STILL DODGING.

The republicans in their Ohio and Iowa
platforms straddled the money question
in the interest of Mr. Mckinley, and now
we find the Wisconsin republican com
vention touching the matter gingerly.
They say: 1.-The republicans of Wiscon-
sin are unyielding in their demand for
honest money" That is all right. So
say we all.
I'VE are unalterably opposed" con-
tnues the declaration of Wisconsin re-
publicans, "to any policy that will give
to this country a deprecated and de-
based currency" That is all right So
say we all.
I'VE favor" continues the Wisconsin
Illumination, 1.-The use of silver as cur
rency to the extent only and under such
restrictions that it's parity with gold can
be maintained"
That is just about as definite as the
preceding declarations Everybody
favors such restrictions as will keep gold
and silver upon a parity. The restriction
proposed by the silver men is is to l. But
our Wisconsin republicans are silent as
to their restriction. 1t is amusing to see
the shifts to which the republicans are
resorting to evade the issue, but they ex-
hibit still the hard horse sense of intend
ing to nominate Mckinley, who is ready
to sign al free silver coinage bill.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

away. and it will never do to straddle
the silver question in the platforms. The
issue between cheap money and sound
money should be presented to the people
without evasion and without equiVoca-
ton. If the country is to enjoy a long
period of prosperity, we must preserve
the gold standard and avoid anything
that has the appearance of silver mono
metallism.
1--WE ought not to dilIy-dally or try to
straddle the issue any longer, but come
out bravely and boldly to meet it. I be-
lieve that if the democrats adopted such
a course, it would be the salvation of the
party. Thinking people are beginning
to see that we cannot shirk the sound
money question any longer, or stave it
off. We are going to open big bureau
in Washington at the corner of Four
teenth and G. streets, and make it the
headquarters for the distribution of
sound money literature all over the coun-
try. We shall circulate Secretary Car
isles Memphis speeches and other mat
ter of the kind, We propose to force the
fighting all along the line, you see."
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
DOES 1T MEAN A BOLT P

We cannot for the life of us see how
Cleveland sound money democrats can
vote for Captain Johnston. He has been
opposing the policy of the democratic
president for two years and a half, and
has been until very lately an open and
ardent advocate of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at is to Montgomery
Advertiser.
If the above does not mean that the
Advertiser will bolt If Captain Johnston
is nominated, what does 1t mean. pray?
The Advertiser and it's editors are both
cleveland sound money democrats"
If it is claimed by that sheet that the
foregoing refers to the approaching pri-
maries there is nothing in the wording
to indicate it. But even if 1t sets up such
claim, and it's editors shall see fit to
fall in and support the ticket, others will
not do so. In short, those now following
it's lead will set up the above as an ex-
cuse for doing as so many of their kind
did in Kentucky, scratching or remain
ing at home"
In any view of the case this was very
ill-advised utterance for a democratic
paper to make.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
A Crittenton Home,

To the State Herald:
AS a Birmingham pastor, speaking, as
1 believe, for every pastor in the city
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish-I am
constrained to urge our people, and es-
pecially our good women, that they at
tend Mrs. Edholm's rescue meetings this
week at the First Methodist church.
We have an opportunity. to establish a
Crittenton home for women unreached
and unhelped byanybody. A generous sum
can be secured from Mr.. Crittenton IL
we will meet 1t with our gifts and efforts.
This plan has redeemed thousands to a
respectable life by providing a place of
shelter where they may start life anew.
Now shall we rest longer under the aw-
full guilt of neglecting a single class, for
whom Christ died? Do Christians and
other humane people know that there are
in our very midst scores who have been
dragged down by actual violence and
treachery into life of shame? Do they
know that already their anguished calls
for some one TO show them Jesus and
help fall upon our ears?
Let US all help. The purest are most
Chrstlike when they take his love to
the lost. If every man and every woman
who has helped to doom these people to
that life would send 81 conscience money
to the Mercy home or to the mayor for
this work there would be enough to start
the home, and night mission for lost
and depraved men besides
JOHN BARBOUR,
Pastor South Highlands Presbyterian
Church.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
CONVENTION CALL.
Jefferson County's Democratic Executive Com
mlttee Issues a Call for County
Convention.

By direction of the executive committee
of the democratic and conservative party
in Jefferson county, Alabama the under
signed officers of said committee hereby
call convention of the democratic and
conservative party of said county to be
held at IL o'clock noon. in Birmingham,
Ala, on Wednesday, the 18th day of
April, 1896, for the purpose of selecting
delegates to the state convention of said
party to be held in the city of Montgom-
cry on Tuesday, the 21st of April 1896.
The delegates of said county conven-
ton shall be voted for at the primary
election of said party to be held in said
county on Saturday, the 18th day of
April, 1896. The ballots for such dele
gates shall be separate from the ballots
cast for the selection of candidates for
county officers and shall be on white
paper, without any Identifying devices
or marks thereon.
Each precinct shall have the same
number of delegates in said convention
as 1t had in the convention held two
years ago for the nomination of county
officers and selection of delegates to the
state convention; and the delegates from
precincts Nos. Il and 81 shall be appor-
TONED among the subdivisions of said
precincts according to the number of
white voters therein as returned upon
the lists made up by the committeeman.
That is to say:
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
GOT FEM ON THE RUN.

The Advertisers whnin'-
While we are havin fun;
To bolt she's sure designin'-
We've got EN- on the run!
They're mailing Dick Clarke's speeches
To people by the ton:
Hear grandma how she screechesi
We've got 'em on the run.
Jo' Johnston's crowd is CROWN
From rise to set of sun,
Old party ROSTERS CROWN
We've got 'em on the run.
The gold bug sports Is guessin'
Bout how to save their mon;
Klarke Kolumn looks distressin'-
We've got 'em on the rum
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
WOULD HE SIGN A SILVER BIII.p

william Mckinley attended a banquet
at Toledo on the 18th of February, 1891.
and, talking OF the money question. did
not express himself as he did at another
February IL banquet-that of the current
year
At Toledo Major Mckinley denounced
President Cleveland. During all of his
years at the head of the government"
cried the major, "he was dishonoring one
of our precious metals. one of our own
great products, discrediting silver and
enhancing the price of gold. He was de-
termined to contract the circulating me-
dunn and demonetize one of the coins OF
commerce. limit the volume of money
among the people, make money scarce.
and therefore dear"
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
That Rule.
Chicago Chronicle.

Chicago Chronicle.
The republican rule for deciding con-
tested seats in congress, as established
in the Alabama case, is simple. II there
are more negroes than white men in the
district, give the seat to the republican
claimant on the principle that all the me-
gro voters should be counted for him.
whether they voted for him or not, or
if they failed to vote. The rule ought to
work both ways. so as to give the demo-
orat his seat in all districts where there
is a majority of white voters.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

The London Spectator says the Ameri-
cans despise their legislatures, but do
nothing to improve them
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

The news comes from Mobile that Mo-
bile county will go along with the other
counties for Johnston on the tidal wave
of April H.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
YES, THE CHILDREN KNOW 1T.

Mr. Richard II. Clarke, in his fourteen
column supplement speech, said with
premature and precipitate glee:
1--WE are told that the decentralization
of silver, which our Johnston friends To-
cate in 1873 had produced great search
ty of money, and yet even the children or
Alabama can recall the boom which trav-
eled all over the state in 1887 and 1883.
In almost every quarter of the state old
fields and hills were laid out into streets
and parks and lots, and were sold at
prices that would have been good in es-
tablished and fiourishing Cities
Yes; the merest tyro in financial learn
ing knows that at about the period of
greatest investment in the south, In 1887
and 1883, the volume of currency was
swelling with the coinage of hundreds
of millions of silver dollars, provided for
by the Bland-Alison act. That was the
period of the greatest prosperity from
1873 to this good day that we dwell under
the still unfulfilled promise of prosperity
to follow the stopping of all silver dollay
coinage by the repeal of the silver classes
of the Sherman act.
Neither Mr.. Clarke nor any other single
gold standard advocate or convert can
point to any period since 1873 in which
there has been an approximation to pros
perity in this country unless 1t has been
coincident and contemporary with some
legislation in the direction of silver coin
age, legislation, too, that has been effect
ed by democratic congressman in obedi-
ence to the platform of the party.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

Does the Advertiser claim that the Mo-
bile Register, which used the Clarke sup
plement, only circulates in Mobile coun-
ty?
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

The STATE Herald is authorized to an
nounee the name of Dr. II. NJ. Cunning
ham as a candidate for the State Senate
from Jefferson county, subject to the ac-
ton of the democratic primary
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

]. Felix Mclaughlin is candidate for Tax
Assessor of Jefferson county, subject to the
action of the democratic primaries, April
IL. 1896.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

At the suggestion of some of my friends
1 announce that will be a candidate at tne
coming democratic primary for NOMINATION of
ferson county in the Lower House OF the
LegiSfa ture subject of course to the action
JOHN j. ALTMAN.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

That was cutting reply of Weaver's
when he told Brown that he Brown
would carry Jefferson for Clarke about
like he carried Morgan for Clarke.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
ANNOUNCER rs.
FOR THE STATE SENATE.

The State HefaId IS aulhoIIzg5ull 70 III III
the State Senate from Jefferson county,
subject to the action of the democratic ana
conservative party.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

The State Herald Is authorized to an
nounce the name of Mr. James b. Francis
as a candidate for Tax Collector of Jeffer.
son county, subject to action of the demo-
cratic primary election
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

The State Herald is authorized to an
nounce Mr. John Mcqueen as candidate
for the Legislature SUBJECT 10 action OF
the democratic primary.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
FOR COUNTY, COMMISSIONER

1 am a candidate for Tax Collector for
Jefferson county, subject to the democratic
primary r.. G. HEWITT
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

1 hereby announce myself a candidate for
the office of Sheriff of Jefferson county,
subject to the action of the democratic pri-
mary. b. A. THOMPSON.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

L hereby announce myself candidate
for the Legislature before the democratic
primaries to be held April Il, 1896.
w. II. WADE.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
FOR TAX ASSESSOR.

The State Herald is authorized to an
nounce the name of A. J. Tarrant as a can
didate for Tax Assessor of Jefferson county,
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
FoR REPRESENTATIVE.

The State Herald Is authorized 10 an
nounee Mr. |. A. Brown as a candidate
for the Legislature, subject to the action Oh
the democratic primary.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
MORGAN COUNTYS EVIDENCE
Inspectors and Clerks Certificate.

Inspectors and Clerks Certificate.
Decatur, March 10.
We, the undersigned inspectors and
clerks of the primary election held in De-
catur, Morgan county. Ala, on the 7th in
slant, hereby certify that said primary
election was conducted fairly and hon
estly and that no fraud was practiced
either for or against any candidate, the
statement of the Montgomery Advertiser
TO the contrary Notwithstanding, and the
slanderous charges made by the said
Montgomery Advertiser are denounced
by us as wilfully and maliciously untrue.
j. W. TYLER,
w. 70. WALLACE,
w. C. PRESTON,
Inspectors.
H. CARTWRIGHT,
W. A. PETTY,
Clerks
Mr.. w. A. Petty, one of the clerks of
the primary election and Clarke man,
voluntarily makes the following written
declaration:
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

The State Herald is authorized to an
nounce the name of Samuel l.. Robertson
of Tax Assessor of Jefferson county, sub
ject to the democratic primary election.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

| hereby announce myself candidate for
the next legislature from Jefferson county,
subject to the democratic primaries. NOW,
brothers, do not fail to go to the primaries
afraid of close runs. Yours respectfully,
j. A. CURLIE.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

L hereby announce myself as candidate
for the Legislature, subject to the demo-
cratic primary. r,r,>-r,
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.

The State Herald is authorized to an
nounce the name of ]. Il. Mcknight as a
candidate for County Treasurer, subject to
action of the Jefferson county democratic
primary election.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25

The State Herald Is authorized to an
nounce the name of L. S. Smith as a candi-
date for Sheriff of Jefferson county subject
to action of the democratic primary cleo