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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

THE length of life may be Increased
by lessening its dangers. The major
tty of people die from lung troubles.
These may be averted by promptly u.s.
Ing One Minute Cough Cure. Charles
r. Goethe, corner Twelfth and Market
streets; Bowie & Co., bridgeport, Pea
body & Son, Berwood, 4
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24
Fathers OF OIE.
They Invented Casing, Jars anu
the Scedbag.
.DoWN.M THE kANAWHA VALLEY

David and Joseph Rurraer ana william,
Morris, Old Time Vert v~irginihn,,
Contributed Three Thing. to the OH
Well Driiler- Discovered or, bur Dld'
Not Realize IT'S Value, as They We're
Ansr Salt.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

ypl oIan,; STRENGTHENING M
Hses tho Keen edge OF ApheliI,'
l.y1sionl energy Of ,he hnw..
soclety. and one Of Tho hs,,
sli'.ns have the Largest Sale ot
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-24

":Sartinly. I Is. All de best people Is.
We don't want no saloons. When VIC
had 'em dat barber tudder end OBJ town
ulster git fightin' drunk an beat me up
ebbry Saturday night. But now he can't
git no liquor. unless he sends off fur
II. Ier see. he's 4 man OBJ no priscr-
pool. an Is not law-abidin'."
When I looked into the matter I found
that many of the citizens Of Cottonvillc
shared the BARRIERS Views. Every man
with a red nose was In favor Of prohib-
Ting the sale Of liquor to his neighbor.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18

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gument, intended TO arouse the enthusi-
asm of his auditors and evoke applause.
They were served with a calm, dispas-
sionate and unanswerable argument,
sustaining the doctrines Of democracy,
especially the free coinage of gold and
silver upon terms of exact equality,
which, as newspapers, they were COM
PEELED to publish as it was delivered,
without garbling, perverting or distort-
ing, for their readers. Mr.. Bryan's ad-
dress was intended not SO much for the
$1,000 people crowded into the auditorium
of Madison Square garden as for 10000
900 Americans who think for themselves,
whom it will reach and speak to for IT
self through the columns of the great
metropolitan dailies and thousands of
weekly papers throughout the country.
Such was the purpose, which has been
accomplished. In addition to Its unex-
celled merits as a literary production
and argumentative dissertation, it was
magnificent piece of political strategy.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
NO USE TO MIssTATE FACTS.

The fact stands out that in spite of all
the efforts to belittle Governor Jones'
influence in Alabama that he received
more votes for governor in '92 than Cap
tain Johnston received in 80, and the
election was just as fair and as free from
every species of ntimidation.-Mont-
gomery Mckinley Organ.
The fact is Captain Johnston, as
shown by the official count, received
more votes in 1896 than Governor Jones
did in 1892 This further fact stares the
public in the face: Captain Johnston re-
ceived majority of 6S19 in the flfty-three
white counties and in the entire state
majority of 39,3SS. Governor Jones, on
the face of the returns, received a ma
jority of only 11,435 in the entire state,
and three counties, Montgomery, Wilcox
and Dallas, gave him an aggregate ma
jority of 1871. If the returns from these
three counties had happened to have
gotten lost the state would have gone
for Kolb by majority of $780,
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18

ty-thrse counties which in 1894 gave Cap
tain Kolb a majority of 1854 over Gov
ernor Oates in 1896 gave Captain john
sion over Mr.. GOODWIN a majority Of
67s7 The democracy under the leader
ship or Captain Johnston sustained losses
in only ten white counties, amounting to
2645, while gains were made in forty-three
white counties amounting in the aggre-
gate to 1921. a-net gain for democracy
in the 6fty-three white counties of 1862
votes. Captain Johnston carried every
county carried by Governor Oates except
two-the counties of Henry and Pike.
Henry he lost by thirty votes and Pike by
423 votes, combining 1135 of the total dem
oeratic loss in the white counties to those
two counties.
Goodwin made small gains in the
following three counties, other than Hen
ry and Pike. carried by Governor Oates
in 1894: Calhoun, Monroe and Washing
ton. In the following five counties car
ried by Captain Kolb in 1894 Mr.. Good
wynn made small gains: Choctaw, Cone
cub, Crenshaw, Geneva and Shelby.
Captain Johnston redeemed to the de-
mocrecy eleven counties, as follows:
Blount, Chambers, Clay, Covington. De-
Kalb, Lee, Limestone, Randolph, Tuska-
loosa, Walker and Winston.
In the black belt counties Mr.. Goodwin
gained Ills in the following seven coun-
ties: Barbour, Dallas, Hale, Lowndes,
Macon, Montgomery and Wilcox. In the
same thirteen counties the democratic
gains over 1894 were 4527, coming from
the following six counties: Bullock,
Greene, Marengo, Perry Russell and
Sumter, making net democratic loss of
1888 votes in the black belt counties.
In the entire sixty-six counties Gov
ernor Oates majority in 1894, as shown
by the above table, was 27613. Captain
Johnston's total majority over GOODWIN
in the fifty-three white counties Is 6737,
and adding his majority in the black belt
counties to that gives him total major
ity over Goodwin in the siXty-siX coun-
ties of the state of 39,3SS.
Captain Johnston lost in the thirteen
black belt counties 1883 votes. His gain
in the entire state over Governor Oates
majority is II ,775 votes, which shows that
in the whita counties this year the total
net democratic gain was 1853. Those
who maintained that Captain Johnston
was not the available man to lead the
democracy and that the liberal policy adj
yocated by him and the State Herald
and adopted bs the state democratic .ex-
ecutive committee was not a wise policy
can search the above facts and figures
at their leisure for points to sustain their
position if they choose.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
Marks MANS EPIGRAM.

For some time Hanna's mortgaged
man has been almost out OF sight and
hearing. He now hobs up and manages
to say:
II believe that it is great deal better
to open up the mills of the United States
to the labor of America than to open up
the mints of the United States to the sill
yer of the world"
This is called McKinleys "epigram."
1t is hardly respectable babyism. When
it is remembered that the Mckinley rob-
Der tariff and the Sherman law of 1890
were both enacted by Boss Reeds billion
dollar congress, of which Mckinley was
bright and shining light; that the Nc
Kinley tariff caused more strikes and
lockouts OF labor and more business fail
ures while it lasted than were ever
known within the same time, before or
since; that the Sherman law, by its very
terms, practically closed the minis to sill
yer after July l. 1891, and gave the pre-
text for the infamous and ruinous bank
ers' panic of 1898, and that the profligate
congress, which, under the leadership OF
Sherman and Mckinley, enacted these
pernicious statutes, actually emptied the
treasury of the United States, which it
found loaded with an enormous surplus,
we are prepared somewhat to appreciate
the effrontery which inspired this So
called "epigram." Hanna's man is so
ignorant and narrow as to suppose there
is an antagonism between a mint open
to the worlds silver and mills open to
American labor. There is, there can be,
no such thing. Open mines, open mints,
open mills for our labor, free fields cult
waited by free holders and open markets
in the outside world for the
productions of our free men in
field and forest, factory and mine all go
together, and all these together make up
the end for which democracy is contend
ing and will contend until it is attained.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
1917 First Ave.

the wasp firmly imbedded in its body.
The hungry larva which matches from
this egg soon reaches maturity upon the
all-sufficient food thus stored, and before
many weeks is transformed into the full
hedged, long-waisted wasp like it's par
ent
The disproportion in the sizes of the
predatory wasps and their insect prey is
indeed astonishing. The great sand
hornet selects for it's most frequent VIC
tim the buzzing cicada, or harvest fly, an
insect much larger than itself, and
which 1t carries off to its long sand tun-
nels by short fights from successive
elevated points, such as the limbs of
trees and submits of rocks, to which it
repeatedly Jugs its clumsy prey.
In the present instance the contrast
between the slight body Of the wasp and
the plump dimensions of the caterpillar
was even more marked, and determined
to ascertain the proportionate weight Of
victor and victim.
Constructing a tiny pair of balances
with dead grass stalk, thread and two
disks of paper, 1 weighed the wasp,
using small square pieces of paper of
equal size as my weights. L found that
the wasp exactly balanced four of the
pieces. Removing the wasp and substi-
tuting the caterpillar proceeded to add
piece after piece of the paper squares
until l had reached a total of twenty
eight, or seven times the number requir-
ed by the wasp, before the scales bal
anced.
Similar experiments with the tiny black
wasp and it's spider victim showed pre-
cisely the same proportion, and the ratio
was once increased eight to one in the in
stance of another species Of slender or
ange and black-bodied digger, which I
subsequently found Juggling its cater
pillar prey upon my doorstep patch.
The peculiar feature of the piing of
stones above the completed burrow was
not mere individual accomplishment Of
my wire-waisted wasp. On several oc-
casions since l have observed the same
maneuver, which is doubtless the regular
procedure with this and other species
The smaller orange spotted wasp just
alluded to indicated to me the location of
her den by pausing suggestively in front
OF tiny cairn. In this instance a
small fiat stone, considerably larger than
the tunnel, had been laid over the opening
and the others piled upon 1t.
On two occas ions 1 have surprised this
same species of wasp industriously en-
gagged in the selection of a suitable fiat
foundation stone with which to cover
her burrow, her widely extended slender
jaws enable her to grasp a pebble nearly
a third OF an inch In width.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18

take the course he has, for he has many
strong and warm friends in Hale who
don't hesitate, to say that he has COM
mitted political suicide.
Underwood will receive the solid sup
port of the democrats of Hale for the
congressional nomination-in fact, no one
else Is spoken of for the position. 1t is
thought he was swindled out of his seat
in congress, and the people are going to
send him back with an increased major
ity
Mr.. John Redding, manager of Judge
Harralson's plantation in Hale, sold thir-
ty bales Of melilotus hay in Greensboro
at so cents per hundred. This beats rails
ing cotton at 61a cents per pound. A
great dsal of this species of clover is
planted in south Hale, and old wornout
lands are being renovated and made rich
every year by it. Anyone who wants the
seed of this valuable forage plant can get
it by writing to some of our Canebrake
planters.
DIR. and Mrs. Ready have returned
from Pittsburg, Pa. and the former, who
Will be the principal next session, Is en-
gagged in repairing the academy, which
will soon be in apple pie order for the
reception of pupils. The boarding de-
psrtment will be under the management
of competent lady, and the faculty will
be composed of experienced teachers
Mrs. Helen Stollenwerck fell from her
back porch few days ago and sustained
injuries from which she has been suffer-
ing ever since.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonse Stollenwerck,
formerly of Birmingham, are spending
the summer at Tybee.
Col. w. c. Tunstall is at Blount Springs.
Mrs. Allen C. and Mrs. ]. M. Jones are
at st. Clair.
DR.. Otis and family and DIR. Judge and
family are in the mountains of Virginia.
Mrs. Mary Pickens has gone to Wauke-
sha.
Spenser Jack is at Talladega Springs.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18

1t will be seen that in the fifty
three white counties in 1894 Gov
ernor Oates majorities aggregated
1884. These majorities came from
nineteen OF the fifty-three coun-
ties, as follows: Autauga, Baldwin,
Calhoun, Clarke, Colbert, Escambia, Hen
ny, Jackson, Jefferson, Lamar Lauder
dale, Madison, Marion, Mobile, Monroe,
Morgan, Pickens, Pike and Washington
In the same fifty-three counties Captain
Kolb's majorities aggregated 16.1SS. These
majorities came from thirty-four of the
tifty-three counties, as follows: Bibb
Blount, Butler, Chambers Cherokee,
Chiffon. Choctaw, Clay, Cleburne, Coffee.
Conec9h, Coosa, Covington, Crenshaw,
Cullman, Dale. DeKalb, Gilmore, Etowah,
Fayette Franklin, Geneva Lawrence,
Lee. Limestone, Marshall, Randolph,
Shelby. st. Clair, Tallapoosa, Talladega,
Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston. The
ffty-three counties named gave Captain
Kolb a majority of 1854 over Governor
OATES.
In the same fifty-three counties this
year Captain Johnston's majorities ag-
gregated 1870, and came from twenty
eight counties, as follows: Autauga,
Baldwin, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers,
Clarke. Clay, Colbert, Covington, De-
Kalb, Eacambia, Jackson, Jefferson, La
mar. Lauderdale, Lee. Limestone, Madi-
son. Marion, Mobile. Monroe, Morgan,
Pickens, Randolph, Tuscaloosa, Walker,
Washington and Winston. In the same
counties Mr.. Goodwyns majorities ag-
gregated 1871, coming from the following
twenty-five counties; Blbb Butler Cher
okee, Chiffon. Choctaw. Cleburne, Coffee.
Conecuh, Coosa, Crenshaw. Culman,
Dale, Elmore. Etowah, Fayette Frank
lin. Geneva. Henry, Lawrence. Marshall,
pike. Shelby, st. Clair, Tallapoosa and
Taliadega.
AS is shown by the table, the same fiji
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
GREENSBORO.
Cotton Crop Cut Short by Half-No Boilers
in Hale.
S-15-ttf

in Hale.
Greensboro, Aug. 17.-(Special 1.-The
drouth still continues, broken by few
local showers, which can do the crops no
good. Some farmers contend that general
rains now will do more damage to the
cotton crop than good, as they will not
increase the yield, but will injure the
staple. The estimate of the cotton yield
as compared with last year Is decreasing
every day. until, in the opinion of some,
there will not be two-thrds as much cot
ton raised this year as last. and some put
1t at one-half of last years crop. Mr..
George Nabers, a good farmer and man
of good Judgment, who works a small
farm near Greensboro, states that on the
same land on which he made fourteen
bales of cotton last year he will not make
over seven bales this year, and that he
has already picked out three bales
Mr. John Cooke, another thrifty farm
hales to the mule, and is of the opinion
that 1t will not be over three or three
and one-half bales this year.
Cotton Is beginning to come in, and Is
selling for q fraction over So cents. All
the cotton will be open by the 1st of Oc-
tober and nearly all of 1t will be gath
cred by that time.
Politics is very quiet in this section.
There are not over half dozen demo-
Gratis in this community who will fail to
vote for the nominees of the Chicago con-
ventioD, and your correspondent doesn't
know Of one who viii holt the ticket and
support the nominee of the national
democracy" to be put out soon at In
diAnapolIs. There Is a general regret
here that Governor Jones has seen fit to
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT.
William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Arthur Nj. Sewall of Maine.
WHAT THE RETURNS SHOW.

We print below table showing the re-
suit in this state of the last two state
elections. The majorities received by
Governor Oates in the fifty-three white
counties and the counties in which they
were obtained are given, so are the ma
jorities received by Captain Kolb and the
counties which gave them to him given.
The table also shows the same as to Cap
tain Johnston and Mr.. Goodwin. 1t is a
table that can but prove of interest to
those who make Alabama politics a
study, and can be studied to advantage
by politicians of every persuasion. The
table shows up as follows:
White Counties
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18

tered right and left, when, with apparent
ease and prompt dispatch, the listless
larva was drawn toward the burrow, in
to whose depths he soon disappeared
Then, after short and suggestive in
terval, followed the emergence of the
wasp and the prompt filing in of the
requisite earth to level the cavity, much
as already described, after which the
wasp took wing and disappeared, pre-
sumably bent upon repetition of the
performance elsewhere.
But she had not simply buried this cat
erpfllar victim, nor was the caterpillar
dead, for these wasp cemeteries are, in
truth, living tombs, whose apparently
dead inmates are simply sleeping, mar
cotized by the venom of the wasp sting,
and thus designed to afford fresh living
food for the young wasp grub, into whose
voracious care they are committed.
By inserting my knife blade deep into
the soil in the neighborhood of this bur-
row readily unearthed the buried cater
pillar and disclosed the ominous egg OF
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
FREE SILVER POETRY.

(From Free Silver Handbill.) 81
How dear To our hearts is the old silver
dollar. s
When some kindly fortune presents 1t to
view;
The Liberty head, without necktie or col
lar, 20
And all the strange THINGS that to- us
seems new. ,.t
The wide-spreading eagle, the arrow below
It,
The stars and the words, with the strange
things they tell;
The coin of our fathers-we're glad that we
know il,
For some time or other twill come in
right well;
The spread-eagie dollar, the star-spangled
dollar,
The old silver dollar we all love SO well.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
FIND NOTHING TO CONDEMN.

The goldbug organs Of New York and
the east have failed to find anything in
Mr. Bryan acceptance speech to con-
denim as anarchistlc. agrarian or COM
munistic. About the only assault made
upon it is that it was too much devoted
to discussion of the financial question.
1t was sad disappointment to them.
They had predicted and hoped for a py-
rotechnic display of oratory without ar
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
Where Such Democrats Go.

Selma Times.
The Montgomery Lion has never said
any words against the desertion of Br'er
Hundley. 1t even classes him in its list
of legislators as a democrat. There is a
place down below SO full of such demo-
Gratis as Br'er Hundley and Br'er Glass
that their legs are sticking out the win
dowS.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
BIRMINGHAM STATE HERALD
Entered at the postof1ice at Birmingham,
10 oaon,d aIoee rao4far

Entered at the postofIice at Birmingham
Ala, as second-class matter.
Eastern Business Office, The Tribune
Building, New York City; Western Bust
ness Office, 1.-THE Rookery," Chicago the
S. C. Beckwith Special Agency, Sole Agents
Foreign Advertising.
The State Herald will appreciate news
from any community. If at small place
where 1t has no regular correspondent,
news reports of neghborhood happenings
from any friend will be gratefully received.
All communications of whatever charac-
to or length, should DO written on only one
side of the sheet.
Our rates for 1896 are as follows:
Daily State Herald, per month. ..........$ 50
DAILY state Herald, per quarter. l o.
daily state Herald per annum. ......... w
Sunday State Herald alone, per an . m
Weekly State Herald, per annum 90
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sent to the Editorial Rooms.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
Does It Know NewsP

OpeIIKa NEWS.
The Advertiser headed the great speech
of acceptance of the democratic nominee
with about four lines of small type in
single column. To the speech of Govern
or Jones 1t gave a half column heading
doubled. What journalistic smallness
to be sure.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
Anything for q Change.


OtIlIId I lfffVS.
They say Frank Glass likes to be called
a republican. We don't wonder at it, for
he has been called everything else that
is bad, and he wants a change.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
A Poor Underwater.
Selma Times.

selma I1neS.
The Montgomery Advertiser vouches
for the democracy of Hon. Jeff Mad
Falkner. But who is there to vouch for
the democracy of the Advertiser except
Bier Moseley?
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
Al Postal to BRYAN.

The following verse was sent to Mr.
Bryan from New York city 1t was writ
ten on postal card and signed by Lizzie:
The chinch bug eats the farmers crop,
The wild bee gets his honey;
The bed bug sucks his blood,
And the goldbug gets his money!"
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18

Pennies saved grow to be dollars. Save
your money and deposit in Peoples Saw
ingS bank. S-15-tf
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18

A small bank given for thirty days
to every new deposition in our savings de-
partment
PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK.
Q-1R-ttf
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
Hanna Saws Stop It.

ffItSsStf6C
ceived at Montgomery: 10
New York. Aug. 10.
Dear Youngblood: have just heard
that that newspaper, the Ad-
vertiser of your town, is about to come
out for Mckinley We can't stand that
II will get up a split in the party in your
state in less than week. For Heavens
sake. stop It'll 1 will send you another
check by this mail. HANNA.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18
POOR OLD ADVERTISER!

Don't Let Your Foot Slip, Tom.
Selma Times.
The Hon. Thomas Goode Jones must
not let his foot slip. If anybody on earth
owes the democrats of this state debt
of gratitude it is Jones.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-18

Totals ~. S,6sl Issue, 7SO o,9n II. 2l7 I26l5
Black Belt Counties.
The Progress., 1896-08-15
II ~ Arthur Sewsll.

Omaha World Herald. July 13: The
charge that the adherents OF blnsta!-
lism are engaged in creating ne"
sectionallsm was weltanswered by the
nomination OF Hon. Arthur Sewali OF
Maine to be vice president.
Mr.. Sewall is a loyal, earnest cham
pion of bimetallism. He belongs to the
William p. st. John school OF business
men. He has been brave enough 20
declare his principles and to DEFEND
them in times when those principles
were not so popular as they are today'
He has been the acknowledged leader
If tho forces of bmetallism IN Maine
and his selection Is formal service OIL
notice upon the champions of the single
gold standard that every inch OF ter
ritory Of the United States is to be con-
tested in behalf OF popular government.
The coinage of the constitution can
he restored without the help of the state
Of New York and Of other eastern
states. But We will have the help OF
Maine beyond any reasonable doubt.
We will fight for Massachusetts, and we
will invade New York. Pennsylvania
and New Jersey will not be surrendered
without struggle and Vermont viii
be royal battle ground.
The restoration OF bimetallism is as
important to the farmers and The
laboring men of the east as it is to the
middle states.
Eastern newspapers do not reflect
public sentiment. They distort it. The
abolition of slavery was accomplished
| without tile aid of the eastern press
| and the newspapers OF that section adj
voeated universal freedom oalY when