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The age-herald., 1897-11-11
Lawyers and Lawmakinq.

In the present congress there ara per- haps too many lawyers. Among the senators there are sixty lawyers and there are 245 of the profession in the house. Over two-thirds of both branch es of congress are lawyers. It is well enough to have a proper proportion of lawyers in legislative bodies but not such an overwhelming majority. There are thousands of brainy and well- equipped men of affairs. outside of the bar who would make good legislators. and the country would be better off if they were called into the national coun- cils. If lawyers are to make the laws and run all the machinery of the gov ernment, federal, state, county and mu- ricipal, it is important to have the stand ard of the profession elevated.
 The supreme court of Illinois has re- gently laid down the rule that in or
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der to obtain admission to that court a lawyer must show that he has studied law three years in the office of a re- putabls practicing attorney. This Is 6 step in the right direction. In England a man has to read law five years before he can be admitted. Three years ds about the right length of time. and the result would be a better grade of law yers. As matters now stand, it is pos- sible in many states for a young fel- low to pick up a smattering of law in three months, and obtain license to practice. The clients of these half-balSed attorneys have to suffer.
 If a longer period of study should have the effect of reducing the number of lawyers there would be no harm done. There are too many at present in this country, and two-thirds of them would do better in other occupations. Young men should get rid of the old idea that a professional career is best for them. Tn this age of progress and development there are many other occu- pations which are worthy of the highest talents, and they bring fame and for tune to those who succeed in them.
The age-herald., 1897-11-11
TRYING AMERICAN PAVEMENT.
London Is Experimenting with Trinidad Asphal
 and Iron Stone.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
 The London government has been ex-
 perime nting with new sort of pave ment, of which great things appear to be expected. For more than week now worlSmen have been hard at it, tearing up the old and laying down the new in various quarters of the metropolis, and by this time next year the chances are that Londoners will know whether at last the perfect paving block has been discovered, or whether 1t has not. Her majesty's office of works has given per- mission to lay down the new block at three entrances to Hyde park. Various vestries have also agreed to try the blocks, and in a few weeks time a large space will be covered with the bitumen that comes from Trinidad lake and the ironstone that comes from-the United States.
 That a thoroughly satisfactory trial of the new order of things may be assured, a Baltimore foreman skilled in the art of laying the blocks has crossed the Att lantic to superintend the work. Some months ago this same foreman spent some time in Paris laying down trial patches in busy boulevards, which trial patches are said to have proved highly satisfactory. These trials, together with the reputation the blocks have now in America, induced the board of works to allow such important spots as the Mar ble Arch and Hyde Park corner to be used as ground for experiment.
 The blocks are made of Trinidad lake bitumen and hard stone broken into small pieces. The bitumen and splin- tered stone are mixed and put under tremendous pressure, during which the blocks are given shape. They come out of the press fit for immediate use, and, piled up by the wayside. do not look at all unlike blocks of wood
 Now. the advantage claimed fer this new paving material over and above any other known form of making streets passable are very many. In the first placs, tn blocks are said ito be absolute ly non-absorbent. Being uniform in size and laid closely together, the joints it is claimed, soon become closed by compress sion anod welding under traffic, and so the unSa an.tary state of affairs which is probably the greatest defect of wood block pavementS, cannot exist with these sanitary blocks, as they have been named. AS regards wear, the blocks will outlast the hardest of hard wood, and the pavement is quite as silent, doss not soften urlder sun. nor become brittle in frost. Again. these blocks have met with strong approval from humanitari- ans who, in London at least look very closely to the paving of tfa streets, and make their strong protests against every fresh yard of asphalt paving laid down. The spllntefed stone is put in the blocks to afford a sure foothold to horses The bitumen, to be surs, wears rather faster than the hard stone, and consequently
 the pavement can neveir polish, but all
 ways remains just rough enough and gritty enough to assure a firm foothold
 to horse or man. As to cost, it Is esti- mated that to lay a str5at with these sentary blocks will cost about the same as to lay it with Australian arrah wood
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Square fellow. He thinks bit, and when he believes he Is right he goes ahead. He makes some mistakes. Everybody does He is a good man, a square man. and a brave man. He IS a good newspaper man, too. He knows news when he sees it, and he knows how to tell 1t to the repidrters. He gives what he has got to aBl of them and they like him. Some people don't like him be- cause he has opinions of his own. I like him for that reason. I hope he wll be the next governor, and then I would Nike to see him sent to the senate. I'll ven ture he will be popular with the n>iw's- paper correspondents when he goes to Washington. Tbey know a good man when they see him. If there is anything which they deep.se. it is a man of Rttle brains and much airs. Johnston IS un- ostentatioans, modest, d1gniied. and al- ways the gentleman.
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CURRENT FUN.

When She Throws-"I wish you would get your wife to throw her influence for me-" said the woman who was running sure it would have some effeet.''
 Yes" was the fhoughtful reply q know when she's ever thrown enyIthing for ms Ms been effective. ."-Yonkers Statesman
 Gave the Snap Away.-Mrs. Gaibb (hostess)-Your lfttIe son does not appear to have much appetite.
 Mrs. Gadd-No, he's quite delicate.
 Ms Gaitab-Ganit you think of any thing you would likes my L.tla man?
 Little AIan-No'm. You see, nom made me eat a hull lc't before We start ed. so I wouldn't cnake a pig of n.y. self.-New York Weekly.
 Her Status Changad.--His Wife-And you are to defend ttat shoplTcter?
 The L@wyer-My dear, ste isn't shop fifter She waS-formerly, but she has saved So much money in the past ten years that she has become a klepto- maniac.-Boston Traveller.
 Education Thrown Away.-Mrs. O'Fia- nerty tto Nellie, aged n1ne)-And what is the good In gitting you French gov erness if you goes and says Ffdo has tn. mange, instdd of the menage e?-Har- per's Bazar.
 It's Disadvantages s.-Perambulating Pe,e-I'm real sorry dey has made Brook Iyn part of Greater New York. D-ary.
 Languid Leary-Why so, Pete?
 peuau,ll1 tIIaf,irror PefKa (plon nmilvl---Wp1I when de New York police justices used to give felb>r half am hour to get out of de cfty he could walk across de bridge to Brooklyn; but now he'n have vo raise 3 cents sone way ito get across de ferry to New Jersey.-Puck. Books and Bocks.--'T'm anxious to meet MT. HdFbbey: they say he talks just 1ik. hook"
 "Yes. he doss--just Nike a blank book" Detroit Free Press.
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where 1t was a century ago. Rural mail delivery would bring the farmers in touch with the cities and markets, help their business. and cause them to write more letters and take more newspapers. It would make people more contented with farm life. and there would be a distinct gain in intelligence, industry and the value of rural real estate.
 The system is an old one in Europe and even in China, and in this matter the United States lags behind all the civilized countries of the world.
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Free Rural Mail Delivery.

Assistant Postmaster Heath In his re- port on the experiments of the depart ment in free rural mail delivery, says
 According to the varying conditions of the country trayersed, the rural carriers perform their services on horseback or riding in buckboards, buggies. two wheeled carts or on bicycles. In some states they have to cross farms and pull down bars and ride over fields to. de- liver and collect their mails. In no in stance has any serious complaint been made of this invasion of private rights. On the contrary. the cooperation of the communities served has in every in stance been cheerfully and effectively given. The farmers, at thir own cost, have put up boxes at the cross roads and at all other convenient places for the reception of the mails. The general re- suits obtained have been so satisfactory as to suggest the feasibility of making rural delivery permanent feature of postal administration in the United States not immediately or in all dis trlcts at once. but in some gradual and graduated form.
 The experiments cover forty-four diff ferent routes in twenty states. They were satisfactory even tn the sparseIy settled districts of the west and south, and it is probable that a free delivery bill will come before the next session of congress. If there is any danger of losing 1t, the bill should pro- vide for the system in districts fairly well populated at first. and its gradual extension until it reaches every part of the country.
 The government has done less for the farmers than any other class. It Is al- ways improving city mail delivery, ard
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A Converted Republican.

Old Jonathan Norcross, one of Att a native of New England a lifelong re- publican, and the gubernatorial candi- date of~his party in Georgia in 1872, has just published a long article in which he earnestly advocates the removal of the negroes to Africa. MT. Norcross says that it is dangerous for a superior race to have many millions of an infe- rior race among them. He is convinced that the negroes, after generation of freedom, are not fit to vote and hold office, and he does not regard them as safe, reliable and useful citizens.
 It is recommended by this sturdy re- publican that the government appropri- ate fifteen or twenty millions of dollars a year for long time to come, to aid the negroes in migrating to Africa and establishing themselves there. Unless this is done he fears that in the future there will be serious trouble between the races.
 Without discussing some of the inter- esting points raised by this proposition, St is of interest to note the fact that it comes from an intelligent northern re- publican who has studied the negro ques- tion in the south for the past forty years.
 The article cannot fail to attract at tenton in the north, and it will probably be discussed in the leading newspapers of that section in a very lively fashion.
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ADAMS LUCK.

From the Cleveland Leader. Old Adam was a lucky man,
 Although
 We know He thought his iot
 Was very hard, And once was caught. Clean off his guard. With consequences that were fraughd With lastipg woe. Old Adam was a lucky man, For he Was not compelled to stay And see, When his darling sped away Like the wind, If her skirts were hanging straight And she seemed to look all right From behind.
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Stirring Up the People

From the Tuscaloosa Gazette
 Th- AgeHerald is stirring up Bir- mingnIam over the fact that they are paying too much fer gas. There fs no reason why gas should not be chei per in Birmingham tJan fa any other city in the country. and The Ag:-Herad is to be commended for its fight for cheap CT gas.
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sbnkespear up-to-Date.

From the Chicago Imter-Ocean.
 The attaching of Margaret Mather Ju- hets baggage by Thomas Coleman Ro- meo was an up-to-date revampdng of the Shakespearean love story. Well might the Jersey City Juliet exclain. 'Oh Ro- meo, Romeo, wiseitefore art thou Rom.o?"
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Nothing so pleases some people in Montgomery than to find psGaons suffer fng with disease in other cities. A city that can't tell the difference between canned salmon and yellow fever which Montgomery was unable to do is hardly Mctthy of notice from outsiders.
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Mark Hanna is gradually realizing tN fact that his Chilkoot Pass lies betwear Columbus and the capital at Wash.riS ton.
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Ex-Gov. Thomas G. Jcnes is developing into very able Montgomery editor.
 The gold money league shows signs of becoming vsIry much alarmed.
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When Atlanta gets to be the Carson City elf the south it IS expected that John James Ingalls, of Kansas. will make fire quent visits to that place.
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Frost failed to reach Montgomery S s>ihedul:, time. aud Ex-G'oveTncr Jons cane 1cmth 1lbm Ills hiding place.
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Police Comm ssiopers Stevens anf Lesser talk like man who unde rstant the1r business
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The police commission wal, beyond doubt, have the approval of the public when it takes hand m affairs which it seems most capable of handling.
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Birmingham may have an occasional case of diphtheria or typhoid fever, but after all it is lucky city fin n5s having Tom Jones. s
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If the Sound Moriey tagite shou11 csn v,ne in Birmingham. chsap gas wcuk fiaNe aridved.
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Mark Hanra spends mary s'ielples! can buy.
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Chief Mcdonald said that Judge Feagin warated to fine the men Monday morning but he requested tha it not be done. He said he wanted 1t to be a warning for the future.-From report of the police commission.
 Can it be possible that Judge Feagln is permitting others to suggest how jus tee should be dispensed in his courtH
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The Pension Burden.

According to the latest figures, the government has paid out over four bill Hons of dollars in pensions since the close of the war. Pensioners hardly ever die. Seven veterans of the war of 1872 are still left, and there are g. 800 widows of such soldiers. In fact, there are now fifteen widows of revolu- tionary soldiers drawing pensions.
 It is estimated that four billion dollars more will be paid out before the coun- try gets through with the union veter- ans of the late war. These figures are appalling, and it is no wonder that the masses feel this enormous drain, It is especially hard on the south, as the pensioners live in the north, and spsnd their money there.
 Year after year the pension depart deserters, bounty jumpers, and recently a man was found drawing $100 month, who served only sixteen days in the war, and broke his ankle by falling from 8 wagon. lure nSWspdpSiS Suouiu SApoSS this injustice and extravaganza, until the leading soldiers of the union side will unite in demanding a reform.
 The pension roll should be roll of honor, but it will never be that until steps are taken to purge 1t. Four bil- lion dollars more for this fraudulently conducted business. That was the value of the entire slave property of the south in 1S6O It is monstrous sum, and three -founths of it is an unjust tax.
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The wstser ai-,1 gas tcte,ousss use tive of Il h.Ed Ebth ipbbiDg the pecpi
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nhere sas5ard be n,ore rlg.lt on the gas qreston;
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Geld weather Is coming and when they lave froee down in Montgomery Gover- nor Johnston will probably have to go back I am sorry for this. The gover- ncs- is a good man. The better I know him. the betrer like him. He $ a pretty
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Remittances can be made by express, postoffce money order or drafts at current rate of exchange. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham Ala.
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Perhaps we have no cotton mills here because outside capitalists think coal is high in Birmingham. They must have s,besn getting their figures from the gas company Everybody else in town can buy coal at from 75 to S5 cents ton. The poor, innocent gas company seems to have been imposed upon, and charged $1.20 a ton for coal. I don't blame the coal miners To get a lfttle extra profit occasionally they. perhaps, imposed upon the uEoph.sticafted gas people.
 Coaa at 75 cents a ton is about as cheap as waIter power. and I don't see why we should not have at least 250,o0o sp.ndlts in opeiralfon night here in Bir- n,sngham. Mills should be erected to make prints, lawns and organdies. That wO4 can be as well done here. and more cheaply. than in New England. MILLS of tfB4s kind aile what we nsta and what Ue should have.
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By the way, Birmingham is becoming quite a cotton market. Very few people seem to know 1t, but it is. Eighty thousand bales of cotton we're received here last year, and 100000 bales are promised here this year. If we had q few more cotton mills we might have more cotton Teceived here.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-19
A Very Pleasing Event.

There probably are very few places in
the Upper Peninsula where a corporation
exists having now in its employ so great
a number of men who have been in il
continuously for twenty-five years as the
Calumet and HecIa mining company.
That such is the case must be as pleasing
to the mine managers As it is creditable
TO the employees.
lev weeks ago some OF these en-
oyees thinking such an event should be
concentrated got together and gath
cred around them all the employees who
had worked at the et4mpmills at Lake
and so tn 10 the event should have a last
ing impression, they have decided 10 give
a banquet at the Lake Linden OOera
House on the evening OF Tuesday, O:to.
Der 26, and have issued Invitations TO
many OF the company's present and old
employees at the mine; the writer, who
entered the company e service as far back
"a 1868. has to THANK the committee for
one
The committee have organized with the
following officers
Presdent-fIenry Fisher
Vice President-Henry Krause.
Secretary-Herman Schlichting.
Treasurer-John Eathorne
The following is a list Of the old hands
with the year they entered the company :
employ:
1s66-Rudolph Schroeder. Peter Kirchen Her
man schlichting.
ls67-John Eathorne, Louis Boudreau, Thorn
as Lebeaut.
1S6S-Henry Fisher Henry Krause, Richard
G. Richards, stephen Leary, Charles Beau
chaine, John Dolan.
1Sj9-Anselin Brosi, William Hagen, Thomas
Burgan.
1s10-John Letcher, Lucus Faller, Sylvester
J. HOLSTER, Joseph Lomprey.
1871 John Smith, Jacob Sleigher, Joseph
Beauchaine, John Guibord.
1872 Thomas Peters, William J. Richards
J Icob Weiss, Henry Hendricks, Frank smeth-
cram, William l.. Hagen, Benjamin Harris
Ma tin Godensky.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-19
Artists OF High DeRree

One glance at the names Of the artists
who will be seen here Monday, Oct. %
with the Calhoun Opera Company is SUIT
ficient to guarantee performance OF sur
passing merit. Miss Beatrice Mckenzie,
the prima donna is "a fresh and graceful
as a dainty rosebud, and has sweet,
clear and full voice which char ms her au.
dience. Miss Adele Harrington is one OF
cleverest prima donna soubrettes upon
the stage today and is chic and dainty.
The name OF j. Aldrich Libbey. the tenor
robuste is known all over the world.
Edward Webb the tenor comique is a
bright and original comedian. Louise
Lewis mezzo soprano, Maude Allison con
tralto and Stella Madison, soubrette are
all clever and popular. Jack Allison, the
basso, has a tine voice and is most ar
tistic. Mountioy Walker, one OF the
funniest of operate comedians IL ably
seconded by james Durant another com.
median. With large and exceptionally
well trained chorus OF 30 voices aud their
own orchestra under the direction a
Richard T.. Lindsay performance such
az is rarely seen will be given by this now
famous company. At the Red jacket
Opera House on Monday evening when
the beautiful opera "Le Grande Duchess
will he prpsented
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-19
Have You Investigated?
The Standingofthe Doc.
tor Or Doctors You
Employ.
Be Careful of Medical Institutes
Dares Not Publish His Own
Name

On Saturday October 2, the Copper
Country Evening News published a re.
print OF the st. Louis Republic headed,
Trade in bogus diplomas; bogus colleges
grant fraudulent medical certificates;
hundreds posing as physicians who are
not entitled to practice, nearly all hold.
ing these diplomas are ignorant otthe
rudiments OF medripe
The article further goes on to state
that there are two of these bogus col.
leges now domiciled in Illinois. Up toa
few months ago there was another hold
ing a charter from the State OF Wscon.
sin, but in consequence of the removal OF
its headquarters to Illinois the charter
has been forfeited at the instigaton Of
the State officials.
Long before the above article appeared
in the local papers have we warned the
people OF the copper country oil the IN.
scrupulous men who are rracticing med.
icine; there are thousands of them scat
tered throughout this country, who make
a living by praying upon the sick and
afflicted; we have long warned the people
TO be careful whom they employ as their
physician, as he may be one who has
either bought or stolen a piece OF paper
and after filing in his name, calls ita
diploma.
in every walk OF life, in every trade
and in every profession we find some
who are an honor to.their fellow work
ers while Others are diegrace. But IN
no other instance can one so hoodwinK
the public as in the medical profession.
Before entrusting your medical adviser
with your money, health or secrets, be
sure that he is physician or il connect
ed with a reputable medical institute
avoid all medical institutes whose propri
etor dares not use his own name and
never having graduated from medical
college, is Obliged to hide his identity by
advertising the name OF some one as
chief consulting physician oil his institute
The people Of the copper country have
been fieeced so often by these sharks, that
we deem it our duty to caution tbem.to
be on their guard.
BE careful to whom you entrust your
lives; investigate the standing and rep
utation OF the head OF the concern or ID
stitute with whom you do business; We
want to be investigated; the.head oil OUT
concern is a graduate from one Of tns
leading medical colleges OF New Yors;De
is registered at Houghton and in almost
every State in the Union; always look'o
the head man OF any concern, thereo!
judging thei reputation and standingo,'
the assistants. Remember we treat anu
cure all chronic, private, nervous, de~
cate, blood, skin, kidney, liver, BLADDER
stomach, rectum and female troubles,
Our hours are daily from 8 a. m t,,ss
p. m. and on Sundays fro m 3 q. N. 'ill .
p, m. DIR. Goldberg 4 Co.. over Carlton u
hardware store, corner Fifth ana h'J
streets. Calumet, permanent branch
No. 291, Woodward avenue. De.ro"'
Mich. On Mondays we are at the Dooua
lass House. HouRhtoD. IRON Ga. H. W.
.. d. m.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-19
Instrnction In Nur.inx.

Ladies desiring to avail themselves oil
a course OF lectures and instruction to
be given in nursing at the Lake Superior
Hospital at Lake Linden during the com.
ing fall and winter should, without de-
lay, call or write to DR.. George W. Orr,
Lake Linden. The lectures and instruc-
ton will commence on the I'd OF Septem-
Der next at 10 a. m.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-19

who ia a grand lodge officer, Messrs.
lizzie Blumenthal and Gus Precuss who
represent Hecla lodge, and George Allan
who reprents the Calumet lodge. CON-
posed the party. Mr.. David Osborn left
last week to be on hand at an early hour.
They expect to be gone about week.