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The age-herald., 1897-11-20
EXPIAFION.

From the St. Clair (Mo) Democrat. My erring soul, unsloqre by strife. The moil and struggle of earthly life Wounded by wrong, subdued by grief, And the fearful gloom of unbeHef. While wandering through fair fields or
 drear,
 Hath found alas, but somber fear In vain hath sought. in realms afar, The trembling flame of loves pure star In writhng pain I helpless lie, And ask to sleep, aye, cen to die TO. uuit this world of wild coIffusion Of endless longing and sad illusion; To leave my hope now well nigh spent, In murmIring, means and diScOntent Scarusd by passion and scanned by shame UnIoved by any unknown to fame. But now with sorrows tear-tained eyes, I behold the sheen of turquoise skies, With gates of pearl, their golden ways Prophetic of long, sinless days. This vision fair doth put to rout The specters of woe and doubt; Hopes lambert flame doth live anew In promes of the Good and True. I long to win proud freedoms calm. Her dreamy, socting. healing balm, And rest with God in His finality, The Moral Orders last reality. I know the path, through self-denial, Renunciation and sternest trial, Yes, the end of evil, of bind negation, Is summed and centered in exptation By mortal ear hath not been heard A granCier, noDler, sWceter word. It's meaning full I'll know at length. If God above but lend me strength. And then redeemed. set wholly fire, Der fiowery mean ard sapphire sea. To the holy peace of,heights Supefnai. My soul shall mount and dwell eternal
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
ABOUT IMPURE WATER.
WankIyn, the Very Highest Authority on Water
 Analysis, Quoted.
To the Editor of The Herald.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 Reference to the manual of quantative chemical analysis by Thomas B. Still man of Stevens Institute reveals the fol- lowing relative to the analysis of water:
 "The amounts of free and albraninoid ammonia allowable in good drinking water are thus stated by WanlS lyn: If water yield 600 part of albuminoid ammonia per mill lion, it may be passed as organieally pure, despite of much free ammonia and chlorides; and, indeed if the albuminoid ammonia amounts to 0.02 or to less than 0.05 parts per million the water belongs to the class of very pure water. When the albuninoid ammonia amounts to 005, then the proportion of free ammonia be- comes an element in the calculation, and I should be inclined to regard with some suspicion water yielding a considerable quantity of free ammonia per million. Free ammonia, however, being absent, or very small, "a water should not be condemned unless the albuminoid ammo mia reaches something like 0.10 parts per million. Albuminoid ammonia above 0.10 per million begins to be very suspicious sign; and over 0.15 ought to condemn
 water absolutely"
 When this statement by so eminent an authority as Wanklyn, who IS recognized
 throughout the world as the leading
 wa ter expert, is considered with the an-
 alyses of the Birmingham water supply
 published in Thursdays Age-Herald, our
 citizens can more intelligently form an
 opinion as to whether the water supply should be filtered. In analysis No. 26S
 ind o1h ,,,,i,a n mi ia
 In anal No. 269 it is 024.
 In anal No 270 it is 0.10.
 In anal. No. 271 1t is 0.0S.
 In anal. No. 255 1t is 0.O9
 | The comparison shows that Prof. Wanl1lyn would class the water repre- sented by analysis No. 269 as being of such impure quality as should condemn | 1t absolutely, and that sample No. 270 as being of suspicious quality, while each of the other analyses show the presence of albuminoid ammonia to be in such quantity as should place Birmingham's supply of water on the ragged edge of much suspicion at least
 | am not a chemist, but quoting from | the very highest authority on the analy- I sis of water, cannot refrain from calling attention to the difference of opinion as it presents itself to me and will no doubt to others when they are informed upon the subject. If Wanklyn is correct, and his judgment passes tlle world over as authoritative, the water supply of l Birmingham, according to the analyses | printed on Thursday Gast is far from l being pure.
 CHARLES G. FERNALD. | Birmingham, Nov. 19. 1897.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
A New England Crisis.

There is a growing chorus of com plalnt from the New England cotton manufacturers. and the Springfield Re- publican thus summarizes the situation:
 II is obvious that critical pass has been reached in the cotton manufactur- ing industry of Massachusetts if not New England. Three times this year have the mills of this section run upon paralyzlng giut in the market for their products, and two quite general applica- tions of the remedy of restricted produc- ton have convinced the manufacturers that this course Is useless. It orly en- abes the outside mills to ksep on at full time. Now a general cut in wages at Fall River from the big salarfss of the mill treasurers to the pittance paid the back boys, is contemplated, and the de- mand also arises for federal factory leg islation. particularly imposing the same conditions of working time upon the in dustry in all the states This last is a suggestion almost startling in it's im- port, for where will the end be when the national government must assume regulative control of manufacturing?
 That too many cotton mills have been put up and too much machinery estab- lished is obvious. There is overproduc- tion in relation to the home market and such small share of the outside markets as the American mills hold. The en- trance of the south actively into manu- facturing has intensified this condition of ovsrdoing and NeW England with its shorter hours of labor and higher wages suffers most in the resulting struggle for existence All New England manufac- turers now agree practically in declar ing that southern wages must go up and hours down or New England wages must go down--if we are to hold our own. It is higher labor cost of production. they say, which hampers New England, and especially Massachusetts with it's 5S-hour 1aw-the shortest legal work week in manufacturing outside of New Jersey Hence the demand for a national uni- form -hours-of- labor law.
 It may sometimes be doubtful where to draw the line between state and fed eral rights, but it is easy to draw 1t in this case. The national congress has no more business with the hours of labor in Alabama than it has with the hours chosen by her people for going to bed at night and rising in the morning. When an Alabama employer and his operatives are willing to have ten hours make a days work, 1t is their business and if the mill owners of Massachusetts object to it. so much the worse for them If a man in this genial climate is will ing to work twelve or fourteen hours he has the right to do 1t, and an employer has the right to engage his services on that basis. Nor has the fvderaf govern ment the right to prescribe the ages of the persons who work in factories. If 1t
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
Hanged by the Other Birds

Mr. Jerome Butler of Mariette, Mich, vouches for the truth of the following story: x
 A spalrow entered a swallows nest, from which he began pitching the young birds. Three swallows, attracted by their ou,cry, immediately bounced upon the intruder. After confining hm 1n the nest for few minutes, they threw him out. He dropped about a foot, there was a jerk, and Mir. Sparrow was hanged as nicely as though an expert hangman had bean in charge. A horses hair was wound around his neck Sevral times and after a few Intellectual struggles he kicked his last.
 Who can say after this summary trial and execution that animals have no S nSs of justice?
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
A Remarkable Case,

A correspondent of the Washington Star gives this almost incredible ac- count of muddle in North Carolina, growing out of the free railway pass question:
 At Ashevllle, Judge and ex-Congress- man Hamilton G. Ewart made the dec- laration that complimentary passes were not prohibited, and that he had such passes. Then a magistrate, W. H. Dea- yer, issued warrants against local offi- cials of the Southern railway for issuing passes to Judge Ewart This was fol- lowed by a denunciation of Denver by Ewart from the bench. The n=xt step was the serving of rule by Denver upon Ewart, returnabl Nov. l, to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt.
 But when Nov came Denver was in trouble. He was convicted in Ewart's court of embezzlement and pleaded guilty in three other cases of criminal misdemeanor and threw himself upon Ewart's mercy. The evidence discloss a complete system of blackmailing, ex- tortion, and embezzlement of a most amazing character and scope Several officials and detectives are involved with Denver.
 Judge Ewart has directed the solicitor to draw bills against the Southern rail- way for issuing passes to persons other than employSS, ana says ms oDJecl IS IO ascertain whether a railway has a right to issue passes to newspapers. He has directed the solicitor to name the editors of the Asheville Citizen as witnesses in this matter; and says he will make it test case, upon which the supreme court must pass, so as to see whether any per son not an actual railway employe can ride on a free pass.
 If the judge has such serious doubts about free passss why does he accept them?
 | It is certainly rather hard on the rail- way and the newspaper men for judge with a free pass in his pocket to cause persons to be indicted in his own court simply to set his mind at ease about his own personal conduct. If this is not his object, then he would seem to be maliciously annoying others because he has been under fire himself It is a very strange case.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

had .his right, 1t could go farther and fix the wages to be paid. Moreover. it could say that both races should be so employed, without discrimination on ac- count of color.
 The owners of the New England mills will not be permitted to turn the govern ment into a gigantic paternal and social istic machine They must take their chances, as other people do. If they cannot successfully compete with the southern mills, they have two courses open to them. They can quit business or move their plants to the south, where they can enjoy the advantages of cheap CT raw material, fuel, water power, and labor.
 The average southern operative gets as much comfort out of his wages as the better paid toiler in the north. His ex- penses are lighter all round, and he is better able to work ten hours than his northern competitor is to work Eight.
 If the federal government is to be urged to interfere whenever the natural advantages of one section push it for ward in commerce and industry, then our republic will be turned into des- potism which will destroy the last ves- tige of our liberties.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
Overeducation Elsewhere.

In the October number of the National British. army, declares that over-educa- tion is responsible for the recent troubles in India. The general says:
 The education given Gin the British schools and colleges for the natives) un- fits them for the honest trad and pro- fessions of their fathers, and the tempta- ton to turn to some account the knowl- edge they possess too often leads to, first, loaflng round the law courts as touts, then blaclImailirg honest msn, then ScurrilouS attacks on magistrates and those in authority, and, in the end, open treason.
 Many Englishmen have written on the same line, ard among them Rudyard Kipling. The New York Press quotes
 thz general with this far-fetched com
 ment:
 But the trouble arising from the educa-
 tion of the lowly, either dark or white, Christian or Pagan, is not in giving too
 much. We might say 1t is in giving too
 aittle in variety if not in bulk. The trouble is in the spirit of an age which regards education, as 1t regards every thing else, as capital. It certainly seems to be madness to train 100 Hindoo boys for government service in which there is room for only two Hindoo boys But why may not the ninety-sight super | fiuous Hindoo boys be taught that edu- | cation should not be looked upon as a means to livelihood, but simply as means to making life 'ein the honest trades and professions of their fathers more livable?
 Because. unfortunately, it is the trend of the time from Madras to Minneapo- lis from the Ganges to the Rio Grande, ito turn" verything that we possess ito some account" to some immediate, prof
 itable monetary account That is why we have no poets. That is why our
 novelists write themselves out in three
 seasons, and why the artists in whom
 we see promise of painters remain mere illustrators and decorators. It was a benighted sixteenth century soul that sang, My mind to me kingdom is." Today it would highly resolve to turn it's mind into corner lots.
 It may be the fate ultimately of Eng fish rule in the east to perish from the mental activities which itself has cre- ated. But this Is a danger which the share with 1t in some degree, so long as | the universal frame of mind exists which | seeks intellectual enrichment only for | the germs of material advantage which | it may contain.
 | The writer on the Press knows that he is writing rot. In this material age men cannot be persuaded to work content | edly in the lowest and cheapest grades
 of manual occupations after they have
 had a taste of even a good English edu- cation. It is entirely out of the question
 after they have gone deep into the clas- I sics and higher mathematics.
 This country is only at the beginning
 of this experiment. A century from now, when the people have all mastered the same text books and stood on an educational level, few men will cheerfully l become hewers of wood and drawers of
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

When men worked for two bits day tallow candles sold for 5 cents apiece, and whskey retailed at cents a drink. Mr Roden no doubt remembers those days. He should know that when the gas works were built labor commanded much higher wages than it does now. Everything has declined in price, save that of gas, but the cost of production today is more than one. hundred per cent. less than it was when the gas plant was constructed.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

That chief of police of the City of Mexico has won the prize as being the most consummate scoundrel anywhere to be found. Hanging is too good for him. He imagined he owned the entire o3y and had become so inflated at his own supposed importance that he could do as he pleased and tit was nobody's bustEless. Can 1t be possible that there is some in- defina ble influence surrounding the busi- ns ss which generates this halluotnat9on. It is becoming epidemic even in this country.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

water for other people who are not superior to them in talent and intsllec- tual acquireme nts. The learned sehol- ars who are compelled by their poverty to become day laborers will. throw away their picks and shoveIs and swear that they will fill the higher places for which they are fitted or make trouble. This discontent of millions of educated poor men will develop into strife and revolu- ton.
 Do we not see something of the kind even now? Are the negroes as contented and as reliable toilers as they were be- fore the whites went down into their pockets and footed the bill for their edu- cation, such as it is? Will not the sit uatlon be worse in the near future when there are hundreds of thousands of blacks all crazy to enter the profes- sions?
 The thoughtful southerner will under stand the full force of Gen. Lows re- marks about ver-education. The trouble which he complains of is not confined to India; we are getting our share of it here, and it is looming up into a very threatening problsm.
 If the state is going to educate the masses, black and white up to the point where they will demand light and gen teel empToymen or revolution, then the state should finish it's work by provid- ing the aforesaid easy and desirable jobs.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

M OuS Ate Oos. Al ltlAF of shears with ad- justa ble and detach- able blades is a~nov- city recently shown by a southern manu- faeiuring concern. These blades are fas- tened at the point by means of a lock bolt, the ends being coun- .terEunk even with the face of the shears. 50 there are no nuts to come loose or interfere with the cutting. The sapasr and nf fhaa. nH
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Cheaper gas and cheaper water are being furnished .u nearly every city in the United States, and nothing ia too good for Birmingham. The people of this city have as much right to cheaper necessities of life as those elsewhere, especially when it costs less to produce both in Birmingham than in any other city in the world.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
Farewell to ths quarantine
Another Result of the Dingley Law

From the Chicago News.
 In his Boston SD ;ech the Hon. Nelson A. Drng1ey was more Sparing in h.S praise. for the law bearing his honored nama than even modesty can excuse. That the law was chasing the wave of prosperity far up on the beach, thus soaking to the skin all whom 1t drench- ed, he frankly admitted. That 1t was increasing the cost of the farmers pro- ducts the manufacturers products, ths value of real estate and all other things susceptible to prosperity he willingly conceded. That it would continue to do good work h. was confident to the point of positiveness.
 But MT. Dtngley failed to include among the laws munificences the fact that since it was passed the oceans have b=en giving forth gold in vast quantities. Under the Wilson tariff law no gold was wrung from the waves of the Atlantic. This is a significant fact to which Mr. Dingley did not call attention. To bet ter illustrate this point w. shall adopt the baking powder system of comp arl- son.
 Under the Wilson law the gol1 re- covered from the ocean was:
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
2; 3
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In reality there was no gold Tn the oc ans during the career of MT. Wilson s law. but to emphasize the marked differ ence under the Dingiey law we were per fore q to use a turned rule space
 From private correspondence with ffiends of Mir. Ding1ey we learn that MT. Dingley's law proposes to use the gold taken from the co ans to increase the wages of American labor. This also ex- plains the origin of the term wave of nrosneritX." :"
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

unstable blade is serrated. and IS fastened in place as shown in the illus tion. It is claimed that the shears will last a life time with a set of new blades. The economical woman will probably invest in pair at once and then keep her eye open for bargains in blades.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

People who attend horse shows are manifesting a strong desire for freaks. Mark Hanna was present Thursday night and was the real attraction of the OccaSinn.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

The dudes of Birmingham will roll quence of the great fiolodlng of the Lon- don streets by the fife brigade yester- day
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
This Monkey Washes yYindo WIS

St. Louis has developed new occupa- tion for monkeys. The fremen at the engine house at the corner of Eleventh street and St. Louis avenue have a monkey that escaped from the owner of
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Now that the yellow fever quarantine Is thingof tine past, the people of Bir- mingham owe it to themselves to put on a most severe one against the gas and water meters.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Assistant Postmaster Couper, of At lanta, knows what it is to be hit with a decision of a court when he is hang ing on to an office by civil service straps.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

It Is to be hoped those wise men of proclamation of Gov. Johnston in abol- ishing the quarantine from the state en- tirelY.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

The amateur photographer Is 1':sponsi- ble for great many of life's misrepre- senta tions.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

There Is nothing in the dispatches from IIendon to show that the wings of angels who frequent the Strand had their wings seorched in the big fire.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

A supply of water that will cost a family in Birmingham $100 is furnished to a like family in Washington for less than $50
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

A mouse is afraid of a man, a man is afraid of a woman and woman is afraid of a mouse.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

It shows wondsrful self-cont- o when man never mistakes his good luck for ability.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Exorbltant prices for gas and water is not calculated to aid in bringing an- other dollar to Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

When you are in trouble most people who call to sympathize are only after the particulars.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

There was indeed a very hot time in the old London town yesterday and last night.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Now that London has it's second great fire Chicago must get another move on itself.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Mrs. O'Leary's COW was conspicuously absent from the great London fire of last night.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

The gas meter Is not the only mechan- ical liar. The water meter is as much
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Of an expert and does the work with the same general result-robbery.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

It's pity that a man can't get pair of suspenders that wlll held up ns rspu- tation as W Il as his trousers.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
New Blades For Scissors.

The mind of the inventor is always busy, and every day some new thing is
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Mir. Foraker refuses to promise Mark Hanna he VIII be good.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
Rocks vs. Sand.

uzEm@ Rocks vs. Sand. From the Chicago News.
 A rocky cliff, q sandy beach
 Two lovers, hand in hand, I.istening to the sad seta, waves
 And watching the pillows grand. She fondly hoped he would propose As they wandered on the strand B,,S she alasl was short of rocks And he didn't have the sand
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

London is sadly in need of quicker fire brigades.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

Since th5 adoption and enforcement of the Dingley law it is estimated that the five great bodies of water contain this much gold:
The age-herald., 1897-11-20

It is no credit to a man to possess a watch that fails to go on tick.
The age-herald., 1897-11-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 Fine te=th usually make broad grins.
 The pawnbroker is always a loansome man.
 That the dude is mistake is evident on the face of the thing.