The age-herald., 1897-08-13

Reid, who has come over to attend your jubilee"
 Now that the smallpox has been almost driven out of Birmingham, suppose the custom of introducing one person to an- other as above complained of is also stamped out of existence. It has no place among any class of civilization and certainly not among people who are SUD- posed to know better. The old way should be good enough.
 
 J. Hoge Tyler. who was nominated Wednesday for governor of Virginia by the democrats is in no way related to J. Houston Hoge, the distinguished gen. tleman of that state who refused to get sober after President Cleveland recalled him by wire from proceeding further than San Francisco on his way to as sume the duties of consul at Annoy, Chi na. J. Hoge Tyler is not J. Hampton Hoge kind of man.
 The Indians in Alaska are not to be pushed aside by the whites who go there. At this juncture of advanced civilization the Indian is "heap man. and the pale face must keep off the grass if gold mug gets are supposed to be hidden beneath.
 It is presumed that after Henry Wat terson read the money plank in the Vir- ginia state platform he kicked the star eyed goddess of reform from it's pedestal and shot out the lights throughout the Courier-Journal building.
 MT. Montgomery Folsom, the Georgian who says he writes poems on his type writer while sleeping, must be in close proximity to the pipe, and the cause of his awakening was because the pipe went out.
 
 The hand of Mark Hanna, filled with money was potent factor in the popu- list convention of Ohio Wednesday last, and hereby hangs the tale why fus- ion with the democrats was defeated.
 Now that Jacob S. Coxey, of marching to-Washington fame, has been nominated by the Ohio populists for governor in- stead of keeping off the grass he will pro- ceed to tramp it down in high places. 
 If some enterprising syndicate can get peaceable possession of Steve Crane take him to Klondyke and lose him for all time to come an. outraged public will have much to be thankful for.
 If the correspondents at Washington continue to write about the falling men, tai condition of Secretary Sherman the premier will soon believe himself dam gerous to be at large.
 
 Theodore Roosevelt is fast becoming pacificoed He has been assistant secre- tary of the navy for quite five months and has not had a quarrel with either the president or Secretary Long.
 There were any number of fights in the Ohio populist convention, Wednes- day, which indicates it was up to the high standard established by that party at St. Louis last year.
 The republicans who are making a rush for the pie counter will find joy in the news that many of the government clerks at Washington are resigning and depart- ing for Klondyke.
 The great disappearing gun which the United States government has recently erected in the halrbor of New York is thought to be something after the style of the vanishing lady
 Let it be hoped that the row between the state and federal courts of Kansas will not result in making Mary Ellen Lease governor of the grasshopper com monwealth.
 A headline in the New York Press asks: What is Christianity" which in- dicates that the New York papers are just as provincial as they have always been.
 It was well that the pistol pocket was not resorted to when William of Ger many and Nicholas, of Russia, had their meeting. This may come later.
 man who is afraid to take his chances for seaN in the United States senate before the people will better save the people by staying at home.
 It necessitated something like an assas- sination or worse to bring Don Carlos, the pretender, to the Spanish throne before the public once more.
 If the Kentucky republicans fail to see what they want at the pie counter they will have mo hesitaIcy in asking for it.
 President McKinley's quarantine against office seekers will not be raised until about the first frnst in Oo+ohor