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The age-herald., 1897-09-19
TIE AGE-HERALD
 Entered at the postoffice at Birmingham, Ala, as second-class matter.
Greed Under a Cloak.

shyloclz hat in hand, lowing to yell low jacll What hideous picture. what a damning shamel Yet there are com- munities whose skinfint leaders invite pestilenee and death in the hope of making a few dollars. There are towns boasting of open gates and hospitality, when their only idea is to fleece the yellow fever refugees out of their last dollar charging them double prices for half rations.
 God help such slaves of greed, for they will need it before their wicked lives are ended. Sympathy and hospi- tality without the hope of reward are divine. but their sham pretensions are disgraoeful and devi'dsh. In this fair land there are some men who would plot against the health and happiness of their own people If 1t would profit them to the extent of one pitiful nickel. 4e-.4.-.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
When Doctors Disagree.

Thera is trouble among the Atlanta doctors. Some of the oldes. physicians, like Dr. J. F. Alexander, president of the board of health, declare that the climatic and other conditions of Atlanta make 1t impossible for yellow fsver ever to get a foothold in that city
 Some of the younger physicians who are also men of ability disagree with Dr. Alexander, and say that while At lanta is probably safe, still it is possi- ble, under certain conditions, for ths fever to become epidemic there.
 These opposing opinions have been printed in the newspapers, and are hotly discussed by people who know nothing at all about such matters.
 Some are foolhardy and would willing ly sleep in a house with yellow fever patients. while others are frightened out of their wits simply because the ques- tion has been discussed in the newspa- pers, and they would gladly establish a shot gun quarantine against all strang- CTS
 The Age-Herald is not a yellow fever expert, but it knows that the plague formerly ragged in northern cities, and has in some countries been epidemic in localities 4,00O feet above the level of the sea. To say that Atlanta has none of the fever-spreading conditions of any of those localities high or low, on the coast or in the interior, is claiming for 1t very peculiar character, and it will be difficult to make sensible outsiders be- lieve such remarkable statements.
 While Atlanta boasts of hsr open gates, she has in the past few days adopted some very strict regulations which practically amount to quaran- tine against people coming from sus- pected localities.
 This is all right. Every city should throw every possible safeguard around the public health. Atlanta Is not to be ridiculed for her recent precautions but it is time for her to stop her talk about open gates, when her health of- ficials meet strangers many miles from the city with orders to stop them if they are suspected of having fever symptoms.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
coke-Makinq at EnsIey.

The people of Pennsylvania have Q vigilant and clear-sighted watchman dn th=, Philadelphia Record. It never fails to display flag of warning when the skies and winds are ominous of trouble. Not long ago, it will be re- membered, it told the ironmakers of Pennsylvania that their furnaces must be rebuilt if they expect to successfully meet the competition from the southern states. Now it says the beehive coke ovens must be abandoned. It d=- nounces them as crude and wasteful, sending into the air thousands of horse power of energy and a vast amount of heat that are elsewhere utilized, par ticularly in France.
 These later warnings of our valued contemporary arose from the intelli- gence that a bi-product coke oven is in cours= of erection by the Semet-Solvay Process company at Ensley. The Rec ord declares that this will soon place Alabama in the front rank as a pro- ducer of coke on scientific principles. In the course of it's comment 1t sounds general alarm in thes+ words:
 'The successful commercial manufac- turers of steel, together with the enor- mous expansion in pig iron production and the prospective immediate introduc- tion of the bi-product coke process in the southern states are industrial events of far-reaching importance. They are likely nay, certain, to compel changes in the iron, steel and coke industries of Pennsylvania and indeed of all the other states which are producers of these commodities
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
A Suggestion.

According to Speaker Reed the Ameri- can people have been trying the mind cure on the most tremendous scale ever known. He says that the present wave of prosperity is very largely due to the general agreement of the people that the period of hard times is at an end. 1t is time, of course, that short crops in Europe and good crops here play their part in bringing about improved finan- cial conditions, but MT. Reed thinks that the buoyant, confident feeling is the most important factor in restoring confi- dence.
 There Is something in this. The ac- tion and reaction of 7O,OO0,OOO human minds cannot fail to produce big results in the business world, and when every body throws up his hat and swears that prosperity is here, is 1t natural that people should feel more hopeful. Hoard come more lenient men gain courage to start various enterprises and the wheels of trade are set in motion.
 The mind cure. as Mr. Reed calls it. has something to do with all this but it is hard to have starter in the shape of Europe's increased demand for our products. An original thinker once de- clared that it was possible for millions of people to get their minds in such a condition of tumultous agitation as to produce an earthquake. There is some doutb about this startling assertion, but there is no doubt about the potentaHty of mems opinions in changing business conditions when there is any substantial material to work with.
 It Is now in order to apply the mind cure to the political situation. Perhaps 1t can be made to ameliorate MT. Reeds extreme ideas and aggressive methods, and impart a little more conservatism to his chief, MT. Mckinley The expe- riment is worth trying.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

generally speaking. college men require a good deal of training before they can write for the papers. They write bad English, their orthography is defective: their rhetoric is faulty and too much in evidence. and they labor under the dis advantage of having neglected the very books and sources of information which are most useful to an active newspaper man. The young man who desires to be a newspaper man may go through col lege and come out all the better for his training, but he runs the risk of having his talents warped and rnisdirected by well-meandng professors who have no literary and Journalistic judgment and taste.
 Some of the greatest journalists had to pick up their education like William Cobbett and Horace Greeley.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
Direct LeaisIafion.

The referendum is slowly gaining in public favor. and it may set down as a political possibility in the near future. But our states are so much larger and more populous than the cantons of Switzerland-the hor~e of the referen- dum-that, with the initiative in the | hands of the people, where of course it should be lodged, much money might be spent in numerous popular appeals, and the taxpayers and voters might be- come weary of 1t and finally urge it's repeal.
 Some of it's best friends, therefore. ask that 1t be not applied except under heavy conditions of petition, to a state, but that it be tried at first in cities where franchise is at stake. All know that deep-seated corruption exists in such cases in legislative halls. and there seems to be no effective remedy at hand against such corruption, except the ref erendum. Even without actual corrup- tion it is known that we are transferring to grasping combinations franchises that are very valuable-that in Glasgow and other Old World cities are turned to the relief of the taxpayers.
 We are wholly in accord with the policy that would start the referendum gradually, so that it may grow in favor instead of the reverse. Beyond all doubt such popular appeal is long step to- wards popular government, and against plutoeratic rule, which has become the curse and danger of our politics. But let us have moderation in the early exer- else of this later and most promising method. We hope the friends of the referendum in Illinois will be able to apply it to Chicago, which greatly needs some check upon ring rule, and which would not therefore be light held under bushel. If it proves an antedote for Chicago rottenness, this new form of political progress will gain ground rap idly enough, and it's application in the long run to many questions in all of the states will be assured. es :
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
It Is Due Montuomery.

Prof. James K. Powers owes the peo- ple of Montgomery a greater apology than he will ever be able to pay. His infiarnmatory, self-made and voluntary interview did that beautHful city an un- told injury, when the talk of the pro- lessor was not as 1t now appears in accordance with the exact condition of affairs as they really existed. Mont gomeIy, like all other cities, is doing all it possibly can to afford every possible comfort to tirose who pass through the quara ntine station. The breaking out of lthe fever came so sudden that no one expected palaces should be erected in which to lodge the refugees
 Montgomery Is doing all 1t can do, and were it possible to do more it would Tt is doing as much as any other city and It's people VIII continue to do every thing to afford comfortable quarters for all who may be detained al the quar- hntine station there. Prof Powers apol- ogy cannot be too publicly made. The people of Montgomery are entitled to 1t.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
Business Leagues.

It Is hard matter to maintain eff cient business organza zations in southern cities, but they can be made very useful auxiliaries, and they should be en- couraged. A business league should take in men of every occupation who have public spirit, enterprise and pro- gressive ideas. These should be young men as we'll as old men, for while the latter may lead in council the others are needed to do the active work
 Such a society should have attractive rooms. with newspapers and periodicals and up-to-date statistics of their cities to be distributed where it would do the most good. It would be a good idea fer such an organization to have a monthly dinner, not too expensive. to bring the members together and make them bet ter acquainted. If Birmingham were in the north or west tons of attractive literature about her advantages would
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
THAT GREAT AUGUSTA EDITOR.
How the Fire-Eater and Blood Thirsty Man
 Appears to Others

From the Washington CD. CD Capitol.
 My old friend. Jay Durham, managing editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald, has contrived to offend the vanity of a rival Georgia editor. This editor is a. very lively person, and he immediately relieved his shocked aesthetic sensibili- ties by commencing to jump up and down in print, in a most blood-thirsty and threatening manner. The language which he uses is calculated to strike ter TOT to the soul of any newspaper man having the least acquaintance with a dictionary. He must have taken great pains with that editorial; dosed himself with moonshine and arranged several large and horrible horse-pistols before him on the table, and splashed the walls of the sanctum literally with red paint, before writing 1t. The newspaper man attacked by this avalanche of epithet, metaphor, invective, objurgation, and farce-comedy bowling has not yet been scared to death, but if he has any real regard for decency he will go immedi- ately and get the coroner's jury to sit on him for heart-failure.
 One of the interesting features of the thing Is that without previous enlighten- ment it is impossible to get at the cause of this extraordinary explosion. The reader is left completely in the dark as to the offense of the brother journalist on whom not vials. but demijohns of wrath are thus being poured out. It is beautiful as a conundrum, and might serve to while away the time of many a poor convict in the district jail
 And another interesting feature of the alliterative allegations of this altitudi- nous allegator is that he, and no one more than he, has ever contended that only in Georgia could one find true cul- ture. and wells of English undefiled; that the south as whole and Georgia as section, and his particular town as a municipality, had more culture to the square inch than any other part of the Union. It is fine to have a sample of English undefled, but personally I like mine filtered
 The third and most interesting feature of the article is that the earnest Geor- gfan has not the faintest idea how fun ny he looks when he jumps about in this way. Unconscious humor is always very funny, and when a Georgia editor of this type really comes out for blood he doesn't in the least care how comicaI he makes himself in his insane rhetoric and his uncontrolled and shaky inyec- tive. He is like wet hen which has im- bibed a few teaspoonfuls of cherry bran dy; perfectly reckless and irresponsible, and doesn't know 1t. N
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
Some ColIeqe Pads.

The Chicago Tribune has the following sditorlal isem which IS apparentl, too funny to be true, and yet it purpoTts to be a statement of facts:
 In a recent statement issued by ATr. Jones, the inspector of literature in the University of New York; there are some curious reflections as to the diversity in examinations in the study of English in college curriculums. At Harvard, he says, the chief requirement. is Ito write English" which is certainly one of the simplest things to test by an examina- tion.-At Cornell the candidate is re- quired to write a composition based upon literary model" such as a 150- word digest of "Comus.' At the Uni versity of Pennsylvania the applicant Is asked. to parse and to point out "the lesson" Of "Comus," and to name the characters in '-The Merchant of venfce," telling also in which act and scene the chief characters appear together, and why they do not appear in any other scene. At Trini.y the professor contents himself with setting list of hard words flor the new fresE,man to pronounce. and at Rochester, after giving the etymology or certain words, the candidate is re- n.uested to discuss this novel and start ling proposition: As civilization ad- yances, poetry almost necessarily de- cines If he emerges from the struggle, he is asked to tell how old Macauley Was when ne wrote the essay on 'tMil- ton" The University of Indiana goes deep Into art and asks its freshmen to explain 'forcshadowing, local color" dramatic suspense" etc. and to dis euss the need of a fifth act in 'srhe Mer- chant of Venice" At the University of Chicago the candidate is obliged to cor rect tical errors; at Cornell he may be asked to name the members of the Spectator club. At Wesleyan he is obliged to decide whether ho thinks Rosalind "overbord and unwomanly in her talk with Orlando" topic which, as MT. Jones observes would certainly enllven the English recitations of a sec ondary school"
 It is an unpleasant task to critietse colleges and their methods. but it is we'll known that they turn out the worst writers of English in the country. A bright young fellow who has never seen a college, but who has read the news papers from his early boyhood can go into newspaper office and become fairly good writer much quicker than the average college graduate
 Of course. there are exceptions, but
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

I like It's independence and honesty. never saw such an improvement in so short a time, and 1t grows better every day. A paper like the Age-Herald is now, is the most powerful factor for good town can have.
 John D. Maller-I feel like the great improvement In The Age-Herald is matter for reorganization to the whole state. I am satisfied that it will receive handsome support. It is growing rap- idly in popularity.
 Judge MeCrossin-The Age-Herald is my breakfast treat. I would feel lost without it now. The manner in which they handle the news convinces me that it's staff is composed of experienced and up-to-date newspaper men. There is one feature which I particularly like in its makeup. No matter how much space is devoted to an item of news, you will always find the gist of the nsws in the first paragraph. This is a great benefit to the busy man who has not the time to run through column or so of detail to get the real news of the article.
 Y. P. Newman, of the Newman Drug company says: The new mana cement has effected remarkable improvement. I am advertising in the Age1HeraId, and will keep 1t up for am greatly pleased with the result. The people will read the paper that publishes the news, and the Age Herld is doing it.
 Will Porter, cashier Alabama National bank-The paper has been greatly im- proved both in news service and editor ial management. The way in which the news is handled in the Age-H Herald makes 1t an indueement for man to get up early to read it.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
HOTEL ARRIVALS. >
At Hotel Morris.

Arrivals at Hotel Morris: l.. B. Mus grove, city; J. Taylor Scott, Montgom- cry; w. c. Beard. Columbus, Miss {; Lloyd D. Batre, Atlanta; Miss Rosa Green, Atlanta; Ed Montag Montgom- cry; T. H. Lasley, Chattanooga; J. l.. Stsinan, Chicago; Edwin Thomas, Catssauga, Pa; w. J. Klduff, Lumber Trade Journal; Miss Bessie Hale Day, Haliax; A. Newbauer, Cincinnati; John B. Rees. Ben F. Lyon, Anniston; Frank E. Herin, Louisville; W. B. Smith. Phila- delphia; A. Spitz, Atlanta; Duncan Me- DougaF, Georgia; W. M. Caruthers, Louisville; H. c. Reynolds. Montevallo; G. K. Stewart. Cincrnati: F. A. Grider Patton. Ala; B. E. Dryden. Nashville; Sterling A. Wood, city; Charles Orrick, St.. Louis; w. A. Neall, St. Louis; E. H. Jones. Atlanta; Kalford Kreth, city; A. W. Dimick, Boston; Dr. J. P. Henry, A. c. Henry, Norfolk. Va.; Harris Green, Montgomery.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
EVIDENCE OF OSCILLATION.

From the Boston Globe. Just a giint of golden hair, Just a wave of perfume rare, And he sprang to meet her there,
 On the stair. As he caught her unaware, She protested: Don't you darei' But he kissed her, fair and scuare. And he left her blushing there,
 On the stair. With demure, unruff1ed air, As she sank Into chair All the girls were clustered there
 In the glare Nothing warned her, "Have care!" Someone. smiling, cried Look there! That's the pin I saw Jack. wear, It is tangled in her hair,
 declare'
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
PERSONAL.

Ira Champion, of Troy. Ala, was dn the city yesterday. Mr. Champion is the editor of the Citizens Journal, one of the principal Troy papers.
 Dr. Wyatt lief and Hon. H. P. H fliu will lsave' today for Roanoke to be pres ent at their family reunion. They will take a fish on the Tallapoosa river be- fore returning.
 G. Mitchell Russell. whose friends are many in this city. has taken charge of the prescription counter at the popular Sloss Pharmacy where he will be pleased to see his old patrons.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

Gov. Johnston has them on the run. The last crooked official to be caught is the commissioner of agriculture, with a 5000 shortage as told in another col urnn in this issue by the official report of the assistant state Inspector. Gov. Johnston is playing no favorftes. Hon esty in public affairs Is his motto. He is clearing the decks and insisting upon an honest administration of public affairs
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

When the governor of Indiana brings the perpetrators of the Versailles mob to justice he will be a great deal older than he is now. The grand stand play tance
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

It might be wise upon the part of Prof. James K. Powers to make less fre- quent visits ito newspaper offices, w'hloher he goes too often for the pur- pose of free advertising, to send his maiter in and pay for 1t at space rates. It might cost solmsthing, but no expIaria- tiorl5 and attempt at shifting respon- sfbflities would ever become a necessity
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

The three women in Chicago who claim to be the wives of the same man, and who assert in chorus he was mar ried to them without their knowledge the new woman.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

Cleo de Merode, the new French dancer who has come to America may not be able to dance herself into the hearts of the people, but 1t is evident she will dance a great many dollars out of their pockets
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

have been distributed long before thls ais over the civilized world. The people of every town should organize for busl- ness and pull together.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

As Henry Wiatterson helped to make the Dingaey tariff bill a cock sure thing. the star-eyd goddess has lost its charm From a free trader to protectonist is cnoner
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

The gold bugs who last year promised bdtter prices for cotton if Bryan was defeated put their man Mckinley in power by false pretensss. In some eases to obtain things under false pretense means a term in the penitentiary.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

Perhaps that attempt to kill a colored postmaster in Georgia was but warm ing to President Mckinley that he should not name a colored man for postmaster at Augusta. .1f
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

A county commissioner may not be O great nlan in the politics of a state, butt when he refuses to execute a law be- cause he don't like it, the time has come for the people to demand reckoning.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

If Commissioner of Agriculture Culver had paid more attention to the affairs of his office and less to the bugs and weavels In the crops he would not have been shoit upward of $5,OOO.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

It is to be hoped that the new chief c.e:k in the agricultural office will prove equal to the occasion and keep his hands off the tape leading into the tickers of b0ckd. shops.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
More Miners to Come

Charles Jones, of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham, is making arr rangements to take a trip to Indian Ter ritory, Missouri and Kansas. He will bring back several hundred miners. whom he sent to those countries thres years ago.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

lAtlanta's gates seem to be opens wider to the money of the yellow feyer refugees than to the refugees thenl- selves. Atlanta knows a good thing in finance when she sees it.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

There is no doubt as to that wave of prosperity. A New York girl has re- gently secured g. divorce from foreign CT and married an American.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

Commissioner of Agriculture Culver is lucky to lay the blsrne of the shortage in his office upon dead chief clerk.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

Perhaps there was too much spceula- tion of futures" in the agricultural of flee.