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The age-herald., 1897-08-07
THE GYPSY MOTH.
A Massachusetts Town In 'sa State of Arms
 Against 8 Caterpillar"


 This menacing forager of the eastern hemisphere was brought over 90 years ago by French sayant in considerable num- bers to Medford suburb of Boston. The object is said to have been to cross the crea- ture with the delicate silkworm, and so originate a robust, silk producing hybrid for America, but tho statement has been gravely questioned. The scheme, what ever it was, came to nothing, and the gypsy caterpillars, liberated from their netted in- closure by gale, spread slowly over Med ford and then into adjoining and more dis tant towns. In nine or ten years from their liberation they had developed into a noteworthy local nuisance, and by 1889 they swarmed upon Medford in irresistible hordes. Extensive tracts were swept clean. Groves and gardens, fields, orchards and tree shadowed streets all felt the fierce tooth" of the ravager. The sides of houses, walks and stoops were black, and the evil swarms, having devastated a district, marched upon the next and the next. When the impulse of transformation. drove these creatures in July to shelter, they huddled under whatever offered them protection about and even in the houses they had beleaguered. Hero, casting their hairy coats, they soon changed into pupa.
 
 which, dying, as their nature is, soon after birth, left behind them myriads of eggs l The egg clutches thus deposited embossed their shelters with spongy ocher nodules, close huddled as the globules in fish spawn The householders soraped them off by the peck. Additionally, eight brimming cart loads were removed by small official force. Each gypsy egg cluster contains on an aver age about 600 eggs. During six weeks of 1891 760, 900 of these clusters, within a re- stricted local district, were by official means destroyed.
 But this wholesale destruction did not even liberate the territory immediately threatened
 The careful reckoning of science has demonstrated that the unrestricted cater pillar increase of single pair of gypsy moths would suffice in eight years to de- vour tho entire vegetation of the United States.-From "A State In Arms Against a Caterpillar" by Fletcher Osgood, in Harper's Magazine For August. s45
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
DEAN, oWIFT'S LETTERS.
Those Written to Knightley Chetwod, Preserved With Jealous Care.

Those Written to Knishtley Chetwode '~ aePrcserved With Jealous Care.
 Introducing an installment of Dean Swift's unpublished letters in the August Atlantic, George Birkbeek Hill, the emi nent Enelish critic and man of letters, writes as follows of Swifb's correspondence: John Forster, r,-yho lived to complete but one of the three volumes in which he had planned to write the Life of Jona than Swift" speaks ip the preface of his hero's correspondence With his friend Knightley Chetwode of Wood dbrooko'' during the IF years U7l4-SD which followed Swifts ap- ,pointlnent to tho deanery of St. Patrick's. u "Of these letters," Forster goes on to say, "the richest addition to tho correspondence of this most musterly of English letter writers since It was first collected more does not neod to be said here, but of the late representative of the Chetwode family 1 crave permission to add word. His rare U talents and taste suffered from his delicate health and fastidieus temperament, but ip my life 1 have seen few things more de- lightful thar bis pride ip the connection of his race and naino with the companion ship of Swift. Such was the jealous care with which he preserved the letters treas urinE them as an hcirluom of honor, that he would never allow them to be moved from his family seat, and when, with his own hard, he had made careful transcript of them for nc l had to visit him at Wood brooke to collate his copy with the origi nals. There 1 walked with him through avenues of trees which Swift was said to have planted.'
 As Forster did not bring down the Life' later than 17il--three years and more before the first of these letters was written---he isado scarcely any use of the correspondence, He refers to it twice, and twice only. On his death the copy of the originals, with the corrections he had made, was returned to Woodbrooke. It T has lately come into my possession. What wonder would haNo seizcd on Swift's mind had it teen ior,i, ld.' i,im that these let ters of his, ;tig ,.den nearly 200 years, were LI,sll tao light of day in m American n;is.@iIel America. to bor- row the words of Edmund Burke, ''served for little more than to anuse him with stories of savage men and uncouth man ners" For him "tbe angel did not draw up the curtain and unfold the rising glo ries of the country Ho rarely mentions the settlements in his writings, and wher ho docs i [ is for the most part with igno rance and contempt
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
TENNIS.
AMERICA WINS
The English Tennis Te-In Play Well, but
 No. We'll Enough

The English Tennis Fem Play Well, but
 Not Well Enough
 New York, Aug. G.-The American ten nis cracks established their superiority ovar the visiting English team on the courts of the St. George Cricket club at Hokobsn, N. J., today befcrs a -thous and spectators. 1t was the final day of the touIWiament and the crowd was larg- CT and more enthusiastic than at any previous contest. The result of Wtdnes- days playing had left the two teams tis each with three games won and three lost. Consequently the outcome of to- days matches was watched with iEtense Interest R. D. Wrera was pitted against H. s. Maheney, C. T. Wrenn. Jr., was drawn against II. A Nisbitt and W. A Larnsd met W. A. Evans Nisbitt was the only Englis hman who won his match. ~ The result of the match left she Eng fish, team with a score for the week of matches won and five lost. whii, ths Americans finished with ffva won and foar lest.
 tonight the players were entertained at dinner at the residence of Richard Stev- ems at Hoboken. handsome silver l5V- ing cup was presented by the guests to their. host
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE.

MT. Moody's Graphic Illustration of the
 Doctrine of the Resurrection.
 "There is a little book entitled The Life Beyond that presents the truth of the resurrection in a wonderful manner, II writes Evangelist Moody in the August Ladies' Home Journal. "It is an allegory and pretends to give the experiences of a little dragon fly grub. The little insect longs to know what is beyond the sphere of its little world. In vain it inquires of the fish that live in the same pond but they have no experience in any other sphere, nor can any of it's fellows satisfy its anxious yearning. The only world it knows is a little meadow pond. All it's experience Is limited by the bounds of the surrounding banks. At length the grub is overcome by strange attraction up- ward, and, gathering about 1t all it's fel- lows, it tells that it must leave them for the regions above and promises to return to tell them what it has found to exist in the beyond, if indeed there may be any thing above the bulrushes of their little pond, and then quietly 1t disappears from the sight of its fellows and emerges into the bright sunlight of the greater world. Here it is transformed, and now with out stretched wings it darts hither and thither, reflecting the brightness of the sun from its gorgeous body, but it does not forget the promises it has made to the friends it has left below It tries to return to the world from which it has just been resur- rooted, but cannot now leave the atmos- phere in which it lives. A Il it can do Is to wait for them to come to where it now Hves a beautiful dragon fly.
 And thus it is with those who have disappeared from our sight. Their love for us is not lessened because they are not able to commune with us, but they are waiting in the presence of the Master for that glorious moment when in their resur- rooted bodies shey shall unite once more with those whom they have loved on earth u
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
H.,-,n:s1.ar are the only pills to talk
 IIOOu lIIo with Hoofs Sarsaparills
He May Cot There Yet.

"That nan Bluf1ly is tho busiest fellow ever knew" ehuokled one who has known him for years. "Ho married lot of money, and thero is not the slightest reason for him to work at all, but he wants to keep up the impression thnt he's no deadhead in the enterprise and keeps going through tho motions as if he had to.
 "Ho concluded once he'd do editorial work on paper. He fitted up an elegant sanctun at his own expense, laid in fine cigars for callers and then announced him. self ready to have hcstilities begin. His first assignment was to give his impress sions of tho European situation. He de- clared himself at homo on tho subject chatted and smoked all afternoon, told his friends to look out for 'thunderer' and invited them out when ho felt like warm ing up on the theme. In the evening he was equally breezy and assured. When the managing editor dropped in about 10 and asked Bluffiy if the article was ready, he answered with wave of the hand and the announcement that it would take him at least week to get up such an editorial as was due himself and the paper. He could not be made to comprehend that the paper had to come out every day or that the shifting situation might be entirely changed in Q week. He was tried with several other topics, but never had any copy prepared and was induced to resign
 He opened a brokers office that soon became social clubroom where there was no suggestion. of business. He bought patentlrightthat he threatened to push till he had nade a few millions, but in a month forgot that he owned it. Now he has tack led electricity with a view to talk ing with Mars. '-Detroit Free Press.
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
LABOR IN NEW ENGLAND,

Influence of tho Modern Trades Union In
 Manufacturing Town.
 The trades union is another factor of tho life of the community with which it is hard to deal fairly, says Alvan F. Sanborn in describing a Massachusetts shoe town in the August Atlantic. It is not too much to say, however, that in the shoeshops of Brompton, as wherever the trades union exists, notably in England, the ripe result of the organization of labor has made just as surely for industrial peace, as the grop- ing, feeble beginnings of it's organization made for industrial disturbance. This is peace like the armed neutrality of Eu- rope, 1t Is true, based on the fear which the strength of each party inspires in the other. Nevertheless 1t is a peace to- be counted on. Thus in the later seventies, during the days of the raw and badly or ganized Knights of St. Crispin, there were serious labor troubles at Brompton, lead ing to riot and personal violence, but since tho genuine closely organized trades union has become powerful enough to be feared, labor adjustments have been achieved without strikes, as rule, and VI ben strikes have occurred they have been of short duration and free from violence. 'ei
 Under the present regime of faotories so large that employers cannot have personal knowledge of their employees and take . personal interest in them, even if they wished; of indifferent, nonrssident employ CTS who would not take notice of their ein- ployees, even if they could, and of q rapid ly growing contempt for labor and social ostraeism of the ]aboring man, the trades union is for the Brompton shop worker Il absolutely indispensable weapon Of self cafanca
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
The Discovery of Ether.

The true Columbus of the ether was Thomas Young. His discovery was con summated Tn the early days of the present century, when he brought forward the first conclusive proofs of the undulatory theory of light. To say that light consists of un- dulations is to postulate something which undulates, and this something could not be,air, for air exists only in ininitesimal quantity, if at all, in the interstellar spaces, through which light freely penetrates. But, if not air, what thenf Why, clearly, something more intangible than air, some thing supersensible, evading all direct ef- forts to detect 1t, yet existing everywhere in seemingly vacant space, and also inter penetrating the substance of all transpar- ent liquids md solids, if not, indeed, of all tangible substances. This intangible soIRe- thing Young rechristened the lnminifer- ous ether. Henry Smith Williams NJ. D., h Harper's Magazine For August.
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
Traffic on the Great American Lakes


 Five years ago there was not vessel on these lakes that displaced 1000 tons when floating on the St. Mary's river. Today there are not fewer than 20 high powered steel screw steamers which displace about $500 tons on the same draft of water. This represents an averageincrease Tn the carry ing capacity of no less than 70 per cent, and the percentage increase in register ton mage is still higher. Steel cargo steamers, 415 feet in length and 4S feet in breadth, are now being constructed.
 These dimensions are greater than those of the average modern ocean steamer, though several British cargo steamers are about 100 feet longer, and their depth and draft of water is much greater. The carry ing capacity of this new lake fleet will equal S,500,O00 tons of ore, transported from the head of Lake Superior to Lake Erie in one season of navigation.
 It is well known that the number of ves- sel passages through the St. Mary's canal is much larger than the number of vessel passages through the Suez canal per an- mum, the number of such passages being as follows: Suez canal, 3,434 steamers; Soo canal, 17,956. The tonnage of the former is S,44S, ,246, and of the latter 16, S06, 7S1 tons. Thus it is seen that the tonnage passing the Soo canal during only seven months of n year is 99 per cent greater than the tonnage passing the Egyptian canal in 12 months.-J. R. Oldham in Cassicr 6 Magazine.
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
THE YOUNG eIRLIN SUMMER.
The Unconventional Outdoor Life Not fs Without Its Dangers.


 Edward ". Box, writing under the cap- tion of Breaking Down the Fences" gives some wholesome and sensible ad- vice to young girls in the August Ladies' Home Journal and sounds warming against allowing them too much freedom of action-too much liberty. MT. Box dis cerns that summer brings greater freedom to young girls than any other season and presents to them many more opportunities to unconsoiously break down the fences the barriers-of the best and wisest de- pertinent. "City girls" he contends, "often think that they are freer to do things in the country or at the seashoro than in the city. Little licenses seem so much more natural in summer, when we live an outdoor life. We feel that we can be more unconventional. We can be, but 1t is just when we are most unconven- tional that we are in greatest danger of going just little beyond the point where we know and feel we ought to stop.
 It is a magnificent tribute to girls character when she can be unconventional and yet preserve in every sense the dignity of girlhood. That is what commands the highest respect for girl. It is very fine line which divides unconventionality in girls department from certain license and freedom of action, which is so fraught with danger-a very, very fine line. And yet on one side of that line lies a girls highest possession, her self respect, and on the other side the loss of 1t. That line is the fence, and girl cannot be too oare- full about removing one stone from it. She may think it smart or clever or not very harmful if she just seeks to remove the small stone which lies on the top but in that very act she shows lack of clever ness a-Isa
 It is the clever girl who can leave the first stone untouched. That is the clever ness which wins the only respect worth having, the inner respect of herself and the lasting respect of others. And when she is few years older, when things as- sume different aspect to her, she will look back to that summer time when she heard the warning voice of her parent, and, although she did not understand 1t, thank God from Q full and grateful heart that she needed it. No greater satisfaction than this can come to a woman, the con- seriousness that she preserved at all times in her girlhood the precious possession of her future womanhood. And one little slip can dim that satisfaction. p
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
George ". Vanderbilt.

A North Carolina man is quoted in the Washington Post as saying that George W.
 Vanderbilt Is one of the most popular men in that state. And now," he adds, "he has increased his popularity by proposing to build in Asheville hospital for the treatment of oonsumptiyes and persons suffering with contagious diseases. He will donate s100, GOO as starter for the institution, which will be. when complet- ed, ono of the finest in the south. Mir.
 Vanderbilt-is not selfish with his immense fortune, and if there were more wealthy men after his pattern the world would be better o1!Hrof,- fl' ff4
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
Nearest to It.

A boy of 6 years, who attends private school where prizes are given on every sort of provocation, but as yet had never earned a prize, came home one afternoon and'oxhibited proudly one of these rewards of merit.
 "Good!'' said his mother. "But how did you gain itS" ' s's''
 ''I was first In natural history"
 Natural history at your age? How did that happen9''
 ''oh, they asked me how many legs a horse had
 And what did yop sayS" -- ''I suid five" ~ "But n horse hasn't five legs, child"
 "I know, but all the other boys ssid six "-Pearson' s Weekly.
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
sherman Has His Say

New York. Aug. 6.-Secretary Sherman arrived in the city from short outing on tine Long Isldnd coast He app ared greatly -improved MT Sherman denied he state{ne utt that Minister Sewall s d been 1Hstrnute1s proclaim proteeto- rate. over the Hawaiian Islands in the event -tie sseipate failed to approve the .anuexatton treaty. Secretary Sherman sand the Unitea States would not guar antee the carrying out of the agreement between Japan and Hawaii if the dkcis- ion of .sthe. aGbftrators was against the latter. That was a matter between the countries ,concerned.
 Ad Strike. fHi.ii-t
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
They Knew Their Passengers
From the Flo-ida Times-Union.

From the Florida Times Union.
 West Palm Beach, Fla, July 23.-Some Tadies of this place witnessed novel oc- currencee this mrek. They were on the beach enjoying ffe breeze, sitting up just in the fringe of -he scrub, when out came a~ large loggerh7ad turtle. It dug hole and the proceeded to fill it with eggs. Finishing, the hole was filled over with 2 sand and made-to look exactly like that around it. IA young man of the party 'f.ilrnsd'' her and secured the eggs, over -E70. The whole opera tion took about half an holirfoi~ st4Ita-
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
.- .Rucker-s First Appointments

Atlanta, Ga, Aug 6.-Georgla's color ed internal revenue collector, H. A. Fucker, made his first appointments to- day, naming five deputy collectors, one of whom is a negro. and messenger. All these places came under the civil service regulations, and with the excep- ton of one deputy, whose name was taken from the eligible list. the appoint ments made today are temporary, await ing the adding of names to hte eligible list
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
xMhere Andree Is

London, Aug. 6.-The Vienna corre- spondent of the Daily News says that the Naue Weiner Tageblatt publishes an interview with Dr. Otto Nordesky, the Arctic explorer, in which he ex- presses the opinion that Herr Andree has either landed on the North Atlantic or North American coast, probably the latter,
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
Avenged His Honor

Cqlum bia, s. C.. Aug. GA special from Lewisdale, Lexington county. to the State. says: Patrick Draper last night killed Ihis wife, shooting her and cutting her throat and fatally shot John Cain who he found with her. Draper is at larpe.s
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
Hurst Gives Bond

---- St. Louis, Aug. 6.-Tim Hurst. who
 was arrested for assaulting a Cincin- natian with beer glass, was released today on bonds. of $500, d writ of habeas
 corpus returnable tomorrow being is- sued by Judge Murphy. Th= bond was
 signed by ex-Alderman Cronin and Grif-
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
Mortgage Sale,

gage executed to the undersigned by C. F. Berry, on the 11th day of November, 1889, and recorded November 12. 1889, in Vol 12S, Mortgage Book, Jefferson county, page 94, the undersigned will, on
 MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1Ss7 sell to the highest bidder for cash before fhe court house door of Jefferson county, Alabama, che following real estate, to- wit: ..ss anu Lot No, sixteen Q6), block No. three (3), in the plan of survey of Avondale Land company's tract. at Avondale, Jefferson county, Ala. being 100 feet front on the north side of Second avenue between First and Second avenues, Avondale, Ala. This 18th day of July. 1897.
 s-SA sfAVONDALE LAND CO, r tssy,s ..lis sl.ro .e-l Mortgagee. H . R. H. Pearson. Attorney.
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The age-herald., 1897-08-07

with latlle gifl of whom he asked: .-.HQHs father cold today Annie?s Nleesfiess to say ffl4f thfs cordntt5 5rss are ''JeAGRs and sHen7N.' to many of the F.f,tfoi'ss Ihelina issswer operated for he eiass NeN Eengf9 1pi2 democracy always lAlam kdW u sssf ehslf On schedule time.
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
sTifs1 sIdN GING MUD
md soaih-. cagIs.lo.lilia .senatorial candida

Hhe South. Gaholifla Senatorial Candidates
 AHavIns a Good I ime
 ~Abkeg.lfe s. C. IAug. 6.lIhe senatorial emp ien meeting here today was de- void of -5sterNst and the audi nce of 300 showra little interest.
 -ik.N-SeEator. IrbX, sad the reason Gov. Ellerbsa weG retaining the dispenaary cons lalisiis was t0iuse them against him. He insis ei und exist n.s cii cumsta nces. the coasfabla,s sW7ss e Lssless except to go about and lle about him.
 MT. Evans WAS outspoen in denuncia- lssfr ef S rat9r Tfllman, and also senator Mel 5a E. illsfor B nj sstaiaff views.
 Mir. Maylied said that Senn tor McLaur- in die ated the populfst platform and MT. Bowden wrote it.
 Senator MeLaurin said he votsd for the Tillman- Bowden dispensaqy bill SD that every sts-e could F gulate it's own affairs liquors and otherwise.
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
To Aid the Striker.

7. Joliet. H.. Aug. e-The 1900 employees of the Joliet Rolling mins nave decided to
 give one days wages to the striking manr CTS. Considerably over $zooo wdll be rats. ed a,, a3'
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
Easy on Murdcress,

Arsssfa is the country most lcnient to tnus4srers In ten yeafS over 500 persons wsrs found guilty of ,s'drder, of Whom suly ss were put so death. sos soi1,: z
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
B,bilcal Rebuke to Flirting

A New York clergyman finds a Biblical rsbuke to flirting in Proverbs \, 10, "He that winketh with the Peys esusssh sof- row." ofss
The age-herald., 1897-08-07
Pains pispeIIed

Rheumatism Routed by Hoods.
 "I have been suffering for three years with rheumatism, and have never found anything that would do me any good, until began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla. l very soon felt change and continued it's use until had taken five bottles, when the pains of rheumatism had all disappeared" c. A.CARTER, Trenton, Ga. Hoods Sarsaparilla Is the besf-fnfact the One True Blood Purifier. U,,-.D.,,a are the only pills to take