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The age-herald., 1898-09-17

fected houses there are thirty-four who may take It. In all, there are sixty-four people at Taylor's, upon whom the plague may prey. It is plain that many more cases and probably dozen more deaths may oc- cur at this focus of infection.
 Oxford, the county seat of Lafayette county. ten miles from Taylors, has a sus- picious case in B. s. Jumper, an old man, who has been serving at night as guard on the dirt roads leading out of Oxford. His daughter is also i'll. The daughter has just returned from the delta country, or river district of the state. They live in the outskirts of the town, and are well isolated and the house is carefully guarded, and it will remain guarded until the nature of the cases is ascertained. At Waterford, a little town about five miles north of Oxford, on the Illinois Central railroad, a second case has been developed. Guards and compe- tent physician are on the spot.
 The wife and child of the section foreman
 
 in Northwestern Ohio and are well, show ing no symptoms of the disease. A check for $50, covering the furniture burned, has been sent to her. The burned house belong ed to the Illinois Central Railroad com- pany.
 A rain dispatcher of the Illinois Central railroad is Ill at Jackson, showing unmis- takable symptoms of the dread fever. He had a chill on Wednesday, and has been growing worse ever since. His name is J. II. Manley. It is now more than possible that Jackson will become a center of infec- tion. The Manley case arose about four hundred yards from the lot which Kill gore died.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17
HOW SNAKE POISON KILLS

From the New York Ledger.
 The action of-poisons upon the system is and always has been one of the most in- teresting of subjects. Just how and why it kills has but just been determined though series of experiments made by scientists. The following description is unquestionably the best and most lucid of any that have been given to the public '"rhe venom may be roughly separated into two parts-pne acting upon the blood and the other upon the nerves. When injected it immediately begins to create terrible destruction in the blood vessels, the walls of the veins are eaten away and an internal hemorrhage takes place. When this is going on por- tion of the venom is attacking the nerves. Particularly susceptible to its ravages is : the 'vasamotor' system, a nerve center which controls the muscles of respiration. Paralysis takes place in these organs, and the victim generally dies from an inability to breathe"
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time. The best Japanese tea is said to be gathered from bushes 200 years old.
 The leaf plucked from the Rose Gar den" as indeed from the whole estate, is line; 1. e., it very rarely consists of more than the Pekoe tip and two leaves, and then only to the first Souchong. Heretofore, and without the aid of a protective duty, ithas been possible to sell all of the Pine hurst (black) tea at S1 per pound retail It remains to be seen whether the duty will be repealed now that hostilities have ceased, or, if not what effect it will have on the price of the better grades of tea. But after ali deductions-and they are not to be underrated-it must be realized that there is a wide margin of profit between the cost of one pound of Rose Garden tea, if produced on a large scale, say 9 cents, and the wholesale price of an equally good im- ported tea, say 50 cents. A profit of ten cents per pound means a profit of $40 per acreon an annual production of 400 pounds of tea. And higher profits per pound, with increasing yield per acre, will rapidly swell the income.
 The Rose Garden" has apparently dem- onstrated that commercial tea may be suc- cessfully grown in South Carolina. The utilization of this knowledge may be along several lines, but all of them involve the erection of a suitably equipped factory costing from a few thousand dollars up wards, according to the proposed scale or operations. In some countries the Dulh ol the tea leaf is raised by small farmers who at the most, only prepare 1t suhl- ciently to insure it's safe delivery at facto- riesin the larger, often distant, towns. UT in other districts the extensive tea estates erect factories sufficient to handle not only the output of their own gardens, but also that of the smaller producers in their nelgh- borhoods As in all other branches of man ufacture, the modern tendency is towards standardization and the cheapening of pro- cesses by increasing the volume of produc- tion Machines have been successfully sup stituted for about all manual operations m the manufacture of black tea, and thus 1t has come about that a well-equlpped tac- tory is indispensable in making that sort
 The preparation of green tea still lnVoiVes much and skillful manual labor, and It lS' therefore, questionable whether 1t can De profitably produced in this country, in splte of a decided national preference for this sort Machines adapted for making thlS class of goods will surely follow the com mercial realization of the taste of the tea drinking public.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17
MUSTER OUT COLONEL BRYAN

From the Boston Post.
 The Third Nebraska regiment, Colonel William J. Bryan commanding, is booked, according to current report, for garrison duty in some of our new possesisons Un- questionably Colonel Bryan volunteered from patriotic motives, and he is not the man to shirk the consequences of his en- gagement or to seek to escape the duties laid upon him. He wifi stay with his regl- ment, whether it goes to battle or into garrison.
 But under the circumstances it would not be considered objectionable favoritism if the president were to order the mister ing out of Colonel Bryan's regiment, re- leasing it's commander from military duty. A political campaign is on in Nebraska, and Colonel Bryan's services are loudly called for by the fusionists in that state. Why should not the war department turn him loose?
 If the war were in progress, the situa- tion would be altogether different But with actual peace already reached and technical peace close at hand, there is no such imperative need of the services of the Third Nebraska Volunteers and their col onel as should prevent their return to their homes.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17
FIrznUGn LEE UNDISCOVERED

From the Philadelphia Times.
 Since Alger went west, to grow up with
 the country, the war department has made a number of discoveries One of these IS
 that there is person in the service named Fitzhugh Lee, who holds the commission of a major general and is in command of a
 corps of volunteers in Florida and that this corps is in excellent condition, well-or- ganized, well-driled weil-fed, and gener- ally in good health and ready for the field.
 While all this rumpus has been going on,
 General Lee has been saying nothing but quietly attending to his business. Jackson vile is not the most agreeable summer re- sort. Compared with Chickamauga, for ex- ample, it might be supposed unhealthy. But
 FitzhughLee seems to have had the old West Point prejudice in favor of educated
 military men for staff positions, and he got an efficient staff assigned to him at the
 beginning As a result we have heard so little complaint from his corps that most people had forgotten it's existence as com pletely as Alger apparently had. though the
 material he had to work with included some
 of the worst and the volunteer officers had
 as much to learn there as anywhere else. It will be remembered that before Alger left-lae issued an order for the muster out of one-half of the volunteers selected upon no ascertained system. It is this order that has brought the Seventh corps to mind, since it takes from it a number of regi-
 ments just as they had been got into good serviceable condition for the expedition to Cuba on which they were expecting to em- 1 bark with the approach of cool weather. Alger is not much on organization, but for disorganizing he is the greatest secretary ! of war that ever has been known, and Lee could not expect to escape his devastat- | ing hand entirely. It is not a part of the
 Alger plan that any man competent as Fitzhugh Lee should be given an oppor- tunity for effective service that would fur
 ther overwhelm the pets of Michigan.
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Coy. J0hnst0n's Reelection.

Two years ago the Asheville Aegis was opposed to the nomination of Captain John ston, but, like many other papers and peo- pie in the state, it found much in his ad ministration to commend, and here is what it has to say as to his triumphant re-elec- tion:
 The Aegis rejoices over the result, not more because of its good feeling for the governor than for the fact that the state must be held in trust by the democracy as the only hope of its prosperity and to in sure the welfare of its citizens. Governor Johnston has made Alabama one of the best governors the state has ever had and that at a time the most trying in the his tory of its politics. We unhesitatingly be- speak for him a most brilliant success in the next two years, and we hope to see our brethren of the press a unit in sustaining an administration which, from tn past rec ords of Its chief, promises so much in the future for the good of the state at large and for purer politics in the future.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17
The Fever Situation.

A few new cases have occurred in Or wood, but no deaths are reported or ex- pected. All the fever patients in that To- caliy are doing well. At Taylor's, however, Der of cases to date has been fifty-seven, of whom five are dead and eighteen are con- valescent. Thirty-four are confined with are critically i'll. In the infected houses at Taylors there are still thirty people who have not had the fever, and outside the in-
The age-herald., 1898-09-17
DEwEY's SWORD
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 What will probably be one of the most magnificent swords of honor ever present. ed by the United States to an officer for distinguished conduct in battle is now be- ing manufactured in New York for pre- sentation to Rear Admiral George Dewey. The design was adopted by the board, of which Acting Secretary Allen is president, and is pronounced by naval officers famil- far with its features to be the most su- perb they have ever seen.
 Under the act of congress presenting its thanks to Rear Admiral Dewey for the victory gained in the battle of Manila bay, provision was made for the purchase of a sword. scabbard, belt and case to be pre- scented to that officer The contract price of the four articles is 5000, and they are to be furnished to the department early in November.
 The blade will be S01b inches in length. All the metal, except in the steel blade and scabbard, is to be twenty-two-karat gold At the top of the sword hit is to be piece of gold on which will be the name of the battleship Olympia, trident erect and the zodiacal sign for December, the month of Rear Admiral Dewey's birth. There will be many other decorations. At the point of the ferrule on the scabbard the gold casing terminates in Spanish crown and coat-of-arms upside down. The point of the sword passes through the crown, suggesting destruction or annihila- tion. The sword blade is damascened wi h the inscription: "The gift of the nation to Rear Admiral George Dewey. U. S. N, in memory of the victory at Manila bay, May l. 1s9S." A Phoenician galley, repre- senting the first craft of the worlds na- ves supplies the rest of the ornament for this side of the blade. This has been used in preference to a modern battleship. as the outlines of the latter are more or less hard from artistic standpoint.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17
ARMY WILL NOT TMPEACH THE ARMY Washington Correspondence of the New

Washington Correspondence of the New
 York Tribune.
 Army officers say that 1t would be no trouble to get all the information there is concerning the campaign at Santiago, the management of the war though the de- partment and the operations of the Medi- cal, quartermaster's and commissary de- partments, if a tribunal or board were or ganized with authority to compel testi- mony, but that officers will jeopardize their own interests or put themselves in the at- titude of being voluntary informerS when the composition of the commission making the inquiry is not such as to make it com pulsory upon them to tell what they may know.
 They say it will be impossible for com- mission not having the power to compel testimony to get at the facts Most offi- cers, they say, will make it point of honor, as well as matter of self-nterest, to decline to give testimony of any inn portance, unless compelled to. If the com- mission could compel testimony, an off, cer giving testimony which might be dam aging would have the excuse that he had no choice but to tell what he knew. In the absence of authority to compel testi- mony the witness would have right to conceal or to decline to disclose any facts in his possession.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

From the Chicago News.
 Some people die eating and others diet Stick to your business with the glue of industry. As corn-dodger the careful dancer takes the cake. a Ministers who rehearse their sermons practice what they preach. A It's surprising how easy it is to get some- thing you don't want
 The huband ceases to talk shop when his wife begins to talk shopping. The first settler in a new territory may be the last to settle his bills.
 A laboring bee produces honey; a belab- bring is often productive of black eye.
 A fly is not very tall. yet it stands over six feet without shoes or stockings.
 Lockjaw as punishment for people who listen at keyholes would be the proper thing.
 It is said that truth lies at the bottom of well. Perhaps that's why the lawyer pumps the witness.
 A fish diet may not strengthen the brain, but little fishing trip often tends to in vigorate the imagination.
 An exchange says the tyroloxonic germs in ice cream may be rendered perfectly harmless by boiling 1t and serving 1t hot. The look of intelligence assumed by the young lawyer as he tackles his first case is apt to cause the presiding judge to lose confidence in himself.
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In the Pacific.

The south has five hundred cotton mills. When this section has one thousand mills as it readily could have ten years from now, it would be able to make enough coarse cotton goods to clothe the plain peo- pie of the world. Where are those goods to be marketed? In other words, is the south to have broad and sufficient market for its goods, is it's development as a manufacturing section to be dwarfed? This Is one of the questions tied up in the Philip pine problem and it is very grave one to the people of the south
 The powers are grabbing "spheres of in 1uence'' in China, where one-half of the people of this round world live; where, therefore the surplus products of south ern mills could be marketed. If we per init them to also grab the islands off the mainland we simply surrender all good chance to gain a portion of the trade of China. We simply decide that the exten- ion of cotton manufacturing in the south must soon cease, because production is all ready abreast of consumption if China be left out of the case.
 We have some men in the south who are overworking their intellects in trying to remember Washngton's farewell address a document by the way that has rela- tion whatever to present circumstances and condittons-and these men deliberately S y that the south has enough cotton mills; for they must know that if wider markets are not secured for coarse cotton goods, new southern mills can not be profitably estab- lished at least not to the extent of doubl- ing the present number. To say that we can gain a Pacific trade. without ample foothold at it's heart, is to say that we must be content to take the crumbs that fall from French and German and Russian tables That is the condition they would re- duce this section to.
 1t will not work. Senator Davis, chair ran of the foreign relations committee is a member of the peace commission, and will probably be the chairman of the American commissioners He is at any rate the most forceful member of the commission, not excepting even Senator Frye He recently declared in an address at Minneapolis, that "the government will secure from the situation wna.,V -. .t.
 can honor American enterprise, and American philanthropy demande1. 10 is the sense of the situation. There is no ancient sentimentality or limping logic in Senator Davis posluon Whatever Anne ri- enterprise demands must be secured American enterprise includes southern cot ton manufacturing. Southern cotton manu- lacturing does imperatively demand place of vantage in the Pacific It demand
 good healthy portion of the great Pacific trade; and the men who assert that the south is opposed to a securing of opportuni- ties for wider and broader and better trade in the Pacific, do not know the south and its great manufacturing ambition.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17
RErGNs OF sOyEREIGNs

From the New York Press
 The average duration of a pope's reign Is seven and one-half years. Plus TX. oc- cupied the papal throne longest-his term being thirty-two years. St. Peter reigned twenty-five years and Leo XIII. has been in office twenty years. The average reign of a European sovereign Is twenty one years, and of a sovereign of England twenty-three years
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Possible

A glance at the above table shows tba+ the chlet expense is that of gathering the leaf Experience has demonstrated that a smart lad or grown girl can pick from a good "fush' twenty pounds of green leaf III ten hours, or say, enough to make five pounds of tea This should be done for 2O cents, or at cents per pound The sl1per vision in the field will add 1 cent With immature plants or poor ''fiushes" there is necessarily much more labor to be spent and consequently more time in securing the same amount of leaf. Again, the .'fineness" of the plucking materially influences it's cost. The picking of coarser or larger leaf or two from each shoot greatly in- creases the yield and lessens the cost But with medium leaf-picking and in southern localities where labor is cheap, with an out turn of at least AGO pounds of tea to the acre, this expense should not exceed s cents per pound.
 There remains to be considered the cost of superintendence and the fixed charges for the outlay in the establishment of the garden and it's maintenance until self sup porting. As to the former, the cost will largely depend on the size of the crop; on production of 100000 pounds per annum it should not exceed cents per pound of tea. The expense of putting the land in suitable condition for tea garden shouldn't exceed that for any other intensive crop. The cost of raising and setting out the tea seedlings will vary from S25 to $50 per acre, accord ing to whetber raised from domestic or Ear- eign seeds. In the establishment of a large tea estate the initial expenses are necessa- rily heavy, but it should be borne in mind that once we'll done 1t is practically for all
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For quick returns in advertising there is no superior medium to the Age-Hera q s Want Columns, as Is attested by Dr. Edwin Nelson, of Brookside. That gentleman i'm serted notice in the Want Column, for which he paid 25 cents. He called at the business office yesterday and exhibited 1o9 answers which he had oeived from one insertion.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17
suuT OrF rAM spANIaH huppIY

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Admiral Dewey is obliged to ask his own government for an additional cruiser and battleship, as the protocol has shut off his source of supply.
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CLIMATE TO SUIT ANY TASTE

From the Philadelphia North American.
 Colorado is having a snowstorm In the Philippines, another part of this great na- tion, the citizens are wearing grass skirts. We are a great people.
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The Dreyfus case is cutting deeper and deeper into the vitals of France. There must be either revision or revolution, and perhaps the latter will come anyway.
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From the Washington Star.
 There may be hopes in the French army that all the men whose confessions would clear Dreyfus would commit suicide.
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Japan will son be an independent na- sitle interference, and defining her own Ju- dielal proceedings in which foreigners are interested.
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The acceptance by Mir. Thomas Platt of the Roosevelt boom is confession of the desperate condition of the republican can- vass in New York.
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VAR UND PEACE
Hobart in the Baltimore American.
 VAR


 VAR. Yust der Spinnish tyrant men. Yust dey got too gay; Yust leedle boogle call Sent der troops away. Yust some leedle Spinnish shibs, Yust dot Dewey man; Yust a cannon ball or zwei- Find dem uf you can! Yust some leedle canvas tents, Yust some pork and beans; Yust some waiting in der sand, Yust some weary scenes. Yust some mems vot want to go. Off to Kooba's land, Yust an order for to vent, Yust coundermand. Yust a few more Spinnish shibs, Yust dot fellow, Schley; You can find dem shibs some day Ven der waves ged dry. Yust dot Tetty Roosevelt man, Yust shout-vot for? Yust for Cheneral Miles Dare you haf der var!
 PEACE. Yust a lot uf fefer cherms, Yust some solchers sickj Yust angry public, und Yust a stety kick. Yust more noise as cannon make, Yust a lot of fuss; Yust some fighding all der vile Yust a awvul muss. Yust a lot of chenerals, Saying, "Doan'd plane me!' Yust some udders vot dey say, Tisn't me, you see!" Yust lot of interviews In der papers yet; Yust some udders vot deny Eferyding dots set. Yust lot uv mixed up men, Yust some pad mistakes; Yust some stubid schackass mools, Yust some men vot takes All der credit, und no plane! Yust poor Uncle Sam Wishing dot der row would stob- Dot is peace, py tami
The age-herald., 1898-09-17

The navy does not need an investigating commission, nor does General Kitchener's army. It Is strictly an Algerine institu- tion.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17

Military Governor Wood is stamping the yellow fever out of Santiagor and the doc tors of northern Mississippi ought to do as well.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17

The dervish is no longer bowling. At the remotest section of the desert country.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17

Many regiments have passed through Birmingham, but our own, the only home regiment of the army, will be here today.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17

l1x-Senator Eusts declines to serve on the investigation commission. The presi- dent may yet have to resort to draft"
The age-herald., 1898-09-17

The poor old Temerario is about to sail again along the South American coast. She refuses to take header for home.
The age-herald., 1898-09-17

The navy does not need an investigating commission, nor does General Kitchener's army. It Is strictly an Algerine institu- ton.
 The dervish is no longer bowling. At present he is seeking the remotest end of the remotest section of the desert country. Many regiments have passed through Birmingham, but our own, the only home regiment of the army, will be here today. Ex-senator Eustis declines to serve on the investigation commission. The presi- dent may yet have to resort to 2 draft" The poor old Temerario is about to sail again along the South American coast. She refuses to take header for home. Alger's army cannot be reviewed a whole, because there are not enough am- balances to go around.
 If the anarchist on the rampage would plunge his dagger into himself, all would be well.
 Keep steam up and get hold of every bell cord before the boys of the First ar rive.
 The free railroad telegraphic messages must hereafter bear one-cent war stamps  The Porto Ricans have horse sense. The island is free from anti-annexationists.
 
 Senator German declines to continue his congressional service in the lower house. Every household will soon have a per sonal interest in a coaling station.
 
 Secretary Alger is breathing Michigan air again. Let him keep it up indefinitely.  The Khalifa's method of divorce Is too summary for international use. The Algerites are trying to blame it all on the regimental surgeons.
 None of the colonels or captains have been mustered out.