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The age-herald., 1898-01-28
PURE WATER OR PEsrILENoE.
Situation at Philadelphia Not Unlike Birm- ingham and Many Other Cities.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Philadelphia has had the reputation of being one of the hea1thiest cities in the United States. If typhoid fever. which we always have with us, could be eliminated. it would compare faYorably as a health resort with almost any city in the world The death rate can be very largely de- creased with pure water.
 This question of pure water Is becoming a serious problem in all great cities of this country. It has been solved to a very large extent in Europe, where ordinary sand fl- tration has been found efficacious. Who does not remember the cholera plague in Hamburg which caused such devastation few years ago? It will be recalled that just below Hamburg, on the Elbe, the city of Altona escaped. Hamburg took her water from the river, and so did Altona, but in the case of the latter it was filtered. The water spread the cholera germs, and while the disease played havoc in Ham, burg, it was powerless against the sand plants of Altona.
 It is very well understood by medical ex- perts that typhoid germs are carried from the Schuylkll through the pipes into the houses of Philadelphia Defective plumbing and general unsantary conditions have their share in all typhoid epidemics, but the drinking water is held responsible for the greater portion of typhoid cases. About 40 per cent. of the cases now under treat ment are in the locality supplied by the Queen Lane reservoir, the intake for which is just below the mouth of the Wissa- hickon creek, and that stream has caught considerable sewerage from a disastrous overflow. Of course, some of the disease laden water escaped Queen Lane and went to Fairmount and Georges Hill, and it's ravages can be traced. It Is found that filtration will remove such germs and leave the water in almost an absolutely pure state. It is a crime, therefore, to neglect longer the filtration of our water.
 There is no necessity for experiments. for the experimental stage has long passed. The examples of many of the great cities of Europe before us, and the results are almost perfect. Chemicals and acids should be avoided, and we should have a simple process of sand filtration. When this is done, disease and death will be hurled back, and Philadelphia will take the lead of all her sister cities in the union as the healthiest and most attractive.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
The Conflict of Disease.

Dr. J. Laumonier, of Paris, shows in an article in La Monde Moderne that the patient does not, for example, make splendid uphill fight, but that in the bat tie fought out within him the white blood cells have overcome the attacking germs armed with the deadly poisons or toxins He shows that to every $50 or 400 of tho red globules in the blood, there Is one white globule, but the latter are found in the glands, the lymph and other places outside the circulatory system. They are very small and very mobile, and they mi glate from tissue to tissue.
 And they do move most energetically to- wards any microbes that send out toxins or posons in the blood. They jump on such microbes at once, and endeavor to protoplasm. They are savers of human life. But sometimes they fight losing battle, poisoned by the microbean toxins, and their accumulated bodies form pus. When the little creatures of the white gobules succeed in destroying the bac- tera, the malady is stayed and the invalid is restored in time to health; but if, on the other hand, they are overcome by the number of their adversaries or by the vir- uence of their secretions. the malady spreads, and the patient dies, or at least is in great peril of death.
 This process recently discovered. is in fact one of the most curious processes of defense in the human body, and the vac cinations so widely employed have for their object, by the previous attenuation of the noculated virus, to habituate the little life savers to the poisons which they they introduced all at once and with no opportunity for adaptation.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 wagging tongue often spells a lot of nice, sweet silence.
 Peanut vendors might be accused of working a shell game.
 The wise man is always known by the company he keeps out of.
 It isn't always the best actress that gets the handsomest bouquet.
 It is usually the most promising young man that gets into debt.
 The poor man who marries nowadays usually finds himself welded to art.
 The trust may be able to limit the out put.
 All men. are born free and equal but some of them grow up and spoil it by mar rying.
 fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind unless it's fellow feeling for our pocket book.
 Vices are among the oldest things on record, and yet history doesn't chronicle the loss of single one.
 Marrying for love without a side issue of bread and butter is like slipping the froth from a glass of soda water.
 The original Americans accomplished more with an Indian file than their pale faced brothers can with kit of tools.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
Highland Mary.

By Robert Burns. Ye banks and braes and streams around Tine Castle O Montgomery, Green be your woods and fair your flowers There simmer first unfaud her robes,
 And there the longest tarry For there took the hast fareweed,
 O. my sweet Highland Mary! How sweetly bloomed the gay green birl1 How rich the lrawthoTn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade
 olasqped her to my bosom. The golden hours on angels wings
 Flew OCT me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life
 Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi mony a vow and locked embrace
 Our parting was flu tender, And pledging aft to meet again,
 We tore ourselves asunder. But oh, fell death's untimely frost That nipt my flower sac airlie, Now greens the sod and cauld's the clay That wraps my Highland Mary! Oh pale, pale now, those rosy lips
 I oft hae kissed so fondly, And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwelt me sac kindly; And molderng now in silent dust
 The heart that lo'ed me dearly, But still within my bosom's core
 Shall live my Highland Mary!
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
TELEPHONE CALLS.
Advertising in Newspapers.

The Gadsden News has reduced one phase of the advertising problem to figures, so that the business man can see at glance what kind of advertising best reaches cus- toners. "A newspaper" it says, "has 5000 readers for each 1000 subscribers. A merchant who puts out ,OOO hand bills gets possibly 300 or 300 to read thenl-that is, if the boy who Is trusted to deliver them does not put them under the sidewalk. All the women and girls, and half the men and boys read the advertisement. Re- suit: The merchant who uses the news paper has 3,5O0 more readers to each l. 00O of the hand bill readers. There is no es- timating the amount of business that ad- vertising brings to a merchant, but each dollar invested brings from s20 to s10o worth of business" There is nothing to add, except perhaps the fact that news papers are read as rule by buyers who buy freely, and hand bills are not Quality should always be considered in estimating the value of advertising.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

and it is to such people the advice in question was in reality directed The Age-Herald said to them, don't go to Texas. and it stands by that advice. It is prepared to prove that Alabama con- tains more woods. hard or soft, more ores of all kinds, more coal, more navigabie rivers, has richer cotton lands in her Black Belt, more mountain air and seen cry and fewer northers, more vineyards, more and better orchards, more cotton sorts, more railroads to the square mile, more comfort, contentment and happiness per capita than Texas has or ever will have.
 The mistake arose over the unintentional inclusion of politicians. Let Texas take the politicians, and let Alabama retain the remainder of her own people. The former can do better in Texas, as the News shows, and the latter can find better opportunities in this state. The politi- clans can emigrate without mourning any export tax, and they can hog, it seems, the offices in Texas. If the News insists upon it, The Age-Herald will advocate an import tax, in case the politicians at- tempt to return.
 But they will not attempt to return. They can do well in Texas Fortunate for the people of Texas, the governor of that state is an Alabamian. If he had not been, the Alabama politicians might have carried the state house off bodily. There is nothing unclaimed they will not hog.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
The New Political Mecca.

Reprinting The Age-Herald's advice against emigration to Texas, the Galveston News adds in the way of comment:
 This is really an entertaining article from our Birmingham contemporary, and it will be especially amusing to the ex- Alabamans in Texas. The difference be- tween Texas and Alabama is that Texas is five times as large and five times as good in everything except coal and iron. Still, those Alabamans who are dead broke might as well stay where they are. If, however, they have a nest-egg to start with they would do well to follow the thou- sands of their fellow citizens who have como to Texas and prospered. There are five times as many offices in Texas as in Alabama, and Alabamians and Tennes- seeans have been unusually successful in hogging out the native talent in this line. The present governor is an Alabamian and from Alabama. have landed at the pie counter whispering that immortal sentence, 'Here we rest"
 In its talk to Alabamians The Age Her aid did not intend to include office-seekers As the News rises to remark, Texas offers them excellent and increased opportuni- ties, and they should hasten there without delay, and shout back, "IIere we rest" But there are people in Alabama, excellent contemporary, who arc not office-seekers;
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

her as well as we could, though ourselves considerably puzzled at the behavior of an ordinarily quiet and well-conducted pet. The incident occurred at the very hour of my fathers death." Assuming the cor rectness of the account of the dogs be- havior, what inference is to be drawn from it? Was 1t merely a coincidence? If so 1t was most extraordinary Was it a sort of animal magnetism between the dog and the mind of the master he loved so well? Such instances have been recorded again and again between the minds Of two human beings. Some of them, al- though true beyond doubt. are so mar velous- as to appear incredible: if true of human beings united by ties of affection, why impossible of a faithful dog and his master.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

the Texas Steer" Perhaps, owing to the excitement of the occasion and the late ness of the hour, the text Is not up to the plane of the Spanish minister's usual diplomatic style For example. he is a lit tie weak in his remarks concerning the cordial social welcome which awaits the officers of the battleship Maine at the hands of Capt. Gen. Blanco; forgetting, apparently, that Blanco has fled from Ha- vana in a panic, and is much more likely to be a prisoner guest of Gen. Maxine Gomez within a few days than he is to ask American naval officers to take pot luck with him at the palace in Havana.
 But, let that pass. We do not so much object to Dupuy de Lome and Day for what they say on the vital subject of the hour as that they do not say it in a manner to command any great degree of credence. That is glaring offense under the canons of high diplomacy
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
WHY?

From the Chicago News.
 Why does lightning strike churches oft ener than saloons?
 Why should the doctors who take life easy escape arrest?
 Why is 1t that a man never coaxes his wife to sing to him?
 Why does a man always lose his nerve just when he needs 1t most?
 Why is a womans husband less dear to her than her husbands wife?
 Why is it that the farther away from dollar you get the bigger it looks?
 Why does a mans wife imagine he has been drinking every time he calls her an angel?
 Why does it never occur to boy that he. will some day know as little as his father?
 Why is the candy shop always on the ground floor and the dentists office up four flights?
 Why can't two persons singing together finish the song in half the time 1t would take one to do it?
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
OPINIONS OF A MAN

A girls idea of mans revenge is to fall in love with the chaperon.
 The trouble in love is that the woman insists on cutting it on the bias.
 When Elisha called on the bears to eat up the children, he was probably mighty glad that bears weren't common when he was boy.
 Very few women will ever admit that they weren't studious and well behaved when they were little girls, and very few men will ever admit that they weren't lit- tie devils,
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
THE SEWER RAT.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Young Senator Garfield showed a sense of ironic humor which was absent from the large equipment of his father when he sug- gested to Allen o. Myers, in the Ohio in- vestigation, that he was mot obliged to criminate himself" The sharpness of the shaft was shown by the fact that it pen etrated the slimy hide of the political sewer rat at which 1t was aimed.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Mary Yel1en Lease having been appointed a life insurance agent in Kansas leads to the belief that she is manipulating a 'VIeep down" scheme to run for congress. Before being talked to death by the agent the men will leave the state, whereupon she will have the field clear. and no male opposi- tion. Mary seems to have a great head.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Marylands new senator-elect is not a boss of either the Wellington or Napoleon pattern. He is a high-classed. upright, honorable republican and gentleman. There are no better men in public or pri- vate life than Louis E. McComas.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
THE BLINDNESS OF SCIENCE.

The ancient philosopher sighed gloon1Ily. ''For thirty years" he cried, "the pot of gold that lies under the rainbow has es- capped mel"
 He once more examined the spectrum. "Red, green, orange-' he murmured. "What is the use? I shall never discovev what color holds the secret which Nature keeps in violet"
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
ADVERTISING RATES.

Advertising rates, daily and Sunday is- sues, one dollar per inch, first insertion 70 cents per inch each insertion thereafter. Monthly contracts for display advertising of inches or more daily, 60 cents per inch each insertion. Regular large display ad- vertisers running annual contracts Will pc given the minimum rate of 50 cents per inch for each insertion. Reading notices, 20 cents per line, nonparel.
 Weekly issue-One dollar per inch each insertion. Reading notices, 25 cents per line.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
Cire reumstantial Evidence.

From the Chicago News.
 Sherlock Holmes Cat the theater)-That lady in front of us has remarkably pretty teeth.
 Dr. Cubebs-How do you know; you have not seen her face?
 Sherlock Holmes-But she has laughed necessarily ever since the curtain went up.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
THE SONG OF THE FOUR WINDS

azine.
 The winds came riding out from the North. And rivers froze at their icy breath, While a terrible cry of gudef went forthi Alas for the earth, for tihs Is DeaIth!" 'sNay." fell the answer clear and low ''Soon, full soon, will the Souuh ~'no Winter is passing, and under the snow Violet and primrose find strength to
 growp,
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Commonder Sigsbee of the Maine will never satisfy the state and navy depart ments at Washington until he casts aside his uniform and dons full dress suit He
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

If President Dole is really serious about desiring annexation of Hawaii he should make it point to shave as soon as pos- sible, otherwise Senator Morgan and oth- CTS may mistake him for populist; then all would be lost
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Is out on a social mission and should dress for the occasion. He will soon be regard ed as a vulgar naval officer unless he changes his clothes.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Henry Watterson is now engaged in a hand-to to-hand-catch-as-catc us s l 0 with the truth and an Indianapolis silver paper. Everybody knew 1t was only question of time until "Old Marse" Henry got what was coming to him.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

There has been discovered a girl in New port. Ky, whose heart is on the wrong side. There are thousands of girls in the country whose hearts are on neither side.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

It will require more than the use of microscope to see with distinctness what were the results of the Hugh Hanna mone- tarY circus at Indianapolis
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
A FROST FOR HIM.

The boy stood on the burning deck, It shriyelled with the heat. Cried he, q wish my wife were here; It's warming to the feet!'
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

President McKinley's speech made last night in New York, reads very much like one of those front porch efforts at Can- ton in 1896 warmed over.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Remttances can be made by express, postoffice money order or drafts at current rate of exchange. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

The chances are Spain will want to fight the United States because it did not send a battleship to Cuba long ago.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

MT. Plowman will have to make straighter furrow the next time if he wants to keep the seat in congress for tho full term.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28
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The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Mayor Van Wyck apears to be handling the purse strings to New York's treasury in manner not all pleasing to the looters.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Minister DeLome has not resigned his place on the editorial staff of one of the Washington papers.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

The late Indianapolis convention seems to have been made up of the 400 of the gold standard idea.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

President Dole will find a fine lot of samples at the annexation bargain counter.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

Eastern Business office, The Tribune Building, New York City; Western Busl- ness Ofifce, ''The Rookery," Chicago; the S. S. Beckwith Special Agency Sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

The visiting warship fad is in danger of being overdone.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

When the painter and the paper hanger finish with the Florence those who stop ped there a month ago will hardly recog- nize 1t as the same building The halls are being re-papered the office will be im- proved and everything made new.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

The battleship Maine is becoming a real giddy society she.
The age-herald., 1898-01-28

the belief that she is manipulating a 'dleep down" scheme to run for congress. Before being talked to death by the agent the men will leave the state, whereupon she will have the field clear, and no male opposi- tion. Mary seems to have a great head.
 Maryland's new senator-elect Is not a boss of either the Wellington or Napoleon pattern. He is a high-classed. upright, honorable republican and gentleman. There are no better men in public or pri- vate life than Louis E. McComas.
 Henry Watterson is now engaged in a hand-to nd-catch-as-catch-can tussle with the truth and an Indianapolis silver paper. Everybody knew 1t was only a question of time until "Old Marse' Henry got what was coming to him.
 If President Dole is really serious about desiring annexation of Hawaii he should make it a point to shave as soon as pos sible, otherwise Senator Morgan and oth- CTS may mistake him for a populist; then all would be lost.
 There has been discovered girl in New port, Ky, whose heart is on the wrong side. There are thousands of girls in the country whose hearts are on neither side.
 It will require more than the use of a microscope to see with distinctness what were the results of the Hugh Hanna mone- tary circus at Indianapolis.
 President McKinley's speech, made last night in New York, reads very much like one of those front porch efforts at Can- ton in 1896 warmed over
 Mr. Plowman will have to make a straighter furrow the next time if he wants to keep the seat in congress for tho full term.
 Mayor Van Wyclk apears to be handling the purse strings to New York's treasury in a manner not all pleasing to the looters.
 The chances are Spain will want to fight the United States because it did not send a battleship to Cuba long ago.
 Minister DeLome has not resigned his place on the editorial staff of one of the Washington papers,
 The late Indianapolis convention seems to have been made up of the 400 of the gold standard idea.
 President Dole will find a fine lot of samples at the annexation bargain counter.
 The visiting" warship fad is in danger of being overdone
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-28

Herald from Washington says: In ad-
dition to the troops already ordered to
go to Cuba not later than Oct. 20, there
will follow four more divisions, three of
infantry and one of cavalry.
1t is the present plan of General Miles
that these troops shall all be landed
in Cuba by Nov. 10, though an official
said yesterday that he did not believe
the last would arrive before Dec. 1. The
first troop tos go will, it is expected,
witness the beginning of the evacua-
ton and they have been hurried for
ward because the evacuation Will begin
earlier than expected.
Headquarters of the three military
departments will be in Havana, Puerto
Principe and Santiago. 1t is apparently
settled that General Wade will be in
command of the department of Ha-
vana. General Eawton viii remain
where he is. as commander of the de-
partment of Santiago, and General Lee
will, it is thought, be in command of
the central division. The whole ques-
ton will be canvassed with General Lee
when he arrives here on Friday.
Cavalry will be under the command
of General Wheeler unless he resigns
to resume his seat in congress. The
cavalry will be scattered in detach-
ments at many points.
General Miles is now selecting troops
of the remaining divisions and it is eX
pected that they will be announced in
a few days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-28
A PIOUS COUNTERFEITER.
Baptist Preacher Arrested For Max
ING Bogus Coins.

Cleveland, O., Sept. 27.-Captain Webb.
of the secret service, and Deputy Marshal
Keller went to Canton this morning and
searched the residence of Rev. Gabriel
Hostetter, No. 1122 Park avenue, and in
the cellar found five counterfeit silver
dollars, material from which they might
have been made and two moulds which ut
the bogus coins perfectly. The officers
also searched the basement of Rev. Hos
letters church. the Reformed Baptist.
which is near by, but nothing was re-
vealed there. Rev. Hostetter was placed
under arrest and taken to MassillOn,
where he was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Folger. He waived
examination and was brought to Cleve-
land, where he is now in jail.
The minister vehemently denies that
he is a counterfeiter and says that he
was not. aware that the coins and dies
were in his cellar. He declares that it is
a conspiracy on the part of one of his
relatives. Rev. Gabriel Hostetter is 81
years of age and has IA children. 1t is
generally believed that he is not a regu-
larly ordained minister of the Baptist
church His church was established by
himself and has a small congregation of
persons who have been members of other
churches