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A MatI imOnial Boom.
Special to Tho Age-Herald.

Union Springs, Jan. 2-A matrimonial boom has struck Union Springs. The first , couple was Hicks Frazer and Miss Ethel Rainer, followed by Elmore Wilson and Miss Claud Worthington, o. D. Asbell and Miss Mattie Harris, and D. J. Odgeburn, of Texas, and Miss Ada Picket, all occur ring within three weeks.
 The Misses Smith and Col. Thompson, of Tuskegee, have been visiting here. the young ladies being guests of Miss Amoret Dawson. Col. Thompson is prominently spoken of for state senator to represent Macon and Bullock counties.
The age-herald., 1898-01-27
Mrs. Scurry Dead.
Special to The Age-Herald.

Selma, Jan. 26.-This morning at about 6 o'clock Mrs. M. c. Scurry, at the age of 76 years, softly went to sleep in death. She was the mother of Mrs. William Las- setter, Mrs. Henry Smith and Mrs. Cor nell, the wife of Rev. c. A. Cornell of the Alabama Methodist conference. Mrs Sour " was a lovely Christian character, hav- ing been for number of years consist ent member of the Alvan street Presbyte- rian church
The age-herald., 1898-01-27
United States Prisoners.

The United States prisoners were taken away last night. They were in the cus- tody of deputy marshals and go to Co., lumbus, O., there to serve terms as fol- lows: Will Dawkins, Charles, George and John Qualls, twenty years each; William Qualls, two years; Joseph Brinsky, one year; John Threatt, one year. All are white.
The age-herald., 1898-01-27
DECATUR's SUDDEN WEDDING.
New Developments in Gordon Bribery and
 Perjury Case.
Special ito The Age-Iierald.

Decatur, Jan. 26.-There was an interest," Ing marriage ceremony performed in Pro- bate Judge w. E. Skegg's office here to- day, the parties being John c. Portwood and Miss Daisy l.. Craft, a young and pretty girl. The affair was rather sudden, as Portwood was not expected to get mar ried until he was confronted with war
The age-herald., 1898-01-27
H. Hurt, Jr., Dea d.
Special to The Age-Heralo.

SpeclaI 10 1He Age-f1tTHIu Marion, Ala, Jan. 26-H H. HuntA Jr. died here yesterday after a long illness and was buried this afternoon. He leaves a wife and two children.
 Robert L. Wright, one of the most prom inent citizens of Marion, is critically iE at his home in this city. pr. Gaines R. Johnson is very i'll at hfs home in this place.
The age-herald., 1898-01-27
A Specialist.

Each and every person pursuing a par ticular line of business Is a specialist in that work Occasionally you will find a person following several different callings.
 He is tinkerer; kind of jack of all trades, etc.
 You would not carry a fine watch to tipkering blacksmith that mended wagons, clocks. Sewing machines, houses, watches
The age-herald., 1898-01-27
Moonshiner Rngrnd.

Special to The Age-Herald.
 Annston, Jan. 26.-Deputy Collector w. F. Majors and Deputy Marshal Burgess came in today from a series of successful moonshine raids. They also brought in William Mitchell, who is charged with op- erating an illicit distillery three miles south of Hightower, in Cleburne county.
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with permission to the First National Banls, the Alabama National Bank Steiner BrpS., bankers, the Jefferson County Savings Bank. all of this city, as to my responsi- bility for my contracts.
 I cure many patients by mail treatmept. Write or call at my office. All consultR- tions and correspondence strictly confiden- tia1. Offices Jefferson County Bank build- ing, corner 2nd avenue and Fist street, Bir- mingham Ala. Yours truly, 5aa
 r. F. HOLLOWAY, M. D.,
 Specialist Private Diseases Proprietor of Holloways Private Medical Dispcnsary. 1-l-d-w-tk
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or any o q t h i n g that came his way. A n d y 6 Il should not go to a tinkering doctor with 8 delicate priv ate disease.
 I treat only private d 1 g. eases, Syphi- lis, G o n o T. $ t c t u r [, ! Womb TrQub- les, Lost Man. hood, etc,
 . You may not know me per- sonally. If hot T rafars vdlI
The age-herald., 1898-01-27
Wnl Haye an AgricuLturaI Society. l;sE11

Special to The Age-Herald. Florence, Jan. 26.-Judge J. J. Mitchell has received notice from Hon. I. P. Cul-
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And for the next ten best sets of answers S2.oo each. The following are the questions:
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The appropriation Is by the legislature an' for the public good. We are of opinion thi objection is not well taken.
 For the other reasons stated. the demur Ter to the petition was properly sustained
The age-herald., 1898-01-27

J. W. Ferguson and his daughter, says the Guntersville Democrat, drove from Aurora to Guntersville. In his coat pock- ct he had at Aurora $1 ,350 in greenbacks When he arrived in Guntersville the roll of money was missing, and is still miss ing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
THE CLUB CORNER.

The o e desires to make its club cor
ner a clear and faithful reflector Of Mime
sofa organizations and to this end extends to
them an urgent invitation to use its space
as an open parliament. The roster of clubs,
which is about completed. shows that many
have taken up the same themes OF study for
the year. It viii be helpful to the ubs
themselves and instructive ard inter sing ID
others to compare the results of these va
riOus discussions and res arches. If each Or
ganization will forward to the depa tment
the questions discussed at It's meetings AMI
the decision reached the informs ton will be
given its proper setting by reference to this
club roster This work will be further ia
cIltated, both by the club secretaries and the
department. If those who have not done 50
grammes.
Address all communications intended for
this department to Club Corner, St Paul
G o b e. Copies of club year book are So
Hcited.
At the annual meeting of the Sank Center
Ciinn) Graduation club Mrs. G. A. Stanton
and Miss Bessie Robbins were reelected 10
the positions of president and secretary, re-
spectively. Mrs. Stanton will represent the
club at the Winona convention
The Jewish Womans council. of Kansas
City. for the last few years has maintained
industrial school, a kindergarten. free
situations were organized ard sustained large
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
IN WOMAN'S REALM.
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL.

1t is told of King Frederick VI. Of Den
mark. that while travelling through Jutland
one day he entered village school and found
the children lively and intelligent and quite
ready to answer his questions.
We'll, youngsters" he said what are the
names of the greatest kings of Denmark"
With one accord they cried out: "Canute
the Great, Waldemar and Christian ".
Just then little girl, to whom the school
master had whispered something, stood up
and raised her hand.
do you know another" asked the king.
'Yes-Frederick VI"
What great act did he PERFORM"
The girl hung her head and stammered out:
q don't know"
"Be comforted, my child" said the king
Il don't know. either. New York Tribune.
The Public School Magazine contains the
following glossary of Westminster slang:
"bulley'' is the lappet Of a queens scholars
gown, the challenge Is the entrance exam
nation, so called from the old system or
examination, a greece" or 'greaze" Is a
thrCng or crowd. to ''muzz'' is to work hard
"Monos'' is a queens scholar who announces
in Latin the hour at the close of school, a
ski is a street-boy derivation "Volsci q"
the Westminsters considering themselves the
gems togata). 'quarterns" sheets of paper
for exercises Vincent square is known as
up fields" the big school room up
school,"
If child in Switzerland is out Of school
a day the parent gets a notice from the pub
lie authority that he is fined so many francs;
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the SECOND day the fine is increased, and by
the third day the amount becomes a serious
one In case of sickness the pupil is ex-
cused, but if there be any suspicion of sham
ming a doctor is sent If the suspicion
proves to be we'll founded the parent is re-
quired to pay the cost of the doctors visit
Philadelphia has undertaken to provide for
the physical requirements of its high school
girls by having a physician In attendance
each day to give proper medical supervision.
Dr. Katharine Kollock has been giving her
attention to high school girls and their ills
for six years. most of the time without COM
pensation, and now 1t is deemed unwise to
dispense with such service.
The idea of having physician at the school
every day originated with DR.. Thomas G.
Morton, chairman of the board of educations
committee the high school for girls. The
plan was novel one, and it was not received
with such enthusiasm would back up the
proposition with financial support. If a ply
stefan would give her services free of charge
the committee was ready to accept them, but
1t was not ready to talk about salary. DR..
Kollock undertook the work, however and
has continued to carry it ever since Dur
ing the last two years she has received
salary of $3.50 per annum, amount said to
be ridiculousy incommensurate with the
work she performs
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
"Moriah's Mourning"

'Moriah's Mourning" by Ruth Nc
Emery Stuart. is bit of genuine, whole
some humor. Plain, and homely humor,
dealing with simpleY things and primi-
tive people, and plentifully mixed with
the honestly pathetic. is what one looks
for and what one gets from this au-
thor. Moriah, a widow OF a month.
who marries a widower Of scarcely
longer because She had done set her
eye on Pete'si chil1en ever since dey
nanny died.H an EFF dey ever was a
set o emery, /, y-down. sassy, no count
little niggers dat need takin' In hand
by an able-bodied q. stepmammy, dey
awatt1n' fur me right yonder In Pete's
cabin" and who thereafter wears deep
dusky mourning for Numa, her former
spouse; Elder Bradley, helplessly short
sighted, who doses his glasses and
hunts for them in vain, because OF his
blindness. until the specs themselves
turn up to take g. part in the search
for themselves; Black Tamar, who
wears mourning for her second hus-
bands former wife because she Is
nearest of kim" and a dozen more
equally absurd yet equally convincing
characters and situations make up a
bakers dozen Of quaint and whimsical
sketches of Southern life. There may
be a sameness about Ruth McEnery
Stuarts stories, but 1t Is sameness
that does not pail, and, While the read
er knows in general way what TO ex-
pect from her, minor surprises and I'M
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

the central figure of every dance and merry
making in old Concord.
In an article Torpedo Boats In the War
With SPAIN" in the November Scrfbusr's
Johp r. Spears discusses the whole problem
OF these yelloW-jackets of the fleet and draws
S0ine conclusions OF tfmel value.
Nearly all of Walter Camps department in
CoIller weekly is taken up with football. as
=. recognition Of the fact that at this season
u Is the sport which dominates interest
. d5ere IS good Photographic picture of
o rtlhGeton vs.. Lehigh-Passing for a Run
Edouard Rod, the novelist and contributor
10 the Revue des Deux Mendes, has been en-
gagged ny the Cercle Francois de PUniversite
Harvard to give a course of lectures on
french literature under It's directions before
harvard university during the coming aca-
oem1c year These annual series of lectures
DOumic, the literary critic of the Revue des
Deux Mondes. H. Paul Bourget. Of the
F1 oil Academy, will probably be the Cercle
lecturer IN the year 1900.
On Our Book Table.
From the St. Paul Book and Stationery
BAKER & TAYLOR CO.. NEW YORK
D. bFZ XPPLR NJ A. IL 20 D. PT5ce $175
Herald of the West" by J. A. Gii5hele1.
Price, s1.5O Philips Experiments" by
John Trobridge. Price, 81.
LEE & SHEPARD. BOSTON-'Under Dewey
at Manila, by Edward Stratemeyer. Price
SIPS. The Boys With Old Hickory by
Everett T. Tomlinson. Price, $50. songs
OF War and Peace" by Sam Walter Foss
Price, SIPS. Pauline Wymann.'' bv
Sophie May. Price, SIPS
MACMILLAN & Co, NEW YORK-"Jack. the
Giant Killer" Hugh Thompson's illustrated
fairy books. Price, 50 cents.
G.. P. PUTNAM'S SONS. NEW YORK-"A
Generation of Cornell" by Jacob Gould
Schurman.
RAND, M'NALLY & CO.. CHICAGo-"Marga-
ret Wynne.' by Adel.ne Sergeant.
HARPER & BROS. NEW YORK-''Fables
for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Car
ryl. Price, $3.50. wild Eelin," by Will
lam Black. Price. $1.75. The Instinct of
Superintendent. by Lillian Bell. Price, 81 %.
Crooked Trails" by Frederic Remington.
Price. 81.
DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE CO.. NEW YORK
-"CyranO de Bergerac.'' by Edmond Rost-
and. Bob, Son of Battle" by Alfred OIl-
want.
HERBERT S. STONE & CO.. CHICAGo-"A
Slave to Duty" by Octave Thanet. Price
S125 Etiquette for Americans by A
Woman of Fashion. Price, SIPS. THE
Money Captain by Will Payne. Price,
81 d
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
"The Moral Imbeciles."

Just why Mrs s. P. Mclean Greene,
In the title to her last novel, differen-
tiates so carefully between her charac..
ters and plain idiots of the common or
garden variety is not at all plain to
the present reviewer. Not moral i'm.
beetles" a whit more than mental I'M
beetles seem the unbalanced tribe in
this queer story. Just all-around "im-
beetles" are they, and it's sheer waste
of time to modify this simple and tell
ing title unless one adds, out of SYM
rathy with the reading public, the
warming adjective stupid" We have
seen Mrs. Greene described as a wom-
an Of genius, and I've are aware that
some people consider her a hIImorist Of
rare order, and we are willing to &c
with these critics a certain distance
on the last statement at least. We are
not very familiar with women of ge-
MUS, so 1t may be that Mrs. Greene
belongs to this rare Species If so, we
no longer regret its scarceness. HUI
NOR is more plentiful, and If the cpl
grammatical definition, inverted
sense, is allowed, then this novel, born
to popularity, fulf1lls this essential re-
quireTnent. Inverted is every bit of
sense in her stories. The more one
| reads of Mrs. Greere's books the more
one is astonished at their popularity
What chord of the great heart of the
masses" does she strike? Is it that
everything she writes now is read in
the light of "OId Cape Cod Folks"
that literary caricature that made peo-
pie laugh by it's very grOtesqueness I?
1t seems to US rather that Mrs. Greene's
stories appeal as allegory appeals. top
sy-turvy allegory, ungoverned and un-
governable by law or order. Her peo-
pie are not men and women, but per,
sonffications of distractions, and so
against them the ehildlike public can
turn Its hate of hate and love Of
love" unlhindered by any hampering
| personality of hero or heroine.
The Moral Imbeciles," by Mrs. S. P Nc
Lean Greene. Harper G. Bros, New York
SIPS. For sale by the st. Paul Book and
| Stationery company.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
UNIQUE PERSONALITIES.

Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, OF California, could not
justly be called woman of one idea" She
is a lover of children being one OF the
founders of the Mothers congress, as well
as a great kindergarten promoter. She has
a. passion for fine dogs and owns S25, 900
dog kennel. Now, she comes forward with
a magnificent gift to the California univer-
sly, for new buildings, taking personal in
terest in their construction.
The Princess Titana Mariana, who recently
died In England was heiress to the throne Of
Tahiti but some years ago fell in love with
a Scotchman and married him, discarding the
cares of royalty to lead quiet and unevent-
full life as wife of a Scotch baiIlie at
Ansthuther The Tahitian princess was we'll
known and much esteemed by the people OF
the town and district.
Miss Drake, a Philadelphia woman. who
has spent a number of years in Weisbaden,
Germany has just returned bringing with
her lot of valuable furniture. which she
shipped in a great van. Miss brakes father
was one time American minister to Germany
During the family residence abroad the
young lady had by degrees come into posses
sion Of a great deal of valuable household
goods. Recently she decided to return to
her native city, but was fearful lest some of
her effects should suffer in transit She
therefore hired one of the largest furniture
vans and in it were packed her household
goods under her supervision. Six horses
drew the van from Weisbaden to Hamburg
where the body Of the vehicle was deposited
in the hold of the German steamship Assyria,
which was bound for Philadelphia Upon ar
rival the huge box was set upon wheels
once more and six horses drew it to the young
lady's residence where 1t was unloaded under
the eye of the inspector. The van will be
sent back to Hamburg. completing journey
of 5000 miles.
Signor SpelteT1ni, who has made during
his career 497 balloon ascents and carried
some 300 passengers, is preparing to cross the
! Alps in the balloon Vega. He will be accom-
panied by Prof. Hermi of Zurich, the object
of the ascent being scientific
The death Of Miss Reubena Hyde WaIwortb.
daughter of the director general of the
Woman's War Relief association has deeply
affected the soldiers who had been nursed
by the deceased, ard has elected the sympa-
| thy of the country for her mother in her be-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
PAYMENT TO PLATT
In Direct Violation of the Terms of
the War Loan Law.

In Direct Violation of the Terms of
the War Loan LAW.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22-The United
States Express company has received
check for $4,000 for delivering the
bonds under the late popular loan law
The money was rightly due the ex-
press company, but the amount was
paid IN direct violation Of the law pro-
viding for the issue of these bonds.
When Senator Platt began to inquire
as to when the bill of the United States
Express company would be paid it was
found that the appropriation for issuing
the bonds had been exhausted. In this
dilemma Solicitor O'COnnell was ap-
pealed to and he decided that congress
did not mean what it said, and that
Secretary Gage knew what congress
meant and had done it.
After this decision the express COM
pany got the money. The work on the
bond issue is complete, but where con-
gress fixed the limit Of expense to $780,
900 it has reached $3.50, 900.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
HOME CURIOS.

Mrs. Samuel P. Swartwood of Mountain
Top, Pa, is the mother of twenty-four chill
dren.
Five of the children are dead. But Mrs
Swartwood's dinner horn can still summon to
the table nineteen children, her husband, two
sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law and two
grandchildren.
Mrs Swartwood was married when she was
IA years old, and when her husband was 20
Her first child was born fourteen months
after her marriage, and there have been but
five years since during which a babe did not
come to the household. These years were
1874, 1888. 1887, 1888 and 1885, OF the twenty
four children there were but two sets of
twins, and these were born in 1889 and 1893
One of each set Of twins is dead.
The old custom of feasting at funerals still
prevails In some parts Of PENNSYLVANIA. The
services and interment are over at noon and
then all who choose to come can partake Of
the funeral baked meats. In some communi-
ties to omit the feast Is considered a breach
OF hospitality to those who show their SYM
pathy by their attendance, and would also
be to dishonor the dead. People of even mod
crate means have been known to spend hun
dreds OF dollars for such dinner, in addition
to the great quantities Of pies and cakes
contributed by the neighbors In return, or in
anticipation of like favor. Often as many
as four or five hundred people attend these
dinners.
M. Burton, of Indianapolis, has a clock
which is wound by the solar system. In this
invention the axiom of heat expanding and
cold contracting is the basis. The clock is
wound by changes in the temperature, the
principal force being in the day and night
dlnerences Mr.. Burton found that there is
an average difference Of twenty degrees in
the temperature Of the night and the day.
The day, Of course, is the warmer. The heat
Oh the DAY expands the atmosphere and the
lower temperature of the night contracts 1t.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
L1Ehtest of LIQUIDS.

Additional experiments by Prof. Dewar. have
SHOWN that liquid hydrogen Is by far the fight
est OF all known liquids. It's density is one
fourteenth that of water, and, curiously
enough, this happens to be the same ratio as
density that hydrogen in the gaseous state
bears to air. Heretofore the lghtest liquid
known has been liquified marsh gas, which
possesses about two-6fths the density of va
ter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

reavement The fever to which Miss Wal
worth succumbed last Tuesday was contracted
at MoDtauk
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

4 society has just been formed at Vienna
under the name Of Verband der Wiener
neutrality-suspicious. the object of which
is to watch over the interests of newspaper
correspondents and to raise their literary and
social status.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

The Richmond chapter of the Daughters of
the Confederacy has adopted a resolution pro-
viding for the erection of a monument over
the grave of Miss Winnie Davis Daughter
of the Confederacy." 1t is the purpose of
the chapter to award the contract early In
January, 1899.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

Tn a volume to be called Along the Trail,
Richard Hovey has brought together the
lyrics he has written during fifteen years;
their way into the two "Vagabondia' vol
unes. That the trail" extends well into the
present day we may infer from the title OF
hook 1.-THE Word of the Lloyd from Havana"
and ''Unmanifest Destiny" Messrs; Small.
Maynard & Co., of Boston, will publish the
volume.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

NJ. Inlay Taylor who wrote ION the Red
Staircase and can Imperial Lover" has
been working for the past year ON a new
story called "A Yankee Volunteer, which
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

Nearly all of Walter Camps department in
GOLFERS Weekly is taken up with football as
recognition of the fact that at this season
II Is the sport which dominates interest
mere IS a good Photographic picture of
Frlnceton vs.. Lehigh-Passing for Run
Outside Tackle"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

Mrs Clara Larson, of Chicago, was elected
president of the Illinois Federation of Clubs
Friday. The election seems to be heartily ap-
proved, and much ia expected of the new ex-
ecutiVe.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

the central figure Of every dance and merry
making in old Concord.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

Signor Speltertni, who has made during
his career 497 balloon ascents and carried
some 300 passengers, is preparing to cross the
Alps in the balloon Vega He will be accom-
panied by Prof Hermi, of Zurich, the object
of the ascent being scientific
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

The People of Our Neighborhood," by Mary
E. Wilkins. Doubleday & Mcclure, New
York so cents. For sale by the st. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

IN an article on Torpedo Boats In the war
With SPAIN in the November scribner's.
Joap n. spears discusses the whole problem
of these yellow-jackets of the feet and draw
some conclusions of timely value
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

If anyone thinks that Fenfmore Cooper
has ceased to be read let him say why
Messrs. Houghton, Miffin & Co. are prepar-
ing to publish in October an entirely new ed
ton of the Leather Stocking Tales, in five
handsome volumes. Many writer's mistake
their poorest work for their best but it is
worth remembering that Cooper himself de-
clared that his Leather stocking Tales"
stood a better chance of permanent popular
ity than anything else he wrote.-The Book
Buyer.