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The age-herald., 1898-12-13
THREE-FCURTHs WANT IT
rom the Oakman News.

From the Oakman News.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is making a strong fight for a constitutional convention. In an editorial of recent date the statement is made that nine-tenths of the white voters of Alabama Gin the opinion of the writer) are in favor of said convention. We think the writer has drawn somewhat on his im- agination; nevertheless, he is nearer the truth than many may suppose. We be- lieve that we might with safety say that three-fourths of the white voters in the state are not only in favor of, but are anx- ious for such convention. They are begin ming to realize the great need of change in some of our fundamental laws; especially those that pertain to our rights of suffrage and public school system. None but repub- licans are raising any howl about the prop osition for a new convention; so let's have 1t.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13
CHRISTMAS CHIT-CHAT
From Judge.

From Judge.
 If you'd give your girl a present she will keep, don't choose diary.
 Many a person has got licked for looking a gift horse in the mouth.
 The average Christmas slipper is about the worst thing that man can put his foot into.
 Doing business without advertising is about the same thing as for a pretty girl to hang up her mistletoe and then neglect to stand under 1t.
 While it is always commendable to make useful presents, don't give a man a bottle of whisky just because it's well known that he uses 1t.
 There is drawback to everything in this world. The biggest stocking the small boy can find is the golf variety without any foot in it.
 When you are careful not to let your little boy have anything noisy for Christmas there is sure to be some kind friend who will give him drum and whistle.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13
PRESIDENT K'KINLEY IN THE soUTl

PRESIDENT K'klRLE1 IN THE SOUTH From the New York Sun.
 President Mckinley Is to leave Washing ton next Tuesday to attend the jubilee eel ebration at Atlanta, in Georgia, of our triumph in the late war. He will be accom- panied by several members of his cabinet and by Major General Joseph Wheeler, one of the noblest figures in that contest.
 It will be journey into the "enemys country" in the sense that 1t will be a journey through states that voted solidly against his election, but only in that sense. MT. Mckinley will be greeted by popula- tion whose royalty to the flag was mani fested with passionate intensity during the war whose Victorious result he will join with the southern people fin celebrating and that deep national sentiment will find further expression in the heartiness of the reception of the president.
 Nor do we doubt that in the address he is to make at Atlanta next Thursday he will engage the sympathies and command the respect of all of those who hear him or read his words. They will find that he is with out sectional prejudice and that his policy Is governed by comprehensive principles which seem to him and to the majority of the people of the union to be essential to it's prosperous development, and even if they are not brought to his conviction they will honor it as broad, liberal, honest and statesmanlike.
 If MT. Mckinley does not make many friends in his journey to the south next week his experience there will be singular in its variation from the respect and confi- dence which he has aroused by his presence and utterances in all parts of the unoin visited by him since he became president,
The age-herald., 1898-12-13
PINGREE

w. J. L. in the New York Sun. You might also say that Governor Pingree will be president of the United States. Pingree's star is in the ascendaney. He will be president of the United States.-In- terview with Private Secretary oakman. Puissant Pingree, Pause ere you Paralyze your cause by Pushing your Plentitude of Perfect
 Political Possession until it Fails upon the Peoples taste. Your Pull at Present is Peerless, because your Performance is without Parallel. But Pray,
 Puissant Pingree, Do not Pursue the Phantasmagoria of Politics until it Punches holes In your Picturesque Personality and your Perennial Popularity. There is but one Pingree by which the Palladium of Michigan's liberties is guided, and Pingree, you alone can Preserve that. Political Potentiality is easily Pushed beyond the Pale, and the Puissance of today too often b. mes the Paresis of tomorrow. Be Patient, Pingree, and Prudent, Presidency begins with F. and so does Pfngree and Politics; and you know that that which Politics is when 1t goes wrong does not begin with
 P!
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

Recent changes growing out of recent events have redoubled the population access sible to commerce. These people will par ticularly want more cotton and more iron, and manufacturers will be severely taxed in their efforts to supply the new demand.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The Spanish-American treaty was quickly negotiated after all. The peace commits sioners of. the revolution sat five months in Paris, and the treaty of Ghent in 1874 absorbed over four months. The Mexican treaty was signed after six months of hard work on the part of MT. Twist, the Amerl- can commissioner. The new treaty was signed at the end of two months and ten days.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

and all perplexing questions can be handled without undue haste and without pressure of any kind. Some Of them are very difh- cult. but the establishment in good season of a republic under American protection seems the easiest solution of the difficulties that attend such distant possessions.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13
LET THE PEOPLE RULE
From the centreville Press.

From the Centrevil1e Press.
 We are in favor of a primary law, with proper restrictions We believe 1t the fair est way of having an election and to get at the strength and fitness for office of candi- dates. primary in Bibb allowing all white men to participate would reorganize the democratic party in the county. We are opposed to any ring or clique, no matter by what party formed It seeks to nnuzzle voters, and we are in favor of the people ruling.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The court of cessation tackled tough job when it undertook to redeem the repu- tation of France for justice, but the court is hopeful and persistent, and may succeed. It has checked the courtmartial jury of the army ring in the Picquart case.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The optimlsts say, and they speak truly, that in the course of ten years our war ves- protecting our merchant marine. They also say that Alabama coal will be taken at the mouth of the Nicaragua canal by ships from all lands.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13
TWO SISTERS
From the Philadelphia Item.

Anna Gould married a broken down French count, who Is helping her to spend the money her father made. Helen Gould gets a vote of thanks from congress and a gold medal for her patriotic devotion in the war. Which. think you. has gained the greater honor and happiness?
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

If Representative Brandon had addressed the chair from his seat on Saturday, he might have deprived the people of joy ous Christmast gift, but he could not have defeated the convention bill.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The Paris treaty has provided for peace abroad, and the legislature will soon give us peace at home. These blessings appro- priately come in the Christmas season.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

As compared with the prices of December last year, Bradstreets' shows that 54 lead ing articles are higher. Il unchanged, end 42 are lower in price.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

MT. Bull is using Uncle Sam as cudgel in bringing her continental foes to terms, and Uncle Sam has no objections to offer. What are facts between friends!
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The Washington Post thinks General Wheeler was surprised to ascertain that he was unconstitutional.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

In climate, in latent resources, and in citi- zenship, the south is without peer on the face of the earth.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The south should get in the swim, taking a hand in the coming extension of property and civilization.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

MT. Carnegie has exhausted his ink bottle and stubborn nation refuses to hand the Philippines back to Spain.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The Spanish soldiers in the Philippines are to be deadheaded home by Uncle Sam, and $2O, 900 900 is to go with them.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

General Wheeler is still holding both forts, and turning his congressional pay back into the treasury.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

Every delegate should come from the peo- pie, and if we hasog legalized primaries every one of them should be elected by direct vote.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The impression Is gaining ground that an old-fashioned winter has really arrived, and is disporting itself.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The convention bill will be a law before the long recess. The people should now get ready for a merry Christmas.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The convention delegates should be care fully selected, and to that end the primaries should be under the law.
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

convention will provide for an intelligent electorate and an honest vote. and people are actively employed. Hap
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

The Christmas of 1898 will be happy one In Alabama. The war is happily ended,
The age-herald., 1898-12-13

to satisfy our. holiday customers without doubt"
 Loveman. Jaros 6 Co.'S beautiful stores are crowded with every possible thing to please fair customers, and the customers give the house good work to do.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
THE BICYCLE.

A p%unctured tire fatty refuses to
carry one comfortably.
There is no duty on a bicycle taken
to England by a tourist.
An English paper asserts that four
seventies of the population use cycles.
Vienna has a bicycling female mon
key at the geological gardens in the
Prater.
The Pennsylvania supreme court has
decreed that no municipality nor the
state has a right to levy an annual tax
on bicycles.
In France drivers of all vehicles and
horseback riders must go to the right
on the approach of a cyclist, SO as to
leave the cycle a space of at least five
feet.
The italian government has imposed
Q tax of ten lire on bicycles, and in flu.
ture all machines will have to carry a
mark showing that the yearly tax has
been paid.
An Ohio justice Of the peace has just
returned a verdict which officially rec.
ognizes the bicycle as a necessity in the
Buckeye state. Any one of the 100000
wheefmen in the state, comments the
Cycling Gazette, could have told him
that long ago.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
Birds should he Protected.

The work of the birds aboH: the farm
In destroying insects entities them to
our full protection. The Maine expert.
ment station proposes to issue a bull.
letir on the subject, and we anticipate
that what many people heretofore have
considered merely a very pretty senti-
ment will be shown to have a founda-
tion in the most practical sort of fact.
Even the common nOn-poisonous snakes
perform a duty which shows their
friendliness to the farmer. We are
growing more clearly to understand
that in the providence of the Creator
.here is no such thing as waste or mis-
ets.-Farmerz' Voice.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
THE ILLS OF WOMEN
And How Mrs. Pinkham Helps
Overcome Them.
Mrs. MARY BoLLrNeEs, 11o1 Mariana

Mrs. MARY BoLLINGER, 1101 Mariana
St., Chicago, ILL.,, to Mrs. Pinkham:
81 have been troubled for the past
two years with falling of the womb,
leuoorrhea, pains over my body, sick
headaches, backache, nervousness and
weakness. l tried doctors and various
remedies without relief. After taking
two bottles of your Vegetable Com
pound, the relief I obtained was truly
wonderful. ! have now taken several
more bottles of your famous medicine,
and al say that l am entirely cured"
Mrs. HENRY DoRR, No. SOC Findley St.,
Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mrs. Pinkham:
For a long time I suffered with
chronic Inflammation of the womb,
pain in abdomen and bearing-down
feeling. Was very nervous at times, and
SO weak 1 was hardly able to do any
thing. Was subject to headaches, also
troubled with leucorrhaa. After doc
toring for many months with different
physicians, and getting no relief, 1 had
given up all hope of being well
again when I read of the great good
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was doing. decided immedi-
ately to give it a trial. The result was
simply past belief. After taking four
bottles of Vegetable Compound and
using three packages Of Sanative Wash
can say I feel like a new woman. /
deem it my duty to announce the fact
to my fellow sufferers that Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable remedies have
entirely cured me of all my pains and
suffering. have her alone to thank
for my recovery, for which 1 am CRATE
full May heaven bless her for the
good work she is doing for our sex"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
MIKE Only the Best.

1t is a matter of great moment to the
dairymen as to the price he will get for
his butter. If a dairyman makes from
rs TO 200 pounds of butter a day, a loss OF
two cents means a great deal. 1t is just
as expensive to make butter selling at rs
cents as that which sells at two cents
more, and in the latter case the two
cents is clear gain. How important,
then, that every dairyman or butter
maker place on the market a product
that will sell for the very highest priest
Field and Farm.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
GARDEN N

For celery caterpillar dust with white
hellabore.
If you spray trees when in bloom you
will kill bees.
The tomato is greatly benefited by
transplanting.
The English varieties of gooseberries
are not good bearers.
For rose slug spray with white bella
bore or use any fine dust.
The old Red Dutch currant is good
both for quantity and quality.
Cucumber striped beetle can be de-.
ktroyed by spraying with Paris green.
T. b. Terry insists that one eye OF
the potato is best for planting.
Celery can be grown on sandy or clay
loam, but likes a rich mucky SOIL
Western Plowman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
FIGHTING TIL A L
Parasites Do an Enormous Damage
to the Trees and Fruit Crops
of the United States.

It is estimated that the scales do an
enormous damage to the trees and crops
of this country, and while the San Jose
scale seems to attract some attention
1t is not by any means the only injurious
insect of this class. There are proba-
bly, a dozen very active and pernicious
scales found in the orchards of this
country. All of them do more or less
damage, and the question of destroying
them is annually becoming a more i'm
portant one. The department of agri-
culture has made special inquiries and
investigations into the subject Of
checking their ravages, and since the
German authorities made such a dis
turbance about not admitting u APP
pies because of the scales on them the
subject will assume even more prom
inence the coming season.
Some interesting experiments have
been made to destroy the scales, and
next summer we are likely TO reap some
benefit from them. Whale-oil soap has
been said to destroy them, but it must
be admitted DOW that this merely
checks the scales and does not destroy
them. Moreover, it takes nearly as
much whale-oil to check the scales as
the crop of fruits is worth. In one or
chard in Maryland it took 5000 worth
of whale-oil soap to hold the San Jose
scale in check.
The real remedy promised is found
In hydrocynic gas, a gas that is so
searching and penetrating that when
applied to the trees hardly a scale es-
capes. 1t is death to every form of life,
and not expensive. The method of ap-
plication is to place tents or coverings,
double oiled, over the trees, and then
liberate the gas under them. The re-
suits so far are very encouraging, for
nearly every scale was killed on the
trees so treated.-W. Z. Farmer, in
Wisconsin Agriculturist.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
SOME BIBLE CHRONOLOGY.

The flood occurred D. C. 2349.
Joseph was sold into Egypt about
1929 3. c.
Moses in 1491 B. G. led the children Of
Israel out of their bondage to the Egyp-
tians.
Saul was the Jewish king. He was
made king B. c. 1895, being formally
set apart by Samuel the prophet.
David succeeded Saul on The throne
about the year 1855 B. C. He reigned Il
years, when he was followed by his son
Solomon.
Elijah made his startling appearance
before the wicked king Ahab B. c. 910.
Isaiah prophesied about a century and
a half later.
Malachi, the last of the Old Testament
prophets, phophesied about the year
1877 Is. c. 1t was about this time that the
great reformer Nehemiah rebuilt the
walls of Jerusalem.
The Jewish captivity in Babylonia be-
gan 3. c. 500. This lasted until $50 when
Cyrus, king of Persia, for political rea-
sons liberated the Jews, sem them back
home, and helped them rebuild their
capital Jerusalem.
Christ was born, according to a curi-
ous blunder of the early makers of cal
endars, B. c. 4, or as it is put in many of
our Bibles, in the year of the world "A.
NJ 1000. The crucifixion was 80 years
later or A. D. 90. September I, A. d. 20
Jerusalem lay a heap of ruins at the
feet of her Roman conquerors after a
bitter and nrotracted sieCe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
A AVOIDED.
From the Democrat, Goshen. Ind.

When neuralgia is accompanied by a dull,
heavy pain near the heart, frequently be.
f fGRf5e n Mrs' Nancy nj fSgGGail Who HT N nesi
Goshen, Indiana, survived such an attack
and her advice is worth needing.
"In the fall of go" she said, 81 began to
have trouble with my heart. There was a
sharp pain in my breast which became rap
idly worse. The doctor was puzzled and
put me under the influence of opiates.
These sharp attacks followed one another at
intervals and ] became weak and had a bag.
gard look. l was constantly in pain, sell
dom slept and had no appetite.
AT the end of two years | was confined to
my couch most of the time and the doctors
agreed that my death was only a matter of
q short time.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
AN OLD BULLY.
People who live in fear of his attacks.
How to avoid him or beat him off.

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although mild in action, they are thorough
in operation. They are the best family
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Rockport, Texas.
"Having used DR.. ]. c. Ayers Pills for
years and thoroughly tested them, both as
a preventive and cure for bilionsness, I
can truthfully say that I believe tben 10
be the best medicine for the purpose and
they do all that is claimed for them-o-
JNo. E. KoLB, Shark, Ark.
Biliousness is in general but a symptoms
of a more stubborn disorder, constipation
Constipation is the root of almost all phys
ical evils, and DR.. ]. c. Ayers Pills cure
almost ali these physical evils by going 10
the root. They cure constipation, and the
consequent maladies, biliousness, heart
burn, palpitation, shortness of breath,
sleepiessness, nervous i~rritability, foui
breath, coated tongue, and a score of
miserable maladies that have their origin
in constipation. DR.. Ayers Pills are the
surest and safest remedy for all disease
of the liver, stomach, and bowels. Seno
for DR.. Ayers Curebook and read the story
of cures told by the cured. Free. Address
the ]. c. Aver Co, Lowell, Mass
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
q short time

nad finished one box l noticed an improve
ment in my condition, and when l had
taken twelve boxes / was completely cured.
Those pills have lone for you what we could
not do said one OF my physicians, they have
saved your life
THAT was two years ago and my heart
has not troubled me since. l believe l owe
my life to DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People, and ! take pleasure in telling others
about them"
Among the many forms of neuralgia are
headache, nervousness, paralysis, apoplexy
and locomotor ataxia. Some of these were
considered incurable until DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People were formulated.
To-day thousands testify to having been
cured of such diseases by these pills.
Doctors frequently prescribe them and all
druggists sell them.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25

If b~iiiousness isn't the bully Of the body
then what is? When once biliousness gets
the upper hand you don't dare say your
stomach is your own. Don't you dare eat
that dish says ~biliousness, or you'll see
what Ill do" You take the dare and you
do see or rather feel, the weight of the
bully's revenge. The head aches, not a
regular ache, but ar open and shut ache.
The eyes ache, not with a dull, tired ache,
but with an aggressive ache, as if they were
being bored by a gimlet. The stomach
tremblcs with nausea. 1.-The whole head
is sick and the whole heart is faint" There
are scores of hundreds of people who live
SO under the dominion of this bully bill
iousness that they don't dare eat or drink
without his permission. There's no need
of such slavery. DR.. J. c. Ayers Pills
efectually cure biliousness.!
FOR fifteen years I have used DR.. j. C.
Ayers Pills, and find them very effective
in all kinds of bilious complaints. They
are mild in operation and easy to take. I
prefer them to any other pill. and rave
yet to see the case where they lave failed
to cure."-A. SwANGER, Texarkana, Ark.
at lave used DR.. ]. c. Ayers Pills in
cases of bi1iousness and general disorders
of the stomach and bowels and lave found
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
BIOOd-CIeaninE.

housekeeping is a duty in every well-reg
ulated household. People don't wait until
the filth becomes painfully apparent, but it
stands to reason that in every day use more
or less dust or dirt accumulate. 1t is SO
with the human blood. From the enormous
variety of eatables taken into the stomach,
q quantity of useless material is bound to
accumulate in the blood and clog the free
and wholesome flow in the vessels. Every
person should from time to time have a
''blood- cleaning" and the best cleanser and
blood purifier is Cascarets Candy Cathartic.
We recommend them to all our readers.
They say everything is of use. OF what
use is the mosquito? And of what use is the
mosquito bar VIXEN the mosquito wants to
get at you?-Atchison Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
0yeTdfd II.

IT like the building well enough" said the
househunter to the agent, who had spent
half an hour showing him over the premises,
..but 1 am not certain about, the surround
aQuiet?" said the agent. "You can't find
, quieter place in the whole city"
"Still, I suppose the newsboys come around
here bright and early Sunday morning, just
when a man wants to sleep the %soundest,
with their yells Of Mornin' pa-a-a-per!'"
mo, sir; newsboys never come on this
street at all"
'Then / think I'll look a little further.
[ want a quiet neighborhood, but I don't
want one that's dead."1Chicago Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25

door to ceiling ard so occupy only &
small floor space.
When picking up potatoes in the field
place eight or ten crates on a stone
boat and haul it along between the
rows and throw in from each side, thus
saving all heavy carrying by hand.
Other uses will suggest themselves
and the longer you use them the better
you will like them.-G. E. Walter, in
Western Rural.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
Can Our Coast BE Enectually Block
adeds

If confidence can be felt in the opinion of
military and naval officers in high places at
the seat of government, such is the vast ex-
tent of our sea coast to blockade it e~ffectual.
ly, even if our navy and sea coast defences
could offer no adequate resistance, seems to
be impossible. When a blockade of the bow
els exists, relieve constipation with Hostel
pepsia, malaria, rheumatism and kidney
trouhla