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assistant eoiner, one assistant melter and refiner and one assistant assayer in each mint or assay office, provided that appoint ments to the positions Qamed in this rule in clauses 13, IA, 15, 16, 22 and B shaQ De subject to an examination 10 be pre- scTibed by the secretary of the treasury. equivalent to the eTaminatiqn held by the commission for positions of like grades. Such examinations shall be conducted by the commission in accordance with its reg ulations, provided that examinations may be waived by the secretary of the treas ury for appointments in the Alaska cus- toms service and internal revenue service in Alaska.
 Twenty-seventh-No exceeding one clerk to each army paymaster in actual ser vice.
 Twenty ty-eighth-Wardens, chapiains and physicians in the United States penttten- tiaries or prisons.
 Twenty-ninth-Not to exceed one private secretary, or confidential clerk, to each United States district attorney.
 Thirteth-EXaminers.
 Thirty assistant attorney general for the postoffice department.
 Thirty-second-Not exceeding one prl- vate secretary, or confidential clerk, to the assistant to the attorney general.
 Thirty-third-Not exceeding one private secretary or confidential clerk, to the post master, if authorized by the postmaster 1T authorized by Nne poSloiHNe 6SliSA e'' each postoffice where the receipts or the last preceding fiscal year amounted to as much as S350, 900. .
 Thirty-fourth-Not exceeding one audi tor at the postoffice in New York City.
 Thirty-fifth-Not exceeding one hnahce clerk, if authorized by law and regularly and actually assigned to act as auditor at each postofIice where the receipts Tor the last preceding fiscal year amounted to as much as $350,00o ~
 Thirty-sixth-No exceeding one cashier or finance clerk at each frst-class post office.
 Thirty-seven th-Not exceeding one cash fer and one finance clerk at each postothce where the receipts for the last preceding year amounted to as much as S5000o0.
 Thirty-eighth-No exceeding one cashier and two finance clerks for each postoihce where the receipts for the last preceding fiscal year amounted to as much as Sl,- 600 900.
 Thirty-ninth-Not exceeding one cashier and three finance clerks at each pos,othce where the receipts for the aast preceulng fiscal year amounted to as much as $z,- 900 900.
 PostofIlce Physician
 Fortieth-Not exceeding one clerk, who shall be a regular physician, at each first class postofice when authorized by the postmas ter-general, to examine applicants utility clerk.
 Forty -drst-The superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation.
 Forty-second-One special land inspector.
 Forty y-thrd-Inspectors of the coal mines in the territories.
 rty-fourth-Special agents employed, as necessity for their employment may
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Dante's Inferno in Birming- hama Rolling Mill at night. Take Traction Company's cars to Gate City.
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EDUCATIONAL.
MlcHIGAH COLLEGE OF MINES

A State Technical School. Pr cal work. Elective System. Summer l. Every graduate employed. For catalogues, show ing occupation of graduates. address
 THE SECRETARY, Houghtop, Mich.
 64-e-o-d, 39t.
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REMOVAL SALE!

Go to Drennen & Co.'s Tues day, Wednesday and Thurs day. Everything at cost.
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tions, and cannot praise your medicine enough for what it has done for me. Many thanks to you for your advice. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con- pound has cured me, and will recom- mend it to my friends.-Mrs. FLORENCE R. HOFFMAN, 512 Roland St., Canton, o.
 The condition described by Mrs. Hoff- man will appeal to many women, yet lots of sick women struggle on with their daily tasks disregarding the urgent warnings until overtaken by actual collapse.
 The present Mrs. Pinlsham's experi- ence in treating female ills is unparal- leled, for years rhe worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia F. Pinlzham, and for sometimes past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter as many as hundred thousand niling women during a single year.
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 asking your S advice. You / replied tell ing me just what to do. 1
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Twenty-fourth- Officers in charge of the Bureau of Statistics.
 Twenty -f1fth-Not exceeding one chief clerk in one mint or assay office who is authorized by law to act for the assayer in charge during his absence or disability.
 Twenty-sixth-One private secretary, or confidential clerk, to the superintendent, one cashier. one deposit weigh clerk, one
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-22
BIG SALARIES FOR PREACHERS

From the New York Journal
We observe thar a Rev. Mr.. Morgan Dix
receives twenty-five thousand dollars Tor
being the religious head elf the Trinity Cor
poration. Great and good, undoubtedly, IS
Mr. Dix But we feel Jnat twenty-five
Thousand dollars is a good deal to with
draw from taxatfon annually for his sake
Tile Reverend Mr.. Dix is assisted by eight
wears and sixteen curates. We would no.
suggest chat one of these be dispensed with.
Each labors to save souls and eaca should
remain. But their salaries range from five
to ten thousand dollars year. We know
personally of capable Wears and eurases
that could be ndred for mutl less. We do
not eeel sure 9hat such large salaries SHOULD
be withheld from taxation under the cir
cumstances.
SlXty thousand doNars a year is spent by
Trinity for music. We think well of music
and believe tha,t us socaling 1renzies nave
turned many souls to higher '.aings.
But less H.an sixty ehousand dollars ought
to buy great deal of music. We GO not
feel sure tlat such sum should be free
from taxation merely to mairl-ain here be-
low expensive and spirited competition with
the seraphim and cherub,m.
Out of its half million annual revenue
Trinity spends nine thousand yearly for the
sick poor OF its neshborhood Heartily we
declare THAT Jhe lands which yield that sum
should -,OT Zoe taxed.
But we feel that the eternal feookkeepers
Who watch even the accounts of churches
must be dissatisfied with she smallness of
'tEal Lem. 1t seems to us-unworthy as we
are, and unfit to judge-nat tie founder Of
Christianity, with half a million yearly
would have given more to die SEX poor
and less to music. Less, PERHAPS, to the
Rev. Mr. Dix.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-22
IN ALBANIA
From the Atlanta Journal.

FROM tne Atlanta Journal.
Alabama has politics to spare.
With five candidates for governor and
three candidates for senator in the field
the average democratic voter has fine op-
portunity to display his Judgment, and po-
lit.cal heelers and strikers will find bust
ness brisk for some months to come
The senatorial contest is much more in
Shape than the race for the governorship
Senator Morgan and Governor Johnston
are engaging in a series of joint discussions
before the people, the FIRST of which was
held last Saturday. 1t was decidedly warm,
and as the joint canvass proceeds we may
expect to see its fervor increase. Ex-Gov-
ernor Oates is also a candidate for the
senate, but while his ability and his other
high qualifications fer the office are ad-
mtted, it is generally conceded even by
those who prefer Oates to either of the
other candidates the race is between Nor
gan and Johnston.
The latter is credited with having one of
the largest and best arranged political ma
chimes that was ever constructed in Ala
bama This, with his strong personal popu-
larity, his supporters contend, will easily
ldIu Hlln Ill the CHAIR NlllcH has
occupied fer twenty-three years.
Johnston has proved himself very as
tute and very bold politician, and is abso-
lutely confident of winning the senatorship.
Morgan however, has a hold upon the
people of Alabama which will be very hard
to break. He has such machinery as
Johnston is using, but will make his appeal
directly to the masses of the people. He is
man of rare power, and in spite of his
years, those who know him best believe that
he will quite overmatch his younger COM
petitor and sweep him from the field in
the primaries. Senator Morgan has one de-
cided disadvantage. He has been very lit
tie in Alabama during the past fifteen
years. On this account he has to a great
extent lost touch with the people, and has
been accused of indifference to mis- con-
stitueney. How far this will damage his
prospects of recollection remains to be seen.
If he had lived in Alabama instead of
Washington for many years past his popu-
lar strength, and the popular enthusiasm
for him would undoubtedly now be much
greater.
There is no telling, however, what man
of Morgan's ability and magnetism may do
when once fully aroused, and when making
a fight which means so much to him. An
indication that he may upset Johnston's
calculations and smash all his carefully
laid plans was given last Saturday. The
candidates met in county which has been
claimed as overwhelmingly for Johnston
| but Morgan carried the crowd and will
| probably carry the county.
| Much depends upon the effect of the joint
| discussions upon the masses of the people,
| and in a contest of this kind Morgan is far
! superior to his opponent. We shall not be
| surprised to see the old man capture a
| fifth term and live to round out a service
| of thirty years in the senate
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the ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Discussion at Salem Church.

The senatorial gladiators at Salem
church delyed in the dead past instead of
the events of the present. AS at Athens
they renewed and discussed and charged
and recharg6d over matters long since set
tied, while the living subjects were left I'M
touched. The subject of suffrage reform,
or rather of ballot-box reform, is, we freely
admit. a living issue-one that cannot long
be kept in the background; but the conven-
lent decision of the supreme court has
taken that great issue out of the cam
paign except as it comes up in the selection
of legislative candidates. The other SUBJ
jects discussed at Salem church concern
the people of Alabama about as much as
they do the impassive man in the moon.
If the two distinguished persons in the
joint debate would devote one days dis
cussion to an calculation of the mooted
points in the two recent sales of lands that
belonged to the young men and the young
women of Alabama, they would render the
state a great service. These lands were
granted to the schools and to the university
by congress. They were public lands before
they became a part of trust for the bene-
fit of the boys and girls of this state. How
has that trust been managed? This is the
question before the people of Alabama
This is a question that cannot be shelved
in Limestone in any other county. This
trust must be explained, if the suspicious
and unrest and concealed anger of the peo-
pie are to be eliminated from the CAM
paign Long talks about Mr.. Cleveland, or
Mr. Bryan, or the Philippines, or back-tax
laws. or the constitutional convention will
not prove acceptable substitutes. The land
deals cannot be shirked or ignored. Like
Banquos ghost, they will appear on all &C.
casions. U2Baa8
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In Geod-Sized Blocks.

The true hardness of the university LAM
deal can be brought out If all who possess
knowledge on that subject will make it
known as Treasurer ]. II. Fits has done.
When the case is fully uncovered it will lie
found to be one of unusual audacity, to say
the least.
Treasurer Fits makes plain the fact that
the university lands which were sold do
not consist of small detached tracts, ''the
largest being 100 acres" The Sloss-Shef-
field company knows thing or two about
coal mining, and it is not buying small de-
tached tracts Treasurer Fits maps show
that the land purchased lies, as a rule, in
large blocks-larger than the university has
been able to lease heretofore-as large as
any one needs for mining purposes The
statements to the contrary were baseless
and misleading, but with Treasurer Fits
mans before the reader no one need be
misled, unless he so desires.
One block in Jefferson county consists of
$50 acres one in Walker county s2e acres,
and two more in that county of 44e acres
each The two leases made by the univer-
sity consist of $40 and 44O acres respective
1y.
The university has been deprived of
princey estate for song, and there is
not probably any way in which the sale
can be set aside. The deed has been sign
: ed, and the money paid. 1t is probably a
closed incident; but every fact connected
with it should be brought out in order that
the land still left in its hands may be
preserved from sale, and reserved for LEASE
or to period when coal lands in this state
: will be as valuable as coal lands in Penn
sylvania now are. Coal lands near
navigable Warrior river will be exceeding
~ valuable in the long run The saddest
feature in connection with the recent deal
is the fact thai this augmented value Will
accrue to the Sloss-Shefdeld company, AMI
not to the young men who need an educa-
tion in Alabama.
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Election of Senators.

The Quay case and the Clarke case will
be sure to recall public attention to the
manner in which United States senators
are elected. Neither of these disgraeeful
and notorious cases could have arisen if
senator's had been elected by popular vote.
vanla. His methods are so rotten that the
republicans would not re-eect him, al
though they had a large majority in the
legislature. Quay and his henchmen were
able to prevent the election of any other
man. Governor Stone appointed Quay, and
If the senate seats him it must swallow its
decision in the Oregon case, and violate
long line of presidents. In Oregon the Leg
islature was so deadlocked 1t could not be
organized; in Pennsylvania it was duly or
ganized, and it refused to re-elect Quay.
The seating of Quay would, therefore, more
plainly violate popular rule than the seat
ing of Corbett would have done.
The Clarke case from Montana consists
in the shameless use of money. A multi
millionaire bought in petty. state a seat
for 100000. Shall he be seated? The law
yer who handled the Clarke money has
been or is about to be disbarred. The case
is one of open and outrageous shame. Such
case could not have arisen If senators had
| been elected by direct vote.
There is in fact but one way to reform
the senate and put an end to Quay or
Clarke scandals, and that consists in the
election of senator's by popular vote. There
is no good reason why they should not be
elected in that way; there are many why
they should be-
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Currency Reform Coming Up.

AS soon as possible after congress meets
a bill is to be railroaded VEough the
house. embracing, it is stated, declaration
for the gold standard, segregation of tine
cold reserve, bank note circulation up to
oar of bonds deposited, reduction OF taxes
So as to make bank circulation more profit
able. and provision for national banks with
s25 600 capital in small towns. Tt is to De
a joint goid-standard, national bank bill.
The bill will, under the Reed rules which
are to be adopted, be sent 10 the senate be-
fore the Christmas recess. In the senate
no time limit can be named, because de-
bate is there practically ilhmitable. But
the responsibility as to the bill will be
quickly lodged in the senate. OF THIS there
is not much doubt.
Brother Elkins has paused in his labors
towards the formation of a coal trust long
enough to explain that President McI<in-
ley will strongly support the financial pro-
gramme herein outlined in his annual mes
sage. He will, says Mr. Eliins, urge that
the currency question be placed on a solid.
STRAIGHTFORWARD gold basis. He will urge
be no room for "intefpre tations" or "in-
ferences' hereafter. Mr. Elkins goes on to
claim that the business men of tC.ds coun-
try demand currency legislation that is
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THE UNIVERSITY DEAL

From the Gadsden Times-News.
The sale of the state university lands to
the Sloss-Sheffield company for $3.50 per
acre, has caused tremendous sensation at
Tuscaloosa and throughout Alabama. Gov
ernor Johnston is brought into the affair,
and says, "as usual" that is false. Tus-
calobsa is considerably wrought up, and is
very indignant because that mineral lands
in Alabama are now valuable and their
value is constantly increasing. There may
have to be another sale. as General Land
Commissioner Herman is very slow in issu-
ing patents to the purchasers of these
lands. State Geologist Smith says that tho
coal on these ants is worth $l,120,OOO and
$4,000 was the price paid by the Sloss-
Sheffield company. 54.44
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THE DERlcliCT


Mary Riddell Corley, in the Boston Tran
script.
Drifting across the oceans CLASSY tide,
Drifting with rusi.ed keel and rudder lost,
A Wandering Jew upon the waters wide,
Dingy and sailless, gaunt and tempest
tossed,
NV ropes are tangled and the breezes pay
Their weird sea-songs, as dies the waning
light;
A souliess ship, 1 drift ait break of day,
A thing of dread through all the lone
some night.
And up and down they go, aae vessels fair
Brave in dlneir painted hulls and snowy
sails
The men-of-war, whose gaudy pennons
flare
Above the 'jacbies" by the shining rails:
And w:hite-winged yachts, where glrlisl
voices ring,
And witcning eyes beam bright meath
star or sun,
And ears are bent to tender whispering,
And iife's great game of love is lost or
won.
While 1 drift helplessly across their track,
The victim of all vagrant winds that blow
Victim elf summer suns and tempests
wrack,
With open ports and noisome -bilge below;
Drifting with but one chance of fairer fate,
The strong, sweet gale to bear me in once
more,
Far from the deep sea ways-or soon or late
To lie and rot upon some friendly shore;
Where maybe tiny folks may climb my side
And play with twisted bolts and shattered
spars,
And hoary sailor at turn of tide,
Tell long sea yarns beneath the tender
stars,
And may some gentle girl, with thoughtful
eyes,
Pacing my broken deck, at set of sun,
Say REST, poor battered wreck, meath
quiet skies;
The storms are past, the long lifework is
DONE
One more of earth's great puzzling riddles
guessed,
Or put aside. all too sad and strange;
lille ending of the hard and bitter quest
\ The passing far beyond the chance OF
Change
Far, far beyond all trou'blous fearsome
things,
The winds and wave and traffic of the
sea,
And there, the gulls with sunlight on their
wings,
The haven where all weary things would
be.
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plain. solid and Trustworthy, and the adj
ministration and the republicans in congress
are getting ready to supply This long-fe.t
want.
This bill may operate to put new life in
the currency issue of the Chicago plat
form; and square and very decisive battle
may be fought over it at the polls next
year. Il is always well ITO meet great issues
squarely and openly, and The proposed ae-
ton of the republicans gives room for such
action on The part of those opposed to The
eastern standard.
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Tommy Atkins or any other European SOL
der cannot do 1t.
Before the English can reach Pretoria
they must fight over a distance as great as
that from New York to New Orleans.
There will be no forage. no water, and the
Beers will harass them by day and by
night.
The other great physical ally of the Boer
is the prairie fire.
Nearly the whole South African plateau Is
covered with a long, slender grass which,
under that fierce sun, is often dry as finder.
Nothing can live in weld fire, and in its
passing it leaves a desert. Under the cover
of the smoke that arises the Beers can util-
ize that strategy for which are they are
famous a. ..
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The watched meteors never move
A FOR asst

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Henderson, as speaker, while he will be
thoroughly equipped in partisan unfairness,
will not have the skill of his predecessor in
hurrying contested election cases to COM
pletion and firing honestly. elected demo-
Gratis out The democrats will be well for
titled with the means of Fostering the ma
jority. The administration is so vulnerable
that not measure will come up that will
not be suggestive of an attack on the presi-
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REFi.EC rIONS OF A BACH 10 (.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Babies generally remind you lot more of
curdled milk than they do of angels.
Going without love. never makes a man
most happy, but 1t generally keeps him
least miserable.
When a man under 80 thinks he is In love
he could have the toothache on both sides
at once and never know 1t.
insinuating to a man that they don't think
another woman's hair waves naturally.
You can always tell whether man has
got any diamonds by what she says about
the new style of wearing them In the morn
ing.
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THE INNOCUOUS DUM-DUM

From Golfers Weekly.
The notorious dum-dum bullet, which is
TO be used against the Beers, according to
an English .apologist. is merely the ordinary
bullet in use by British troops at home
with the casing at the top filed away. The
end is filed so that on the impact the bullet
breaks up instead of passing through the
body of an enemy. A pound of metal makes
today more than thirty such bullets, where
as fifty years ago it made less than half
that number.
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dent and the administration majority in
congress. Just think. for example. of what
will happen when the postoff1ce appropria-
ton bill comes up. And worse yet. What
. time there will be when the civil servlee
subject gets before the house or senate In
any shape The presidential election is
coming on, and no opportunity will be neg
lected to throw light on every phase of
politics. There ought to be no omission.