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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

Bad, Worse, Worst Sprain. Good, Better,
Best Remedy-St. Jacobs Oil.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

People frequently ask your opinion mere
ly to get to express their own.-Washington
Ia) Democrat
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

The trouble with people who are all right
in their way is that they are usually in some
body else's way.-Brookyn Life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

Cure Rheumatism with st. Jacobs OIL
Promptly. Saves money, time and suffering.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

"What boon to the lisping girl are the
Spanish names" "Why?" Think how
easy it is for her to say Theryera,' Viz.
Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

/ have used Pisos Cure for Consumption
both in my family and ,practice.-Dr. G.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

"Did he tell his love by word of MOUTH"
"Well, not exactly by word Town Topics
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

Ideals are pleasant, steady company but
they are inclined to be tyrannical when they
are welded to.-Detroit Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

We like anyone honest enough to admit
lazness.-Atchison Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

Nothing makes man so sad as to have a
girl jolly him.-Chicago Daily News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02
Hawaii and the Philippines.

Deep as is the Sciatic nerve. St. Jacob,
Oil will penetrate and cure Sciatica.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

You are always hearing of people who are
in it; well, there are different kinds of its
to be in.-Atchison Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

/ Something very soothing in the use of St.
l 1cobs Oil for Neuralgia. Subdues and cures.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02
The Hawaiian Islands.

Those who are always looking for favors
Hare not the most willing to give them
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

Go to work on Lumbago as if you intended
to cure it. Use St. Jacobs Oil
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02
To Cure a Cold in One DIV

Take Laxative Bromo Qunine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure 25c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

Some people are so hopeful that it amounts
to laziness.-Atchison Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

It's wise man that follows the races-at
a safe distance.-Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02
A DOMESTIC INCIDENT.

From the Observer. Flushing, Mich.
Early, in November, 1894, says Frank
Long, who lives near Lennon, Mich, ION
starting to get up froA the dinner table,
was taken with pain in my back. The
pain increased, and was obliged to take to
my bed. The physician who was summoned
pronounced my case muscular rheumatism
accompanied by lumbago. He gave me rene
dies and injected morphine into my arm to
ease the pain.
My disease gradually became worse until
l thought that death would be welcome re.
lei1e. from my sufferings. Besides my regu-
lar physician l also consulted another but he
gave me no encouragement.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-02

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.
k0UIsVILLE, ny. NEW YORK. n. z,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
The Bio Army Conspiracy.

Congress has only few days left, and
the organs are shrieking at the top of their
administrative voices. Trust the presi-
dent!' Trust, they say, our noble presi-
dent; he can do no wrong.
The neutrality-suspicious. theory will not
work. 1t means, trust the snoring Hanna,
the foul-mouthed Eagan. and the unspeak-
able Alger and his whitewash board. The
country is not prepared to trust the trio
farther 1t has trusted them too far al
ready.
The neutrality-suspicious. plea is particu-
larly urged at present as an argument in
favor of the Hull army bill. The size of the
army would in that case be whatever Mr..
Hanna, Mr.. Eagan and Mr.. Alger would
prefer to have it, up to 100000 men. Better
forty extra sessions than such an increase
of the regular army. 1t is the duty of
senators and representatives to name the
size of the standing army. Everything
should be set down in black and white, so
that no emergency bus ness can be pleaded
II the president needs more troops for tenn
porary service, give him volunteers, but
no more regulars, at least none within his
discretion. Instead of the trust-the-presi-
dent plan in this matter, do not trust him
at all.
If the president desires to call an extra
session in order to force upon the country
large standing army, let him have the full
plain benefit of such policy. Have no fear
of AN extra session. Stand for the people
in this matter. The next house will not
vote to make the army 100000 strong.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
THE SITUATION In COTTON

From the New Orleans Picayune
Yesterday there was another quite sharp
advance in cotton, accompanied by decid-
ned improvement in Liverpool. Unquestion-
ably, the severe spell of weather was re-
sponsible for this improvement, not only by
further postponing the day for the revival
of the movement of cotton from the inte-
rior to the outports, with which some san
gutne operators are deceiving themselves,
but by increasing the anxiety as to the next
crop.
There is no question whatever but that
the preparations for the new crop are very
backward. Land should by this time have
been thoroughly plowed over and made
ready for the working, preliminary to plant
ing the crop. Such preparation of land has
not yet commenced anywhere; in fact, farm
work is already weeks behind. This argues
late planting, a late stand and consequently
poor stand, when the time comes to profit
the most by the spring rains. The present
severe weather makes it certain that no
farm work will be done for some time to
come. 1t will take the snow and frozen
ground some time to thaw, and even after
that process the land will have to dry suf-
ficiently before it can be properly worked
The excessive cold all over the central and
western states, with avalanches of snow
and frozen rivers, makes it certain that
there will be a large volume of water COM
ing into the Mississippi when spring sets in,
particularly should the breaking up of the
ice in the rivers and the thawing of the ac-
cumulations of snow occur about the same
time.
1t would be idle to overlook the strength
OF these factors in the cotton situation. As
they are better realized by Liverpool, that
market is sure to advance further with
corresponding influence on American mar
kets. There are signs that Liverpool is be-
ginning to doubt the outcome of the present
crop and to become uneasy as to the pros
pect for tho next one.
The Picayune rejoices in the Improvement
in the cotton situation, as a return to nor
NAL prices of the south's great staple means
| much for this entire section.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
THE DIsPENsARY PROBLEM
:, tbe Huntsville. Mercury.

From the Huntsville. Mercury.
II would be most unfortunate for Ala
bama if the house changes in the dispen-
sary bill should precipitate a bitter fight
In the senate and extend the already con-
siderable antagonism between the dispen-
sary and anti-dispensary factions. Already
in some localities we see brother arrayed
against brother before the bill has reached
the governor.
The dispensary problem may yet make Its
appearance in the constitutional convention
race. The animosities engendered are not
apt to be soon forgotten. Many an aspi-
rant for convention honors will find OBJ
stacles in his path growing out of his sup
port or of his opposition to the proposed
dispensary law. 1t may not be fair to
thus mix issues, but it is as certain to
occur as night follows day.
Even the friends of the dispensary- bill
will not insist upon candidates announc-
ing their position upon that question; some
outspolxen men will be knitted for their ex-
pressions or actions; but to drag the dis
pensary skeleton into the convention race
as a burning issue In the contest between
delegates would be opposed from the pulpit
to the humble cabin Of the wood chopper.
Patriotic Alabamians would not thus en-
danger the success Of the movement look
ing to a new constitution merely to gain
Temporary ADVANTAGE In q Local issasA
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
WHY GARLAND QUIT DRINKING
rom the Pittsburg DISPATCH.


Mr.. Garlands death has recalled to
in Wasni.'s of them humorous
and some thetic. The story of
tho trick him in the senate by
a group Of c5.4cagucs, who offered him
cubes of brown Windsor soap under pre-
tense that they were carames, aud were
dismayed to see him eat them with appar-
ent relish, has been told too many times
to bear repeating. But there is a less
hackneyed Renaissance of his return to
Washington after the campaign of 1880
convert. at least temporarily, to teetota-
ism. He had always been, up to that time
a free liver and had touched glasses with
brother senators with no restraint except
his own distaste of excuses.
When he suddenly declined the proffered
hospitality of their sideboards, they were
astonished and asked him thousand cues
tons to draw out the reason. He consent-
ed at last to explain: Gentlemen" said
he, Il have simply stopped. We had a
pretty hot canvass in Arkansas this sum-
mer and l stumped most of the state. I
saw everywhere the graves of good fell
lows who used to share my convivialities,
while others, reduced to sorry wrecks, were
still moving about the streets Figuring
the thing up roughly and dividing the to-
tai of the whisky consumed in Arkansas
by the number of habitual consumers so
as to make an average, found that I had
already drank about a barrel and a half
OF whisky more than I was entitled to. This
set me to thinking: If l drink any more >
SAID to myself, I shall be drinking some
other fellows whisky OF course / didn't
want to do that, so I just stopped
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
Advance in education is nowhere noted in
the United States that equals the vast
strides made in the south in the past twenty
years. Not only has the school attendance
increased remarkably, but the expenditures
for educational purposes have kept pace
with it. The report of Commissioner of
of Education Harris presents some interest
ing figures in this regard. In 1S76-77 there
were enrolled in the public schools of the
south, 2,4721N children, or IA per cent Of
the population. In 1S97-9S, in the same
states, the school enrolment had grown to
$685., 076, or 81 1-3 per cent. of the populate
or, in other words, enrolment had increased
so per cent. faster than the population
Southern appropriations for school pur-
poses have grown from $11 $50 600 in 1877, or
&c cents per capita, to $31 100000, or $1.23
per capita, in 1897.
One of the greatest of recent increases is
in Alabama, where the house has favor
ably voted to increase the state school APP
preparation for the year from $S50,O00 to
$500 900. This will give the state a total
contribution of nearly a million dollars for
school purposes. The amount may seem
small in comparison to the appropriations
of some of the richer and more populous
northern states, but in comparison with
Alabama's taxable resources it is fully
equal to those of any state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
ZERO IN THE SUBURBS

From the ST. Louis Post-Dispatch,
When Pleasant Green, that cheerful soul,
that smooth suburbanite,
Found it had changed from twelve above to
ten below at night,
He hasteed to explore his house, with
more than fond regard,
And found, alas! that all the pipes were
frozen fast and hard!
There was no water for the cuok to wash
the praties in,
And Their was none for Mrs. Green to
cleanse the baby's skin;
There was no water for the lord of that
once bright demesne
To wash his hands-oh, sad the fate that
frowned on Pleasant Green.
But In the basement-me, oh, my!-twelve
inches deep it stood,
And soaked and frozen was the coal, and
exc the kindling wood!
"A sadder sight I never saw-oh saint
perturbing scene!
Another pipe was busted-seei" quoth Mr..
Pleasant Green.
The kitchen stove refused to burn-ice-
bound were all it's legs
But with the aid of gasoline the cook
thawed out some eggs;
And Pleasant Green put on his cap and
pulled the edges down,
And, shaking like homeless cur, he bolted
off to town.
The wind was cold and more than bold,
and frozen were his sox,
Ere he had walked-by fate compelled--his
twenty-seyen blocks
But what of them he left behind? Imagine
such scene
As that which reigned within the home of
shivering Pleasant Green!
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
Memphis As a Steel Center.

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal first re-
views the Stone Age, and step by step it
brings its history down to the Steel Age;
and al this point in the discussion it evolves
the sudden and unexpected theory that
Memphis is the true iron and steel center
of the universe. Consider, 1t says, the coal
fields here and there, as many on the one
side of Memphis as the other, but all, alas,
many. many long railroad miles away.
Flux, too, lies in great beds to the west
and north, but none of these are close at
hand. although one deposit of limestone is
said to be within hundred miles. And as
for ore deposits, they fairly swarm around
Memphis, but a close analysis shows that
none of them lit within easy distance.
These ores do not, however, satisfy the
ambitions OF the Commercial-Appeal. which
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
FRENCH EXECUTIONS PUBLIC


FROM the Brooklyn Eagle.
Paris adheres to publicity in some of her
offensive functions, among them her exc
cutions of death sentence on criminals
There was such an execution by the gull
lotine in the Place de la Roquette on We'd
nesday and the available space was filed
with a vulgar, gliding crowd many Of the
company having gone to the square early in
the night in order to secure good places.
The Saxon countries have long since abol-
lshed the spectacular and the public in such
occurrences as these. Criminals have no
chanca to bid for the cheap fame that
makes other criminals and secures maudin
ana hySteric sympathy by posing and de-
claiming when they desired exit from the
word. Our executions take place in Jail
corridors, screened from view even of the
prisoners, and the only spectators are a
lew functionaries, official witnesses and re-
porters. In New York the plan is still bet
ter, as the killing of the criminal is accom-
pushed IN. small room in which the at
tendance is necessarily limited, and is not
accompanied by anything of the theatrical
or sensational.
The motive that gathers the rough OLE
ment of Paris to see felow-creature de-
prived of his life Is not appreciably better
than that of the roman populace that
went to the Colosseum to see the gladiators
XIII one another. Indeed, it was hardly so
worthy, because the gladiator had in his
skill and strength chance for his life,
whereas the criminal has no more chance of
1t than has the OK in the shambles. 1t Is
simply wish to see blood. to see death. 1t
is morbid and unworthy desire, and no
good comes of it. When executions were
public in England crime was more general
than 1t is today, so that the publicity of
hanging and beheading could have had no
deterrent effect on the passions and evil
promptings of the multitude The idea of
making a holiday of the decaptation of
miserable creature is repellant to our civ
ilization. There are several things In
France that are repelant to our civiliza-
tion in spite of its outward refinement.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
The Fantastic McEnerY Vote.

The closing debate over the McEnery
resolution brought out the implacables,
Hale and Hoar, in all their glory. They
were wrapped in the Farewell Address
and fairly reeked with the father bust
ness and traditions generally. Bre'r Hale
was more up to date and more savage.
While the venerable Hoar held up Rguina1-
do as a cross between George Washington
and something angelic the Maine senator
without fear of his legislature, which has
repudiated his position while accepting him
and his wife's fortune denounced the re-
cent movements of Admiral Dewey and
General Otis. The joint spectacle proceed
ed, not from the south or the west or the
heart of the country, but from New Eng
land, and from the party of Mark Hanna,
tariffism and the trusts. While Hoar held
up the twice-sold Aguinaldo as all that
was good and great, Hale denounced Amer
lean soldiers and sailors, who are doing
their duty and defending the flag. The
speeches of the two men on Tuesday
should be printed together and placed in
the hands of every voter that the people
may see what repubicanism is capable Of
The twenty-five votes cast against the
McEnery resolution constitute the finest
medley that congress has ever produced.
Mr.. Hoar voted alongside that excellent
lingo, Mr.. Morgan; those old war horses,
Cockrell of Missouri, and Hawley, of Con-
necticut, lined up side by side; Mr. Caffery
voted against his colleague, Mr.. McEnery;
the patriarchial Stewart, who supported
the treaty, voted mo" in company with
the new senator from Vermont. So the list
of the twenty-five runs throughout Party
lines and schools of thought and states
and what not were sunk, and every man
voted his individual preference. Mr.. Pet
tus voted for the resolution, Mr. Morgan
voted against it. Mr.. Sullivan voted yes"
Mr. Money voted NO" In the final vote
even that pair of brothers. Hale and Hoar,
became separated, the former voting in the
affirmative and the latter in the negative
The vote really stands for nothing except
individual phantasies and idiosyncrasies,
for these can be found in the senate as well
as elsewhere
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16

line of Sherman's march, and our govern
ment was anxious to save 1t on account
of the large arsenal which was located
there. While we did some lighting the
city was really saved by little trick
played on Sherman. My force was much
inferior to his. and would have been over
whelmed but for this stratagem.
This Is what did. 1 took nice little
valise, such as an adjutant carries by
strap over his shoulder. 1 filled this with
lot of military papers. letters, ETC., of no
Importance. but among them and near the
top placed bogus dispatch which 1 pre-
pared. This dispatch bore the signature
of General Bragg, who was In command
at Augusta, and was addressed to me tell
ing me that if 1 could hold Sherman en-
gagged for few hours we could place him
in an awkward position; that the first d!vi-
sion of Longstreet's corps had arrived at
Augusta and that the remainder would soon
be there, etc. Taking this valse, and,
in company with another officer, both of us
well-mounted we rode out in advance of our
lines. OF course, we were soon noticed by
the Yankees and were chased back by their
cavalry. L broke the strap and let the
valse fall, and our pursuers naturally
picked it up, and, finding it full of papers,
took it to General Sherman This dis
patch, of course, made him hesitate, for he
could hardly suspect its real character.
Il ought to say, however, that the people
living in the locality, who were naturally
in sympathy with us, were instructed to
say to the union soldiers that lots Of con-
federate soldiers were arriving in Augusta.
General Sherman was completely deceived
and, to keep from being caught between the
two armies, he withdrew his troops and
passed Augusta by. and SO the city was
saved. He must have discovered after
ward how he had been deceived, but he
never mentioned the bogus dispatch, and
his reasons for not taking Augusta were
never very satisfactory to military men, and
might be called puerile. That is how Au-
gusta was saved from capture
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16

are to say the least grand and far-reaehing.
The ores of Alabama and Arkansas are too
phosphate" This is undoubtedly some-
thing bad, but The Age-Herald is forced to
admit its ignorance as to phosphate iron
ores. They may may have 'em in Arkansas
or Indian Territory, bit we give notice
right now that the iron ores of Alabama are
not phosphate, whatever else they may be.
But this is neither here nor there. The
Commereial-Appeal proposes to bring in
Bessemer ores with which to feed its fur
naces, none of which have, however, been
constructed, except upon wood-pulp. 1t pre-
sents a project that is certainly novel. 1t
proposes to bring in the high-grade Cuban
ores, which are Bessemer ores, and mix
them with the hematites and llmonites
found in this state or neighboring states
The Age-Herald is prepared to admit a
great deal in Its desire to please its neigh
Dor; 1t is prepared to admit that Memphis Is
equalled center OF exchange: but 1t cannot
conscientiously admit that iron made from
a mixture of Bessemer ores and the ores
of the south would be a success. 1t might
produce short iron but short iron Is not in
good demand. There is an impression among
buyers that ductility is good thing in iron
OF steel, and as long as this impression re-
mains in buying breasts, we are not pre-
pared to admit that even whalebacks plying
between Memphis and Havana could change
the course of manufacture and trade. 1t IS
a good scheme on paper, but buyers have
some prejudices that cannot be overcome,
and our advice to the Commercial-Appeal
is, don't do It, at least not right away.
If, however, it insists upon building fur
naces in which to smelt the phosphate
ores of Alabama and other states, 1t would
be better to utilize as a farther supply the
phosphate deposits at Mt. Pleasant In It's
own state, which could be readily carted
across the country. 1t is true this might
give the resultant iron fertilizer flavor,
but pig iron buyers or even buyers of steel
do not mind such small thing as per-
fumery They do not use their noses in
buying, anyway.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-16
WORSE THAN ROMAN LUXURY

New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
This is considered deplorable when it is
stated that Millionaire Randolph Guggen-
heimer, president of the municipal coun-
ell, who is anxious to become the first He
brew mayor of New York, gave a dinner
a few evenings since at the Waldorf-As-
toria to forty guests which cost $4,000
The features of the dinner, besides most
extravagant menu, were grasses and leaves
which carpeted the f1ooor, vine-clad bow
ers, roses which bloomed while you waited
nearly 100 singing nightingales, canarles
and blackbirds and a beautiful fountain
erected in the center of the table, from
which spurted richly scented water. The
feast was spread in the myrtle room. On
the tables were fresh Strawberries, black
berries and raspberries, served on sugar
leaves.