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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
SENT FREE TO MEN
A Most Remarkable Remedy That Quickly Re-
stores Lost vigor To Men.
A Free Trial Package Sent by Mail To All
Who Write.

Free trial packages of a most remarkable
remedy are being mailed to all who will
write the State Medical institute. They
cured so many men who had battled for
years against the mental and physical suf-
fering of lost manhood that the institute
has decided to distribute free trial pack
ages to all who write. 1t is a home treat
ment and all men who suffer with any form
of sexual weakness resulting from youthful
folly, premature loss of strength and MEM
DRY, weak back, varicocee, or cancellation Of
arts can now cure themselves at home.
ne remedy has a peculiarly grateful eff
of warmth and seems to act direct to
desired location, giving strength and
elopment just where 1t is needed. 1t
sres all the ills and troubles that come
rom years OF misuse of the natural func-
tions and has been an absolute success in
all cases. A request to the State Medical
Institute 455 Elektron building. FIT. Wayne,
Ind Stating that you desire one of their
free trial packages will be complied with
promptly The institute is DESTROYS Of
reaching that great class of men who are
unable to leave home to be treated and
the free sample will enable them to see how
easy it is to be cured of sexual weakness
ven the proper remedies are employed.
The institute makes ~ ~estrictions. Any
man who writes will be sent a free sample,
carefully sealed in a plain package so that
Its fenipaent need have no fear of embar-
rassmsnt CT publicity. Readers are re-
questeci to write without delay.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
/ new executive mansion erected.
A. W. B.
A GOVERNMENT CABLE
Engineers Show That United States
Gould Save Immense Sums

Washington, December 16.-(Specia1)-T
engineer corps of the army is at work get
ting statistics to show that a government
cable will not only save much money to
the government, but to the private citizens
as well. Some of the facts they have put
together are astounding, it must be admit
ted. For instance, the government pays
out at the PRESENT. time and has been
paying out for the past two years over a
Thousand dollars a day for cable tolls. The
war department alone pays this amount for
official advises from the Philippines and
for orders sent to our army there. Every
cent of this money goes to European capt.
talists who own the cables used by us.
Those at work on the case assert that
much more than this flows into European
pockets from newspapers and other sources
The use of this cable at S23S a word practic-
ally puts a prohbitory tax on the private
citizens who would like to communicate
with their relatives in the Eastern islands
The sum paid out yearly by the government
amounts to The interest at three per cent.
on something like 100000 millions of dol
lars. 1t is estimated that the cable can be
laid for IS, 600 With the governments
owning its own cable 1t could save thou
sands of dollars a year besides putting the
tolls at such a figure as to make it possible
for all people and commercial houses to
make use of it at a very small expense.
The project will meet with tremendous
oppoSitions however.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
Tho Coming Camnnlcn

Mark Hanna and other leading repubii-
can SPIRITS are in favor of making the next
nomina tons of president and vice-president
by reclamation. The combination most
talked of is that of William Mckinley for
president and Elihu Root for vce-presldent
Sentiment with the party undoubtedly Is
centerng about the secretary of war.
There is something about Mr.. Root which
appeals to the republican mind at this
juneture. He is quiet and unobtrusive. Mr..
McI<inley's friends do not want such a man
as Roosevelt on the ticket with him for the
reason that the latter would bring into the
campaign much hostility to the ticket, be-
sides lending to 1t fashli6at dramatic ef-
feetawhich is very obnoxious to the presi-
dent Mr.. Mckinley is anxious to make his
next campaign in a most dignified and mod
est way. 1t is doubtful If he will make
any speeches as he did from his home in
Canton, and will discourage clubs and or
ganizatons coming to Washington to see
him.
For such campaign Mr. Root is excep-
tionally fitted. He is the identification of
dignity and being an able an intellectual
man will not have to go on the stump TO
show cause for his course in the depart
ment He will let his orders stand for n s
record and the results of the camgain in
the Philippines, be watever they may, an
explanation of his course. A. w. Is.
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drew Furnzeth, of the Seamen's Union, de-
MED that it cost more to operate American
ships than others, or that American sea-
mems treatment is any better.
Vh1e-President O'Connell related some of
his observation in British ship yards in re-
futation of the idea that Americans are the
better paid.
President Gompers told the convention
the promoters of the bill had declined to
give any assistance toward passing an
eight hour law. Said Mr.. Gompers:
This scheme for looting the treasury
of our country is puerile in conception and
wicked in execution. and those lobbyists
have not the interests of organized labor at
heart"
Max. s. Hayes. Of Cleveland, believed
that whatever the convention might do eff
that gang of hungry vultures about Wash
ington want this they'll get it the same as
tariff barons got their special protection
years ago"
The convention adopted resolutions SYM
nath'Zing with the IGllho miners: empower
ing the executive council to again prefer
charges against Claude NJ. Johnson, direc-
tor of the United Ssltes bureau of printing
and engraving and alleged "foe to organ
lied labor" and that if again unsuccessful
in causing Johnson's removal that the mat
to- be presented to congress. The boycott
against Swift & Co. was declared to apply
to that company's establishments in cities
where 1t employs union labor as we'll as
those where II does not President Com
pers arrived today and presided this even
ing for the first time.
Adjournment until Monday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
a MODEL ESTABLISHMENT
James T. Gaudin's Undertaking Estab'
lishment in Twentieth Street

Although only recently opened, the un-
dertaking establishment OF James r. Gau-
din, at 209 North Twentieth street, is re-
ceiving large portion of the business in
this line and certain it is that no firm in
Birmingham is better equipped for the
speedy and satisfactory handling of bust
ness than is that of Mr.. Gaudin's. A visit
to his warerooms will convince the public
of this. Mr.. Gaudin is from Tuscaloosa,
where he conducted a large business among
the best people of that thriving town. His
warerocns contain a carefully selected
stock of all that pertains to first-class
undertaking concern, embra cling caskets of
elegance and others of medium and cheaper
grades. His stock Of casl1et robes Is most
complete. He has recently received mag
niiicent ambulance from the Rock Falls
company, Sterling, H., to be used only for
white people. This is undoubtedly the
handsomest vehicle of the kind ever in Bir-
mingham. He has also a very fine ambu-
lance, which Is used exclusively for colorc1
people. His funeral car is the finest that
could be purchased; in fact the policy of
havi1g the best of everything has been
followed In furnishing this establishment
mr. Gaudin himself is an up-to-date and
experienced funeral director and embalmer,
and is Il man with push and enterprise
These ambulan-~r thu are owned and used
for the public 1eneht are certainly great
blessings to the public, and 1t is fore
gone conclusion that the public will appre-
clate what has been done for them. A visit
TO the warerooms of Mr. Gaudin, at 209
North Twentieth street, will convince any
one that to satisfactorily cater to the Br-
ningham public is the desire uppermost
in the proprietor's mind, The rooms are
always open, and can be communicated
with by phone. sss
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
Quite a Contrast

Senator Butler, however looks fifty years
of age, especially when his populistic beard
is untrimmed for a day, or two, while Sem
ator Bevridge hardly looks thirty when
one is talking to him, and when seen
from the gallery he does not look day
over twenty-five. Then when Baveridge
smiles he looks like boy just budding into
manhood. He has made a most favorable
impression both in the and out of the
senate. l have not heard one word of criti-
cism of him. His rise is marvellous.
just twelve years ago, at the time Senator
Turpie was elected, Senator Baverdge was
an assistant reading clerk in the house of
the Indianapolis legislature He had just
received this appointment or else been
elected to the post. He use to amuse the
members very much by his declamartory
way of reading the most Indifferent mat
ters Once or twice the house broke into
applause when young Reveridge was seen
to gesticulate unconsciously while reading
passage of some bill or message.
Sam Burdette, an old newspaper man.
was at that time reporting the legislature
for some of the papers outside of the state
Burdette says that not only was Beverdge
the smallest details which usually go to
make up life. There was a fight for the
senate that year and it resulted in the cleo
ton of Senator Turpie. Whether that fight
put 1T into the head of Beveridge to aim as
high as the senate in the fight of life is
not recorded, but he had advanced rapidly
ever since, and always in one direction.
Senator Beyerldge has reddish hair AS
boy 1t must have been flaming red, but at
his a II "A in
to deep r.ch brown.
His features are perfect, his profile re-
minding one very much of the Belvedere
He wears no mustache and dresses with
extreme care and fastidiousness From
seeing his pictures one would imagine him
to be tall but he is really undersize being
the shortest man in the senate, not even
tall as Senator Cannon of Utah. He knows
how to keep his mouth shut. He is silent,
yet never offends when declining to talk.
His personality alone would make him an
interesting figure in the senate. but those
who know him intimately give him credit
for profound thought as well as great
powers of oratory.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
FEDERATION IS
AGAINST SUBSIDY
Resolution Vigorously Opposing
Government Subsidies.
DEBATE OF THREE HOURS
Labor Men Favor Increased National
Merchant Marine, But Oppose the
Methods Proposed-Trade Can
Take Care of Itself

Detroit Mich, December 16.-T'he Ameii-
can Federatien of Labor this evening reg
istered emphatic dsapproval of government
subsidies to American ship owners, and
later declared almost unanimously against
the principal and practice of subsidy lesis-
lation. Incidentally, some more or less
distinguished lobbyists, some of them fed
eral office-holders who had been lobbying
to secure endorsement of the Frye subsidy
bill suffered a decided defeat. The debate
lasted three hours, and the speeches were
the most vigorous of any heard in the con-
vention The convention adopted, win
only three dissenting votes, a resolution
declaring that, since the natural resources
offer abundantly everything necessary to
the building of ships much more cheaply
than in Europe and concluding:
Resolved, That while we favor an in
creased national merchant marine We are
opposed to any and all subsidies, believing
the industry amply able to care for itself.
"Resolved, further, That we are decided
~ opposed to all legislation of this kind
and will not give it consideration until the
great shipbuiding firms of the country
which would be its greatest benefciarles
would withdraw their opposition to our
eight-hour work day legislation and cease
their discrimination against the employ
ment of union labor"
A general declaration against subsidies
and reciting their alleged baneful in
huence on benefic!aries, legislators and tax
payers, was adopted by about the same
vote.
In the course of the debate Delegate An
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
PAMPHLETS STILL
REACH FILIPINOS
Said to be Responsible tor Re-
cent Outbreaks.
SPEECHES REACH AGUINALD0
Brief Sketch of Senator Beveridge of
Indiana and William Aston CHAM
Ter in the House New Mem
bers Excite Interest
SPEECHES REACH AGUINALDO

Washington,D c., December 16.-(Spe-
eial.)-The president and the authorities of
the war department are unable to keep
pamphlets and speeches of the Filipino SYM
pathizers in this country from reaching the
insurgents in the Philippines.
The official at the war department believe
that the recent outbreak in Negroes is due
solely to the literature which has gone
from this country and been sent by the
Filino Junta in Hong Kong to Aguinaldo.
The pamphlets of the anti-impeTialistic
league and the speeches of Senator Mason
and others have made it appear to the in
surgents that The United States is now
withdrawing its troops and is anxious to
close the contest. They are made to believe
that congress is ready to recall all the
troops and to recognize the Independence
of the Philippines. This government might
be able to have England expel the Junta
from Hong Kong, but it is anxious to avoid
taking such step if it be possible.
The few people who oppose continuing
the war in the Philippines are really able
to make it appear that the sentiment in this
country is in favor of the insurgents and
that the president and his cabinet alone
are carrying on the war.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
Eight Club League

New York, December 16.-It is believed an
eight national league circuit next year
is almost a certainty A majority of the
club owners are believed to desire it, and
the matter has narrowed down to a ques-
ton of how much money will be necessary
to buy off the Louisville, Baltimore, Cleve-
land and Washington clubs, which 1t Is
proposed to drop.
Tine magnates today abruptly closed their
five days session, adjourning with the UNI
Outstanding that they were to be called
together in the near future to listen to "a
report to be made by special committees
appointed to provide ways and means for
the reduction of the league circuit. The
committee consists of John L. Brush of
Cincinnati, James Hart of Chicago, Colonel
john I. Rogers of Philadelphia and A. ii.
Soden of Boston.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
Docs Not Meet With Favor

The scheme of Senator Cullon to enlarge
the white house does not meet with much
favor among the members of congress, The
majority of the members on the public
buildings and grounds in both the house
and the senate are in favor of the plans
drawn by Mrs. Harrison. Her plans inciud-
cd a new white house identical with the
one as it now stands, with the exceptions
that it should be of marble and turned
around, making the front face the beauti-
full park and fountain in the white house
grounds
Running in semicircular effect two
wings were to be broken to the rear, one
of which was to be used as offices for the
chief executive, while the other was to be
state. dining halls, general reception parlors
and guests chambers. 1t would not be sur
prising If these plans were accepted by
the committees this winter, and the con-
gress following the recommendation order
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
william Aston Chandler

WILLIAM Aston Chandler has leased the
Tyler residence on Farragut square, which
is possibly second to the handsomest home
in the city. Being a bachelor, he has his
sister to preside over this extensive estab-
lshment. The latter is a quiet studious
young woman who devotes most of her time
to charity and reading. She has consented
to lay aside her studious habits for the gay
ties of Washington to please her brother.
He has never gone into this sort of thing
himself before, leaving his brother; the
one who married Amilie Reaves, to hold up
the social reputation of the family. The
social life here with its distinguished men
and national figures, its foreign element
and constantly changing serface, seems to
appeal to him more than the regulation
conventional society of New York and SO he
has taken a home here for the purpose OF
gathering in it the interesting characters
with whom he naturally come in contact
in n1lblic life.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17

Hon. M. W. Howard. recommending Pc
runa Us an excellent remedy to all fell
low sufferers"
Mrs. Jane Gift, of Hubbardsville, Ohio,
writes the following: "Six years ago
had Ia grippe very bad. The doctor
came to see me every day but I gradually
grew worse. I told my husband 1
thought would surely die If did not
get relief soon.
zone day picked up the newspaper
and accidentally found a testimonial Of
q woman who had been cured of grippe
by Peruna. 1 told my husband wanted
to try it. He went directly to the drug
store and got bottle of Peruna. could
sec the improvement in very short
time and was soon able to do my work.
I con tinued using it until was entirely
cured.
az have induced great many to try
the medicine and all have had the same
result. have used it in my family for
my husband and children for colds and
Ia grippe. I would not be without it in
tho house. really think it has added
years to my life, and feel have no one
to thank but God and DR.. Hartman. If
other sufferers are are induced to try
this wonderful medicine they will join
me in singing its praises"
Address The Peruna Medicine Co.
Column bus, o., for free catarrh book.
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She Remembered


From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A lady went into one of Cleveland's lead
ing book stores the other day and said to a
clerk:
II want one of Mr.. Kipling's books
"Yes'm Which one, please?'
Really, II seem to have forgotten it's
title"
zone of his prose works, ma amp
mo. How strange / can't remember. It's
for Christmas gift, you know"
Poetry, you say?''
Eyes. All, now l remember! It's Kip
ling's barroom ballads.'
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Sisters of st. Francis,

better the second day, and in the course
of q week was very much improved.
After using three bottles I not only
found that the grippe had disappeared,
but my general health was much better.
1 am satisfied that Peruna is wonder
full family remedy and gladly endorse
it. Yours, Mrs. Theophile Schmitt."
La grippe leaves the system saturated
by catarrh. This condition is known as
systemic catarrh. Peruna is the only
remedy. Allow no one to persuade you
that there is any other remedy just as
good.
Mr.. Frank Bauer, Minneiska, MINI.
in recent letter says:
"Ican not say anything else but good
of your medicines. For seven winters
1 had suffered with la grippe, and by
each attack was confined to the bed. In
the winter of 1913 was attacked with Ia
grippe. had terrible cough. Iasked
my wife to get me bottle of Peruna,
but as the druggist did not have it she
got me something else that was highly
recommended for la grippe, costing the
same as Peruna. I took that, but was
not able to leave the bed.
ct told my wife that if I did not get
Peruna soon that would surely be q
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
ADMISSION MAKING CARS
Southern Railway Gives Order for One
Thousand Dongola Cars

Admission, December 16.-(Special 1.-The
Southern Railway company has given the
Southern Car and Foundry company an or
der for one thousand gondola cars and sew
en- hundred of them will be built at the An
niston shops, which can erect fifteen or
twenty complete cars day.
These shops have many smaller orders
and are very busy, especially in the rolling
mill, foundry, blacksmith shops and ma
chine shops department.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
Other Towns Quarantine

Admission, December 16-(Special)-
Smallpox having been reported at Alabama
City, Etowah county and Sycamore, Tai
ladega county Mayor Henderson of this
city has instituted quarantine against
Alabama City, Gadsden, Alfalfa and Syca-
more and placed quarantine officers on in
coming trains.
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Sisters Of St Francis Rely on Peruna
To Fight Catarrh Coughs, Colds and Grip.

grippe victim, as my lungs felt as II
knives were sticking in them.
"My wife went to town and got me
a bottle of Peruna, and took 1t four
days according to the directions on the
bottle. The fifth day took an axe on
my shoulder and went out into the
woods to chop wood.
"I had another slight attack, but as L
had Peruna In the house it caused me
but one trying night. My wife wanted
to send for the doctor, but 1 took small
doses of Peruna every half hour and
improved right along.o
Mrs. NJ. C. Cooper, of the Royal Acad-
omy of Arts, London, England, is un-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
Huntsville Guarantees

Huntsville, December 16.-(Specia1 1.-The
city council has Established quarantine
against Alabama CITY and Gadsden on ac-
count of the smallpox epidemic in That
vicinity. Officers will be placed on trains
over the Nashville, Chattanooga and ST.
Louis Railway and all wagon roads will be
well guarded
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-17
Senator Beveridge's biography

The briefest biography in the Congress
sonal Record is that of Senator Beveridge,
of Indiana. Good sense and modesty seen
to be the distinguishing traits of this
youthful Hoosier Adonis. There is the
keenest interest here to hear his first
speech.
He says in the Record that HE was born
on a farm in Highland county, Ohio, octo-
Der 6, 1862 his father and brothers were
soldiers in the union army; that he was
married to Miss Katherine Maude Lands
dale in 1887, and was elected to the United
States senate by the general assemble of
Indiana"
This makes Senator Everdge 81 years old,
just one year younger than Senator Butler,
of North Carolina.
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suffered Tor months
and after the use of one bottle of Peruna
am entirely we'll"
yMrs. Eliza Guest, Kearney, Buffalo
county, Neb., says:"I took your Peruna
for some time for catarrh, and l am
happy to state that I am now entirely
cured of 1t. I took both Peruna and
Manalin. am still taking Peruna for
la grippe and find that it helps me
greatly. have influenced several 9TH
ers afflicted with chronic catarrh to take
Peruna in this locality, and they are all
improving"
Hon. T. Simmons, United States Mar
shall, Mobile, Alabama, speaks in high
praise of the merits of Peruna. He says:
"After having used Peruna for short
time 1 find that it is the most excellent
remedy for the grippe and catarrh ever
prepared. I can heartily recommend 1T
to any one."
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Congressman M.
W. Howard, of Fort
Payne, Ala, writes:
at have taken Pc
runa now for two
weeks, and find I am
very much relieved.
I feel that my cure
will be permanent.
/ have also taken it
for 10 grippe, and 1
take pleasure in
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In 1Ime of Peace

Fro az Philadelphia North American.
Hipworth-I'd Ike TO make bargain with
you.
Sykes (of the next hat)-What?
Hipworth-If you won't give your boy a
drum on Christmas, l won't give mine
horn.
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d oubtedly o Il @ of
the greatest living
sculptors. III Q is
now in Washington
making busts OF dis
tinguished Ameri-
cans. She writes:
"I take pleasure in
recommending Pc
runa for catarrh and
la grippe. I have
gI1ffarad foy months
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Coy Ing eniousness

Mable-would you marry man who had
been refused?
Dolly--If he were rich and the refusing
had been by the Insurance companies.