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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
Names Election Today.

1t is practically agreed that Vermont
and Arkansas, which held elections last
week were stand off and that neither, nor
both, afforded any indication of the drift
OF public sentiment in the Presidential
campaign.
But today Maine votes, and some indi-
cation at least of the meaning of the pre-
yailing apathy of the voters will be looked
for. Maine is Republican. That is we'll
understood. She will elect a. Republican
Governor, four Republican Congressman
and Republican Legislature that will re-
elect w. p. Frye Senator There are -four
tickets in the field-the Republican, Dem
ocratic, Prohibition and Socialist Labor.
This will not affect the result, for about
as many Democrats as Republicans will
be callad away by the two eccentric
tickets
The straws depend upon the size of the
pluralities that the Republican ticket will
receive. McKinley's majority in 1896 in the
State was 45,777, and in 1898 the Republi-
cans elected Governor by M,769 plurality
Ii the Republican plurality falls below b.
600 it will be an indication of weakness on
that side of the house. If it rises above
25 900 it will be like indication of strength
on that side.
Both sides are reasonably we'll organ.
lied, and not little canvassing has been
done. EX-Speaker Reed refused to speak
in behalf of the Republicans OF his old
State, and this has been a disappointment
to his numerous admirers in the State. 1t
has been damper, to some extent, on Re-
publican enthusiasm, If such feature can
be said to exist in this remarkably apa-
thetc campaign The people are in truth
going along indifferent to politics and po-
litical control of the government. Maine
is expected to tell what this means, for NO
one at present seems to know how to in
terpret it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT

James III. Ross in Leslies Weekly
The Emperor is assisted by a cabinet, a.
Council of State and the six boards. There
is no prime minister, but there are six
chancellors, who mediate between him and
the subordinate officials The Emperor like
the Sultan of Turkey, attends to all de-
tails The chancellors are assisted by GOO
scribes, translators and other officials half
of whom are Manchus or foreigners The
Council of State is composed of two Chi
nese and two Manchu members They are
mediums between the Emperor and subor-
dinates.
The six boards are the Board of Civil Ser
vice, Board of Revenue, Board of Rites,
Board of War, Board of Punishment and
Board of Works. Each board has two presi-
dents, three directors and numerous heads
of departments. The Boards of Civil Serv-
ice, of Revenue and of War are defined by
their names One duty of the Board of Rev
enue is to procure Manchu maidens for tne
harem of the Emperor and to regulate their
allowances The Board of Rites deals with
ceremonials of state etiquette, with sac
rificial rites and the treatment of foreign
officials and embassies. The details con-
corning rites occupy fourteen volumes. The
Board of War controls both the army and
the navy. The Board or Works controls
all public works, including the coinage of
money and the making of gun-powder.
There is another board, which has control
of the foreign dependencies Of China; and
unique board called the Censorate, which
may reprimand even the Emperor. The
great defect of the Chinese government Is
the payment of small salaries, which makes
bribery widespread and extortion uniyer-
al
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
THE COMING FEET

Robert James in the Boston Transcript.
l. sitting in a house of clay,
Had said, I'm weary of the Day;
No answer came; but from the ocean
sloping sides,
1 heard the fall OF ebbng tides.
The mouldy hall was very old,
In which i dwelt-a ruin old
And 1 alone.
And only on the waters shone
A star point from the heavens thrown.
And mystery all around me spoke
No words 1t had--but in me woke
Compassion, dead.
o heart of mine, beat onl said
Nor seek to leave this House of Dread
Death shall not give or take away;
Death Is but the house of clay,
In which you sit.
No one true word it makes or takes,
Or ever one true answer wakes.
And thus l laid me down anew,
And soft the night wind DER me blew
The ivy slept;
But never slept the thought 1 knew
Nor can 1t sleep tween me and you.
The water sleeps within the moat -
The little star point all remote,
1t also sleeps;
But sleep will never come to me-
Whose all was taken by the sea-
A, dead of night, when all is still,
l know it was His perfect will
Who took my all;
But when the ebbing tides retreat
A sound they make Of coming feet.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
Microbes and Health.

Seven thousand physicians were present
it has been stated when Professor Virchow
opened the thirteenth international medi-
cal congress at Paris, and the great pa
biologist discussed before them tacteriolo-
gy. He admitted the need of keeping mi
crobes out of wounds-a lesson they have
learned so well in France that the swords
of their numerous but, as rule, innocuous
duelists are sterlized by the attending
surgeons just before the battle begins. If
the sword touches tlt ground during the
so-caled battle, a truce is called in order
this way French duels become less harm
less than before. if that be possible.
Professor virchow went on to show, that
the entrance of a microbe In the human or
The human organism is a collection of in
dvidual cells, the microbe is a single CELL
The human cells resist the cell intruder
and In the battle the fittest wins out. If
the invader win, wounds result, and often
times death.
But the invading cell does not always
win, and this is the chief point in Vir-
elbows address. He goes on to show that
when the human cells are not weakened,
as by injury or by disease, or when they
have actually been killed by wound, they
are a match for the invaders as a rule
We need not therefore fear microbes while
the bodily yigor is maintained, for the
healthy human being is capable of resist
ing all their invasions. When vitality is
lowered by some violation of natures rules,
the invading microbe gains his opportuni-
ty. A recent congress devoted to lung
troubles declared as it's only conclusion
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
..GArH,so OPINION or MARYLAND

From G. A. Townsends New York Letter.
Maryland is to be very doubtful state.
and probably for Bryan, this fall. The
horror of a low standard for money is
this year bunted by the successes of the
banking and manufacturing interests,
which, after receiving multifold protection
went and banded against the home con-
sumner.
Prosperity is not to be measured by the
satisfies of export SO much by the
we'll being of all as seen with the eye.
Mr. Baker of the Lafayette Hotel,
Philadelphia, said to me upon the lassitude
of nearly all the watering places as com
pared to the years before: "One OF my
guests told to me that it was due to SO
much money being tied up in the trusts
and prosperity stocks, which have not
held their figure and have taken away
the easy money and tied it up. The hold
ers must watch these investments and be
ready to sell out at any squirt which comes
up. Last year they had not invested this
money and had money TO spend"
Are we fit for the exporters whilst we
conspire against the homes market? Can
a gambler keep his eye on Europe and
Australia when he is wa itching for Il victim
around the corner?
Maryland has fallen into combination
of half1bred Germans around Baltimore
and eolusive Scotcb-Irish in the Western
part of the State. wellington was the
only scholar in the party. He was treach-
erously defeated for Congress because he
had public talents, and Mckinley reached
Judge down from the bench to make
him the other Senator, and gave to the
defrocked judge all the loaves and fishes.
Hence there is division instead of unity,
and Republicans in Maryland tell me it
will not go Republican. &c.,.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News. -f
Ar engagement ring is the advance guard.
Mixed ale causes many serious ailments
The most profitable style is the turn
stile.
A matrimonial spat is a common differ
ence.
A fish isn't necessarily crazy when it is
in-seine. { .
High water doesn't necessarily raise the
price of milk.
Many a poor bootblacls has managed to
shine in society.
Wearing rough rider hat doesn't give
a man a war record.
Some people spend so much of their time
in trying to be amiable that they haven t
time to earn living.
A snob is a man on a ladder who kisses
the feet of the man on the round above
him and kicks at the man on the round be-
low him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
FILTHY TEN TSIN


From Golfers Weekly.
The filth of it! The filth of it. This
expression unconsciously escaped from
your lips. The spectacle was never suffice
lent to drown entirely thoughts of disin-
fectants and a bathtub. Even from the
walls the odor of 5000 years of compressed
sewage came to your nostrils. Native Tien
Tsin, with it's dense population, has no
drainage. The hogs wallowing in its stink
ing pools are its scavengers. Tommy At
kins and Johnny Yank of our marines,
sitting side by side and calling Major
Waller a great man, turned up their
noses.
SO 'elp me Gawd, it's hawfu," said
Tommy.
Well damme, you have to smell 1t to
believe it," said the Yank.
Both wiped their bareback with their
coats as if they feared that odor might
crawl.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
The OILY DaIIY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Cotton Wadding Trust.

The waddng trust has not confined Its
operations to the crushing out of independ-
ent mills in Columbus and Chattanooga. 1t
has been active and aggressive in other di-
rections. 1t has advanced prices of wad-
ding from 40 to so per cent
The wadding trust is not a gigantic con-
Germ, because the product is not an every
day necessity, but in it's field it is supreme
and all powerful. 1t represents the trust
idea and trust ambition at it's fullest, and
it shows what is in store for 100000 peo-
pie in many directions and products if the
Dingley-Mck inley tariff is maintained, for
every trust. except possibly the oil trust,
is based on the exclusion of foreign goods
by the tariff
Today a waddng mill cannot be started
and maintained in the South, because the
wadding trust is strong enough and auda-
cious enough to wreck an independent en-
terprise. Such mills would be profitable
under normal circumstances in every
Southern cotton manufacturing State, be-
cause they take from other mills waste
and convert it into batting. If the House
of Representatives should be Democratic,
the Age-Herald trusts a special investiga-
tlon of the specially vicious and vile
wadding trust will be made. 1t has crush
ed without dfflcu1ty a factory in Column
bus, Ca, and one in Chattanooga, and all
the facts concerning its methods and his
tory should be brought out
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Women probably like babies because they
cry so much without knowing what is the
matter with them
Women are useful in one way; the aver
age man would never know he had some of
his faults If 1t weren't for his wife.
Down in her heart every woman has an
idea that the reason why an old bachelor
doesn't get married is because he isn't liv-
ing as he ought to-
When you hear a woman say she believes
in the new style of going to church with
no hat on, you may know some man has
told her she has GLORIOUS hair"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

that all who keep we'll and strong will
escape consumption. This was but the
Virchow theory. Microbes are powerless
within strong person; they prey upon
the weakened and the feeble. In a word
keep well and hearty and storing. and you
may in safety defy the microbes of the
scientists. This is Viehow's declaration
and he is the patriarch and leader of the
medical profession
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
INCREASE IN THE RUSSIAN TARIFF

From the Washington Post.
The State Department has been advised
by Mr. Pierce, the United States charge
d'affaires at st. Petersburg, that Russian
import duties have been increased upon
certain articles for the purpose of raising
revenue. The decree names five separate
rates of increase, ranging from per cent
to so per cent. The items of interest to the
United States are the Increase of so per
cent in the duties on tobacco, raw and
manufactured; fish of all kinds, flour, malt
and greats, and fresh and dried fruits.
Boots and shoes pay an increase of 30 per
cent, as do planks and joists, while the
rate on furniture, china, glassware and
rubber goods is increased 10 per cent, and
the duty on velocipedes (probably bicycles)
Is increased so per cent.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
LAFAYETTE
Miss Emma Pearce Died of Typhoid
After Short Illness

Lafayette, September 7.-(Special. miss
Emma Pearce, one of the most highly es-
teemed young ladies of this place after "a
few days illness with typhoid fever, died
at her fathers home here last night. She
was an excellent character and a rich IN
fluence will linger in the sphere she occu-
pied. Her remains were inferred at the
city cemetery yesterday afternoon at 5
o'clock. Rev. c. s. Ellis conducted the
funeral services.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
Reminded Him of His Oversight

A lady who is now very old spent some
days, 60 years ago, with Lady Morgan. the
brilliant Irish novelist, and heard from her
lips a little anecdote of Queen Victoria. re-
lates the Youths Companion. The young
Queen, who had just assembled the throne.
was at a ball given by the Duchess of
Gloucester. When her uncle. the Duke of
Sussex, was leaving the room, she ran after
him, saying aloud:
''Will you not give me a kiss before you
go?" and then whispered in his ear: 'You
have forgotten to wish mamma good
night"
A royal reproof was perhaps never 50
quisitely given, and it is pleasant to fancy
that some of Victories kindness came by
direct descent from that grandmother,
Queen Charlotte, who shared the throne
with George III, during the American rev.
oluton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

Adlai Stevenson's membership in a golf
club may help him in a few swell spots,
but he will have to live it down in the
country at large.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

The best that can be said in favor of
Russian barbarites in contrast with those
of China is that the former are more
expeditions,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
CONCEDED TO BRYAN
Electoral
FIGHTING GROUND.
Electoral

The sluggers hope to pull off, prize
fights in New York even without the pro-
lection of the Horton law. They expect
the police to do the Horton act.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

Secretary Root is trying to monopolize
both his own department and that of Mr..
Hay, and he is getting affairs in China
we'll mudded.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

All the members of the Cleveland Cabl-
net are in line, and Mr.. Clevelands access
sion to the ranks is hourly expected.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

The repeal of the Horton law in New
York has dislocated or disfigured the noble
profession of pugilism.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

Khaki is but yellow cottonade, but when
an American soldier is inside it, it looms
up as something grand and ennobling.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

When the Democrats carried Arkansas
the Republicans carried Vermont, and
there were no straws in either case.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

The Caribbean cyclone should be well
coined with a brass band, if it has refrig.
Grafton hid about it's person.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

The New York Republican Convention
was necessarily harmonious, for Mr.. Tom
Plat was the whole thing
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

Tine length of Jerry Simpsons socks Is
an issue in Kansas.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

DR.. Harper has gone to New York to see
Mr.. Rockefeller, and it is believed the ball
ance of trade will soon be in Chicago's
favor,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

The city of David B. Hill and John Boyd
Thacher has fallen off 700 in ten years
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

English is hereafter to be taught in tn,
higher classes of Germany's public
schools.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

The farmers in the corn fields in Kansas
have adopted shirt waists.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

Corny Vanderbilt will last in politics as
long as his purse lasts.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

The straw hat and the oyster are not
reconciled
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
1896 and 1900.

Both of these tables leave out of account
the prohibition and socialist votes, which
fairly balance each other, and are about an
even quantity each four years.
1t will be observed that Bryan received in
1895 over a million more votes than Cleve-
land did in 1892. Will he gain million more
this year?
Mighty changes in political currents are
| impending The trusts and their protector,
the Dingey- Kinley tariff are much more
on trial than some seem to think they are,
and the autocratic tendencies of the adj
ministration are closely scanned and criti-
cised While the trusts and the tariff rob
the people, the imperial policy of Secretary
Root and Mr. Mckinley is slowly changing
the nature of the government. 1t is not rea-
sonable to think that such things can go
on without working great changes in a
| wide-awake electorate.
In 1896 Mckinley had Al electoral votes to
spare, but it is almost certain that he will
this year lose Delaware, Maryland, West
Virginia and Kentucky Here are 20 votes
that he will not get this year. leaving only
IS votes to spare. These votes must be over
come in the central west. although they
may be overcome in New York, where the
Republicans have nominated for Governor
a machine politician of the most obedient
and subservant type-a lieutenant Of Sena-
tor Thomas C. Platt
The long and short of it is, If Bryan
should carry either New York or Illinois he
will be elected, for he will carry Indiana,
which wall make good any losses he may
encounter from the vote of 1885,
That all may, however see how the cam
vass looks on the other side of the fence
we add Vice Chairman Payne's estimate.
He is the active manager in the west of the
Republican campaign He classes the States
as follows.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

Young Cornelius vanderbilt's pocketbook
has been welcomed to the Republican
party. .
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

Promises are valuable to Atlanta's pic
turesque Mayor
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

The old historic party is solid once more
and that means victory.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

Lord Roberts is endeavoring to make his
annexation proclamation good, and some
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10

seditious persons are opposing him. includ-
ing one De Wet and Bother Botha
The Yale expositor., 1900-01-05
BURIED TWO HUSBANDS.
Washington Widow Disposed of Her
Partners In Short Order.


From the Washington Star: 1--WE
have had double funerals without num-
Der, of husband and wife, sister and
sister brother and brother" explained
an attache of cemetery near the SOL
diers' home to a reporter but fun
eral here recently seems to surpass
them all. There are several men who
have three and four wives buried in
this and similar cases in other Gem
eterics, as well as number of women
who have from two to as many, in one
instance at least as five husbands. The
case that | refer to as being somewhat
new is not of the kind referred to, for
there was a lapse of time between the
funerals of the husbands and wives
spoken of, but case where lady bur-
led two husbands at the same time.
And she was not q Mormon either.
Ter first husband died in August, and
his remains were temporarily placed
in the vault.
The will and certain directions lett
By the husband, for business and 9th er
reasons, directed that If it could La
satisfactorily arranged the widow
should marry the business associate
and particular friend of the deceased.
In less than three weeks, under these
circumstances, the widow married the
gentleman referred to, who in less than
three days was confined to his bed by
an Illness that in three weeks proved
fatal. The doubly endowed widow ar
ranged for his funeral and at the same
time gave orders that her first hus-
bands remains, which had been left
in the vault temporarily, should be In
TERED by his side at the same time.
Two graves were dug and both were
buried at the same time. Their collins
were identical, as we'll as were the
floral decorations, which were rather
elaborate. 1t was the first time in my
experience that | ever saw or even
heard of widow burying two hus-
bands at the same time, though it may
have happened elsewhere. The wild
ow has arranged that she shall be bur-
led beside them, the first husband to
be on her left"
The Yale expositor., 1900-01-05
MARGINAL Notes.

The descendant of New England
Puritan divine has in his possession
an old sermon written by his ancestor
which shows that the preacher did not
trust entirely to the impulse of the mo-
ment when delivering his discourses.
The manuscript is written in a strange
hand, and plentifully besprinlSled with
marginal references. Read slowly
here" the minister admonishes him
self in one spot. and ITO be given out
very loud and clear" is the suggestion
for another passage. Hurry a little,
with fire." he wrote in several places.
The most emphatic and important part
of the whole sermon is indicated by a
northumberland marginal note. After
hearing stories of this sanity old-time
preacher, it is assuming to know that
he deemed il wise and even necessary
at the climax Of his eloquence to yell
like one possessed"
The Yale expositor., 1900-01-05

Florence Nightingale, now close upon
so years of age, wrote letter to sur
vivors of Balaklava as a greeting for
their recent union. The fragrance OF
her philanthropic work in the Crimean
war is still sweet SAVIOR after nearly
half century. What she did was a
revelation to the world how a great
purpose can carry one through labors
almost measureless, amid surroundings
fitted 10 try the stouuest heart. Those
who saw the charge of the Light Bri-
gade, and also witnessed her heroic
labors. might we'll have reckoned her
chances of survival far less than those
of the men who faced the guns. Was
not hers a case of losing life yet saving
it? She was a martyr in will, if not
IN deed, but was spared for further
service and permitted to be a pattern
in noble works.
The Yale expositor., 1900-01-05

A few centuries ago the bitterest foes
in the world, probably, were the Span
ish and the Dutch. Spain oppressed
the Netherlands with unparalleled
cruelties; the Dutch withstood the enc
my and finally conquered them with
unsurpassed heroism. Today the Span
iards are sending friendly congratula-
lions TO the Dutch in South Africa on
their stubborn defense of their indie
pendence-the independence which the
Spaniards themselves in the days of
Alva so furiously denied. The whirli-
gig of time has shown us few more
striking changes of attitude than this.
Spain once the great oppres or is now
friend Of liberty. England once the
Gibraltar of liberty is fighting that
which made her great.