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The age-herald., 1901-01-28
Epidemic of Grip.

An epidemic of grip covers the coun- try. It has covered it in every winter since it's first appearance in 1889, but no one understands the new bacilli any better than they did when they first appeared in this country.
 The truth is, the lines between grip and influenza are very indistinctly drawn, although physicians continue to consider a grippal attack as something very different from a cold. The compli- cations that follow the former are more serious, especially to the aged and in- firm, and it is against these that good care is most needed.
 It is quite important at any rate to know when grip is present, and pr. Sheffield has thus described in the New York Medical Journal a grippal attack:
 Influenza is caused by little thin bacil- Jus with rounded-off and thickened ends, twice as long as broad, first discovered by pr. Pfeiffer in 1S92 and hence called "Pfeif- fers bacillus It is carried in the expec- toration or nasal secretion and Is both in fectious and contagious Its symptoms vary somewhat in different epidemics, an6 different individuals manifest them witt different degrees of acuteness. The bacil. ius is believed to enter the system through the respiratory tract At the outset of the attack there is a general out-of-sorts feel. ing, a stihed feeling in the head a dispo sition to sneeze and distinctly felt difficult ty in breathing. The throat is apt to be- come deep red in color and dry cougt sets in. The temperature rises from
The age-herald., 1901-01-28

GERMAN OFFICERS KNOWLEDGE

From the London Chronicle
 The map question" in South Africa is said to be responsible for number of our disasters. As showing how very dierent- ly the surveying of other countries is at tended to in the German army, a corres- pendent sends the following story: "A few weeks ago 1 happened to be in Berlin chanced to remark to a young staff officer that immediately on arrival in London, business would take me to a little Hamp- shire village. As 1t was many miles from the station, l would, I observed probably have great difficulty in obtaining a convey ance. Not at all,' promptly observed my friend. You will reach the railway station at 2:30 p. m. on Thursday afternoon. It is market day and an omnibus leaves the station for the village on that day at hour ly intervals between 10 a. m and 6 D. m. If you choose to walk, however, you must remember to take the second turning on the left and the first the right after leav- ing the station.' Of course 1 asked my in- dormant if he had visited the place. I have never been in England in my life, was the answer. I am on the survey staff, and the southeastern portion of Hampshire is my district '
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
The commoner Common.

Copies of W. J. Bryan's weekly news paper, the oddly named Commoner were received in Birmingham yesterday.
 '"The Commoner is distinct and keen disappointment" said a newspaper worker. Tt extends to eight pages of about the size of the pages of Puck, and it is no sense neatly gotten up. In fact the Com moner is very commonplace. It is filled entirely with headed editorials, except as to two columns of headless paragraphs, the first of which is The Commoner enters the newspaper field with an issue of thirty thousand few brief clippings, some Dor rowed fun and some verses, the whole be- ing rather rustic. In one head line, Revival That Revives,' Editor Bryan drops into slang and in another, Whether Common or Not his grammar is very faulty.
 '"Fhe most astonishing fact about the Commoner, after its extraordinary free ad- vertising in every newspaper in the United States for weeks, is that it begins with an issue of only thirty thousand copies!
The age-herald., 1901-01-28

degress to degrees or higher. varying in different cases The digestion is impaired and the active stage of the disease is like ly to be marked by chills and nausea. Pains are felt all over the body, and every hour increases the general sense of weakness and prostration.
 Keep warm and take care of your self" is the usual remedy; but in some cases something more is needed, for the disease is open to a wide variety of complications. It searches for the weakest spot in the system. The New York World republishes prescription which it claims has relieved many thousands in previous epidemics, as follows: Quinine, 30 grains; phenace- tine, 30 grains; codeine, % grains-the whole in combination to be divided into twelve powders, one powder to be taken every four hours, and then every two or three hours until relief is obtain ed. But in republishing this formula the World very wisely prefaces it by saying: Tt is best, of course, in all cases of illness to see your own physi- elan and have him prescribe for you"
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
Many Bills and One Bill.

The General Assembly of Alabama will re-assemble in Montgomery tomorrow, after having had a vacation of several weeks. There are hundreds of bills to be consid- cred fully ha.f dozen of them being of general importance; and there may be other bills introduced to amend or repeal acts passed before the recess, there having been some gossip to that effect. However there will be enough of good and useful work to keep Senators and members busy until the final adjournment.
 The bill in which the people are most vitally concerned can be passed and gotten out of the way this week with no trouble of any sort, and that Is the Doster bill to reg ulate dealing in morphine, cocaine and opium! declared a public man last night.
 statement sent out from Montgomery md repeated here for whatever it may be worth is to the effect that Governor Sam ford has been keeping to his bedroom for several days in order that he may have strength for the legislative session. Every body in Alabama will hope that the Gov ernor is not i'll and that he is not threatened with another attack of dangerous ilness
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
To Keen inc Standard Out.

A very interesting contest is going on in Texas where the owners of the great Lucas well are endeavoring to keep the Standard Oil Company from securing a firm hold upon the new field The owners of the well are Pennsylvanians who know full well what a tyrant the Rockefeller concern is, and they have determined, so it is stated, to market their product without its aid. For this purpose pipe lines are to be laid to and storage tanks built at Beaumont and Port Arthur. Fortu- nately the distance to the seaboard is short, and all the work needed is well within their capital.
 The oil from the Lucas well is very plainly fuel oil, and the yield of the new field, if large, will give a wide sec tion of country cheap fuel. It is sec tion devoid or coal, but full of manufac- turing ambition. If Texas and Louis jana have secured cheap fuel those States can spin their own cotton to their own great profit. They can hull their own rice, and refine their own sugar. The yield is large, and all the oil that gusher wells can furnish will be need ed, for there is not a pound of coal in either Louisiana or Texas.
 The handling of the new supply be- comes therefore matter of general interest The keeping of the Standard Oil monopoly out relates to the pros perity of all-relates to industries that touch all. The contest becomes there fore one of deep importance to the two States Competition is better than mo- nopoly in every case, and especially
 when the fuel supply is involved. The | State of Texas is fully awake to the dangers of monopoly, and the chances are very good that one oil field will be
 kept out of the grasp of the worst mo-
 nopoly the country has ever known.
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
The Famous Bank That is Closed.

The suspension of the banking house of Josiah Morris x Co.,, Montgomery which hasn't seemed to cause much surprise amongst travelling men in the hotel lobbies, caused very general regret in Birmingham, not that Birmingham is affected in money sense but chiefly for social reasons, large number of Birmingham residents hav- ing been formerly residents of Montgom- cry, and the social relations between the two towns being constant and close, though considerably less so now than formerly. Business transactions in the mercantile and banking sense between the two towns are small, and probably there isn't dollar of Birmingham money in the suspended bank.
 MT. F. M. Billing, the head of the Nor ris bank, is a frequent visitor to Birming- ham and is almost as familiar a figure here as, say, Hon. W. T. Northington, the great and wealthy gin and cotton manufacturer, of Prattville; Jack Cranford, the banker and merchant of Jasper; William A. Davis, the developer, of Anniston; Maj. James Spence, the capitalist of Tuscaloosa, and similar men of business power who make Birmingham their second home" said gossiper.
 MT Billing is one of the owners and the head man of the Morris Hotel and is large ly interested in the Birmingham Realty Company. The bank at Montgomery that has susupended was founded by Josiah Morris about 1853, and he was remarkably successful, winning for himself the highest and most enviable reputation for the strong traits that all great bankers must possess He was one of the five founders of Bir- mingham and the old Elyton Land Com pany, which made him a second large for tune, about $4OO 900 of which he put in the Morris at First avenue and Nineteenth street, intending that splendid building as a monument to himself. About twenty-five years ago MT Morris took F. M. Billing then as now popularly called Mack into the bank at Montgomery. Mack Billing was then very young man. and when he was taken into old Josiah Morris bank that somewhat taciturn and uncommunicative old man of fortune took him into his heart
 From the outset MT. Morris relied upon MT. Billing, and soon began to leave to him many of the details of his great busi- ness. And the business was very great for so small a town. It used to be constantly spoken that Josiah Morris carries Com- merce street through the spring and sum- mer,' meaning that the great wholesale grocers and hardware merchants, nearly all of whom were in Commerce street re- lied upon Josiah Morris to back them up in their enormous credit sales, to country merchants and big cotton planters. Mont gomery has always had heavy trade of that sort, and Is today the second grocery and liquor market in the south, being ex- celled by New Orleans only When the Morris bank closed in the panic of 1893, it held the paper of one firm-an exceeding ly rich firm, too-for $120,O00.
 'In 1891 when Josiah Morris died he left in his will the provision that the banking house of Josiah Morris & Go. should con- tinue unchanged. precisely as he left it, for the period of five years beginning with his
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
HOAR AND MORGAN PARALLEL.

From the Boston Herald.
 The parallel to which we referred yester- day in the lack of party orthodoxy on para mount issues between Senator Hoar and Senator Morgan appears to be continued in their retention of party devotion in other is sues. It will be remembered that President Mckinley had no more ardent advocate for his reelection than was Senator Hoar, and the latter rises to enthusiastic admirat tion of the partisan devotion of his colleague, Senator Lodge, devotion to imperialism in- cluded MT. Hoar prophecies great things for MT. Lodge in this role, even though he cannot himself share it. At the same time we find Senator Morgan proclaiming himself to be the stiffest of stiff Democrats on the ship subsidy bill and the income tax He has just made a proposition in Congress to have an income tax levied to pay the ex- pense of the subsidy bill, if that is fastened upon the nation MT. Morgan takes the ground that, as this is a measure to put money in the pockets of the rich men, there should be a tax upon the same class to fur niSh funds for the purpose.
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
French Associations Bill.

By the rather close vote of 298 to 226 the French Ministry has been sus- tained, in a preliminary step, in the ef- fort it is making to abolish religious orders in France. These orders have never been eminent supporters of the republic, and the republic now proposes to crush them altogether.
 The real trouble in the proposed law that the ministry demands is found forbids associations between French men and foreigners. It forbids associa- tions directed by foreigners or having their headquarters abroad. It also for bids associations whose members live together in communities by them selves. If the proposed bill becomes law, all such associations must be dis solved on penalty of fine and imprison- ment This simply would crush all re- ligious orders of the Catholic Church.
 Nor is this all. The government claims the property held by these or ders, mostly real estate, and it proposes to seize it, and use it as the basis of a system of old age pensions. The value of the property is very great, about, it is said, billion francs, or in our cur rency $2OO,OOO,O00.
 The question is one that very natur- ally moves deeply the Catholic Church, but it is one exclusively French in it's origin and control, and as the people of that country are at least non-Protes- tants they must understand it. The women of France are considered good Catholics, loyal to their church, and it seems strange that they do not make an outcry against the pending bill if it means grave injustice to their church. Altogether it is a French question to be settled by Frenchmen, and at pres- ent it looks as if the religious orders of France are to be abolished and their property sequestrated.
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
Siqns of Erance,s Fall.

To-day there glares on every schoolhouse, every Mayors house. every barracks, every public building of any character, and every dead wall in France the placarded words of the most revolutionary and tyrannical off, cial speech delivered in France since the days of the French Revolution, more than a hundred years ago." remarked a visitor in this smoky corner last night
 'These hateful and infamous words of tyranny, hate, oppression, and blasphemous ungodliness, the devils passions that now govern our ridiculous and tyrannical sister Republic the utterances of the Prime Minister of France in support of the govern ment's Associations Bill in Parliament for the suppression of all Christian orders and the stealing of two hundred million dollars rom Christian citizens, the lower house of the Parliament, or the chamber, in which the monstrous words were spoken, having voted by a narrow majority to 'placard the speech throughout France after the simple republican custom.
 Well! it is pleasing for enlightened men the world over that the last fall of Paris which occurred January 2S, 1871, precisely tWenty-nine years ago, is being celebrated in France by the thunderous acclaiming of bill, almost certain to be made a law, that promises the final downfall and de- struction of the Third Republic of France, the most corrupt immoral and infamous government in Christendom. The present republic though not in its present form, was created out of the wreck of morals and the terrible corruption and iniquities that followed the fall of Paris. It was begun by honest men, great men, such as Thiers, Faure, McMahon and the like; but since 1s6 it has grown from bad to worse until now it is tyranny and the most corrupt bureaucracy and oligarchy in the world But the end of it can't be far off This .As- sociations Bill will be the final act of self destruction, and it seems fitting that it should come on the anniversary of the fall of Paris, which was due to the crimes of the Napoleons steeped in deeper infamy by the knavery of blasphemers!'
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
For Justices and the Judges.

Somebody might be silly enough to im- agine that the protests against Friday dock cts for jury cases in the various counts comes primarily of a desire of the judges for less work on the bench, but this is worse than absurd" leading lawyer said last night.
 T do not know at first hand what the judges wish in this particular, but I am confident that they are opposed to putting on one days docket more cases than there is any possibility of getting through with. Very naturally the judges are eager to clear their dockets. This point need not be ar- gued Cases have got to be tried and the sooner they are tried the more satisfactory to the judges.
 9ae main trouble is that the business of the courts in this large and busy city is car ried out upon lines identical with the prac- tice and working of courts in backwoods villages. Our Birmingham methods are away behind, and a great deal of time is lost We have most admirable judges but we In way tie their hands, and prevent them from disposing of cases as they wish to.
 ''I am confident that the loss by Friday dockets and the like in Jefferson Is $500O a month-$50OO lost to the people every month by reason of anticipated and useless methods of proceeding. I know what it is Recently l had a case of importance set for Fridays docket. 1 got all my witnesses together some of them coming over thirty miles, and was then informed that my case could not be reached. Thus my client was put to seri- ous expense and his witnesses to serious trouble, all to no good purpose. The point is that every possible help should be given the judges in their work, so that justice might be expeditedl''
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
E ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
HaFdie-Tynes to Rebuild.

This town has plenty of iron working industries, but it has not one too many. It certainly cannot spare so busy fac tory as the one established and con- ducted by the Hardie-Tynes Company up to the night of the fire that swept it's buildings away in smoke and ashes.
 But the plant is to be rebuilt as rap idly as money and energy can do the needful work, and in few months the plucky company will again be sending engines to all parts of the southern world. Such energy and resolution de- serves commendation, and the Age-Her- aid expresses but a common feeling when it publicly comments this com pany in it's new efforts.
 This is the second heavy loss of this nature within years time. The East Birmingham works were destroyed by fire in like manner, but they have been rebuilt, and today they are strong CT than they were before fire oyel- whelmed them So it will be in the case of the Hardie-Tynes Company. A When shops are burned down in this town they are speedily rebuilt, and they be- come all the stronger because of the new effort.
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
EXTENT OF HIS INHERITANCE
,m the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 The extent of the empire over which the new King, Edward VII of England, and Emperor of India will reign exceeds that of any monarch of the present time or per haps of any time Exclusive of Egypt, the area of his empire is 11773,OO0 square miles; including Egypt, about 13,O0OOOO square miles, or much over one-fourth of the land surface of the globe. The wealth of the United Kingdom alone, apart from that of India, Australia, Canada and other posses sions, is about s6O 900, ,OoO, ,O00 or second only to that of the United States The popula- tion of the Empire aggregates some 4OO cso,- OO0 being comparable with that of the En- peror of China. Its shipping equals that of all other countries put together and it's commerce and navy are by far the largest. The capital of the Empire is also the center of the worlds money center. Alto- gether Edward VII is very comfortably fixed.
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
FUEL OIL.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 While there is good reason to believe the product of the phenomenal Texas oil well will not yield large percentage of illumi- mating oil nor any paraffin it will be a val uable addition to the fuel supply of the country. The oil has an asphalt base and resembles that of Russia as much as that of Pennsylvania Even if it yields 25 per cent of iluminant it will have its effect upon the Pennsylvania market, the residue being used for fuel. The use of petroleum fuel has grown remarkably during late years, the greater part of all the output of Russia, California and the Western Ohio and Indina fields going to that account. The tremendous flow of the new Texas we'll if reasonably well maintained, will aid materially in expanding the fuel oil market by reason of the assurance 1t will give of a permanent cheap supply.
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
WELL-WEATHERs OF CONGRESS.
From the New York Herald

From the New York Herald.
 Senator Platt, pointing out the Congress- ional celebrities to some New York visitors, said:
 Those two old fellows standing together by the door are Serene B. Payne of New York, leader of the House, and Charles II. Grosvenor of Ohio, the Presidents repre- sentative in Congress- e.
 What do they wear the red carnations for?".
 Well, you see," replied the Senator, with a sly smile they're the bellwethers, and that's custom they have in the House dis tinguishing them-answers in the place of bells, you know"
The age-herald., 1901-01-28
MT. Lomax for the Presidency.

A thoroughly well-informed public man of Montgomery, who is a personal friend of the Hon. Tennent Lomax, said yesterday:
 'Tennent Lomax will be a candidate for delegate-at-large to the forthcoming con- stitutional convention, seeking the honor from the Senatorial district of Montgomery. Mr. Lomax was nominated for this posi- tion from the Montgomery Senatorial dis trict two years ago without opposition, and the same thing will happen again. As he was a candidate for the presidency of the constitutional convention before, 1t is sur missed that he will be again presented for that place."