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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29

O. o. Buck. Beirne, Ark, saws l was
troubled with constipation unit l bought
DeWitts Little Early Risers. Since then
have been entirely cured of my old COM
plant. l recommend them
Rickert 4 Wells. Barre, Wilcox + Gillette.
Moretown, W. E. Poole. East Barre. vt.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29

"Were you ever treated by I'hysi-
clan for your nerves."
"Yes, and | had to get some nore
medicine when I received the l.iL'--
Philadelphia Bulletin
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29
Well Regulated Parents

"Our little Dick makes very clever
conundrums-really very clever"
"Can you guess them?''
"Oh, we never dare do that Little
Dick wants to tell the answers him.
self."-Indianapolis Journal.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29
His Point of View.

Shea married couple should pull to-
gether like team of horses.
He-Yes. and they probably would If,
like team OF horses, they had but one
tongue between them.-Chicago News.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29

II had running, itching sore on my
leg. Suffered fortunes. Doan's Oint-
,ment took away the burning. AM itching
Instantly and quickly effected perma.
'nent cure G.. W. Lenhart, Bowling
Green, o:
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29
Wrong.

A photographer does wrong who
takes such picture of a girl that she
will make herself unhappy all the rest
Of her life trying to look like tide
troit Journal.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29

Scrofula, salt rheum, ard OF er dis
tres-ioe cru tive diseases yield quickly
and permantly to the cleansing. purify
ing power o. Burdock Blood Bitters.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29

A blessing alike to young and old: DR..
F,.wler's Extract OF Wild Straw berry.
Natures specific for dysent ~, diarrhoea,
and summer comp lant.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29

A man seldom overrates himself
when the tax collector comes around
Chicago News.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-08-29

Explosive bullets were first used in
India for hunting tigers and elephants.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13

income tax. He also forgets the h. fiuences that led Justice Shiras and a majority of the Supreme Court to swallow it's decisions of a full cen tury touching m income tax. This was in 1875, and the tax dodgers have pleaded that decision ever since, de nouncing all who favor an income tax as traitors and highwaymen, or words to that effect.
 But now comes General Grosvenor. and he favors an income tax. He does 1t in a theoretical way only, and no one quite sees how he proposes to overcome the decision of 1895, al- though it stands alone against long series of decisions upholding an in come tax. Justice Shiras is still on guard. and the Supreme Court,is still heavily Republican, six out of its nine members being Republicans. Whether three Republicans can be found in 1t  who would support previous decisions of the court upon the question is ques- tionable.
 General Grosvenor sees, however, a necessity that will "be burning one to the people," He sees imports fall ing off, and the customs tariff also falling into disfavor, and he arrives at the conclusion that some way must be found in which to set up again the income tax upon profits and gains, confessedly the fairest tax in the world, and the one the most easily borne. It is tax that nearly all other nations resort to, and if any plan can be devised through which the Shirases can be circumvented, no doubt this country would now gladly resort to this form of taxation.
 Under the imperial schedule taxes will needs be increased, and any in- crease outside of an income tax will be resented by the people. General Grosvenor is blazing the way apparent ly in the Republican party to res. toration of the tax.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
THE oalr DAILY NEWSPAPER la ALABAMA
-superfiuous branche, We Top away that bearing boughs may live.
 Richard IT.
New Jersey Central Strike.

There Is still hope that a strike on the Jersey Central Railroad may be averted. because it would tie up the Reading and the Baltimore and Ohio as we'll. and might lead to widespread sympathetic strikes and troubles. The great Chicago strike in MT. Cleveland's second term was a failure, breaking down the general national organiza- ton of railroad workers, but there are four class organizations that would no doubt do their best to carry strike on the Jersey Central to success. These are the organizations of the engineers, the firemen, the conductors, and the telegraphrs. .....s
 The trouble in New Jersey arises over desire to substitute mileage as a basis of pay for technical days work. A majority of the railroads have adopted the mileage basis, but the New Jersey Central has not. There seems to be no just reason why it should not fall into line, thus giving every man his due, and taking from the treasury no more money perhaps.
 A strike on this road would mean . daily loss in salaries of $6037, for the road employs 400 conductors at s2.70 a day; 450 engineers at $s.25 a ' day; 800 firemen at s2.25 a~day: 1000 brakemen at s2.1O day, and 200 tel. egraphers at $1.35 day. Here are 2550 men that would be rendered idle by strike. and they would lose over $6000 day while it lasted.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
SANITARY CONDITIONS IN PEklN.

From the American Medical Journal.
 John Inglis says that the population of Pekin Is now close to the million mark. study of the sanitary conditions of that city reveals much of threatening nature. The city is without water works. and has no sewerage system worthy of the name. The Chinaman believes in open sewers. The water supply is from wells dug along the sides of the streets. The water itself is of two kinds sweet. and ''bitter." the latter with an excess of alkali and containing 23 per cent of hard ness. The use of this water means a great deal of kidney trouble. There are no alleys In front of meat shops the animals are killed. Dogs are the city 'scvavengers. There are no cellars. The city is infested with besgars, ill-clad and filthy beyond description. As to the dis position of the dead, if the deceased be wealthy the corpse is kept in the court yard for weeks. The itinerant barber Is prolific spreader of diseases An Amer lean bishop, who visited Pekin recently. stated that, on entering the city he dis tinguished seventy-two distinct odors. Sanitary science should be applied in Pe- kin, and would make Is as healthy a city as New York or Chicago
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
Two Old Cronies.

The esteemed Montgomery papers need not trouble themselves over The Age-Herald's convention position. It is we'll understood, and they lack the power or skill to distort 1t. The Age Herald has supported suffrage reform from time out of mind without break. and neither the organ that sneezes when Grover Cleveland, w. c. Whit ney and Hokus Smith take snuff, nor the one with "Too Much Johnston" on the brain, nor both united, can point to single line in The Age-Herald in opposition to a convention, and they never will be able to do so. They are fine pair, but they have undertaken a task too heavy for hghtweights. The Age-Herald does not consider the people of Alabama as children, and has not treated them as such. It sees no organized opposition to the conven- tion proposition, and while the vote may be light, yet nearly all of 1t will be cast affirmatively. The people want a convention, and they intend to call one. The Age-Herald sees no reason therefore why important questions that must come before the convention should not be discussed, the freer the better. The baby plan does not fit full-grown Alabamians.
 The 'steemed Advertiser is worry ing more over the loss of State adver. Using than it is over the convention. When it says convention" it means advertisements" Jefferson County will give the convention proposition a larger majority than Montgomery County will, and it will act without any reference to advertising.
 Montgomery's two dailies are not a pair that the State values very highly. They are not a pair that the voters look to for disinterested or valuable advice, because they invariably have something up their sleeves. Each has its scheme, the one reaching back to repudiated clique, and the other to a man who upset one convention, They are now partners in abusing The Age-Herald, and The Age-Herald courts their disfavor, knowing as it does that it cannot be wrong when it is abused by both of them. It covets more of the same sort. Their methods are different. but the scheme of the one is as selfish as that of the other
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
Race for Leadership.

From the Selma Journal.
 The race for leadership among Alabama cities lies between Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery and Anniston. Birmingham. by reason of It's industrial advantages, will probably continue In the lead, and Anniston, which now occupies fourth place. will, by reason of its industrial ad- vantages, probably distance the other two cities during the next ten years. If An- niston's past progress and present growth continues. and there is no reason why it should not, the Model City will push the Magic City for first place in the course. of a decade or two.-Anniston Evening Star.
 Hold! There is city down here in the heart of the Black Belt now ranking fifth according to the census in which An niston ranks fourth, and there is a whis- per in the air that decade or two" will see wonderful things and Anniston may do well to keep her place as fourth even. That city is Selma, beautiful Selma, booming Selma.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
Typhoid Fever in New Haven.

New Haven. the city that contains Yale College. has also about 150 cases of typhoid fever, with 50 more in pros pect. These cases did not arise here and there in all parts of the city. but they exist in one small district, and this district takes its water supply from certain reservoir, known as the Woodbridge reservoir.
 Close inquiries disclose these facts: Three cases of typhoid fever occurred in January on a small branch that flows into the Woodbridge reservoir, and owing to the want of care the spring floods carried, beyond reason able doubt, the germs of the disease from these three cases into the reser- yoir in question. Dr. Linsley, presi- dent of the State Board of Health. has investigated the cases, and he is convinced that the three isolated cases, nine miles up the branch, caused the epidemic in a locality in New Haven.
 All this," says the Springfield Re- publican, ifs valuable to the rest Of us by way of warning. It is for the doctors in regions adjacent to water supplies to be doubly careful in a precautionary way in dealing with cases of typhoid fever. but as we'll they might profitably be required to give notice of fever cases adjacent to reservoirs to both the boards of health and water commissioners of places whose supplies of water might possi- bly, be affected. That would enhance the watchfulness. The utmost amount of safeguarding win be none too much. The malignant indestructibility of typhoid fever germs is so we'll known that there is no excuse for such laxness as has led to the trouble in New Haven, with it's epidemic en- tailment. But such negligence is pos. sibie wherever water supplies exist and those in charge of them may well increase and make unceasing their watchfulness against possible repe- tition of the Elm city's experience"
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
oneonta's Prosperity.

From the Oneonta Southern Democrat.
 There are probably very few people in the county who realize how rapidly one- onta is growing. It is growing in popula- tfon. growing in wealth, growing in pub lie Improvements, growing as a. trade center and growing in morality.
 The town was established about twelve years ago and has grown steadily from it's beginning. At that time there were not more than a dozen people residing within the present limits of the town The popu- lation is now about 600, and continues to increase as houses are built to accommo- date those who wish to move here. There is not a vacant house in the town.
 Real estate that before the establish ment of the town was valued at about 5000 is now worth, according to the tax books, about, $50.0O0. The personal prop erty is valued at over $32,090 having more than doubled within the last four years. Our people are not getting rich, but they are making some money and adding more to the revenue of the State. county and town every year. Seeing these things, men who have money are invest ing it here.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
H. 3. RICE APPOINTED.
He Will Administer Upon Estate of
 William 8. Rice.

Houston, Tex, April 12-H. Baldwin Rice. son of the late F. A. Rice and nephew and next of kin of Wm. s. Rice. was today appointed temporary adminis- trator of the estate of wm. M. Rice and his bond was fixed at $40O. 900. Application was made for his appointment as perma- nent administrator. but the Probate Court is now on vacation and the latter petition cannot now be acted upon.
 MT. Rice filed his bond and was given control of the estate. Allegations in the new petition indicate that the brothers and sisters of the new administrator are satisfied and desirous of the appointment, but that certain other heirs and alleged heirs who do not reside in Texas are not satisfied and will contest the appoints ment of H. B. Rice as permanent admin istrator of the estate.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
Farewell.

Dedicated to Robert. j. Lowe) Farewell? It sounds too full of grief, Too full of mourning for the past; It breathes of friendship far too brief, Of hopes that were too bright to last Too deeply OCT my troubled soul It casts its strange and ad'ning spell; It tells me we were doomed to part, And yet l cannot say farewell. Now all Is OCT; but never from my heart Shall passing time your image blot; And though from me you're gone, dear
 wife,
 You shall never be forgot. Your trials all are ended now, The painful conflict here Is done; And peace and love In accents sweet Proclaim the victory you have won.
 H. l.. LEAVITT.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
A LITTLE GIRL DID IT.

A little crippled girl who died in Plain field, N. J., ten years ago, left her saw ings of s23o to the church she loved, and the pennies were put in the bank. She had intended to use them to purchase a doll carriage. but when told she would not live to enjoy it made the disposition of her mite in the manner stated. When a $2,000 mortgage pressed upon the church recently the pastor of the church remembered the baby's legacy. and asked his parishionores to do as well as the lit- tie cripple. The magic of example worked to a charm. The money was raised at a single collection under the in- spiration furnished by this example of devotion. and the church is free from debt. And a little child shall lead them"
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
OUR ALLEGED COMIC PAPERS.

From the Mexican Herald.
 There is much talk about the degene- racy of the alleged comic papers in the United States They are now having to compete with the colored Sunday supple ments of the big metropolitan papers and to please public that Is growing desper- ately tired of the well-worn jokes and caricatures of the mother-in-law, the Jew, the Irishman, the Jay from the farms and the Weary willies of the road. Puck and Judge are in their dotage; they are senile. Life struggles to keep out of the ruts, but at times descends to stirr- ing up race prejudices. Nothing could be
 more un-American. nothing more vulgar.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
ALDERMEN NOMINATED.
New Decatur Citizens Held Ward
 Meetings Last Night.

New Decatur, April l2.-tSpeciaL)- Meetings were held in the different wards of the city last night for the purpose of nominating aldermen to be voted for at the election which takes place May [. One alderman is to be elected from each of the four wards.
 The following nominations were made for the different wards last night;
 Ward One-Thomas Kearns, the pres ent incumbent and Thomas c. Dunavant
 Ward Two-IIenry Harting and James Pirie. present incumbent.
 Ward Three-Wyley Thomas and L. Watt Allen, present incumbent.
 Ward Four-Jack B. Graham, Tom Rob- erts, present incumbent.
 An unknown negro hobo was run over in the Louisville and Nashville yards at Decatur early this morning and one leg was cut of.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
ENGLAND'S ENVY CAUSE
 OF TROUBLE IN CHINA

New York, April 12.--A recent arrival from China is Ralph James. who for near fy fifteen years has been extensively en- gagged in mining at Kalgan, near Pekin, and in Siberia. Since his arrival he has placed orders for machinery to cost near ly 100000.
 In an interview he said: 'I have just returned from a long sojourn on Russian and Chinese soil. It Is my opinion that Russia will never take Manehuria or per- init others to seize 1t.
 Russia and the Russians are misun- derstood. The evil of the misunderstand- ing is easily traced. It is due to the dipio- matic use of newspapers by Great Britain. The latter is a Jealous nation with powerful navy. Her great factor les have lost the trade with Russia and America has gained 1t.
 "fn 1893 the Russian government flrss received concession in Manchuria from China. Russia made a formidable fort out of Port Arthur and constructed railroad across Manchuria at a cost of over s50,0O 900. Last summer during the troubles over ssOOO0,OOO damage was done this railroad by the Boxers. Tn order to save her property and preserve 1t from entire destruction Russia sent 125,0O0 sol diers along the road, and the Chinese, who had become rowing bands of outlaws and thieves, were driven almost entirely from the country.
 'The Emperor of Russia Is home-lov- ing man, and his subjects who are now in that Manchuria army are of the farm ing class of Siberia, and 1t Is the Empe- TOTS wish to have this army sent home, where they are needed to prepare for the
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
CRIME STATISTICS.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 Starting with Texas at the head of the list, the table shows that Illinois, the population of which State is 5,S0o00o, av- erages yearly a smaller number of mur- ders than Mississippi, which has popu- iation of but 1,65o,ooo. Vermont (s5ooOW av- erages only six homicides in year, while Nevada (6o.00O manages to produce an average of thirty-nine murders per an- mum. In fact. the five New England states combined show but PAS, while California alone must blush for 422-which should keep her pretty busy. However, New York stands we'll ahead with 5i2. Penn sylvania stands above Virginia and Ar kansas, preceded by eleven other states.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
Income Tax a Necessity.

General Grosvenor. the political fore. caster and administration spokesman. openly advocates an income tax as a revenue necessity. and as the fairest and most equitable tax that can be laid. He sees increasing governmental expenses on the one hand, and de- creasine imports on the other, and the search for new sources of revenue leads directly to an income tax.
 He quite overlooks the fact. does this Republican leader. that the Re publicans denounced last year as com munistic and altogether bad the D1 eratic plank that demanded an
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
The Story of a steed.

At San Antonio, Tex, I had a family horse made of such, good stuff that a man gave me $500 fot him, and so I was left like an automobile.' said P. Sid Jones.
 For a month had seen woman drive wretchedly, ill-kept and lifeless horse by my house, the animal being harnessed to a rickety old wagon by chains and ropes and knotted strings, and present. ing a most forlorn appearance Some thing put in my head to buy that horse, and so one day he became my property. I took him to the barn, trimmed him up and rubbed him down. put a blanket on him, and gave him a straight and abun- dant feed.
 By next day that sort of treatment had made new animal out of the miserable horse. and he looked as smart as the smartest. hitched him to light-racing buggy. and drove tut to the races. As soon l got there all the horse men crowded up to inspect my unknown horse. eyeing him very closely and sus- piciously. with an idea that was putting up ringer on them. Finally the most knowing one of the men sidled up to me and leaning over against the muddy wheel said in low tone and with the slyest possible wink and nod:
 That's all right, partner. know him-hes durned good 'un-chained lightnin'!
 That was expert opinion of an old hack that couldn't trot mile in six weeks
 Tn day or two I said to my wife that I had bought her perfectly safe horse, and that if she'd put on her hat we'd take a turn around around the block. We got into the buggy and started the horse off to the tune of my wife's praises of the smart and stylish animal. At the first corner that crazy beast made break and ran wildly down the street. and sec ing an especially large and handsome plate glass window he made 6 plunge for it and there was a great crash. We es- oapcd with our lives. csa qse -nstt fst'That was the act of a horse that a woman drove in ropes and chains, that racing expert praised, and that couldn't trot a mile in six weeks! You never know about such horses But have now got
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
Arrangement of Ballots.
KS Fort Payne Journal.

From tie Fort Payne Journal.
 Voters generally will notice that the ballot in the coming election is not in the usual form-that Is, the names are not arranged alphabetically. but according to parties. On the official ballot for ths county the Democratic nominees are placed first, and all who wish to vote Democratic ticket must make a cross mark opposite each of the first fifty-fve names on the official ballot. There are only about thirty Republican nominees. but the first fifty-five on the ballots are the Democratic nominees. and Democrats must be careful to mark every one of them. One mark for all will not be suffi- cient. Every name must have a cross mark before it. Don't forget to mark every one of the first fifty-five names.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
STRONG POINTS OF MONARCHY.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 Monarchy stock has gone up all over Europe in the last fifty years, and that is the fact that is really worrying President Hadiey. Because kings were for time neither personally detestable nor incom- potent he fears his countrymen may grow to like them. But this is a foolish fear for monarchy stock is visibiy de- clining again. The Czar of Russia h weak. After Francis Joseph, Austria ex- poets the deluge. The crown prince of Sweden Norway is hated by half his kingdom. Even King Edward does not command the respect that his mother did. The new King of Italy promises fairly we'll, but the boy King of Spain promises little. Only in Germany does the mon arch hold his place in public esteem t
 Because Europe has had able monarchs for fifty years is no reason why the American people should embrace the menarchical ideal. Personal accidents cannot change a reasoned conviction, as President Hadley ought to know.
The age-herald., 1901-04-13
THE wHARvEs OF SLEEP.
By Edwin Markham.

By Edwin Markham. Strange wares are handled on the
 wharves of sleep:
 Shadows of shadows pass and many .
 light
 Flashes signal fire across the night: Barges depart whose voiceless steersmen
 keep S Their way without star upon the deep. And from lost ships. homing with ghost
 ly crews, ..ts,4 Come cries of incommunicable news. While cargoes pile the piers a moonwhite
 heap Budgets of dream dust. merchandise pf
 sonG. wreckaee of hope and packs of ancient
 wrong.
 Nepenthes gathered from a secret
 strand, e< & Fardels of heartache, burdens q old - sins.
 LuEgaso sent down from dim ancestral inns Ana bales of fantasy from No-,aan's