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when it was considered crowded. Dr.. Searcy says in his report: q have en- deavored as far as possible, within bounds of humanity, to decline to re- ceive patients, and have been very lib- eral in sending patients to their homes, still, our population rapidly increases. One of our most trying duties is to de- cline the appeals of the friends of de- serving and pitiable persons applying for admission. Our women's wards are the most crowded and the most incon- venienced, because the women remain gerous, unpleasant, unsanitary and harmful" On September 30 there were sos white men, 556 white women, 194 colored men and 22S colored women in the hospital-a total of 14S6 persons.
 Dr. Searcy has taken charge of the Mt. Vernon military reservation, and he has about 20 negro patients there at present He shows at length the ad vantages of remodelling the buildings at Mt Vernon, so that they would ac- commodate 400 to 800 patients. He thinks this could be done at an expense not exceeding $25,O00, and that equal room and accommodations would cost at Tuscaloosa four or five times as much money.
 Mt Vernon is in Mobile County, and that county has 135 patients at Tusca- loosa Jefferson with twice the popula- tion of Mobile County has 12S patients there, Montgomery County has 73, Tus- caloosa County 63, and Madison County 5S. No other county has 50 patients h the hospital. Covington County has but 2, being the smallest number in the list.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
Care of Insane in the State.

The biennial report of the trustees of the Bryce Hospital recalls attention to the fact that the number of patients is increasing at the rate of about one men, and that the wards at Tuscaloosa are greatly overcrowded. The trustees urge the use of the Mt. vernon military reservation, near Mobile, as a branch hospital. They urge this both for hu- manity's sake and for reasons of pub lie economy.
 The Bryce Hospital, now forty years old, is full, very full. It contains TIC more patients than it did two years ago,
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
Grade Crossings and Watchmen.

The accident in First Twelfth street but what
  numbering trolley with against such accident
  ties that have guarded the lives of the the city The penalty this 0 lent The truth should abolished until they authorities be sud-
  in this life the accident First
  ings in this city. a made carried under
  should to nder life al such
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
Paradoxes in Apportlonment.

"The Alabama paradox" was much in evidence during the House debate over the apportionment bill It arose in con- nection with the census of 1890. Under the manner of calculation this State was allotted Representatives out of total of 299, and Representatives when the total became 300. This seemed absurd, but it was really the result of calcula- tions. This plan of calculation was adopted in the Hopkins bill, which tho House has rejected.
 The calculation is of this nature: The total population, 74,565, ,9O6, is first di- vided by the assumed number of the House, 357, giving as a ratio 20S,S6S. Applying this ratio to the several States a membership of 335 is provided for, with various fractions aggregating A. 595,126. The States of Delaware, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming are each below the ratio, but each must have mem- Der, and the total number outside of the fractions thus becomes 339, leaving IS members to be apportioned to the frac- tions
 The apportionment of the IS members to the fractions is what creates para doxes. There are not enough to sat isfy the major fractions. Some States must have majority fractions that are unrepresented, and at times there are not enough majority fractions, and then minority fractions gain representation. Paradoxes thus creep in. To show how this plan works, take the State of Maine. She would lose a member on any total from $50 to 382. With a membership of 3S3 3S4 or 1885 Maine would hold her present membership, four in number. With total of 3S6 she would lose one; at 3S7 and 3SS, she would hold her own again, but at 3S9 and 390 she would again lose a member, while at 391 to 400 she would again hold her present representation. It all comes aDout through the distribution of seats to frac- tions, and especially when there are not enough major fractions to take up the seats to be allotted to fractions.
 The rejected Hopkins bill left Colo rado, Florida and N. Dakota with unrep- resented major fractions, although MT. Hopkins finally agreed to waive the so- called ~vinc1ple of this bill by increas- ir T membership to 36O. there- I the three States named me-. :, ech The opposition would not accept the compromise, and the Hop kins bill was voted down.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
Losing Money.

"There wSe hundreds of people who at tended the theatre tonight and thousands who passed along the Nreets for other reasons or causes-lovely women in their best clothes, and men and women in their workday wear-and all breasted seas of the fiFthiest of all imaginable dust, since it was blown form the filthiest of all imaginab ble streets" said John Wheeler of South Caro- lima last night.
 '"These Birmingham streets are simply horrible in their uncleanliness; I never saw any streets like them in filth, never heard of any others so bad. I don't believe that the actual surface of the paving stones in the Birmingham streets has been seen in years The paving blocks may be of any material except stone, so far as an onlook-
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

CT can tell; and I don't suppose the pave ments have been really clean since they were laid
 .'These foul streets must impress all visi- tors alike most unfavorably, for 1t is inn possible for a town to be fully healthy when absolutely no regard is paid to com mon sanitary decencyi Birmingham is prosperous, busy, rapidly growing; but the filth everywhere offending must keep a great number of well-to-do and even wealthy visitors from settling. Why will Birmingham stand in the way and keep away good money when money is what everybody is after?'i
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
A GOVERNOR ON CHILD LABOR
From the Atlanta News.

From the Atlanta News e
 Governor McSweeney of South Carolina makes plea for legislation against child labor. He admits it is dangerous to interfere with family government by legislation, but declares that the situation becomes alarm ing when little children are not protected from vampire parents who spend their time in idleness and live off the labor of their children, who are required to work in mills without the advantages of school''
 That is the case in nutshell and sooner or later the Georgia Legislature will see it in that light
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 The first week a man is married he aots most proud as he did the day he first wore suspenders
 No man can listen to a woman talking baby-talk for five minutes and believe in letting women vote.
 Probably no butterfly thinks any of the other worms will ever be smart enough to turn the way he did.
 You can always tickle a 1lomely woman by telling her how overestimated you think some other pretty girl is.
 Bt's easy enough to get the men to go to church until they get married After that they get preaching at home. ~ The average woman would die perfectly happy if she could only know that cer- tain man would come to the funeral and cry.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
SyI DaIy Desperately Ill

The illness of Alderman Sylvester Daily of the Ninth ward has assumed an ex- tremely critical form, and it is feared the end may come at any time. MT Daily is fully informed as to his own condition and has made such preparations as were need ful, though he is wonderfully stout of heart and insists that he will recover. He is courageous in the face of his doctors warning of the worst. There are number less callers at his house, and great sympa- thy is manifested in the city.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
PARIS A CITY OF NEWSPAPERS

From me COSnUDCIIld1.
 At the moment of writing there are fifty one papers published in Paris. The precise time and the exact number are set down designedly, for the business of journalism in France predicates bewildering mutabiHty. Newspapers are born and die after the man. ner of the proverbial flea. If a current pub ation is not feasible for the matter in hand a paper is issued to advocate cause, to exploit scheme; is used as an instrument of reprisal, a medium for priv ate promulgation and 1t is snuffed directly the matter for which it was brought into being is requited or propitated.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
IN HOTEL LOBRIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for this day Thursday, January 10, 1901;
 Sell in the morning."
 Beware of losses and speculation, II ihis be thy birthday. Keep thy money save ana run no risk In thy family expect sickness. Those in employ will be more fortunate
 "A child born on this day will be proaisal' careless. and spend it's money on pleasure and company It will be clever, and shouio keen in employ"
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
HOT WATER FOR sLEEPLEssNEss'

Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette.
 A most wretched victim of insomnia of 'twerty-five years standing says:
 ''I took hot water-a pint, comfortably hot, one good hour before each of my meals and one the last thing at night-nat- urahy unmixed with any,hing else The very frat night I slept for three hours on end, turned round and slept again till morning. 1 have faithfully and regularly continued the hot water, and have never had one lad night since. Pain gradually lessered and went, the shattered nerves became calm and strong, and instead of eaotl nigt,. being one long misery spent in wearying for the morning they are all too short for the sweet, refreshing sleep now enjoy"
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
About Persons.

Hon. Alexander Troy of Montgomery was in Birmingham yesterday attending the annual meeting of the Birmingham Realty Company.
  Lawyer s. D. Logan and F. H. Crawford of Centreville were in Birmingham yesteT- day.
 Dr. H. Kutnow of London, England is at the Morris.
  Rev. Mr. Green of Montgomery, ve era.., ...lnister, former ly widely known ,o aiethodists of Ala bama, was in Birmingham yesterday.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
Carrie BridweIPs Portrait.

A large and exquisitely drawn portrait of Miss Carrie Bridewell makes attractive the musical page of the New York Tribune of Sunday The picture is the width or two of the Tribunes wide columns, Is Tn half-tone and is very true to life. It is from a new copyrighted photograph, and under it is the inscription, Carrie Bridewell, Contralto, Metropolitan Opera Company"
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
A DAILY THOUGHT.
Colton.

There is this difference between happi- ness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
Death of Old Freemason.

Chicago, January 9.-John B. Laing, be- lieved to have been the oldest Free Mason in the United States died here today, aged 100 years. Laing joined the order in Scot land in 1920.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
uNANswERAsLE HARRISON LOGIC.

From the Indianapolis News.
 A large majority of the Republican pa- pers do not seem to know what to do with General Harrsons remarks, and they do the next best thing-they keep silent
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Ex-Mayor Hewitt is to stay with us twenty years longer as salt cater, but the saltier he becomes the less cranky he should be.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Tesla should have joined the faculty of Chicago University before he began to wigwag to Mars. He and Trigg would make a fine pair to draw to.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
HEATED,

From the Omaha World Herald.
 John Hell and Peter Devil are near neigh bors in Oklahoma. The climate in that vii cinity is quite tropical.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Bank elearings and prosperity are not watching Wall street, which has no rela- try
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

P. Grove is laughing at the detectives who never detect He takes all the papers no doubt, for he is a well-to-do man who desires to keep well informed.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Eagles and wolves are now found within the city limits of Chicago, and Roosevelt need not go farther West
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Congress does not keep Senator Morgan busy, so he has agreed to be the principal speaker at the annual dinner of the New ark, New Jersey, Board of Trade, on Jan uary r,
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

When we get a big army then we will want big war in order to keep the former employed This is what imperialism is
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Professor Loeb's salt formula should be wigwagged to Mars, with a request that they contrive a way to take the professor also.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

James J. Hill may look like methodist preacher but he does not act like one
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Governor Nash is supporting Foraker for Senator in Ohio, and Senator Foraker is supporting Nash for Governor. Nash hopes to succeed Hanna, retired, in the Senate These are the best-laid plans of today.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Roclefeller's fortune, like Shakespeares genius, will, it is now held in the Chicago University, not be fully appreciated and measured by contemporaries. They still hold that Shakespeare is No. ?.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Senator Hawley's temper and Mir. Little fields sarcasm are relieving the session of some of it's tediousness
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Atlanta got in on the kidnapping line ol business rather late, but in good shape
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

It begins to look as if MT. Grove had
 kidnapped himself.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Tesla's messages to and from Mars arc received subject to delays in transmission
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Congress everything except the subsidy steal
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Rattleships are becoming bigger every year. England is building one of lS,U0O tons displacement.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Denmark is trying to sell us a gold brick.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Brine's the thing now. Ask Professor Loeb
The age-herald., 1901-01-10

Ambassador Choate is neglecting his duties when he lets Stead infict himself on this country.
The age-herald., 1901-01-10
D'ain't No News.

The Hon, Robert J. Love- chairman O. the State Democratic Committee, met or the street yesterday the Hon. Alexandel Troy, the eminent lawyer of Montgomery and lifetime secretary of the Alabama Bal Association MT. Lowe asked MT. Troy fol news, in the usual way. That reminded MT. Troy of one Of dozens of excellen stories.
 Sam Johnson and Jake Smith, two sub stantial colored citizens, met each other il the morning:
 ''Sam?''
 "Jake?"
 Flows you?"
 "'M we'll How's you?'
 M we'll Hows your family?'
 "Das well. Hows yourn?'
 "Da's we'll How's all?"
 Well Hows all wid you?"
 Well. What's de news"
 "D'aint none-thout you knows some?'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-12
EASY TO CONTROL TRUSTS.
Perfectly Simple Plan to DO Away
with Those Gigantic Conn
hines.

The troublesome trust question is
settled at last, and it is curious that
none of us have thought of this simple
remedy before. The editor of the Sat-
urday Evening Post has made this
wonderful discovery. As an inventor
he will be counted with Franklin, Watt,
Edison, Fulton and other men whom
we loye to revere. He has also discov-
cred, a solution of the strike problem
and it's just too simple for anything,
dontcher know. It's a wonder some
other great man did not give to the
world this startling scheme. But il
remained for this genius in the dark
regions of the editorial sanctum of the
Evening Post to discover it, and thus
bring peace where there has been moth
ing but war. Well, here is the plan:
It is proposed that all w~orkingmen in
the United States save their one
and buy the stock of the concern in
which they are employed, gain a con-
trolling interest and then tell the
capitalists to go home.
How easy it will be for the employees
of the Standard Oil trust to buy a ma
iority of that stock which is now worth
at its market price over $500, 600 ,00o-
In 1900 the trust employed 10000
workmen, to whom if payed $6,717, 0s9,
an average of S11 a week. The editor
of the Post probably thinks tina at
least half of this should be saved and
invested, but if they could exist on six
dollars a week and saw FIVE dollars il
would still require over 1873 gears to
buy one-half the stock. and Rcckefel-
Ter or his heirs might advance the
price of il and require another cen
fury to be added. What gray matter
those Philadelphia editors have.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-12

ippines and will not return until No
vcmber 1, so there are several weeks
during which the onus may be laid
upon his shoulders problematically.
All the same, the American people
will conclude hat the signal service
records have been stolen for a pur-
pose, as many public records have
been stolen or falsified for various
but always infamous purposes during
the past few years.
"One would think that the Samp-
son scandal had become too hot for
even the administration to bear, and
that it would do something in the
line of an attempt to convince the
country. that it is no longer an active
party to the conspiracy against the
victor of Santiago. 1t would better
make the effort before it is too late,
because every day now adds to the
proof hat a plot has been Matching
ever since August, 1898, to rob Adj
miral Schley of his laurels and trans
fer them to Sampson, the man of the
MatanZaS mule"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-12
MYsTERIoUsLY DISAPPEARED
Documents Relating to the Spanish
War Have Conveniently Seen
Lost to View.

The politicians who r running
the republican party are having
piled up against them a good deal of
evidence that they r not only the
greatest treasury hooters that the
United States has ever been cursed
with, but that they + also guilty
of pillaging the government archives
to accomplish their ends. Evidence
of this was lately published. and the
Washington Times says: 1T was de-
yeloped yesterday that all of the Sc
cret correspondence of the signal
corps of the army relating to the
Spanish war has ~mysteriously disap-
peared from the files of the war de-
partment. Among the missing docu-
ments is a dispatch from Col. Allen
to Gen. Greedy announcing the pres
enc of the Spanish fleet in Santiago
harbor. This message, it is said, was
Immediately communicated to Samp-
son, who allowed IL days to elapse
before taking any steps to meet the
situation. As the original of this
communication and the official in
drosements which may have been
made upon it are very necessary for
Admiral Schley's counsel to see, per-
haps the public need not be sur
prised to know that it has been put
out of the way.
The excuse is offered at the de-
partment that possibly Gen. Greedy,
chief of the signal corps, deliberately
may have destroyed the records,
with a view of concealing the names
of persons used in the secret service
of the United States. But nobody
will be deluded by any such subter-
fuge. If Gen. Greedy had done a
thing of that kind it would be a mat
ter of public record, and his reasons
and authority for the act would be
spread upon the files of the depart
ment. He is conveniently in the Phil
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-12
VICIOUS AND DANGEROUS.
The Hanna-Frye Ship Subsidy Bib
Right i'm Line with Robber
Trusts.

Wherever you find an honest news
paper, free from the control of the
monopolists, it is opposed to the
Hanna-Frye ship subsidy bill. The
Philadelphia North American says OF
it: I'm spite of his failure to persuade
or to bully the senate into passing his
ship subsidy bin last winter, Senator
Frye has summoned some of his
friends to meet him in Boston the lat
ter part of this month for the purpose
of laying plans for a fresh assault
on the United States treasury. :
IF the republicans of the last con-
gress had been in favor of the policy
of paying $4,000, 900 a year to half a
score of ship owners, the Frye bill
would have been a law before now. As
a matter of fact, Senator Frye lost
ground the more he labored. he was
never able even to bring his bin to .
vote, and there was open satisfaction
among some of the republican sena-
tors at his discontinue. The bill was
so vicious in principle and so danger
Gus in tendency, opening the way, as
it did, for a succession of special
bounty schemes that party leaders,
while courteously silent in debate, felt
thankful that they had been saved
from a serious political blunder.
Discussion of the provisions of the
Frye bill has thoroughly informed the
public of its real purpose. A renewals
of the attempt to push it through con-
gress will be a dangerous experiment.
Against this active influence of the
clique of favored individuals who hope
to be made beneficiaries of the govern
ment viii be arrayed the great mass of
honest public opinion which resents
the singing out of a small number of
profitable concerns for special regard
at the expense of all the taxpayers
Senator Frye is doing the republican
party a great disservice by ~endeavoring
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-12
PITH AND POINT.

Slow wisdom is sometimes better
than sudden inspiration. Chicago
Daily News.
Were you left much in your uncle's
will?" Yes, confound it, completely"
Town and Country.
We have tried it, and find that if
you tell a man who doesn't do a bit of
cork that he is oyerworked, he gives
you credit for being most sincere
Atchison Globe.
The things hat elude us are the
temptations for which there has been
made a way of escape and for every
disappointment there has been some
thing gained.-N. Y. Sun.
First Actor-"Stormer Barnes says
that he'll accept none but Shakes
pearean roles this season. Second Ac-
tor-~WeH, I'll bet that he's around
hunting bread rolls before the seasons
half over."-Indianapolis News.
Obliging.-Old Lady-:Dear! dear!
I don't like to see a little boy smoking
a cigarette" The Boy-Don't y,
ma'am? Well, if vi come round this
way at the same time t'morrer I'll try
t be smokin' a cigar r a pipe."-Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin.
D'Auber-"Have you seer my paint
ing. The Haymakers,' up at the acad-
emy?" Criteek-"Yes, and 1 heard a
comment on it to-day" DAuber-
Complimentary" Criteek-'Judge
for yourself. An old farmer who was
looking at it said: WAL, that makes
me tired.'"-Philadelphia Press.
They had been drifting about in the
open BOAT seven days, and all were
near unto death, when the half-fam-
ished sailor in the bow leaped up and
cried: "a sail! A sail!'' What, a bar
gain sale?" shrieked the half-dead
woman passenger, as she began FUN
bling for her purse.-Baltimore World.