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The age-herald., 1901-04-28
M0sQuit0es and Germs.

It begins to look as if the mosquito
 must go. He has been tried by the scientists and found guilty of murder by means of yellow fever and malaria
 germs, and war against him is about to be declared either by filling I'D all pools of stagnant water or else by covering the water with petroleum.
 Stagnant water is needful in the pro-
 pagation of mosquitoes. Such a pool as exists on Twenty-fourth street.
 Northside, will breed millions of mos-
 quitoes. and all such pools should be filled up. The city authorities should see that they are filled.
 In Cub&it was clearly and unmis- takably demonstrated that yellow
 fever could not be communicated
 through clothing or the infection of a
 building, but that the bites of certain mosquitoes that had before bitten a fever patient were sure to create the disease. This was amply demonstrated in Havana, and Dr. Lazear lost his life in the experiments. No bite of an infected mosquito failed to produce a case of fever, and infection without
 the Intervention of mosquitoes is well
 nigh impossible.
 Professor Beyer of Tulane Univer- sity Is equally confident that no case of malaria can occur except through the bites of malaria-laden mosquitoes
 The disease-breeding insects are called
 anopheles. They are swamp mos
 quitoes. There are other swamp mos
 quitoes. dozen species perhaps. but
 the anopheles are the only dangerous ones. And the danger from them is
 conflned to the females, but there are :&wice as many females as males. The
 mouth of the male is not formed for
 sucking. He cannot inject the ma,
 iaria terms in his system into human |Veins, but the female anophele can,
 Ind Professor Beyer is confident that malaria cannot be contracted in any Eother manner. He says, in conclusion: B It will thus be reatiify understood that
 fhe only mode of introducing the malarial fever into the human body is by the pro- <boscis of the mosquito. It the results of .khe investigations carried on in Cuba by
 fhe United States marine hospital sur
 keons can be confirmed in regard to yell low fever. 1t will be again the proboscis
 of ,thls pestiferous insect which Is re-
 sponsibls for the misery and death of
 thousands of human beingE every year.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
$15 COAL IN PARIS.

Paris.-The price of coal Is the burning question in which Parisians are chiefly interested at present. The dismal fact that the cost of a ton of coal is almost $l5, although the winter demand can matter of most pressing importance for the moment, The figure represents a rise of about 40 per cent. on last seasons prices, and all the most authorized prophets declare that the rise will con- tinue throughout the winter. especially if the weather is severe. It happens, too, that consumers have special grievance as against England. English coal is burned in the majority of slow combus- ton stoves so popular In France, and English coal has advanced in price more than any other variety, yet another ex- ample of the immemorial contrariness of la perfide Albion.
 Should the coal crisis prove as serious as is feared, 1t will cause a number of changes in the conditions of life in Paris, and even after the outward aspect of the city. The small coal merchants and the washerwomen will not be able to survive the ordeal, and will have to close their establishments, which are so characteris- tic feature of the streets of the capital. The washerwomen are already migrating to the suburbs, where hot water is cheap CT than in town. as coal escapes the mu- nicipal duty. If the exodus continues, as it is likely tQ do. the hundreds of which Zola has given famous description in ''LAssommoir," will soon be a thing of the past. The huge floating laundries of the Seine are also doomed to disappear. The small coal merchants are little bet ter off, as most of them have at least two strings to their bow. Every visitor to Paris must have noticed their shops, in which space is economized with a clev- erness worthy of extraordinary thrifty race to which almost all the ''bougnats." as the small coal merchants are popularly termed, belong. With but few exceptions they arc Anyergnats, and they make a sou and a cubic foot of space go farther than the canniest of their countrymen. Their shops, which. to begin with, are always the smallest shops to be rented in the district, are divided into a miracu- lous number of compartments. In the center there is just space for the coming and going of the usually massive "bougnat" himself.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
R,rno,nob.m,s New Railroad.

Much railroad building Is now in pro- gress and being prepared for and the in- creased consumption of steel for steel rails will be tremendous.
 Undoubtedly the rail mill being con- structed at Ensley will be able to dispose of every rail it can make at a profitable price.
 And, speaking of the consumption of rails, am told that the projected Bir- mingham and Atlanta Air Line Is to be a fact rather than a fancy. I hear that some of the strongest financiers in the East are behind the movement, and that a road is to be built to connect up the Seaboard Air Line system on the East with the St. Louis and San Francisco and Kansas City. Memphis and Birmingham from the West.
 It is said that this new road is to take a southerly swing in its route to Att lanta-
 Already, am told. corps of engineers have started out from the limits of Bir- mingham and have begun preliminary survey of the route. It would therefore seem that Birmingham Is soon to beconS the great railroad center of the South as well as the great industrial center. It all looks well for Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
American Ships.

The United States is getting to be the greatest ship-building country in the world.
 It is said that our ship yards now have contracts for constructing ships which in the aggregate will amount to several hun dred million dollars. Many new ship yards have been established recently and all of them are prosperous. Several hun drew new merchant ships for American trade are under construction, which would indicate that subsidy bill is not necessary to develop an American mer- chant marine
 The Newport News, Virginia, ship yard now has under construction six cruisers end battleships for the government and some seven merchant steamers of unusual size.
 The Amerfcan-Hawaiian Steamship Company is building two large merchant vessels at the Union Iron Works at San Francisco, and the Red Star Line and the Ward Line are each building two 12,000- ton ships at the Cramps Philadelphia yard.
 The New Jersey and Maryland ship yards have eleven ships of 12,000 tons bur den or more each under construction.
 All of these are steel vessels, and the consumption of steel in vessels and in bridges will be tremendous during the next year.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
RepIantIng Necessary.

From the Florence Herald.
 Early cotton and corn will doubtless have to be replanted, as the cold. damp weather, without any sunshine, has either killed the tender young plants or caused the seed to ferment. Not much corn or cotton, fortunately, has been planted, but farmers all say that the land already planted will have to be replanted.
 The farmers of the county have been most industrious this year and were at least thirty days ahead of last year when the cold spell came. While the past week has been gloomy, the cloudy weather can not last, and we may look for warm, sun ny weather from now on. The fruit, so far. it is thought, has not been injured. Vegetables are well advances and a couple of days of sunshine will clothe nature with beautiful green verdure.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28

them together making connected chain of them. sA. s.7ss'
 This is Herman's old trick but this itinerant did 1t equally well. Then he proceeded to measure the improvised sword with his body. showing that the sword was longer than from his mouth to his hips After this preliminary he threw his head back. stretching his neck out like a girafr's, And proceeded to drop the sword down his throat, swallowing more than two feet of 1t, and easily draw ing it out without any apparent incon- venience.
 He repeated the performance several times. permitting bystanders to examine the sword, and the last time permitting one to draw 1t from his throat
 The fellow received sufficient reward to purchase wardrobe of more modern structure, but like most freaks he prob ably invested in fiery fluid for the inner man.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
Swallows Swords.

I saw a novelty up at Greenville, S. C.. C.. the other day. He was an itinerant sword swallower.
 The through train from the north was delayed there an hour or more by a freight wreck ahead. Two score of pas sengers were strolling up and down the sanded depot reservation, when tall and bony individual with frazzled Prince Albert coat apparently of the vintage of the sixties, and frayed trousers almost reaching his shoetops, appeared upon the scene with a number of iron rings and long piece of steel an eighth of an inch thick, nearly an inch wide and some thirty inches long. The fellow first permitted every one to examine the rings to see that they were solid; then he quickly threw
The age-herald., 1901-04-28

But even admitting the causation Of ma larial levers alone. 1t is sufficient to call for the destruction of the pernicious in- sects. That this can be accomplished. as least to such an extent as to mini- mize the danger of infection. there can be no doubt. but it cannot be effected by simply wire-screening our houses or the burning of old rags. The destruction of the breeding places and with them the larvae and pupae is the only way to reach the root of the evil. The former must be effected by drainage of the larger areas to be undertaken by the mu- nicipalities. and the clearing of small areas by the board of health, in con junction with the property holders. The larvae and pupae may be readily de- stroyed by a variety of agents at once cheap as well as effectual and lasting.
 This city can be readily freed from mosquitoes by the filling of low places, and the draining of moist places. There is nothing more dangerous under the hot suns of this latitude than stagnant water-not one thing, and the scient- ists are beginning to make the danger clear and plain to all. Stagnant water matches the eggs of mosquitoes, and those mosquitoes carry disease from one person to another, filling the world with it. The mosquito must go, but the mosquito will remain while there are pools of stagnant water left here and there in every neighborhood and district. Drainage is the great need of this town and State.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
Blrminaham's Population.

The new city directory is out. It gives the city and its immediate surburbs S1, ,S08 inhabitants. Of course city directories, as rule, exhibit much enthusiasm in their estimates of population, but this time the directory Is not up to the esti- mate of the managers of the street rail- road system of Birmingham. These lat ter people estimate that their lines in and about Birmingham serve population of 05,0O0 people. These lines, however, extend to Ensley, Pratt City. Bessemer, Powderly, East Lake. Woodlawn and Avondale-all within the limits of what was proposed to be Greater Birming- ham," All are within less than an hours ride on trolley cars from the center of the city. All do business in Birmingham and all are really part of Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
Improved Streets.

It was a. good movement on the part of the Mayor and Aldermen when they provided for street commissioner for Birmingham.
 Commissioner McCartin has done excel lent work.
 Every one notes the improvement in ths streets. .tsess
 His work is beginning to tell in all parts of the city.
 He is employing the city convicts to excellent advantage.
 They should all be turned over to hira and the matter of keeping the city clean of removing garbage should be taken out of the hands of contractors who but half fulfill requirements and be placed in the hands of this excellent street commis- sioner.
 If McCartin is encouraged, Birmingham will soon have most excellent streets and they will be, kept clean. ,- ..ge. ss-e-s
The age-herald., 1901-04-28

became uneasy and afraid, and by and by he demanded:
 What is the trouble, my son?'
 "Oh. father, that taller devil, that taller devilr'
 The Murmurer heard that story well within the confines of far Sahara, from an Arab Sheik who at eventide smoked his pipe in front of his tent when the glow of the desert sunset was still glorious in a sky that was silver and gold and pur- pie and eternal blue, in which the stars glistened ever more as the story ran its course.
 So 1t is with every man of us, my be- loved. It is the taller or the smaller we call them our angels-those radiant and loving creatures of Gods goodness whom the Door fellow from the encom- passed valley nkened to devilsl They are our only worthy incentives in this life.
 We are told of Montrose that, There was glory on his forehead, there
 was lustre in his eye,
 But he never walked the battle more
 proudly than to die."
 No man ever achieved victory in this world, and no man ever died a noble death. before whose fading vision there did not rise the glorious figure of a wo- man. Montrose saw it, as every real man before him saw, and as every one since has seen and blessed with his dying breath!
 Last night a man saw youth in the glad and innocent abandon of the dance. Girl hood verging closely upon womanhood glided through the merry mazes of grace with youth that counts the days many before the full burst of manhoods glare and its grief, It's tasks and its inevitable exactions.
 It was in home where piety holds sway and faith is the guardian in the blessed stronghold of motherhood and virtue; where noble mothers youth and beauty and strength are re-created in the daughter who is sunny-hearted, and un- afraid of all things save the things that are not of the spirit of innocence.
 The scene was one of surpassing lovli- ness; scene to move the man of many misgivings to something closely akin to idolatry; such a scene as sounds the trumpets of joy to their most clearly ringing notes, and that glorifes youth in it's superlative charms, fair and fieeting as a cloud of white that fades before the rising sun.
 The little maiden of the home-pest, and she of sorrows and joys who overwatched innocence in proud love and yet prouder confidence, they were a beautiful bene- diction to those other ones pure of heart and lofty of purpose who gathered there where sweet Charity benignly dwells
 There is not man upon the earth, wherever he be. who, seeing those joyous maidens and those noble and gifted youths. splendid in their young manful- ness. would not have uncovered and counted himself blest in knowing them and their loves and their youthfulness. Most beautiful maidens in the wide world manifest youthsi
 The splendor of it all is enough for any life to know.
 In the splendid glory of the sunset she met him who had nothing to ask but that she be joyous. And she did rejoice in the splendid exuberance of youth that had never come to know pain of the heart.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28

''Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of
 heaven,
 Before, behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round!'
 All hail to goodness and virtue, love and purity, my beloved!
 These are best exemplified in my lady, the woman who is first with every man honest with himself and with God. We may say what we like, prate and prattle and make vows as we will, but there. was pulse, apart from Gods annointed, be- hind which there did not burn the bright light of woman's virtue and sound the soft admonitions of a woman's voice urg- ing onward.
 In every act and deed of mems lives that are worthy is the resplendent glory of woman's love and her innocence. She Is appointed as the saving grace of every mans life, and if she come not into the life of any man he shall not be saved.
 She is the most blessed material infiu- fnce in this world, and he who realizes this not and does not accept 1t, his aspira- tions, his career, all his purposes are doomed to damnedest destruction.
 She comes in some relation at some time, my beloved; the woman comes into in every mans life.
 Once there was a faithful man in a land far from this valley to whom wo- man brought supreme sorrow, swiftly coming upon the supreme joy she had given him. Taking their infant son, he fled to little valley between encompassing mountains far away from the busy and woman-loving world of turbulence and striving. In the insanity of his grief, he resolved to never look upon woman again and never to permit his boy-her boy, too-to see one builded in the form of the lost mother.
 The infant grew into boyhood the boy became a sturdy lad, the lad a man, and had not yet seen woman with seeing eyes.
 It was the fathers custom to make a hurried visit to the far city once a year for pressing necessities of crude and rude life, and he left the boy to fate in the hermit hut of the encompassed valley. When the boy, grown to lad and the lad to effeminate manhood, saw one year his fathers poor preparations for the Journey to the city, he begged for the poor priv ilege of accompanying him. The young man earnestly and tearfully pleaded, and in the end the father consented. And so they set out, the embittered father and the son who had never seen woman since any power of reason or discernment had come to him.
 The two, the father and the son, fared forward to the far city and to-fate in the guise of a woman! Arrived at the gate of the city, they were about passing in when two maldens came strolling joy ously out. They came face to face with the father and son and passed on
 ''who are they, father7' the son asked eagerly.
 : Devils. my son. devils! Shut your eyes!'' the father cried.
 The two hurried into the city and made their poor purchases quickly, and then they departed speedily for their poor place in the encompassed valley They had journeyed far on the way and the son had never spoken. He was silent, and solemn in his voicelessness. The father
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT MANY
 MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST

The voters of Jefferson County, as well as those of many other sections of the State. seem to have been timid on the subject of a Constitutional Convention for Alabama It was a close shave by which this county was carried. The of ficial count gives the convention only 20 majority. As matter of fact, however. the majority was really 102, but the re- turning officers from Pratt City and Brookside forgot their certificates in mak- Ing returns to the judge of probate yes terday when the official count was made. However, with 420O votes boiled, even this real majority of 102 would indicate either decided apathy or timidity on the part of the voters who are supposed to believe that a Constitutional Convention will be a good thing for the State. On the other hand. there were more oppo- nents of the Idea than was suspected Over 1000 votes were boiled in Jafferson County against holding a Constitutional Over 20Oo votes were boiled in Jefferson
 There is lesson in this Jefferson Coun- ty vote and in the vote of other sections of the State. It means that the Consti- tutional Convention-or the men compos- ing it-must be careful in their work. Otherwise, the voters of the State may refuse to accept it. The people will not accept 'any understanding clause in the new constitution. The provision for the exercise of the ballot must be plain. It must be either an educational qualifica- tion. property qualification or poll tax qualification. There must be nothing in 1t which can lead to trickery or frauds in the exercise of the ballot.
 We have had too much manipulation in Alabama politics in the past. The idea of the new constitution Is to bring about honesty and purity in politics. This must manner or else the people will not accept the proposed new constitution.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
REFLEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Popularity is very deceptive thing You canl never be sure who paid for the flowers
 An imaginative man Is most sure to get into soma terrible trouble when he tries to amuseYhe baby.
 A man rlever works half as hard to get a woman to marry him as he did when he was aiboy and carried water for the elephant.
 Just as liAely as not a woman who makes her husbands life wretched be- cause he swfars will get a lot of satis- faction out q slaming the door
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
New Colony for cuIIman.

From the Alabama Republican.
 A number of northern capitalists have been in Cullman during the past few days quietly investigating the resources of this section. They contemplate opening up large body of land west of yinemont and Cullman provided a satisfactory route for local railroad can be secured. This means much to this locality if the report made meets with favor.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
HamIIfon's New Court House.

From the Marion County Democrat
 Work or the new courthouse Is pro- gressing nicely. The outside walls are nearly completed and it presents most beautiful appearance. If nothing happens everything will be complete before the next term of the Circuit Court.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
Too Much Fruit.

From the Randolph Leader.
 The late cold spell has been remarkable for the season of the year. The mercury has chung tenaciously 10 the region of 40 and below. As for the fruit. we are of the opinion that half of it might be killed without damage. We would still have plenty of 1t left, and of better quality.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28

rect. The common everyday tongue will scarcely stop more important work in order. to twist itself over the ob- noxious vowel in the word, and the purists will probably have their trouble for their pains.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
Can Talk to All the World.

From the Franklin Times.
 Parties are now engaged in connecting a long-distance telephone line between Russellville and Tuscumbia- AS soon as this line is completed Russellville will be connected with all the world and will be more secure in her title of the best town of her size in the State
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
Hamlet.
Revival of Baseball.

After a lapse of three years pro- ( fessfonal baseball is again to become the chief outdoor amusement of this 2 town. Manager Mills has. in the opin- ion of many experts. organized team , that will play the game at all times, and that will give the other teams all the business they will feel like de- [ manding. The Southern Association ! is composed of even, well-balanced hines, and there is reason to believe | interest in the game will soon outrun sall previous experience in Birming- ham.
 There is really no outdoor sport that better deserves support than baseball when it is conducted on the high plane that President Kent proposes. It is not game that invites betting, nor is 1t sport that is ended In a few minutes, but it Is one that holds the bBCSldlOI duOut IWO h66pluB him interested and alert in the open air, and sending him home with good appetite and brighter view of things.
 Dnp athletic struggle he witnesses,
 body and brain are
 pfessional ball player Is
 organized machine. and
 will represent this town,
 Haxt Thursday, is machine
 gt huff many balls. They
 ysome games with scarcely
 0r. If this team can feel that DIovers of good sport at home is behind them, they will play good ball, and on Thursday all may see they are worthy of support.
 The Age-Herald will report the com ing series of games carefully, and every game will be fully described, with all the details that rooters can reasonably expect.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28

Cans of roast beef should be dated. The vintage of 1890 should not be sold as that of the new century. All canned goods should have date stamped on the can.