davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-16
Deafness Cannot be Cured

py local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way 20 cure deafness, and that is by eonstltu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an m
Iamed condition of the mucous lining OF the
Eustaehian tube. When this tube Is intiamed
you have rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when il is entirely closed, deafness Is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can OK
taken out and this tube restored 10 its norlnal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an intamed condition Oh
the mucous surfaces.
We Will give 500 for any case of deafness
keaused by catarrh) that cannot be cureu y!
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, iTee'
+, ], CHENEY & CO., Toledo o.
Sold by druggists Is cents
Halls Family Pills are the best.
To get relief from indigestion, bilious
ness, constipation or torpid liver with.
out disturbing the stomach or purgng the
bowels, take a few doses of Carriers Lit
tie Liver Pills, they will please you
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-16
A Gard.

We wish to express our heartfelt thankful
ness and gratitude TO all those who in any way
assisted In the sickness, death and burial of
our husband and father also for the many
beautiful flowers. May heavens choicest
blessings rest on you all Is the wish of
MRS. /. L. TAFT AND FAMILY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-16
Carl Leltsinger,

Teacher of cornet, Brattleboro, VT, Pu-
Dill of H. o. Brown, Boston. Write for
particulars.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-16
No GLOSS carrlaee Paint Made

viii wear as long as Devoes. No others are as
heavy bodied, because DeVoes weigh, 10 s
ounces more TO the pint. Sold by Robbins g.
COWles.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-16
SINGER Sewing Machines.

Sold on monthly payments without inter-
est. Any make of machine taken in part
payment. Needles, oil and supplies for
any kind. Second hand machines of diff
ferent makes for sale cheap or to rent.
Cleaning and repairing. Office with c.
w. Sawyer, Jewcller, 80 Main street,
Brattleboro, VT.
w. G. COLLIER. Agent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-16

c. NJ. Park, Tutor,
Principal of BRATTLEBORO PRIVATE
SCHOOL, IL Chaplin st.
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
TIE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Deserti0n of Jefferson.

Blount county has caused bill to be presented asking for transfer to the seventh congressional district; Hale County is seeking transfer to the sixth congressional district, and Bibb County long ago expressed desire to get away from Jefferson, and as things stand the consent of the governed exists in Perry and Jefferson only. But P.rry and lief ferson are neither contiguous" nor compact" So, what shall be done?
 Why, after all, should counties be punished by tying them against their Wal to Jefferson? It is a distinct and plain violation of home rule. The con sent of the districted is lacking Jeffer- son does not want outlying counties, and the outlying counties do not want to be politically joined to Jefferson for ob- vious reasons.
 Moreover Jefferson promises to out grow alone and single-handed any other district that may be formed in the State, and it can be depended upon to keep its promise. Its growth in the panicky years of 1S93-98 shows what it can do and will assuredly do. Why not give it a chance? Why not let the boast be that an Alabama county is a congressional district? Why let green-eyed jealousy interfere to deprive the State of such legitimate pride?
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
THEY MET AGAIN.

From the Washington Post
 When Senator Turner of Washington came to the Senate he met two old friends-Senator Morgan of Alabama and Senator Teller of Colorado.
 After the war Mir Turner went South to Alabama to begin the practice of law. He was a Republican, and in those days there more sectional feeling than there is at present, and he found that the South was not altogether congenial as a place of residence. He came to Washington after several years of Southern experience and asked President Arthur to send him West Senator Teller was then Secretary of the Interior, and he aided MT Turner to get appointment as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Washington, which then Territory When the nomina- ton came before the Senate, Mir Morgan said that MT Turner was such good Re- publican that he was glad he was going to leave Alabama. So Mir. Turner went West When he again came East it was to occupy seat in the Senate chamber with Senator Teller and Senator Morgan.
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
Pass the Bill. 0 Masters.

Writes man who reads history:
 "The father of nearly every man in the Alabama Legislature made Alabama his tory in days of trial Many of the members themselves have made history, are making it now!
 Tn this place many weeks ago the plea was made for the establishment of an Ala bama State department of archives and history, and that plea has been repeatedly urged in the hope that the Legislature dur ing its present session would enact the laws needed in this particular It cannot be that any member of the Legislature IS so ll-informed, little versed in the his- tory of his own State, as not to perceive the great necessity of the thing aimed at. An incident of yesterday illustrates what the outside world thinks of the mat ter at issue. An Alabamian given to con- tlnuous and daily effort, such as it is, to rescue from rubbish piles and preserve in print for his home people some records of his peoples place in history, has been requested to write for a great magazine the story of one single episode in the life of Alabamal This fact carries it's own ar- gument.
 
 the fast-fading records of Alabama his tory Can the Legislature hesitate? Can any member of the lawmaking power stand in the way of progress in this direction? "The work of the Alabama Historical Commission, created by act oi the General Assembly December 10, 1898, has been com pleted, and it's report on the sources and materials for Alabama history, in a hand some octave volume of AT pages, has been printed. The book is in the hands of the members of the present Legislature and admirably emphasizes the necessity for State aid in behalf of the preservation of its history.
 '"fhe duties of the lawmakers is plain and their descendants of a thousand years hence will praise them for preserving the records of the last generation and of the generation that is passing.
 MT Speaker, the yeas and nays are de- mandedl
 Pass the bill!'
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
Will You Be My Valentine?

The stocks of valentines on sale in Birm- ingham are clear evidence of a marked revival in the ancient observance of St. Valentines Day. The supply of tender mis- sves and messages of all sorts this year Is far greater than at any other time for many years past, and dealers certainly have not bought full stocks on the bare chance of selling them: they know the drift in every direction of trade, and there fore the revival of happy old custom is at hand.
 It used to be the custom, even within the memory of persons who are many years this side of middle age, that my lady meas ured her own popularity largely by the number of valentines she received, just as she did by the Christmas and New Year cards which came to her. That was true in our mother country as recently as fifteen years ago. It is coming true again in this country here in Birmingham most of all for us Birmingham folk, who know the rattle of our burg to be truly the murmur of the world It was a very happy custom, and it's revival is sure to be happily well comed.
 Many of the designs in valentines now on sale are extremely tasteful, and It is under stood that they are finding 8 ready sale. This day week will be St. Valentines Day.
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
Duke Michael Wants to Marry.

New York February GA dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from London says:
 Delicate negotiations are passing between the courts of Russia and England looking to marriage between the Grand Duke Michael younger brother of the Czar and heir presumptive toN the throne, and Prin- cess Victoria, only unmarried daughter of the King of England. Standing in the way of the marriage is the iron-clad law of the Russians forbidding marriage between first cousins. The Czarewitch. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, is a son of the Dowager Empress of Russia, who is a sis ter of Queen Alexandra of England, he mother of Princess Victoria.
 A dispensation from the Czar would be necessary for such match and it is ex- tremely doubtful if Nicholas would grant such dispensation, for he refused it when Michael wanted to marry another of his cousins, Princess Helene, daughter of the Grand Duke Vladimir
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
NOTORIOUS THIEVES.
Men Who Broke Jail in New York
 Caught in London.

London February Ct has transpired that man in jail in England, who was sentenced in December last to four years imprisonment for robbery of a woman in the streets of London, is Charles Allen, one of the postofice robbers who escaped from Ludlow street jail, New York City, in 1895.
 On July fl, 1895, Joseph Eillorain, Harry Russell and Charles Allen. notorious crim- inals, awaiting trial on the charge of rob- ping the postoffices in Hoboken, N. J., Springfield, H., Patchogue. l.. l., Scranton, Pa-, and other places, of postage stamps worth s22, ,O0O escaped from jail In New York under sensational circumstances having previously failed in attempts to bribe Keeper McCabe and Fredericks, a cleaner. They held up the guards, having obtained revolvers in some manner never explained. The prisoners locked the guards in cells, and with the keys let themselves out of the jail corridor. They escaped before the im- prisoned jalers could raise an alarm.
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
EDWARD VlI.'S HEIGHT.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Tt seems to be the general impression over here that the new King of England is a large. heavily built sort of person. said an undersized EngliShman in one of the ho- tels yesterday. HThe impression is gained from his photographs and from the piet- ures in the illustrated papers, which cer- tainly would lead any one to believe that Edward VII was at any rate above the medium height. But he isn't.
 ''I don't know of any official record of His Majesty's height, but Ao must Dc t shade under feet without his shoes. I know this because I stood beside him for a few minutes at state funeral Now, my height Is exactly feet "A inches, and noticed that he seemed exactly as tall, but as he was broader and much heavier than l, he seemed a larger man.
 "The fact surprised me, because I had never seen him at such short range before l wouldn't be so certain about it had not friend who stood behind me and was as much surprised at the discovery as I was, mentioned to me that he had noticed that r was as big a man my future king.
 So, giving him the benefit of the doubt for quarter of an inch that's his size 5 feet 5. and the illustrations that depict him as standing nearly to the height of men of feet 10 or whereabouts are either fixed up with a desire to please him though it has never been said that he was sensitive on the point-or with the idea of letting the world at large believe that cur royal personages were just big as those of any other country
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
That Baby's Tooth.

"We are expecting baby to have tooth, and that lifts the burden of the grip from our happy home," said a Northside father as he beamed over soothing syrup in a drugstore last night. Nothing like a baby s first tooth, is there?"
 How the deuce do I know-I never owned baby?' said the bachelor without hope.
 70 thou miserable one! What is baby without a tooth?' said the young father
 Fine, I should say; for I have heard of baby's tooth raising Helen D. Nation of a row." said the other with a smirk. "Ah, I recall some poetry of my youth" the young father hummed: Rouse the neighbors one and all; Go shout it on the street, forsooth! Sound the cymbals, hire a hall
 For baby's cut a brand-new tooth" George. dear, George, dear, can't you
 guess the truth?
 George, dear George, dear baby's got a
 tooth!
 Kipdle up the fire turn the gas higher, Run, run, run and tell your Aunt Maria
 Babys got a tooth!"
 Get out of this!" the druggist cried fiercely
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
Sale of Carnegie Interests.

J. P. Morgan and his associates have secured control of the Carnegie iron and steel plants, purchasing from MT. Car negie a majority of the stock, but leav- ing in his hands the ponds of the Car negie Company held by him. This makes Mr. Carnegie still an interested observer of the affairs of the company, for he has about s9O,OOO,OOO tied up in it. The Morgan syndicate desire, so they state, to secure peace and harmony in the steel trade, the inference being that MT. Morgans allies are the other trusts in that trade.
 What relation this will have to af- fairs down this way remains to be seen. What independent steel mills can now do against the new giant combine re- mains to be developed. The situation is certainly very interesting to this dis trict, which is making a good deal of
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
Child Labor in Alabama.

Commercialism and humanity have
 met in a grapple over the bill to forbid the employment of children under 12 years of age, and the former won. The l joint committee of the houses of the Legislature voted to put the bill on the ! adverse calendar, the bill commanding voting. Senators Morrow of Jefferson and Moore of Bibb voted in favor of the
 bill, as did Representatives Riley of Jefferson, Troup of Morgan, Poole of l Clark and Porter of Washington. The other ten mempers of the joint comit- tee who were present voted ,o kill the bill, and it is now shelved until another Legislature is assembled, when it may reappear.
 In order that both sides may be heard we quote from the Huntsville Mercury: l At present Alabama is making rapid l strides in the matter of cotton manufaetur- l ing, and to place a check upon such devel- opment by allowing the passage of any law relating to labor will be injudicous and un-
 warranted It will be time enough to cor rect such evils when they occur, and cer- tainly our cotton mill population is not yet large enough to need regulating. The trouble with such laws arises for the most part from precedent One rtdical measure only paves the way for another, and the sooner the General Assembly puts down the appearance of being favorable to such laws the better for the whole people of the State. It may not be best for a child to work determined by the natural guardian of the children, and not by the General Assembly of Alabama.
 There is much in this that is mislead- ing The other cotton manufacturing states in the south are falling into line in this matter, and Alabama will sooner or later do likewise. md so far as leav- ing the helpless little ones to the sole control "of their natural guardians" the less said about that the better. The Mercury needs no instruction on that point It sees at it's mill doors every
 night many a tragedy of life, and when
 such object lessons are present words
 are unnecessary.
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
 S5,ooo,ooo FOR MISSIONS.
m the London Mail

From the London Mail.
 The late Mir. Robert Huntingdon of Leeds
 was millionaire who combined miseri- ness and philanthropy in an extraordinary degree. Inherting a large fortune derived
 from brewing, he spent nearly the whole of
 his life as a recluse in a villa in the sub- urbs of Leeds, which was scarcely, if ever, entered by a woman, and, consequently, scarcely, if ever, swept. His life in his Teignmouth retreat was cleaner, if hum- bier, for on arriving he inquired of an old boatman for lodgings. The boatman, see ing an aged man of poyerty-striclSen ap- pearanee, offered him quarters in his own house. And there Robert Huntingdon end ed his days among kindly people, who had no suspicion of his fabulous wealth.
 The provisions of the mllionaire's will are still more curious. They provide for
 the spread of the gospel to the uttermost ends of the earth.
 tenth of the estate goes to first cousins, etc. The other nine-tenths of the better part of a million is divided between the Baptist Missionary Society of London and the London Missionary Society, the former having five-tenths and the latter four tenths.. There will be nine trustees of each of these huge bequests
 The societies are to apply the money in uncontrolled discretion flor the purpose of spreading the knowledge of Gods word among the heather, excluding Mohamme- dan popula ton. The Free Church of Scot land Mission Society, to which 2OOO pounds is left, is ito deal with India.
 The will directs that, if practicable the money shall be spent in giving to every tribe of mankind that has them not and which speaks language distinct from all others, accurate copies of at least the Cos pes of St. John and St. Luke and the book of Acts of the Apostle printed in the tribe S language, and in teaching at least ten or a dozen persons of each such tribe to read. If possible, converted tribe shall be urged to evangeliZe others.
 But it is my wish that everywhere in all Africa in South America, ill Central America. in Asia, in the South Sea Islands and in the Indian archipelago all tribes
 and great nations destitute of the Gospels
 in print should by some means be reached promptly-the actual heather first-and put in possession of the Gospels, outward, in deed, it may be if only in print. but availa-
 be to some if God shall give them repent ance and faith.'
 Briefly, the will suggests the mapping out of the parts of the world unreached by the Gospel, and the early distribution of the Scriptures among them. And for this purpose 1t provides the better part of a million of money.
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
IN AUTU M N.

By Lewis Morris. Decay decay" the widering west winds
 cry, Decay, decay" the moaning woods replyt The whole dead autumn landscape, drear
 and chill, Strikes the same chord of desolate sadness
 still, The drifting clouds. the floods sullen sea, The dead leaves whirling from the ruined
 tree, The rain which, falling, soaks the sodden
 way Proclaim the parting summers swift decay, No song of bird, nor joyous sight or thing, Which smooths the wintry forefront of the
 spring No violet lurking in it's messy bed Nor drifted snow-bloom bending overhead. Nor tall spiked orchids purpIing all the
 world
 But thin dull herbage which no more may
 grow, And dry reeds rustling as the chill winds
 blow, -ii1 Bleak hillsides whence the huddled focks
 are fled, And every spear of crested grass lies dead. Decay, decay" the leaf1ess woodlands
 sigh The torpid earth, and all the blinded sky, And down the blurred moor. mid the dy-
 ing day. An ase-worn figure limps its weary wayI
The age-herald., 1901-02-07

pers were the most bitter traducers the South had, not excepting Chicago and Phil adelphia newspapers, and islander and abuse of the South cost Cincinnati probably a hun dred million dollars in Southern trade. Similarly Southern merchants would not trade in Chicago or Philadelphia, and they probably do not yet give any great per eentage of their trade to those cities. But politics no longer plays any noteworthy part in inter-sectional trade. Last year demonstrated that most conclusively by the utter failure of insanely foolish attempts or certain influences of one political party to get Southern merchants to agree not to trade with Indiana wagon and carriage manufacturers or with Baltimore merchants iE event Indiana and Baltimore were carried by the opposite party It was an attempt of Western and Eastern politicians to use SoTthern merchants in coercing merchants and manufacturers of Baltimore and Indi- ana to use their influences for one political party, such efforts being centered on those two supposedly doubtful communities.
 Southern merchants very promptly and properly refused to sacrifice their self-re- spect by agreeing to such a trade boycott. holding that politics was politics and busi- ness was business.
 That was perhaps the last effort that will ever be made by Northern politicians to use Southern merchants to further po- litical ends The Baltimore Sun newspaper, the worst offender in its impertinent in- quiries of Southern merchants particularly Birmingham merchants, is probably very sick of its part, for I hear that it has suf- fered greatly in business on account of it. Politics or no politics. our merchants will continue to trade where they can do best for themselves and their customers"
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
PROSPECT OF PASSING
 THE SOONER BILL

Washington, February 6. - Especially While the Democrats maintain that the Republicans should not attempt to pass the Spooner bill authorizing the President to administer the government of the Phil+ ippines through the agents he wishes to appoint until the Supreme Court has passed upon the insular cases they are not disposed to filibuster against that bill.
 The more conservative Senators on the Democratic side, Senator Pettus of Ala bama, for example, do not believe In fili- bustering, believing that the majority should have an opportunity to pass what ever legislation it determines upon without unnecessary interference by the minority. They insist, however, upon full and free debate, that the arguments against any pending measure may be fully stated and supported.
 Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota takes an entirely different view. He believes in using his power to interfere with the ma- Jerity and to harass and irritate them as much as possible. That has been his course ever since he was defeated for reelection, and even before that he enjoyed making himself obnoxious. Now his chi6 delight Is in making Senator Hanna unhappy, thinking that by doing he Is getting even with the Republican national chair man for the part the latter took in his de, feat. He really does not worry Hanna half as much as he thinks he does. Pettigrew insists that the Spooner bill shall not pass this session. His explanation gives a very interesting indication of his character. He says he does not believe in giving the Press ident the power to govern the Philippines as provided in the Spooner bill because it would grant him imperial power.' ITO be sure," he adds, .'the President is using just such power now, but he is doing it contrary to law, and I want him to con- tinue to do so.'
 In other words, believing that the ex- eroise of the war power by the Presidents is unlawful, and it certainly is abnormsL the President should, in the opinion of the South Dakota Senator, be forced to con. tinue to aot unlawfully simply because one Senator is unwilling that he should be given the legal authority to do so. The fact that the power proposed to be given to the President in the Spooner bill Is ex- actly the same power that was granted to Jefferson when the Louisiana territory was purchased, does not have any weight with Pettisrew He is simply pleasing himself by being an obstructionist and irritant. Sel- dom has a Senator left the Senate whose departure will give greater relief to the members of that body than will the retire. ment of Pettigrew on the 4th of March.
 ALBERT HALSTEAD.
The age-herald., 1901-02-07
THE PHILIPPINES.
The Amendment to Provisional Gov
 ernment Bill Has Been Passed.

Manila, February 6-The amended prov incial government bill has been passed, and the commission will leave here Tuesday to organize governments in the provinces of Pampanga, Pangasan and Tarlac. After the commissioners return from their tour they will organize Sambalese, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva, Ecijas and Cagayan. The latter, a northern province, is added by General Macarthur to the list of those regarded as ready for provisional government.
 The commission has been visited by six head-hunting Igorrotes from the province of Bontoni. They were immensely enter tained by the sights of Manila and ex- pressed a liking for Americans.
 The generals have been much congrat- ulated on President McKinleys nomina- ton.