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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
Bubonic Plaque in Frisco.

The plague is permanently estab- lished. it seems, in San Francisco, for the marine hospital service states that there have been deaths daily from it in that city for nearly three years. So great has the danger become, and so well seated is the disease in San Francisco that other cities are con sidering measures of precaution against it. At national conference of the state boards of health at New Haven, Connecticut, resolutions were passed asking every state board tc consider the subject, with a view tC compelling the San Francisco healtt authorities to stamp out the disease.
 The New Orleans Times-Democrat calls upon the health boards of Texas and Louisiana to take action. In nine months there have been 2230 deaths in San Francisco from the plague, and every case has proven fatal. The dis ease is exceedingly contagious, and the rate of fatality Is excessive. When 100 per cent die the situation becomes indeed alarming.
 The Times-Democrat thinks the health authorities of Texas and Louis. iana should act together with the Dur. pose of keeping the disease west of E. Paso. Many health seekers go tc California, and convention of the G. A. R. is to be held in San Fran cisco itself next summer, and mem bers of the Chinese colony are coming and going. It is indeed important that the seeds of this disease be kept west of Fl Paso. A single case in New Or leans would be full of dangers, and ( dozen cases would be worse than 6 battle. It would drive business away and would perhaps close all lines ot travel New Orleans is moving none too quickly, and it's action should bt thorough as well as speedy.
 The federal authorities say the dis ease can be stamped out. It is kep under in the Philippines, and surely t it can be contsolled in those islands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
CHARACTER SKETCH OF
 MAN WHO BALKS BALFOUR

1 has been occupied by pr. clifford ever since.
 Since Charles Haddon Sturgeon died no pulpit in London has been so potent among the nonconformists as that which Is occupied by Dr. Clifford.
 The pre-eminent characteristic of the man is that of an all round interest iE the affairs of men. The leading part which he has taken in the agitation against the education bill is characteris- tic of the ran. It is not the first time that he has rendered conspicuous ser4ics to the cause of national education, put on no previous occasion has 1t been his lot to figure so conspieuously in the la- tlonal education campaign.
 He has been accused of infaming sac- | tarian passion, and 1t must be admittld that, especially in dealing with Cathol- cism and sacramentarianism, he hal beaten the pulpit drum ecclesiastic viz orously. Dr. Clifford is ever Protest ant and Is almost passionately anti-cier .ical The stand which he has taker against the education bill is extreme and uncompromising to the last point pr. Clifford on the platform and Dr. Rob- ertson Nieoll in the press are perhaps more responsible than any other men for advocating resort to the ultima ratio of British democracy, and the adoption of policy of passive resistance to the payment of the education rate, if that rate is imposed for the purpose of SUD- porting the denominational teaching, of which they conscientiously disapprove. to to such an extreme point is a matter up- on which Dr. Clifford has no doubts He has no fear that he may throw out the baby with soapsuds-in other words, that he may prejudice a necessary reform in the unifcation of our educational system by his vehement insistence that the change should not be accompanied by the use of public funds for. the creation of a Catholic atmosphere in public elementa- ry schools
 pr. Clifford is convinced that the true interests of education are best served by the line which he has taken and, being thoroughly persuaded in his own mind, he succeeds in imbuing multitudes of his fellow countrymen with the same eonvic- tion So great was his success that 1t Is
 
 to resist the strong pressure which will be brought to bear upon him, not for the first time, to stand as a candidate for a seat in the house of commons
 Apart from the opposition excited by his political activity and the suspicious which are aroused by his theological lib- erality, l doubt whether he has an ene- my in the world. Such men as pr. Cliff ford are indeed of the salt of the earth He has never failed, he has never feared he has never deserted tn. good cause nor has his place ever been vacant in times of danger. HeLis man cf faith a man of hope, and a ina1 of boundlcss caarity, and yet for all that hs. is tile coughtiest fighter and the most inipas- sicLed platform orator to be found ju Enaland at this moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
PRESIDENT scHwAR's CATERS.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 It ran scarcely be said of c. M. Schwab, nresident of the United States Steel cor poration, that much learning hath made him mad" He manifestly needs the con stant and serious admonitions Of his friends and should not take amiss the gentle and restraining advice of those persons who are able to innuence him. if there berany such.
 MT. Schwab seems to belong to that ex- ceedingly large class of the community which finds it difficult to stand prosper ity. It was once said by shrewd ob- server that "any man can stand ad- versity, by heavens, because he has to, but the real test of character Is whether a man can stand prosperity or not" And Carlyle has said University Is some times hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand diversity MT. Schwab coes not seem to be able to stand the severe test of prosperity. It has quite undone him.
 From the day Mr.. Schwab was elected president of the steel corporation until now he has been cutting up antics before | high heaven 'Wnlcn nave Iudue t1ie dHSelS weep and have filled his friends with l amazement and alarm. His first outbreak l ing performance was at Monte Carlo. In l spite of all denials, 1t Is true that he played recklessly. It was not an edifying spectacle, that of the president of the United States Steel corporation playing at the biggest gambling establishment ia the world, where at his own request the limit had been removed. As a lesson to the other employees of the steel cor poration and to young men in general, 1t was not only demoralizing, but danger ous This was merely the prelude to the startling and eccentric acts In his sub sequent career. He has thrown away his money recklessly, ostentatiously, and building house to cost TWO and one half million dollars. Another credits him with purchasing an entire summer resort He has given a church to town which his father honored by living in 1t. He has bought yachts and automobiles and made silly displays of regal bounty to ser wants, beggars and freaks.
 MT. Schwab's career abroad, as 1t Is now almost daily reported. is not such as commends itself to American good taste or educated Judgment. If he Is not devel- oping symptoms of circular alteration he is coming dangerously near to it. He needs @ short season in the cooling room and the application of congresses to his fevered brow until he gets well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
RAIN ON THE ROOF.
By Coates Kinney.

By Coates Kinney. When the humid shadows hover
 Over all the starry spires, And the melancholy darkness
 Gently weeps in rainy tears. What a Joy to press the pillow
 Of a cottage chamber bed And to listen to the batter
 Of the soft rain overhead! Every tinkle on the shingles
 Has an echo in the heart, . And a thousand dreamy fancies
 Into busy being start; And thousand recollections
 Weave their air threads Into wool, !, As I listen to the batter
 Of the rain upon the roof. And another comes to thrill me
 With her eyes delicious blue; And forget l. gazing on her,
 That her heart was all untrue; I remember that loved her
 As I may nee love again, And my hearts quick pulses vibrate To the batter of the rain. Now in memory comes my mother, As she used in years agone, To survey her darling dreamers
 Ere she left them till the dawn: Oi see her leaning o'er me
 As I list to this refrain Which is played upon the shinges
 By the batter of the rain. There is naught in arts bravuras That can work with such spell In the spirits pure. deep fountainA Whence the holy passions swell. As that melody of Nature. r .rbat subdued. subduing strain. Whict-is played upon the shinges By. the ,natter of the rain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
The Hedlns,


 4 notable social event Is the annual reunion eneampment or the Heflin fam ily-Dr. W. L. Hefiin of Randolph and his sons. his daughter, ana his daughf ters-in-law.
 The place of encampment is on the Tal- lapoosa, about fourteen miles iron, Roanoke. The country is rugged and pie turesque. and springs Of health-givins water flow out of the rocks.
 This years reunion began on Friday. October 24. and continued until Monday, November 8. Large army tents were used for shelter. The hunting was good, patridges, doves feldlarks and rabbits having been bagged in abundance. Wild turkeys are plentiful in Randolph, but as these wary birds steer clear of soeiai groups, not a man in the party got shot at one of them.
 The Hefiin roster included pr. Hefiin and his eight sons, Dr. Wyatt Hefiin of Birmingham, +. P. Heflin of Birming- ham. solicitor of Jefferson county; the Rev. w. w. Hefin, pastor of the Metho- dist church at Bessemer; John T. Hefiin of Birmingham, assistant solicitor of Jeff ferson county; Dr. Howell T. Hefiin of Birmingham. the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, secretary of state-elect; Robert Hefllls. the Rev Marvin Henin, pastor of the Methodist church at East Birmingham; also Dr. Hef1in's daughters, Mrs. Hayden Reid offRoanoke and Mrs. John T. Heflin and children and Mrs. Tom Heflin ana son. As guests of the family were Miss Sharp of Roanoke and Miss Burton oE Lafayette. fr
 Scores of people from the country round drove to the camp and paid social calls Many were the anecdotes told and many were the funny songs sung. Peace and happiness reigned, and when the Heains broke camp every one of them was stronger in body and fresher in spirit than before. The reunion of 1902 will be remembered as one of the most delightful that has ever been held.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
HEALERs.
From the Philadelphia Record.

T IUHI tII5 r IlIdutIpIIIH HeCOru.
 Whatever may be thought about any other restriction of Christian Scientists, the necessity of the isolation of persons with acute infectious maladies and of disinfection is too obvious to be discussed. There is no more reason why a Christian Scientists should be allowed to violate the laws of the health department than Methodist, blacksmith or a yellow man. Neither religion, occupation, color nor anything else should exempt anybody from restrictions against endangering the lives of community,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

it can be controlled in the states The health authorities of San Francisco have been negligent. and they will probably continue to treat the disease h Q like manner, and action by the states becomes imperative. The line should be drawn at El Paso.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
PLEASED PROFESSOR.
From the London Express.

From the London EXpress. T
 According to Prof. Baldwin Spencer of Melbourne university, the blacks of Cen tral Australia are free from one white mans burden" He spent several years making ethnological investigations among them, and one of his discoveries was that a mother-in-law was not allowed to come within a mile of the ''inia-mia' (hut of her married daughter. If she did so the husband was authorized by the tribal law to use his club. The pro- lessor expresses admiration of this dras- tic method of preserving domestic peace and tranquility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A woman always speaks of her huff as her furs.
 A sweet smile Is heavens sunshine re- iected in a woman's face.
 It takes a woman to love a man for doing the things she hates other men for doing
 The only bigger fool than the man who sets out to reform things is the man who goes into a lawsuit with an idea that he will get anything out of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

Chancellor Andrews says the devil plays in every game of football, but he neglects to say whther he is in the end rush, or looks safely on as quar- terback.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

J. Winston Smith will remain citi zen of Birmingham. Chairman Cooke mad assured him that he would live four years in Montgomery, but MT Cooke slipped a cog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

King Edward is still the prey of physicians, and this fine gourmet has been placed on a severe diet. His innards are not working up to stand. ard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

They are indicting Christian Scient- ists up in New England, and some of these days such indictments for man. slaughter will ripen into penitentiary terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

The devil uses a gridiron, and this fact may have misled Chancellor An drews.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

American railroads will soon be able to buy rails in Ensley instead of Bel gium.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

The Alabama autumn season is try ing to take the prize in the weather cake walk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

Chairman J. Carter Cooke should seek consolation in the Trades Carni- val.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

The interest MT. Cleveland is taking, in his old age, in public affairs is both surprising and affecting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

The postal hoodoo is coming in the new thirteen-cent stamp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

Are our new lieutenant governors considered in line of succession? Here's to you, doctor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

The thousand-foot steamship Is com ing-fve to the mile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

Germany has found a proper pun ishment for modern poets, for she has just sent one to prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

The sultans are in trouble the world over. The Sultan of Morocco is now troubled by pretender.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

MT. Schwab's bursts of speed in Italy are simply the outcroppings of an overfull and very vulgar purse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

President Loubet is in President l.oosevelts shoes so far as coal strikes are concerned. but he has not yet worn the shoes as well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

The political rainbows began to dis appear late last night. and there are none on the horizon this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

If Candidate J. Clyde Millar cannot De seen today, 1t may be set down that he has nervous prostration. He is tired at any rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05
Lo, the Injuns have left us.

Beware of the new 1s-cent stamps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

Instead of the Mississippi bear hunt in November President Roosevelt will in December have the congressional jungle at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

Tom Johnson is also a disciple of strenuosity. His fist is built that way. He believes in knock down arguments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

me republicans say the robber tariff should be revised by the robbers-in other words, by themselves. Such a revision would make a horse laugh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

The republicans say the robber tariff should be revised by the robbers-in other words, by themselves. Such a revision would make a horse laugh.
 --4---s=z---z President Leubet is in President 4.oosevelt's shoes so far as coal strikes are concerned. but he has not yet worn the shoes as well. ---s------ If Candidate J. Clyde Millar cannot De seen today, 1t may be set down that he has nervous prostration. He is tired at any rate.
 
 Instead of the Mississippi bear hunt in November President Roosevelt will in December have the congressional jungle at hand.
 Tom Johnson is also a disciple of strenuosity. His fist is built that way. He believes in. knock down arguments.
 -----@. ----------= The political rainbows began to dis appear late last night, and there are none on the horizon this morning.
 
 MT. Schwab's bursts of speed in Italy are simply the outcroppings of an overfulI and very vulgar purse. The Sultans are in trouble the world over. The Sultan of Morocco is now troubled by a pretender.
  Germany has found a proper pun ishment for modern poets, for she has just sent one to prison.
 
 The interest MT. Cleveland is taking, in his old age in public affairs is both surprising and affecting.
  Are our new lieutenant governors considered in line of succession? !? Here's to you, doctor. The Alabama autumn season is try ing to take the prize in the weather cake walk.
 The devil uses a gridiron, and this fact may have misled Chancellor An drews.
 American railroads will soon be able to buy rails in Ensley instead of Bel gium.
  Chairman J. Carter Cooke should seek consolation in the Trades Carni- val.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

Wo or the most notable men liy- F Ing in the world at the present day are both about the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-05

We that have good wits have much to
 answer for. As You Like It.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-08
COUGHS and COLDS
How to Cure Them Without Injur-
 ing the Health.

Seven-tenths of all kidney and stomach diseases can be traced to medicines used in treating coughs, colds and catarrh. IT Is due to these particular remedies be- cause there is not d cough or catarrh cure on the market. with one exception, which does not contain either morphine. ammo nia. cheap whskcy. or opiates of some kind. and it is absolutely impossible to take such remedies without affecting the stomach and bowels.
 Unless other complications set in, an ordinary cough will run from four to sev- en days and no stomach medicine in the world can reduce this time. You may think so, because these opiates syrups and morphine mixtures deaden and loos- on the cough. but the cough remains uncured for that length of time just the same.
 The reason is this. Coughs and colds are caused by a particular germ which locates in the air passages ana causes in fammation, the ordinary cough germ dy- ing of it's own accord in from four to seven days. The danger. however, of all lowing these germs to live at all lies in | the fact that the germs of catarrh bron- 1 chitis, pneumonia and consumption are l inhaled into the throat and lungs daily. l by every living person. and the inf1amcd | surfaces caused by cough germs makes A | | eases.
 | It has undoubtedly surprised many peo-
 pie who read government statistics and
 the Y. s. Health Reports. to note that among all the remedies ever manufac- tured for these diseases. Hyomei is the
 only one that has ever been mentioned | or recommended by them. This is easily | understood. however, when 1t is known 1 that all these diseases are caused alone l by germs, and that Hyomei is the only germicide which can be inhaled. and ap- 1 piled directly to the germs. thus destroy hIg them at once. Cough germs cannot
 exist twenty-four hours in. an atmosphere l of tAfyumel. and the germs of all other
 throat diseases are destroyed in from
 twenty -four to forty-eight hours.
 r. Hyomei is sold by all druggists or sent 1 by mail Price $ie0, Send to The F. T
 Booth Co. Ithaca, N N.. for five days i treatment free and you will never talk,
 another teaspoonf,il of stomach medicines | for such diseases,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-08
Long Seen Through a Mile Deep Canyon, Has But Recently
 Been Reached by Man.

Chicago American.
 The inaccessible Grand Canyon of the Colorado. through which a dark 'river rushes ta the Gulf of California, has long been believed to he devoid of life. This is a mistake; for two brothers CTS canyon, and for several years have ranged a large bunch of cattle by the side of the river.
 world The canyon broadens just below the Utah Arizona line. leaving plain alongside of the river containing thous- ands of acres of land. The plain IS one the gorge. Here eternal summer reigns
 While the gales of winter sweep over the mountains and the cold becomes so intense as to almost freeze the words upon the lib, in this Eden the flowers of suring are blooming and summer birds forgetting to migrate to the south. sing their songs Hunters with field glasses
 for years came to the chasm and swept the plain with their eyes. and though they saw deer pAsturlng on the fresh green grasses. they sadly turned away: 1 for there was no known road that led down the face of the rocks
 Abe Foremaster. out hunting one day, | started deer close to the chasm. The animal was between him and the gorge. and as he raised himself in the saddld | to take aim he was surprised to sec 1t 1 disappear down the abyss. Putting spurs | to hls horse. he was soon at the brink. where he saw the tracks going down the side. None but the most intrepid of | mountaineers would have dreamed of fol- | lowing On the spur of the moment. how l ever. he determined to keep on with the chase A few steps downward he dis | covered d weil-beaten path few feet
 in width along the face of the perpen- | dicular cliff. Below him. more than a mile straight down, was the plain he | had so often longed to explore. but single riisstep of his horse meant like l wise a fall of mile to certain death 1 He had proceeded far on the road when he caught sight of the. deer mak- ing it's way down the perilous path | Hunter though he was, he had no de- | sire to shoot the animal. It was leadlne | him to a new world.
 l Having perfect confidence in hls sure ! footed COW pony, he never once tnough, | of turning, and If he had 1t would have been impossible. He mad to go on. l A little over half way down, Wher there was over @ half mile of precipict below, he came to break in the path. Il had ended in a flaw in the ledge, whlof
 made it imperative to leap chasm 'hNt feet wide and a half mile deep to regain the road upon the other side. But the
 COW horse made the leap
 | Foremaster explored the plain and de
 termined to appropriate it. This he anc his brother did. Some slight improve ments were made on the path and they
 now drive their cattle up and down th'
 face of the preclpce once they get th'
 cattle on the way they neeiS must sG
 to the end of the Journey. b.t
 Foremaster says he has had but oA'
 accident in making the perilous Journey
 A pack mule made a misstep in leapint
 the five foot chasm and fell with hi'
 animal. It could only have met on'
 fsle Since then lhe brothers have
 bridCcd this jump.
 Few men of the hardy cowboys hay
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-08
CommiSsiOner'S Sale.

The unders igned commissioner. in pursuance of and in accordance with tho terms and al rection of decree of the Honorable Probate Court of Montgomery County, in the State Of Alabama. rendered on the 18th day of No vemher. 9oi, will proceed to sell to the high est bidder for cash at public auction. at court Square fountain. in the City of Mont gumery. Ala. within legal hours of sale, on the 22nd day of January, 1902. all that cer- tain real property which is described as fol- lows:
 The east l4 of N, W. i4 of section s4, Town ship. G. Range v. and lot e." according to plat of d portion of the lands of ;he estate of W, R. Westcott. deceased, made by J, l., Stewart, surveyor, and recorded in the Pro bate office of said county in Plat Book. page 60 said plat being a sub-division of lots 25, 26 and 27 in block "A" and lot IS in block ''B of the Goode plat; said lot e. being on the x, F. corner of Cleveland Avenue and Lee Street being 3I 9A feet on Cleveland by 2l2la feet on Lee. all in Montg gomery County and the State of Alabama, which lands arc to be sold under said decree fnr the pose of division among the seNt
 thereof. tp Nit- t'amills q. w
 Pcuia Wcstcott and Charles Russo
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