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The age-herald., 1902-02-05
Typhoid In Philadelphia.

'The smallpox epidemic in Philadelphia during the past week has been compelled to give way to typhoid fever" said a Philadelphia drummer. "rhe seven days yielded POI typhoid cases, while the re- cord for smallpox was only seventy three new cases. Twenty-one persons died of typhoid fever. while but thirteen succumbcd to the older epidemic.
 ''The cause of this fresh outbreak of ty- phoid is well understood. The attention of the public has been very frequently called to it, especially at this season of the year. It rages most alarmingly in that section of the city which has pre- viously suffered from the plague. The cases are generally distributed, but the most afflicted wards are those which lie across the Schuyl1ill in West Philadel- phia.
 "The water which is served to the in- habitants of the city at the present time Is indescribably unclean and unheathful The rains and melting snows have filled the Schuylkili to it's banks with a pol luted flood from the coal regions"
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
STUDENTS RUN COLLEGE.
Strike Will Result in Closing of Colo
 rado School.

Denver, February 1.-The strike of the students at the State School of Mines 1t Golden, Col, against what they assert to be unfair treatment by the faculty bids fair to continue indefinitely and re suit In the closing down of that well known institute at least for the present school year. The board of trustees who have been investigating the trouble have decided not to interfere with the con- tinuance of the rule adopted in 1897 to the effect that in all matters relating to discipline or standing of the students the decision of. the faculty shall be final.
 general meeting of the students will be held today, but it is not expected that their previous avowed intention of fighting the faculty to finish even to the extent of applying to the courts will be changed. Telegrams have been received from a number of institutions of similar nature offering to matricriate them as a body and number of the Golden men have already entered other schools
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
War Tax Reduction,

The abolition of war taxes would cut off about S70,000,00O in public rev enue, and the bill is to be put through with a rush and without amendment It has become party measure, and great credit will be claimed on the stump on account of it.
 AS a matter of fact, there are a thousand items of fed eral taxation that should be re- pealed before the war taxes are taken off-at least one thousand that bear heavily upon humble homes that operate to fill bulging pockets while they bring no money, or very little, to the treasury. But these are tariff taxes, and the sacred tariff must not be touched.
 The truth is, the repeal of the war taxes is a heroic remedy to prevent any infraction of our noble 'robber tariff That is the entire explanation of the haste involved in repeating these war taxes. To give Cuba less rate on sugar or tobacco would be meddling with the tariff, which it is freely asserted is sacred, and to pre- vent this, if possible, the war taxes are to be hurried out of the way, and then all hands are expected to shout, Let the tariff alone We need all the revenue we can get from it, now that $70,000,000 of war taxes have been re- pealed." The guilelessness of the Dingley Republican is almost equal to that of Bret Harte's heather Chinee.
 But while it has been decreed that the war taxes are to be repealed, the party is not quite agreed that no con- sessions shall be made to Cuba in sugar and tobacco. This is still an open question, and the plunderers are uuarreling over it. Every known duty dictates concessions to the Cubans, but what is duty among the Dingley- ties?
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
EnuIish Cotton Mills.

England has no intention of giving np her textile industry, and the year just ended was a year of prosperity among the mills of England. Facts recently gathered in Oldham, which fairly represents the spinning indus try of the old country, shows that tho mills are by no means in an un- satisfactory condition. On the other hand, they show that indebtedness is in she course of cancellation, and that not over seven or eight mills of the thirty-nine great companies in Oldham are at all embarrassed. Nearly all declared dividends last year, varying from S1h to 40 per cent, and 10 per cent dividends were quite frequent.
 In 1901 the spindles added to Old ham mills numbered 1,070,000, as against I'll, ,000 in the previous year. Tn the last three and half years the spindles in Oldham have been in- creased to the extent of 2,493,00 Old machinery has been thrown out also, and renewals of the most approved and latest construction have been put in, thus adding to the efficiency and the economy of the mills. Taking all these changes together. it is estimated t1,o ixral of O00, ,000 more spindles than it had three years ago.
 The entire spindleage of Great Brit ain is put by Ellison & Go. at 46,10O,- 900, or about double the number in this country No accurate count has been made of the spindles in Great Britain in many years, and it is be- heved the number of spindles is un- derestimated.
 It is plain at any rate that American spinners have still very considerable battle before them, and this is why Northern and Southern spinners should pull together. There is room for both, and unless both pull together. and pull, too. with all their might, the spinning of our own staple will never be transferred to this country, not even in good part. The English mills are not bit disheartened oyer,any in- roads that American mills have made in China or elsewhere This country possesses some advantages in having the raw material at hand, but We are handicapped by the Dingley tariff, which enhances the cost of production and practically debars us from for eign trade, for we cannot sell where we do not buy.
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
DECREASING ON sHIPRoARD.

From the Baltimore American.
 An immense hog, weighing $50 pounds, that had spent his entire life on the deck of a ship at sea, and which made nine long voyages, was slaughtered yesterday on the big three-masted schooner Isabella Gill. Captain Collison, in port discharg- ing lumber from Savannah. While the vessel was at Sabine Pass. Texas, last January, a man came aboard and offered a sucking pig no bigger than cat in exchange for a small lot of peas that had been laid on deck. The trade was made. The pig began to thrive on the waste food the steward gave him and soon be- came an able seaman. He outgrew the chicken coop in which he lived, and made his bunk under the forecastle head. He was known as Dennis" and always responded to his name when Capt. Colli- son called him. He enjoyed eating ice cream from a spoon. Dennis made trips from Sabine Pass to Cuba, to New York, to Martinique, in the West Indies. to Turks Island. to Philadelphia, to Savan- nah, to Baltimore to Savannah to Fer nandina and back to Baltimore. He was getting too big to get into his quarters, and for that reason was killed. He weighed 300 after being slaughtered and cleaned, and was hung to the main rat lines to cool His length was seven feet.
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
Legitimate Newspapers the Strongest
 Bulwarks of Good Government

felt in the postal revenues Had the law been enforced as it is now being en- forced, instead of deficit of s4.OO0 GOO at the end of the last fiscal year, June so 1901, there would have been a surplus of $S0OO.0OO.
 In brief, the government last fiscal year gave to the publishers of fraudulent and other publications not entitled to news paper rates of postage a million dollars of the peoples money every month, or three hundred thousand a week-approx- imately the daily wages of fifty thousand laboTers.
 The stopping of that class of public robbery Is the great and noble work of Charles Emory Smith, newspaper edi- tor, late Postmaster General.
 The esteemed Saccharine Gazette Of Sugar City Colorado, is powerless to al- lay the storm of indignant protest rising all over the Union against the monstrous action of the Republican ways and means committee of the House of Representa- lives in decreeing the desolation of Cuba by denying the island fair trade with the United States. Not in many years has any incident In Congress aroused such deep and universal protest and anger as this defiant message from the Republi- can committee to Cubans and the Amer ican people:
 Cuba be damned We will stand by the lobby"
 That is the substance of the committees action; and even the leading high-tariff newspapers, the eminently respectable and influential New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Press, the Baltimore American, and other pow erful journals of scarcely less following, are raging and storming against the murderous action of the ways and means committee
 The Saccharine Gazette of Sugar City comes out in green and with a supplement petition ito the President of the United States and the Congress assembled" praying for the complete starvation of the Cubans, and incidentally informing shocked and pained nation that Sugar City Is situated in center of as fine body of agricultural land as lays out of doors." IHdI IS llleFdl QuOtdLlOI, BTdHileI and all. from the first page. And so is this:
 Sugar City is layed out on a high piece of ground overlooking Lake Meri- dith.'
 '"The principal industry of the commun- ity thus far" was are confidentally as- sured, "is the culture of sugar beets and the manufacture of beet sugar." So-so?
 Millions for Sugar City. but not cent for Cuba!
 Millions for Sugar City, Is the cry, and pile taxes on every human being outside of 'as fine a body of agricultural land as lays out of doors!' Millions on millions for rich Sugar City, where the Saccharine Gazette comes from, and let poor Cuba starve! Here's to our noble selves and to the devil with everybody else!' That is the cry of the Republicans in Congress-a cry that echoes in perdition. LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
FUNCTION OF THE GUINEA PIGS.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The inquiry into the smash of the Lon don & Globe Finance Company, already famous for having brought to wreck the reputation, fortune and health of so able a statesman as the Marquis of Dufferin, brings further signal illustrations of the prevailing and practical theory of the utter Responsibility of directors. All of the directors are shown to have been in total ignorance of the management of the company, and two of them professed an opinion that this was the correct and normal state of affairs.
 In this the British director is franker and less discreet than his American brother, when the latter is caught on the board of an exploded company. The American type emulates the policy of Brer Rabbit, in '1ayin' low and sayin' nuffin." But the Briton, particularly of the aristocratic and guinea pig variety, exhibits a certain indignation that there should be any fuss over the al oper- ation of lending his name to a specious promoter and leaving the latter free to engineer bubbles the fly kites as suits his fancy.
 a Yet the Briton is mistaken. The one thing that gives eminent names value to the promoter of mushroom enterprises is the popular idea that the bearers of these eminent names know something and eX- ercise some supervision over the corpor- ations which they profess to direct Let the people understand that they are mere figure heads, and they will lose their value to the promoting gentry. The final calamity will be apparent to them when they find that they can no longer get that guinea stipend for each board meeting, which has given its name to that class,
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
Practical Hints.

Mir. Bowron's address before the Love- man, Joseph & Loeb employees was crowded with practical hints and it would not be easy to pick out those that were most needed, when all were so helpful" said one of the men who was present.
 What MT. Bowron said about books was certainly true. Every one, he said, should find time for good reading but no time for trashy reading. He was reader. devoting just now six hours a day to books. but he said that in look ing over an advertised list of 93 books the other day he came across only eight
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
Revision of the Constitution.

As the Senate has decided that it will not permit the adoption of an amendment which permits the people to elect their own Senators, a proposi- tion has sprung up looking to the calling of federal constitutional con- vcntion as the shortest road to popu- lar election of Seuators--perhaps the only road to it. Unless we are con tent to see the domineering branch Of Congress filled with millionaires and bosses, it seems that a general convention is almost a necessity, simply because the Senate blocks the way. It wants no popular elections. It wants very little to do with the common herd. Its members claim to represent States, not people. They are our House of Lords, in their own minds. To bring them down from the heights of their soaring minds it may be necessary to call convention.
 
 Why not? Are the people to be trusted with their own affairs? Is all the wisdom of the country shut up in the Senate?
 If two-thirds of the 45 States ask Congress to call a convention, Con- gross must do it. To do otherwise would be revolutionary and in conflict gith the terms of the constitution. A Senate that defies the people in the matter of an amendment might at tempt to resist the calling of con- yention, although this is improbable The House is ready to pass an amend ment or to call convention.
 Six States have already asked Con gress to call a convention. These States are Colorado, Nevada, Michi- gan, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. If twenty-four more do likewise a con- vention must be called. More than that number of States have in vari- ous ways favored popular elections of 6enators-some by joint resolution, some through political parties, and all through expressions of public sentl, ment. All are heartily tired of the purchase of Senatorial seats by mil lionaircs who desire to air their im-
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
AdvertIslna Birmingham.


 livery investment Of outside eapltai made in Birmingham Is good advertise ment for the city. provided the invest ment yields returns" said 2 real estate man yesterday.
 Most of the money invested here in re- cent years has proved to be dividend earner. Birmingham today is relatively about where Chicago was financially In the seventies. Boston and New York supplied the money to build Chicago. Every Eastern capitalist who had put part of his capital there talked up the new city. Chicago now has ample capi- tai to make it's merchants and manufac- turers independent of the East.
 Birmingham Is going ahead largely on outside capital and every dollar placed here will bring another dollar. The Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power Company is an example in point. It IS being developed by a combination of Eastern and local capital, the outside money largely predominating, l under stand. In twenty years Birmingham will have the accumulation of capital for de- velopment purposes. In the meantime concerns requiring millions for expansion of their business must borrow"
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
Crumpacker and His Caucus

The great regulator of Southern Votes, MT. Crumpacker, from the banks of the Wabash, has been post poned to next Monday, when another confab of the faithful will be held. l Leaders Payne and Cannon say his scheme is impracticable, and the 1 Southern Republican members nat urally want something else than a reduction in representation. MT. Crumpacker bids fair to be postponed from time to time until he drops out of sight. What he seeks is harmless enough if it could be carried out in fair instead of a partisan spirit. He asks that select committee of eleven be appointed to investigate, and to report by bill or otherwise. A fair and just committee would investigate Massachusetts as well as Mississippi Pennsylvania as well as Alabama; but fair and just committee would not be appointed. However, the minority members of such a committee could bring In telling report, except that it would have no effect upon the Crumpacker faddists.
 The trouble in the South does not consist of intelligence qualifications or poll tax provisions, but dishonest elections and electoral neglect. Men are not inclined to go to the polls in the South. The vote in Mississippi should exceed 100000, but it has drop ped down to about half that number This is very hurtful both at home and abroad. It renders Crumpackerism possible
 The Southern Republican Congress men are favoring a stringent federal election law, known as the Bartholdt or Gibson bill. It does not propose to harm any one who does not violate State election laws, but if a man does that he may be tried in the United States courts as we'll as in the State courts. As MT. Gibson puts it, "All the bill asks is that>the local election laws be honestly executed, and every man be given his just rights under the State laws"
 The passage of such a bill may be possible. It would render tie lot of the ballot box experts little thornier in some States, but not in Alabama, for here we propose through Honest Election Leagues to drive the rascals out anyway. It is important that this should be done, for if electoral affairs go on as they have been going a Crhm- packer bill will at some time be passed. If MT. Crumpacker could have his way, he would cut the Ala bama delegation from 9 to 6; Florida, from to 2; Louisiana from 8 to 5; Mississippi from to 5; North Caro- lima, 10 to ', and South Carolina, 2 to 5--a total loss of fourteen members
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
RUBBER BOOTS FOR DOGS.

From the New York Tribune.
 Rubber boots for dogs-neat five button and lace boots, dainty, close fitting and durable-are now arriving from Paris and are on sale at different New York stores where high-grade boots and shoes are sold. They are made with thick and thin soles, and keep the feet dry. Here after if any thoroughly affluent dog runs around and from wading through the slush gets fatal case of "epizoo,' it is his own fault. It will be a plain case of flying in the face of Providence"
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
DAMON AND PYTHlAS.

From the Toledo Blade.
 Yesterday Senator Hanna presented the certificate of election of his colleague Senator Foraker of the Senate. Hanna placed an arm across the shoulders of Foraker and the two men did the Damon and Phythias act. While the two senators are Ii ing in peace and harmony at Washington, some of their fool followers here in Ohio are trying to kll each other off by the use of clubs and knives.
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
London's Police Force.

'London has a metropolitan police force of little over 160o0. which you see Is quite an army" said an English man who is now sojourning in Birming- ham.
 'I have taken a good deal of interest in police matters and have personal acquaintance with nearly all the head officials in the London department. This army does not include the little city police force. The metropolitan depart ment Is governed by the prime minister's cabinet and the London county council has authority over it whatever.
 '"fhe chief reports direct to the home Secretary. The chief of police is always an army officer of the rank of colonel and he is always a sir His salary Is S12,500 and he has a mansion to live in, owned and maintained by the govern ment. In respect to pay the London chief is better off than the lieutenant general of the United States. The latter officer receives a salary of $11, 900 and while he has allowances for house rent he is not able to live in the style that our metro politan chief enjoys.
 sir Edward Bradford is the present London chief. His force consists of three assistant commissioners and large staff. four chief constables, thirty-two superintendents, 57O inspectors, 1917 ser geants and 13,26S constables, a total of 15,S55 exclusive of the staff at headquar- ters, other than active policemen or their superior officers. About 2000 are requir- ed for regular duty at government build ings and dockyards in the metropolitan district, which Is a radius of fifteen miles from Charing Cross, and of all the bal ance of the remaining available force 60 per cent. Is employed on night duty. This district is 6SS square miles in extent and includes the entire county of Mid dlesex and portions of the counties of Kent Essex, Surrey and Hertfordshire
 "The wages or salaries of the force for 1900, beginning with the pay of the four chief constables, was. in round numbers, s6, 400, GOO, and in addition there are allow ances for uniforms and boots The met ropolitan constable begins at say, $5 "a a week, and at the end of eight years only receives d.75. Certain special services, such as regulating the traffic a source of wonder and admiration to all strang- CTS to London are paid slightly extra and never more than 50 cents extra a week. A sergeant's pay ranges from sS.25 to $9.75 a week, and when the ser geant is in a station house he gets s11. The inspectors start at $19.75, and the highest pay chief constable can receive is $39oO.
 This goes to show that whether the life of the lesser ranks of London's po- lice is a happy one or not, their hap piness, if 1t exists is not based on finan- oial affluence. Yet they are a splendid looking lot of men and are apparently very well contented with their lot The majority of them, I believe are drawn from the better class of young provincial laborers but they have, of course. to prove their intelligence and good charac- ter, as we'll as their brawn and sinew."
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Erop, the New York Press

To man 1t Is queer that the incest women flock to the nastiest plays.
 Every man Is an egoist, but only one in a hundred knows how to back 1t up.
 The woman who would like to be a great lady usually Is insolent; the woman who is one. isn't.
 In marriage 1t Is better to be a submits aiye philosopher than conseorentious refofmer.
 In play where the heroine's husband is q scoundrel, the women who see it always feel yindicated. no matter how good their husbands are to them or how much they love one another.
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
Lieutenant Howell Restored.

Washington, February 1.-The Presi- dent has exercised clemency in the case of Lieutenant James P. Howell, Sixth artillery, convicted in the Philippines of drunkenness on duty and sentenced to be dismissed In view of certain extenuating circumstances the President has set aside the sentence and ordered the officers res storation to duty.
The age-herald., 1902-02-05
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.

By Alexander Pope. Father of all! in every age,
 In every cline adored By saint, my savage and by sage,
 Jehovah, love, or Lord! Thou great First Cause, least understand
 Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good. And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate,
 To see the good from i'll; And, binding nature fast in fate.
 Left free the human will:- What conscience dictates to be done,
 Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun. That more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives;
 To enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earths contracted span Thy goodness let me bound Or think thee Lord alone of man,
 When thousands worlds are round. Let not CIllS Wedk unknOWlnB mana
 Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land
 On each l judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart
 Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong oh, teach my heart
 To find that better way! Save me alike from foolish pride
 Or impious discontent At aught thy wisdom has denied Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe;
 To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show.
 That mercy show to me. Mean though l am net wholly so,
 Since quickened by the breath; Oh lend me, whereso'er I go
 Through this days life or deathi This day be bread and peace my
 All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed
 And let thy will be done. To these, whose temple is all SD
 Whose altar, earth, sea. skies One chorus let all being raise
 All natures incense risei