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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
LETTERS TO EDITOR.
samIIpox Remedy.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 Will you kindly publish for the benefit of your many readers and the public at large this receipt which is a cure and preventive for small pox and scarlet fe- yer:
 It has been successfully used in a great many cases, is unfailing as fate, conquers in every instance. and is harmless when taken by a well person. It leaves no mark, though pittlng are filling; will not cause blindness. and avoid tedious lin- gering. Either disease will disappear in twenty-four hours.
 Receipt: Dissolve in one pint hot water Cream of Tartar, one ounce; when cold dissolve in four ounces of 1t, Sulphate or Zinc four grains, Sulphate Calcium four grains ad powdered digitatis, four grains and mix with the other Cream of Tartar water. For a cure take two tablespoon fuls every two hours. As preventative one tablespoonful three times day Give the patient a hot bath.
 Dissolve also Picnic Acid 30 grains; al cohol 31s ounces and water ounees' wash all over the body with this lotion.
 As this is a never failing remedy, there is no use for pest houses.
 H M FRANK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
llliteracY in Alabama.

The present legislature has a heavy responsibility resting upon it, namely, to keep Alabama from becoming known in the next census year as the most illiterate state in the union. Ger tain it is that both North Carolina and Louisiana are actively at work for the purpose of getting from under Alabama in the literacy lists. Both have unlimited local taxation; both are full of the educational spirit. North Carolina will certainly secure a higher place in the lists, and Louis jana will endeayor to do so. If the lat ter succeeds in conquering higher place, Alabama will become the tail. ender, to her great loss in prestige, reputation and business.
 There are two things needed, name ly, a constitutional amendment per hitting local taxation for school pur. poses, and proper division of the state fund.
 The point, however, is that illiteracy cannot be materially reduced in this state unless the ignorant are taught to read and write, regardless of color.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
TEE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlAsaHA
wiraIess Ielenhones in SIoht.

Sig. Marconi is not given to talking unless he is very sure he can back up talk with acts, and he says he will soon present to the world wireless tele- phony. He says he will soon be able to sell portable wireless telephonic apparatus by means of which person may communicate when a consider able distance away with his home or with others supplied with similar ap- paratus." Here must come in that attuning of the transmitting and re- ceiving apparatus that is required in wireless telegraphy.
 In all telephone instruments the transmitting and receiving diaphragms are to some extent attuned, and the attuning must be a little nearer per feet when the dependence is upon etheric waves instead of live wire. Sig. Marconi does not apprehend any difficulties in the synchronzing pro- cess.
 Between wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony the ether blue will soon be laden with messages, and if any tumble should occur in the attun- ing process, there would be hot time in the old town sure enough until the instruments are again truly and thor oughly synchronized. A guaranty of continuous synchronism would seem to be essential in the new scheme of wireless telephony that our Italian wizard is about to offer man. kind. The little Italian is twentieth century young man, and if he can ren. der commercially valuable one-half of what he has in mind he will not only benefit mankind, but he will write his name very high up on the roll of fame
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Died From overwork.

Tn this high pressure age thousands of men whose occupations require men tai strain die from overwork," said a prominent man at the Morris.
 Some persons imagine that superln- tendents of railroads have the most wear ing jobs known In the workaday world Well, superintendents, train masters train dlspatehers, yard masters and all other men in charge of transportation work are on a strain day in and day out but so also are the higher officials. The general manager of a great railway has even more wear on the nervious system than the division superintendent and the vice presidents and the president feel the strain even more than the general mana ger. In fact, the higher one gets, the greater the volume of business and the more exhausting the mental toll. could call over score of familiar names on the executive rolls of railroad companies that would prove what I say. have in mind a vice president who gets very large salary but who is aging rapidly, and he is not 60 years old. l have in liillld Il Bi1SlutnL WiO S1lo h PAiAANNAJ salary but he is worked to a frazzle and is an old man in tfties. General Thomas, the noted railroad man, who died the other day, had a nervous col- lapse from hard work before he was 6O He accumulated millions of money but he broke down and died at a time when he might have been in bodily and men, tai vigor had he not disregarded the laws of nature which forbid> overwork.
 There are, of course, exceptions to the rule where men drive themselves at high pressure in order that they may get great wealth. A few busy multimillionaires are hale at 65 or 10, like Pierpont Morgan and James J. Hill But nature gave them iron nerves. The majority of men are not so endowed, and it Is a wise man, and a happier, therefore, who Is diligent in business but who does not oyerdo his diligence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Cheap men are dear swindles in busi- ness.
 A way to get out of one love affair is to get into two
 A man hates what is above him; a woman what is beneath her.
 Nothing makes woman so happy as to be unhappy for some one she loves.
 girl has as much fun getting en- gagged as man has going to a horse race.
 Man can never hope to understand woman when he can't even understand her clothes
 To get them attached to you pet dog and fiatter a woman, with occasional abuse of each.
 It makes some men prouder to be the friend of a rich man than it makes other men to be rich.
 A woman's idea of enjoyment is to be not very i'll, but Ill enough to be in bed with all her jewels on.
 A woman is happier to marry man and have him shatter her delustons about him than to have somebody else shatter them for her and not have her marry him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

rendered by other items in the Ding ley bill, and the coal producers could not see why they should not have a chance to unduly raise prices at times as other producers do under other items of the sacred bill. The whole thing is a scheme devised by various producers for the purpose of feecing consumers, and the coal producers simply desired to have a finger in the pie. Circumstances have rendered a suspension of the coal tax advisable for one year, but after one year the old game will go on, and producers will be free to make consumers pay up to the tariff limit. The coal tax is sample of the entire Dingley scheme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Duty on Coal.

The tax on coal has been suspended for one year. But why for one year !? Why not for thirteen months, or thir- teen years, or altogether? If this tax is not needed-and no one claims it is why should it not be repealed alto gether?
 The truth is, the whole fabric of Dingleyism is so rotten the republi- cans did not dare to bring in repeal bill lest votes be demanded on other items, equally as outrageous and mo- nopoly breeding as the coal tax They were unwilling to face the music-to go on record when such amendments were offered ana votes recorded.
 After all, this rebate so hurriedly voted is a confession that the Dingley system is rotten, breeder of trusts and monopolies, and system of rob bery that has become well nigh un-
 
 endurable. Between the present re- i, bate and the pending reciprocity treaties, no doubt the nature of Ding leyism will become better known and understood, and thus some good will be accomplished.
 It will trouble any republican spell binder to explain why the coal tax is not needed in the coming year, and is needed afterwards. The truth is, it has never been needed. It protects nothing that needs protection. It en- ables producers to squeeze prices up to the tariff limit. This is the service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah.

One of the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon church will soon knock at the door of the United States senate, desiring admission and a seat as one of the representative of the sover- eign state of Utah. The senate may seat or unseat him at will, but 1t can not well deny him a seat because he is a Mormon and a believer in polyg- amy. He has but one wife He does not practice what he breaches, and freedom of thought has never yet be- come a valid ground for denying state representation in congress.
 MT. Shoot represents in his Mormon views much the larger part of his state. That state was admitted by re- publican votes, and at the time of ad- mission it was controlled by the Nor mons, very much as it is at present. The republicans are therefore estop- ped from raising the Mormon issue in the senate by their own acts. They made Utah a state, and they should not renig now.
 It Is difficult to see how Senator elect Shoot can be kept out of the senate. He was elected by virtue and in pursuance of a bargain that trans ferred the state to the republicans, and no doubt the election of MT. Shoot was in mind when the bar gain was made. Altogether the repub- licans have accepted the Mormons as working partners, and they will be compelled for consistency's sake to accept as a friend and brother MT. Reed Shoot, senator-elect. If he were guilty of polygamy, he might be turn ed down, but he is not-that Is to say, he has not practiced polygamy. Mentally speaking he is a polygamist, but physically speaking he is not. Freedom of thought and speech would become a myth if a senator-elect is to be excluded on account of his re- ligious opinions. Apostle Shoot, Mor- mon though he be to the backbone, will therefore be seated, because the republicans cannot reasonably shut the doors of the senate in his face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Rounding Up the Cattle.

ChiclSasha, l. T., January 15.-Capt. J. C. West and twenty-six members of the Indian police department this morning be- gan the work of rounding up and driving 1l4,O0O head of cattle belonging to Max we'll Morris x Norton, the principal non- resident owners of cattle in the Chicka- sha nation. This is the result of their present refusal to pay the tribal tax of 25 cents head. The police were re- called from Rush Springs and Marlow yesterday by telegram, mobilizing here this morning. The cattle will be driven across the South Canadian river into Oklahoma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Men Who Draw Big Salaries.

Charles M. schwab, president of the United States Steel corporation, got a start in free advertising as the man drawing a million-dollar salary" said a railroad official at the Hillman. But it turns out that MT. Schwab's salary is only $100 coo. This, however, Is said to be the largest salary paid to an official of a corporation in this country.
 "President Cassatt of the Pennsylva- mia is second on tie list, with $75,000 Presidents Newman, Earling. Underwood, Hughitt Spencer and Ripley are sup posed to draw s50,000 per annum, and the same salary is paid to President Cal laway of American Locomotive. Pres- dents George Gould and James J. Hill receive $50,O00 from their largest com panes and additional salaries from their dependent companies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
CHAMPION JEFFRIEs COMPLAINS
Says He Was Deliberately Robbed In
 Bout With Jack Monroe.

Salt Lake, Utah. January 15.-The Her aid tomorrow will print a signed state ment from Champion James Jeffries con- corning his recent bout with Jack Mon roe at Butte, Montana. Jeffries declares that Monroe not only did not knock him down but during the entire four rounds did not land a clean punch.
 Jeffries says that he was deliberately robbed out of the fight as the third round, in which he sent Monroe to the mat for an eight count, vas cut short fully a minute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Bailey Blocks Senate.

Washington, January 15.-There were only two combinations in today's execu- tive session of the senate, as Senator Bailey announced that he would oppose unanimous consent to the consideration of business until he could receive assur- ance of consideration of his bill making Port Arthur, Tex. port of entry. He complained at the failure of the commit tee on commerce to report the bill to the senate. He asked in open session that the bill be put on its passage independent of the committees action, but Senator Hanna objected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Awkward.

From London Punch.
 Son of the House-Won't you sing some thing, Miss Muriel?
 Mise M-Oh. I daren't after such good rnusic as we have been listening to.
 Son of the House-But I'd rather listen to your singing than to any amount oi good music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Henry Starr Is Released.

Washington, January 15.-The President today commuted the 15-year sentence of Henry Starr of Indian Territory, so that it will expire today. Starr was convicted in 1898 of manslaughter and also on two charges of robbery. He served four years ;n jail pending his, trial and has since served five years with which the time allotted for good conduct is more than equivalent to the 15-year sentence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
JOHNSON NOT A CANDIDATE.
Says He Does Not Intend to Run for
 Governor of Ohio.

New York, January 15.-Mayor Tom l.. Johnson of Cleveland, who is here on a business trip, was asked tonight regard ing the basis of the statement that he will be a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Ohio this year.
 II am not a candidate for the nomina- tion" said MT. Johnson, ''and if Mir. Frey has made any such announcement as is attributed to him, he has done so without my authorization or approval
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
erocers eoinq to Golden Gate.

Kansas City, Mo-. January 15-The next convention of the National Associa- ton of Retail Grocers will be held in San Francisco. The per capita tax was fixed at 10 per cent per annum. The following officers were elected: President, c. R. Lott, Chicago; vice president, A. w. Far finger. Atlanta; secretary, Fred Mason, St. Paul; treasurer, F. A. Newland. To- npka
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
About Persons.

S. H. March, who represents Laden burg Thalman & Co.,, the New York bankers, was at the Hillman yesterday. He looks after large interests here and spends several days in this district every month or two. Few men who come to Birmingham are so popular as MT. March. He is an exceptionally busy man, but he Is never too busy to be agreeable to the people he meets, and he meets a lot of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
MAcKAY WORTH $2,5o1, ,72e.
All of Millonaire's Estate Goes to His
 Son, Clarence Mackay.

New York, January 15.-The appraiser s report of the value of the personal estate of the late John w. Mackay was filed to- day. All of such estate goes to the son, Clarence H. Mackay, the gross value be- ing given as s2,5O1,726 and the net value as $2, 451. 726. The property consists mainly of stock :n electrical companies in adci- tion to large interests in the Commercial Cable company and fifty-six shares in the Maurice Grau Opera company.
 Mir Mackay left no real estate in New York His will was probated in Nevada.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
An Early Spring.

q have noticed that when we have mild winter weather up to the middle of January we have comparatively mild February and an early spring" said a local weather prophet. While we have had some freezing spells, the winter so far has not been severe.
 "I predict that the truck farmers of Jefferson county will have planted peas and other early vegetables by the mid dle of next month"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
ROBIN ADAlR.

By Lady Caroline Keppel. What's this dull town to me?
 Robins not near He whom I wished to see,
 Wished for to hear! Where's all the joy and mirth Made life a heaven on earth? Oh, they're all fled with thee,
 Robin Adair What made the assembly shine?
 Robin Adair. What made the ball so fine?
 Robin was there. What, when the play was OCT, What made my heart so sore? Oh, it was parting with
 Robin Adair! But now thou'rt far from me, Robin Adair; But now I never see
 Robin Adair; Yet he loved so we'll Still in my heart shall dwell: Oh, I can ne'er forget
 Robin Adair! Welcome on shore again,
 Robin Adair! Welcome once more again.
 Robin Adair! I feel thy trembling hand; Tears in thy eyelids stand, To greet thy native land,
 Robin Adairl Long I ne'er saw thee, love,
 Robin Adair; Still I prayed for thee. love-
 Robin Adair. When thou vert far at sea, Many made love to me: But still I thought on thee,
 Robin Adair! Come to my heart again.
 Robin Adair; Never to part again,
 Robin Adair! And if thou still are true, I will be constant too, And will wed none but you,
 Robin Adair!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

w. B. Clements, travelling passenger agent of the Seaboard Air Line, was at the Hillman yesterday.
 Traffic Manager Compton of the Louis vile and Nashville railroad was in Birmingham yesterday. He and Gen eral Freight Agent Goodwin, the lat ter in town since Monday. paid their respects to some of the big iron shippers during the afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
Detroit Gets Convention.

ed to day by the Cigar Dealers association for the second annual convention of the organization. which Will be held January l., 1s0i.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16
PUT HER BACK.

From the Mobile Register.
 We want to know at once if Minnie COX ,s going 10 lecture If so, give her back her postoffice. Give her anything she wants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

MT. Dewey expresses the opinion that Uncle Sams navy was never n better fighting condition. All he lacks is an order to begin firing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

MT. Carnegie is unloading libraries at a rate that promises to make a new record even for himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

Gambler Canfeld and his house out rank all other topics in Greater New York, and Reggie Vanderbilt is still a missing quantity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

The trusts are not bit alarmed over legislation by the present con gross. The senatorial milionaires have been duly instructed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

A republican congressman who has not introduced an antitrust measure is man hopelessly behind the times in which he lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

Apostle Shoot will soon be Senator Shoot, and another great issue will be full upon us. Apostle Shoot is by the way a republican apostle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

Brother Mulai in Morocco will soon be in position to aw-he-haw-he as much as he pleases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

A tax of $25O, ,OOO a year is now i'm posed on the parents of 100000 chil dren in Alabama for the benefit of the book trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

The foot and mouth disease has been stamped out, but the plague and smallpox are still in our midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

The Emperor William can read Rudyard Kipling's poem in the ori- ginal, but he does not deserve much enjoyment from his learning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

How not to curb the trusts while pretending to do so, is the problem before republican congressman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

Marconi is equally at home in the air and in the parlor of his best girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

MT. Reginald Vanderbilt is living in Newport, having a dislike for New York at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

The republicans are determined to maintain in the long run every line of our noble tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

The non-union miners and the cor porations chum together before the strike commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

Oil is marked up whenever the Rockefeller donations cross the mil lion-dollar line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

The trusts are deyising the anti trust Legislation before congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

The baseball interests have caught the merger epidemic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

The next durbar will be held ir St. Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-16

Indianola is beginning to get it's back up.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-11-25

Children and Their cOuntry..Birth
Right.


All children that are born and
bred in the great cities are orphans.
They are the little bottle babies of
civilization. beginning life from
the native heath of childhood,
where there is a silent green world
bounded lby bright horizons and
Swallowed by the staIwart form OF
good father trees. They are de-
frauded of natures background to
memory, and nothing ever really
atones to them for the. loss. From
the first they are entertained with
artificial devices. Every toy is q
make believe, aud the very wall pa
per in the nursery is a gay panora-
ma of Mother Goose facles or Lit
tie Red Riding Hood lies. Their
fatuous little faculties are never
steadied by the real thing, not
even by so much as the song of a
cricket ohirruping in the grass
They grow intelligent by hearsay,
without ever becoming acquainted
with the many sources of informa-
ton SO familiar to their little ber-
ry-stained cousins in the country,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-11-25
NOT THE ONLY ONE.
There are hundreds OF Point Pleasant
people similarly situated.

There are hundreds OF Point Pleasant
people similarly situated.
Can there be any stronger proof of.
fered than the evidence of Point
Pleasant residents? After you have
read the following, quietly answer the
question.
w D Holmes, steamboat captain,
residing at $40 Wand ST., says: II
cannot say too much in favor OF
Doan's Kidney Pills. Through expo
sure in my occupation as an Ohio
River steamboat captain contracted
severe form of Kidney trouble and
for years l doctored but unsuccess-
fully. The pains across the small of
my back and through my kidneys
were almost unbearable. The kidney
secretions were much discolored,
scalding and irregular. Seeing the
good results others obtained from the
use of Doan's Kidney Pills, 1 called
at g. w. NJ. Hooffs drug store and
procured box. They worked like a
charm with me. / gained relief after
but a few doses and when 1 had fin
ished the second box felt myself a
new man. Doan's Kidney Pills to
me proved a useful friend"
For sale by all dealers, price 90 cts.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y,
sole agents for the q. s..
Remember the name DOANS and
take no other.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-11-25
Fortunate At Command

Walking the streets of GalIipolis
for nearly 40 years, subsisting on
the charity of friends and the pro-
Deeds of such small jobs as he was
able to find. finally dying alone
and friendless. only saved from be-
ing buried in the potter's field by
friends coming forward and paying
his burial expenses. his own stub
bornness of viii alone keeping him
out of q comfortable fortune, suffi-
cient to have given him every lux
ury in life had he SO desired is the
life story of Joseph Pohlman, of
this city
Pohlman died about month
ago, and since his demise interest
ing facts have come to light. He
was a member of prominent Aus.
train family. the son of wealthy
parents. He and brother disa-
greed. Pohlman came to America
and every effort on the part of his
mother and brother to have him re-
turn was unsvailing. On the
death of his mother she left her
son Joseph legacy amounting to
about $4,000. but all efforts on
the part of his brother to locate
him proved futile, and the Stub
born pride of the runaway con-
demned him to life of hardship
and the charity of friends.-Galli-
polls Tribune.