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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Moralsse7e the rules we make for other people,.
 Some men are born fools. some achieve fooiishness, and some have foolishness married upon them.
 The oftener a woman gets married the surer she is that her first husband was not the kind she wanted, but better kind than those after him.
 The woman who has the most talked about clothes line in town can stand a good deal of unhappiness without getting discouraged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
GLOOMY DECEMBER.

By Robert Burns. Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy De-
 cemberl Ance mair hail thee wi sorrow and
 care: Sad was the parting thou makes me re-
 member. Parting wi Nancy, ohl neer to meet
 mair. Fond lovers parting is sweet. painful;
 pleasure, Hope beaming mild on the soft parting
 hour; But the dire feeling. O. farewell foreveri Is anguish unmingled and agony pure. Wild as the Winter now tearing the forest' Till the last leaf O the Summer Is flown. Such is the tempest Las shaken my bosom Since my last hope and last comfort is gone! sun as hall thee. thou gloomy Decem-
 Der.
 still shall hail thee wi sorrow and
 care; For sad was the parting thou makes me
 remember, Parting vi Nancy. oh neer to meet
 mzir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
State Control of Convicts.

Governor Jelks recently visited rela- tives in Atlanta, and he fell into the hands of the interviewers. He dis cussed the convict problem, and he informed the astonished Georgians that he had already taken 800 convicts out N the hands of the contractors, plas- k g them under state control. He fur
 CT said that he would, before he Sent out of office, place the remaining HOO convicts of Alabama in the hands of the state authorities, taking their control from contractors.
 The Georgia penal system is a sys- tenn based on contractors control, and it is a system full of inhumanity and si ameful scandals and abuses. Mis- sissippi has long had system of state control, and her convicts are money earners, and yet are humanely treated Governor Jelks proposes to put Ala pama in line with Mississippi, and per heps after while tle contagion of humanity viii spread to Georgia.
 Governor Jelks will win the grati- tude of every person whose heart has no. turned to stone if he persists in taking the clothing, feeding and man. agement of convicts out of contractors hands The prison board will not drive a convict to wo-' who is i'll. and it will fir, way to keep down the white
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD
out the bar

straighten crooked limbs without the bar barous knife
 We are waiting now for the advent of Adelina Patti and all are cheerfully pre- pared to be robbed by the expensive singer It is estimated that the diva will be paid s312.5O per minute for regaling American ears with her divine voice. No mean wage. certainly. This Afareweil'' tour will be merely a repetition of the numerous final appearances" she has made before. It seems that as long as she is willing to sing the people are more than willing to pay her an enormous price. It is good to be a good singer, but poor one Is an affliction to be prayer fully avoided
 Burke Cochran is much in the public eye just now. He has recently returned from Europe and in the same breath makes two important statements. He de- nies that he intends to become an Eng fish subject and says he thinks Grover Cleveland could be elected if nominated by the democratic party. It is maliciously hinted that Mir. Cochran is on that side which promises the largest apportionment of graft. but be that as 1t may. his pur- srasive eloquence will always be in de- mand.
 Herr Babel. the great socialist leader of the Germans has recently fallen heir to fortune of 400 thousand marks. and tt has been hinted that he will TOW proceed to make a change in his opinions It makes a lot of difference when a man Is poor and talks of some other mans money be- longing to him and when the cash is his own. But it is not probable that a man who has displayed the courage and indomitable purpose which has distin- guished the career of Herr Babel will become a turncoat when he receives windfall. After braving the anger of the Kaiser and leading his followers on to an overwhelming victory. 1t would be a great pity for him to become a traitor to the cause he has fathered.
 A wall goes up from the overworked rich. The strenuous revels of town" of Newport, of Bar Harbor, and hundred other places, Is becoming too much for the endurance of the maids and matrons and they are now complaining of being on what the roue of lesser light terms the ragged edge" It may be very sad state of affairs, but we cannot feel much sympathy for the weary society moths who whisper in tragic tones of nervous prostration,' broken health" and all the other evils that follow in the wake of.a fast life. When one con- siders what a society favorite goes through, year in and year out-the end less cycles of Cances. entertainments and functions of all kinds, the rush from week to week, the late hours. indigestible suppers and dinners-it is not hard to see the result. The point however. is that these people are not driven by necessity to peril their health in such dissipation. All they do 1t for is to satisfy their own vanity, and the suffering they bring upon themselves Is a just reward for inane pursuit of social prestige.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
THE JOB FOR HIM.

Frcm the Chicago Record-Herald.
 Little Johnny-when I grow up I'm go- ing to be a diplomat.
 Sunday School Teacher-Why not be preacher, like your handsome uncle?
 Little Johnny-'Cause pa says preachers goes to hell if they lie. but diplomats gets promoted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
Off for the snrlnus.

Miss Thomas Mccullough. the popular and accomplished cashier of the Albert restaurant. leaves today for the springs to spend a vacation of ten days or two weeks This will be her first holiday in three years and her friends will wish her a pleasant time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
His Second Question.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Didn't hear him ask you If could not be persuaded to sing?' asked Miss Kreech.
 T guess you did. dear; and while you were singing he moved the not
 Moved the 'not? !"
 Yes; he moved it in between per suaded' and Nc.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

semble somewhat the gnats we have In Birmingham. They get in their work only in the day time. It Is necessary this year for travellers in the park to go during the day with handkerehiefs tied around their as possible. The horses which draw the loads of tourists have to go covered with blankets all day as a protection from the mosquitoes. Their sting is very pain full and irritating Those mosquitoes were the only thing that marred the pleasure of our trip in the least"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Murderers in Kishineff from two months to a whole year in prison. This is the way Russia encourages riots and mas acres,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
HARLEs FRoHMAN is advanc- ing upon New York with forty
 nine new plays stored In his

O ing upon New York with forty
 nine new plays stored in his trunks, and an idea of what the season will bring forth, so far as number Is con- oerned, can be gleaned from this state ment. The plays have not been sifted yet, but they are all possibilities. and no one can tell what successes this great pile of manuscript may contain. It Is to be hoped that they will surpass the produc- tions of last year, even to that extent by which Rostrands "Cyrano" overtops the vacuous effusions of Clyde Fitch and the make 'em- while-you- wait' style of playwrights. We long for a good Ameri- can play; not an imitation or an adapta- ton of some sensational travesty of the Paris music halls. but clean and pow erful play of the land which will be a joy and a delight to Americans
 Mir Frohman has an suspicious season before him and he is making extensive preparations to garner in the shekels of the public. With his stars his trunks full of plays. and his expensive stage para phernalia he will be able to at least please the eye if not the intellect.
 Frank G. Carpenter has ammassed a comfortable fortune by his globe trotting and syndicate correspondence, which has enabled him to enjoy the luxury of a farm in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia When he first made the venture Mir Carpenter was merely trying to im- itate the purseproud and sink some money" but he was agreeably surprised to find that his undertaking was quite a success financially. A peach orchard set out few years ago has brought him ann kept evenly balanced by the profits MT. Carpenters career Is an example of how "syndicating'' pays. He has led an ideal life knocking about over the world. and has been able to make handsome in- come all the while. His entertaining during his rambles have been eagerly read in all parts of the country. While in his native land Mir Carpenter makes his home in Washington.
 It is a surprising fact that Dr. Adolph Lorenze. the noted American surgeon, was paid scant attention while in Mex leo, although no man was more honored in the United States. It is stated that he was not invited to demonstrate his method of bloodless surgery. The local doctors, Mexican and Austrian. kept aloof. The only courtesy extended him was by the Austrian ambassador. who rendered dinner in his honor. This shows the difference between country that is in the van of progress and one that is behind In one the man who can do something for the betterment of the human race is hailed with exclamation. while in the other he Is viewed with sus- picion. However, it is a painful truth that the medical men in the United States were not as unanimous in receiving pr. Lorenz as his skill and learning warrant ed, but the people were not slow to show their admiration for the man who could
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

The oldest son of King Peter has been proven a degenerate and there fee fitted to sit on the throne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Birmingham should begin to compel it's autoists to place big numbers on their machines. It may be humiliat- in- to the aristocra machine. but it enables the wounded to identify the particular autoist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Andrew Carnegie is thinking of starting a paper in Glasgow as last chance of dying without disgrace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

The steel trust continues to wag on despite the departure of MT. Schwab on a 60.horse-power automobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Radium will do everything except to CD boodlers. The penitentiary is the only thing that fits them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

When our weather station gets it's instruments it will see that the daily shower is abolished. For the present we must take our showers, as we do our pipe water, without undue mur- muring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

The opening of New York's subway haa been postponed again-this time to April 1, and the people lack con- fidence in the suggested date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

The billboard agitation has not reached this town, wnere it is much needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

General Grosvenor's estimate of the vote of the college of cardinals is wLat is needed in the present dearth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

The conclave is one too many for tn. esteemed Roman journalists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Cuba has decided to postpone its revolution. It is too poor to indulge in such luxuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Mary MacLane's new book is too decent to sell well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Patti Will be here in February, and a dollar week put by in an old stock irg would probably go far towards securing a seat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

The executive sessions of the senate lack the smoke act of the college of cardinals, besides several other things not necessary to mention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

The vice presidential office is still considered a political graveyard, al though three New York men have reached the throne by it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

King Menelik has decided to discard glsss beads, and to start an up-to-date mint.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Congressman Littauer. and his gloves are up against it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

In Wall street water is at present oozing out instead of tumbling out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Patti will not ting in Wall street, the year being of the indigestible sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

The Schwab resignation is again on exhibition, and 1t may become opera tive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05
PUT ON.

From Judge.
 ''she has such natural charm about her."
 "Yes; but it Is artificial"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Birmingham should begin to compel it's autoists to place big numbers on their machines It may be humi1lat in- to the aristocra c machine, but it enables the wounded to identify the particular autoist.
  When our weather station gets it's instruments it will see that the daily shower is abolished. For the present Ne must take our showers, as we do ou1 pipe water, without undue mur- muring.
 The opening of New York's subway has been postponed again-this time to April 1, and the people lack con fidence in the suggested date.
  The executive sessions of the senate lack the smoke act of the college of cardinals, besides several other things not necessary to mention.
 
 The vice presidential office is still considered political graveyard, al though three New York men have reached the throne by it.
 -s- Patti Will be here in February, and dollar a week put by in an old stock irg would probably go far towards securing a seat.
 General Grosvenor's estimate of the vote of the college of cardinals is wLat is needed in the present dearth.
  The steel trust continues to wag on despite the departure of MT. sehwab on 6o-horse-power automobile. Andrew Carnegie is thinking of starting paper in Glasgow as a last chance of dying without disgrace
  The oldest son of King Peter has been proven a degenerate and there fee fitted to sit on the throne.
  Radium will do everything except to CD boodlers. The penitentiary is the only thing that fits them.
  Cuba has decided to postpone its revolution. It is too poor to indulge in such luxuries.
 The billboard agitation has not reached this town, wnere it is much needed.
 King Menelik has decided to discard glsss beads, and to start an up-to-date mint.
  The Schwab resignation is again on exhibition, and 1t may become opera tive.
 the year being of the indigestible sort.
  In Wall street water is at present oozing out instead of tumbling out. The conclave Is one too many for th- esteemed Roman journalists. Mary MacLane's new book is too decent to sell well. Congressman Littauer and his gloves are up against it.
 PUT ON. From Judge.
 ''she has such natural charm about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-05

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 1421 c Street. N. ".
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12

The demand of the Foreian
Trade Association that the re-
ductiOn in railroad rates for ex-
port be not confine d to steel and
iron products, but applied all
along the line, throws new light
upon the theory of the ''integra-
ton of industry" 1t originated
in connection with the United
States Steel Corporation. The
notion was that excessive over
capitalization would not be ia
tai if only such hold could be
got on the great railroads as to
insure low railroad rates, if
things came to the worst. But
how do the railroads like the idea
of pulling the chestnuts of the
Steel Trust out of the fire? 1t
is one thing to agree to a cut in
rates on steel and iron, in order
to help along projects of kin
dred financial interests, but it
is very different matter when
shippers Of commodities in gen
eral rise up and claim equal
privileges. If the railroads con-
cede them, what will be the
effect on their own finances: OF
course, if the price of every.
thing else is going to minimum
figures, railroad rates must nee
essarily suffer a general reduc-
ton; but it would seem that the
roads have more to gain by hav-
ing this brought about by I'M
fettered competition than by a
concordat.-N. Y. Post.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12

The Baltimore Sun continues
to whoop it up for Mr.. Rayner
and endeavors to show the
good people of Maryland that
two Rayner blades are growing
to-day, where only one grew
yesterday. The Sun is growing
old at these tactics, but it
would not show it's hand quite
so plainly, if it did not color it's
local news to suit it's editorial
utterances. The people of Mary
land are nauseated with "what
a prominent Eastern Shoreman
says" or ''an Old Democrat re-
marked to-day" The Sun
would do we'll to print names
and then the people, the dear
people, would believe what the
Sun says.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12
Beware OF Continents for
Catarrh that Contains.
Mercury.

AS mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians.
AS the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure. man.
ufactured by +. J. Cheney & Co.
Toledo .. containes no mercury. aud is
taken internally. acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure
he sure you get the genuine. 1t is
taken internally and made in Toledo.
Ohio, by F. j. Cheney & Co. Testi-
mOnials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12

PRESIDENT Roosevelt" has
issued a message to Congress
dealing largely with the
Panama Canal treaty. He does
not think the U. s. has done
anything wrong in encouraging
rebellion upon the part of the
Isthmians and the promulgation
of a new Republic. The covert
assistance was no doubt done
under the idea that the end
justified the means to attain it.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12

1T is claimed on good authori-
ty that Mr.. Charles j. Murphy
the new and very successful
leader of Tammany Hall, is
favorable to the nomination of
Senator German for the Presi-
dency. Most all Democrats are
of the same mind. He is the
man who can win the election.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12
THE NEW SENATOR.
baltimore Correspondence

lDdltlIlloTe correspondence
If all that his admirers say is true of
Mr.. Rayner, and if all that Mr. Raw.
ner's friends say OF Governor Smith is
also true,-neither of these ifs can be
proven cOrrect,-tO most clear thinking
MINDS the question of who the United
Stalks Senator should be, is still far
from SETTLED. even ON this very unfair
aud one. sided basis of appraisal and COM
rcn If fitness for the position In
If the question of achiev ement
WI for. In Mr. Raynpr'S CT e
Gross of magnificent oratory,
atc., nd infinitum," beneath
riends literally bury him, the
.ncy between him and Smith
20 be apparent to even Mr..
tiSans.
'ayner done: He has been
congress for many years,
i, Attorney General of
s a Congressman, his
at with pride that he in
lumber of bills. Any man
~ seat in Congress may intro
duce bills. They further state that he
was a prominent figure in all debate. As
result of being prominent figure, Mr..
Rayner, according to his own friends,
succeeded in the course of six years, in
having adopted one single amendment
to a railroad bill, of no value to this
State. one way or another. His trends
refer to his Congressional service as
"his brilliant career in Congress. These
same friends compare Mr.. Rayner'S six
or more years with Governor Smiths
term. which lasted just exactly one day,
before he became Governor of this State
and draw unfavorable differences from
the comparison. How fair Mr.. Rayner's
friends are to Mr. Smith!
During his term as ATTORNEY General,
Mr.. Rayner conducted his brillian. de-
Tense of Admiral Schley," and he lost
the case, just as he has lost all the great
cases he has ever entered into, with tx-
ceedingly few exceptions.
In the end to, it seems that Mr. Ray
ner is championed. with some excep-
lions. by the men who want, or cannot
f0resee in his election. Democratic dis
aster in the future.-bec. use he has
1 good lungs.
Governor Smith and Ex-Governor
-kson who are ignored by the Rayner
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12
SATURDAY,
January End, 1904,
At 2.3O O'clock P. NJ,

the following real estate:
FIRST-All that lot of ground situate
in Pocomoke City, known as the Jas.
H. Young Home Place." having a
frontage of 60 feet on the North side
of Market street, and depth of POP
feet, improved by HANDSOME
MODERN DWELLING, nearly new.
SECOND-All that lot of ground stu
ate in Pocomoke City, having 'front.'
age of 70 feet on Oxford street, and
depth of 235 feet, adjoining the first
described lot in tn. rear. Both lots
above described having been conveyed
to the said Ida Young by Charles o.
Melvin and J. Henry Young, trustees,
by deed dated May 18th, A. D.. 1898,
and recorded among the land records
of Worcester County in Liber F. H. P.
No. 10. folio 635.
THIRD-All that lot of ground situate
in Pocomoke City, having a frontage
of 60 feet on the West side of Second
street and depth of $50 feet, which
was conveyed to the said Ida Young,
by Ernest G. Young and wife, by deed
dated December 10Th, A. D., 1898, and
recorded among the said land records
in Liber F. H. P, No. IL, folio 4G6.
TERMS OF SALE.
Twenty per cent. of the purchase
money in cash on day Of sale. the bal
ance to be paid in two equal annual in
stallments to be secured by the bonds of
the purchaser bearing interest from the
day of sale, with sureties to be approved
by the Trustees, or the whole of the
purchase money in cash, at the option
Of the purchaser.
ESOBLEY ID. JONES,
CLAYTON u. PURNELL.
Trustees.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
The creditors of the said Joseph Henry
Young and Ida Young are hereby mott.
fled to file their claims against this estate
within four months from the day of
SALE
ROBLEY ID. JONES,
CLAYTON j. PURNELL,
dec. 13.ts. Trustees
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-12-12
CORPORATION TAXES.

This is to give notice to all persons
who owe and have not paid Snow Hill
corporation taxes for the year 1902. that
the same must be paid on Or before
December 10Th. or will proceed to adj
vertise property, sell the same. and
collect all costs according to law.
WILLIAM T. WHITE,
Corporation Tax Collector