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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-05-14
FROM The HOSPITAL,
Mr.. Dunn'S Wonderful Story,
He Might have Been Using Clutches Now b,,.
DIR. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remed

condition was brought about bv ,,L,.
Dr. Greene's Neryura blood and ps,.s
remedy. Here is his letter. -''s
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-05-14

Friends and neighbors Of Mr. Dunn
on Minton Street hardly recognized
him when he came out Of the hospital.
He weighed less than 100 pounds. His
physical system was completely ''run
down" IL did not seem as II he ever
could regain his former strength So
greatly shattered was hts health.
The Mysterious Change.
Then there was change.
His appetite began 10 improve. He
began to relish his food. The hollows
in his cheeks began 20 fiji up, the
sparkle returned to his eyes and he
began to have a little color He began
10 gain flesh, too.
His neighbors and friends noticed il.
They said, why you're getting well
aren't your" They thought his re-
covery was almost miraculous. No
one understood il till they we're told
the secret. Then they understood.
The happy change in Mr.. Dunns
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-05-14

Deaass Rheumatic pills absolutely cures
Rheumsti sm a Neuralgia. Entirely vegetableSafe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
Reform School for Negroes.

As an econimc proposition the leg islature can well afford to consider the bill to be introduced by Representa-. tive Haley to charter a negro reforma- tory and boys industrial school to be located in or near the city. The state will be asked to appropriate $10,0O0 for the use of such an institution. Such leaders of the negro race as Dr. w. R. Pettiford, Dr. c. O. Booth and J. c. A. Wilhite are urging the leglsla. ture to authorize the formation of the proposed reformatory. It is proposed to turn over to the reformatory a valuable property in Smithfeld which has been conducted as an old folks and orphans home.
 An institution that will take way ward boys and turn them from way ward life to usefulness is worthy of attention, and the legislature could scarcely authorize more beneflcent charity. It is believed that hundreds of negro boys could be saved by it from criminal lives and added to the ranks of workers in the state. The Legislature should give the bill that Representatiy Haley will present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
OUR E%-SLAVES.
rom ihe Flnrence Timea.

From the Florence Times.
 The introduction of bill in the United States senate by Senator Hanna (by re- quest) to pension ex-slaves opens up a question which has much merit in it. The subject deserves favorable consideration, and we do not hesitate to approve the measureA There has been nothing more pitible in the history of our country more the turning loose upon their own very slender resources and ability of the col ored population of the south Without education. without business talent of any kind, with no experience in providing for the simplest necessities, they were cast out upon the world to scramble for them selves. The young generations of the race were able, nevertheless, to take care of themselves; but no human power can tell the hardships suffered by the old and infrm As age grew upon this lat ter class their hardships suffered by the old and infirm. As age grew upon this latter class their hardships increased, and today their miserable condition mutely appeals for relief. That relief can come only from the Federal government South ern people, knowing these facts, will en- dorse Senator Hanna's bill. It is up to our northern friends to express in sub stantial measure their profession of friendship for the wards of the na- tion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
WHEN MORGAN CAME.

From tho New Yorker.
 J. P. Morgan made one of his rare visits to the Waldorf-Astoria the other evening" He had not been long in the hotel until it became noised about among the bank CTS and brokers congregated in the cafes and parlors that he was making friend Nv call on James R. Keene, who has been confined to his apartments for several days on account of slight injury to one of his knees. The gentlemen were to- sether for an hour or more, and when MT. Morgan emerged from the elevator he found a crowd of Wall street people in waiting. Fom the way they lifted their hats and bowed and scraped to him a stranger would have imagined he was at least President of the United States, if not something higher up." Twenty or more of them got in line and followed him deferentially to the entrance, watching him with awestruck faces getting into his automobile and whirling away The com ing and going of Mir Morgan was the incident of the evening, and provoked the greatest curiosity as to what he had called to see MT Keene about. He had just dropped in to ask him about that injured knee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
Alaskan Boundary Question.

Secretary Root and Senators Lodge and Turner have been selected to sit as the American members of the tri- bunal to determine the Alaskan bound ary, and Canada will name like num- Der, and If they cannot agree a seventh member will be brought in.
 The entire trouble arises over the construction of the clause in the Russo British treaty of 1925 conceding to Russia strip thirty miles broad along the coast, reaching far down along the Pacific. The coast is full of great in- lets and there are large islands all along it-where then shall the thirty mile line be laid? No one paid any attention to the subject until seals and gold were found in Alaska, and then the subject became very real and sub stantial.
 The London Spectator is inclined to think the treaty of 1925 means that thirty miles is to be laid off back from the big inlets, and this view was never disputed by Canada for fully fifty years. It seems as if the intent of the treaty could be easily ascertained. Ger tainly all islands should be excluded from consideration, and the only ques- tion then remaining relates to the in lets. In other words, shall there be q straight boundary line cutting across inlets, or shall the boundary line wind and curve and bend as the coast of the mainland does? The tribunal will have no difficulty in reaching a satisfactory conclusion, although the treaty is open to two constructions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
AFRICAN MiLLlONAIRE'S CAREER.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 Alfred Belt. the South African million alre, was a German merchants son. At twenty years of age he found himself with no more money than an ordinary young man of good position. sitting on a clerks stool in a shipping office at Ham, burg. Though he was the heir to his fathers business he was in the office as a workman, mastering its routine from the bottom to the top. Thirty-flve years ago the first diamond was picked up in South Africa, and the shipping firm at Hamburg was one of the first to feel the boom. Huge orders came in, and as the future of South Africa was then uncer- tain the firm sent out a representative to investigate. MT Belt was chosen, and at twcnty-two. after a ride of four hun dred miles in a cart, he found Kimber- ley-a city of men who had come from all parts of the world to grow rich by the stroke of a pick. The young man from Hamburg, forgetting the mission on which he had been sent out, set to work to organize the new industry. It was MT. Belt who first realized the danger Of mak- ing diamonds too cheap. and by buying up scattered claims he obtained control of the market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
Anniston's Prosperity.

"Anniston is enjoying a season of build ing activity remarked a travelling man in the lobby yesterday. "I was there last week and was glad to see everything looking up so much. The new hotel Is being erected as fast as possible and just across the street Uncle Sam has a large force at work on the government building. This will be a beauty. It will be constructed of white marble, and while the structure will be but one story it will occupy a good sized area. A large dome Is to grace the edifice.
 The hotel was secured for Anniston through the energy of William H. Finn. It will cost nearly S10o GOO and will be equipped with every modern convenience. It will be leased to a North Carolina man, who will furnish it handsomely throughout MT. Finn is the owner of extensive real estate properties and the hotel Is being erected on one of his lots, corner of Noble and Twelfth streets. The lot was subscribed by Mir. Finn, together with a large sum of money.
 "A number of handsome residences are also going up in Anniston."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
A Great Renefaotor.


 Too much cannot be said in praise OF W. H. Woodward, who erected the first steel-frame building in Birmingham ana who is at the head of the Woodward Construction company which is now put ting up the First National Bank build ing" said q prominent investor.
 MT Woodward is indeed a great bene- factor of Birmingham. He is a pioneer in iron-maiSlng in this district and he has shown his faith in Birmingham by in- vesting here hundreds of thousands ot dollars of his accumulated capital Ill these magnificent struct tures-monuments to his pluck and mental breadth. The Woodward building on First avenue IS fine paying property. and tho First Ma ticnal Bank building on Twentieth street and Second avenue will doubtless oe equally as profitable. The latter will cost, site and all, about S7O0,0Oo. and will be one of the most imposing steel-frame structures in the country.
 Every right-minded person in this community rejoices at the prosperity of a citizen like MT. Woodward. Els enter prise is far-reaching. for it not only stim- ulates capital to seek investment in di- rections that will improve the city, but it gives confidence to every branch of trade and industry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17

ident of the United States is provided for, and lastly all rebates are pro hibited.
 This programme reads well. but 1t is noticeable that the trusts them. selves do not object to it. They see no harm in it. except of course MT. Rockefeller They are content with tho terms proposed. They know the President can be induced to withhold their real secrets from the public, and the Elkins bill is a matter of fines only. There are no penitentiary pro visions in it.
 The Elkins bill holds the executive officers and directors of railroad company individually responsible as well as the railroad itself if any de- duction is made to any shipper from published rates. The bill provides that "the willfuE failure of carrier to file and publish rates or observe them is a misdemeanor, and the pen alty ranges from 5000 to S2O,OOO for each offense. This reads well on paper, but what effect would a maxi mum fine have upon a contract with the meat trust for example, involving millions of dollars! It. will prove fu- tile, simply because Imprisonment is abolished by the terms of the bill. In other words, the railroads will pay all fines, and tho President will withhold reports exacted by the department of commerce, and things will go on very much as before. The trusts arc not a bit alarmed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
From the Chicago Trlbune.

From the CnlcaBO IrlDune.
 @ ONSTANTINOPLE, with it's ma
 S ture reputation as the first cos O mopoltan city of the world, will now please pass the palm to Chicago. As an illustration of a bewidering melange of races, the Sultan's capita may be good enough for the comparative degrees, but for the superlative there is now none but Chicago.
 So says University of Chicago profess sor. Carl Darling Buck, of the compara- tive philology department, in a pamphlet the publication of which was announced yesterday as a part of the series of de- cennial publications. The pamphlet is entitled "A Sketch of the. Linguistic Conditions of Chicago and awards first honors in cosmopoitansm to this city on the score of there being fourteen languages besides English spoken by permanent colonies of more than 10000 persons each. and, in all, some forty diff ferent tongues.
 Professor Buck disposes of the claims of Constantinople and Cairo in a single paragraph. Their cosmopolitanism is merely transient, while that of Chicago Is enduring. Travellers who have gone into ecstasies over the spectacle of the hordes and hordes of strang- visaged races tramping all day the rickety old bridge of the Golden Horn between Stamboul and Galata may know that Chicago holds dozen such quarters where the con fusion of tongues is the worst since Babel
 In fact. Prof. Buck calls the linguistic situation which obtains in Chicago 'an unparalleled babel of foreign tongues,'' and then he continues:
 "I say unparalleled babel with all due regard to claims of Constantinople, Cairo and other cities of the Orient, past and present. In Constantinople, with the hete- ogeneous constituency of the army and the harem, augmented by the ranks of European officials and visitors, the num- Der of languages represented may on oc- oasions be as great as in New York or Chicago. But 1t must be remembered that only few of these languages are spoken by large bodies of the population, whereas in Chicago there are some fourteen lan- guages besides English, each of which is spoken by 10000 or more persons. News papers appear regularly in ten languages and church services may be heard in about twenty languages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
A PUTTING PEOPLE.

From the Boston Globe.
 The cigar bill of the American people last year was $346 000,000.
 For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, according to the report recently issued by the commissioner of internal revenue 6,9O5, 749,9 96S cigars were consumed in the United States. That was very nearly 19,- OoOOOo cigars for every day of the 365 in the year.
 This does not include the 2,65S, 176 13O cigarettes we blow in nor the upward of 915,o 900 pounds of snuff and tobacco we consume.
 The revenue collected on all this by the government is over s7o,oo0.Ooo. and is on the increase. In fact the income in- creases faster than population itself.
 The man who does not smoke con- tributes nothing to our annual bill of $s46. 100000 for cigars, but oh, how much comfort he loses in not being a human smohestack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
KISSING DISCUSSED BY
 ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS

contract. Enga gements of marriage are by no means irrefragible. and she who kisses least is likely to have least cause for future regret. At all events, a pru- dent woman will wait until the engage ment is announced before she permits any kissing. There are men who have serious objections to marrying any woman who has been engaged to another man, for the simple reason that they do not choose that any man shall be able to say of the woman whom they take to wife that be has kissed her as her lover. It matters little, rather more, that the kisses have been given in good faith to an affianced husband. It's a way men have!
 Sir, she's yoursl
 You have brushed from the grape it's soft
 blue,
 From the rosebud you've shaken the del
 icate dew
 What you've touched you may take
 A noted "lady killer" of past genera tion, who had been engaged many times. and who boasted to his intimates that no woman had ever refused an offer of his hand in marriage, was once asked why in that case, he was still a bache- Tor. Because I am waiting until I can find a woman who will not permit me to kiss her before we are married he replied
 Even though a woman be fully as- sured of the inevitableness. in due time, cf her marriage, she will be wise not to be too liberal of her caresses. Most things in this world are rated as valua- H1 In Were diamonds as common as pebbles they would be worth no more commer- cially than the common stones of the beach and highway. Moreover one may have too much of a good thing King Midas story is an old one. "roo much water drowned the miller" It is a com mon practice with confectioners to allow new apprentice all the candy which he or she can eat, certain that in lt- tie while the surfet of sweets will de- stroy all taste for sugar in any form. It is human nature essentially to tire of what we have much of and to prize most the fruit which hangs highest and is most difficult to obtain.
 Consequently, the woman who is chary of her favors, who is niggardly even with her caresses, will find that her lover values them all the more and that his respect, as we'll as his affection. for her becomes the greater in proportion as he hopes rather than is sure of her. It has long been a maxim that no man shall kiss and tell; nevertheless, the woman is safest by far of whom there is noth- ing which it were better it were left un- told.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
End of the Venezuelan War.

The blockade is actually lifted, and President Castro is now pursuing with hot guns the revolutionists that have pestered him. He will cease to be the exposure of all eyes, but what he loses in that respect his country will gain in peace and the entry of ships laden with four hams and other sup plies.
 The final terms ot the settlement are thus summarized:
 All payments shall be in monthly in- stallments.
 If Venezuela defaults in payment for thirty days Belgium shall administer the custom houses and distribute the receipts.
 The claims of all countries shall be de- cided by mixed commissions.
 The Hague court to consider preferen- tial payment shall consist of three mem- bers, appointed by the president of that tribunal.
 There must be no suggestion as to se- lections by any interested power.
 The mixed commission shall consist of a representative of each country repre- sented. If these cannot agree third member is to be named by the President of the United States.
 The mixed commission shall meet in Caracas
 All ships taken by the allies shall be returned to Venezuela.
 Venezuela shall onot, make, a counter demand for such ships as were destroyed
 Besides these terms, England and Italy are each to receive in cash $27,- 300, and Germany is to receive $340,- 900 in five monthly payments The demand of Germany for a large cash payment was and is negotiable, but the demand was imperative, and Vene- zuela acquiesced rather than stop all negotiations especially as to the block- ade. In the long run Germany will receive no more proportionately than the other powers.
 The adjustment of the claims against Venezuela will soon be begun, there being three allied claimant na- tions, and eight unallied nations, in cluding the United States. The United States and France will undoubtedly represent the unallied eight, as against the pretensions of the allied three nations, both at The Hague and be- fore the mixed commissions that will sit in Caracas. The whole matter will now be handed over to time and mixed tribunals, and ,he world at large will soon lose interest in it.
 The Monroe doctrine is eighty years old, and in all that time it had not been menaced so much as it was by the Venezuelan muddle, the movement | of the Third Napoleon in Mexico alone excepted Maximilian's empire was soon ended, however, and it is for tunate that the Venezuelan trouble has been as readily disposed of. The | Monroe doctrine stands intact, but the country sees it needs a larger navy | if it is to maintain the famous doc Urine under all circumstances and against all corners and alliances. Il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
Lt ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER N ARENA
A pair of loving turtIe-doves that could not live asunder day or night.
 king Henry VI.
Ilhertv for inc Book Trust.

It seems that all teachers in private schools and in institutes are opposed to state uniformity, and President Mur- fee of the Marion Military Institute is not an exception to the rule. Just why they should all want the barefoot boys and girls of Alabama to pay two prices for school books, is not plain, but Pres ident Murfee says he wants liberty in large slices, although no one proposes to regulate the choice of books in his excellent military institute.
 The truth is, there must be, so far as the average man is concerned. cen sorship as President Murfee calls it, somewhere-in the teacher, in the township trustee, in the county board, or in a state board The broader the censorship the higher it's quality, and the cheaper the price of school books. Censorship by a state board with prices cut down one-half is certainly better to the average man than censor ship by each teacher with two prices for all school books attached. It may not suit President Murfee so well, but it certainly does and will the average citizen.
 The people of Tennessee, North Car olina, Texas and Louisiana and at least twenty northern states are standing the loss of self-government or censor ship remarkably well-so well they are not willing to do without it. Liberty of the Murfee sort is too high-prlced. It means two prices for all school books Two prices and liberty cost the barefoot boys and girls of Alabama S250,00 a year. Liberty is too high priced. State censorship suits other states better, and so it will Alabama but President Murfee can go right along supplying his military institute with books on the old plan. The law will not touch him or other men who are situated as he is. All teachers of private schools want a great deal of liberty. They should have it, but they should not tax the barefoot boys and girls of the state in the getting of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17
Antitrust LeqisIafi0n.

The administration is congratulating itself upon the passage of the Elkins rebate bill, which, together with the publicity amendment of the depart ment of commerce bill, constitutes the antitrust legislation of the session. No other will be attempted. The de- partment of justice has been supplied with ample funds with which to pro- cure evidence and employ additional counsel Suits against corporations are to be expedited, so that final de- cisions in the Supreme court can be obtained without unnecessary delay. Publicity at the discretion of the Pres