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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
HOUSE OF COMMONS HAS LITTLE POWER Its Members Are Slaves of the
 Government SOUTH AFRICAN VISITORS King Edward Entertains Royal Black and Crowds Applaud as He Drives Through the streets-eos-
 sip of London.
SOUTH AFRICAN VISITORS
BY HENRY pEvEREAux.

Iundon. June 20.-The house Of com
 mons sits from Whitsuntide Into August
 but during this time its members are the slaves-the Chinese chattels-of the goN ernment TEey can initiate nothing, they can discuss nothing, they can vote on nothing, except what the government eondescends to submit to them. Although parliament sits. representative govern ment is in abeyance. We boast of ours being the mother of parlaments. There is not one single legislative assembly in the entire world outside these isles. and there 's not one single local council in- side them, so powerless as the house of commons. It's proceedings are mere sham. This is the condition to which the present ministry has reduced the repre- sentative assembly of the nation. Un- der the baneful shadow of MT. Balfour and his colleagues, the power of the ex- ecutive has increased and the power of the house of commons has been propor- tionately reduced. If it be thought that the action or the inaction of the exec utive on any matter demands a debate, recourse has to be had to the house of lordsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
Steady March of Socialism

BY ALFRED SETON.

American people under close government tai supervision and the government 8 guarantee of purity every tin of to- matoes. or peas or sugarcorn or Doned chicken.
 No Backward Step. Whichever party may come into power at the November election, we may be sure that in this direction no backward | step will be taken. Industrial evolution and the logic of events demonstrate this. l The out-and-out, simonpure socialists l whose number Is hard to estimate, but I which l would put at about 100000, look l with great scorn upon the sociaistic man. 1 ifestations in the development of the other parties and regard the socialistic and semi-sociaistic occasional utterances of such men Bryan. the Democrat and La Folette, the Republican. as in sineerities and political ciap-trap. They forget the old saying that Rome wasn't built in a day and they ciamor-most of them-for an immediate readjustment of industrial conditions and 'an all-round beterment of human life. The mass of them are men of a fiery sincerity. though some of their leaders are posenrs and windbags. But, in their political work they are but opportunists.
 Remains to be seen, then, how their voting strength in different states Is going to affect the general election. That 1t will hurt the republican party in one state and probably two seems clear; bu. there is equal likelihood of it's detract- ing in some states from the democratic vote. as it was proven to have done in the election of the rough rider to the governorship of New York. 1t would be. indeed, singular joke of destiny, If when the votes are analysed in Noyem- Der, it should be found that MT. Roose- velt owed his election to the Presidency to the same crowd of cranks, agitators. or, to speak more politely and perhaps more justly. let us call them, If you will impatient evolutionists of new so- cial and industrial order.
 "rhe old order changeth," anyway, though slowly. Man could not stand st'll' if he would In the words Of the poet;
 "The ancient skies
 Look down alas. on myriad misearies, But human life grows fairer. as whole, steadily, through the ages agony, Their bloody sweat and passion on the
 cross.
 Loss here and there by vast and lasting
 gain
 Is matched. is melowed. If this worle
 indeed,
 Were but a vision and a pnantasy- dream that God hath dreamed-are e
 there no signs
 That He will waken to perfect HIS
 dream"
 We Americans may be sure that in thls twentieth century mighty improvements In the material and moral conditions Of our republic are bound to be made. Else evolution were le man nincompoop and life a tragic farce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
 Odd Chinese Medicines.

From the Chicago News.
 Though the pill habit is said by medical journals to cause more dys- pepsia than it cures, it has at any rate the sanction of antiquity. In an arti- cle which Dr. H. l.. Norris, British naval surgeon on the China station, contributes to one of the medical jour nals he remarks that doses in the Chinese pharmacopoeia are invariably large and the pills are taken by the hundreds. The Chinese, he adds, pos sess an enormous veneration for an tiquity, and besides powdered deer's horns to promote longevity and tigers bones to promote bravery, dose them selves with fossil ivory, fossil crabs and shells, ancient soot and water in which a few copper coins of an early dynasty have been boiled.
 Other imaginative remedies are scorpions, dried silkworms, baked toads. wasps' nests and cockroaches. At the end of a considerable catalogue of similar prophylactics Dr. Norris ob- serves that, though his list Is far from complete, it will show through what a varied range of thought Chinese ideas nave IuONtu III dttSihpto tO iChc'C 'iic diseases common to humanity. Per haps the most curious of all preventive medicines is soap made from black cat which is drunk by blacksmiths in Canton to prevent burns from hot metals.
 If the remedies are Tn themselves nauseating the nomenclature of the drugs is almost literary. "The arrow of the hundred medicines" thunder pills" water dragon bones," "the king of the field boundaries "thous- and tales worth seed" are some of the names.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
Caught in the Crush
+ho c,hicago Trihune

From the Chicago Tribune.
 All at once a wild cat cry was realised.
 It passed quickly from mouth to mouth.
 As if rushing from some impending ca lamity and seeking safety through a mar row outlet the crowd surged madly on ward.
 Frenzed women fought their way des- perately to the front.
 Hats were crushed.
 Costly crowns were trampled upon and ruined.
 Ruthlessly the stronger pushed the weaker aside, their faces pale with ex- citement. and the fierce passion awaken ed by the instinct of self-preservation or something even stronger than that blaz- ing in their dilated eyes.
 To and fro swayed the multitude, hssd- less alike of the shreks and means of the suffering ones and the possible danger ahead.
 What was it? Was it a fire?
 Were these maddened women trying to escape from mad dog?
 Not at all.
 They were trying to get close view of young woman. the daughter of q President of the United States. who had incautiously exposed herself in public thoroughfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
A Unique Visitor.

What an Alake Abeakuta may pre- eisely be l confess l do not know. But I gather that he Is some sort of monarch. as the gentleman owning the title wears royal robes and bears in his right hand a regal stick of office. Tn the latter days of Louis XlV's reign a mission consisting of sham Persians from the shah was introduced solemnly to the French monarch by Mine. de Maintenon, who thought that 1t might amuse him. But l suppose that our visitor is gen- uine Alake, although 1t Is quite possible that he may have been brought over here as an advertisement for some gold companies of Abeskuta which are to be subsequently lat nched
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
of that soul in supplioation to it's MT

of that soul in supplication to its Mir ker.
 And when the prayer was finished, the man rose up from his knees, climbed into his bed. laid his head upon the pillow. and through the little wicket gate or sleep presently entered the fields of eter- nifty. s
 In many other of the stories sent to me by readers of the Daily Mail there has been this same sudden sanity at the ap- proach of death. select this particular incident only because it is given to me so graphically and so convincingly.
 The problem in each one Is the same the sudden lull, the sudden ray of light, and then death
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
Society of Who's Who.

One of the most captivating Yankee notions that has long appealed to British pockets emanates from the great brain of William O. McDowell. IL. D.. of New York. w. O. Mobilize a great many busybo5ies on this side of the Atlantic Is "very much interested in drawing the different divisions of the English speak ing world at this time into the closest accord" anl the happy inspiration has occurred to him of incorporating the company whose names have been con- sidered worthy to be enrolled in those two great publications. Who's Who, Lon don. and Who's Who Tn America. Chi cago." into one mighty worldwide body, to be entitled "The Society of the Who's s Who" Circulars conveying this an- nouncement are now being distributed broadcast--I take 1t. to everybody whose name appears in the two sacred volumes above mentioned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
Question of Color.

What I. however, find curious is that, whilst the present government Is inform ing us that negroes are of so inferior race to ours that in South Africa this must be brought hone to them by ordi- nances forbldding them to walk on the sidepaths of towns, and that she dig nity of whit adom must be maintained by these whites declining to engage in man ual work in the same mine with them. His majesty Is officially receiving a negro Alake at Buckingham palace, and crowds assemble to applaud this eminent black parsonage as he drives in state through the streets. This seems to me somewhat inconsistent, if the dusky shade in a mans skin, and tendency to eurliness in his hair are to make him unfit U work on equal terms with white men in a mine in his own country, or to walk on a sidepath in an African town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
EXTRAORDINARY EGG.
Contained Three in One, and Hen That
 Laid It Died.
Morristown CN. J) Cor. to, New York Tifnee

Morristown (N. J) Cor. to New York
 Times.
 Frank L. Walsh of Mountainville has an egg measuring 9 inches in it's shortest circumference and 11la inches in its long est It weighs "A ounce. The egg was laid by a buff cochin of ordinary size It was the first egg ever laid by the hen and also the last one for she died short ly afterward.
 To preserve the egg. Mir. Walsh had IL blown, and it was then found that it con- tained a second egg with hard shell. The shell of the interior egg was pierced. and that one also blown, when third, very small, egg with a soft shell was found in. that In endeavoring to blow this third egg that was broken, but the two large shells still remain intact
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
London Bar Maids.

I car understand a person objecting to all sale of spirituous liquors at bars. but
 what Is a barmaid? A girl who sells the liquor behind the bar. These Hebes are
 generally perfectly respectable young women who work hard. If they occa- : sionally nirt with their clients, it is a
 coram populo Irritation. with solid piece of furniture between them and their admirers. The damses rlay sometimes be little vulgar, but so are many young ladies. The little compliments exchanged between them and their customers are not more harmful than the nirtations be- tween young men and women at fash ionable ball. particularly when the pair sit out dance, Their presence behind the bar exercises a good deal of restraint on the frequenters of the public house so far as language is concerned, and has a certain huma manizing effect on them. Yet here we have a political federation of women, whose object Is the equaliza- tion of sexes passing resolution to for bid women pursuing an occupation which
 gives them an honest living, because those who are not barmaids regard 1t as contrary to their ideas of womanhood
 What next? Will some federation of
 men forbid the male sex rom becoming counter jumpers as con,rary 70 manhood,
 and as demoraizlng to ladies who deal in the shops where they are employed? Heaven preserve us all-including bar maids-from the sort or paternal legisla-
 ton suggested by persons who-however excellent their intentions-are a great
 deal too fond of meddiing Tn matters 1 about which they know absolutely noth- ing.
 | In Berlin the ladies have had a meet 1 ing from all parts of the world to ad- l vocate everywhere the rights or women. | In the resolution that found ravor wo-
 men were said to be tyrannized by men. | Tyranny was struck ou, or 1t because 1 the ladies held that women canot be 1 tyrannized. Ire meeting seems to have ended by the delegates rom each coun- l try insisting on speaking In their own | language and all at the same time. The I conflict of languages was also fatal to l the Tower of Babel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
How His Wealth Grew.

From the Philadelphia Press. Ascum-Have you seen anything of Jig gins lately?
 Dr. Swellman-Yes I just prescribed a trip to Europe for him this morning
 Ascum-Indeed? He's getting wealthy, isn't heg
 Dr. Swellman-Well I can remember when l used to prescribe for him simply a dose of sodium bromide for the same complaint.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
Mo Cure For It.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 It was needless for ex-Senator Pener to deny the report that he is no longer populist. Populism is q disease TOT which there is no antitoxin. and nence no hope of recovery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
MYSTERY Is NOT
 YET EXPLAINED Insanity is the Great Problem
 for Science MADNESS IS NOT DEFINED Medicine and Surgery But Crepe in the Dark-The Thrilling Story of a Madmans Midnight
 Prayer.
 
MADNESS IS NOT DEFINED

From the London Mail.
 Since the publication of an article Tn the Daily Mail dealing with the prob lems of lunacy, have received hundreds of letters from every part of the country telling me anecdotes which would make one of the most mysterious. one of the saddest, and yet one of the most enthrall- ing volumes in the literature of humanity. Moreover, 1 have lately discussed the subject with many careful alienists, and l am more than ever convinced that the unfolding of the mystery of insanity, when 1t comes, will let into the world new and startling light on all the ma terial problems of psychology
 Before telling the remarkable story which is the excuse for my return to this matter. I should like to make it plain that science has not yet arrived at any definite knowledge concerning the phe- nomenon of madness.
 What is insanity? asked famous alienist.
 He would not tell me.
 I pressed him. For my own curiosity I begged him to tell me of what he per sonally considered this mystery to con- sist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03

Cars to Fair Grounds on July 4th will go out Second Avenue B. R., l.. & F. Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03

Let us make your Art Glass. Syd Smith Hardware Go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-03
Science Gives no Definition.

We do not know he said, "anc we do not give 1t a name. Insanity, lunacy' madness-all these are legal terms science has not yet provided definition. When a man becomes a danger to him self or to his fellow citizens the law calls him insane and locks him up. That IS all"
 But" l persisted, "how do you define it to yourself?"
 After much protestation, he made an- swer: Madness, to me. appears to be a departure from the normal
 Then" l cried, Shakespeare, Isaiah, St Paul are among the mad!''
 Well, that is all l can tell you, he said. "A departure from the normal-we can say no more.
 Remember that many men and women with large and healthy brains are now in lunatic asylums; while people with in finitely smaller and less perfect brains are enriching themselves or the state in the field of free activities. It Is not @ diseased brain, or small brain, that Is responsible in every case for the teasing mystery of insanity. Some shadowy cause, as invisible and as intangible as the electron of the chemist, Is responsible for this tangle in the affairs of men, and only the law Is bold enough to pin label to the phenomenon. Science can only say, Behold, l show you mystery!'
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-07
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
Delegates to the National Convention Are Chosen
Instructed to Support William R. Hearst.

The Democratic state convention at
Sioux Falls elected the following del
sgates to the st. Louis convention:
John Fanslow, Yankton county; r.
e. Pettigrew, Minnehaha; w. F. Bren-
nan. Kingsbury; J.. A. Stransky, Brule;
II. S. Volkmar, Grant; Z. E. Gross,
Potter; Chauncey l.. Wood, Penning-
ton; W. J.. Whitmire. Lawrence.
The report of the committee on
resolutions, which was unanimously
adopted, reaffirms the principles of
Democracy "as enunciated by Jeffer-
son, Jackson and Bryan" and in
structs the delegates to the St. Louis
convention to support William Ran
dolph Hearst first, last and all the
time for the presidential nomination"
The resolutions declare that Hearst
will never compromise with trusts,
and term him the champion Of labor.
One of the features of the evening
session was the address by former
United States Senator Richard f. Pet
tigrew, who stated among other things
that this, he believed, was the first
time he had ever addressed a Demo-
cratic convention. but that his entire
sympathy was with the Democratic
cause. He severely denounced the
state and national policies Of the Re-
publican party.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-07

a very short time. Two clippings are
required, with about ten days inter
vening, during which time the cattle
must be kept off the infected range
The germ, it is said, will not exist
longer than ten to fifteen days apart
from the animal, therefore the range
where NANCY cattle have not been for
that length of time is perfectly safe
for unaffected animals.
Stockmen whose herds already are
infected have made preparations to
contend with the disease at once and
do everything possible for the. com
plete eradication of the disease. 1t
will require quite an expenditure on
the start, but this can be lessened to
a considerable extent by several stock.
men going in together and erecting
watts. as many are now doing. The
expense, it is conceded, will be made
up in a very short time by enabling
the cattle to become healthy and put
on fat earlier, and thus be in condition
to be put on the market. They realize
that If the disease is allowed to run
and gain a foothold on the range il
will be only a question of a short time
until infected herds are placed under
strict quarantine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-07
RED MAIDEN SAD OF HEART.
Indian Lover Fails to Come to Carry
Her to His Tepee.

iHOIdn IOVCT TdiIo " VII = Soiiy
Her to His Tepee.
The snow-white Indian camp of two
women and a man has broken after a
weeks stay on the east bank of the
Wolf north of Miller. and the campers
have returned to Crow Creek. This
incident is believed to have a roman
tic meaning, but the refusal of the
red people to talk makes it hard to
decipher the facts.
1t Is known that the Sissetons, in
the %springtime of former years have
come halfway to meet, WOO and car
ry away in marriage from this spot
the fair Crow Creek maidens.
The non-arrival this time of the Sis
seton lovemakers caused anxiety and
heart-burnings in the little, u%p-to-date
milk-white tepee. with a new stove in
the center. Just at the setting of sun
each day one of these Crow Creek
maidens would stand on a knoll near
her tent, l%ongingly looking toward
the north; but the Sisseton brave
failed to come, no doubt the object OF
her daily waiting, so the trio returned
to their home on the river.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-07
MANY HERDS OF CATTLE AFFLICTED
Mango Is Epidemic in the Northwestern Portion OF
South Dakota-Efforts to Stamp 1t Out.

Reports from the extreme north
western portion Of South Dakota and
the southern part of North Dakota are
to the effect that many herds of cattle
In that locality are affected by the
mango. Attaches of the United States
department of agriculture are in the
field and some herds already have
been quarantlned. Three dipping plants
are being erected in southwestern
North Dakota, n on the Little Mis-
souri, river, one on the Hamilton Bros
ranch and another at a convenient
point in the same vicinity. The one
at the ranch of Hamilton Bros. is be-
Ing built by the brothers and adjacent
stockmen named Shaw, Wright, Aus
tin and McPhee. 1t will be placed in
operation as soon as the weather will
permit cattle to be dipped without
danger of injury.
The dipping plants are all to be
built by the stockmen themselves, but
expert government officials will super
intend the dipping of the cattle. The
officials state that when the dipping Is
properly done there is little difficulty
In effecting a permanent cure and a
complete eradication Of the disease in
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-07
Is GAME.
But Two Men Are Wounded by Man
He Is Forced Into Duel With.

But Two Men Are Wounded by Man
He Is Forced Into Duel With.
Andy Striegel has a shattered arm
and Jack Brown has a serious wound
in his side as the result of a shooting
ARRAY at W~oonsocket. The sheriff is
searching for Hank Stanley, who is
charged with shooting the two men.
Stanley, it is alleged, resented an
order from City Marshall w. S. Coch-
rane to stop raising a disturbance, and
he secured a Winchester rifle with
which to proclaim his indignation. He
went to a restaurant where he met the
marshall with a number of men. Open
ing fire, Stanley hit Striegel and
Brown. Then he backed out If the
eating house. covering the crowd with
his gun.
The city marshall was game, how
ever. but his aim was poor. and, al
though he emptied his revolver at
Stanley. the latter was uninjured. The
third shell in Shanley's gun stuck. so
he threw away the weapon and ned.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-07
is SCHOOL
Congressional Townships SO Regard.
ed by Attorney General.

Congressional Townships SO Regard.
ed by Attorney General.
A matter of interest to the whole
country west of the Missouri river,
which is being settled up this year,
is covered in a recent opinion by the
attorney general In regard to the or.
g~anization of school districts in these
counties. The attorney general holds
that under section 1922 Of the politi.
cal code. each congressional town.
ship is a school district where the
former is not organized into a civil
township.
The section is cited as follows:
Each township in every county in
this state which consists of territory
not organized into a civil township
shall remain a school district until
changed AS herein provided.
The change noted is where the
board of county commissioners and
the county superintendent in their
judgment considered It for the best
interests of the eschool patrons "a
change boundaries Of : school district
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-07
The strongest Soldiers.

From a recent English medical in
quiry into the physical status of the
various classes of military it was
found that the low-sized, broad chest
ed artillery men were the strongest
and healthiest in the service. On the
other hand the tall men of the Guards
had the disease tendencies of the
overgrown and consumption and other
pulmonary troubles were noticeably
common. When narrow chested, tho
men Of the Guards and heavy cavalry
very o broke down. Indeed, the
bulk Of the medical evidence seemed
the typical Atkinses-were the ideal
soldiers. though not so imposing or
martial-looking as the gigantic GuardA