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Entered at the postofflce at Birmingham, Ala,, as eecond-class matter. Eastern Business Office, 48 Tribune Build ing New York; Western Business Office, 509 “The Rookery," Chicago. S. C. Beckwith, Bole Agent Foreign Advertising. Notice to Subscribers—When subscribers desire to have their papers changed, they must specify where tho paper Is now going and where they wish It changed to. Watch the label on your paper and see when yoar time expires. The State Herald will appreciate news from any community. If at a small place where It has no regular correspondent, news reports of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. All communications, of whatever charac ter or length, should be written on only one side of the sheet. TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office.pO Editorial Rooms. All calls after 9 o’clock p. m. should be sent to the Editorial Rooms. _ Birmingham is growing as a cotton market. __ Birmingham Is growing as an educa tional center. Birmingham is growing as a manu facturing center. It is reported that Brazil recognizes the Cuban Insurgents as belligerents. This Is hardly true, but if it is it is in tended as an incentive to the United States. __ , The marria/ft' of the Marquis of Wor cester, who is nearly 50 years of age, and has always been regarded as a confirmed old bachelor, has fluttered all the aris tocratic dovecotes of Great Britain. If he has a son it will cut out his nephew, young Henry Somers Somerset, who has been brought up as the eventual heir to the Duke of Beaufort, und who is well known in America. Railroad kidney is one of the latest additions to the list of ijpeclal diseases, and it is said to be wholly due to the dust and grime that filters into the sys tem through the pores of the skin, and which, under continuous railway travel, It Is impossible to eradicate. To any one with a tendency to kidney trouble rail road travel for a week is said to be most dangerous. There is no such danger in sea travel, for there Is no permanent dis ease known which is peculiar to the ocean. There was a decrease In the month of September of gold coin In circulation of over $30,000,000, and of gold certificates S14,100,000. The per capita circulation on October 1 amounted to {22.57, a decrease of 30 cents for the month and of $1.50 from the figures of the corresponding date in 1894. Estimating the population of the United States at 70,000,000, there has been a contraction of the money of the country of $105,000,000 in one year. Verily, the single gold standard policy is operating most satisfactorily for 'he money power; and the end is not yet. Addressing the Bankers' Congress at Atlanta Mr. St. John, one of the most prominent bankers in the country, among other things, said: "You repealed the Sherman act in November, 1803, and cut off thereby abruptly a $50,000,000 yearly increase of the world's aggregate of money. In September, 1894, the price of cotton was lower than in thirty years. The price of wheat was lower than in 300 years. On July 1, 1895, $1,200,000,000 of corporate stocks and bonds were in de fault for dividends and interest due. ‘Fixed incomes' were transfixed for widows and orphans und employes.” It is said that John D. Rockefeller will soon begin the erection of a chateau on the Hudson which will rival that of George Vanderbilt in North Carolina. The Rockefeller mansion will be of white stone, which will stand near his present house, commanding a. magnificent view of the Hudson river. The architecture will be of the renaissance style and the building will probably contain several hundred rooms. The house will be lav ishly furnished and will be lighted by electricity. In architecture, finish, fur nishing and decora'tions it promises to be the finest country establishment in A merica. An authentic tabic has recently been published showing, the range of prices during five years for 110 of the staple pro ducts of the country. It develops the fact that during the period named the only tfrtlele which reached Its lowest point in the year 1893 was petroleum, while in 1893 eight articles reached the lowest point. In ISM and 1S93 more than 100 articles touched "rock bottom” -ami of this number over one-half are credited to the present year, of which less than ten months have expired. It will be re membered that the "financial policy now in force was fully inaugurated in the latter part of 1893. In its "(Jubernatortal Gossip" the Mont gomery Advertiser recently published the following purporting to be an interview with a Birmingham gentleman: "Since it has been ascertained that Gen eral Shelley will not become a candidate for Governor,” said a sound money and administration Democrat in Birmingham several days ago. "It looks very much to me like he will have to run Governor < >atrs again and compel him to accept the place for.the second time. I understand that he docs not want to do It, but a man has to do a great many things for the sake of his party, and I am of the candid opinion that it will help the Gov ernor in his senatorial aspirations to be elected Governor again, lie will be fresh from a campaign before the jieople. and his name will be foremost in their minds and lie will have an advantage that can not be obtained otherwise in his lace for Senator. If he does not stand for Gov ernni again his term will expire about tiie Ohio that the election for Senator comes off and it might mitigate against him. 1 want Oates to run for Oovs^mr again, maintain the present organization b: the party in power and he cannot he b aten for Senator, and that is the feel ii’g of many of the Governor's friends.” Commenting on th< above, the Hunts ville Argus, whose editor is "a sound money and administration Democrat," ni > s: Head closely between the lines There is an anybody-to-bea'-Joe-Johnston meaning in the above extract Only re cently it was given out with absolute I ositiveness that Governoi Oates would not consent to be a candidate for Gov ernor again. Evidently Joe Johnston is regarded down about Montgomery as a dangerous aspirant, and he is. No mis Jake there! WRONG AND MUST GO. There Is but one thing- just now stand ing between Birmingham and an era ot prosperity, second only to the best days of the boom. That thing is the system practiced in this district by the employers of day labor. The pay rolls in the Bir mingham district are now simply im mense, but nobody, not even the laborer, Is getting fair play. The State’Tlerald does not want to be 'understood as taking the position that contractors, mine operators, etc., do not have a perfect right, both morally and legally, to own and operate stores com monly called commissaries. Those men and corporations have just the same right td engage in the business of buy ing and selling goodH that any merchant in Birmingham or elsewhere has. The system about which we complain and shall continue to comjrlain nutil a change is made 4s in the way the men are paid off. In the first place, pay day comes too seldom. In the second place, the men and corporations who issue checks should redeem them when they fall due in money if demanded. It should he known of all men that when the pay da>j of any concern employing laboring men conies around that it will promptly pay the checks that it has given out. no matter by whom presented, and, it de manded, pay them in cash. Such a system would be perfectly fair to all parties, and especially would it be justice to the man who strikes hard licks from morn till night to earn his wages. As it is, the laboring men in this district do not get the benefit of competition in trade. A large majority of them are men of families. They have no earnings laid aside for a rainy day, and are there fore forced to trade oft their time checks during the month while they are earning them in order to feed and clothe them selves and their families. The checks being redeemable only in merchandise, they are forced to trade at the company's commissary or use them elsewhere at a ruinous discount. Of course, it will be said that these company stores sell goods as cheap as they can be had elsewhere. To answer this we need only to say: If you mean what you say, why persist in practicing a system which forces men to buy of you? If the commissaries sell goods just as cheap as they can be had elsewhere the man who labors for the owner of the commissary and is given ils^checks knows it full well, and the commissary owner will therefore run no risk in saying to him, Here is your check. We want your trade, and can and will sell you goods as cheap as anybody. At the same time say to him. This check will be paid in cash on pay day if not traded out with us. Go now and try the mar If Pit The system now in vogue in this dis trict which operates to deprive the la boring men of the benefits of competi tion in trade and cuts the retail mer chant, who is paying his part to sustain the community, off from a fair chance at the trade of the community, and which indirectly forces the man who toils for his daily bread to pay tribute to the op eerators of the commissary stores is wrong, radically wrong, and must go. Alabama's next legislature will and must put an end to it, if the men inter ested will not voluntary abandon the system. ENTER TEE OPEN DOOR. The following able editorial is taken from the West Alabama Breeze. While the Breeze may some times lean a little too far In its advocacy of the single gold standard. It strikes the keynote when it urges that Democrats be invited back into the party and through “the open door.” If every man in Alabama who is a Democrat at heart, hut has drifted oft on account of factional differences would come together in one solid phalanx and hnry past differences there would not be enough Populites, Kolbites, Jefferson ians and Republicans left to work the road after the grand Democratic pageant had passed over in 1S96. If the doors of the party are thrown open we do not believe there is a gentle man in either of the opposing factions of the Democratic party or other political party who would enter this door prompt ed by other than the purest motives, and with the honest intention of abiding its action. The State iHerald believes a large majority of the citizens of Ala bama are honest patriots, irrespective of their political affiliations, and that if all the doors and windows of the Democratic party were thrown open, the flue of the chimney pulled off and the gable end of the old homestead torn asunder to admit the crowd there would not he enough Judases In the assembly to commit a re •'We have often thought of the fact that there are many good men here in our own county who are in the Populist ranks, and who are considered Populists by their acquaintances, who are really at heart Democrats and who desire to again be back in the ranks of the Democratic party. For such we have the very kind est feeling. The Democratic party is their natural place, and is where they bar long. If they had been told four years ago that they woujd now be voting with I he Populists, they would have actually felt insulted. The fact is. they were per fectly honest, but were lead on step by step by their political leaders, in whom they had perfect confidence. They did not know where their leaders wore going, and blindly followed them on until now they have realized that they were im posed upon. "We ask such men.who are some of our very best citizens, to pause for a moment and give this matter some real sober thought. Why should you longer remain out of the Democratic party? Now, really why? Times are now much better than they were, cotton is bringing a better price, we are feeling better, we believe we understand each other better, we all really want to do what Is right and get together again. Then why not all go to work again in the same old party that wo have loved so long, and which is really and truly the party of the people? Of course. It is to be expected that your local Populite leaders will urge you to stand together and will do»all they can to inflame your minds and keep our peo ple divided, hut it should be remembered that they have a purpose In all this. It Is their only hope for continuing in or securing office. The Interest of our masses are common and the same, and we should nut allow any candidate to keep us separate. “Come, let us get together. The doors are wide open, and our hearts are warm to receive you.” VIEWS OF THE CARDINAL. Cardinal (Hbbor.s Is an accurate ob server of events and opinions. His clear intellect and purity of character have given him a strong hold upon the people of the United states irrespective of his ecclesiastic dignities. The Cardinal was a good old Confederate and he has al ways been a true American. Heftakcs a bright view of afialr3 in tills jpountry. \ Last week he was In St. Louis on hlstw^y to Santa Fe, N. M„ to confer the paljitfta upon Archbishop P. L. Chappelle.Ift an interview printed in the Globe-Dem ocrat,’among other things he said: ] ••.* While traversing the States of tjtliio. Indiana and Illinois I was much interest ed in recitals and statistics of progress furnished me by members of the party, and in the evidences of a heavy ana al most unprecedented harvest which were everywhere apparent. And as I gazdd at the countless well-filled sheaves of g*raln I TTisntuted In tty mind many compari sons betwesa this region of our country and- many parts of Kurope, and these eutlftiarifflms we're rftostly to the disad vantage of the latter. This was inevita bie^ owlng to the ideas 1 gleaned during my recent trar^tS-ftt Europe. Hut aside frorh merely' material considerations there are others in which Europe suffers in comparison with America. 1 find that liefe the Oigrifty of^man as man Is recog nized nvire fully Than in Europe. The spirit of-Chiistiarrtty is more widely dif fused. The idea of the majesty of the law and of the beauty of civic harmony is more deeply engraven in the minds and written into the dally lives and thoughts of the people. I find, on the whole, a greater reward for man's la bor and infinitely greater possibilities In the achievement of wealth, position and honor-according to brain, energy and en terprise. Here the race is free for ail, without the handicap of tradition or so cial ban. One of th^best ways for a man to fully appreciate this glorious country is to take a trip through the various countries of Europe. Still dangers threaten, us even here. Two of these I apprehend most seriously. The first great danger which confronts us here in America. Is the tendency toward the con centration oWmuitiiudes In large cities, and the consequent depopulation of the rural dlsttlijB. . This tendency has for its moving spring the too general con tempt for the simple habits and frugal fare of country life. This concentration and dislike of everything w'hlch savors of the country is unfortunately fostered by some of the alleged literature and para graphic humor of the day. The result Is that thousands, ashamed to be known as dwellers in the rural districts, flock to the large cities, and in consequence the num ber of tillers of the soil, the country's greatest benefactors, is disastrously re duced. The second danger which threat ens us is the tendency to make Christian faith and practice an affair of Sunday only, whereas the ten commandments should be looked upon as binding throughout he week. I find less cheer fulness and gayety in this country and less capacity for wholesome enjoyment of holidays and less lightness of heart than in some portions of Kurope. I think that if there were more of the Joyfulness of Christianity,. of simple trust in God, of the spirit of Christian resignation, es pecially, we should all be more light of heart and better fitted to bear the ills of life. Still, on the whole, my hope of the working out of the great problems of re publican government Is deep and strong, and is equaled only by my love and ad miration of our institutions. OHIO. Thp canvas's In Ohio is getting to a very Interesting stage. The currency question is ignored and the tariff question is ob scured. The candidates appear to con fine themselves to State issues. Camp bell attacks the McKinley administra tion and charges it with gross misman agement of State finances, and McKin ley, after denying the charges for a time, now admits that Campbell is correct In his statements. At Portsmouth McKin ley admitted that he was in error when he assailed Ex-Governor Campbell at Caldwell, making the feeble excuse that he was misled by the figures furnished him by the Auditor of State. The friends of the Democratic standard "bearer ere jubilant over the result, not only because he scored his point and proved that there was extravagance, but because he made his political antagonists, who were dis courteous enough to denominate him a liar, eat their words, just as he said he would. The news that Governor McKin ley had thrown up the sponge simply as tounded the leaders of his party, and they are in a very unpleasant frame of mind. The report of his virtual apology as given in the leading Republican pa pers is as follows: “Referring to Campbell’s statement that he (McKinley) had willfully falsi fied and misrepresented some matters tn his Caldwell speech he made this correc tion. The figures given in his Caldwell speech as to the local indebtedness were on the authority of the Auditor of State. After Campbell's attack the Governor re quested the Auditor of State to go over the figures and compare them again care fully. Upon his arrival here today he received a telegram from the Auditor of State saying that Campbell's figures as given in the Enquirer of yesterday were substantially correct. Governor McKin ley said that in a campaign before the people he believed in absolute honesty ami fairness, and for that reason he made this correction.” RELIGION'. A leading editorial of the New York Sun is as follows: "Religion is an unchange able fact. It abides forever In the world, despite all assaults. Here we have at this time a convention of the New York State Societies of Christian Endeavor, branches of a recently formed national body, which is .said to have over 1,000,000 members, most of whom are young men and young women. Here we have the Salvation Army, the strength and na tivity of which grow with the years. We have the Young Men’s Christian Associ ation and the Young Women's Christian Association, both of them great in num bers and vigor. We have councils of the Roman Catholic heirarehy, conventionsof the Episcopalian bishopric, assemblies of the Presbyterians, conferences of the Methodists and other Protestant commu nions. We have thousands of American Sunday schools, at which there are mil lions of boys and girls. We have churches, the number of which is en larged every year. We believe that thfre is more, far more, religious activity i in the world in our times than ever existed at any other time since Christianity was propagated. Religion is the strongest, most enduring and the most vivacious of all the powers in our world. Firmer than the rock it stands.” The Farmers’ Congress in session at Atlanta lias gone out of its way to dis cuss the financial question.—Houston Post. Why, of course the farmers had nojbws iness discussing the money question. They should have talked about grasses, corn, cotton, potatoes, hogs, sorghum syrup, etc., and left the money question for live discussion oi| the distinguished gentlemen who \ycnt to make up the bankers' convention, which also met in Atlahta about the time the farm ers' congress adjourned. The farmers create the wealth of the country; that is enough for them. They should let the boys who handle -the cash worry over the money problem. It Looked 'rhat'Mfaiy.,—“Yes; I married beauty ami brains/'- -'Did you? Then you must be a bigamist."—Puck. ALABAMA EDITORS. S?!ma Times: When the seven days' discussion of notable subjects by notable women begins at the Atlanta exposition the men who will be In the city at that time may take a week's rablt hunt in that and adjacent states. find made us agreeable. We make our selves disagreeable.—Greenville Advo cate. The “cynic” Advocate is brooding over an unnecessary trouble. Why, you are neither “agreeable" nor "disagreeable." Says the Fort Payne Journal: “Alabama day at the Atlanta exposi tion was a success. Governor Oates made a speech and President Collier made a speech and the dispatches say that when punch was served the building was crowded.” Says the Union Springs Herald: "The governor is not exactly satisfied with Alabama day at the exposition, which was last Friday, and he will make efforts to have another day for Ala bamians to visit the show. He will try to get up a batallion of state troops to visit Atlanta some time soon.” Tuskaioosa Gazette: The Montgomery Advertiser is extremely unfortunate, we think, in its attitude towards those Dem ocratic leaders who differ with it on the financial question. It contiually carps at them and their policies, often unfairly. When criticism sinks to mere petty and pettish faultfinding, it always falls of Its purpose. Tuskegee Reporter: A little boy visiting here from Salem was heard to cuss, and when reprimanded for it said: “All the boys cusses in Salem and most all the mens." We don't know but that is pret ty well the case in Tuskegee. Recently a little 4-year-old asked his grown up sis ter a question about something, to which she replied: “You don't know, do you?” "No, I don’t know, but I am trying my damndest to find out.” Says the Mobile Register: “If the Ad vertiser’s report of the Alabama day pro ceedings at Atlanta is correct, the Ala bama Press association got lost in the immensity of the show and the official oratory was addressed to a beggarly ar ray of empty boxes. There is one ad vantage people who stay at home have: They can continue to think they cut some sort of a swathe. Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise. The Union Springs Herald pays the fol lowing compliment to Birmingham's pop ular poet: “Dr. O. T. Dozier, the sweet poet of Birmingham, presented the editors who were in session In his city last week with copies of his latest publication, and this book contains some of the lovliest and sweetest poems that have fallen from the pen of any southern muse. Hours may be most delightfully spent with his vol ume.” The State Herald giving general satis faction. The Oneonta News says: “The State Herald of Birmingham ap pears to be giving general satisfaction throughout the state. The Montgomery Advertiser and a few other cuckoo news papers continue to. growl, alleging that it is now too conservative. It would be a profound blessing to the democracy of Alabama if like charges could be honestly preferred against the Advertiser and its confreres." The Jasper Eagle approves— “The State Herald’s advice to the dem ocratic press and leaders, in which it ado monishes them to adopt a conciliatory policy towards their brethren who differ from them on the financial question, is good and in the right direction. There are extremists on both sides who have greatly injured the party we fear by their course. It is a question which must be settled within the party, and the only way to settle it right, as it should be set tled, Is for all parties to respect and give weight to opinions of those of the party who may hold opposite views. We trust that this will be done.” Silver and gold current money In the days of Abraham. The Hamilton News Press searches the scriptures and finds the following: “There is no question but that silver was the first metal ever used as money. We read in the Bible, Genesis xxiii, 1C: “And Abraham harkened unto Ephraim and Abraham weighed to Ephraim the silver which he had named In the audi ence of the sons of Heth, 400 shekels of silver current money with merchants.” Again, “And Abraham was very rich in cattle, silver and gold.”—Genesis xiii, 2. From that day until the monopolists and speculators of Europe and America got possession of the finances of the country silver has always been recognized as a money metal and enjoyed equal coinage privileges with gold.” Mentioned Often to No Purpose. Bob Lincoln is said to have been men tioned oftener and to less purpose for the presidency than any other man in the country.—Houston Post. Go Up in a Balloon. Should the No Man's Land resort fail Corbett and Fitzsimmons, they can still so up In a 20-foot balloon and have it out there.—Philadelphia Enquirer. People Who “Went West.” Topeka Capital. The old editor must have looked down with an approving smile as he saw the citizens of Horace. Greeley county, going over to Tribune to attend a fair. Account* for It. The fact that no interviews with Chauneey Depew on the political situa tion have appeared for several weeks Rives ground for the belief that he has changed typewriters.—Chicago Tlmes Herald. To Be Lively. It. is predicted extra officially, but with good reason, that President Cleveland's message to congress will be a livelier let ter than that body has received from the federal executive for some time.—Chica go Ti/nes-Herald. Business Condition. Set utor Sherman, in a Washington in terview, said: "Times are better than they were. The business conditions have improved over what they 'have been, but there is no substantial revival and no promise of return of general prosperity under the present circumstances. In some branches of business there has been material im provement, but the improvement is not general.” "Do you expeot congress to do any thing this winter to improve the situa tion ?” "That depends upon the president. The republicans have complete power in the house, but uncertain power in the sen ate. I think something can be done, but it will depend upon the president.” "You mean in the way of increasing the tariff revenue?” "Yes, something could probably be done in that direction. Whatever is done must be on protective lines, however, and if there is any tariff legislation it will include a duty o»wpol." He would not discuss the outlook for financial legislation. To the question, "Would the republicans organize the sen ate?” he replied: "We havg a, strong plurality in the sen ate. One vote would give us the organi zation. I <Jo .think, however, there will be trouble over the smalb'emces. I don't think there wIH be any combination to get the orgahiZaAion." * Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report j Powder V&0SS&a ABSOLUTELY PURE STATE NEWS. Jasper Eagle: Brick laying has com menced on the Banks block and the east side of Public square will soon doubt less fall in line in the erection of sub stantial brick business blocks. Jasper Eagle: Mr, W. S. Randolph, who emigrated to the “nation” about two years ago, arrived back in old Walker this week. Two years in the "wild and wooly west” was enough for him. Fort Payne Journal: There are more pretty girls in Fort Payne than in any “one-gallus” town we know of. We also have a few knotty headed old bachelors, but they are either “afraid of their horses” or the girls won't say “yes.” Jasper Eagle: Mr. Bud Wade of Win ston reports a. novel raid on his premises. He was engaged in stilling fruit and had his “plant” regularly and legally regis tered. In the darkness of the night last week some parties unknown carried oft his still bodily and up to this writing he has no clue to the thief. Alabama Tribune: Through the ef forts of Messrs. Powell and Burks prop erty amounting to $80,000 will be repre sented at the organization of the Farm ers’ Insurance, which takes place at the court house next Saturday. A president, secrtary and one supervisor for each beat will be! elected at the meeting, which will convene not later than 10 o'clock a.m. Alabama Tribune: The broom corn which has been grown the past season by a number of our German farmers Instead of the usual amount of cotton Is being delivered at the old bucket factory, which is to be converted Into a broom factory to manufacture the brooms. Thus these farmers who planted a portion of their cotton acreage In broom corn will re ceive the usual remuneration from cotton with an additional Income from broom corn. Wilcox New Era: Mr. F. F. Kimbrough was in our city Monday and paid our of fice a pleasant visit. He is one of the largest and most successful planters In west Wilcox, and Is a close observer, and especially In regard to cotton. He says that the last report places the average crop too high, 62 per cent, and that If west Wilcox can be taken as an index that 50 per cent of the crop of last year is a fair average. He says that the corn crop Is good and that with the present price of cotton the planters are in a bet ter condition than they have been for many years. The Winfield correspondent to the Hamilton News-Press says: "W. R. H. Loden Is taking options on mineral land for a northern man, who wants 6000 acres of land near Winfield. Mr. Roden is optioning: the land, top and bottom, at $0 per acre. He wants options on all the land east of range 12 to New river and north of the railroad to Robert Webb’s. All interested would do well to confer with Mr. Loden. The coal on this land is the best I have ever seen. I am using it in the grate in my dwelling. It is en tirely consumed, leaving nothing but a very little ashes. I don’t believe any better coal is found in any country, and I predict that it will be opened up for mar ket at an enrly date. If so it will add greatly to the taxable list of Marlon county, and would give the farmers a home market for their produce.” Marriages. In Huntsville—Mr. F. H. Peebles and Miss Vecholorle Rankin. In Barbour county—Mr. J. S. McLen don and Miss Lula Griggs. William M. Standefer, Esq., of Gads den and Miss Georgia Tumler of Kirk's Grove, Cherokee county. In the Mobile theater—Mr. Kelly B. Harvey and Mrs. Mattie Gunnison Hick ley, both of Punta Gordo, Fla. In Mobile—Mr. John P. Bogue and Miss Mary Schwaerumle. In Fayette—Mr. E. E. Solomon and Miss Susie Sogg. In Cullman—Mr. A. J. Day and Miss Martha E. Ginright. In Huntsville—Mr. P. E. Brumley and Miss Josie Pool. Adams avenue, Huntsville—Mr. D. Y. Butcher of Detroit, Tex., and Miss Addie Clark of Blossom, Tex. .In Jasper—Mr. R. L. Lockhart and Miss Dora Carmichael. In Blount county—J. E. Self and Miss Lou Varnum. In Hamilton—Mr. Newton S. White head and Miss Della Rains. Death’s Doings. In Greenville—Arvie Motes, 13-yeer-o!d daughter of Robert C. and Mattie V. Shell. In Montevallo—Mary Ann Whorton. In Huntsville—Mrs. Mattie Turner of Gates avenue. In Huntsville—Mary Catherine Kenne dy, wife of S. W. Kennedy. Near Bell Factory. Madison county— Mrs. Nancy McCrary. Mrs. S. B. Stewart, on Madison pike, Madison county. Robert, the 12-year-old son of Mr. Wil liam Jones of Maysville, Madison county. In Jasper—Mrs. Watts, wife of Mr. James S. Watts. In DeKalb county—Mr. Richard Car roll. NOTICE TO GREAT BRITAIN. Walter Wellman’s discovery that Ol ney is a true-blue American will, we trust, hold water.—Scranton Tribune. It gives plain notice to Great Britain that If a fight is wanted on that subject it can be had. The American people, as a body, will be with Secretary Olney in his position. The Monroe doctrine Is here to stay.—Indianapolis Sentinel. England can depend upon it that this country will not tamely surrender any of its rights in Venezuela, and that it will oppose to the bitter end the grab which is contemplated by the British lion.— Kansas City Star. If Secretary Olney shall vitalize the Monroe doctrine and raise it as a bar rier to British'encroachment on this con tinent he will have behind him the pa triotic support of his countrymen of all parties.—Philadelphia Bulletin. If the United States has any disposition to enforce the principles enunciated in the Monroe doctrine the Washington gov ernment cannot abandon the cause of Venezuela, and the only*consistent course is to compel the British lion to keep his paws off that country.—Saginaw Courier Herald. _ Ex-Governor Beaver's nail mill at Bcl lefonte, which shut down under the be nign operations of the McKinley law five years ago, is to resume operations, giv ing work to 150 men. They won't have so much protection as McKinley gave them, but they will have more work, more wages and more bread and meat.—Port land. Argus, (Dem.) OUR LETTER BOX. Cuba. Editor State Herald: South Highlands, Oct. 18.—I have just read with great pleasure and approbation the comment of the New York Sun in your columns today upon Mi . Harmon 9 idea or the Cuban struggle for freedom. The ladies of tile Edgewood Hook eldbi have been studying tue past week tha lives of those iiiusuiuus statesmen anil patriots, Clay, Calhoun and Webster. In reading with my wife, whuls a mem ber of the club, the life and speeches of Henry Clay I was forcibly struck with his great speech in the senate in favor of sending a message of sympathy to Greecu in her struggle for independence in 1824. It Is so appropriate ut this day that I have made the following extracts, substi tuting the name Cuba for Greece, and ask you to give it a place in your valuable columns, with the hope and prayer that it may Inspire our able Alabama represen tatives to work for the recognition as belligerants by the American congress of those brave patriots now struggling for liberty In the queen of the Antilles. "Surely, sir, we need no long or learned lectures about the nature of government and the Influence of propriety or ranks on society. We may content ourselves with studying the true character of our own people; and with knowing that tha interests are confided to us of a nation capable of doing and suffering all things for its liberty. Such a nation, If Its rulers be faithful, must be invincible. No, sir, no united nation, that resolves to be free, can be conquered. And has It come to this? Are we so humble, so low, so de based that we dare not express our sym pathy for suffering Cuba; that we dare not articulate our detestation of the bru tal excesses of which she has been the bleeding victim, lest we might offend some one or more of their Imperial and royal majesties? If gentlemen are afraid' to act rashly on such a subject suppose, Mr. Chairman, that we unite in an hum ble petition addressed to their majesties beseeching them that of their gracious condescension they would allow us to ex press our feelings and our sympathies. “Are we so mean, so base, so despicable that we may not attempt to express our norror, uner mmgnauuil ai me moat brutal and atrocious war that ever stained earth or shocked high heaven? “But, sir, it Is not for Cuba alono that X desire to see this measure adopted. It is principally for America, for the cred it and character of our common country, for our own unsullied name that I hope to see it pass. Mr. Chairman, what ap pearance on the page of history would a record like this exhibit? ‘In the month of December, in the year of our Lord and Savior, 1895, while all European Christen dom beheld with cold and unfeeling indif ference the nuexampled wrongs and inex pressible misery of Cuba, a proposition, was made in the congress of the United' States, almost the sole, the last, the greatest depository of human hope and human freedom, the representatives of a gallant nation containing 1,000,000 free men ready to fly to arms, while the people of that nation were spontaneously ex pressing its deep-toned feeling, the whola continent, by one simultaneous emotion, was rising and solemnly and anxiously supplicating and invoking high heaven to spare and succor Cuba and to invigor ate her arms in her glorious cause, whilst temples and senate houses were alike re sounding with one burst of generous and holy sympathy; in the year of our Lord and Savior, tjiat Savior of Cuba and of us, a proposition was affirmed In tha American congress to send a message to Cuba, to inquire into her state and con dition with a kind expression of our good wishes and our sympathies—and it was rejected!’ Go home, If you can; go home, if you dare, te your constituents and tell them that you voted it down; meet, if you can, the appalling countenances of those who sent you here and tell (hem that you shrank from the declaration of your own sentiments; that the spectres of of cimiters, and crowns, and crescents gleamed before you and alarmed you; that you suppressed all the noble feelings prompted by religion, by liberty, by na tional independence and by humanity.” All true Americans will pray that tho star of liberty may shine triumphant over downtrodden “CUBA." i THE SACKVILLE INCIDENT. There is no reason why the genius of opera bouffe should not build a play around Lord Sackville, formerly Sir Li onel Sackvitle-SackvIHe-West, K. C. M. G.—New York World. The noble lord has plainly written him self down in a word of three letters, and he might very well be let go at that.— Philadelphia Ledger. Whether we consider him a diplomat ist or as a self-vindicating pamphleteer, we are constrained to remind him, as Thackeray reminded Bulwer, that “his intellectual nature is not physically adapted” for success in either of thosj capacities.—New York Times. Yet Lord Sackville, who was such a failure as a minister, and now makes such a mess of it as a man, is a “trained diplomate.” He is the product of enter ing “diplomacy” as a “profession.” He had had the experience, the training and th^ table manners which we are assured our representatives lack.—Philadelphia Press. WILL BE CORRECT ED. 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