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The age-herald., 1901-11-02
OPEN AIR.
Treatment for Consumption Is Attract
 ling Much Attention.

From the New York World.
 If the knowledge of consumption avail
 able to specialists could be generally
 acted upon, that scourge of the race would lose it's terrors within one genera tion. Consumption is not hereditary. The tendency to contract 1t is hereditary, but may be fought off almost certainly by two specifis-proper food and proper air. Here are some remarkable results of the open-air treatment in Germany. In the Black Forest 2O5 cases out of 24o were cured; in Saxony 60 cases out of 9S: in Hanover 121 out of 142. The government Is distributing hand-books of directions; for while only experts can inspect meat and milk to see that they are non-tuber- culous. people can take the open-air cure for themselves. The means most often
 employed are these!
 l. Tents. These were used last sum-
 men with good results on Blackwell s
 Island and in the state hospitals. Their
 use in foreign countries Is extensive and
 growing.
 2. Movable cots. Each bed Is provided with roof, back and ends placed on wheels so that 1t can be rolled about the
 lawn, with it's back to the wind at night and its open face to the sun by day. 3. Pavilions. New York is now remod- cling for consumptives on Blackwell s Island two wards formerly occupied by the insane. More windows to let in the sun and air are the chief changes. These devices used by hospitals and sanitaria, and which are the basis of the treatmen of tubecuiosis in the Adirondack resorts, may be adopted in any country home. In villages a second-story balcony opening from the dressing-room Is rec
 commended for sleeping. For densely populated cities an ingenious Bostonian has invented window tent" The head
 of cot is balanced on window ledge
 so that the patient sleeps with his body
 in the room and his head outside, pro-
 tected by the little tent made for the purpose. In default of special appliances the practice of sleeping with all the win dows of one's room well open winter and summer will be found to do very well. | It is especially commended to the atten- l ton of mothers of delicate children. I As to consumption. an ounce of preven- | ton is worth many pounds of cure.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Opentna the Warrior.

The report of General Gillespie, chief of engineers, contains recommends tions in favor of an appropriation of sS5O,000 for the improvement of Mobile harbor. and of an appropriation of s200, 900 for the improvement of the Tombigbee river. But there Is no men tioR of an appropriation for the War rior. This omission need distress no one in this district. Either Major Rossell's report has been delayed, or else tho recommendation for last year, l $760,000, Is considered sufficient. At any rate the needs of the Warrior will De attended to when Congress meets, and Congressman Underwood and Bankhead reach the scene of action. The Warrior work has been placed under the continuous contract plan, and whatever sum may be needed will doubtless be named in the coming riv- CTS and harbors bill.
 This bill will encounter opposition again from the irrigation hold-up that mas been organized in the far West The Senators of California, Idaho, Wyo- ming, Montana, Utah, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada twenty in all-have formed a ring to demand irrigation at federal expense or the defeat again of the rivers and harbors bill. It is clear case of hold up, for the irrigation of deserts has no relation to the opening of rivers and harbors.
 The Senatorial ring will demand that the money received in land offices in the btates represented by them be applied to irrigation pur- poses, and that the sales of all re- claimed lands be used in a similar way. It is hoped that 100 1000, ,OO0 acres in the far West can in this way be supplied with water for crop pur- poses.
 The hold-up suggested, If carried to it's logical results, would soon render federal legislation a matter of log rolling, or, in the absence of that. would render legislation, however needed, impossible. An irrigation bill pure and simple should be presented, and let the subject stand or fall on it's merits. Sucn bill would com mand much support in all sections of the country, whereas hold-up would encounter opposition everywhere out side of the arid lands in the mountain States.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
The secretaryshlp of State.

'I see in the newspapers that my friend Senator Jim Nunnalee gives his reasons for not wanting the secretaryship of months ago he desired and which some of his friends have long presumed him to aspire to- said an old friend of the Dal- las Senator.
 My public reason for not wanting to be Secretary of State declares Senator Nunnalee, Is that it is the poorest paid office in the capitol, and I don't believe I could live decently and support my family on s1.SOo a year.
 That depends of course upon individ- ual views and tastes. Some men feel passing rich on forty pounds year, while others demand or require more, as, for example. a young man swore in a court of law in New York the past week that he could not live decently as bach elor on six thousand dollars year. But Secretaries of State of Alabama in the past have appeared to live decently on the salary of their office though some of them doubtless have earned money by writing for newspapers and maybe otherwise. It was. I believe, the sole support while he held 1t of the lamented Charles c. Langdon, whom Alabamians were proud to call the 'noblest of them all.' Ellis Phelan had no outside income of any consequence, nor had MT. Barron or MT. Jackson. Major Screws owned the Montgomery Advertiser. for which he worked like a gaiiey-slave, in addition to discharging his official duties.
 Many. of us personally knew of and observed Major Screws hard toll dur ing the years he was Secretary of State and continued to conduct the Daily Ad- vertiser-and newspaper men know what daily newspaper toll alone means! I re- call visit made to Major Screws one night during that period. It was the night of August 31. or rather the morn ing of September l, for 1t was long past midnight. The weather was stifiingly, frightfully hot, and found Major Screws in his shirtsleeves and alone striving to put the finishing touches to a review of Montgomery's trade for the cotton year just ended. He had himself written the
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Bubonic Plague in Liverpool.

The appearance of this disease in Liverpool excites the entire commer- ciai world, for Liverpool is one of the worlds great shipping centers. Guar antine regulations will be instituted far and wide in consequence of the two cases in Liverpool, both victims coming from another port. The two cases were removed, upon landing, to hospital, and no other cases are expected to arise in Liverpool.
 But the disease is one that is not easily and readily controlled. Every effort was made in Glasgow to stamp out the disease, and yet 1t has re- appeared in that great city of nearly a miiiion souls.S Four cases were dis covered in the Central Station Hotel of the Caledonian Railway, and one of them has since died. The hotel has been closed.
 Both of these great ports will now  be declared infected with true bubonic plague, and the commerce of the world will have to undergo quarantine meas ures to the point of great delay and discomfiture But such measures are very necessary, and New York will fight off this worlds pest as long as stringent quarantine rules will do it.
 This pest has afflicted the world from the earliest historic times, but it did not appear in Europe until A. D. 544, when there was an outbreak of it at Constantinople. The Great Plague of London, the best known of all epidemics, occurred in 1865. In all the plague epidemics of Europe it is estimated that 25,OvO,OOo of people have died. It's malignity is fully as great as that of typhus fever. It lasts from two to three days, and convales- cence Is slow. Treatment after an attack is well-nigh valueless, and the chief efforts are directed against the < appearance or spread of the disease.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

never lets a chance of making some es- cape Two years ago, when she was i'll and her physicians told her that she must take rest if she hoped to recover. she refused to go South until MT Grau had promised that she would not forfeit any of her appearances by so doing. That was one of the reasons why he gave snplementary season of two weeks so that she might appear six times and get her full shares of the seasons gains.
 It Is rather interesting however, to learn that Louisville did not grow very enthusiastic over her. for it is another instance of the West refusing to accept the verdict of the East. This was mo- ticeable two years ago, when the Grau Company made an extensive tour through the central part of the country MT Grau had counted on Calve as his strongest attraction, but 1t turned out that the singer who drew the largest houses and received the warmest praise was Sembrlch. This was true in nearly every city that the two singers appeared How sound the judgment of the West was 1t would be unwise to say. Both of the ladies are great artists, each excelling in her own particular branch, and there is enough room for both of them in any opera company to prevent clashing of interests.
 &-~-~-~-<->A->%>-~ held at bay large lion in crevice on the precipitous side of rock ledge which extended from the point of the crevice sheer down sixty feet. Roosevelt shot at the lion. but 1t was dusk and the beast disappeared under the rim of a perpen- dicular wall of rocks. A large rock stood loosely on the rim of the ledge. and the men saw that if 1t were possible to hang head first over this rock he would see the lion and might be able to shoot at 1t.
 "The question:" said the guide after ward, which confronted us was, How ia It to be done? Finally Colonel Roosevelt stood still minute, looked at me intentiy and said: 'Goff, we must have that lion If he Is there. I'll tell you what I'll do. I will take my gun and crawl over that rock; you hold me by the feet and allow me to. slide down far enough to see him. If l can see him I will get him. This plan was carried out and he kII1ed the lion hanging head downward while held him by the feet"
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
ALTON WATER.

By Robert Burns. Flow gently. sweet Alton, among thy
 green braes, Flow Gently. I'll sing thee a song in thy
 praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring
 stream, Flow gently, sweet Alton, disturb not
 her dream. Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds
 through the glen. Ye wild whistling blackbird in yon thorny
 den. Thou green-crested lapwing. thy scream
 ing forbear, I charge you disturb not my slumbering
 fair How lofty. sweet Alton. thy neighboring
 hills, Far marked with the courses of clear | winding rills, There daily I wander as noon rises high. My fiocks and my Mary's sweet cot in
 my eye. How pleasant thy banks and green val
 leys below, Where wild in the woodlands the prim-
 rose blow; There oft, as mild evening weeps over the
 lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary
 an1 me. Thy chystal steram. Alton, how lovely
 1t glides And winds by the cot where my Mary
 resides; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet
 lave, As gath'ring sweet fiowerets she stems
 thy clear wave.
 green braes, Flow gently. sweet river. the theme of
 my lays; My Marys asleep by thy murmuring
 stream, Flew gently. sweet Alton. disturb not her dream.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Statesman. Not Politician.

President Roosevelt Is by nature a fighter He has all the stubborn tenacity that was inherited with the Dutch blood coupled with almost Celtic willingness to combat with anyone or anything, any how or anywhere he deems proper and necessary. When he fought against two parties to push through the bills giving Comptroller Coler the right to pass upon prices paid by departments for goods pur- chased and supervision in the confession of Judgements, the leader of his party came to him and said
 Governor, you are building up a pow erful rival to you for next fall.''
 Maybe so,' he replied, ''but he is right and he's going to have those bills if can get them through for him. And he got them through
 Again, two of his best friends in the Legislature Speaker Nixon and Leader Aids, came to him and begged him not to force through the canal bill.
 It is suicide to do it." they pleaded flor 1t will lose votes for you among the farmers and in the districts that elected you. It is ungrateful and extremely bad politics.
 Roosevelt appreciated their argument and did not say they were wrong in pre- senting it. He simply shook his head and said: You are right, but this is a case where the few must give way for the benefit of the many. I realize that it seems unjust to the farmers to be taxed for Improvements that will help bring produce from the West to compete with them, but the whole State must be considered, and that is in line with com mercial progress. It must go through" And it went through.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Enjoyed the scrimmage.

One of the most exciting of President Roosevelts many experiences in the West was at Victor, Col, a year ago during the Presidential campaign. Roose- welt was making a trip through the West and stopped at Victor to make a speech. As he was walking from the train to the meeting hall an attempt was made by, band of toughs to strike him down. One man hit him> on the breast with piece of scantling six feet long from which an insulting banner had been torn. Another rough aimed blow at the Colonels head and was ridden down by miner named Holley. When the fighting was all over Roosevelt exclaimed enthusiastically:
 This is bully; this is magnificent. Why, it's-the best time I've had since I started. I wouldn't have missed it for anything"
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
GOOD WEATHER LAST MONTH.
Bureau Issues Bulletin, Showing It's
 Effect on Crops.

Washington. November 1.-The Wcath- CT Bureau today issued bulletin show month throughout the country.
 Rain is very generally needed over the middle. South Atlantic and gulf coast districts. and also fin the central valleys and the Rock, mountain region, drouth being very severe in Western Texas and in the Upper Ohio Valley. Very little damage by frosts has occurred. On the Pacific coast the month has been favora- ble. Practically the whole month has been favorable for cotton picking and except over limited areas the bulk of the crop is now gathered
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Always Fair to Opponents.

Fighter though he is, President Roose- welt does not fight unfairly. There have been Governors who have forced votes in the legislature by threats to hold up bills of recalcitrant senators and as- semblymen. There were those even among the recognized reform element who argued that this was fair in war, and almost begged him to drive some of the senators into line on the insur- ance commissioner Payne matter. But he steadfastly refused.
 These bills belong to their constitu- ents and to the public" he said, ''and I have no right to delay, much less to de- feat them. As I cannot do this. it is un- fair to threaten them. I must win on the merits of the case itself or not at all. But I will win.
 Subsequently he had occasion to cali sternly to account an overzealous em- ploye of the State who tried to help in just that way.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Kept His Word to the Minister.

Kept His Word to the Minister. political stump times without number, but only once, so far as recorded, has he appeared in the pulpit. This was in Chicago recently, says the Chicago Tribune. Mir Roosevelt Is a personal friend of Rev. MT. Moerdyke of the Trinity Reformed church, 40 South Marshfield avenue
 Come and preach to us some Sunday" wrote the preacher several months ago to MT. Roosevelt.
 T will fill your pulpit the next time l am in Chicago" was the reply. He arrived in Chicago on Saturday, and the next day, accompanied by Col. J. H, Strong, he drove to Trinity to keep his promise. The Rev. Mr. Moerdyke was in the act of announcing a hymn when the then vice president and Colonel Strong entered the church. They took front seats. The reading of the hymn was postponed and the preacher stepped down from the pulpit to greet his guests and announced that his regular sermon on Christian Statesmen"' would be post poned and that Vice President Roosevelt would preach. There Is one thing I ad- mire about Colonel Roosevelt more than all others' he oontinued The is a man of his word"
 The vice president did not preach doc Urine, but he did deliver lay sermon on Be ye doers of the word, not hearers only' that was listened to with the closest attention. The afternoon of the same day he addressed the Gideons at the First Methodist church, and was elected an honorary member of the association.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

From the New York Press.
 In modern ronances money talks, love whispers.
 There Is nobody the village gossip hates so desperately as the one who will not notice her islanders.
 A man may try to love his own mother in-law. but he has got to draw the line at his wife's sisters mother-in-law.
 People who go up in the world never try to take anybody else up with them; when they go down in the world they want all humanity to go down with them
 A woman can sew. read love story, tend the baby, and hear son recite his lesson all at the same time, but when 1t comes to listening to a choice bit of gossip she gets right down to that busi- ness and nothing else.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Changes In Pullman Company.

Chicago, Ill, November 1.-Important changes in the management of the Pull man Company became effective today, c. A. Garcelon became general manager and W. H. Reed general superintendent of the operating department. The six operating divisions hitherto used were abolished and four new divisions established with new appointments. Northwestern, c. R. Wagner, superintendent at Chicago: Northeastern J. s. Merril, superint endent at New York; Southeastern, James Mar tin, superintendent at Philadelphia: Southwestern, D. H. Martin. superintend- ent at St. Louis.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
About Persons.

 c. D. Wilson of Russellvilie. owner ot large properties in rich Franklin County, is at the Hillman.
 Eugene K Hays of Cleveland. Ohio, is at the Hillman.
 J. D. Rosenberger of Atlanta Is at tho Hillman.
 John Griffith and Ezra J. Warren of Chicago are at the Hillman. A. A. Goldsmith of Milwaukee is at the Hillman,
 F. F, Barnes and Mrs. Barnes of Bos- ton, Mass. and G. N. Carter of Dover, N. H., are at the Hillman Joel Mable of Atlanta is at the Flor ence.
 New Workers at the Florence are M. IT. Bum, J. B. Zanone, William M Elliott, J. c. Carlyle, J. Cohn and B. R. Graham. L. Gibson of Westport Conn.,, is at the Florence.
 G. W. Fowler of Louisville. Ky. Is at the Florence.
 George H. Cole of Eutaw Is at the Metropolitan.
 John B. Liddel1 and Mrs. Liddell and Miss Fannie Mae Hughes of Gadsden are at the Metropolitan
 
 L. A. Dams of Evansville, Ind, is at the Metropolitan.
 Leon By of Chicago is at the Metro politan.
 J. A. Drake of Bennettsviile, s. C., is at the Metropolitan.
 G. G. Britton of Anniston and D. P. Cason of Talladega are at the Metropoli- tan. J. c. Wise of Macon, Ga, is at the Metropolitan. w. B. Boone of Louisville, Ky, is at the Metropolitan.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
"Dan" McLaren In Dakota.

Daniel McLaren, former superintendent of the Alabama Great Southern Rail- road, railroad man long known in Bir- mingham and with many personal friends here, has been appointed superintendent of the Dakota division of the Great Northern Railroad. with headquarters in Laramore, N. D. Mir. McLaren was su- perintendent of the Alabama Great Southern from January 1884, till August, 1sS6 Two years ago he made several visits to Birmingham and spent first and last three or four weeks here in the in- terest of the consolidation of various great pipe works under one corporation, and in that he was successful.
 When MT. McI4aren quit the Alabama Great Southern he took service with the Mobile and Ohio as division superinten- dent, and in 1890 was made general su- perintendent of that line. He is under stood to have made a large sum of money out of his recent connection with the iron pipe industry, and he probably keeps to railroad work for the love of 1t.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
HINTS ON MARRIAGE.

From the St Louis Post-Dispateh.
 When divorced women are so overjoyed that they kiss their lawyer and try to kiss the judge 1t is time for young wo- men to try to be careful in the selection of husband. It Is better to be an old maid than to be kissing lawyers and judges in the giadness of release from a marriage that never should have been.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Satisfied ". .n Part Pay.

Paris, November IA dispatch to the Temps from Constantinople says thirty officers of the navy recently mutinied on account of arrears in pay and proceeded to the palace to make a demonstration. The sultan then sent one aide de camp with an installment of the money due them. and the officers thereupon desisted.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
THAT ,PossuM.

Wash. Cor. of Chicago Tribune.
 Some Southern joker, whose sense of humor has been cultivated at the expense of his courtesy, has sent to the White House for President Roosevelt fat 'possum, which was labeled Hooker Washington" The White House officials, with more consideration than the mis- guided joker, refuse to give out his name for publication. The 'possum will be eaten by the colored servants.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
THE FIRM FoUNpArIoN.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 Nearly 170OO,0Oo American children are attending school. This is almost one fourth the population of the republic. There is a connection between this fact and the other so genrally acknowledged, that this is an enlightened and progress siye nation
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Carrie Nation are not, we regret to say, friends. Pro fessional jealousy is as prevalent in their circle as in any other.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

The barrelled schoolmam who slip ped over Niagara Falls is now over. whelmed with requests for magazine articles. She is the magazine size in literature.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

The Maryland Democrats are cir culating a cartoon representing Presi- dent Roosevelt and Booker Washing ton dining together, with Mrs. Roose- welt pouring tea.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Bond Purchases by Treasurx

New York, November 1. = It was an- nounced at the sub-treasury at the close of business today that the total bond pur- chase by the government for the day amounted to S, PTS, ,000
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

The works of Calico are no longer listed in the Index Expurgatorius. A vindication that comes late is better than none at all.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

President Roosevelt has just turned Into his fortyfourth year. The ordin- ary person would at such time be 43 years old f
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

Each side in New York City has made a poll that indicates 30,000 ma jority. The people will poll on Tues. day, and at least one of the previous polls will be reversed.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

The beautiful young ladies of Phila- delphia are vaccinated on the arm. This shows how much Philadelphia is above the times
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Legal Execution for Assault,

Gainesville, Ga, November 1-Will Jackson, negro, was hanged here to- day for assault A mixed assemblage of nearly DOO people, including the outraged woman and her hsuband witnessed tha execution.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

Miss Stone can reimburse her ran somers by going on the lecture plat form. In that way she can place the ransom on the suffering public.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

The Duke and Duchess of Manches- ter wanted an heir, but unless they can get out of debt and stay out, an heir is a superfiuity.
The age-herald., 1901-11-02
Held by Feet to shoot Llon.

One of President Roosevelt's most thrill ling lion hunts took place while he was stopping at the Keystone ranch in Colo rado last April. Roosevelt and his guide
The age-herald., 1901-11-02

Others do a great deal of talking about the Booker Washington incident, but Booker does none. His customary shrewdness Is asserting sitself.