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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
In New York Today.

The democrats of New York meet z Saratoga today to formulate a plat lorm and nominate ticket, including a candidate for governor. There are plenty of aspirants for the chief office, but it is plain that the man who should face the music in this crisis is David Bennett Hill. His leadership stands } confessed, and the nominee must carry his faults and enemies as well as his own. Let it then be a Hill campaign, Ted by Mr Hill himself This is the
 outrageous and straightforward thing % do. If MT. Hill can sweep New York, he will be master or the national democratic situation, and he cannot reach such 8 point by any indirection Whatever. If the nominee of the con vention be defeated, MT. Hill cannot plead his own greater strength, for all of his strength will be or should be put into this contest.
 New York's ex-governor and ex-sen- ator should be nominated by the con- vention, and the convention should not accept No as an answer. The logi- cal democratic leader is none other than the man who aspires to carry the democratic flag in 1904. If he falters now, let him not hope to rally the democrats of the country then.
 This is MT. Hills opportunity, and be should rise to 1t. It is his oppor- tunity to prove to the national democ- racy that he can carry his own state. It is his opportunity to put the democ, racy in a winning streak. and the re- cent events of tariff and monetary nature will aid him. Let him bring out his reserve stock of courage, and go in to win all or lose all. No other good chance is open to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
Cotton Movement and Prices.

Tn the first twenty-six days of the new cotton year 1,017,252 bales were brought into sight, compared with s63. 1928 in the corresponding period of last year. No such September move ment stands recorded in the entire his tory of the cotton trade.
 No one, however, believes the pres ent heavy tide of cotton is crieterion of the crop. The best judges consider It crop prematurely opened by hot, dry weather, and that the immediate future will soon present the true situa. ton.
 It is said the government crop re- port soon due. will put the condition of the crop as low as 60, thus pointing to crop below 9OOO.0OO bales. Per haps no one will accept such report wholly and fully, but beyond doubt it will have an effect upon the market. The forthcoming government report ziIl show the condition of the crop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Wages and Cost Of Living.

Tn this time of prosperity wages are high. but so is the cost of living" said a thrifty mechanic.
 Some political economists attempt to prove. and do prove theoretically per haps. that that country is best off in which employment is offered to the great est number at moderate wages. and in which the cost of living is reduced to a minimum.
 "The theory of cheap living and low wages is all right. but the majority of wage workers in this country prefer to draw large pay even if they do have to pay high rent and big prices for pro- visions and clothing. I am one of that number. No matter what theory teaches, men who earn large wages can save money if they will, in spite of the ad- vanced cost of living The trouble is prosperity begets extravaganza and many of us drop into the habit of indulging in luxuries that we would be better off without"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
Manual Tralnlnu.

Under Superintendent Phillips leader ship the board of education has intro- duced manual training in the public schools. and this is a decided move in the right direction" said man who takes a deep interest in education.
 "A small start was made last session, but now for the first time manual train ing Is being taken up and pushed sys- tematieally. The pupils are taught to combine drawing with manual exercises in type forms In the first or lowest grade the children begin with folding pa pers. In higher grades geometrical shapes are attempted, and when the seventh grade is reached bench work will be in order
 "R. L. Dimmitt a graduate of the Uni versity of Missouri and recently in charge of the manual training school of St. Louis. has been placed in charge of this department of the Birmingham schools He will instruct the teachers and will inspect and supervise the work of the pupils"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
 MAY LOSE HIS LEG
From tho Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Washington--Advices as to the illness
 of the President were received in Wash partments and occasioned great anxiety.
 The temperament of the President is so well understood here that it is not be- lieved that anything short of imperative necessity would cause him to yield to the advice of physicians if he could con- tinue his western trip. The fact that he has paid scarcely any attention to the in- jury received in the street car accident at Pittsfeld is regarded as indicative of his disposition to brave out everything and do what he has determined upon. It is felt that the will power which enabled him to ignore the injury for this length of time would not give way to merely tenn pcrary or casual indisposition. The appar- ent necessity for the immediate opera tion occasioned some alarm here in. the absence of definite information.
 If Mir. Roosevelt's injury is an internal enc the result which has occurred necessi- tating an operation Is regarded with seri- ousness by the medical profession of Washington. In case tho abscess arises from bone in the Presidents leg which is regarded as probable if the malady ccmes from internal causes. it is likely that MT. Roosevelt may be seriously af- fected.
 If the abscess comes from the bone, Mir. Roosevelt Is suffering from what is known to the profession as "carries of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
Doffino the Hat.

"In southern cities the men who ride in elevators keep up the habit of taking off the hat when a woman steps aboard. said a man who works in the Woodward building.
 q have been in elevators in Chicago where men kept on their hats in the presence of ladies' It did not look just right, simply. I suppose, because I was not used to it. Come to think of 1t, there is no more reason why a man should doff his head gear in an elevator car for a lady not of his acquaintance, than he should doff 1t in a street car when ladies are seated there. But so long as we are accustomed to taking off our hats in elevators l am in favor of continuing the practice It is a mark of chivalry or good breeding
 "There was some talk of introducing the Chicago style in the Woodward elevators but it did not meet with second
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
7-F-777--|-7----- A NEW AND NOTABLE BOOK.

An American business man. who docs not make hls name public, has written a book of 800 odd pages which he calls Searching for Truth" The book Is pub- 1ished by Peter EcSler No. 35 Fulton street. New York city. It's price is s1 50, and 1t will certainly make interesting reading for that very large class of peo- pie who look kindly upon what is known these days as the higher criticism" It seems that the author is an American business man who has devoted his leisure time for years to studying the questions of modern religious creeds and societies. particularly the Christian re- ligion. His effort has been to deal with these great questions in an unbiased and unprejudiced manner, weighing all the evidence from the standpoint of pure req soning and setting down his conclusions in a straightforward and matter-of-fact way without any regard to whose corns may be trodden upon. The author warns us that his book will not be welcome reading to those whose religious faith Is firmly established, but cannot fail to be both interesting and useful to those who prefer to do their own thinking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
PATENTS APPLIED FOR
 FOR COAL SUBSTITUTES

where coal deposits are almost unknown
 If the scheme of q Baltimore man for making fuel out of sawdust should be found practial, the coal problem would be solved at least in the vieinities where sawmills are kept busy the year round. He has invented machinery for separat- ing by centrifugal force the particles or grains of dust, which are simultaneously exposed to the action of heated gases to vaporize and remove the volatile mat ter. The sawdust particles are then car- bonized and pressed into shape for con- sumption in the grates stoves and fur naces.
 A Philadelphia man by the name of Meads has a patent on plan to make combustible briquet from comminuated coal, coke or other burnable material by the use of molasses as a binding agent. AIoiasses has been employed for this purpose before. but there are certain ob- iections to 1t, one of which is that 1t win usually disintegrate on coming in contact with water or moisture. Meads' process avoids this result by heating the molasses when used as a binder. Another scheme is for making Ignite, poor quality of soft coal. available as a high grade fuel. A Denver man has invented a process which requires considerable machinery for removing the water, vola- tile hydrocarbons and ammonia from the Ignite. leaving a pitchy material, which is then pressed into briquets.
 A prescription for compromising fuel has Cf Worth, Tex, and he claims the product is superior 70 tho best grade of bitu- minous ccal and at the same time far cheaper. In addition to all these advar- tsges, he calls attention to the fact that it possesses the highly desirable quality of being non-exploslve. His formula calls for the admiSture of the following in gredients: Crude petroleum, 1894 per cent: resin, 21s per cent; sawdust, 1215 per cent; clay, 121s per cent; liquid glass, 2h per cent, and Ignite or coal dust 51A per cent.
 A great many schemes for the manu- facture of artificial fuel call for the use of peat as one of the parts of the com pound. A British subject by the name of Gflam has just taken out letters patent on a device for drying and condensing peat for fuel. His scheme is something like that of the Fort Worth man, con sisting of the mixture of a lot of ingre- dients to produce a substitute for an- thracite. Of the materials he employs the principal is pest, mixed with which is the oxid of an alkaline earth, finely di- vided carbon, sugar and an alkali salt. This is pressed into blocks and sold in that shape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
THE DISPOSITION OF THE L. 6 N.

From the Savannah News.
 It is stated in Wall street that the Louisville ard Nashville system is to be merged with tine Atlantic Coast Line. How will the merger affect Savannah? Will this port be .o1ade the chief seaboard out let of the entire Atlantic Coast Line sys- tenn? That is the question in which this city is profoundly interested.
 For long time there has been talk of efforts of the Louisville and Nashville to get an outlet at the seaboard on the Atlantic coast More than once 1t has been said that the Louisville and Nash vile would get seoboard outlet here. and then again Charleston has been men, toned. In view of the fact however, that the Atlantic Coast Lire has long water trent here, and great terminals it would not be at all surprising if we should see within a very few months all of the vast traffic of the Louisville and Nashville that seeks the seaboard passing through Savannah.
 Of course the report that the Louis- vile and Nashville has been turned over 10 tho Atlantic Coast Line, or will be turned over to that road, has not yet been confirmed, but 1t seems to be a very reasonable disposition to make of the property. If the first plan had been carried out. namely, the formation of a Southern Securities comrany, something like the Northern Securities company now in litigation, it i5 certain there would have been great amount of trouble with the states through which the Louisville and Nashville passes. Indeed, these states were already preparing to make vigor- GUS opposition to merger of the Louis- vile and Nashville with the Southern railway.
 Of course the house of J. P. Morgan & Co. will now have an interest in the Atlantic Coast Line-that is, If the proposed merger Is made-and will in fact, bo the dominating influence in about all of the railway lines in the south. The new combination will work In harmony with the Southern. and there will be no cutting of rates. If rates be- come burdensorne they will have to be looked after by state commissions and the | interstate commerce. commission. Sa- vannah. however. is particularly interest ed in knowing whether she will be the seaboard outlet of the entire new sys- | tom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30

From tho PfttSburg Gazette.
 Johannesburg, one of the principal cities of the former Dutch republic in South Africa, is reported to be In a bad state of distress, due to overpopulation. Reports from feveral other sections Of the Transvaal country indicate an over plus of immigration and consequent suf- ferng by reason of the inability Of the country to support so large an addi- tion to the native population. The trouble seems to have been the result CT in- judicious haste on the part of the Eng fish and Dutch immigrants who wanted to be on the ground immediately upon the close of Che war in that country in or der to share in the prosperity that Is so confidently predicted will come to the Boer republics. But the people have not yet had time to recover from the devasta- tion of a two-year war. Their fields lie in desolation Driven from the rural dis tricts by the hardships and deprivations incident 10 the occupation of hostile army, the psople have crowded into the tow ms, and all tho avenues of livelihood have been filled up. When the immigrant reaches Johannesburg or any one of the larger Transvaal cities he not only finds no means of earning living. but finds. also that prices for everything, including rent, board and the necessities of life,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30

Washington Letter to Brooklyn Eagle. mw HE inventive geniuses of the
 United States are doing their
 best to save the public from the necessity of paying sls. SIS and s2o a ton for anthracite coal Ever since 1t be- came apparent that the big strike was going to cause a coal famine the United States patent office has simply been flooded with applications for patents on all sorts of artificial fuel. while there has been a rush to file claims on schemes for converting furnaces and stoves into consumers of liquids and vapors instead of coal.
 Many of the patents are on processes that propose to utilize culm, slack and dust to be found only at coal mines, and which are ordinarily rejected as worth less. In the existing state of the coal mines 1t is hardly likely that this mate rial could be secured for convention into briquets, but there are plenty of devices for making cheap fuel out of other ingre- dients.
 The favorite scheme Is to prepare the substitutes in the shape of blocks or brl quets, small enough to suit grates, stoves and furnaces. It Is surprising to know that nearly every formula for the man. ufacture of artificial fuel calls for some such common household commodity as molasses or starch. When either of these articles Is employed it Is for the purpose of acting as a binding agent to hold to- oatbar the ofbay fn0radieufe
 A relative of Thomas Edison, the fa- nous electrical expert. is in the field with what Is probably the most unique scheme to rid the public of the burdens of the long coal strike. If his plan should be found practical, every house. wife, will be able to go out into the front yard each morning and gather the chief component of the Edison substitute for coal. This is nothing more nor less than grass. The inventor is Simeon Ogden Edison of East Orange. N. J. He pro- poses to convert the natural or dried flores of all kinds of grasses. grain, corn. sugar cane. etc., into artificial fuel. He has obtained a patent on the pro- cess for treating such materials by which he claims to be able to produce a smold- ering flame similar to that resulting from burning coal instead of a blaze caused by the ignition and consumption of wood. In brief his plan is to cook straw or other grasses In moist heat until the flores are softened but have not lost their identity and then press them into combustible blocks. MT. Edi- son calls attention to the fact that enor- nous quantities of such flores are pro- duced in the United States in localities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
OLD MORAL lN NEW DRESS.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Booker T. Washington, talking what he calls hard sense" to a gathering of his race. was trying to explain the shades of difference between self-help and the mere moral obliquity of self-interest. He told them that there Is little or noth- ing to be obtained without work. add ing;
 There was an old negro, professional ly pious, who wanted a luxurious Christ mas day dinner, and who night after night prayed to the Lord to send tur- key. The days passed, Christmas ap- preached. and the old fellow undertook to compromise by asking the Lord to send him to a turkey. He got one that very right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
RAILROADS FILE ANSWER.
Will Defend Case Against Them On
 Account of Rates.

Wilmington. N. C.. September 29.-Twen- ty-four railway companies, defendants in an action recently brought by the inter state commerce commission to enforce its order requiring the companies to pro- vide more equitable freight rates to Wll- mington from the west in competition with Norfolk, Richmond and other vir- ginia points. today filed answer in the United States district court here the bill of complaint. which charges the railroad companies with utter disregard of the commissions order.
 The respondents deny that the order now remains in full force and effect because they assert that 1t is illegal and void. They pray to be dismissed.
 The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway com- pany, one of the defendants set forth in demurrer among other things that the bill of complaint is not sufficient in law and that the rates of the Chesapeake and Ohio are reasonable in the premises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
THE DINNER HOUR.

By Owen Meredith. O hour of all hours, the most blest upon
 earth, Blest hour of our dinners. The land of
 his birth; The face of his first love, the bills that
 he owes, The twaddle of friends, the venom of
 foes; The sermon he heard when to church he
 last went; The money he borrowed, the money he
 spent; All of these things a man, I believe, can
 forget And not be the worse for forgetting;
 but yet Never. never, oh neverl earths luckiest
 sinner. Hath, upunsh'd forgotten the hour of
 his dinnerl Indigestion that conscience of every bad
 stomach, Shall relentlessly gnaw and pursue him
 with some ache Or some pain; and trouble, reforseless,
 his best ease --s the Furies once troubled the sleep of
 Orestes. We may live without poetry, music and
 art; We mak live without conscience. and live
 without heart; ! We may live without friends; we may
 live without books: But civilized man cannot live witho
 cooks He may live without books-what is
 knowledge but grieving? ? He may live without nope-what is hopsX
 but deceiving? He may live without love-what Is pasy
 sion but pining? But where is the man that can live with
 out dining?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
As Big as Chicago.

'I heard Capt. Jack w. Johnson say jocularly to a northern man who paid his first visit to this city yesterday that Birmingham was as big as Chicago said a railroad onicial who happened to be present, "and the visitor remarked dryly, You mean Birmingham and At lanta together are as big as Chicago. was in Atlanta the other day. and from the way people there talked about the size of that well advertised town it must be at least half as large as the Windy City on the lake. And l suppose I will find Birmingham about as large Ss At lanta. As two halves make a whole. Ala bama's metropolis and Georgias gnetro- polls added together will give the de- sired result
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
Coal Shipments Less.

Pottsville, Pa., September 29.-The ship ment of coal last week from the Phila- delphia and Reading West End opera tions, Good Springs and Brookside col fiery and the Kalmia washery were not so great as the week previous, but there are seventy cars loaded on the sidings ready to be taken down the road. It Is claimed that there are 5O.0O0 tons of loose coal at Good Springs colliery that can be provided for the market without miner driving a pick This comes from what are called runs" The veins are on an incline, and the coal. after a quantity is removed below. begins to run to the gangway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30

the bone" a disease arising from inju- ries exactly such as those received by him in the trolley accident, and which in great many cases results in ampu- tation. The injury received in such cases produces a crumbling of the bone affected. The abscess forms and it be- comes necessary for the surgeons to open the wound, scrape the bone and stop the flow of pus forming the abscess.
 Even then it is by no means certain that cure can be effected. In some cases that wound heals, but in others it does not In any event it shows a tubercular condition of the bones no mat ter how healthy the patient may be to all outward appearances.
 After the operation the patient must be under constant treatment by, physi- clans. Tonics, emulsions and plenty of outdoor exercise are prescribed. It is evidently with the idea of having MT. Roosevelt under effective treatment that the physicians in Indianapolis have pre- scribed that he be brought to Washing ton immediately.
 The statement that a "deep-seated' Bruise occasioned the abscess gives rise to the fear that the bone may be af- fected. If, however. there is no injury to the bone, the bruise not being so deep, the formation of an abscess would not imply a serious condition. The im- pression that the President would not yield to anything not serious gives rise to the apprehension here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
Saved Time, But Lost Life.

Missoulo, Mont. September 2s.--william Johnson, section foreman, has met his death by being struck by the engine of the Northern Pacific through passenger to save it from being wrecked. He dis covered a broken rail but few minutes before the passenger train was due. Johnson saved the train, but was hurled high into the air and into the ditch. He died two hours afterward aboard the train which was hurrying for medical as- sistance He leaves widow and two children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-30
LETTERS TO EDITOR
To the Editor of The Age-Herald.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald Please permit me to call your atten- ton to an important error In your article on "Our One Poisonous Vine" published in todays paper.
 You point out to your readers wha are in the habit of wandering in the autumn woods, that as a safeguard against the painful effects of poison oak, which so much resembles the harmless Virginia Creeper. they have only to re- member that the 'creepers leaves grow in threes. while those of poison oak are in fvcs."
 The reverse is true. The Virginia creep CTS leaves grow in ives and those of poison oak in threes. You. no doubt intended to say this. but the types played you false. And since the error might bring serious trouble to some of your readers. trust that I may be pardoned for calling attention to it.
 F. M ROOT.