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The colored American., 1902-04-26

terms are reasonable, and all her scholars who
have graduated from her school are making sue
cess as dress makers
She has the only school of Its kind in the city
The improved French drafting machine is the
most wonderful achievement of Mathm atical skill
for cutting ladies' and chidren's garments. 1t is
not difficult to learn, it does not require any
complicated figuring
Special lessons given in the Art of Ladies' Tail
oring, also in blending colors. Young men are
taught Ladies Tailoring at this school
lass for young men from 2-3o to $50 p N
Thursday 80 to I so Saturdays.
For information call at the school.
MRS. L. CLARKE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
TIE HORSES TO HOLES.
How Indians On Sandy Plains Keep
 Them From Wandering.
rom the Chicago Record-Herald.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 Tying ones horse to a hole in the ground is a strange proceeding, and to the uninitiated seems impossible, but in the great California deserts. with their vast sand wastes and alkali beds, where neither trees nor shrubs have courage to grow and where sticks and even stones refuse to exist, the demand for some effi- cacious method of hitching animals has been imperative.
 The white man, with all his ingenuity, has always found the question of anchor Ing his horse on the desert to be an enigma, and unless he has a wagon to which he may tie his steed, he finds him. self in a dilemma Even If he has wagon the intense dryness of the air, especially in Death Valley, plays havoc has his conveyance fall apart, piece by piece, leaving him stranded without means of transporting his goods.
 Fear and necessity compel the desert traveller to keep in motion, for the sun Is relentless and treacherous. as is the vulture that hovers above with an anx- ious gleam of expectation in its eyes.
 Over miles and miles of burning, path less sands he may be doomed to wander while the sun pursues with heated vigil lance. His horse is his only companion, the only living thing besides himself in the great heartless plain. and he clings to it for safely as a captain clings to his ship
 If nature rebels against the struggle and the traveller must rest, the only possible way he can think of to fasten his horse while he lies down to entice brief s'eep Is to tie the halter rope around his arm, his leg or his body.
 An animal requires a proportion of wa ter equal to that of man, and becomes crazed if his thirst is not quenched. In such cases he is liable to plunge and ca- reen wildly away over the sands like a ship in gale, dragging his human an- chor to destruction and death.
 Such has been the experience of the white man. but the desert Indians, who abundant wits. have for many years em- ployed method that Is clever unique and effective-that of fastening their an- ima1s to holes in the ground. During a recent trip to the desert a photographer caught an Indian In the very act.
 Kneeling on the hot sand. the Indian began to dig with his hands. which were as hard and tough and impervious to pain as a dogs paw. He worked en- ergetically until he had made a hole about two feet deep. He then tied an immense knot in the end of the halter rope, lowered It into the bottom of the hole, filled the hole with sand and then jumped and stamped upon it till the earth over the knot was solid.
 It was curious performance, but the skill of the idea merits applause, for, un- less a horse Is in particularly frivolous state of mind, these subterranean hitch ing posts will perform their duty quite as well as the convenient city arrange ucnt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
st OILY OMLr HEwspApER " AlAaAHi
Alabama Siafa Fair.

On Thursday next the gates of the Alabama State Fair will be opened, and an event inaugurated of no slight importance If annual state fairs can be put on an assured basis, they will work out many problems for the up- building of the state. Such fairs have done similar work in other states, and a fair in this state has an ample mar gin to go on.
 There are many things of an agri- cultural or industrial nature that need to be held in object lessons in this state. If the presence of desirable things here cannot be demonstrated. at least their absence can be, and per haps the deficiency can be overcome. If cattle can be grazed on the un- improved lands of Alabama twothirds of the entire state-and then fattened on the products of cot ton seed, the state fair should be used in telling how and why. Few cattle are fed here and sent to the larger markets. The cattle slaughtered in Birmingham are chiefly purchased in Tennessee, and the slaughter houses of Kansas City and Chicago furnish the rest. This should not be the meat situation. It need not be, and we need state fairs in order to bring about a better state of things.
 So it is in a hundred other prod ucts. state fair will each year show us where we stand, and we believe the one to be opened next week vii be so valuable an aid to the state tha it will be well supported, and tha many fairs will follow.
 Remember. then, the State Fair Give it permanent place. Talk abou 1t, attend it, and boom it at all times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
ATcHool

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
 St Louis it is announced, has corner
 on all the pepper; this may be particulars
 ly unfortunate for the rest of the coun-
 try, just at this time. for with the corner
 on anthracite coal in Pennsylvania and
 the pepper corner in St Louis, 1t will be
 impossible for people to keep warm, inside
 or out A St. Louis concern has obtained
 control of the entire pepper shipments that will arrive at New York between now and December 1-450 tons and when it takes 250O tons to supply the commercial territory of St. Louis alone, 1t will be seen that 45O tons of pepper are not to be sneezed at. A large part of the crop comes from Ateheen a name melodiously suggestive of pepper (and goes to "Atchoor no doubD but there were such large crops few years ago that the pep per raisers were dissatisfied with the small profits and pulled up the plants. It takes five years for a pepper plant to grow, so the shortage in pepper will have to be supplied some other way. 1t may be necessary to take 'chili," a Mexican dish which gives you nice, comfortable, heat to carry around in your mouth for half day or so. There is one cheerful feature about the pepper corner However, other places may suffer, St. Louis will control the supply so there will always be hot time in the old town, even if the worst comes to the worst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Paris-Santos-D Dumont, not frighten by the accident in which M. de Bradsky and M. Morin were killed by fall from their airship, announced tonight that he will make an ascent in three weeks in new small model of his airship. He will use the shed used by de Bradsky and will employ the same principle of wire ropes. He will sail from the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, to Hyde Park, London, If anybody will promise to pay him $5O,00O
 M. de Bradsky, the aeronaut, accom- panied by M. Morin, made his fatal as- tension in his new steerable airship here this morning. The balloon car fell at Stains, not far from this city, and de Bradsky and Morin were killed. The had broken.
 De Bradsky started at 7:55 o'clock this morning from the aetostatic station at Vaugirard, intending to go over the Madeleine and return to the starting point. After some successful manoevering de Bradsky let go and started off in southeasterly direction at an altitude of from 300 to 400 feet. The two propellers worked excellently, but the rudder did not seem to act quite as 1t should have done. The aeronauts were consequently compelled to follow a somewhat snuous route.
 After ascending in the airship M. de Bradsky paid visit to M. Santos-Du- mont, the Brazilian aeronaut, at the Ho- tel Ritz lowering about the garden on a level with the window of Santos-Du- monts room for ten minutes. He then departed for the Champs Elysees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
AVOID GIRL TYPEwRlTERs.
One Man Tells Why Henceforth He
 Will Have the Other Sex.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 A merchant from an interior town of Michigan was in Detroit a few days ago looking for a young man to act as his typewriter, and when asked why he did not employ a girl he replied:
 i've had three or four, and they don't turn out well. The first one had been with me about month when theatrical company came along and was going to skip its date because Little Eva was sick. My typewriter heard of it and offered her services, and she filled the part so well that the company took her along, and in four weeks she married tho manager and ran ihe whole show. The second one got a little too fresh after a week or so, and came to me and said:
 MT. Blank, you havn't got but one "f'' in coffee. while you've put an ''h'' in sugar, and left out an ''e'' in sheeting.'
 "'Do you object to my way of spellingg I asked
 1T do,' she says. T don't want folks to think I'm typewriting for saw mill
 ''As I wouldn't change, she did; and number three was all right till young farmer WdlkeQ III 6aiiCt AiSA IVY while she was typewriting an order for six grindstones and a bale of bed blank cts.
 Number four was the best looking girl of all, and she hadn't been Tn the store three days when my wife says 10 me across the breakfast table;
 .Silas. I think I'll go home on visit
 "'Yes?' says I.
 "And take our seven children
 Yes?
 ".And stay a year or two
 Whats the row? says l.
 Nothing says she, only that when a man of your age has to put on a clean shirt and collar every morning it's time he got a homely typewriter or new family 70
 "The girl went" continued the mer- chant, "and I don't think I'll try any more I'll get some yonug man who wants chance to work up. and when he ain't typewriting I'll hoist him up- stairs to barrel up beans and sack up wool"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
Deficiency in Fire Apparatus.

The destruction in broad daylight of the Bodie corner and of the Moore & Handley buildings, together with the ruin of the Saks establishment at night, amply shows that something is lacking in the way of fighting fire, which is proverbially a hard master. In scarcely no other city could these three destructive conlagrations have occurred on days in which there were not unsual winds. All three fires sprang up and ran their course in still weather. All three burned down brick buildings. In two of them there was no occasion to complain of the water supply.
 Chief Mullen says the lack at pres ent in the case of large fire is an other steamer and more firemen. He wants more men behind the present steamers, as well as another steamer. The city now owns and uses three steamers, and fourth, says Chief Mullen, is needed. If this be the sole lack, it should be speedily supplied, for the cost of the additional steamer, and the addition needful of firemen, would not cost ten per cent of the I.,r lwo f,, hA toned. If the three fires were all of the disasters of that nature in store for us, perhaps the city could afford to go along without purchasing an additional steamer. but the three dis asters are but warnings of still greater fires, especially in the skyscrapers now built or in course of construc- tion. The safety of the entire busi- ness portion of the city is in fact en- dangered.
 Another steamer would not neces- sarily be a complete guarantee against disastrous and heavy fires, but it is probable that the three fires in ques- tion would not have burned to the ex- tent they did in any city well-prepared for fighting fire. As matters stand another steamer should be purchased without delay, and then if we have a fire of the Moore & Handley sort. it will be time again to ask the reason
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17

the combine of coal railroads. known as the Temple Iron company. lost can not be ascertained. for they have been selling and VIII continue to sell coal at high figures. They may come out of the strike unsearred.
 It is difficult to say whether ap- preaching cold weather, or politics, or the belief that the miners could not be starved into submission on account of the state of public sentiment, had the most to do in settling the strike. All that is known is that the opera tors had up to the present week noth- ing to arbitrate; this week they be- came willing to arbitrate .all ques- tions at issue Certain 1t is that President Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan brought all their power to bear in favor of settlement of the strike, and perhaps their personalities should be counted in the effort to ascertain the causes of the outcome.
 The public is, however, less con cerned as to the manner of settle ment than they are in it's after eff fects. How will it affect the cleo tions that occur two weeks from next Tuesday? Will all bitterness be ob- liberated in a brief fortnight? And above all else, where does it leave David Bennett Hiii's platform demand for the naturalization of the hard coal mines? It is barely possible that the famous plank had not little in- fluence in leading the moneyed inter- ests involved in the strike to the seek ing of a settlement. But whether it did or did not have such an influence, it will stand as part of the demo- cratic state platform, and it's effect in the November election will be felt which way, no one knows. Nor can any one say how much it will injure or promote MT Hill's Presidential aspirations. The probabilities, how ever, are that those aspirations have encountered a backset.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
NEW SURGICAL OPERATION
 EARNS A FEE OF $150,00O

this cast will be kept in the same con dition as that on the rest of the body. and at the end of the six months, when the cast is removed. the flesh and the cuticie covering 1t will be found as healthy and in the same condition as ia the rest Of the body.
 .'The little girl will not have to remain In bed or inactive for all those six months. Tomorrow I shall allow her to sit up; in a couple of days l shall re- auire her to take exercise, and that ex- ercise, assisted by nature, will bring about changes in the joint, so that when the cast is removed the hip win be found to perform it's function in perfect man. ner. The leg operated on will be exactly the same length as the other, and that hip will then be as perfect as the other, or as that of any normal body"
 Professor Lorenz is a striking man in appearance. with power and knowledge expressed by every feature of his coun- tenance. He is over six feet tail. He wears a long iron gray beard, and his blue eyes and massive countenance re- mind one irresistlbly of the typical coun- tenance seen in the well-staged Wayne rian opera. He speaks English fuently. He is a calm, deliberate speaker and his manner and every gesture bespeak him the man of knowledge and ability His system of bloodless orthopedic operations is new to the surgical world, and is be- ing eagerly inquired into by the scientists and practitioners of both continents.
 It is reliably reported that the fee he receives for the operation just completed Is 10000 kroner, which, placing the kro@ ner at it's approximate value of 20 cents, makes his fee $15O.OO0 which Is probably without precedent as a payment for a single operation.
 Professor I.orenz will remain in the city for about two weeks. He declared that it would not be necessary for him to see his little patient often. Indeed he declared that had she been brought to him in Vienna, he could have performed the operation and have at once sent her back to this country. with a certainty of the absolute success of the operation.
 But, though he is receiving from the millionaire father of the little girl so lib- eral fee for his services, the great sur geon proposes, on his part, to be equally liberal with his skill. He will, in the course of this week, give eight or ten other little sufferers the benefit of his skill absolutely free of charge. This af- ternoon he will conduct a clinic at the College Of Physicians and Surgeons, at which three or four afflicted children will be operated upon, in the presence of all the Chicago physicians who desire to at- tend. Two of these patients are Blanche Trenner, 3 years old. and Lawrence Ba- ranoski. years of age
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
STORM CENTER.
Theory That This Country Acts as an
 Exchange.

Prof Frank H. Bigelow, a wealthy man, has offered the following theory as to the United States being a storm center:
 There are several reasons for believ- ing that this continent is the peculiar theater for the interchange between the heat and the cold of the northern hemis- phere, and that the Euro-Asian conti- nent plays a very different role In the meteorological economy of this hemis- phere. For it is well known CD that while the American continent is the place for the profuse generation of cyclones. Europe is the region for their dissipation, and in Asia very few cyclones occur ex- cept along the ocean borders; @ that the velocity of motion of the atmosphere generally Is about twice as great over North America as in Europe. This points to profound difference between the ac- tions of the atmosphere in these two re- gions, but one cause of 1t at least is easily perceived. It has been shown that the currents which are especially concerned in forming cyclones arc contained for the most part within two or three miles of the ground, though their accompany ing effects may extend much higher. Hence. any barriers of elevated ground. as mountain ranges, which tend to de- fleet the flow of the lower strata, must strongly influence the formation of the cyclones themselves if they are to be referred to the counter flow of long hori- zontal currents of different temperature rather than to local vertical convective currents
 "The great range of the Hima1aya mountains stretching east and west is such a barrier to the flow of the tropical and polar currents in that region, and the result is that true cyclonic move ments are almost excluded from the in- terior of Asia. On the other hand the Rocky mountain range. stretching north and south along the western districts of North America. favors the counter flow from the tropics and the polar regions by denecting the westward current of the tropics toward the north, and the eastward drift of the higher attitudes toward the south. The same tendency is favored by the location of the high pres sure belt in the latitude of 35 degrees, which causes a high pressure area to form over the middle Atlantic ocean. while the Rocky mountain range breaks through the midst of it. The result is t produce a powerful anti-cyclonic center of action over the Atlantic ocean, which maintains a strong northward component from the West Indies toward the interior of the continent. At the same the Amer ican continent causes the isobars and iso- therms to loop southward, and thus in consequence to draw the Siberian at- mosphere in a direction nearly parallel to the Rocky mountain range. These physical conditions are a constant in- | centive to the formation of counter-cur- rents which meet on the Canadian and United States territory with the result that 75 per cent or 80 per cent. of the storms of the northern hemispftre are l generated in these districts''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
Chairman CampbeIrs Address.

The democratic state campaign com mittee, through Chairman Campbell, appeals to the democrats of the state to support at the polls on November the democratic nominees, thereby ensuring legislation and administra- ton that will carry the new constitu- ton into full effect.
 The address stands upon the party's record in the past, and especially upon the part it took in securing the primary and adoption of a new consti- tuition. All promises made by the party to the people were kept in that instrument, as MT. Campbell shows. He shows, too, that by attacking the new constitution the republicans have again made it an issue. The issue is before the voters of the state, and in November white supremacy, honest elections, larger school appfopria- IlOHS, I6UuCJlOH Ol IdASo, 1OWSI oSo- sions of the legislature, and abolition of local legislation will each and all be voted on and definitely determined.
 The address presents the republi- can party, past and present, in true colors. particularly its school record in the state, and it's tariff record in the nation, and he forcibly contrasts it's record with that of the democratic party. He winds up the address with few paragraphs showing what the democratic party of today in the state as well as out of it stands for-re- vision of the tariff, better schools, honest elections, maximum of local government, and supremacy of law.
 MT. Campbell's address, issued by and for the party, is an admirable paper, and the people of the state are indebted to him for a compact and convincing argument in favor of dem ocratic principles and democratic policies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
SANTOS DUMONT TO FLY
 FROM PARIS TO LONDON

It was noticed at the start that the rud- der was small De Bradsky sought to turn the Church of Sacre Occur, Mont martre, and flung a bag of ballast out. The balloon rose and in catching a cur rent was swept rapidly in the direction of St. Denis. On nearing the ground De Bradsky asked the direction of Pantin and was trying to head for that place.
 The balloon came down within 200 me- ters of the ground. be Bradsky and Mo- rin were ready to alight ana the former shouted to passerby and asked him to help secure the airship. when the car suddenly became detached and the two men fell with it to the ground. De Brad sky was killed instantly. Morin lived a few minutes.
 De Bradsky was a Hungarian and had been secretary of the embassy here. He had travelled in India, China and Japan. He was 36 years of age and leaves a wife and three children.
 Santos-Dumont declares that M. De Rradsky was right to use wire instead Of rope to attach the car to the balloon. His fatal mistake was that the wire was not fixed with geometrical exactitude but was regulated by guesswork.
 Madame De Bradsky is prosyrated.
 De Bradsky's airship was egg-shaped, 11o feet long and 20 feet in diameter. A light wooden framework running around the balloon supported a car of steel wires. The car. constructed of hollow steel tubes, was 65 feet long and weighed with 16-horse power motor 1f00 pounds The airship was built on an entirely new theory. With its two aeronauts it dis. placed it's own weight of air.
 A recent cable dispatch from Paris said the chief danger was that failure of the motor to work would cause it to fall rapidly and that aeronauts predicted catastrophe should De Bradsky make ar ascension. Dr Bradsky was confident that the motor would work properly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-17
About Persons.

The Rev. Father Sweeney, who is to be transferred from St. Paul's church, of Birmingham, to the Catholic church at Pensacola, will not leave for his new field of work until December. He will be succeeded here by young priest from Mount Saint Mary's, Emmitsburg. Since coming to St. Paul's as assistant to Father O'Reilly. Father Sweeney has been very popular and his friends will re- gret to see him go away. Father Kerri- gan, the recently appointed assistant at St. Paurs, will preach at one of the masses there every Sunday. Father Sweeney's successor will attend princi- pally to the missions.
 Fillmore Garrett, of Calhoun county, sec retary of the state senate, was in Bir- mingham yesterday. He said he regarded his chances for reelection quite bright. He will be opposed for the secretaryship by NJ H. Screws.
 John F. Jenkins of Natchez is at the Metropolitan.
 D. R. Spencer and wife of New York are at the Metropolitan.
 A. II Bryan of Boston is at the Morris.
 George H. Lewis of Cincinnati is at the Morris.