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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-19
CITY IN BRIEF.

E. ". Adams is in Kansas City.
R. E. Torrington was in Topeka yes
terday
VIM. shope and wife of Cheney, are in
the city.
Mrs. Gus Roll, of Peck. was shopping
here yesterday.
Mrs John shiei4s is very sick at her
! home, S02 South Water.
J. Hunter, merchant of Norwich, was
| here on business yesterday.
A. T. Warren of Newton was in the
city yesterday on business.
According to the weather man, the
weather viii be colder today.
AIRS. E. ". Toward was in the city yes
terday from Bainville, Kansas.
NJ F. Wolf has completed a six-room
cottage at 327 North Santa Re.
The city court did no business other
than small civil cases yesterday.
The snow has all been cleaned from the
steps and walks at the court house.
Miss G. \. Bullock, of Joliet H. is
spending the holidays in the city with
friends.
". T. Matson left last night for To-
wanda on business connected with the
law firm.
VIM Stalker and wife of 1851 sor.h
Laura avenue returned last night from
their visit to Illinois.
Mrs. G. J. Blandin of Peoria, H.. is
here visiting her eon, ". W. Blandin,
at 42l campbell avenue.
Charlie Hamilton. formerly of Harper,
has moved to the city and is building a
home for himself on West Side
Mrs. T. p. Hardy and son. OF Paris. III.
are the guests of Chas. Daniels. They
are on their way TO Colorado Springs
where they Will spend the winter.
VIM Oakford anu family. of Hunmoldt.
Tennessee. arrived in the city last night
and viii visit with A1r Oakfords sister
Mrs Is. +. billiard. 9S5 South Main street
Mrs. z. II. Dennis and two daughters,
Edith and Fay, viii leave Saturday even
ins on holiday visit with friends ard
relatives in Kansas City and 81. Louis
Reverend y. A. Case of Cherryfield.
Me, is spending the winter with his
daughter. Mrs. Sadie Walters. who con
ducts 4 photograph gallery on North
Main street, in this city Mr.. Case is
himself a photographer and will combine
business with the pleasure OF his visit
Mrs. Winsicw's Soothing Syrup.
Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
by MILLIONS OF MOTHERS FOR their
CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING. with
PERFECT SUCCESS. IT SOOTHES the
CHILD. SOFTENs the GUMS. ALLAYs
all PAIN. CURES WIND collie and Is
the best remedy for DIARRHOEA Sold
by druggists n every part OF the world
Sc sure ard csk for Mrs WinsIons
Soothing 5yr:p" and take no other kind
Twenty -fi~e cent? bottle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-19
BIG OYSTER SUPPER.

TNOaIISH1aS LOu9t GaVe Supper and
Ball Last Night.
Last night the Pocahontas lodge gave
a big oyster supper and BAH al the Red
Mems hail. over p persons were ureseat
and al were there for good time
After the supper the tables were cleared
away ana tie balance of the evening
was spent in cake-walkine a-5 aanr-
ing. contest cake-walk was efren in
which Miss Ria Blacketer ana Chas
Reiz took the cake The next regular
meot.ns WI b Ma-lna-.an IL.
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Mrs. Winslc.'s Sootntno SvruC
COMING LOCAL EVENTS.

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
The Coming of the seaboard.

The Board of Aldermen are to be
congratulated for their prompt action
in granting the Seaboard Air Line
Railway rights and franchises to ex-
tend their line into the city of Bir-
mingham. The Birmingham people
have never been more enthusiastic on
any subject than they have been on
the admission of the Seaboard Ali
Line Railway system into the limits OF
this city. It has been an unanimous
thing. The Birmingham people want
the Seaboard Air Line and they have
granted to it by unanimous vote of
citizens and aldermen the best the
city has.
Vice President Barr, the spokesman
of the Seaboard Air Line, has prom
ised to have a line in operation be-
tween Atlanta and Birmingham within
one year from this date. He has like
wise promised that all lines which
may build into Birmingham in the
future shall have rights to enter here
in over Seaboard terminals on equit-
able terms.
While Birmingham already has the
very best of railroad facilities-prob-
ably the best of any other city in the
South-the coming of the Seaboard
means additional facilities and addi-
tional business. Indeed, the coming
of the Seaboard means an increase in
population, in industries and in bust
ness. All Birmingham welcomes it,
and the quicker the trains are in op-
Grafton the better for Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
A Year of Disasters.

The Chicago Tribune, prone to sta
tistics, shows that already in this
year volcanic eruptions have de-
stroyed 1880 lives, storms 704, tor
nadoes 416, cyclones 22O, floods 933,
avalanches z2S, tidal waves 1903, snow.
slides SO and water spouts ~. total
of 50,505 lives destroyed by elemental
disturbances in five months. The
Tribune thinks this vast destruction
of life has been doubled by agencies
over which man has more or less con
troll, such as fires, mine disasters, ex
plosions, railroad accidents, vessel
wrecks and the like, thus bringing the
total loss of the five months by dis
aster up to 100000. No doubt if the
world round be considered the esti
mate is none too large.
At any rate it is certain that the
present month has been one of great
dllu dthOSJ D
The volcanic fires of the West Indies
were followed in quick succession by
the cyclone that well nigh destroyed a
Texas town, a mine explosion in Ten.
nessee, and hurricane that swept
an entire province in the East Indies.
One woe doth tread upon another's
heel, so fast they follow.
However, the year is young, and
perhaps it will behave better hereaf-
ter. 1t cannot we'll be imagined that
the rema ming seven months will
maintain the record of the first five
months in the matter of disasters. We
have no doubt already seen the worst
of the catastrophes that the year will
bring upon mankind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
BIRMINGHAM Mosquitoes,

The Birmingham mosquitoes are
not so large as bull bats, but unlike
bull bats, they refuse to stay out of
range. They have strong appetites,
and they insist upon singing when
one wants no song of any sort. They
are insists from the human point of
view in every respect. Man does not
long for parasite, least of all of the
mosquito sort
But the chief question is not one
relating to personal likings or personal
convenience-it is this: Are Birming
ham mosquitoes disease carriers? Do
they go about loaded with malaria
germs or any other sort of disease
germs, ready to fire them into anyone
whom 1t may select as its victim :?
This Is question of the deepest i'm
portance, or rather it soon will be,
for the season of the Birmingham
mosquito has not yet been inaugural
ed The Birmingham insect arrives
rather late but it gets down to bust
ness as soon as it arrives.
What we need is a local scientist
who can say to what class the Bir-
mingham mosquitoes belong. We all
know it Is the female mosquito that
thrusts into human flesh her awl-like
bristles, massed together into a tube,
through which she taps at will her
victim, but does she in return send
into human veins disease germs? The
latter proposition we do not know
about, so that one is left free to mag
inc in the Silly hours of the night
that almost any disease germ is being
pumped into him as his own blood is
pumped out. 1t is not a fair swap at
any rate, even If the germs received
In return are not disease germs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Music in Atlanta.

II am sorry to learn that Atlanta's in
terest in music is waning" said Bir-
mingham music lover.
IF high-class attractions are not to be
supported in Atlanta, the chances of hav-
ing such attractions in Birmingham and
other Southern cities are naturally weak
ened. because the Georgia metropolis has
long been a starting or pivotal point for
concert companies.
1.-THE Concert and Festival Association
of Atlanta has issued an address to the
citizens of that town setting forth dis
courag ing conditions and stating that un-
less music lovers subscribe promptly and
In large numbers to the membership
tickets tho association will not book any
attractions for next season.
1T seems that the officers of the asso-
citation had to make up a thousand dol
lars recently to pay deficits. 1t is not fair
that a few men should hold the bag, and
the half dozen Atlanta music lovers who
have been giving their time without sal
airy to the management of concerts have
served notice that they will no longer be
individually responsible for musical at
fractions.
with Atlanta and Birmingham out of
the orchestra business Theodore Thomas
will not be apt to attempt a Southern
tour next spring, Just as Southern cities
were beginning to boast of musical at
| mosphere the bottom fell out so to
speak"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

Pioneer furnace in this district will
soon be a producer; the Woodstock
Company is rebuilding a stack at An.
niston which will become a new pro-
Queer this year, and the rebuilt stack
of the Sloss-Sheffiela city plant will
soon be ready for the torch. The
stack that the Woodward Company Is
building, and the one the Central Iron
and Coal Company is building at Tus-
caloosa, as well as the two that the
Alabama Steel and Wire. Company
will soon start to construct, will all
be producers in 1903, but none of the
four will make any iron this year.
The South is doing reasonably well,
but there should be at least half a
dozen more furnaces in this valley
The furnaces that are quilt nova
days in Ohio and Pennsylvania are
500-tons, or even 600-ton affairs,
whereas the best furnace here, using
more or less old hard red ore, is but
a 225-ton producer. We need more
therefore, in order to keep
step with production elsewhere. We
need more because the Warrior is to
be opened soon. We need more be-
cause the world wants Alabama iron.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
The Shriners.

Mr.. Ben NJ. Jacobs will attend the I'm
perlal Council of the Mystic Shrine in
San Francisco in June. as the represen-
tative of Zamora Temple of this city. He
will be the only representative from Ala
bama, but Mr.. Harry Wheelock will at
tend as visiting noble. Mrs. Jacobs Will
accompany her husband and Mr..
Wheelock will be accompanied by his
wife and daughter, Miss Mabel Wheelock
The Birmingham party will join I'm
perial Potentste Philip Schaffer Of Phil
adelphia at ST. Louis June l and journey
with him as his guests to the Pacific
1t is estimated that 10000 shriners will
be in line at San Francisco, many tenn
pies having arranged to attend with full
ranks The mobiles of California will be
very lavish in entertaining the visitors
and a grand time is assured.
The Shrine is made up of Masons of
high degree, only thirty-seconds of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and
Knights Templar being eligible to mem
bership. Many Masons are both Templars
and thirty-seconds, but either rank Is SUI
ficient for admission to this Ancient
Arabic order"
After the Imperial Counciladjourns Mr.
and Mrs. Jacobs will make an extended
tour through California and start on their
return home by the Canadian Pacific.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Soft Coal Trust.

The III coal mines in Indiana and
the $50 mines in Illinois, comprising
practically all the productive mines In
the two States, are to be united with
the mines of Ohio, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania, in one grand soft coal
trust, with capital approximating
$500, 100000. John S. Bays has charge
of the Western end of the business,
and ]. P Morgan is of course to secure
the needful money.
There already exists huge soft coal
trust, into which the Pittsburg Coal
Company, owning practically the great
soft coal mines of Pennsylvania; the
Paramount Coal Company, controlling
the mines of West Virginia, and the
Hooking Valley Coal Company, were
merged, with a capital OF $3.50 600, 900.
The new and later effort is for the
purpose of eliminating the competition
of the Indiana and Illinois mines, so
that the fuel supply of the East above
Kentucky and Tennessee will be con-
trolled by the soft coal trust together,
of course, with the hard coal trust.
The promoters of the proposed trust
consider the Tennessee and Alabama
coal and the far Western coal as too
distant to compete with the product
of tie trust at Chicago or at points
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
New Blast Furnaces.

The Iron Age thinks that enough
new stacks will be blown in this year
TO add 300 tons to the daily product,
while in 1903 the daily product may
be swollen 1880 tons above the pres
ent output, thus carrying production
at the end of that year up to a rate
that means 21,5OO,0O0 tons per annum,
as against 17,75O,OO0 tons this year.
The capacity of the furnaces in blast
at the end of the present year will.
however, be 100000 tons a year.
Not counting the projected furnaces
of the Cambria Steel Company or of
the United States Steel Company, the
IRON age anticipates the erection of
IS stacks in 1903, and there are nine
stacks that may become producers
this year. The furnace at LaFollette,
Tenn. will be blown In soon;; the new
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

east OF it, and the control of the East
is what the trust schemers are work
ing to secure. The Indiana mines pro-
duce about 100000 tons year. while
the Illinois mines turn out about 26,-
600, 900 tons a year. Options have been
secured on all, or nearly all, the mines
in the two States.
1t will be fortunate indeed II the
trust craze does not reach the South
ern mines. These should be left free
until the Warrior is opened and the
Nicaragua canal is built, and then
their value will be appreciated. As
things stand now the mines in the
South are undervalued, but this will
net be the case in Alabama as soon
as there is a waterway to the sea open
the year round.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
American Poems.

Lists of the fifty best" or best
fifty" poems written In this country
continue to appear, and each catalogue
consists OF immortals only! And yet
every compiler of list offers one
quite different than the lists that went
before and no two wholly agree.
This simply proves there is no such
thing as the fifty best poems. What is
best" to A is not best" to B by sew
eral rows of apple trees, and what B
stands up stoutly for sneers at.
Each man finds in each poem some
thing or nothing-something that
strikes a chord deep down in his soul,
or else nothing but smooth faculty in
verse making. No two persons are
constituted alike, and so no selection
of the ''best fifty" will suit any two
persons. The chances are that each
list will suit the compiler thereof
alone.
The better question is, what Ameri-
can poems will be read by the aver
age reader 290 years hence? We name
290 years hence, because Shakespeare
caesed writing that long ago. Will
some one jump up and produce list
of fifty poems that will be read by cul-
tivated persons in the year 2192? Alas
and alack, they will be known to the
bookworm only, and his recollections
will be, like his gray matter in gen
eral, confused and foggy.
Mr.. Knowles list serves to show us
that we have nothing that has the
stamp of immortality upon it-not
even a guarantee Of circulation in the
year 2192. Let us abate our high pre-
tensions. Our Pegasus may have
wings, but those wings are not strong
enough to carry him above this earth
among the immortals. And yet our
winged horse is by no means a mule,
and some day, perhaps, he will bring
us that long-looked-for, long-desired
singer, the great American pot
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

roads. Nothing builds up a city so rapidly
as railroads. But for railroads Atlanta
would have been nothing With the nat
ural advantages of Birmingham in its
coal and ores and limestone, when rail-
roads are added in profusion there is no
reason why. within a few years, it should
not be the hub of the South.
Speaking of railroads. I am glad to
learn that it has practically been decided
that the train which is now running
daily from Tuscaloosa TO Selma via
Greensboro and Marion is soon to be
started from Birmingham leaving here
about o'clock in the morning and run
ming through on a local schedule, making
all the stops via Tuscaloosa, Akron and
Greensboro to Selma. This new schedule
will not only be of great advantage to
Birmingham but to all the towns along
the line and both the Alabama Great
Southern and the Southern systems are
deserving of thanks from the Birmingham
people.
Congressman Charlie Thompson's party
of Congressman who spent yesterday in
Birmingham and in visiting the Birming-
ham district. made a good impression and
were evidently much impressed with
what we have here. They came to see the
manufacturing progress of the South.
They saw IT. and were pleased with 1t.
They did not come to talk about the war
or dead issues, and Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw and Congressman Little
field showed very clearly in what they
said that they were not here to revamp
old issues or dig up corpses, regardless
of the fact that some Of those among us
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Another Oil Company.

prominent politician of Mooresville, Ala,
has been talking with Birmingham
friends the past two days, and it is sig
nificant that his visit at this time is of
more than social import.
1t is well known that General PEBBLES
is a firm believer in the existence of oil
in Limestone and Madison counties, and
that he has secured large options and in
terested other wealthy developers in join
ing him In the organization of a gigantic
company to bore. His visit at this par
ticular time, though ostensibly of a So
cial nature, points very suspiciously to
the perfecting of arrangements for early
and active operations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
ABOUT INFANT DAMNATIoN.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
paper you correctly quoted the report of
the committee of bills and overtures of
the Southern Presbyterian General AS
sembly recently adjourned as follows:
The committee on bills and overtures
submitted this report:
"Second-This assembly Is fully per-
suaded that the language employed in
chapter 10, section 8, of our Confession
of Faith touching infants dying in in
fancy does not teach that there are any
infants dying In infancy who are damned,
but is only meant to show that those
who die in infancy are saved in a diff
ferent manner from adult persons who
are capable of being outwardly called
by the ministry of the word. Further
more, We are persuaded that the Holy
Scriptures, when fairly interpreted, am
ply warrant us in believing that all in
fants who die In infancy are included in
the election of grace and are regenerated
and saved by Christ, through the Spirit"
In your editorial you state that the
assembly reluctantly endorsed this propo-
sition by narrow majority. Allow me,
as member of the assem- bly, and of the
committee on bills and overtures. to state
that in this matter you have been mis1ed.
The fact is that the assembly adopted
the above proposition by a unanimous
vote.
The proposition to send the unanimously
adopted declaration down to the Presby-
teries for their vote as to whether it
should be embodied in the text of the
confession of Faith was voted down by
a small majority-91 to 49, The reasons
given by those who argued against send
ing it down to the Presbyteries were
statement being clear enough as 1t is, or
that this was not a propitious time to
enter on a movem ent for revising the text
of the confession. One or two argued that
there were no categorical declarations
o. scripture on the subject one way or
the other, but every one who spoke
against changing the confession asserted
his own personal belief Cor well ground
ed hope as some preferred to express it,
in the salvation of all infants dying in in
fancy.
Believing you to be a fair minded man
1 am sure you will be glad to disasso-
ciate yourself from those who enormously
assert that the Presbyterian church or
any representative member of it, believes
in infant damnation s. H. CHESTER
Birmingham, Ala, Man "a. 1902.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Bull Fighting.

Court etiquette may require members
of the diplomatic corps in Madrid to do
as the Spaniards do. and especially as the
King does, but a man of DR.. Jabez L.
NJ. Curry's good Baptist raising and prin-
ciples must have felt out of place at the
bull fight" said a member of the Bap-
fist church.
According to the press dispatches the
Queen mother and Mrs. Curry averted
their faces at the sickening spectacle OF
the poor horses bleeding and careening
before the mad bulls, but it seems that
etiquette required all the diplomats to
look on.
ut is strange indeed that civilized peo-
pie, not to say Christian people, take
pleasure in the brutal sport of bull fight
ing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
NEARER HOME E.
By Phoebe Cary.

By Phoebe Cary.
One sweetly solemn thought
Comes to me DER and DER;
I'm nearer my home today
Than l ever have been before:
Nearer my Fathers house.
Where the many mansions be;
Nearer the great white throne.
Nearer the crystal sea;
Nearer the bound of life,
Where We lay our burdens down;
Nearer leaving the cross,
Nearer gaining the crownI
but lying darkly between,
Winding down through the night.
Is the silent, unknown stream,
That leads us at length to the light
Closer and closer my steps
Come to the dread abysm
Closer Death to my lips
Presses the awful chrism.
o, If my mortal feet
Have almost gained the brink;
If 1t be am nearer home
Even today than I think;
Father, perfect my trust;
Let my spirit feel in death.
That her feet are firmly set
sSv On the rock zQfz;a. aiy3pg ;saatpf,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
A DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.

From the Coosa Argus.
Nearly every newspaper in Alabama
has an article In its columns each week
clamoring for a white Democratic primary
and seven eighths of the voters are ask
ing for 1t. and If the State Democratic
executive committee are so headstrong in
their dictatorial demands of the party
and call a convention, there will be such
a stampede in the party as has never be-
fore occurred. If the committee cannot
take care of the party, the voters
throughout the state will themselves take
the matter in hand and engineer the
machine for them. This Is only little
free gratis warning. and the Argus thinks
1t advisable for each member of the COM
mittee to paste this in their hat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
The Seaboard Air Line.

There is no mistake about the senti-
ment of the people of Birmingham in re-
lation to the Seaboard Air Line" said
Mr.. NJ. V. Jospeh..
Everybody is delighted to know that
the Seabeard is coming here because
everybody realizes what this great sys-
tenn will mean for the city and the dis
trict 1 hope to see the Illinois Central
enter Birmingham some day. Traffic is
increasing rapidly. Indeed, as some one
remarked recently Birmingham is just
beginning to grow. There will certainly
be freight enough for all the railroads
that come"