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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
ALABAMA STATE FAIR.

From the Birmingham Free Speech.
 The state fair promises to be one of the most interesting and profitable fairs the state has ever had. No pains are being spared by the management to make it subserve the general interest of the state. Elaborate preparations are being made to give all business institutions as well as individuals an opportunity to be represented.
 Under the able superintendency of the well known Prof. David w. Parker the colored department will have every fa- cility and advantage to make 1t eclipse that of any other previous fair in the state. Mrs. Matt L. Fowlkes, who rep resents the ladies' department, is not leaving stone unturned fin the way of working up an interest among the col ored women to make the celored depart ment all that can be expected of it.
 Let every colored person in the state not only on colored day, but during the entire time of the fair, Etrive to make it a grand success
 There should be a rush to get some one of the various prizes. It will only bestir you to attempt greater things. This Is a time for the business man and wom- an, the industrious boy and girl to show their colors. Let every profession be represented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
THE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS.

From the Mobile Register.
 The address to the democrats of Ala bama issued from democratic headquar- ters by Hon. E. K. Campbell, chairman of the democratic state campaign com mittee, is document well worthy the at- tention of not only every democrat, but of every white man, in the state. Though quarter of a century has passed. the record of the republican party in Ala bama, as recited by Chairman Campbell Is yet too fresh in the minds of the people of the state to be forgotten so much as success in Alabama. As matter of fact, there is scarcely a possibility of the republican party itself polling a re- spectable vote. Whatever danger that might possibly He, is to be found through the cooperation of disgrunted democrats who fought the submission of the con stitution. and after this failure sought 10 defeat it at the polls It is members of this element which has Birmingham organ that Is doing all in its power to weaken democratic success, and through that party's defeat finally secure the re-. opening of the constitutional issue which they were unable to defeat while fight
 ing it under the guise of democrats Chairman Campbells address Is timely, but there does not appear to be a single cloud in the political situation which so much as casts shadow upon the success of the democratic party at the polls in November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
COST OF PAPER.
It's Increasing Cost Matter of Moro Than Ordinary Business Significance

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 The general tendency toward advance in prices has considerably affected the cost of production in various articles of public necessity; it has in some degree increased the working expenses Of the majority of industrial plants of all kinds, and this tendency, coupled with restric- tions which have been put upon the oper- ations of some of them in concession to the demands of labor, has lately caused a growing necessity for the adjustment of old prices to new conditions.
 We have had occasion in particular to take into account, as all other newspa- pers of extensive circulation have, the effect of these conditions on the mar ket for white paper. There has never been a time in the history of that com modity when the demand for it has either actually or relatively been so great as it is today. Indeed, owing to various causes among which are the combinations of paper manufacturers, the obstruction to competition in obtaining the raw ma terial or wood from which paper is made, and the limitations which have been im
  mills, the sources of supply have not at times been commensurate with the al- most phenomenal demand.
 Indeed. the daily newspapers have al no time since the Spanish war, four years ago, found the cost of their white paper a more pressing question in the cost Of their own production than 1t mas become under the present methods of manufac- ture and its output. It is, of course, tht prime and essential staple in the publica- ton of a newspaper. and it is at all times even when prices are not high, by far the chief element of cost in all the many and varied items which enter Into the out lays of journalistic enterprise.
 Yet the price at which the daily news paper Is now as a rule sold to it's read CTS is fixed at the very lowest coin in our currency, and consequently the most ex- act and careful adjustments of all items in it's cost is necessary in order that the almost infinitesimal margin of profit which should be averaged from the sale of each and every copy may De main tained. It is plain business considera- ton which all publishers have thus been obliged to meet in face Of the situation in white paper as it is today and as 1t is more than likely to be hereafter.
 There is no article of virtual necessity which costs a man so little as his news paper. In fact, 1t is marvel of modern cheapness, and when he buys good one, there is no investment from which he receives anything like proportion ta ix. he ct ria af of tents. In size. too, 1t is constantly in- creasing from year to year, and 1t Is thus that the fact that white paper now costs fully 20 per cent. more than 1t did when the present era of good times pegan' has become a matter of more than ordinary business significance to American pub fishers in almost every department of journalism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
BERLIN BoERsE.
Almost All the Departments, Espec-
 laIly lndustrials, Were Weak.

Berlin, October 19.-Almost all the de- partments of the Boerse and especially industrials, were weak last week. The announcement of the plans for the set clement of the American coal strike has been taken generally as unfavorable to the German iron trade, because of the consequent cessation of German iron ex- ports to the United States. Many opera tors, however. point out that the recent shipments to the United States were not renumerative insomuch as American buy CTS offered the lowest prices. A more se- rious bear factor for irons, however, was found in the numerous price reductions on half rolled iron goods, and the publi- cation of more annual reports which dis appointed the market. The foregoing factor resulted in an average drop in irons of about five points. Coal shares showed considerable resting power during the week owing to increasing coal ex- ports to France. This increase brought the daily loadings in the eastern dis trict to the highest figure for several years. Nevertheless coal shares were several points lower General industrials were weak, especially machinery and
  Hamburg American and North German Lloyd lines fell to the lowest point in several months as a result of heavy sales for Hamburg and Bremen account in connection with the rumors of reduced dividends.
 Foreign railroads were mostly neglected last week, but Canadian Pacifics were bought actively after the receipt of the coal strike news. Foreign rentes were inactive.
 Domestic loans were weak upon higher money rates and because of the plan for the nationalizing of Prussian railroads which. necessitates an increased issue of Prussian consols.
 The rise in money is partly due to large offerings in American bills and partly to the fact that money Is being raised for the repayment of the end of Septem- Der loans to the Reichs bank. Lenders are now not inclined to buy three months bills because dearer money is expected toward the end of the year.
 New York bought Paris and London exchange heavily here last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
COSTLY scoRcHINe.

From the Chicago Record-Herald,
 A New Jersey court has established precedent that will be of interest both to people who like to scorch in automobiles and those who have to get out of the way.
 Joseph B. Hughes, who was injured in an accident caused by the high rate of speed at which an automobile owned by Felix Warburg. Wall street banker. was run. sued for damages. He has been awarded $12,070.
 Heretofore the scorcher has made it a practice to settle with his victim by handing the latter two or three S20 bills and telling him 1t was all fun. The out come of the Hughes-Warburg case is likely, however, to work a change and 1t may be well to have it come. An award of $12,000 damages now and then would undoubtedly have a tendency to diminish the scorcher's desire to break records.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
KiIIIno Frosts in Alabama.

The rains came 1o i"'e Ill 'iiis s'a.e it is imnortant that the frosts should come likewise Fn order that a top cron of cotton may be made. It will be small at +be best, but it will be bet ter than mono at all. The crop of the state is now estimated at 800,000 bales, as ag' 'inst l'zoV'ooo oaies last year. Very late Irosts might carry this years total up to 9OO,O00 bales.
 Tn tbe last five years the average date of killing frosts has been the fourth day of November in this dis trict In the black belt frosts have in he last five years been postponed to the twelfth day of November. In ot,aer words, killing frosts are not due In this state until November, and they may not occur until that month is well advanced. Two years ago no killing frosts fell until November 10, and last year they came even later, many places not being touched by them until November IT.
 The range of the last five years in this state shows that killing frosts occur between November and No yember 12, and that killing frost in  October is strictly exceptional. In 1897 in many localities none came un- til December was half gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
COAL COMBINATION ILLEGAL.

From the Boston Journal.
 Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, one of the most influential of our statesmen, made the statement at Milwaukee Mon day night that the "coal combination is one which exists in violation of the con- stitutien of the state of Pennsylvania, which prohibits a railroad company from owning or operating coal mines MT. Ol- ney said the same thing in Boston last Saturday night. The mildest comment we can make is that the laws of Pennsiy- vania might as we'll be unwrtten. Also, the operators have been treating the politicians" very ungratefully
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
School Books Here and Elsewhere

The only state in this broad union that writes and publishes and sells school books is California. It is strict ly home industry, for every text book used in the public schools of California was written by Californians for Californians.
 This came about through the schemes of the book publishers of twenty years ago in placing their text books in that state-schemes not un- like those practiced today by the book trust in Alabama This subject will come before the next legislature des- pite an untoward incident over which the book trust is just now doing a great deal of chuckling. School au- thorities were bribed in California twenty years ago, and the anger of California thereat became at length so great that the people inserted in their constitution a section making state publication obligatory.
 No one will ask that Alabama shall establish a printing house as Califor- mia has done, but there is no reason why Alabama children should be rob
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20

word 'buHgoo was well understood every where. It is derived from the low Latin burgus, fortified Gas a town), and goo- goo, very good. Hence the word ;burgoo.' Something very good, fortified with other good things. as will be found in Carey's Dictionary of Double Deriva- tion.' Burgoo Is literally soup com posed of many vegetables and meats de- lectably fused together in an enormous caldron, over which at the exact moment a rabbits foot at the end of blue yarn string is properly waved by a colored preacher, whose salary has been paid to date. These are the good things by which the burgoo is fortified; but. like all foru- fications, they properly lie outside tho thing to be fortified. They are therefore, laid in before and after the burgoo, and there are epicures who lay them in en- during of the burgoo. but the practice is not universal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
PROFIT FROM STAMP BOOKS.

Washington Cor. in Chicago Tribune.
 The postofice department will probably make a profit of between s4O,0OO and s5o,- GOO this year from the sales of stamp books. The books have only been in use for a comparatively short period and have proven so profitable and yonvenient an article of sale than considerable anxiety was caused to department officials by the recent. controversy with the bureau of engraving and printing regarding the poor quality of paraffine paper used in the books, which caused the stamps to stick to the leaves and rendered them useless. Numerous complaints were re- ceived at the department and the sales of the books fell off considerably. Now, however, the bureau is furnishing a much higher grade of the paper and the sales have largely increased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
Shortaue of Cars.

The shortage in transportation fa- cilities extends to locomotives as well as to cars, and in this section of the country it is more marked and inju- rious than any shortage before this year ever has been. The movement of cotton creates this shortage, and this shortage, and this will be con tlnued until January at least, becom- ing afterwards gradually less.
 The problem is very difficult one, because it's solution calls for an equip ment that would to a great extent lie idle in the summer time on sidings If some scheme could be devised that would keep southern cars in the south the situation would not be so strained. but the confscation of cars goes on in the south as well as in the north. and it is difficult to say which side is the loser.
 Forty-one per cent of the railroad tonnage of the country consists of coal and coke, and if more cars were built that, while suitable for the trans portation of coal or coke, would be unsuitable for the carrying of other freight, the fuel interests would be subserved, as it deserves to be on ac- count of it's proportions and value to the people.
 A settlement of the hard coal strike will call for an immense number of CTS. and no doubt all southern cars that can be gathered in will be put into the sgVice ih FennsyVania There are 1,5OO2OO freight cars or al sorts in +ba oor,.ry, but large as thii number ,s f. ,s helieved 100000 car. could be profitably einpioSeu a' pres ent in handling ne ilnniense pro ducts of this prod icei'e ano prosper ous year. But sI'on all auui'ioi "oui' demand motive power anu 'erniina facilities far beyono "nae tue raii roads at present lpossess'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
From the St. Paul PIoneer-Press.

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
 ~ R. MICHAEL KRAsNoL, an es-
 capped Russian exile. who for
 more than six years has been fugitive from the Siberian prison of- ficials. left St. Paul recently. going to Bottineau. N Dak.. where he will live among the immigrants from his native land and other escaped exiles. In his at tempt to rid himself of the yoke of Rus sian tyranny and the hardships of Sibe- rian Imprisonment, pr. Krasnol has a1- most circumnavigated the globe. He sailed in a tramp ship from Seoul, Corea, to New Orleans, and made the trip from the mouth of the Mississippi river to St. Louis on a river steamer. He arrived in St. Paul Monday.
 Dr. Krasnol. who is S1 years of age, was educated at the Berlin university. where he received the degree of doctor of medicine. He speaks English f1uently, as well as French, German and his native tongue.
 ''Yes. I am an escaped Siberian exile" he said yesterday, "and I have been for six years a fugitive. However I am now far out of their reach. and no longer fear their cruelties. am bound for practice medicine among my country men.
 '"rell you about my exile and escape? It is a long story, but 1t may interest you. I suppose you remember the Mos COW student riots in 1893; we'll I was in the thick of the fight and as a leader of the students was singled out by the Rus sian authorities. had just come from Berlin, where I was educated, and re- turned to Russia imbued with the spirit of German liberalism. There were other young men in Moscow who had also ten- ded school abroad, and we. about twenty in number, formed the Russian Inde- pendent society," Our object was to force the government to certain reforms in the educational institutions. if such you can call the semibarbaric school system now in vogue in that country. We wanted the schools thrown open to every one, and not only to the sons of the aristocracy.
 One night, while holding a meeting in my office, we were surrounded by the Russian guards. I was president of the 
 the soldiers smashed into the room I was addressing the other students. All of us were placed under arrest, and without trial or hearing we were exiled to far Siberia. No two of us were sent to the same prison. Some were exiled to the mines in western Siberia and oth- CTS to the eastern and northern parts of the empire, I was detailed to work as section hand on the new Transsiberian railroad near Neitchinsk, in the province of the Transbailkal
 T will not dwell on my journey to the village which was designated by the Russian officials to be my life prison. It was the same as that of thousands of other unfortunates who are exiled yearly to that barren land. It was a journey of hunger and thirst, cold and exposure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
OLD REMEDIES
For the Cure of Snake Bites Said to
 Be the Best.


 The subject of snake bite may occa- sionally engage the individual practi- tloner in a moorland countryside where. especially in the summer and autumn, cases are not unknown of infants dying from collapse after being bitten by vipers says the London Lancet. We have re- gently been informed that the "infallible remedy" used by "Brusher" Mills, the well known New Forest snake catcher, for the bite of the adder or viper is the fat of the creature Itself melted, bottled and applied. a drop at a time, to the wound The cure, he asserts, Is an affair of two minutes. Mills has, of course, had immense experience with snakes, having in his day killed or taken more than 40OO venomous and 2z0O0 harmless specimens. He has. in fact. practically devastated his own field of operations round Lyndhurst. His belief in his rem edy is shared by Wiltshire and Hamp- shire rusties and Is doubtless universal in the country districts of England.
 The question is whether this treatment Is merely a survival of the old savage homeopathy which ordains hair of the dog that bit you as cure for the bite. or whether 1t Is a rude form of serum therapy vipers are exceedingly quar- relsome from the moment they break the egg. and unless immune against venow would long ago have ceased to exist as a distinct species Hence their fat may be a kind of antitoxin. Of course, all fatty and oily substances are useful against poisons, which they doubtless ab- sorb and isolate The old-fashioned Lon don viper catchers," mentioned by White of selborne and others always employed hot olive oil as a cure or treatment for snake bite, and this with ammonia con- tlnues to be recommended.
 We read of the oil cure in works on natural history, but find no mention of the peasants use of fat How came 1t to be used in the first instance? Prob ably in accordance with the savage the ory that fat, blood, sputum and so forth contain the life principle or "sour' Of men and animals and are therefore cure for any leson. Fat was anciently nsed to frighten away serpents from gardens and horses. The "suet" of deer stewed up and down where they (adders) come will cause them to depart" says Agrippa of Nettesheim, whose ideas, de spite his skepticism were often those of the tribal medicine man. Bacon fat, mix ed with the brains of a weasel, is recom- mended by him to scare away rats and mice.
 Drugs and charms obtained from snakes are. of course. very ancient. The witches in Macbeth make a baleful viper broth, but the same mixture was also a medicine and cure for many dis eases. The sloughs of snakes had also singular uses The sixteenth century Jerome Cardan is quoted in an old chap book as saying: If any do sprinkle his head with the powder of a skin that a snake doth cast off, gotten or gathered when the moon is in the full, being also in the first part of Aries the Ram, he shall rec terrible and fearful dreams. And if he shall have it under the sole of his foot he shall be acceptable be- tore magistrates and princess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20

Rev. Father Downs, who is III at St. Vim cents hospital Former cohgressmsans M. ". Howard of Fort Payne is at the Metropolitan.
 sss T. L. Powell of cullman Is at the Metropolitan. John C. syster of Decatur was in Bir- mingham yesterday.
  Col. John J. Altman is in Livingston. E. watkins of Chattanooga Is at the Morris. J. H. Holcombe of Gadsden Is at the Morris. John W sibiey of Chattanooga is at the Morris. A. c. Campbell of Boston is at the Morris
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
Judge FeaaIn and the Law.

Judge Feagin is steadily adding to the efficacy and dignity of the law He is not only putting down pistol toting, but he is making order more feasible and disorder vastly more in- convenient. He showed in the O'Hear case that a policeman needs no war rant as basis for an arrest. A com plaint by a citizen is all-sufficient as well in cases in which the policeman does not see the offense as in those he does. A verbal complaint is enough.
 And it is the duty of every citizen to aid an officer who calls upon him for aid in the making of an arrest. No citlzan can or should shirk in such a contingency. T hope" said Judge Feagin, "to see the day in Birming- ham when a policeman will not have to carry pistol or a club, as it Is in Paris. There a policeman never has any trouble, as the citizens will all assist him In making an arrest. I hope the citizens here will some day be that way Judge Feagin, desires all officers to call for aid from by islanders, rather than use either clubs or pistols. He wants all to recognize the authority and supremacy of law, and their duty in relation to it.
 Step by step the judge who handles at first hand the swarm of offenders in this city is leading all to higher level. He aims, it is plain, to mini mize arrests and to check crime by all the devices and moral suasion he can apply either on or off the bench. It is the duty and interest of every honest citizen to uphold his hands to the utmost. His work is important, and if maintained, as it doubtless will be, it will have a great influence even in the immediate future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-20
THE SCOTTISH eLUE5ELLs.

By Charles Doyne Sillery. Let the proud Indian boast of his jessa- mine bowers, His pasture of perfume, and rose-cover- ed dells; While humbly I sing of those wild little The bIuebells of Scotland. the Scottish
 bluebells Wave, wave your dark plumes, ye dark
 sons of the mountain, For brave is the chieftain your prowess
 who quells, And dreadful your wrath as the foam
 flashing fountain, That calms its wild waves mid the
 Scottish bluebells Then strike the loud harp to the land of
 the river, The mountain, the valley, with all their
 wild spells, And shout in the chorus for ever and The bluebells of Scotland, the Scottish
 bluebells. Sublime are your hills when the young
 day is beaming, And green are your groves with their cool crystal wells, And bright are your broadwords, like
 morning dews gleaming. Oh bluebells of Scotland oh Scottish
 bluebells. Awake! ye light fairies that trip o'er
 the heather, Ye mermaids, arise from your coralline
 cells Come forth with your chorus, all chant
 ing together The bluebells of Scotland, the Scottish
 bluebells. Then strike the loud harp to the land of
 the river The mountain. the valley, with all
 their wild spells. And shout in the chorus, for ever and
 ever The bluebells of Scotland, the Scottish
 bluebells.