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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
A MANS EARNING CAPACITY.
Can Never Be Properly Estimated
 Until After His Death.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 A woman has begun suit In the New York City courts against the railway upon which her husband was killed to recover the sum of S25O,00o damages for the loss. Her claim is that her husbands life had a cash value to the extent named, from the fact that he was able to earn sal ary of ssO,OOO a year for some time before his death.
 This is a larger sum than has ever be- fore been legally claimed for any single life, although juries in the cases of two other men who were killed in this same accident have already awarded damages to the extent of $S0,OOO and $6O.OOO respect lively in each suit.
 The fact the: mems lives have no ac- tual legal cash value based upon the earning capacity of the individual is now will established, as is also the other fact that some men can fairly earn by their own efforts salaries running up to tens of thousands of dollars and more annual ly.
 Because we paid the nations President only $25000 a year until a comparatively recent date there was a general feeling that nobody else could earn more than that sum. But we have le; rned with the rest of mankind that many men would be very macequately remunerated unless their annual incomes much larger.
 Scores, if not hundreds of men carry life insurance to the amount of S10O000 and upwards. Their lives are recognized by the companies to be worth these large sums. Such men earn every year more than an ample interest upon the heavy amounts noted, and when they die their estates are entitled to have the loss mtde good to any reasonable extent.
 The law courts are therefore, only con- ceding what life insurance and the ex- perience of the business world generally have already Shown-viz., that many men can fairly earn better pay than others, that there is hardly any limit to the earning capacity on the part of some of the more fortunately gifted ones, and that when they die there remains the right that the loss to their family or es- tate shall be made good
 If they have themselves prudently pre- arranged for this the lnoemnity is, of course, certain and immediate while if their death is the untimeiy work of cor poration carelessenss the worlds ad- vanced thought now allows the possible remuneration through the courts to reach almost any sum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
From the New Orleans Picayune.

IN ENERAL SAM T. CARNEs Is
 V a man among men," yester-
 O day said w ". Talbert, who is stopping at the St. Charles hotel. "I have known him for the past 80 years. and his attitude in the recent baseball fight, which has now been satisfactorily adjusted, Is an index of the stand he has always taken on any question in which he was interested
 MT. Talbert one of the largest stock holders in the Central Asphalt and Re- ftning' company, of which General Carnes is president and was in New Or leans yesterday on his way back to Memphis. He and General carnes have been intimate business associates and what MT. Talbert does not know of the man who played such an important part in the baseball situation of the south, is hardly worth knowing.
 In view of the fact that the calcium light of public interest has been directed so clearly upon General Ca-nes in the past few months, a study of the man is very timely. There Is. perhaps, no one better qualified to tell of the character istics and achievements of the general than is MT. Talbert.
 General Carnes,' declared Mir. Tal- bert, .is essentially a self-mad- man, and all his life he has been ready to go broke in defending any principle which he believed to be right He is a fighter from the ground up, and the great for tune which he has earned-he is now millionaire-has been the result of gain ing victories over heavy odds B-rs-~ t--e war he and his people were wealthy, very wealthy. The end of the war found the Carnes ia, y land poor. All of their slaves had been freed Their great es- tates were dismantled, and there was no way of realizing a tithe of their value.
 Sam Carnes did not hesitate a mo- vile, Tenn, a small town not many miles from Memphis, and just as soon as hostilities closed he set out for Memphis and commenced to build up his fortunes. He secured a position with a cotton house and within short time was it's manager. He went into the cotton business for him self,~and won more than a modicum of success.
 Tn 1887 he took the money he had made in cotton and established telephone sys- tenn in Memphis. The venture was re- garded, at that time, as extremely prob lematical, but he put his whole soul and intellect into his undertaking. In 1895 he sold out to the Bell Telephone company at a handsome figure, and then estab- lished the Memphis Light and Power company. This undertaking was drowned upon by the conservatives as had been the telephone venture, but General Carnes was not whit dismayed. He had his ups and downs, and there were times when 1t seemed almost certain that he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Christmas Business.

.It does not take an arithmetieian' or a particularly close observer to ascertain the fact that the retail merchants of Bir- mingham are doing a larger holiday business this year thah ever before. :" said a Nineteenth street man yesterday.
 we looked for large business. but the volume of trade has far exceeded our expectations. The Christmas trade began in the latter part of November. Early in December it was fully up to all previous holiday proportions, and this week it is simply beBildering.
 "The advertising columns of the Age Herald have certainly stimulated the early run on our goods. Before the sec ond week in December had ended our concern had sold more holiday goods than it sold during the whole of last De- cember."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Ing symptom Is an increasing dislnclina- ton for physical exerton of any Kind and the most extreme lassitude.
 The patient stated that his brother had died from a similar disease. From the facts disclosed by the post-mortem exam nation in that case the physicians estab- 1ished the diagnosis in this case. and su- perintendent Hurd says the patient will recover.
 They found that many thousands of in- finitesimal parasites. known as uneinarian duodenalls. were actively at work boring into the mucous membrane of the intes- tines, and causing a loss of blood with re- sultant lassitude and inertia, and finally producing death.
 These parasites according to the state ment of Dr. Hurd. are especially abund- ant in certain sections of the Carolinas and Georgia. and the disease Is prevalent among what are known as the "cIay ea ters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

The celsus bureau makes no esti. mates. It simply counts bales as they are ginned. and this is all the trust worthy information that the crop ad- mits of. What is demanded nov is a weekly cotton report made by the census bureau, and the cost of such a report should not be permitted to stand in the way. The cost is esti- mated at s45,OOo. and what is s45,OO0 in getting the facts concerning the chief crop of the oountry-a crop worh s4OOO00, ,O00, more or less?
 Under the plan proposed blanks will be distributed to each gin, to be filled up each Saturday night and forwarded to the county agent, who consolidates them and telegraphs the county total to the bureau at Washington. Thus the crop is counted each week as it is ginned, and all guess work is elim- mated.
 When congress reassembles in Jan uary the subject will come up, and every southern member should line up in favor of weekly count of the crop at the gins. If the agricultural de- partment desires to continue it's wild guesses, no harm will be done, so long as the crop is counted as fast as bales are turned out at Gne gins. When this is done the esteemed estimators will soon drop out, both official and unofficial The census bureau has adopted the true and only satisfactory method.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
Oklahoma is a very warm knocke
UNIFORM TEXT BOOKS.

From the Enterprise Enterprise.
 Thirty years experience in the school room as teacher. has convinced us that uniformity in text books has caused more worry, thought and labor upon the part of the teacher in organizing and classify ing his school than any other cause, and consequently retarded the progress of the pupils. The multiplicity of text books and the continual changing of same has al- ways been a useless burden upon parents. We have always been a strong advocate of uniformity and urged same in insti- tutes and upon other occasions.
 Twice during our teaching we have had collected from homes of the pupils in our school lists of school books not in use. and the interest upon the cost of these books (dead capitaD would have paid our salary.
 We not only favor state uniformity. but, for like reasons, advocate uniformity through the United States, then a reader or speller which now costs S5 cents could be bought for and not exceeding 10 cents, and other books accordingly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
About Persona.

First Lieutenant Gordon Johnston of the Fifteenth cavalry in Mandinan. P. l., is in the city.
 Don II. Bacon, president of the Ten nessee Coal. Iron and Railway company, has returned to New York.
 Richard F. Johnston and Mrs. Johnston arrived from Denver yesterday. MT Johnston went to Colorado last fall for the benefit of his health and he comes back greatly improved. His health is bet ter indeed than it has been at any time within the past five years. MT. Johnston is managing editor of the Ledger and he will be at his desk as usual bright and early this morning.
 Claude Seals, formerly of Birmingham, but now of Sheffield, is in the city.
 l.. B. Musgrove and J. R. Ryan of Walker county are in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
The Faklr.

The Rev. Father Yotinan formerly of Calcutta but now of the United States, alluded to the fakir only incidentally in his lecture at the Bijou Sunday night. He remarked that the pronunciation of the word was not as we have it in this coun- try, but that it was "fa-keer," with the accent strongly on the last syllable.
 A member of the Cadmean circle said last night in discussing Father Younan: "One learned more about India Sunday from the priests two-hour lecture than could be learned in years of reading When Father Younan tells Of India he condenses, but makes the country vivid"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
His sedative.
From JudEe.

fTom JuuSS'
 q tell you" said MT. Fadoogus. "our grocer is a shrewd fellow. He is always on the lookout for schemes that will bring trade his way
 He must be successfully said Mir. Wunder.
 You bet he isl Why, he has the big gest rush right now on mincemeat that you ever saw. He is giving away a box of pepsin pills with each pound of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
Two voices-DoubIe Play.

From Judge.
 T understand, Mrs Clancy remarked Mrs. Dooligan over the back fence. that your Jimmie has had his wages doubled for Christmas. Is that true?'
 Sure an it Is, Mis- Dooligan," replied Mrs. Clancy, proudly. Hes no longer shiftin' the scanary at the theayter''
 'I want to knowl What is his new job?"
 "He,A e,Apiayin' the mob in the third act, Mrs. Dooligan. And as his voice is changin' tn boss gives him double pay, which is no more than right, I'm think in''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Men suffer grimly; women sweetly.
 Friendly rivalry is only civilized jeal- ousy.
 Solomon must have got awful tired walking the babies at night.
 Women take back thei- -,-esents to exchange not because ~ ; want to change them, but to find much was paid for them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
HAS LAZY DISEASE.
Patient in Johns Hopkins SinguIarly
 Afflicted.

Baltimore Special to Memphis Commer-
 cial-Appeal.
 A patient at the Johns Hopkins hospi- tai is suffering from disease which has only once before appeared in this state. The disease is known as ankylostoma, or lazy {disease." It acquires it's popular name} from the fact that the most strik-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
Sundays in Scotland.

Scotland cannot very much longer be quoted as a model in the matter of Sun day observance, says Ethe Presbyterian and surely it is a profound pity that Scotland should suffer itself to be robbed of its priceless heritage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Well, sir" said the self-made business man. you have had charge of my boy for a month. Is there anything in him?''
 ITO be perfectly candid with you" said the boys tutor, 'I shall have to char acterize him as chip of the old block"
 "I suppose he'll have to go into wall paper, then, same as I am," rejoined the father, grmly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
Carries a Club.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 Rollingstone Nomoss-I always carry a club when I'm lookin' fer work.
 Tatterdon Torn-How's dat?
 Rollngstone Nomoss-If I ever catch up wid it I'll beat it to death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
,eportinu the Cotton Crop.

people of this section of the |y simply want the truth as to of cotton, and they care very About the means to that end. b not care whether Secretary department is voted up or wn. What they want is the hey have discovered that the lt of agriculture arbitrarily estimates of it's estimators, ptirg a large crop this year "a small one, they have be- weary of guess work, and
 ion statisticians in general.
 ling all, or nearly all, to
 methods of the census
 lhe only sensible way of
 the sizo of a given crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

A Boston court has decided that when a man sits down on sheet of adhesive fly paper. he may carry the fly paper away without becoming liable for it's value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
Meats and Corn.

Cash corn has dropped in Kansas City to 37 cents, and the tendency is ! still downwards. The crop is unpre- Mechanically large, and as soon as the armers in the great corn states can prry their corn to market the price - it will go very low.
 Cheap corn means cheap meats, and iansas City all cattle and hog prod have fallen to reasonable figures, hese decreases arc not recognized
 retailers in the east and south.
 |ners should make a note of
 IT each and every one is enti-
 over prices for all beef cuts,
 sions, all lard and the like. 5fi and side mc-t should also be marked down. If consumers would buy more chickens and turkeys, and less of western meat products, the Alealers would soon make proper con essions.
 These concessions must be made, kbut the retail dealer is never in a hurry to cut down prices, although he ever ready to advance them. The bnsumers can by withholding their eat orders 2 single week bring about needful concessions. Prices have eady fallen to proper figures in ne cities, but in the south nearly same prices are demanded, when act there should be material con ions. Demand such concessions, uy poultry. A week of poultry
 g would settle the issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

The Grover Cleveland contingent in the south is unwilling to return to the democratic party except in a grand stand play
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Sig. Pietro Marconi is fighting his way to victory in Chicago, He charmed and uplifted as it were the stockyard district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Henry Watterson seems to think we had better gobble Canada and turn the mongrel Latins and the Monroe doctrine loose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

The New York Supreme court has decided that a lady may call herself Colonial Dame to her hearts con- tent, regardless of her ancestors. This is free country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Russell Sage is back at work again, wasting no time in his grand act of gathering in ducats, and retaining them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Venezuela has had fame and several nayies thrown upon it, simply because it ran into debt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Arbitration by The Hague court has no constables or deputy sheriffs be, hind it, and so arbitration by Uncle Sam with G. Dewey's fleet within easy reach is preferred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Attorney General Knox win soon be supplied with S50O,000 for the purpose of running the octopus to earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

The new German tariff is another pacific blockade. It is an adjustable Dingley tariff on wheels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

The Hague court stands repudiated, but not the Monroe doctrine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

The Congressional Record will not issue a Christmas edition, now that its best contributors have adjourned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Emperor Williams plan is to dis franchise all his political opponents. He proposes to try it on the social ists first, but he may nc; then te here to try it on any one else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Kerosene oil has been advanced one cent a gallon for the benefit of the University of Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23
As Usual.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 "They say he has so much money he doesn't know what to do with it."
 "Yes. And he isn't doing it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Rudyard Kipling's new poem IS aimed at the allies instead of MT. Castro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

 Marconi should send and receive something besids congratulations in order to convince an increduloua world.
 The Congressional Record will not issue Christmas edition, now that its best contributors have adjourned
 --------------- Attorney General Knox win soon be supplied with $5OO,OoO for the purpose of running the octopus to earth.
 --=--.s.------ The new German tariff is another pacific blockade. It is an adjustable Dingley tariff on wheels.
  Kerosene oil has been advanced one cent gallon for the benefit of the University of Chicago. Rudyard Kipling's new poem IS aimed at the allies instead of MT. Castro
 The Monroe doctrine is still alive, but it's feathers are somewhat rum pied.
 Don't you hear" asks the Anniston Hot Blast, .'the Seaboard a-eoming?"
 --e.-- MT. c. Dewey is the real peace maker in the Caribbean sea. The steel trust buys up all competi- tion it cannot crush. Castro prefers arbitration to un- checked bullying.
 Oklahoma is a very warm knocker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

The Monroe doctrine is still alive, but it's feathers are somewhat rum pied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

MT. c. Dewey is the real peace maker in the Caribbean sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Don't you hear" asks the Anniston Hot Blast, the seaboard a-eoming?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

The steel trust buys up all competi- tion it cannot crush.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

Castro prefers arbitration to un. checked bullying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

D. o. Jones' A. D. Glass and M. w. Carlisle are the only authorized travelling representatives of The Age Herald in its circulation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-23

No communication viii be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The National tribune., 1902-06-12
The Volcanoes of the Philippines

Of interest IN connection with the re
cent volcanic eruptions in the West Indies
| Is the report of George f. Becker on the
| geology of the Philippine Islands. which
has just appeared in Part III of the u st
Annual Report of the United States Geo
logical Survey. and which contains a re-
| view of everything bearing upon the geol-
| ogy Of these islands.
The report deals in general with the
geologic and economic features of the
Islands, from extant reports on the sub
Ject. and from studies in the field. so far
as they could be carried on during the dis
turbed period of 1S9S'99, though geologic
ing under arms and with Il military escort
was found to be more exciting than profit
able.
In many respects the Philippine Islands
so closely resemble the West Indies, espe-
| cially in being the scene of violent past
and present volcanic energy, that the
chapter of the report on the active and
extinct volcanoes of the archipelago is at
this time particularly interesting. While
1t was possible to visit but few of these
mountains, owing to the hostility of the
natives, much valuable Information from
local and other sources was collected
Forty-nine of the eruptiye mountains
were located among the islands, and their
attitudes and the dates of their eruptons
obtained. Conspicuous among them is Mt.
-; po, 'nr ih In Ic1 III tne MP
lnmei ~ " M lists io''oi ieet ABOVE tne
w a. " In. sea'
-, "a. naliisuin de Mliiaahao, one OIL the
I'LL. Zoo ,o,cahoeS vi the group
- ISaI 100 ieet III Hisht, mas RISEN
shn 80 i2ai over WHAT was lornefly lake
.Me BASIN on winch was presumably an an
eieu. cla'er. =,
Ma!oh' OF ,ne volcano Oh AiDay' Is said
ID ~ DC .te most syhlnetricaty beautiful 10
u ,.on III me Worio' anu tne FAMOUS iaai
.9lcaho: situated on a small voicanic
lsiilu IN the iake OF honDoh, Is readily
The National tribune., 1902-06-12

as symbolic Of the fact that under this
Government of ours the will Of the
majority must prevail, and all minorities
must acquiesce in that verdict, as these
are the victories of peace and must be
needed, rather than resort to those much
more uncertain and oftimes unjust, as de-
termined by man and violence.
linn ediately after the Goth Ohio had
retaken these guns. Stonewall Jackson or
dered forward his main line of battle,
which entirely crossed the open space from
the ridge to the river. and this force was
so overwhelming that Gen. Tyler decided
that further resistance upon our part
was useless, and ordered Il retreat. which
was taken up at once by the right of our
line so as to reach the road in rear of our
position, being the same by which we had
reached that field the day before. As the
18th fell back we left the seven guns Mt
the coal pit as the horses were dead. and
our exhausted men were in no condition
TO nave hauled them away, so they were
abandoned to the enemy, and l have no
doubt but that they helped to grace Jack
sons triumph when Il short time after
wards he reached Lees army, and an ac-
count there given of his wonderful cam
paisn in the Shenandoah Valley. where
the fame of a number of Union Generals
faded before the brlliancy of the star
that thus far had guided StanewalI's mill
victory. and how Shields, who had de-
feated him at first, was placed in the list
of those who had fallen before the light
ning-like blows that he delivered. Al
though Shields personally was not pres
ent at Port Republic, still, there is where
he ought to have been. with the larger
part of his division, which was back in
the rear, but not beyond the sound of the
storm on the battlefield. to which they
could have FASTENED and taken part
The result of the battle of Port Re
public left the road open for Jackson to
JOIN Lee and where he FASTENED. and we
returned by severe marches to Washing
ton. to embark for McClcllan's army, but
as that army had safely fallen back from
in front of Richmond, we soon thereafter
went forward TO meet another force COM
ing up by the overland route threatening
Washington. These forces met at Cedar
Mountain. where we were again defeated
by Stonewall Jackson, and then followed
our disastrous retreat under Gen Pope.
and he wns succeeded by Mcclellan. who
put brighter face upon affairs at the
battle of ADtietam