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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
Rural Free Delivery in Alabama.

There are now 1900 rural free de-
livery routes in the country, and it is
proposed to increase the number to
10000 On the final basis Alabama
would be entitled, other things being
equal, to about 1000 routes, and today
the number in the state does not ex-
coed one hundred. About nine hun
bred routes are due this state provided
we adapt our roads to the demands of
the service. AS we should have better
roads in any event, it becomes our
plain and first duty to improve our
roads.
As fast as our roads are brought up
to requirements of the new service,
rural free delivery routes should be
asked for, until every community in
the state becomes a sharer in the new
privilege Its advantages to the farmer
are simply beyond question. 1t brings
him in daily touch with the rest of the
world, and every county should strive
to secure them. There should not be
an exceptional county in the state If
we divide 1000 by sc we have Is, or
the number Of free delivery routes
that the average county in the state
is entitled to- Jefferson already has
over thirty, but jefferson is large and
populous, possessing an exceptionally
good system of county roads.
Every other county should get ready
as rapidly as possible for fifteen car
riers, more or less. The service has
come to stay, and the Alabama county
that refuses to mend its roads is a
county that is not progressive or en-
terprising; The subject is one that
needs attention in every county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
TaIladeoa.

ut has been forty years since the time
1 tell of this favored spot in Alabama"
said Captain Darby.
Its social memories have always been
cherished by me and will never be sur
rendered. for they are the most delight
full of my life.
"Talladega was the home Of culture
and beauty, gentlemen, statesmen and
warriors.
THE red lands were rich, being so pro-
ductive that man and beast could not
consume what they yielded. 1 have seen
the cotton fields white at Christmas
times and the stock feeding in fields Of
ungatfered grain.
1.-THE hospitality Of its citizens was
known far and WIDE There were as
to prepare them as could be found in all
the land.
Game was abundant. Deer, turkey and
wild geese were in the wheat fields.
Ducks, squirrels and cartridges were also
abundant.
What has become of all this game?
The answer must be-killed, wounded
and missing. l can answer as to the
poverty of the SOIL the result of that
greatest of all evils free negro labor.
1.-The same land is there, with its clay
subsoil. Cultivate it and help it, and the
granaries and meat houses will be full.
The railroads, factories and many other
Industries have come, and with them a
rev population bent on development aud
progress.
THE schools were good, the pulpit
strong. and such lawyers as Sam Rice
John T. Morgan, Jabe Curry, Marcus
Cruikshapk, Lewis E. Parsons, Martin
Woodward, Alex White Hef1in and many
others. In the little village of Sylacauga
lived Judge Stone Of the supreme bench.
Jack Hamilton, afterwards governor of
Texas and United States senator.
blessed memories,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
THE LOST CHORD.

BY Adelaide Anne Proctor.
Seated one day at the organ, i
i was weary and Ill at ease.
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys,
/ do not know what I was playing.
Or what l was dreaming then;
But 1 struck one chord of music
Like the sound of a great Amen.
1t flooded the crimson twilight
Like the close of an Angels PSALM
And 1t lay on my fevered spirit
With touch of infinite calm.
1t quieted pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife;
1t seemed the harmonious ecno
From our discordant lire.
1t linked all perplexed meaMngs
Into one perfect peace,
And trembled away into silence
AS If 1t were loath to cease.
L have sought, but I seek 1t vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
That came from the soul OF the organ
And entered into mine
z
1t may be that Deaths bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in heaven
I shall haar that grand Amen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
GoRMAN.

From the New York Sun.
When of two factlonal enemies of dis
tinction one throws his arms about the
others neck in amity and calls upon the
common party eye to rest upon him as
the leader of the day. the fact should be
recorded.
For years past the free trade-protec-
ton quarrel in the democracy has been
accurately typifed by Henry Watterson
of Kentucky and Arthur Pue German
of Maryland. German has been dashed
in the columns of Mr.. Watterson's organ,
the Louisville Courier-Journal as savage
~ as was the late Samuel j. Randall
whose economic role within the party
organization has been sustained by Mr..
German with less show of force, but
scarcely with less effect. But after the
disappointment of hopes in Clevelandism
and the dawn of liberation from BRYAN
in other words, after three successive
crushing disasters of the democracy In
presidential elections and a congress
elected in which Mr.. Cleveland reappear-
ed with similar result-the Courier-Jour-
nal takes a new start and has this to
say of Mr.. Gorman:
The democratic party has a clear field
before it for 1904. In Mr. German, at
least, 1t has one national leader of sur
passing wisdom and experience, a demo-
crat from the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet. He will presently re-
sumo his place in the counsels of the
nation. His word should pass for much
with every thinking democrat. He is not
only a wise man. He is an upright, cour-
ageous man, worth a dozen Hills or a
thousand Clevelands. For the time being,
at least, let us rally about German, for,
he leads us to victory or defeat,
he will not lead us astray"
The elections of last week did nothing
to refresh the waning hopes of Bryan,
brought no comfort to Cleveland and
the ambition of Hill. So Colonel
Watterson turns to German.
In Justice to both gentlemen 1t should
be said that If the four presidential cam
didates names had stood upon a plane OF
equal availability Mr.. Watterson would
have preferred German as a democratic
quantity and force Certainly If the ma
tional democracy is to become again the
serious and stable influence in politics
it was in the time of Samuel ]. Tilden,
German of these same four statesmen is
the party''s leader.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
The |. G. N.

1.-The Atlantic Coast Line company of
Connecticut. which Is now in full possess
sion of the Coast Line railroad and the
Louisville and Nashville will make no
change In the organization or manage
ment of the two great railroad properties
named" said a prominent railroad off,
cial.
Milton II. Smith Will continue to look
after the Louisville and Nashville AS
has been said in The Age-Herald from
time to time, Harry Walters, who is the
dominant factor in the Coast Line, Is
too able a railroad man and too keen
a business man to undertake to run the
Louisville and Nashville without Mr..
Smith at the helm. The Louisville and
Nashville without Mr.. Smith would be
worse than the play of Hamlet with
Hamlet left out do not mean to say
that any man is absolutely indispensable,
but the old aphorism that every mans
place can be filled, is far from true. The
saying: The man dies. but the work goes
on, is in a certain sense true, but so
long as a strong leader lives, the work
that he is identified with will be all the
better done when he remains in harness.
Harry Walters understands all this and
the philosophy of railroading.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
Maonum opus.

From the Baltimore American.
In the halls of the vast institutions
of learning they warn us to tread light
ly as we pass the seat Of the pallid
youth who is modify composing some
thing upon sheet of pure white
paper
We see his knitted brow, his air of
intense thought. his every evidence of
great mental struggle.
TAh," we whisper, lis he preparing
some weighty treatise on political
economy, or some thesis which shall
show the nations of the world the
proper system of government"
NO" whispers the guide in reply.
HE is getting up the new class YELL"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
LeasInn the State cnnmnts

The convicts are now leased to mine
operators at the rate of about thirteen
cents per ton mined. This rate is
readily arrived at by dividing the aver
age monthly hire, $1O.17, by Is, the
average number of tons of coal mined
by convict in month. The price
named, thirteen cents, is not exactly
net for the state Is put to some ex-
pense on account of supervision and
inspection. Perhaps eleven or twelve
cents is nearer the net price now re-
ceiyed by the state from the hiring of
the conVicts to mine operators.
At any rate whatever net sum Gov
ernor Jelks succeeds in securing above
thirteen cents per ton mined will be
clear gain to the state, and he may be
able to double the states revenue from
It's convict coal miners, besides retain
ing complete control of them, thus
ensuring the absence of cruelty and
imperfect sanitation.
The movement is a bold one, but
the chances largely are that it will
prove valuable one to the state, and
humane one to the convicts. 1t is
certainly important that the state re-
tain complete and full control of its
convicts, and if while this is being ac-
complished additional revenue can be
brought to the state, the new plan will
stand vindicated. The problem is in
course of solution, and the facts of the
case will soon be laid before the peo-
pie of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
IN HOTEL LoBBIHS.
Commercial Travellers.

Speaking of evolution in business
methods. doubt If any changes have
been more marked than IN the habits OF
commercial travels. commonly called
drummers." said a T p. A.
Ten or fifteen years ago drummers
were free drinkers. Today the majority
of travelling men are total abstainers, and
those who are not are noted for their
moderation.
of all classes of business men none is
SO tempted to drink, perhaps. as the
drummer. He is the one, then. OF all
others. who should let liquor alone. The
successful travelling man is the one who
confines himself to White Rock"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
sIoss-sheffIeld Directors.

First yice-President Joseph Bryan and
Directors w. H. Goadby, William e.
Strong, Richard Mortimer and ]. J. Mes
tell left for the East in their private car
yesterday. R. A. Matthews of Toronto
was also In the party.
Col. H. o. Siexas. one of the Sloss diree-
tors who came from New York with the
party, left Birmingham for New Orleans.
George Parsons and his son, Harry
Parsons, are in Alabama. They have been
looking after special interests in Sheffield.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Devonian and Archean, ~nere the neat
was sufficiently high to produce the ny
drocarbons present in 1t, and since these
layers did contain but very little vege-
table matter. its formation must have
been made possible by the gencrative re-
action of other substances. among which
metallic carbides and steam appear to
be the bodies most likely to have con-
tributed to that end.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

small number earn 50 much. even after
years OF arduous work. IN this country
some average incomes are estimated thus:
Surgeons. 5000; physicians. $3.50; law
yers, $3.50; journalists. 5000: clergymen.
5000; artists $50: authors. $500; nurses.
500. / do not believe such estimates are
based upon anything frmer than a guess
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
THE MINORITY LEADERSHIP.

From the centreville Press.
Our immediate congressman, o. Under
wood, stands a good chance to become
the minority leader IN the house. He Is
an expert parliamentarian. cool. quick
and aggressive, and will make It warm
for the majority. If the democrats will
stick together on all occasions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
Hands ON

From Life.
.'Yow!" howled the baby. There's a
pin sticking In me-"
But" replied the wise nurse, gently.
eff remove the pin your clothes will
fall off,
Moral: Don't touch the tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
LIpton's Nerve.

From Yonkers Statesman.
She-"I always heard tea was bad for
the nerves."
He--"O. 1t can't be; see Top Upton
says he's coming over again to lift that
cun-"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
SOME AVERAGE EARNINGS.

From the New York Press.
Announcement in the British Medical
Journal that the average income of physi-
clans is $500 year has caused much con-
troversy. 1t is maintained that only q
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Blanche Chesebrough took Roland B.
Molineux, it seems, for better, for
worse, for richer, for poorer, in sick
ness and in health, till South Dakota
do them part.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

The annual press club banquet will
become a fixed feature in Birming-
hams curriculum, so to speak.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

President Roosevelt denies that he
will recommend a reduction in south
ern representation. 1t is a hot iron
that no one desires to handle, always
accepting Postmaster General Payne,
who has made it fad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Great as Senator Spooner in his
clique is, yet he never ate bears paws
or hunted lily whites.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
About Persons.

e. o. Zealey and wife of New Orleans
are at the Morris.
Mr.. and Mrs C. A. Subway of Chicago
are at the Morris.
G. B. Mobley of Eutaw is at the Nor
ris.
N. B. Tichenor of indianapolis is at the
Morris.
A. B. Mum of New York is at the
Morris.
j. M. Bradshaw of Columbus, o.. is at
the Morris.
Capt. e. w. Booker of Gilmore county
is in the city.
Judge R. B. Kelly of Admission is in
Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Wall street is supporting Unc. Joe
Cannon for speaker, and the rest of
the country wonders why.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

General Uribe-Uribe admits that
both wings of his name have been
covered with defeat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Let us hope no member of the legis-
lature will go to Montgomery with an
extra pocket to be filled by the book
trust
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

From the Baltimore American.
newspaper man on the Isthmus
Said, Colonel, now what about thisth-
mus?
The colonel said, Write
That 1t looks like a fife,
But 1 think twill be over by Christh-
mus
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Bishop Potter and Duluth, that re
NTH of the unsalted seas, have parted
on very salty terms. Quantity, not
quality, was the rock they split on.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., professor
of success, is still distributing advice,
but no Standard Oil shares go with it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

There is a suspicion that Mississippi
has no bears, and has been hippodrom-
ing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

The President is back in his official
lair ready to hunt official game.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Nine. Emma Eames comes over with
twenty-seven trunks full of the es-
sence of grand opera.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Canned bears paws will be on the
market ere another month comes in.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Unless iron goes down Mr. Carnegie
sees disgrace staring him in the face.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Football will soon give way to con-
gress, and all the tackles in the latter
relate to 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

The only bears in Mississippi are in
travelling menageries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Smedes must be content with fame
wholly gained in whirling past.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

The Smedeans will here after try to
live up to their reputation by being
strenuous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

The Iowa idea is the liveliest corpse
that congress ever encountered.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Bears paws are the food of the
truly strenuous.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22

Many truths we're told in Jest at the
press banquet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-22
EFFECTS OF AIR PRESSURE
AT GREAT ATTITUDES

Sir W L. Cloves In Pan Mall Gazette.
~ NAN on Fleet street or Hyde
VII Park Is surrounded by an at
mosphere which press upon him
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-29
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

The army transport Crook arrived last
night al. San Francisco. from Manila.
Her passengers will be landed today.
The appraisers appointed by the SUI
pcrior court to place valuation on the
property In San Francisco left by the late
John w. Mackay have reported that the
estate Is worth Sl73.i 400.
The passenger list OF the Hamburg
American steamer Deutschland from
Hamburg tomorrow via. Southampton and
Cherbourg, Dec. 1. contains the names of
Charles 4. and Mrs. Yerkes.
Disbursements OF dividends by industrial
corporations next month promise to oe
quite heavy. the total payments thus lar
announced amounting. nays. The Journal
OF Commerce, to s2S.b23.SM. For She year,
the total payments OF dividends by In
dustrial corporations will be s25s,5S7,sOo
on Monday the transport sherman, Cap
tain Frazer, will sail from San Francisco
for Guam and Manila. carrying about zoo
passengers and 5000 tons ot supplies
Many army wagons are. In the cargo Tor
use in the Philippines Only about ~ SOL
diers win sail on the Sherman.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-29
AGAINST RUSSIA
Award Of the Hague Tribunal
in the Sealing Gases.

The Hague. Nov. 2s.--Professor Asser,
the Dutch jurist who has been arbitrat-
ing the claims OF American sealers for the
seizure OF their vessel by the Russian
government about ten years ago. has de-
livered his award In favor OF the United
States. He appraises the damages In the
case Of the American schooner c. n.
White at S32, ,444: In the case OF the James
Hamilton Lewis at s2s.6Ss. the Kate and
Anna at SASS. and the Cape Horn Pigeon,
S3S, $50.
Professor Asser delivered his judgment
I'm the Arbitration court I'm the presence
of the representatives of the United
States and of Russia and others. includ-
ing the foreign ministers of the Neither
lands, DIR. Van Lyndena-
In giving his reasons for the award
Professor Asser held that the schooner
G. II. White was seized outside Russian
territorial waters and that the Russian
contention that a warship of one nation
was entitled TO pursue beyond the boun-
daries OF its territorial seas ship of
another nation guilty of illegal action
within those waters. was tenable. The
arbitrator declared that the Jurisdiction
of the state could not extend beyond its
The seizure and conflscation OF the G. II.
White and the imprisonment of her crew
was therefore illegal and Russia was con-
demned to pay the G. II. White $32,44i,
with interest at per cent
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-29

II seems that Crotchfield, who was a
wandering troubadour, had been playing
an engagement with his banjo at Rocky
Point last summer and had met and be-
come enamored OF Elsie Lewis, hardly
more than a school girl, who with her
mother resided at ? Tyler street.
She had not responded with much
warmth TO Crotchfields love advances
and this made him very angry
This morning he met Alfred Taylor,
chum, who resides at so Hamburg street
and with him visited the pool room un-
der the Narragansett hotel.
There Crotchheld displayed $-calibre
centre fire. Smith e. wesson revolver
which he said he had just purchased,
PAwNED TO BUY WEAPON.
When Taylor asked him where he got
his money with which to purchase the
weapon crotchfield said that he mad
pawned a guitar. pair OF pantaloons ana
a cheap watch.
Crotchheld did not say at the time why
he had bought the revolver. but he made
the significant remark that he didn't In
tend TO be In town tonight.
Leaving the pool room about ii o'clock
the pair walked up Westminster to DeN-
ter street, thence to Poter's avenue where
Crotchfield purchaser a pint OF rum
Crotchfeld had already been drinking.
They went down Chambers street. to
and across the tracks OF the Consolidated
Railroad compsnys. then to Tyler street.
where Taylor left Crotchfeld.
TALK PRECEDEs MURDER.
II was iii5 o'clock when Crotchheld
reached the four-tenement house in which
the Lewis family resided.
He called Elsie Lewis TO the sidewalk
where they talked for a few minutes.
In that brief interview the details OF
which will never be known. IL Ia presumed
that Crotchheld not only renewed his offer
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-29
GRAVES
PETITION
DISMISSED
By Agreement Of Counsel That
Action Was Taken In Case
Against Kenyon.

In the appellate division of the supreme
court today the complainants motion for
the preliminary injunction In the case.
of Frederick A. Graves OF Cranston VS..
Albert n. Kenyon. administrator on the
estate of Thomas f. Kenyon. late of East
Greenwich, was. by consent OF counsel,
dismissed
MIR. Graves was on April g. 1871. In pos
session OF two lots OF land In Cranston,
which he mortgaged to Albert w. Graves
OF Warwick for 5000, the mortgage nots
10 be paid in five years. Albert w.
Graves transferred this nortgase to Robin
son Hin of Warwick. on June 30, 1sT.
and on Jan. IA, 1879. Hill transferred the
mortgage TO Thomas u. Kenyon.
The complainant I'm the bill In equity
that he filed in court claims that as soon
as Kenyon got possession of the mort
gage he made a present of the debt to the
mortgage. Since that time the complaiu-
ant says he has paid no interest nor given
any recognition OF the mortgage, but that
both he and the deceased treated the debt
as IL Il did not exist
Mr.. Kenyon's administrator on the 21st
Of last month advertised the property for
sale. on the fhng of the bill restraining
order preventing the sale OF the property
under the advertisement was granted.
This is now dissolved.
s. w. X. Allen is counsel for the ad-
ministrator