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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
THEN HE HAD TO "BUY."

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 It happened at a club, and the victim asserts that he never did like practical jokes. anyway.
 A friend was talking to him. Suddenly the friend said: Beg pardon, old man." and went through the motions of taking something from the victims coat.
 Where did you get it?' asked the friend. holding up, long golden hair.
 My .wife's," replied the victim, prompt ly3
 The friend laughed in that aggravating way that expresses doubt.
 Thereupon the victim took the hair and held it up to the light.
 My wife's," he repeated agaIn, but he looked uncomfortable.
 Are you sure?" asked the friend.
 t'Of course, I'm sure." asserted the vic- tim, warmly. "Why do you ask?'
 Because replied the friend. 'I found that hair on Barkers coat few minutes ago."
 The victim tried to laugh, but 1t was hard work. However, he took the friend and one or two others to a place where they could smile"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
ERA OF CHEAP MONEY NOT PAST

From the Wall Street Journal.
 The president of one of our largest trust companies says: "The way money is pill ing up in our saivngs banks, loan asso- citations and insurance companies is ann pie evidence that a cheap money perios is still ahead of us. While the people are content with 3h per cent rate on their money in savings banks, and it furnishes them an incentive to save money, so long will money be saved and so long will the demand by savings banks for good securi- ties continue large and persistent The people who put their money into these institutions far outweigh in their agere- gate savings the aggregate wealth of the relatively few multimillionaires. It is then to be considered what are the masses of the people still content to receive for their money? It looks now as if the sav- ings banks would be compelled to lower their interest rate to depositors to pe:, cent unless the laws are again modified to permit investments in a large scope of se- curities than at present provided. This seems to be queer outlook to contrast with the higher rates for money on tho stock exchange at this time, but it Is a matter worth careful study by those who are calculating on a radical change in the money rate for long period of time. At present the savings banks are not per- mitted to lend money on stock exchange collateral-no matter how good 1t may be. They must invest it in securities named by law. It would be great relief to the situation at times like these if the sav- ings banks were allowed to lend their money on prime collateral. It would help the people at large to get more for their money and would help the business com munity to have this money available for loans."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
Pen Picture of MascaenI.

''While Mascagnis orchestra, according to all accounts, lacks some of the solid qualities of the leading symphony orches- tras of the United States, the New York critics seem to agree that the famous Italian is masterful director as well as brilliant composer and gets fine results from the chorus" said a music lover.
 "One of the most interesting criticisms of the opening night of the Mascagni troupe at the Metropolitan appeared in the New York Evening Sun. Speaking of the master himself, the Sun says: I'm agine wiry little football player, bull necked keen-eyed endowed with brown October halo of short, bushy football hair, and then suddenly thrust Into cor rect evening dress with one tiny bit of color at left lapel, and mounted high in the big orchestra pit, baton in hand, all breathless attention. Then add to that bodily vigor of the fire of artist life and the grace of angels or of Theodore Thom as; breathe over all spell of music as familiar as Last Rose" or Home Sweet Home" and prestol there's Mascagnl. And there you are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
TOM JOHNSON AND MIR. HANNA.

From the Boston Herald.
 It seemed to be piece of unusual good luck that Mr.. Hanna had challenged Tom Johnson to meet him in a discussion on the tariff There are few things harder than the succeeding in obtaining an ad- vocate of high tariffs to meet a cham pion of liberal ones before the people in joint debate. When the announcement that MT. Hanna had more than agreed to that he had invited such discussion appeared, though it came with a string attached as an unwonted favor, and MT Johnson eagerly agreed to 1t. string and all, though the latter came in the form of stipulation that the discussion must be without reference to monopolies. Here was an intimation that this was a branch of the subject from the grappling with which MT. Hanna shrunk. But later intel ligence is to the effect that Mir. Hanna denies that he ever agreed to the discus sion of economic questions at all. He ap parently regards their treatment before the people in this way as to be too haz- ardous to be safely undertaken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
Poll faxes Past and Present.

On October 1, another poll tax will be due and payable, and this tax must be paid by all who vote after this year. Those who desire to vote in November next need not pay it, but those who desire to vote for judges and county officers, for president and members of congress, in 1904 should pay it. For all poll taxes that have become delinquent must be paid by the voter in Alabama.
 The poll tax for 1902 does not be- come delinquent until February 1 next, and it need not be paid by the man who votes next November. But there is an important election in Bir- mingham for city officers next May, and no one can vote in that election unless he has paid the poll tax of 1902 by or before February 1. Those against whom poll taxes have been assessed in this city, and perhaps in other cities, should keep this condi- tion of voting in mind.
 The best rule in this matter is to pay poll taxes promptly when other taxes are paid, or rather when they are assessed, for many do not pay other taxes. The payment of poll taxes voluntarily is a new feature of Alabama life, and it is very important that the habit be acquired and well Our electoral system is to great extent based on this habit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
The speakersi1ip.

A M Tunstall of Greensboro, speaker of the lower house of the Alabama leg islature is at the Metropolitan. MT Tun- stall has been selected again by the dem- oerats from his county to represent the county in the house and he is candidate for reelection as speaker. It does not now appear that Mir Tunstall is to have much opposition for the posi- ton.
 From time to time several prominent nominees have been mentioned in con- neetion with the speakership, but to date only R. II Wood of Macon has am nouneed against MT. Tunstall. The friends of MT. Tunstall claim that he will be an easy winner. having already large ma jority of the nominees pledged to his sup port
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
HAS ANYBODY SEEN THIS sHoAT

From the Kingston (Wis.) Spy.
 On our way to Portage to attend a con- gressional convention, our escort drew our attention to the following notice. posted on board near Pigeon Grove:
 "straid Or swiped. young hog shoate with the left year crupt, an tale gone Also blak spot on left hand hip an hole in another year. Sed houg, disappeared from premises of undercined ouner at nite, or therebout, under sircumstansis pertaing to be stole. Said hoag shoat be- a pet and not apt to go off on his one acord. Also, this hog shote answer to his name "Nellee'' and he will eat off of hand an stan on hir hin legs like dog and is of a friendly nature. Anybody re- turning said shote, or lettin me no where he is at, I will consider a benefit on a invalid whose pet shoat was"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
TYPHoID,s SHINING MARK.

From the Chicago Post.
 In the newspaper fraternity of Chicago there is a gentleman of the most exem- plary hygienic habits. Educated in phar- macy he has acquired knowledge of all the mysteries of disease and of the sure preventives, and he has employed this knowledge in his daily life to the unceas- ing envy and admiration of his brethren. He boils the water from thirty minutes to an hour and a half He carefully inspects his food, even weighs it when necessary, frequently analyses it. avoids fruit in the least degree suspicious and usually has it cooked, takes regular exercise, shuns dissipations of all kinds and goes to bed at 10 o'clock sharp And this the only gentleman of the newspaper fraternity who has fallen victim to typhoid fever from which the Lord be praised, he is convalescing. This little incident shows that we cannot be too careful in our habits of life. Boil the waterl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
MATT CARPENTERS CHOICE.

From the New York Times.
 It is told of the late Senator Matt Car penter that one day while chatting with friends in a committee room the conver- sation turned on the relative merits of religious sects. Nearly every member of the party belonged to some church, and there had been an animated discussion, Senator Carpenter pacing up and down, listening intently enough but saying not a word.
 What church do you belong to, Car penter?" asked one
 'I don't belong to any"
 What one would you join if you were to feel forced to choice?'
 "The Catholic, by all means.'
 And why the Catholic?"
 Because they have a purgatory, and that's motion for new trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
MIGNoN's SONG FROM "WILHELM
 MEISTER.n

Know'st thou the land where the lemon
 tree blows Where deep in the bower the gold
 orange grows2 Where zephyrs from heaven die softly
 away, And the laurel and myrtle tree never
 decay? Know'st thou it? Thither, Ol thither with
 thee, My dearest. my fondest! with thee would
 I flee Know'st thou the hall with its pillared
 arcades, Its chambers so vast and its long colon-
 nades? Where the statues of marble with fea-
 lures so mild Ask Why have they used thee so harsh-
 ly, my child?' Know'st thou it9 Tlnther, O. thither with My guide. my protector! with thee would
 I flee. Knowst thou the Alp which the vapor
 enshrouds Where the bold muleteer seeks his way
 through the clouds? In the cleft of the mountain the dragon
 abides, And the rush of the stream tears the
 rock from it's sides; Know'st thou it? Thither. O.! thither with
 thee, Leads our way, father-then come, let
 us flee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
BOokar Washinnton,s Work.

The twenty-first annual report of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute shows in as few words as employed what has been built up at Tuskegee in a comparatively brief time.
 The institute now shelters 1884 stu dents, coming from thirty states and territories, with five from foreign countries. No student is accepted under fourteen years of age, and all but 47 sleep and eat on the grounds of the institute. The figures given do not include a primary school, or a night school or a cooking school, all of which are conducted by the stu dents at Tuskegee. The officers and instructors number 112-the whole forming a colony fully 1500 strong.
 The report shows briefly what grad uates of Tuskegee are doing-what the example of the institute is doing in the way of organizing other schools. Twelve large schools have grown out of the Tuskegee institute.
 The annual current expenses of the institute are now about $127, ,000, but the total receipts for all purposes were little more than $341,0 ,000. The endowment fund now stands at $299,- 759. Large as these sums are Princi- pal Washington shows that very con siderable sums are still needed, in .cluding an adequate endowment fund.
 When we consider that the institute is training nearly 15O0 students in thirty-four industries, the sums named do not look so large. By following" says the report, "strict business meth ods and practicing rigid economy we have been able to do the work of the school at a total cost per student of about $l2 a year. The SIuuenJS re- ceive training in carpentry, black smithing, printing, wheelwrighting, harnessmaking, carriage trimming, painting machinery, founding, shoe making, brickmasonry, clustering, brickmaking, sawmilling, timing, tail bring, mechanical, architectural and freehand drawing, electrical and steam engineering, canning, plain sewing, dressmaking, millinery, cook ing, laundering, housekeeping, mat tress making, basketry, nurse train ing, agriculture, dairying, horticulture and stockraising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
Tariff Commissions Useless.

Judge Henry M Somerville and President Roosevelt both desire the establishment of a tariff commission to consider schedule after schedule and to report on one or all at any time. This may be called tariff tink- ering on the continuous plan. Judge Somerville proposes that a commits sion of not less than seven should be appointed, the members of which are to be non-partisan. While President Roosevelt looks to successive bills, Judge Somerville desires one more bill in which revision is to play a great part-a new tariff, in fact.
 But the entire commission idea is a delusion. It was tried in 1882, and not much attention was paid to it's proposals in 1883, when a general tariff bill was passed. The bill that comes from a commission must go be- fore committees in each house of con- gress, and be ground through as all bills are. It must encounter private interests, and the revision of all who regard protection as a private snap. Says Judge Somerville:
 Everybody knows the difficulty en- countered in framing tariff acts-from the act of 1928 to that of 1S97-the scramble of selfish interests followed by affording high protection on everything asked for, SO as to combine in one strong alliance every interest which would otherwise become hostile.
 Congressional committees can not well resist these opportunities of their con- stituents, especially in the original from Ing of the tariff schedules. In fact, some of the most artful paragraphs in every act are prepared by the protected inter- ests themselves, and are purposely made ambiguous and technical, so as to carry exorbitant duties.
 I recall one article-mica waste-usnd chiefly by wall paper manufacturers and as a lubricant, which was placed on the free list in the tariff act of 1883, and is now subject to a duty of 4000 per cent. This was accomplished by a system of compound duties, the operation of which no one observed unless the interested owners of two or three small mica mines who reaped the benefit, did so.
 All very true, but no commission
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
The Fatal Monument.

"Every spring and fall large numbers of birds are killed by the Washington monument" said a District of Columbia man at the Metropolitan. "The national capital seems to be directly in the route taken by many migratory birds in the flight taken between the north and the south. and twice a year thousands of feathered songsters meet their death by flying against the tall marble shaft in the night
 Just now the fall slaughter is at it's height, and every morning many birds are to be seen about the base of the monument The dogs and cats of that part of the city have learned that the base of the monument is a good place to get an early meal in the morning with out trouble and many of them are regu- larly on hand Most of the birds killed are yellow and black throated warblers and small thrushes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
Manchester Cloth Market.

Manchester, October 12.-While there was no particular change in the cloth market generally last week, business was exceedingly difficult to negotiate. There was rather a more hopeful feeling, es- pecially in the Indian section. There was fair inquiry with occasional remunera- tive transactions. An increasing number of looms are idle at Blackburn. The China inquiry was dormant There were moder- ate engagements in the market extending into January. Miscellaneous South Amer ican and Levant inquiries were at hand. Yarns were fairly steady and quiet. The demand for the turnover of American cottons, twists and wefts was not large. Shippers appear to have satisfied their immediate wants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
The Louisville 6 Nashville.

'"The Louisville and Nashville Railroad company is a great developer; it has been ever since Milton H. Smith was president and it will continue to be so, certainly as long as he is its president said a prom inent corporation official.
 ''The value of the Louisville and Nash ville's latest enterprise in Jefferson county, the construction of a coal road under the title of the North Alabama, cannot be over estimated. The twenty odd miles that it is building through un- developed coal fields will add much to the wealth of this community It will increase the coal output to a very large extent and will swell the pay rolls by at lest $2OO,0OO month";
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Smith on RaiIroad crossinas.

President John Y. Smith of the Ala bama railroad commission was in Bir- mingham last night for a few hours. He was enroute to Hot Springs, Ark. where he goes to attend the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Railroad commissioners which will convene there tomorrow.
 Mr. Smith is chairman of the commit tee on railroad crossings, and he will read a paper before the association on that subject He will take a strong posi- tion for the abolition of the crossings, in line with his recent utterances on the subject published in the Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
by state conventions votes as follows:
Total :. .. .. .................... s94


 He lacks therefore but 9S1k votes, and all who know the tendency of politicians to join the big or winning side will readily concede that MT. Roosevelt is master of the situation in his own party.
 These pledges made two years be- fore the nominating year are very sig nificant. They are wholly unique in the history of the republican party, and they are testimony either to the presidents popularity, or to his skill as a party leader. At any rate it is best for the democrats to recognize the fact that Theodore Roosevelt is to be their opponent in 1904, that they should select a man who can win even more votes than the redoubtable vote getter from New York.
 While MT. Roosevelt's nomination must be conceded, his election never will be until the votes are counted in November, 1904. Many events may happen in the meantime-in fact, they are happening right along, and in 1904 a majority in this country will de- mand in an unmistakable manner tariff reform of a very drastic sort. The republicans in the senate will never grant such a revision, and the issue must therefore go to the people to be settled in the next presidential election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Easy lies the head that wears a new bonnet
 A woman's face is her fortune and her clothes her husbands misfortune.
 Most men worry a sight more over their digestion than they do over their salvation.
 The more times a man gets married the less sense he seems to have about not doing 1t again
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
Not at All.
From Tit-Bits.

From Tit-Bits.
 T trust, Miss Cutting" remarked young Borem, as he rose to depart after a prolonged stay, that I have not taken up too much of your valuable time'
 Not at all MT Borem," replied the fair damsel; "the time you nave taken up has been of no value to me whatever, l assure you" r
 Then he went forth into the night and wandered homeward, wrapped in a heavy mantle of thought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
WHERE so,ooo DIED.
New Relics of the Great Earthquake
 at Lisbon.

From the London Globe.
 Considerable interest has been excited in Lisbon, and in the archaeological world, by the fresh discoveries recently unearthed under the debris of the old city buried by the fearful earthquake of l755. when 5000 human beings perished. 2OOO being engulfed in two minutes on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

New York Letter in the Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 The Waldorf Astoria uses 100 tons of hard coal a day. and the hotel has been paying SEQ ton, or 5000 a day, for it's coals It has 500 tons in it's bins for which is paid s2O a ton
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

It is now feared that Editor Hearst will endeavor to bring the esteemed Congressional Record up to his two papers, both daily, when he becomes a congressman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

Between the plumber and the coal dealer the eastern man is beginning to ask himself, Is life worth living anyway? He seems to be looking to- ward hot place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

will see to it that the temperature of their compartment will at no time get below 60 degrees. Frost kills the tortoise, like vegetables and other growth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
The Indians.

Few features of the state fair will be of greater interest to young and old alike than the company of Ponca Indians. which President Krebs has secured from the government reservation" said a teacher yesterday
 "The oborigines are fast disappearing. A long-hared, feather-b -bedccked, painted red man is a comparatively scarce soul now. and it is safe to say that within the next ten years the last of the real live Indians will be gone. These Poncas be- long to a tribe with an uncommonly wild and romantic history, and the legends that are told of them would fill volumes"
 About Persons J. r. Murtaugh of Cincinnati is at the Metropolitan.
 M. B. Vile of Huntsville is at the Met ropolitan.
 R. c. Durrow and U. P. Adams of Tus- caloosa are at the Metropolitan. c. R. Williamson of Nashville is at the Metropolitan.
 Charles w. Hill and wife of Tuscaloosa are at the Hillman.
 M. B. Lewis of sylacauga is at the Hillman.
 
 Isaac May of Richmond is at the Hill man.
 F. H. Kidder of Boston is at the Hillman.
 H. A. Starry of New York is at the Morris.
 A. S. Kirtlan of knoxville is at the Morris.
 W. K. McNeil of Louisville is at the Morris.
 J. B. White of Talladega is at the Morris.
 John s. Sanders of Atlanta is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

Professor Patten of Dartmouth col lege is now convinced that man is descended, not from apes, but from the horseshoe crab. This is what makes him so sporty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

A prodigious corn crop has no rela- tion, it seems, to the prices of meat Some folks were under the impression it would have.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

Lige Dowie is endeavoring to keep the western people from dying dis graced. His tithing scheme is the best device for that purpose that has been put before a confiding public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

The country is going 1t alone. un- guided and unassisted, while Bishop Potter is absent on his honeymoon. Sixty thousand people attended zola's funeral. including Captain Drey- fus and Boni de casteIlane.
 Maseagni writes intermezzos. but, alas. they can neither be whistled nor picked out on a banjo.
 The national guard of Pennsylvania can now march down the coal hills, and live to fight again
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 Maine's sweet corn crop is very short. but her crop of summer board CTS was above normal.
 David Bennett Hill takes a balloon view of the campaign, for he says vic tory is in the air.
 No baldheaded man has ever been president MT. Hill should make note of this
 Bishop Potters fayorite hymn is Abide With Me-" and she is doing it. No capitalist is anxious to invest $2OO,000 in north pole observations.
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 As a coal operator Mark Hanna is also standing pat.
 Iowa has a prodigious idea crop this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13
Roosevelt Will be Illuminated

The disgruntled capitalists may be able to defeat President Roosevelt at the polls in 1904, but it is plain they cannot prevent his nomination by the republicans. The next republican na- tional convention will consist of 9S4 delegates, or 5S more than the one did that placed in nomination at Philadel- phia Mckinley and Roosevelt. A ma jority nominates in republican con vention, and MT. Roosevelt needs therefore but 49215 convention votes. He has secured through pledges made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

Sixty thousand people attended zola's funeral, including Captain Drey- fus and Boni de Castellane.