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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 From authentic sources have been gath cred facts and figures showing how J. Pierpont Morgan's vast interests are con- ducted from day to day and on whose shoulders he places in fairly equal shares the responsibility for details which com bine to make the great bulk of responsi- bility for results which he alone bears. His colleagues are mentioned as his cab inet, and are as follows: Francis L. Stet- son, Robert Bacon. George w. Perkins. Charles Steele, Samuel Spencer George D. Baker and George r. Baer.
 MT. Morgan's cabinet is better paid than any cabinet on earth. Its members receive on an average of $1,25o.O0O year each. The United States pays the mem- bers of President Roosevelts cabinet $S00O a year.
 MT. Morgan discusses all matters of importance with his cabinet, sometimes with individual members. sometimes with them all. He is not a patient listener. Before a man Is through talking he Is quite likely to shut him off by putting an abrupt question to another member of his council.
 When 1t was decided to end the coal strike Morgan discussed the. matter first with his cabinet. They worked out the details of the proposition subsequently, submitted to President Roosevelt, and later accepted by Mitchell and the min CTS. It was the same with the merger of the railroads that resulted in the North ern Securities company. the union of the many companies which form the Uni-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
FOrecastinu The Election.

The New York Herald's non-parti- san poll of forty-five states Is always highly considered. It's trustworthy character is well established, al though, of course, it is only approxl- mate. It is an estimate merely, and the actual poll has a habit of upset ting to some extent at least estimates. It Is. however. honestly and fairly made on a strictly non-partisan basis. For that matter the Herald belongs to neither party, and it's control prob ably does not care a fig which side wins on Tuesday next.
 The Herald thinks that the lower house of congress will be close. It thinks, however. the republicans are sure of six majority in the house. against forty-six in the present house. It gives the democrats but two mem bers in Maryland, out of six; but sev- en in Pennsylvania out of thirty-two; but five in Ohio out of twenty-one, and but twelve in New York out of thirty-seven. It hands over West Vir- ginia solid to the republicans, and puts two North Carolina districts in the doubtful column. It is plain there are uncertainties involved in these figures that may change the complex ion of the house.
 The Herald's figures for New York state are by no means consoling to the republicans. It says Governor Odell will be reelected by plurality of FLOAT, as against a plurality two years ago of 111,126. The figures that the Herald presents, county by coun- ty, simply and solely show that the populous state is in the doubtful list, and that no man can say today how she will go. Coler has a chance of winning. If he carries Greater New York by 100000 plurality he will be elected, and the Herald admits that the plurality will exceed 88,000 in the greater city. So that the sole conclu. sion to be drawn from the Herald's non-partisan figures is that no one knows how New York state will go not even the gamblers who are offer ing heavy odds on Odell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
Panama Canal Obstacles.

Tn a book of three hundred pages Attorney General Knox proves, or en- deavors to prove, that the Panama canal people in France can convey all their rights and interests at the isth mus with no cloud upon the title. Il the old and the new canal company join in the title, it may be made free from objections. Will they do soi This remains to be seen.
 Nor is this all. Colombia's consent is needed, and Colombia is not only in a disturbed condition, but her present government is not very friendly to the United States. She thinks we were too meddlesome at the isthmus in pro- tecting the trains of the Panama rail- road. Our naval officers even pre- vented the transportation of Colom- bian troops and munitions of war over the Panama railroad, although Pana- ma Is a Colombian state or province.
 Colombia is dissatisfied, too, with the sum, $7,OO0,O0O, to be paid for canal rights. She wants S10,000,0 900 at least down, and $600000 a year afterwards, the payment of the rental to be begun at once, instead of four teen years after the completion of the , canal. Then, too, Colombia proposes to grant hundred-year lease instead of an absolute cession of a right ot way.
 These differences promise to della! the negotiation of treaty until nex 2 winter at least, and settlement witt Colombia may not be secured unti after congress adjourns. If any worl is done on the canal next year, 1t vii be a piece of good luck, for the pros pect at present of a speedy settle ment of all problems involved Is not fiattering. Two things will be insist ed on, namely, clear title from the Panama company, and full right on the part of the United States to pro tect any canal it may build. Neither is in sight yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
MORGAN'S CABINET BETTER
 PAID THAN ANY ON EARTH

ted States Steel corporation and the cre- ation of the International Merchants Marine company or steamship trust.
 MT. Morgan's cabinet is not made up wholly of members of his firm Four of the seven cabinet members are nominally outsiders, but their interests are so in- terlaced with the affairs of Morgan ts Go. that they and the firm are practically one.
 The cabinet is made up by Mir Nor gan with regard to the ability of each counsellor in some special important line of work. There are huge departments to be managed and directed in the affairs of J. P. Morgan & Co.,, just as there are in the affairs of the nation. While MT. Morgan and It's members do not speak of the body of advisors as a cabinet, 1t is no exaggeration to give 1t that title, for in many respects It's work is of greater importance than that of the regular cabinets of many nations When it is realized that the six and one-half billions of property interests which the cabinet control is nearly two billions more than all the worlds gold, coined and uncoined, and that by drastic action 1t could heap ruin upon nearly all the great financial centers of the world, pre- vent or provoke warfare on tremendous scale, it can be realized that 1t Is no ex- aggeration to dignify MT. Morgan's coun- sel with the title of cabinet
 The cabinet meets at least once week in the private conference room in the rear of the Morgan banking house on Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
whIstIIna Dull Care Away.

Have you ever. in your youthful days been awakened by the singing of the mockIngbirds asked a man in the lob by. Tt is one of the pleasantest recoi- leetions of my youth, he continued with out waiting for an answer. ''Nor is this an experience at all rare. Who is there of the south that has not had the same experience2 When spring Is far enough advanced for you to sleep with the win- dows of your room wide open to catch the breeze, 1t is then that you can lie In bed and watch and listen to mocking- bird sitting on branch just outside the window singing serenade whose melody and wild abandon almost splits his little throat As you watch him turn his head to first one side and then another, mar yelling at his agile movements, you won der how Madam Mocldngbird could resist such sweet singer
 T was at the theatre the other night when Miss Corrie Rouse was whistling and 1 marveled at the way she initiated this wonderful bird. 1 could shut my eyes a moment and fancy that was back again in my boyhood's home, lying Tn DShf Just LbO Ad11 AC 5tA Npf AA-'N~@a--7 - my native songsters until finally thor oughfy aroused by the sound of the breakfast bell. The country home, the country air. the very joy of youth-ali this Miss Rouse brought back to me.
 But what of a human mocldngbird? By opening my eyes I could see standing before me a lovely Alabama glri, her mouth twisted into the most irresistible quicker. whistling her way into the hearts of her admirers. Did you ever see q girl whistle? We'll, It is a good thing that girls don't realize how fascinating they are when they do whistle, or there would be no living in town. for in addition to the boys, every one of the girls would De whistling. Miss Rouse shows what a 1o- mans ingenuity can do With no musical instrument but pretty mouth, she Is de- lighting both young and old-just wnis- ting dull care away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
APosrLEs oE EArIne LEss.
Food Faddlsts Have Had a Great Year
 For Their Theories.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 It has been fine year for the increas- ing thousands who have fads about their food. The high prices Of almost every thing in the market have given the opp portrnity. The advocates of no break fast, of meat once day. of no meat at all, of certain kinds of vegetables. of no kinds of vegetables of nuts only. of the absolute avoidance of nuts, of raw fruit of fruit only when cooked. of neither coffee nor tea nor sassafras, and of all the other things. or of any part of things, or of no things at all, have come forth, nor singly. but in battalons, and have told us how to live to be a hundred-if we don't die.
 It would be gross ingratitude not to be thankful to these advisers. They are sincere. They want to do good. They give their time for the benefit of others. They are sad to think of ignorant thous- ands going to early graves on full stom- achs. They raise their warning voices against satiety. People should stop eat ing before they get enough. The old saying about losing what Is left on the plates finds no echo in their. doctrines. Eating for the sake of eating is sin. Eating all the things that are offered is wickedness. So they find something bad every number of the bill of fare from typhoid fever in raw oysters to dys- pepsia and vain regrets in pie.
 They have a right to their convictions A man down in Virginia went without food for thirty days this year. But like as not they doubled the price of his board for the next month. People use the starvation plan for many ailments Many of them go to health resorts and pay $50 to the hotel doctor. who strikes off from the bill of fare all the good things they would like to eat. The hotels get their savings the doctor gets his big fees and they get-hungry. But most of the faddists have their imaginations in their culinary departments. and it Is not reasonable of them to expect the robust members of society 10 follow their examples. It may be wrong. but the average American wants breakfast. It may hurt him, but he will have meat He may be jeopardizing his very soul but he likes to play with the menu all the way from soup to satisfaction. And somehow it agrees with him. Look at the other nations. We don't know of any that beat him when the food or the fuel within him works its way to re- suits in the progress and civilation of mankind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

 with pistol. Got to have an inquest"
 What caused the ightr'
 There wasn't no fight. zel5e never give the other feIlers show. Guess he was right, too, cause the Rambos did not give Zeke's father an brother any chance. Just hid behind tree and fired at lem as they came along the road. That was yistidy mornin', an in an hour zeke had squared accounts"
 Has zeke been arrested?"
 Nope. Whats the use? Some of old man Rambos relatives come along last night, burned down zelke's, house, shot him an his wife an set fire to his barn. Nope, Zeke hasn't been arrested. But I aint got time to talk to you. Got to git back to my harvestin'. But there amt no news down our way. If anything hap pens I'll let ye know"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

finished products. to be floated in a short time to tidewater on the smooth waters Of the Open Warrior. All plants in Alabama contribute to the growth of this city, and the proposed plant that Gadsden has secured will not be m exception to the rule. Gads- den's bright dreams everyone hopes may become solid and fructifying facts. There is room in the mineral district of Alabama for many pros porous towns, and in the long run there will be a dozen Gadsdens in stead of one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
MORE SUCH MEN NEEDED.

From the Gadsden Times-News
 The south's industrial prosperity is due to its natural resources and the genius and energy of such men as Capt. J. NJ. Elliott of the Southern Car and Foundry company. Natural resources are of but little benefit unless they are developed and utilized and Captain Elliott is un- questionably doing a great work along this line for Alabama.
 The above is from the Annlston Star. Captain Elliott is a Gadsdenite. and Is by far our most prominent citizen. He is prosperous and successful in all his undertakings and he is doing great and glorious work for Gadsden. Would that we had more Captain Elliotts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
NOTHING DOING.
Kentucky Farmers Too Busy With
 Crops to Bother With Feuds.


 Col. Opie Read. novelist and playwright was for many years identified with coun- try newspapers in Kentucky and Tennes- see, says the New York Times. He says that one day he approached farmer in a Kentucky town and asked him if there was any news in his neighbor hood.
 Mot a bit uv news" said the farmer. we're all too busy with our crops to think of anything else All quiet in our neighborhood."
 ..Pretty good crops this year?" queried Read.
 Bully" said the farmer. T ought to be in my field this minute an I would be if I hadn't come to town to see the coroner" 'The coroner?' Yep. Want him to hold an inquest on {! couple of fellers down in our neighbor- hood'
 inquest? Was 1t an accident" F Nope. zelse ltlrke did it a puppose. Plugged George Sambo and his boy Bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
4FATHER, TAKE MY HAND.v

By Henry N. Cobb. The way Is dark. my Fatheri Cloud on cloud Is gathering thickly OCT my head, and loud The thunders roar above me. See. I stand Like one bewildered! Father, take my hand,
 And through the gloom
 Lead safely home
 Thy child! The day goes fast my Mather! and the night Is drawing darlsly down. My faithless sight Sees ghostly visions. Fears a spectral Encompass me. Fatherl take my
 hand,
 And from the night
 Lead up to light
 Thy child! The way Is long, my Fatherl and my Longs for the rest and quiet of the goal While yet journey through this weary
 lands Keep me from wandering, Father, take
 my hand;
 
 Lead to heavens gate
 Thy child! The path is rough, my Father! Many a
 thorn Has pierced me; and my weary feet. all
 torn And bleeding. mark the way. Yet thy
 command Bids me press forward. Father, take
 my hand;
 Then safe and blest,
 Lead up to rest Thy child! The throng is great. my Fatherl Many a doubt And fear and danger compass me about; And foes oppress me sore. I can not stand Or go alone. O Fatherl take my hand And through the throng Lead safe along Thy child! The cross Is heavy, Fatherl I have borne It long, and still do bear 1t. Let my worn And fainting spirit rise to that blest lant | Where crowns are given. Father. tak' my hand, And reaching down. Lad to the crown Thy child!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
Frost in the Cotton Belt.

November is near at hand, and no killing frosts have fallen in the cot ton states. The plant is green, vigor- ous, and laden with blooms in many states-in all sections except in south ern Texas, where parasites have been at work. October frosts in Alabama are exceptional. Now and then one nips the cotton plant, but December frost comes as frequently. In central Alabama the first killing frost occurs as a rule on November 10, varying not week from that date. It is there fore too early by fortnight to look for killing frost in the black belt or in the more productive cotton counties of the state.
 MT. Price contends that frosts have very little bearing upon the size of the crop; that the crop is determined on the first day of October. and that any addition afterwards is due te favorable weather for picking and no to the opening of an increased nun Der of bolls. He cites the record crol of 1S9S-99, which was subjected to killing frost on October 22. Scarcely any farmer will agree with MT. Price in all of these respects. Most farmers will say the later the frost the bigger the crop, and every day of growth after November 10 will certainly add this year to the Alabama crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
MoblIIzlng Workmen.

''Few Americans realize the. freedom or trade relations and. business intercourse between the American states" said traveller. We are so accustomed to seno- ing a letter to New York and ordering an article shipped back by express, or getting on a sleeping car and going there without getting off even for meals, that we seldom stop to think what condition the country would be in today If each state was really an independent govern ment with its own laws, tariff, money, army, navy, and, if possible, custom house inspectors. The absence of all this impedimenta, so to speak. to trade and travel is one thing which has caused this country in the few hundred years of it's existence to outstrip all other nations or the earth in material and financial pro- gress and welfare. One other American institution which has done equally as much is her system of public schools. In- telligence and education is thus univer- sally stimulated in America, and the re- suit is a citizenship of high order and energy. The freedom of travel, the uni- versality of language and customs en- ables the wage-earner to go to any part of the country at any time where he can find employment and the highest wages. Thus there is constant mobilization of the industrial army going on all the time In individual cases.
 The skilled workmen can be cen- tralized at any point where it is advantageous to the manufacturer
 II, .1- ing power of the wage-earners of coun- try more effective in the aggregate, just as the army which can be mobilized the quickest is the most effective in the field, other things being equal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
LIberati's Band.

..There are four or five first-elass con cert bands in the United States-Sousa' s. Innes', Fancuellrs and Lberatis, but l think 1t is reasonable to say that Tn many points Liberati's Is the most satls- fving to the musical ear," said musician last night.
 ''The artists who make up Ldperati band play in tune, while the ensemoie IS well nigh perfect. Visitors to the state fair are certainly enjoying Liberatfs mu- sic and are delighted with the variety or his programmes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
Breaks Hunting Record.

W. R. Bynum yesterday brought in bag of game that breaks the record oA the present season for a half-day's hunt MT. Bynum bagged eighteen quail. and two rabbits. A young man who accom- panied MT. Bynum says that one of the rabbits was slow on his feet, and the lucky nimrod dropped his gun and naooed him after hundred-yard sprint.
 MT. Bynum reports that game is more abundant this season than for several years past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Times.
 Widows are like made-over dishes. Intelligence supports more families than intellect.
 When a woman smiles 1t is a sign she has pretty teeth.
 The average persons soul seems to lie pretty close to his digestion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

mornlns. when she collapsed. and, de- spite all that medical skill could do for her. she died. The doctors could not say definitely what caused her death. and an autopsy will be performed. It is the opinion of many of the Bellevue surgeons that the pulsatoins of the heart caused the stitches to break through the tissues of the organ. The woman was stabbed by her husband, and he will be re- arraigned on a charge of homicide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
LONESOME LILY WHITES

From the Blocton Messenger.
 It is said that only ten persons went out to hear Hon. J. c. Millar, the con- gressional candidate last Friday night. Surely the path of the lily white candi- date is weary, lonesome and discourag- ing Not a ray of light is cast upon it from the benign countenance of the great chief of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
Rule for Success.

From the Louisville Post.
 What is your rule of business-your maxim?" we ask of the Wall street baron.
 Very simple" he answers. "1 pay for something that I can't get. with money that l havn't got, and then sell what never had for more than 1t ever cost"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

New York Telegram to the Chicago Inter
 Ocean.
 Mrs. Annie Kinsley, whose heart the doctors in Bellevue sewed ur on Mon day night, died Thursday. The patient showed improvement until 9 o'clock this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

MT. Wu is to leave us, and that, too, speedily. Even the route he must travel is named by the home govern ment. He goes to succeed Sheng as associate minister of commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
THE DIFFERENCE.

From the Boston Transcript.
 Not bad epigram by Secretary Shaw: '"fhe difference between politician and a statesman is the difference between a young man who is looking for a site uation and one who is looking for work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
About Persons.

Major J. W. Bushnell. chief engineer of the Seaboard Air Line, was in Bir- mingham yesterday
 Assistant General Manager Reuben A. Dugan and General Superintendent 0. s. McManus of the Southern railway ar rived in Birmingham last night.
 l.. B. Musgrove of Jasper Is at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

The Pittsfield trolley car stands condemned by public sentiment and the local authorities, It was too bumptious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Mark Hanna and Tom Johnson, near neighbors, are telling the truth about each other, and they never overdraw the picture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
A MATTER OF HONOR.

From the Greensboro Watehman.
 If you voted in the democratic pri- maries you are in honor bound to support the nominees of that primary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Tn one day of last week 47OO immi- grants were landed in New York or enough to make bustling little American city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

The witnesses in the Molineaux case are chiefly engaged in contra dieting themselves in the former trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
A Verbal Target.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Gan you keep your wife quiet for few days?''
 .'Easily-by keeping out of her sight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

The navy cries aloud for midship- men, for Annapolis can not grind them out fast enough to meet the de- mand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

The continuous silence of Richard Croker and Chauncey M. Depew stands unexplained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

The Danish islanders threaten to emigrate, letting Denmark hold her old islands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

The Dowager Empress of China has been charged with all sorts of things except ping pong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Colonel Swayne kept few laps ahead of the mad mullah, who meant business at every leap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Rear Admiral Higginson Is endeav- bring to clear his skirts of the duch- ess incident and of Newport generally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Explorer Peary is to lecture, and he will be expected to display his ampu- tated toes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

David Bennett Hill is running fol office-in 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Germany also begins to recognize her own Dingleyite evils.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Broken hearts can now be mended so the surgeons say.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Mark Twain's fuel joke came al most a day too late for the fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

The balloon offers change of clim- ate rather than varied scenery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29

Mrs. Gilbert, aged S2, is still an ac- ceptable and capable actress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
sEWED UP HEART GIVES WAY,

The state fair is fairly booming.