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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

arbitration comes in to settle yexed
trouble IN South America. Arbitration.
too. is settling the hard coal strike.
and altogether the old year has ad-
yanced the interests Of peace and the
usefulness of arbitration. Marconi's
achievements in the old year. too. will
be long remembered. Take It all in
all it has been a pretty good year, its
chief drawbacks here at home being
the trusts and high prices that Ding
leyism spread over the land. That
disease is, however. durable, and the
people are getting ready to apply the
proper remdy in November, 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31
For Beer Drinkers.

Few saloons in Birmingham are pro-
vided with metwurst, a German sausage
that contains, in addition to the usual
seasoning, large quantity of saltpetre'"
said a retired bartender. This met
wurst is a great relish in many cities
where have lived-New Orleans. Gin
cinnati st. Louis and Milwaukee. 1t is
sliced thin and is craved by beer drink
ers of the old school.
after a beer drinking party has had
two or three stems around the sausage
eating begins. Now the ordinary sausage
is very good, but metwurst is the thing;
certainly from the proprietor's point OF
view. The saltpetre Immediately slim
ulates thirst and more beer must be
drunk of course, to Stake thhe thirst
After the shaking more metwurst is eaten
and then come more beer. And so 1t goes
have known metwurst eaters to drink
eight or nine glasses of beer at sitting
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31
MORGAN AND scHwAB
said to Have Large Interest In sibe-
rlan Line.
al cahle to the Inter-ocean.

1
Special Cable to the Inter-Ocean.
Paris. December 27.-J. P. Morgan and
Charles M. schwab have now acquired
about one-tenth Of the 100000 shares Of the
International Sleeping Car company
which will soon have cars running
through Moscow across Asia, through ST.
IBERIA to vladivostok, on the Pacific ocean
The International Sleeping Car com
pany's latest Issue consisted of $4,000 pre-
ferred shares. Mr.. schwab applied for
them all, but the directors, alarmed al
the thought of allowing the head of the
American steel trust to get too large an
interest. only let him have 6O0O A few
months later Mr.. Morgan came to Europe
and bought between 5000 and 5000 shares.
Subsequently the shares rose and Mr..
Schwab increased his holdings until now
he has something like 1900 or 1900
shares.
Mr.. Naglemackers. the head Of the
sleeping-car company and the superin-
tendent of the great railway line which
connects Moscow with VladivastolS, Port
Arthur and Port Dalni, said to the Inter
Ocean correspondent, In talking of the
stupendous enterprise: 1.-THE sleeping-car
company is now running its trains from
Moscow to Irkoutsk and Lake Baialxal.
A dining car is added to the ordinary
trains on the other side of the lake. which
go as far as the Manchurian frontier.
Next June trains will run to Vladivostok,
Dalni and Port Arthur. From Moscow to
Port Arthur the distance Is over 5000 miles.
AT the. commencement the journey will
take about twelve days, but when the
line gets into good working order we
Passengers from London or Paris by the
Trans-Siberian railway now reach Pel1in
and Shanghai in about twenty days. In
few months the time will be reduced
to fourteen days.
THE same journey by the old steamship
route takes from thirty-six to thirty
eight days.
"At the beginning of 1908 firms in Eu-
rope will be able to send mail by the
that letter has hitherto taken to trave
che way only.
myself have several times received
! in Paris letters from Pekin in twenty
days. If my letters miss the Trans-Sibe-
rian connections and come by steamer
they generally take about forty days
II would like to call the attention OF
the enterprsng Americans to the fact
that Siberia is new. unworked country
rich In minerals, coal. and especially gold
Without a railway its immense resources
are valueless. With railway transport
service its value is illimitable. The west.
ern part of Siberia is very rich agrl.
cultural district with vast cornfields, only
waiting development
Every day two freight trains leav,
western Siberia loaded with butter and
eggs for Rigo. A part of the produce is
distributed in the big towns of Russia
and large quantity is sent by steamer
to various parts of Europe. especially
England, where Russian butter is sold a.
the product of the best Normandy farms
Although the journey takes only hall
the time required by the old route, the
fare is about $40 less than by steamer"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Hotels FIIIins Up.

During the Christmas holidays hotels
everywhere are empty and business does
not usually begin to revive until after the
New Year. The Birmingham hostelries
were almost deserted on Christmas day
and the day after. but business began to
pick up on the third day and It has
been picking up ever since.
The registers at the Metropolitan, the
Morris, the Hillman, the Florence and the
Arlington last night indicated an excep-
tlonally large business. The lobbies pre-
scented animated scenes. Theatrical peo-
pie. drummers. capitalists and business
men in general made up the throngs.
In many cities hotel proprietors may
complain of dull trade, but Birmingham
conditions are peculiar and this town
draws when others fail.
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About Persons.

~. sternfeld of Montgomery is at the
metropolitan.
%. w. Morgan and ]. M Reynolds of
Mbntivallo are at the Metropolitan.
Al H. Pettibone of Huntsville is at the
Metropolitan.
WI B. Pritchett of Philadelphia is at
the metropolitan.
Paul Cook of Los Angeles. CAL, is at the
Metropolitan
A. il Draper and wife of PelI City are
at the Metropolitan.
wesley NJ. Smith has returned from a
visit to brandon, Miss.
w. L. Sibley of Warrior is at the Morris.
M. j. Dlnlard of Florence is registered
at the MORRIS.
t. H. DseLoach of st. Louis is at the
NJ H. ToAard of Oxford is at the Morris.
A. c. webb of Nashville is registered
at the Norris.
L. B. Muslgrove is at the Hillman.
George Tldmipg Moore of MontEom-
cry. prominAfnt lawyer and Mason. is at
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31
DR. LORENZ'S METHOD
OF CURING CHILDREN

or three days, using the limb that has
been treated. I want the child to use the
limb as soon as possible, for in most cases
the head of the femur and the socket in
which it works do not work harmonious
ly, because during all the patients life
they have grown apart. Use will remove
this difficulty.
After the operation to reduce congenital
dislocation of the hip, the patient is
kept in the plaster cast about nine
months, though encouraged at the same
time to move about, using the limb that
has been treated and especially bearing
weight on it. Some little patients with
these casts upon them are very lively. l
remember boy from Berlin, who spread
eagle style, the knees and toes pointing
in opposite directions. lie used to gallop
sidewise about the streets. BY the time
the cast is taken off the muscles have
knit the limb into its new position and if
it has been well used all point difficulties
have vanished and the cure is as complete
as though the child had had two good
limbs from the beginning.
Sometimes there is no socket, or one Of
its walls is too low to properly retain the
head of the femur when it is put in place.
This can often be remedied by boring
with the femur itself at the time of the
operation. The plaster cast then holds
the bone in place till the muscles bind it
there.
I was greatly pleased to find in New
York that my methods OF operating are
west they are not. But here in New York,
where the German medical papers are
taken and studied, the surgeons of the
Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled
know as much about my operation for
hip dislocation as 1 do myself They
have been practicing it for about six
years.
| have Travelled to a number of cities
and visited many hospitals and demon-
strated my operation many times before
great numbers of surgeons since coming
here. 1t is not matter of strength, but
matter of skill. and there is no reason
why the surgeons who witnessed my OPP
Grafton should not be able to repeat it
| for themselves.
| America has some of the cleverest sur
geons of the world, and the whole body
of them here are notably quick at learn
ing. 1 am greatly pleased with the hos
pitals the appearance is so good, the
| specialization so thorough, and there has
been such liberal provision for particular
wants. This country is Far ahead of Ger
many in such matters The American
dentist has demonstrated that he is the
best in the world in his calling, and the
American surgeon will go TO the front
also-it is inevitable.
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Dr. Adolf Lorenz, in an interview IN the
Independent says:
The new thing which have to teach
surgeons is that many malformations and
d,slocations can be cured by the use OF
the human hands and by manipulation OF
the uniformed or dislocated part without
anv cutting. 1t is no reflection upon the
excellent surgeons of America that have
something new to show them, because
the results of my earliest bloodless op-
erations performed with the hands were
in the nature of discoveries and as new
to me as to others. America teaches the
rest of the world many things and, there'
fore, can sometimes learn with gooo
grace.
have been performing these opera
tions for about fifteen years, and nave
in that time treated about 1000 cases py
the method These cases have incluoeo
club feet, double or single displacement
of the hip, wry neck and other maitofma-
tions
Previous to 1886 I used the knife IN
treating the hip dislocations, and, IN con-
sequence, almost invariably got result
ing stiff hip in the patient. BY the present
method 1 get 40 per cent OF cures enat
seem to be absolutely perfect so that
child that has two dislocated hips ana is
almost unable to drag itself about can
in little while run and jump as Wen
as any other. In another 80 per cent the
cure is not perfect, for slight imp Is
left, and in the remaining 30 per cent
there is at least no injury to the patent
l have learned by my experience II is
better to set an age limit for these oper-
ations, and 1 do not now generally under
take to treat children over six years OF
age where both hips are out of joint OF
over nine years of age where one Is dis
placed / used to treat older children, bu'
gave it up as the results were not good
I owing to the strength of the muscles tha'
bound the limb into the wrong position.
At first 1 used a sort of screw to pull
limbs into their places, but 1t was too
rough and 1 gave that up and now use
the hands alone, though in difficult cases
the limbs are prepared for the operation
by means of weights that pull them, some
of them being as heavy as eighty pounds
Though the treatment of the child's
malformed or misjointed limb may ap-
pear to the layman to be very severe, and
though a great deal of force Is certainly
applied in tearing the muscles that binc
| the bone in the false position, yet wher
| the child awakes from the ether 1t feel:
| no pain Recovery from the Immediate
effects of the operation is very rapid ant
the child should be moving about in tw,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31
Popular Railroad Official.

IN. D. Maher general superintendent
of the Seaboard Air Line who Is to be-
come general superintendent of the Nor
folk and Western, is one of the ablest
railroad men in the country" said
railroad official last night.
Mr.. Maher was never In Birmingham
but once, believe, but he is well known
to many railroad people here. He came
to this city in his private car last fall
to look over the situation with view
to the Seaboards projected terminal
work. He met only few of our citizens
but every one who had the privilege OF
meeting him was impressed with his
grace of manner.
Mr.. Maher was division superintend-
ent on the Norfolk and Western when
the seaboard secured him as its general
superintendent"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
When a red-headed woman is in a sweet
temper 1t just shows how deceitful women
can be.
A widow ties up mighty lot of knowl-
edge in an awful small package tied with
an awful thin string.
A woman never thinks you love her I'M
less you get mad when she won't show
you a letter. while she acts like it was
from somebody else when it really is
from her grandfather.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

The colleges and universities are
booming because the country is burst
ing with prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

They are feeding a dozen robust
government clerks on breakfast foods
with view to ascertaining the limit
of human endurance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

the Hniman- He win remain here Tor
several days.
Cyrus Garnsey Of Memphis Is at the
Hillman.
Superintendent Fickinger OF the Frisco
system is in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

The beef reduction wave has not
been felt even in Chicago. The beef
trust is still cit"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

Duluth in the recent cold wave
scored 20 degrees below zero. It had
to do it, being the zenith city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

President Nord of Hayti has been in
office a week, and yet no revolution
has broken out. What ails the Hay
ten?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

Sioux Falls is the divorce center of
the country, and Birmingham the po-
lice center.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

The Richard Olney boom was lost in
the swamps that surround Memphis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

Honolulu is now anchored to the
mainland, the cable having been
spliced.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

The socialistic city of Haverhill' in
Massachusetts gets around to make
100000 pairs of shoes a year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

There is one thing The Hague court
cannot arbitrate, and that is the Mon
roe doctrine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

1t is a cold Saturday when a score
of ocean greyhounds do not leave New
York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

The sugar beet will assert itself
next week as general political an
noyance and trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

Sig. Mascagni sees the rough side of
America, and DR.. Lorenz the slick
side.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

President Castro Is In cad need Of
an angel of the Carnegie calibre.
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Farewell, old 1902. You did your
best, but 1903 will go you one better.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

The Beers and British are to fight
together in Somalililand.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

Miss Biggar is now well enough ad-
vertised to secure a star part.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

The Hague court is a trife less
bullying than cruisers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

Get ready to welcome Honolulu
date line.
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We are not so hoggish If we do turn
out many pigs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

Hang up new calendar and pre-
pare to swear off.
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The Hague is having an inning just
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-31

There are no dents in the Monroe
doctrine.
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The New York Mail and Express
says Venezuela is the Mascagni of ma
lions.
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now.
The twentieth century is growing
old;
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-10-23
STRIKE Is OFF UNANIMOUSLY
Miners Convention So Votes and There's
Joy In the Mine Regions.

Miners Convention So Votes and There's
Joy In the Mine Regions.
WilEeSbarre, Pa, Oct. 22.-With
shout that fairly shook the conven-
ton building the representatives Of the
147,OOO mine workers who have been
on strike since last May officially de-
clareG off. at noon yesteray, the great
contest. and placed all the questions
involved in the struggle in the hands
Of the arbitration commission appoint
ed by the president Of the United
States. When the news was flashed to
the towns and villages down in the
valleys and on the mountains Of the
coal regions the strikeaffected inhab-
itants heaved a sigh of relief. Every
where there was rejoicing, and in many
places the end Of the strike was the
sigal for impromptu town celebra-
tions.
The vote to resume coal mining was
a unanimous one and was reached only
after a warm debate. The principal
objection to accepting the arbitration
proposition was that no provision was
contained in the scheme to take care of
those men who would fail to get back
their old positions, or would be un-
able TO get any work at all. The en-
gineers and pumpmen did not wish to
run the risk Of losing altogether their
old places and be compelled to dig coal
for q living. This question was ar
gued right up to the time the vote was
taken, and the final resolution was
adopted without the question being set
tied.
A few moments before adjournment,
however, partial solution was
reached, when delegate In the far
thest corner of the hall moved that the
problem be placed in the hands of the
executive boards for solution, and his
suggestion was adopted. Hundreds of
men needed to repair the mines and
otherwise place them in condition for
operation are at work this morning.
President Mitchell received many con-
gratulatory kilograms from all over the
country after the news spread that
the strike was ended.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-10-23
Strike Declared Off Without a
Dissenting Vote by the Con-
vention of Miners.
PRESIDENT QUICKLY NOTIFIED
And Promptly He Calls Together the
Commission.
FIRST MEETING TO BE ON FRIDAY
News of the Settlement Heard with
Joy All Over the Coal Region
Cost Estimated at $26,-
10000.

Washington, Oct. 22.-Shortly before
3 p. m. yesterday President Roosevelt
received a telegram from Wilkesbarre,
Pa, informing him that the convention
of miners had declared of the anthra-
cite coal strike The telegram was
signed By John Mitchell, chairman, ana
w. B. Wilson, secretary of the con-
ventiOn. Immediately upon receipt of
the information the following telegram
was sent to Mitchell: Upon receipt
Of your telegram Of this date the pres
ident summoned the commission to
meet here on Friday next, the oath
inst, at 10 a. N.
Commission Has Been Summoned.
News of the termination OF thestrike
was received by the president witn
great satisfaction. Before the formal
telegram from Mitchell had reached
him he had been informed through the
favorable action. Soon afterward Col
Onel Carroll d. Wright, commissioner
of labor. the recorder Of the arbitra-
tion commission, gave to the president
the Information contained in kilograms
which he had received from Wilkes
barre Already kilograms have been
sent to the members of the commits
sion notifying them of the first meet
ing and summoning them to be present.
Where Meetings VIII Be Held.
The meeting probably will be held in
the office of Commissioner Wright in
the department of labor. 1t is under
stood that few meetings Of the COM
mission will be held in Washington.
After the work of the commission has
been mapped out the first step will be
to take the testimony Of the miners,
who may be regarded as plaintiffs in
the case. The parties to the inquiry
will be permitted to be present at the
hearings either personally or by coun-
sci. 1t is probable that tue 1irst ses-
sions Of the commission at which tes-
timony will be taken will be held in
Wilkesbarre, as that city will be most
convenient for the miners representa-
tives. Other meetings will be held in
Philadelphia or New York, or in both
cities.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-10-23
sIITCHELL's THREE SPEECHES
Synopsis of What He Advised the Conven-
tion It should Do.

Synopsis of What He Advised the Conven-
tion 1t should Do.
When Mitchell made his appearance
first upon the platform yesterday he
was greeted with enthusiastic applause
and cheers. He touched upon the
right of employees to organize and said
the time was past for employers to
deny them that right, quoting Lincoll,
as saying that capital is the fruit of
labor and could not exist If labor hau
not first existed: labor therefore de-
serves the first consideration" He
then urged the delegates to promptly
agree to the resumption of work un-
der the proposition before them, bas-
ing his urgency chiefly on the situa-
tion as to the coal supply and the suf-
fering public If 1t is not replenished.
His second speech was a notice to
all the strikers that every man of
them stood on the same plane; that
there was no sympathetic strike this
time. every striker, including the en-
gineers and pumpmen, having gone out
for wages. The speech was a reply to
the objections Of the engineers. These
men quit when their quitting endan-
gered the safety Of the mines; as, the
pumps once stopped and not quickly
started, the mines would fill with wa
ter and incalculable damage be done
absolute ruin in some cases. When
they quit the operators put in new
men as far as they could get them.
and they have announced that none of
these new men will be displaced to
make room for returning striker.
Mitchell urged the acceptance Of the
presidents proposition and endeavored
to reassure the engineers, etc., in the
matter. He told them that no doub.
some of them would fail under the
proposition under discussion to obtain
their old jobs, but that he was as
sured that the operators were inclined
to be flair and reasonable" and that
he believed 1.-The coal companies will
gradually displace the men who have
your jobs and give you your old places
again. / dare say that hundreds of the
men who were brought here from the
cities and from the farms to take your
places will return to the cities ana
farms when you go back" But he
did not want them to vote on that un.
derstanding, but on the understanding
that some would be left out-and these
ne promised the q. NJ w. would take
care of.
In his third speech he told the dele
gates that the leaders had not adopt
ed the peace proposition as the op
orators made 1t, and never would have
adopted 1t that way; he and the other
executive officials had secured a modi-
dcation Of the first proposition, in