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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Y. M. c. A..

Y. M. c. 4.
 The canvassing committees appointed last spring to assist in raising money for to work in a systematic way next week, to work in a systematic way this week, and they should meet with success said a merchant yesterday
 No city in the south presents a field that promises better results from an as- sociation point Of view than Birmingham. The number of young men in this town is naturally larger than usual in propor- tion to population. It is a reflection. therefore, on the city that the Y. M. C. A here is without a home.
 "The amount already subscribed to the building fund reaches nearly $SOooo and the subscriptions have come from only a few persons. This fact is encouraging, for if a few men were liberal enough to make up nearly $soO0O, the well-to-do peo- pie in general should be counted on to come forward with the balance needed forty or fifty thousand dollars.
 There are not less than fifty thrifty business men in Birmingham who can easily afford to give $500 eacn to the Y. M. c. A., and another fifty who should be counted on for s25o each. When 1t comes to the s25 men, there are hundreds of them Forty thousand dollars should be raised within the next two weeks. It should be only matter, indeed, of the committees getting from house to house or office to office
 Ut is the purpose of the association, I understand, to erect handsome building in a business section of the city. The site will cost twenty or twenty-five thou sand dollars and the structure about $5o,- 900. The Y. M. c. A. building should be in course of construction not later than next spring. and should be ready for oc- cupancy not later than January, 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26
Retail Trade.

"The retail merchant of Birmingham who is not satisfied with his business now must be natural born croaker." said First avenue merchant last night.
 Trade was never better than 1t Is now. I do not remember when it was so good. My sales today were about the largest of any Saturday this year. Every merchant will be busy from now until Christmas"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26
BY J. LAWLER DARBY.

a burden, took good deal of poetic de- votion to the infant out of the weary nurse, and they would entreat us to let them transfer the babies to another, but we gently insinuated that the points of our babies would assist them. However, when no longer able to Keep up,e we al- lowed them to transfer to another pris- oner, and so about sunrise entered Pe- tersburg, where many masters claimed their servants. One can well believe that two nights march and the intervening day spent in battle. made us weary, and the writer, with a musket for his pillow, fell asleep in the porch of a notei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26
CLEVELAND ON STUMP.
Will Enter Political Arena for First
 Time Since Retirement.

New York, October 25.-For the first time since he left the White House, for mer President Cleveland will take the stump in political campaign and speak at a democratic rally in Morristown, N. J., on the evening of October 30. He will address the voters for the benefit of the party in general in Morris county, and particularly to help the canvass of Dewitt c. Glanagan, nominee of the Fifth district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26
-RE oHly DAILY NEWSPAPER " AtAs.N,
Why the devil should we keep knives to cut one another's throat.
 -King Henry V.
MT. Hustnn,s Estimate

In the fifty-four days of the season that had elapsed before last Friday the movement of cotton exceeded that of similar days of last year by 42S,OO0 bales, when the crop outturn was 1O,- 680,O0O bales. This difference prom ises to be greatly reduced in the next thirty days, and perhaps altogether overcome. Less is coming in week by week at present than came in in the corresponding weeks of last year But the event Of the week was the publication of Mir. Buston's estimate He is a Liverpool cotton man, who annually roams over the cotton states and publishes in October an estimate of the crop. His record as an estima- tor in the three previous seasons is undeniahlv good, asss ffoolioows fellows.
 Estimate Actual. 1S99-1900.... ....... ..... 9,50O0O0 9,i36 416 19OO-190l...... ...... ....10,2 ,25O,000 10,3S3,422 19Ol-19O2.... ...10. 10000 10,6S06S
 
 Totals. .... ......3o, ,5OO,0OO 30. 5Oo,5iS Here is what he says of the Ala bama crop:
 Tn Alabama the fields have a most even appearance, being green and ex- ceptionally well worked. The plant suf- fered for want of rain in August, which caused it to shed. The rain in Septem- Der forced the plant to take on a second growth, which, with the very favorable fall we have had. has greatly improved the outlook and added considerably to the yield, and with late killing frost Ala bama will surprise the cotton world with its out-turn."
 He thinks, in short, that the reports of injury to the crop have been great ly exaggerated, and that the final out turn will be 11,20O000 bales. He ad- vises. southern farmers to sell their bales, letting "the speculator carry the burden while they carry the dol lars"
 No one can, of course, say whether MT. Buston's figures are correct or incorrect. Only time can do that, several weeks hence. But Mir Buston's methods are not particularly good. He is a car-window estimator, who fits from one state to another in September and October, stopping mo- where long enough to make an ex- haustive inquiry He represents pur- chasers only, not sellers or producers. His guesses have been very close to ascertained facts, but so were. at one time MT. O'Neill's, and MT. Buston's wind-up will doubtless be of similar nature. He will go along until he misses the mark a million of bales, and then he will be dismissed as false prophet.
 There are not a few who think he will meet his Waterloo this year. These men say the present crop will not exceed 1O,2OO,OOO bales, and that Mir Buston has been misled by the ef- fects of rains that came too late to produce open bolls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

MT. John Mitchell will Sunday at WilIesbarre, and no one has better right to Sunday anywhere. Society item).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

pony church. he escaped to the swamps, and after many hardships, made his way hatless, on a mule to Grants headquar- ters, who, angry at the loss of his fine cavalry, ordered him to report at Wash ington. If I mistake not, he is the same Wilson who took 12,O0O men, made the raid into Alabama, in April 1865, burnt the University, the Episcopal church at Selma, and whose followers, hung, rob bed and burned from there to Macon, Ga. There was not sufficient force to oppose him in Alabama as there was at Reams station.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

chief judge the very next year by 60,0OO. and that whereas Odell-who was then looked upon merely as Platt's machine tender-got III, GOO plurality in 1900, Roose- welt, with all the glamour of the Span ish war to help him against a Croker candidate, squeezed in by barely 1000 two years before.
 Except in abnormal years New York is always doubtful-at least as to the size of it's majorities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

J. P Morgan may have encountered defeat in London, but it was at the hands of another American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

When two Americans are shaking the London plum tree, that city may be considered far advanced towards Americanizatien.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

Escambia does not levy a county school tax under the new provision for such tax in the new constitu- ton. It appropriates a part of it's regular county tax to school purposes. So does Jefferson. No county has ac- eepted and acted upon the local school provision in the new constitution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

The first Molineaux trial lasted eighty-eight days, but Judge Lambert hopes to wind up the present trial in twenty-one days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

Be patient with the poor old Bes- semer dummy. for it's days are num- bered, and it will soon go to the trash pile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

warm season expect fast ball. and that no mistakes will be made this year that will take the home team out of the first division for even single day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

Queen Alexandra has consented to stand as godmother for the youthful grandson of Pa Zimmerman. And yet Talladega does not exult or exalt itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

Mark Hanna as a strike settler has become back number, also Bishop Potter, who is better at honeymoon ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

It is believed immigration next year will go to 100000, thus breaking all records.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

The widow of General Grant Is in her 18th year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

The mad mullah is very bumpteous because he has secured a supply of American rifles, but he has no Amer ican mules, and no one can go to war safely without the latter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

No one is yet able to name the speaker of the fifty-eighth congress, but no list would be complete that does not contain the name of Oscar ". Underwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

Alas, the coal mine ownership plank can neither be called in, nor arbi- trated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

Wilkesbarre is sliding out of the lime light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

The mad mullah is an embryonic Aguinaldo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

Lord Kitchener is of course "Mr. Cook" when he travels incog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

William Zeigler of Brooklyn is in the market for an Artic explorer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

The trouble with the hard coal min CTS at present is chiefly blistered hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

President Castro is an adept at cen sorship as well as at generalship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

General Corbin is about to swap im- perial dinners for dairy lunches at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

Grover Cleveland has recognized Tammany but not Henry Watterson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26

| single day. |
 Escambia does not levy a county school tax under the new provision for such tax in the new constitu ton. It appropriates part of its regular county tax to school purposes So does Jefferson. No county has ac eepted and acted upon the local schoo provision in the new constitution.
 
 The mad mullah is very bumpteous because he has secured a supply oi American rifles, but he has no Amer ican mules, and no one can go to wal safely without the latter.
 
 No one is yet able to name the speaker of the fifty-eighth congress but no list would be complete that does not contain the name of Oscar W. Underwood.
 Queen Alexandra has consented to stand as godmother for the youthful grandson of Pa Zimmerman. And yet Talladega does not exult or exalt itself.
 The first Molineaux trial lasted eighty-eight days. but Judge Lambert hopes to wind up the present trial in twenty-one days.
 When two Americans are shaking the London plum tree, that city may be considered far advanced towards Americanization.
 MT. John Mitchell will Sunday al Wilkesbarre, and no one has better right to Sunday anywhere. (Society item).
 Be patient with the poor old Bes- semer dummy, for it's days are mum bered, and it will soon go to the trash pile.
 Mark Hanna as strike settler has become a back number, also Bishop Potter, who is better at honeymoon ing.
 J. P. Morgan may have encountered defeat in London, but it was at the hands of another American.
 
 It is believed immigration next year will go to S0O,OoO, thus breaking all records.
 Alas, the coal mine ownership plank can neither be called in, nor arbi- trated.
 The trouble with the hard coal min CTS at present is chiefly blistered hands.
 General Corbin is about to swap im- perial dinners for dairy lunches at home.
 Grover Cleveland has recognized Tammany but not Henry Watterson. President Castro is an adept at cen sorship as well as at generalship.
 
 William Zeigler of Brooklyn is in the market for an Artic explorer. Lord Kitchener is of course "Mr Cook" when he travels incog. The widow of General Grant Is in her 18th year. The mad mullah is an embryonic Aguinaldo.
 Wilkesbarre is sliding out of the lime light.
 JAIIIEC
The daily Republican., 1902-12-10
WORK OF SENATE

Itnmiarnti"m Bie. .nr ':.,in Topic.
London Dock EkarFr AiH kiIIed.
WASHINGTON. Dee. TO- The sen
ate devoted most Of yesterday to the
immigration bill and adopted a mum
Der of amendments. There was con
siderable discussion of an amendment
offered by Mr.. Burton tkan) to admit
Chinese laburefs to Hawaii. II was
met with considerable opposition and
was finally laid on the table. The
provision in the bill prohibiting the
sale of liquor in the capitol building
caused some criticism Of the house for
putting it in the bin, but iLir provision
was not stricken out. During The day
the militia bill was discussed. 1t will
be taken up again tomorrow.
Mr.. kcan a. J.A gave notice HAT On
Dec II he would ask the senate to con.
slider resolutions upon the life and
character of the late Senator William
}. SeWall.
After debating the London deck
charg" bin for alhlost four hours the
house chopped lis head of by striking
out the tnacting clalt%". This killed
the bin. THE debate was spirited on
both sides. and al dNy the members
were 40 "Ici with tplp"rams respect
Ing the bill. The withdrawal Of he
support Of til" lumber and nrHi spark-
ing Interests. which originality had
joined with the tour milling interests
in pressing the measure. brought al ,sllt
its dtirHl Thc final vote was l"S 70
12o in ra'or Of tie motion 10 strike oUt
the cMa";iuI clause.
The daily Republican., 1902-12-10
ONE. 9TH STREET
What This Resident Says is
Of Infinite Value.

When old-time residents and
highly respected people of Whining
ton make statements like the fol
lowing, they must carry conviction
to every reader.
Mrs. Albert Bannan, SIG East
Seventh street, says: s:--'T had kid
ney complaint for five years. l tried
different SO called remedies but got
no relief. | was SO bad at times
that | could scarcely attend to my
household cares. The pain in my
back was all but continual and of
ten kept Up after had gone to bed
When l arose in the moruingI felt
lame and sore. Doan's Kidney Pills
came to my notice through reading
the home papers and thinking they
might give me relief | went to Dan
torth's drug store and got box. l
was not disappointed in the results
for they took right hold and soon
brought me out all right My hus-
band also used them for backache
and was benefited
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents per box. Foster Milburn Co.
Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents for the
U. $.
Remember the name -Doan's--
and take no substitute.
The daily Republican., 1902-12-10

WE must condemn the Democrat
ic party Free Trade party as
unfit and incapable Of framing d
Tariff law even for revenue only
their professed object. The aver.
age annual revenues during lS"l-2.3
under the Mckinley law were
sS77 600, 900. During tie following
four years, under prospective and
actual Tariff for revenue only, the
average annual revenues amounted
to only $500, 900. 900 1t may be
said that the entire fiscal year Of
1894 was under the Mckinley law
Chronologically. yes, but during
the first SIX months Of the year 1894
imports were held back in anticipa-
ton of the lower duties promised
30 that we were as much affected
by the low duties as when they
were actually i'll operation; in fact,
much more 50. Almost our entire
loss in revenues was in decreased
custom duties. rs the Internal reve-
nue. renamed at about the average
of preceding years. On the other
hand it must be remembered that
the imports during the first six
months of 1897 we're enormous in
anticipation Of the Dinglcy duties,
and this helped to swell the Free.
Trade revenues. making them Un-
usually large that year, and still
they were less than any year he
tween 1879 and 1898. The fact is.
colossal buuder had been made
by Cleveland Wilson o. Co. in the
very Fundamental principles Of tar
if making, and we cannot empha-
size too strongly their failure in
this respect. If the Free Traders
cannot frame a Tariff for revenue,
then they have no right to he in
the business at ALL A deficit is bad
enough III itself but it brings with
1t other caamln"S such as bond is,
sues and an 1ncrAaSe If debt and
interest
The daily Republican., 1902-12-10

The suggestion of Mr.. Samuel FL
Derby that the state farmers organ
ize farmers exchange, which, it
is believed, would open more prof
liable market to their products. is
wise ore and should bear results.
Grangers on the Eastern shore of
Virginia have an exchange, which
has grown out of disastrous con-
ditlon of affairs there. 1t reversed
these conditions and brought pros
perlty in the place of depression,
and showed that in spite of all the
statements to the contrary. farmers
could organize for. the protection of
their interests, stick together in
spite of discouragements and main
tam their organization.
The exchange is a bination of
about 1900 of the most successful
farmers of Accomac and Northamp-
ton counties. By special provision
OF its bylaws, which permit ten
ants of stockholders to market their
products through the exchange, it
has the patronage of about $500
growers,
lis organization was brought
about by the ruinous prices at which
the staple crop of the peninsula
Irish and sweet potatoes had sold
for several years prior to the organ
lzation of the exchange.
The thoughtful realized that some
thing had to be done to better the
condition of the truck growers,
whose success or failure so vitally
touched the interests of all business
men of the lower peninsula. The
condition of the farmer was deplor-
able. His potatoes were selling at
% cents barrel aud he was in a
quandary as to how he was to pay
his rent, his fertilizer bills and to
clothe and feed his family. A dis
cusslCn Of these matters resulted in
the holding of mass meeting at
Onley, Va, in August, 1899. at
Which a committee of T. influential
citizens was appointed to recon-
mend some plan Of marketing the
products of the farms.
This committee. after several
meetings, drafted a working plan
for an exchange to be run on Mr..
Morgans "rommunity-of interest"
plan.
u Ihls report was unanimously
adopted by convention Of farmers
and business men which met at
onley nOctoh"r Of the same wear.
Its chief officers were elected and
solicitor put in the field to secure
subscriptions To stock and to organ
lHe farmers into separate local diviS-
IONS. Thus was put into motion the
lorre which has practically revou-
tlonlZed affairs Of the farmers on the
Eastern Shore aud has accomplished
results of which the most sanyuine
never dreamed
Delaware farmers would do well
to follow III the paths Of their fellow
hllshanimcn i'll Virginia in tins
matter Of exchange.
The daily Republican., 1902-12-10
~till Advertising.

That advertising must he constant
is the opinion Ct the business men
who have money invested in the
health bathsin the city Of Carlsbad.
Fer five hundred years the springs
Of THAI place have been the resort
Of kings, and have been known to
all the world. Yet when there has
hefn failure to advertise in the
leading newspapers Of Tho world,
there has been falling off in The
number Of visitors Recently an
lHng"mcnl@ for such advertising
We're made. although the average
number Of strangers who visit
Carlsbad is l30. 1000 year.
The daily Republican., 1902-12-10
TIE MUMMY AND THE HUM
MING BIRD,

John Drew's role in Isaac Hender
sons play, '::The Mummy and the
Humming Bird" is probably the
most important from a strictly
dramatio.staudpoint in Which this
favorite actor has appeared since he
mado his first great success in a
serious part in "The Bauble Shop"
six or seven seasons ago. Tho role
is primarily one Of charac cterization,
but after the first act it develops
along lines of intense dramatic
strength and calls for not only OK.
pert skill in deliniation, but also
for powerful emotional expression.
A scientist nobleman is portrayed,
who in his enthusiastic pursuit of
study, neglects his young and pretty
wife, but later aroused by jealousy
to the fact that he deeply loves his
wife, is brought into situations in
which he must not only reveal
the intensity of his affection, but
also be equal to several strong dram
attic scenes. The ease and skill with
which Mr.. Drew moves from one
phase to the other of the chdcarter
and the charm he puts into the en-.
tire impersonation, as we'll as the
virility of his acting at tho supreme
moments of the play have shown his
New York audience more convincing
ly than anything else he has done in
re cent years that his art is still
young and tiourlshing. THE Mum
my and the Humming Bird" will
he presentsd by Mr.. Drew and his
company for one night at the Grand
Opera House, Tuesday, Dec. 16
with the same cast and production
AS seen during Mr.. Drew's three
months run at the Empire Theatre,
New York.
The daily Republican., 1902-12-10
TIL. itit,t. In .iilnNtn.

ATLANNA Ga. H,c. ~. Fire i'll
the hrtrt Of the downtown section Of
Atlanta has wiped out alnroSt Il lIor+
Of business iIuuNrS causing u loss csti
u0t"d at between S4JO.Opu and SIUO.-
600. IN" fire originated in the f,rni.
turc SiGrp Of SnuDk 4 Austin. on the
WIitriIatl street Nintlurt. and spread
with treat rapidty to III" Nog"rosS
building, Il structure on tn" corner Of
prHchirrc and Marietta streets. whose
six stories were taken up largely with
the offices Of physicians. dentists and
attorneys. Tho NOrc"OSS building aud
the SnOUl huilding were entirely con
sumph. only portions Of the walls re-
manning.
The daily Republican., 1902-12-10
ROSS AND SONS STORE
Has Been Re-stocked and Facilities Fol-
Handling Trade Doubled.

Has Been Re-stocked and Facilities Fol-
Handling Trade Doubled.
Daniel Ross and Son. wholes ale
and retail gents furnlshsrs at 2O6,
2oS and 21O Market Istreet. have
made great preparations to accom-.
modate the Christmas trade. The
force Of salespeopls has been
doubled, and the delivery systom
has been augmented by the addi.
tion Of several extra wagons.
This enterprlsing firm has Just
re-stocked Its large stores with Z
completely new line Of wome eos
umbrellas, furs and rain coats, toll
OF goods In celluloid. sterling silver
articles, cut glass, silverware.
placques, easels, all kinds,'of eather
goods, bath robes. smoking jacketsj
dress suit cases and oil kinds o.
bags. large assortment OF toilet.
and fancy articles, perfumes an,A
every thing else needed by FIRST
class house that has a first class
trade.