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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-07

MAsHINGToN. January e.-The fol-
W lowing abstract of the attorney
generals recommendation regarding
at length today and was given out at
the White House tonight. 1t represents
the general attitude of the administra-
tion on this subject and was authorized
by the President
The Preliminary.
The people do not desire the business
of the country to be interferred with
by the regulation necessary to control
combinations, where they act improper
MONOPOLY. In this country where money
is cheap and abundant and within the
reach of keen and capable men, a monop-
oily will be impossible If competition is
kept free.
Small enterprises have certain advant-
ages over large combinations and will
live and thrive If assured of an open and
fair field. Rebates and discriminatory
rates constitute one of the chief restric-
tions on competition. They unjustly
swell the earnings of favored concerns
and supporting a vast volume of capital
stock which represents nothing but unfair
advantage over rivals, contribute largely
to the upbuilding of monopoly.
The situation respecting transportation
determinations and the entry of inde-
pendent capital into new industries has
lately been improved. 1t Is now known
that the amount of capital embarked in
Independent enterprises in the past two
years at least equals the capital of the
great combination formed within the pre-
vious twelve years. With assurance
against predatory competition this i'm
provement will continue Individual in
dustrial experience with the certainty of
secure employment of capital may be
trusted to compete effectively with such
selfish combinations are not formed for
sound economic reasons, but merely in
order to capitalize the country's prosper
ity for the benefit of their promoters The
existence of most of these combinations
has not increased the productive capa-
city of the country; they have merely ac-
quired the ownership Of the pre-existing
industries.
recommendation for Immediate Leg
isIation.
That all discriminatory practices af-
fecting interstate trade be made often
sive to enjoned and punished.
Such legislation to be directed alike
against those who give and those who
receive illegal advantages and to cover
discrimination in prices against competi-
tors in particular localities resorted to
for the purpose of destroying competi-
tfon. ~
In order to reach producers guilty of
these offenses who are as producers
merely beyond national control penalty
should be imposed upon the interstate
and foreign transportation of goods pro-
duced by them, and federal courts should
be given power to restrain such trans
portation at the governments suit.
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THE WEATHER.

= Washington, January 6. - Fore
, cast for Alabama: Fair and warm
, er Wednesday and Thursday; fresh
, southwest to south winds.
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ENDORSES
ADMINISTRATION
Indianoa Postoce Case Is Discussed in Washngton-Con
tention is the People Are Responsible for Clos
ing of the Postoffce There.

AsHNeToN January 6-The Indiano Mss posohoe case
kXJ by today and
w the administration should be
themselves and not the
closing the office Postmaster
Genera Payne develop ments to report
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Memphis January "a staff special to the oommercaAp
Indianoa, Miss,
with request from United States Senator A. j. NC
regarding postoHlce
ndianoa, forwarded report
that against Mrs
further that the womn
petition the
people asking that the office
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BELIEVE MATTER WILL SOON BE ADJUSTED.

Memphis Tenn, January Ga scmtar stan special IRON nohoa
Miss,
The situation here is unchang The independent mall route
the Southern
being received
appointed protect Mrs
night Citizens here
conditions is DeneVu he
ent short time
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Continued on Third Page)
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
A Girl Engineer

Miss Alverda NJ. Stout Of 300 Oak street,
Columbus, o., is a splendid sample Of what
q woman can do in the field OF invention
and practical mechanics. Miss Stout is
a full-fiedged engineer. She has not only
the qualification OF ability, she has the
high authority of the state for practicing
her calling, for she has complied with its
laws. passed the examination with hOnors.
and has her engineers license, as legal as
that held by any male engineer in the
Buckeye state.
Miss Stout is but IS years old. In Sep
TENDER, 1898, she made her debut into tie
business world as a bookkeeper in the
Dyesville FIGURING mill. But office work
didn't prove congenial, and besides the
ambitious girl was not able to make as
much money as she thought she ought to.
So she conceived the plan Of studying the
milling business. So rapidly did her ap-
plication fit her for advancement tina in
q short time, in spite Of her youth. she
was put in charge Of the -four department
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

Sending back a dispatch, so he felt himself
at liberty to await further orders where
he was-orders which in present circum-
stances would have some difficulty in reach
ing him.
Only Billy Marshall and his wife Bet
mourned and longed for the feshpots ~
Keltonhill fair. The gypsy saw the great
ranges of ragged taus scattered among the
broom and whins, the larger tents for the
drinking booths, the earthen 'lean-tos,"
the gayly-caparisoned "cuddies' Of the
wandering tinker or the more staid saddle
bags Of the packman's shelties. Plans of
escape foated indefinitely before his eyes,
growing more and more impossible to be
put behind him.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Resin-Gatherer'a Hut.

The fierce minstral of the Rhone valley,
which parches the body and even shrivels
the immortal soul, had ceased blowing at
dusk, and now upon borrowed horses Pat
rick Wildwood and his daughter were pick
ing their way through the pine woods and
marshes of northern Provence, while the
other three trudged afoot. Maurice leading
Flower-o'-the-Corn's beast in the tracks of
the guide, who stalked ahead like an
anxious heron. He was a long man, but
toned up in leather garments, shining with
dirt and grease, and anew the ways alike
in dark and light.
The horses, which had belonged to Pierre
the wagner of -Bayard and Hoo,
stayed behind at st. Veran. The good
Montbelairds steadfastly refused to receive
them as a present.
NO" said the stout Huguenot; "if the
Lord continues his providences toward His
was horrible. / will never talk about II"
Another, in reply to a similar question.
said:
Il don't remember. think l must have
been mad" RAY T. SEAMAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
May 3, 1903

which logs Of olive wood we're burning.
with a slow, equable flame. Yvette had
paused at the door as IL even at that
moment she had meditated flight.
Cavalier watched her closely, but not as
he had done in the houseplace Of the Bon
Chretien. He beckoned her to come nearer.
i would speak with you a moment he
said. Il may never thus speak with you
again. You have gone by your choice out
OF my world. l never thought to love any
woman-tm l saw you. 1 had consecrated
myself to God and His SERVICE"
He did not take his eyes from the girls
face. He spoke. net in angry denunciation.
but with a certain resigned sadness almost
sweet in its information.
fvette did not answer in words, but she
did grow a shade paler as he continued:
1T is nothing to you-a mans love-" he
said gently. II might have known it. I
ought to have known it. But that which
was but the passing Of an hour to you, nv
lady, was life, death and all the hereafter
to me.
And now" he went on, after a pause.
having tasted of the tree of the knowledge
OF good and evil that is within the garden,
l must go outside, where the angel awaits
me with the flaming sword that turns every
way. l go back to La Cavaliere. / will de-
clare in the full assembly Of the Brethren
OF the Way what my advice is. Having
partaken of the feast / will not be slack in
paying the reckoning. In a week you shall
hear from me. In a month 1 shall be able
to tell you what proportion of our young
men my influence can enlist under the ban
ner Of the king of France to fight his
battles.
Yvette Foy went up to him and took his
hand. With a swift impulsive movement she
lifted 1t to her lips.
You are a thousand times better than
l." she said. "Give God thanks for your
escape from mel"
Thu young man rembled from head to
foot. He reached out his arms toward her,
restrained himself by a violent effort, and
let his hands fall by his side. He opened
the door CT the chamber in which their in
terview had passed and went out almost
blindly, stumbling on the threshold as he
went. This time no bayonets were crossed
before his breast. Muskets changed on the
pavement as the guard turned out. Swords
flashed to the salute, and Jean Cavalier, the
bakers boy Of Geneva, took his way in the
darkness back to the little hill fortress of
La Cavalerie. This time, however, he ad-
Ventured forth without companion.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
CHAPTER XXI.

While Yvette FOy was playing for the
faith and honor of the young chief of the
Camtsards within the entrenched village of
La Cavalerie. on the opposite heights of
the Cause Noir, among whose black rocks
were perched the turreted houses of st.
Veran, the three other principals Of our
history continued to lead a quiet existence.
OF course, even in st. Veran, Maurice
Raith was very far indeed from being idle.
With the assistance of Billy Marshall he
organized the fighting forces of the village,
erecting rough but strong forts among the
scattered boulders, digging trenches and
extending the defensible area on which the
cattle and sheep of the villagers must sub
sist in time Of closer siege.
AS usual, Mr.. Patrick Wildwood preached
and prayed with the utmost acceptance.
Never had such words of fire been heard in
st. Veran.
And Flower-o'-the-Corn?
Naturally she was more beautiful than
ever. Something sweet, innocent and sage
disengaged itself like a perfect perfume
from every look and action.
She and Maurice were by no means dem
onstrative lovers, and she sat most often
beside the old man. when he was not en-
gagged in his ministrations among the
poorer houses of Saint Veran.
Maurice had fulfilled his commission in
carrying out the landing of stores and
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
Stories of Starving
Continued from Page Three.)

Rudyard Kipling has experienced that
form of starvation which is most common
in great centers Of population-liVing for
weeks and months at a time on an insult
cient amount OF food. He has admitted that
he tried IL for the sake Of experience, and
in THE Light That Failed" he has de-
scribed his feelings.
1T is not easy" says Mr.. Kipling, FOR
a man Of catholic tastes and healthy APP
petites to exist for twenty-four days on fifty
shillings. Nor is 1t cheering to begin the
experiment alone in all the loneliness OF
London.
Dick paid seven shillings a week for his
lodging, which left him rather less than a
shilling a day for food and drink. Half n
days Investigation and comparison brought
him to the conclusion that sausages and
mashed potatoes, twOpence a plate, were
the best food. Now. sausages once OF twice
a week for breakfast are not unpleasant. As
lunch, even with mashed potatoes, they be-
come monotOnous. AS dinner they are i'm
pertinent. At the end of three days Dick
loathed sausages, and, going forth, pawned
his watch to revel on sleeps head. which
is not as cheap as IL looks, owing to the
bones and the gravy. Then he returned %
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

who are not prepared to die-while. ~
this be true which this poor ignorant man
hath spoken, there remain depths of wick
edness yet to be plumbed in mine own hand.
l have a call. Yes, ! will take my pilgrim
staff IN hand an over pass. l will company
with you and preach the gospel at Kelton-
hill!"
Billy had gained a powerful ally. For
Frances would not once have thought OF
opposing her father when the call" came
upon him. Yet it was with something OF
sadness that she looked forward to the
breaking up Of the sweet and peaceful
time.
1t was arranged that they should set out
upon the following Monday. The route by
Switzerland was chosen, both because Pat
rick Wildwood and his daughter knew it
better, having already travelled It on their
way thither, and because a complete "un-
foreground railway existed for sending
persons and things in and out OF the Ce-
venues.
On the Sabbath Patrick Wildwood
preached what was understood to be his
farewell sermon to the people of st. Veran.
His text was "A city set upon a hill can
not be hid" and the preacher spoke Of their
little defenced town as Kadesh in the wild
erness where from the twice-smitten rock
the water OF life had flowed out.
And in a corner Frances Wildwood sat
on a stool, with Maurice Raith tanding
erect beside her. And there were tears in
the young mans eyes, because OF his love
and for those sweet first days that should
be no more.
These two went out together, and as they
followed the dusky line of the temple wall,
F1ower-o'-the-Corn put her hand upon the
young mans arm.
Maurice, you have loved me here-where
there are only poor common folk, these
peasant women!-but will it be the same
when you are once again aide to my lord
duke"
Frances" cried the young man, aghast
at something like the sound OF a sob, you
cannot think it, you cannot dream it? Was
! not my lords secretary, almost his COM
panion, before l ever set eyes on you? Did
/ ever love any woman as l have loved
your"
you have told me So" said FIower-o'-
the-Corn, with her face directed to the
ground.
Look up, little one," he said, earnestly,
Took at me and tell me that you do not
believe this thing. These are words and
no more. Listen! I am a poor man-you
will have a hundred offers from richer, bet
ter men than Maurice Raith. My patrimony
is but one great run for black-faced sheep.
My castle is half ruinous-only a few rooms
in it are inhabited. We shall be Door
that is, IL you keep your promise and share
that poverty with me-"
She smiled up at him through a mist of
tears. well, love me-love me-keep on
loving me-" she murmured. And after a
silence she added, And do not get tired OF
telling me OF it, pleased"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
Cost of the Challenger

Sir Thomas Upton evidently values
Shamrock III more highly than either of
its predecessors of the same name. The
previous Shamrocks were insured for $780,
600 each, but the latest challenger has
been underwritten at 500, 900. OF course
these amounts are far bsloW the value e
the yachts.
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A VERSATILE PEERLESS.

One Of the most interesting and yer.
satile duchesses is her Grace Of Suth.
erland-"Miss Millicent Sutherland"
as an innocent reviewer spoke Of her
"a reviewing her last book Of stories.
Politics and literature claim the great.
sr part of her Grace's interest. She
mas been writing since she came OF
age, When she told the world the story
of how she spent her twentieth year,
and it is said that ehe learned social.
ism at a Sunday lecture at Leek, near
Trentham, where she sat among the
audience and listened to an elquent ad-
dress by lady, whose friendship the
Duchess afterward sought. The Ouch
ess has shown her interest in practical
politics by inducing the government TO
investigate the question Of lead pois.
oning in the potteries.
Her Grace is the daughter of the
fourth Earl of Rosslyn, and married
the Duke of Sutherland when he was
Marquis of Stafford. Her house in
town has been the scene Of many brill
liant functions for charity's sake
Black and White.
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found useful for certain conditions.
This blade. as shown in the engraving.
is rounded AT the lower corner of each
end. 50 as to prevent injury 10 the
plants.
These blades are sufficient for o.
binary surface work. but when deeper
cultivation is required, cultivator teeth
may he attached to the shovel blades,
as shown il the sectional views. These
teeth are Of various sizes ard shares
to suit different requirements. Some
of the blades employed may be turned
backward. others downward. and 9TH
ers again may be made with turned
ends. The object of turning the teeth
backward is 10 shovel the dirt in
the drills among the plants.
The implement is very effective and
Of simple construction. 1t Is also
very light. and by its use plants may
be readily kept under required cutiva-
tion.-Scientific American. ,.ar,,
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SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS
Weekly Bulletin From the Depart
ment.

The week ending s a. M, Monday,
April Goth. had an average temperature
Of 81 degrees, which is about degrees
below normal. The temperatures were
low enough for light frosts on the
18th, 18th, 18th and 18th, and some
frost was noted on each of these days,
but on the 18th only was it general.
These frosts did no perceptible injury.
except to check termination. and
growth of crops that are up. The rains
retarded teamwork in the west until
near the close of the week. so that
neither plowing nor planting made
much progress, but in the eastern and
central divisions, both progressed rap
idly. Some hail was noted on the 14th,
and snow flurries on the 18th in the eX-
treme west.
Flowing and farmwork in general are
more backward in the western division
than usual. A small portion only OF the
upland corn crop has been planted, and
none on bottom lands, and cotton
planting has only begun. The weather
conditions were more favorable in the
east, where upland corn, cotton and
rice planting are almost finished, eX-
cept the low-lands in the Georgetown
district devoted to rice that continue
too wet to work. More than half the
tobacco acreage has been transDlanted.
and the set plants are doing well, al
most all of them being alive, the
weather having been suited to this
work.
Much corn has come up TO from poor
to fair stands, and some has been culti-
waited but stands were thinned by birds
and worms in places, necessitating
replanting.! The cool weather caused
young corn, cotton and rice to look
siekly and yellow. There is, however,
but little cotton up
Oats improved in few sections, al
though generally they deteriorated be-
ing still infested with lice. and the cold
weather is said also to be injurious.
Rust is prevalent on both wheat and
cats. Oats are heading in many places,
and in Charleston county will soon be
ripe. Wheat is heading also but is un-
promising owing to rust and insects.
The fruit prospects ere good in most
sections. although uncertain in others,
although the frosts did no injury to
peaches. Gardens are improving. Truck
shipments continue heavy, especially
Of strawberries. White potatoes are IN
bloom in the coast truck districts, but
Colorado beetles are numerous and de-
structive. The rains caused some OF
the clay lands to become packed and
hard to plow.
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How Long TO MIX y Cow.

An important and unsettled question
is how lons cow should be MIXED.
Though there are no experiments that
can be used for guides. Professor HecNer
says the record OF the dairy herd at the
Minnesota Experiment Station gives
,:soanc information OH the subject.
1t has been found invariably that the
COWS do better when given rest OF
from six to ten weeks, than when
MIXED m till week Or two before
paiyinc. Some cases would indicate.
however. that COWS are much more
subject 80 fever aite- long rest than
silo.s ere. There can be no set rule
as - how long COW should be dry.
as this Will depend upon the age, con-
G:t.eu. breed and quality OF the ind!-
yidi:al animal y heifer or young COW
should be MIXED longer than IN Old
COW. II the heifer gets a long rest the
first year che may form the tendency
TO dry up early. \ COW much run down
!. in strength and flesh should be given
tine to build up. A good COW will
milk longer than pooc COW. 1t would
be practicable to milk the dairy COW
ten months in the year, While in the
case &C some common COWS it Nigh;
not be profitable to milk more than
seven. Taking it all in all. it will be
Z found most practicable TO give the
cows about two months rest between
the milking periods.
Does it injurc COW materilly as q
mixer TO allow her first calf to rur
with her during the summer? That is
when they come fresh in the spring OF
carly summer, and are MIXED after
stabiing time begins in the fall?
Th:s should never De done when the
heifer is intended for dairying. The
: first year is by far the most important
in the making of cow. Letting the
calf suck has the following objections
The heifer as COW will take less kind
: 1y to being milked. The mak being
{ drawn frequently by the calf prevent:
: the udder from developing capacity
When the calf is removed. the cow gen
orally dries up. She will not appre
Z ciate the change and cease to milk q:
rescit. A COW nursing calf will
dry Up sooner than If being milked
I Letting the calf suck tends to shorter
= the milking period. 1t is harder OIL
the COW physically. A calf can b
raised more cheaply on skim milk.
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yrcful Feeding.

follow the false doctrine that we
ould measure the supply or nutri'
ents by the yield OF milk. and when
ever the COW drops in yield, we punish
her. and through her. ourselves. by
making corresponding reduction i'll
the food supply. We forget the drafts
upon the feed other than for the pro-
duction of milk, and We forget that
these drafts increase as the time for
the birth Of the next calf approaches.
Remember, on thc other side, the dam
ger Of milk-fever. and guarding our
selves against it us best We may dur
Ing the last three weeks prior to the
birth OF the calf. we want to continue
q good full ration of roughage and
grain we'll through the entire period
of actation.-Clintor d. Smith, in The
Cultivatu-
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Adjustable Surface cultivator.

A surface cultivatOr which can read
fly be adjusted to various widths be-
tween rows, and to which cultivator
teeth o. small plows may he quickly
attached when it is desired to culti-
vate the ground more deeply, forms
the subject matter Of an invention re-
Gently patented by Mr.. W. S. Neal, of
Alabama. This device is adapted to
be moved by single horse and guided
by hand. With the shovel blade at
tachmelt it will be found particularly
useful ia removing any vegetation in
its path, and likewise will destroy any
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as shown so that the meat may be
easily put in and taken out. This
cover is arranged so that il can be
fastened with staple and hook when
the meat is being smoked. The smok-
ing arrangement OF this box is an ideal
one. A hole is dug in the ground SIX
I or eight feet from the box and trench
dug from the hole TO q point about the
middle of the box. Have Z length of
stove pipe fastened TO an old. heavy
Tin kettle. into which hole has been
cut by the tinsmith. When ready to
smoke the meat build fire of corn
cobs in the kettle, set it in the hole
and add stove pipe lengths TO the CEN
tire OF the house, terminating with ali
elbow. After the fire is well started
cover the kettle with piece Of tin, to
force all the smoke possible through
the Stove pipe into the house. All
-cracsSs about the house should be filed
in so that the smoke will not escape.
This is crude affair, but it does the
work quite as well as the most expen-
.siye appliances attached to smoke
hoascs.