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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Sons of Veterans.

The Hon. Thomas NJ. owen, state com mander of the Alabama division United Sons of Confederate veterans, arrived in the city last night and went at once to the Florence hotel. where he met repre- Sentatives of Camp Clayton, U. S. c. V. There was general discussion of the re- union and various matters connected with the third annual session of the Alabama division
 MT. Owen will remain in the city to- day and will confer further with the Sons as we'll as the veteans. He is eager that no effort should be spared to make the occasion memorable.
 He says large attendance of the Sons is expected. Judge Thomas G. Jones will be the orator of the occasion. This Is re- garded as exceedingly fortunate His ad- dress will be notable one. Judge Jones ranks as an orator of great force, and his utterances which will be of a patri- otic character, will be inspiring and full of stimulus to young men.
 MT. Owens headquarters will be at the Hotel Hillman during the reunion. He will be accompanied by several mem bers of his staff
 The general order converting the Sons in reunion will be issued in a few days. It will contain all details.
 Camp Clayton will hold another meet ing Monday night. October 26. in the county court house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
WHAT BREEDS SOCIAL HATE.
Only the UnseemIy Use of Wealth An
 gers the Less Favored Ones.
.om the Chicago Inter Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 "fo fiaunt fine clothes in the eyes of the poor" said Mrs. Frank R. LilIie the other day to woman's club, breeds dis content and anarchy If Mrs. Lillie should go among the poor in a way to learn what they really feel we believe she would discover that her statement was substantially incorrect
 Seldom do the poor, as such, maliciously resent any proper use of wealth. The poor are human and the universal in- stinct of human nature is to approve such proper use. No man who lives according to his means is hated for that reason by his poorer neighbors.
 What does breed malicious discontent is not the proper and decent spending of wealth, but the vulgar wasting of wealth. Fine clothes decently worn at proper times and places excite no malice The poorest dress as we'll as they can afford, and like to see others do likewise But the man who puts on fine raiment and goes forth merely to show that he has money to burn" does excite contempt, and does breed dscontent.
 What are the amusements of the rich that arouse unfavorable comment? Are they not those which make no appeal to the intellect or the finer emotions? Which gratify no taste that ought to be gratifed? Which are engaged in merely because they are either very costly or very foolish, or both? Are they not such things as the Seeley dinner, or the Waterbury circus, or an elaborate dinner with a monkey as the guest of honor? Are they not those acts which display neither imagination, reason, nor good taste, but simply show that those who engage in them have a great deal of money to throw away and are bound that the world shall know 1t?
 Neither the decent comfort of the well to do nor the decent luxury of the rich breeds malicious discontent. To the mass of mankind a rich man Is in some ways a great man, and all like to see greatness demean itself as becomes its station. Not the seemly use of wealth, but its unseem- ly abuse, Is what arouses social hatred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
HOW MANY REFUSE PASSES.

From the Galveston News.
 It Is intimated from Washington that the democratic members of congress will push as a campaign issue the acceptance of President Roosevelt of free rides on the railroads. They must get up some- thing stronger than this if they would have their party win. Something serious must be pushed forward as an Issue. When one reads of such an issue as that proposed it begins to look as If the demo- cratic members of congress did not care for their party to win. great many members of congress have free passes and collect of the government free mileage besides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
About Persons.

Hon. Lewis Schuessler of Lafayette, a member of the legislature and promi- nent banker, is stopping at the Florence. Judge J. H. Johnson of Dadeville, is at the Metropolitan. The judge is ex-probate judge of Tallapoosa county and one of the leading citizens of East Alabama. F. L. Woodruff, prominent citizen of Montgomery. is at the Hillman.
 Dr. A. J. McLain of Salem, is in the city.
 c. A. Dudley of Florence, is registered at the Morris.
 NJ. w. Ryan of Boston, was one of the St. Nicholas late arrivals last night. c. L Harrell leading citizen of Gal lion, is at the Florence.
 A. Uhlfelden of Montgomery, state man. ager of the Equitable Life Insurance com pany of New York. is stopping at the Met ropolitan.
 B. R. Ellsberry of Montgomery, is at the Morris.
 Dr. J. w. Rutherford of Franklin, was among the Morris arrivals last night.
 
 l.. E. Cook of Mobile. and A. H. Avery of Shelby, are at the Hillman.
 w. H. Passenger, vice president and southern manager of the Republic Iron and Steel company, is in New York. s. H. March of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., of New York, is at the Hillman. J. T. Dunn of sulligent is at the St. Nicholas. E. ". Hardeman, one of the United
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
THE ETERNAL QUESTION.
How One Community Solved the Serv-
 ant Girl Problem.
From the Housekeeper.

From the Housekeeper.
 From San Miguel, a mining camp in the copper country of Southern Arizona, come the glad tidings that the great problem of the centuries has at last been solved and by women, of course. The recent celebration of its fourth an- niversary by the San Miguel Cooperative Cooking Club calls attention to the man ner in which the servant question has been robbed of it's terrors through the successful inauguration of community of interest" plan. This club consists of forty-five families, accustomed to refine ment and pleasant surroundings. Some four years ago the women of the camp, after unsuccessful individual attempts to procure and retain proper domestic service, put their heads together and or ganlzed the club leased a suitable house in the central part of the town, engaged a matron, and hired a number of capable Chinese servants. Each family has its own table to themselves. The purchase of the supplies is intruSted to an execu- tive committee of three. Experience shows that the average families have saved on an average of 50 per cent in liv-
 
 club, the service Is better, and the food is of a higher quality l.ian could have been afforded under the old system.
 It is apparent at a glance that the con- ditions which made the San Miguel Cook ing Club a success are not common to all parts of the United States. Chinese ser Nants for instance, are not generally procurable. and there is feeling of comradeship, engendered by the sharing of hardships, in the less thickly settled communities, that is not so apparent in those sections of the country which have been longer inhabitated. But the relief experienced by the housekeepers of San Miguel from the haunting fear that Brid- get may give notice" any day, or exact a few additional privileges from her long-suffering employer. must be delight full and the success of the San Miguel ex- pertinent will at least serve as a valuable object lesson in the solving of this most vexatious problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
A HAUNTED HOUSE.

By Theodosia Garrison, in Life. Love came to me grown sadly wise, With little longing in his eyes,
 Yet missed l naught, mine own so dim. So blind. for very love of him. He gave me housing in his heart Alone l live in every part,
 Yet everywhere there seems to spring Signs of another tenanting. I may not know her name or face Who made this heart her dwelling place, Yet everywhere there seems to stir The shadow of the thought of her. Strange in this home of mine rest Forever an unwelcome guest,
 Feeling her silent enmity,
 That mistress whom may not see. Owner and stranger have I stayed, Defiant and yet all afraid.
 For they have dreams too strange to
 tell
 Who in haunted house must dwell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
Music at the Fair.

'Srhe music at the fair is supplied by three bands and each band ranks in the first class" said a local musician.
 "The Seventh Regiment band Is a superb organization. Memolis band Is better this season than ever, and Robinson's Amuse- ment company brings an exceptionally fine band.
 Lover of music who go to the fair would get their moneys worth if there were no attractions but the music But there are other attractions galore, and The week promises to be one of great pleas ure to thousands of Birmingham people as we'll as country folk"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
LAM BS.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 In the Wall street "zoo." as every we'll informed child in this land knows, there are three kinds of animaIs-buIls, bears and lambs. Moreover, there exist there only these three kinds of animals, for every man in Wall street. whether a capitalist or "piker" professional or an amateur, broker or a customer, falls under one of the three types. Heretofore it has been accepted~as automatic that all brokers are either bears or bulls. or, to put 1t from the reverse point of view, that no brokers are lambs. The events of last week have made it appear, however, that this is all wrong, and that the brok- CTS are the most innocent and lamblike of all the Wall street tribe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20

From the New York World
 T IS SETTLED that New York is to
 have moving platforms" over the 5 new Williamsburg bridge.
 What was at first fouted as the ec- centric conception of an over jealous of ficial has progressed far enough to war rant the statement that within two years lyn or to downtown New York from Brooklyn, will probably be by way of this novel triple speed arrangement. The promoters rather object to the term moving platforms' or moving side walks" They want it called "continu- ous railway"
 And what is this continuous train, or moving platform scheme? The principle of operation is very simple. Take two or three lead pencils. Lay them at equal distances apart and put over them a pos tai card. Give the card forward move ment. There you have the intricate mys- tery of the platform already solved.
 Increase the size of your pencils. Sim plieity The speed increases. and 1t Is by the nursery method that the platforms will move with varying rates of speed.
 The proposed route of the railway is over the Williamsburg bridge to Delaney street, down the Bowery to Canal street thence along Center to the Brooklyn bridge to Nassau street thence to Broad and down to the Battery.
 This route is liable to be changed 9th CTS have been suggested carrying the platforms in the same general direction. NO final decision will be made until a formal report is made by William Bar clay Parsons, chief engineer of the Rapid Transit commission. When they get to Manhattan the platforms will move in a tunnel. Over the bridge they will go un- der an ornamental glass roof.
 When the job is complete there will be over the bridge a continuous train and two moving platforms. The train is a se- ries of seats facing the direction in which the platforms move, with a capacity on each seat of three passengers. These seats will be of steel, laced to the plat forms, which will also be of steel The train with the steel seats is to move across the bridge at the speed of nine miles an hour.
 Paralleling the train will be two plat forms, one operated at six and the other at three miles an hour. There will be no trouble in getting from the stationary platform to that going three miles, and passengers can step from one platform to the other without the least inconvenience. The glass covering over the platforms will be comfortably heated in the winter, but in the spring and summer the glass covering will be removed and the passage made in the open air.
 The care are joined Or coupled so as to present continuous line of car flooring without openings. It is from this fact that the platforms were called at first moving sidewalks The mechanism per- mits the turning of sharp curves, and be- ing endless and self balanced, admits of much sleeper grades than do ordinary railways.
 When the scheme was first proposed it was intended to extend the platforms only across the bridge proper, but because they could be operated at any grade. and be- cause they could make the most acute turns 1t was decided to extend them through subway to Bowling Green.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
Oldest Clock in the World.

From October St. Nicholas.
 The great clock of Wells Cathedral. in Somersetshire, England is very nearly the oldest and certainly one of the most inter esting of clocks in existence. It was built in 1922 by Peter Lightfoot, one of the monks of Glastonbury Abbey. six miles from Wells, where it ran for 250 years, until the abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII and its last abbot hanged over his own gateway. The clock was then removed to Wells, where it has been running ever since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
Or. Dickinson on Text Books.

The Rev. Dr. Dickinson's reply to
 overnor Jelks shows plainly he has
 vanced from his original position of
 ostility to the stamp and other fea- lures of the new plan to a scheme of general opposition. He now proposes t01upset what he calls an obnoxious x," although it has just gone into operation with satisfaction to pupils, teachers and parents alike. Contracts have been entered into, books distrib- uted, and schools opened. The present plan Is, he declares, "in restraint of the rights of trade, radical, revolutionary, socialistic." AS the public schools are strictly socialistic institutions, the books obtained under the new law must be in keeping with the schools themselves. The text book law is radi- cal and revolutionary so far as. the books formerly in use in the little rural schools are concerned. It drove out, hr example, the geography in which Birmingham was unknown and without location. This book was found in a Jefferson county school The radical and revolutionary text book law ban ished it and many like it from the rural schools.
 Dr. Dickinson is still contending for his famous rights of trade. His book prices would seem to be the prices of a clergyman who is not familiar with tfe trade and trade prices. He admits, fin fact, that there are communities where prices of school books were higher before the passage of the text book law than th,y are now. Birming- ham was one of those places, the board of education putting the reduction ef- fected in this town at IA per cent. A reduction of IA per cent in this town could well be three or four times as much in the back districts.
 The truth is, the good doctor should consider the little rural school more, and his own trade rights in this central city less. No child has ever suffered harm on the score of text books in this town, and now when a law has been passed that lifts the rural school up to the city school, Dr. Dickinson steps up and proposes to smash it. He should remember the little school in Winston, to which The Aga-Herald has once be- fore called his attention. His text book law is acceptable in the cities. It harms no one, and it will wonderfully help the little rural schools, and all know they need all the help that the state can carry to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
TO CROSS EAST RIVER
 ON A MOVING PLATFORM

The cost of the great undertaking has not been accurately determined. but by
 the most competent engineers 1t has been | fixed at a minimum of nine million dol- l lars
 l The original company backing the enter prise was willing to spend only three mil l lion dollars, but new capital has been l found and now the Rapid Transit commis- sion is assured that the men behind the scheme are responsible for almost any sum.
 1 Under the original proposition the com pany insisted that the city should pay the | full cost of constructing the moving plat forms and that the company should as- sume the lease, charging a fare of only one cent. "We have no such amount to
 invest" was the reply of Mayor Low to
 those who then urged the plan. The
 company then agreed to construct the railway on condition that 1t be allow
 ed to collect a fare of two and one-half cents from every passenger. or five cents
 for the round trip.
 The capacity is very lage. At the speed of nine miles an hour, which it is pro- pOSeu tO uSe on lIe pAioSCs
 10000 seated passengers can be readily transported in an hour A seat on a nov ing platform is accessible the instant
 person reaches the station. The most try ing of all discomforts, waiting in a crowd Is therefore disposed of. One track for a moving platform may be taken as equal to four tracks for crowded trolley cars,
 with this difference that with the plat forms every passenger can have seat,
 while two-thrds of the passengers on the trolley cars have to stand.
 Max Schmidt. the promoter of the en-
 terprise, said of it recently There is ab- solutely no danger in the operation of the moving platforms. Since they were first operated in Chicago numerous improve ments have been made. The majority Of the parts making up the mechanism are stationary and can be easily inspected
 The motors, wheels, gearings and axles can be inspected while the platforms themselves are in motion. There is no such thing as hot box. The axles make revolutions averaging 105 per minte. The motor unit Is about ten horse power. The only weight of the whole outfit is the platforms themselves
 "The train is endless, therefore the push and pull are so neutralized that there Is none of the jolt and jar so cus- tomary with trolley cars and other trains. Safety chains lace up the couplings be- tween platforms so that they cannot be- come separated I might describe the sensation of travelling on these trains as almost next to flying. They move over rubber tires and this adds to the smooth ness. There are circuit brakes and safe- ty switches at every station. These can be brought into immediate use by the guards Should the platform stop the worst that could happen would be for the passengers to get out of their seats and walk across the bridge.
 q am satisfied that when once tried these platforms will become so satisfac- tory that they will be put in use on the Brooklyn Manhattan and Blackwell's Island bridges In fact, we have made arrangements by which, should our pro- posed route be adopted, the platforms can be easily extended over any of these structures.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
Melville Philips in the New York Mail and
Express.

Express.
 6CHE London literary correspondent,
 N MT. Alden, of the '"Times," re-
 ports an assertion that 'there are at the present time not more than five authors in England whose Incomes from their writings are more than those of minor editors, '' whatever the latter may be. Then MT. Alden goes on to have fun with the British sub-editor and to sug- gest that if these five authors are Miss Corelli, Sir Conan Doyle and Messrs. Kipling, Crockett and Hall Caine, then "the sub-edtors of England must be roll ing in wealth."
 As to the writers of books or the con- tributors to current literature, none, of course, but the publishers and authors themselves know exactly what the profits are. This much Is known, however that but a few months are needed to deter mine the fate of a book designed to be popular. and the average or common roy alty is 10 per cent, and the sale about a thousand copies.
 The few worthy authors who have made considerable money from their writings might be counted on ones finger ends. The financial success of Scott and Dumas was achieved in the day when they were creating the historical romance, and now that the diffusion or emulsion of that form of fiction has thinned to the degree at which the healthy literary stomach re- volts, the royalty may be as great in it's aggregate as was once the retaining fee" paid down before production.
 It would be unfair. as having a ten- dency to cheapen literary goods, to quote the prices known to have been paid for poems by authors now widely read. This, at least, can be said. from personal knowl- edge, that the verses of woman who is at present one of those auriferous sub editors on New York paper, when even in the height of such fame as Mary Mac Lane recently won, were syndcated at & each. To this might be opposed the $10-a- fine said to have been paid to Rudyard Kipling; but the comparison would have the same value. perhaps, as the business deals made severally by John Milton for his Paradise Lost," and E. P. Roe for his "Opening of a Chestnut Burr" That was something like $50 to $50oO.
 We are in a time when publishing condi- tions have most materially changed when Byron and Shelley, if alive, could not go off to Italy and Greece and get sl0O canto Poetry. as we know 1t to- day, is not so old or valuable as some persons think. The woods are full or rhymesters more than willing to appear in print for nothing a stanza. Sir Walter Besant made the astounding statement that the author who is his own publisher .is allying himself with lunatic." Yet nine years ago. over his signature, and when plain Walter Besant, he wrote of his first book. produced in collaboration with James Rice: ''We had 1t printed and bound at our own expense" Of course that is frequently and as successfully done.
 Albion w. Tourgee. until few months ago our consul at Marseilles, and now 4----.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
Birmingham Not Affected.

The failures in Baltimore yesterday did not affect any interest in the Birming- ham district. There is considerable Bal timore capital invested in Alabama, but the concerns back of these investments are exceptionally solid.
 Birmingham was never in more pros porous condition than 1t is today, and there is every prospect of prosperity con- tinuing for some time to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
AIaska's New Boundary.

An evenly balanced commission has decided that Canadas contention for a boundary extending back thirty miles from the mouth of bays along the Alaskan coast is untenable. Lord Al verton, chief justice of England, voted with the American commission, hold ing that the United States is entitled to a strip thirty miles wide from the head of bays. The treaty of 1925 be- tween Russia and Great Britain was adhered to and forty years of uncon. tested Russian occupation had it's weight
 The commission, however, stayed the boundary at the Portland canal, which turns northward. This brings the thirty-mile strip to an end at the fifty-sixth parallel, giving Canada a good terminal for a railroad, at point about 140 miles south of the Tanu river and about 200 miles south of Skaguay, both of which are in the American str-Q. The Portland canal affords Canada reasonably good access to the gold fields of the Far North, and after Canada becomes accustomed to the decision she will accept it, and make the most of it. She Gan readily build line to Skaguay or Dawson City.
 It is fortunate indeed that the per. pleMng Canadian boundary claim has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20

been settled. It was an irritating and possible source 1f trouble. Judgment by an evenly balanced commission has taken it out of the way, and the two great Anglo-Saxon countries have noth- ing to squabble about. These two countries have no moral right to squab ble at all. The shades of Shakespeare forbid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20
Will See the Circus.

Nearly every one of the visitors to Birmingham this week will remain until Saturday to take in the circus" said an actor.
 ''The old time circus was wonderfully attractive to boys and country folk, but the Barnum & Bailey show draws every body. Few dramas on the stage are so artistic or so refined as this performance under the tent. No form of amusement has developed along broader lines than the big circus. Within the past ten years it has been raised to the dignity of the theatre"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-20

The boil weevil is charged with the destruction this season of cotton worth s60,000,000. It had cotton bolls on it's bill of fare at every meal during the season.