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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
FIRES FROM ELECTRIC WIRING.
Danger From Old or Inefficient Insula
 tion-Safety Requires Care

1VduSeI II IOul 3Olu OT AuelIcl0ut 1Hsuid-
 ton Safety Requires Care
 One of the most difficult things all electrical insurance department has to do is to prove to the lay mind that an installation which has been in use for several years is in unsafe condition. owing to the poor condition of the in salation The claim is made, and per haps rightly, that the equipment has not given any great amount of trouble, and it is, therefore, difficult to convince the assured of the possibility of fire from electrical causes, as they fail to appreciate the fact that the efforts of the fire department are directed toward the prevention of fires. rather than in determining the cause or origin of a fire after 1t has occurred.
 '. The old saying that Familiarity breeds contempt is most applicable to the average electrical equipment when under the supervision of persons who know nothing of the inherent dan- ger of the system. As a rule. no sooner is an equipment completed than more or less extensive changes and alterations are instituted, these additions and changes being made without any regard whatever to the ordinary precautions which are sup posed to be taken in connection with electrical work.
 It is a common thing to find on the average equipment, after it has been in service a shorh time, the panel boards Or cut-outs. which. for protec- tion. were encased in cabinets con structed of or lined with, slate. iron or similar material. used as storage clos comibustible things When the incio- sures are too small for this purpose, the doors are either left open or, re- moved. and material of the most com bustible nature is stored in direct con tact with open fuses, bare bus bars and switches.
 The ease with which an electric light or fan can be installed at any point in a building. or with which changes can be made in the position of a lamp. using for this purpose fex- ible cord and connecting it to the most convenient source of supply, is perhaps one of the most common and fragrant violations of prescribed rules. As it requires but a short time. usually. for the insulation on this cord to become a7braded or so dry and hard as to break at any point where it may be disturbed. it can be seen that this con dition is likely to result in trouble at any place on the circuit
 The use of large copper wire and extraordinarily heavy fuses in cut-outs. after thag fuse originally installed has operated. is on the same order. This can be compared in recklessness only to the tying down of the safety valve on steam boiler. A little knowledge of electricity and the laws which gov ern it in it's application to power and lighting systems. well seasoned with ordinary common sense. would enable almost anyone to understand the aver age precautions necessary in the safe guarding of electrical wiring and ap- paratus. and if this knowledge. so sea soned were only occasionally applied the fire losses from electrical causes would be largely diminished.-Cas sier's Magazine.
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
Enamel for +he Stove.

A fine housekeeper says since paint ing her kitchen range she has never blackened it with stove polish. Every spring when cleaning house she buys can of enamel from druggist and paints her stove with it. The stove looks like new, does not rust, and needs no cleaning, except dusting and wip- ing off
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
IN THESE EARLY INDIAN SUM-
 MFR DAYS

there are many who take to the woods for an outing. The air is balmy; the beautiful variegated foliage of the trees; the pleasure of poking among the leaves for ripened nuts, watching the lively squirrels and chipmunks playing about the trees; listen to the screeching and whistling of the birds returning home: enjoying the gorgeous sunset through the hay air: laden with nuts and richly colored leaves, arriv- ing at the house it is often cold and cheerless. Have bag of BROWNS OUICKFIRE CHARCOAL handy; it will soon make a pleasant fire and have the home feel as it ought to.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
King Oacar,a Incnme.

The royal family of Sweden Is a thrifty one. It has civil list of very nearly half million dollars fro1h Nor way and Sweden, and, in addition the king has little more than $S2.o0o a year from the fund voted to King Carl XIV. and his successors. At the same time his majesty has palaces both in the city and country, in Sweden and Nor way, and he owns stock in many un- dertakings
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
Only Safe Way.

Wickwire-You ought to be ashamed of the way you encourage that Mrs. Cos sip to call here. Do you really enjoy hearing your neighbors talked about? :?
 Mrs. Wickwire-No. can't say that do. But as long as keep her here, know she is not talking about melon don Tit-Bits.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
Cream Candy.

One pint granulated sugar, one-half pint water, three tablespoonfuls vinegar and a piece of butter the size of awal- nut Boil without stirring, until it threads, then pull as soon as cool enough to be handled.-Farm and Home.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
A Princes Amusement.

The favorite pastIme of the prince of Wales, when child, was that of sailing little boats. These were specially made for him, and consisted of every kind of river craft. His royal highness still preserves these-now very valuable playthings, and they are carefully kept in large cupboard at one of lis resi- deuces
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
'EHnvy.

'I never saw him so gloomy as he is these days. He looks as if he had lost lot of money
 Next thing to it. One of his friends has just inherited lot ot"-Philadelphia Press
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
The Insect Bell.

The most prized of the singing insects of Japan is a black beetle called "susu- mushi, or insect bell" It's singing resembles the dainty sound of sweet toned silver bell
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27

T0 CTTRE A CnLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab let's. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Groves sig nature Is on each box. 25c.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
s. M. Schneer, 19S South Main, corner Grand street.
 Telephone connection.
The New York Tailoring Co

Have opened their new store at 130 North Main street, and beg b call your attention to their fine and large stock of domestic and imported woolens. We are making up gentlemen's suits, giv- ing a perfect fit and frst-class work manship. Suits are made from S15 up. Fine Trousers are made from S5 up.
 We make speciality of cleaning rressing and repairing, ,renovating every suit and making it look like new. Sujts nressed. soc; suits cleaned and pressed 75c: suits secured and pressed, s1.50. trousers pressed, 15c.
 We also make Ladies Suits and par- nnents in the latest styles and perfectly tailor made. Pressing. repairing and dTeing anJ ladies garments. suits skirts. is also one of our leading sne. cialties. Repairing done at half-price.
 Send postal and we will immediate iy send a boy to bring and return your clothes. done in a first-class condition.
 Remember the address.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27
GEORGE SIMMONS. Livery and Boarding
 Stables. Fine TufnOuts. 525 No. Main .St.

FRESH SALMON, zoe ID.
 Long Island Scadlops, Green Smelts. Native Pickerel. Harb Blues. Perch Pike, Finnan Haddie Kippered Her. rings, Smoked Sti1r. con, Maine and Long Island Clans; Native Spring Chicken. 20c ID; Native Fowl, f6c lb, this week at
 FULTON FISH MARKET.
 262 Cherry street. Phone 213-A.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27

If so, call at 1os South Main street corner of Grand -treet. at the jewelr. store. It is not . pawnbroker's shop but we accon'~aodate those tha would not be s~en in a pawn shop Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and Jew elry at uulrorm low prices, also on special easy terms. All kinds of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired and warranted. Respectfully,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30

nothing but travel from city to city since they left Birmingham on their bridal tour, having visited Cincinnati, Buffalo, Mag ara Falls, New York aud all the Atlantic coast resorts.
 L. L. Plummer of Coronado is at the Metropolitan.
 Dr. W. c. Hearn of Talladega is reg istered at the Hiilman.
 The Hon. J. Craig Smith of Montgomery was registered at the Morris yesterday.
 J. o. Hixon of Austin, Tex, is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 c. M. Coate of Chicago is registered at the Hillman.
 George Mcdonald of Pensacola is stop ping at the Morris.
 E. E. o'Neal of Jacksonville is regis tered at the Metropolitan.
 Felix L. Smith of Rockford is stopping at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
MT. Hanna and inc Ex-SIayes.

Near Thomasville, Ga, northern negro named Wilson recently obtained about $6000 from men of his own race for the purpose of pushing Senator Hanna's bill to pension ex-slaves. Will sons operations extended over DOT tions of both Georgia and Florida, and his campaign was both aggressive and successful. This is but one of se- ries of similar swindles conducted in the name of the Ohio senator and un- der the cover of the bill he introduced The real and essential facts connected with the introduction of the bill are suppressed by the agitators, and the Ignorant negroes are led to believe that the bill has Mir. Hanna's endorse ment-that he stands ready to push 1t through congress, but that he must have help, and that help must be of a pecuniary nature Campaigns before congress, the negroes are told, are conducted on money basis, which is to some extent true.
 Morally speaking the Ohio senator should make good the losses that have arisen from his thoughtless and ride ulous action. Anyone with half an
  ,who requested the introduction of the bill had something up his sleeve, and when the Ohio senator permitted him self to become his tool in congress, he became morally responsible for such raids as the negro Wilson made near Thomasvilie, thereby filling his purse with s6000 taken from ignorant ne- groes.
 The bill is dead. It never had any chance of passage. It died with the congress in which it was introduced, and negroes everywhere should take warning from the Thomasville swim dle MT. Hanna cannot readily divest himself of responsibility in this mat ter He lent his name to preposter- ous proposition, and he should at least attempt to undo the mischief that the thoughtless introduction of the bill hac wrought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
Demand and Supply After All.

It seems to be well established that the Brown bull clique, composed who'll ly of New Orleans men, did success fully corner the cotton crop, and that their profits were about $7,000,000. Never before has the great crop been successfully cornered. Others had attempted it, but it brought losses in stead of profits.
 The truth is, w. P. Brown and his friends had the facts and the situa- tion on their side. The spinning in terests fought them, but the spinning interests were compelled to accept the bull clique's terms, simply because tLere was not cotton enough left to go round. The world needs more and more cotton each year, and the south is not increasing its crop commensur- ately. Ten millions of bales is still an average crop, and there the producers seem to stick. We must grow more cotton if we are to hold the field as tn> producer of the commercial crop of the world.
 It is a mooted question as to what prices would have been if the Brown bull clique had net come into the game. Some think that prices would have been just as high-that the want of spot cotton in August and Septem- Der would have carried prices to present figures, and that there would have been less friction and less clos ing of mills. Supply and demand are after all controlling, and it is indeed doubtful whether the bull pool changed the situation.
 The lack of spot cotton has at any rate been extended to the new crop months, and December cotton is now selling around ten cents. The exten- sion of pool prices to the fall months is in fact all tho benefit that producers will derive from the efforts of the bull pool or rather from the spot situation. At present it lookc as if the entire new crop would be marketed at about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
1903 and 1893.

The New York Sun prints figures which show for 1893 a decline in values of railroad stocks of $1, BOG, ,OO0,- 900 on a capitalization of $4 4,66S, O00,- GOO, as compared with a decline by these same stocks in seven months in 1903 of $2,65O, ,56O,0 ,000 on a capitaliza- tion of s6,024, 100000. Railroad bonds shrank in value $567, ,4S0, ,OO0 in 1899, as compared with $500, ,430,OOO this year. The total shrinkage for this year is shown to be $3,150, ,000,0 900, as compared with $I,9O0,000OOO in the panic year of 1893. A calculation on the vicissitudes of the stocks and bonds of thirty-fve representative railroads shows that the percentage of loss in 1903 was A, as against 2S in 1893
 But there the comparison ends; 1893 was strewn with failures, re- ceiverships, disasters and general prostration of business. In 1903 there have been few failures indeed-prac- tically no increase in their number and no material disturbance of general trade and business. Wages have not been cut down, and many factories are running double shift No depression exists this year outside of the stock market; in 1893 depression was wide spread, touching every interest in every part of the country.
 What part the adoption of the gold standard had to do with the paralysis of 1893 it is not necessary to discuss at the present time. The historian will attend to that matter, and he will do it impartially.
 But there is one thing which seems to explain the indifference of general business to the troubles of Wall street, and that thing is found in the difference between the quotations of leading railroad stocks in 1893 and in 1903. The present low prices of rail- road stocks are as rule on a level with the high prices of 1893. In other words, stocks were boomed in the pro- motion period from which we have just emerged far beyond their worth, and the slump in Wall street has simply brought them down to true values. Normality has been to some extent restored in Wall street, and this is perhaps the reason why the troubles of Wall street have been without material effect upon national prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30

plished nothing valuable or important. Before it's adoption pubic affairs were manipulated by bosses and cliques, and if public affairs must still be man. aged in that way the gain is nil. It would be in short violation of the spirit of the constitution of 1901 to re- fuse to give the new electorate secu- rity and peace and harmony in the form of an authoritative and compre- hensive primary lava law that would render a movement on the part of politicians against popular rule i'm possible.
 We may not all admire the action of the Mississippi democrats, acting under an excellent state primary law, but it was their will that Senator Money should be reelected, and that Major Vardaman should be their next governor, and to a man they will ac- quiesce in the decision of the state primary. Thus state primary of the authoritative sort no. only hands all political power over to the people to the new electorate in this state but it renders faction and bolting inn possible. No one organizes bolt against the action of the people. No one has had the audacity to consider even such a harebrained project. No one ever will The Age-Herald is therefore convinced that the Indus t.al News will soon see primary law that will place Alabama in line with the progressive 8 -ates-that will be in keeping with the select elector- ate Of the new constitution-that will bring to this state of one party peace and prosperity. A state primary law touches every citizen, and in the broadest sense of tho word 1t will be the one general law of the coming session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
Under the New Constitution.

The Opelika Industrial News won- ders eff the legislature before it's final adjournment will give the people of Alabama an honest primary election law" It certainty will if reads alright the constitution of 1901. The very life of that document is a superior elector- ate capable of managing it's own pub Tic business without the intervention of guardians, who are self-appointed, and are always ready for a dicker.
 If the new elc-A--ate cannot select its own delegates and candidates. then the constitution of 1901 has accom-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30

nine cents, an this means a great deal to the south It means $450, ,000,- 900 in cash even if the crop be but len million bales, and every additional million of ha,es mears a great addi- tion to the wealth of the south. It is a long time since the outlook of the cotton farmers-the entire south for that matter-was brighter than it $ today, and it is . question whether any of this brightness is due to MT. Brown and his associates. It seems, in fact, to be a plain matter of demand and supply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
Remarkable Memory.

General John C. Black of Illinois, who has just been elected commanderin chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has one of the most remarkable memories l have ever known" said an Illinois man who knows him personally.
 "He has the reputation of never having forgotten a person who has been formally introduced to him. He not only retains the image of his friends face in his mlnd but he can call them by name wherever he meets them. l have seen him greet men whom he had not seen for years and with whom he never perhaps spoke more than half a dozen words, and call them by name as readily as though he came in daily contact with them.
 ''He has quite a reputation as lec- turer, and often after his lectures num- erous people come forward and are intro- duced to him. On the next visit he never fails to call them by name, and frequently recalls some circumstance that attended their former meeting. This is one of the qualities that makes the general so popu- lar. He is an ardent republican aud de- ing the best interests of the party. In spite of this fact. however he has thous- ands of friends among the democrats.
 T am sure his election to his new po- stion will be source of qualification to hosts of people throughout Illinois,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Better Than Last Year.

The Financial Age of yesterdays date says:
 As the time grows near when the de- mands of the harvesting season will be made upon the resources of the banks, It becomes apparent that conditions are much improved over those existing al this time last year Reports from the agricultural districts indicate that western banks are in good condition to meet all demands upon them for crop moving money this fall At the present time their position is such that they have found II impossible to loan all their funds at home and have been pretty generally lenders of money on the open market. whereas several years ago nearly all western banks were large borrowers from thelr New York and Chicago correspondents. Now they are in many cases lenders of money in these markets. and it is eXcep- tional when any of them appear as hor- rowers. They have been recently with drawing some of their money thus placed on the open market, and will continue to withdraw it as the season advances.
 The critical month of the crop moving period is usually October, and 1t is then that either the weakness or strength Of the banks become apparent. There will probably be a pinch at that time this year, as there always has been, but it is unlikely to congest the money markets as in 1902 Under our present currency system periodical disturbances are nat ural and beyond the power of resistance.
 Treasury figures indicate plentiful supply of funds. There is not only large surplus in the governments reserve vaults but there has also been an in- crease in circulation between August l, 1902, and August 1. 1903. of S122, 100000 of which about S55, GOO, 900 is in national bank notes. There has also been gain of $12- 000,O in gold certificates, against de- creases in gold coin of S11 900, and in "treasury notes of 1890" of s10,000.0O0 be- sides various minor changes In Wash ington as elsewhere the feeling prevails that fears of probable stringency during the autumn months has induced unusual preparations on the part of banks every where to meet 1t and that a repetition of last years experience is practically out of the question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
3 estlmated.

It has not gone backward an inch, and if it's water problems can be satis- factorily solved, it never will. When the country was exporting iron in the year 1900 this district furnished S4 per cent of the amount sent abroad by the entire country The opening of the Warrior will put this district in good position to do a great export bus iress whenever there is surplus of production in this country.
 A district that has ores which can | placed in the furnace stock house at 70 cents ton will he invincible when it has water transportation to the sea at a rate not exceeding 40 cents ton. Given an Open Warrior our record in the present six years will be eclipsed in the record of the next six years, and the next six years will be eclipsed by the succeeding six years if an isthmian canal can be opened.
 Our only problems are water prob lens. We need more water for both navigation and manufacturing pur- poses, and the man who contrives to bring in needful supply of water will be the districts greatest benefac- tor, especially if he at the same time gives us water communication with the Mississippi vallcy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
Ietric Tons.)

Total ....................40 40 SS9, 35S A, ,557.991
 It will be seen from this table that the decreases were comparatively unmport- ant. and were found only in a few coun- tries The most striking feature is the very large gain in the United States, which amounted to over half the total increase. Our country last year produced approximately 40 per cent of all the pig iron made in the world; its total output exceeded by nearly a million tons the united production lof Great Britain and Germany, which come next in order as producers. The details of the American production have been given already with full comment.
 The British production shows fair increase about per cent over the low figure reached in 1901. but it was still considerably below the maximum produc- tion of over 100000 tons. which was reached in 1887. The improvement in the British trade was largely due to a great CT export business; and this may be traced to the enormous home business done in the United States. The demands of domestic consumption compelled Amer ican manufacturers to withdraw from that competition for foreign orders which made considerable figure in our trade two and three years ago; and also forced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-30
Chewing Gum.

prevalent among young women as it was a few years ago, and it should be abated altogether said middle-aged man. T am not surprised to see girls of low breed ing chewing gum or even snuff, but why any young woman who dresses and acts in most respects like lady can use gum is past my understanding. Nothing. per- haps, differentiates so much the woman who is in the best society and one who is not as freedom from such an ugly habit as chewing and addiction to chew inqp