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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
Opening the State Fair,

The preparations of President Krebs and his coworkers are complete, and the State Fair will be opened today in fine style. Every attraction is on the spot, and all the exhibits in place. The work of preparation has been accom- plished in brief time, but it has been well done.
 Every citizen of this city should make it his duty to go out today to the Fair. A good start means a great deal, and an encouraging attendance is much needed today. The training and appearance of the troop of regular cavalry is worth the trip to the fair alone, and then there are numerous other things to see, including a mdi- way.
 The good people throughout the rest or the state will not pour in until next week, and today is peculiarly the citys own day. Today one will not be rude. ly 1ostled by the multitude and the home man can see without discomfort what President Krebs has accom- plished.
 Home appreciation is needed in or der to establish this state festival on a firm footing, and home appreciation will not be found lacking. The State Fair has been by adoption Birming, hams care and study, and it will be made better year by year until it has a fixed and popular place in the years mingham are behind it, and it will assuredly become a winner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15

places. The Age-Herald gives his own words, because they fit the situation in every county. He said: q then beg that you do not stop to indict the ignorant misdemeanant till you have first honestly tried to indict those who take life or restrain liberty without Justification or law. I believe it to be a fact that the indictment and trial of a guilty person of standing, of infu. enee and of intelligence, would do more to arouse a public sentiment of high-minded honesty than would the conviction of many petit misdemean- ors by the ignorant and those unknown save to his family and little circle of friends. Let us do our duty fearlessly, and not make examples alone of the poor, the ignorant, the unfortunate and the unknown"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
CHINESE PROVERBS.
New York World.

From the New York World
 A wise man adapts himself to circum- stances. as water shapes itself to the ves- sel that contains It.
 The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole lifetime.
 A vacant mind is open to all sugges- tions. as the hollow mountain returns (eehoes) all sounds.
 He who pursues the stag regards not hares.
 If the roots be left bare the grass will grow again.
 The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.
 A wise man forgets old grudges.
 Riches come better after poverty than poverty after riches.
 He who wishes to rise In the world should veil his ambition with the forms of humility.
 The gods cannot help man who loses opportunities.
 Dig we'll before you are thirsty (be prepared for contingencies).
 Borrowed money makes time short; working for others makes 1t long.
 Large fowls will not eat small grain (great mandarins are not content with little bribes).
 The best thing is to be respected and the next is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but worse still to be despised.
 One lash to a good horse; one word to a wise man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
HELEN KILLERS STUDIES.

From the New York Sun.
 No student returning to Cambridge is an object of more general interest than Miss Helen Keller, now a senior at Rad cliffe. Almost as soon as she had taken up her work Miss Keller was elected vice president of her class, an honor which was accorded her by her class mates during her freshman year. Her studies this year will consist of Profess sor Kittredge's Shakespearian course, pr. Neisons English literature, Professor Moore's course in Plautus, Cicero and Lucretius. and Professor Morgan and pr. Rand's course in Latin, which covers the Annals of Tacitus, the satires and epls- ties of Horace and selections from Cat ullus.
 Up to the present time Miss Keller has passed with credit all her college exami- nations. Once she has completed this years work as outlined she will have accomplished more in the way of schol- arship than any other person in the world so handicapped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
Art Furnishings.

q always consider it sure sign that a city is becoming wealthy when there are a number of art stores doing a flour ishng business,p said a Birmingham man. "so far we have only one firm of oriental merchants, and we were a lons time getting them. but when such expen- sive luxuries as they handle are in de- mand we may be sure that our people are not only beginning to appreciate the more beautiful things of life, but are also amassing the wherewith to satisfy their tastes.
 "A town as large as Birmingham should give very good patronage to deal CTS in handsome furnishings and artistic novelties of all kinds that do so much to brighten a home. Oriental merchants have a talent for making their places of business very pleasing to the eye, and one of their establishments adds at tractiveness to the down town district. We have not yet become cosmopolitan enough perhaps to have merchants from many lands tender us their wares, but when the town has reached the proper degree of affiuence, and our people have more time to devote to such things we may expect to have all the advantages for purchasing novelties that are to be had in large eastern cities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15

of the Southern university, Greensboro, is at the Florence The doctor Is in fine health and reports the conditions of the Southern university to be in most ex- eellent shape.
 Charles P. Jones of Montgomery. assist ant district attorney for the Louisville and Nashville railroad. is at the Hill- man.
 George Mitchell of Nashville is register ed at the St. Nicholas.
 The Rev. o. c. McGee, pastor of the First Methodist church at Greensboro. is stopping at the Florence.
 
 W. J. Hurst of Selma is registered at the Morris.
 . Fred stukenburg manager of the Kings Hay Farmer of Massillon stopped at the Metropolitan few hours last night en route to Covington, Ky.
 w. H. Ewing of Chattanooga was one of the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas last night.
 The Rev. W. R. Avery of Roanoke Is the guest of his son, ". H. Avery. MT. Avery is one of the most prominent Prim- tive Baptist ministers in East Ala bama.
 G. B. Clayton of New York was one of the Hillman's late arrivals last night. 
 J. G. Huckabee, a prominent citizen of Woodstock is in the city.
 P. c. Steel chief clerk of the Florence and Roscoe Steel, night clerk of the Flor enee. were called to Anniston last night on account of the death of a relative H. G. Dukes of Gadsden is in the city G. F. Knapp of Cleveland. O., was one of the Hillman's arrivals last night.
 H. E. Whitaker editor of the Monteval- 10 Sentinel, is in the city. MT. Whitaker is a member of the executive committee of the Alabama Press Association which committee will meet in special session in this city next Friday.
 The Rev J. s. Frazier of Montgomery is in the city.
 J. R. Waggoner, a prominent citizen of Fillmore, is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
 BROKERS AGHAST.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 In the Wall street "zoo," as every we'll informed child in this land knows, there are three kinds of animals-bulls, bears and lambs. Moreover, there exist there only these three kind of animals for every man in Wall street, whether cap italist or a 'pil1er, a professional or an amateur, broker or a customer. falls under one of the three types.
 Heretofore it has been accepted as axi- omatic that all brokers are either bears or bulls, or, to put it from the reverse point of view, that no brokers are lambs The events of last week have made it ap- pear, however, that this Is all wrong. and that the brokers are the most innocent and lamb-like of all the Wall street tribe.
 This is evident from the way the brok- CTS have been ''viewing with horror and amazement' the revelations made by D. Le Roy Dresser in connection with the ship-buiiding trust. They have been sim ply aghast. Morgan and Schwab trying to get $SO, 100000 for a $IoOo0OO property?" they say. "A contract in existence that the Morgan and Schwab stock gets on the market? Dummy Frenchmen set up as financiers to form a fake underwriting syndicate? Who ever heard of such a thing?"
 The Wall street letter in yesterdays Record Herald tells of the brokers con- sternation. It also says something about the "arrant hypocrisy of the seasoned birds of Wall street." Under the circum- stances it does not matter in the least about the mixed metaphors Indeed, 1t will be a wonder if metaphors are not worse mixed before the end of theN dis cussion comes.
 The one thing that is certain-and the brokers might as well take note-is that lambslSins will not hide wolves, at least not at the present stage of the game. There are too many Americans who have felt the wolves teeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
Bed Cover.

A travelling man was discussing his woes over the drinks We fellows have lot of things to prevent our lives from being unalloyed bliss,7 said he, but we don't kick much when the fare is good and we can escape spending the night in a country hotel where bed bugs are the size of rats.
 But there is one thing trivial 1t may be, that has caused me to utter more soft profanity than any one nuisance l can think of just now Have you ever gotten into bed on one of those uncertain nights when you eanot decide whether it is cold or warm and take a notion you will fix the cover? We'll, the blankets are always doubled and it is dark. You think you will peel off one fold and the temperature will be just right Did you ever find the open end of the blanket toward the head of the bed? Never. The end you want is securely tucked under the mattress at the foot It Is too cold to remove the blanket entirely and trust to the tender mercies of sheet and counterpane. If you are wise you will dc this, lie still and shlver. But unfortunately we succumb to weakness and begin to claw the cover. As I remarked before it is dark and when you sit up you find that the air is decld- edly chilly, You begin pulling very gent ly at that blanket. It looks dead easy to sit up and reverse the cover by gradually saving it around to the right, and thus bring the open ends around your neck When this is achieved you will push back half, pull up the counterpane and all will be well. Alas don't fool yourself. After about five minutes of tugging you become rather reckless and snatch the cover around with a vengeance. Your feet sud denly protrude into the night air and you realize that you are just about amid ships the troublesome thing. Uuless you are man of much self control you will then wax profane or get up for a light After that it is best to make up the bed as best you can and resign yourself to spend an uncomfortable night under sadly rumpled covers. I never could see why a chambermaid wants to make up bed that way, anyhow, but they always do and thus cause lots of trouble for homeless man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
THE oElY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Come;
Prosperity of the South.


 Referring to The Age-Herald's pre- diction that New Orleans, Memphis, Houston and Birmingham will be the big cities of the south fifty years hence, the Boston Herald says:
 ''The opening of the isthman canal IS bound to make New Orleans near the mouth of the Mississippi, great city. Memphis, also on the lower Mississippi. is in the heart of a productive district and Its railroad connections will help 1t. IIous- ton Is soon to have deep channel to the sea, and 1t will be the chief port and rail- road centre of the mighty state of Texas. Birmingham has unsurpassed advantages in location, where all the raw materials of the great commercial metal lie side by side, and soon the Black Warrior river, through improvements in progress, will be open to slack water navigation throughout the year"
 The Herald goes on to show that the entire south is full of growth and hope It's exports were increased last year "A per cent, as against an in- crease of three-tenths of 1 per cent from the northern seaboard cities. ''Nearly 40 per cent of the export com merce of the country" says the Her Rld, "goes from southern ports" It spins, too, more of its own cotton than the north does, the two absorbing over four million bales. It's railroad earn ings, once so meagre, are showing up finely, and the railroads in this section are now as good in every respect as those of any other section, although few years ago they were regarded as the type of inferiority in that kind
 Enterprise and confidence are in the southern air. "Its spirit" adds the Herald, 'has much of the quality of the spirit that made the west rich and powerful; it exhibits Yankee disposi- ton to toll and thrift And the re- sources of the south are so abundant, its climate so attractive, that mag nificent future Is assured to it if it will take a course that will enlist all of it's people in the common purpose and make available for progress every faculty of intelligence within its bor- ,x1ers, raised to it's highest powers and stimulated by certainty of opportunity, of appreciation and of justice accord ing to merit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
Troopers vs. Circus.

Skopec and his friend Swipes were hold ing a colloquy before a billboard The latter was filled with admiration. Huh he said, de kids will have CT big time on de twenty-fort Dem circis fellers is fine ernuff but fer CT pipe gimme de anil muls. Dis is de biggest show on de road, an deyll have everything frum CT par nut to CT geeraff De parade is longer dan de Bessemer car line an de Queen Of Sheeby will be in it too. Dey say dis az gregation cost dem old fellers CT millyun plunks, but l don't believe it. Dyer reckin dere will be enny dodgers ter han eroun', Skope?' he asked wistfully.
 The other gave his papers hunch and sniffed contemptuously. "Gwan, Rube, I've been ter circises before dis. Dem fel- fers in tights aint in de same class wid de cav'ry. De troopers rides wid deir clodes on an deys sure huff soldyers. too. I heard a man say in de hotel dat dey is de finest in de United States, an dat dey rode before de swells in New 'Ork last winter. Den dere is Bobby, yer stiff, he's circis by hsself. Pde hate ter put enny money on de horses. Football? {? Tell wid football Dem college guys ain't one, two, tree wid Brown an Lawler. Gimme baseball ever time. Dere's where yer gets yer moneys wort frum de start. An den, dere ain't no bats ter carry at CT football game and comps Is mighty hard ter find"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
Billiard Players.

"of a great number of men who play pool regularly very few become really expert" said a local manager, "and the number of fine billiard players in this part of the country is small indeed In fact it is seldom that you can find five men in pool room at one time who play the game billiards at all And yet it is far more interesting than any game of pool and in addition Is very scientific. Per haps this is one reason few people take the trouble to learn it. Pool is a far more popular game, but is not so specta- cular. When two fellows who are good pool players come along you can easily find their table by the position of the crowd. If more young men were skilful with the cue they would not only save money, but would avoid being skinned by sharpers who are themselves some times indifferent players"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
assaiIing the Homicide Mania.

Judge William H. Thomas of the city court of Montgomery rarely fails to touch the sore spot in the body polite. He sees that while life is safe in the older countries, in this country it is comparatively unsafe. The homicides in any American state are ten times more numerous than they are in like population across the sea-
 In his recent charge to grand jury
 his court he shows that the thirst
 ,r blood is more deadly than small pox and appendicitis combined-that scarlet fever does not kill half so many as do the assassins of this coun- try He told them that the silly senti- ment which avenges wounded honor pr fancied insult with the taking of human life must be met and put down. sEnforce our laws" he said, land make sentiment what it should be. I there fore urge that you honestly investigate such offenses presented and base your findings alone upon the evidence, re. gardless of what any former grand jury has failed or refused to do. re- gardless of the finding of any coroner's inquest or of the opinion of commit ting magistrates; and without regard to the color or standing of his unfor- tunate victim. Let it ring in your ears and buyn into your hearts that the blood of the slain cries out to you that the crime be avenged"
 This is the, sort of talk needed in this state, and in other states as well, and if every judge would endeavor to hold grand juries up to Judge Thomas standard the murderer would soon cease to exploit humarlives.
 Judge Thomas is practical and clear headed, and he proceeded to tell the grand jury before him to look in high
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Bank Examiner.

"The position of state bank examiner seems to be a very desirable plum just now" remarked a business man. Al though the state bank bill providing for a state bank examiner at an annual salary of s200O has already been made law by the signature of Governor Jeks, it does not go into effect until January. Yet there is already a rush of applicants to the executives office. It is predicted that a lively fight vii be made for the place and friends of various candidates are al ready at work
 Such a position requires a man who is an expert accountant and of course there are many who can fill the bill. Among those mentioned as applicants are George P. Hill and w R. Sawyer of Bir- mingham. In addition there are a number of others in various parts of the state who will make a try"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
BRYAN TALKS POLITICS
 IN A VERY GENERAL WAY

ually of less importance than the things for which they stand. On the question of candidate to head the national ticket l may say that he must be a man who represents the sentiment of a majority of the democratic party. It is not enough that man may have been honest in his convictions while at variance with his party. Perhaps I make, the point clear when l say that you would not make a republican candidate of democrat. The principles enunciated in the recent plat forms of the democratic party are un- changed, and only men who are in sym pathy with that expression of the peo- pie can fairly be the standardbearers Those who have been presented and ex- plotted as reorganization candidates have been dropped as unavailable, and theii lack of availability has been admitted by the men who have brought them for ward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
Forminq School Districts.

l The new bill providing for the forma- tion of school districts regardless of township lines is far-reaching, practi- cal and valuable. It provides in the first place for a county redistricting board, consisting of a county commis sioner, the county superintendent of education and county surveyor, Who are to meet on the first Monday of March next for the purpose of redis- tricting the county according to cen ters of population and natural bar riers," with view to the placing of a school within two and half miles of every child of school age. The work of redistricting is to be completed by June next
 On the first Saturday of July next the qualified electors of each school district are to meet for the purpose of electing three district trustees, who are to hold office four years, and who must be able to read and write. The district trustees are to employ teach CTS and to transact all other school business in their district, and they are subject to very nLde dictation at the hands of anybody. Local authority is encouraged and invited by the new bill.
 The chairmen of the several boards of district trustees are to meet at the court house on the second Sunday in August next and every four years thereafter, for the purpose of electing four county school trustees who, with the county superintendent of educa- tion, shall constitute the county board of education, which shall have charge of all county school business. They can sue and be sued, and they handle public school moneys. They may cndngG the DOuHQdTleS or any ScnOOl district. Each incorporated city or town is declared by the act to be separate school district, and in such municipalities a board of education may take the place of district trustees, and public school moneys due the sep arate school districts do not pass through the hands of the county board of education.
 | It will be observed that the entire tenor of the bill is to bring home re- seonsibility in the conduct of school to it's patrons. Every district practi- cally governs itself. and the wings of the autocratic and ignorant county superintendents are largely clipped. They will have little authority here after over a school district, but they should be men of capacity and mag netism and pedagogic training, so that they may inspire trustees and teach CTS to better work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15
Nebraska Farmers May Lose Millions
 as a Result.

Special to the New Orleans Times-Dem-
 ocrat.
 Lincoln, Neb, October 12-By reason of the slump in the price of hogs during the past week Nebraska farmers stand to lose from $S,OOOOOO to $5.OOOOOo. They figure their losses already at 8, O00,O00 and if prices continue to recede, as they be- lleye they certainly will, $2.0OO,O00 more can be checked to the wrong side.
 According to reliable and conservative figures. there are 100000 marketable hogs in the state. Farmers have been fattening their swine on thirty-cent corn and the decline means that some of the hogs must be sold at an actual loss.
 Farmers are indignant and charge the packers with causing the slump and at the same time keeping up the prices of the products.
 In Lincoln the price of pork at butchers shops is not changed from week ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-15

Special to the New Orleans Times-Demo-
 crat.
 S EW YORK, October 13.-Wiiliam D J. Bryan, who has been spending his time recently in this city and New Haven as an executor of the will Of Philo S. Bennett, will sail in few weeks with Mrs. Bryan for tour of Europe. Asked If he was taking any part in the local campaign Colonel Bryan said:
 q cannot be expected to be familiar with all conditions affecting the local situation. I am accordingly adhering to my established rule and am not at this time taking any part in the local cam paign."
 'Have you anything to say about the campaign of 19O4?'
 'I would not indulge in any predictions because we usually predict what we want rather than what may happen. and as result political prophecy is worthless. If you would have proof of this statement simply turn to the predictions made by the respective chairmen of both political parties the day before an election and compare them with the returns on cleo ton day.
 "One thing that may have some rela- tion to the result is the fact that the great prosperity that is talked about IS not product of republican policies. And the great corporations are making the large portion of their profits in the tolls exacted from the people. Either the money must be squeezed out of the people or the water must be squeezed out of the stock. Of course. large capi- talization serves to have the purpose of concealing the nature of profits, and just now some of the water has been squeezed out of steel and other stocks This may not immediately affect the price of the product Ultimately. however. the people must feel the effects of the exorbitant tolls they have been compelled to con tribute"
 How about candidates for the national ticket of the democratic party next year?'
 T do not care to discuss names. for one reason, because l regard men in6ivid-