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Democratic messenger., 1904-04-16


Faith cure teachings. pure and sim
pie. are not only contrary To Scriptural
common sense. but also antagonistic
to the concentrations with which the
Bible again and again hOnors human
medicament and the physicians pre-
scriptions. The only passage i'm the
Bible which in any way might be con-
strued by the casual reader as a slur
upon doctors and drugs is that one so
often quoted by faith curists from the
words found i'm the book Of job: "Ye
are forgcrs of lies. Ye are all physi-
clans of no value But job is not
here alluding to true physicians at all.
This sentence is figure of speech.
Job had lost patience with his three
friends. Eliphaz. Zophar and Bildad.
These three friends. instead of com
forting him in his time of trouble.
came around with enough groans and
whines Ia make well man sick or n
sick man still sicker. They asserted
that Jobs boils were the results of his
sins. and Job. in disgust. plainly told
them IL they could bring no better
comfort than that they had all bette
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Excitement Over Duncan.

Lust to show you how wrought up the people of Birmingham are over the achievements of Frank Duncan I will tell you little incident that occurred to- night while l was going to my board ing house." said a young man about town Ut seems that several blasts were discharged somewhere in the busi- ness part of town a short time before I reached my destlnation. When I walk ed up the steps to the veranda I met an excited group of men and women who were going right down to the jail to see if D uncan had tried to blow him. self out. One woman remarked that she would not be surprised if the jail were blown up, since Mrs. Duncan had arrived in town If Duncan or his friends were to make an effort towards his re- lease I cannot imagine what would be- come of all the exeitable individuals in toVnn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Mason and pixOn's Line.

Way back in the eighteenth century William Penn's heirs became anxious to know where their possessions ended, and those of Lord Baltimore began, and tLls led to survey begun in 1763, and completed by Charles Ma SOL and Jeremiah Dixon, two English mathematicians sent out by the British government, in 1767. This line shut Delaware in the south and also Mary land and Virginia. It really defined the southern boundary of Pennsylva- mia, or Penn's lands.
 In the next century it became known as the boundary between the north and the south, between the slavehold- ing states and the states that for one reason or the other got rid of their slaves. Later still in the nineteenth century the famous line was freely used in poDtics. After the civil war came reconstruction, and after recon struction --me comparative peace be- tween the two sections. We then had solid soutn and an almost solid north, and Mason and Dixon's line separated the two disarmed but not wholly friendly sections. The solid south of those days included all the former slaveholding states, including ing Delaware, Maryland, West Vir- ginia, Kentucky and Missouri.
 The "solid south" of today Is differ ent. Addicksism has rendered Dela- ware debatable ground; Dingleyism has seduced West Virginia; Maryland has at times gone after strange gods, and Kentucky went astray at least for a season. But Kentucky is considered democratic again, and the new solid south stanu5, as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11

of New Foundland, which Is eighty-nine feet long and whose skull alone is nearly twenty feet long, Here we saw the lar mored dinasaur." playful looking crea- tlre about the size of an elephant, with great horny fins on his back and horns on his head and tall. There is such a re- semblance between his head and tail you can't tell which way he Is going until you look at his toes. John says that hd was built that way so If anything es capped his horned head his horned tail was sure to get it.
 In this building is also shown the entire development of the mail service from the mail coach and mounted mail carrier to the modern fast mair and the moving railway postoffice. This exhibit includes a Pennsylvania postal car in which men may be seen distributing and pouching the mails, and hundreds of other appurte- nances that have assisted in making Un cle sams postal service the finest in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Peaches in Alabama.

A. W. Newsom, a nurseryman of Huntsville, and his associates are pre- pairing to establish orchards in Madi- son county to an aggregate of one hundred thousand trees. This Is but one item in a great movement. The entire upper half of this state is to be filled with peach trees. The counties between Birmingham and Chattanooga, traversed by the Alabama Great South er4 railroad, are well advanced in the orchard movement, and the Tennessee valley is giving an additional impetus to the new ambition of North Ala bama.
 This ambition in brief is to excel Georgia at her own game. The Ala bama hillsides are admirably adapted to the production of Elbertas and the like, and it is very ossible that In the course of five years Alabama will grow more peaches than Georgia. The coun- try is becoming so populous there is plenty of room for all the peaches that both states can grow, especially if the marketing be done In an organized, systematic manner.
 At any rate Alabama has embarked in the orchard industry in wholesale way, and nearly all ef her upper coun ties will in the course of five years be independent of the boil weevil, unless irdeed a variety be developed that at tacks fruit trees. If the weevil clings to the favorite bolls, we will laugh at its raids while we grow peaches for the fruitloving millions of vast re- public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Pullmans in Front.

The Southern railway seems to at- tribute the dreadful loss of life at New Market to the crushing weight of Pullman cars when suddenly thrown upon the ordinary day car, for on the Memphis and Charleston road at least It Is now placing the Pullman cars of train next to the baggage car. After t1e Pullmals come the day cars, and last of all the mail car.
 Experience seems to dictate that trains made up in this way are less subject to appalling disasters, because the Pullmans are strong enough to withstand sudden assaults from the day coaches and mail car. Experience Is an excellent guide, and possibly the example set on the Memphis and Charleston will be extended to the en- tire system. There is no reason why 1t should not be if it will lessen the possibilities of disasters like that of Newmarket, which stands today as the worst railroad slaughter the south has ever known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Does Not Like Yokohama.

T have good story" said Manager Douglas of the Jefferson theatre yes- terday. For some time I have noticed little chap who accompanies his mother to matinees but always remains outside In the lobby of the theatre while the play Is In progress. He seems perfectly contented, walks about and passes the time away very agreeably until the play Is ended, when he re-joins his mother and escorts her home in very gallant fashion.
 T have just been making inquiries and find that the boy once saw a melodrama In which there was much carnage and shooting of pistols That was enough for him and ever since that day he has refused to enter the doors of theatre Argument Is of no avail. If you tell him that there are a lot of funny comedians Inside and no sign of gun he will shake his head and answer, There might be- The little fellow Is only three years old, he tells me, but ne has already cul- tivated a very critical taste in matters theatrical"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11

nee for governor, is very popular, and he will poll large vote. The contest will be between him and Lafollette.
 It is question as to how much postoffice and administration opposi- tion Lafollette will stand. Every post office is a center of Spooner activity, and the strength of the administration is thrown that way. The two United States senators and Congressman Bab- cock and the bosses generally and the railroads are fighting Lafollette. How much of such work will he stand? May he not resent it by trading votes for Parker in return for democratic votes to be cast for himself? It would be very natural, and many democrats would be glad of an opportunity to accept such a proposition. Altogether the Wisconsin situation is confused and uncertain. There are democratic possibilities there, and there will be democratic possibilities in that state until the votes are counted next month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
HOLDS THE HARDEST JOB.
Strenuous Life of Chess Expert Who
 Plays Twenty Games simultaneously.

From the New York Commercial.
 T always believed that mine was the most wearing business mentally that a man could adopt" said one of the best known of the public accountants on lower belief when I went to Atlantic City and there saw Henry N. Pillbury, the chess expert who is trying to recuperate for Q winter campaign. I first met Pillsbury a half-dozen years or so ago when he came to Brooklyn from Boston, at the invitation of one of the chess clubs across the bridge. He was then a rugged rosy hued chap, with forehead that bulged a bit more than that of the ordinary man., perhaps, but still perfectly normal in other ways, so far as any outward evil denees went. Now he has aged twenty years, and looks a nervous wreck, though he says the sea air has helped him so that he expects to be able to take up
 tour of the United States this winter that has been arranged for him.
 ''Pillsbury, you know, has been play ing In tournaments in Europe at intervals between the times he has been giving exhibitions. undergoing a mental strain that was enough to make nature revolt as she has now done. He seems to me a nervous wreck and yet he keeps at his business-sport, I believe he calls it, though he has been warned that the men tai strain he undergoes in playing any where from six to dozen games simulta- neously will certainly result disastrously as 1t has done with so many other pro- fessional chess players. While in Rus sia Pillsbury played twenty-two games simultaneously against the best amateurs of Russia, record that has never been equalled and task that makes my work over a muddled and snarled mass of accounts seem like boys play. That was the immediate cause of his collapse, and yet the man insists that before this brief winter passes he will play at least twenty-four simultaneous games against as many individual players. Just think of trying to carry the moves of twenty four games in ones head without a board to help, Little wonder that a man who does that sort of thing breaks down all at once. I have to take a good rest oc- casionally to get the cobwebs of figures out of my noddle, and it makes me feel like a weakling when I think what that man Pillsbury does compared with the infintesimal tasks that I call hard work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Wants lusk Act Considered.

''The democratic state executive conn mittee at it's meeting tomorrow should take up the matter of urging the governor to call an extra session of the legislature in view of the decision on the Lusk act said well known atttorney last night.
 ''The committee will in all probability go into the matter of the confused demo- cratic nominations in the counties af- fected by the Lusk bill and will doubtless decide who is entitled to run for office' While they are taking up the political end of the question it would be an ex- cellent thing for them to take up the le- gal end of 1t, and present the matter to the governor. Notwithstanding the state- ments made to the contrary, I am of the opinion that the judiciary of the state is going to be in an almost hopeless tan gle without the extra session.
 T believe it would be far better to gc ahead now and stralghten things out rather than wait until 1t becomes abso. lutely necessary. Furthermore, 1t will be more economical. The cost to the state in re-trying these confused cases, I be iieve, will amount to nearly as much a: the cost of the extra session, to say noth Ing of the feed bills for prisoners helt in jail awaiting tria1.e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
When age Is In the wit Is out.
 Much Ado About Nothing.
New Spindles in the Quarter.

In the third quarter of the year HE, BOA spindles were added or projected to the southern total. This is slight reduction from the additions in the corresponding quarter of 1903, but 1t at least shows that this section is still marching on.
 Of this total Alabama secures 22,- 200 spindles; Arkansas, 25OO; Georgia 3O0O0; Kentucky, 3456; Mississippi, 660o; North Carolina, 38,500, and South Carolina, 16,548. The greater part of the additions of the quarter have been or are to be installed in ex- isting mills, although nine new mills have been announced.
 The new spindles in Alabama in- clude 1000 for the Ayondale mill; 1O,- 900 for the Lowe mill at Huntsville, and 11,2OO for a mill at Sylacauga. Not a new mill was planned in the quarter in this state! The crop that is being marketed is a fine one, com manding fine price, and 1t should crystalline into a dozen new mills in this state. When we remember that thirty counties in this state have no mills. It is plain there is plenty of room for new enterprises, for there Is not a single county in this state that should rot have a mill. Even Winston with it's o4eap fuel should have al least one. Alabama should keep ster with Georgia and the Carolinas, and we cannot do this unless we build mills, especially in the counties that have none. One-half of the counties in this state are millless. This condi- tion need not endure, for all that Is lacking is a capable, efficient leader and organizer in each of the millless counties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
REPUBLIC IRON AND STEEL. The Company VIII Roll Rails In June
 1905.
From the Wall Street Journal.

From the Wall Street Journal
 The Republic Iron and Steel company will use all the money necessary to com plete Its new plant at Youngstown In the shortest possible time. Representatives of the company estimate that by the end of the first half of next year the new rail mill will be ready for operation, and that for the second half of the year the company will be able to take It's place among the steel rail makers
 According to the present plans the new mill will have a rail capacity of from 10000 to S0.0OO tons per month, and at need can stretch that several thousands It has not yet been determined whether the company shall take rail orders for next years delivery. but 1t Is assumed that it will do so as soon as there is no doubt as to the completion of the mill.
 For the coming year the present com pany cannot prove rate disturber, all though 1t Is not a member of the pool, and probably will not sign the pool agreement By 1906, however, it will have to be con- sdered when rates for steel rails are be- ing framed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Court House Needs Repairs.

 T do wish" said citizen interes'eu i., the eternal order, of things, that our generally wde-awake county Doai .,sa revenue would turn their attention U T. present condition of the court house. ~ Is sadly in neec of general repairs ''''s surely the board has enough money ct It's command to do the work
 The tiling is disarranged and oroAei iis many places. the walls are in need of repairs. and paint would be entirely m order just now. When one considers the wealth of Jefferson county ana the sas' number of people who are reauifeo 'o enter the court house. they are surprised that the board of revenue does not keep the building in better condition than IL now seems"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
NATURES solTENINo TOUCHES

By John G. Whittier Yet still the wilding flowers would blow, The golden leaves would fall, The seasons come the seasons go.
 And God be good to all. Above the graves the blackberry hung
 In bloom and green its wreath. And harebells swung as if they rung
 The chimes of peace beneath. The beauty nature loves to share
 The gifts she hath for all The common light, the common air
 O'ercrept the graveyard's wall It knew the glow of eventide.
 The sunrise and the noon. And glorified and sanctffied
 It slept beneath the moon. With flowers or snowflakes for its soo Around the seasons ran, And evermore the love of God
 Rebuked the fear of man. Secure on Gods all tender heart,
 Alike rest great and small; Why fear to lose our little part.
 When he is pledged for all! O fearful heart and troubled brainr Take hope and strength from this That nature never hints in vain'
 Nor prophecies amiss. Her wild birds sing the same sweet stave Her lights and airs are given Alike to playground and the grave:
 And over both Is heaven
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Democratic Executive Committee.

There was much discussion by promi- nent democrats last night as to what ac- tion the democratic committee should take today in the matter of settling the Judiciary nominations in the eighth and ninth circuits.
 John A. Lusk, author of the famous re- arrangement bill, suggested that the question of who is the nominee should be referred by 1t to the senate executive committee and the judicial executive com mittee of the circuits as now constituted and have the members of these commit tees meet and settle the question as to nominees; that these committees be di- rected to determine the matter before the expiration of the time for printing the ballots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
State Colleges Flourishinu.

Superintendent of Education l. W. Hill came up from Montgomery last night and is at the Morris. Alabama schools" :" he said, have the largest number of students in attendance than at any time in their history.
 All the state colleges are full this ses- sion. The reports from the nine agricul- tural colleges, the four normal colleges and the industrial schools are fattering. I visited the Florence Normal college last week and found that the enrolment is larger than any previous year. Over three hundred students are in attendance at Florence and the school Is doing some excellent work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Birmingham RolIino Mills.

No one interest here helps retail trade so much perhaps. as the Birmingham rolling mills, and when it resumed work today our merchants were happy said a Nineteenth street business man.
 When the rolling mills are in opera ton business In general seems to ge good. l understand that the mills start off with payroll of nearly seven hun dred men. This number will doubtless be increased within the next week or two Rolling mill men make fine wages, and they keep money In circulation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
NO HAIR TONICS NEEDED
 BY ABORIGINAL TRIBES
T. LOUIS, October S.-I wouldn't
 be surprised if John acquired tfe hatless habit as result of his
BY DOLLY PING.

T. LOUIS, October s.-I wouldn't NN be surprised if John acquired tre " hatless habit as a result of his visit to this fair. Even now I find him removing his hat at every opportunity. He has been looking at the thick shocks of shaggy hair that adorns the heads of the aborigines that are so numerous here. They all go bareheaded and none of them is troubled with badness or falling hair. The Idians, the Alaskans, Eskimos, cliff dwelers, Filipinos, Patagonian giants and African pygmies have no need of hats or hair toncs. I am glad John Is at last seeing something interesting and instruct i've in these aborigines He at first de- clared he could see no excuse for making them.
 One might get the impression from the big diappearing guns mounted behind stone walls to the right as you enter the government building that Uncle Sam is a great fighter, a very bloodthirsty per sonage eager to destroy human beings. Once inside the building, however, you discover that most of his activities re-
 
 to promote the welfare of the people. At the same time Uncle Sam is ready for trouble and it is interesting to note the formidable character of his defenses. Here is a 12-inch disappearing gun which will throw a pound projectile eighteen miles, and directly after dropping thls trifiing little reminder of friendship and good feeling it quickly falls down peninu a fort and gets ready to repeat the com pliment. In the operation of throwing one projectile it uses up 27o pounds of powder. The machinery which enables this "peacemalker" to raise Itself and .peek'' over the fort long enough to belch forth a 1000-pound shell and then .duck'' back again is a marvel of inge- nious mechanism, working so smoothly that 1t is under the absolute control of one man. Near it is a six-ihch rapid-fire disappearing gun. which pokes its nose over the fort in the same fashion, losses a shell nine miles, and then drops back again out of sight of the enemy.
 Returning to the Government building we made a tour of inspection of the beautiful model of the battleship Mis- souri, which is one-eighth the size of the original. All its compartments and arm ament are complete in every detail. the real guns of the navy being used. A section of the armor piercing naval gun is shown, the original of which cost S5S,- GOO. and uses up 5000 worth of material every time it is discharged. Uncle Sam also exhibits perfect models of all the battleships and cruisers in the navy.
 In this building is the exhibit of the Smithsonian institute and the National museum which includes specimens of
 f nearly the entire animal kingdom. Here Is the horned dinasaur the African elephant and the skeleton of a mastodon ound in a peat deposit in Michigan, also the skeleton of a woman found on the coast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
A LITTLE LESSON,

From the Gadsden Evening Journal.
 The irony of fate is again illustrated by the story of man who was killed by a train while hurrying to the race track to bet on a horse that won.-Age-Herald.
 Had this man gotten to the race track and won he would have become con firmed gambler-providence saved him. The Lord moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
In inc Badger State.

The decision of the supreme court in favor of the Lafollette faction is based on the law of Wisconsin making the state committee of a party the judge of the party's action. Governor Lafollette controlled the convention of his party and consequently the ap- pointment of the state executive com mittee. The Spooner faction bolted the convention, and set up a conven- ton of their own and nominated a ticket headed by ex-Congressman Cook. The supreme court said the bolters were not the republican party, and the Lafollette state executive con- mittee can alone decide which ticket shall be printed on the official ballot. This renders the Lafollette ticket the regular republican ticket, and the list of republican electors will appear as a part of it. It cannot ap- pear on the official ballot twice, and the Spooner ticket will be short list of electors.
 MT. Cook has withdrawn his name from the Spooner ticket, exGov. Ed ward Sanford has been named by the Spoonerites as his successor, and the factional strife will go on, growing more bitter each day. Governor La toilette will probabl-.- be elected gov ernor because he is fighting the rail roads and is in favor of a primary law. George w. Peck, the democratic nomi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Both on the Safe Side.
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 A plumber was sent 10 the house of a wealthy stockbroker to make repairs. He was taken by the butler into the din- ing room, and was beginning his work when the lady of the house entered.
 'John. said she. with suspicious glance toward the plumber. remove the silver from the sideboard at once and lock 1t up."
 But the man of lead was in no wise disconcerted. Tom" said he to his as- sistant. who accompanied him. take my watch and chain and these few coppers home to my missus at once."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-11
Facing a Problem.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Have you ever thought about John nys future career: asked the boys teacher. He has decided talent as an elocutionist.'
 T know it," replied MT. Upiohn, "and I'm blest if can decide whether ought to develop it or try to whip 1t out of him.