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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
yDeciaI Terms of Court.

Governor Cunningham stood up with rare courage and determination for the vindication of the law at Hunts vile. and when he comes to consider the calling of a special session, he will be pretty sure to say that the good work done at Huntsville. especially by the grand jury, must not be lost.
 The Lusk bill may not be re-enacted, but bill is needed, not in 1907, but now, that will straighten out the en- tanglements in the states courts--that will solve numberless problems, and that will in particular relieve the dis tricts that have outgrown the old-timo circuits. The courts in Jefferson county, for example, are two years be- hind current business. They cannot transact the business brought before them, and 1t is cruel to suitors to say that no relief shall be afforded them by the state until 1907
 The question is in safe hands. Gov ernor Cunningham will listen to the people. What is best for the greatest number is what Governor Cunningham will seek to ascertain and to do.
 One point deserves attention on the part of the governor. If no special session Is called, no special term of the circuit court can be convened ex- cept upon thirty days notice. The state might in that case be filled with lynchers, and attempt to maintain the supremacy of the law in some cases be laughed at The Lusk bill provided that circuit judgs might call spe- cial session without notice. A mere entry on the minutes of the court was sufficient. The governor in this state, as in some other states, should be em- powered to call special session of | tho ShNutt couil WueuefeT uo IulukS the public interests demand it. His view Is broaGer as rule than judge who Is apt to consider his circuit only. At any rate the power should rest | somewhere to call special term with out any delay whatever. Huntsville points the way and the benefit and the need of a provision of that nature, and The Age-Herald is confident Governor Cunningham will not lose sight of this point when he decides the main ques- tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Wanted to See Duncan.


 Judging from the crowd at the uiiiO" s'aeion at s:10 p. m, when the resu,,l' re'ssenger train rolled in from the sou."' V appears that Frank Duncan IS lo D0 accorded I magnificent greeting lioi" '"e people of Birmingham when ne 10 brought In from Flcrida," remarNeo d eieizen last night.
 In using the word magnificent, l mere v meant from the point of numbers. ~ nao not been stated positively that Dun ean was to arrive in the city tonigh'' put 'nere are lets af people in this town "no VIII not overlook any possibility anu TOT fear that the noted eriminti hlisht De slipped in before they could catch a simpse of him, there were some TWO UT 'hree hundred people who gathered unuer the shed. and almost fought each other In their efforts to gain view points or vantage. Their curiosity was greatly augmented by the presence at the sta- ton of a number of deputies and an extra police force. While these officers did not really expect the prisoner they did not nave positive information that the party rom Florida would not return.
 have wondered why | is that the public seem so anxious to obtain look at man guilty of some great crime nave often observed that the general run or the public seem more anxious to see a noted criminal than they are to see a popular hero.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
NATIONAL POLITICS.
What Knox Did Not Explain.

From the New York World.
 That MT. Knox in his Philadelphia speech succeeded in framing an excep- tionaliy able brief in behalf of his dis tinguished client, the President, must be admitted; but even in his glorifcation of MT. Roosevelt's antitrust record much remains to be explained.
 Mir. Knox did not explain why after 5s5 days of supposed investigation of eorpo- rations by MT. Rooseveits bureau of cor porations there has not been a single word of that publicity in the interest of the public for which MT. Roosevelt has been clamoring and which congress en- acted legislation to obtain.
 He did not explain why s476,oo0 of a s5OO,O0O fund appropriated to enforce the antitrust and interstate commerce laws has been lying idle in the United States treasury for 5S5 days.
 He did not explain his own removal from the cabinet to the United States senate and the extraordinary rearrange- ment of that cabinet for the obvious pur- pose of placatng corporations. He did not explain why MT, cortelyou after learning from "dligent investiga- tion' the secrets of the great corpora tions, was made chairman of the repub- lican national committee. to collect cam paign tolls from these very same corpo- rations.
 He did not explain why the great eorpo' rations and trust magnates who were fighting MT. Roosevelt's nomination sis months ago are now supporting his can didacy.
 The record of earlier activity in thu enforcement of the law was explained but no explanation was made of the re cord of subsequent secrecy, submission and surrender. Was this task too grea even for the acute brain of Philander c Knox?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Oak HiII ReautlfIed.

am glad to note that Oak Hill ceme- tery has been cleared of the weeds, bram- pies and other growth that marred the beauty of its northside," said a North Highland resident last night
 The cemetery is naturally a beautiful spot, and Its typographical beauty is of course much enhanced by the imposing shafts erected over the dead who sleep there. and it's well-kept graves. But the northside had not been so carefully looked after and Its condition detracted consid- erably from the beauty Of the cemetery
 "A great deal of city's history can be read upon the tombstones. And though Birmingham Is comparatively a young city. many handsome monuments stand in Oak Hill. and numbers of distinguished names can be read on the tombs there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Growinu Use of Concrete.

The use of steel-reinforced concrs'e in the construction of New Yor9 5 sup way foreshadows, it is claimed, tne nassing of the stonemason and the bricklaver. Any urskilled workman can pour concrete into molds, and an efficient and competent superintendent N,w;H sec .hat it is correctly done.
 The Cement Age insists that what was done in the subway can be done in the construction of any bnliolng' Ruildines will thus be cheapened one third. and concrete work Is known to be more durable than masonry or prlck work The Cement Age is confident the concrete of Roman days is about to he re.established and that all con .,truction work will share in the bene' fits it will bring in it's train. Over one million barrels of cement were con rumed in the construction of the sub way. and 1t is freely asserted that it's concrete walls are unsurpassed for strength and durability The big tube through which the rapid transit trains will be run consists, roof and all, of concrete reinforced by rods of steel The station platforms and stairWays are also made of concrete. The entire road is in fact a triumph of concrete Concrete walls are not only durable and less expensive, but they can be more speedily constructed than is pos sible in masonry or bricklaying.
 The chief element of concrete is of course pure Portland cement, and the favor with which cement construction has been received of late means much for Alabama. For h this state there is more good cement rock, lying on or near navigable rivers, than can be found in all the rest of the country Prof. Eugene A. Smiths report upon Alabama's concentrating resources will appear in the next volumes of tho Geological Survey, and that will lead constructors and capitalists to look this way Senator Morgan has all along claimed that Alabama should make the cement of the world, and in the long run his prophetic visions will be we'll nigh realized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Alabama's Cotton Crou.

Commissioner of Agriculture Poole Is confident the cotton crop will not exceed 1O,50O,00O bales, and no doubt he puts Alabama's part of it at not over 8 million bales. Earlier estimates called for 1,200,000 bales from this state, but rust and shedding and a short, dry, hot season will doubtless cut the Alabama crop down to about a million bales.
 The New Orleans Times Democrat publishes reports from this state brought to noon of Saturday, October 1. In these reports Tuscaloosa says the crop deteriorated very materially in September Huntsville says the condition of Madison's crop fell off 35 per cent last month. Athens puts the depreciation in condition at 5 per cent. The crop in Bullock county held It's own last month. It is opening rapidly, ohu hi"hy ioi iuCio Q aic piepdIluS u hold their bales until they command ten cents. Livingston says the crop of Sumter county will be less than that of last year. There is no top crop, and the weevil-not the Texas sort has done great damage. Pickers are scarce in Marengo, and 80 per cent of the crop will be gathered in the first picking. Evergreen says the crop in it's county Is 40 per cent short of last years product. Rust Is at work in the Mobile district. The chief difficulty encountered by the farmers is the low water in the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. Steamers cannot reach their landings, and navigation is nearly sus- pended. Gadsden does not anticipate an output beyond last years. Selma is hopeful of large crop. Greenville on the other hand says one bale to three acres will be the rule in Butler county. Abbeville says the entire crop in it's county will be picked within twenty days, and the aggregate will not be equal to last years crop. A continuous drouth in Tallapoosa has reduced the crop one-third.
 Putting all these reports together ] the conclusion must be that the out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Rumors About Duncan.

'Is 1t true that Chief Wier was killed
 and Duncan has escaped? Or was Sheriff
 Burgin killed and Chief Wler and Detec- tive Bodeker badly injured?" These were
 among the questions asked yesterday
 around the streets. and the rumors gath | cred thick and fast. From each tongue
 they grew larger, and finally wound up In having all the officers killed, Duncan escaped and posses out after him. | Among the rumors was one that friends | of Duncan had thrown switch and that
 the entire train bearing the much wanted | man had plunged into the Sewanee river | and all traces of 1t were lost. This was | hardly equal to the report that eight armed friends of the safe blower had held 1 the train up just before 1t crossed the 1 Alabama line, and at the point of shot | guns had taken the prisoner from the of | ticers. The report also had 1t that the | eight friends cut the engine loose and left the train stranded out in the woods. while they escaped with Duncan on the engine.
 making the fireman run 1t.
 l Some one else was authority for a
 statement that Duncan jumped from the
 window and dragged Detective Bodeker
 out after hIm, while the chief and the | sheriff emptied their revolvers at the
 struggling air The train, according to
 the best gossip was wrecked at no less
 than fifty different places, and at each place a marvellous story of Duncan's s
 bravery was told. In all stories he man | aged to escape.
 One man had a brother who had a l cousin who knew a man who lived near l the place where one of the wrecks oc- cured and this man had sent the mes- sage back through a string of people that Chief Wier was sho. and killed when
 the friends of Duncan attempted to lib-
 crate him. Sheriff Burgin and Detec- tive Bodekcr were both winged by bullets
 according to the reports.
 Telephone messages came from all sides about the officers and Duncan, and
 1t was even said that Chief wier went
 sound asleep and allowed Duncan to saw
 the trace chains which held him and
 make his escape out of the end of the car | In the mean time Duncan is still safe in | jail in Florida.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Cotton Mills Buy Gins.

A recent Spartanburg letter, pub. lished in a New York paper, calls at tention to a new movement in the mill districts of South Carolina. In the upper part of that enterprising state there are mills enough to cover entire districts in any effort they may jointly make This is also the condition of affairs in the cotton-growing districts of North Carolina, and even of Geor- gia.
 The mill owners are either establish ing gins, or else are buying interests in those established, so that the mid dleman will be completely weeded out so far as transactions between the farmers and the mills are concerned. The mills and the raw cotton are thus to be brought in touch, and the mid dlemen are to be altogether elim- mated The mills will buy the bales they need at the gins controlled by themselves, and only the surplus, if any, will go into the channels of trade.
 A mill operator in South Carolina recently predicted that the gins of the country would soon pass into the con trol of the cotton mills, which will own and operate them, thus bringing the raw material right at their door" He went on to say that the new plan would be put into full operation in the course of the next few years. He considers the inauguration of the scheme an important event, marking an era in the cotton milling business of the country.
 The new movement will not be prac- ticable on broad, or at any rate mo- nopolistic scale except in Georgia and the two Carolinas. There are not enough cotton mills in the other states to cover the ground. In this state there will not be enough until every county has a mill and we have thirty milless counties today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Tom Watson.

Tom Watson Is to return to Alabama TOT the purpose of making another speech during the campaign" said a member of the populist party yesterday.
 information was received yesterday that he would speak at Attalla on octo- per 22 and the opposition to the demo- cratic party in the seventn district will try to make 1t very successful gather Ing. We will undertake to have the rail- roads grant special rata. and since MT. watson has proven to be very enter- taining stump speaker. 1t is but natural that we should expect a large crowd tc hear him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Men, Women and Money
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 The newspapers report that at lawn fete In New York lady lost gold chain bag containing five thousand dollar bills. eight hundred dollar bills, about $2oo in smaller bills, two drafts on New York for s100OO, and long jeweled neck-chain worth 5000; in all about s2o,0o0 worth Of "swag." not counting tne value of the gold bag It would be relief to the nerves of the country If the Newport la dies would use a little common sense about the care of their money and their jewels. He Is an exceptional man who carries about with him any exceptional sum of money or anything else that 1t would profit any one to steal If he IS going to an auction or horse race he , may provide himself with ready cash, but certainly when he puts on his best clothes he Is not apt to cucumber nim- self with much more than his cab hire. And a man has pockets, too, In which, at a pinch, he can tuck away bank bills so that they will be fairly sofe. But man who would carry twenty thousand dollars to a garden party would be thought to need guardian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Jason was gazing at the Harpies.
TAKING AN ADVANTAGE.

From the Chicago News.
 One day when all the animals were at peace. the wolf challenged the Kangaroo to jumping match. The wolf was told on every hand that he would be de- feated. but he was confident of victory and insisted on going ahead. When the match came off the kangaroo covered three times the distance the wolf did. and the latter was derided for his con ceit. He slunk away for time, but later he called a public meeting and said:
 Ladies and gentlemen, I don't deny that I was defeated In the jumping match the other day. but what want to call your attention to is the fact that my opponent meanly took advantage Of his long hind legs to do it."
 Moral: Few of us get square deal in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05

turn of the state will not exceed a million bales, and It will all be picked before November 1 If the weather con tinues dry. In all parts of the state good share of the crop will be held until the price rises again to ten cents. It is perhaps prudent to say that fully twenty per cent of the states crop will be held until it can be sold for ten cents. It is a pity that single Lale is to Le sold below that price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
From the New York World. ffv H-R-R-Rp'
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 M On one side of the closed door between the first and second cage at the New York geological park lion-house yesterday, stood Bedouin Maid, youngest wife of Sultan, the old and fiery looking Barbary lion. On the other side of the closed door stood Sarah, eldest wife of Sultan and mother of his two handsome cubs. First one scratched on the door and growled and then the other gnashed her teeth and growled back
 Sultan, look of domestic unhappiness upon his shaggy face. lay in corner of the cage where his youngest wife was and watched the quarrel of the harem. To the thousands of visitors who passed in front of the cage it was evident tht poygamy, in this case at least, had it's thorny sides.
 In the cage where Sarah snarled at the door of separation were her two baby lions playing with their awkward paws and gnawing bones. Old Sultan, lying in a far corner of the next cage. could hear his children frolic, and was evidently pleased. And this was the req son why Bedouln Maid his youngest wife was torn by jealousy She has new CT presented her lord with any children.
 Early in the forenoon she got tired of teasing Sarah and went to sleep in the corner. While she was gently snoring Sultan took advantage of her absence from the dcor to scratch upon it some message of love to Sarah. She came with her bapies and whispered through the door to him. and there was fam fly reunion going on when Bedouin Maid suddenly woke up and with one leap fell sprawling upon the head of her lord and so pulled his hair and upset his dignity that he slunk into a corner disconsolate. Bedouin Maid loaned for an hour and refused to eat her dinner she was so angry,
 Il reckon that Sultan wishes that poly gamy never had been invented" said keeper,
 Keeper Nichols of the lion house now believes that Prof Won Herreshofsky erred wien he wrote in his great treatise upon tanning animals that "all animals are susceptible to kindness"
 Keeper Nichols was particularly fond of the tigers. He concluded one day that he could tame them, and so began talk ing to them in gentle tones and betting them. By Thursday of last week Khan, one of the tigers, became so tame that when he lay down near the cage bars Nichols would reach his arm in and pat him on the head.
 That was what Khan wanted. Now just watch me finish himi" he purred under his breath to the other animals And when Nichols reached his and in again
 "Snap!"
 Nichols jumped back, the ends of his fingers bitten off as smoothly as If they had been taken off with a buzz saw. M K Old Abe. the giant alligator of the reptile house. who is so fat and old that he sell dom stirs. nearly precipltated a panic in the snake house yesterday. He had not stirred for several days, but had lain with just the tip of his nose, with the nostriis out of water. The great crowd was moving along the floor when a keep CT accidentally hit the nose of old Abe gently with his mop. Like a flash the old reptile rose up, horny and black. his white mouth wide open and blowing air through hls nostrils with the horrid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Mir. Pettiurew's Scheme.

The case of South Dakota vs. North Carolina, which was argued three times in the United States supreme court, and was finally decided against North Carolina by five to four, stands explained It was part of MT. Petit. grew's scheme to enforce the payment of bonds repudiated by North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi Alabama Is not mentioned, and really Alabama has no repudiated bonds. Her old-time bonds were settled in a compromise conducted in the administration of Governor Houston. The Pettigrew scheme does not therefore touch this state.
 MT. Pettigrew is an ex-senator of senate he devised the scheme to force the payment of a vast amount of re. pudiated state bonds, he to receive from 25 to 40 per cent of the amount collected. His contracts with Wall street operators cover, 1t Is said, about $30,000,000 in bonds, and if he be sue. cessful his rake-off will be about ten million dollars.
 He first caused the donation of $10,- 900 of North Carolina bonds to the state of South Dakota. An individual cannot sue sovereign state, but one state can sue another in the federal courts. The bonds in question were issued to build the North Carolina railroad system. All sorts of frauds attended the issue of the bonds by the reconstructionists of North Carolina, but the state retained the shares of the railroad, which have been valu. able, yielding to that state a fine in. come. The supreme court ordered that 100 shares of the North Carolina rail. road be sold on the first Monday of January next at the east front of the capitol in Washington to satisfy North Dakota's judgment. It is said to be MT. Pettigrew's intention to secure re.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
Trusts and the President.
le New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 When Mark Hanna went up and down the Wall Street district in 1896 gathering funds for the Mckinley campaign the motives of the men who responded to his appeals were very different from the motives of the chiefs of the trusts who are now giving great sums to Chairman Cortolyou or Senator Aldrich to aid MT. Roosevelts campaign. Then the presi- dents or treasurers of great corporations gave as a patriotic duty in some cases boards of directors by formal vote au- orized the expenditure as contribution for the public defense. The country s business interests, its financial stability, its honor, were felt to be in peril. The threatened injury was the concern of all
 It is from no motive of patriotism, not even from motives of partisanship, that the trusts, the industrial combinations, and the great railroad systems now com tribute their tens of thousands of dol lars to the Roosevelt campaign fund. There Is no common danger. The body polite Is not in peril. It Is their own safety that these gentlemen are buying, as they think. In countless speeches--not in his campaign, much earlier-Mr Roose- welt has portrayed to the people the fe- rocious features of the great and hungry trusts He has insisted that they must be restrained, and in one notable in- stance he set in motion the machinery of the law to such good purpose that lxu ,aA hut trusts stood in terror of him. They have not altogether got over their terror, but they are resolved to employ the most effective means at their command to secure, each for himself, immunity from pursuit and harassment by President Roosevelt should he be elected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-05
MT. Davis Letter.

From the Atlanta Journal.
 The letter of acceptance of Hon. Henry G. Davis Is brief and to the point It deals directly and firmly with the issues of the campaign, meeting every one squarely and stripping from them the GOV ering of equiyocal phrases in which his republican opponents have sought to ob- scure the living issues of the campaign.
 There is nothing new laid down, nothing that has not been touched upon by dem- ocratic writers and speakers before. but in compact clear, forceful expression of democratic principles, letter of the candi- date for vice president excels. It Is dis: tinctly a most important and helpful con tribution to democratic strength in the campaign. It has the supreme merit of be- ing so short that It will obtain care- full reading.