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The sun., 1904-11-03
CONSUMPTIvES BARRED.
Men Af1icted With the Dasease VIII Not he
Employed In Government Service.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Consumptives will
hereafter be de ebarred from employment in
Government positions where the work
re equires them to come in contact with the
public An order to this effect has been
issued by the Civil Service Commission.
This new rule applies particularly TO post
Offices, and s in lihe with regulations
adopted in nearly all municipalities 10
prevent the spread OF the disease, The
order says that hereafter allappMoants
for employment with the Government mt must
submit to physical examination, u the
presnn nee OF tuberculosis is suspected, and
that II the disease is found the suffeer shall
not receive an appointment.
The sun., 1904-11-03
F.4RR REHANDED FOR TRIAL.
Proprietor Of Diploma Factories Accused
OF Using the Mails 10 Defraud.

WAsHINornN, Nov. PROT. William
Farr, the proprietor Of several alleged
diplona factories, was to-day ordered re-
manded to Tennessee by the District Court
Of Appeals for trial on the charge OF using
the mnils to defraud in connection with the
Nashville College OF law. Farr said
he was president of that institution and is
alleged to have supplied diplomas to any
one who would pay $40. He WAS also at
the head of similar concerns In this city.
including Washington law College and the
George Wa shington College and endea vored
TO prevent the columbian University from
chm nging its ma me To George Washington
University, claiming priority Of M me.
When arrested on the Tennessee charge he
tried to oha IN his disoha rye on writ OF
IA be0s CORPUS and an appenl to the ourt
of Appeals. This was to-day denied.
The sun., 1904-11-03
Thief In Maids Costume.

A woman dressed az a maid went into
Mrs. John E. Kernar's millinery establish
ment, 249 Fifth avenue, yesterday and Sc
lected S54 hat, which she ordered sent
to her mistress. Mrs. j. X. Thurston, who,
che said lived at the Holland House. J he
maid asked for drink Of water and when
Mrs. kernar came back with it the cash
drawer was short SEQ. Then Mrs. kernar
went to the Holland House and found tn at
no Mrs. Thurston was registered there
The sun., 1904-11-03
The Per Capita Circulation L. Now ssI s.,

WASHINGTON. Nov. a-The amount Of
money in circulation In the United States
on Nov. 1 aggregated s2,sss. AZ, ,eei, being
an increase Of s2I .ss7,I72 during the month
Of October, and OF $3.50, ,psl .7ps since Nov. 1 +,
1903 Based Oh an estimated population Of
e., 1928, 900. the circulation per capita now Is
sal. .3s, being the highest yet reached. At
the same date last year It was $2o.99 and
In 1900 Il was s27.S2.
The sun., 1904-11-03
Coinage At the Mints.

WARRINGTON. Nov. 7.-The coinage ex-
ecuted by the United States mints in the
month OF October aggregated 1881 800
pieces. valued at $50, ,S34 ,s76. Gold coins
largely double eagles, formed $40, ,7oe ,s76
OF the total, while sac, 900 dimes 3,7s2, 600
nickeh and e,s75, 900 pennies were added to
the circulation.
The sun., 1904-11-03

Capt. Ell. C. Leutze, from command Of the Maine
to Washington as member Board OF Inspection
Lieut.. p Morrison. from the Kelrsarse TO home
and thirty days leave: Ahence TO Navy Yard, New
YORK
Lieut.. J. L. s,lcht from inspection duty to the
Detroit. -
ue0t; c, ". Cole. from the Kesrssrrt to home
and wait orderS
Lieui. W. NJ. Hunt, from navy ysrd. League
Island, Pa. TO the Alabama
and wait orders.
Lieut.. Ii, h. Price from navy yard, League
Ensign C. H. Resr from the kesrsarte to Wash.
ington.
the EAGLE.
Ohio.
Ensign n. Lyons, from the navy yard. New York,
TO the AsAtic station,
Ensign q. Hill. 10 Asistc station.
Acting Assistant surgeon q. q. Hart. 10 marine
barracks. Dry rortpghS.
Ns,islhn, surgeon r. l., sutton, ftom naval
hospitsl, .,ev Nora, 10 the MhksachrSeus.
Assistant surgeon !, !. Cri:tr, from naval foS-
ri'h NoEoEs'ns, Japan To hpme, .,
The sun., 1904-11-03
Army and Navy Orders.

WARRINGTON. Nov. 7-Those army orders were
issued TO day: 49,
Second Lieut.. Prank @. Kunkel. Eirhteenth
Infantry, National Guard Of PcnnsylyaniA, su.
thorzed TO take training course OF instruction st
garrison school, Columbus BarrAoks,
Capt Henry G. Cole. Commikssry, detailed ls
comfnissary and acting quartermAster OF the army
transport sumner. for the voyage 10 Colon and
return.
The sun., 1904-11-03
Secretary Morton 10 Make a Political
speech.

WARRINGTON, Nov. 2.-Sccretary OF the
Navy Paul Morton, v no has never made a
political speech in his life, will face the
public next SATURDAY ", ming 81 Highland
town. Md. n n h. i'll a6,lrts tho \ OF, n
on the issues Of the cay
The sun., 1904-11-03
Re on, ry on, hullabaloo'
Re on, ~ on. boomerangerool
Sibiiee, tibilee, sibllee. late.
IA rD a rd ia IN A rd tlls,


one OF the Columbia professors who in
structs in Barnard for his opinion After
a careful examination he turned to one OF
the young women and said:
There is one thing in this efusion which
app, ais to me. That is the word late in
the third line. That is so exceptionally
characte ristic of Barnard in general. and Of
the class Of 1908 in particular, with regard
to attendance at lectures, that am pleas d
to see that it has been incorporated into
what may be considered a unique speci-
men Of feminine MENTAL activity"
The invention OF the yell has caused no
end Of heartburning and jealousy among
the other classes at Barnard. 1t is con-
sidered a great triumph for the fresh
women" in the perennial warfare OF tho
under olasses.
The sun., 1904-11-03
BARNARD HAS CLASS YELL.
Pride OF the College, Firstlins Of Higher
Education and Inane as Any Mans.

The young women of the entering class
Of Barnard College, without assistance OF
any kind. have succeeded in manufactur-
ing class yell. This brain-child the
firstling, pride and joy Of the higher edu-
cation for women. has never been atually
yelled yet 1t has seen the light only in
the columns of the Barnard Bulletin, the
college paper. .| g..
Those who have had the privilege Of
merely beholding this notable contribu-
ito to the worlds literature have shud-
dered and turned pale Its chief charm
is understood to lie in the fct that 1t is
quite as maudlin and uninteligible as any
thing that ever mans college produced,
and more so than any former production
OF Barnardese. Here it is:
Re on, ry on, hullabaloo,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
NIXON BUILDS FOR GEAR.
Is Making Ten Russian Torpedo Boats
 at Perht Amboy.

Perth Amboy, N. J., November 29.(Spe- ciaI)-Lewis Nixon soon will launch torpedo boat at the Ramsay shipyard in this city for Russia. Of the fleet of ten of which he Is building only one is to be completed in this country. The others are being taken apart for shipment to Sebastopol. There the parts all number ed and lettered, will be reassembled and the completed boats put Into use. The little fighters are 70 feet long, 12 feet wide and feet deep. Triple expansion engines, constructed almost wholly of nickel, are expected to drive them at speed of twenty-three knots.
 Great secrecy Is observed in the ship yard A high board fence on three sides of 1t is guarded day and night by watch men. and recently Mir. Nixon caused a huge sail to be placed above the boat that is to be finished here, so that 1t can not be seen from the water.
 The boats are built on plans prepared by MT Nixon, and they have several novel features. Substantial spray throw CTS are fastened to the bows, so that at high speed they will not bury their noses in the sea. The sterns are square, in stead of rounding, as Is customary in craft of this build. The ways are placed in position for launching the one boat, which Is being constructed between the frame of the Young Amer.can and a war department transport.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30

dealer would pay such duty, but the consumer would be the burden-bearer, as he always is.
 A movement to take coffee from the free list comes from the Porto Rieans who have been doing everything pos sible to convince congress that they should be given the benefit of a pro teetiye tariff for their infant indus try" which is coffee culture. It Is said that every congressman has beet treated to samples of Porto Rican eof fee, and that the President uses no other kind on his table. The idea was to induce congress to increase the ap- propriation for carrying on experi. mental work on the island, and to SC. cure the benefit of protective duty.
 It would be well for the millions of unorganized consumers of coffee in this country to protest against this proposed imposition. Porto Rico can supply only small proportion of the coffee we consume. Large amounts would continue to come from the large producing countries, and the burden of the system would fall heavily.
 The government does not need the revenue which would thus be derived; ; therefore, it would not bear even the semblance of incidental protection, but protection bare and simple to few producers of the berry in little Porto Rico. In 1901 the importations of cof- fee to the United States were 816, ,570,- OS2 pounds, and that was the average consumption for about five years. At a duty tax of cents per pound, which it is understood the Porto Ricans want, the government would draw from the consumers a revenue of about s41,- 900, ,0o0.
 It has been appropriately suggested that the American coffee consumers band themselves together and pay to the Porto Rican planters yearly tho entire value of their coffee crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
Paul Pierce in "what to Eat"


 HHE press of this country has ac- \CD complished inestimable benefit for
 the entire citizenship in publish ing the controversies between food com missioners and the manufacturers of fraudulent foods as Hive news"
 The press can accomplish still greater benefits in vigorous editorials concerning the broadcast disastrous consequences of selling adulterated foods and with speci- fications as to brands and names of man. ufacturers.
 There can be no question that the most effective plan for checking the sale of impure and adulterated foods will be found in the wide and fearless publicity of the press.
 Those who are deriving a profit from the poison of the human family fear the spot light of publicity more than any thing else.
 Food commissioners who have had cour- age to enforce the law against fraud foods have been attacked by the manu- lecturers of the spurious brands and al- ways to the benefit of the public, since these brands were then advertised as base impositons through the controversy. Whenever these contaminating foods are publicly talked about the community gets a providential warning, and refrains from taking chances with things to eat that need defense, and perhaps in an acrimo- nious measure.
 Surely, If you are told that catsup con- tains coal-tar dye this information IS worthless so far as the consumer is con cerned unless the brand of catsup is also given, together with the name of the manufacturer.
 There Is no value to the public in an ambiguous warning against foods that are vitiating and poisonous. What is necessary is a definite assertion concern ing definite brand or particular species of food. Moreover, the name of the manufacturer should be given, In order that no mistakes be made in deteriorating an honest brand, and also to reveal the identity of the person or persons who
 
 What the newspaper press has done for mankind in the betterment of govern mental and social conditions is beyond all human conception. What could this mighty force accomplish in the interest of the race race if 1t should throw aside all mercenary interests of commercial consideration and turn It's editorial batte- ries upon the food frauds that are sold in this country, and should make a loud, earnest and unified appeal for the honest labelling of food productsl
 The people would not buy food products that had been condemned by the public press as unfit to eat. The American news paper press is with the cause of pure food There Is no question about that. A systematic campaign of exposuree of food frauds by the American press would be worth more to the cause of pure food than all the laws that could be passed. But if we had the law and the press
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
Let's Get TouetIle r.

All of our people, the Commercial club, the Board of Trade and individ uals in general should get together now and consider ways and means for Birmingham's progress. We should have no factions in the matter of the city's advancement, but/ should move in solid phalanx.
 No time has ever been more pro pitious than this for taking hold of the city's needs in a spirit of aggres. sive progress We are out ofpolities, municipal. state and national, and there is nothing to disturb the real working force.
 Birmingham should adopt a pro- gramme of concerted action. It needs a strong combination of jugment and aggressiveness for the propagation of plan that means the bringing into our community more men and more money, and of building up industrial enterprises that mean the strengthens ing of this community. Such a move ment would succeed. and would be of enduring benefit, United effort is just now of crucial importance to this com munity, and 1t is time it should be started on the right way.
 AS to our municipality, 1t needs more paved streets, more cleanly streets more police and fire protection, and these can only be obtained by a strengthening of the ways and means. These ways and these means can easiest be found by inducing others to join us in the work of advancement.
 Civic pride should be elevated in Birmingham, and this can best be ae- complished by unity of action and by a cultivation of the opportunity which we now possess. The real wealth of this or any other community lies not alone in the hands of those who con trol money, but likewise in the spirit of those who would give their thought, their time, their services to a united movement for the onward and the up ward march.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
No Anarchists in the South.

President Roosevelt was carefully guarded through the east and west on his trip to the St. Louis fair the other day. His train was preceded by a pilot engine and the tracks were pa- trolled by track walkers. The secret service officials were close by in all crowds that assembled about him.
 When the President passes through the south such measure need not be resorted to unless 1t be through an un. necessary abundance of precaution, for in the south we have no anarchists, no blood-t.irsty cranks, no mad men walking abroad seeking to destroy the life of the President of this great eoun. t-g of ours. In fact, nobody down this way is at enmity with MT. Roosevelt in his official capacity.
 It is quite certain that man of the Presidents daring and courage will not fear assault, on his trip south, and that this guardianship of his person is very distasteful to him. It may be that some bad men from the north may conceive the idea of following the President to the south, and that they should recei' the attention of guards and detectives; but not a man in all the south, who belongs here, would harm one hair of the head of the Presi O nt.
 No section of thls country more earnestly bemoaned the assassination of Garfield and Mckinley than did the South, and none has felt more keenly tha great loss to the nation by the taking away of the lie of the latter. The south is at peace with itself and with all the world. It's people are loyal to the nation and would not have it disturbed or shocked by the hand of the assassin.
 The south will take good care of the President while he is with us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
strlnaent Bird Law.

'I have a hard luck story" said a well known manufacturer yesterday. For many years I have been encouraging the growth of quail on a farm in Virginia. This year they are plentiful, and I have endeavored to have birds shipped occa- sionally to me in Birmingham for the use of myself and friends. l find, however, that there Is a law in Virginia which pre- vents a shipment outside of that state of any game birds, either alive or dead The penalty is a heavy fine and impris- onment for the second offense. At every depot there Is a game warden who exam ines the express packages, and the express company itself is subject to heavy fine if they accept for shipment game birds to points outside the state.
 ''As it is now, have to go to Virginia to eat the birds l have taken so much interest in developing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
PostoffIee AccommodatIone.

Tn dicussing the remarks of widely Travelled Guest at the Hotel Hillman' in The Age-Eerald Monday, a prominent citizen said, "I understand that the rules of the postoffice department Is to min imize the work of the postoffice clerks on Sunday as much as possible, which has been done at the Birmingham office
 'It is somewhat strange that the wide ly travelled guest of the Hnlman would have his mail directed to the general delivery as understand that the hotels send to the office thrre or four times on Sunday for their mall and that the mail collectors make four deliveries of the ho- tel mail on Sunday.
 It Is usually the custom of hotel guests to purchase stamps from the hotel clerks or newstands. Stamps cannot also be secured at the stations located In drug stores which are also kept open on Sun days. Stamps can also be found at all the cigar stands.
 Tt is usually the custom of hotel guests informed when he says that other offices of the Birmingham class in the south are kept open on Sundays.
 "The Birmingham postoffice has as many accommodations as any office In the south. Tn fact l doubt if any offiee in the country has as many hotel de- liveries or mail handled as promptly as the Birmingham office"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
THESE ARE GOOD TIMES.

From the Mobile Item,
 The Birmingham Age-Herald comments most encouragingly on the fact that the banks of Alabama are in plethoric condition. That is to say they have money to lend-in fact more than they can find safe use for just at this tinie but they can wait for yet awhile, continues the same paper.
 There was a timewhen the business and general interests of Alabama were depen- dent upon New York and other Eastern money centers for cash with which to move the crops and to otherwise con- duet business affairs. and at all times the south was in debt to the east. Now the people of this section not only have large sums in local banks but large balances in the eastern financial centers.
 This is due to the large crops of cotton with good prices and of the production of food crops. Ours is an agricultural section and we are buying little and sell Ing much. This improvement and gen. eral independence comes not alone to the Alabama farmers, but to the country and city merchants down this way.
 Our country people are building bet ter houses and providing themselves with all modern farm implements. The signs of progress are yisable on every hand and we are every year growing more in- dependent and prosperous. The surplus money made and-now held by southern people will find profitable investment right here at home. There Is to be an increase in the number of manufacturing plants and doors opened for an influx of worthy immigrants from the north, east and west and from away across the seas.
 Of course the banks will want to keep their deposits in safe circulation and the worthy man or institution will have no difficulty in obtaining cash. This all means a greater and more rapid development of our states resources
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
Pronressiva Cities.

Atlanta and Richmond are the two prominent cities in the south that are commercially strong in spite of the fact that they have few natural advantages" remarked an Alabama capitalist.
 Recently I spent day in Atlanta and a day in Richmond and marveled at the prosperity of each. when I remarked that neither city was located in an agricultur- al section and that neither city had iron or coal at Its door, Georgia is an agri- cultural state, but her best lands are not l am told, in the vicinity of Atlanta. The lands around Richmond are exceptionally poor and yet there is a great volume of trade handled in the Virginia metropolis and it is today the richest city in the south with the exception of New Orleans. l met Richmond banker, who told me that he. like all other confederate sol-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
REAL DANGER OF SUBWAY.

From the New York Medical Journal.
 The general scare concerning the at mosphere of the Subway seems to have blown away, but a menace to health re- mains that augments with the passing days. We refer to the nasty habit of splitting. the disgusting evidences of which are becoming more manifest as travel in creases. At present 1t is apparently con- fined to the darker portions of the Sub way passages and stairways, but as the offenders grow bolder will probably spread over a more extended area. If there is any place in the city where our severe ordinance against proIniscuons splitting needs to be rigidly enforced it Is in the closed Subway, and we hopa the police and magistrates win show no mercy to the unforgivable offenders. We are surprised not to have seen a notice in any part of the Subway forbidding splitting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
Scotch Whisky.

"Apropos of Professor Wiley's state ment that a large percentage of Scotch whisky Is favored with creosote, I have an interesting letter from a whisky dis- tiller in Glasgow Scotland" said well known citizen last night.
 Tn our opinion this letter states" said the speaker. "the outcry which Is being raised at present in America is not justified by the facts. It does not pay to adulterate with anything except pure water. Referring to the paragraph on Scotch whisky, would anyone trouble to use creosote when the flavor can be got by burning a cheap article like peat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-30
CHANGE IN WIPES STATUS.
Original Theory of Matrimony Upset
 Altogether In England.
w. F. ". in Pail Mall Gazette.

w. F. W, in Pail Mall Gazette.
 The relationship of man and wife, I notice, has materially altered in it's char acter of recent years There was time when a husband could urge that chas- tisement, which had been attended by fatal results on the part of the chas- tened, was just simply private matter between him and her. This consideration, while it did not actually determine the verdict of the jury, so far appealed to married men among them as to produce a difference of opinion which tardily yielded to the cold blooded exposition of the law of murder delivered from the bench. Since those lar off days, women who are wives have asserted their rights and established their responsibility, to some purpose,
 There is nowadays, virtually nothing that a wife can do for which she can not make her husband pecuniarily re- sponsible Whatever happens he has all ways got to pay her costs. And though he leaves her at his peril, she can all ways leave him at her pleasure; and the law she can put in force to compel his return to her is of no use whatever to compel her to return to him. In fact the theory of matrimony is upset alto gether. Husband and wife are no longer one. There is the married womans prop erty act.
 GWhen," benedict had occasion to plead, lately-"when married her, l be- came. in sense, part proprietor of her hair" Now she had brought him before the Cadi on a charge of stealing that same hair. If it had been the hair of her head and he had exercised it in, the course of business, the charge of stealing nigh, perhaps, have been unsustainable But she had bought the hair with her own money, and had been at charges for making 1t up. The husband had, as the Cadi pointed out no claim to the hair, under the circumstances; there was no part ownership. as there might once have been considered to be, in the pro- duct, and no right to raise money on it. In poins of fact the relation between hus- band and wife had come to be such that there was only committal for trial.