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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-13

and cotton are lower. and railway
earnings are by 10 means unpreee-
denied. The secret of the movement
is plain-the lambs are fiocking again
to Wall street. The speculative craze
has attracted them in great numbers.
The entire movement resembles that
which eliminated in 1902, and was fol-
lowed by a liquidation that brought
distress to many people.
The fate of the lambs in the present
craze will probably not be exceptional.
The dealers in Wan street can make
money as rapidly in depressing the
prices of stocks as in enhancing them,
and when their interests are best serv-
ed in that way they proceed without
conscience to cut away the support of
the market. The lambs become
alarmed, and liquidation, if not panic,
sets in.
This is the process of Wall street
oft repeated, and yet the general pub
lie does not heed it, and the old, old
game will no doubt be repeated IN
due time The lambs are never
wholly lacking, and Wall street knows
just how to attract them, and hold
them, and drive them out after reliey-
ing them of their wool.
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INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK.

From the Montgomery Journal.
There are right sharp rumors afioat in
the state about the gubernatorial sue
cession. 1t is generally conceded that
Acting Governor Cunningham will be a
formidable candidate; but 1t is not settled
yet who will oppose him. Certainly there
will be fight over the office. Among
those most often mentioned at present
are Gen. George p. Harrison of Lee.
Gen. William C. Oates of Montgomery,
Craig Smith of Dallas, and Joel Goldsby
of Mobile. OF course President Conner of
the railroad commission must always be
considered as a factor in the making of
the next governor. He may name a man
for the contest, or he may like Mrs.
Brown of Georgia said about her hus-
band on one occasion when asked who
Mr.. Brown favored for governor: II
don't know" said the wife of the ablest
politician Georgia ever produced, "but /
allows Mr. Brown may conclude to take
1t himself" 1t is not improbable that
Mr.. Conner "allows to take it himself"
Certainly Mr.. Conner has started out to
make a clear and we'll defined issue be-
tween the people and the railroads, and
his associates are inclined to help him.
They seem rather to invite him to the
combat Certainly they are not trying
to appease him or to avoid his wrath.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-13
IN HOTEL LoBsIEs


w.
The interview this morning with Chief
Wier about chicken thieves and Ed Wal
lace reminds me of an experience had
IN court with Ed once, said Judge Fea-
gin yesterday.
Ed was before me for stealing
chickens and he had robbed every hen
house for two blocks around Chief
Wier's house I asked him why he had
not taken the Captains chickens. Wier
was captain when this occurred, and his
promotion has come since. The negro re-
piled to me:
'Jedge Feagin youse knows Ise gwin
tell you the truf, don you? Well, was
Jes naturally slSered to rob dat chick n
house of Cap'n Ware One day when
was acten sectary to Mr.. Mack down dar
in de jail, / seen Cap'n Ware in de alley
an he calls to me an says to me dat
must stop dat stealing in his locality
an says I wouldn't trouble his chickens
eff he let me alone.
: So mex time l gets out of Jail goes
home wild him and he shows me whar
he Ibis and l amt neber touch his
CHICKENS since dat time Jedge If dis
den go gainst me Use gwin tell you the
truf. 1 done rob cherry chic'n house in dat
dar 'cinity, but you amt gwin get dis
Niger to tach marry one dat longs to
Capn Ware"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-13
THE ROMAN ARENAS.

From the Boston Post.
People make a mistake who suppose
that the arenas of ancient Rome were
mere oval rings like curcus ring.
They were anything that the occasion
called for On one occasion they might
resemble a Numidian desert, on another
the garden of Hesperides, set with groves
and rising mounds, and on another the
great rocks and caves of Thrace.
Men fought not only common brutes,
but with elephants rhinoceroses, hippo
potamuses and crocodiles.
In some cases the arena was transform
ed into lake in which great naval shows
took place.
But there was always something siren
uous associated with the arena.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-13
"HE LIFTED HIS COAT TAILS

From the Savannah News.
news item from Washington giving
the details of the inaugural ceremonies
says:
Mr.. Roosevelt walked to tie central
chair and sat down. He lifted his coat
tails as he did So"
Could anything have been more timely
and significant at this juncture? How
the familiar action must have touched
the hosts of his democratic admirers
looking on and convinced lem of the
utter falsity of the claim that imperial
notions are undermining and subverting
our democratic fabric. Imagine, if you
can, Edward VII, when about to be coro-
mated, carefully placing his hands be-
hind him, firmly graspng a coat tail with
each of them. extending them at right
angles and seating himself. Only the
American President and the American
gentleman does that. and as long as the
President keeps up the good old style on
the eve of Inauguration our democratic
institutions are safe.
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The Stock Market.

Henry Clews, in his Wall street letter
of Saturdays date, says:
Improving peace prospects, the reduc-
ton in the Bank of England rate and
continued strength of the London mar
ket infused fresh life into tie bull con-
tingent in this market but it should be
remarked there is conspicuous absence of
genuine buyers at current prices. In
vestors are not taking stocks at these
figures, and the public is not specializing
to any extent. for the reason that nearly
all conservative and reputable commits
sion houses are cautionng tier custom-
ers against plunging on the long side at
this time. The result is the big holders
are not distributing their stocks as freely
as they desire. nor are they likely to dis
pose of them very easily at this level
Perhaps this explains in part our con-
tinued high loans.
THE market is liable to be bulled into
stagnation, and a sharp break then will
be needed to galvanize 1t into fresh ac-
tvity. A moderate decline occasionally
hereafter will prove beneficial. by check
ing over-con1dence and introducing a
new buying element that will not enter
without inducements. There are no bear
arguments in sight. but the market may
soon need some REIMBURSEMENT upon a
more natural basis
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-13
OPERATION
IS A UNIQUE SUCCESS

! the daytime they sat in arm chairs placed
side by side The one who surrendered
her finger to all appearances was the
only one to suffer during the operation,
but she bore It with Spartan courage.
The woman who was getting the new
finger did not seem to feel the slightest
pain.
For the greater part of the time she
lay turned slightly on her right side and
apparently had little or no interest in
what was going on. In fact she kept
looking out of the window as If attract
ed by something she could see. Only once
did she manifest any interest in the oper-
alton. That was when she asked one
of the nurses in a whisper II the Job
was nearly finished"
The first inesion was made at point
about midway between the second joint
and knuckle and on top of the finger
that was to be transferred. The skin
and muscles of the finger were then
dissected from that point down to the
second joint That done, it could be
seen plainly that the bottom muscles
of the finger had adhered to the stump
o. the other woman's hand and that
there was at least a degree of mutual
circulation.
The next step was the severing of
the delicate tendons at the joint. This
was done with a pair of surgical scissors
and required the exercise of the greatest
precaution lest the points of adhesion
between the finger and the stump should
| !, 1,aH
been entirely severed from the hand of
the woman who was selling It the ban
dages that have held the arms of the
twain together for more than three weeks
were cut away
I'm glad its over at last" murmured
the woman, who will have to go through
life with missing finger.
"Umph, l guess I'm the one that
Should be glad" came from the other
cot.
Much remains to be done before the
operation can be pronounced a complete
success, according to DIR. Nelden and
the other surgeons. For twenty-four
hours the hand on which the digit was
grated will be kept saturated in a
strong saline solution. Then the flesh
on the top of the finger will be stitched
| to that of the stump. 1t will be kept in
splints then for another two weeks. DR..
Nelden informed the two women that
they would probably be able to SO home
on Sunday. They have never confided
their names to DR.. Nelden or any one
az his sanitarium. The one who bought
the finger says she is an actress
An hour after the operation another
woman. who said she was an actress,
called on Dr. Nelden and showed him a
malformed hand. Her little finger on
the left hand was not more than a third
as large as it ought to be and she
wanted a full-sized one. He said he could
supply one. and the Woman authorized
him to offer the market price of $500 for
the finger. In the mean time she Will
wear a wax one that Dr. Nelden is
making for her.
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New Jersey Trusts In Court.

The United States Supreme court
has decided in the case of Texas YER
sus the National and Southern Oil
companies that corporation char
tered aud fitted out in one state has
no rights in another state except what
the latter grants it. 1t enters another
state subject to thai states laws, regu
lations, licenses, taxes and conditions.
1t does not in that state outrank the
domestic" corporation. 1t has in
fact no standing at all except by the
permission implied or otherwise Of the
state which it enter for business pur-
poses.
The Fourteenth amendment has
been the stay ana support of the cor
porations from otner states. mo
state" it says, shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the priv
ileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States, nor shall any state de-
priye any persons of life, liberty or
property without due process of law,
nor deny to any persons within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws" A corporation may be in some
respects a person, but the Supreme
court decides that the words quoted
do not fit corporations from other
states. The guarantee of due process
of law does not permit a corporation
organized in another state to violate
any law of ,..e state that it enters for
business purposes.
This is a sad blow for the New
Jersey trust industry. A New Jersey
charter conveys no superior rights in
another state. The laws of that other
state are paramount, and the words
due process of Law do not help the
wandering corporation. The anti
trust act of Texas was held by that
court to be valid against all corners
from New Jersey or elsewhere.
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FROM the New YORK World
~ OR the first time in the history
~ of medical science a finger was
transferred yesterday from the
hand of one person to the hand of an
other It was the second and last step
IN the grating operation undertaken
twenty-five days ago by Dr. Andrew L.
Nelden of No. 10 East Twenty-ninth
street Lest there might be doubt that
the operation had actually taken place
the surgeon invited a representative of
the World to be present.
The principals in the novel case were
two women who met for the first time
only a day or two before they were
bound together and the first step in the
grating of the finger was made. In the
twenty-five days they have boc7 living
like the siamese twins they have come
to know each other very well indeed.
DIR. Nelden performed the operation
practically unassisted, although three
surgeons were there to see 1t. They were
DR.. James of the Boston hospital at
Forest HILL Mass: DR.. ]. W. Neville
and DR.. John Frasier, practicing physi-
clans in this city. The delicate task was
begun at 1850 p. M, and it required ex-
actly thlrty-five minutes from the first
ineision until the two hands were sepa-
rated.
The second finger of one woman's right
hand was grated to the st imp of the
second finger of the left hand of the
another. The latter had lost all of the
to ~ 10
ing accident several years ago. She paid
the first woman $500 for the digit that is
now on her hand. At the close of the
operation she said she believed it was
worth the price. The one who had con-
tributed the finger shook her head and
appeared to doubt.
Dr. Nelden did not make the transfer
of the finger until he had consulted the
other surgeons. The adhesion of the
stump to the perfect finger had to
reach a certain stage before there could
be any hope of making the transfer
with success. Several examinations
have been made in the last ten days,
and several days ago it was found that
a partnership circulation had been es-
bdpllSHcu III the llHBSI lndl WAS TO De
grated. From that time until the two
hands were cut apart yesterday the two
women had common interest in the
digit, their blood mingling in that small
channel.
The surgeons agreed on Wednesday
that the adhesion of the stump to the
finger was In such a condition that the
second and final step could be taken safe
ly. Preparations were begun at once.
The two principals in the operation would
not agree to take other than local an
aesthetics, and DIR. Nelden consented to
this The two nurses and three invited
surgeons had nothing to do but attend
to the surgical instruments and band
ages.
The two women were placed in the little
hospital cots in which they have slept
since the beginning of the operation. In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-13
AMERICAN WOMAN HAS
GONE TO WORK BRAVELY

race that they preferred to work. And as
'ladylike' employment did not hold out
for more than small proportion of
shops, in stores, in the professions, and
wherever was to be found honest work
which they could do well.
The American woman has stood ready
to do all the good work that she could
find to do. Probably in no country in the
world is there so large a proportion of
women who are engaged in caring for
husbands and children with their own
hands and doing no other work, as in
America. In the old world there are two
classes of married women-one, and by
far the larger, who are beasts of burden,
farm hands, dairy women, shopkeepers,
and what not, In addition to their family
toll and the other who do not care for
their families with their own hands, but
wife does her own work as a rule, but
is decently spared the outside labor. She
does what she can, but not what the men
of the family ought to do.
AS for her who is not yet a house
mother or to whom that career may not
open, she, too, has done what she could
and she has done it so well that her sue
cess has aroused the admiration of most
men and the alarm of the few. She is
likely to be content with the honest sym
rathy of the majority of men. and will
trouble herself very little over the disap-
probation of the rest
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amhs in Wall Street.

The numbe of shares sold in wall
street often exceed of late 100000,
thus breaking all records in the his
tory of trading in that busy street.
Alter the iron stocks had quoted
down one railroad stock after another
was taken up and carried to high fig
nres. A recent weeks sales footed up
7640. 290 shares, and prices reached
very near the best figures of the boom
of 1902.
There is nothing in the situation
that calls for excessive imitation.
Peace is not in sight in the Far East,
and gold is still going ont. Wheat
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THE HE-sAlD GIRL.
Sometimes Nature Makes a Fine Wo
man of Her, But Rarely.

From the Emporia Gazette
Did you ever notice group of little
girls between the ages of II and IS chat
tering away in a corner? The next time
you sit near such a group listen and
hear if about every tenth word is about
what ''he said" If 1t is. you have found
some more Of the "he said girls, and
they are not the incest little girls in the
world. The ''he said girls are likely to
loiter down town after school too late to
help their mothers with the afternoon
work. They are likely to wear a little
better clothes than their fathers can af-
ford. so that the neighbors wonder what
their mothers can be thinking about. The
The said girls also too often think more
of the boys than of their books, and fire.
quently fail to get through school, They
are in for a good time, and have nothing
in their heads but hairpins and two
steps.
Sometimes nature takes a girl out of
the The said" family and makes a fine
woman of her. but generally sire gets to
going out to parties and is developed be-
fore her time. and either marries and
fades at 20 or hangs on after All the other
girls are married off and takes genera
ton after generation of young boys to
raise by hand, and becomes known as
grandma" in the crowd.
There is nothing so sweet as a simple,
frank, open-hearted girl. But the boy
struck girl is an abomination. The whole
matter rests with the girls mother. Sine
can either bring up one of the 'he said
girls or she can have daughter to be
proud of.
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vloIets VIII . Plentiful.

.'Violets, the bashful flower of the poet.
is just beginning to come out freely
now said man yesterday. My violets
are blooming well. ana in two weeks the
little purple flowers will be out in great
numbers.
THE wild violets are prettier than the
cultivated flower, but they have no odor.
The best place around Birmingham to
gather wild vlolets IS back of the North
Birmingham park. where later on they
can be picked in countless thousands.
There are many violets on Red noun
tain and every Sunday afternoon during
the season parties go out on the noun
tain to pick tho little wild flowers"
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INCLUDED IN QUARANTINE.
Cattle From Usage Indian Lands Must
Be Dip ed In Petroleum.

Washington, March 12-In response to
an inquiry from the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, the Secretary of Agricul-
ture has written letter in which he an
nounces the inclusion of the Usage Indian
reservation in the Oklahoma quarantine
district.
Under this decision cattle in the reserva-
ton is protected against the infection
of shipment south of the Oklahoma quar-
antine line, but such cattle will require
only one dipping in Beaumont petroleum.
The commissioner is preparing to lease
about 100000 of the Usage grazing lands
on the 18th inst and it is expected the
ruling on the quarantine question will
have a favorable effect on the leases.
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Colonel Bankhead in the city.

Congressman John TT. Bankhead, hale
and hearty and in the best of spirits.
spent a few hours at the Metropolitan
yesterday. The representative from the
Sixth district doesn't look day older
than he did ten years ago. and shows
no Ill effects from the recent strenuous
and persistent fight he made for the War
rior river at the session of Congress just
adjourned, when he succeeded in swell
ing the appropriation for the purpose of
opening the Warrior from Tide Water to
Mobile to over s14O0,0O0.
Congress- said Colonel Bankhead.
appropriated 100000 to the Warrior. The
fund already in the hands of the en-
cheering department at Tuscaloosa is
100000. making a total of $1,5OO,0OO
THE work will be commenced at once.
and If pushed rapidly will be completed
In something like two years time. The
opening of the Warrior will give Tide
Water. point a few miles north of
Tuscaloosa, water connection with the
gulf of Mexico
Alabama" continued the Congress-
man, was treated very kindly by the
lttSi (Ol6ItSS Ht IlNttS anu tdIDOIS
bill is a comparatively small one and
carries appropriations for only about $780,
100000. Out of this Alabama will in the
next two years get 81 23S, 466, not including
the $4,000 which was appropriated for
the Chattahoochee river between Georgia
and Alabama
The following are the amounts given
Alabama
Black Warrior, Warrior and Tombig-
bee. cash, 100000 continuing contract,
$751; .466. and 100000 heretofore appro-
priated and unexpended making a total
of 81, 4S1. 466.
Colbert Shoals, on the Tennessee river.
$500, 0OO
Mobile harbor. 100000; Mobile bar. $780,
900.
Alabama river, 100000.
Tombigbee river from Demopolis to
Columbus, $4,000.
Escambia, $4,000.
Choctawhatchee, $4,000.
Chattahoochee, $4,000.
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From the New York Mail.
lIIt 1NtW UIh NIdIIs
HE American woman is criticised
every little while by some SUI
persensitive conservative of the

"
w every little while by some SUI
persensitive conservative of the
pulpit for her increasing tendency to seek
employment in business and the profess
sions. She is told now, as probably she
has been from some pulpit somewhere.
every Sunday for the last fifty years, that
she should keep to the home and fireside
and let the men run the business offices
and the professions. 1t does not seem TO
occur to these pulpiteers that very likely
to do. Very few of them come down town
today merely because they do not want
to be wives and mothers. They come
down because they are not willing to he
mere drags on the wheel so long they
DO not occupy that relation. They are
Tot content to be taken care of just be-
cause they are women.
The useful position of wife and mother
they do not shun. But that honorable
position Is open but to a limited number
of them. after all. In. the United States
in 1900 but fifty-seven women in every
hundred above the age of fifteen were
married. Thirty-one We're single and
eleven were widowed. These forty-two
women out of every hundred, therefore,
who broadly speaking, were out of school.
had the choice before them whether to be
supported by some man or some other
woman or to work for their own living.
It is to the credit of their sex and their
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AN AMBITION oUENcHED.

From the Washington Star.
Some day you may be President of
the United States" said l., patronizing
person.
II hardly think So" answered the small
boy with spectacles. MY parents would
never consent to my standing out of
doors on March day to be in inaugu-
rated"
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THE VOYAGE.

From Tennysons Ulysses"
Some work of noble note may yet b
done,
Not unbecoming man that strove ,
Gods
The lights begin to twinkle from
rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow
climbs; the deep
Means round with many voices
my frienCS,
lis not too late to seek newer e.f
Push off. and sitting well in order
The sounding burrows; for my pl.
holds
To sail beyond the sunset and the Il
OF all the western stars.
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Bank Of Lawton Goes Under.

Lawton, Okla, March 12.-The Bank
of Lawton, capital $4,000, controlled
by McDuf11e Bros. OF this city, closed
its doors, and las been placed
in the hands of Paul F. Cooper, ter
ritorial bank receiver. The city had
$4,000 on deposit in the bank ]. s.
AlcDuffie, the cashier, is also the city
treaaurer
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Roiestvenskv stiII at MADAGASCAR.

Chicago, March IA special to the
Daily News from Port Louis, Mauri-
thus, s.-ys: According to the captain
of the steamer Akhbar, which arrived
here today from Vohemar. seaport
en- the northeast coast of Madagascar,
not far from Messible, the Russian
Baltic fleet was still there on March
90