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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
X-Rays in Or. Harper's Case.

DIR. Harper Is afflicted with an in.
ternal cancer which at one time COW
cred a space of eighteen square
inches. An operation was performed,
but the whole of the malignant growth
could not be removed. The Xray
treatments was then applied to the
distinguished patient, and today the
growth has been reduced to seven
square inches, and DIR. Harper's gen
eral health has steadily improved. He
has gained ten pounds in weight.
The treatment that DIR. Harper is
receiving is somewhat tentative. Its
nature has not fully been made pub
lie. 1t is known, however, that he Is
given a certain medicine which be-
comes radioactive when the X-rays
are applied from without. The medi-
cine within and the X-rays without are
expected to destroy the cancerous
cells without injuring the healthy
cells.
The scientific medical world IS
watching the experiment. DR.. Har.
per's life is a valuable one, but be-
yond and above any single life lies
the hope that at last way has been
found to attack with success internal
cancers as well as those located out
side. A careful analysis following the
surgical operation demonstrated be-
yond doubt that DR.. Harper is afflicted
by cancer of a malignant and dead
ly sort, and if, as all now hope, he is
to be cured by the new process no
generous patient need despair. The
cancer problem will at last be in
course of solution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
TENNESSEE COAL AND IRON.
Present Management of the Company
In Full Control.

From the Wall Street Journal.
The outcome of the stockholders meet
ing of Tennessee Coal and Iron company.
held at Tracey City, Tenn. May 2, shows
that the present management has full
control. The new directors are John T..
Borne. president of the Colonial Trust
company. and Andrew W. Smith one of
the company's largest stockholders; Jo-
seph B. Dickson of New York and Charles
McCrery of Birmingham retired. The for
mer requested the management not to re-
elect him, while the latter recently re-
signed as vice president and general man.
ager of the company to go with the Wood
ward Iron company of Alabama. j. Henry
Smith. f. s. Witherbee and Herman S.
Leroy were reelected.
The directorate is now made up as fol-
lows: Don II. Bacon. William Barbour
Albert r. Boardman, Henry r. Sloat, j.
Henry Smith, F. s. Witherbee. John E.
Borne. Andrew w. Smith, Herman s. Lee
roy, Cord Meyer, S. l.. Schoonmalker
Benjamin F. Tracy and James T. Wood
ward.
The board will meet about the middle of
the month to, organize.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
Southern Ports and EXPORTS.

New Orleans and Galveston are
steadily growing at the expense of
New York and Baltimore. The gulf
is gaining trade yearly and the At
lantic ports are losing it. In 1897 New
York handled 779 per cent of the
country's exports of wheat, corn and
flour. Last year New York handled
but 36.9 per cent of such exports.
What the Atlantic ports have lost the
gulf ports have gained
The gulf roads and ports now claim
a differential varying from 10 to Is
per cent in all the territory west of
Indianapolis and Chicago. They are
willing to concede to the Atlantic
ports the trade that arises east of
Chicago and Indianapolis. The Mis-
sissippi valleys outlet is New Or
leans, and it claims and secures a
differential on account of shorter dis
tances and better grades.
But point has been reached when
the east and west railroads say that
the gulf roads shall no longer have
a differential, and railroad rate war
has sprung up between the gulf roads
on the one side and the east and west
roads on the other. Both sets of
roads claim the trade with St. Paul.
Dubuque. Omaha, Kansas City, St.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06

Louis, Denver. St Joseph and Louis
vile. These great shipping cities are
the prizes that the southern and east
ern roads are fighting for. and neither
side is willing to recede from its
claims.
The gulf roads were once weak, I'M
fitted for battle, but they are now
strong, and they are ready to meet the
cuts Of the Atlantic seaboard rail.
roads, and to do some cutting of their
own. They will not ask for terms of
surrender. The makeup of the great
valley is pulling their way, and 40
amount of railroad tariff juggling or
even legislation can change the ply
steal geography of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
An Indispensable Education.

Il am a great believer in newspapers
and read as many as any man in the
state, | believe" remarked Maj. F. Y.
Anderson In the Commercial club yester-
day afternoon.
THE newspaper is the greatest educa-
really helps me In my business more
than any other medium. In fact the news
paper is absolutely indispensable to the
business and professional man. 1t keeps
him abreast with the times and unless a
man keeps up with the worlds procession
he might as well step down and out. Life
Is a failure to the man who gropes blind
ly through the world and does not keep
himself informed of It's daily achieve
ments. Time spent in reading newspapers
is well spent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE.
Difficulties In the Way of Lease to tho
Atlantic Coast Line.
From the Wall Street Journal.

From the Wall Street Journal.
While for a considerable time it has
been recognized that the ultimate destiny
of Louisville and Nashville Is to be merg-
ed. by lease or otherwise. into Atlantic
Coast Line such difficulties stand In the
way of the carrying out of this project
that its contamination is not now immi-
nent There is hardly any question that
the matter will be arranged ultimately,
but lust what shape the solution will take
has not yet been definitely determined.
The reasons underlying the determine
ton to merge the two properties are well
understood, but uncertainty surrounds
the methods by which these benefits may
be secured. The proposition originally
entertained was for lease of Louisville
and Nashville on per cent basis. This,
however, would not acceptable to some
large holders of Louisville who assert
that their stock can earn dividends at
double this rate and that, therefore. they
would have Just and legal ground for
complaint aaginst an arrangement which
would limit returns on their stock to
half or less than half the available earn
ings. Another proposition for purchase
of the stock still held by the public by
means of a new issue of Atlantic Coast
Line bonds does not promise any better
solution as the real difficulty lies in the
wide divergence of views as to the value
of Louisville and Nashville held by minor
ty holders of the stock and by the Coast
Line management What is regarded by
Coast Line people as a very liberal offer
is considered by holders of Louisville en-
tirely too small
The probability Is that should lease
be arranged Atlantic Coast would then
sells it's holdings of Louisville and Nash
willie to investors and utilize the pro-
ceeds for treasury purposes, including re-
tirement of the $35, 900 collateral trust
per cent bonds which are subject to call
at 10 per cent and interest
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
AT HAND.
Pull off your flannel underclothes,
The ice mans to the fore;
Old Sol Is warming up the land
And summers at the door.

In the Cosmopolitan magazine for May
appears an advertisement of Chicago
business enterprise that marks an epoch
in the latter day art of publicity. Twenty
pages, printed In two colors, are devoted
to an argument wherein this concern at
tempts to prove that its methods of doing
business fill a long felt want 1t is not
the subject matter of the advertisement
that attracts ones attention so much as
the daring utilization Of so much space
in a publication that does not sell adj
vertising privileges FIR a song. Twenty
pages In the Cosmopolitan magazine rep
resent handsome igure-a figure so
large, In fact. 1t would daunt any but the
boldest exponent of publicity. Yet. the
impression of space is being more widely
appreciated every day and magazines, as
well as newspapers are not trying to dis
the tendency. Ten or fifteen years
ago a small insertion of a few inches was
deemed sufficient, but today the inches
have expanded into pages. However, the
Chicago firm seems to have broken the
record with full twenty pages. Advertis
ing agencies state thai 1t is "the biggest
thing ever attempted in magazine adj
vertisng."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
Cardinal Gibbons,

Cardinal Gibbons far reaching infiu-
ence as man and as an ecclesiastc is
due in large measure to his broad spirit
and his friendly relations with non-Cath-
olics," said a citizen who takes deep
interest in sociology and church work.
Il have just read an address which Car
dinal Gibbons delivered before a body of
Catholics in Baltimore recently and here
are some specimen utterances: We be-
lieve that education, patriotism and a
common Christianity are sufficient to
solve all our difficulties and do away
with all unnecessary misunderstanding
The bitterness of creed Is such sense
less thing, my brothers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
Advance One Year Old.

With the May number Advance BIZ
minghams successful magazine, passes
its twelfth month of existence and fin
lshes the first year of career that Is
full of promise.
The cover design for May is excep-
tionally handsome and the contents are
up to the usual STANFORD. Clever stories
predominant, but there is an abundance
OF crisp miscellaneous matter resume
of the past yeai in the history OF Ad-
vance, written by ]. r. Hornady, the
editor is very interesting to all friends OF
the magazine.
The Offering or fiction includes; "Sala-
mander Sam" by Raimundo de OWES;
part two of 1.-THE Runaways.' by John
Sparrow; Aunt 10 and Dat Boy" by j.
Weldon; and "On Forbidden Ground by
Miss Ethel Armes. Mr.. Babb begins an
instructive article on The Lobby" and
Chappell Cory contributes an able paper
entitled "Sdelights on Business"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
MANSFlELD'S WOODLAND LIFE.

From the New York Sun.
Richard Mansfield, who closed his sea-
son in Brooklyn on Saturday night, left
early yesterday morning in his private
car for Cincinnati, where on Monday
evening he opens for a week. The ac-
tors dislike for western hotels has become
so well known that a few railway Of
ticials have planned for his personal COM
fort in a way that Is unusual.
Mr. Mansfield will not be compelled to
sleep in Cincinnati hotel, but, instead.
will live in his private car What is more.
the actor will not sleep on a sidetrack in
noisy railroad yard, out in the heart
OF forest, with nothing to bother his
peace of mind.
Each night at the conclusion of a per-
formance at the Grand Opera house the
actor will be driven in cab to the Grand
Central depot, where his private car, at
tached TO late suburban train, will be
waiting. At Fernbank, a village twelve
miles west Of Cincinnati on the banks
of the Ohio river. the car will be switch
ed on single track line that runs around
the village to large tobacco warehouse
between two hills.
The private car will be stopped half
way between the village and the ware
house. Here there is a thickly wooded
spot, running through which is stream
we'll stocked with fish. The experience will
not be new to the actor The experiment
was tried last year. and so pleased was
= Mansfield that he told a party Of
RI Is at the New Amsterdam theatre
one night that he would be very happy
when his New York season had ended.
The news of the actors Cincinnati stay
was noised about among the various rail-
road men, and at several cities sinail1r
schemes will be tried i, is likely that on
only few occasions on his present trip
will Mr. Mansfield have to put up with
hotel 1ifo
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
From the Washington Post.

From the washington fost.
~ HARVARD professor, especially
WI Harvard professor of history
ought to be we'll acquainted, in
timately acquainted indeed, with the clas-
sizes. In the middle of the eighteenth CEN
fury, Henry Fielding gave to letters and
to mankind work Of transcendent genius
that is one of he most priceless of the
classls-"Tom Jones, Founding This
work is divided into books and each
book is introduced by a chapter of per-
tinent comment on men, things and events
all breathing the shrewdest wisdom and
delightfulest satire In one of them the
author ventures the startling and demor-
alizing proposition that one would be
no less amusing or instructive writer II
he knew something bout the subject he
undertook to write.
Somebody ought to commend that chap
ter to Albert Bushnell Hart. professor of
history of Harvard university. who lately
delivered himself of chapter upon a
subject of which he is not only densely,
but defiantly, ignorant viz, the south.
The deal of mislnformation the professor
has accumulated Is immense in volume
and astonishing in matter. 1t is about
such stuff as some Roman of Trajan's
day might have written of Judea after the
fall of Herod the Great and before the
victory of Titus Such as worthless rake
of the Restoration might have said of
Ireland, that had been harred by England
for some two centuries
Here is a sample of Prof Harris slander:
"why should the negro expect protection
when the white man is powerless against
any persnoal white enemy who chooses to
shoot him down in the street; when not
one white murderer In one hundred is
punished for his crime?' At the very mo-
ment this historian was penning this ques-
toin there was not city, not a town, not
village, not hamlet, not one rod of
ground south of the Potomac and the OlAo
where human life was not safer and the
law of the land more rigidly executed
than in Chicago
Prof Hart has been talking with some
body who has amused himself himself at
the learned Theban's expense. There is
not a single human being at the south,
of either cae or either sex, or any age
or any condition. who would not laugh at
such poppycock as this from the learned
Harvard savant: 1.-THE most intelligent
white people admit the fact that they are
tryins to keep the negro down. because
otl erwise the lowest white men would
marry negro women" No man who knows
anything about the south would ask if
ignorance could go farther than that. 1t
is the jumping-off place. 1t is notorious.
and has been for centuries, that the an
tipathy between the lowest white men
as the learned historian calls them. and
the negroes, Is far more intense and in
placable than II is between the highest
classes and the blacks. Everybody knows
that except this erudite pr lessor of his
tory.
Perhaps our scholar had Kansas in
his mind when he took this of his pen:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06

BY George Eliot.
o may l join the choir invisible
OF those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence;
live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude. in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self.
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night
like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge
mans search
To vaster issues.
So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world
Breathing as beauteous order that con-
trolls
with growing sway the growing life Of
man.
So we inherit that sweet purity
For which we struggled, failed, and
agonized
with widening retrospect that bred de-
spair.
Rebellious flesh that would not be sub
dued,
A vicious parent shaming still its child.
Poor, anxious, penitence, is quick dis
Its discords. quenched by meeting har-
monies,
Die in the large and charitable air;
And all our rarer. better truer self.
That sobbed relgiously in yearning song,
That watched to ease the burden of the
world.
Laboriously tracing what must be.
And what may yet be better-saw within
A worthier image for the sanctuary.
And shaped 1t forth before the multitude,
Diviney human. raising worship SO
To higher reverence more mixed with
love
That better self shall live till human time
Shall fold its eyelids. and the human sky
Be gathered like scroll within the tomb
Unread forever.
This Is life to come,
Which martyred men have made more
glorious
For us who strive to follow May | reach
That purest heaven; be to other souls
The cup of strength in some great agony;
Enkindle generous ardor; feed pure love.
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty;
Be tie sweet presence Of good diffused.
And In diffusion ever invisible.
So shall l join the choir invisible,
Whose music is the gladness of the world
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
Chicken Freak.

did you ever see a chicken with four
legs and three wings9" asked the tele-
phone central of the East Lake exchange.
well, we surely have one out this way.
The chicken was Matched yesterday and
since that time hundreds of people have
seen this freak of nature and can bear
witness to the truthfulness of the four
legged and three-winged fowl
The chicken was Matched out with
brood of about fourteen and is in a
healthy condition. The hen which set on
the eggs is an old reliable fowl of the
Buff-Cochin species and belongs to an
old negro woman.
1.-The colored woman is very proud OF
this strange little chick that walks around
on its four legs as we'll as its other
brothers and sisters walk on their two
legs and she says she hopes to raise it.
THE hen also seems to realize that she
has given great offspring to the world
and seems to take special aims in seeing
that her four-egged young one gets the
best food that is going
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
IN HOTEL LOBRIES
New street Railway.

W. H woodward, whose name when
associated with almost any Industrial
project usually spells success" was
standing in one of the First National
Bank elevator cars yesterday afternoon
waiting for the negro boy to turn on the
electric current. Along came a friend
of Mr.. Woodwards and said;
"How's your new street railway get
ting along?"
Slowly" said Mr.. Woodward promptly.
AMI then he added:
Its young yet. All young street rail-
ways have a habit OF going slow
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
PROF. HART OF HARVARD
DOESN'T KNOW THE SOUTH

Good people Qn the SOUTH rarely make
much distinction between the man who Is
guilty and the man who looks like a
criminal; between shooting him down in
the streets or burning him at the stake;
between burning the guilty man or his
innocent wife; between the quiet family
inferno with only two or three hundred
spectators and a first class. advertised,
auto-da-se with special trains, and the
children of the public schools in the fore
ground"
Is it possible that this Harvard profess
So of history ever read George F. Hoar's
estimate of southern men and women?
If he had not, let him take it down and
read it, If he can read truth, and Lush
If he can blush.
And the next time he wants to exploit
his ignorance and give vent to his preju.
dice let him take the advice of Burns:
But still keep something to yoursil
Ye scarcel5 tell to ony.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
Lesson for Farmers.

From the Huntsville Mercury
II is most remarkable fact that the
farmers of the south will continue to plant
cotton for large crop which is certain
to bring low price when a ten million
bale crop would just as certainly COM
mand a high price. Should the cotton
farmers of the south limit the cotton for
the next five years TO ten millnon bales
year, and raise their own supplies, they
would all be out of debt and every one
head. But they do the opposite and pur-
sue an absolutely suicidal policy in bus
mess sense.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06

Grover Cleveland has just made hand
byterian institution at Hastings, Neb. Mr..
Cleveland is not trying to break into"
the Rockefeller or the Carnegie class as
philanthropist. He is a big man in grth
and national Importance but is not over
opulent though he is what may be termed
comfortably fixed The amount of the
donation is not made public, but it is not
believed that this secrecy is due to any
fear on the part of Mr. Cleveland that he
will be charged with trying to give away
tainted money" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
ALABAMA PRESS
ouaht Not to Blow.

From the Ashville Southern Aegis.
Linevitch should keep quiet until his OPP
portunity comes. He could hardly deter
mine what he would have done at the
battle of Mukden, If his responsibility had
been greater.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.
I'M the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Luck is prize only for the lucky.
Maybe, when General Sherman said
what war was, he meant a summer gar
den.
Suing a man who has your money is a
good way to get ii back for your lawyer.
Women are so naturally deceptive they
can make sham look more real than q
genuine thing.
When man doesn't get mad with a
woman over the way she figures out A
political situation 1t is sign she IS pretty
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
Walking is Poor.
From the opelika Post.

From the Opelika Post.
1t is reported that there is widespread
and growing desire among the young men
OF this country to rush away to Panama
for the purpose of helping to dig the ca
nal. We regard 1t as our duty to publicly
announce that the walking on the way
back from Panama is very poor in some
placeg
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06

From the Tuscumbia North Albanian.
Hobson driving the water wagon for the
dispensarists, and Conner occupying the
front seat in the rate reform band wagon
with DR.. Cunningham swinging on the
back end of both vehicles. will make a
lively procession in Alabama politics next
wear
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
Another Dark Horse.

From the Marion Standard.
A few state papers are discussing gu
bernatorial timber AT the pportune time
we may fetch out Colonel Mallory of
Dallas, and give real bone to gnaw on.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06

Senator Smoot is getting so ratified that
he recently entertained fakir under the
impression that the man had been sent to
make a secret investigation of the Smoot
case TIE mothers ought to jump in right
now and make Reed confess before he re-
gains his bearings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06

The tax collector of San Francisco is a
defaulter, and it is the same old story of
d man who tried to lead an automobile
life on trolley car salary. Edward J.
Smith had expensive ways, the most ex-
pensive being his infatuation for a foot
light favorite who is reported to have
made a quick exit to the orient, carrying
about her fascinating and alluring per-
son $4,000 belonging to the city of San
Francisco. The lady sped to the station
in a yellow automobile banked with vio-
let's. From this the pace may readily be
imagined. Meanwhile, Mr.. Smith, who is
now in the tolls. can console himself with
the thought that the harvest of defaulters
embezzlers and plain thieves this year is
unusually large. The sun sets each day
on new official gone wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06
Will Be Unusual.

From the Centrevill Press.
1t is reported that the railroads are
going to stay out of the race for COVER
nor. 1t will be something they have not
done in many a day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06

If the grizzlies will send in one of
their number to be killed, the Presi-
dent will pardon all the rest and re-
turn home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-06

Private Secretary Loeb is learning
how to contend with bears, for he
knows he will need all possible equip
ment when he encounters Miss Mae
Wood, plaintiff.