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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

Every udy IHeulCdl science becomes more simple-and more certain. Simplic- ity ad certainty go han6 in hand For science has learned that while there are many diseases, yet there are but few real causes of disease. That is, there are many names by which we know aches and pains and disorders. But most of these ailments spring from a common cause.
 For instance, indigestion. sour stom- ach, heartburn, dyspepsia and all stom- ach troubles-diabetes, Bright's disease and other kidney disorders-hear trou- bles, liver troubles, bowel troubles, ner- vousness, fretfulness, sleeplessness, irri- tability-all of these ailments are due to q single cause. Painful, disagreeable and dangerous though they be, they are seperate diseases and they are not not to be treated as such. They are merely outward signs of inward trouble nerve trouble
 Understand first that we have two en- tirely separate nerve systems. When we walk, or talk or act, we call into play a certain set of nerves-nerves which obey our mental commands That is why the arm can be raised, or the mouth opened, or the eye shut, at the slightest desire. That is why our fingers can delicately pick up a pin one moment, and hold a heavy hammer the next.
 BuL these are not the nerves we are 10 consider here
 There is another set of nerves which manages and governs and actuates the heart and stomach, the kidneys and the liver and all of the vital functions. You cannot control these nerves. By no su- preme effort of mind can you make your heart stop or start-nor can you even make 1t vary by a single beat a minute. And so with the stomach and the liver and the kidneys and the bowels-they are automatic-they do their work at a cer- tain set speed whether you are awake or asleep-whether you want them to or not.
 It Is on these inside nerves that life and health depends. So long as these nerves perform thei- proper duties we are well and strong. When they fail, we know it by the inevitable symptoms stomach. heart. liver, kidney troubles. And these troubles have not other origin, ever, than in these same nerves. For the stomach, the heart, the liver, the kidneys, have no power of their own, no self-con- trol They owe their every impulse to the inside nerves. The nerves are the masters. The organs their slaves.
 These automatic nerves are sometimes called the sympathetic nerves. This name is given them because of the close bond of sympathy which exists between all branches. Thia explains why stom-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Col. Lowry Popular.

Robert J. Lowry of Atlanta, Ga, is one Of the coming leaders of the republican party of the South. and it is from men of this type that much in. the way of polit- cal development may be expected i'm the next four years. No man in Georgia is better liked than Bob" Lowry. of At lanta, and he is striking example of the push, energy and intelligence of the new South" possessing at the same time all of the courtliness, dignity and high sense of honor that characterized the gentle men of the "old South"
 Colonel Lowry Is at the head of one of the largest banking institutions of the South, and its prosperity and develop ment are due to his business sagacity and personal popularity. When there was talk of the possibility of a southerner be- ing offered q place in the cabinet many people who were aware of the intimacy between President Roosevelt and Colonel Lowry believed that Colonel Lowry would be selected.
 As 1t has been definitely announced that there is to be no southerncr in the cabinet at this time the talk of course has ceased, but it is well understood that Mr. Roosevelt considers Colonel Lowry one of the safe men of the south and one in which he can repose every confidence. and more than once recently Colonel Lowry has been in close consultation with the President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
ARE MOVING ALONG
 WITH CANAL WORK
OPINION EXPRESSED THAT SEA LEVEL CANAL CAN BE READY FOR LARGE VESSELS BY JANu. AIRY 1, 1915.

Washington, February 4.-In view of the lack of public information as to the status of the work of canal digging on the isthmus and as to the exact amount of work executed so far by the Ameri- cans since they took up the task, the American minister to Panama, has, after consultation with Chief Engineer Wal lace and a. close personal inspection of the route of the proposed canal. sub mitted to the State Department a re- port upon this subject. The statement and facts that will eventually be pro- duced by the canal commission showing the actual construction on the canal ac- complished since July l. last, when Mr. Wallace took charge of the engineering department. The most important state ment in the report is this
 If the next six months show a pro- gross corresponding to that of the past six weeks, the conviction of the best engineers on the isthmus is that sea level canal can be constructed in ten years and be ready for large vessels by January l, 19i5.''
 The report declares that there is no ground for the current reports that lit tle has been accomplished in advancing the construction of the canal during the past six or eight months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
TRYING II BREAK
 TIE SOLID SOUTH Pr. sldent Roosevelt is Winning
 Many New Friends HIS ATTITUDE IS PRAISED Col. Lowry and J. F. Hanson of eeor- ela Close to Executive-capi-
 tai Is Watching the
 Fight in Ohio.
HIS ATTITUDE IS PRAISED
BY w. T. MANNING.

Washington, February 4.-(Special) Ut is very generally admitted and under stood that President Roosevelt is anxious to bring about a decided change in the political complexion of the South, and if possible he intends to break "the solid South before he retires from office. He is planning to do this by convincing the better element in that section that he Is not an enemy, but intends to be u friend and by seeking the advice and counsel of reputable leaders he hopes to rid the Southern Republicans of many of the old leaders who have been faithful solely for the purpose of their own ben eft.
 The President Is studying Southern af- fairs closely ano carefully and with de- sire to be absolutely fair and just ill his every act. He has demonstrated this morea than once. Even men who were bitierest during tho recent campaign are now recognizing the genuine fairness of the Presidents position in Southern af- fairs in the past. Persons who are in Washington and in position to judge of such matters are unanimous in applaud ta'fNf selection of advisers and officials in the South. He has in many instances lg- nored leaders who were once powerful solely because they were the only white Republicans in their neighborhood.
 The President knows also that there are thousands of Southern men who vote the Democrats ticket in a half hearted way, and have been in line by prejudice. MT. Roosevelt has found out that a great many of these men are real ly anxious to vote the Republican ticket but have lacked confidence and have feared that they would injure themselves in a business or social way This fear has been gradually diappearing for d number of years and there has been a steady increas in the ranks of white Re publicans during the past ten years, and MT Roosevelt believes the time is pro- pitious for a strong earnest effort to win back the Southern people. There is noth- ing in MT. Roosevelts attitude that is apologetic or withdrawal from former position, and anything of this type would prove more disastrous than any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Dr. Shoop's Restorative

should have greater support from tho state.
 But what are we doing for our young negro criminals today? Fining them little and turning them loose to do thelr mischief again or sending them to prisJn for a while and making them worse? As negroes form such a large majority of our criminals and the proportion is in- creasing, evidently our methods of treat ment are not effcctual in checking crime among them, and something new Is needed Reformatories have passed the experimental stage and a hundred thou stand dollars spent in this state in re- formatories for young white and colored criminals would be money put in a safe and profitable investment. We need reformatory run on the plan of an agr.- cultural colony, where our young negro criminals can be sent and kept away from the bad environment of a peniten- tiary, taught how to work and do some- thing, and made to stay there until they can prove themselves fit to be turned loose. If they prove irredeepable after so long time and there is no hope of their ever being anything but crielinal, then send them 70 inc psrtcstiary and keep them there where thsy would be least expensive and dangerous.
 The chain of insane and criminal ne- grOeS Is increasing LOO rapidly ana more must be done toward getting the defect i've ones away and keeping them from exerting their evil influence and propa- gating their kind, also toward improving the environment in which so many thou sands of negroes in our cities are living today Enforce the vagrant and sanitary laws, and when the physically diseased are found see that they get proper att tention far as possible, and when the mentally defective come under the juris- diction of the law send them to a re- formatory. penitentiary or insane hos pital, depending on the degree of their effectiveness and there keep them until they are fit to be turned loose Many of the negroes who now make up the population of our insane hospital and penitentiary if they had been placed in a reformatory while young and before they had gone too far in their down ward course of vice. crime and dissipa- tion, could have been redeemed and made law-abiding citizens, with what a saving in money and misery,
 If we will begin to treat the young negro criminals by the reformatory method. thus getting them off the streets and out of their bad environment and making them learn to do something for living, then in the future our homes in our penitentiary and insane hospital will be lessened. Respectfully,
 GEO. H. SEARCY, Assistant Physician Mount Vernon In-
 sane Hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

thing we do to check this deterioration is working against this great law, but the negro is among us to stay, and his de- generacy is a source of danger to the whole population, so we must do what we can to improve 1t. Whether prompted by humane or selfish motives, anything we do along this line is for the better ment of both races.
 For those negroes whose effectiveness has reached that degree where they are called insane we have a place in which they are kept until they are fit to become members of society again, and this we know in most cases is never. Crime like insanity is but evidence of a defective organism, and the difference between that effectiveness which causes crime and that which causes insanity is but one of degree When this fact can be impressed upon the courts and .Lcy ho mad- C un derstand that the crinnrai and not the crime alone is to be considered, then we have taken great step toward accom- plishing what the law was made for, i. e., to protect and prevent crime.
 \How far is society protected and how much good accomplished when some toughened character, caught in minor offense, is sent up for thirty days or given d small fine and then turned loose when we know that as soon as an op portunity arises he will commit the same offense again or do something worse. Would it not be better to treat the criminal like the insane treat them as mental defectives and put them in an institution under an indeterminate sen tence where they must remain until they are fit to again become members of soci- ety. This we know in the case of the older criminals would often mean for life but the convict in these cases would be less expensive than the ex-convlct and society by far better protected
 Different With Young Criminals.
 With the young criminals 1t is differ ent for in them we generally find some can often be made law-abidlng citizens if they are placed in the proper envi- ronment.
 As is now generally done in our state, especially with the negroes, the young criminals are sent to the penitentiary, and thus put in a veritable school for crime. All ambition, if they ever had any is killed and they are placed along side of a hardened old convict who takes pleasure in teaching the young, inexpe- rienced prisoner all the tricks of the trade" so that by the time he has worked Out his sentence he has Caught on to- many things and become so hardeaed toward what is good that he is more cf a criminal than when he was admitted. The reformatory at East Lake for young white criminals is partly filling a great need, but it is not large enough and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Another Popular Georgian.

Another Georgian who stands close to the President Is J. F. Hanson of Macon, Ga. Mr. Hanson is one of the wcalthiest men in the state and is largely interested in cotton manufacturing ie is also pres ident of the Central railroad, Mir. Han son has been one of the leaders of the republican party in Georgia for many years. but has never been an office seeker as politics with him has been q study and a recreation. He is prominent so- ciallY, and 1t is upon such men as Colonel Lowry and MT. Hanson that the future of the republican party in the south will rest They are safe men and have the interests of their section at heart and in seeking advisers of this type the Prcsi- dent is sure of standing ol safe and cer- tain ground
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
How the Stomach and Kidn6vS
 Depend on th6 Inside N6pV6S

cured by one remedy. I resolved not to doctor the organs. but to treat the one nerve system which operates them all.
 For those who treat only the symptoms need different remedy for each. Such treatments are only palliative the re- suits dc not last cure can never come in disease of the stomach, heart liver or kidneys until the inside nerve power is restored. When that is done Nature re- moves the symptoms. There is no need Of doctoring them.
 My remedy-now known by druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoops Restorative Is the result of a quarter century of en- |deavor along this very line It does not dose the organ or deaden the pain-but it does go at once to the nerve-the inside nerye-the power nerve-and builds it up, and strengthens and makes it we'll
 There Is no mystery-no miracle I can explain my treatment to you as easily las l can tell you why cold freezes water and why heat melts ice. Nor do l claim q discovery Tor every detail of my treatment is based on truths so funda- mental that hone can deny them. And every ingredient of my medicine is as old as the hills it grows on. I simply applied the truths and combined the ingredients into remedy that is practically certian, In more than a million homes my rem edy is known and relied upon. Yet you may not have heard of il. So I make this offer to you, a stranger. that every pos sible excuse for doubt may be removed. Send no money-make no promise-take no risk Simply write and ask. If you have never tried my remedy I will send you an order on your druggist for full dollar bottle-not q sample. but the reg ular standard bottle he keeps constantly on his shelves. The druggist will require no conditions. He will accept my order as cheerfully as though your dollar lay before him. He will send the bill to me Will you accept this opportunity to learn at my expense absolutely how to be rid forever of all forms of nervousness ito be rid not only of the trouble but of the very cause which produced it? Write today.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Gossip About Judge Harrison.

The recent visit of Judge Lynde Harri- son of New Haven to the White House has renewed the gossip which indicated that he ia to receive an important diplo- matic appointment. It is generally un- derstood that the place as minister to Switzerland was offered him and 1t is probable that it will be accepted. Judge Harrison would not talk about the mat ter. but his friends arc confident that the offer was made. He is deeply interested in international arbitration and it is well known that he would not be averse to an appointment to further that movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Incident Regarded as Closed.

Warsaw, February 4.-Colonel Ma pier. British military attachee, who was sent to investigate the alleged at- tacks by Russian h1ssars on British Consul General Murray and pro Con sul Mucukain has returned to St. Petersburg to report to the embassy. The incident is regarded as closed, MT. Murray .l-g frankly declared that the attacks were only such as hap pened to any person on the streets at such times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

the suffering organ is enjoying its tenn porary relief, the nerve that is really sick may be getting worse and worse? Does this not explain to you why relapse SC frequently follows a supposed cure? Does this not account for the uncertain ties of medicine?
 More than thirty years ago this thought came to me:
 "If life and health depend upon perfect heart action, upon proper stomach diges- tion, upon correct kidney Altering, why does not life itself depend upon these life governing power nerves-these inside nerves.
 I realized, too, that all ailments which result from one cause may, of course, be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Fight in Ohio.

Washington is watching the fight for state control of the republican party in Ohio The opposing leaders are Governor Myron T. Herrick and Warren G. Hard ing George B. Cox of Cincinnati is sup porting Governor Herrlck while Senator ForalIer would prefer to see Harding in power The present indications are that there will be q battle royal when the Foraker and Cox forces clash, as they will most assuredly. It is admitted on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

ach trouble often develops into heart trouble-why indigestion brings on ner- nousness-why diseases become eompli- cated IL explains, too, why ordinary medical treatments are wrong-why medi- cine so frequently fails.
 For despite the discoveries of science, the common remedies of the day are de- signed to treat the organ, not the nerve the symptom instead of the cause.
 Don't you, though you may not know medicine at all, see that this is wrong2 That it is mere patchwork? That while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

all sides that the fight is to a finish. Cox declares that the Governor will have an easy victory and he will win when the final test is made Cox has shown clearly that no man has a stronger hold on Hamilton county than he has and Senator Foraker is no longer formid- able rival
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
INSANE NEGROES
 IN TIE INCREASE
feformatories Are Needed 10
 Save the Race
THE VIEWS OF AN EXPERT
Dr. George H. searcy of Mt. Vernon Insane Hospital Says Negroes Are Deteriorating Very
 Rapidly.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 Several times I have seen some men ton in the columns of your paper of the Wofk sam Daly is trying to do toward caring for and improving the young ne- groes sent to him by Judge Feagin. nave been very much interested in Sam s enterprise and regret to learn that he ias not met with much success, which understand is due to the young negroes running away from his place.
 have also recently noticed that some of the colorcd men of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa have started a movement to- ward establishing reformatory for the young negro criminals in this state, and With the idea of perhaps giving them some encouragement by trying to show the great need of sucn an institution. I send the following when, If you see it. you can publish:
 Having been connected with the hos pital for colored insane for some time, I have been made to see more and more clearly each year the ,peed of such an in stitution as a reformatory for our young negro criminals. Many of the younger ii' ei oS9 scHt lO us really belong 1n pententiary or reformatory, but there being no reformatory, and not being able to find sufficient charge against them to send them to the pen.tentiary, they must necessarily be declared insane and sent To the hospital in order to get rid of them at home At the hospital, perhaps as clearly and as frequently as can be seen anywhere else, 1 have been able to observe the fearful results of environ ment. with it's dissipation, vice and gem erally bad living, to which so many of the negroes of our state are subjected today. All the more quickly and surely have these results been seen where there was found the stamp of heredity, which is getting to be the rule rather than the exception with the average negro of to- day.
 The southern negro has not yet become adjusted to the new conditions forced upon him by his freedom, but is still, as statistics show, on his downward course of mental and physical degeneraey. Be- fore the war an insane negro was rarely seen. and they were thought by many to be immune to such d constitutional dis ease as consumption. Crime was infre- quent among them and some of the hor rible affairs of which they are so ire quenty guilty today were never heard uf then.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
MyFree Dollar Offer

MyFTct DOlidI OnCl Any sick one who has not tried my remedy, Dr.. Shoop's Restorative, may have a Full Dollars Worth Free. 1 ask no deposit, no references, no security. There is nothing to pay either now or later. will send you an order on your druggist which he will accept in full payment for a regular, standard size Dollar bottle. And he will send the bill to me.
 (. J. Shoop. M. D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Drennen @ Go.

thing that could be done. Among the men who are in sympathy with the Pres ident Is Col. Lowry of Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Notc,.. Sculptor Dead.

Paris, February 4.-Louis Barrias. tho sculptor. is dead. He was born in 1S41.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
VETERANS ISSUE
 CALLFOR REUNION
Fifteenth Annual to be Held in
 Louisville June 14-16
FACTS ABOUT REUNION
General Stephen D. Lee, General Com manding the United Confeder- ate Veterans, Praises Louis
 vile and Kentucky.

The following call for the fifteenth an- nual reunion of the United Confederate veterans, in Louisville, June 14-16. has been issued by General stephen D. Lee:
 Headquarters United
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Confederate Veterans.

New Orleans, La, February l, 1905. General Orders No. 23.
 l. The commanding general announces that, according to the custom heretofore in force, which leaves to the command ing general and the department com manders the fixing of the date of the reunion; the Fifteenth Annual Reunion of the United Confederate veterans will be held in the city of Louisville, Ky, on June II, 15, and 16 1905, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, respectively those days having been named by our host as satisfactory