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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Man a Tool-Using Animal.

pr Woods Hutchinson in Success Nigga
 zine"
 It Is the hand which has marked man from other animals which has made him what he is. It was to keep his hand from bearing the weight of his body and leave it free for the club and the stone that he originally rose up on his hind legs and acquired the erect position of which we are so proud. It was the new uses to which the hand was put with the weapon. the tool that built up the brain so that speech and thought became possible. As shrewd old Benjamin Franklin said a hundred years ago, Man is a tool-using animal"
 Look closely at this fore paw of ours Not only a tool user. but itself even the most wonderful tool in the world. It can grip and twist like a monkey-wrench, hang on like graphing hook, crack like nut-crack, pick like pair Of tweez- CTS tear like jaw forceps-the Japanese dentist pulls teeth with his fingers-and grub like q gopher It can twist and turn like 8. snake, swim like q seal. climb like a monkey, strike like a horses hoof. With 6 stone it becomes a hammer; with a thorn, q sewing machine. No wonder the antagonist finds that it has some thirty muscles in and attaching to 1t.
 1t is a tool that needs infinite variety of use to bring it to its highest pitch and keep it there, and while you're giVlng IL this yoti're developing the brain to sim liar degrees of complexity and perfection. The thing that marks off the human brain most distinctively from that of any oth- CT animal is not it's size A swallow or atitmouse has a larger brain In propor- tion Restrict the hand in it's movements and the hand and arm-area-the so-called Rolandic or central region of the cor tex-fails to develop; narrow it down to o,,a ar tool and if hpcOn1aS cramped and unsymmetrical Give chil- dren every kind of hand work that their play instincts-the deepest and most use ful in their nature-call for. and then brain development will follow. Glue them to the desk the loom, the handle of any tool. and you dwarf them both physically and mentally. Child labor is the west race ctrioda
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE.
A Woman With Two Husbands to Ac-
 count for Had to Relinquish One.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 After vainly striving to obtain sem blance of intelligibility out of the testi' mony submitted Judge Gary signed the decree of divorce asked by Max Berger against Anna Seibenhaar-Berger and waved them all out of court.
 Mrs. Berger has two husbands. So much is apparently clear. The other husband, named Siebenhaar, lives in Germany. So much is also clear.
 Transcripts of the testimony serve to show why Judge Gary yielded:
 Last month I found out she was married to Siebenhaar," Berger said, "and then 1 left her"
 q couldn't get the German consul here" her attorney explained.
 But the woman is outside of court; perhaps she will testify the complain ants attorney said, and if--
 'Why does Max want to get a di- vorce?" the court asked
 He thinks she is going to be prose- cuted. The mother-in-law or brother. in-aw is going to have the man come here and prosecute her. He does not want to lay himself liable"
 q was sick" Mrs. Siebenhaar. Berger interrupted. He came out of the hospital and ran away with my hired girl-"
 You want Mr Berger to have di- vorce, do you?" interrupted Judge Gary.
 No. I want to have what is right"
 Her own mother is going to bring this man here to prosecute her." the attorney said "They want to get a divorce and separate and then re- mafry."
 "Oh, let it go," Judge Garry said.
 Then Judge Gary signed the decree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
JAPAN IS AFTER
 INDIA COTTON TRADE
MANUFACTURES REPORTS JAPA- NESE EXPERTS ARE GETTING SAMPLES WITH VIEW OF COM FITTING WITH MANCHESTER.

Washington, November 1S,-tSpecial)- Maj John M Carson. chief of the bureau of manufacture, is daily receiving inter esting' reports from his agents abroad on the cotton trade of foreign countries es- pecially in the orient. where Special Agent Pepper has been visiting. In re- port today MT. Pepper says:
 What s. looked forward to is the pos- siblity of Japan competing with Lanca- shire in Dbotees and other Manchester speciaties. Last year, as I am informed, the Japanese government sent eX- perts to India, who took back large numbers of patterns of ma- terial used by the people of the different sections of the country which patterns as is we'll known, vary considerably These were carefully distributed among the different mills with a view to being initiated and reproduced.
 "So far as can be learned the Japan piece goods have not yet made their ap- pearance In the India market, but they are likely to appear at any time. Amer ican manufacturers who have samples of the output of the Japanese mills may therefore, find it advantageous to com pare these with the Manchester goods sold in India"
 Samples of the cotton piece goods large ly sold in India, manufactured by the mills of Manchester as well as those manufactured in Botany mills have been forwarded by MT. Pepper When received the samples will be prepared for exam inaton by manufacturers of cotton goods as was done with samples of similar goods received from China.
 Those from India will be arranged so they may be forwarded to manufacturing centers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
EASTERN CAPITALISTS
 BOOST HUNTSVILLE
Will Secure Franchise for New Elec- trlc Railroad and Develop
 the City.

Huntsville November 1S.-(Speciai)- Several capitalists from the east have been in this city during the last few days looking over the situation with the inten- tion of taking steps to secure franchise for the establishment of a new electric railway system here.
 The new system will occupy streets that are not now used by the Huntsville Rail- way, Light and Power company, and the lines will be surveyed and established more with an eye to the future than to existing conditions, it is said.
 It Is understood that the new associa- tion of capitalists intends to develop the city.
 The result of their operations coming along with the development of the natural gas resources of this locality, the building of the Nashville and Huntsville railway and other enterprises. may start boom in Huntsville and stir up the town as 1t has never been stirred before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
HEARST WILL NOT BE
 A CANDIDATE AGAIN
Makes Statement at San Antonio on Way to His Mines in Monterey
 With His Family

San Antonio, Tex, November 1S-Wil- liam R. Hearst, recently democratic can didate for governor of New York, was here at noon today for few minutes on his way to Monterey, where he has min ing interests. He is accompanied by the members of his family. In discussing what his future course will be in refer ence to plans in New York, he said:
 T will never again be a candidate. shall continue to reside in New York and advocate the support of the principles of reform, which I have always stood for, but the principles are now sufficiently understood by the general public for it to be no longer necessary for me to be a candidate.
 You probably know it is by no means pleasant to be a candidate. I am glad that in the future it is to be my priVlle-s to stand for the principles of government have always advocated without being a candidate for office and on that account attacked with much bitterness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Plea for Octoberists.

St. Petersburg, November S.-A. J. Guchkoff, presiding today at a general meeting of the Octoberists, attended by 5000 members of this party, said the ap- preaching election of members of Par liament would disclose clearer compre- hension and more mature views of the situation Let those who want to ob- tain civil rights by revolutionary means and the destruction of the Fatherland. vote for the constitutional demands and other members of the left" said the speaker. 'As for the members of the right, their aims regarding the agrarian labor and education questions are pro- gressive and democratic The political creed of the Octoberists is that the mon archcal principle must be maintained, but constitutional in form
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
LEUPP REPORTS ON
 INDIAN AFFAIRS
COMMISSIONER WORKING TO PRO- MOTE TRAINING OF INDIAN IN SUGAR CULTURE AND FOUL TABLE DIVISION OF FUNDS.

Washington, November 1S.-The annual report of Francis E. Leupp, commission CT of Indian affairs, was made public today. MT. Leupp says that no Congress passed so much legislation Of vital i'm portance to the Indians as the last ses- sion of that body. To promote the train ing of the Indian in the culture of sugar beets and to secure legislation looking to an equitable division of tribal funds, thereby making the red man a free and Independent citizen. are the two projects for which the commissioner is working hardest as future accomplishments. To carry out the beet sugar plan, legislation is needed authorizing the extension of In- dian land leases beyond the five-year pe- riod Regarding the allotment of tribal funds the commissioner rays that while he would prefer modiications in the La cey blil which passed the House and is now before the Senate he would rather zee this measure become law than to have nc action taken. Indians nave been en- ccuraged during the past year to seek la bor outside the reservations with show ing of beneficial results, which leads the commissioner to regard .- is a valuable means of developing sef-supporting inde- pendence. The co-education of white and Indian children in the public schools has been encouraged To this end contracts have been made with county school au- thorities wherever practicable, and the result has been gratifying. The expendi- ture for the Indians for the past fiscal year aggregates $12 7i5S59. The commits sioner explains that the items of largest increase were the ones fulfilling treaty st.pulations. $l.715921, and the irrigation project on which $3 194.793 was spent. MT. Leupp declares that the Burke law of last session will enable the Indian chiefs to manage the affairs of the helpless class of Indians with UT disputed author ity, and to remove from the roll of wards and dependents the large and increasing number of Indians who no longer need any supervision from a bureau in Wash fnPtOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
News of MontevaIIo.

Montevalo, November 1s.-(Special.)- Miss Maurie s. Pinkston has gone to Montgomery for a few days.
 Miss Helen Boggs of Chester. S. C.. Is the guest of her Montevallo friends.
 Rev. Joseph Dunglinson attended the Presbyterian synod in Talladega this week
 Miss Sophia Pitts has returned from Selma, where she represented the Mon tevallo students at the State Federation of Women's clubs
 Rev. J. $. Park of Decatur arrived in Montevallo yesterday afternoon and will preach at the Presbyterian church tomor- row.
 Mrs. MacMahon of Livingston has been the guest this week of her daughter Miss Lila MacMahon.
 Mrs. Tempe F. Hawkins of Birmingham is the guest of relatives in Montevallo
 MT. Ed Moore of San Francisco was the guest yesterday of his sister Miss Anne c. Moore, at the Hotel St. George.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
". B. WRECK NOT
 THE SEWER VICTIM
A LETTER FROM INDIANAPOLIS PROVES THE CHEW TO lDENTI- " OF BODY FOUND IN SEPTIC PLANT WORTHLESS,

Bessemer. November S-(Special.)- last clue to the identity of the body found in the septic plant at the end of the Jef ferson county sewer nearly month ago, which seemed to be so well grounded, has been proved worthless and the last chap ter of the tragedy is probably closed in mystery
 The following humorous letter to James Monroe of the Southern Bell Telephone company in Birmingham was received yesterday morning:
 Dear Friend: Read very startling piece Tn the yesterdays Indianapolis Sta" which said that poor Bill was found in manhole dead, and had been there so long that none of his friends could rec ogniZe him. Now I want to insist that am still in the land of the living and happy yet. though I did nearly kick the bucket Laid in the hospital at Muncie with typhoid fever without brains enough to tell my right name to write home for many weeks, but am all right now, and working every day. But l do feel sorry for the poor fellow who is dead in my place, and I hope you will find who he is. Yours respectfully,
 "W B. MYRICK, "326 North Eleventh Street. Richmond.
 Ind"
 
 1906 to take place as lineman with the Bell Telephone company working few months, and then returning north. His sickness accounts for the time when he was lost to the worldly and for the re- peated letters which his mother wrote to the local office. The clue which suggest ed the fate of the lineman was found in the fact that the feet of the corpse were tied together with telephone wires, and it was thought that the murderer had killed Myrick and then tied him up with his own wire. However, it appears that "Bilr' is still tieing wire on telephone poles.
 Officer Ross and Chief Christlieb today landed two walking saloons in the city jail, thus closing up a rushing business and blasting the hopes of two husky law breakers. Will Thomas and a woman accomplice. both negroes, had been busy all morning dispensing whisky to all passers on First avenue near Nineteenth street. from a grip which they had hid den away in the neighborhood. As d re- suit of their trade there were quite a number Of arrests on the charge of drunk enness and disorderly conduct during the day
 The argument in the injunction suit of the Bessemer water warks against the city to prevent the enforcement of an ordinance recently passed, was finished in Judge A. A. Coleman's court yesterday, and the attorneys asked for an early de- cision. It Is said that should it be ad- verse to the city's interests an appeal will be taken to the supreme court.
 The young people of the Epworth league bid their friends come to the Beavers hall Tuesday night for supper. and an hour of real fun. A musical programme 1Ioxy xxr;11 Ia fo1 INxrf lo.1i of the organization.
 The grand jury will convene again Mon day morning to examine the witnesses who failed to appear last week. It is be- lieved that the docket will be cleared in a few days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Mesmer.

From ,Appleton's for November.
 Mesmer published in 1713 his account or the marvellous cures effected by what he was pleased to term animal magnetism When, in ITS, he came to Paris" says 1T. A. Bruce in an article in Appleton's for November, "he came with we'll developed sense of the value of adver- Using. The campaign he inaugurated was of a character to disgust the copserva- tive and thoughtful, but to take a sen- sation-loving populace by storm. Most eXtravagant tales of cures he had accom- plished in Berlin, Vienna and elsewhere were noised abroad. Through d convert he challenged the physicians of Paris to enter into a contest with him, they to treat twelve patients by the orthodox methods, he to treat twelve by his or course, this challenge was rejected and equally, of course, its rejection was in- terpreted by the thoughtless as an ac. knowledgment of the superiority of Mes mer's treatment. His rooms were thronged; his purse waxed constantly heavier.
 'The treatment he gave was such as to appeal vivldly to the imagination of the patient; in a word, to increase his sug- gestibility. Suggestion, indeed, was us
 
 pretended to fail to recognize this, and taught tlnt it's efficacy depended upon the effluence of a mysterious fluid. In a room dimy lighted and hung with mir TOTS, the patients were seated about cir cular vat of considerable size, covered with lid and containing various chemi- calls. A long cord connected the patients with one another. while in the lid Of the tub were several holes, through each ol which passed an iron rod bent in such a way that it's point could be applied to any part of patients body The pa tients were requested not to speak. the only sound in the room being strains soft music. When expectancy was at its flood. Mesmer would enter clad in the robe of a magician and carrying an iron wand. At one patient he would gaze in- tently, another he would stroke gently with his wand. Soon some would burst into laughter, others into tears, while still others would fall into convulsions, finally passing into a lethargic state out of which, it is claimed, they emerged cured or on the highroadt to d cure. De- casionally the treatment was given out doors, a tree being magnetlzed and the patient collapsing in swoon so soon as he approached it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
RaisuIi Blocks the Game.

London, November 19.-According to the Times correspondent at Tangiers Raisuli has warned the Cadi against legaizing documents for the purchase or sale of land which does not bear his authoriza- tion, and he openly threatens notaries who draw up such documents. As the local officials do not recognize Raisulrs authority in these matters, this notifica- ton absolutely stops the sale of land anywhere outside the walls of the town just at the moment, when by the Alge- 'ciras protocol new facilities for it's pur- chase are being introduced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Killed by Being Thrown From Train

Montgomery, November 1S.-(Special)- Thomas E. Mcdonald, resident of 116 North Holt street, this city, was killed on Saturday evening shortly after 6 o'clock, three miles from Troy. Ala, by being thrown from an Atlantic Coast Line train while on the way to visit his family here. The dead man was well thought of. He was a tinsmith and had been engaged in business in Troy only the past month. His body reached Mont gomery Sunday night wife, two child ren and two sisters survive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
This Cat Understood.
From the Boston Record.

As striking a cat story as have heard in a long time comes from Alton, N. H., and is vouclled for absolutely. The cat was accustomed to visit the next door neIghbor after each meal to be fed and petted bringing also two kittens
 One of the women of the house thus visited, who had entertained a aislike Tor cats. finally, on observing the animals. expressed aloud liking Tor the gray kit ten and said she intended to asn to be allowed to keep It.
 Tine next day. when mother eat came for her bits, only one kitten accompanied her, but she took away some choice nor sels for the one left behind. This con- tinued several days ~hen she woman who had at first expressed intention u get the kitten which the cat was feeding remarked that she had given up wholly the idea of securing the gray kitten. All three felines appeared at the next meal, and have done since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Stabbed in Chest.

J. Eams was taken to the Hillman hos pitai Sunday morning by Lige Loys am- bulance suffering from q knife wound in the chest. The injury resulted from B fight in house on Twenty-fourth street and Tenth avenue. but no arrests have been made. The physician says that it was superficial stab, and as there are no bad symptoms he will recover in a few days,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
Morris Wolfe.

The funeral services of the late Morris Wolfe, who died Friday afyFernool were held from the family residence, 33O North Sixteenth street Sunday at Il a. m. MT. Wolfe was a promin ent worker in tine fraternal orders having a membership in Birmingham lodge No. 276, O. B. A, No. 340, I. o. B. A., Birmingham lodge I. o. B. B. and Star lodge No. 33S, I. O.. O. F.
 The following acted as pallbearers: M. Roseman, M. Greenman, J. Kartus, J. J. Goldstein, J. Levine. A. Sugarman, I. Kronenberg, J. Menesman, M. Mendel- sohn. A large crowd was in attendance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Shooting Affray Over Marriage.

Muscogee. l r., November lS.-lra c. Campbell, who shot and killed George Sullivan, the latter's son-in-law. Martin Warren. and a negro preacher Thomas Field, in drug store at Taft, l. T., ~~ terday, was arrested today. The shooting grew out of the forced marriage of Sul- ]ivan's daughter to the prisoners nephew, Ed Campbell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Foot Cut Off.

While swinging from a freight train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad this morning, Joe Daly, a white brakeman, slipped and fell under the and the wheel passed over his foot. The injured man was carried to St. Vincents hospital in Shaw x Sons ambulance and the limb was amputated at the ankle Daily is 25 years of age. He was resting easily last night, and will probably recover rapidly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Renew Taking Church Inventories.

Paris, November 1S.-There is consider able anxiety over the re-eommcncement of the taking of the church inventories under the suparation law, which prob ably will take place tomorrow. All the troops in the department Du Nord and the department of Pas Decaiais and in many districts of Brittany have been ordered to remain in theT barracks to be in readiness to assist the civil authof!tles in the event of disturolusss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Texan Takes His Life on Train.

Bakersfield, Cal, November 1S.--L A. De Young. a physician of Taylor Tex, while .traveling or the Southern Pacific west bound train today in company with his wife, went into the toilet room of tourist car and took his life with a razor. He was a sufferer from nervous prosLratian
 and melancholia and was coming west for his health. Every muscle and artery in
 the neck was severed and the spinal column was all that prevented the head .being completely severed frohn the body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Killed in Wreck.

Huntsville, November s-(Special.) IA telegram was received fin Huntsville last night announcing the accidental death of Will Scott of this city in wreck on the Illinois Central In West Tennessee. MT. Scott was employed on the Illinois Cen tral as a fiagnan. He was son of w. l. Scott of West Huntsville and his body will be brought here for burial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Favor Obligatory Education.

There was a great popular demonstra- ton today in favor of obligatory educa- tion, which hitherto never has Leen in- sisted upon in Belgium. oNt less than 60OO0 persons marchel in procession to the city hall and presented petition bearing 100000 names to the mayor vocing their demand. The mayor promised to refer the matter to parliament.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Heavy Rain Still FalIinu.

Memphis, November 1S.-A late report from Tenton. Tenn. states that at mid night rain. which has uecn steadily fail ing for fourteen hours, continues with no signs of abatement. Streams in this vicinity are overflowing breaking levees, washing away bridges and causing great damage to crops. At Ripley, Tenn, rain is falling in unprec csdentnd volume and much damage to crops las resulted. Bus mess is at standstiH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Rriaands Active In Bulgaria.

Athens. November ls.-Reports are being received here constantly concerning the activity of brigands Tn the Salonli dis trict. It Is declared that 2 number of men, women ard children have been mas sacred at Kossiuco and Rameli, and that band killed fifteen Greeks in the neighborhood of Nlacusta and carried their mutilated bodies into that town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Hope.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 MT Merchant said the new clerk. preparing to ask for more pay. "I think l understand the business pretty well now. and'--
 "Yes2" interrupted his employer. Well. keep at it four or five years Perhaps you'll understand 1t then as well as you think you do now.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
will Indorse Triple Alliance.

Vienna, November 1S.-It is declared upon good authority that Baron Won Aehrenthsl, the Austro-Hungarian min ister of foreign affairs, speaking in the meeting of the delegation to be held here November 25, and Tomasso Tittonl, the Italian minister of foreign affairs Sh tne Italian parliament will endorse the decla- ratons recently made by Prince Won Bue- low in the German reichstag regarding the triple alliance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
Root Passes Through Chicago

Chicago, November 1s.-Secretary of State Elihu Root passed through Chicago tonight en route to Kansas City. where he will address the Commercial club on Foreign Commercial Relations.'