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The National tribune., 1906-04-26
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DR. Scale Harris, Professor of Medi-
cine in the University of Alabama, said
TO the President last week that con-
sumption WAS making terrible ravages
among the negroes in the South. ana
would in the end eXterminate them.
He contended that, in spite of the gen.
eraI belief, the death rate through the
South of the negroes is higher than the
birth rate. This is certainly true of
Washington, where the death rate of
the negro is 80 per 1000 per annum,
while that of the white race is only 16.
The negroes of Washington would soon
die out were it not for the constant
recruiting from further South. 1t has
been argued that this was caused by
environment. The negro is the result of
many centuries of existence in a tropi-
cal climate in hot, malarious iowlands
near the level of the sea. This environ
meut has developed his sudorific sys-
TEN to an unusual degree, giving him
the large pores in the skin and profuse
sweating which characterizes the negro.
When he goes to the cold highlands the
pores are sealed up and the excrescence
remains in the body 10 poison the sys-
tenn. 1t has been supposed that the
negro would continue to flourish and
multiply in the lowlands of the South,
but die of in the higher and colder
regions. The statement of DIR. Harris
is therefore astonishing, and it does
not accord with the fact that the negro
population of the country is two and
half times greater than it was before
the war.
The National tribune., 1906-04-26

patented last week, two bottle closures,
one bottle neck and one bottle-stopper.
The National tribune., 1906-04-26
SUGGESTION FOR NON-REFIILABLE
BOTTLE.

One idea that has escaped so far the
attention of the inventors of non-refili-
able bottles is that of making suuare-
necked bottle. All corks are cut round,
and if man should invent a square
necked bottle the cork would have to be
cut especially. A patent could be OBJ
tanned, and no square-necked bottle
could be refilIed without getting cork
to fit. We do not charge anything for
this suggestion, which undoubtedly
some one will take up.
The National tribune., 1906-04-26
Heart Trouble

The heart Itself has no power-no selfcontrol 1t Is
made TO beat by tender tiny that It is
scarcely visible TO the naked eye. Yet thousand
times day this delicate must assist the heart
TO expand and contract
This nerve is only Of the branches OF the great
sympathetic, INSIDE, nerve system. Each branch
of this system Is closely allied with the others that
weakness rregarty at any point is apt to spread.
Heart trouble frequently arises from Stomach trouble
through sympathy. and Kidney trouble may also fol-
ow For each OF these organs Is operated by branch
of these same sympathetic neryes-the INSIDE
NERVES.
In Heart. Kidney or Stomach troubles II is of but
little TO attempt to doctor the organ self-the
permanent relief lies In restoring the INSIDE
NERvEs. Dr. Shoop regards these nerves TO be the
real cause OF such troubles The remedy-known by
physicians and druggists everywhere rs DR. Shops
Restoratveis the result of years Of endeavor along
this very line II does not dose the organ deaden
the pan-but It aims TO go at once TO the nerve-the
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strengthens 1t and makes 1t well. -
Every heart sufferer may have DIR. Shoop's book on
the Heart. 1t will be sent free and with it you will
receive the Health Token,n IN intended passport to
good health.
Fer the free book and Book I on Dyspepsia
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The National tribune., 1906-04-26
Tray for Glasses.

David H. Allen. Miamisburg, o.,
comes to the relief of clumsy and hur-
The National tribune., 1906-04-26

New oak may be made TO look old by
sponging with strong hot solution of
common soda in water. This will raiSe
the grain. which must be cut down with
sandpaper.
The National tribune., 1906-04-26

The Forest Service has gathered sta
ustics from l5s firms controlling 2s2
pulp mills. These make it appear that
over 100000 cords OF wood are used
every year in the paper mills, more
than half of which is native spruce. We
import G14,o00 cords of spruce. The
tulip tree. otherwise called poplar. only
furnished about one-tenth of the
amount required, and not so much is
used of it as Of hemlock. Pine, balsam
ard other woods furnish only about
$4,000 cords. There has been an in
crease OF over so per cent in the con-
sumption Of wood in the last six years.
The National tribune., 1906-04-26

1t consists of plate Of conducting ma
terial with an egg supported on an in
sulated pad. Both are connected with
a battery. Mrs. Hen steps on the plate,
takes a peck at the egg and receives
It sharp shock which sends thrill
through her nature and impresses her
with the idea that egg-eating is a vicious
habit, unworthy OF a well-conductcd
barn-yaFd fowl.
The National tribune., 1906-04-26
Poultry Appliance.

Electricity is invading the hen-house,
and hens with a disposition to eat eggs
will receive shock to their mental and
physical natures in the invention OF
Edward J. Shanahan, Tribes Hill. n. Y.
The National tribune., 1906-04-26

Wireless telegraphy is not q sym
metrical and uninterrupted joy by any
means. but Is said to have more than
Its share Of devilishness which peryades
all machines and systems, especially in
The National tribune., 1906-04-26
Cotton Harvester.

Theodore II. Price, New York, \. Y,
attacks the problem of COtton-picSing
The National tribune., 1906-04-26
Water Distributor for siekIe-.

Sidney c. Scott, Marion, Kan, has re-
ceived Il patent for a device to attacf
TO moving and reaping machines ant
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
ARRESTED IN BIRMINGHAM.
Negroes are Charged With Killing
 Miner at Piper, Ala.

Centreville, June 4-(Special)- )-Sheriff Crawford has received notice from the authorities of Jefferson county of the ar rest of Peter McGee, a negro. who was n- dicted some time ago for the murder of Will Harper a prominent miner at Piper, a mining town in Bibb county. Peter Mc- Gee and Abe Davis, another negro, after shooting Harper to death, fled Some months ago Abe Davis was arrested in Kansas City, and was brought here and placed in jail to await trial Both cases will come up for trial at the fall term of the circuit court.
 On the night of July the members of the medical fraternity of Bibb county will give an elaborate banquet at the Wadsworth hotel in Centreville Neat in- vtations have been issued, and the af- fair promises to be a most enjoyable one
 The Masonic lodge at this place held a special meeting today to pass upon the application of five persons seeking mem- bership in the lodge here. The lodge here is in a lourishing condition. Active steps are being taken to build a 5000 school house at this place.
 Postmaster N. c. Fuller is in Birming- ham on business.
 The hot, dry weather continues in this section, and much damage has already been done to vegetation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
Our Fondness for Fruit.

Ernest c. Rowe in Leslies Weekly.
 We Americans possess an amazing fond- ness for fruits and we spend lot or money to gratify it. For strictly orchard rroducts which found markets and pre- sumably were consumed during the year ending June 30 1905. the American farmer received SS3, 751 $40, and we raised Tn Amer ican vineyards during the same period one and a half million pounds Of grapes, which crop brought our American Vlne- yardist over $15 100000 more. Nearly one third of these grapes went into wine, but the bigger portion went to the consumer in eight and four-pound baskets and were
 presumably eaten. American sub-tropi- cal fruits brought the producers nearly S1O, ,OO0. .000 and we imported from the west
 Indies and southern Europe S2o,0Vo,OuV
 worth of tropical fruits.
 We paid the American farmer over SZo'- 100000 for his berries during the snort summer season of 1905. and putting the latter in the lists with fruits, we enriched 1 the producers of the various fruits which | found the American markets within the 1 time mentioned above, nearly $1IO,O0O, | 0O0
 | In selecting our fruits our first choice | is for apples, for American orchardlsts | marketed two billion bushels Of thls l healthful fruit as against sixteen million | bushels of peaches, seven million bush els of pears, and nine million bushels oi | plums.
 The packing, shipping and retail sale oi | our fruits and berries give employment tt | thousands of persons, and create numer ous related industries of no mean size.
 The idea of selling berries from at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
EFFICIENT MUCk-RAklNG.
Results That Followed SinclaIrs use
 of the Famous Tool.

with the Procession,' EVeryoooy
 Magazine for July.
 The adoption by the Senate or the meat inspection bill, inserted as rider on the agricultural appropriation Dill py Senator Beveridge of Indiana was ahother notahle trimph of muckrakeism. The plli sironIv nroyides in effect, that meat eaten bv Americans shall be as carefully ln- enacted as meat intended for export. Wail- ing and gnashing of teeth are hearo III Armouryille. President RooseVe' gu holly and justly indignant over the tafnted-packing-h house business. repore | of the commissioner of labor ana oi MT James B. Reynolds, an assistant sec- rotary of the treasury, on the infamous conditions of that business has not been nrinted at this writing. Whether IL IS or moi the packers are down on thelr mar row-bones. And the man who stirreu up +be President. really caused the repor. to he made. really made the packers Sci, for mercy. really had the bill passeo nroviding for the inspection or meat ln' tended for interstate commerce. IS ', |
 vate citizen. young man ana hiuch
 ra,,er named Upton Sinclair, whose tru' and startling exposure, in this magazine
 of the shameful and almost hcredloi' state of things in "PackingtoWh ou readers wildly remember.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
1.-THE MARCH KINGS" OPERA.
Two Reasons for Success of Sousa
 New Production.

"The Players" Everybody's Magazine LOT
 July.
 When John Philip Sousa writes the music for an opera it is bound to naVe swing and dash, an abundance or Vltailts' a snirit of youth and enthusiasm. IL IS with good reason that Sousa Is calieu ..tbe March King" There is no resisting his martial strains: even those ol the elect who scoff at Sousa music cannot ,een their feet still when the pand pesins to nlav. The Free Lance IS propapis tic hest comic opera he has written Not onlv is there an abundance of march mum hers but there are some tender lyries and jolly comic jingles as well. Harry D. Smiths book Is hardly In keeplns "ith the music. which deserves something es- neciallv fine. instead of pleasant r'lio- iv amusing Ibretto, built up upon per fectlv safe lines. He uses laiiiil.ai sc. musical comedy theme in way not su'li- ciently original to be startlinS' put, as alyavs. he succeeds Tn giving an imposing nictorial climax. The words TOT the soiie orc charming. of course, for MT. Srhi'n has a marvellous gift of writins sohss He must have turned out thousanos III his long and active career, ana II IS uouo'' ful if he ever produced really pau one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25

tractive quart baskets found expression less than thirty years ago. and up to a very few years ago orchard products and grapes never found the markets packed temptingly in individual packages. But just think how the idea has expanded into it's present universal practical adop- tionl Why, the manufacturing of fruit and berry baskets alone brings to the various factories over $7,000,000 annually, and the ultimate annual cost to the fruit and berry raisers is, with the middlemans profits added. between nine and ten mil lons This branch of the carrier busi- ness produces a billion and a quarter berry
 baskets, over a hundred million four quart peach baskets and over a hundred
 million eight and four-pound grape bas-
 kets California alone uses five hundred
 million carriers of various kinds for fruit
 shipped east of lne Rockies.
 The making of crates is almost, and in
 some sections wholly, separate branch ot the carrier industry, and so extensive
 and interesting that it will be treated I upon in another article later. Manufac- | ture of baskets is carried on in from five to eight thousand ''factores'' situated all l over the United States, and ranging in l size and importance from single work i bench to a vast establishment with won- derful equipment and employing hum dreds of persons.
 l Here at Paducah, Ky. I have visited :, by far the biggest enterprise of this kind 1 in all the world where almost every bit | of the work is done by machinery, and l l am told that it is the only factorye in l the world where the actual process of
 making the baskets is performed wholly | by automatic machines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
ORIENTAL BREWERY TRUSi.
Sounds Unreal, But Is True-Japan
 Engaged in Beer Trade.

cbar,es Edward Russell, in Soldiers of
 the Common Good" in Everybodys
 Magazine for July.
 There is a brewery trust in Japan once ,ar imnorted all the beer she con sumed. After time she learned now to make her own beer. and at several nlacos breweries were established With Irn,,a,,sa canital. These for time com ,,otad-with the usual result. In 1904 the Government itself conceived, planned. ini- tiated. and organized the brewery trust
 e Jan.n and now directs the trusts op- erations Under government direction the trust has thrived amazingly, and while stupid competition has been eliminated no one has been injured, no one has been garroted or robbed. Meanwhile un- der government control the amount of beer exported from Japan in lsoo was | double the amount exported in 1sv4. and | the amount exported in 1906 will prooaply | double the amount exported in 19o5 for i under the government direction Japan IS
 beginning to seize the beer trade in China | and Corea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
THE SERVANT PROBLEM"
Use of Family Sitting Room Will
 Solve 1t.

with the Procession" Everybodys
 Magazine for July.
 Many plans for the relief, 'elevauon' and entertainment of the hired girl have been tried. especially by thoughtful house. wives in Chicago and its suburbs; put mas any plan succeeded? The hired girl Is mistress of the situation, and she knows it. Probably she resents being patronlzed and s'helped" How would the people up stairs like to be visited, instructed, ana uplifted by the people in the basement So We cannot believe that Miss Eizapeth M Rhodes of New York city, secretary of the International Research commit tee, has reached the heart of the sup feet by her kindly suggestion that the hired girl ought to have the use or the sitting room at least once week. we doubt if the use of the sitting room once a week would appeal to the hired glrl' She wants to be let alone, to folloW her own bent. If she likes to change can she be blamed for guarding Herseii against monotony? She has her opinions strong ones usually. What with ner wages and her board and lodging lh- cluded she is really more independent and better off than most of her employers. And when she wants a sitting room sile wants one of her own, not the use ol VOurS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
RUSSIAN MOB AND "LIBERTY."
How the Idea Thrilled Thousands in
 St. Petersburg.

A wonderful picture of the populace that surged through St. Petersburg on the day whek the Duma first convened Is given in the July Everybody's, in Vance Thompson's remarkable article "The Dawn of Russian Liberty" MT. Thomp- son writes:
 There were thousands of women. old snd young; some of them were pretty in a haggard way. Louder than the men they lifted the cry of liberty-svoboda! svoboda! It became a chant, menace, a declaration of rights. Svoboda-I saw one girl who leaped in the air and spat full in the face of trooper. He wiped his beard and did not budge. And the crowd yelled with delight. Oh, liberty had come at last. l began to under
 stand the soul of the mob. Such mae
 nads as these, lean and hysterical,
 shouted once "A Versailles, Versailles! and may some day shout 'To Peterhof! To Peterhof." So much they had already gained, that speech was free. Here one and there another started up to harangue his fellows. impatient, verbose, with | Slavic indignation and fury. From the balcony of the democratic cluD Tn the | Chpalernaia an orator acclaimed wild words Suddenly little detachment of l cavalry came moving down the crowded i street The mob broke and fled in panic 1 stricken disorder. For a moment it had 1 forgotten it was free. The soldiers rode
 by laughing, as one laughs at children. and the women, suddenly remembering | they were free screamed Death to them! | Death, Death. The orator on the bal
 cony gesticulated and beat his palms to-
 gether, and there was no end to his lib- ] erty of speech
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
SLEEPS ALL WINTER.
Chicago Faith Healer has laplander
 Patient Who Hibernates.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 as section hand on the Chicago Milwau- a bear was called to the attention of Chl- cago physicians yesterday by Edward Tiolka, of 56S Taylor street, faith healer.
 Tiolka asserted that one of his patients, a man named Svendsen, native of Lap land invariably goes into a deep sleep at the beginning of winter and emerges III the spring sound and healthy. TJolka as serts Svendsen has slept through two win ters to his positive knowledge and that he has known of several similar cases among Laplanders.
 Tiolka has been trying to interest physi- clans and the authorities of hospitals III the case, but the local men believe nm to be either a dreamer or a fake. He claims that Svendsen left his house to take Jop as section hand on the Chicago, Mllwau kee and St. Paul railroad less than week ago.
 ''This is not a case of suspended aniIna- tion," said Tjolka. "It Is case o1 sleep pure and simple as a glass held peloie ' the mouth of the patient indicates ne ID breathing at all times. The circulatloH i continues and the skin and flesh are a' llo | time inert It Is simply a mystery, ai- | though | have heard of like cases among | Iaplanders and other northern races pe- | fore"
 | "This must be some mistake" said pr Henry Krebs, when questioned coneernlne the case 'We know of Russians, especiai- ly the poorer peasants, who sleep prac, tically all the time during the winter pU0 l they get up once in a while to take soiil' nourishment. I think perhaps the ialti healer in this instance has been decelVeo'
 pr F. C. Gary said he knew of no eases of suspended animation which lasted long
 CT than few days or a week at most Al
 old copy of the Lancet, however, relate
 a story of a Findlander, who in the win fer of 1897 showed much the same peculiar
 itles as those claimed for Svendseh' |
 Svendsen returns next winter the case VII
 be examined by Chicago physicians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
BASEBALL BREVITIES

Home today.
 TO West End this afternoon.
 The Barons will arrive this morning.
 Wilhelm will probably be on the slab this afternoon.
 Finn's aggregation is expected to blow into town this morning.
 There were five pitchers yesterday in the Memphis Montgomery game.
 Oylers work in Shreveport was fine yes terday He made several brilliant plays.
 Pittsburg and New York are this morn ing tied for second place in the National league.
 Cincinnati beat Pittshurg out yesterday securing a run in the ninth inning with out a hit.
 Five won. five lost and one tied is the Barons record on this road trip per centage of 500.
 Both l0lcdSO ltdlllS pidytu oh NiiN home grounds yesterday, the Nationals winning and the Americans losing.
 Birmingham made a triple play m Piratetown yesterday and saved the game. It was the first triple play of the season.
 New Orleans, by beating Nashville double header yesterday. takes the lead in the league this morning by three points.
 The Barons are playing great ball now. Think of a triple play in the last minute of play when mscue meant run and the game.
 New Orleans had batting feast off of Duggan yesterday in the first game. hit tinr him for fourteen hits, which netted as many runs.
 St. Louis and Detroit are tied for fifth place this morning in the American league. with Chicago only one point ahead of them, holding fourth place.
 Umpire Bernstein, who was recently ap pointed by Judge Kavanaugh as an um- pire. was overcome by heat yesterday in the Shreveport Birmingham game in the fifth inning.
 Henry J. Meek, the big first baseman recently secured by the Barons from To- Ionto, is in Birmingham and says he is ready and anxious to get into play. He says he is never satisfied warming the bench- He looks to be every inch what he is represented to be. He weighs 205 pounds. stands six feet one inch high. He closed last season with Sioux City in the Western league. where he lead the bat ters, hitting .397: he fielded there .97O
 He is no youngster by any means, and looks hardened to the game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
Burned By Wood Alcohol.

Florence. June 24.-(Special)-H. c. Fite of the Arnold-Fite Drug company was painfully burned last evening from an ex- plosion of wood alcohol in the rear of the drug store on Court street. MT. Fite was pouring linseed oil into a bottle which had held the alcohol and holding a lighted match. The alcohol left in the bottle ex- ploded burning him badly about the face and head A physician dressed the burns and pronounced the sight uninjured, though the eyelashes are all burned off and the burns quite painful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
THREE PITCHERS
 COULD NOT DO IT
MONTGOMERY LOSES THE LAST AT MEMPHIS-CLARk AND MUL- LANEY ARE PUT OUT BY UMPIRE BUCKLEY,

Memphis. June 2i.--With the score : to in the visitors favor today Memphis by punching hits in the seventh inning by the same tactics scored the winning run. Montgomery used three pitchers, and Memphis two. Clark of the home team was put out of the game by Umpire Buckley in the fourth Inning for wrang- ling and for a like offense Manager Null laney of the visitors was ordered from the grounds in the seventh inning. Score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
Schools in Panama Zone.

Washington, June 24-Twenty-three public schools with an attendance of 112S pupils, and with twenty-six teachers, have been established on the canal zone by the various municipalities under the drec- tion of canal zone government. Five of the six municipalities have adopted com- pulsory education laws, and well attend ed schools are developing rapidly in a country which knew nothing of free schools before the establishment of the canal zone government
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-25
Firino Heard Near Moscow.

London, June 24.-The correspondent at Moscow of the Standard says the sound of intermittent firing of field guns and rifle volleys was heard for an hour last night outside the town in the direction of Khodinda Plain. It was impossible to se- cure details, but the correspondent says it is believed an enormous meeting or discontented soldiers of the Moscow gar rison was being dispensed by artillery.