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Cholera and the Fleet

The rapid dissemination of cholera
germs in the Philippines, in China and
In Russia is squirting the government
ofheials at Washington to take preeau-
lions against its appearance in this
country. No immigrant from Russia
can even embark for this country until
after he has been detained five DAYS to
let any possible germs in his midst De.
Velop. Baggage, too is to be disin-
fected before shipping. These direc.
tons have been sent to our eonsuls at
ports of departure of Russian immi-
grants, and If they are not fully obeyed
vessels will have to lie at quarantine
when they arrive on this side of the
sea. They will be obeyed.
Cholera is now epidemic in many
Chinese cities and in the Philippines
but no immigrants come from either.
and freight and baggage from either
will no doubt be disinfected. Scarcely
any part of eastern China is free from
the disease, while the provinces of the
Philippines are suffering from the
plague in epidemic form. In Manila
about so cases a day are reported.
The fleets course is not fully deter
mined, and probably will not be until
it approaches the Philippines in the
early days of next month. There is no
cholera in Japan, and the fleet would
be feared there if it stays long at Ma
Mia. which is, however, no more in
fected than are the Chinese ports. The
naval authorities are alert, and the
feet will not be exposed to undue
risks of infection at Manila.
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ASIATIC CHOLERA.

From the Boston GLOBE.
The disease which has been ravaging
St. Petersburg is appropriately named
'Asiatic cholera" 1t originated in India
and its spread through Europe always
has been from Asia. Russia is the first
state that 1t has passed through in the
great epidemcs on it's journey into
wholly European states. Germany usual
ly has taken it from Russia, and the
German authorities are now apparently
determined to prevent the disease from
crossing the frontiers Austria is ami
mated by the same resolution, and
Sweden and nearby countries have de-
clared a quarantine against Russia. st.
Petersburg. where the disease has gained
ground, is wofully unsanitary.
The United States troops found cholera
in the Philippine islands in 1899, where
IL frequently may have been prevalent.
The most energetic measures have been
taken to stamp out the disease, which
nrobably never is communicated by con-
tagion, that is through the breath, per-
spiration or other emanation from the
natient. The disease is infectious, anc
il caused by drinking water, but under
conditions which perfect sanitation Wouie
render absolutely impossible. That Il
why, with the ocean between us ana ths
endemic, there Is no danger of such
visitation in this country.
The bacillus of Asiatic G.; oiera was
discovered 10 years ago by koch, am
its presence IL determinable oven at I'M
| earliest stages OF the disease SANTA
| ton and quarantine are the eheetif
| agents of protection against choiefa' am
| the United States and Germany nay
| adopted a rule of quarantine "'iien
| regarded as a perfect safeguard
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puMPKlN PIE.

From the New York World
Almanac autumn begins today, and al
though the frost is not yet on the pump
kin-at least not in New York's garden
the pumpkin pie is on the quick-lunch
counters. 1t is a time to lift up the
fork and be glad.
This city eats almost its 10000 pumpkin
pies a day from September to February,
and if this is not good thing why does
our wealth run up and our death-rate
go down at pace to amaze the doctors
both of economics and of physics?
In the psychology of pie the pumpkin
variety stands for old-fashioned common
sense. In poetry it makes for rhyme,
reason and verse that does not go lame
in the feet In memory it recalls the
things that mother made. Apple may be
the king of pies, as Nathaniel Haw-
thorne and some others have thought,
but pumpkin is surely fit for the head
of the cabinet
1.-THE pumpkin is very ancient" says
one writer thinking to be humorous,
"for 1t dates back to Cinderella" This
wise wit has another guess. There are
the best of reasons for believing that
the American Indian cultivated our gold
en- fruit of the trailing vine before the
white man came over the sea- Ihat
the Indian did not know how to make
the pumpkin pie may account for many
things unfortunate in his primeval state
and even for the decay of a noble race.
Pumpkin pie originated in New Eng
land. 1t was a youngster when New
York first tasted and liked it. There is
a whimsical SANDER abroad that Phila,
delphia did not get it till the centennial
year. "a funny thing about it,, says a
Manhattan baker, 1.-The Germans can't
mako 'ep1 -
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throp are well up on the timber and
lumber industries.
These men will use the blanks and
will work comparatively with the Off
GERS of the conservation commission at
Washington. There is no appropria-
ton to cover their services. and their
work will be done out of state pride
and pure patriotism. Let us hope it
will be eomprehensiyely done, and that
their report will show how richly
blessed Alabama is with natural re-
sources-with soil. sunshine, minerals.
timber and flowing navigable rivers.
The home commission should not over
look our unutilized water powers.
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NEW POISON IS POTENT

prisoner, used arsenic. She gained large
sums of money by the sale of mysterious
preparations which We're merely solutions
Of arsenic acid. These were sold in small
phials bearing the image of saint
To detect the presence of poison an ana
lytieal chemist may spend many days
with test tube. watch glass, reagent and
microscope. Even if death has been caused
by a poison whose mere smell has been
fatal, truth will out, and there is mora
than one poison of this subtle kind For
instance, oil of almonds-which is used
for making toilet soaps and also for in
, creasing the scent of lavender-if inhaled
sufficiently, causes death by nitrobenzole
poisoning.
But the cause can be unerringly ascer-
tanned in a post-mortem examination.
And no less certain of detection are pos-
ons injected by hypodermie syringe.
Extraordinary Is the power of analysis
that modern science has placed in the
hands of the chemist, and few subjects
are more interesting than the processes he
employs. In the silence and secrecy OF
the laboratory many dramatic experi-
ment is worked out.
Take Marsh's famous test. Hydrogen
is generated In a flask, and the suspected
liquid poured in. If arsenic be there the
hydrogen seizes on it and forms gas
that will burn. Now watch the analyst
as he holds clean porcelain dish against
the flame for moment Does a brown
spot appear In the middle? That is poison
arsenic or anthony. If close to the
flame and on both sides of tia notched
spot-it is antmony. If deposited at a
little distance from the flame it is
arsenic.
Again, chloride of lime dissolves the
| stain of arsenic, but not that of anti
| mony On the other hand, protochloride
| of tin dissolves the anthony, but not the
arsenic Mistake is impossible. And
| there are scores of similarly unfailins,
| precise experiments.
| The clever chemist and pathologist
| could, undoubtedly. deliberately inoculate
| with some fatal disease, and In way
| that no analyst could detect. The victim
would simply die of one of the common
| maladies of mankind. But happily the
| necessary knowledge for such experiments
| Is very uncommon, and the people who
] possess it are not in the least likely to
| use it improperly.
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The Southern steel Company.

1.-THE reorganization of the Southern
Steel company and the early resumption
of the plants of that company Will still
further quicken the Birmingham district
industrial pace said business man.
1.-The Southern Steel is being reorgan-
lied under the title of the Southern Iron
and Steel company. | understand that
it will start up several of its plants early
in November. The company will give en-
ployment to several thousand men in this
district. The Ensley plant alone when
working at its full capacity means
payroll of 1900 men,"
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Vile Whisky.

IT am not familiar with liquor eondi-
tions in Birmingham, and not being much
of a drinker, it concerns me little whether
a town is wet or dry said travelling
salesman. But in nearly every dry town
| visit | hear complaint about the vile
quality of whisky that is dispensed.
"A man who has been engaged in the
liquor business for many years tells me
that most of the stuff that is sold in
blind tigers in the south and west costs
the retailer only s1,121a gallon. Such
cheap whisky should have the effect of
curing men of the drink habit As the
man who runs a blind tiger pays no
license, 1t might be supposed that he
would give his customers as good liquor
as the saloons dispensed, If not better.
TN the north first-class saloons and
clubs pay all the way from $3.50 to S. a
gallon for whisky. 1t is said that in
Boston s. whisky is the rule. When 1T
comes to $1.121z goods one can readily i'm
agine how mean 1t must be-
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A SUNSET.

Andrew Lang, from Grass of Parnas-
sus."
The wind and the day had lived together,
They died together, and far away
Spoke farewell in the sultry weather,
Out of the sunset, over the heather,
The dying wind and the dying day.
Far in the south, the summer levin
Flushed, a flame in the gray soft air.
We seemed to look on the hills of heavenf
You saw within, but to me twas given
To see your face, as an angels there
Never again, ah surely, never.
Shall we wait and watch, where of old
we stood,
The low goodnight of the hill and river.
The faint lights fade, and the wan stare
culver,
Twain grown one in the solitude.
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ANALYSIS of the Dingley Tariff

DR.. Charles W. Eliot, president of
Harvard university, has just published
statement directed against the entire
protective system, which he says leads
to monopoly and is an injury rather
| than a benefit to the maintenance of
American wages or American stand
ards of living. He speaks without par
tisan bias, without bit of demagog-
ism, from a scholars point of view
only. The entire statement should be
published by millions and placed in the
hands of American voters.
Dr. Eliot goes on to show that pro-
lection postpones and obstructs the
effective entrance of American prod
ucts into the markets of the world.
Our industries, including agriculture,
turn out more salable material than
we can consume, and the tariff COM
pels us to Moduce this material at
swollen prices. We cannot sell ad-
vantageously tariff-taxed articles in the
markets of the world
Protection has destroyed American
shipping by preventing us from con-
Quoting a profitable carrying trade
with other nations. Where we would
sell we must buy and the tariff slips
in to veto such an exchange. While
the tariff wall remains subsidies can
not bring us profitable ocean carry.
ing trade.
But above all else the tariff confers
privileges by law on individual men or
small classes of men. Equality before
the law has been abolished, and we
now grant privileges to favored men
or classes even beyond those granted
by despotic and aristocratic govern
ments.
The tariff is covered with the nause-
Gus slime of pretended altruism. The
chief objection, says DR.. Eliot, to pro-
tective legislation is a moral one
namely, that 1t diminishes the enter
prise, self-reliance and sense of justice
of the population as whole 1t works
injustice at home and contracts Amer
lean exchanges abroad. Two genera
tons of voters have been hoodwinked
with a word-"protection No revi-
sion will answer because the tariff
rates on almost all products are many
fold the differences in labor cost This
is why the American manufacturer
sells his goods abroad at much lower
prices than he sells at home. The pro
tective tariff is simply tax paid by
the great body of consumers, not to
the government for its support, but tc
privileged lots of capitalists which pro
duce protected articles. 1t creates
E monopolies who do not need to stud,
foreign and improved methods. Mo
, nopolies are always unprogressive, ant
DR.. Eliot presents a strictly revenue
tariff as the only road out of the mesf
3 of monopolies that DiDgleyism has
r created
The reader should procure Presiden
n Eliot's full statement The Age-Her
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Admitted to Vanderbilt,

Admission, September 24.-(Special)-
John Simpson and w. A. Davis, Jr., of
this city were admitted to the junior class
of the Vanderbilt university of Nashville
without examination. They were former
ly pupils of the Alabama Presbyterian
college, and their acceptance without ex-
animation at such a noted institution of
learning as Vanderbilt speaks well for
the high curriculum of the local college
and the excellent training given pupils
there.
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judge Gary Optimistic.

Il read with interest the optimistic in
terview which Chairman E. H. Gary Of
the United States Steel corporation gave
out on his return from Europe" said a
lawyer. 81 have been reading Judge
Gary's statements and interviews for the
past four or five years, and have been
greatly impressed with their frankness
and their cheerful ring
"rFhe official head of the Steel corpor
alton never talks unless he has something
to say, but when he does take the public
into his confidence he can be relied upon
absolutely Such straightforward meth
DDS as characterize Judge Gary have done
much. l feel sure. to make the United
States Steel the popular institution that it
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The Iron Market.

The southern iron market is not as ac-
tive as it was early in the month, but
a brisk buying movement for the first
quarter of 1909 will set in, it is believed,
early in November Comparatively little
iron is being offered for next years de-
livery and as to what the price will be
all depends.
Rogers Brown & Cos Cincinnati re-
port says in part:
General business conditions with foun-
dries appear to be growing steadily better
and the iron received by them is going
promptly into their melt. There has been
given out some small railroad business,
rolling stock and rails, and the improve
ment in the building industries has re-
suited in increased orders for structural
work, but all of small total. In the
industrial and financial outlook there is
very little that is disturbing as to the
future. The slow progress of things at
the present time is due to political dis
turbances and it is only reasonable that
a large reaction toward a higher plane
should take place after the election.
I'm the south, the Birmingham district
is fast returning to its usual busy times,
Immediately following the settlement OF
the labor controversy which has been
ruling there for some time past. There
is a demand for labor at that point and
everything is reported to be improving
daily. In spite of the vast improve
ments made in the Birmingham district
in the last few years, the enlarging OF
plants, with the addition of new ones,
is to continue on a great scale, and it is
even so far predicted that pay rolls in
the Birmingham district will be more
than doubled in the next three years"
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TsARITsA's ARMY OF SERVANTS

From the Woman's Home Companion for
October
The tsarltsa, as head of the royal
household, is mistress of nearly 10000
servants scattered in many palaces and
residences throughout the empire. 1t is
not likely that this vast retinue is any
particular care for her. for the army of
servants, just like the army of soldiers.
is divided into groups and differed by
various functionaries. In fact, 1t is likely
that the two armies are not dissimilar
in the minds of the tsar and tsaritsa.
Every wish of the tsars is a command
to the army and has only to be ut
tered to an aid to be executed. So the
word of the tsaritsa spoken to a lady
in waiting Is all sufficient TO be carried
out by any or all of her servant host.
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CuIoepper Indicted.

Montgomery, September PAN. V. and
INLAND Culpepper father and son, have
been indicted at OpellSa for the killing
of the 10-year-old daughter of Martin
Hayden, near that place few nights
ago. ball was fired from the dark,
evidently intended for the father, but it
went wild and killed the child in the
hall. The elder Culpepper is a brother
in-law of Hayden. The shooting was
done with an army rifle, the gun being
found hidden on the Culpepper place
next daY. i.
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sYNDICATED SERMONS.

From the New York World.
Something is to be said in favor of the
project to supply clergymen with ready
made sermons.
Sir Roger de coverley, it will be re-
called, held that good sermon eouid not
be preached too often, and he was ac-
customed to make selections from ms col
lection of favorite pulpit discourses Tor
repetition in the village church. Ministers
at various times have given an implied
assent to the plan. What is proposed
by the New York publishing house which
has the scheme in hand is to apply the
principle on a more extensive scale.
A central source of sermon supply FOR
American pupits would reduce the dangers
of heterodoxy to a minimum. In ADDITION
to the economies of production erected
Ga rate of Is cents per sermon Is prom
ised) standardization of topics ana OF
texts could be accomplished on the lines
of railroad and factory equipment, Rural
ministers would be relieved Of the tedium
of sermon preparation as country editors
now are by the use of plate matter OF
the burden of editorial writing.
Bearing In mind the saving of time for
the broader activities of politics and pub
lie affairs thus made possible to the edi-
tors, it is clear that a sermon syndicate
arrangement would unshaclxle the clergy
man and enable him to give a broader
scope to his pastoral duties. There would
be no more blue Mondays" in parson-
ages Responsibility for essays in the
higher criticism would be assumed at
headquarters.
But who is the Beecher or Sturgeon to
whom the task will be intrusted of dis
seminating standardized doctrine? The
opportunity of impressing my religious
policies on the nation is one which might
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NEGRO Will BE Hanued.

Fayetteville, Ga, September 24-James
Bennett, a negro, who shot and killed
D. McEachern and wounded S. r. Adams,
white men, near here last week, was to-
day found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged October Is. The affair created
great excitement and Bennett Was
taken to Atlanta for safe keeping.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
Undoubtedly the devil invented picnic:

FTOIn tIIe INV IUfh 9 ftss'
Undoubtedly the devil invented picnics.
A useful thing in an argument is to
have a voice that can yell the loudest.
The only satisfactory excuse man can
make to his wife for coming home late at
night Is not to do it.
Even if there is vacuum in his head
person can get a fair reputation for being
a thinker by holding his tongue.
A girl can nearly always get man to
marry her by making him think she's
pretty near ready to marry somebody
else.
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Birmingham Is a Shopping Center.

birmingham has gained great reputa-
ton as a shopping CENTER" said B. Fl.
Drewry of Florida. 81 spend several
months in Alabama every year, and while
/ hear much about the Birmingham dis
trict's mineral wealth and about the steel
plant at Ensley, l hear also much about
Birminghams elegant, up-to-date stores.
MY wife tells me that as a shopping town
it is unsurpassed"
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aid presents but brief summary of
it. Chairman Mack should scatter it
broadcast over the entire country as
the best thought and ripest product of
American scholarship.
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OFF-sTAGE.
Behind the scenes who knows what hearts
are breaking
What tears are shed the world may
never see2
What signs for that still sleep of doubt
full waking.
When natures mold shall cover you
and me?
PERHAPS.
Make your terms with fortune,
Whether good or Dad;
Maybe, in the Ions run
You will yet be glad
Life is all a riddle,
Set for us to solve,
While the days are speeding
And the years revolve.
No one knows the answer
Neither you nor l.
But perhaps we'll learn it
In the by and by
AS WE SAY.
STRANGE
whats your drift"
THE automobile turned TURTLE
Yes
But it was the chauffeur who found
nlnSelI IN the soup.
THE JOURNEY.
Hurrying, hurrying,
Up and down we go,
Yet we never find the vale
Where the roses blow.
Hurrying, hurrying,
After wealth and pride:
Each intent upon the quest
Not to be denied.
Hurrying, hurrying
Till the shadows fall.
Then a hurried funeral
Puts an end to all
DIPLOMACY.
A little lying now and then
Is practiced by the married men;
But why condemn, so long as lies
Keep tears from filling wifeys eyes?
A HOPE.
Toling in the valley
Till the fall of night;
When the travals ended,
May we see the light!
AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW.
"What's tits blamed country coming
to. anyhow
"Oh, Thanksgiving first and then Christ
mas"
RAPID.
He seems to have had rapid rise in
politics."
II should say sol 1t wasn't any time
before he was called an assassin OF
character"
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Sometimes / get to thinking pretty well
of the average of intelligence in human
beings.a remarked the Aged Philosopher,
"and then hear about another fool try
ing to break the bank at Monte Carlo!'
The eternal feminine! woman's frown
has made many a philosopher just as
her smile has made many a fool. An
apt little poem is going the rounds;
ONE ANSWER.
Sir Folly goes a-daneing by,
Fun and frolic in his eye,
'IIo, Sir Follyl Why SO gay?'
Says he
Il know a woman"
Beegar Wisdom shuffles near,
Downcast eye, no word of cheer,
Rags and tatters. meanly clad
Brother Wisdom, why sad?'
Says he:
II know a woman"
Life.
A DENT
And did he make his mark as an avia-
tor?''
Sure he did-on the side of a HILL
JUST SO.
Ever heard the call of the wild?'
No: the honk of an auto is wild
enough for me-
- GET READY.
Fill up the coal bin
Winters coming fast;
Soon we'll hear the storm king
Riding on the blast!
RIPPLES.
It is easy for an aviator to go wrong.
A modest girl is one who wouldn't wear
a sheath skirt, but is secretly proud of the
fact that the exhibit wouldn't be half
bad If she did.
Seven bbulous citizens of Birmingham
paraded the streets the other day each
with quart bottle of whisky in his hand.
pleasant time was had.
After a man has reached the point
where he would rather hold good poker
hand than the hand of any woman on
earth, he may be said to have arrived at
the age Of discretion.
Perhaps more men would go to church
If the services were divided by intermis-
sions and door checks were distributed.
A PROMISE.
Through the vale of sorrow
We who bear the cross
On the bright tomorrow
Shall not mourn your loss!
PAUL COOK.
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Campaign apathy has disappeared
and will not be in evidence again this
year. For old-time political excite
ment there is nothing like a general
mix I'D.
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Jim Woodward seems destined to
serve every alternate two years as At
lantas mayor. The law forbids him to
become continuously another Diaz.