The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-10
CAREER BUSY WITH
 BIENNIAL REPORT
Will Contain Some Interesting
 Legal Information
RATES ARE NOT LOWERED
Shippers In Alabama Receive Benefits From Error Made by Clerk In Gen. eral Office of Illinois Cen
 tral Railroad.

Montgomery. September 9.-(SpeciaD Attorney General A. M. Garber Is busy with his biennial report. which will be out in a short while. It will deal with all sorts of conditions that have to do with the office over which he presides. l Among other things 1t will contain in 1 telligently compiled figures with regard l to the litigation of the state and the many matters that have been up in re- cent months but never before contended with in the state.
 The reports that will come in from the solicitors will bear some of the most interesting statistics that have ever been compiled. Among these will be facts about the laws and their admins tration, taking country districts and comparing with town and city terri tory, discussing the effect of liquor on communities and the effect of obed- fence to law. There is a mass of corre- l spondence to be taken up and every 1 thing demands that some oth CT thing be looked up.
 | 1 will be worked out will be statistics of crimes by colors and by races, 1t being the desire of many of the citizens to know to what extent the more serious offenses will be laid at the doors of different kinds of people. MT. Garber is having a rather hard time to get the 1 work out as he Is very busy with the routine business. but every day ds little more to 1t.
 Rates Not Lowered.
 Montgomery. like other parts of the southern freight territory, is reaping
 benefit from an error of a clerk in the general offices of the Illinois Central railroad, by which the schedules for an increase in rates on August 1 were thrown
 out by the interstate commerce com mission. All freight originating in the territory of the Illinois Central and com ing to Montgomery over any of the con- i nections take the old rate until Septem- Der IS, at which time the Illinois Gen. tral. by new application. will be put on the same basis as the other lines.
 Sorrow Over Death.
 There is great sorrow here over the drowning of Frank Scott in the Alabama
 
 of it was that his wife was kept in sus- pense for several hours, there being re- | port that the first report was an error. !, Another sorrowful thing was the fact that 1 his companion, Ed Graham, who had | begged him ot come out of the water, had i to see him drown after yainly trying, 1 hampered with his own clothing, to reach 1 him. MT. Scott had taken up the busi- 1 ness of intensive and scientific farming, ! living out on his place near the river
 Secretary In Doubt.
 The future course of the secretary of state with regard to the certifying of the republican emblem is yet in doubt, advice of the attorney general being yet to se- cure. The Thompson wing has won victory in the holding of the lower court that an injunction to prevent their using it cannot be issued, but the Davidson fel- lows having appealed, it cannot yet be said what the outcome will be. Secretary of State Julian being out of the city, the matter has been referred to the attorney general by Chief Clerk c. B. Brown. Schools Opening.
 Many of the country and district schools are opening, the whole number being on the verge of the work that IS to be done this fall and winter. Among the  ! and which promise we'll, are the Normal, : at Daphne, now under control of B. B. Baker of Mobile, and the new high school of Macon county, at Notasulga, under su- pervision of Mrs. Mamie Espey. In all cases where books of the new adoption i are not in, old ones are used, by permis- 1 sion of the state superintendent, acting under advice of the attorney general.
 A Lively Race.
 t, The race for the democratic nomination 1 for congress in the Second district is growing lively, with great many person alities to be resisted. S. H. Dent of Mont gomery, resenting opposition on the part of the Anti-Saloon league, in which the latter is called an interloper and med dler, and in turn w. H. Sanford Of Troy assaults MT. Trent with the query Of why he does not answer the argument instead of jumping on the leader of a movement He also wants to know why Dr. w. B. Crumpton man reared in 1 Alabama, and president of the league, Is not toted. All in all, things are getting rather interesting
 Polytechnic Booming. The total enrolment of the Polytechnic institute, at Auburn, to the evening of l Wednesday is 120--over 100 in advance of i last year. President Thach attributes the prosperity of the school to the class of i work that has been done for some time ! and the better equipment that is now in use. He is greatly pleased with the in- terest shown from every part of the country, having pupils from many states and some foreign countries
 Working Through School. With the occupancy of the new dining hall at the Polytechnic institute, at Au- , burn, boys are allowed to work their way through school as waiters-a new thing in the state. A full staff has been or l ganized, and some of the best men in the i school have donned white aprons and are 1 bearing the food in to those who are more i fortunate in the matter of money to pay | their way. President Thach is very much 1 gratifed at the manner in which the in- novation is being carried out.