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gkd.) lr mar.uiaciuren are now a6ree that the Birmingham strict is the most wonoeriui manufacturing on the 8 fact is. that Birmingham is tho fixing city in the pig Iron god coal markets of the world. Btrmlngl.am was not established, not ffen dreamed of, In 1870. In 1S80 there was a population here of 3,000. Ten veers itar there were 30.000.

At this time there were furnaces In blast In various parts ef the district, coal mines were being operated, and tne district was Detng ten In the commercial world. until 1S97, however, was the export during the year 1900 Alabama shipped tons of Iron, within 50,000 Kbs of all the Iron which was exported vear from the entire United States. England, Germany, France, Italy, Hol hjna, Denmark. Swltxerland, Norway, Austria, China, Japan, Australia, Cuba, jfexlco and the Hawaiian Islands secured Bon from this state. Since that time the eflce of Iron In this country has increased so substantially that none la be now.

but If ever the domes tic prices fail Alabama will again resume During the "year, ending January so, ffS, the Birmingham uistrict shipped I0Q.QOO tons of pig iron, the production of Which was at a cost smaller than pig iron can be produced anywhere, and therefore very neat net margin of profit was made en it This district was developed with borrowed money. The mines were opened cn the credit basis, and the furnaces and tolling mills and other manufacturing concerns were built with money furnishes by non residents. The several years of prosperity, which the iron market has enjoyed, have paid the district largely out of debt and when a dull season comes, one ever does, the Birmingham district be in admirable condition to contend with it Birmingham is now turning out good quality of steel and while, she Is sot yet setting the prices on this commodity, she is able to make money at the prices fixed by the larger manufacturers in the north and) west. New Steel Process. etntly invented a new continuous process for manufacturing open hearth steel, which, it is believed, will materially re race the cost of manufacturing the prod set tn tnis district.

It is said that his at furnaces more than 100 per cent. and will also dispense with the nee of snap iron in the manufacturing of open hearth steel. This will relieve manufacturers from the present scarcity and high prices of the scrap, and wlH also do away with the possibility of a scrap famine. By this process molten steel reserved from a previous heat Is charged as a sun ns tor scrap. Thus instead: or flump ton after ton of scrap and pig metal, I cold, into the furnace as is dona ar the present processes, about one third of the steel from a furnace heat is reserved In the ladle into which It was tapped after the greater part of Sie heat hue been poured Into the molds, as usual This reserve of moKen steel In the ladle charged back into the furnace from which it was poured, after this has been repaired, and is ready for the succeeding beat The pig metal used in this process Is always charged in a molten condition, to that nothing but hot metal goes into the furnace, and the reaction beginning at once, the heat is ready to be tapped in four or five hours.

Another advantage claimed for the new process is that it can be used in the old furnaces. It being only necessary to provide machinery for charging the nrol Street Bailway The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company Is now spending about Rooo.000 in improvements in this district. Practically all of the company's lines are being rebuilt, the ties being of the very best timber and the rails inches fcigs and weighing 90 pounds to the yard, Crossings of the most expensive and most approved details are being put to. Some of the enormous cost of improve fenta of this character may be gathered tram the fact that one single crossing, its switches and curves, costs H8, Within the last few days the company has received twenty seven new oars the latest type of construction, and HON. R.

NOLEN. their arrival raw the rolling stock of the company up to 200 ears. In addition to the vast sums being expended In street rati way improvements, the oomnanv is snendlng large amounts On its electric light plant and Its gas plant, xne capacity or tne etectrio ugnt rjlant is beinsr sraoticaUy doubled, and about 1300,000 is being expended in the light and power department The capac ity ox tne gas pant ss aiso Detng greauy and the mains are being ex sscdons of the city not here tofore reached. These tremendous improvements may he safely taken as an evidence of the confidence that Investors have in the future greatness of Bir Mlneral Development at Gadsden. Tne noosa Southern ranroad hat recently purchased 15,000 i the stata The bituminous coal on the property has been experimented with and proouot in ooae nas oeen prooouncwa every respect eaual to the Blocton eoaL It la understood to be the Inten tion of the Chattanooga itauroma company to develop the mines In this vicinity without delay.

Filtemg Plant for Birmingham. I he work of installing a filtering stand tin North Birmingham plant of the Birmingham water wonts company is well unaer way. ax xne MEN bESTRONG RESTORE YOU II HEALTH. OFFER EVER MADE TO WEAK MEN, re mark able offer. 10 TREATMENT FRFF arj THE UOSBTITPTlOjr: ATLANTA, 8A.

BTJITDAT, KOVSaTBlB 16, 1902 HUNDREDS OF DESCENDANTS GATHER IN HONOR OF THE NOLEN PIONEERS HtfHhKt I' ll I Kill, ARE YOUR LUNGS WEAK? You, Dear Reader. Threatened with Consumption, try this Complete, Philosophical and SUCCESS FUL CURE. It may SAVE YOUR LIFE as It has Thousands of others. It is FREE DR. SLOCUrU HERE IS HEALTH PRICE IS FIXED jremenaous uruwm ot mis Hustling Alabama City Called Birmingham.

OUTPUT IS REMARKABLE i FOR AGE OF THE DISTRICT Thit lustration represents the Sime of the Four Free Trial Simples. Wrttm for them. Developed with Borrowed Money, ti Town Is Breaking Growing Bec Street Railway Im i provements Keep Pace witn November (Spe ortsin BEAR IN MIND MMnlMd. mm SpcHai Treatsswat win ha atraa t7o KIDNEY, BLADDER, URINARY jgBgB Oi ymtm. Mas james BJmm ICRS.

ELIZA NOWLE.N. occasion, was followed by Impromptu speeches from Ave of the pioneer settlers of this section, vis: Hon. W. L. Johnson.

Action Brought About by Effort To Prove That Trust Existed in That Trial Sat for Next Week at Columbus, Columbus, November With the announcement that the 830,000 libel suit case instituted by E. T. Svkes. of this city, against the Mississippi Cotton Oil Company will be heard at the session of the circuit court which meets next Monday, interest of an Mississippi Is again centered in the proceedings which are to come. Possibly no case ever brought before the Mississippi courts in this county has aroused tits same amount of universal interest in the outcome as has this one.

The facts relative to the institution of the libel proceedings are these: Mr. Sykes Is the former cashier of the Mississippi Cotton Oil Company's mill at this point He Is also the publisher of Sykes' Ughtnlng Cotton Seed Calculator." a book used to comtmte all cal culations relative to the buying of cotton seed. In December of last year Mr. Sykes resigned his position with the company on the grounds that the oil mills of the state being in a trust and placing the price to be paid for seed In even dollars, that the sale of his book had been prac tically ruined. This book was gotten up with much expense, and in Justice to himself he was foreed to adopt this method in order to realise vast amount he hao placed In his copyright.

After resigning his position Mr. Sykes engaged nimseir in collecting tne various rscrs necessary to prove that there was a trust existing, and by proving this fact he would then be able to continue the sale of his calculator and realise profits entitled to him. The first step In the matter of this exposition was to place the proofs he had obtained In the hands of the state legislature which was in session. Mr. Svkes west to Jackson and gave Senator Noel all the facts and" In nerwor kings upon which the alleged trust Is said to exist After having completed this step.

Senator Noel was in the midst of furnishing the senate with the Information, when Senator Bradley arose and announced that be had Just received a A J. NOLiiN. MAYOR S. 1. NOLEN.

1 of the Nolen Pioneers of Alabama Were Conspicuous Figures la the Imposing Family Baostoa Becentljr Held in That State. By A. P. Fngnay. Alexander City, November (Special Nearty one hundred years ago, just across the Tallapoosa line, now Coosa county, there lived two brothers.

Abner and Stephen Nolen. Little la known of their ancestry, and not exactly known when thair Parents removed with them to the wild and unbroken forests of tag but the Red trail toeU ana without of their dava sons and dauvh. of a of rvmalns. eeoetJaiiv ia mie. memorial and Of tha A.

Bttjhsn met at Pine Grove In a famay reunion. held on this particular oay in honor also of the ravel easy of lira. Noien, wife of as "Our Praying Mother." She, with her husband, became the typical representatives on this remarkable occasion of the Abner Nolen famllv lMng descendant, while the aged widow of the late Jackson Nolen became the true and proper representative of the mepnen Moten family tree, numbering 241 No one OOUld have beheld the unstinted affections of eight stalwart sons on those two saintly mothers, and heard the prayer that day from the Hps of Mrs. Eliza Nolen for the sons and their posterity without loving the name of mother. They are Ideal women of noble characteristics and strong determination, arid as some poet has already said, 'Of just such women great men are born." The programme on this occasion was not only beautiful, but extremely touch tog.

At o'clock, after the "Coronation" was sung by EM voices, mad prayer by Rev. S. Darius Martin, 413 descend ants, joined by their 400 guests, and led by their respective family representatives, marched to the cemetery to decorate and to view once more the resting places of tnetr steeping ancestors. Alter these cer emonies they repaired to the Pine urove scnooi nouse, ana the next feature or tne programme was tne reading or communication from Hon. 8.

J. Nolen, mayor of Alexander City, who had been chosen as master of ceremonies of this occasion, by reason of the fact that hi is one of the grandsons of the Stephen Nolen branch of this noted family, but who was prevented by sickness at home from attending. This communication was a nign rriDUte to those worthy pioneers well couched langauge a lofty sentiment anent these annual gatherings, where the survivors oi tne respective orancnes can commingle in pleasant converse and in commemoration at their loved Mayor Nolen appointed Dr. A. J.

Nolen, ot New Site, to wear the honors as chairman of the reunion ceremonies, and It may not be amiss at this Juncture to state that Dr. Nolen hears the same distinction In respect to the lineal descent on the Abner Nolen side as Mayor Nolen bears on the Stephen Nolen sue, he being one of the Abner Nolen grandsons. In a graceful speech. Dr. Nolen accepted this honor, and directed the ceremonies in a manner quite apropos of such an occasion.

This fervent family address brought oat touching responses from various representatives of the Nolen family. A letter from Dr. W. L. Nolen, of Chattanooga, a son of Rev.

W. J. Nolen, deceased, and a grandson of Abner Nolen. was then read to the as semblage. This Dr.

Nolen Is a dis tinguished physician ana surgeon of Tennessee, and now honored as vice presi dent of the Tri State Medical Association. This interesting letter, dedicated to this Ktcharason, J. ts. Johnson and D. O.

Wllbanka Bach of these gentlemen possessed the happy faculty of a clear recollection, and In tribute to the memories of their departed Cabana stand has been practically pie tod, and a large force of men are now engaged In making ready for the Installing of the great filters. The filtering apparatus will be ready for operation some Ume next spring, and the people of Birmingham are promised as good water as can be found anywhere. Birmingham's wates supply has not proved to be unwholesome; but it Is muddy and disagreeable to look at, and good clear water win give the people more satisfac BIG LIBEL SUIT AGAINST OIL CO. E.T.Sykes Asks for $50,000 from Mississippi Cotton Oil Co. CHARGED WITH SHORTAGE IN TELEGRAM TO SENATOR which refreshed the history of those early days when the scene of this reunion, the old Pine drove school house, was the hunting ground of the red man.

This historic ground is the site of one of the first governmental Indian agencies ever established in Alabama and abounds in tragic incidents of those tumultuous days when our forefathers were daily grappling with a savage foe. It is the scene of a fierce battle on the 16th day of May. with the Creek Indians, on which day many lives were lost, noted among whom was the first wife of the late and lamented QeneraJ Hike J. Bulger, also the grandfather of Hon. W.

L. Johnson. Much Interesting data as to our early history fell from the lips of these pioneers, and will leave its Impress upon the vounaer generations there assembled. Several of the old Nolen slaves, bent with age, were there to give i all that was said and done. descendant of this family could speak in tributes more touching than the loving terms oi memory expressed 10 tneir tors cone on before.

Perhaps the most noted feature of this reunion was the speech of Hon. Richard s. Nolen. tne oldest member of this interesting family, the nearest living branch to the family trunk. His remarks were concise and dwelt mainly with ancestral history, pointing a moral as to the doty of Che present and coming generations in holding these reunions to perpetuate family history.

He touched upon the eariy mwtory oi mis country ana tne great hardships heaped upon our forefathers while working out a destinv that today burst forth in a flood tide of clvill uion and enlightenment. Hon. Richard 8. Nolen. now in his sixty sixth year, is a type of the well poised, self made southerner of the old guard, a character of rugged honesty and Integrity, whose escutcheon is without stain at any era Of his useful career.

He has been honored often by his fetlow citisens, for which they have no cause to regret He has served in both branches of the general assembly of and nas been chosen as leader in many other public capacities. Mr. Nolen is indeed the honorary head of a strong represent ave southern family. To close the programme, at 2 o'clock or tne most eiarjoraxe dinners ever tion than almost anything that could be Steel Bridges for Jefferson. The board of revenue has let a contract io ine aouinem unage company to place a steel bridge over the canal near F.ivton and another over the stream between be done at once.

The cost will be Old wooden bridges are now in use at these points. It is the policy of the board of revenue to place steel bridges wherever practicable instead of building them the company's In a second the entire senate was in an uproar. Immediately Mr. Sykes branded the message as a malicious l(e, Mr. Sykes then came to Columbus, his home, and as soon as the necessary papers could be gotten up.

be entered suit In the sum of JEo.OOO against v'i vompany. At mn spring or court wttsn case was called a continuance was grant ad. and the matter has been the balance since then, but now when it again to be taken up and the whole pro ceedlngs as above named are to again be tared hers. Cen No statements are obtainable from the charges. ujey ey smi i defaulUi The foregoing facts are learned from a statement Mr.

Sykes made public through Mr. Sykes stated to The ConsMrntinn represantatlvo this afternoon that the during the first week of court, as a date during the AH EAST WAT To Keep Well. It is easy to keep wall If we would onl observe each day a few simple rules stomach right and or bill of fare. Such pampering simply makes a capricious appetite and a feeling that certain favorite articles of food must be avoided. Prof.

Wiechold gives pretty good advice on this subject; he says: "I old and have never had a serious illness. largely an indoor one, but I early discovered that the way to keep healthy was keep bran crackers or dieting of any sort; petite craves: bat daily for the eigft years I have made it a practice to take one or two of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after each meal, and I attribute my robust health for a man of my age to the regular dally use of Stuart's Tablets. My physician first advised me to use them because he said they were perfectly harmless and were not a secret patent medicine, but contained only the natural digestive, peptones and diastase, and after using them a few weeks I have never ceased to thank him for his advice. I honestly believe the habit of taking Stuart Dyspepsia Tablets after meals the real health habit, because their use brings health to the sick and ailing and preserves health to the well and strong!" Men and women past fifty years of ar. need a safe digestive after meals to insure a perfect digestion and to ward off dial ease, and the safest, best known and uyspepaia They are found in every well regulated Household from Maine to California gain Great Britain and Australia are rapidly poshing their way tote popular favor sen Steartg Dyspepsia for a weak stomach a Sfty cenfvecaage1 will often do fifty dollars worth of I Lm I I 1 I Mil APERPtCT EMULSION OF PUREST jj IB II mmlG0FUME SODA A gJaIACOLA consumption ym ss I I II And all other pulmonary tRestorativeA catarrh Digestive 1 1 8 STMK6TH pmm INVIGORATING, I SUSTAINING, 1 Continuously nourished, I FORTIFIES.

REFRESHES ICftsWWHjTMf AND STRENGTHENS THE w'AitnUaiiiAmUMlv ENTIRE HUMAN ORGAN II w3jj4jS l5M) ssBssjlf PAR'S' 29 t. a slocum Co. I If CURCS montrealS nSvESn PNEUM0NIA.9: i HAVANA JK heme prescribed these ftfmedies in hundreds of thousands of casts xotth toonderful Dr. Slocum. THE CONSUMPTIVE CAN BE CURED These Four New Preparations comprise a complete new treatment and Cure for Consumption, Coughs, and all Throat, Chest and Lung Troubles.

The Ozomulslon is needed by some, the Ozomulslon and Psychlno Tonic by others, the Coltsfoote Expectorant by others, the ozojeii Cure for Catarrh by others and still all four or any three, or two, or any one. may be used singly or In combination, according to the needs of the ease. Full instructions with each set of tour free remedies, represented in above Illus tration. Also 68 page My Doctor Book, with testimonials. Please mention The Atlanta Constitution, and address DR.

T. A. SLOCUM. 98 PINE STREET, NEW Many of the ailments of women and delicate children are speedily relieved ana, cured by these flesh lormlng Remedies. VETS BACKWARD IN HOME MATTER Fear of Introducing Politics Kept Them from Decided Stand.

DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY GROWING IN MONTGOMERY Legislature WQ1 Be Asked to nice Steps in Hatter of waking Capitol Site labra Attractive. tailings Back from Birmingham. Montromerv. November IS There is Just a little disappolnt in some quarters raw xne veterans body did not take a more oro nvuncea staaa raver or toe state taking over the Mountain Creek home, bat no one allows himself to doubt that it win do so. In fact, it must do so.

for it the Question for individual liberality to maintain an establishment which the demand is growine month. The sentiment is behind the enterprise ail right enough, but the organl ivu bv ngiuiy exciuues pontics Irom deliberations that some deHearv felt on this score about indorsing any proposition likely to come before the legislature. Daughters of the Confederacy relatively to strong as In Montgomery. There are napters here and aH of large memberships. The strength of the daughters here grows out of seme eon met on unaeriajcmgs on mien they divided and what was at first thought to tremely unfortimate.

has turned nut jurt the other way. It has prevented anything like apathy and now whrn any subject cjmes up everybody Is deeply In rested and the chapters vie with each her in efflciencv and great task of. entertaining three thousand old veterans would have taxed the daughters of a much larger place. Here. twtrur to the carennia.1 antlmalaain rivalry of the chapters, it was all so easy as to be a positive pleasure to the ladlss who did the work.

A large effort is going to toe made to gat tie next legislature to fulfill what the Montgomery people, at least, think is a dirty which the state baa already postponed too long. The capital occupies the center of a double square, sitting jest where the street would toe if the square was divided into two blocks. The state only toe north half back yards Mine direstlv agalcst the rspt budding Itself. As is often the with property about putoUe bafJS Dtoea la eeaiy emit up ana. is though It has Improved some EDITOR NOTE.

The New Slocum System of Treatment (or the of Consumption. Lung Troubles. Bronchitis. Asthma, Catarrh. General Anaemia, Rundown system.

Is medicine reduced to an exact science hy the World's tore most Specialist. By the timely use of these Remedies thousands of apparently hopeless cases have Peon Permanently cured. By special arrangement, all oar readers who may be afflicted will be supplied With ALL FOUR FREE REMEDIES. We absolutely guarantee this gen erous oner. When writing to Dr.

Slocum. please give express and postornee address and tell him you read this announcement In the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. ra recent years. There has been no time when the people here were not dreaming of a coming time when the state would buy the other of the square and tear down the houses on it and make the capltol grounds complete. Effort after effort baa been made to gat the legislature to take up the matter, tout In vain.

Years ago some twenty odd dttsens here got an option on the property at O0.009 for the purpose of Inducing the state to proceed to purchase at that price. Now the property is conservatively estimated to be worth fAOMOO and growing more valuable every year. The Commercial has taken the matter up again and another determined effort will be made to get the next legislature to act. Like every other thing which anybody is pro posing to gei from the legislature, the effort will be all the more strenuous because there will not ha another mceMna of that body for four years. The Hon.

Jease 8taUfogs, the moat picturesque and interesting ot ail the Alabama politicians, is going to hie himself to Birmingham to practice law. After bis defeat for governor mo and his retirement from congress In the same year he gave most of his time to his big Butler wuikj isna unui last spring, jjnen BB came op here and opened elaborate law offices and supposed he had settled down for good. But Montgomery was in his present and jimTmHo congressmen an up and down Its length, which goes to the gulf, have been uneasy lest the desire to return bdoom galas ua once again, and he would give them trouble if nothing else. Now be pulls up stakes and to conjunction with Probate Judge Zell Gaston, of Butler, goes to the all absorbing mineral district. Gaston is going to resign a office to go with him.

8 tailings says be Is going up there largely to get rate a brand new field and shake off his old political environment so that he can get down to business and make mono. Ttoere Is a sly sort of curiosity here to wait and see if that peculiar gift of easy speaking which made tola so long the idol of the wiregrass folks, won't be shaded a little and adapted to the sort of voters who elect congressmen among the moun 8 tailings from middle and south Alabama, where be nas so long played so conspicuous and really honorable a part, is quits He will retain bis citisensWp In Butler county and vote there, for a trme at least. But, air the same, the hero of more per anecdotes than have been retailed about any AJabamian since Bice, is gone his like again. The old adage, it never rains toot It Pours." Is illustrated to What ts now threatening Mnntgyrrary to the baseball way. The sport has been at a discount sarvtvtag In Now if Frank suutsuaa In ptMtteg; htetn' league tn the field this town have not only a baseball war.

but a street railroad nant tn sml It llvelv Thm Lsajn, held by W. H. Bagtoad. who torn of street railroads and wfao wants J. hnsabnU to help develop Ira Ptekett The SSS? says moters of the company The vary bast I claim.

a this Una The general Are your Bare rea drr. backlag eeaghf Hit. ram kmrrhut of hugs? Da rea have palas la eaest ar aaaht De res raise sklegai ar Is rear throat sere ass iagasaedf Have yea ereeeaitUt la rear appetite poor' yea have night Are rsa losing Are yea pale, thlo and Have Tea riagtag la cars' Have yea hot ar eaU laaaesf la there drepalos la Have yea stomach rresMef Have too Have yea shertaeee ef Have yea Asthma? Have rea laser ar liver weeMev System ol tnstmmt. It not disappoint. Write for FOUR FREE SAMPLES Please year same aad fail addrsas to OH.

T. A. W8 MEW YORK, and the Foar Free Re.eatoa, ATLANTA OOMHTITCTION. ager of the old street Raphael Semmes haa falUn In Frank and his scheme and will back him for all It is worth, company owns the present grounds that are right near the town, in walking distance, whioh Is a great advantage as a drawing can) on a single track Use, liable at also has another line which can be ran to the grounds by a half mile extension long contemplated. Ball, even as played here for several years past, has been highly profitable to the street cars and the old company has no idea of letting the revenue slip away if it can be helped.

It as the transportation companies are coa terneu. noming will oe left undone to make ball In this town a howling success during the next season. ooauwiui warm earner wmcB BBS prevailed in this section of country has Deen worth many thousands of bales of cotton to the fanners, many of whom wGl make from the ton cron morn than thav expected altogether when the rains set In. Whether the section as a whole will not lose In price more than the top crop win in remains to be seen. Barely aver has the complaint of bard times been more strenuously made by the farmers, tout all the same lands continue to grow more valuable.

Especially la this true in the upland section, where there Is a clay bed under the son. It has always been considered, for instance, that the land over Prattrille way was poor compared to the boasted fertility around MontgoiSery. An ex probate judge of Augusta was here yesterday and made the sttttment that no land wHhln 5 miles of bis town could toe bought for leas than about CO an acre. In the same county a large place with the same sort of red land recently brought (fatso an acre, mlies from any railroad: There seems to be no longer any doubt tout that the gap between the value of red and black lands has been closed and that the former are ew ahead. Nor is there any doubt that the better social conditions where the lands are soorer and the smaller and the white people thicker are contributing not only to increase values.

ui ro improve trie sou itself. As far as there has been any dsratos aertt In public sentiment here on the rroposed change tn the convict mining system, it seems to be strongly In favor ef the governor and convict board. This sentiment Is not, however, baaed on the larger profits which the board baa fle nrod oat. but on the general feeling that profit la not the prime coneideretien. and that rne state can make the.

convtcrw eon better ft Ought to do so. The sann forces that are backing the child labor vigorously are behind i Ameliorate the life BOY STABBED MAN TO DEATH. taplcyees of Midway Engage in a Deadly Bight at Athens, Tana. Athens. Tenn.

Sovwnhw IS pioyees of the Star and Crescent Midway Senattertr to Ma death. es to give ma anna, bat is in Savannah, Oe. He was In New Geneva, Pa. The boy is to.