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Wh&.t Does the Winter Winds Whisper?—“Overcoats!” The Overcoats are ready. We have been waiting for wintry weather to start the advertising compaign. The same care that is exercised in the tailoring of our suits is very apparent in the Overcoats. Faultless workmanship, finest materials, newest styles. The assortments are generous, wide, unlimited variety to choose from. Among the new effects is the Imperial—it is right out of Fashion’s Pan dora box_this style is confined exclusively to Saks in Birmingham. The should ers are broad and square—and the coat drops from the shoulders in straight lines to the ground. A novel Overcoat—bound to win young men wearers. Then ( there are surtouts, tourists, top coats and the conventional dress overcoats. Prices $5 to $35. Top Co&.ts. The virtues of a top coat commend themselves. It is the coat for mild winter days, and it is a ne cessity for fall and spring wear. We are showing a splendid value, made of Imported Covert, at $15. There are others at $5 and others at $25. Cravenette Coats. You may walk through rain with unconcern— if you are enrobed in a Cravenette. The fabric is genuinely impervious to water. A Cravenette is an excellent addition to a man’s wardrobe. It ac complishes the double mission of overcoat and rain coat. $10.00 to $35.00. Louis vSaks fliMRilePiMisasuHn Louis vSaks Louis vSaks .ifc^wmiraBan—■—m—■————g—— Louis Saks Louis Saks _ * Re0Ldy-ma.de Suits The Sa.ks Kind. Ready-made was formerly a very abused term. It was the mark of every joker’s derisive shafts. We have redeemed the term, lifted it into dignified and re spectful use. And how ? Simply by selling suits out of stock that are marvels of beauty and style at prices that are materially low. Saks’ Suits are practically custom-tailored. Some of the minor parts are constructed by machinery. That’s because machine work in this instance, is cheaper, safer and a deal more thorough. But the vi tal spots, the parts that make or mar the fit, shape and hang of the suits—they are hand manipulated. Those are facts to bear in mind. Saks has narrowed the wide breach between custom-made and ready-made The difference is not perceptible—except in the prices. Men who are debating a Pall suit should visit the Saks store and select from our magnificent stocks. You’ll not experience the miserable ordeal of a series of “try ons.” We’ve reduced suit selling to a science. Our salesmen size a man at a glance. Likelier than not the first suit you get into will be the right one. Prices Start at $5 and Stop at $35. Louis Saks Louis Saks BESS BEARS CAUTIOUS ASPECT There Have Been No Develop ments of Importance IRON REDUCTION ENDORSED Dun and Bradstreet D:> Not Look on the Situation With as Much Favor as a Few Weeks Ago—Wall Street Is to Blame. New York, October 9.—B. G. Dun & Co 's weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: There have been no developments of im portance in the commercial world. As 1 a rule there is more caution in making contracts, especially among manufactur ers. Uneasiness regarding the financial situation recedes as the season advances without reducing any monetary pressure In connection with crop moving. The proposed reduction in pig iron output has been endorsed by all leading producers, steadying prices just when changes in freight rates started another reduction. Other manufacturing news is favorable, except where the raw material markets are unsettled, or labor struggles cause trouble. Suspension of an Iron plant was attributed to the latter cause and the movement of cotton at New Orle ans also suffered because of a strike. Trade local ly is quiet: preparations for election, with unseasonable weather having an adverse effect. Wholesale trade is active at Bal timore, a brisk business has been trans acted in fail clothing and the outlook for spring is considered bl ight. Manufactur ers are busy at Philadelphia, but build ing materials and chemicals are quiet -with collections slow in several lines. Trade is brisk at Chicago orders well dis tributed and payments prompt. Railways are not yet severely congested by the crops, yet tijlere is some delay in traffic nnd earnings for September are 8.1 per c. nt larger than last year. Latest re turns of foreign commerce at this port are unsatisfactory, exports showing a loss of $1,188,646 compared with the same week last year, and imports decreasing $2,677,124. Bank exchanges at New York lor the week were 23.6 per cent smaller than last year, while at other leading cities there was a gain of 4.4 per cent. Reduced dividends and curtailed produc tion in the iron and steel industry show that conservatism is increasing, and there Is no disposition to disguise the fact that business is not progressing without inter ruption. Yet there is nothing alarming in the situation, and a few years ago the contracts now in sight would have as sured full occupation for all plants. Prices receded as it became apparent [ that the industrial tmom was interrupted, and it is now found desirable to shut down plants not thoroughly equipped. Al ready the effect is felt in the greater urgency to place contracts by concerns that were waiting for the most favorable terms. Railways are seeking much new equipment, giving this branch of the pro ducts a better tone than other depart ments, while more bridge contracts are being placed. Plates are fairly steady, hut in bars and sheets there is no ac tivity. Progress in agricultural sections is closely watched, as a large tonnage of iron and steel is dependent on suc cess on the farms. Lower freight rates made it feasible to reduce prices of pig iron, particularly at the south, but no further concessions are expected owing to the reduction of about 25 per cent in output. Textile manufacturers report no increase in business, and Jobbing trade is less active than in the busy weeks immediately preceding. Another sharp fall in raw cotton has not stimulated makers of goods, nor buyers disposed to he any less conservative. A less generally lower level of quotations for the leading farm staples was most encouraging. it indicated that supplies were coming freely to market, and testified to the growing confidence in ample crops. Spec ulative control ceased with tlie market ing of greater quantities than the manip ulatorj could handle, and legitimate trade always flourishes better when normal in fluences prevail. Lower prices also at tract purchasers abroad and foreign com merce will he stimulated. A moderate re covery late in the week was natural, as fluctuations became sufficiently narrow to bring out many buyers who feared the violent price change of past months. Failures this week numbered 239 in the United States against 24T» last year, and 17 in Canada compared with 21 a year ago. BRADST7EETS REVIEW. New York. October 9.—Bradstreet’s will say tomorrow of the state of trade: Trade conditions are still irregular. Bus iness is of fair volume but not so active as a year ago, partly because of the back ward season, heavy rains interfering with crop movement, and collections; vex atious labor troubles, past and present, discouraging building operations, and tho spread of conservative feeling among buy ers based upon stock market liquidation and the feeling that high prices of many products will tend if it has not already done so. to automatically cheek consump tion. Many underlying conditions are. how ever, still favorable. First in importance should be reckoned the decidedly better tone of advices from the corn crop, which has developed a larger yield and a better quality than was earlier deemed possible. Special inquiry by Bradstreets points to a yield of at least 2,250,000,000 bushels of a grade generally far superior to that of a year ago. Bower prices for this and other cereals and for cotton, whose yield will be smaller than seemed probable a year ago, seem likely to help our back ward export trade In these products and improve the foreign exchange outlook. Collections, too, though backward ara improving as the grain and cotton move ments expand. The volume of business doing by the railroads Is excellent, thougn the familiar car shortage trouble Is loom Big Auction Sale Campbell & Reed, of St Louis, have consigned to us two car loads of ! HIGH-CLASS HORSES which we will sell to the highest bidder, for cash SATURDAY, OCTOBER I0TH, AT 10:30 A. 91. AT OUR BARN, 2D AYE. AND ITTH ST. Among these will be found nice double teams, single roadsters and business and saddle horses. We also have two car loads of HIGH CLASS MULES—big heavy teams, Bingle delivery mules and the best miners ever shipped to this district PALACE LIVERY CO. J. H. PATTON, General Manager. ing up. despite improvements in terminal facilities. The growing weakness in pig iron, though on the face of it unfavorable, will have the effect of shutting of produc tion to the extent of one million tons for the last quarter of the year, and of end ing for foreign imports. The import in dustries, those of shoe manufacture and anthracite coal, have been, and are doing well, though margins of profit are small er. The downward swing in the raw ma terials of industry Is, in fact, a sig nificant feature. The best trade advices come from the southwest, notably at Kansas City and St. Louis; from the western sections, such as Nebraska and Iowa, where corn is turning out better than expected; from the Pacific const, where trade is still unqual ifiedly good, despite the slowness of new wheat and other crops to move, and from portions of the south, such as the Mis sissippi valley, where present prices for. cotton offer a good return for fair yields. Heavy rains have Interfered with thresh ing of spring wheat in the northwest and retarded trade and collections, while the weather at the east has also been un favorable to trade, reduced at some large cities by impaired buying ability grow ing out of strikes. New York and Phil adelphia business with dry goods job bers is backward, and supplementary de- , mand for cotton, woolen and knit goods from wholesalers is unsatisfactory. Cen tral western trade reports are spotted. Chlcag) reports demand from drygoods tapering oT. Louisville reports the tobac co trade unsatisfactory and 300,000 hogs heads of western tobaeco in warehouses at Liverpool without offers. Hester’s Weekly Statement. New Orleans, October 9.—Secretary Hester’s weekly New Orleans cotton ex change statement, issued before the close of business today, shows a decrease in the movement of cotton into sight com pared with the seven days ending this date last year, in round tlgures, 5000, an Increase over the same days year before last of 30,000, a decrease under the same time in 1900 of 75,000. For the nine days of October the totals show a decrease under last year of 28,000. a decrease under the same period year before last of 12.000 and under the same time In 1900 of 158,000. For the thirty-nine days of the season that have elapsed, the aggregate Is be hind the thirty-nine days of last year 531,000, ahead of the same days year be fore last 32,000 and under 1900 by 287,000. The amount brought Into sight during the past week has been 396,414 bales ; gainst 401,033 for the seven days ending this date last year, 300,433 year before last and 471,8112 same time In 1900, and for the nine days in October it has been 501,011 against 528,887 last year, 513.237 year before last and 059,073 same time in 1900. The movement since September 1 shows receipts at all United States ports 947,571 against 1,274,461 last year, 761,056 year before last, and 1.051.1S6 same time in 1900; overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 7677 against 52,218 last year, 58,517 year before last and 81,186 same time in 1900; Interior stocks in ex cess of those held nt the close of the commercial year 110,996 against 218.542 last year, 183,304 year before last and 246,656 same time In 1900; southern mill takings 185,000 against 240,357 last year, 216,686 year before last, and 160,372 same time in 1900. These make the total movement for tile 39 days from September 1 to date 1,251.244 aglnst 1,785,578 last year, 1,219,563 year be fore last and 1,538.400 same time In 1900. Foreign exports for the week have been 125,970 against 126,082 last year, making the total thus far for the season 604.163 against 820,933 last year, a decrease of 316,780. Northern mill taklngB and Canada dur ing the past seven days show a decrease of 10,147 as compared with the correspond ing period last year, and their total tak ings since September 1 have increased 6549. The total takings of American mills north and south, and Canada, thus far for the season have been 357.964, against 406.635 last year. These Include 169,019 by northern spinners against 162,470. Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty* nine leading southern interior centers have Increased during the week 177,676 bales, against an Increase during the cor responding period last season of 169,700, and are now 217,158 less than at this date in 1902. Including stocks left over at ports and Interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought Into sight thus far for the new crop, the supply to date Is 1,419,043 against 2,000,652 for the same 'period last year. Remember our famous A. P. Sausage. Orr & Roberts. Dr. Geo. Eubank has re moved his dental offices to rooms 810 and 811 First Na tional Bank building, REMOVAL NOTICE. The Birmingham Under writers’ Agency have re moved their offloes to 2017 First ave. Both phones 613. JEW II MCE TO REMTOCRIlCy Michael Davitt Returns from a Visit to Populous Centers SEES CATASTROPHE AHEAD He Asserts That the Czar Can Accom plish Much for the Jews By De stroying Legend of Blood Atonement. New York, October 9.—Fresh from a vist to the great centers of Jewish popu lation In Russia, Michael Davitt has writ ten his estimate of the conditions and fu ture of those people In a volume entitled, “Within the Pale,” which will be Issued tomorrow. “The Jew as he Is ruled and opprc3S'»i by Russian officials is a far greater dan ger to Russian autocracy than antisemit ism is to the Israelites of the pale,” de clares Mr. Davitt in the preface of his work. Mr. Davitt sees further catastrophes ahead because of unnatural economic and social conditions. “The facts of the eco nomic and social conditions within the pale of settlement,” he writes, “are so objective that the warning they give of a coming catastrophe cannot be ignored. It would be like leaving an epidemic of smallpox to cure itself by neglect. This condition of things is fully explained and expressed by the term unnatural. It is analogous to a situation whicli would re sult from a Federal law compelling every European born artisan and laborer wttcln the whole United States to reside inside of Pennsylvania and to be forbidden to seek employment outside the cities end towns of that state. Crowded With Traders. “The towns are crowded with artisans and traders and as these are out of all proportion to the producers and consum ers of an agricultural country, they neces sarily become more destitute and wretch ed as their numbers increase. They aro too poor to emigrate. They are prohib ited from migrating, and they are not per mitted to engage in several occupations.” Mr. Davitt asserts that the Czar can accomplish much for the Jews in his do main by destroying the legend of the blood atonement. “M. Depleheve and the the Czar,” he avers, “can accomplish one good and blessed work, if so minded by destroying in Russia the atrocious legend about the annual killing of Christian children by Jews as an alleged part of the blood atonement in Hebrew paschal rights. In this humane and Christian task he is entitled to the co-operation of the emperor of Austria, the king of Rou manla. and the heads of the other Balkan states, where this story of ritual murder is constantly circulated and not Infre quently as a part of political propaganda. There ought to be a truly Christian cru sade waged against this Infamous product of ancient, insensate, sectarian hate.” Striking Economic Growth. Mr. Davitt calls attention to the strik ing economic growth of Russia in the fol lowing sentences: ■•The wide and sure and extraordinary progress that Is being made In the eco nomic development of a great empire as self-contained In Its measureless natural resources as the United States and with an assured domestic market for moat of her manufactured products In a popula tion of fully U0.000.000—growing at a rata of upwards of 2.000,000 annually out of n natural increase—ought to be a subject of infinitely greater concern to the public thought of commercial rivals like Great Britain and the United States than what Russian policy may or may not mean In Its diplomatic trend In the far east." Returning to the subject of the Jew and discussing the amelioration of his condi tion. Mr. Davitt says: "I have come from a journey through the Jewish pale, a convinced believer In the remedy of Zion ism. It is a necessity of the actual situ ation and favors the growing perils of the Russian Jew with a courageous plan of repatriation. Jfope for a partial ulti mate emancipation In Russia there Is none. Other countries cannot be expected to relieve Russia of the unhappy victims of oppression and poverty. Where, then, are they to go?” Call at 320 N. 20th street for drugs. Cheek Drug Co. Don't forget to pay your electric and gas bills before toe 10th. ALABAMA STATE FAIR BIRMINGHAM Oct. 15-24, Inclusive One of the grandest of All Southern Exhibitions. Hundreds of Cash Premiums for all branches of industry. Marvelous Drills Every Day by the World-famous 7th Regiment, U. S. Cavalry, to music by the full Regimental Band, the finest in U. 8. Army. Robinson’s Great Carnival Com pany-Loop the Loop—High Diving—Great Menagerie. LOW RATES ON ALL RAILROADS. v Send for superb catalogue ALLEN J. KREBS, President BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. Women and Radium. From the New York Times. The increasing importance of the dally press in the dissemination of scientific news Is strikingly illustrated in the case of radium and of rado-actlve substances generally. It has become a matter of absorbing and almost exciting public in terest. The average man in every civil ized country knows as much about radi um as do the most advanced physicists, .and the daily progress of the Investiga tion Is watched with interest by the well informed newspaper reader everywhere.! ___ Kir Oliver Lodge notes this fact with ap proving comment, showing how much better advised people are of other coun tries are on this, and kindred subjects than are those of France, where the news value of great scientific discoveries Is not yet appreciated. Another fact of exceptional Interest Is the prominent part which women have had in the Isolation of radium and in making Its astounding phenomena known. It was discovered by Madamo Curie, not by accident, but as the result of pure deductive reasoning from observations of uranium and polonium. Among the most nportaat of recent contributions to the literature or radium are those of two ac complished women, Lady Huggins, wife of the president of the Hoyal society, and Miss Wlllcock, of Newnham college, Cambridge. The office of the Birming ham Water Work3 Company is now at No. 2114 First ava. Pay your electric light and gas bills before the 10th and secure the liberal disoount.