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Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
The Greatest Need of the South.

No portion of the globe is just now at- tracing more attention than the south, and no part of the south more than Ala bama. While this is a we'll recognized fact we should also realize that we need ana must have in the near future great agricultural improvement in charge of crops, methods of tillage and prepara- ton. With these must come a wondrous industrial development and increase of wealth from our marvellous and exhaust less resources in minerals, valuable tim bers. building materials and superior cli- matic advantages
 But the benefits to be derived from neither one nor all of these constitute the greatest need of the south. We ven- ture the belief that the one thing most desired and most necessary and essen- tial to the prosperity and welfare of the south is the active Identification of well educated, intelligent, energetic young men with our rural development and work in our country districts. Some- thing must be done to make the country attractive to educated people, and then the educated people must be found from among our own young generation to take hold of what is known as the rural problem with strong purpose to work It's solution. To do this we must con- centrate our rural interests and begin to work to relieve the country of it's ob- 1ections and it's peculiar interests of their drudgery
 It is folly to spend years discussing changes and never set about making them. It evinces a lack of patriotism not to mention a concern for self-inter- est, to know the demands of our com- munity and not set about their realiza- tion. The boys from our farms are being educated for the professions and away from the country. when the greatest and personal usefulness Is to be found In the country districts if the conditions are met by intelligent understanding and direction. Great movements are brought about by detail work. If the south Is ever made great manufacturing sec tion the work must be done through the planting of individual mills-one at a time. If our communities in rural dis tricts are ever built up 1t will not be by common move and a universal change, but by small beginnings. Let us begin to turn the tide of intelligence to the country, and we will have found the greatest need of the states at the south.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
The great sale of "The Mod ell" millinery stock com mences Monday at the Sur. prise Store.
FINANCIAL REPORT.

The New York Clearing House Report
 Shows Some Surprising Features.
 New York, Jan. 1.-The New York Fi- nancier says this week:
 The statement of the clearing house banks for the week ending January 4, contains some rather surprising fea- lures. The heavy liquidation in loans was due to the furry of two weeks ago, but the contraction has been continuous for the week just ended, which reflects accurately the situation. The decrease of the seven days ending January 4, reached the unusual figure of $12, 1885, 800, making total shrinkage in loans for the past two weeks of SPA, 4,O65, 300. The total loans have also fallen $35,000,000 since December 1, and have shrunk $57, ,OOO,O 900 within the past four months. Part of the contraction for the current week has been due perhaps to the January divi- dend period, which occasions great deal of shifting of funds, but the total is surprising. The deposit Item natural ly shows a heavy falling off, the loss be- ing nearly $1O.00O,O 900 for the week. The item of cash holdings, however, does not seem to have adjusted itself to existing conditions. 1t is known that the receipts from the interior for the week exceeded the outward movement by at least $6, GOO, ,O0O. The treasury disbursements were also heavy and the logical conclu- sion would point to large increase in cash by the banks. The total for the week was only $2,000,O00. and of this $1.- S40,5O0 was specie. which is being gath cred in anticipation of the coming bond issue. ..
 The statement as a whole Is difficult of interpretation, and is meaningless In some of its more important items. One fact, however, Is plain. New York banks have less money in their vaults today. taking the statement for the current week as the authority. than they have reported since April. after they paid heavy sums in subscriptions to the bond
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
FIRST TO ACT.
Morgan Democratic Executive Committed
 Invites Recruits to the Party.

Morgan Democratic Executive Commlttee
 Invites Recruits to the Party.
 Decatur, Jan. Special)-Chairman I. Asa Rountree convened the Morgan county democratic executive committee at Hartselle, Ala, January 3.~Fifteen of the eighteen members constituting the committee were present.
 In it's deliberations the executive com mittee followed the action of the national democratic executive committee of 1890 in formulating its county policy in refer ence to beat primaries, and has taken the fnitiatory in the state In fixing basis for the nomination of county officers.
 The plan adopted under resolution is as follows: Every man desiring to vote the democratic ticket at the next county election who believes in democratic form of government, and who will pledge himself to vote for the nominees of the primary conventions to be held in this county on the first Saturday of March next for the purpose of nominating coun- ty officers shall be entitled to ote-in the said primary elections.
 The avowed object of the committee was to formulate a county policy suffi- ciently broad and liberal in it's provs- ions to unite the entire democratic vote of the county. They now believe that the action of their committee on yesterday will fully accomplish that end.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
Some Advantages Alabama Offers the Home-
 seeker

The farmers of Alabama should be the most prosperous, in proportion to num- bers and amount of land in cultivation, of any state in the union. They have the soil, climate, reliability of seasons, free dom from crop disasters and easy means or cheap transportation to the best mar kets over any other portion of our coun- try. Every crop grown outside of the tropics can be profitably cultivated with in the borders of our state. We can raise almost double the amount of corn to the acre throughout large portion of the state than the most improved meth ods can produce in Kansas or any of the states of the northwest. Our cotton lands best suited to the growing of lhe staple are capable of a yield of one to two bales to the acre. The soil of no other state is better adapted to clover The standard grasses produce an abund- ant yield under judcious management The soil and climate of a large portion or the state give capacity of thirty to forty bushels of wheat to the acre. The oat crops do well in all parts of the state. The same of rye. The rich lands will yield forty to sixty bushels of barley to the acre. Upland rice has proven a profitable crop wherever tried with prop CT culture. Sorghum finds natural home in our climate and soil. Potatoes, sweet and Irish. can be raised as profit ably as in any other state. All other field crops can be produced in the great est abundance.
 For truck farming Alabama possesses many superior advantages. The soil and climate and latitude are all highly favor able for this industry. Early vegetables can reach the great markets of Chicago, Louisville. Cincinnati and other large cities five to ten hours ahead of Florida and other localities from which these supplies are largely obtained with inn mense profits.
 No portion of the continent is more highly favored for successful and profit able dairying.
 Live stock of all kinds can be raised here as successfully and with as small an expense as in almost any other state. The mountains of north Alabama and the pine lands of the southern portion of the state are admirably adapted to sheep husbandry. Early spring lambs, the most profitable branch of the business, can be raised here at nominal cost and put in the markets of the large cities in time to command the highest prices. The Ala bama farmer can make his bacon for less than 1t costs in any of the great hog producing states He can raise hay for less than the freight from the northwest to our markets.
 Fruit growing only needs attention and care to make this one of our most profitable interests.
 To these advantages are added cheap lands, ample transportation facilities at low freight rates, a healthful equable abiding, liberty-loving population, good water in greatest abundance and churches of every orthodox religious de- nomination in every portion of the state. To the home-seeker we say Come, Here We Rest!
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05

in every enterprise Nothing venture nothing have" applies to the farmer as well as to every other class of men: but let what you venture be your own to be- gin with-not borrowed the result of some other mans use of the same means to success.
 Invest largely of your time, your mus cloes-above all, your brains. Consider the material at your command. the ouali- ty of your land, the fertilizer best adapt- ed to 1t, and produce that fertilizer. if possible, in your own lots and barns. As- certain the kind of crops you can grow to best advantage, the cattle or stock that sults your locality. Be self-sustaining, content with natures returns to your honest, manly efforts. Practice a wise economy, and you can laugh at anxious millionaire specula tors
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
AVoId Debt.

With the New Year let every farmer re- solve not to go in debt. The credit sys- tenn must be abandoned and forever crushed out. The farmers of Alabama and of the whole south can never reach the prosperity they are entitled to enjoy until they free themselves from it's blighting and ruinous influence. It is the bane of prosperity. It creates the habit of buying things that are not necessary and engenders extravagance, which ends in disappointment, failure, want of confi- dence between man and man and gener- al looseness of morals. No policy ever adopted by a people could more certainly make or keep them poor. There is not a single article used on the farm or about the house that person can afford to buy on credit, If 1t be possible to do without. If machinery or farm implements, un- foreseen accidents may render them use less If fertilizers, seasons may not suit them, and they make no return for the investment. There seems to be some thing of a fatality attending the results of buying on credit A business man often realizes handsomely from his indi vidual capital if free from debt; yet when he ventures, "bets" on a 10 per cent loan, is almost certain to come out loser. One great cause of this is that the man using his own capital, unrepressed by debt, can afford to wait. The man in debt is all ways fighting against time. He must meet certain liabilities at a certain date and 1t usually involves sacrifice of something next in value to his mercantile honor, and on which that honor inevita- bly, depends. The heaviest burden a farmer ever carried is a note of hand with interest from date. No mar can tell what day may bring forth. and when a farmer buys on credit with the expecta- ton of paying from the proceeds of a crop not yet made-perhaps not even planted-he Is really gambling, Betting on chances. Keep clear of debt; avoid 1t as you would a pestilence. What you can- not pay for. do without
 Yet there are. and must be. some risks
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
BIRMINGHAM COTTON MILLS
Will Begin Active Operations Monday Has Been Running Several Days Training
 the UnskiIIed Hands.

It was pleasing yesterday to hear the bouyant talk of many citizens of West End over the beginning next Monday of active operations at the new cotton factory, by which between fifty and 100 people will find steady employment and the number to be largely increased later on The mill has been running for sever al days past schooling" the untutare would-be operators as to their Cities when active operations were begun.
 To MT. M. V. Richards, land and immi- grafton commissioner of the Southern railroad, is due the inducing to come here of Messrs. Gary x Cotton, the pro- prietors of the Birmingham cotton mill. and the people of Birmingham will al- ways share a large place in their mem ories appreciative of Mir. Richards kind act in the matter.
 The cotton mill is now ours and it's building should only be the prelude to the music from the thousands of spin dles that ought to and will be heard at no distant day in Birmingham.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
About Manures.

The general farming world has now a few modern manurial truths fixed in it's head. that land to produce good crops must be weh supplied with sufficiency of plant food, as the fertilizing matters of the soil are removed when the land IS cropped, or fed over by stock. In the case of cereals when we sell these we sell also about one-fourth of their cash value as representing so much removed phosphoric acid, nitrogen and potash, the constituents of a soils richness. the nec- essaries of a plants life. Even without the revelations of science we know that farmyard manure is the great and com mon vehicle through which a soil Is kept in heart. Hence the necessity of atten- tion in both the saving and in the making of that manure. especially in the liquid form. whether the latter be derived from urine or the trainings of the manure heap. Where the shed keeping of cattle is adopted in Frarce the common ma nure heap Is -oofed over to prevent drought from dryings, and washings from downpours. GypSdm. so cheap and so general is svas.c=ed on the heap, and under the litter of the stock: the stables and byres have concrete bottoms. and so has the manure heap; the bedding. whether straw, earth and gypsum, cut rushes, ferns. etc, soak up the urine for the latter Is four times more valuable than the solid excrements The rule Is to allt W nothing to go to waste. A cor respondent, who has recently returned from China, and who is preparing vol ume on "The Rural Industries of the Ce- lestial Empire" says that since twenty five years the Chinese dust men have pre- served the city refuse under cover, where formerly it was exposed: they have found by the change the manurial power of the mass to be increased. and so have aug mented it's selling price.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
Truck Farming in Alabama.

No state in the union is so favorably located for profitable truck farming as Alabama. The soil, climate and accessi- bility of the great cities of the west, even not including Baltimore. Washington, Philadelphia and New York city, give our farmers advantages over any other portion of the country. Vegetables gath cred one day in Alabama can be on the dinner table the next day at Chicago and several other large cities. The markets of Washington city, Baltimore, Phladel- phia and New York can be reached by great competing railway lines in thirty to forty hours from one end of the state to the other. The soil and climate are both admirably adapted to the success full growth of nearly all kinds of vege- tables, small fruits, apples, peaches. pears and many delicacies at all times in demand in large cities at ready sales and remunerative prices. These lands can be purchased convenient to shipping at fabulously low prices and on long time. ranging from s5 to $10 per acre, and seldom going as high as $20 and $25 per acre. These lands, once in cultivation in truck farming, would pay 10 per cent interest on $250 per acre. No industry In the south would pay so large and certain a profit on the investment
 There Is no surer or more inviting field for profitable investment, with no danger of the supply exceeding the demand.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
IT WAS COLD
And He Took the Coat Because He Was in
 Need of It.

MT. Will Nichols, whose oyercoat was stolen by Dan Sullivan, had quite an in- teresting interview with the prisoner yes terday.
 MT Nichols is connected with the mat tress factory, where the coat was taken. MT. Nichols says that Sullivan told him he took the coat simply because it was cold.
 But, don't you know" said MT. Mich ols, that you are liable to go to the mines for this act?"
 Well" was the quiet reply, they can't send me much deeper than I have been."
 He was bound over to await the action of the grand jury in the sum of S200.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
Griffo Backs Down

Dallas, Tex. Jan. 1.-The finish fight for the lightweight championship between Jack Everhardt and Griffo is off. Tele- grams from New York to Dan Stuart to- day announced that Griffo's manager would not let his man keep the match. Everhardt is much disappointed, as his man is spelling for a finish fight with any man in the world for the lightweight championship Stuart says he is deter mined to have a fiscal lightweight con- test in his carnival if possible. Secretary Wheeler said Everhardt's manager to- night issued challenge to the world, in which Lavinge is preferred. to fight at 133 pounds, give or take two pounds.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
Louisiana Lilly Whites.

New Orleans. Jan 1.-The sugar plant CTS generally called the Lilly Whites held a mass meeting this evening at the Hotel Royal Judge Taylor Beattie presided and D. s. Ferris was secretary. About loo persons were present. They adopted a resolution denouncing the contemplated suffrage amendment to the state consti- tuition, and selected the following as their part of the ticket, which 1t is expected they will agree on with the populists when the party holds it's convention at Alexandria: E. N. Pugh of Ascension, for governor; J. B. Donnelly, New Or leans, secretary of state; L. r. Southen. Terrebonne, encouragement
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
Dairylng in the South.

Major Alvord, dairy commissioner of the department of agriculture, the highest American authority, says that milk and butter can be produced in the south at
 exceptionally low cost. The lux uriant growth of the corn plant in nearly every section, and the ease with which peass, beans and other leguminous crops can be grown needs only to be mentioned. Add to these a moderate ratioi of cotton seed and the raw materials are completed for the economic production of milk and butter. most satisfactory in quantity and quality. One of the first benefits to be derived from the extension of dairying in the south will be in saving large part or the enormous waste which now prevails in the neglect of the corn plant. Wherever you go, acres and acres are to be seen on which more than two-thirds of the plant, or fodder, after the ear Is removed, is abandoned in the field. There seems to be a total ignorance of the fact that these apparently refracto- ry and much despised corn stalks or butts are actually composed of good food material for cattle. By simply changing their mechanical condition so as to make them edible, and this Is easily done in several ways, these stalks are worth as much, pound for pound, as good mixed hay for food for the butter-making COW. Three pounds of these stalks. these naked, neglected butts. have the same food value as a pound of corn. There fore, in the prevailing practice in the south, even when the blades and top fod- der are saved, from one-seventh to one sixth of the food value of the entire corn crop is wasted in the field. All this might contribute to the support of dairy cows needed to improve the agriculture of the region. In the best dairy districts of the country every part of the corn plant is found carefully husbanded and con- yerted into milk and butter.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
Do not these times justify you in saving the 25 centsp If so, buy a dollar bottle of whisky for 75 cents.
 Fl. BARNARD,
 2O0 and Ell 18th Street. Open until 9:3O p. m.
MUSEUM FOR WOMEN.

Tomorrow afternoon from to there will be a museum at Seals hall for wo- men and children, to which the admis- sion will be 10 cents.
 Indian curios valued at $40,000 will be on exhibition, also the Indians manner of living will be shown. There is nothing immoral in the show
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
A FREIGHT ENGINE ExpLoDEs.
All Except One Member of the Crew Were
 Blown to Pieces.


 Blown to Pieces.
 Zanesville, O., Jan. A Columbus, Sandusky and Hooking Valley freight engine blew up early this morning two miles south of Fulton Hall and twelve miles from this city. Engineer Bort Meade, Fireman Frank Hesse and Brakeman Fred Krets were killed in stantly. Conductor Ira Morris is fa- tally injured. All the men live at Shaw nee.
 The only survivor of the crew is Neal Kreitz a brother of Fred Kreitz. The others were blown to considerable dis tance Engineer Mead was found about 100 yards away dead. He had both legs and an arm broken and his head was ter ribly crushed. Conductor Morris was found about fifty yards distant and was terribly scalded, and died shortly after being found. The body of Brakeman Fred Kreitz has not yet been found, and it is supposed to be at the bottom of a creek near by.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
SOUTHERN MILL MEN
Will Hold Meeting Here Tuesday to Fix
 Prices.

The Southern Lumber association will meet at the Morris hotel Tuesday.
 The meeting is for the purpose of adopt ing some schedule of prices by which the mills belonging to the association are to be governed Other business will also come up for consideration.
 The order of Hoo Hoo will hold a meet ing Tuesday night.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05

If you are looking for a cer- tain shape hat, any certain shades of ribbon, you will be certain to find them in "The Model" stock, which will be offered for sale Monday at the Surprise Store.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
Ex-speaker Cr,sp's Opinion.

Atlanta. Ga., Jan. 4.-Ex-Speaker Crisp is here tonight on his way to Washing ton from his home at Americus He says that in the light of the London Chroni- cle's dispatches, he does not see how England can insist on her claim to the disputed territory on the Venezuelan frontier
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
THE CRACK. RIFLE NAN.,
Diamond Dick Will Exhibit Shooting at Seals
 Hall Tomorrow Night.

at Seals hall tomorrow night includes exhibition shooting by Diamond Dick, the exclusive rife shot of the Worlds fair and the Atlanta exposition. He will use the same Winchester rife used at both the fair and the exposition, and will shoot apples from peoples mouths, heads, etc. The balls will penetrate the same block used in Atlanta which now weighs 45O pounds Originally it weighed thirty pounds. It has 5000 bullets in it.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
ordinance Fsctories Protected

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 1.-Two important charters were granted by the corporation court of this city during the latter part of the December term and their purport made public today. Two companies were chartered with the right to manufacture munitions of war, with general offices in Norfolk and branch offices in Alexan- dria Va.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
a1a7 200 900 for Penaions.

Washington. Jan. 1.-The sub-commit- tee of the house committe on appropria- tions having in charge the pension ap- propriation bill has completed the bill and will report 1t to the full committee Wednesday next. It calls for $137, 900, 900. being a decrease of about $2,000,0 900 from the appropriation for the current fiscal year and from the estimates of the pen- aion bureau.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
Killed by a Deputy Sheriff.

Montgomery, Jan. IA special to the Advertiser from Columbiana, Ala, says; Deputy Sheriff T. l.. Scale killed Amos Robertson, a prisoner, today. As Scale unlocked Robertsons cell door he and another prisoner ran over the deputy, knocking him to the floor. The deputy getting on his feet opened fire on the fleeing prisoners and Robertson fell dead. The coroners verdict was justifiable kill
Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-05
EARLY ELECTRIC CARS.
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