The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-28
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
AND HOTEL L0BBIES

Mayor Evans receives numerous callers
bent on all sorts of erlands. He is now
having a great many calls from the pa
tents that have been discharged from the
quarantine camp.
Two dusky damsels walked into his
office yesterday.
what do you want?" said the mayor.
yves jest cum from de pes house"
"Well. what do you want here" answer
ed tho mayor.
'"Dem white men burned our mat
tresses and beds when dey carried us out
dar. and we wants pay for it,
"Dcy never had no sorter business car
ryin' of us out dar no how, and know
dey had no business settin fire to my
bed" put in the other.
Mayor Evans laughed and referred
them to the officer who had their property
destroyed to get certificate to that eff
feet. Ills was dome and the amount was
paid. -
"Have I discovered the wave of pros
perity. Why, even the Blind can see that
the country is getting in better condi-
tion," said t. J. Squires, of Fall River,
Mass, who was at the Morris yesterday.
1.-THE cotton trade is booming in our part
| of THE country and this is a chronometer
of good times. Improved busl-ess condi-
| tons have helped the cotton goods trade
| wonderfully, and it is thought that in the
| future no such quantity pfrunsold goods
| will accumulate as was the case during
| the past ysar. Several of 1.-THE Lowell
| mills have also resumed, wholly or in
! part and reports from that city indicate
that this outlook is promising. The mills
of the big Amoskeag corporation, which
employs nearly 10000 people, will start
work Sept. 6. A number of cotton mills
are still closed and others are on short
| time, but in the majority of cases they
will be running full time by the LIST of
next MONTH if the market continues to
| improve. AS it is number of our man.
ufacturers are hampersd by lack of raw
material"
! C. c. Rlockwall, of Wichita, Kan, was
ir, The city yesterday. kansas Is more
prosperous than she has been i'm years"
said he.
MY county will produce 100, 900 bush
| els of wheat, but Summer, which adjcins
LIS ON the south, will break all records,
and LEAH the procession of wheat growing
counties everywhere, with a yield OF A.
| 200. 900 bushS Is. Neatly all he agficul-
| tural land of the county was given up 10
| wheat, owing to the repeated corn fail
| ures, and the result is seen in the tre-
| mendouE aggregate I have stated. The
yield of corn is not so good, and taking
tho states over n,-is more Than half a
crop VIII be produced
The farmers of Kan.as are happy
fon with such satisfactory prices they are
getting out of debt rapidly. Cattlemen
are getting more for their steers, so are
| the sheepmen, ana a carload of hides
which could be han91.td last year for ST.
| 500, ROW requires a5ou. $4,000. This in
crease OF values has MI. only been OF i'm
| mense benefit to Kansas, but extends to
| Oklahoma. That territory has raised
splendid crops of wheat, and It's Citizens
are in excellent shape financially"
.tMrs. Charlotte Smith, the noted re-
| former, will offer some scheme to solve
most any sort of trouble" said ]. S.
Conan, at the Florence ye.kerday.
1.-THE other day she sprung her latest
solution of labor troubles in an address
before a Labor mesifrg in New York. She
i'old her hearers that the sure way to
bring about peacs in the industrial world
was to have stringent laws enacted conn
| pelling tfe vast army ofsrmmalried men
| to take wives. Her logic is that If all the
| unmarried men were forced to wed there
would be no need of women entering the