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The age-herald., 1899-03-12

spindles capacity which is the most exten- sive concern of its kind now in operation. Thus 1t will be seen that the Huntsville mills will break the record by 25,0OO spin dles
 All arrangements have been made with the company and they have positively agreed to erect and operate the mill at this place. The site has not yet been selected for the immense plant, but from all indi- cations the property around Brahan's spring will be used. This was formerly oc- cupied by the Fifth United States regular, and the Third Ohio Volunteer cavalry as camping ground and is a most desirable location.
 The company will erect the buildings In a series. Eight separate mills of 25,O00 spindles each will be built. As soon as one has been put in operation work on the next one will begin. By this means build ing and operating will be going on at the same time.
 In connection with these mills a bleach- ing and dye works will be established. This will be the only concern of its kind in Alabama. in fact, the only one in the south. The cotton mills now running in this state have to send all their output to
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weekly pay roll of s14,OoO is maintained.

weekly pay roll of s14.O0O is maintained.
 Huntsville has heretofore been termed cotton town and was largely dependent on that staple for support, but since she has been launched on a manufacturing career she is entirely independent of any one en- terprise.
 , About 40,000 bales of cotton are now handled annually. With the many cotton mills soon to be established it is expected that double that amount will be marketed. ! Not more than one-third of the available lands are now being planted in cotton, but with such a fine home market the farmers can afford to give more attention Ito the cultivation of the great staple. i Politics Growing Warm
 It might be well to add before going further into industrial Huntsville that she is also blessed, or afflicted. as the case may be, with full share of state and city poli- tics. Candidates are becoming nearly Us common as were the soldiers before the removal of the army camp. However, the ,button-holing and log-roll.ng stage has not yet been reached.
 ] The constitutional convention is leading all other questions and seems to be the
The age-herald., 1899-03-12
webb's Body Shipped North

Huntsville, March 10.-(Special)-Th body of Second Lieutenant W. Remsen Webb Sixteenth United States infantry, who died at the Lowrey- Westmoreand in- firmary Thursday night, was shipped to his father, A. s. Webb, in New York city, last night. A squad of hospital stewards acted as pail bearers at the depot Webb was 26 years old. He had been sick with typhoid fever since last December, and was nursed during the latter part of his illness by his mother sister and brother.
The age-herald., 1899-03-12

the north to be dyed and bleached. When this can be done right here at home it will be a great saving to the other mills as no colored cloths except a few calico prints are now made in Alabama.
 The Merrimac company propose manu- featuring the finest class of goods as well as the cheapest. All kinds of sateenss velveteens, Percales and other high grade fabrics will be turned out, some selling as high as $1 per yard. Only the best skilled labor will be employed. Not less than 5000. men and women will be required in, the operation of these mills and it can readily be seen what an enormous amount of money will be turned loose in Huntsville every week.
The age-herald., 1899-03-12
THE INDUSTRIES
 OF HUNTSVILLE Is Destined to Be a Manufacturing
 Center. IMMENSE MERRIMAC MILLS FIJI Soon Be Under Course of Erec-
 tiOn. THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD Street Car Line to Be Bu it-Money Left By Soldiers Stimulated Trade to a Wonderful Extent-Every-
 body Prosperous.
IMMENSE MERRIMAC MILLS
THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD

Huntsville, March 11.-(Special)-On the crest of the wave of prosperity Huntsville is gracefully riding Since the winter camp of the United States army was established here some six months ago everybody has prospered and an impetus has been given to all channels of business which will be felt long time to come Tt is an ill wind that blows nobody good" is an old adage which has been strikingly illustrated in the business boom of Huntsville. Though the government may have suffered from the effects of the recent Electromagnetic war this especial locality has been greatly benefited Not less than $1 OOO, 900 has been turned loose here by the soldiers and has found its way into every avenue of trade. This is a strong object lesson on what slight expansion of currency will do to- wards improving commerce and placing confidence among people. A prominent banker says that owing to the encamp- ment of the soldiers here many merchants who were formerly in a close place finan- cially, now have neat sums of money de- posted to their credit in the various banks of the city. With everybody in such good financial condition there is nothing what ever to prevent the building up of Hunts vile, so that in few years 1t will be sharp contestant with Birmingham for premacy as the leading manufacturing city of Alabama,
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Large Weekly Pay Roll

There are already three large mills in op- eration here and all are running full time and conducting thriving business There. are the Dallas mills with 25 ,OO0 shindles, the Pratt mills with 5,oO0 spindles and the Huntsville cotton mills which operate b,000 spindles. Together with the cotton seed oil mill, the spoke anl handle factory, the hickory fibre factory, the National Manu=, featuring company and the cedar mills, a
The age-herald., 1899-03-12
The Merrimac Mills

The latest possible acquisition to Hunts ville's manufacturing interests is the erec- ton of the Merrimac cotton mills. When completed this will be the largest cotton factory in the world. It will operate 100000 spindles which is 25OOO more than the lar- gest now in existence. At Lowell, Mass, the Merrmac people own plant of 175,000
The age-herald., 1899-03-12
KEM CURTAINS

NEM CURTAINS
 The task of beautifying the home is made a pleasure here. This week all the pew im- portations of beautiful pattern and dainty elegance go on sale. Shrewd, indeed, is the housewife who makes this section her trad ing point, when Curtains, Draperies and other Upholsteries are on her shopping list. Handsome Irish Point Lace Curtains. Re- naissance, R6coco and Point Dado effects; U and 60 inches wide, sA and yards long, per pair, from ss.00 to..... ......N8.b0 Furniture Tapestry in all the latest colors: sO inches wide. from 85e to, .$3.00
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
RAL7TMORE,S coon FORJUyE.

Baltlmore's new mayor, Mayor Hayes, continues to talk right, and there is every reason to believe that he intends
 to make his action consist with his
 talk. He announces that "the police.
 fire and school departments of the city
 government shall be put on the merit
 system if 1t is possible to bring it
 about" He declares that he will ap-
 point the best men, mo matter whether
 they are Republicans or Democrats" He gave the politicians further out line Of his purposes in the. following statement: have made up my mind to put women on every board in which wo- men are interested. There shall be woman member of every board control ling an institution where women are in carcerated or educated Experiments In this line throughout the country have been very successful. I am great be- liever in the plan. There will be two women on the school board I want ex- Mdyor hooper alSO to taKe place on the school board, and have other men in mind who, I am sure, will meet with the approval of the public. No one can set the standards too high for me in this matter. I feel that it is the root and foundation of all our institutions. I will guarantee that there shall not be one among the school commissioners shall appoint who can be touched by the politicians on either side.
 Mayor Hayes may not be reelected, and he may not want to be, but he will deserve to be if he does what he says he is going to do. A big city governed as he says Baltimore is going to be will be worth looking at.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20

quest seated himself in his usual arm- chair and opened his newspaper, and I
 made myself as small as l coul d In dis tant corner. Our patience was reward ed, for there was the little bird balanc- ing itself with it's vibrating wings just above the newspaper However, as no
 building material was forthcoming from that source, she flashed over to my cor
 ner, as qNicker than the eye could fol- low had shatched thread of silk from
 rktable, and was off to her work again. The little creature got quite tame, and her confidence was well plac- ed, for nothing could exceed the charm ing kindness of her host and hostess. The eggs were laid and hatched in due time, and the master of the house tod me he used to get up at the day-daWn and open his drawing-room window to let the little mother cut to get food for her babies This necessitated his re- maining the rest of the morning in the drawing-room, as he said 1t would not have been safe to have left it. I natur- ally thought he feared for the safety of his wifes pretty things, but oh, no what he guarded was the nest, lest it should meet the fate of mine and be stolen.--Cornhill
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
MIR. HOBART's FIRST FEE.

One of the neighbors told to-day how the vice-president made his first fee as lawyer. He was employed to write the will of a well known manufacturer of Paterson, who was wealthy. Asked his fee MT Hobart, the legal fledgling, replied: One hundred dollars" It was from this that he received signifi- cant hint how to succeed as a lawyer The manufacturer was we'll pleased with his attorney, and turning to his desk drew out a package of bank checks that had cone in during the regular course of business. Taking up one for eight hundred dollars he endorsed it and handed it to MT. Hobart
 With this start in life" said the mar rator of the story, "Mr. Hobart married the daughter of Socrates Futile, who has been his helpmeet through all the years that have followed. Years after ward Mir Hobart learned that the granddaughter of his first client was about to be married, and that the fami- ly had been reduced to financial straits. He sent to her his check for one hun dred and fifty dollars to assist in pur- chasing her trousseau, and took steps to provide other members of. the family with employment'-Ph hiladelphia North American.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
.ExPERIlf ENTS.

An honest expert is one who forms nc opinion before receiving his retainer Puck
 Mrs McPhidget-Wh wrote the song "There's Only One Girl In the World for Me?" MT. McPhidget-Adam, I guess.
 -Harper's Bazsr
 Hotel Proprietor (to guest at break fasD-Did you enjoy the flute-playing in the room next to you last night? Guest vagely)-Enjoy it? I should think not. l spent half the night pounding on the wall for the fool to stop. Proprietor-Why, Puffer told me that he played over every piece he knew four times, and the person in the next room applauded every one.-Tit- Bits.
 An American in London, talking of a person who had just died, quoted Ar temus Wards saying: Tt would have been money in his pocket if he'd never been born" The Americans present laughed heartily, but the Englishmen sat sober as owls, and after moment or two of silence one of them broke out with: But, l say, if he had never been born he wouldn't have had any pockets, don't you known-New Or leans Times Democrat.
 A Sense of Dissatisfac tion-" Josair," said Mrs. Corntossel, ''did anybody ever try to bunco you?' Not that knowed of. l don't hold no conversa- tion with strangers. Well" she answered with sigh, as she turned to her darning, "mebbe it's all fur the best. But ] can't help thinkin' you'd have heap more that's interestin' to talk about when you git home from town if you wasn't so terrible skeery.' Washington Star
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
THE UNHAPPY ETNNS.

| More testimony concerning the sad
 condition of affairs in Finland is fur
 nished by Finnish correspondent of the Wiener Tagblatt of Vienna It has
 been proclaimed already that no new
 associations may be founded, which
 abolishes an ancient right of the coun- try sanctioned as law by the Finnish
 senate. It IS thus that the new gover-
 nor-general has begun his administra-
 ton. It is believed that certain suspi- cious persons, who have secured sig
 natures from the peasants for secret
 addresses in which the benefits of the Russian administration are extolled, are on his guard, as he never knows when these emissaries may appear in his cot
 tage. One fine morning he receives, in- stead of the newspaper which he has for years been accustomed to read, a brief notice that it has been suspended for two months by order of the gov ernor- general. All kinds of rumors are circulated in the villages. It is re- ported that the schools are to be shut, that all officials and journalists who defend the national constitution will be imprisoned, and that the Czar has all ready decreed the five years military service. The existence of the Finnish people, says this correspondent, is be- coming daily more uncertain and intol- erable. Unrest and agitation are spreading. Emigration on vast scale is the first fruit of the Pan-Russian system. Every week three hundred to four hundred young men leave their native county to find a spot where their personal liberty may be secure. Since the imperial rescript, about 5000 emil grants, he says have left Finland, and he adds that if the answer of the Finnish Diet to the proposal for mili- tary service is not favorably received, there will be an exodus such as has never been seen before.
 Many of the discouraged Films are coming to this country. As they are honest. industrious and frugal they will make good citizens of the Land of the Free.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
BETTER THAN NOTHING.

1 It is generally and thoroughly believ- 1 ed in this region that victory isn't the | chief thing in university athletics, but 1t must be confessed that there is a sneaking regret that as our boys came so near victory Saturday they didn't ! make it. We suppose thar regret is a
 hold-over from the time when we were l not just what we ought to have been in athletics, and not only considered vic- tory the chief good, but usually man aged to get it. The regret is, however, tempered by the fact that two noth-
 ings are better than one when they
 are arranged right and when the one isn't.
 The game will have a good effect in
 some ways, for instance, in making young men temporarily see the sinful
 ness of betting. Many young men were so sure that Harvard would win that
 they bet their sesterces or denarii on
 her with much freedom and generous
 odds. They had a bad quarter of an
 hour or more when they realiYed that they had been too trusting land too eager, and they were much relieved when Harvard succeeded in preventing
 Yale from scoring. Some of them will perhaps recover from the shock in time to bet on next Saturdays game, but they will be careful.
 The Yale spirit is evidently in good working order. It will work at the Yale field next Saturday and if it doesn't win it will be because it is more high-toned and less efficient than it used to be.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
TWO TRINIDAD RUNNING BIRDS,

TWO TRINIDAD HUMMING-BIRDS
 I used to feel very envious when some of the older residents would speak of
 these Trinidad botanical gardens as
 having been the home of the humming-
 bird Alas! the lovely little creatures are seldom to be seen there now, In
 spite of the protective legislation of
 many years past. But the ruthless tou-
 rist will always buy a humming-bird s
 nest, especially with it's two sugar plum
 like eggs in it, so the enterprising black
 boy keeps sharp lookout for these
 articles of commerce. Soon after we
 first went there, found wee nest on low branch of a tree to Government House. with a darling little b'rd sitting in it. I peeped cautiously very often during the next few days, and the young mother grew so accustomed to my visits that she would let me stand within yard of the bough. At last some microscopic fragments of egg shell appeared on the moss beneath, and on my next visit when the little hen was away getting food, 1 beheld a thing very like q bee with beak. This object seemed to grow amazingly every few hours, so that in a week 1t looked quite like respectable biCd. Imagine my rage and despair when I found one morning the branch broken off and the baby bird dead on the ground. My sweet little nest had been taken for the sake of the sixpence it would fetch next time a tourist-laden yacht came in!
 A much happier fate attended hum- ming bird which built it's nest in a small palm growing in fried's draw ing-room. I paid many visits to that drawing room during the birds occu- pancy, and anything so interesting as it's manners and customs cannot be imagined. Instead of bringing material from outside for the nest the tiny builder requisitioned the floss silk from an embroidered cushion and the wool a ball-fringe. The nest, unusually gay in color, hung down a couple of inches from one of the serrated points of the palm-leaf; but when I was first invited to come and look on, it was not quite completed to the feathered ladys satis- faction, for she still darted in and out of the open windows and about the room.
 The master of the house, at my re-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20

l New Dinner Sets There's a and Napkins. crispyfresh- ness about our Dinner Cloths a nd Napkins. All you got to do is to please the artistic eye. There's no risk to run. Linen is linen here-pure flax and nothing else. There are twelve fashionable designs in this fl n e Scotch linen grade of dinner cloth. A wide border all round. They run this way
 2 yard cloth $l.38 21l yard cloth $l.6o
 3 yard cloth $l.98 Twelve matching Napkins to any of these $1.38 Extra HeavylDoubIe Anum- Damask Cloths. Der of new designs, fully twelve in this Fine Irish Linen Double Damask Cloth which is 2H yds long and which we offer at $2.25
 To match $ Napkin $l. dog.
 To match 4 Napkin $2.9S doz. Satin Finish These Fine Double Damask. Doubl e
 Damask, Sa tin Finished Irish Linen Cloths show most beautiful designs, as they rep resent the foremost makers of that great linen center. They're in this order;
 2x2H yards Cloth, lovely rose design, rich border $3.50 2x3 yards Cloth, pansy design, neat and dainty rich border $450
 2x3 H yards Cloth, pansy design, an art border, SAYS
 Twelve Matching Napkins to each design.
 3s Napkins, 4 Napkins
 SAYS $4.25
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20

tabs and stitching trimming It. Striped heliotrope velvet gave the revers.
 Another method of suggesting full ness in the back of the skirt consists of horizontal tucks that extend in rows from the belt line to well over the round of the back below the belt Or these tucks may be up-and down, and at the belt they are pushed so close together that they stand up on edge, separating and opening free just at the turn of the figures round below the waist line. Sometimes cording takes the place of tucks. Cording means the rounded fold accomplished by making tuck over cord that exactly fits the size of the tuck. Little sash bows of chiffon, crisp and fresh with ends pointed and one longer than the other, the longer about ten inches, are edged with frills of chiffon belt, at the same time con- stituting a relief to the sheath back of the skirt. Little bobby tail frills, fiat tabs and down-dipped scallops set at the edge of the bodice are another treatment. So, though every other wo- man and a few more are wearing the sheath-back skirt there are fine dresses all ready for those women who desert a fashion the minute it becomes popu- lar, and these gowns are all made with something like fitness In the back of the skirt. . FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20

batable. Certainly there are newer sorts, so many of them as to hint that the day of the unrelieved sheath fit has had its day. In the gown that is pie tured here was one of these new skirts, the sort whose tightness is relieved at the back only, and there by double box pleat. Of course this is not much, yet 1t is a distinct change from the habit, no-seam- in the-back cut. For the rest, this gown was violet armure,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20

The Philadelphia Record says that a Philadelphia man who has just return ed from Paris, which is automobile era zy, says that the cost of maintaining one would bankrupt the ordinary citi- zen. There are plenty to choose from" he remarked, with steam, gasolene petroleum or electric motors. These range in price from $500 for a motor cycle to s3,OO0 for heavy rigs suitable for carrying four persons and driver. While in Paris busied myself to the extent of finding out how much it cost to operate one of these carriages. For a year 1t is about as follows: Gasolene, sS7.5o; lubricating oil, $5.45 repairs to carriage, s1O2.50; repairs to machinery, $185; repairs to tires, $27.50; sundries, $64S depreciation, S150; tax, $50; ser want, $20O. That makes q total of $S72.- 75. Remember, this is for Paris where my calculations are based upon the ac- tual experiences of friend of mine. But they can't vary much in this coun- try"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
FASHION NOTES.
The sheath Fit Relaxin.

Many habit-back skirts are to be seen among fashionable women, but she who is having a new gown made may as well think twice before following this fashion. It had many critics because of it's questionable appearance, but now the freshness of it's stylshness is de-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
 ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each in- sertion. Five Gents a Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements. per inch, one Tn, sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion, 4o cents; one week, $3.20; one month, $lo; one year, $40. .-
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths, and Funerals, 50 cents each' Local Notices, 15 cents per line. .,.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tenir own immediate business Gall matter to pc unobjectionable), and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20

A French naturalist asserts that if the world should become birdlees man would not inhabit it after nine years, in spite of all the sprays and poisons that could be manufactured for the de- struction of insects. The bugs and slugs would simply eat up our orchards and crops.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20

Thomas B. Reed said to a Philadel- phia reporter the other day: 'There is nothing I could talk about except the constitution, and that isn't popular"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20

One of the instructive and extraordi- nary exhibits that Switzerland will send to the Paris exposition will be an immense relief map of the most widely known mountainous portion of the re- public, the valleys of the Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, together with the Juugfrau, Monch, Figer and Wenger- nalp mountains. Engineer Imfeld has constructed his map on a scale of 1 to 2.5OO. and it will be eighteen feet on side. while the snowy peak of the Jung
 frau will rise almost five feet about the representation of the Vale of the Two Tustschines No relief map of such magnitude has ever been produced. It will be made as realistic as possible; hundreds of thousands of tiny pine twigs will represent the forests on the mountain sides, and even each individ- nal house in the real valleys and on the real mountains will be represented by a tiny counterpart.