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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
Cotton and Wool in CLOTHING.

Wool manufacturers are still depressed,
as they long have been, and the more the
situation is studied, the more plainly it
appears that wool must be sold at lower
prices IL it is to regain its old position in
the clothing market. 1t seems that people
have come to expect low prices of clothing;
they prefer lower prices each year; and
they will not pay higher prices. They will
under eompusion pay higher prices for ar
ticles of food, but they will take an in
ferior article of clothing before they will
pay higher price.
The only manufacturers who have plenty
of orders are the men who put more and
more cotton in their products. Cotton is,
in other goods, supplanting wool. In cold
weather.it is not so good as wool. but con-
sumers. accept it rather than pay higher
prices. =.
The wool manufacturers begin to see
what the situation really is. Wool and
WOODEN. mills are in the dumps. If wool
goes back to old prices wool goods can be
SOiu at Olu pIlceS, put uulil II uoSS oup-
stltutes for wool will be largely used. Tho
tariff upon wool is valueless, and if it were
taken off wool producers would not suffer
much harm. while some forms of wool
manufactures would become prosperous.
As things now stand, the entire industry
is depressed, and no one can see much
prospect of better prices or better de-
mand. King Cotton is monopolizing the
best branches of the trade and the people
go without warm clothing in the colder
portions of the year. The tariff is delu-
sion. The people have met it face to face,
and they refuse to accept the prices it die
tates in clothing. No one buys, and the
mills are not prosperous. They cannot sell
their goods at remunerative prices. They
are in fact very much chagrined because
they have not been able to reap share of
the tariff plumber
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
The Trade of China.

The present imports of China are very
satisfactory, amounting, in 1857, to $685.,
201 900, gold value. This is not a great sum
for something over four hundred millions
of people to buy. The capitation rate of
imports is less than forty cents.
But -such a reckoning is misleading
chinasis very large country. It is very
lively little of it is accessible. Perhaps
imported goods are not brought before one
person in twenty in the great Middle King
dom. There are not even caravans in
China. Beyond the lines of the rivers
goods are transported by hand, or at the
best by bullocks. The horse and mule and
camel are unknown as beasts of burden.
The nations are struggling, not so much
for China's present trade as they are con-
tending for a share of the full and de-
veloped trade that will be possible when
railroads are pushed into every one of the
thirty odd provinces into which the coun-
try is. divided. The China of railroads is
not very far off. A trunk line will be push
ed through to the western border of the
country, where no doubt it will meet a
Russian line, and Russian aggression will
then become as feasible in the west as it
now is in the north.
The truth is, the Chinese problem is
deeply Interesting. A great and contented,
and, in some respects highly civilized peo-
pie are In spite of themselves to be added
to the world. Their isolation is to be over
come and abolished, whether they will or
not, and when they are as open as Hol-
land now is then trade will have full
swing, and great figures will become pos
sible. At present China imports less than
some states of one-tenth of her population.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
A QUARTER OF A MILLION

From the Greensboro Waterman.
We spent a day or two last week I'm Bir-
mingham. The town is looking up in the
matter of business. A desperate effort is
being made by the real estate people to
put it on another boom. Those who have
any "hold-overs" from the boom of 'S6-7
would like to see the boom. They have
been anxiousy awaiting the arrival of
another tidal wave which bore upon its
bosom a lot of suckers like they them
selves were in the days of old. They have
been done, and now they are in a frame
of mind to do others. But a real estate
agent told us that real estate was not as
active last week as it was two weeks be-
fore on account of the fact that the own
ers advanced the prices too rapidly But
boom or no boom, Birmingham is obliged
to be one of the largest cities in the south
sooner or later. 1t has more natural ad-
vantages than any place in the world, and
factories and mills of all kinds will be
forced to locate in that district in order to
be able to compete with other points. The
time is coming when the entire valley in
which Birmingham is situated will be
teeming with life and activity. 1t may be
in our own'day and time, and 1t may not,
but the years are not many that lie be-
tween the present city and the Birmng-
ham OF go zoe inhabitants.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
The 7 ard Coal Supply.

One company at least in the anthracite
districts of Pennsylvania has measured
the coal still in its mines, and made an
estimate thereof, and organized a fund
against the time when its coal mines will
be exhausted and must be written Oft It's
books. 1t finds that it has in its mines 22S
million tons, and as it is mining four mill
Ion tons;a year, it will have no coal hfty-
six years from this time. It mas therefore
created a sinking fund by setting aside five
cents ton mined. which would create
fund OF sli,f66,oOo a fund larger than the
coInpany's coal mines are now worth
The affairs of the old and conservative
Delaware and Hudson company do not so
much concern us as does the fact that the
anthracite coal supply will be exhausted
in Spout fifty years. The entire supply
cotId be PUTS a seda.s thirty miles each
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

summer, and be denied SO much az Beer
on Sunday. Oh, for-some vast Wilderness
Judge Horne's hills by eholee.n
j. Widemer Murray, OF Pittsburg, for
merly one of the strong men who aided
in the building OF Birmingham, has re-
turned east after spending week in the
city. Mr.. Murray had the contract for
putting in the engine for the bloom-mil in
the steel plant at Ensley. The engine is
now complete and ready for operation. It
is said to embrace all the improved devices,
and to be the most perfect engine Of its
kind south of the Ohio.
There Is a report current that the pres
ent owners of the O'Brien opera house
have declined an offer of s135,O00 for the
property, which they acquired recently for
$4,000. Upon this investment the property
is said to pay net interest of 10 per cent.
yearly.
Many anecdotes are related concerning
the late Judge w. e. Clarke of Marengo,
whose death was announced yesterday.
Physically he was six feet three, and of
splendid proportions otherwise. He was
member of the Alabama secession conven-
ton, and about the time the civil war be-
gan actively, he was called on in Mobile
for talk. Speaking of the place of his
BIRTH he said:
when Virginia delayed her withdraw
from the Union I said L was born in Vir-
ginia under protest. but now that she has
seeded 1 withdraw the protest"
~ ioI,-
ard H. Clarke, practiced before him; and
they used to have some lively and bois-
ferrous spats But that was in court. Be-
tween the father and son there always
subssted the warmest devotion.
One day Congressman G. w. Taylor,
then a solicitor, was arguing case before
Judge Clarke. Suddenly the judge said,
"That will do Mr.. Taylor. 1 don't care to
hear any more"
But, may it please the court, here is
the law in the matter" holding up law
book.
"stop thatt" Numbered the judge. "Mr.
Sheriff, take Mr.. Taylor to jail for twenty
four hours for contempt of court" Tho
order was not carried out.
When Judge Clarke assumed his place on
the bench, which he honored and adorned
for twenty years, many lawyers had the
habit of putting their feet on the tables In
front of the judges platform. He re-
scented 1t at once, and so the first day of
court he called out:
Mr.. Sheriff adjourn court until attor-
neys remove their feet from the tables.
Tables were made to write on, not for foot
rests"
When Richard III. Clarke was state So
licitor he had an attack of illness which
prevented him from going the rounds of
the circuit, and his father, then in pri-
waite life, did the sons work. In Greene
there had been numerous violations of the
law, and the colored witnesses before the
grand jury were very exasperating in
their persistant refusal to give truthful
testimony. Judge Clarke got angry. You
are lying, you are lying, and IN put you
in Jail" he cried out to the trembling wit
nesses.
Judge Clarke was a noble, great-hearted
man, and was one of the very few links
that remained to bind this generation to
a past that is illustrious.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
OCCUPIED THE PULPITS
Delegates to Charity Conference Preach
at Cincinnati

Cincinnati, O., May 2.-Delegates to the
National Conference of Charities and Cor
rections today occupied the pulpits of the
churches of Cincinnati and adjoining cities'
morning and evening, and at many
churches there were special services in the
afternoon. Specialists in their respective
lines also conducted exercises at the Or
phans' asylum, Children's home Odd mers
home, Womens home, House of Refuge.
hospitals, workhouse, industrial schools
and other institutions. The annual con-
ference sermon was delivered by President
John H. Barrows, d. D., of Obsrlin college,
at the Second Presbyterian churen, and
II was the feature of this morning, attracts
ing a very large attendance. The leading
event OF the afternoon was the mass meet
ing at Odd Fellows temple, in CovfEg ton,
Ky, addressed by DR.. Z. L. Divine, Jeffery
r. Bracket. Miss Mary e. Richmond and
others. One of the largest audiences of the
many assembled in the evening was that
which heard the address of DR.. Charles r.
Henderson, president of the National Con-
ference, on Thomas Chalmers Prophet of
the Modern Social Work of the Church"
The National conference will be conclud-
ed next Tuesday night
The committee on nominations will, to-
morrow, report the name of Colonel c. e.
Faulkner of Minneapolis, for president of
the National association, to have charge
of the general conference at Topeka next
May. The name Of DIR. Hastings Fl. Hart,
of Chicago, will be presented in the list
of nominations for reelection as national
secretary. Colonel Faulkner was for nine
years secretary of the Kansas State Board
of Charities. He is now superintendent OF
Washburn Memorial Orphan asylum in
Minneapolis. 1t is announced that Governor
Mount, of Indiana, has been added to tho
list of speakers and will address the cone
ference tomorrow night.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
GERMAN EMPEROR'S
UNIQUE IDEA
William HaS Instituted q New De-
paFtuFo
IN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
4 Journalist AttaCh0 to the Washing
ton Embassy.
WHITE FILLS THE POSITION
Pays Special Attention to Newspaper
Articles Relative to German En-
pire, Interests or Ruler-Is
Causing Much Comment

Washington, May H.-(Special.) - Tkp
German emperor has instituted new de-
parture in his diplomatic service, for he
has attached to the embassy in this city
a new attache who is known as 1.-THE Of
fetal journalist of the emperor DIR.
Witte, who has been appointed. and who
fills this place, is a well known German
journalist, who has spent a number Of
years at various times in the service of his
ambassador. He is a well known news
paper man in his own country. and has had
much experience in continental journalism.
DR.. White comes here with mission and
the German ambassador makes no secret
of the duties of his new attache. 1t is DR..
Whites business to read all the newspa.
pers that come to the embassy, paying
special attention to anything relative to
the German empire, German interests or
the emperor. These articles are marked
and at certain hour each day the jour-
nalist's secretary has an audience with tho
ambassador and they discuss the articles
marked. If at the conference the dplov
mats think it necessary to correct ex-
plain the statements made in the Ameri-
can press, it is DR.. Whites duty to either
write something for the press or see that a
statement in regard TO the matter is issued
to the newspapers or their correspondents.
Watched with Great Interest
This new departure of Germany is caus-
ing good deal of comment in diplomatic
circles, for 1t is something entirely new.
There have been naval and military at
taches to the legations and embassies of
foreign nations, but journalistic attache
is unique. Germany is just at the present
time devoting a good deal of attention to
this government, and her new departure
is being watched with the greatest interest.
This establishment of newspaper propo-
ganda under the auspices of the embassy
is beyond doubt directed towards influenza
ing public expression with respect to the
relationship of Germany and this country,
and to so effect public sentiment as to es-
tablish a more friendly feeling among the
American people generally toward the Ger
man government, and also to inspire con-
fidence in the good intentions of the Ger
man emperor.
His Stuff Turned Down
DR.. White has already prepared some ar
ticles for the press, but they have been
such as could not be used. His idea of
take up several columns if printed The
journalist has promised to get down to
facts and condense his thoughts He has
not gotten angry because his STUFF has
not been used. What he has prepared is
really very funny, one article being writ
ten to show that certain people who claim
to have interviewed the emperor merely
did so by spiritualistic meetings. His rea-
soning up to the present time is too alb.
struce for the average American reader.
A. W. B.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

way There is no other anthracite coal
real genuine hard coal-in the country If
in the world. small quantity is mined in
Colorado, and 1t is said there are deposits
in China, but in fact the anthracite coal
of commerce is confined to the one small
district of Pennsylvania.
But because the hard coal of Pennsylva-
MIA is nearing exhaustion, it does not fol-
low that the coal supply of the country. is
to be exhausted in ffty-six years or in ten
times that number of years. The soft coal
supply of this country Is practically mex
haustible, and it is widely distributed. 1t
is certain that there is an abundance Of
coal in this country for at least thousand
years to come, and the chances are that
when the coal-helds of this country are
fully explored and measured it will be as
certained that we have an inexhaustible
supply of the great basis of energy. Penn
sylvania industries are not by any means
dependent upon the almost smokeless hard
coal In Western Pennsylvania there are
immense fields of soft coal and at the
head of the Monongahela river in West
Virginia there is as much more, and all
through the west there is plenty Of COAL
particularly in Illinois, The Alabama and
Tennessee deposits will afford indefinitely
plenty of black energy to the cotton states,
and some is mined in Arkansas, and
small quantity in Texas.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
10000 PEOPLE
Attending Meeting of German Baptists
At Roanoke.

Roanoke, Va, May 2i.-Fully 10000 peo-
pie were on the grounds and in attendance
at the services held today in the German
Baptist tabernacle in connection with the
German Baptist church conference. The
seating capacity of the structure was over
taxed and large crowds were unable to
gain admittance. Four thousand Sunday
school scholars gathered at the tabernacle
this morning. Three services were held
during the day.
Prof. M. G. Brumbaugh, of the univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, preached at the tab
ernacle this afternoon Delegates to the
conference occupied pulpits in various
churches morning and night The police
authorities and private detectives have
seen on the outlook for pickpoelSets and
since yesterday morning have arrested
fourteen suspects, all of whona are in Jail
awaiting bAarins- -
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
Passengers on the Steamer

Southampton, May 21.-The saloon pas
senger list of the Paris is as follows: Will
lam A. Arnoux. Mrs. VIM Ashford and
Miss Mary Ashford, Thomas Allen. w. F.
Archer and wife, A. L. Lain, Mrs. H. E.
Batcheler, C. C. Bower, Harry Cottle, Mrs.
w. H. Churchill. Charles Eddin, j. Wal
ter Earle, F. N. Fletcher, Miss Carrie
Green, NJ. Green, Mrs. r. d. Garden and
Misses R. D. Garden and Helen Garden,
Miss Mary B. Howard, w. B. Hart, jr.,
w. Henry, d. Herman, Fred A. Jeane,
James A. james,. Kirby, DR.. ]. s. Law
renee and wife. Harold Lawrence and Miss
Geraldine Lawrence, Mrs. w. Z. Littleton
and Miss Annie G. Littleton, Miss Annie
G. Lawrie, A. Lewis and wife, All Lang,
M. Levy Miss l.. Mclean, Miss c. Miller,
John f. Mclean and wife, Mrs. John R.
Macarthur and infant, Capt. G.. w. Nc
Callum. Reginald Oppenheim. DR.. D. X.
Phillips and Frank c, Phillips, z. W. Por-
ter, Samuel Pearsall. Mrs. Margaret
Brooke, L. r. Head, Mrs. ]. H. Rawlett.
l. r. Roe, w. K. Remsen, John r. Swee-
ney, Fred Stieltjes. Mrs. M. E. Sibley,
Misses Helen and Mary Stubs, H. w.
Southworth Mrs. H. H. Stanwood, Miss
Florence and Henry H. Stanwood; M L..
S. Mead, Mrs. Spalding, Miss P. B. Town
send, George N. Taylor, Miss Blanche
Taylor and Thomas J. Taylor, William
Rigley, Mrs. o. M Washburne. Mrs.
Montgomery Wilson, H. D. Willie, John
White, Edith Weld, F. E. DeWof and
wife, M. H. York.
The agents of the American line have
sent special train to Falmouth for the
steamers passengers.
The mails of the Paris will be forwarded
by the North German Lloyd steamer Kai-
ser Wilhelm der Crosse, which will sail
from here tomorrow.
The passenger list includes IS first cabin
passengers. 10 second cabin, and 1872 steer
age.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
CURRENCY REFORM -
House Republican Committee Has Hit
Upon Plan

Washington, May 21.-It is understood
that the house republican caucus commit
tee appointed to frame scheme of cur
rency reform has agreed upon measure
along the following lines:
The redemption of all obligations of the
government in gold on demand.
Greenbaclzs when once redeemed for
gold. to be reuissued only for gold
Permitting national banks to issue notes
to the par value of their government
bonds deposited I'm the treasury, instead of
90 per cent. as at present.
Permitting the minimum capital of ma
tional banks to be $4,000 instead of s5e.0
as at present.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
,.REATER BIRMINGHAM

From the Falxville Chronicle.
That we have great state, no one viii
deny That weshave state susceptible of
much more development. is evidenced by
the many industries which are constantly
being put in operation within her borders.
Every Albanian looks with pride to the
future OF our great city, Birmingham. 1t is
only a question of time when Birmingham
proper will unite herself with all her SUI
burban towns. and all be under one NUM-
cipal government.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

The Mazet investigation is clearly a hit
at Tammany. A good idea would be to in
vestigate the investigators, though the
committee would probably raise howl
were such a thing even proposed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

The example set by the Georgia negroes,
who petitioned Governor Gambler, begging
that he not delay the execution of one OF
their race found guilty of murder, is
eommendable one.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

The tin horn gamblers and cheap sports
were a standing menace to Birmingham's
moral welfare, and their departure is hall
ed with delight by every law-abiding citi-
zen
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
AN INVITATION

From the Pine Belt News.
To Colonel Jesse Stallings: The cyclone
has passed: come out, and, like a man, say
where you are at.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
THE UNEARNED INCREMENr

From the Mobile Register.
We suppose that Brandon, of Tuscaloosa,
who has demonstrated his ability to hold
two offices of profit in this state, will not
hesitate to accept the profit.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

Negroes have threatened to fire on the
little town of Palmetto, Ca, as they pass
through on an excursion train. The eiti-
zens say that if they do there will be a
trainload of negroes for the county to
hnIX.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

Dewey's hirsute adornment is NOUS
tache, Schley's a goatee, and SIMPSONS
a full beard but all three are Americans
and therefore fighters.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

Cities all over the state are admiring
Blrminghams course in the crusade
against immortality.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

Aguinaldo's resources for fight seem to
be about exhausted. His next resort will
probably be a balloon. After that there
is no telling what will become of him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

Other cities are admiring the clean sweep
made by Chief Austins broom, and want
one like it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

Roland Moiineaux's acquittal on the
charge of murder shows the powerful in
fluence exercised by wealth
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

The legislators who voted for the repeal
of the constitutional convention act have
not a cinch on their seats for another
term, to say the least.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

Aguinaldo may be highly educated and
shrewd. but he hasn't perception enough
to realize that he is whipped.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

1t probably would not be disadvantage
Gus to the interests of the country If it
could have rest from the present gov
eminent by proxy.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

Edward Atkinson made the mistake of
thinking that he could fool Uncle Sam, but
the old gentleman evidenced his wide-a-
wake qualities.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

May is the month for moving, and the
Fiipinos will probably take advantage of
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22
AMERICAN LINE STEAMER PARIS
AGROUND OFF FALMOUTH IN
SIGHT OF ILL-FATED M0HEGAN

Continued From First Page.)
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-22

ITO hear Judge Horne talk makes me
wickedly rebellious," said a member of
the t-get-a-way tribe as he looked out
upon the steaming street which summer
Sunday had made wilderness. II can't
go to the hills of Tallapoosa or any other
hills and fish and eat fried chicken, big
hominy biscuit and honey 1 haven't got
time to go to Hawkins Spring to drown
myself, and If L had, the spring is not big
enough for my purpose. Village creek is
not to be thought of for drowning pur-
poses, and Valley creek is filthy. But just
think of the sylvan picture drawn by the
poetic tongue of Judge Horne! Yet the
hills are far away, and most of us must
work through the fervent heat of the long