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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
The aMEkIuAN OUTLOOK

Hon. Thomas L. James in the Review CT
Reviews.
Every indication points to a continuation
for some years CT this era o,f unexampled
activity and prosperity upon which uAe
United States has now entered There may
be some check due to high prices, wh3cl
themselves are caused by great demand,
but with wise determination of our cur
rency question and statesmanlike
treatment of the new political questions
created by the unexpected responsibilities
thrown upon us by reason of the war with
Spain, there seems to be no reason why the
United States may not in the era upon
Htl5oh she is now entering, achieve a posi-
ton which Will be recognized as that of
financial independence the first power in
the world as an agricultural and manufac-
turing nation and as exporter of manu-
fctured products, and perhaps New York
may take the place so long held by London
as the financial clearing house and financial
center of the world.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

are not boats enough on the great lakes.
There are not factories enough to fill the
orders for goods. There are not schools
enough for the increased number of child
rem. There is scarcity of facilities and
products in every direction. There is not
iron enough. Steel Is positively scarce,
and so 1t Is throughout the list. Although
the fields are white with cotton, print
cloths are high, and orders are slowly filled.
But the searcest thing at present is car
that coal, cotton. ore. coke, cattle, naval
stores, lumber and corn can be transported
in. A car famine prevails. 1t Is worse
in this district than elsewhere in the south,
because of the heavy tonnage of mines and
furnaces, but it exists in some degree in
every section of the country. The loss of
thousand new cars has been humorously
told and perhaps humorously exaggerated,
but the story served to illustrate the gen.
eral situation.
A supply of cars cannot be built in a
day or month"; and general effort
SHouiu pc maui " iiidhS every Sdl ShiSAcAit
and active. Much can be done by individu-
ais in this respect. Cars should be quickly
loaded and unloaded for the good of all.
If a man who makes two blades of grass
grow where one grew before is a patriot,
then certainly the man who relieves the
car famine by making car nimble to the
point of double duty is a No. 1 patriot.
There seems to be no other relief at pres
ent. The car works are crowded with or
ders, and individual thoughtfulness and
unselishness must do the rest, IL the cold
are to be warmed, the hungry fed, and
the world supplied with cotton and iron
and other products this winter.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
Iron Outlook and Problems.

Elsewhere will be found very interesting
paper from the admirable and business-like
pen of Mr.. Archer Brown, of the well
known firm of Messrs. Rogers, Brown &c
Co. Mr.. Brown discusses the outlook of
iron. He takes the broad position that iron
is in price more normal today than it was
when it went a-begging at Sc a ton. He
does not anticipate any great or sudden
collapse in the price of the great metal
of commerce.
The truth is, production has nearly
reached its limit so far as existing furnaces
go. The years production may reach in
this country, 100000 TONS Last year It
was II ,77S934 tons. The production of 1900
cause new furnaces have not been planned
beyond that sum of production. New fur
naees cannot be projected after the year
comes in that will much swell the years
production. because the building of such
works and tho gathering of raw materials
for them will consume, rule, years
time. 1t is practically settled that existing
furnaces must supply the production of
1900, for not over half dozen new furnaces
will be added.
The question then is. will production of
100000 tons in 1900 be excessive? Mr..
Brown discusses this question. 1t is the
only question that has any material bear
ing upon prices. 1t is not necessary to ask
what the rest of the world will want or will
take The question is this. will this country
alone need next year 100000 tons of new
iron? When we consider that railroad con-
struction is only getting steam up" and
that new enterprises have only just begun
to multiply when we consider that the
country has just entered upon a period of
prosperity, and that such periods are gen.
orally of considerable duration, and that
enterprises will be undertaken with such a
scarcity of almost every article that iron
IS a part of is taken into account-when all
these things are recalled it scarcely seems
reasonable that iron will slump much until
more furnaces are Dullt, OF prosperity iailS
away
More furnaces cannot be built and blown
in for next years use, and neither presi-
dental election nor Transvaal war can
stay the tide of activity and prosperity
that is now rising. Mr. Brown does not
claim to> be infallible. His name is not
Henry NJ. Nell. He does not know what
1860 will bring to view, but he presents very
good reasons for thinking that iron will be
iron all the way through the coming year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
Sleepinq Rooms Wanted.

The weary railway traveller is not at all
that he will find place to sleep in. Hotel
room is at a premium, and so is all other
as yet out of doors, but indoor space is de-
ficient in this city. One thousand houses
and half a dozen hotels are needed in this
town today.
This condition is not temporary or
sporadic. 1t has been growing more and
more intense in the last six months, until
it has reached point that is neither
creditable nor profitable to this city. The
hotels are full, the boarding houses are
crowded to their utmost capacity, and
every other house is packed with families
who could not find room elsewhere, or who
have doubled up on account of increased
rents. Rents as a rule are beyond reason.
but that does not keep people away. Like
the price OF iron, high rents seem to in
crease. the demand for houses. At any rate
the supply is far below the demand
But the lack of hotel room is not credita-
BILE to the towns enterprise. If private en-
terprise is not equal to the task of supply
ing hotel room, a company should be
ganized, and second Morris" should be
built. The town needs it, and will con-
| tnue to need IT, 1t needed it before the
| fall trade and the cotton season set in. 1t
needs more hotel room all the year through.
When the town needed new theater, two
this matter of hotel room. The traveller
and wayfarer should be able to find here at
any time place to lay his weary head. He
| cannot be sure of such place at present
| in congested Birmingham.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

and for other reasons Mahomet ranks
amongst the worlds heroes. After the
multitude refused to receive him, he pre-
sented his doctrines and dogmas to them at
the point of the sword. "Oh, We hardened
of heart, we shall receive met One-third
of mankind have received him, and his
laws are more faithfully obeyed than are
the laws set forth to guide the followers of
the Nazarene. Mahomet was a soldier.
The Nazarene was a soothsayer. The doc
trine that makes a saint of poor Calvin
damns Cardinal Manning. Longfellow,
Emerson and vast company of men who
have led mankind to tread the primrose
paths of the righteous.
Lay we honors upon a man never SO
heavily, he is but gold-burdened ass at
best, and when we are done with him we
turn him off to Craze in commons. With
organization or without it he struts and
frets through his brief hour. a poor sweat
ing slave to the caprices of an inconstant
rude, unlettered public. man BY name
Dewey declared the other day that they
lied who said republics are ungrateful.
Dewey has received thousand times more
wildly than he merited. Regarding him We
are nation of gum-cnewing, Obacco-eating
FOOLS He good man, mistakes our folly for
gratitude and admiration This nation
merely wished to make a show of him,
having nothing better TO fiaunt in the face
of the world. When the public organizes
for any one purpose, it proceeds to make
heroes This finds proof in every
public political movement, almost with
cut exception.
Octavius, I have seen more days than you,
And though we lay these horors on this
man.,
10 ease ourselves of divers slanderous
loads.
gold
And SO, my beloved. it is well that we be
mindful of men we burden.
THE MURMURER.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
A LESS ON IN COTTON

From the Coumbiana Chronicle.
one day last week farmer presented
check at the bank here for $75, and said
that it was the proceeds of two bales of
cotton Last year the same gentleman pre-
scented check for $66, the proceeds of three
bales. He got 50 more this year for two
bales than for three bales last year. Be
sides this he saved about s. on picking and
$3.50 on ginning bagging and ties. So that
he is at least $16 better off this year with
his two bales than last year with three.
This proportion will be seen in nearly all
the crops in this community. Then it will
be seen that the farmers will realize
benefit of 20 per cent. on the present crop,
although it is from % to SO pei cent. short.
Certainly this is lesson which will be
needed by the farmers. The shortage this
year will likely destroy all the surplus, and
proportionately small crop next season
will send the price to 10 cents, below which
there is little profit in its production. VIII
each farmer take this lesson to himself,
plant for small crop of cotton, big crop
of eatables. and put himself on a plane of
independence?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
NORMAL SCHOOL GER rIFICATEs

From the Alexander City Outlook.
For the sum of a few paltry dollars a
teacher in Alabama who wants to eyade
the examination as provided by law and
hold his job may apply to certain Nor
NAL school and secure a certificate which
will exempt him from the regular examina-
ton. If such barter-shop methods are
winked at in any of our institutions, 1T Will
severely cripple our educational welfare
The first thing our Legislators should do
when they again convene would be to make
the law for examinations apply to all
teachers alike. The next thing would be to
legislate some of the so-called state schools
out of existence.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
RuntsylIIe,s Great Convention.

The convention that drew together at
Huntsville many prominent people has
completed its labors. and its members have
departed to their respective homes. Taey
saw on the banks of the Tennessee de-
liehtful and prosperous Alabama city-one
that promises to become rival of Augusta
and Charlotte and Columbus in cotton mill
ing, and beyound a doubt much good will
come to that city because OF the holding of
the convention.
But 1t is doubtful If much other good
will flow from the convention. 1t was not
practical 1t was not sufficiently special.
Its programme was as broad as the south,
and no convention could discuss the topics
mentioned on its programme in a limited
session. Any one of The score of topics
would have profitably absorbed the entire
time of the convention. A convention should
have a speciality. If it attempts to discuss
all the features and plans CT this broad
southern country, its wisdom will become
so thinly spread and so scattered that
nothing valuable will be brought out.
There was a lack of practically at
Huntsville, well as of concentration
There were too many social reformers, and
politicians with axes to grind and too few
men of practical experience and successful
careers THE politician was ever-present
The men who conduct factories were not
a rule. The theorists were on hand but
the men Who had put theories to the test
were too busy to come, or else they could
not secure hearing. The farmer Who came
down from Tennessee to tell what me had
accomplished on the old red hills had
better and more profitable story than all
the theorists and politicians could present
The convention was deficient in statements
of actual experience. Its discussions were
not at all times practical
However amid the chaff there was golden
grain, and he who can winnow it may find
much that will be off advantage to the
SOUTH But the next convention should
either work in sections, or else it should
take up one branch only of the south
varied work The field is too broad to be
covered in four days by one body of men.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
In the Name of Mercy.

There is cry for merciful charity that
should reach every just and generous heart
today; should loosen all purse strings, and
be remembered in every prayer. Every
child and every woman and every man are
concerned in the Mercy Home of Birming-
ham.
The Mercy Home, founded by good women
in the noblest of all possible causes, is in
debt and without sufficient money in hand
to- conduct its hourly, daily, nightly busi
ness of relieving human distress. Appeal is
made to all good women and men. Help
the Mercy Home!
Let every man of business and every man
who la5ors pause in the profitable work OF
prosperous days and give something to-
wards housing the houseless when the day
is done and the chill of the night is come!
HELPLESS women, helpless Children Gods
charges to the worlds charity need the
sustenance of charity. None is too poor to
give save them that need help. Help the
helpless. Give to the Mercy Home.
If any person willing to aid noble cause
will send his or her contribution to the Age
Herald. the Age-Herald will gladly be the
medium for relief of the distressed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
THE MURMUR
OF THE WORLD

Octavius, I have seen more days than you;
And though we lay These honors ON this
man.
To ease ourselves OF divers slanderous
loads,
He shall but bear them as the ass bears
gold.
To groan and sweat under the business
Either led or driven, as We point the way;
And having brought our treasure where we
will,
Then take We down Gis load, and turn him
off,
Like to the empty ass. to shake his ears,
And Craze in commons.
One man, learned of many things and
loved of many men, sends upon the balmy
air of golden October the bald dictum that
organization has never yet accomplished
any great purpose in the world Without
paus.ng to inquire fully into the matter as a
proposition of historical fact one is inclined
to believe uae man. of learning to be cor
rect. The sGoject is too deep, too vast to
be dealt with in the space allotted to him
who would babble of the brighter side; one
vito elects to sing such little songs of love,
OF charity, of hope, of righteousness as may
come to llim in the watches of the night
when his part of the. earth s,umhers. The
truth is easy enough of ascertaining, but,
as with all supreme truths, it requires the
mind of philosopher to deal with it, even
half adequately.
Luther in his sublime rage, struck out
blind,y in the service of truth as he saw
truth, and undoubtedly this man accom-
plished great things Without uae sem5lance
OF what we would designate as organiza-
ton. Possibly Calvin and Knox also ac-
complished something, though it were pro-
fame to mention them in the same breath
that spoke the name eff Luther. Ordinarily
a man with a mission is man not to be
trusted. But the hereties Luther and John
Wesley did accomplish something as re-
formers. John Calvin and John Knox were
not reformers at all; but mere bigots. Oil
Yer Cromwell was bigot and blackguard
and tyrant in the name of human liberty;
yet he, too, accomplished n6oe things. The
plain, blunt fact is this: The only man who
ras ever been great in the world and de-
voted linse.f without bigotry, selfishness
or malice to the uplifting of man as man
was a Virginian known to us, and, praise
Gcdl still loved by us as George Washing
ton. Measured by commonly accepted stand
ards a. great mafriiood, Washington was
something more than the greatest of men
known in the service Of mankind. He is
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
REELEU 4i1N, t5E "a BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Faith in one man will make a woman in
love with the world.
No woman ever ends by worshiping a
man who begins by worshiping her.
Very few women can hold their tongues
unless they can hold somebody's hand.
Girls don't love football because they
understand the points in 1t, but because it
gives them the thrills to watel the way
the men play it.
A man spends the. first six months after
he gets married IN thinking he wasn't
worthy of his wife, and the rest of the
time wishing she had thought SO.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
TREK"
From the New York World.

The Boer word trek means literally
track" The Beers use it as a noun to
mean a journey, and as a verb to mean
travelling or marching" GU still more
specifically "migra ting"
They trek merchandise from Cape Town
or Delagoa Bay into the interior. When
oppressed in the southern provinces they
"mckked''-or migrated-toward the north,
and their three migrations in search of a
land where they might be free are known
to them as 1.-THE three treks'' or, as We
should say. the three migrations.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
Detective wiggins- May Resign

1t is currently rumored that City Detec-
tive Virgins will soon resign to accept
position with the Southern railway as
special officer. 1t is stated that Mr.. Wig
gins contemplated resignation is in no wise
due to the friction between the aldermanic
board and the police commission over the
city detective question, but is merely
move to better himself.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
Gears Wanted.

The land is more prosperous than its ia
cilities are ample. From 1892 down to the
present year the creation of accommodate
lions was stopped to a very great extent,
and yet the country kept on increasing in
population; and when business resumed the
pace of 1892 and something better, it was
seen that facilities were lacking in many
respects. There are not cars enough There
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Columbus sailed across the sea in boats
about the size of the Columbia. and ne,
too, was often caught in dosdrums. He did
a deal of drifting. but he finally bumped
against an island in the West Indies.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Eighty thousand people have signed Sam
Jones petitions, and the two old parties
begin to be anxious as to what their party
Affiliations have been.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

The farmer wants eight-cent cotton, and
he fears return to five-cent cotton. Be-
tween the two he is at present at a stand
still.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15
Returned from HuntAviiie

DIR. John H. Phillips, C. B. White, J. B.
Gibson, w. M. Lindsay and w. b. Leedy
have returned from Huntsville. where they
ATTENDED the Industrial convention.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Out in Ensley they have smokeless coal,
which is a match for New York's horseless
carriages and windiess yacht races.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Visitors in New York who expect to see
the end of The cup races Should rent a
house boat, and settle down.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

The name of the man who gave Princeton
100000 was not Grover Cleveland 1t may
have been Russell Sage.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

General Funston, star swimmer, is to
have a triumph also
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Dom Paul issues pretty stiff ultimatums
ie he is 70 years old.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

A MINDLESS yacht race is reported by wire
less telegraply. There is a sense of har-
mony in this.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Dom Paul has so far refraned from ex-
pressing an intention OF invading England.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

The postponed yacht race is fast be-
coming boresome
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Wireless biography does not necessarily
involve MINDLESS yacht racing.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Dewey's scrap-book weighs $50 pounds
and it is out of date already.
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the only great man of whom there is any
record in profane history. No reference Is
here made to the numberless religions or
the numberless gods which are the fashions
and the fads of men. No sheer Is or could
be possibly meant at any religion or any
god. Such sneering would not perhaps be
criminal: it would be worse. 1t would pe
vulgar Ingersoll once declared that ii
certain teachings be true the diyinely gem
tie Longfellow and the glorious Emerson
were in hell. "John Calvin is in heaven;
but I'd rather be in hell than in such COM
pany!' This was not intended to apply to
Calvin as a religionist but to min simply
as an intoerant bigot, like Knox Oliver
Cromwell, and the Pilgrim Fathers Of the
Republic.
Luther was not in any sense a lovable
person. In that respect he was not unlike
Socrates, that verminous old person,
Diogenes. Like unto the action OF many
ordinary men in these piping times of folly,
Socrates and Luther married fools for
wives. Even Diogenes fled from his tub
to the mountain in mad pursuit of wo-
man who held herself for sale. The cup
of hemloek was dear decoction to Socrates
as he drank it in the living presence of
Xantippe, that old sweetheart of his whom
he had made wife Not so wise was he as
his master who fled to the mountain in the
mad pursuit. Luther was emphatically a
man of toll, in that respect almost equal
ling Swendenborg, the mightiest of all
the mystics. Luther's wife was a giggler,
a fincky woman closely akin to harmless
lunacy Yet one day he placed his arm
about her and drawing her to his great
heart he said, Catherine thou art a very
empress of woman!' She like himself,
was an apostate a rebel against thu Church.
Mahomet, perhaps the greatest of all the
prophets of men save only one, had at the
outset no sort of organza ton. For years
his only converts were his elderly wife and
servant. She died and left him much
property. Memory of her never ceased to
be adorable with him. After he married
a young new wife she teased him much
about his love of her who was dead One
day she demanded CT him, WON an-like, to
say that he loved her better than he had
loved his wife who had passed. mol by
Allah-no!' he cried in terrible passion.
".She was my friend when all offers were
false. I'll not forswear her now!'' And,
again, when he was called upon to work
miracles to prove himself to be the prohhet
of God-"there Is but one God, and Ma
homet is the prophet of Godi" Miracles"
he shouted, his great eyes rolling in frenzy.
"Mlracles! 1 can work. no Miracles: am
only plain preacher!" For these things
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Dom Paul is pretty old, but lne is not sc
old as his suzerain, the good queen.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Senator Morgan has three appointments
to speak this week in High Jackson.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

General Otis captured towns refuse to
stay captured.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

The interest in the State fair is plainly
increasing in every part of the state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-15

Rainless fall fairs are now occurring
without objection from anybody.