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central town. They are steadily draining its strength and population and tax paying power No other town in the country would stand such depletion without protest, and the next Legislature will perhaps see that equity is done.
 Outside Of Jefferson County Mobile and Montgomery have both been increased handsomely, and Gadsden and Alabama City show up especially we'll and so do the Decaturs, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Greens boro, Sheffield Talladega, Troy, Union Springs. and Demopolis All these are prosperous towns, but Dothan outdoes them all Its percentage of growth is all most beyond calculation.
 The census is not, however, altogether conclusive, for while Anniston and Hunts vile do not show great gains, yet both are building factories, thus laying the founda- tions of future growth. Both of these en- terprising towns will reap in 1910 what they are now sowing. No towns in the state, outside of Jefferson County, are more promising in truth than Huntsville and Anniston.
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Jefferson County.

The figures of the county population are great-14O,4 420! The county in which Mem phis is located is invited to inspect them. II will find the task of snrpassing them very difficult. The county, as a whole has outgrown its chief city 10 per cent, cent, was accomplished in a decade that bore through six or seven years ban ner inscribed in bold letters Repression" :" A banner on which was written Panic was carried through one entire year; and yet the county grew at the rate of 5S per cent
 Today Jefferson County holds many Heuple as the counties of Mobile and Mont gomery combined, with the city of Hunts vile added. No intelligent observer puts the rate of growth in the new decade at ended. Such a rate of growth would carry the county in 1910 to 221 ,OO0 These things should be taken into consideration by the Legislature It can honor this county by making IL ConSresslonal dlstrlct, ana there is no reason why it should not do it. At the rate the county Is growing today it would have in 1910 nearer 300,OOO popula- tion than 100000. The state is proud of it's great mineral county, and 1t should turn that pride towards the formation of a dis trict from single county. Something no other cotton state has ever Lonesome thing that only Louisiana can do, unless indeed Alabama steps to the front.
 Assuming that the new basis for rep resentative for a member of Congress will be 100000, we present a table that tells the entire story of apportionments from the taking of the first census:
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Growth Amonq the Counties.

The State in ten years gained nearly 2l per cent, which Is perhaps trife more than the country as whole gained. It is a handsome and satisfactory result; but a close inspection of the returns shows that as rule the strictly agricultural counties did not contribute largely to the general gain. Dallas although it contains pros- porous city, grew but 10 per cent; Pickens and Perry but 8 per cent; Barbour not quite 1 per cent, and High Jackson but s per cent.
 The greater growth of the State was in the timbered and mineral counties, and they vie with each other in the list of per centages Baldwin, a timbered county, shows a growth of 1T per cent; Bibb, min eral county. one of 8 per cent; Coffee. full of timber, grew at the rate of 72 per cent; Jefferson. full of coal and ore, 5S per cent. Coyington, another sawmill county, tops the list with a growth of 103 per cent, which coal-bearing Walker cannot ap- proaeh, although the latter is credited with 
 cent, and Henry with 45 per cent, both devoted to yellow pine and naval stores; Franklin, rich in ores, shows but S4 per cent, and Winston, rich in ores, 45 per cent
 The States growth in population largely comes from it's timber and its minerals, and upon these will depend growth in the future. As the minerals are practically inexhaustable, and pine is a disappearing quantity, it follows that preponderating growth will be in the mineral counties, and this will become more marked as the years go on. In the long run Alabama will out grow her sister States, just as Pennsyl- vanla is steadily outgrowing New York with sll it's commercial advantages and wealth and enterprise.
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LEADING CITIZEN s
Say United States Has Won Great
 Diplomatic Victory

New York, October 22.-Oscar s. Strauss, minister to Turkey, said of the Anglo American agreement respecting China the terms of which have been made public;
 This agreement between Germany and England is substantially in line with the policy instituted by our government under the open door agreement, and I regard it as the best and only possible solution of the Chinese situation. American diploma cy gained such recognition as it never had before in the eyes of the world"
 "It is my opinion" added MT. Strauss, that this plan will solve the Chinese question, and with England, Germany and the United States practically agreed, the other nations will accept enthusiastically the same terms"
 Prof. John Bassett Moore said:
 '"rhe policy of the United States in q grave crisis that has arisen in China was expressed in the circular issued by the Secretary of State on July last. Now, mark how closely Germany and England have followed along the path marked out by Secretary Hay. There have been other and great diplomatic victories to be credit ed to American statesmen, but it is certain ly pleasant to dwell upon the fact that right at the close of the century we have pointed sure way in free commerce and free seas"
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FRINGE mOHENLOHE's RETIREMENT

From the New York Mail and Express.
 Prince Hohenlohes retirement, at more than four-score years of age, as Chancellor of the German government, means even less to his country than the death of Count Mouravieff, the Russian Minister of For egn Affairs, in his vigorous prime, meant to the Muscovite Empire. Each of these distinguished European statesmen was no more than an agent, in the one case of an impulsive and masterful sovereign, in other of a resolute bureaucracy and its immoV- able policy. The Kaiser has been in a vital sense his own Prime Minister, and the will that would not bend to Bismarck had all its own way with Hohenlohe. Richelleu so well served his royal master that the next Louis was able to rule alone, and it seems that the Iron Chancellor did a like service under the old Kaiser.
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FACTS ABOUT TRUST S

From the New York World
 There is not trust in the entire United States. Mark Hanna.
 The following record of the increase in prices of articles of general consumption in 1889 is proof that monopoly is not myth:
 The Linseed oil trust raised the price from fl cents on January to 50 cents on Decem- Der 30.
 The Standard Oil Company raised the price on petroleum from $7.5O on January to $990 on December 30.
 The sugar trust raised the price on gran ulated sugar from 4.94 cents on January ' to 5B cents on December 30.
 The leather trust raised the price of leath- CT from 20 cents on January to 25k cents on December 90. - The calico trust raised the price of calico from 2$s cents on January to 3h cents on December 30 for print cloths, and from 1 cents to A cents on indigo prints.
 The jeans trust raised the price on jean cashmere from 271A cents on January to 4O cents on December 30.
 The jute trust raised the price on jute hemp from 2B cents on January [ to 3ss cents on December 30.
 The copper trust raised the price of copper from 1S1s cents on January to 161s cents on December 30.
 The lead trust raised the price of pig lead from S3,S5 on January to $65 on Decem- ber 30.
 The tin-plate trust raised the price on tin> plate from S3 a box on January to 8 25 on December 30.
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ton of American apples in Europe is enor-

ton of American apples In Europe is enor- nous.
 The late Charles Dudley Warner, who with Mark Twain and Senator Hawley formed the famous trio of Hartford, visited Birmingham about fourteen years ago, and he spent several days in Montgomery: the object of his Alabama visit at that time being to investigate the general condition of the negro and pursue his cherished studies as to the needs of prison reform. cry to be the most humane prison he had seen in the South. That jail is said to be still admirably managed, but is under stood to be greatly overcrowded. It was built for the requirements of about 20,000 less population than is now in Montgom- cry County. The Dig rock jail at Bir mingham had not been then completed. MT. Warner was personally one of the most engaging of men. In literature he will remain one of the strongest and most distinct figures of his generation.
 
 Sister Chrysostom, the sister superior of St Vincent's Hospital, has returned from a visit to the head establishment of the Sis ters of Charity, at Emmittsburg, Md Sister Chrysostom is busily hurrying the prepara- tions for the formal opening of the splendid new hospital at the top of Twenty street. It is hoped that the entire hospital will be opened for patients before the 18th of November
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knqIo-German Agreement.

The alliance of Germany and England was a general surprise. What, however, is more natural! They are kin, and they are both manufacturing and trade coun- tries They are trade rivals, but they are rivals on sensible lines. Each wants a fair and square chance, and no more. It is countries like Russia and France which can not compete on the level that seek undue advantages.
 This agreement practically defines and determines the Chinese question. Only de- tails remain. President Mckinley and Sec- retary of State Hay can no longer puff themselves up as leaders and dictators in this international problem. They have per- mitted themselves to be outwitted, and there is nothing for them to do but 10 trail on behind. For the country will not per- init them to join the Franco Russian alli- ance, and the Anglo-German alliance offers all we want in China, anyway The glory of the accomplishment goes, however, to England and Germany, and the adminis- .tration is simply a trailer.
 Too much importance cannot be attached to this alliance of Germany and England, the one the greatest military power in the world and the other the ruler of the seas This agreement may foreshadow a still greater agreement among the three Teu- tonic nations when the half-civilized Slav becomes obstreperous and threatens the peace and liberty of the rest of the world.
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Growth Among the Cities.

The cities of greatest growth in the state are she towns clustered about Birmingham. Avondale shows growth of 90 per cent; Besscmer of i5 per cent; Woodlawn of S2 per cent, and Ensley presents a new and hitherto uncounted growth of POO inhabi- tants. Gate City, West End, Elyton
 North Birmingham and East Lake are not incorporated It will be noticed that all of Greater Birmingham have outgrown the
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

A fool always has plenty of fool admirers The hand that grasps too much holds but little.
 The village belle imagines she gives tone to society.
 The elevator may be lowered, but the boy who runs it is hired.
 The man who retires with the sun cer- tainly has warm bed-fellow
 The absent minded man forgets but the covetous man is forgetting.
 Do what you think is right and don t worry about what other folks say
 The vocalist who expects to make a for tune on the stage trusts to chants.
 Adam must have been swift-footed in- asmuch as he was first in the human race. Some men enjoy chronic laziness more than some others enjoy a well-earned rest. A tailor says that in order to make a coat last it is necessary to make the pants and vest first
 Highwaymen ask too much when they re- quest their victims to throw up their hands and throw down their arms.
 Says an egotist: "There are two things that bother me. One is, how the world got on before I came into it, and the other is how is it going to get on after leave it. .''
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AUTUMN

By Mary Ware
 Mournful zephyrs softly tread Round pale summers icy bed, Singing old, familiar lays Of the happy by-gone days. When the gleeful zephyrs pay Hide and seek the live-long day; And sweet June, with crimson flowers, Laughed among the woodland bowers A solemn hush now fills the air! Iris natures voice in silent prayer. As when a tender mother keeps Vigil while her infant sleeps. startled look on natures facel melancholy smile we trace hectic flush, that mocks the light On beautys rosy cheek so bright! But the sweet stars. like angels smile And beckon to some fairer isle Where summer glories bloom for aye, And joy has its perfect day! Birmingham, Ala
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Ceylon Astounded

Colombia, Ceylon, October 22.-The state ment that the government of the United States has intervened with the view of the transferal of the American Transvaal pris- oners to a more salubrious climate has as founded Ceylon. Among the prisoners are an officer and six men, described as Amer jeans. The prisoners camp is situated in the healthiest location.
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EFFECT OF FoGs ON wALNUrs

From the Los Angeles Times.
 The heavy fogs throughout the valley the last several mornings have been very bene- ficial to walnut-growers, as it causes the nuts to shed their hulls without injury to the nuts.
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Leave fnrCantnn

Washington, October 22.-The President and Mrs. Mckinley will leave tonight at 9:45 for Canton. They will be accompanied by Secretary and Mrs. Rooe Secretary Cortelyou and Dr. RiXie.
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A PRAIsEwOKrnY EXPERIMENT

From the Augusta Chronicle.
 Mayor Martin has the endorsement of the community upon his experiment in washing the asphalt The blocks which were washed off by the iremen showed up In strong contrast with those that were not, and when the Mayors experiment shall embrace
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Ended His Life

Chattanooga, Tenn, October 2. = G. F. Kennedy of New Orleans, travelling sales man, died at the Fremont House in this city today from the effects of poison ad- ministered by himself. He left a letter stating that he had nothing to live for.
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NOTHING IN IT

From the Boston Herald.
 The saddest blow Kruger has received vet is the offering of his hat by a London periodical publisher for the greatest number of new subscribers.
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VIII Pay Up

Panama, Colombia, October 22.-A dis patch to the Star and Herald from Guaya- quil says the Ecuadoran Congress has made arrangements by which the country will pay its entire foreign debt.
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THE DORMANT AVG -o-sAxoN

From the Detroit Journal
 After the dust has settled it will prees>- ably be found to be Englands sphere of in- fiuence that the allies have been forcing through the Chinese rush-line and over the goal.
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STILL SHIPPING AWAY THE BoERs

From the East London Cape Colony Dis
 patch.
 Among the 800 and odd Boer prisoners who sailed for Ceylon by the Dilwara last week were 'twenty-one Krugers, six Steyns, nine De Vets, twelve Bothas, two Cronjes, ten Olviers and eight Prinsloos.
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Ills TAKING WAYS

From the Washington Post. MT. Gilhooly, the gentleman who eloped with the funds of the Elizabeth N. J., bank, had no bad habits. He simply had weak
 ness for taking the money of the deposi- tors,
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A mouse will create a greater commoton in a girls boarding school than a bull in a China shop.
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Webster Davis is watching for kidnappers dispatched by the British government to gobble him up. He does not stop to think that the British government does not need a white elephant in it's business.
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The Dilinghams of Vermont are trying to beat the Bayards of Delaware and the Camerons of Pennsylvania as political family.
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Sir Thomas Lipton is talking much too earnestly about that cup. Let him work out his corner and build his cutter He will find America at home next August.
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Holland will soon have to study the prob soon shelter one who is out of a job.
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Beauty begets beauty said Shakespeare, but in latter times druggists have some thing to do with it.
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Uncle Russ has bought his winter coal and he does not care whether the strike is on or off, especially since Professor Twiggs ranks him in point of genius just above CerYantes.
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MT. Roosevelt should return to Albany pretty soon in order to draw his salary for the summer and fall.
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When Mir Stevenson comedies California te Mckinley he simply says it will go as it did in 1896.
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The Icon" man is a hot air genera tor and usually gives his victim balloon ascension.
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Through some strange oversight the various Presidential candidates are at lib- erty to undermine the Republic by wearing a dress suit at 530 o'clock D. m. Our land marks are already overstrained.
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Marc Anthony Hanna should end the hard coal strike once more.
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A hard coal strike. like any other strike, is not over until it is over.
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Medical students in London are making Dowie feel very much as if he were in Mansfield O.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day Tuesday. October g, 1900:
 Avoid superiors, and ask no favors, but push thy business"
 Be careful of risks and speculations; keep thy business well in hand, afd do not remove or journey; those in employ must be careful"
 A child born on this day will have to work hard to succeed, unless it be child born at a fortunate hour"
 If female, she will marry widower." :" Astrolger Raphaels prophecies .or Wednesday, October 24. 1900;
 An unfavorable day."
 Beware of accident and of law and quarrelling; with care thy business may be kept together but run no risks"
 Young widows will receive offers of marriage
 A child born on this day should keep in the employ of others; it will be quick in anger. but not very fortunate; if a fe- male, she will marry late in life.'
 Some recent gossip in this place elating to apples, more especially red apples as being the sentimental emblem of love be- tween youth and maiden and children of larger growth" has served to arouse very general interest, and incidentally to bring numerous exquisitely beautiful apples that were red into material evidence One truly wonderful apple has been sent from the wider elsewhere" and with it the mes sage:
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MT Mudd of Maryland is again before the people just as winter is coming on.
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Women with pretty ankles always think of something down town on rainy days that requires their personal attention.
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The new Anglo German agreement is silent as to the averaging snickersee.
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The best intentions will not satisfy i; hungry mans appetite.
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Dowie is ready to battle with sin, but artists.
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 Through some strange oversight the various Presidential candidates are at lib erty to undermine the Republic by wearing a dress suit at 5:3O o'clock D. m. Our land- marks are already overstrained Webster Davis is watching for kidnappers dispatched by the British government to gobble him up. He does not stop to think that the British government does not need a white elephant in it's business. Uncle Russ has bought his winter coal, and he does not care whether the strike is on or off, especially since Professor Twiggs ranks him in point of genius just above Cervantes.
 Sir Thomas Lipton is talking much too earnestly about that cup. Let him work out his corner and build his cutter He will find America at home next August. The Dillinghams of Vermont are trying Camerons of Pennsylvania as a political family.
 Holland will soon have to study the prob lem relating to ex-Presidents, for she will soon shelter one who is out of job. Mir. Roosevelt should return to Albany pretty soon in order to draw his salary for the summer and fall
 ------------------ When MT. Stevenson concedes California to Mckinley he simply says it will go as it did in 1896
 Medical students in London are making Dowie feel very much as if he were in Mansfield. o.
 Dowie is ready to battle with sin but artists
 Newspaper readers who do not banker after politics are finding life a burden just now.
 Today two weeks will be devoted to the abolishment of nonsense and nuisances. MT. Bryan pIGleIS u ltdNS NOle pISulCllIlS to others. Vote getting keeps him busy. Ex-Senator Bradbury, aged 9S, still re- fuses to respond to the final drumbeat. Issues are dominant paramount or imme- diate as the voter prefers this year. Mir. Mudd of Maryland is again before the people just as winter is coming on. The new Anglo-German agreement is silent as to the averaging snickersee. A hard coal strike, like any other strike, is not over until it is over.
 Marc Anthony Hanna should end the hard coal strike once more.
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Issues are dominant paramount or imme- diate as the voter prefers this year.
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Newspaper readers who do not banker after politics are finding life a burden jus now.
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Ex-Senator Bradbury, aged 9S, still re fuses to respond to the final drumbeat.
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soLILOoUIEs OF AN OLD MAID

How to treat the dead is a live subjec with the undertaken.
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Today two weeks will be devoted to the abolishment of nonsense and nuisances.
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Mir. Bryan prefers to leave vote predicting to others. Vote getting keeps him busy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-25
THE COURTS.

Equity Court No. Justice Hagner.
Newlin agt. Newlin: decree constituting
will Mcdonald agt. Mcdonald: testimony
ordered taken before Samuel c. Mills.
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All Held for Grand Jury.

James Burns, Frank Dougherty. Samuel
Jenkins and Harry hardwood, boys whose
ages range from ten to fourteen years, and
who were arrested last evening by Detec-
tives Browne and Miller on the charge of
being concerned in the larceny of $145 from
Mr.. August Smith, No. 1898 NJ street north
east, were today arraigned in the Police
Court. All were held for the action of the
grand jury. hardwood and Burns in 500
each and the others in $500.
The evidence showed that while roaming
about Wednesday morning the boys discov-
cred tin box in an old abandoned oven in
the rear of Mr.. Smiths home, and in which
Mr.. Smith, who is a retired baker, had
placed his money for safekeeping Dough-
erty, who, it is alleged, was the principal
in the robbery. gave. according to his own
admission, few dollars to his three COM
rades and got away with about $40 himself.
The detectives named and Precinct Detec-
tive Williams recovered $1,000 Of the
money.