The age-herald., 1900-01-25

l foot deep of rain
 l Will kill hay and grain;
 But three feet of snow
 Will make tllem come mo.
 In this valley We have had the foot we shall have more still; but one lit tie fall of snow was of ne-rneasurable con- sequence. The feathery flakes fell as 1T to leach here in tae valley that God did cause snow to descend upon dhe earth. What is to come We may not know till tit come: the coldest weather ever experienced in 1 this region was in the middle of February last yearl This leads up to the wonderful miitness now prevailing. Yesterday was l like day in May, so soft and baimy l and so calm 1t was. The wind seemed to l sleep. There was not breeze brave enough | ito stir the curls of a little girl who stood in the passing-way where the street seemed to widen for her llhtle majesty to doiter or to piss on her way, as she pleased. Buds began to burgeon and birds began to sing. The spirit of sprlng kissed the Wrinkled front of winter. Twas wIondrous. Down in the Blackbelt tfhe farmer is "driving his teams afield," as Gray told of l the long ago. Tue blow is set in the fur l row, upon lands that are not too wet for l it'n soon Ice corn plantin' time, as every l body knows. 'Tain't many weeks off, and fust thing you know they'll be a plantfn' of the cotton. And they are going to neg lect the time for Ghe cotton time, andH come ito know something about the o-tiT lie fertilizers who have travelled in the gulf states inform The AgeIHerald that there ipas been extraordinary demand for fer tilizers and that there is going to be an extraordinary acreage put into cotton This would be Imaginable were it not some thing like tragical After forty years the qeitod of hog and hominy has recurred in Alabama. There is promise that it will pass wfah 1900. Few persons in the world | can stand prosperityi
 Hon. Francis L. Pettus, of Dallas. and Mrs. Pettus arrived in Birmingham yester- | day from Washington, on their way home l after a short stay in the capital; whither l MT Pettus went on legal business. The trip eastward was greatly enjoyed, and Mr. l Pettus and Mrs. Pettus were shown many social courtesies. As might have been ex- | pected Mir. Pettus' great comfort at the moment in political sense is the recent | remarkable Morgan victory in Clarke 1 county. Unhappily MT. Pettus has been ailirg physically the better Part of many | weeks and therefore it has been impossible for him to give his full attention to his political duties. or to give force to his de- sjres. It would be well for the public to un- derstand this much. Mir. Pettus soul all his best thoughts are given to the cause of Senator Morgan, which he esteems to be the real cause of the people. Certainly neither Senator Morgan nor the people has had more steadfast champion.
 Captain W. c. Ward. one of the grand old men of Jefferson, and one of the most learned amongst us all, wi deliver lee ,ure in the First Presbyterian church at Fourth 1 avenue and Twenty-first street Friday even- ing beginning at O clock precisely. Captain 1 Wards subject will be ''The Physics of the Ocean Demonstrate the Benevolence of God;' certainly a broad subject and one which will be most admirably treated. It is understood that Captain Ward will deal specifically with the Gulf Stream, which was measured and charted by that noble southern genius, Mathew Fontaine Maury, and that he will demonstrate that the sinking of the Isthmus of Darien would in | effect destroy the greatest nations of the earth. The benevolence of God directs the Gulf Stream to warm the western shores of Europe, and it makes mild even the misty moors of Scotland in the far north
 
 Influential attorneys for railroads who are in town are Colonel W. A. Henderson, of f Washington, chief counsel for the Southern railway; Hon. Francis l.. Pettus, of Selma, district. counsel of the Southern railway; and George w. Jones and Charles P. Jones, l of the law department of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Montgomery. Colonel l Charles P. Jones, a younger brother of Former Governor Thomas Goode Jones, was one time captain of the famous Montgom- cry Greys military company and subse- quently colonel of the Second regiment 1 positions that had been successively held by his distinguished brother. George W. Jones Is Kentucldan, and is not a rela- tive of the former governor of Alabama l He is the assistant to Colonel J. M. Falkner, and is one of the best fellows on the earth
 
 Judge Morton, of Fayette, who was elect ed probate judge of his county as a repub- hcan in 1892, is in Birmingham.
 General Joseph w. Burke, the collector of customs at Mobile, is in Birmingham.
 
 l Major William E. Wai,es, of Selma, is at the Metropolitan. Major Wailes was Gen. l eral Wheeler's adjutant general during the 1 war between fine states, and ever since the I two men have been together by bonds of I affection. Wheeler in that wartime was boy in years, younger in the height of his fame than was Napoleon at Marengo, and in physical stature he is a boy still; in T affection always tender as "a child. He and Major Wailes used to sleep under \ the same blanket when the battle was done l or the long days march ended. In the hour when Wheeler, weary of strife and toll, and maybe weary of fame, lay down