The age-herald., 1900-02-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

upper deep There was no cloud The
 crescent of the silver moon was suspended there in the vast depths of the Armament, and the star, far above, seemed to be the
 rear guard in the splendid march of the
 heavensl It all of it was wondrous splen-
 did It was the death of a day of glory of
 richness, beauty. light, love, and hope! The temperature of the atmosphere was cold The zkF t4az elouI ss. The thermometer Fras as l1w as fg.= degrees above zero This aas tdz 1r-ai of the season, except
 ing as1 fualaa. January Il, when the
 mzHsa5 thlateen degrees, and the 1.h e J3nua lien it recorded but oIesa Iagfa -3a e zero. The cold last n.sltt was = ra0r mary for this valley.
 The figures #Tefe T ot obtadnable. Yet the going down of he new moon and the even ing afar #Ern ime A more glorious n4eA. -.-yce the earth. The stars
 seemed to sing a song of matchless music
 in the vast cathedral of space. The man
 who had not soul to see the beauty of yes-
 ternight is not worthy to know the greater glory!
 "The story that the Walker county or Jefferson coal companies will fight the Pittsburg coal mines is absurd," said an
 Alabamian who Is largely interested in the Walker county mines. "There is no 'pur- pose not even any thought of war against Pittsburg. We can sell, and in fact have sold, all the coal we can supply. We have got no fight against Pittsburg, or against anybody. Alabama mines have contracts for supplying New Orleans and other
 Louisiana points with 10000 tons of coal
 this year. This is about all our mines could
 supply; so we are asking nothing of Pitts burg. We are willing for Pittsburg to get | what it may. There is no sort of contest 1 as to coal between Pittsburg and Birming- | ham, The truth is, Birmingham has got what she wants and is indifferent. There l is room enough for both Birmingham and 1 Pfttsburg This year the output of coal | and iron in Alabama will far exceed that Of l any other year; and 1t will go on increasing. | The Birmingham district in the particular | of coal and iron is defiant of the world!' Good words constantly come nome to Alaoama respecting the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, for many years congressman from l fine Montgomery district, and sometime sec retarv of the navy To him more than to any other man is to be credited the noble navy of America today His long years | of earnest effort fn that direction went far | to make the American flag respected upon | the seas His efforts in many other drec- | tions as member of congress, cabinet min- dster, statesman, tnave gone far to ennoble | American Hfe Somebody who comes but 1 now from Washington says that Colonel Heiibert is grown "gray as a badger" l Perhaps so. Hard work for the public l through many years and great personal l sorrows were enough, assuredly, to gray | the hairs above even that stout heart! 1 However that may be, Colonel Herbert must know that he possesses the affections l and the admiration of all his home folk l down here in Alabama! No stouter heart beats than his; no nobler soul lives upon | the earth!
 l "As a rule, presidential campaigns are | accompanied by business depression, but l 1 believe the campaign this year will prove | an exception" said an old observer. Wall l street will be dtfCl from the early summer | until the election, but industrial and mer- | cantile business will continue to thrive. In l 1s8U trade was duh. In 1884 nearly all the | manufacturing concerns tn the United States were shut down. Neither before nor since have so many men been out of em- ployment as in 1884. The country was full Of tramps. In 1885 the furnaces and the | mills started up again, and for two years there was general prosperity throughout the land. The year 1888 was marked by business depression. The year 1892 not SD bad, but the country was lit by panic the year following, from which it did not
 recover until 1895, and then business
 depression again in 1896"
 Assistant Supermtendert Thompson of
 the Southern railroad is at the Morris. He
 is d man of many charming personal quali-
 ties, of great ability, of vast energies.
 Louis c. Cardinal of Montgomery, trav-
 cling freight agent of the Mobile and Ohio
 railroad, was tn Birmingham yesterday
 J. A. McDuffie, of Mobile, is at the Nor
 ris.
 Speaking of Joseph Wheeler, we had to
 ride behind him so long that our legs stuck
 out like pothooks when we dismourted,"
 said Colonel J. M Falkner, referring to the
 war between the states. Wheeler kept Us
 on the go, so to speak. Upon a long march
 there in Tennessee, Wheeler kept us going
 We ate green corn, not like the horses ate
 1t, but each man had his roasting-ears and
 he had his little bag of salt! The horses
 and their riders fed upon the same sub
 stance. The soldiers cooked their roasting
 ears in the shucks, and with them they
 marched on their way!'
 Major Emmett A. o'Neal, of Florence.
 formerly United States district attorney, is
 in Birmingham.
 Major Malcolm c. Burke, of Montgomery, is in Birmingham.
 Colonel Jack Crawford, of Jasper, is in town.
 James D. Hatch, of New Orleans and
 E. H. Slater, of Mobile, are in Birming ham.
 J. M. Hall. of Providence, R. l., is in hap