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a long sigh of satisfaction. 'Beloved, have seen the Irish Mavourneens with the blue of the Killarney lakes iri their eyes; I have seen the Scottish lassies with cheeks reddened by the winds from the Highlands; I have loved with a fierce flereeness the almond-eyed beauties of the Orient; I have eaten pfilopena with the duslSy maidens of Honolulu; and have played in the back yard of Afexahdra, Queen Consort of England, but for beau- ty and grace, give me the fair daughters of Jefferson. But" he ended "you can get the rest of this, beloved. in the Sun day paper. price five pence d copy"
 How Englshn' murmhted the banker. ''Ffe wifi be speaking next eff pound in- stead of a 'flter.'
 Here some small excitement occurred; caused by the discovery that the absent minded beggar was trying to swallow his However, order was restored. and the bald blonde took the floor.
 ''WeI1, I tell you what I think of wo- men," he said emphatieally. Something's got to be done to put a stop to the in- roads they are making on this table. All the young women in town have their eyes fixed on us."
 Here 0 smile of pleased vanity went around the board.
 Occasionally" he continued, lone Of our members falls a victim to the smiles and seductions of a woman, and his ac- customed chair knows him no more. If
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The Judge came brisl1ly into the room and seated himself at the head of the ta- ble. By what right the Judge took this seat no one knew but then no one ques- toned it.
 "WclI gentlemen." he said, "what is the topic of discussion for this morning?"
 ''Dyspepsla" said the slow-talking so- llcitor, as he looked up from light break fast of health food and sweet milk.
 "Woman," put in the bald blonde. as he reached for the last buekwheat cake and drowned 1t in a sea of syrup.
 'Well. we will have to take q vote," said the judge. But, first of all, boys, wish to give you treat l want to show you the beautiful token of esteem pre- scented me by the Malevelent Destructive Order of Goats"
 "Oh, come ofr' said the doctor. "No- body wants to see your Waterbury. Let's vote about the mornings discussion. I'm in favor of dyspepsia, for it's my special ty."
 "Yes, he gives 1t to his patients" said the solicitor. sotto voce.
 'I." quoth the number. "am in favor of woman, for that's my long suit. When- eer my eyes fall on a bonny lass. I cry"
 "Oh, shut upl' put in the doctor. "PIst because hash Is a breakfast dk i; yoh think we can stand re-hash of your mumblings."
 "ChurlE' exclaimed the number. ''you forget yourself! How darest thou speak so lippantly to a disciple of Thomas Car lyle?"
 Gentlemen! gentlemenp' cried the judge, "are you ready for the vote? All in favor of woman as the subject of dis eussien say Aye"
 "Aye"' said the bald blonde, the num- bier, the courier and the absent-rninded beggar with the unanimity of a Greek chorus.
 ''Nay!' said the solicitor the doctor and the banker.
 Woman gets it, as usua1," said the judge. Courier will you please tell us what you think of the seX?"
 The courier untucked his napkin from under his chin, wiped few stray crumbs from his peroxide mustache. and began: Woman, woman, cause of all our bliss Woman, woman, there's heaven in her
 kiss"
 "Yes. and hell to pay!' interpolated the solicitor
 ''Woman!" breathed the number, with
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rumor be true, another one of us will soon go up the white -carpeted aisle and come down again with a matrimonial moose around his neck. Something must be done to stop this. and propose that if a man sitting at this table falls in love with a female woman that he be so gufed that he will fly the coop and thus save us the expense of wedding presents"
 "Hear Hearg' cried tine delighted ns- teners.
 AS you know" he went on, Eve have long since banded ourselves into d Soei- ety for the Promotion and Encourage mont of Gossip and prep6se t5 aad to this a department of gdyihs. and have prepared the following rese1iition;
 Whereas. All mothers alid dadghters of Birmingham looking upon Kixens as a matrimonial Klondike, and do by divers ways and means try to enice US onto. the shoals of matfim6ny; and
 '' Whereas, Occasionally one of our mentors, through kindness of heart, yields to the entreaties of some love-iorn maid
 " 'Ise it resolved, That we put stop to this outrage, and for this purpose organ- ize tho department Of guying, of which I, Bald Blonde, shall be Chief Guy"
 'fBht look here," renf6nstrated tho judge, I'm usually chief of all ordersp'
 Well, you won't be this time," said Bald Blonde. Are you with me?"
 I've aret we are" cried the chorus. and the resolution passed unanimously.
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Cotton Still Goinq Down.

The cotton goods trade does not i'm prove, and raw cotton continues to go down. Between the Chinese tangle, which seems endless, promising to keep China closed even into the next cotton year, and the new crop, the bears are supreme in the cotton mar kets. From 10 cents pound the price of the staple has fallen below cents, and may go below cents. Fortunate ly this heavy fall in a great crop does not as a rule affect the farmer or pro- ducer, for he long ago solu his hold ings. But the loss of merchants at the ports and in the interior towns is considerable, and it reduces the cap ital of this section.
 As these merchants are the bankers of the farmers, the latter will feel the loss indirectly in one way or another. Of course much of the loss will be borne by those who held cotton far from the cotton fields, but the holdings at home are by no means insignificant, and the losses are considerable.
 The crop is proving to be larger than the estimates of it, and the closing of China has reduced consumption so much that the crop is ample for all needs. Thus carrier predictions have been shown to be baseless. If the dip lomats in and out of China could bring the troubles in that country to an end, and that vast unclothed population were left free to supply their needs, there would be quick revival in the goods trade, and the decline in prices would be checked. But no one can see an end of the Chinese negotiations.
 The belief in large crop next fall is also a factor But it is not certain that the acreage will be unusually large. Ten-cent cotton Is no longer regarded as q certainty, and farmers are not planting expecting to get ten cents. The decline in prices will serve to increase food and forage crops, and to decrease the cotton acreage. Stocks are not large, and a reasonable acreage would assit in lifting the price, while the opening of China to trade would certainly do it. But ten-cent cotton is very improbable. EighI-cent cotton is much more likely to occur next fall, and the planting should not be above that basis.
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An Optimistic View,

"The recent cyclone, or tornado, that honored us with a visit" said an observ- CT yesterday, while looking at some of the ruins "could not have chosen a bet ter path than it did. Had it gone fur ther north it would have struck the city proper and the damage might have been greater and the loss of life appalling. There are some buildings in the business center, which, to put it mildly are not built for cyclones. I recall one In par ticular. a bank building. which an em- ploye recently told me shook whenever a dance was had in a hall above. Had the cyclone struck this building, the en- ployes. I dare say, would have taken refuge in the safe until the clouds rolled by. ai%sHaxJ
 "If the storm had gone further south it would have struck the residence sec tion of the city where many of the hand some residences are located. The dam age here would have been much greater that is to say, the property loss would have been greater. As it was, the storm showed rare discretion in selecting the course it took. Skirting the foot of the Highlands were rows of cheap cottages built to rent chiefly to negroes, waiting until the land became sufficiently valu- able to warrant the erection of handsome homes The entire pathway of the storm lay through this part of the city, which was built up with this character of houses.
 ''rhe only good houses which were in- jured by the storm were those in the ex- treme eastern part of the city, near Beel- CT Station. on the Highland street car line. It was here that ME Lowe, Mir. Bowman and others lived. Many of these houses which appear unchanged from the outside. are greatly injured internally Many of them will have to be rsplastered and are twisted out of plumb sufficiently to damage them greatly though it does not show on the outside.
 T think, however, the total amount of the damage is largely overestimated This is always the case with fires and other calamities
 T understand that the owners who lost cottages are to rebuild them with brick
 This is wise plan and economical in the long run. A wealthy gentleman who owns number of those houses told me some time ago he intended only building brick cottages in the future, as the ne- gro tenants gradually burnt up the wood en ones for fuel in cold weather. It is al- ways an i'll wind that blows nobody good and good may yet come out of this cyclone.'
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Personals.

j. K. Dimmick, president of the Dim- mick Pipe Company, whose plant is To- cated at North Birmingham, has been in the city several days looking after busl- ness pertaining to the company MT. Dim mick was resident of Alabama for a nhmber of years until his removal to Phil adelphia last summer. He has great con- f1dence in the Birmingham district and it's future. He is the head of a firm that handles Birmingham iron in the Philadel- phia, Buffalo, Pttsburg and other north ern markets.
 Governor Sanford has designated Col Francis G. Coffey as judge advocate to decide the merits of the contested elec- tion in the Third Alabama Regiment, Ma tional Guard, and in making this selection he acted wisely. Colonel Caffey is one of the brightest young lawyers in Alabama and served in the volunteer army several
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per which pays more net profits per year than any other afternoon newspaper property in America. am told that the three ownership interests in the Star re- cefved $a5O,oo0 each, net profSa, n Ct year.
 Of course, Moves did not eshspl his op.. eratfons and go into the n Record- Herald without knowing what Ae was do- ing. He must see great profits in the combined newspaper, and both he and Koh1ssat evidently expect to make the Record Herald perhaps the greatest of American newspapers. And there is no reason why they should not succeed with such advertising rates as I am told they get. It Is said that the average rate for advertising charged by the consolidated paper Is about BIO an inch an insertion, or nearly 75 cents per agate line, of which there are fourteen to the inch. If Bir- mingham newspapers could average one tenth of this rate there would be more evidences of prosperity right here than are exhibited at present.
 These Birmingham Elks are a live and progressive clement They are all jolly business men who believe in mirth and lAttS Ilti elHl SuuG all IulASu up WlLn DuSi- ness. They look upon business as a pleasure and believe that profits come better with light, cheery methods than by pretending to look wise, serious and busy. Last year they had a street fair which was a credit to Birmingham. This year they promise to exceed last year 8 achievements. and they will do it. 'sae:r jovial loyalty and hustling energy cannot fail to accomplish great results.
 Give the Elks room and they will spread their street fair all over the expanded town.
 Speaking of spreading. Leslie Fulen- wider is the man the old Elyton Land Company has needed for a long time. The company is now known as the Realty Company, but most of us prefer to con- tinue to call it by the old name.
 Fulenwider as president of the con- pany, believes in action. He has several hundred mules, and men, and machines of queer shapes at work out on the High lands grading a maGnificent street or driveway all around the old dummy line from Highland avenue to Lalzeview. It will be the Highland Drive of Birning- sham and will be the extension of the most beautiful residence portion of Bir- mingham Fulenwider is spending lots of and it will come back tenfod. Such pro- gressive men at the head of other semi public concerns in Birmingham would be worth their weight in gold to the town. At least such is the opinion of
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NED BRACE DISCUSSES ALL SORTS
 OF TOPICS OF BIRMINGHAM INTEREST

It has been six days since the cyclone passed over Birmingham. There are rem- nants of it. but they are few. There were sad fatalities. No human power can remedy these. Friends and relatives can only mourn the loss of dear ones.
 The property fatalities were not so great as at first estimated. I doubt seriously if the property loss will amount, all told, to more than s15O,OOO.
 The Birmingham public was prompt to act. More than $15,O0O was subscribed right here at home to aid the suffering ones. In other words. Birmingham gave in money value.
 am proud of the Birmingham people; of the community in which I live. It is composed of broad, generous and good people. They are able to take care of themselves and of those within their midst They have had trials and tribula- tions before. They have had financial fa- talities of darker hue than the property fatalities of the past week. Yet Blrming- hams citizens have nobly met fate on every occasion and have promptly risen above calamities and darkened days. Temporary drawbacks are inspirations for redoubling efforts and greater and more substantial progress.
 Speaking of development, observe the new Hillman Hotel is making rapid pro gress. Three stories are up There is more wood in the frame work than I had ex- Hnf al fn r. proof. but I presume every precaution will be taken in the form of an interior water supply, And after all a perfect sys tenn of water plugs and fire hose in the halls of a hotel are really more protec- tion than an alleged fire-proof building without these safeguards.
 The Jefferson Hotel in Richmond was considered practically fire-proof. There were no water plugs and no fire hose in the building. It burned to the ground yesterday morning This was perhaps the handsomest hotel building in the south, not excepting the famous Ponce de Leon at St. Augustine. I have been told that the hotel and it's art furnishings cost full S2,Oco,OoO. Everything was swept away yesterday and there was only about s6O0- GOO Of insurance
 Speaking of building, I hope that the proposed office building scheme will go through. I am told an outside financier is willing to erect fourteen-story fire proof building on centrally located lot --- months during the Spanish American war. His opinion is expected to be rendered to- morrow.
 Orlando P. Gaut, the we'll known hard ware salesman has returned from St. Louis, where he spent several days in conference with the heads of the house he so ably represents.
 J. H. Lathrop. general agent of the Union Pacific Railroad with headquar- ters in St. Louis, was in the city yester- day.
 A. S. Borglum, travelling passenger agent of the Union Pacific at St. Louis, was in the city yesterday.
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laeJ1,taze~

crowd that help spend the money. When it is spent he is a full-1edged Buffalo"
 MT. Bloom says that Chicago man is to Buffalo to pay for II cents worth of initiation. There is man of niggardly spirit and unworthy to be a Buffalo
 The Buffaloes are said to be spreading in the east, but now that their hostility to making change is known and the H. cents formula understood, their receipts may be impaired. But perhaps they have deeper mysteries of which the Hon. Sol Bloom has not told.
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HE ONLY pAlLY NEWSPAPERS IN ALABAMA
was born free as Cesar; so were you; Ne both have fed ns well.
 Julius C@sar, Act 1, Scene ?.
Representation Should be Equal.

When the ignorant negro vote is eliminated, the white voter in the Black Belt will have all the political bower he can reasonably demand without doing injustice to Jefferson County. A white voter in South Ala ,ama will then far exceed in political weight a white voter in Jefferson, where the population is largely white he will be four or five to one at least.
 If to this be added absolute injus- ice in representation, the total injus- ice will be monstrous. For example, three Black Belt counties containing 10000 people are given a Senator, and Jefferson with 14O,420 people is given ,ut one, white man in the former would be equivalent in politics to a 'ound dozen in the latter, either in con rention or in the halls of legislation. This would be monstrous.
 Representation should be based on rotos cast, but if that be voted down )y main strength, then let representa- ion based on population be just and ,ull in Jefferson County, and in North Alabama. Justice in this respect is rery important if the new constitu- icn is to endure a long time. The present. representation is grossly un- ust, and the elimination of the negro rote would render it monstrously so.
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so RUNS MY DREAM.
By Tennyson.

By Tennyson.
 o yet we trust that somehow good
 Will be the final goal of i'll,
 To pang of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet;
 That not one life shall be destroyed,
 Or cast as rubbish on the void. When God hath made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain:
 That not a moth with vain desire
 Is shrivefd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold we know not anything;
 l can but trust that good shall fall
 At last-far off-at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream but what am IT
 An infant crying in the night;
 An infant crying for the light; And with no language but cry.
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THE BUFFALOES.
from the New York Sun.

From the NeW fOrK sun.
 The Hon. Carter Harrison of Chicago was initiated into the mysteries of the Noble Order of Buffaloes the other day, and is said to have found the proceed ings cheerful but not inexpensive. It seems to be a simple society absolutely liberal in the selection of members and far from exacting in its reqnlremens and ritual. Tn. Buffalo herds grow rapidly and they are found all over the country. So far as can be judged by the unbuf- fa1oed, however, the society is not in- tended for teetotalers or for persons averse to spending money If one of these hears the mystic inquiry: Are you Buffalo?" he may, if he chooses, repeat the formal answer: You bet your sweet life l am," an answer said to be matter or ritual; and then he should escape as rapidly as possible. There will be no money Tor him instaying. He must fly
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Three DissoIvinq Countries.

The map of the world seems des- lined to continual change, and this century will probably bring a full share of such changes. There are three countries, all large and populous. hat are destined to undergo great changes before this century is ended China, Turkey and Austria. Together hey contain or control one-half of the population of the world, and any .hanges in them will have a world vide effect.
 It is exceedingly unlikely that China will long escape dismemberment. She nay get cut of the present entangle- nent without a break in territorial fines, because all the powers are pres mt, and each is jealous of the other. Nothing else will avail her but mutual ealousy on the part of the greedy powers. When the armies are with lrawn, causes for aggression will be ound, and Russia will move in from he North, France from the South. and he other powers will attack central points in the vast kingdom. China is marked for dismemberment long be- ore the century is ended.
 And this is true also of bankrupt otten Turkey the center of Moslem- sm throughout the Eastern world Germany, England and Russia are all watching the Sick Man of the East, md all are ready to administer upon
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his estate. The political fall of Mos lemism is sure to occur during the century, although 1t will survive as religious and moral force much longer. in India, in China, in Africa and in Central Asia.
 Austria will not remain Autsrla after the death of the aged Francis Joseph. He has with rare tact kept this great Empire of many tongues and peoples together, but 1t is believed it will be dissolved when he dies, for no sue cessor of equal skill is at hand. Hun gary will desire independence, and the German sections will seek Germany and the Italian sections Italy. What will become of Bohemia and the prov inces wrested from Turkey is problem atical. The breaking up of Austria will dissolve the Dreibund, and indi- rectly it will give Russia more h. fluence in Europe. It will operate to bring Russia and Germany face to face. They may, however, become allies, thus dominating all Europe, and through Europe dominating all the world except the United States. In one way or another the world is com ing to final battle with the backward Sclav, but the present century will not be apt to witness this mighty event, upon which all civilization and progress will turn.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Women aren't angels, and it's mighty lucky for the women.
 Political opinion is like mustache-it never looks well on a girls lip unless there man hitched to it.
 Probably the first thing Jonah's wife said after he told her the whale story was that she needed a lot of new clothes. the shoe she wears to be stylish and two sizes smaller than the ones he wears to be comfortable.
 If the average woman could have her choice of the way she would like to be won, she would probably choose the man that would knock her down with a club and then sit on her.
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Fire Proof Buildings.

'"The burning of the Hotel Jefferson Is truly an irreparable loss to Richmond, said former resident of the Virginia capital.
 Tt was Richmond's pride, and even fl 1t should be rebuilt 1t will not be the same costly. palatial structure. It was insured for s650,o0O, but the building cost between s1,4O0,O00 and S1,500,0oO. Ground furniture and works of art included, the outlay of the hotel company was $l'soo'- 900. The company was close corporation consisting chiefly of Lewis Ginter ana John Pope, and both Of these mlllonaires are dead.
 "Glnter was a man of aesthetic taste and the artistic design of the hotel was due to his culture, and especially his pen chant for elegant houses. The Jefferson was great work of architectural art ana in a general way reminded one of Flof- entne palace
 "The beautiful marble statue of Thomas Jefferson, by Valentine, which stood Tn the court. cost s15,000, and two pictures by Sir Peter Lely-a portrait of Charles II. and partrait of Charles Queen-cost S35, GOO. There were many other paintings of high art value, most of them rescured from the flames believe; but the Jeffer- son statue, with the head broken off Is of course ruined
 While the hotel was in course of con struction, 1 asked one of the architects in charge of the work If the building would be fire proof. He replied that 1t would be called semi-fire proof but let a fire get good start and it will be no bet ter than tender box.
 "'Why do you not make it absolutely fire proof? I asked,
 For the simple reason the architect said, that absolutely fire proof buildings are enormously expensive. This building as it is will cost nearly $1,50O GOO. To make it fire proof nearly half million more would have to be added "
 Richmond was a poor hotel town un- til the Jefferson was built, six years ago. Since then three or four of the old hos telries have been patched up and remod- eled. and there is plenty of hotel room now for everybody who goes to Richmond seeking accommodation, but the city will never have another Jefferson until an- other Ginter comes along"