The age-herald., 1902-01-05

fall cars of peaches were shipped from Marshallville. and one farmer, a Georgian by birth netted nearly s5O0OO in one year from his peach crop.
 There are sections of Alabama which will grow everything that can be pro- duccd in Georgia or California, or almost any other state in the Union, and if the intelligent farmers of Alabama are en- couraged. within a few years this state should prosper agricuituraily as 1t Is now prospecting minerally.
 The Commercial Club acted wisely and well when it adopted unanimously a reso- lution requesting the Board of Aldermen to do away with the sidewalk fruit stand nuisances of Birmingham. could never understand why the city administration of Birmingham permitted fruit, tobacco and candy vendors to use half of many of the sidewalks of Birmingham to dis play and sell their wares, causing pedes- trians often to have to walk out into the street to pass these places. The odors about some of these places, especially in summer, are anything but pleasant.
 understand the city government has borne with these nuisances because of the revenue derived from them in the form of licenses. These fruit vendors who occupy half the width of the side walks, who stretch low and dirty awnings above the sidewalks and have their show cases and peanut parchers and ripe and green and rotten fruit spread all about, are allowed these priveliges because they pay into the city till something like s60 each annually.
 Mayor Drennen admits that the city would lose perhaps s2Ooo of It's annual revenue were 1t to force these people to move into buildings rather than occupy the public sidewalks for the sale of their wares. Suppose 1t does cause the city a loss of 5000. This amount will not bankrupt Birmingham. On the other hand, a clean. healthy city. and clean sidewalks that people may walk upon in comfort, will be worth much more to the citizens than the paltry 5000 now received from these fruit vendors. No other mod ern city in the world sells its sidewalks for mercantile purposes. Why should Birmingham? I hope to see the citizens of Birmingham rise up and demand of the present city administration that these sidewalk fruit stands be done away with.
 Appropos of city affairs, the oil test on Fifth avenue seems to have proven a success. It strikes me therefore that it would be wise on the part of the city government to use large quantity of oil in sprinkling the streets of Birmingham during the coming spring and summer The city can well afford to spend two or three thousand dollars out of it's street improvement and repair fund this spring for the purpose of doing away with the dust, and I hope that Mayor Drennen will recommend 1t to the Board of Alder men.
 President Roosevelt has heard from the country on his public rebuke of General Miles for expressing an opinion in the Schley matter. The President has made an attempt to atone for his uncouth con duct to General Miles by inviting the General of the Army to dine with him at the White House. There has been some talk to the effect that General Miles will decline the invitation. But he will not. An invitation on the part of the President to an army or a naval officer Is equivalent to command. Therefore whether 1t be pleasant or unpleasant to General Miles to accept this invitation.