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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
HAS SOLD 100 BALES.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Hon. ]. Pope Brown. of Hawkinsville'
has gathered and sold 1oO bales of cot
ton this year. The announcement was
made Friday night by Mr.. Brown to a
party of friends in the Kimball house,
and many Of them were greatly sur
prised to learn that one farmer had mar
keted so much Of the feecy staple so
early in the year
Mr.. Brown is one Of the most extensive
farmers IN the state and has large
number of farms in Pulaski county. Cot
ton, according to Mr.. Brown, has open
ed earlier than usual this year and this
fact accounts for his disposition of so
many bales. The price received by Mr.
Brown for the cotton was on an aver
age of cents per pound, The bales av-
eraged 500 pounds each and Mr. Brown
received. therefore, somewhere In the
neighborhood of $4,000 for the 100 bales.
Mr.. Brown will probably get two or
three hundred bales more before the
end of the season. in addition to num-
erous quantities of corn, peas sugar
cane, potatoes and other things that he
plants.
Speaking of the crop situation In his
territory, Mr.. Brown said:
I'VE have pretty good crops down our
way We did not suffer from dry weather
as much as the other sections of the state
dlu and therefore we are in little better
condition
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
BOTHA TELLS OF BRAVE
DEEDS IN THE BOER WAR

about. strengthening here and reducing
there All the time the British force was
trying to force It's way through. and It
was warm work. I can tell you.
IT and General Burger then agreed
that an attempt should be made to re-
take the kop. which was of considerable
strategic value. in the morning-the at
tack to be made from two sides. one by
myself and the other by General Burger.
We selected our men during the night
from different points, took up our posi-
lions and in the gray dawn commenced
the perilous arduous ascent. We had
only $50 men engaged. the others being in
different positions, to support, If need
should be. Commandant Prinsloo, with
the Carolina burghers, went In front,
and they bore the brunt Of the attack
They were the first to gain the summit.
and they lost pretty well half their men
in doing so. killed and wounded. The
Caroliners were support by drafts from
various other district commandos, and it
was by their united bravery, second to
the help from God himself, that the vic
tory of Spfon Kop was gained. They
succeeded in gaining their object; they
drove out the enemy, though greatly out
numbered. and after seizing the position
held 1t all through the battle. Il would
be impossible to speak too highly of
the splendid dash and courage of these
men.
ITO give you some idea of the sanguin-
airy nature of the affair, when the mist
that hung over the mountain during the
ascent lifted, the lburghers found them
selves close on the enemy's schanzes,
and many oil them seized the soldiers
rifles as they were preparing to fire on
the alarm being sounded. So close were
the combatants that the smoke from
their rifles intermingled, and for some
time there was confusion.
Eventually. however, we gained the
day. and as night descended we had
taken some 200 prisoners. The balance of
the British force of 30OO-those who were
not killed-got away with their wounded
during the night"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03

ment for Pittsburg. n other words
miner in this district Is to be taxed
to enable Pittsburg to barge coal 1000
miles. driving the miner. perhaps, thus
taxed out of employment.
If the government would spend even
100000 to open the Warrior while
It Is spending 1000 900 to open the
Ohio there would be some justice in
the proceeding, but less than a. million
a year is all that can be procured for
the Warrior, and we must wait for the
rest. With an Open Warrior this dis
trict could take care Of itself, and the
Illinois and KENTUCKY districts would
remain to be heard from. Pittsburg is
2ooO miles away from the Lower Mis-
Eissippi. and it ssouli not try to over
Genre so great a distance by general
taxttion. It is NJ just, sound or sen
sible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
Pittsburg and the Lower Missippi.

Pittsburg is not only demanding a
ship canal from Lake Erie at a fed
eral cost of about s5O,OOOOOO, but it
also wants an Open Ohio at all sea-
sons of the year to Cairo, at cost of
s20,000,000, more or less. And it will
In the long run get both, for it is in
the republican belt, and it knows how
to procure congressional appropria-
lions in wholesale lots.
Pittsburg has procured plans from
Inc United States engineers, and 1t has
begun a practical crusade in favor of
the opening of the Ohio to Cairo in a
jiffy. 1t proposes to have congress do
the work needed in five instead of
fifty years.
The proposition is simply one to
take away from western and southern
coal fields and ore mines their legit.
Innate market in the Lower Mississippi
valley and transfer it to Pittsburg.
This Is not to be done by Pittsburg for
tlttsburg, but by the national govern
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
More Currency for Crop Movements.

Secretary Shaw Is busily engaged in
pleasing and satisfying the farmers by
providing as much currency as he can
for moving the new crop Of cotton,
wheat, corn and oats. His plan con-
sists in having the national banks.
especially of the eastern cities, de-
post government bonds and take out
additional bank circulation. In this
way he proposes to increase the active
and actual circulation to the extent of
s15.OO0,0OO, and possibly to the sum
of $200O0,000. The First National
bank of Chicago has ordered $1,000, 900
in small bills printed, and the City
Bank of New York has decided to ap-
ply for like amount
It appears that Secretary Shaw has
been long-headed in this matter, for he
ordered 500, 000, 900 of bank currency
to be printed and prepared for imme-
date issue, and the banks can there
fore get all the currency they will
apply for without the customary delay
of forty days. If 100000 900 will re-
lieye any monetary stringency that
may arise, it will be relieved provided
the banks will deposit the needful
bonds. The recent rise in government
bonds goes to show that a new de-
mand for them has sprung up.
The plan in question affords con-
siderable elasticity to the national
banking system, but the banks in the
smaller cities are not overloaded with
government bonds, and are not located
where they can readily borrow them.
The banks in the large citles-the
chief money centers-will therefore be
compelled to shoulder the burden, and
as they hold to a large extent the bal
anccS of the country they can well
afford to do it They will draw inter-
est en- these bonds, on the circulation
secured upon them. and they will hold
the balances that flow from such cir
oulaticr, and thus have another chanc
10 earn interest money. All grists
come to their mills.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
CARRYING DEADLY WEAPONS.

From the New York Tribune.
One of the city magistrates has had be-
fore him so many cases of Italians who
have been in the habit of carrying con-
cealed weapons that he advises the i'm
migration officials to bestir themselves
and to give emphatic warnings to steer
age passengers from Sicily and other
parts of the Roman kingdom. He sug-
gests that It should be made clear to
these newcomers that this is a land of
peace and good WILL and not country in
which vendettas or other forms of private
vengeance can be tolerated
As a rule the Italians In this city are
Industrious, frugal and honest. Few of
them are arrested for drunkenness, for
minor cases of disorderly conduct, for
obtaining money on false pretenses, for
cheating, forging or other crimes against
property. But the official statistics OF
the police department and tho criminal
courts prove that they are too ready to
use the knife and the pistol in their pri-
vate quorrels and that too many of them
are In the habit of carrying deadly
weapons everywhere. This dangerous
practice on the part of such men must
be broken up, no matter how severe and
rigorous may be the measures necessary
to put an end to 1t.
Most OF the Italians in New York make
an extremely useful and valuable ele
ment in this great cosmopolitan me-
tropolis Most of them are peaceable and
law-abiding, but there is considerable
minority whose blood is set on fire too
readily and who are much too hasty with
revolver or stiletto when they fall out
among themselves. Such men must be
made to understand that If they believe
they have wrongs TO be redressed they
must settle such matters in our courts,
and that stabbing and shooting for re-
venge or In the fury of violent quarres
will Invariably be punished with exem-
plary severity. 1t should be brought
home to every one of them that the prac-
tice of carrying concealed weapons is u
grave offepse against the law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE

By Pakenham Beatty
By thine own souls law learn to live,
And If men thwart thee take no heed,
And II men hate thee have no care;
Sing thou thy song and do thy deed.
Hope thou thy hope and pray thy prayer,
And claim no crown they will not give,
Nor bays they grudge thee for thy hair.
Keep thou thy soul-sworn steadfast oath,
And to thy heart be true thy heart;
What thy soul teaches learn to know.
And play out thine appointed part,
And thou shalt reap as thou shalt SOW.
Nor helped nor hindered in thy growth.
To thy full stature thou shalt grow.
Fix on the futures goal thy face,
And let thy feet be iured to stray
Nowhither. but be swift to rum
And nowhere tarry by the way,
Until at last the end is won
And thou mayst look back from thy
place
And see thy long days journey done.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
DIDN'T WANT EITHER.

From the New York Times
Capt. Uriah B. Dodge. an elderly son
of the sea, who has been taking sailing
and fishing parties out from Block Is
land ever since that place has been a
summer resort. had with one of his
parties last week lovely old lady who
hates liquor worse than Carrie Nation
ever did, but the captain did not know
that. He was gazing abstractedly up at
the bellying sail of his big Cape Cod cat
boat when the old lady. waking from a
reverie, said:
Captain, have you any life preservers
on board?"
Yes marm." replied the captain. sud-
denly brought back from his day dream
ing. whisky and Medford rum. Which
will you have?"
1t took the good captain five minutes to
convince that dear old prohibtionist that
he had not insulted her, but had sim
ply put sailors Interpretation on her
question
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.



1.-THE produce merchants OF Birming-
ham do not have to deal with population
figures to know that this city is grow
Ing fast" said Morris avenue man yes
terday.
Last year was record breaker in
the country produce business, but the
volume of business this year will far
surpass anything in this line heretofore
recorded. A few years ago Alabama
Mississippi and Tennessee supplied this
market with butter and eggs and with
the bulk Of the summer and fall vege-
tables that were consumed here. 1t is
not SO today. Birmingham now draws on
the east the middle west and the north
west for its supplies. Judging from the
increased demand for food 1 would say
there were twenty or twenty-five thous-
and more people in Greater Birmingham
than were living here a year ago."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
HE WAITED.

From the Montreal Herald.
What were you doing at the time OF
your arrest?" asked the magistrate of
the prisoner.
II was waiting
waiting for whom?'
Just waiting"
What were you waiting for?'
ITO get my money"
who from?"
The man I was waiting for"
'fWhat did he owe 1t to you for?'
For waiting"
II don't know what you mean. Explain
yourself"
Il thought you knew I was a waiter
il restaurant"
oh! gasped the magistrate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
sTRIkE NEARING TIE END.
Senator Plat says It WIN Be Settled
Within Two Weeks.

New York. September 2.-senator Thos.
Plat declares in the most positive terms
that the coal strike would be settled
within the next two weeks. The question
was brought out by the query as to how
the republicans intended to treat the
strike in their state platform.
1T will not be an issue IN the cam
paign,n Senator Plat replied. 1T will be
settled within a week."
How will It be settied7 VIII there be
arbitration or will an agreement be
reached between the miners and the ope-
rators?'' was asked.
Il cannot tell now It will be settled"
Senator Platt replied. but there will be
no coal sold at SO ton this winter 1t
will surely be settled within a week, or
at the longest within two weeks from
this time"
Senator Plat declined to tell why he
was so confident that the strike was
nearing It's end.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
TEST OF AFFECTION.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
why, papa, he'd make any sacrifice
for Inc. He said only last night that II
l babe inim go Ii. would seek the uortn
pole fer me-and bring it back, too.
well, we wort test him quite so Sc
verely, my dear If he'll come up and
sit In our unwarmed parlor through the
winter. with no coal In the cellar and the
mercury wherever it may chance to drop,
we'll let him out on the arctic ordeal"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
Value Of Southern Farms.


analysed the census figures relative TO
farms and farming, and it finds that
the trend of the farmers of the coun-
try is southwark. The percentage of
farmers in the south is increasing
faster than in the rest of the country,
and the value of farm property is
rising more rapidly in this section than
elsewhere. Southern farms, too, yield
more on the investment than northern
farms. 1t shows that the south re-
ceived from its farm investment %
per cent, while the whole country re-
ceived from like interests but 1872 per
cent. These figures cover a period of
twenty years. The earnings of the
various states from farm interests
were in twenty years as follows: Mis-
sissippi, AZ per cent; Alabama. Al;
Georgia, 34.6; Arkansas, S45; South
Carolina, 2S.S; North Carolina, 29.6;
Louisiana, 27.3; Tennessee, "a; Flor
ida, $780, Texas, 204; Kentucky, 20;
Virginia. 1911, and West Virginia, 1871.
The rank of the states in net value of
products was: Texas, 1896, ,S13;
Kentucky, $94,e16,675; Mississippi,
$50, 1874, 3O4; Georgia, $79, 1862, 636; Ala
bama, $74,377969; North Carolina,
SOS, 276,768; Arkansas, s62,733,020;
Virginia, $62,O73,285; Louisiana, $54.-
1863, 1892; South Carolina, $51,92S,S52;
West Virginia, $S4, 161, 2S9; Maryland,
SIG, 719,119; Florida, $19,969,964, and
the District of Columbia, $625,OS7.
The value of lands with improve
ments increased 81 per cent in the
south and 62 per cent in the whole
country; of implements, 120 per cent
in the south, and 81 per cent in the
whole country, and of live stock, So
per cent in the south and 50 per cent
in the whole country. OF the total
increase in values in the south, 81 $751;
267,311, the increase in the value of
lands, $1,23724O,620, was TAT per
cent; live stock, $332,574,795, was 1873
per cent, and implements, $91, 451 ,956,
was ga per cent, roughly calculated.
Of the increase in the whole country,
S8,259, 1893, 626, the increase in the value
of lands, $6,417,5 50715 was 77.6 per
cent; of live stock, 1,496, 592,996, was
1872 per cent, and of implements, $343,-
255,915, was AZ per cent.
If the lands of the south were as
we'll cultivated as the lands of the
north, the former section would soon
become a land flowing with milk and
honey. Our advantages of climate and
soil have never been well utilized, but
when the pressure of population be-
comes greater in the northern states,
a tide of hardy workers will come this
way, and then southern lands will be
| turned to account and made to yield
up to their full capacity. Georgia is
showing in peach trees what is pos
sible, and Alabama will adopt similar
specialties, and farming will indeed
become a profitable and desirable oc-
cupation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
MAHoMET's VACATION.

From the New York Times.
Mahomet when asked where he would
spend his vacation. replied: "Mahomet
will so to the mountain
Upon counting his change, however, he
found that he was short, so was COM
PEELED to stay his two weeks vacation in
the city. Later on he made capital out
of the saying and was also enabled to
take trip to the seashore.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
THE PARABLE OF THE PENNIES
From the Boston Herald.

Word comes from Newport that Miss
Alice Roosevelt was so fatigued from the
entertainments of the week that she did
not appear with her host and hostess,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fulton Cutting. at
Trinity church last Sunday. And this
calls to mind the story of the little boy
who was given two pennies. one to put
into the contribution box and one to
buy candy, and he lost one of them.
Guess which one II was.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
Street Cars.

ut would be a great convenience to the
patrons of the Highland car line if the
Birmingham Railway, Light and Power
company would equip its cars with cleo
trio bells" said a prominent citizen.
1T is both bothersome and confusing to
pull the bell cord; confusing because one
is always afraid of pulling the register
cord instead of the bell cord. When the
conductor is busy collecting fares it is
not easy to attract his attention. An
electric bell button at each seat is what
is needed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
Summer Oysters.

81 have not been in the habit of eating
oysters until cool weather." said a good
liver, but the bivalves that have been
served at the restaurants here this sum-
mer have been sound and unusually fat
and l have INDUCED frequently.
sThe quality of our southern oysters
seems to improve every season. Those on
the market are better than October or
November oysters of ten years ago"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
THE REAL FRET.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
une.
do your debts worry your" asked the
Sympathetic Guy.
What l owe other people?'' said the
Willing Spender. WELL l should say
not It's what other people owe me that
botherst"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Most any girl with good figure learns
to swim young.
wise son knows enough to pretend it
Is his father who is wise.
The only cheap thing about getting
married is the price of the marriage
license.
Man has almost as much trouble with
his first cigar as woman with her first
baby.
You can tell the age of horse by his
real teeth. but not of a woman by her
false ones.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
THE THwARTlNe OF DAVID.

From the New York Times.
II see that the cartoons represent us
es Goliath" said the first trust magnate.
and the law as David coming to do us
battle"
Yes" laughed the second magnate;
but we have fixed all that"
sHow?"
THE leather trust won't sell Davia
enough material to make his Sling
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
New Methodist Church.

THE Methodists have the money in
sight to pay for a church site on the cor
ner of Eleventh avenue and Twelfth
street, and some time next winter or
spring we will probably begin to build
there" said a prominent Methodist min
lister.
THE section referred to is growing fast
and a Methodist church wouis thrive
there. Methodism is strong in all parts
of the city, and it should be a compare
lively easy matter to raise the money for
a handsome church on the South High
lands"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
LET'S sHIFT The STRAIN.

From the Los Angeles Herald.
The chief newspaper exponent of the
iron trade says: pig iron again APP
pears to be the link in the chain upon
which the heaviest strain is falling" If
nontechnical suggestions are in order
might it not be well to shift the strain
to the adult members of the iron family?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
About Persons.

John r. Ryan of Patton is at the HILL
man.
General Manager Ackert Of the South
ern will arrive in Birmingham today
Traffic officials of the Seaboard Air
Line are expected in Birmingham this
week.
]. w Richardson hos been installed as
chief clerk in the office of Superintendent
C. S. Hayden of the Southern. He has
he'd much experience in transportation
desk work His former home was at
Joliet, Ill.
Samuel Ullnan, who recently returned
from an extended visit to Europe. is be-
ing cordially greeted by his friends. As
Mr.. Ullman is a man OF keen observa-
ton, broad synpathies and ripe scholar
ship, the public would be glad to hear
him in a lecture on social. intellectual and
commercial conditions in the old country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
PRODUCTS OF KANSAS.

Frora the Chicago Record-Herald.
Kansas produces the tallest cornstalks
on earth, the largest number of cranks
to the square mile, and the most pict-
uresque statesmen that ever thundered
ger zephyrs to sport with their wanton
lamhrenlins
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
HELPING THINGS.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. McCall-Good evening, Bobby; is
your sister at home?
Bobby-I don't know. heard her tellin'
ma she expected a proposal tonight, an
If you amt the Teller I guess she amt
borna
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
WORD PAINTING IN MISSOURI.

From the indianapolis Journal.
An editor of a southern Missouri pa
per speaks thus feelingly in a recent
obituary notice: Just about daylight
the Pale Horse came to him with the
saddle and bride of righteousness. and
he straddled It and rode Home"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03

From the Syracuse Herald.
Knippe-They say that II you could ex-
tract the pure carbon from piece of
coal you would have a perfect diamond.
Tucque-Yes, but who wants to spoil
a piece of coal Just for that?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
NOT A JUMPER.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
You wouldn't jump a contract, would
you. Bugsby, old boy?"
''Who, me Me jump contract? Course
I wouldn't. l got a sprained Leg"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03
1.-THE MORNING AFTER

from Puck
Alice binding a roll of bills under her
plate)-You were out awfully late, Ar
thur. Is this conscience money?
Arthur (timidly, from behind his news
paper)-No, my dear-hush money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03

The beef trust has not yet decided
when the new corn crop will go into
effect so far as the price of beef is
concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03

Hartman and Hawley seemed to
have outwitted both Osgood and Gates
when they were not looking. Colorado
+. & 1. is a rich prize.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03

Cholera is increasing in the Philip
pines and the administration shows a
strong desire to have General Miles
get up against it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03

Mont Pelee is by no means a back
number, and the quicker the French
get out of Martinique the more French
men there will be in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03

The abundance of iron will not re-
duce the price of beef because there
is also an abundance of beef trust.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-03

Those who won are proud of Sara
togas race meeting. The other fell
lows have not been heard from.