The age-herald., 1902-03-23

Teckoned without tteir host It may be. however that they have placed me here upon the principle announced by the young boy in the country. who told his mother that he had set the brindle hen on two dozen eggs. Why his mother said, 'y6u don't expect her to hatch two dozen eggs, do you? The boy replied: Oh mol but I just wanted to see the darned old thing spread herself"
 "Surpassingly great as is the toast of Alabama, he theme has been handled tonight with a wizards touch. True though 1t be that her hills and valleys are as beautiful as those that dwelt about Jerusalem; and her fields so fertile that agricultural bounty bursts unbiddeD from the bosom of the earth; and her mineral resources so fnconceivable that the mind of man is staggered in conte1n- plation of the stupendous wealth that yet Is unexplored and her mighty waterways only awaiting the opportunity which gov ernmental justice will confer to open her great commercial oenters to the traffic of the seas; and her men are loyal, brave. patriotic and true as ever poised a lance or barred @ blade in honor's quest; and her women so lovely noble, pure and sublime that the sculptors, painters, poets and historians Who have kept the records of the ages have failed to find their peers in all the periods of the past-though all this be true the half is still untold.
 Future of State.
 'An of us realize (and the members of your association know better than any | class of mem the length and breadth and l depth of our present greatness as a com monwealth. The splendor of today is | thrice-told tale; but what of the days that | are before us? What of the glorious pos abilities that in the dawning of the cen tury, are gliding the Armament of our future and thrilling the patriotic pulses of our people? What of the dazzling sun light of opportunity that irradiates the landscape before our eyes and spreads there a grand and glowing panorama? This of it and more: The half million girls and boys who, under an increasing 1 educational equipment are being afforded the widest facility for learning, will lltt higher and higher the composite inteli- gence of our citizenship and gradually dispel the clouds of ignorance and illit- eracy; and then the best intellectual en- | deavors of Alabama's S manhood will be eX- pended for the welfare of the state. The mighty empire of coal and iron and steel | of which Birmingham is the imperial city. l will continue to extend its power until its uneXampled products shall be known on every sea and startle the markets Of the world.
 "'The Black Warrior and the Bigbee, l made naNlSaDl6 anu pelltiA dbl6 to SiiN very heart of that mineral Fl Dorado, will bear a constant and continuous line l of commerce to find it's outlet at this gate way to the gulf And then when that grand project, authorized by legislation, which our senior Senator only few days since placed in triumph upon the calen- 1 dar of the Senate. is complete, and the l Nicaragua canal shall connect the oceans the Orient, Mobile will be the commercial l emporium of all this Southern land of 1 ours; and Birmingham, Montgomery, Sel- ma, Demopolis, Tuscaloosa and all their sister cities sharing the prosperity
 Alabamas only seaport, will pour then' export products into the lap of the Queen City of the Gulf as into commercial vestibule, marking the entrance to the trade and traffic of the world.
 "When that time comes-and come II will-we shall begin to realize what Ala 1 bama can expect from the cornucopia ot l the future, and, in some degree, to eaten 1 the impulse of her glorious destiny
 Birmingham By McCary.
 Following MT. Samuel P. Jones, the l National President of the Association, MT J. H. McCary answered to the toast of "Birmingham." MT. McCary asserted he was but plain business man, yet plain business men sometimes rise to a degree of oratory quite surpasslng all past efforts when called upon to tell or so great and gloriously-futured city as Birmingham. He told of the vast re- sources of the city and made an exceed