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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
pr. Peters eratIfIed.

Dr. Madison c. Peters, the brilliant Baptist divine of Baltimore, who delivered the address last night on What the Jew Has Done for the World" stated after the lecture that he had never in his life addressed more cosmopolitan audience than that at Temple Emanuel.
 Tt Is inspiring to a speaker to have such close attention paid by representa- lives from so many various walks of life. I was very strongly impressed by seeing members of the Salvation Army college students, ministers of the gospel and orthodox Jews, as well as reformed Israilites, seated side by side and all equally interested in my theme. My lecture in New Orleans was successful, but am much more highly gratified at my reception in Birmingham"
 Dr. Peters met many of his audience after the lecture and all were unanimous in expressing the hope that he would come again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
nREYEus CALENDAR.

From the Philadelphia North American. Alfred Dreyfus was born at Mulhouse Alsace, on October g, 1859. He graduated from the French School of War" in 1882, and began his disastrous career In the army. Here in sequence of time are events marking the case famous under his name:
 1894
 October 13-Informed that he was sus- pected of having sold military secrets of France to a foreign power. December 19-Placed on trial, charged with treason.
 February 21--Deported to Devils Island, after having been condemned in secret and degraded from his rank In the army In public, where he remained in a con finement that threatened his sanity for more than four years.
 1899.
 June 3-Court of Cessation granted him a new trial.
 June l0-Left Devils Island for France. August 7-Second trial began at Rennes. Septt mber 9-Convicted again. September 20-Released from prison after pardon
 April 22-Demanded that his case be re- opened
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
Steel and Iron in Brunswick.

The Brunswick (Ga) Journal is filled with reports of the cons truction of the steel plant of the Mohawk com pany. This plant and the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad are to go for ward as joint works. The railroad is needed because this district must sup ply the Brunswick plants with fuel at poets his railroad to haul 4000 tons of raw materials from this district to Brunswick every day. He says fuel and Cuban ores can best meet at Brunswick, where steel and steel rails, produced at low figures, can command the trade of the world.
 People are coming to realize" says President Machen, that Brunswick lies directly on tidewater in the path way between the ingredients that enter into steel making, and that it Is the most convenient point, not only for assembling them, but for the distribu- tion of the finished product. The last era of hard times in this country dem onstrated that Birmingham could make pig iron cheaper than any other district in the world. Practical steel men have concluded that Brunswick Is a still more favorable location and they are willing to back their opinion with their money. Therefore it seems to me that we can conclude that the day of Bruns- wick's greatness has come"
 This is all very fine if it be true. The Iron Age is inclined to doubt the so-called economies set forth in the prospectus of the Mohawk company. The company has a capital stock of s25, 100000, and 1t proposes to issue series A bonds to the extent of $6,000,- 900, covering among other properties "42.000 acres of coal and ore lands in Cullman and Fayette counties, Ala bama." Series B bonds amounting to $10 000,v0U cover among other things 5O000 acres of coal and ore lands "in the center of the Warrior coal and iron area in the Birmingham district in Fayette and Tuscaloosa counties, Ala bama," and 50,0oO acres of the best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
INDUSTRIAL NEWS.

The little city of Battelle, on the Ala bama Great Southern railroad north of Fort Payne, is soon to be an important one in the industrial world. It is being built as result of the work of the Look out Mountain Coal and Iron company. The company is building furnaces at that point.
 Among the prominent men interested In the company are J. G. Batelle of Colum- bus, Ga., who Is president, and Erskine Ramsay of Birmingham who is vice presi dent.
 Over 200 workmen are said to be em- ployed putting up three-room houses, and the intention is to build 250 of these homes for employees. The Chattanooga Times says:
 The company backing this great enter prise has a capital stock of $750,000 which 1t will doubtless increase soon, and owns 1500 acres of valuable land. They have op- ened up three mines, running from 51 to 8s per cent metallic iron and three coal mines. The Alabama Great Southern rail- way has built sldetracks to the different mines and the company is constructing furnace railroad of It's own. An incline running up the mountain for 2700 feet with a height of 800 feet has been built, giving access to the coal mines located at its head, and running direct to the furnaces at the base of the mountain.
 The furnace will have four William Todd blowing engines and a capacity of 25O tons per day, while the battery of
 hn miners are rapidly moving Into the houses as soon as they are completed.
 There was a we'll grounded rumor In tn- dustrial circles yesterday to the effect that the Dupont Powder company of Wilmington, Del, will erect large pow der and dynamite plant near Boyles' Gap, on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. It Is said that the plant will cost between s25O GOO and $500, GOO. In addition to this, 1t is stated that the Rand Powder company, manufacturers of shells and cartridges, will be a party to the movement and will also have a plant.
 Such a move on the part of the Dupont company which is among the largest powder manufacturers in the world, d,seems the more feasible on account of the in,- mense amount of powder and dynamite consumed in this district If these prod ucts can be manufactured here as cheaply as in the north it would be very large saving of freight to have the plants nearer the consumer.
 Another phase of the rumor is that the Dupont company. which is said to be largely interested in the Birmingham Powder company, will be ns ..ulnsnta; in making some extensive improvements in the present plant of the Birmingham con corn. which is located near Vanderbilt furnace
 The Louisville and Nashville railroad is said to object to the building of pow der and dynamite plant near Boyles' Gap on account of It's close proximity to the pr roposed new shops of that road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
EMPEROR WILLIAM SEEKS
 INFORMATION ABOUT U. S

Those who read the Bible as well as the Courier-Journal may recall that Moses, in obedience to the direct command of the Lord, once sent out similar expe- dition to ''spy out the land of Canaan" ascertain what It Is and the people that dwelleth therein; whether they be strong or weak, few or many; and what the land Is that they dwell in; whether 1t be good or bad; and what cities there be that they dwell in. whether in tents or in strongholds." So particular was he about the land that he repeated his in- structions that they ascertain If 1t be fat or lean"
 The explorers obeyed their orders, spy ing out the entire region even unto He- bron where Ahiman, Shishai and Tal- maj, the children of Anak, were. The journey took them forty days, and the report of what they saw was probably not unlike that which our German visit ors will make. They said they found the land flowing with milk and honey" But, apparently fearing that their glowing de- scription of 1t should tempt too severely the cupidity of Moses and Aaron, they added as caution that "the people be strong that dwell in the land" And when Caleb said, Let us go up at once and possess 1t; for we be able 70 overcome it. 'j the other explorers replied: we be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we," representing them as giants in stature and themselves as grasshoppers in comparison.
 Whatever may have been the subse- quent triumphs of the Israelites, it should not be forgotten that these were achieved by the miraculous interposition and aid of the Lord; but the days of miracles have now passed, and 1t will not be wise for the emperor of Germany to rely hpon them in furthering whatever may ba his designs. The miracles of war are now per- formed by the most valiant soldiery and the thirteen-inch gun with the right man behind 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
Crops in the Northwest.

The northwest is the granary of the country, and its condition as we ap- proach the month of greatest germina. ton and growth, My, is important to all. It is agreed that winter wheat Is holding It's high condition of the early days of April wonderfully well. It has not deteriorated at all. In Texas and California the winter wheat crop is practically assured, and in the other states ten days more of favorable weather will put it out of harms way. crop fully up to the capacity of the Ioil is anticipated.
 The seeding of spring wheat is pro kressing in the extreme northwestern district, the only obstacle being the excessive moisture in the soil, delay ing both blowing and seeding. Possi- ply the acreage in spring wheat will be shortened little. but there is not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
LATEST PARIsIAN DANCE.

From the London Mall.
 The fickle Parisians have tired already of the cakewalk, and, in their revolt against what they now denounce as American choreography and the contor- tions of redskins in delirium,' lovers of the gavotte and minuets hail with enthus- iasm a new and charming dance entitled the dance of the veil.'
 In poetic description of this novelty the Gaulois says: Imagine young girl with folds of muslin which look like di- aphanous wings attached to the right and left of her ball corsage. The material adhering to the costume is taken in the hands, which give to it movements har- monizing with the dance, and completing it by a kind of supple and delightful CO., operation. The dancer seems to glide for ward, pushed along by the little white wings, and the luminous spangles on the dress, forming as 1t were a milky way, send back rays of light. leaving behind them a train of gold and fire.
 ''It is a slow and noble dance, with the majesty of the waltz and the harmony of pose, and tomorrow. in the dance of the veil, which has dethroned the sara band of the hams of Chicago, the young girls will open their wings and escape from the meshes of the horrible cake walk"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
 IT will be recalled that when Prince
 Henry and his suite visited this coun- try some suspicion was aroused in the minds of a few probably over-anxious patriots that the real object of the royal compliment was to ascertain the senti- ments of our German-American popula- ton and the course they would likely pur- sue in the event of war between this country and the Fatherland The tour of the prince was soon followed by the arrival of quite a number of chief officers of police, selected by the emperor him. self, who paid all expenses, with direc- tions that they visit the principal towns of this country where they might learn something and, on their return, report directly to him. Now we are to be hon ored with the presence of forty-six leading German agriculturists, theoretical as well as practical experts, who will arrive in New York about May 1, go thence to Washington, come from Washington to the Bluegrass region of Kentucky; ex- anime our horses and other stock, and continue their 10, O,OoO-mile Journey through the south and west to the shores of the Pacific, visiting slaughterhouses, grazing grounds, the irrigated plains, the fruit region of California, and return by a more northern route, taking in our vast wheat and corn fields and our flour mills
 Now, we might accuse these visitors as that great administrator and executive, Joseph of old, charged against his brethren when they visited Egypt to buy corn: "Ye are spies to see the nakedness of the land ye are come" But we shah be glad to see the tourists. quite willing that they acquaint themselves thoroughly with the resources of our country and the character of our people, 1t matters little what may be their real object.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
ENGINEERING FEATS OF
 SOME OF THE ANCIENTS

By Garrett P. serviss. In the New York
 American.
 Ants and bees are engineers by instinct man Is an engineer by invention. The difference Is stupendous. And yet mans progress In engineerings has not been all that might have been anticipated from his early achievements. The Host arts." when found again, amaze us with their approach to perfection. In Prof. W. H. Burr's Ancient and Modern Engineer ing (John Wiley. New Yorl), the reader antiquity would not have shrunk from problems as great as any that are at- tackled today. It is all a question of environment and of materials and means at command.
 The Suez canal had its predecessor three or four thousand years ago. when Egyp- tian engineers cut a channel to connect the Red sea with the Nile. Babylon the great-and the wicked-possessed engin- eering genius of the highest quality, sup plying the mighty city and it's hanging gardens" 300 feet high, with abundant water. and irrigating the vast and popu- lous plain at the head of the Persian gulf until it teemed with the richest veg citation. When Alexander swept eastward at the head of his conquering army he was astonished by the great dams of masonry that imprisoned and controlled the waters of the Tigris.
 Perhaps as long as TOGO years ago the Nile was fettered with hydraulic works comparable in effectiveness with the im- mense dam at Assuan, of which British engineers are now so proud.
 Pressed by needs like ours the ancient engineers would not have hesitated to split the Isthmus of Panama with a canal. The Babylonian engineers made some canals twenty-five or thirty feet in depth Empedocles cut vast gateway in the hills to let the Nile mud sweep away malaria from Agrigentum. Una wares he constructed a mighty fan to drive off mosquitoes.
 Everybody knows how Archimedes, sin gle handed. long defied the fleet and army of Rome in their efforts to capture Syra- cuse. Archimedes uttered the watch word of all engineering.
 Give me a place for my fulcrum and I will move the earth"
 When the aspiring engineer of our day closes his eyes he sometimes dreams of that fulcrum of Archimedes and ima- zines his hand pressing the lever that lies across 1t.
 When the impossible loses it's power to daunt. the realm of the possible expands.
 The greatness of the engineering achievements of 5000 years ago compels us to go further. If you stand still on the slope of Mont Blanc the glacier will bear you downward. We need not i'm itate the pyramids. but we must do greater things else in the end we shall prove no better than the ants and bees. which take no thought but to follow an- cestral lines. In engineering, as in all the works of life 1t is fatal to rest on the laurels of ancest If those laurels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
TYPHOID FEVER CASES
 REDUCED BY FILTRATION

connection with cholera infantum have attracted a great deal of attention in Europe and America His latest work upon the relation of typhoid epidemics and typhoid mortality to water filtration should be carefully studied by all in au- thority who are responsible for the water we drink
 Professor seibert has analysed the death rate from this diseake in several of the larger cities of Eufope, among them Hamburg and Berlin, and shows that for ten years prior to the installation of filter plants the death raHe reached as high as one in every 26Oo iAhabitants. For the six years after filtered water was furnished the death rate sanik to one in 11,000.
 In the United States, in those cities where the water supply is derivdd from well-known polluted sources, as is the case with Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chi cago and St. Louis, the necessity for thorough filtration is emphasized All hygienists recognize the fact that there Is no absolute immunity from typhoid infection except where the organisms are killed by boiling; yet there Is so mulch protection secured from thorough fi1tlka- ton that no water supply to any conp- munity should be without filtratidp plant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
THE RINGING ROLL OF "DIxlE.'

By Frank l.. Stanton. The old brigades fnarch slower now-ths
 boys who wore the gray But there's life an battle-spirit in host
 O them today They hear their comrades caliin' from the
 white tents far away, An answer with the ringin' roll of
 'Dixier' They feel the old-time thrill of 1.-the bat
 tle-plains they see,- Again they charge with Jackson, an face
 the fight with Lee; An the shoutin' hills are answered by the
 thunders of the sea When they rally to the ringin' roll of
 ''Dixie!" The battle fields are voiceless-once wet
 with crimson rain; Der unknown graves of heroes wave
 golden fields of grain But phantom forms--they leap to hfer
 and cheer the ranks again, Far-answering to the ringin' roll of
 'Lixie!'' Beat, drums! the old-time chorus; an
 bugles, blow your best; And wave. o, flags they loved so we'll
 above each war-scarred breast. Till they vanish down the valley to their
 last, eternal rest, Still answering to the ringin' roll o3F'
 "Dixier'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28

and then he would see that in compari- son with the prices of today things to eat are almost given away" said T. J. Will son of Virginia at the New Willard to a Star man recently. Why, during the days of '64 you had to carry basketful of money to buy enough meats and veg etables for a family dinner. And It was the same way if you took your best girl to supper after the theatre.
 Tn looking over some old documents the other day I came across price list of articles served by the old Oriental restaurant at Richmond. The priee- that prevailed then seem worse than rob bery now to those not acquainted with the then existing conditions. For instance plate of soup cost just s1.5o. Think of thati And 1t wasn't green turtle soup. For an order of turkey or chicken, you were taxed $3 50, while for roast beef you paid S3 an order. If you had an appetite for rockfish you could get plate of 1t for s5. Fried oysters also commanded the same price Pure coffee was 8 per cup, pure tea g and fresh milk g. Bread and butter was worth s1 50 per order. The cheapest articles on the nSt were caD- bage and potatoes; an order of either cost s1. Ham and eggs was a popular dish at tS.50 A dozen on the half shell brought s5. But it was the drinkables that brought fancy prices. A cold bottle of champagne or Madeira cost $50 sherry was worth so5, port s2b and claret $2O Malt liquors were high in proportion. Port and ale could not be had under SIP per bottle; half bottles were sold for $s. Whisky and brandy were sold by the drink French brandy was dispensed over the bar or at the table for 8 a drink. Havana ci- gars, good ones, were worth $1 apiece. And in those days we heard nothing of a beef trust or whisky trust. When you consider the service given by the leading hotels of the country and the amount of money invested by tho companies that own them think the prices of today are reasonable. and that 1t is not good for them to register kick every time the waiter hands you a check for a we'll cooked meal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28

much of the spring wheat district in which corn can be grown, flax being the only crop that could be substi- tuted to any material extent. It is safe to say that all the land will be seeded to spring wheat that can be ploughed and seeded.
 The best judges say the acreage in corn will be just about normal-that is to say, trifie below the excessive acreage of last year. The blowing for corn will be actively pushed this week, and there are two more weeks in which corn can be planted without trenching upon final crop results. The abandoned wheat acreage of last year was turned over to corn production. This will not be the case this year. The corn acre. age will be reduced to the normal corn breadth, and under ordinary weather conditions there would be a normal crop.
 The seeding of oats is progressing, and no doubt the acreage will be well maintained if wet weather does not interfere with spring work All in all the oats crop has not had a favorable start, the soil being wet and cloddy over large areas in the various states that ordinarily produce a surplus of oats.
 These conditions relate to the north west where the great surplus cereal crops of the country are grown. Farm work as a whole is well advanced, and all are hopeful that this will be an- other year of abundant crops, and therefore of pervading and irresistible prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
Froln the New York sur.

Nrom the New York Sun.
 XNAN more than one occasion during k9| the last year the Sun has called
 the attention of it's readers to the fact that drinking water Is the chief carrier of the germs of typhoid fever. A serious outbreak of this disease in one of the most popular private military schools in the United States was then in progress, many of the pupils were stricken down, and several died. It was shown then that the water supply to this institution was from an artesian we'll carefully guarded from contamination. and yet a defective sewerage pipe was discharging It's myraids of typhoid germs into this we'll.
 The relation of the water supply to this disease has again been emphasized by the deplorable epidemic still prevailing at Ithaca, while another serious outbreak is now raging in neighboring city in Pennsylvania.
 In the New York Medical Journal of November 2s. 1902, is a very interesting publication upon this subject by Prof A. Seibert, M. D., of the New York Poly clinic Medical school and Hospital, an active practitioner of medicine in this city and a recognized authority on hy- giene. His studies here and abroad in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
Mixture of Royal Blood.

''The King of Portugal, who recently entertained King Edward. and especially his son, represent an interesting mixture of royal blood" said former subject of the British crown.
 "King Carlos is only partially Latin ized. He Is not only a distant cousin of King Edward, but he Is a near blood re- lation of Prince Ferdinand of Roumania. The crown prince of Portugal represents a singular combination of families, as he is partially Portuguese. German Italian and French. He has a greater mixture of royal blood than any other''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-28
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
The Episcopal Council.


 The diocesan council of the Protestant Episcopal church in Alabama will meet In Trinity church, Demopolis, May 6. The Right Rev. c. M. Beckwith will preside for the first time and there Is every promise of a very full attendance of lay as well as clerical delegates.
 The council met last year in St. Mary's- on-the-Highlands in Birmingham. Among the important questions that were re- ferred to committees at that meeting was one concerning the division of the diocese. Another was in regard to the erection or purchase of a residence for the bishop fin Birmingham. The late Bishop Barnwell had signihed his desire to have an official residence and his wishes would have been carried out The new bishop has not yet made any public announcement as to where he will elect to have his residence. It is hoped by the Episcopalians of this oity that he will elect Birmingham. If he does there will be no trouble about raising the money to provide him with a handsome home.