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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
Apples and Peaches.

"We will have good fruit crops next summer remarked an old Jefferson county farmer at the Metropolitan.
 q make the statement because have observed for nearly a half-century that when many leaves remain on the fruit trees during the winter big crops follow. You will find leaves on the peach and ap- pie trees now. When the trees are en- tirely bare of leaves we have poor crops of frui-. I am not up on science, but my sign never fails
 Here Is another thing I have found to be true: A second crop of apples In season has a finer flavor than the first crop. Cinda Profit, a negro, has a little orchard in Newton, near Smithfeld. This is the third season that a certain one of her trees has borne q second crop. About Christmas time it was loaded with ap- pies. I ate one of them and it was the best apple l have tasted this winter. Every now and then I come across a second crop apple and invariably the flavor is choice"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10

Philadelphia Special to the N. Y. World
 A stupendous increase in capital is planned by President A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania railroad. At the annuai meeting on March 10 the stockholders will be asked to authorize an addition to the capital stock of the company to make the aggregate $400, GOO, ,000 and an increase of the bonded indebtedness by a like amount.
 Authority is to be conferred upon the board of directors absolutely to issue as 1t may from time to time order and pre- scribe, securities to the enormous total of $4S6, ,570. 760, par value. The present capi- talization of the company, as represented by stocks and bonds outstanding is $32S, 429,240. After March 10 the total author ized amount of the Pennsylvania Railroad company's stock and funded indebted ness will be $50, 900.
 Formal notice to stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad company concern ing the contemplated increase in capital is given in a notice to be advertised to- morrow morning. In explanation of what is proposed the following statement was given out by the company:
 "The object of the notice to the stock holders is to provide sufficient working capital for the future and give the board the power to issue the same from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
FARMS MAKING FORTUNES.
oklahoma Has One of 5o,ooo Acres.
 Large Income.

From Golfers Weekly.
 The officer of every immense corpora tion comes in for his share of the world s industry in the west who are doing things in the world of work and finance that are equally as worthy as the trust magnates. The management of a 50,0O0-acre farm the largest under one fence in the United States-is a task that becomes appalling in its immensity when one comes to con- slider all details.
 Joseph Miller, man yet under 30 years of age, has taken up the task of run ning'' the famous "101' ranch in north ern Oklahoma. Indeed, he has been oper- ating it quite successfully Tor the past four years, but under decreased pressur e. This season the throttle has been thrown wide open and the ground was relieved of it's noblest working power-the pro- duction of crops. MT. Miller pays the Ponca and Otoe tribes of Indians $32, 300 annual rental for his 50,000-acre farm; other running expenses amount to S75, 900 annually. The profits for 1901 were S150,- GOO. This year 13,000 acres were sown in wheat: 5000 in corn and 5000 in forage crops.
 Ine lnCOIlt Ol bilS IdlfCH ID liO1il $tuu,OUU to s500,0OO annually. The profits upon wheat are from $40, GOO to $50,OO0 annually. The profits upon steers is even more.
 Two hundred men find employment up- on this vast ranch and $33,000 worth of tools and machinery are used in caring for the grain harvests. Four hundred head of mules are used in the fields and in herding steers.
 MT. Miller has mastered economies of farming to such a degree of perfection as Is making the '101'' ranch noted as the most profitable farm property in the west. He has system of double planting of the corn fields that gives double use to the land. For instance, after corn has been laid by in the midsummer between the rows 0 full crop of COW peas is sown. By the time corn Is harvested the cow peas have grown high enough to make good pasturage. Also, after the cutting of what in June and July the fields are ploughed and sown in Kaffir corn. This is ready for pasturage in October, but the field is first drilled in wheat and then the cattle are allowed to tramp in the wheat and nibble off the blades of corn. During the winter. after the corn has been eaten away, the wheat grows up, and it, too, is pastured until spring. This system of getting two returns from a single field Is an idea originated by Mr. Miller. It is the most successful plan of making money out of farming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
Surplus of the Year,

The calendar year shows a govern ment surplus of just about $75,OO0,OO0, despite wholesale repeal on July 1 of war taxes, and the expenditures of an extravagant congress. This result was due to an increase in customs. Imports are heavy, and the govern ment receipts from that source alone were $23,67O,O00 last month. The gains in customs in the six months just ended more than made good the losses in internal revenue and from miscellaneous sources.
 If expenditures were not so rapid. ly increased by congress, another re- auction in taxation would become im- perative. but every tariff protected interest urges increased appropria- tions in order that an excuse may be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
 TO EXTEND $500, O,OOO,OOO

time to time as the corporate needs of the company may require. The present outstanding capital stock Is about $203,- 0O0,OO0 and about $35OOO,OO0 more have to be reserved for the convertible bonds that were Issued last year, making about s23S, 100000 in all and leaving only about $13, GOO of surplus stock available.
 Tt is therefore deemed prudent to do now what was done about thirty years ago-that Is, in 1873, when the stockhold- CTS practically authorized the stock to be increased to about double the amount then outstanding, to be issued at such times as 1t may be needed, and also gave the board the power to issue bonds to the same aggregate amount, from time to time, but not in excess at any time of its outstanding capital stock.
 With the present policy of the conn., pany; namely, that of securing the capi- tai needed from the shareholders through allotments of stock, it Is not probable that this latter power will be availed of; but as it requires a majority vote of the entire body of shareholders to authorize the increase of capital stock and increase of indebtedness, it is deemed better that lction should be taken on both matters at the annual meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
The Trick in the pingley Tariff.

From the Springfield Republican.
 There is nothing particularly surprising in the news from Washington that all of the pending reciprocity treaties are likely to be hung up for the rest of the session. Three of the treaties engage es- pecial attention-the Cuban, the French and the Newfoundland. Considered sing ly, any one of these treaties might possi- bly, go through the senate. The opposi- tion to one is not identical with the oppo- stion to any of the others. Mr. Lodge is opposed to the Newfoundland treaty, but would vote for the Cuban. MT. Aldrlch of Rhode Island Is opposed to the French treaty, but would doubtless vote for the Cuban and Newfoundland treaties. El- kins. Burrows and others of the beet su- gar persuasion might vote for the French and Newfoundland treaties, but are dead set against the Cuban. And so Mir. Lodge, rather than see the Newfoundland treaty succeed; and MT. A1drich, rather than see the French treaty succeed; and Messrs. Elkins and Burrows, rather than see the Cuban treaty succeed;-may quiet ly join hands to see that none of them succeed.
 This Is the situation as 1t now appears to observers at the capital. It is of in- terest not merely as bearing on our rea- tions with and promises to Cuba. It shows how hollow is the pretense and how vain the hope that the republican party will ever revise the tariff in the direction of lower duties and larger trade For if 1t will not reduce the tariff in spots through reciprocity, to which it Is for mally committed, how can 1t be expected to undertake general reduction.
 The high rates imposed by the Dingley act have had the excuse of being made so for purposes of trading in reciprocity. But now that they are well fastened upon the country, modification through recip- rocity is denied. This is not statesman ship. It is not even decent politics. It is trickery of pretty low order. The so- called friends of the tariff can be de- pended on never to revise 1t except in an upward direction. Revision will have to come, if at all, through the so-called enc. miessof the tariff, who, after all, are like ly to prove its best friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
Gould Railroads in the Southeast.

Special dispatches state that the growing Gould system of railroads is preparing to burst from Its accus- toned southwestern shell, for sthe pur- pose of covering the rest of the coun- try. It is seeking an entrance into Pittsburg, and tidewater in that di- rection, and it has crossed the Mis- sissippi at Natchez, where it has pur- chased valuable terminal rights, and the charter of the Natchez and South ern railroad. This Is interpreted as the beginning of an effort to build lines in the southeast, using Natchez as a connecting link between the southeast and its network of south western roads. The Gould system already has terminals at New Or leans and Memphis, and the purchase of valuable rights at Natchez must mean that the southeast is to become tributary to the great scheme of the Gould interests.
 This entry of the Gould roads at Natchez deserves attention in this district. Natchez is practically as near Birmingham as Vicksburg is, and a direct line to Natchez and the Gould system would prove valuable addition to the railroad faculties of this district, for the Gould interests now own the New Orleans and North western, which extends from a point on the river opposite Natchez to their other lines in the upper part of Louis iana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
rR1 ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER W ALABAMA
She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow; she hath Dean's wit.
 Romeo and Juliet.
lmmiuration Bureau,

The German Immigration Society will endeavor to induce the legisla- ture to establish an immigration bu- reau at an annual cost of $10,000, the head of the bureau to receive $1,S00. The state needs farmers, especially farmers who will grow something be- sides cotton, and President Lesser's society was organized in the hope that German farmers, as well as western farmers, could be induced to take hold of alabama lands and grow prod ucts adapted to Lhls climate and home needs.
 If, for example, enough henneries, dairies and truck gardens could be established in the state to supply the needs of this district, the state would be quickly repaid for any reasonable outlay that might be made. A con stant stream of money flows out of this district to Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and other states, every dol lar of which could be kept at home If 1000 German farmers would come in and give their efforts to the produc- tion of milk, garden products, eggs and chickens. The soil of the valleys in this district quickly responds to in telligent, careful and thorough cultiva- tion, and one thousand good farmers could stop the drain of our earnings to other states. Nearly all mineral districts are bleak, rocky and barren, but this district is full of valleys that were naturally productive and that would become so again in competent and energetic hands.
 The legislature should decide this question on its economic merits. If an appropriation of $10,000 a year for four years would bring into this dis trict 1000 truck farmers, the invest ment would be a good one, and cer- tainly this district is entitled to con sideration, for 1t pays no small part of the state taxes, including the
 school tax
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
BEET SUGAR MEN CONFER.
Will Wait Upon Committee Report Be- fore Taking Definite Action.

Washington, January 9.-W. S. Hum- phrey, H. H. Hatch and James G. Me- Pherson representing the beet sugar in- terests of Michigan, held a conference today in the committee room of Senator Burrows for the purpose of deciding on a course of action with reference to the Cuban reciprocity treaty. After the meet ing they announced that they had decided to wait until after the committee on for eign relations should make its report on the treaty before deciding on a line of action. They expressed themselves in sympathy with the skeptica terms as to the possibility of securing any substan- tial guarantee that there would be no reduction for the next five years beyond the 20 per cent provided by the treaty saying that their principal fear lay in the operation of the clause which pro- tects Cuban sugar to the extent of 20 per cent over all other sugars.
 The men say they had made no can vases of the senate and would make none until after the committee reports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
HE KNEW SPANISH.
A Warrior Who Learned the Lan-
 guage From the Natives in Cuba.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Like all wars the difficulty with Spain developed crop of warriors like Bret Hartes man who was with Grant. They are yet returning from Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
 A consequential small negro stepped into a drug store on Chestnut street to buy something they did not keep, and, having been made to understand that fact after considerable trouble, he remarked to the man who had waited on him:
 "I see dars a gentleman jest come hyar to Establish a class an teach Span ish. Pears like ter me eff de peoples hyar wants ter learn how ter speak Spanish dey'd better des go ter Cuby an Forty Rikey an roun' an learn hit des laik did-by extrac' wid de peoples"
 50 you have been to Cuba and Porto Rico, have you?'
 "Oh, yes; yes, sah. Tze trabled mighty near all ober de worr myself"
 "whereabouts in Cuba did you go?'
 "Des all ober. Ev'rywhar neahly"
 -"well, what places did you visit?"
 'I was in de city of Havanner an od- der cities. In fac, was des all ober der place.
 Did you go to Cobra di Capello?"
 "Oh, yes.- I members dat place berry well. Hits right on de coas'."
 "Then there's town way in the in- terior-right almost in the middle. Let's sec What is the name of 1t? Boa Con strictor? That's it-Boa Constructor. Did you go there?'
 You des bet I did. Dey was com sergent camp dere, and was sent wid a 'spatch to de gin'ral. I members dat place mighty we'll"
 And did you ever happen to get 10 Canine de Hydrophobia?"
 Law. yes. Our rigimunt was campeo dar. Oars nice spring rignt Ill ue obersk,1rts ob de town, an tell you we enjoyed drinkin' dat watah. Dats d hice place."
 "You learned to speak Spanish right along, did your
 Laws a massy, mister, learned to sneak Spanish des as well as de nativi- files an dey all said so. spanish ain [ no hard langwig. All you got ter do is ter make 1t soun des as little like your own langwig as you can, an youse got it'' \.
 Then the man behind the counter who speakes Spanish pretty well, addressed him in language wnlcn, peing lnterpre- ted, expressed the thought, You are a low down, contemptible. worthless per- son.
 ..Yes. sah; dat's hit You'se got hit boss. Whar'n de worl did you learn Spanish? Yes, sah. Oats de trufe what you says But Tze got ter go to de pos office right erway." And thus speaking, the learned traveller and linguist de- parted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
THE PARADOX OF TIME.

By Austin Dobson. Time goes, you say? An, no! Alas, time stays, we go.
 Or else, were this not so, What need to chain the hours, For youth were always ours?
 Time goes, you say?-ah, no! Ours is the eyes deceit Of men whose flying feet
 Lead through some landscape low; We pass, and think we see The earth's fixed surface flee;
 Alas, Time stays-we go! Once, in the days of old, Your locks were curling gold,
 And mine had shamed the crow; Now. in the self-same stage, We've reached the silver stage
 Time goes, you say?-ah. no! once. when my voice was strong, l filled the woods with song,
 To praise your ''rose'' and snow; My bird that sung is dead; Where are your roses fled?
 Alas, Time stays-we go! See in what traversed ways, What backward fate delays
 The hopes we used to know: Where are our old desires An, where those vanished fires?
 Time goes, you say?-ah. no! How far, how far. o Sweet, The past behind our feet
 Lies in the even-glow! 7 Now, on the forward way. Let us fold hands and pray;
 Alas. Time stays-wa soi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10

or sabot. Do you know that great many
 diseases are due to leather shoes-due
 to the wearing all day long of tight leather that is often. in bad weather, water soaked? And do you know that by the wearing of wooden shoes, which keep the feet dry and which do not draw" all those diseases might be avoided? I have several pairs of sabots, and so have my wife and children. They cost about 30 cents pair, and keep the feet dry, with out cramping them or making them un- healthiy tender. I believe that the wisest thing Americans could do would be to take up the sandals and the sabot. dis carding altogether the shoe of leather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 When man marries his debt begins.
 A man is as useful in a sick room as an automobile in church pew.
 Most men find it very easy to make love to all women except their wives.
 A woman's idea of a perfect husband is one who thinks he has a perfect wife
 There are very few people who learn resignation until they have tried every thing else and failed.
 So many people are busy with other peoples business that they have no time to attend to their own.
 The man who always tells his wife he Is sorry he was so cross when she scoded him is bound to get along in the world by making friends.
 One reason why bad boys don't get caught with the old trick Of giving them Bible with money between the leaves is because they fling it into a corner and the money falls out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
A Banks Record Day.

"The deposits of the First National bank have often run considerably over s4,c0O,000 in the last few months, but to- day the record was beiIten when the de- posits went above the four-and-a -a-half- million mark" said a director yesterday afternoon.
 ITO be exact, or almost exact, the First Nationals deposits at the close of busi- ness footed up four million. five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars and some odd cents.
 Business is usually dull during the fiji st ten days or two weeks of January but 1t Is not so this year. Trade has been remarkably brisk ever since the first Of the year, and il will continue brisk from now until summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
WILCOX IN STRANGE CELL,
His Removal to Hartford Was Guarded
 Very Carefully.

Elizabeth City N. C., January 9.-James B. Wilcox lies in strange cell tonight. He was carried to Hertford, the scene of his new trial, today. His removal was guarded carefully. The authorities car ried him in closed carriage to the out skirts of the city and several hours elapsed before the removal became known to the reporters.
 This will be the second trial of Wilcox he having been convicted at the first trial of the murder of Miss Nellie Crop sey, young woman on wriom he called one night and of whom no trace was found from the time she was last seen with young Wilcox until her dead body was found in the river near her home
 Wilcox was granted new trial by the State Supreme court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
DURBAR FESTIVITIES END.
Small But Brilliant Reception Given By Lord Curzon of KeddIestone.

Delhi, India, January 9-A small, bril- liant reception, closing the durbar fes- tivities was given here this evening by the viceroy, Lord Curzon of Keddlestone to the native princes. The Duke of Con naught and the Duchess of Connaught were present and they spent some time in bidding farewell to the guests of the evening.
 Lord Curzon has conveyed his official thanks to all persons who were con- eerned in the durbar.
 Following an order of King Edward coronation medals of gold will be pre- sented to the ruling princes of India and to a few foreigners.
 Two thousand silver coronation medals will be given to other persons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10

H\T city declare that whatever the conditions may be in Philadel- phia the women of St. Louis are not addicted to gambling. cigarette smoking and wine bibbing. A notable exception however, is Mrs. L. J. Silva, of No. 1O11 North Whittier street. She was once a prominent figure in the society world, and since the loss of her fortune has been a successful architect. Mrs. Silva said:
 T am sure that the conditions com plained of by the Rev. MT. Richardson are growing more and more apparent here. While I do not go out much now adays, I know it to be a fact that gam bling is increasing among the women who move in what is known as good so- ciety. I could name 800 women of St. Louis who belong to clubs which meet weekly or oftener for the sole purpose of playing poker and bridge whist Large stakes are played for at these meetings and hard feelings sometimes prevail. I know women who are accus- toned to winning or losing as much as $2OO a week at poker parties. I also know women who have been obliged to pawn their jewels to pay their poker debts or to pay their dressmakers' bills because they had lost at gambling the money their husbands had given them to settle their accounts.
 At these gambling parties cocktails, toddies brandies. wines and beer are imbibed by 30 per cent of the women who belong to the morning, afternoon and evening whist and poker clubs. It IS quite common for fashionable women to take 'hracerS, arising in the mOrn-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
THEY WERE TOO YOUNG.

Washington Cor. in New York World.
 When Senator Pettus of Alabama, sl years old. announced that he was can didate for reelection. he had as com petitors ex-Govenor Oates. aged 65, and two other Alabamians aged respectively down.
 After the election ex-Governor Oates made speech at a gathering attended by all the candidates.
 "The trouble with us." said the ex- governor, indicating with a sweep of his hand the T and the 7o-year-old candi- dates. lis that the state of Alabama thinks we are too young to go to the senate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
Large Crowds Attend Poultry Show.

Huntsville, January 9-(SpeciaI)- Large crowds have been attending the annual exhibition of the North Alabama Poultry and Pet Stock association. Judge F. J. Marshall announced the rewards last night and a large majority of the premiums were given Huntsville poul- try. However. fine fowls from neighbor- ing towns secured a fair share of prizes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
COMING TO THE FRONT.

From the Selma Times.
 The younger element of the democratic party in congress is trying to displace Richardson as the leader of the minority in that body. Either Williams of Missis- sippi or Underwood of Alabama is likely to succeed him. That young man, Un- derwood, Is coming to the front pretty rapidly these days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-10
pr. Parker's Blast Against Tobacco

From the Westmlnster Gazette.
 The late Dr. Parker regarding smok- ing; "I hate smoking From one end to the other 1t is a nuisance. It ends in can cer. apoplexy, bad temper, bankruptcy, and almost in hydrophobia. It is an in- vention of the devil. It is the devil. It is the pastime of perdition No dog smokes. No bird pines for tobacco. No horse is a member of pipe club. Nc intelligent person ever puts cigar in his mouth The whole idea and practice of smoking must be condemned as atheist ical. agnostical. and infinitely detesta- ble.'' Mir. Spurgeon's T smoke to the glory of God form an interesting coun- terblast to Dr. Parksr's diatribe.