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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
SPOOL-COTTON-MAkING IN FLA,
m the New York Commercial.

From the New York Commercial
 It is gratifying to note through an ar- ticle in the Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville that the growers of sea-is- land cotton In Bradford county have en- tered vigorously into a movement look ing to the erection of a cotton mill in Starke, the chief town of that agricul- tural county. No information is conyey- ed as to whether or not their purpose is to engage in the weaving of cloth or simply the spinning of thread-but the latter would seem the more probable as the sea-island product is peculiarly adapted for that and Is so worked up to a great extent In this and foreign coun- tries. There is not mill for the manu- fracture of cotton thread anywhere with in thousand miles of the sea-island plantati ms; and these Bradford county planters, says our Florida CO., temporary. standing isolated and alone with little to bring them together. save the inevit- able necessity for self-protection. have at last seen the folly of shipping the raw material and buying the manufac- tured."
 And after quoting from the Commer- cial recent article on the exceptional ly good profits In the manufacture of spool cottons, the Time; Union says:
 This movement Gin Bradford county) Is significant. It Is clear that the impulse toward organization and cooperation comes in this case from within, and not from without; and that whatever may be the fate of the Starke enterprise, it will owe its existence to native energy and local capital, which must in turn pro- fit by such returns the proposed in dustrial venture may yield.
 The Starke region Is a rich one agri- culturally, but its resources are largely undeveloped. There has been compara- lively little immigration from the north and west into that section. but the peo- pie are enterprising, practical and am- bilious. And it would not therefore be such very strange thing if the cotton growers of Starke should be the first in the sea-island belt to manufacture their product in factories contiguous to the plantations. They may yet demonstrate to the spinners of New England and the United Kingdom that the cracker can do all that the Yankee and the Scot can -and perhaps do 1t a little bit better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
Ncrth Carolina senatorship,

More than usual interest is shown by politicians in the outcome of the senato- rial fight in North Carolina" said for mer resident of the Tar Heel state. "The democratic legislature of North Carolina will meet on January 20 to elect a success sor to Senator Jeter c. Pritchard.
 "The case is interesting in that five democrats of the state are making a de- termined fight for the office, and also be- cause of the prediction that black horse Is likely to win. The candidates who are now in the field are Lee s. Overman of Salisbury Cyrus B. Watson of Winston. Lock Craige, Julian s. Carr and Judge William A. Hoke of Lincoln county. It is said that the strength of these men is distributed In such a way as to insure deadlock in joint caucus of the legsla- ture, in which event a candidate not yet spoken of may step In and win.
 Those who are paying close attention to the situation say that in the event deadlock results and prolonged fight is in prospect there are excellent chances that Matthew W. Ransom. formerly a senator from North Carolina for several terms will enter the contest and that he will be able to gather enough votes from each faction to insure his election. Mir Ransom does not have much to say concerning the subject, but his friends are looking forward to the contest with great expectations.
 Tt is said by close observers that MT. Overman at present has more votes pledged to him than any of the other candidates. Seventy-one votes Is the num- Der necessary to elect, but MT. Overman's s managers do not claim to have this strength in hand yet Their purpose, how ever, is said to be to force, if possible. his election upon the first ballot, but this cannot be done.
 MT. Carr is the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of North Carolina. He op posed M. Mel. Simmons in the senatorial campaign of two years ago and made a creditable fight although MT. Simmons finally vanquished him..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
THE MACkAY OPERA WAGON.

From the New York Press
 In the effort of the fashionable element to obtain luxuries, the great roomy car riage for use at night has been discard ed and opera wagons are now used. They are large electric vehicles, with seats cross-wise like the Fifth avenue stages, and are upholstered in seal leather. The Clarence H. Mackays own one of the fn- est models, although it has not been in commission since the death of John w Mackay. The Mackay wagon combines every recent improvement, and the venti- lating appliances are along the same line as modern Pullman car. In Cais way men smoke in the carriage without an- moving the women. To stimulate smok- ing on one side of the stage is an oaken box filled with cigars and cigarettes and equipped with sponges to produce moist ure. Then there is a secret door below the smoke chest that conceals a tiny cup board, where are powder puffs, smelling salts and other conveniences for feminin- ity. Eight people may sit in the opera carriage without crowding, and the motor is one of the most perfect that ever were imported from France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
Lookers-On.

People never tire of watching The con struction of sky-scrapers," remarked an archtect yesterday.
 When the Woodward building was go- ing up as many as two hundred men were often assembled at the corner of First avenue and Twentieth street, gag ing at the structure. Few persons pass the corner of Third avenue and Twenty first street without stopping to look at the Title Guarantee steel frame building now In course of construction. And judg- ing from the crowd standing on Twenti- eth street today to watch the raging of the old houses on the Mcdonald site, hun dreds of people will be on hand when the First National bank building begins to go up.
 Speaking of the Title Guarantee build ing, the mottled terra cotta used for the first story makes a beautiful effect. Mot tied brick a shade lighter than the terra cotta will be used on the other stories" |"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
Events of the Old Year.

The old year was prosperity year. Every leading fact in the commercial world testifies to this, and all the con- mercial agencies and journals join in the chorus. It was also a war-ending year, and these two features are enough to make all say it was a good year as years go.
 It's incidents were not numerous or exceptionally important. A new con gress was elected, the republicans maintaining their ascendancy in both houses. To some extent the cabinet was reconstructed, MT Shaw becoming the secretary of the treasury, MT. Payne postmaster general, and MT. Moody secretary of the navy. In other countries King Edward was crowned, King Alphonso of Spain came to the throne, and both France and England secured new premier5, without any change in party relations.
 The dead of the old year include Cecil Rhodes, who left great educa- tional bequest to the Teutonic world: Zola, the novelist; Krupp, the cannon maker, and Thomas B. Reed, who was great even on the political retired list.
 The year will be recalled because, first, of the completion of the great Assouan dam in Egypt, but chiefly be- cause of the success of Sig Marconi in sending messages through the air across the Atlantic. This peerless achievement really saves the prosper ous old year from falling into the list of the commonplace and humdrum years. Marconi is easily, in other words, the hero of the dead year, and he may render the present year still more memorable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
A NAME NEEDED.

From the Ithaca (N. Y) News.
 Now that Marconi has demonstrated beyond the slightest doubt the commer- cial value of the wireless telegraph, and the wonderful invention is to come into everyday use. the public might well give some attention to adopting a correct term for the dispatch transmitted in the new way.
 Prof. Bristol of the Creek department of Cornell has made an excellent sug- gestion. along this line. He says that aerogram (pronounced easily a-e-ro-gram, with the accent on the long ''a'), from the Creek words for lair" and "a writ ing" correctly expresses the idea of written through the air and still retains similarity to the word telegram.
 In the same way aerograph. formed from the Greek words for ''air'' and ''to write,' is an excellent substitute for "wireless tele graph"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Pistol Totinu.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 In compliance with the suggestion that those who may desire 1t shall express their views upon the subject mentioned, we beg to offer you the following:
 Let us have law that will permit only citizens of good character and habits to bear arms through the night and abso- lutely prohibit the custom through all hours of the day, except to such persons as may go upon journeys.
 It is a fact that every good man, im- pulsive and passionate, have fired shots that they would give everything to recall.
 Don't license the hip pocket warriors. In the name of the widows and orphans and of their dear ones so heedlessly sac rificed let us have a strict common sense law that will absolutely protect human life. w. s. BIRD.
 Watsona, Ala, December 31. 1902.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
RoUss ESTATE SUED.
Allowance to Young Woman Alleged
 to Have Been Unpaid.

From the New York Times.
 Edna Weller Mcclellan, 22 years of age. instituted a suit against the estate of Charles Broadway Rouss for $27O0, alleg- ing that the sum represents unpaid week ly allowances promised to her by the late millionaire on condition that she would refrain from suing him. In her complaint she sets forth that after he had signed contract with her MT. Rouss paid her $35 a week, as agreed, until October of last year, but that later he failed to send the checks. The total sum that he paid her, she says, was $1s15.
 A. II. Hummel, Miss McClellan's law yer. has in his office the contract and a number of letters that passed between MT Rouss and the plaintiff. The contract. which was witnessed by Mrs. Caroline M. Mcclellan, mother of the young woman, reads as follows:
 New York, June 16 1900.
 I, Charles Broadway Rouss, do hereby agree with Edna Weller Mcclellan that if she will agree not to bring any suits against me for any claims she has against me, I agree to pay her s35 each and every week during her lifetime. c. B. ROuSS- The signature is scrawl, such as a blind man would be expected to make.
 Miss Mcclellan says that she lives at 1o5 West seventy-seventh street and that the contract was signed there. Later she went to Paris, and while there she re- ceived the weekly remittances through Mir Rouss, French bankers. Each remit ,ance was accompanied by a typewriter note couched generally in affectionate tsr,na Previous to the events which caused him to sign the contract. she says, cha was an intimate friend of his family, visiting frequently at the Fifth avenue bouse. and singing at musicales when she was r years of age.
 MT. Rouss died on March 3, leaving a large estate. The claim of Miss McClel- Ian has been disputed by William B. Rouss. the executor. A motion to vacate an order for examination before trial was argued before Justice Fitzgerald recently. MT. Hummel said that the contract should be taken at its face value and that the law provided that the plaintiff did not have to prove the facts on account Of which the promise was made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlABami
Thrice is he armed that hath his guar rel just.
 -2 King Henry VI.
Wireless Teleuraphy.

Although the navy officials lack faith in wireless telegraphy as commercial proposition, yet as a war proposition they see both dangers and possibilities in it. This may seem inconsistent, especially when congress is to be asked next month to give the govern ment control of all wireless stations on our coast in times of war. The navy department insists that at such times there shall be no hindrance to communications between ships and shore.
 The truth is, the navy department and Sig. Marconi are not on good terms. He deals with other countries, but his terms are considered too high in this country, and the navy officers get even by saying that he uses too init his system to become generally useful This remains to be decided by actual and repeated tests in all sorts of weather. The fact that messages are transmitted in any weather across two thousand miles of stormy sea is glory enough for the present.
 It seems that the Marconi company asks Uncle Sam to pay a certain sum for each equipment delivered, and a royalty for eacn yea, during the life of the patents. The aggregate cost would thus be heavy, and this gov ernment is therefore experimenting with other apparatus of like nature and purpose. The navy department is fully awake to the possibilities of wire less telegraphy, and it will soon have in hand either the Marconi system or something better. It is admitted that wireless telegraphy is already far enough advanced to be necessity in every well-equipped navy, both for the purpose of communication between ships, and from ship to shore and vice versa. It's possibilities in case of war under certain circumstances are all most limitless, especially when kite can be made to answer as tall mast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
BosTocKs TALKING cHIMPANzEE

From the London Chronicle.
 MT. Frank c. Bostock, whose very name suggests menageres, arrived at Plymouth yesterday with a chimpanzee which is said to be on the point of talk ing. It already makes gutteral sounds which it's attendant can understand. But a dog can do as much as that. A Ger man doctor who has had to do with deaf mutes says that slight operation upon one of the fragments of the tongue would enable the animal to speak. At that time the chimpanzee was under contract. But 1t will probably now be taken to Germany for the operation. It can even now use typewriter and play the piano. But these professions are overcrowded. A talking chimpanzee would make an excellent liv- ing, even though like many other takers. it said nothing worth hearing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
Work of the Legislature.

[ Congressman Bowie elsewhere this morning urges the legislature to pass a fair, just and broad election law, and to provide for the submission in each and every couniJ of the proposi- tion to levy county school tax of one mill on the dollar of valuation. MT. Bowie is confident most, if not all, of the counties will by three-fifths vote decide to have better schools. So far so good. The Age-Herald hopes MT. Bowie's optimism is well founded.
 A tax of one mill would help some. It would open some schools that are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
ONE VIEW OF ROOSEVELT.
German Editor Tells of Twenty Min
 ntes' Conversation on Literature.

From Washington Letter.
 A novel view of President Roosevelt is contributed by Louis Michel, editor of Der Deutsch Amerixaner, who was introduced House by Representatives Wachter and schiem of Maryland.
 When 1t is considered that Mir. Michel and the two congressman were with the President not more than twenty minut ,s MT. Michels account of what occurred will give an idea of just how much he can crowd into a small space of time. MT Michel today described his visit as fol- lows:
 President Roosevelt is not only one Of the greatest statesmen this country has ever had. but he Is also a great literary man, and don't think there Is any other man in the republican party who could have dicussed German and Dutch authors as he did. The fact that the President gave us twenty minutes of his valuable time shows how interested he was in the question of German literature.
 Tn the course of his talk the President referred to the Zering,' the masterpiece of Theodore Koerner, German soldier and poet, and reclted several passages of the 'Nibe1ungen Led He said he admir- ed Schiller greatly, and referred to Gott- hold Ephriam Leasing, the author of Nathan the Wise who was really the founder of the realistic school of G arman literature.
 'IIe showed that he was conversant with these authors, and I regard him master mind Indeed was dumfounded at his knowledge of European literature. He is a great admirer of Plopstock and Herder.
 ''He said that the Boers are the des- cendants of the Frieslanders and Nor mans through tho Dutch. He mentioned Herman, the king of the Cneruskers. as fine specimen of the old German hero He spoke part of the time in German, part in Dutch and part In English, and repeat ed and old folklore song popular among the Dutch of South Africa, 'The Cows Are In the Clover"
 "When MT. Wachter spoke of Fritz Reuter-, the principal author in Plat tleutsch, which Is spoken in part of northern Germany, Denmark and Holland, the President at once referred to the works of Reuter-.
 ''He is wonderful man; majestic In personality, crisp in conversation, firm in the expression of his ideas and one or the best posted men in America on Ger man affairs-not merely German politics, but German history and literature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
Prison Reform in Alabama.

The Uniontown Herald calls atten- tion to the fact that prison reform has ] ado considerable progress since Judge Gaston twenty years ago stated that a sentence to Imprisonment meant a sentence to death. That statement started prison reform, says the Her aid, land it has marched steadily for ward ever since"
 The Herald considers the new move ment on the part of Governor Jelks as the most important step yet taken in prison reform, and it believes that when tho state feeds, clothes, guards and otherwise cares tor it's convicts, not much room will be left for con- plaints on the part of the victims of justice. Any maltreatment of convicts hereafter can readily be remedied. True, there are some in the lumber and turpentine camps, but no one has ever complained that they are ill- treated.
 At any rate the entire subject is now within the states control, and this is the point the Uniontown Herald makes. It says: "rhe board of in spectors can now carry out directly their plans for tho amelioration of these unhappy creatures. It has no longer to make suggestions to others to that end. This is an enormous gain for tho better for the humani- tarian element Of tue state. The in spectors must now be responsible for the maltreatment of the convicts if it exist. They cannot avoid it. They cannot impose it upon the short-com- ings of others. And in all government direct responsibility is always a great gain. We arc glad to see that the present board is willing to assume the burden. It shows that they are good men, actuated by the best principles" !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
About Persons.

H. B. Urquhart. cashier of the bank at Sheffield, was in Birmingham this week. He reports that his section was never in so prosperous Q condition as now. He says there seems to be little doubt about the Illinois Central building from its line in Tennessee to Sheffield.
 H. c. Hicks, commercial agent of the Seaboard Air Line, has returned from Portsmouth, Va.
 Governor Jelks returned to Montgoni- cry yesterday.
 Father Giles, O. S. B.. of St. Bernards s was in Birmingham this week.
 Horace Hood, Jr., of Montgomery :s registered at the Morris.
 M B. Neece of Huntsville is at the Morris.
 Craig Cofeld of Atlanta is at the Morris.
 J. L. Morrison of Tuscaloosa is at the Morris.
 pr. Joe Lake of Cincinnati Is the guest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
In Anthracite Region.

'The anthracite situation in Pennsylva- mia has improved only slightly since the weather moderated" said New York man at the Morris. Operators blame the miners for celebrating the holidays and say that the normal output cannot be ex- pected again until after New Years.
 Regular customers get coal of their re- tailers at $75O per ton. Others have to pay s10 to SIP, and in some cases even more has been paid to rush delivery. Coal for the poor remains at 10 cents per pail. The poor, it is said. do not suffer as much as those who are able to buy a ton at a time.
 Railroad officials are discussing the possibilitity of severe storm shutting off their coal supplies and crippling the ser vice. The contingency is feared on the New York. New Haven and Hartford and the New York Central railroads"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
All, HOW SWEET IT IS TO LOVE.

An, how sweet 1t is to lovel An. how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Loves fire!
 Pain of love be sweeter far
 Than all other pleasures are. Signs which are from lovers blown Do but gently heave the heart: l Fen the tears they shed alone Cure, like triclxling balm their sma
 Lovers. when they lose their bread'
 Bleed away in easy death. Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend; ! Nor the golden gifts refuse
 Which in youth sincere they send;
 For each year their price Is more.
 And they less simple than before. Love. like springtides full and high, Swells in every youthful vein; But each tide does less supply. I'll they quite shrink in again;
 If a flow in age appear.
 'yis but rain, and runs not clear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
THE NEGRO IS HERE.
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 We do better to regard the negro as fixed factor here. We believe he will always be here. Our duty to ourselves and to him is to so conduct ourselves toward him as to bring about his lm- provement, increase his usefulness to himself and to us and enable him 10 find his place in our social system. He will never be white man. not even a poor white man, but he can be good negro; and it rests with us to make him so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A woman can't bear to be an invalid unless she has lot of clothes just fitted for being 1t.
 There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.
 A man acknowledges the corn when he comes home late and has to ask some one to take his shoes off for him.
 When a man squeezes as girls hand he should be careful to act as if 1t embar- rassed him, so she will know he Is in earnest.
 A man who once thought Of buying a stock but didn't and then the stock went up always talks about the officers of the company as if they had swindled him.