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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07

out of politics. He asks for them pro- lection legal and otherwise. and he desires for them above all else every possible opportunity of earning a liv- ing, but he wants none of those op- portunities to come through politics. Postmaster Minnie Cox sees and ap- preciates the false position she has been placed in. She did not see it at the outset, but when she did see it she straightway acted, and she does not propose to participate moment longer in the game of politics, and President Roosevelt should respect the woman's keen and tactful sense of the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
The Stock Market.

T do not wish any one to be influenced by my opinion of speculative values, be- cause I am no wiser than other business men, but it is my opinion that O bull market is in sight" remarked man who calls himself conservative.
 Last month there was much in the pa pers about 'softening' prices and the end of the boom. But instead of prosperity De- ing over 1t is more marked now than ever. Look at the price of iron ana look at the railroad earnings. There IS not a transportation line In the country that has cars enough for all the traric offered. I do not see how the prices or stocks can be kept down. There will pc breaks to be sure Sharp declines always follow big advances but I think 1t IS safe bet that prices will be on much higher level in March than they are to- day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
WHY WE CAN RAISE FIGS.
Because the Wasp That Ripens Them
 Has Been Brought Here.

From the New York Sun.
 After more than twenty years of experi- ment fig-raising has become success in the United States. The bulk of the figs produced in this country are grown in central California, and more than oooo,ooo pounds of this once solely Oriental fruit is now shipped annually from the great fig belt"
 As figs are the most valuable of all wholesale fruits, being worth in the ne,ehborhood of $50 ton In their crudest state the discovery of the secret where bv the smyrna fig can be made to thrive was one of considerable importance. The first successful effort to fertilize the fruit of the fig tree so that 1t will not become "soured' was made by George c. Roeding of Fresno in 1898.
 JTnless the Smyrna fig Is fertillzed by a certain wasp, Blastophaga grossorum, the green fruit will not mature. To introduce this wasp from Syrrna. the only county in which it was found, was the problem which faced the fruit growers. For many wears attempts had been made to intro duce the wasp from Asia Minor The Blastophaga was brought across the ocean in glass cases and tenderly packed in cotton. But no sooner did 1t reach America than it died, and the expecta- tions of fig growers vanished.
 The smyrna wasp breeds in the inedible fruit of the wild fig. and In Smyrna branches of the wild figs are hung in the fig orchards at the proper time. Wild fig trees were introduced in California and in the season of pollenization their branches were hung in the orchards. But without exception the wild figs and the wasps within them perished and 1t was not until the department of agriculture cooperated with Mir. Reeding that the wild fig tree and the wasp were success fully imported.
 The first trees were carefully wrapped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07

in cheesecloth and then put into hermeti- cally sealed glass cases Even after they were transplanted the utmost care was taken to prevent them from being sub jected to any injury or sudden changes of climate. After the second year the figs were tried in the open at Niles, Cal. Once acclimated they grew with great vigor. Now they can stand all weather and are found throughout the great fruit belt in central California.
 The young wasp emerging from the wild fig bears upon its wings a heavy pollen barely discernible through the mic roscope. The wasp enters the Smyrna fig at the open end and the pollen causes the fruit to develop rapidly and to ripeu. The wasp has three generations each year, which are produced in three success sive crops of the wild fig, known as the winter, spring and summer crops. The wasps emerging from the spring crops fertilize the Smyrna figs.
 This year California's fig crop is well over half a million dollars and if the young trees now growing bear well the ensuing annual crop will amount to sev- eral times that sum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
Countinu Cotton Bales.

Up to December 13 there had been ginned in Alabama S96,944 bales, and the ginners' estimate of the amount to be ginned after that date was 65,- 16S bales. This would make the Ala bama crop 962,112 bales, and this is probably very near the actual output figures of September 1 next.
 In the whole country 9,311 1885 bales had been ginned up to December IS, and the ginners expected to turn out 1,057,771 bales more, bringing the baling of the cotton year up to 10,- 369,606 bales. Perhaps 500,000 bales should be added on account of linters and bales brought over from the for mer cotton year, thus making the entire commercial crop 10,869, ,606 bales. This is very near the size of it, and it demonstrates the desirability of counting the crop rather than esti- mating or guessing it. Actual counts will put the talent and gamblers in futures out of opportunities, but it will serve everybody else excellently well. The bales were counted as they fell from 30,194 ginneries in actual operation this season. A third report will be published on March 6, which Is regarded as the close of the ginning season.
 Instead of three reports, Director Merriam Is preparing to make in the next cotton year monthly reports, but the truth is, there should be weekly reports up to March of each year. This would put an end to the science, or rather the art, of estimating or forecasting the crop. When forecast CTS are million bales apart, as they have been throughout the present cot ton year, it is high time that a better method be adopted and Director Mer- riam has adopted the only feasible and correct plan. He counts bales, and counts are better than guesses every time.
 In the final report of March 6 the crop will be reported by countiex as well as by states, and this will go far towards demonstrating the utility and comparative accuracy of the new sys- tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
WOODEN SHOES MADE AND
 WORN IN NEW YORK CITY

The Philadelphia doctor who recom- be had at 20 cents pair, can hardly buy them at any such price in New York, says the New York Sun.
 The sabot makers here are mostly in the French quarters, old and new. Gal oches, which are shoes of leather with heavy wooden soles, are more used in New York than the sabot proper, a shoe all of wood. A galoche maker of the new French quarter, who speaks almost no English, but is suitability itself, pro- duces half a dozen different kinds of such shoes.
 He sells them by the dozen pairs to the shoe dealers and other shopkeepers of the quarter, and the wholesale price Is from $11 to $16 dozen pairs. The cheap est are heavy shoes with low upper of unvarnished stiff black leather without lining. Better shoes are lined and var nished. They retail at prices varying be- tween s1.5O and s2.5O a pair
 True sabots all of wood are made by a workman near the shop of the galoche maker. The sabot made here has the high pointed toe, traditional in the shoe of the European peasant. The woods used are tulip poplar, known as white wood, the same that went to make the panels of the wonderful one-horse shay, maple and birch. The lightest is popular, the most durable, but much the heaviest is birch.
 The sabot maker buys his wood from a Westslde lumber yard in billets of suit able size, and shapes 1t in a wise, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
About Persons.

James Bowren and Mrs. Bowren will sail week from today from Boston for Alexandria. They will be abroad about four months. Their intention is to spend a month in Egypt, month in the Holy Land, and a month in Mediterranean Europe. Returning they will visit Eng land.
 Charles w. Tyler of the New York Sun Is at the Hillman.
 J. w. Mcqueen, secretary-treasurer of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron com pany, leaves for New York this morning.
 J. H. Walker and wife of Atlanta are at the Morris.
 F. L. Hughes of Louisville is at the Morris.
 s. F. wilbourne of Marion is at the Morris.
 Judge Thomas R. Roulhac is at the Morris.
 A. Ogden of New York Is at the Nor ris.
 W. H. Moore of Jasper Is at the Nor ris.
 Dr. George Solomon, the young rabbi of vieksburg, spent yesterday in Bir- mingham as the guest Of his friend pr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
InquirInq About Ills Son.

The Age-Herald is in receipt of letter from George Clark dated i Prospect ROW. Southern -on-the-Sea, Essex, England, Ill which MrM Clark makes inquir5 regard ing facts concerning the arrest, convic- tion and sentence of his son, George w. Clark. The latter was arrested at North Birmingham on the 18th of last Septem- Der on charge of burglarizing the North Birmingham postoffice He W tried and convicted In the United G.-tes court in November and sentenced to three years and six months in the penitentiary and is now serving the sentence in Atlanta.
 In the letter from England Clark states that he had talked to an American gen. tleman In London, who told him about his son and advised him to write to the Age Herald.
 Clark asks that papers containing an account of the arrest and conviction be forwarded to him, and he enclosed a stamped envelope for a reply The style of the letter indicates character, good breeding and education, and the story of the sons downfall is therefore all the more remarkable and distressing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
The huge army of the worlds desires
 Loves Labor Lost.
Alahama's Record Corrected.

The Chicago Tribune should reform its bookkeeping. On it's books Ala bama stands charged with five lynch ings in 1902, when as a matter of fact only three occurred, namely, at Sa- lem, Lee county; at Cocoa, Choctaw county, and at a point near Troy Pike county.
 The erroneous debits-not credits in any respect either to Alabama or to the Tribune-were located in Tus cumbia, Colbert county, and in Mar bury, Autauga county. A brief review of these cases will suffice to show the nature of the errors.
 In April of last year a racial diff. culty sprang up in Tuscumbia, and Sheriff Gassaway started out to ar. rest Will Reynolds, negro. He took refuge in and forcible possession of, another negro's house, and from this house he fired on the officers of the law, killing Sheriff Gassaway and four of his deputies. In order to capture him 1t became necessary to burn the house, and when Reynolds ran from it, gun in hand, he was shot down. Such a case cannot in any sense be called a lynching, for the law was arrayed against the desperate negro.
 The Tribune's designation of Scott Bishop, negro, as a victim of Judge Lynch, would be correct enough if the negro in question were dead. Instead, hs E Five and well, quartered in the jaiI of Bullock county, awaiting trial for murder, which, it is alleged, he committed at Boseman, near Mar. bury, Autauga county. It is very plain he was not lynched enough to hurt.
 The state escaped last year with three lynchings-no more, no less and these occurred :n order in Pike county, at Cocoa and at Salem. Salem I is on railroad. There is no railroad in Choctaw county, and the Pike county lynching occurred in a district lso sequestered that an innocent negro was murdered by the mob. All the kecent lynchings in this state have at he instance of Governor Jelks been arefully investigated with a view tc le punishment of the persons con frned in them, and it may be that
 e lynchings at Salem and Cocoa
 ve been inquired into, but if they
 ve no intelligence concerning them
 been given to the public. This
 need not, however, restrain the Tribune from making correction in it's lynching table by reducing Ala bama's record in 1902 to three cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
The Turnverein.

"The singing section of the Turnverein will compete for prize at the great sangerfest at St Louis next summer and rehearsals are conducted regularly every week by Prof. Fred L. Grambs," said an old music lover yesterday. There was a full turnout last night and Profess sor Grambs was well pleased with the rehearsal
 .'The Turnverein contains many of Bir- minghams best sight readers and if this band of singers does ns capture a prize 1t will, at least, receive generous ap- plause and honorable mention. In other words, it will reflect high credit upon the German-American colony of Bi-ming- ham,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
STANZAS TO AUGUSTA.

By Lord Byron..
 Though the day of my destiny's over. And the star of my faith hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find; Though thy soul with my grief was &C., quainted, It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee.
 Then when nature around me is smiling, The last smile which answers to mine, I do not believe in beguling, Because 1t reminds me of thine; And when winds are at war with the ocean, As the beasts I believed in with me, If their pillows excite an emotion, It is that they bear me from thee.
 Though the rock of my last hope is shiv- cred, And its fragments are sunk in the wave. Though feel that my soul is delivered To pain, 1t shall not be it's slave. There is many pang to pursue me, They may crush but they shall not con- tenn
 They may torture but shall not subdue
 Iris of thee that think-not of them. Though human. thou didst not deceive
  me; Though woman, thou dldst not forsake; Though loved. thou forborest of grieve me; Though slandered, thou never couldst shake;
 Though trusted. thou didst not disclaim me; Though parted. 1t was not to fly; Though watchful, twas not to defame me; Nor, mute. that the world might belle. Yet blame not the world, nor despise 1t, Nor the war of the many with one If my soul was not fitted to prize it, Twas folly not sooner to shun; And if dearly that error hath cost me, And more than I once could foresee I have found that. whatever 1t lost me. It could not deprive me of thee. From the wreck of the past which hath perished. Thus much I at least may recall: | It hath taught me that what l most cherished Deserved to be dearest of all | In the desert fountain is springsng; 1 In the wild waste there still is a tree. And bird in the solitude singing. ] Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07

NJewaeld These two scholarly divines a,oro classmates at the Union seminary in Cincnnau.
 Frank Height of Anniston is at the Morris.
 S. P. Kennedy of Annisrcn is at the Morris.
 J. Lodge of Tuscaloosa is at the Mor- rs.
 w. E. Heston of M .ridian, Miss. is at the Morris.
 RRoRy Knight of Atlanta is at the MorrisM.
 D. M Powell of Gresnville is at the Morris.
 J. A. Perdue of Atlenta is at the Nor ris.
 Robert Tait of Montgomery Is at the 
 Claude Estes of Macon, Ga., is at the  MT. and Mrs. F. R. webber of Boston are at the Metropolitan. Mrs. Hewlett of London, England, IS at the Metropolitan. Col. W. W. Brandon, adjutant general of Alabama Is at the Metropolitan.
  J. J. Curtis of Cullman, Is at the the  Joseph S. Mccoy of Washington, D. C., Is at the Metropolitan. State Senator D. M. Powell of Green vile, is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07

with very sharp proper hollowing tools. When finished, the sabot has a thickness varying from three-quarters of an inch to an inch and a half
 The sharp toe of solid wood is a form- diable thing to kick with. somewhat akin to the naval ram in its destructive quali- ties. These shoes sell at prices varying from $2 to $2.5O pair. Those made with special care may be as high as S3 a pair.
 In spite of the fact that one rarely sees person wearing galoches or sabots in the streets of New York; a great many of them are worn in the city. The man who makes galoches for the trade is as busy as possible all day and every day turning them out by the dozen. There are also other makers, and some are im- ported.
 Galoches and especially sabots are used much by persons who worK in damp cellars. The ice cream makers use them. So do some bakers, and they are much used in laundries.
 Some are sent to the country and used by farmers. They are used by the French colony of the Bronx at Williamsbridge.
 It used to be that one occasionally saw an old lady in the down town French quarter clattering about the streets in sabots, but the new quarter is so much surrounded and penetrated by people oth- CT than French that the sabot wearers usually put on leather shoes before go- ing of doors.
 The best looking of the galoches might easily be won without attracting atten- tion. They merely look like an unusually heavy shoe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 By a girls pretty photograph you shall not know her.
 A girls education should begin where charity does-at home.
 A girl who thinks too much of herself will not get anybody else to.
 It takes very little oil to burn the lamp of love, but the wick must always be fresh and well trimmed.
 Give a woman a looking glass and she would enjoy wearing fine clothes if there were nobody else in the world to see her.
 Women would file their teeth if 1t were the fashion, but you could never get them to wear sensible clothes even if they were the fashion.
 Every time a woman picks up towel it makes her husband shiver for fear she is going to tie 1t around her head and go to ouse-cleaning.
 A bachelor never has to worry about what sort of story to tell the morning af- ter which may not agree with the one he told the night before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
A Shopping Center.

"As good year as 1902 was, this year will be even better from a mercantile point of view" said a Second avenue merchant yesterday. "The year starts off well. Retail trade is a little quiet just now, of course, but prosperity is in the air and I look for an early spring rush.
 Birmingham is a great shopping cen- ter People come here from every part of Alabama and Mississippi to buy goods and we have many customers who travel from Georgia and Florida. There is no city in the south outside of New Orleans where the stores are so attractive as those of Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
INCOMES ON THE STAGE.
arv Bell in New York Press.

Hillary Bell In New York Press.
 Mrs. Langtry hopes to carry home sS5,- 900. Her argument, like he Glrl With the Green Eyes," is at once Illogical and reasonable, for, if her premises be wrong her deductions are right The Jersey Lily may divide herself Into four parts, after tic fashion of watermelonS and singing quartettes-to wit, art. beauty, dress and fame. Two of these are against her financial hopes, while the others fa- vor them. As an actress. Mrs. Langtry would be dear at $1oO week; as beau- ty, freshness of charm being included in that quality, she would be hazardous investment at $75 As a dress exposition, however she surpasses the most cunning artifices of the Mrs. Osborn company. and may be set down at $500 week; while as a celebrity she exceeds any oth- CT performer on the stage, and her value in this particular Is at least sS50 a week. Adding these sums togeth :, Mrs. Lang try may collect sl5OO from the ghost ev- cry time 1t walks. Her erican season will last twenty weeks and the Lily. who is shrewd mathematician, computes that she may be s35,OoO richer when she Is five months older. It is a modest esti- mate. Like as not there will be other sources of income. Her visit should cause a lively sale of Langtry photo- graphs. Then she can, if he has mind to, write testimonials advertising hair crimpers and such matters Sarah Barn. hardt did it. There is money in such in- dorsements, and ITS. Langtry Is a good business woman. Lillian Russells' sal ary is $500, and Mrs Leslie Carter draws $500 every payday Mrs. Langtry does not possess the beauty of the one or the skill of the other, but she has fame a,,o,ol, for hoth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
Negroes in Office.

Minnie Cox, postmaster, or ex-post- master, of Indianola, Miss, knows she is not wanted as postmaster any longer. Her husband also has plenty of horse sense. He says he under stands the race question, and he sus- tains his wife in her determination to put an end to her postal career in Indianola, whether President Roose- welt be willing or unwilling.
 Nor why should the President be unwilling to let her out of office, when she desires to get out, and especially when majority of the people at h. dianola prefer to have her get out {? Why may not a negro postmaster, though a woman, resign whenever she is so minded? Why should not the wishes, even the prejudices, of the pople of Indianola be considered? The people of that town possess the COmluOn llSAl III pOSidl UldlltIo-lllG right to be agreeably or fitly served. Race conditions and prejudices exist in all states and all countries, and the President should no more cross such conditions and offend such preju- dices in Mississippi than in Illinois or Indiana. There are postal locali- ties in Illinois and Indiana in which negroes are a majority, or at least a respectable minority, and yet no one has ever proposed to appoint a negro postmaster in those states. Why should Mississippi be treated in a different manner?
 The truth is, the negro in the south sees the situation more clearly than the President or postmaster general does. Booker T. Washington consid- CTS postmasterships and the like a curse to the members of his race, and he constantly advises them to keep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
GEORGIA COLONEL INDUSTRY.

From the Atlanta Journal.
 The "colonel' problem grows more seri- ous daily. Just as everybody was begin ming to hope that the "colonels" had been adjusted to the situation, or the situation adjusted to the "colonels," along comes the uniform man and says 1t will cost $20O to be a real live Georgia colonel-to start with Think of that! If you have a mind for figures, sit down and try to compute what 1t will cost to uniform and equip our present standing army of "colonels" at that rate. Just 133 of them, by the last count at s200 a head. Total, $26 600. There you have it. Nearly as much as it costs to uniform the entire body of state troops. And the public property fund all gone, too. But, no matter; the state doesn't have to foot the bill. The state only makes colonels; 1t doesn't clothe them-except with authority enough, of course to bring the perspira- tion to their brows on a cold day-but they wouldn't look we'll on dress parade clothed in nothing but authority.
 Hence a uniform is absolutely neces- Sary-unless, Of course, as 1t were. TIC real article will find the uniform absolute ly essential to his happiness and well be- ing. But it's a sad blow for the fellow who thought he could be colonel for s7.9S. He learns, when too late, that the hand-me-down colonel Is out of style this season. He's got to be the real tailor made article-else he is passe. A s2OO col onel is the very cheapest that can be fourd in stock after January 1. It's all the fault of the committee on plans and specifications We say frankly we didn't like the personnel of this committee from the start It looked too much like z plutocratic committee. Subsequently events have confirmed us in this theory Nobody but a plutocrat would be able to induce uniform maker to design g s200 suit of "colonel's' clothes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-07
RAILROADS LOSE BIG CASE.
Haven't Legal Right to Extend Lines
 to Any Point In State.

Philadelphia, January 6--The State Su- preme court today in the case of the city of Pittsburg vs. the Pittsburg. Carnegie and Western Railroad company, reversed the decision of the Pittsburg courts, which held that railroad company had legal right to extend its lines between any point in the state
 The courts decision today affects the railroad situation in Pittsburg arising from the attempt of the Gould system to enter that city and thereby secure a line to the seaboard. It is understood the Carnegie and Western extension was to permit the entry into Pittsburg of the Wabash railroad.