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Louis would indicate that David R. Fran
els, Mr.. Cleveland's former secretary of
the interior, will be his choice. In other
words, Cleveland is determined to play
the game of politics. in the campaign Of
next year to a finish and make himself
the power of the democratic party. He
was the hero of the st. Louis dedication
ceremonies, regardless OF the fact that
Mr.. Bryan was there; and the papers
which are booming Cleveland took partie-
ular delight In specifically calling atten-
tion to the fact that Mr.. Bryan was ig-
nored in st. Louis.
In the meantime, during this play of
politics. Mr.. German of Maryland is ly-
ing low. SO to speak. Yet almost every
democratic senator and congressman re-
turning to mis- state or district is can
didly expressing the opinion that the
Marylander is the practical man for the
democratic party to nominate.
It will probably be next June or July,
a year, before the democratic convention
meantime, the contest will be between
German on the one hand and Cleveland
and Francis on the other.
AS Alabama now stands, the majority
of senator's and congressman are for Cor
man.
e. C. Machen, who started the Bruins
wick and Birmingham railroad and built
the same for 100 miles or more, has sold
De frt ba0dgOfnp
profit. Just whether this means that the
Brunswick and Birmingham is to be
built in its entirety or stopped where 1t
is remains to be seen. Certain it is that
Machen has made several hundred thous-
and dollars out of the deal and all of
those who know the man and his wonder
full energy will joy with him in his pros
pany can mean but one of two things
an immediate building through to Bir-
minghana or an immediate stoppage OF
the road where it is. The public can judge
as well as 1 can.
BY the way, speaking of railroads, it is
announced in Chicago that both the Gould
syndicate and the Illinois Central are de-
termined to build into Birmingham at
once. The Gould people, it seems, are to
build from Memphis to Birmingham, and
the story goes that 1t is to make traffic
alliance here with the Seaboard Air Line
This, however, like hundreds of other rail-
road rumors afioat, remains to be con-
firmed.
= =
| see a story in one of the afternoon pa
pers that one Mr.. Arnold of the get-rich-
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distribution of thousand dollar bills,
or else that President Marroquin him
self thinks he can do better elsewhere.
One thing only is known, and that is
that no one knows at this late date in
this part of the country what the Co
lombian congress proposes to do with
the treaty, and the air is thick with
rumors Of opposition to it. It is never
difficult to ascertain what our own
senate will do in relation to measure,
and it is significant indeed that the
Colombian congress stays in a haze
concerning the canal treaty.
The matter is, however, OF little i'm
portance. A better route is open to
us, and ii Colombia rejects our excel
lent offer she should at once look for
anther customer This country can no
longer afford in such contingency to
deal with the irresponsible Colon
bians, who may be kicked out of Of
flee by the next revolution that is
started. The last revolution was, it is
said, bought off by the addition of
three million dollars to the purchase
price of the canal strip, and it is this
addition that may be complicating the
situation at Bogota.
Panama is in favor Of the ratifica-
ton of the treaty, but It is said the
rest of Colombia wants better terms.
1t will not get them from this coun-
try It has before it the best terms
that this country will offer, and re-
lection of the treaty at Bogota means
that after all Alabamas grand old man
is to see the hope and dream of his
life turn to fact in canal built on the
nearer and better Nicaragua route
nearer Alabama and better for all.
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The deceased wife's sister bill has
again been put through the house of
commons, the vote being 164 to 81.
The bill is the same old bill providing
that q British subject may marry his
deceased wife's sister to the end of the
chapter, no matter how large the FAM
lily of girls may be. This is not now
permitted in Great Britain.
The house of commons has passed
the bill or ones just like it many,
many times, and the house of lords has
as often turned them down either by
pigeon-holing them or voting them out
altogether.
Now. why is this? Why are plain
commoners in favor of giving the de-
ceased wife's sister the largest posi-
BILE field, while the noble lords say she
must not marry brother-in-law. Thus
/. a great moral issue over brothers-in-
law arises, and the commons lines up
on one side of it, and the impecunious
earls and rich dukes and the whole
assortment of lords / the other side.
We have no means of ascertaining
why commoners and lords thus dis
agreez-why one looks with favorable
aye ON a sister-in-law and the other
scowls at her through his monacle.
No doubt the line as drawn has some
deep philosophy in it, but what that
philosophy is is too deep for us.
II the deceased wife's sister were
politician. then the problem would be-
come lolitical and the noble lords
would have to accept the will of the
commons, hut it is not a political ques.
ton It is an ecclesiastico-social ques-
ton, and the lords take pleasure in
obstructing the will of the commons.
Perhaps his is an explanation of the
whole matter. The house of lords has
so little real power, it seizes upon this
opportunity to disport and exploit
itself
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GOOD FOR the South.

Cotton buyers In Birmingham look with
much favor on the plan Of the South
eastern Cotton Buyers association to or
ganize so thoroughly that they will be
able to control the prices of cotton in
stead of having the prices dictated by
brokers in Liverpool and New York.
Sanders, Swan & Co. and Inman & Co.
are said to be the leading spirits In the
new movement, and If the plan goes
through the cotton men of the south will
no longer be at the mercy of New York
and Liverpool brokers. who arbitrarily
set the price of the southern staple, and
reap all the profits from cotton raising.
The association was organized about
two years ago. and it has been growing
in strength since. 1t includes the leading
cotton buyers of Alabama, Georgia and
North and South Carolina. The officers
of the association at present are: G. A.
Nicholson of Atlanta. president; j. A.
MCGOWAN of Inman & Co. at Augusta
and I. Well of Well Bros. at Opelika
are vice presldentss and C. B. Howard
of Atlanta is secretary.
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involve, however, anything of boom
or artificial nature. It is based on iron
and coal and varied industries, and
there is feeling that the movement
has come to stay, chiefly because an
Open Warrior and later still a Panama
canal will render the position of this
district impregnable.
Nor is the upward movement con-
fined to the city itself 1t extends to
all the suburbs, and even far out
among the farms of the county. All
of Jefferson county feels the impulse,
and Iaices are steadily moving up to
just and proper figures-to figures
based on actual and reasonably posi-
Lie accomplishments. The man who
does rot see that Jones valley is to
hold within the next twenty years the
largest population and town in the
south, does not know what mines and
mills are capable Of Such man is
short.siehted
It is now plain that there will be
this year more transfers and more
construction work than any previous
year could boast of, not excepting the
famous boom years of twenty years
ago. The division of vacant tracts into
lots will soon be frequent, and it is
impossible to estimate the number of
new buildings that will be put up dur
if.g this calendar year. All who are
familiar with the entire county know,
however, that the number will exceed
that of any previous year, and 1000
buildings have been erected in each
of the four previous years.
Mercy for building purposes is read
ily obtained, and the construction of
new homes goes on apace. Despite the
activity of building operations, past
aud present, no sign yet appears OF
decrease in rentals, and this goes to
show that the demand for houses still
exceeds the supply.
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testers do oft prove prophets.
king Lear.
Comma of the Rock Island.

When the Rock Island system enters
this district the Eruption of the trans
Mississippi lines WI. have been begun.
The Illinois Central has long lines on
the other side of tne great river, and
the Gould system is reported to be
coming this way via Natchez. The
Atchison and the Southern Pacific are
each in a position to come across the
river
As Birmingham grows and expands
1t will attract all of these great sys-
tens. Every furnace added to this dis
trict is an urgent invitation to these
lines to come in, and all of them will
accept the invitation soon or later. We
have no eastern lines to conquer, all
being here or building to this point as
fast as dirt can be thrown out, but the
tra-s' mississippi lines are but just be-
ginning to seek a share in this districts
great tonnage---a to@-age unapproached
and unapproachable in the south. The
aggregate is at least twenty million
tons a year, namely, ten million tons
of coal, six million tons of iron ore,
two million tons of iron and steel, and
two million tons of flux and other ma
terials The cotton tonnage of this
district is placed among those who
also ran, 1t is lost in the vaster ag-
gregates, although the receipts of Bir-
mingham are about 100000 bales a
year.
But what will be the tonnage of this
district when an isthmian canal opens
to it the trade of the world? This
problem may not sttagger humanity, but
it dazes the arithmetical powers of the
average brain, and It is beginning to
dazzle the promoters and builders of
railroads.
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HE is ONLY A PRINTER.
From the Century.

From the Century.
HE is only a printer Such was the
sneering remark of leader in circle
of ristocracy-codfish quality. Who was
the Earl of Stanhope? He was only
printer What was Prince Edward Will
lam and Prince Napoleon? Proud to call
themselves printers. The Car Of Russia,
the Crown Prince of Russia and the Duke
of Battenberg were printers, and the EN-
peror of China worked in a private print
ing office almost every day. William
Caxton, the father of English literature.
was a practical printer. What were ]. P.
Morris, N. P. Willis, James Parker Hor-
ace Greeley, Charles Dickens, James
Buchanan. Simon Cameron. Schuyler Col
fax? Printers ALL and practical ones.
Mark Twain. Amos J. Cummings, Bret
Harte, William Dean Howells. Joel Cham
dler Harris and Opie P. Read were plain,
practical printers. rs were Artemus Ward,
Petroleum V. Nasty and SUIT Lovingood
Senator Plumb of Kansas and James j.
Hogg, ex-governor Of Texas, were all
printers, and the leader of science and
philosophy In his day made It his boast
that he was a Jour" printer. In TACT
thousands of the most brilliant minds in
this country are to be found in large
cities and towns 1t is not every one
that can be a printer-brains are absolute
" necessary.
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READING AT NIGHT IN BED.
Recipe Telling How Much Good Can
Be Got Out of 1t.

From the Chicago News.
The doctors will tell you. says a writer
in the Brooklyn Eagle. that reading in
bed is bad practice, and SO 1t is II you
do 1t in a catch-as-catch-can way. But
done properly and systematically, 1t is
one of the most healthful exercises, es-
pecially for those sedentarily inclined.
myself have read in bed these many
years and 1 believe my fine physical
condition is due as much to this prac-
tice as to any other cause. But I have
a carefully devised system, to which
adhere with unremitting persistence.
1 never read in bed by gaslight The
flicker is bad for the eyes, even IL the
bracket is located in the right place.
which 1t seldom is. I prefer a kerosene
lamp placed on a small table beside my
bed.
After standing my pillow on end to
raise my head to the proper position
draw the covers well up and tuck them
closely under my chin. Then / Insert my
arms In my nightingale" and ingenious
device which feminine friend recently
made for the protection OF my arms and
shoulders.
When I am carefully tucked under the
covers begin to feel an irresistible desire
to smoke. Somehow at this particular
time more than at any other time the
pipe seems to be the fitting companion
to the book SO l hop out of bed and
feel my way down the dark hall to my
study, where my smoking materials are
kept.
Having lighted my pipe and returned
to the adjustment of my pillow and
coverings l am prepared for the real en-
joyment of my favorite author. I take
the book from the table Il sometimes
vary this by getting up and going to the
library for iD and open 1t at the par
ticularly interesting chapter. Then find
have left my reading glasses some
where. I do not know where. For minutes
| try tc think where I last used them.
recall that had them on when look
ed over the evening newspaper after
dinner. have hazy recollection of TAX
ing them off just before l spread my
wings and few to the tip of the church
steeple. / dimly, very dimly. remember
hanging them on a horn Of the moon as
passed on my way to keep tryst with
Venus and then
Then l awake sufficiently to see that
the lamp has burned low and to smell
that 1t is out of OIL I usually retain con-
seriousness long enough to put out the
light and to reflect that reading in bed
Is an celebrating and at the same time
a soporifc practice. furnishing both ex-
cellent exercise to the muscles and sooth-
ing employment to the brain.
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its last issue, The Churchman which
is the organ of the Episcopal church,
says of the marriage of w. X. Van
derbilt. a divorced man. to Mrs. Ruther-
furd, recently in London:
Very striking evidence that the public
conscience is being quickened and en-
lightened is to be seen in the fact that
newspapers on both sides of the water
have concentrated the attention of the
world on the marriage of divorced per-
son in London by a clergyman of the
English church The wide circulation and
evident approval given by the press to
the Bishop of Londons address to his
his diocesan conference, on what he calls
moral scandal" makes the evidence
more significant. We would not minimize
the imminence and subtlety of the danger
to the sanctity of the family and to the
security of social purity involved In the
tendency in many directions to treat
lightly the marriage bona. At the same
time, we have so sympathy with those
who feel that the world Is going back
ward, and that the church is losing her
power because she has so Influenced the
world that 1t is holding her to an ever
higher standard
We have clergymen, even bishops who
advocate in the name Of our Lord and
of the church the right of divorced per-
sons under certain conditions to marry
again. but the number of these is grow
ing less year by year under the stress
of social progress and social need, and,
as we believe, under the guiding power
of the Holy Spirit There was a time
when almost the entire church acquiesced
in, and many of her leaders advocated,
the perpetuation of slavery as having been
recognized and allowed by our Lord. But
that time Is past. And so there are those
today in great numbers, led by bishops
and clergy, who believe that they are
doing their Lords will in advocating the
right of divorced persons to marry again.
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Senator Morgan Ma Win Out.

The Colombian congress has not
been assembled and all accounts
agree that the Colombians are full of
high notions. They seem to think that
ii they furnish the land the United
States should furnish the money, and
the two republics should jointly own
the canal. Just what is the condition
of public sentiment in Colombia Is
not known. Congresses in the Latin
republics are, as rule. either corrupt
or subservient, and II the Colombian
congress is opposed TO ratification, it
Bither means that they are waiting for
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NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT LOCAL MATTERS,
NATIONAL POLITICS, AND OTHER1 THINGS

quick firm of Arpfold & Company. OF turf
exchange notoridty, is supposed to be in
Birmingham. Doubtless several hundred
people in Birmingham would like to meet
this distinguished gentleman, who man
aged to take OUT of this city more than
$780, 900 of good money. His Is the concern
which offered to pay 2 per cent dividends
per week for money invested with him.
said money to be invested in book maxi
ing on horse races. The public got sew
eral weeks of dividends. Arnald & COM
pany got the balance Of the money.
1t is really strange how gullible. the
public Is. The man who goes out after
1O4 per cent annual dividends in the other
fellows scheme ought to lose his money,
although 1 am sorry that some of the peo-
pie of Birmingham should have been such
heavy losers.
There is too much in Birmingham and
Alabama out of which good profits can be
made for the people here to seek outside
get-rich-quick investments
/ heard Senator Morgan make a talk
last night to a dozen or more citizens of
Birmingham, in which he told them of
what they really had and how to make
it Of value. He Is emlnently an eptiAnist
on the subject of Birmingham and the
state of Alabama. He knows our re-
sources for what they are in the abstract
He pointed them out and suggested that
the business men of Birmingham develop
his suggestions into the concrete. The
granite for the locks, and the dams, and
the sea walls of the Panama canal are
here in Alabama on the water courses
available for transportation. Beds of
limerick, which can be easily converted
into Portland cement-and which is now
being made into the best cement in the
world at Demopofs on the Tombigbee
river-run almost entirely through south
Alabama, and the quantity is unlimited.
Therefore, the senator thinks that Ala
bama should be able to furnish the great
volume of granite and cement required
for the construction of the proposed
canal. Outside of the granite, millions OF
barrels of cement will be needed, and no
section Of the world is better qualified,
naturally, than Alabama to furnish this
supply. So with our iron, and coal, and
granite, and cement. there is every pros
pect. with the building of an isthmia1
canal, of Alabama becoming the most
prosperous state in the union.
Those who take advantage of these OPP
portunities should share in this pros
perity.
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, Wonderful Growth.

Dr,SR. p. Huger Of Admission was~in the
cityfyesterday. He is a noted physician
and is well known in the southern states.
Infthe lobby of hotel he was talking to
several friends and In aareminiscent mood
said:
every time I come to Birmingham l
notice it's wonderful growth. Thirty years
ago anyone could have purchased almost
any lot here for $50. That was in the
days of the cholera epidemic, when people
were stricken down with the disease and
many died.
"At that time ] was living at Tusca-
loosa. Just in front of this hotel l can
we'll remember there was red, sticky mud
and narrow planks were laid around to
walk on
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About Persons.

Mayor w. NJ. Drennen will spend today
at Blount Springs He will return to Biz
mingham tomorrow.
National Board Member Farley of the
United Mine Workers of America has re-
turned from an extended trip to Ken
lucky and Tennessee.
d. Clay Lilly of Tuscaloosa is stopping
at the Hillmsn.
]. ]. Crane of Forest, Miss, is regis
tered at the st. Nicholas.
]. L. Watt of Hamilton, o.. is at the
Morris.
]. ]. Curtis of Cullman is stopping at
the Metropolitan.
Lon Baker went to Admission last night
to visit relatives until Tuesday. He is
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VANDERBILT CHILDREN.

From the New York Evening World.
The arrival of a new Vanderbilt grand
child points again to the prolific record
of this dynasty of great wealth. With the
vanderbilts, at least, there is no hint Of
the race suicide charged generally against
the rich. 1t is a family notable for early
and fruitful marriages.
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. who
died in 1877. LET twelve children. His eld-
est son. william H.. dying in 1885. left
eight. and thu eldest grandson, Cornelius.
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ODE ON SOLITUDE.

BY Alexander Pope.
Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk. whose fields with
bread,
Whose focks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter, fire.
Blest who can unconcern dly find
Hours days and years slide soft away;
In health of body, peace OF mind,
Quiet by day.
Sound sleep by night, study and ease,
Together MKT. sweet recreation;
And innocence. which most does please,
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus, unlamented. let me die,
Steal from the world. and not stone
Tell where lie.
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The Stock Market.

The Financial Age of New York OF yes
terday's date says:
"one explanation of the lethargy that
exists in the stock market is the I'M
willingness of the banking interests to
encourage activity for the present Rea-
son for this attitude is found in the
fact that within the next few weeks
many large syndicate payments must
be made, in addition to the possibility OF
gold exports having to be met. Among
these payments are those on account of
the Pennsylvania railroad new stock Is
sue, the New Haven stock issue, the
Seaboard Air Line bonds, the wabash
bonds, the United States Steel CONVEX
sion plan, the Lackawanna steel bonds
the Metropolitan securities payment, and
such payments as may be involved in
connection with the financing of the Tn
foreground Electric Railways company of
London Under such circumstances 1t Is
well that the stock market should be
kept dull, for any speculative demand for
money at this time would certainly un-
settle the easy conditions now exist
ing.
"Stil another, and to stock brokers a
more exasperating cause of the present
dullness. is the Indifference of the public
the army of independent spectators
who make times either good or bad In
Wall street. The professional element
has been taught by past experience that
a burnt child breads the FIRE, but 1t Is a
matter of more than passing comment
that the burns inflicted two years ago
have not healed sufficiently to induce the
victims to return. Demonstrations OF
bulls and bears have alike proved ineffec-
tive, the indifferent attitude Of the public
having remained unchanged In spite of
stock market demonstrations such as Or
dlnarily meet with quick response"
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a member of the firm of Baker, StillweIl
&c Hart, the iron and paint firm that was
recently organized In Birmingham.
A. D. MACPHERSON Of Chicago is regis
tered at the Hillman.
r. P. Epson of Hartford, Conn. Is at
the st. Nicholas.
R. Y. Mccoy of Evansville is at the
Morris
Henry McCalley of University Is regis
tered at the Metropolitan.
L. w. Bond of San Jose Cal, is at the
Hillman.
W. Madison Scott of Richmond is stop
ping at the Morris.
H. A. Ross of New York is stopping at
the Metropolitan.
J. C. Massengale of Louisville is regis
tered at the Morris.