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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14

holders of cotton mill securities will not have to pay taxes or them during period of ten years.
 From now on until 1907 every coun- ty in this state which has no cotton mill should begin to negotiate the building of one, and no harm will be done if the counties which have mills should build additional factories. Thirty-five counties in this state are without a single mill, and there is no reason now why every one of them, even Winston, should not have one. Mill building in the south is no longer tentative. All know that cotton can be spun and woven to the greatest advantage amid the cotton fields, and capital is for that reason easily at tracted this way. Any bank or monied citizen can accomplish the task, and if the county be at all forehanded a mill can be put up on the installment plan, as the mills at Talladega were constructed. Talladega wants no outside capital It prefers to build it's own mills, thus retaining all profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
Huntsville Always Busy .

Huntsville is always busy" said John II. Wallace in the Morris lobby yesterday. Cotton and corn are coming in there every day in tremendous quantities and the merchants are happy. By the way, that newsboy train is certainly well timed innovation on the part of the Louis vile and Nashville, and it's benefits are already appreciated at Huntsville. We can get the Age-Herald now and when l say that the people of Huntsville consider it the brightest paper in the state I'm not using idle fattery. Its circulation in that town ought to be increased five hundred and I believe it will.
 Politics are lively enough and just now we are hearing much talk about the other side. The lily whites and black and tans have caused no little discussion and there is more or less conjecture as to whether w. l. Wellman will be a candidate for the chairmanship of the next republican exec utive committee. l do not believe he will. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
CHEFS REPLY TO PETTUS
 ON THE GRAVY QUESTION

ing is to man. Civilized humanity cannot do without the one or the other"
 Louis Sherry read the declaration of Senator Pettus.
 You can kill man with bad sauce," he declared, Tor, on the other hand, you can make a defeated candidate feel that life is worth living by giving him a prop CT sauce. New Workers are fond of good sauces and good gravies. They have fine appetites and strong digestions. They think faster and see straighter than those primitive persons who eat neither sauces nor gravies. and they outlive them, too."
 'The art of cooking" said M. Pascal Grande, chef at Sherry's marks one of the chief differences between man and the brute. The animal devours his kill raw, with no sauce but hunger. Man has imagination, a soul; therefore he cooks. So long as we eat meat we must eat the gravy that is the juice of the meat. But a good sauce-ah! there is that which tempts the appetite, aids the digestion, reinforces the strength of men. Shortens life? Oh, what awful sauces poor Senator Pettus must have encouter- ed in Alabamar'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
Rural School Houses.

As soon as the state is redistricted, and school districts become perma- nent, fitting the population of each To- cality, an effort should be made to build new and improved school houses. There Is no use of waiting for state aid, for 1t will not probably be forth coming. It is better for each district to build its own school houses, and pay for it and take the interest in it that men always take in what they own.
 To say that the rural school houses of Alabama are as a rule old shacks would be but truism. A good many of them do not even shed the rains that fall from the skies, and not one of them is suitable and adapted to school purposes.
 When the new districts are created each should vie with the other in the erection of an appropriate school build ing. Such building need not be ex- pensive. Any community that will get together s400 can probably secure from the general educational board s40O more, and $500 would be suffi- cient to build a school house that the district would be proud of-a school house that would lift up the people, creating in his or her mind the sense or effect that always attends tasteful architecture. All districts cannot gather in s400, but very many can, and a period of better school houses should be ushered in in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Peeans in South Alabama.

Very few people know what a large pecan business is carried on in South Alabama" said M L. Robertson, who has charge of the Harris transfer busi- ness at the depot, and a former Mobilian. q was once in that business there and I would estimate that nearly 200oo pounds are raised and shipped annually from in and around Mobile.
 q have a number of specimens here which were raised this fall on trees planted when I was boy, and which are now large and bear well. There is great profit in this business as all that is nec- essary is to plant the trees and cultivate them a little with anything which will decay and furnish nourishment to the roots. A tree will bear in three years after it is planted. and by the time 1t is six or eight years old it will begin giving from 150 to 200 pounds of nuts a year. J mean good nuts, for many nuts are not good.
 "Pecans are allowed to remain on the tree until frost falls when the hull will open and many will drop off. A man is sent up the tree with a fishing rod to beat the limbs and shake down all that he can in that way. These are the best nuts. There is, however, a large per cent of the nuts which remain and form the late crop. About 60 per cent of these are not good. The first that fall are al- ways the best
 Very few people understand the treat ment of oceans. They have to be dried and there lies the difficulty. If they are kept in the house and dried in this man. ner much of the sweetness is lost and the nut is of little value If they are taken out every day for week and al lowed to sun well for several hours they retain all of their sweetness.
 'The average pecan tree will yield about 15O to 200 pounds of nuts a year, although all trees bear very little every third year. The trees furnish excellent shade in the summer. and can be planted for shade trees, thus serving a double pur- pose The good nuts sell from 14e to 20c a pound, at wholesale.
 Several years ago I saw some oceans grown in Alabama which weighed half an ounce each, or thirty two to the pound. The tree which bore these had been given the most careful nourishment and only the richest earth had been al- lowed to surround it's roots. They sold for 40 cents a pound, wholesale. Alabama is well adapted for raising oceans and there is good money in it"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
Little Stories.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News
 A medley of young literary men were once gathered to meet Robert Browning. The most aggressively literary of the group was first introduced, and at once began to pour out his personal delight and admiration with so unceasing flow that the other introductions were being held in abeyance and the other young literary men starved. Browning endured it with great good humor for some time. At last he put his hand almost affection ately on the egotists shoulder and said: But, am monopolizing you"
 Recently an Irishman bought a copy of Tom Moores Irish Melodies at a secondhand London bookstore for a shilling The bookseller was surprised a few moments later when the excited purchaser returned. and shaking his fist at him, cried: 'I could kill you for sell ing these immortal gems so cheap!"
 What is the difference between a mis- fortune and a calamity?' somebody once asked Disraeli. Well, if Gladstone fell into the Thames" was the reply, that would be a misfortune, and if anybody pulled him out. that, I suppose, would be a calamity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14

prospeetuses of industrial enterprises. Some government official should peruse them and see how far they are matter of fact statements and how far the pro- auctions of the glowing imaginations of men skilled in the "higher finance" The persons who penned the prospectus of the shipbuilding trust will write others like it when the next speculative era comes and new combines are launched. They will not be reformed by the strictures of Receiver Smith. Nothing short of a strin- gent law will keep them from uttering false prospectuses when they think there is money to be made by doing so. The public must be protected against the mas ters of higher finance" when they take pen in hand to persuade the public to buy an interest in their artistic swim dles."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
Untaxed Cotton Mills.

Until February 13, 1907, new cotton mills in this state will be exempted for ten years from state, county and municipal taxation, except as to the lands on which they may be located. As the land as a rule is of little value, the new law practically exempts from taxation all mills built before 1907 from taxation. The law also applies to additions costing $5O,000 or more made to existing mills.
 The passage of this law should be mentioned in every paper in this state, and the widest possible publicity given to the generosity of this state. The object of Ine new law is to en- courage the building of cotton mills in this state up to February 13, 1907. Any mill built in thls state before that time will go taxation free for a teriod of ten years. and any home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
THE SEA.
y Bryan Waller Procter.

By Bryan Waller Procter The sea! the sea. the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever freei Without a mark without a bound It runneth the earths wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the
 skies
 Or like cradled creature lies. I'm on the seal I'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be; With the blue above, and the blue below, And silence wheresoee CT I go; If storm should come and wake the deep What matter? I shall ride and sleep. love, o, how I love to ride On the fierce, foaming, bursting tide, When every mad wave drowns the moon Or whistles aloft his tempest tune, And tells how goeth the world below. And why the sou'w west blasts do blow. l never was on the dull, tame shore, But lov'd the great sea more and more. And backwards flew to her billowy breast, Like bird that seeketh its mothers nest. And a mother she was, and is, to me; For l was born on the open sea! The waves were white and red the morn, Tn the noisy hour when I was born; And the whale it whstled, the porpoise
 rolrd,
 And the dolphins barred their backs of
 gold
 And never was heard such an outcry wild As welcom'd to life the ocean-child! I've livd since then. in calm and strife, Full fifty summers a sailors life, With wealth to spend and a power to
 range,
 But never have sought nor sighed for
 change;
 And Death, whenever he comes to me. Shall come on the wild. unbounded seal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
MIGHTY NM ROD
On a Bicycle Killed Forty-three Snipe
 In Three Shots.

Sea Isle City CN. J.) Special to New York
 Sun.
 For a week past thousands of frost or grayback snpe have been arriving on the beaches of Cape May county The birds are feeding in focks of from a score to 300 or 400, and they are tanner now than they will be later in the month.
 The birds are as fat as butter. They fly close together and the sportsman who uses shells loaded with 3h drams of smokeless powder and 1A ounces of No. shot will find it easy to bring down from six to ten birds at one shot
 Former Councilman Crawford Buck of Sea Isle City, did some nice shooting on Tuesday morning. He went up to the beach two miles from town and killed 43 snipe in three shots.
 On the first shot he fired into flock of fully 200 birds. He used his right barrel and after the flock had gone by he gather ed 19 plump snipe off the beach.
 Grayback snipe are fast on the wing and when disturbed by the report of a gun will fly mile or more along the beach before alighting. Buck does his snipe hunting on a bicycle. It is pecu- liar fact that when a gunner is mounted on a wheel the birds will allow him to ap- proach within 20 or 30 yards of them.
 Buck soon caught up with the flock and on his next shot killed 20 birds. Four bullhead plover out of flock of nine fell at his next shot. He declares that he could easily have shot hundred snipe in less than an hour had he so desired. The best shooting is being done in the early morning and an hour or so before dark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
The CoIdest Known Liouid.
From the cassier's Magazine.

From the Cassier's Magazine.
 Liquid hydrogen is by far the coldest liquid known at the present time. At ordinary atmospheric pressure is boils at -42 degrees fahrenheit, and reduction of the pressure by an air pump brings the temperature down to-432 degrees, at which the liquid becomes a solid, resem- bling frozen foam. According to Prof. Dewar, to whom the credit is due of hay ing liquefied hydrogen in 1898, the liquid IS colorless transparent body. and is the hghtest liquid known to exist, it's density being only one-fourteenth that of water; the ilghtest liquid previously known was liquid marsh gas, which is six times heav- fer. The only solid which has so small density as to float upon its surface is a piece of pith wood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
About Persons.

The Hon. George P. 1de of Jacksonville is registered at the Hilman
 
 The Rev. Dr. Francis W. Peterson, president of the Girls Normal and h. dustrial school at Montevalo. was one of the Morris arrivals last night.
 Emil Aukermiler of the Nat Wills company is stopping at the Florence.
 E. c. Green, a travelling man of Stump ter, S. C., was one of the St. Nicholas late arrivals last night.
 Hon. John H. Wallace, Jr., of Hunts vile, ex-member of the legislature and prominent lawyer, is registered at the Hillman.
 John w. Hood of the firm of Hood & Isaac contractors of Miami, Fla, is stop ping at the Metropolitan.
 H. P. Johnson who is connected with the Hayless Bros, x Co.,. china and Florence.
 The Hon. w. B. Merrill of Edwardsville was one of the Metropolitan's arrivals last night.
 D. M. Wake of the Enameling Stamp ing company of Baltimore is at the Mor- ris. MT. Wake in speaking of national politics said, q travel in all parts of the country and I find that the German sentiment is prevailing everywhere. His nomination, in my opinion, is assured As to the e-presidency, Senator John T. Morgan in my opinion, would make a most available candidate. The people of the country have confidence in him. They know that his is type of broad states manship and altogether out of the schem- ing politicians class.' R. B. Searcy of Huntsville is in the city.
 H C. Gunnells ex-slperintendent of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
Solitary Confinement.

An English paper comments on the terrible sentence recently pronounced by French judge. Five years solitary confinement is not only rigorous pen- atty, but it is usually the forervnner of insanity. The solitude of the prisoner en reelusion is all but absolute. The strictest silence is enforced. Presum- ably the cancellations of religion-what- ever they may amount to in so dreadful situation-are not entirely withheld; otherwise the prisoner is forbidden to speak. even to his guardian. Books are denied, and (which must be almost the worst infliction of alp the most complete idleness is enforced. No employment of any description may mitigate the ap- palling vacancy of days, weeks and years. Half an hours exercise is allowed daily in a hood which covers everything except the eyes. This horrible life in death may end in the tomb, but 1t is more likely to end in the padded cell of the maniac.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
Glimpses Into Mythology.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
 Ajax was defying the lightning.
 You are passing brave" observed an admiring bystander
 Why sop demanded Ajax, disdain- fully.
 Because you are likely to get it in the neck any moment
 Whereupon Ajax laughed scornfully, Poor fool" said he know you not that I have rubber neck?'
 For which display of wit and bravery he was offered $500 week by vaude- vile manager.
 Achilles was sulking in his tent.
 Come, old man." said Patroclus, "the people are waiting for you. You know full well that you are the starr
 Star be dummed!" snarled Achilles. "Then why is my name not displayed in long primer type on the programme?
 Which would seem to indicate that pro- fessional jealousy is as old as the hills. of Pluto.
 What now?' grunted the king of dark ness.
 Simply this" said Charon. "If you don't get me a steam launch, I will walk out tomorrowl By the rules of Union 66, Ancient Order of Riverpigs, I am not per- mitted to use oars"
 Reading between the lines. Pluto under stood that Sam Parks was at it again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14

education and chief clerk in the depart ment of education, carne up from Mont gomery last night and is at the Metropoli- tan. Prof. Gunnells is in the city to at tend the meeting of the Jefferson county teachers today.
 The Hon. E. P. Glass, business man. ager of the Advertiser, is registered at the Hillman.
 Henry Fitts young attorney of Tusca- loosa, Is stopping at the Morris.
 F. L. Woodruff of Montgomery was one of the Hillman's arrivals last night.
 L. B. Pond of Rockford Is stopping at the Metropolitan.
 T. R. Jones of Cartersville, Ga, was one of the Morris arrivals last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
TEACH ART OF CONVERSATION,

Walter Williams, in Columbia Herald.
 Few people know how to talk for any length of time intelllgently. This ability to talk inteligently implies the ability to listen intelligently. More people can talk with intelligence than can listen with n- telligence. Listening is one of the finest of the fine arts. Listening and its com panion art saying something, have not received the attention they deserve in the schools. Possibly a school of conversa- tion might improve the national talk There Is the conversational method of teaching German to Englishmen. Why should there not be employed the conver- satonal method of teaching English to Engllshmen? The schools teach children to read aloud when nobody reads aloud There is need for the teaching of talking aloud It is interesting to note the length of time the casual acquaintance can carry on an intelligent conversation. Some last for merely question or two, others talk with intelligence for an hour The aver age man soon runs out" of something to say or of methods of expressing himself. He needs to be trained, to have his abil- ity to tell cultivated. The gift of gab is not an uncommon possession but the gift of gab does not include the gift of conver- sation. It was said of a certain distin- guished St. Lousan recently that he was "the best single handed talker in the city" Now solioquy may be entertaining but it Is not conversation. Conversation is not dialogue It is more than soiloquy,
 
 of both but does not stop there. The American people have been too busy to learn conversation. Surely there is leis- ure sufficient at the present stage of na- tional development. Let us establish pro- fessorships of conversation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
From the New York World.

frQm the NeW OrR w orlu.
 C ENAToR PETTUs of Alabama, NN says we Americans are going to " smash because we eat gravy with our meat. M. Martin, Oscar, Louis, Sher- " and all the leading dieticians of New York reply to him with the laugh of pat ronizing dissent. They say he knows not whereof he speaks. Listen to Senator Pettus:
 'In this day gravy is called sauce. know. It's a French word that means French name by the English-speaking races I dare say not so much of 1t would be used. It is is shortening the life of the race just like so many other French abominations are, and the sooner we ban ish 1t from our diet the better will be the health of the generation of the young men and women coming on to take our places"
 Senator Pettus has got his terms mix ed." said Dr. John H. Girdner, of No. H West Seventy-first street. Gravy corre- spends to the French word 'potage,' and signifies the juice, fat, etc. of the meat, which are brought out while it is cook ing.
 Sauce is derived from the Latin salsa, which means salt pickles and now signi- fies A mixture made of substances entirely foreign to the meat itself and to be served with it as an appetizer. Gravy is a part of the meat in liquid form and can be no more harmful than the meat 1t came from"
 "The contention of Senator Pettus is in- credible" said Oscar Tcherky-the only Oscar-maitre d'hotel at the Waldorf-As- toria, "Does the honorable gentleman want us to go back to the days of the cave-dwellers and simply burn our meat to eat it raw? Good meat is made better by a proper sauce. The gravy you can not help eating because it is the juice Of the meat sauce may be good or bad. A fine Bearnaise or Hollandaise, or any other good sauce, adds zest to the appetite and power to the digestion. Shortening the life of our race? That is beyond belief. You will find no better race of men any where than the New Workers, and they eat good sauces and gravies wherever they find them"
 q will ask Senator Pettus one ques- tion," exclaimed M. Ballard, chief at Martins. Docs he know of any soldier in all the history of mankind who marches further or faster or fights bet ter than the soldiers of France? And what, above everything else. does he eat? Soup? Yes. And what is soup! Potage-the juice of. the meat, with veg etables and savory herbs added; in other words, gravy. For generations the French warrior has been nourished on good sauces.
 "rhe honorable senator permits himself to call sauces French abominations. What better proof could you find that he has never tasted veritable French sauce? Is he fond of filet of sole? It is good dish-nourishing, savory, satisfy ing. But let him try filet of sole a la Normande. There is a dish for which, l in perfection, a gourmet would give one l year of his life. Let the honorable gen. tleman come here and try my filet of sole l and the sauce I shall give him. If he shall say 1t is an abomination l am will ing to cook for him free for the rest of my life. But If he is mistaken. let him so declare.
 ''No. mo-; sauce is to dishes what cloth-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-14
THE MILLIONS OF THE RACES.

From the New York World.
 It is published in Paris that France has bet $4S0. 500 OOO on the national horse races within the past twelve years-an average just above $4OOO0,OOO per year. In the re- cord year, 1S99 the wagers aggregated $55, 100000.
 Returns of this nature it would be inn possible to obtain in this country with anything like accuracy. France has the system of mutuels or pools, in which the bettors have their ventures duly register ed, and if they name the right horses. get back their proportonate shares of the money remaining over the commission naire's percentage, It is easy to collect the records of such speculation. In this country the tracks are legion, there is racing all the year round, and betting is regulated only according to police zeal under the varying laws of the states.
 However, there is every probability, if one cares to boast about it, that the bet ting figures of the United States for twelve years, could they be tabulated, would make the French record look small to degree vastly out of proportion to the difference in population. In 1902 promi- nent bookmalSer declared that 2,000,O0O per day was being wagered on the races at Saratoga.
 In America great totals are piled up by plungers whose individual bets run into the thousands. If the French betting lists were analysed they would be found to be made up largely of the small in- vestors who buy their pool tickets as things "all in the day" These bettors are willing to win, but are not ruined if they lose. And they have their sport. Do our pool room victims have theirs?