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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
Mills Running Without Pr fit.

Mills that lack a suply of raw cot ton to keep their spindles busy until the new crop comes in, and some that have a supply are closing down, and perhaps twenty per cent of the spin dies of the country will be idle this month. Mills that make fancy cottons as well as mills that make coarse goods are closing down, entailing a period of idleness among operatives that will last fully six weeks.
 The curtailment of production is wholly due to the inability of manu- lecturers to produce goods at a pro fit from high-priced cotton, and of course this inability applies as well to mills that have plenty of bales in store as to those that have none. A cores pondent of the New York Jour nal of Commerce shows, for example, that a certain Fall River mill produc- ing print cloths cannot make goods at present below 24.3 cents a pound, or 31a cents a yard, and such goods can be purchased in the market at 3A cents. The mill in question is mod ern. and it can produce goods as cheaply as any Fall River mill, and 1t undoubtedly represents the general situation.
 There is, however, no pressing or unusual demand for goods, and cor respondents seem to agree that cur tailment of production in August to the extent of twenty or thirty per cent will work no harm. A steady and well sustained demand later on is looked for
 Many mills will be kept going all though no profits are in sight. They will continue to make goods partly be- cause humanity so dictates, and part ly because managers dislike to disor- ganize their labor supply. It is not easy to gather in operatives after six or eight weeks of idleness, and many mill will be kept in operation in order to keep operatives from wander ing off to other mills or other callings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10

From the New York Sun.
 saintssedueing gold has another victim. Another populist backslides.
 The Hon. William Vincent Allen, affec- tionately known as Wind Allen some time a senator In congress from Nebras- ka, the champion long-distance spouter of the senate, member of the populist na- tional convention of 1892 and as loud and long voice as ever roared against capitalists and corporations, is becoming a corporation and capitalist. "In com pany with Judge cadnan Dayton Of Washington he will build line from Huntlngton Ore, to Lewiston, Idaho"
 Coxey, Hogg, Towne, Alen-shall we never see an unprosperous and unregen- crate son of calamity?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
Peace in Ireland.

The commons has passed the Irish land bill by a vote of BIT to 20. The conservatives readily control the house of lords, and the landlords ac. cept the new bill, and it will beyond question soon become a law of the realm.
 Under it the landlords will be long ago driven out of France and portions of Germany, and to some ex- tent out of Russia. All the world is coming to appreciate the American pracfice--to the tillers thereof belongs the soil. It has taken the effete mon- archies long time to rise to an ac- ceptance of this doctrine, but they are coming to a full appreciation of it.
 The passage of the land bill will will bring lasting peace to Ireland, and after Irishmen become propPie- tors they will no doubt be given local government powers, for proprietorship always induces conservatism and good citizenship. The nationalists are con fdent this will be the logical and nat ural outcome, and after a while it will perhaps be granted without oppo- sition.
 The new bill will undoubtedly be felt in this country in decrease in migration from Ireland When the bis Holdings of "the blood sucking landlords" are broken up into small farms the present population can make good livings at home, and this will naturally operate to reduce and limit emigration from the island What Is our loss will however be Ire lands gain.
 The new bill will speedily eliminate the landlords, leaving the government and the tenants free to adapt them selves to the new situation. The gov ernment first buys out landlord, and then proceeds to resell his land in small desirable parcels to the farmers, or tenantry, or peasantry as some countries delight to call their produc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
 NO JEREMlAHs NEED APPLY.

From the New York Sun.
 In letter to Richmond firm, Mir. Richard II. Edmonds. editor of the Bal timore Manufacturers Record, gives some important and cheerful statistics in regard to southern prosperity. He estimates that this years cotton and cottonseed crop within the next twelve months will bring the southern farmers at least $60O 0o0. 900 and that other southern agricultural pro- ducts will amount to mot far from s9O0- 0O0.0oO." total of about Sl. .5O0.0 100000 for one years farming: and the manufactur- ing product exceeds in value the agricul- tural. While the cotton crop represents only about 40 per cent of the total value of the agricultural produce of the south. 1t is the great money crop. For a hun dred years high cotton has been accom- panied with general southern prosperity.
 Between 1900 and 1902. years of southern industrial activity and fair prices for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
SCHWAB'S FINE POINTS
 AND HIS LIMITATIONS

From the N. r. Journal of Commerce.
 K1N R. CHARLES NJ. scHwAB has IV retired from the presidency of the United States Steel corpora tion. the greatest single organization of capital ever formed, with a feeling that he has not been fairly treated by the newspapers. He did not conceal the fact that he felt that he had been subjected to unkind comment. and hts parting plea for more considerate treatment was pathetic. It is safe to say that the newspapers gen. erally whatever they may have thought of the organization of the Steel Trust. would have been glad to see MT. Schwab successful as It's official head. He had risen as a practical worker in the steel business from the humblest position to be the president of the Carnegie company and the chief manager of It's great works. The American people like to see that kind of success, and when, as a part of the bargain by which the Carnegie com pany came Into the combination, he was made its executive head, they would have rejoiced to see him carry his triumph to that exalted height.
 But that seems to have been a degree of success that MT. Schwab could not stand. His natural endowment, his prac- tical training, his years of experience, had made him an efficient manager of the operations of iron and steel making, but they had not made him a great financier or a broad-minued man of affairs. They had not taught him the judicious use of wealth and of a large income and at that glddy height. surrounded by magnates and courted by parasites, he lost his boise. His head ceased to be level.
 He was not looking after the details of steel making. but attending meetings of directors and committees and living sumptuously every day. He began to in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
1.-THE klNel GOD BLESS HIM.D

From the London Truth. His majesty has made it known That those well-wishers of the throne Who to brim up a glass are prone,
 And but too glad to clink it. May, when to toast him they combine, Propose his regal health in wine Or, if to temperance they incline,
 In water, too, may drink it. Of course, And 1t is safe to say Gainst toasts in beer he'd not inveigh, Nor selzer bar in any way
 Nor soda mixed with whisky. So. too, a matron would be free To drink to his good health in tea; Nor could the use of cocoa be
 In any way held risky. Tn short. we may be sure the king Would let us drink in anything The good old toast to which we cling
 Where is there one to beat 1t? And wouldn't 1t disloyal deem If those who ne'er of drinking dream Should, to express their high esteem.
 Not drink his health. but eat 1t!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
American Goods in China

Secretary Hay has an uphill battle in his contention in favor of southern cotton mills. He is trying to gain for them an open door in Manchuria, ani an even chance against Russian mills and Russian cotton.
 Between 1893 and 1903 our exports to Asia were increased 275 per cent, and of our exports to Asia AS per cent were sent to China, and much of the 45 per cent was landed at New Chwang the chief open port of Manchuria. The one port named receives yearly cot tons to the value of about $12,000,00O, most of which were spun and woven in southern mills. Our stake in Man churia is therefore great.
 Russia's plan for capturing by means of favorable railroad rates and other government bounties the cotton goods trade of Manchuria Is we'll un- derstood. Her mills have counter feited the trademarks and wrapping paper of our own mills, but they have not been able to deceive Chinese eyes and touch in the goods they make. Russian cotton is inferior to American cotton, and Russian operatives Jack the sltilful fingers of American opera tives Chinese merchants were car ried free to Moscow, but few orders resulted from these displays of Rus sian enterprise.
 Russia has of course right to gain all the trade she can, but she knows she can secure no trade in fair and open field, and this is why she Is en- deavoring to close the door in Man churia. She may ostensibly open it. but she will undoubtedly pile up ob- structions to it if she retains her hold upon the province. The stake is great one. and the southern cotton milling industry Is deeply interested in the outcome of the struggle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
The Vatican Library.

M. Ellie Berger contributes to the Temps an appreciation of the service rendered to scholarship. more especially to historical research by Leo XIII in throwing open to students the hitherto uneSplored resources of the vatican library remarked student. Until his accession 1t had always been a sort of no-man's-land, a domain of mystery, where scholars vaguely knew that price less material must exist, but of more definite knowledge there was none. Years ago Cardinal Mai discovered and pub lishcd some noteworthy documents, and also undertook, at least in q general fashion. to catalogue the collection and set 1t in order. But he died before his huge task was much more than begun, and, until the time of Leo, no one cared to follow up his work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
coRREcTs mR. AEFLIN.
Lawyer for Turner Makes a State
 ment.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Hon. ". M. Lackey of Dadeville, lead ing counsel for Fletcher Turner. recently tried in the United States court for peonage. while in Montgomery yesterday voluntarily corrected misstatements made by Hon. J. Tom Heiins secretary of state. in his criticism of the trial Judge. Hon. Thomas c. Jones.
 Mr. Laekey gives Turner's reasons for pleading guilty and declares that MT. Hehin erred in saying that Judge Jones did not offer to have the case tried be- fore another judge. If the defendant was dissatisfied with the charge of Judge Jones to the jury.
 The statement of MT. Laekey was brought by him to the Advertiser office where he requested that it be published.
 It is as follows:
 T notice in MT. IIefiin's article in the papers a few days since that he makes the statement that Turner's attorneys had said to him that Judge Jones did not tell me. the attorney, before Turner pleaded guilty, that he would get anoth- CT judge to come and try the case.
 MT. Hefin is evidently mistaken in this statement. I am sure that am the only one of the attorneys who had any conversation with Judge Jones relative to the matter of putting in the plea before the plea was put in, and Judge Jones stated to me that he did rot want me to put the plea in. if either myself or Turner had decided to put in the plea on account of his attitude and what he had said during the progress of the trial of the cases. Judge Jones further said that if the cases were to be tried he would get another judge to come and try them; that he would not, if he could help it, try any man who thought that he. the judge. had any personal feeling against him in the matter.
 T remarked to Judge Jones that we did not want another judge and that, in fact. the attitude of the court had noth- ing to do with our putting in the plea; that 1t was a matter of leaving my client with something to live on and making a living for his family; that under the law, as declared by the court. my client was unquestionably guilty.
 T think I made substantially this statement to several gentlemen when MT Heain was present and he evidently misunderstood me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10

cotton, the gain in the assessed value of nual average of $230. ,0OO as against an average of $97,vv0 GOO for the preceding ten years. In spite of the panic of 1S93 ,4e industrial depression and the low price of cotton. the south has established it's credit and accumulated capital and put its manufactures on a solid basis. In the last three years southern coal mining and coke mining and cotton manufacturing and iron making have been developed and brought up to date. Capital and immigra- ton have been attracted. In short. "the South's material advancement. based on the upbuilding of it's manufacturing and mining interests and the rapidly increa.- ing development of its agricultural inter ests, promises to tax to the utmost .ne freight-handling facilities of all southern ranroads.'
 So much for southern prosperity. Have the southern democrats any farther use for political policies that deny patent facts and wall over imaginary woes? The Atlanta Constitution makes the Edmonns letter the text of a sermon:
 What interest can such a people have in prophecies of calamity and creeds of discontent? We are for prosperity. and the deep-seated determination of our peo- pie is to foster and further it. Whoever expects to make headway with a gospel of lamentations in the south will find that he Is estrayed from his proper pasture. If there be any pasture left in tnls country for such an ass.
 Does the editor of the Commoner ever read the papers?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
suNFLowER PHILOSOPHY.

From the Atchison Globe.
 The latest name for hammock is a landing net. Dragnet is also good.
 When man hesitates he is pretty apt to be lost, and the woman in the case finds him.
 You can scare seven men out of ten by limiting at mysterious arrest short y be made.
 We saw something yesterday We had not seen in years before-a girl with 8 polka dotted face.
 A very fortunate man lives in Atchi- son; the person he dislikes most in the world lives In South Africa.
 When man with a seventy-five-dol- lar salary finds himself the father of a girl with e-hundred-and-flfty- dollar tastes. which one goes to the wall?
 We are very particular about making a memorandum of things we wish to re- call, but the trouble is we can't read the memorandum afterwards.
 At night. when you sit on your front porch and talk, it is well to remember that those to whom you talk will re- peat what you said in broad daylight next day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
City Parks.


 There are men in Birmingham who were opposed to the recent action of Mayor Drennen in pushing through the city council the measure by which the municipality acquires three more parks along Highland avenue" said man who has done much to advance Birmingham's interests.
 There are also men who are opposed to spending more money to improve the parks the city has had for a number of years. I think such men would change their views if they would visit the three parks on the north side any Sunday af- ternoon. They would find them thronged with people most of whom have no other time than Sunday for recreation and to whom a park of any kind Is indeed an inviting place.
 "The greater cities of the country have long ago realized not only the usefulness but also the absolute necessity of public parks as a help to the development of a higher citizenship. Primarily parks are not for the benefit of those who can af- ford to go to the springs and various re- sorts during the summer, but are for those who have no other place to go with their children to get a breath of fresh afr.
 Birmingham has not too many parks and the city has not been extravagant in its improvement of them and any steps that Mayor Drennen or any one else takes to provide more of these resorts for the future ought to meet the ap- proval of a large majority of the voters of the city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10

KN ARK TWAIN began to get IW ready for the yacht races yes- Aterday by having his Panama straw of '9S brushed up in boot polish ing hat cleaning booth in the arcade of the Empire building at T Broadway. It took long time to clean the hat and while waiting for the job to be finished the author was the victim of dozen or more cases of mistaken Identity. He was everything from banker to a florist in about twenty minutes.
 The cloud of dust that flew from the Panama as 1t made about 1000 revolutions a minute on the cleaners electric wheel choked Mir Clemens and the wind from the wheel made his cigar burn sideways like three-for-five which 1t wasn't. He said so.
 To get out of the draught Mark Twain moved along the corridor to wait in front of the next stall which happened to be occupied by florist Standing there bareheaded, gazing up at the ceiling fresco and with his hands on his hips, he looked as if he might be the proprie- tor of the booth
 One woman at any rate thought that he was and tried to do business with him.
 If you are very sure that those daf- fodus were cut fresh this morning" said the woman, q would like a dozen"
 Madame, I am not surea replied Mark. Your question has taken all the tuck out of me. I am not allowed to sell the blossoms myself l am merely the door attendant"
 Whereupon Mark opened the door to the florists place and bowed the woman in.
 Then he moved along to the next place, where they sell elevated road tickets. He had a green check in his hand to den- tify his hat by. It looked something like the transfer tickets Issued by the eleva- ted for rides on the cars of the old Third avenue system. A woman hurrying through the arcade with a child stopped in front of Mark Twain and asked breathlessly.
 Do you transfer to Huckleberryf''
 The author who was again st.dylng the ceiling, didn't catch more than word or so of the womans question, but he replied politely:
 "I thank you. Madame. have sort of sneaking liking for Huck Finn my self"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10

vest and to speculate, even to plunge and entered upon a course that was sure to precipitate him from the enllnence so suddenly attained. How far 1t was his fault. how far it was due to the influences that surrounded him. how far it was the decree of fate. 1t is not necessary to in- quire; but as the head of the Steel Trust. the president of the greatest corporation on earth. Charles NJ. sehwab did not prove a success.
 It is not necessary to imply that the impairment of his health was not real. or to inquire too curlously into the cause of it. A change in his way of living and certain distractions of his new position may have contributed to it, but too close a devotion to the interests of the Steel Corporation was hardly the chief cause. He broke down physically because he was not intellectually and morally equal to the place he was called upon to fill, and he put himself to a strain which he could not bear outside of the strict line of It's duties The decline is a sad one and 1t has a serious lesson. It is not worth while to question the transparent explain "tioh VI eio ShNuAiiStoiiSSS Ol thS AesiB- nation as due solely to i'll health and ac- cepted reluctantly at Mir. schwabs insist ence It does not matter After working his way and resign by merit to an eminent place in great industry, he was suddenly elevated by circumstances above it into the realm of promoters and financiers, and the atmosphere was not native to him. It was not a sphere in which he was fitted to shine. Whether after these two unhappily eventful years his associ- ates desired to fill his place with some one else or he desired to escape from 1t into peaceful retirement and chance to recover his health. is of little consequence. The lesson remains. and is an impressive one for the youth of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
Open to the Public.

'There is one especially eommendable thing about Birmingham's industrial plants" said northern visitor, and that is that most of them are always open to visitors. If people are allowed to go through these great works and see how things are made 1t does more to advertise the city than anything else for such visitors will then go home and tell all about what they have seen and where they saw 1t.
 Tn Chicago 1t is impossible to get into many of the large manufacturing plants and the only reason is that the owners of such plants are indifferent to the pub lie and don't care whether their city or their business is advertised or not"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10
pINkEY, coREYs SUCCESSOR.

From the New York Commercial.
 Ava c. Dinkey. who, 1t is stated on good authority will succeed w. E. Corey as president of the Carnegie Steel com pany, was born at Weatherly, Pa, in February. 1866, which, by singular CO., incidence, was also the year of William Ellis Corey's birth. He was educated in the common schools of Weatherly and. later. in the common schools of Brad dock, Pa. where he doubtless made his acquaintance with Corey, who was born in that city and educated in its pub lie schools. Both of the young men left school at the age of Is. Corey securing q position in the laboratory of the Edgar Thomson Steel works and Dinkey. after a brief period during which he was em- ployed on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road at Braddock as telegraph operator went to the Edgar Thomson Steel works in the same capacity under Captain w. R. Jones'
 For about three years he was a ma chinist at the Pittsburg Locomotive works and for about year was asso- ciated with Thomas McTighe. Mir. A.c- COnueH ana otners m introducing electric light commercially in Pittsburg; after which he went into the office of the Homestead Steel works under Superin- tendent Potter. He took charge of the electrical department of the plant and effected a great reduction in labor cost by introducing electricity for driving feed tables, electric cranes and other labor saving devices which have since been adopted by many other steel works and rolling mills. He invented and pat ented an electric charging machine. a crane for soaking pits and the Dinkey controller.
 He was appointed assistant general su- perintendent of the Homestead works in 1898. and in April. 1901, succeeded William E. Corey as general superintendent.