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market the lower the stocks at the
furnaces become. Either the consum-
ers are not holding off, or else stocks
are not correctly reported, or else
there will be a wild rush later on to
buy iron. What the course of the mar
ket will be is still problematical.
In the steel market prices remain
steady. The rail mills have placed
their output to the end of the year,
and the plate mills and rolling mills
are full of orders up to the fall months
at least. If there are any weak spots
in the market they are not in the steel
trade. If the steel trade be firm the
pig iron trade cannot be long the re-
verse. Archer Brown thus presents
the situation: ut now looks as though
we would be able to take care of the
demand of the country for 1903, but
not to produce any excess. The halt
ing in the market is natural, and per-
haps healthy, but it cannot last much
longer, for the reason that large con-
sumers are running near the end of
their contracts and have made heavy
engagements themselves to deliver
finished material"
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IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
North BIRMINGHAM.


THE city council of North Birmingham
should take immediate steps to install a
waterworks system said a manufaet-
urer.
1T is one of the leading manufacturing
suburbs of Birmingham and an immense
amount of money is invested out there in
manufacturing enterprises. 1t is not right
that so much money should be represented
in a place which offers absolutely no fire
protection. North Birmingham. in return
for the compliment which manufacturers
pay her in building their plants, should
be only too willing to offer fire protee-
ton at least as a return courtesy.
L understand that the council has al
ready authorized the issue of $4,000 worth
of bonds, part of which will be sold to
build a system of waterworks. 1t is to be
hoped that the matter will not be dropped
in its present status, but that the public
spirited men of that thrifty suburb will
vigorously prosecute the work of supply
Ing plenty of water to the whole town.
Some of the largest and most i'm
portant industries of the district are at
North Birmingham, and in addition to
having to pay high rate of Insurance,
the owners always feel i'll at ease about
what might happen to their property dur
Ing their absence. The recent fire which
destroyed the magnificent plant of the
Southern Sewer Pipe company should
alone be incentive enough to the people
OF North Birmingham to provide against
losses of this kind"
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Steel Frame BUILDINGS.

1.-THE upright steel beams have been
raised for the seventh story of the First
National bank building" remarked a bus
mess man, land ii looks as though the
contractors would be able to finish the
work by october /. as originally intended,
or at least very soon after that date
ut is amusing to hear the questions
people ask as they stand and look on.
One man wants to know what one of the
steel beams Is worth. another asks what
1t weighs, another what is the weight of
the entire steel work of the building and
still another IS eager 60 know why they
can't he manufactured in Birmingham
IF the worlSrnen stopped to answer the
questions these idle spectators ask they
never would get the building finished. d"
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ANOTHER TRlGGs.

From the Kansas City World
Triggs, Triggs of Chicago university, has
found his fellow.
The latters name is Watt
He is principal of the Graham school,
Chicago.
Triggs destroyed the entire hymnology
of the church at one fell swoop. Watt
Is not far behind him in destructibllity
Whom do you suppose he has attacked?
William Shakespeare.
Watt declares that Shakespeare was a
cheap punster, that his jokes were shady
his wit weak. his language behind the
times, and that his spelling, morals and
grammar are all bad.
Forsooth.
On top of centuries of admiration above
the heads of studious literary critics who
have made a lifetime study of the i'm
mortal bard, appears watt-Mr. Watt,
principal of Graham school, Chicago. Ill.
declaring himself and showing himself.
Does Watt Mr.. Watt of Chicago, sur
mise that Shakespeare ought to have
foreseen the spelling and grammar of
some centuries after he was buried at
Avon?
And as to Sweet Wills" plainness OF
speech in speaking of certain things did
Watt, Mr.. Watt of Chicago, ever read
a book called the Old Testament?
Now. If Watt. Mr.. Watt of Graham
ward school, Chicago, ILL.,, had been a
little reasonable in his criticism. but no.
that isn't Chicago style.
Chicago goes the whole nog or none
where literary criticism is concerned.
If Watt, Mr.. Watt. had said that Bill
Shapespeare mods sometimes. as did the
dear old biographer of Ulysses. but no
This man is like the mariner who tried
to sail past the north star. The star is
still there!
Kyrle Bellew, the actor, who knows his
Shakespeare pretty well, has perhaps an
swered this Chicago principal better than
any other. In a recent open letter. Bellew
says
my dear Mr.. Watt, what has Shake
speare done to your
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has, and 1 believe when the time comes
for the actual contest to be made. Cor
man will have the most forcible follow
ing of any man yet mentioned.
BY the way. in this connection. 1 see
that our old friend. former Senator Pugh,
of Alabama, publishes an article In the
Washington Post declaring himself in
favor of German as the democratic Pres
idential nominee. Senator Pugh declares
that Senator German is the ablest man
in the democratic party. with the most
thorough knowledge and experience in
national history and congressional legis-
lation; thoroughly practical; opposed to
all extremes; friendly to labor and CAPT
tai, giving each just and fair play; and
with a history of political acts and opin-
ions governed by honest convictions of
duty and the promotion of the welfare of
the people he represents. Senator Pugh
thinks that If German can get the sup
port of the New York delegation in the
will not only be nominated, but will be
elected President of the United States.
1 talked with Senator Morgan when
here recently. He is of the opinion that
German is the most available man,
though the senior Alabama senator has
as yet taken no public stand in the mat
ter.
Senator German is to the democratic
party and to the country very much like
the lamented President Mckinley was to
the republican party. The people in all
walks of life have complete confidence in
his judgment, his ability and his honesty
of purpose. Above all, he is a democrat
of democrats
It appears that the Seaboard Air Line
railway, when 1t gets into birmingham.
proposes to make itself conspicuous
part of Greater Birmingham, proposing
to give perfect and complete passenger
service, not only to the city proper, but
to all parts of the greater city, including
Bessemer, Ensley and Pratt City. This
is a most excellent movement on the part
of the Seaboard and Will undoubtedly
make friends of the entire territory COM
prised in Greater Birmingham.
The Seaboard, understand is to spend
something like $S,OOO.OOO in building and
equipping its lines between Birmingham
and Atlanta and in its terminals here.
This reminds us that the Illinois Cen
trail people are making all manner OF sur
veys in and about the Birmingham dis
trict, and have during the past week
through friends here secured options on
considerable Birmingham real estate.
They are paying, however, much more for
1t than it would have cost them a year
ago Yet Birmingham real estate Is not
high by any means. Central property
sold during the past week has not
brought values exceeding so per cent
of similar properties in Atlanta or Mem
phis There is talk of a real estate boom,
but the values asked and received do not
indicate boom prices by any means.
y
The merchants of Birmingham are be-
ginning to ask the usual question each
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Iron Market.

Local pig iron sales are still confined
to nearby delivery and few of any mag
nitude are recorded. The inquiry Is con-
sidered fair, but the buyers are still hold
Ing off. They seem to feel that the seller
is weakening and that the price will be
still further lowered. Sellers on the other
hand are as persistent in maintaining the
prices. They argue that the demand for
finished products is entirely too great for
cheaper iron to be considered seriously
One seller remarked yesterday that IL
the price should go lower 1t would be
something beyond his comprehension. He
said that the lowering of the price of a
commodity, the demand for which seemed
to be growing all the time, offered a new
principle in economies that he could not
fathom.
1T would be all the more unaccountable,
since the supply has really been lessened
The recent cut in the price is said to
have stopped most of the importations of
foreign iron.
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Piq Iron Production.

The furnaces in blast on May l had
p weekly capacity of 3s3,S97 tons, a
gain OF S,201 tons in a month. This Is
y new record. This iron came from
293 coke and % charcoal furnaces, n
gain in month of three stacks. Pro
duction is going on at the rate of 49,
100000 tons year, and yet furnace
stocks are running down. They now
stand at 1912 tons, or not much
more than two days production.
In Alabama ON May there were 80
coke and charcoal stacks in blast, q
loss in month of one coke, and one
charcoal stack. The weekly capacity
of the Alabama stacks on May was
e9,566 tons.
The more the meters stay out of the
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NED BRACE TALKS OF PRESIDENTIAL
PROBLEMS AND POLITICS in GENERAL

year at this season as to whether or not
there is any danger of a miners strike
here in July. There Is none. have no
idea, judging from recent talk with lead
ers among the miners, that they will
ask for more than they deserve, and l am
quite sure that the operators will be
disposed to accede to all that is reason
able.
Regardless of the fact that iron has
gone off several dollars per ton, the dis
trfct continues to be exceedingly prosper
Gus. With the high prices, the furnaces
and mines have been enabled to put in
many improvements and extensions, plsc-
ing them in position to operate more
economically in hard times.
Though the price of iron has fallen.
the demand is still great, and as con-
sequence all the Industries and all the
people of Birmingham continue to pros
per, and from the outlook, this prosperity
will continue indefinitely.
Pennsylvania has never been noted for
newsy newspapers. Many OF them, how
ever, have been exceedingly profitable.
however, I fear there will not be much
more profit for the Philadelphia or Pitts
burg publishers. This libel law will keep
them continually in the courts. The law
yers without practice will have oppor-
tunity to keep themselves busy bring
ing libel suits against the newspapers on
the commission basis so to speak. Under
the new law practically any publication
that an individual objects to is libellous.
Especially so is 1t true with cartoons.
Any man who can prove that his feelings
were hurt by virtue of the publication,
whether truthful or not, is under the law
entitled to damages. In consequence, the
courts will be kept busy and every news
paper in the keystone state will be COM
PEELED to keep a corps of attorneys in
its employ.
I am glad that the manufacturers and
business men of Birmingham have taken
up the water question seriously. Birming-
ham must have greater supply Of water
for manufacturing purposes. This can
only be gotten through some sort of canal
or artificial water way from some of the
streams ranging from ten to fifty miles
from Birmingham. When the Birming-
ham people take this matter up in prac-
teal way, the government. can be induced
to do much of the work. If Senator Nor
gan's recent visit to Birmingham did
nothing more, it has done much good in
enthusing our people on the water ques-
ton. It is a well known fact that the
water supply here at present is not suff-
cient to provide for double the number of
furnaces and plants which we now have,
and it is only a question of few years
when our industries will be doubled in ex-
tent, provided we have sufficient watSr.
But this one fault of the Birmingham dis
trict is to be remedied and from the pres
ent outlook 1t will be at an early date.
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Pastors Salaries.

An appellate court in Missouri has
decided that church is not a partner
ship in law whatever it may be in re-
ligion or in morals The case arose over
claim held by preacher of the First
Baptist church in Monroe City, who
had been engaged to preach at $500
year. The congregation did not pay
him that much, and he sued for the
balance
The court held that the members
were not liable individually or col
lectively. As the church had not be-
come a corporation 1t could not be
held responsible comparatively. Turn
the matter as one will, there is no way
to enforce a contract entered into by
church and it's preacher.
The court remanded the claim to the
conveniences of the members of the
preachers flock, and this was cold sat
isfaction indeed, for the aforesaid con.
sciences had turned down the claim
before the preacher brought suit for
the amount due him.
The case has attracted no little in
terest in the west, where the question
had never before been ad1udicated.
For that matter, the decision is be-
lieved to be new 1udge-made law alto
gether, and preachers may be induced
by it to demand collateral of some
kind before expending their energies
upon an irresponsible congregation.
The toller is worthy of his hire. This
is automatic except in the case of
preachers in Missouri, who are gen
orally underpald when they are paid
at all. The Missouri case invites non
payment, especially if there are many
knockers in the congregation.
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QUEER WHIM OF FASHION.
from the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
Fashion is indeed whimsical" an F
street shoe merchant was heard to say
one morning last week. 1T Is safe to
say" he went on, that eight out of every
ten of the lady customers who have Wis
tied my store within the last week have
had their boots and fow-quartered shoes
laced from the top down. 1 have made
inquiries Of those with wnom l could take
the privilege, and the only enlightenment
1 have received so far is that is the style
and now. in obedience to Dame Fashion,
we merchants are forced to devote twice
the time in lacing a shoe that 1t required
a few months ago."
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Claimants orchestra will render the fol-
lowing programme at the Hotel Hillman
this evening: March, Southern Smiles;p
overture, Carmen" (BizeD; selection,
''The starks;" intermezzo, Dance of the
Sparrows;" selection. THE Ameer;"
waltz, Blue Danube" (by request; se-
lection, Sultan of Sulu;" intermezzo.
Cares" medley 1.-The Dazzler;" selec-
ton, "Hoity Tolty;" march, New Eng
lands Finest" requests.
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dear to all, will be shot off the face of
the earth-slaughtered needlessly and
even wickedly. To kill the songbirds
Of great country is almost a crime,
and if the people of Alabama desire to
preserve the songsters that they have
known from childhood, they will see
that a law fully protective is passed by
the legislature in September, trusting
that Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Florida and Georgia will follow suit
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THE HUMBLE-BEE.

BY Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Burly, doing humble-bee,
Where thou art is cline for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek;
l will follow thee alone,
Thou animated torrid-zone!
Zigzag steerer, desert cfseerer,
Let me chase thy waving lines;
Keep me nearer. me thy hearer,
Singing over shrubs and vines.
Insect lover of the sun.
Joy of thy dominion!
Sailor of the atmosphere;
Swimmer through the waves OF air;
Voyager of light and moon;
Epicurean of June; LIB
Wait, l prithee, till l come
Within earshot of thy hum.-
All without is martyrdom.
When the south wind, In May days.
With a net of shining haze
Silvers the horizon wall,
And with softness touching all,
Tints the human countenance
With color of romance,
And infusing subtle heats.
Turns the sod to violets,
Thou, in sunny solitudes,
Rover of the underwoods.
The green silence dost displace
with thy mellow breezy bass.
Hot midsummer's petted crone,
Sweet to me thy drowsy tone
Tells of countless sunny hours.
Long days, and solid banks of flowers;
OF CULTS of sweetness without bound
In Indian wildernesses found:
OF Syrian peace, immortal leisure.
Firmest cheer, and bird-like pleasure.
Aught unsavory or unclean
Hath my insect never seen;
But violets and bilberry bells,
| Maple-sap and daffodels,
Grass with green flag half-mast high.
Succory to match the sky,
Columbine with horn of honey,
Scented fern and agrimony,
Glover, catchfiy, adder's-tongue
And brier-roses, dwelt among;
All beside was unknown waste,
All was picture as he passed.
Wiser far than human seer,
Yellow-breeched philosophers
Seeing only what Is fair,
Slipping only what is sweet.
Thou dost mock at fate ana care,
Leave the chaff and take the wheat
When the fierce northwestern blast
Cools sea and land so far ana fast,
Thou already slumbering deep;
Woe and want thou canst outsleep: -
Want and woe. which torture u,
Thy sleen malkaz ridiculnua- liz
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About Persons.

Second Vice President ]. w. Mcqueen
of the sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron COM
pany will return today from a trip to the
north.
w. T. Warlick of Admission, manager of
the office of the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph company in that city. is
spending today in Birmingham.
e. L. Brown and r. II. Baugh have
gone to Asheville, S. c., for few days.
H. C. Hanson of Nashville is stopping
at the Hillman.
j, F. Huntington of Indianapolis is reg
istered at the Metropolitan.
G. D. Floyd of Lafayette is at the
Morris.
C. NJ. Ridgley of Litchfeld. ILL.,, is stop
ping at the st. Nicholas.
D. NJ Colts of Greensboro is stopping
at the Hillman.
p C. Pinson of Hillman is stopping at
the Metropolitan
7. Fl. Watson and wife or Admission are
registered at the Morris.
l.. B. Doerr of Louisville is registered
at the st. Nicholas.
w. II. Franklin of New York is at the
Hillman.
Claude Seals of Sheffield is registered at
the Metropolitan.
]. A Blount OF Gadsden is stopping at
the Morris.
I. w. White of Chattanooga is stop
ping at the Morris.
Architect William c. Weston of Bir-
mingham has just finished the designs
for a handsome home for his brother. J.
]. Weston. which is to be built at Broad
stone. England. The home will cost about
$4,000.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A woman puts away love letters with
more care than a man does government
bonds.
In a woman's mind no man is worth
flirting with unless 1t will make some
body else miserable.
To his dying day the man who buys two
drinks for a quarter when he wants only
one thinks he is practicing economy.
When a man can't go TO an afternoon
tea with his wife because ne mas a d.
rectors' meeting. it is a sign that 1t is
the horse racing season.
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Net Related to Senator Jones.

Little Rock. Ark. May ia special
correspondent of the Arkansas Gazette
today interviewed ex-senator James X.
Jones at his home at Hope. Ark, in ref
erence to the reported relationship be-
tween him and Percy Jones. who was
killed by mob at Wilson, N. c.. a. few
days ago. Percy Jones is not related to
Senator Jones.
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AeJ1eaze,,
STRONG REASONS URGED
AGAINST PANAMA ROUTE

effort to secure a bargain which would
Immediately put ten millions of American
gold into their hands, but the Colombian
people are as strongly opposed to 1t as
are the American people. 1t is about time
to drop the malodorous Panama scheme
and prepare to build the real isthmian
waterway-the Nicaragua canal.
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HE newspapers and magazines
D throughout the country are Civ
ing their leading space to the

HHE newspapers and magazines
w throughout the country are Civ
ing their leading space to the
Presidential problem. The campaign in
both parties Is actually on. In the re-
publican party Roosevelt wants a west
ern running mate and Tom Carter of
Montana seems to be the man he has
tor from Montana. He was born in
Ohio, practiced law in Iowa and removed
to Montana In 1882. He was elected to
the senate in 1894 and has made a good
record in that body. He has likewise
been chairman of the republican national
campaign committee and is an all round
politician popular in the west and we'll
thought of in the east. The battle cry
of the republicans in the event Roosevelt
and Carter form the ticket will be Tied
and Tom"
On the other hand, Mark Hanna and
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, will I'M
doubtedly interpose some objection. They
are already attempting to make use of
the remarks of the German emperor to
Ex-Governor Francis of Missouri that
Roosevelt is a brilliant fellow and one
for whom the German emperor expressed
great admiration, but added that he fear
ed Mr. Roosevelt was a dangerous man
by virtue of his impetuosity and was
liable to get the United States involved in
serious difficulties.
Regardless of the Hanna-Spooner opposi-
ton, Roosevelt has undoubtedly strength
ened himself materially In the west His
manner impressed the boys. and there is
apparently much enthusiasm for him. He
is far ahead in the contest and unless
things change materially between now and
next June, Roosevelt will be the republic
can nominee.
His western trip has done the work
The newspapers are full to overlooking
with Cleveland. He Is writing letters to
newspaper men all over the country and
his friends are sending out all manner of
literature bearing upon him. He is un-
doubtedly playing his cards for something
The question is whether he wants the
democratic nomination himself. or wheth-
er he wants to name the nominee. I'm
doubtedly he despises Bryan and it may
be that he wants to punish the Nebra skan
On the other hand, thousands of shrewd
American citizens believe that Mr.. Cleve-
land wants the nomination himself and
that he feels confident of success. 1t will
not be many months before the public will
Know definitely what Mr. Cleveland IL
AFTER IL he wants the nomination. 1t will
be made known, and am of the opinion
tnat his friends will fight straightout for
IT, II he is playing to name the nominee
TINS iact Will likewise be made known
"neh the man that he desires nominated
Is brought conspicuously before the peo-
pie.
vi my part L am stillsof the opinion
mat German of Maryland is the strone-
est available man the democratic marty
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The Hon. Bill Joel Stone of Missouri
and the Hon. Mr.. Parry of Indiana
have been fully retired from the Pres
idential race.
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Mr.. Roosevelt has gone into retreat
to commune with the big trees, who
are vastly better than the big dema-
gogues he has been associated with
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The immortal Triggs has actually
secured a recruit in his anti-Shakes-
peare, pro-Rockefeller campaign. His
name is Watts, and he, too, teaches
school in Chicago. Long live Rocky
A bas Billy ST.
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The government will not undertake
to print roster of that regiment of
Rough Riders. The stock of ink would
not hold out.