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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
The Great Developers.

Of the many facts and signs pointing to the rapid material development of Alabama, few perhaps are more signifi- cant than the data just compiled by the immigration and industrial depart ment of the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
 The railroads have been great de. velopers all along, but never were they so much in evidence in this respect as in recent years. The millions they spend in operations and extensions in- crease the wealth of communities, but after all it Is the work which the rail- roads do in inducing homeseekers to settle in hitherto sparsely populated sections and in fostering innumerable industries-large and small-that counts for most in the long run. This work Is far-reaching and it's value can not be overstated.
 The statistics furnished by the Louisville and Nashville's immigra- ton and industrial agent appear in an other column. Out of 266 industries located by tbe Louisville and Nashville last year SS were established in Ala bama. The capital stock of these com panies aggregate nearly $11000,000. In 1903 nearly GOO families settled on the line of the Louisville and Nashville in Alabama and these figures repre- sent two-thirds of the entire number of homeseekers locating at all points on that system. These are facts tha. tell, for they show that Alabama leads in solid progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
IN 10TH LoBBIEs
Grover Cleveland.

.swashinpton neoie- and old congress- men must have bfn amazed at the de- claration made by representative Charles F. Scott of Kanss that C. H. J. Taylor A nearo. who beldhe position of recorder of deeds, had did at the White House with President ileveland. said man who has spent uich time at the national capital and is p-sonally acquainted with the former Present.
 Mir. clevelar never had any negro to dine with himAnd he never put himself on social eousty with any negro. Anti Cleveland depcrats fabricated story and used it il the south for the purpose of iniuring N. Cleveland to the effect that the demsratic President. during his first term, h3 invited Fred Douglass to a reception t the White House. The idea conveyfc by the story was that Douglas parcipated in social function at the exettive mansion. Douglas was seen in theWhite House at public re- ception I tlieve. but whatever the fact might haY beens there was absolutely nothing inlhe report which caused a feeling of esentment on the part of MT. Cleveland southern friends.
 MT. Clteland never held any extreme views on ie negro problem. He was in no sense a fgrophile, and every congress- man whocame in contact with Cleveland while otupying the executive office, kiws hoi very careful the President was not to ofnd southern sentiment.
 ''rhe hnsas mans statement is not cnly notn accordance with the truth but it is absrd; for MT Cleveland was never known invite any of his white friends to dine lunch with him outside of state dinings, much less negroes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Special to the New York Times

special to the New York Times. \N AsHINGTON-The department of W asrleul'pr. Aa. run ns'ar up '''sa' against st
 practical farmer who for the time being seems to have called halt on scientific agricultural exploitation. The farmer in question is the Rev. J. D. De- trich of Flourtown. on tee edge of Phi- adelphia. MT. Detrich "A enty -one years ago came into possession of a worn-out farm of fifteen acres, which then had two cows and a horse on it. for which hay had to be bought. Now Mir. Detrich keeps tIo horses and from thirty to. thirty-five head of cattle, and Is making large income from the place, feeding everything from the produce of the fifteen acres.
 The department of agriculture learned last year of his success and sent an ex- pert to study his methods. It was found that Mir. Detrich had succeeded by intro- ducing what is known among those who are read up on farm matters as soil Ing" He had stumbled on an old book, little seen nowadays. by Josiah Quincy on the practice of cutting green forage and feeding 1t to cows kept in cool clean stable.
 Aided only by a man and a boy, MT. Detrich had found out how to plant and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
GEN. FlTZHUGH LEE.

From the Portland Oregonian.
 q believe the time has arrived whei the last vestlge of sectionalism should bl wiped out in this country said Demo cratic State Chairman White last evening The Spanish-American war proved thu loyalty of the south beyond peradventure The interests of one section of the country are now common to all, and the time |: now right to put a quietus on all talk ol the north against the south or of tn, south against the north. I believe tn, time is right for us to nominate south ern man for President, and I believe W, should go to the old Mother of Presi dents for another, and the man whom believe we should nominate is Fitzhugf Lee. the Yankee from Virginia"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
General Kuropatkin.

The general who is hurrying east ward to take command of the Russian forces in the field is bluff old soldier 56 years old He has been an officer since 1866. when he was but IS years old, but he has been In no great con flict since 1877, when he fought at Plevna and in other battles of the Russo-Turkish war He was then Gen eral Skobeleff's chief of staff, and he may be regarded as a pupil of that distinguished soldier.
 He did make in 1880 a forced march of 600 miles from Tashkend across the desert wastes of central Asia 10 point near the Persian frontier, and to him the Turcomans' stronghold This vic tory broke the Turcomans' power and carried Russian power to Afghanistan and Thibet and China itself General Kuropatkin's fame largely rests upon his acts against the Turcoman. Sko- beleff was in command, but public sen timent in Russia has ever said that Kuropatkin did the work.
 Beyond all doubt the czar has sent his best general to Korea. He will find there, however, an enemy very alert, and very ready to depart from rules of strategy, and he will need more re- sources and higher qualities of gen eralship than he showed against tho Turcomans The Japanese are sly, active and to the Orient born and bred, and Kuropatkin will soon see he Is dealing with neither Turk nor Turco- man Both Turk and Turcoman had plenty of courage, but the Japanese have strategy, secrecy and quickness of action near base besides The new Russian commander may be able to drive the Japanese into the sea, as it is reported he says he will, but he will not be able to do so speedily, and altogether he may look at the problem differently when he has once taken charge of it. His words when he taketh off his armor in the Far East may disagree with those spoken when he was putting 1t on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Was In Meridian.

R. F. Beasley, well known in Birming-
 Inn, is in the city for a few days on
 lsiness. He is now representing large
 Dncern which imports and manufactures
 dvertising novelties. He was in Meri- ian Monday morning when Jim Paris, he negro, was arrested on charge of Killing Mall Clerk Stockton and wounding Mall Clerk Bass on the Alabama Great Southern train. In speaking of the situa- .ion there, MT. Beasley said:
 There did not seem to be any great settlement, and to me 1t did not look IS of the crowds had any determination to lynch the negro. There was no more ianger of lynching him there than there was in Birmingham at the same time It s true that the measures taken by the governor were in the line of safety, but he people smiled as the soldiers marched through the streets.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

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 from the Grafton press, and bears the name of Robert T. Bentley, an Alabama author who lives at Meridian vile, in Madison county Alabama has few writers of books within her bounds and therefore anything from the pen of an Alabama author is interesting Af- ter two years of labor Mir Bentley has the satisfaction Of seeing his book in print and commanding good sale
 "Forestheld" is faithful picture of life in North Alabama in the days just prior to the war and immediately following that period. The description of southern home life is true and heathful but some of the characters are faintly drawn They lack the vividness and strong originality that often makes us think people in books are real people. The story is also rather disconnected and does not move with the dash and rapidity that the average novel reader requires. The book is divided into two parts The first treats of scenes lead ing up to the war between north aud south. while the second Is devoted to the troublous times following the seces- sion and the reconstruction days
 sForestfield" purports to be a domestic history of the old south and as such is well worth reading. although as a story
 1t has many shortcomings in addition to those already mentioned. The most striking feature of the novel is color lessness which Is seldom absent. except In certain descriptive passages. How ever. as the work of an Alabama author who makes his first venture into novel writing, "Forestfield' should be read by all Alabamians who are interested in the literary life of the state
 The New York city administration con tinues to defe all predictions and instead of yielding to vice and graft, continues to keep the lid on" with A firm hand The Fammany administration is attempt ing reforms that have been deemed al- most impossible and the success already achieved has caused certain gentlemen who anect hashy clothing to hold their breath with sheer astonishment. When Tammany won It's municipal battle in New York the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst announced that the ancient city of Gotham was but few weeks removed from hades. and District Attorney Jerome Immediately girded up his loins to continue his cru- saoe against vice with renewed vigor. Both these distinguished gentlemen were disappointed. Dr. Parkhurst is hard pressed Tor material to use in Illuminating
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
A Life saddened by Distrust.

Arnold White in Everybody's Magazine
 An atmosphere of suspicion and gloom. produced by the constant sense of impai- pable danger. overshadows the spirits of everyone at the Russian court. This is the reason why the annual visit to Copen- hagen or Fredensborg is 50 eagerly antic-' ipated. and so thoroughly enjoyed by the Russian royal family. At Fredensborg. although the emperor is guarded by a con- siderable force of detectives, they are not in evidence; and during his stay he is. accompanied only by one or two aides-de- camp who are generally personal hiends- The extraordinary feature about Nihilism in Russia Is the extent to which the upper classes sympathize with the efforts of the intellectual proletariat to bring the pres ent system to an end. The Tsar never knows who are his friends and who are his enemies. An abiding sense of distrust is the result. and hence the passionate affection that hi majesty feels for his wife. whose faithful counsel and patient sympathy are the bright spots in one of the saddest lives in Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
About Persons.


 The Rev. Father Giles. 0. S. B., secre- tary Of St. Bernard college, was in Bir- mingham yesterday. He says the college has all the students It can accommodate; that many applicants had to be turned away. Father Giles reports that the vul- can march, recently composed by W. s. Cosgrave, a student at St. Bernard, is be- The title page of the march Is in three colors and contains fine cut of Vulcan and picture of Moretti, the sculptor. J. E. Marshal of Portsmouth, Va. is stopping at the Colonial.
 George w. Feagin, a we'll known en- gineer of Sayre, is at the Morris.
 
 The Hon. Charles W. Thompson, the popular congressman of the Fifth dis trict Is in the city. He came to Alabama to attend the meeting of the district board of stewards of the Methodist church that met In Montgomery yesterday. He goes to his home In Tuskegee today, where he will leave tomorrow for Washington.
 
 W. M. Cowder of Nashville is at the St Nicholas.
 Prof H. o. sergent of Auburn Is at the Morris.
 Frank P. Glass of Montgomery, bust ness manager of the Advertiser, is In the city
 w. Gray of New York is at the Colonial. ]. Lodge of Tuscaloosa is at the St. Nicholas.
 S. J. Parrish of Albcrtville Is in the city.
 J. J. Gay, Jr,, of Sheffield is stopping at the Morris.
 Phil Painter. private secretary of Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, is In the city. j. NJ Dolan of Cincinnati is at the St. Nicholas.
 II. w Lawrence of Chattanooga is reg istered at the Colonial.
 The Hon. George w. Jones of Mont gomery. member of the democratic exc cutive committee and prominent attor- ney Is Tn the city.
 Superintendent l.. B. Parsons of the Seaboard's Birmingham division, with headquarters at Cedartown, Ga, is in the city
 Berkeley Williams, brother of Chairman sohn Slxelton Williams of the Seaboard Air Line. and one Of the younger mem bers of the banking house of John $. Will Hams & Sons of Richmond, was in Bir- mingham yesterday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

A picture of Speaker Cannon when his face is lighted up by one of his poker" smiles, has been painted and now adorns the room of the appropriations committee at Washington.
 Charles Frohman has sailed for Eu- rope to superintend productions for six theatres in which he is interested. He will give a performance in Paris with an English company and an American star.
 George Kenan, the well known lecturer and traveller, who incurred the enmity of Russia by his stories of the cruelties to which prisoners were subjected in Sibe- ria, will go to the far east and fololw the Japanese troops in the war.
 It is reported that the fire commissioner of New York rejects all cigarette smokers who apply for a position in his depart ment. He believes that men who drink whisky or smoke cigarettes can never have steady nerves and will not make good firemen
 Melville E. Stone. general manager of the Associated Press. is being commend cd for his efforts to have the Russian press censorship modified. The success of his undertaking is a matter of congratula- tion to publishers in this country and will do much to insure more truthful account of events in the far east.
 It Is again reported that Dom Paul Kruger is slowly oying at his villa near Genoa. The former president of the Boer republic is one of the most interesting figures of contemporary history and one of the most pathetic. Although rumors of his increasing feebleness have been repeatedly denied he is now a very old man and his death is a matter of a short time,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02

play Of nerve that dumbfounds men of less self-command," said traveller yesterday at the Morris. We have all heard stories of lone highwaymen holding up trains or walking Into a bank in broad day and robbing the cash drawer, but It Is seldom we see such a deed performed
 "One of the most daring holdups ever heard of took place In a low gambling place in Fl Paso while was staying there for few months. The room was crowded with the worst set of ruffians and cut throats it would be possible to gather in a long days journey and all were absorb ed in the various games that were flour ishing. The assembly was composed of chinamen. Mexican peons, cowboys, gam blers and adventurers of all kinds. To look at that crowd one would have thought 1t rather dangerous to even re- main in the room very long, as shooting was apt to begin at any moment.
 Well, when the games were at their height big fellow appeared in the door way with two pistols in his hands With one he covered the crowd and with the other the banker behind the roulette wheel who was guarding huge roll of greenbacks and a pile of silver. T want that roll he said to the banker. The man was so rattled by the unexpected demand that the ominous pistol barrel directed at him that he handed over the money with out word.
 Immediately the robber backed out. ran to building nearby and escaped through the hallway. Of course that crowd raised terrible uproar and when they woke up, but 1t was toe late. The fellow eluded his pursuers by running through the building and was soon gallop- ing away in safety"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
The nold MaIdr of India.

Edmund Russell. in Everybody's Maga- ~zine.
 No institution of India has been so ex- aggerated as that of the window. She really occupies place analogous to our antique old maid. now so fast disappear ing in the girl-bachelor. The aged widow who has remained true to her principles is regarded as a holy being who has with stood a thousand temptations and per- secutipns, and commands the respect of a saint from all persons She is the moth CT of all the children in the neighbor- hood, the helpmate of all the neghbors. At evening they flock round to hear her repeat the ancient legends, the stories. of Sita and Saivtri. Draupdia. or sing the songs of Mira Bal She Is in great de- mand when cooking is needed for a sacred feast. She teaches the little ones their first hymns and prayers. She nurses the sick, comforts the dying.
 She believes herself to be bound to her husband for everlasting time, through all births and deaths. The momentary separation here is but one shade of her marriage. an unknownable mystery of destiny--it breaks. no tie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Spelling the Rod and sparlns the Child

W. D. Howels in Harper's Weekly.
 There is probability that in certain in- stances those poor little people, those hap less boys and girls who are somehow, for some inscrutable motive of the Creator given into the charge of the men and women commonly set in authority over them, are oftener well meaning fin their i'll doing than otherwise. It is a mistake of their imperfect reasoning, an error of their perspective. an ignorance of the relation between cause and effect that is to blame, rather than their wills or pas sions. The sins of these come much later in life. as every reader who is honest must own and so do the much darker sins of spiritual arrogance, of hard self deceit, of the cruel hypocrisy which wreaks the consciousness of it's meanness In a sever ity towards any offender. The parent who rightly conceives his duty to his child. knows that 1t is bringing him up, quite as often as he it. and fIiat he cannot too much humble himself to learn of 1t. We need not suppose that 1t is in any mysti- cal possession of celestial tradition. as Wordsworth supposes, or that it can carry it parents education beyond certain point. but when he has reached this point he will at least realize how very little he has to teach 1t in matters of conduct
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
MODEL FARMER IS FOUND
 IN THE KEY STONE STATE

SOW the succession of crops suitable fo, the process, and by freely fertilizing had made the soil extremely rich and produc- tive.
 The department at once recognized the fact that a model farmer had been found and proposed to issue a bulletin telling of his methods and their success. The gov ernment would in a short tune have made the Rev. Mir. Detrich one of the most famous agriculturalists of the age, but at this point the plans of the department met with an unexpected obstacle MT Detrich, hearing of the matter, objected to having his farm and home made the Mecca of inquiring brother agriculturists unless he were paid either s2000o in a lump sum or a salary of 5000 a year for allowing the department to write up him self and his place.
 Some of the department scientists have recommended that his terms be compiled with, because the account of what he Is doing would be worth, as one expert has estimated it. $40 100000 a year to the dairy interests of the country. The secretary has the matter under consideration. It is understood that MT Detrich would be ex- pected to allow his farm to become a model farm, where other farmers could go and see how he does things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02

sermons, while Mir. Jerome has subsided and will not organize his reform brigade for purging the city. The man of the hour just now is Police Commissioner McAdeo and to judge from the way he is getting himself talked about in the pa. pers there Is something higher in store for him than a place in the police de. partment of New York.
 Another striking result of the great Chi cago theatre fire has just been brought In. to prominent notice. As a result of tn, Iroquois disaster the galleries in nearly al the city theatres have been closed by nu' nicipal edict. When Sir Henry Irving played '0rhe Bells" in the Illinois the atre recently he expressed much disap- pointment at the absence of that class of patrons who frequent what is usually styled 'fthe peanut" People who sit in boxes have an idea that actors are play ing expressly for their benefit but 1t has long been recognized in the theatrical world that the gallery god is a person not to be overlooked. especially in those dramas which are apt to appeal to his emotions most strongly. Irving wished that some other part of the house could be set aside for patrons whose supply If cash and fne clothes is limited but this would obviously be impossible and nofoth- CT part of theatre could serve for the ''god" except the gallery. Miss Maxine Elliott followed Sir Henry Trying at the Illinois theatre and made the same com plaint. She missed the Encouragement sent down from the grimyi but interested faces that peer from tte lofty gallery. It would indeed be calamity if the gall lery should be abolished in all theatres. Not only would very substantial profit be cut off, but most picturesque portion of all playhouse audielces would be elim- mated.
 War is still wagetf against the pot hun- ter and he continues to thrive. When the sportsman and the pot hunter are com pared there is only little real difference between them. but if we are to believe ths indignant protests launched by certain publications, one Is gentleman and the other Is criminal Yet one shoots to support himself and family in miserable circumstances while the other kills be- cause 1t is his pleasure. While the not hunter slaughters birds for what he can make out of them the average sportsman slaughters for the mere sport of slaush- tering. In reality neither the pot hunter nor the sportsman is justified in going put to the fields and slaying several hundred birds in day or two, if humane consider. ations are to be given ear. P. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
Conyictian of Machen.

The conviction of August w. Ma. chen, late superintendent of the rural free delivery division, and of his asso- ciates in the Groff-fastener conspiracy, is widely regarded as triumph of jus tice, and as a warning to all other grafters in the government offices. The trial took place in Washington, lasting seven weeks, and the verdict of the jury was commended by the judge on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
GEORGIA STATE COMMITTEE.

From the Atlanta Journal For "a sound conservative candidate -l6.
 For Grover cleve1and-6 For Arthur Pue Gorman-5. For Alton B. Parker-4
 For w. R. Hearst-3
 For anybody except w. R. Hearst-5. Non-committal but leaning towar Hearst--l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
 One thing a woman can always forgive man for is being the father of her children.
 The golden slipper must have been marked size smaller than it was, or Cinderella would have refused to try it on.
 When women gets letter from an- other woman that isn't underscored every other word 1t seems cold and distant to her.
 The first thing family man should be able to do Is to write checks and the next to pretend he would be unhappy If he didn't have to do 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-02

From the Chicago News.
 George" said the leap-year girl wht meant business, '1 love you dearly. VII you be my husband?'
 "Why-er-thfs Is so s-sudden'' stam mered George "G-give me time to think.
 Well" she rejoined as she looked a her watch. think quick The last car il due in fifteen minutes