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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
A MEAN TRICK,

From the Horse Creek Valley News
 It is said that somebody filled the creek full of chlorate of lime early Sunday morning: below the Granitevlle mill, which killed every fish In the stream to Langley pond, distance of about ore mile. It is said that near rifts in the creek that it was no trouble to gather a sack of fish About o'clock the news began to be circulated, and by 10 o'clock great crowds, of all sizes and colors. had gathered along the banks of the creek from Graniteville to Langley, and car ried away great turns of fish, weighing from six pounds down to smaller sizes. It is thought that every fish in the stream has been Killed. The above are the facts about the matter.
 Now. let's see the damage that has been done to the community. including GranitevilIe, Madison and Warrenville. No greater crime could have been com- mitted on the citizens of the above places than in robbing them of their greatest sport and pleasure. The only recreation for women and children through the long summer months has been destroyed. They could use boat to fish in this stream without any dan- ger This crime on the community should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
NATIVE AND ARTIFICIAL INDIGO,

From the 1ondOn TelegTaph.
 A remarkable fact is reported by the Journal of the Society of Arts with ts- gard to the competition between artificial and native indigo. The German chemists have of recent years discovered how to make indigo out of it's chemical constitt- ents. and they can produce 1t more cheap ly than can the Indian manufacturers out of the various plants from which it is de- rived. 1t~was thought that this Euro pean competition would ruin the native industry, but the mischief done has been greatly reduced by curious c.rcum- stance. It has been found, says one of the reporters on the subject to the In- dian government. that when natural and synthetic Indigo are blended in about equal proportions the resulting mixture is more durable and also brighter as dye than is the natural indigo, and in consequence a great impetus has been given to the dyeing industry, and much more indigo is used than formerly. The report relates particularly to Aleppo which imports every year between 6Ot and TOO chests of indigo from India.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
Reckless Chauffeurs.

Some of our Birmingham automobilists are inclined to drive their machines about town at night at speed that Is not con ducive to public safety. and I am glad to see that the police department has taken steps to put an end to speeding" said citizen. Tn walking down town several evenings recently I noticed two or three big automobiles come sizzling down one Of the main business streets at a speed Of at least twenty-five miles an hour and if they had run Into vehicle or pe- destrian there would have been a serious smashup. Then automobiles scuttle by street crossings with no diminution of speed, and people in other vehicles are in frequent dapger of being run over, as they cannot see the machines until tLey turn the corner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
Growth of BirmInnham.

The annual report of Secretary Gib- son of the Commercial club is a very satisfactory document, covering as it does a year of declining prices and activity. Iron lost about one-half it's value per ton, going from SIS in May to $9 in December. Despite the fall in our great staple, prices of real estate were well maintained, and building went on unchecked. MT. Gibson shows in detail that 1921 houses were built in Jones valley in the year ended May l. This has been the rate of growth since 1898. MT. Gibson says that 7705 houses have been put up in Greater Birmingham since the census was taken, indicating an increase in popu- lation of 46,025, thus carrying the pop ulation of the county to 1S6,44 Nash .ville's and Atlantas attention is re- spectfully called to these figures, and even grandiloquent Memphis can gather grief from them.
 Secretary Gibson goes over the ground with great particularity, nam ing each improvement. We cannot reproduce his abundant and painstak- ing details, but we report with pleas ure and full endorsement his summary of the past years work, as follows
 Capital authorized, new copor-
 ations Q. .. .............s..;..t...$ o,efioOo Capital stock increased, old cor
 porations ......,..,...,..''' ooSVV Extraordinary Improvements,
 new developments etc........... 9,O9S sos Railroad construction .. .......... 1,43S,OOo Municina1 improvements ... 451, ,793 New buildings .. ................... 2,5l4,4O0
 Making for the year grand
 total of ...................S .SlS, z5S, l5l
 The bank clearings of Birmingham have risen to sixty-three millions a year; the bank deposits on May l last to nearly thirteen millions; the coal production of this district in 1903 to nearly twelve million tons; coke pro. duction to two million six hundred thousand tons; the pig iron production to one million five hundred thousand tons; the taxable values of Jefferson county to forty-eight and a half mil lion dollars; the volume of retail and wholesale trade to seyenty-six millions a year. and the mining and manufac- turing industries do a business per year of sixty million dollars.
 Let these figures suffice. They will , doubtless be satisfactory so Alabama taxpayers, for they point to time when, instead of paying orS-sixth of the states taxes, this district will pay one-half, and it's money will go to rural counties, some of which will then re- ceive more public money than they pay into the state treasury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
MT. Murphy and MT. Belmont.

The war going on between August Belmont and Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany leader, should be conducted on amicable lines involving no resort to fiction. Tammany is not a bit friendly to Judge Parkers candidacy; it has good full right to oppose him. but it has no right to spread reports that are baseless. MT. Murphy does not himself say that MT. Belmont led the various officials of the Louisville and Nashville railroad in an effort to die tate Parker expressions to. the conven tions of Alabama and Tennessee dem ocrats, but he does give to the public a letter in which the charge is dis tinctly stated and asserted. To a cer tain extent this makes MT Murphy sponsor for the statement He at any rate gave it currency.
 The statement is really absurd or the face. MT. Belmont no longer con trols the Louisville and Nashville. Tn, control has passed to the Atlanti, Coast Line, at the head of whicl stands. MT. Walters of Baltimore-no Mir. Belmont of New York. It is no known that MT. Belmont has any in terest whatever in the Louisville an6 Nashville. He may not own a shar, or q bond issued by that company. A any rate he does not control it, ant he could not, if he would, give order. to the officials of the Louisville ant Nashville with any prospect that they would be needed.
 All who know by what influences the Montgomery convention was moved to endorse Judge Parker know that the hand O. the Louisville anf Nashville was not in it. The conven tion refused to instruct the delegation and it confined it's expressions to { simple endorsepe which carries nS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
For his bounty,
Alahama's Growinu Crop.

The New Orleans Times Democrat presents a report of the Alabama crop now in the soil, and pretty well start ed The letters were written on May 20, thus bring the story of the crop situation down to the present week
 To begin with, Commissioner Poole thinks the increase in acreage has been lost by the poor germination of the seed. The crop is clean, however, and if the season be favorable an aver age crop will be made. An Athens correspondent reports an increase in acreage of 20 per cent. But the weather has been consistently dry. From Dadeville comes a report that the acreage is no greater than that of last year. The farmers are feeling At Decatur the acreage is considered one-eighth larger The plant is small, and nearly all the cotton has been chopped out. Demopolis reports an increase of 10 per cent in acreage. The crop is late, but clean. From Evergreen comes reports of dry weather, and lack of labor At Gods dell there is a larger acreage, but there has been no rain in three weeks. Greenville reports an increase of / per cent in acreage. Huntsville puts the increase in acreage at per cent, but the season has been very unfavor- able. Livingston is similar to Hunts ville's. Opelika has not had a good rain In two months, and the stands are uneven. The acreage at Scale has not been increased. Selma says the increase in acreage is 10 per cent, and the fields are free from grass. There has been no change in acreage in Bull lock county.
 The reports presented in the Times Democrat indicate an increased acre age and drouthy conditions throughout this state, with prospects of an aver age crop if sufficient moisture falls in the first two weeks of June The crop is neither very promising, nor very unpromising. A million bales will doubtless be made in this state, and timely rains can add even two hun dred thousand bales to the aggregate, because the acreage has been materi- ally increased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
The World Soon Eorneta-


 "A man died not long ago in my state who was at one time prominent in the public life of the country and was we'll known at Washington, said travelling man last night, but he ended his days in poverty and neglect The friends he formerly toasted about the banquet board thought that he died years ago, and sew eral expressed surprise on learning of his death few days ago. I was at one time well acquainted with the gentleman of whom speak. He was brilliant. intel leetual and very well fixed as to. world ly goods, but one of those inexplicable eciipses which some times overtake the brightest men cast shadow oveE his fortunes and he went down rapidly. Ills wealth disappeared. he lost his position and disappeared from the public view. do not think he had any special faults, at least never observed them. but in the vernacular of the day he just lost out Half dozen people attended his hum ble funeral and not tear was shed by the people who had once curried favor with this man to gain the infiuenee which he wielded"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
Was Not to Be Fooled.

The French artist, Alphonse Marie Mu- cha, whose posters of graceful women are no less popular in America than in Paris, is making tour of the United State.
 What pleases me in America,'" M. Mucha said the other day, lis the intel ligence, the general enlightenment, of the people The American public deserves, in this respect to stand beside the French public. It Is far ahead of the English
 "On my way over here I stopped a few days in London, and in the British mu- scum one afternoon, I overhead a re- mark that showed well how benighted the English public is.
 Two men were looking at some old Egyptian coins
 Them there said the first man, must be three or four hundred years old, eh, Bill?
 They're three thousand years old, "' the second man returned
 An. garn. Billu. What do ye take me for?' said the first man. Why we're only in 1904 now !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
Omission to Be RectifIed.

Prince HohenIohe, during his recent visit to New York, commended the wines of America. He praised especially the California red wines, which seemed. he said to be exceedingly pure. Then apro- pos of wine purity, the prince narrated recent happening in Berlin.
 "A Berlin vinter," he said. was ac- cused of selling a wine made of chemi- calls. He was brought to court found guilty, and fined After he had said his fine he approached the chemist whose testimony had convicted him.
 How did you know he said, curi- ously, that my wine was manufactured ?
 Because it contained no bitartate of potash said the chemist. Tn natural wines bitartrate of potash is always found
 Thanks said the winter in a tone of relief. It will be found in my wines hereafter !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
Tommy and John,

"Chinamen have fine sense of hu- nor, said the young playwright, Rich- ard Carle. ''In their quiet and dry way the Chinese say innumerable good things. "l once knew in San Antonio a bach eior banker. This man decided that he would employ Chinese butler. Accord ingly his arrangements were made, and in due time the Chinese butler appeared, He served his first dinner admirably.
 After it the banker said to him:
 "I think you will do well here What is your name?
 My name Tot Lee Chwang Toy the Chinaman answered
 Oh said the banker can't re- member all of that, I'll just call you John.'
 All light said the butler.
 At breagfast the next morning the Chinaman smiled at his employer Dieas- antly:
 What your name7 he said
 'Pierpont Morgan Jones my friend replied.
 Me no memble all that said the Chinaman. Me just call you Tommy, n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
Sewers and Filters.

Secretary Gibson mentions many i'm portant undertakings of the last twelve months in this district, but in the rush of events coming up for re- view he overlooked two of deep i'm portance, namely, the filtration plants of the waterworks company, and the trunk sewers which the county is building. Each of these valuable i'm proyements will cost about $300,000, or $500 900 in all The filtration plants are in operation, and the improvement in the drinking water of this city Is evident and is highly satisfactory. 1t may have been potential in obliterat- ing our typhoid fever rate. The con struction of the trunk sewers is pro gressing, and the Valley creek sewer is wholly under contract, and the ViI- lage creek sewer soon will be.
 These two great Improvements were overlooked by Secretary Gibson in his story of the years work in this dis trict, but he had so much to tell he Is excusable for overlooking some of the efforts to plant in this valley health ful and populous city. The trunk sew CTS and the filters of the water com pany are great progressive steps, and before May l cf-next year both of the trunk sewers should be in full use. A larger wa CT supply should be the next great step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
Business Methods.

''I am just back from trip through the state," remarked A drummer at the Morris last evening. General conditions are good, but I was very much impressed by the manner in which the farmers and merchants transact business. Business methods in many localities are very simi- lar to those practiced before the war. One merchant will furnish the bulk of supplies needed on plantation, and in the fall when the cotton crop is sold an annual settlement is had A certain sum Is allowed each hand per month, and he must contrive to live within his allow ance It is quite interesting to watch the negroes do their trading. The first of the month Is the day on which they gen eraly go to town and the merchants do a large business on these days It Is all credit, though Comparatively no cash business is done except in the fall and winter. This appears to be a rather pre- carious business. but 1t is not The loss from bad debts is comparatively little.
 This system has enabled many men to make start, and I presume 1t will con- tinue to a greater or less extent so long as cotton Is the staple crop, but 1t has its weak points. The farmer has to pay high prices, and it encourages extrava- Gance. A man wilNpurchase articles per- haps not really needed and say charge it.. thinking not of the day of reckoning, whereas if it were a cash transaction he would exercise more economy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
SOME LITTLE STORIES
From the Washington Post.
 Too Jealous Scientist.


 Senator William A. Clark q short time before he sailed for Europe attended a banquet of scientists. In the course Of this banquet the senator said:
 escienee is an admirable thing. Tn these latter days. indeed. it Is a thing as interesting and marvellous as fairy tale I have but one fault to find with 1t. It imbues some of it's votaries with too profound a zeal.
 T have in mind when say this sci- entifie zealot of Scotland, a professor whose especial delights was Insects and bugs There once visited this Scottish professor a younger scientist. The visi- tor remained over night, and in the morn ing his host said to him:
 '~'Apd how did ye sleep the nicht? " Not very we'll the visitor answered Tt was the strange bed, perhaps, but he yentured, I must confess-'
 "Ahl' said the professor. encouraging ly. 'ye were juist bitten by some thing, Well, to tell the truth, professor, I was, the visitor admitted.
 Juist think of thatr cried the pro lessor. Bitten war ye? Moo, man, can ye say it was anything at all noteworthy that bit yeT
 Pleas. I think said the other. But such fleas for biting never met in my life before
 I should think so. indeed said the professor in great giee. They're Sicilian fleas. l imported them myself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01

authority with it. The delegates are free to ignore 1t. The endorsement was a matter of personal preference. and the Louisville and Nashville had no more to do with that mild and harmless expression than had the Man in the Moon. The Louisville and Nashville officials are conducting a railroad, and the most of them have no particular interest in the candi- dacy of anybody. They are not politi- eians-they are railroad men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A girl can be fooled by almost any man that she wants to fool her.
 When a girl is interested in married woman it is a sign they are interested in a man.
 When a mans suit Is favored by girls mother. it is sign he isn't getting along so well with the girl
 It's mighty queer how girl will carry on when a miller is flying around the gas jet and sit perfectly still while a mosquito is chewing down the middle o1 her back.
 There Is hardly anything that can make a woman prouder of her husband than to have him repair the moving machine himself to save 25 cents and break some thing fin it that costs g to replace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01

A~ E agree with the author of NV despatch sent from Macon, Ga., w to the Atlanta Journal.
 College boys and girls all over the
 country will read with peculiar interest of the effect the college yell has had
 upon the vocal chords of Miss Pearl Fur
 ner of Macon"
 She is a student In Wesleyan Female
 college. The sweet girl undergraduates,
 bound to assert their full. equality with
 the boys in educational Capabilities and
 the fruits of culture" have been en-
 gagged in a glorious rivalry ''to show to
 the public which of the five classes could
 make the greatest amount of noise with
 the college yells" At night the learned yellers were too hoarse to speak above reaction of youth restored their speech.
 Not to Miss Turner, however. She
 didn't rally from her hoarseness. A specialist told her that one of her vocal
 chords was paralyzed and the other seemed-to be- Later advices report that | OnC CtioAu VIII pc sPdiCu. HO NOiCt Wfli
 not be lost. It can still contribute meek
 ly and duly to the yell of dear old Wes-
 leyan female.
 This is more important than the Philis- tine and workaday world thinks What Is college without a yell? Less than
 nothing. A yell is the nub, the essence, the head and feet, the heart and lights
 of college education. When we hear
 a sound as all the fiends from heaven
 that fell had pealed the dear old IIades
 yell, then we know that our young bar
 barians are studying, as they should, and we send em a little bigger check and a little less of valuable advice and
 directions If the girls can keep up their
 yell with the boys there is nothing 'nore to worry about The broad fabric of our
 educational institutions is all wool and yard wide.
 Where is that voice not heard? Tn this same number of the Atlanta Journal the Hon. Ben F. Perry gives long descrip-
 ton of Young Harris college in Young Harris. Ga, eighteen miles southeast of Murphy, N c. Young Harris lies in the arms of Brasstown valley, screened from the outer world by many mountains, Bald, Cedar, Track Rock. the Three Sis ters and Blood. Brasstown creek, Hia- wassee river and other streams from the mountains wash that happy valley. The soil is fertile. The cabbages are of the whttest and largest. The turnips arc sweet as summer. Red clover and the pea vine abound. "succulent pasturage for the cattle on a thousand hills The hogs board themselves on the mast in the for est The climate is bracing. The people are hospitable. There are no markets. There is practically no commerce along those rough mountain roads. There are only two or three families of negroes in | the county. Tn Young Harris itself there l is not even one Senegambian. Here. If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
What Wagner Is Doing Now.

An American woman, in a recent letter from London, said that w. S. Gilbert g return to the theatre had revived innu- merable stories of his impromptu witt cisms.
 According to one of these stories. ', she wrote. MT Gilbert was dining at a stock brokers and his right hand neigh bor persisted in talking to him of plays and operas, though she was an extreme- ly ignorant person. One of her remarks was:
 I am found of Wagner. What is he composing now?
 :" Wagner, said MT. Gilbert, Is decom- posing now. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
THE BLUE AND THE CRAY p

By F. M Finch. By the flow of the inland river Whence the fleets of iron have fled. Where the blades of the grave-erass
 culver.
 Asleep are the ranks of the dead Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day
 Under the one, the blue;
 Under the other, the gray. These, in the robings of glory, Those. in the gloom of defeat. All, with the battle-blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet
 Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the Judgment day
 Under the laurel, the blue;
 Under the willow, the gray. From the silence of sorrowfu hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers, Alike for the friend and the foe
 Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day
 Under the roses. the blue;
 Under the lilies, the gray. So with an equal splendor. The morning sun rays fall, With a touch impartially tender, On the blossoms blooming for all- Under the sod and the dew
 Waiting the judgment day Broidered with gold, the blue; Mellowed with gold, the gray. So when the summer calleth On forest and field of grain With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain
 Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day
 Wet with the rain. the blue;
 Wet with the rain, the gray Sadly, but not with upbraiding The generous deed was done; In the storms of the years that are fading No oraver battle was won Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day Under the Blossoms, the blue;
 Under the garlands, the gray. No more shall the war cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our
 deadl Under the cod and the dew.
 Waiting the judGHaeVN day
 Love and tears for the blue; Tears khd love for the gray.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
HIS JUST DESERTS.

From the Washington Post
 A Russian was refused naturalization papers by a Pennsylvania court because he said the President had 'the same power as the czar." Any man who does not know that the President has mora power than a mere czar is not entitled to citizenship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01

From the Savannah Press.
 Over in Alabama they refer to Senator Pettus, who Is only 8 years of age, as "the young man of Dallas"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
HARD ON ALABAMA.
ne Memphis Scimitar.

From the Memphis Scimitar.
 Nineteen Alabamians committed sui@ eide the third week in May. One left . note saying he did not have sufficient money to leave the state. and gave that as the reason for the step. That's touSs on Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01

MT Roosevelt proposes to speak during the campaign wholly oblivious to the lesson suggested by the Sage Of Esopus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01

The Opelika News has been changed from weekly newspaper to a dai(. If it is as good a daily as it was a weekly it's success is assured.