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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Large School Attendance.

don't know when I have seen the public schools so crowded as they arc at the present." said an old citizen last night ''In Birmingham every one of the school buildings Is simply overflowing. The reports also come from the suburbs that the schools are better attended than at any time in their history"
 ''At Pratt City they have an attendance of over 900. the Ensley schools have been so crowded that the board of education had to employ another teacher and pro- vide more room. The East Lake council has deemed 1t necessary to make an ap- propriatlon to build additional room. The Woodlawn schools I understand, are be- ing taxed notwithstanding that two new handsome and commodious buildings have been erected.
 'Then, again, all the colleges of the dis trict are well filed At Howard the att tendance is larger than it has ever been. Out at Owenton the trustees have started a fund to erect a new dormitory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Marketinu the Crops.

The European mills continue to buy heavily, and the determination of southern farmers to hold their bales for ten cents at home is sending prices up again. A little more general deter imitation to hold for ten cents at home on the part of southern farmers is all that is needed to put the price at or above the ten-cent line. Ten cents or no cotton should be a motto hung up on every southern farm.
 The weather is very fine for picking purposes-dry, sunny and reasonably warm It is not easy to hold back bales when the fields are white-when every boil is opening, and money is needed to pay pickers and for a score of other purposes. Courage and stead fastness will, however, speedily put prices up to ten cents at home, and it is a shame to market the excellent staple of this season at a lower price.
 The fact should not be lost sight of that the heavy movement created by fine picking weather and the almost simultaneous opening of the crop, has not resulted in any material accumula- tion of cotton. Up to last Saturday night 976,000 bales had been exported, as against 465,00O in the like time of last year, and 511 ,000 in the previous year. Tho European mills are stock ing up, and they will need all told about six million American bales. The demand is strong, and if our farmers will draw the line at ten cents they will readily secure 1t.
 Thousands of farmers are storing their cotton. They know full well that the crop will not exceed eleven mill lion bales, and crop of that size Is worth more than ten cents. However, it may be prudent to sell whenever ten cents at home can be secured. The southern tenant farmer should be aided by his landlord. The farmer who owns his land is as rule independent this year, and the large planters know how to store and carry their cotton. The mills must pay ten cents for cot ton this year. The determination to hold cotton for that price is wide spread, and the country merchant and banker should come to the aid of those who are compelled to sell Not bale in other words should be sold below ten cents at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Southern Prosperity.

Bradstreet's figures for the nine months of the year that have expired are satisfactory the south, and par ticularly to Alabama. In the south as a whole there were five fewer failures than there were in the corresponding months of last year. In Alabama there were IA failures, as against 133 in the nine months of last year. The liabili- ties of the IA Alabama failures were $693,772, whereas the 133 failures of last year showed liabilities amounting to $919,3S1. We are at least twenty five per cent better off than we were last year, If business failures are test.
 Texas and Louisiana make about as good a showing but in Georgia there were but fol- less failures, and the liabilities were trebled. In Tennessee the number of failures was increased
 
 s1lall failures, the total liabilities of TIA barely exceeding million dollars.
 m the country there were in the nine months of this year 771S failures as against 6S9S in the nine months of last year. In the south alone were failures decreased. There were more iii New England, in the middle states, in the west, in the northwest, in the far west. and in Canada. In New York city the failures were increased six teen per cent
 Let it be known far and wide that in the southern states alone of the forty-fve states were there fewer fail ures in the nine months ended October 1 than there were Ill the like months of 1903. This tells the story of rela- tive southe- il prosperity. The south Is today the most prosperous section of broad country, and it is becoming more prosperous every day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
About Persons.

F. P. Nicholas, grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. Is at the Metropol- itan.
 J. s. Watson of Rome, Ga, is at the Morris.
 J. H. Smith of Opelika is at the Morris. J. M. Cousins and Walter Smith of Searles are at the Morris.
 w. G. Bellinger of Gadsden is at the Morris.
 D. W. Johns of Philadelphia is at the Colonial.
 w. H. Leach of St. Louis is at the St. Nicholas.
 L. D. Daniel of Baltimore is registered at the St. Nicholas.
 F. H. Burford of St. Louis is at the Morris.
 J. W. Edmonds of Chattanooga is at the Hilman.
 George W. Duncan of Auburn is at the Hillman.
 Milton L. odell of Cincinnati Is at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
HEFLIN'S REMARKS AND
 THEIR EFFECT ON PARTY

If we cling closely to the facts, it must
 appear that these excesses of the south
 ern whites as manifested in particular
 episodes do more than all else to make
 the south a handicap" as Senator Ba-
 con says upon democratic prospects in
 carrying northern states. Everyone
 knows that the southern policy of dis
 franchising the negroes aroused no strong
 and widespread feeling of indignation in
 the rest of the country, while on the
 other hand. the policy did receive much
 quiet approval in circles that formerly
 had been intensely anti-southern The
 republican party, as a party, abandoned
 the negro long ago, so far as the at- tempt to enforce the fifteenth amendment i was concerned. The republican national
 platform looks toward the reduction of
 southern representation for having de-
 prived the black race of it's political pow
 CT rather than toward the restoration of
 that power The number of northern
 republicans who now believe that the
 fifteenth amendment was a blunder is very large If one can judge at all by the proclaimed opinions of some of the lead-
 ing republican papers of the country and of certain northern leaders of public
 opinion. Why is 1t, then, that the demo- cratic south should prove a handicap to the democratic party today in carrying northern states if the fact be not due mainly to the carniavls of lynchings and burnings at the stake, the inhuman feel ing toward the black race manifested by the mobs, and the extreme utterances of southerners like Tillman Vardaman and Hefiin concerning such an episode as that in which Booker Washington figured at the white house?
 It is no longer the memory of the civil war that makes the solid south a load to
 the democratic party The civil war lost It's potency as political bugbear 20 years ago. when the country elected . democratic President in the person of Mr. | Cleveland. In 1892, the second and over- whelming victory of MT. Cleveland laid
 in its grave forever the old issue graphically expressed in the bloody shirt" The reason which operates against the south today in the minds of many northerners in something different for 1t is rooted in apprehension and alarm as to the aim and tendency of the white south in the handling of Its race question: Men like Carl Schurz than whom the negroes have no better nor more consist ent friend, are not driven from the sup port of the national democratic party on this account; and newspapers such as the New York Evening Post, the Bos- ton Herald and The Republican, which do more lighting for the negro and his rights than most of the other northern newspapers combined, find themselves able to prefer the success of the demo- cratic Presidential candidates. Yet one would lack in candor if he ignored the fact that not a little of the southern attitude toward the race question, and more particular the obnoxious trinity of Tillmanism, vardamanism ard Hefiinism has made more difficult in recent years northern support of the party with which the solid south Is allied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12

a homogeneous and concrete mass, which is then pressed into mould and subjected to a considerable pressure.
 Many binders oi a pitehy nature are before the public, and the selection of the best one is not an easy task, but one is needed that will not burn any faster tkan does the fixed carbon, for disintegration in the fire is not de- sirable. Uniform combustion is de- sirable.
 The subject is becoming well under stood. It has passed the tentative stage. and the commercial briquette is before consumers in many cities. In tns district it has not been attempted, put 1t soon will be, and slack for purposes will soon be all most as valuable as lump coal. At the coking plants high-grade slack is now vaiuable, but when the production of this district is twenty million tons a year there will be a superabundance of slack at some mines. Such slack should be briquetted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12

From the Springfield Republican Qnd.
 Parker paper.)
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 man, MT. Heflin, has been vigor- ously denounced by the southern press. Mir Heflins remarks concerning Booker
 Washington and President Roosevelt were so shocking in their suggestion of assassi- nation or personal violence that even
 their author was afterward desirous of recalling them. Such prominent Alabama democrats as ex-Governor Oates feel so much outraged by Heflin's crazy work that they advise their party to muzzle The man entirely.
 It is a pity that the muzzling did not begin earlier. Why was Heflin allowed to go to congress? His character was well known, for when he was state officer a few years ago he publicly de- nounced United States District Judge Jones for punishing by fine and impris- cnment the white farmers who had been proved guilty of holding negroes in peo- mage The best sentiment of the south endorsed Judge Jones work in breaking up the peonage system, as it existed in the rural districts of Alabama. yet a leading congressional district immediately honor ed man who had condemned the judge s action. And now we have Heflinism su- perimposed upon Tilmanism and Varda- manism.
 That this sort of thing Is heavy load for the democratic party to carry in a presidential struggle is clear to all in both the south and the north. The best white people of the southern states deplore these excesses. and in convefsa- ton they will assure you in perfect sin- cerity that they wish such men as III man. vardaman and Heflin could be kept ont of public life. But the fact that the extremists come to the front at all and maintain their political power Is at least significant of certain popularity attaching to their views. Their fndiscre- lions. violence of statement and demagog- ic appeals to the race feeling of the poorer class of whites who come into industrial competition with the negroes do not seem to be ever rebuked by the loss of politi- | cal station and supremacy. These facts | are observed m the norln ana west ana wherever there is person whose sym pathies go cut to the black race the political effect is undoubtedly profound. | Senator Bacon of Georgia represents the best modern type of southern statesmen, and when he laments, almost in despair the political distrust of the south which | he finds still so prevalent elsewhere in the land, he raises an interesting question in the political psychology of the different parts of the country. It may be pointed out to him that this distrust Is being fed by such episodec as that of which Con gressman Hef1in Of Alabama Is the bla- tant hero. Suggestions of assassination, however intended, cause the country to recoil in horror; and threats of personal violence to MT. Washington. even when emanating from some madcap of the stump, disturb that political balance which Senator Bacon wishes to maintain more than words can tell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
DOUBT.

By Alfred Lord Tennyson. You say but with no tone of scorn, Sweetheart, you, whose light blue eyes Are tender over drowning flies. You tell me doubt is devil born. I know not; one indeed I knew
 In many subtle question versed. Who touched jarring Tyre at first, But evere. strove to make 1t true; Perplext in faith; but pure in deeds. At last he beat his music out. Ther lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered
 strength,
 He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the specters of the mind And laid them; thus he came at length To find stronger faith his own; And power was with him in the night; Which makes the darkness and the
 light
 And dwells not in the light alone. But in the darkness and the cloud As over Sinai's peaks of old.
 While Isreal made their gods Of gold, Although the trumpet blew so loud,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Judge Parker,s March to Victory.

From the New York Realty Journal.
 The democratic campaign has now be- gun in earnest Last Saturday Judge Her rick and Francis Burton Harrison were formally notified of their nomination at Albany amidst ringing cheers of the wis., iting Tammany delegation and democrats from every part of the state. Carl Schurz has written strong letter showing that MT. Roosevelt Is the ally of bosses and the supporter of trusts. Among the things he says are that the government of this republic must be a government of law, not of adventure" and that Nobody has ever been more earnest and eloquent than Roosevelt in extolling the glories. the en- thusiasm and the morally elevating inA- ences of war" Another important matter in connection with the campaign was the public reception rendered to Judge Parker and Judge Herrick at the Manhattan club on Wednesday night. Five thousand per- sons In the course of the evening greeted the distinguished nominees
 An event also of significance was the return of Congressman William Randolph Hearst to New York from a western trip and the beginning of his active work in the campaign. MT. Hearst's great associa- ton of Democratic clubs has literally been called to arms in an inspiriting edi- torial "As president of your associa- tion," he says, T remind you of the great opportunity which presents itself to all democrats in the coming election and urge upon you special activity and untlring energy from now until the clos Ing of the polls" It will be remembered that there Is a national association of anti-imperialist clubs as well as a na,. tional association of Democratic clubs Would 1t not be desirable for these anti imperialist clubs to be revived and take part in the campaign cooperating with the national association of Democratic clubs? Noble work was done by these organizations In 1900. There were street corner meetings held in all assembly dis tricts, and much enthusiasm manifested While anti-imperialism is not the most important issue at present, 1t has SO strong bearing on the repeated viola tions of the constitution by strenuous Mir, Roosevelt that one Is almost inseparable from the other. Judge Parker, by his ut terances, has shown himself to be the champion of the constitution, and this fact alone will win for him tens of thou sands of votes. Altogether the outlook for victory Is brighter than ever, and that the jurist of Esopus will be hailed when morning dawns on November Q as President-elect is practically assured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Briquettlng of Coal.

The briquetting of fine coal or slack Is attracting a good deal of attention. In this district at present all slack IS needed for coking purposes, but the time will soon come when there will be plenty of slack here for the manu- fracture of briquettes. As briquettes will stand the weather for years, not deteriorating as coa. does. briquettes will command a ready sale.
 The art of briquetting largely turns upon the binde. employed. The coal and the binder must be well mixed or rather fused. They must be ground and heated together until they become
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
City Politics.

Notwithstanding the fact that many candidates for various municipal offices have announced, there has been thus far no vituperation," remarked an old citizen. T hope and believe that we will have clean and dignified campaign to the end.
 There Is much speculation as to who will be the winner in the mayoralty con- test. Some say A, some say B, and some say c. It is safe to say that the run over will be between certain two, and yet we might be mistaken even in who will be first and second. But 1t Is en- couraging to think that of the six mayor alty candidates. there is not bad man in the lot"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
No Fur Files.

'"rhis Is the tamest municipal cam paign that Birmingham has ever gone through" said well informed politician yesterday. "So far no speeches have been made, no general clubs have been organ ized and If any issues are being raised l have failed to find 1t out. Notwith- standing the first primary Is just a little over a month off, the voters have steadfastly declined to get very enthusi- astlc. In ye olden times at a month before the election the city was in a fever heat. The newspapers would be full of political dope expoundlng the views of the various candidates on this question and that issue. This year, how ever, all the candidates appear to be con- ducting still hunt campaigns. While the modern method may please the majority better than the old, we old timers long to smell sulphur and see the fur fly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Parker's FIrmness.

From the New York Times
 If any man has up to this time had doubts as to Judge Parker's ability to make up his mind and keep 1t made up. he must be undeceived now. So must the cartoonists who have been asking who or what is behind the democratic candi- date, By resisting the clamorous appeals that he go on the stump. Judge Parker has shown once more that thereFis no one behind him; that his own Judgment and conscience control is actions. Doubt less there will still be persons who will insist that the judge is merely the tool of this banker or that politician; and aver that he is so completely in the hands of political managers as to assure low grade administration, if he is elected. Those who wish to swallow such nonsense will continue to do so; but no one who does his thinking for himself can now be gulled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Wants an Auto Race.

While there Is so much excitement over the recent contest held by the American Automobile association for the Vanderbilt cup am reminded that Birm- ingham has not yet had an automobile race" said a citizen, "As matters now stand, 1t would be obviously impossible to have a big race here because we have no suitable track; but there is no doubt but what the sport would be exciting. dare say that the natives of the county would be willing to risk the danger for the satisfaction of seeing automobiles in action"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Mss 3rldeweIl.

Miss Carrie Brldewell. the famous singer is visiting Mrs. II. M. Bride well and her sister Mrs. Gould irs at East Lake. As this is Miss Bridewelrs farewell visit to Birmingham before sailing for Europe she will be glad to sec any of her friends at the resi- dence of Mrs. Goulding in East Lake. Few vocal artists have reached the po- sition on the operatic stage that this accomplished southern woman has attain ed and her friends here are very proud of her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 Half a womans beauty is complexion and nine-tenths of her figure clothes.
 Some girls are so>modest they can't gain a few pounds without blushing about it.
 A man has a bad temper when he is not proud that the baby can yell with such healthy lungs z There isn't any difference in the finan- cial result between a man running for office and going to the races
 Once there was girl who didn't think she could sing. but she got married right away and had children that she thaught could.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Wheeler Golnq to ManchurIa.

Gen. Joe Wheeler Is planning to go to Manchuria to study the Russo-Japa- nese war" said a prominent man from the generals old home county of Law renee. Gen. Wheeler has been eager to visit the far east ever since the war began. l think he will sail within the next few days. He remarked the other day that Japan was, in his opinion. forcing her first serious crisis. Her mettle, he thinks, will now be tried"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
IT ALL DEPENDS.

From the Gadsden Journal.
 The dog outshines the monkey In New port at present.-Age-H Herald.
 That depends on what the Age-Herald considers to be the monkey. Taking the missing link who makes over much of tho dog and put him in the class where he belongs and we would consider the monkey in Newport as being quite con- spicuous enough to be awarded first place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
EVIL TIMES, INDEED.

From the Columbia State.
 "A young woman copyist in Washington has set a new record by writing 28,000 words on a typewriter in seven hours. Hereafter woman should do all her talk ing that way" So says a contemporary from Alabama, Alabama of the chivalric southl Verify, we have fallen upon evil times. Contemplate the blankness, the blankety blankness of life if the rapid click of the typewriter superseded the voice that is sweeter music than the harp, more gladstone than the tinkling of silver rills over golden sandsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12

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 Out of this list the democrats can spare thirty-three electoral votes. We could elect Judge Parker without Con- necticut, Delaware, West Virginia and Wisconsin, or Wisconsin, Colorado and Indiana, or New Jersey, Connecti- cut and Wisconsin, or Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Connecticut and In- diana We must carry New York, and when we do that Judge Parker's cleo tion is almost within sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Crushed.

From the Chicago News.
 He (after the show)-I guess the cur tain must have fallen too hard on the first act.
 She-Why, what do you mean? He-that might account for the play being so flat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
From the Montgomery Times.

From the Montgomery Times.
 Now that Frank Duncan has been safe ly lodged" we may expect to hear all manner of stories which will question the fact that he is not securely lodged at all. The first of these Is rumor that a steel saw has been located securely between the lining of his coat that adorns the bad mans distinguished back It may be more or less libelous on poor Frank to be eternally investing him with unholy designs against Birmingham authority. but its cinch for the Birmingham re- porters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
The Power of Silence.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 First Student-Do you believe in the power of silence?
 Second Student-I certainly do. When I ask the governor for a ten, and he doesn't even answer my question: I know by the power of his silence that there's nothing doing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
Total .... .... .... .. .... ...... 151

The electoral strength of the solid south in the year 1900 was but 142. It will elect 151 electors next month, a gain of nine, and further gain will take place under the next census.
 The electoral college consists of 476 members, majority being 239. The sohu south must therefore be rein forced by 88 votes, and the states that may furnish them are as follows: