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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION
Speaker cannon's Attitude Is Some
what Changed.

Washington Special to the New YORK
Mail and Express.
Sneaker Car has been quoted err
roneously as having stated to several
members of the house during the recess
that he is opposed to the passage OF any
rivers and harbors bill this winter That
assertion does not fairly represent his
position.
The attitude of the speaker toward APP
propriations for projected harbor and
waterway improvements has been made
clear within the past day or two through
INQUIRIES as to what he thought OF ex-
penditures for public buildings. There is
a great demand in many congressional
districts for appropriations for federal
buildings In many cases these demands
are supported by plausible figures as to
the saving of rents to the government,
which at the same time would obtain
more suitable and dignified quarters for
postoffices, federal courts and revenue
offices.
But the demand for economy is making
itself felt in congress, not only for polit-
ical purposes, but because Of decreased
national income. It is true that the de-
felt recently apparent in current treasury
statements has been replaced by an APP
parent daily surplus. But that result
is a matter of bookkeeping and is pro-
duced by a decrease of the sum placed
to the account of disbursing officers.
The fact remains that customs receipts
are falling off and that large expendi-
lures notably for the navy, must be met.
For these reasons Speaker Cannon has
discouraged suggestions for a liberal pub
lie buildings bill at this session. In con-
nection with this he has said that he
assumed that there would be rivers and
harbors bill. although he hoped that its
total would be kept within reasonable
limits. At one time he had thought that
it would be possible to avoid an appro-
priation bill for river and harbor i'm
provements through providing the obllga-
lions of continuous contracts in the gen.
eral deficiency bill. But the speaker has
conveyed the impression that there are
improvements of harbors and rivers that
cannot be halted without detriment to
commerce. If, however. provision is
made for them, he thinks that the rush
| for additional public buildings, scattered
throughout the country, should be re
strained.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
Cane Syrup.

p. Smith of Fairhope, Baldwin county.
Is in the city. He is one of the many
prosperous men Of the Fairhope colony,
made up of the most part of settlers from
the west. He grows cane and makes an
uncommonly fine syrup. Professor Ross,
the state chemist, says that Mr.. Smith
has the best syrup-making plant In the
south outside of Louisiana.
THE Fairhope colony, which was es-
-tablshed only a few years ago, has
proved a marked success" said Mr..
Smith. "Sea Island cotton, upland rice,
sugar cane and many of the tropical
fruits have been grown there so success
fully as to demonstrate that there are
small fortunes In store for all who will
work the soil intelligently."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
COTTON A GOLD CROP.
Exports Bring Returns of, the Yellow
Metal From Abroad.
From the wall Street Journal.

From the Wall Street Journal.
At the prevailing high price for cotton
the entire cotton crop of the south would
be worth upwards of $3.50, 900, which is
more than the production of gold in the
United States in the past ten years. Even
at ten cents a pound the value of the total
crop would be $500 100000. or equal to the
production of gold since 1897. This fact
brings out very clearly the enormous val
ue of the cotton crop of this country, es-
pecially as so large portion of it Is ex-
ported. thus creating balance of trade in
our favor Every ten points of cotton is
equal to dollar of gold or, as matter Of
fact, as the exportaion of cotton causes an
importation of gold, it might be said In
one sense that the planters of the south
were not merely growing cotton. but min
ing gold.
A certain proportion of the high price
for cotton will go to the planters. and
there is no doubt that It is best for the
country that the agrioaltura,ists should
get large proportion of the market value
of their product. Mr.. Sims. in his recent
speech In congress, claimed that the last
cotton report of the government. which
estimated low yield Of the crop and thus
advanced the price, has saved for the
farmers of the south many millions of dol
lars. He declares that usually the price
of cotton is kept down during the harvest
ing and ginning season until the European
and domestic spinner purchase their sup
plies, after which spectators take hold Of
the remnant run the prices up and make
fortunes for themselves. But, thanks to
the agricultural department, the farmers
of the south this year are getting the ben
eft of the information as to the actual
size of the crop.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07


The gross volume of wholesale and retail
trade of the city of Birmingham for
twelve months ending May /. 1908 amount
ed to $69,54s752, while the gross volume
Of business done in mining and manufac-
turing during the same period was esti-
mated at ssOOOOOO0.
Jefferson county pays more than one
sixth of the taxes of the entire state, and
has over two hundred miles of macadam-
lied roads. radiating in every direction
from Birmingham. The assessed valuation
Of real and personal property for 1908 was
$4S, o0o, co., The state tax rate is So cents
per 500, and the county rate is SO cents;
the city tax rate is 81 per 500.
Birmingham has five trunk lines of rail-
roads: The Louisville and Nashville, four
directions Southern, three directions;
Alabama Great Southern, two directions;
Frisco system, one direction; and the Cen
trail of Georgia. one direction. It has
mineral and belt system reaching all parts
of the district The Seaboard Air Line is
completing a trunk line into the city.
In the Birmingham district iron ore,
coal and limestone the raw material
from which iron and steel are made. lie
in sight of each other in inexhaustible
quantities; consequently the cheapest iron
and steel in the world are manufactured
here.
The coal and iron tonnage of Alabama
is equal to the entire wheat crop of the
western states, and during the past year
four times the tonnage of the entire cot
ton crop of the southern states. The rail-
road tonnage of this district amounts to
rs per cent. of the entire tonnage of the
state. The number of freight cars ham
died in and out of the Birmingham dis
trict for the past year Syas 10000.
The passenger receipts from the city of
Birmingham are likewise very large, ex-
ceeding those, perhaps. Of any other city
in the south. Within the past twelve
months about $1.25o,OOO of tickets have
been sold at the union passenger ticket
office.
Including the employees of the railroads,
the mines and manufacturing concerns,
over 1900 wage earners are on the pay
rolls of the Birmingham district They
receive in wages more than $3,500,000
monthly.
The substantial character of the devel-
opments already made is the best guar
antee of the future progress of Birming
ham and the Birmingham district. All
that has been done seems small and slow
compared with the possibilities of the fu-
ture. Should the isthmian canal become
reality, in the industrial awakening
that this great enterprise will undoubted-
ly provoke throughout the gulf states,
Birmingham as the source of the iron,
steel and coal supplies, will be the chief
beneficiary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
Actor Bootblack.

II noticed peculiar thing on the
streets today said an observer yester-
day. ut was a white bootback with the
old conventional little stand carried on
the shoulder. l was interested and be-
gan asking the young man questions. and
discovered that he was an actor and was
shining shoes on a wager. He is a good
looking fellow, we'll dressed and with a
pleasant face His name is William III.
Clark
He halls from New York and gives his
age as 49, 1t seems that he is a member
of the White Wings Dramatic society in
New York. and some time ago he made
wager of $1,000 with friend that he
could travel in every city of over 80. 900
inhabitants In this country and make his
living. He says he is doing we'll In the
south, and that Birmingham has shown
itself fairly productive He hopes for a
better business tomorrow. The young fell
low said to me:
I am not a professional shoe polisher
but for the present 1t is a case of shining
shoes or standing to lose a good bunch
of the country's coin. I am member of
the White Wing Dramatic club of New
York, and last September while convers-
ing with several friends In the Morton
house, New York, we drifted upon the
subject of bootblacks and the profits they
made. At the time my friends were hav-
ing their pedal extremities worked upon
by several sons of sunny Italy and bet
was then made which am now trying to
win. 1 posted $1,000 with one of the party
that I could visit every city in the United
States containing 10000 Inhabitants or
more and then be back in New York in
time to eat Christmas dinner in 1901
Now. get busy, and let me shine your
shoes. F."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
News from the Gins.

The census bureau counted the bales
ginned in the present cotton year at
2s,771 ginneries up to December IL,
and when the sum of its count was
made known the prices of cotton were
carried upward in dizzy manner, and
fourteencent cotton again seems prob
able.
The census report shows in brief
that UP to December IL there had been
$4,000 fewer bales turned out than
were turned out in the corresponding
period of last year. and the bulls at
once said that this loss means a total
loss during the cotton year of 100000
bales. thus making the crop about TO-
100000 bales. Such crop means a
cotton famine in the closing months of
the cotton year, and this is why cotton
was moved up towards the fourteen
cent mark. July cotton is now worth
more than fourteen cents.
In the face of short crop war news
is forgotten. With or without a great
war In the Far East many now believe
the crop is insufficient to meet the de-
mands Of the world, and that the price
will therefore approach to, if it does
not reach, figures unknown since the
DAYS that followed the civil war.
II, AZ many think, the crop has been
rushed to market, the statistics from
the einneries will be confirmed later
on. 0ood weather and high prices have
undoubtedly favored quick marketing
OF the crop, and the chances are that
the crop will not greatly exceed ten
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
VIII Have New clothInq store.

II. ]. Porter at the head of the firm of
H. ]. Porter & Co. Of Augusta, Ca, is in
Birmingham making arrangements to
open first-class mems and boys fur
nishing establishment on First avenue
between Nineteenth and Twentieth street.
The construction of the building is now
under way, and 1t will be one Of the
most modern three-story brick building
In the city Mr.. Porter Is having the
building especially designed for the cloth
ing business, and expects to have 1t COM
pleted by March 1. The establishment will
be thrown open to the public on or about
March Is.
The firm of which Mr.. Porter is the
head in Augusta is the largest concern
of its kind in that city, and its success
has been due entirely to the efforts and
management of Mr.. Porter.
Speaking of Birmingham last night, Mr..
Porter said: 1.-THE reason we have de-
cided to open in Birmingham is because
think 1t the best city in the south. Here
In Birmingham you have the brightest flu
tnre of any city that l know of, and con-
sequently it will be an excellent location
for another large clothing store We snail
endeavor to run the business on a high
plane, and will deal in first-class goods
only. 1t shall be our purpose to never all
low customer or prospective customer to
leave our establishment dissatisfied In
the course of a few weeks we will begin
to unfold the plans of our business to the
public. We are believers In advertising.
and through the newspapers will endeavor
to. keep the public informed as to what
we are doing"
Mr.. Porter leaves Birmingham for New
York to begin his purchases Of spring
goods for the two houses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
Comic Opera.

Birmingham is distinctively a comic
opera town. said a theatre-goer last
night II have seen some high-class dra-
matte companies at the Jefferson this
season when the empty seats were great
ly In evidence, but have never known
good comic opera company fail to draw
The audience that greeted the Prince of
Pilsen' taxed the capacity of the Jeffer-
son. Not only were men standing but
several ladies also stood throughout the
entire performance. Birmingham people
seek amusement that provokes laughter
and comic opera fills the BILL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
st, Bernard COLLEGE,

The Rev. Father Giles o. S. B., secre-
tary of st. Bernard college, who arrived
in Birmingham Tuesday returned to the
college yesterday. He was accompanied
by ten Birmingham boys who become
students at ST. Demands s.
'Our college was never in such a -four
ishing condition as it is now said Father
Giles. I'VE have the largest enrolment in
our history st. Bernard is known
throughout the entire south, and we have
students from every southern state. Bir-
mingham sends about fifty boys
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
ALABAMA NEWS.

A. G. Kohn and his associates have
bought sixty-eight acres on East Water
street, Selma, and they Will make on it
both fancy-faeed and common brick The
sum invested will be $4,000 The new
company will be organized at once.
A cave full of onyx has been discovered
in Marshall county. f. II. Caldwell, a
merchant of Scottsboro. has purchased
the cave, and will put machinery in 1t to
develop It. The cave is now valued at
$50 600. The stone is nearly white, and is
capable Of a high polish. 1t is located in
Marshall county, near Guntersvile
The New YorkAlabama Oil company IS
drilling its third well near Huntsville No.
2 we'll is a great gas producer, and No. l
well an oil sand was reached that would,
If 1t had been shot have yielded ten bar
rel a day. So says the Huntsville Mer-
curry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
TOO LATE.
W Arnold.

BY Mathew Arnold.
Each on his own strict line we move.
And some find death ere they find love;
SO far apart their lives are thrown
From the twin soul which halves their
own.
And sometimes. by still harder fate,
The lovers meet, but meet too late
Thy heart is mine! True trues all, truei
Then, love. thy hand! All. no. adieul
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
The First Step.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
II hear you hope to make great mu-
sician of your son. Whom have you Sc
lected to teach him?"
oh! he hasn't got as far as the music
yet. He's just being treated by scalp
specialist to make his hair luxuriant."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Government is now confined to the
President. the speaker. and a select
ring of corporation senators led by
Mr.. Rockefeller-Aldrich.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
Creates a Scene In the National Capt.
toll.

Washington correspondent of the Mont
gomery Advertiser.
An incident in the marble room of the
capitol occurred today which has not
tended to strengthen the cause of the
Panama canal. The heroic figure of the
strenuous episode was the Rev. Samuel
Small of Atlanta, Ga, erstwhlle evan
gelist who Is now employed as an edi-
torial writer of the Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Small, who has been writing appeals
to the Georgia senator's to vote for the
Panama canal treaty. came to the capt.
toll to see the Georgians and to deliver
to them without any circumlocution, an
ultimatum to the effect that if they did
not support the administrators canal
policy, there would be new deal for
patriotism In the state and Hell would
break loose in Georgia." with the re-
suit that every one of the senator's or
Representatives who opposed the treaty
would be defeated for reelection.
The two senator's, amazed by the eff
frontery of the man, almost drove him
from their presence. He had even the
assurance 10 put MS ui'ihaiuhi iito
writing and to tell the senator's that
he had had communication with Pres
ident Roosevelt, respecting his editorial
utterances on the Panama canal treaty.
Having delivered himself, the Rev.
Small got into a cab and drove to the
White House. The result of his visit
there has not yet transpired. The Consti-
buttons panamaniac is reported to be
seeking job of President Roosevelt,
preferably that vacated by the death Of
General Longstreet.
A. message received in Montgomery
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The court piano player in Hayti gets
$4,000 for four months work. He plays
American coon songs, and the court
has to have him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The arguments in the Giles case have
been heard, and in due course Of time
the legal status of the suffrage section
of the new constitution will be de-
termined.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The special war correspondents who
understand neither Japanese nor Rus
sian will have to use their eyes in
stead of their ears.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The war correspondents should put
in their time learning either Russian
or Japanese, and one is about as hor,
rible as the other.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Alabama does not know what cold
weather of the New York sort is, and
she does not want to know. Ignorance
is bliss In this matter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Senator German desires President
Roosevelt to clear up a few points
that he left in the sea fog of Panama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

DIR. Parzhurst's critical eye now rests
on Mayor Mcclellan, but it will rest
there a good while before it finds any
thing rotten.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Mr.. Rockefeller in the steel trust
means that poor, disgraced Mr.. Car
negie must die rich. It's Mr.. Rookie
fellers way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The trouble is. we have too much
Russian weather, and we cannot nego
tiate it away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Asbestos curtains are like pistols in
Texas-when you do want them you
want them mighty bad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Pelin is now as days from Paris, but
in fashions it Is more than that time
away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

There is a great pressure to procure
situations in the Omaha schools. Salary
no tobiect.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Uncle Joe Cannon is getting to be a
society man since he bought $50
overcoat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The republicans propose to let in
two democratic states, lest the demo
Gratis later on let in four
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

In case of war in the Far East we
would be apt to be told that scarcely
anything is contraband Of war.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Mayor Carter Harrison does not pro-
pose to have another theatre holocaust
In his town.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The dollar dinner at Lincoln Neb.,
will, it is said, boom the Hearst cam
palgn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

We made nearly $4,000 cars last
year, and yet have not enough in any
busy district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The Congressional Record is largely
devoted to Panama and its alleged
canal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

General Reyes got his ultimatum in
the form of a special message to con-
gress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

John Alexander Dowie proposes to
return to earth 100 years hence, when
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

There never was girl SO good looking
that man could enjoy heart-to-hearl
talk with her just before dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

AS the water supply is improved, the
typhoid fever cases are decreased.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

rhe girls propose to brace up this
year, and be men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Japan and Russia are behaving
mighty queer if they mean peace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Toxic and Cripple Creek, Col, are
both indulging in press censors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

mutation asbestos should not be put
in a theatre curtain.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Mayor McClellan's father was a
democratic nominee himself
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Dowie is seeking a spot in the world
where he has no creditors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Santo Domingo has not pulled off
a new revolution this year
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

There are other firetraps besides the
aires.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

We doubt II any one ever told the moth
er of the family that she was working too
hard.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

the statute Of limitations will have
cut out all his creditors
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

The street pianos will soon be rig
ged to play "Parsifal"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Japan and Russia are calmly seated
on the edge of volcano.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
sUNFLowER PHILOSOPHY.

From the Atchison CKan.) Globe.
Talk about greatness, wealth and fame.
the real thing is Youth.
We have never expected girl to be
ready on time since we once saw into
ones top-bureau drawer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
SMALL'S ULTIMATUM.

Exits are not exits at all in a panic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

Remember Vulcan. the big Iron Man,
today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07

A. message received in Montgomery
from Clark Howell. editor of The Con-
sttution. says that Sam Small was not
authorized to act for The Constitution
in what he is reported to have said to
the Georgia senators.