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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Indian Summer.

This is perhaps the most beautiful and delightful of all the seasons of the year." remarked an Alabamaian at the Florence last night "The days are cool and bracing, the nights vigorously so.
 q have just come into the city and passing on the cars through Alabama woods I noticed the different tints to the leaves on the trees. I quaffed the aroma from the woodland and was ex- haled hy the life giving breezes that blow among the woods of this great state
 Today I have been watching the sturdy farmer who is on your streets with cotton samples under his arm which means directly money in his pocket for the purchase of Christmas presents for the mother the wife and the children. It all makes me think of the unappre- ciative wealth of the Alabama farmer and tho blessing he bestows upon his home as well as the rich tribute he pays to the enterprlsing merchant.
 Indian summer In Alabama Is the most glorious season of all the year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
HONOR TO DAME PARTLET.
Hens of United States Lay 1,666,o ,ooo,-
 900 Dozen Eggs Year.

Washington Special to the New York
 World.
 In his annual report, James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, after showing that the products of United States in one year gre worth $49oooOO,ooo states that the hens of the United States lay 1,666,OOO,O0O dozens of eggs a year, or enough in one month to pay the interest of the entire national debt for one year. MT. Wilson figures that the corn crop would be sufficient to pay off the debt. The cotton crop he estimates at $6O0,- OOO, GOO.
 Secretary Wilson says that all the gold mines of tne entire world have not pro- duced sinsa Columbus discovered Amer ica greater value of gold than have the farmers of this country in two years. This years product of the farms is more than six times the capital stock of all the national banks three times the gross earnings of the railways, four times tine value of ali minerals produced, twice the sum of the imports and exports, and comes within three-quarters of a billion dollars of egualing the value of all man. ufactures for the year 1900.
 Secretary Wilson Is pleased with the bureau of plant industry, which after eight years work has produced an or- ange that will grow as far north as North Carolina and Is proof against the frosts of Florida, thus insuring a crop. For several years the experiments for an or ange resulted in a lemon, but this year a sweet orange was produced and Sec retary Wilson ate one of them on Thanksgiving day with his dinner.
 The secretary shows that the deposits in banks have greatly increased.
 'The farmer may not become a mill lionaire," he says, "but he is surer than the millionaire to retain his wealth and to have independence in living"
 MT. Wilson advises young men not to leave the farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Aqainst Tariff Revision.

Senator Hale of Maine is one of tho genuine "stand-patters." He expresses himself as being bitterly opposed to tampering with the tariff, He wants no revision, and expresses apprecia- tion of the keen observation and po- litical accumen of the president, and does not believe that he will do any thing to weaken or disrupt the party which has honored him. Any attempt to revise the tariff, Senator Hale thinks, will weaken the republican party. The senator bitterly opposes $ partial or piece-meal revision, and says that when the majority does such a thing 'it will go to the bottom" He believes that to touch one item in the tariff will frighten everybody. Every item is a pet
 The senator's idea is that every item has a force of special friends, and these all form the ranks of the
 republican protectionists, the idea
 being that if you don't take care of me I will not protect you. As the tariff question is fully recognized as polit ical measure it is hardly possible to find hope that anything like revision will take place for many months to come. Party caucus is going to die tate legislative action; and as the pro tectiye idea party is largely in the majority it seems that the people must still await for some time the lifting of the terrible burden. In this country of ours, and under our system of government the majority rules, and likewise does the majority bear the chief burden of taxation. So long, therefore, as the people speak for hign taxation the people will get it. No use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
THE SADDLE BAGS PASSING.

From the Talladega ountain Home.
 Many years ago the gifted. eloquent and blind Methodist Episcopal minister. W. II. Milburn, gave to the literary world the Rifle, Axe and Saddle-B Bags" It was an attractive little volume, making the implements used in the title sym bolic of the men and forces of a past period that have led in the work of western civilization. They typify the hunter, the pioneer farmer and the early itinerant preacher.
 The presence of two or three hundred ministers attending conference during the week without the sight of a pair of saddle-bags is evidence that this typical implement of the travelng preacher has served Its day and passed away, and remains only as sentimental memory of past generation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

IN view of the weighty discussions serious outcry in the United States \ concerning the alleged adulterations of certain brands of whisky, a small jug of delicious old Scotch has found its way to a committee of the Birming- ham Press club for testing purposes.
 The manufacturer of this Scotch whisky, who lives In the land of the bag pipes and kits, was evidently of the opinion that some of the reporters were accustomed to drink of his product. How he came into possession of such informa- tion Is another story, but suffice 1t to say that experts were called in and the contents of the jug were given a thor ough test. The analysis shows no adul- iteration, and the taste, though little smoky, is not bad.
 It appears that the kilt-wearing whisky maker Is somewhat incensed over the re- port of Professor Wiley, United States government chemist in which he says a large percentage of Scotch whisky is favored with creosote. This rather seri- ous statement on so important a matter has aroused the country as nothing has since the fall of John L. Sullivan in the fistic carnival at New Orleans. Persons who visit saloons say that connoisseurs can be observed daily peering into their glasses with the hope or expectancy of locating a trace of creosote. They like the smoky taste, but unlike the rose, this reported delightful flavor Is not nearly so pleasant under another name, such as creosote.
 Simultaneous with Professor Wiley's report, which was given wide publica- tion by the New York Herald and other papers. came a roar of eiscontent from Scotch whisky drinkers throughout the country. Up to that time they had not noticed the alleged adulteration.
 Now, to make matters worse, the man. ufacturer of a certain kind of Scotch whisky. the same as that contained in the jug just received, says that the protest is not justified by the facts. He has laid aside his bagpipe and his sing ing of Annie Laurie" and has put his shoulder against the wheel, hoping within a few short weeks to tell the Americans what they don't know about Scotch whisky.
 The bad feature of the trouble is that scores of connoisseurs have grown so accustomed to the adulteration that they are led to pay more for it than the real thing
 The Scotch whisky maker, in conclud- ing his letter to those whom he thought to be connoisseurs, makes the following significant statement:
 Tn truth, it does not pay to adulterate, except with pure water, whisky Qf spir- it's made from unmalted grain be in- cluded under that name) which is so cheap that 1t cannot be aduterated or initiated to show a profit
 Referring to the chemists report on Scotch whisky, he asks with the same tone of confidence which pervades his letter: Would anyone trouble to use creosote or essences when the flavor can be got by burning a cheap article like peat?"
 He concluded by taking this sharp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Railroad Men Are Jokers.

Charlton H. Morgan, travelling passen- ger agent of the Texas and Pacific, and A. B. Freeman, who holds a similar position with the Queen and Crescent route. are telling likely story of negro hotel porter at Alexander City
 About three weeks ago these two rail- road men were in Alexander City with considerable time on their hands, so they conceived the idea of twitting George Washington Jackson, a porter in the hotel They told the negro that he had ancestors.
 George Washington went directly to the nearest drug store and asked for some medicine to cure the ancestors. The drug gist dropped" to the joke and told the negro he would have to walk from eight to ten miles every morning before breakfast.
 The news soon spread among the other negroes in the community, and they knew there was something wrong with George Washington, so they all summed him. At church they would not sit on the same bench with him, on the streets they held their heads high and passed him by, and they warned all visitors against him, tell ing them he had "cestors" and was bad 'nigger.'
 Two or three days ago Freeman and Morgan were again in Alexander City and happened to strike an early train. They saw George Washington come up to the station on run and out of breath. They inquired what was the matter. He had just come in from his mornings con- stltutional of ten miles. He said he was gradually getting rid of those "cestors," and thought another week or two would make him a well man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 It is the most innocent, baby -blue-eyed kind in the street cars that have hus- bands at home
 It is better for man to be useful than clever, and better for a woman to be pretty than both.
 Lots of men would solve the domestic service problem by not having any do- nestle establishment.
 It's funny how the man whose wife wants a new set of furs for Christmas keeps discovering signs everywhere else of an open winter.
 A self-made man has an idea that if he had gone O college he would have been much more of a success, and college man that If he hadn't he might have been much less of a failure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Crime Centers.

The Age-Herald took occasion the other day to call attention to the in- crease of crime, as set forth by sta tistical information.
 The London Spectator, a diligent student of the trend of, events first called attention to the onward march of sin in It's physical or worldly sense and showed by figures that the mon- strous evil was much in need of wig orous checking
 A recent issue of the Philadelphia Record, a clean newspaper which eschews anything like sensationalism, printed great many stories of crimes recently committed in the northern states. Among the stories of crime are the following:
 Murder of a widoweI woman, Methodist minister's daughter, in Wor- cester county, Massachusetts. Her body was found covered with hemlock boughs, her skull had been crushed almost com pletely her face mashed out of all re- sembance to human features, and her right ear was almost torn from the skull.
 "Newbury Satherwaite was shot to death while lying in his hed in his home at Trenton, New Jersey.
 "The corn in a crib on the farm of J. Johnston in Maxatawney co; nty, Penn syIvanla, was sprinkled with poison one night last week.
 Joseph Hartsole of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, received a heavy sentence for beating his wife. Wife beating in that county Is said to be on the increase. and the organization of "a society for the prevention of cruelty to women is contemplated
 Seven men, six negroes and one white man. received from ten to twenty lashes each at the whipping post in Whining ton. Delaware, for offenses ranging from the theft of loaf of bread to highway robbery and assault with intent to com init murder
 Some months ago Thomas Flaher of Jersey City was arrested for a petty of- fence, and had to be clubbed by the po- lice officers into a state of submission. He threatened at the time that he would blow up police headquarters with dyna- mite, and last Saturday morning dyna- mite in sticks and quantities sufficient to blow large and populous section of the city off the face of the. earth was found in the vestibues of houses, under front steps. behind saloon bars and store counters in time to prevent the accom- plishment of the prisoners threat.
 William Caren was held for trial in $500 bail for keeping a gambling place for phia'
 These are specimens taken from the criminal news printed in one northern newspaper in one day. The record out-does the south, and yet the south has been condemned as a crim- inal section. It cannot be charged that the people of the north are worse than are the people of the south, from this criminal record, but it can be as serted that they are no better. We can no better judge of the north by it's criminal classes than can the north judge of the south by the occasional outbursts of crime in this section.
 Let each section judge the other by the same rule. That will be fair, hon. orable and just.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
The Southern Neuro.

It is astonishing with what protest all efforts to establish colonies of ne- groes in the northwest is met by the people of that section. Every time the matter is brought up the whites up there hold up their hands in holy horror. To tom it appears as a dark forboding cloud, and they say the wbites and inc blacks cannot be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Hope for Watson.

From the Anniston Hot Blast.
 Some of our contemporaries are re- minding Mir. Watson that the recent election was not all gall and wormwood for him, since he received one vote for President in South Carolina. With that nucleus to build on MT. Watson, or his party ought to get two votes in South Carolina in 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
The State of Florida.

"The Florida Times Union of recent date publishes an interesting and com prehensive article by Maj. Frank Gordan on the advantages that the land of fruits and flowers offers to home-seekers and tourists, remarked a man familiar with Florida. "The unique capabilities of Flor ida are strongly set forth and Major Cor don's presentation of facts and conditions will he widely read ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
OUT OF BUSINESS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 An other old saw out of business"
 (Which one?"
 Nothing succeeds like success. Here's Judge Parker getting two s50O0 jobs be- fore all the official proofs of his defeat are put on file"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
SOME PERTINENT REMARKS
 ON OLD SCOTCH WHISKY

slap at the alleged connoisseurs: ''we have no doubt that the true facts are well known to everyone engaged in the business in America, but, nevertheless, such islanders, widely published in the newspapers, do harm temporarily to honest traders"
 Tn defense of the Scotch expert and distiller, 1t must be said that the pack- age with which he has backed up his statements was found to be just as rep- resented-good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Resumes Law Practice Here.

MT. c. A. Mountioy has returned 10 Sirmingham after spending six years in New York practicIng law. MT Mount joy has opened his law office at room scr Title Guarantee building. No one slooo higher in the legal profession in birrn- ingham than MT. Alountoy in former days and 1t goes without saving that as soon as his old friends and clients know that he has returned to the practice or law here his business will be large.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
About Persons.

S. H. Knight of Atlanta is at the Colo nial.
 E. A. Kline of Indianapolis Is at the Colonial.
 F. Ashcraft of Florence Is at the Met ropolitan
 A. B. McEachin of Tuscaloosa Is at the Metropolitan.
 Joe Meyer of Cincinnati is at the Hill man.
 Paul Roberts of Nashville is at the Hillman.
 E. D. Reynolds of Blocton is at the Hillman.
 Thomas J. Phillips of Florence is at the Morris.
 Robert A. Kerkley of Richmond Is at the Morris.
 J. A. Huggins of Corona is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
kINpHEARrEp.

From the Cincinnati Commercial-Trib-
 une.
 .'I allus knew Reub would turn out a kindhearted boy said the old lady, wip- ing away a tear with the corner of her apron. ''In this here letter he sez: Please send me another $25. The other all went feedin' the kitty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Hard on Poultry.

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 With a Methodist Episcopal confer ence on hand, and Thanksgiving Thurs day at the same time, the number of chickens and turkeys in the vicinity of Talladega were greatly diminished dur ing the past week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
ALABAMA PRESS.
Reached Their soIes.
Huntsville Mercury.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 When ". L. Douglas told the people of Massachusetts that, if the tariff were removed from leather, he would sell his S.5o shoes for B, he made a plea that reached their soles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Names Later.

From the Union Springs Herald.
 The cable announces from Manila that General Corbin took a moonlight ride along the Luneta. and that the names of soldiers killed by Samar insurgents will be forwarded by mail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Lots of Latent Hash.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 turkey weighing 40 pounds was one of the Presidents Thanksgiving pres ents. There's lot of latent hash in bird of that heft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Now that the Memphis Morning News has really changed hands it's esteemed contemporaries will feel at liberty to print the story without edi' torial warfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

A corps of motorists is planned for the German army. Judging from the record already established by motor ists, they ought to be invincible in warfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
New Job for Watson.

From the Livingston Southern Home.
 Watson wouldn't do as candidate for the woman suffragists. Tom insists on having the last word himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

A Kentucky man lived to be 10l years old without being i'll and then died. It is not stated whether he smoked and drank all his life or is an other example of abstinence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
Is GalnInn Ground.

From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
 The prohibition party Is gaining-it has at last elected a mana member of the Illinois legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

A Chicago tailor choked to death while trying to eat big piece of steak, That looks, like a direct warning to the beef trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

A woman who is in an inmate of one of the Minnesota hospitals for the in- sane has just won a trip to Europe in literary contest. She is not going.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

A wedding party was slain in Mace donia the other day That is worse treatment than is accorded fashionable wedding parties in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, cut very poor figure in com parison with the high-prlced buds that bloom all the year round in hot houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
creasing every year of late:

McAlcO mas TOT HldHy yedlS con tinued and prospered as an independ' ent government of her own making, and it seems that the Mexican people understand fully what is best suited to their own needs, and one of these needs is to keep in close friendly commercial relations with the United States. The splendid business meth ods of the Mexican republic hava drawn millions of American capital there and induced thousands of Amer ican citizens to participate in its bus mess development.
 The condition of Mexico and the relative position of that country to this rather discourages the idea that 1t is necessary for the United States to annex countries politically in order solely to improve our exterior trade. Here We have two examples. Since annexing Hawaii we have more than doubled our export trade there, and in the same time we have more than doubled our export trade with Mexico without annexation. Our export trade to the Philippines has increased from $4,000,0 900 in 1900 to S4,S32,9OO in 1904, or about 20 per cent, while our export trade to Mexico in the same time increased 32 per cent.
 These figures discourage the idea that the flag and trade always go hand in hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The attempt to make Joe Cannon a ehevalier ought to be dramatized. "Unele" Joe has about as much use for an honorary title as mule has for stilts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
His Worst Side.

From the Mobile Register.
 Governor Vardaman continues to ad- vertise his worst side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The Manifestations society has been organized in London for the purpose of encouraging people to use both hands with equal facility, All the pickpockets ought to join.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

May Yohe is in New York, but will stay only long enough to fill theatri- cal engagement. May ought to do a good business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The worlds fair made a Garrison finish, and President Roosevelt con- tributed to the result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The New York subway has no grade crossings, but it has established record for fatalities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Dr. Doyle is something of national "knocker" in addition to being an adept at writing detective gstories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Dr. Dowie's junket to Florida has thus far been characterized by nota- ble absance of interviews.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

One of the most thoughtful suicides on record is that of the Kentucky man who paid all his debts before taking his life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The Newest version of Meet Me at St. Louis, Louis," will be Meet Me at Portland. Porter, I will Tip You There"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

An apple blossom fiuttered into Fritz-Seheff's throat during the first act of "The Two Roses" the other night in a New York theatre and cut short the performance. Fritzi prob ably found apple blossoms harder to digest than those French delicacies to be found on menu cards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02
The United States and Mexico.

The export trade of this country with Mexico has more than doubled since 1898 and has more than trebled since 1894. The following brief table from the government report shows that commerce between us and our little southern neighbor has been in creasing every year of late.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

A Connecticut woman who went down to the bottom of harbor in diving suit probably found herself for the first time in her life in place where she didn't care how she looked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Some people say that Colonel Bryan is the country's greatest statesman. He is probably its best-known farmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The President says, "So glad" now, and he has already made it worse than Delighted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

It Is announced that Joe Chamber lain is quite incapable of saying Dee lighted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Prince Fushimi mas faced enough American cameras to prove his bray cry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Pastor Wagner goes home popular and unspoiled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

"The Message From Mars" at the theatre last night was not Teslas kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Airship rapid transit will be the antithesis of Lne suDway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The congressional birds of passage are on the wing to Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

There is still chance for every small boy to be President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

T. c. Platt has made hit with the $2500 overcoat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

The beauty doctors are the Pierpont Morgans of Quackdom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Governor Vardaman now knows what constitutes a boomerang.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-02

Mrs. Chadwick is making Nan Pat terson look like sideshow.