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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
Our Smiling City.

This town has this fall acquired the smile that will not come off. A year ago 1t did not have it. It saw only shut-downs and hard times ahead, and all through the spring and summer months of the present year it did not see clearly the silver lining behind the clouds. It sees the lining now and understands it's import. It knows that a year of activity and prosperity is directly ahead, year that sees in- creased building operations and gen eral growth of the easy years clus- tered about the opening of the new century.
 The entire southern country is smil- ing over it's cotton crop and the good prices 1t commands This district will share in one way or another the pros perlty that springs from the cotton fields and in addition 1t will enjoy the prosperity that springs from the active demand at higher prices for the products of it's thirty odd furnaces and innumerable mines. We are making not only the best foundry iron in the world, leading even Pennsyl- vania in that respect, but we are also making the best rails turned out in this country. Open hearth steel IS proving as superior in rails for rail road use as it long has been in bridge and other construction work subject tC high strains Architects and bridge builders will not accept Tn work de- signed by them Bessemer steel, and the time is fast coming when the rail roads will do likewise.
 Iron Is advancing, and stack and mill in this district are coming into operation as fast as repairs can be completed. The whistle of the Repub- lies big rolling mill is joyous music to Birmingham people, and 1t may soon be reinforced by the whistles of Alice furnace, that veteran of our iron plants. The lesser industries are crowded with orders, and altogether Birmingham smile is becoming a set tied institution. The truth is, this town can not long stay in the shadows, for what cotton will not do, iron and steel and coal and coKe will do, and pretty soon an Open Warrior will con firm and establish our position among American cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
Huntinq Season.

'The hunting season, according to our statute books, begins today in most of the counties of Alabama" said a well known sportsman last night.
 q predict that we will have much game this year. The summer and fall have been dry and very few of the young birds have been drowned by rain A number of local huntsmen went out in the fields today, but as the weather is so dry I understand that they had poor luck. 'The continued drought renders 1t impossible for the dogs [ scent the birds just at this time. The ideal time to hunt birds is just after shower. when 1t has clear ed off.
 The most popular hunting fields In the district are down in the open fields south and west of Birmingham. The quail of course Is the only bird that we have to shoot in this country. They are found abundantly in the open country in the southwest part of the state. One pecu- liar trait of the quail is that 1t never gets far away from the place 1t was matched out. A quail always uses in the field nearby its birth place, and 1t doesn't take a well trained dog long to find that out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
Build Better Houses.

The Memphis News urges it's read CTS to build better houses when they build at all Don't, in other words, be your own architect. A house is expected to last many years. If well built it will stand throughout several generations. But the frail structures that are thrown up in a months time will not last long, and will never be comfortable CT economical.
 In Greater Birmingham the well and the spring will soon be abolished. No one knows where the water in given well or spring comes from. It may be laden with germs, for germs can go wherever water can. When water is drawn from public supply plumbing becomes necessary, and there is no waste greater than money put in cheap plumbing. Such plumbing bursts in every cold snap. It is full of leaks, and full of sewer gas dan gers. Don't use cheap plumbing whatever else you do. Economize in some other direction, but never in plumbing which relates directly to the health and comfort of the occupants of a house.
 The Memphis News is right when it urges it's readers to build better houses generally. The mild climate of this section invites slovenliness in several directions in building opera tions but each and every one is a mis- take. Houses should be as well built here as they are in Massachusetts. It be cut according to the cloth, but there is much careless building in this section that is not necessary. It has become the fahion to build sLacks instead of real comfortable houses, and it is a mistake. It does not pay Better houses are needed, and better houses will soon be built, and then the slovenly ones will be at discount. No one will buy them ( rent them except at low prices. Build well when you build at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
South of the Hun.

The Baltic fleet has returned to Le- bau, and Kuropatlxin is trying to drag his guns back behind the wall of Muk- den. The On-to-Port Arthur move ment has been changed to movements looking to the personal safety of the movers. No one knows what led the Russian commander to face aggress- lively the Japanese. It may have been St. Petersburg or it may have been a desire on Kuropatkin's part to rein state himself in favor before winter sets in. Whatever it was 1t was an lgnominious failure and Kuropatkin's star has set Grippenberg or some other warrior will doubtless supplant him before a spring campaign is in augurated.
 The fighting near the Yentai coal mines has been both determined and sanguinary rivalling in those respects the battles fought near Liao Yang About 100000 men were engaged on each side, and when the facts are brought out it will be seen that the Japanese were victorious in some of the greatest battles of the worlds history. The Russians already admit that their losses were heavy. Their losses in artillery, stores and prison CTS will doubles put them in hope lessly defensive or falling back condi- tion during the remainder of the cam paign. It is safe to say that Kuropat- Kin has 50,000 fewer effective soldiers than he had when he began with a flourish of trumpets and printers ink his sole offensive campaign.
 The fall of Port Arthur will be the signal for great change in Japanese movements. If Port Arthur soon falls. the Japane e army near Mukden will be strengthened and Vladiyostok will be beseiged, and the last chapter of the war will thus be begun. The Bal tic fleet and St. Petersburg vaporings will then be reduced to absurdities. While Japan controls the sea she can not be whipped in Manchuria, simply
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
Still Knocking CorteIyou.

From the Washington Post.
 The democratic press shows no signs of abating its attacks on Chairman Cor telyou because of his alleged "fat-frying" methods. The fact that he left the de- partment of commerce and labor, where he was in a position to secure inquisi- torial information as to the affairs of corporations, to enter upon the manage ment of MT. Roosevelts campaign, in- volving the soliciting of money from those same corporations, Is denounced as national disgrace, and is declared to be without precedent in American poli- tics.
 strong campaign is being made against the prospective appointment of MT. Cortelyou to be postmaster general. President Roosevelt's friends are able to defend him now, it is declared. only on the plea that he is without knowledge of what the republican chairman Is alleged to oe doing, and to remove this ground of defense the democratic editors are seeing to it that the charge is one of the most widely advertised features of the campaign. Should the President again take Mir. Cortelyou into the cabinet. they insist 1t would amount to an indorsenfent of the national chairman's methods of raising money 10 pay campaign expenses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE PROSPERITY
 PERVADING ALL THE BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT

product plants are promised within ths year.
 The national political situation is not so favorable to democratic success as 1t ap- peared a week ago. There seems to be trouble among our leaders in New York. Tn the first place, they have had difficulty in raising campaign funds In the second. they seem to be scrapping among them. selves as to how the money shall be- spent. The New York Herald. which Is supporting Parker. tells the story of the troubles. Sheehan, Belmont. Nicoll and Judge Parker himself want the lions share of the funds spent in New York to make sure of that state. MT. Taggart argues that 1t Is impossible to carry In- diana without funds and he must have them. The Parker people claim that if they carry New York this time. and even though Judge Parker Is not elected, he will be the logical candidate four years hence and can then win. But Mir Tag gart thinks now is the time to win. He believes Parker can carry New York, and that with a liberal amount of funds lie can carry Indiana and the other states necessary to an election.
 In the meantime while this argument is going on at democratic headquarters, Wall street speculators and race horse bookmakers are offering odds O. two to one, and in some instances three to one that Roosevelt will be elected.
 Cortelyou, the chairman of the repub- lican national committee. is said to have raised more money than Mark Hanna had at his disposal in 1898. He Is papering the state of New York with green backs, has distributed coin in every county in New Jersey, and poured silver stream into Indiana sufficient to ballast the re- publican vote and magnetize the con- sciences of the floating element.
 It is really hard proposition for the democrats.
 Roosevelt is not only using every de- tail of the machinery of the government. but he has the capital of the trusts be- hind him end has even gone so far as to bring back to this country a dozen or more of our foreign ambassadors to stump their respective states for him. He undoubtedly has the most perfect organ ization and well-worling political ma chine this country has ever known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
BURNS.
By Fitz-Greene Halleck.

By Fitz-Greene Halleck He kept his honesty and truth
 Hi1 independent tongue and pen And moved in manhood as in youth.
 Pride of his fellow-men. Strong sense deep feeling. passions
 strong,
 A hate of tyrant and of knave. A love of right, a scorn of wrong.
 Of coward and of slave A kind, true heart. spirit high.
 That could not fear and would not bow, Were written in his manly eye
 And on his manly brow. Praise to the bard his words are driven. Like flower seeds by the far wind sowna Where'er beneath the sky of heaven
 The birds of fame have flown. Praise to the manl A nation stood
 Beside his coffin with wet eyes Her brave, her beautiful her gooo' As when a loved one dies. And still. as on his funeral day,
 Men stand his cold earth-couch around With the mute homage that we pay
 To consecrated ground. And consecrated ground 1t IS,
 The last. the hallowed home of one Who lives upon all memories,
 Though with the buried gone. Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines. Shrines to no code or creed confined, The Delphan wales. the Palestines,
 The Meccas ot the mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
Dramatic Censorship at Washington

Heretofore the stage has been free in this country, even freer than in freedom-loving England, but it seems the time has come in our advance towards imperialism to suggest at least censorship of plays on the part of the federal government. At the out set orders are not issued. Emphatic suggestions" are employed, but em- phatic suggestions will speedily grow into executive orders if the rule of Theodore Roosevelt be extended.
 The beginning of the new departure occurred in Chicago, where, at focal" theatre, play was produced in which the name of the Japanese minister to this country was intro duced. No doubt good taste would call for the omission of the real name of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
j. L. Chalifoux.

J. l.. Chalifoux of Lowell Mass, is in the city. As a capitalist and the senior member of the firm of J. l.. Chalifoux & Co.,, he has been a strong factor In the mercantile development of Birmingham.
 MT. Chalifoux Is not only one of the solid business men of Massachusetts, but he is a conspicuous example of the prac- tical merchants and financiers in public life. Two or three years ago he was the democratic nominee for treasurer of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. His mind is stored with statistical informa- ton. and as he has a decided bent for economic questions and policies of the higher order, his advice is eagerly sought in the councils of his party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16

the minister, but 1t Is not a question in aesthetics that is now before the country. Under what provision of the constitution did Secretary of State nay emphatically suggest to the man. ager of a focal" theatre in Chicago that the name of one of the characters in a play he was producing should be changed? Such things are done in the countries of the effete east, but they have heretofore been unknown in this country. II this manner of things go on, Manager semon of the Bijou may at any time receive an emphatic sug- gestion as to any one of the plays he produces.
 But until the Supreme court ex- tends the welfare" clause of the con stitution to the theatres, MT. Hay should go slow. No doubt four by five decision could be obtained bring ing the theatres within the all-embrac- ing welfare" clause of the constitu- tion. put lis has not been done, and until it Is done it is difficult to see how Mir Hay can render his sugges- tions, no matter how emphatic they may be. effective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
7 percentages in a table, as follows:

Very little ore is found on the Pa cific coast, the only deposits of value existing in the state of Washington, where possibly in the future furnaces may be established.
 The Journal says Lake Superior's output may be expanded, and an early expansion of production in the Ala bama belt is anticipated. No other districts in this country are promising, being either too remote from trade centers or from fuel. The Journal In short says that Lake Superior and Alabama promise to remain indefinite ly the sources of ore supply in this country.
 There is this difference between the two-Lake Superior high-grade ores will be exhausted in the course of fifty years, while the ores In the Ala bama belt are practically inexhausti- ble. The richness of Lake Superior ores Is annually decreasing. Our Ala bama ores do not carry high percent ages of metallic iron, but they lie next to Aux and fuel, and the product will soon be barged to tidewater at low cost. In other words, iron can be made in this district at a lower cost of production than it can be made elsewhere In this country, and when the Lake Superior ores begin to give out the entire industry will have to be transferred to our Alabama hills, along our open waterways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
Joke on the Comedian.

"The laugh was certainly on me in At lanta the other day." said Billy Clifford, the comedian. "As you know, there is about an hours difference in eastern time and the central time that people down here set their clocks by Well, about a week or so ago I was seated comfortably in hotel in Atlanta enjoying my dinner with a friend. The food was we'll pre- pared, I had the company of congenial fellow and was enejoying myself so much that I purposely prolonged the meal.
 Suddenly I thought to look at my watch With gasp I saw that it was 20 minutes to g. and I was supposed at that time to be on the stage at a local theater. I leaped from my chair, told my friend to settle the bill and made a break for the door. Down the street sprinted like a collegian, while pedestri- ans looked after me to see whether l was an escaping criminal or a lunaitc. It happened that the street had been torn up for the purpose of laying some pipes and Instructions were placed across the sidewalk to keep people from break ing their necks. l hurdled over these without stopping to think and continued my mad career to the theatre.
 Rushing into my dressing room, I threw myself into a chair. began to rub grease on my face and cried, Go on with the show Everything was quiet. No one stirred and no one seemed In a hurry. The stage hands standing about looked at mecuriously as I came in and began to wonder what was the mat ter Why don't you ring the curtain up? I asked.
 Because it is only 15 minutes to s. answered the stage carpenter. Your watch must be wrong And there I was with my face smeared with grease and nothing to do but wait an hour.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Mental Strabismus,
orida Times-Union.

From the Florida Times-Union.
 Poor MT. Shaw! Once he may by some have been considered a man or a politi- elan, but he has done all in his power to correct any such impression on the minds of his countrymen. He has not the pride to feel hurt when the President runs his office by executive orders, without con- sidering him or his place in the premises; he is too busy lauding his chief to~feel any weight on his corns and he submits to exile in the sagebrush states without a whimper when his prognostications of Carroll Wrights figures are knocked into smithereens by powers nearer the throne in all but official position, provided he can have the salary.
 But we have right to object on our own account when MT. Shaw displays the same bleared vision in the contemplation of democratic candidates that he bends towards his own. Hundreds of thousands of Parker's letter of acceptance are in circulation, and one could be obtained at the cost of a postal request but MT. Shaw declares to the national republican league that out candidate is at variance with his platform" because the latter says:
 We demand the enactment of such fur ther Legislation as may be necessary to effectually suppress them. Any trust or unlawful combination engaged In inter- state commerce which Is monopolizing any branch of business or production should not be permitted to transact busi- ness outside of the state of its origin.
 And the former.
 "The common law as developed affords a complete legal remedy against monop- olies."
 Why did MT. Shaw quote just a few lines further and see that our candidate accepts the. remedy of additional legisla- fton, if necessary. while expressing the opinion based on a decision of the su- preme court that the common law is enough. if enforced?
 At least in some degree a secretary of the treasury represents the whole country and every citizen is shamed when he degenerates into mere pettifogging pol itcian willing to deceive by the suppress sion of evidence. Has the secretary re- mained all these years in ignorance of the axiom that the suppression of truth is the vilest form of falsehood? But he has snned in more than one instance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
sIanaI Corps.

T see that signal corps Is to be or ganized in Birmingham, and under stand from the men who are working on 1t that 1t will be only few days before full roster of the company will be made public said a military man.
 The law providing for the National guard names a signal corps as one of the first organizations required in the ser vice, and a corps of this kind would be a great benefit to the state at an encamp- ment or in time of war, to the govern ment There is signal corps in nearly every state, and this is the highest branch Of the service-therefore the most desir- able.
 T understand that all the higher mili- tary officials of the state are anxious to have a signal corps, and that as soon as the organization here is completed 1t will be mustered into the service.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16

best on their system. The Southern, the Louisville and Nashville, the Mobile and Ohio, the Central of Georgia and prae- tically all of the southern railroads are now in the market for Ensley rails, and the demand Is already greater than the possible output for, the next several months Indeed, the demand Is so great that the rail mill is now consuming prac- tically all the product of the ten open hearth steel furnaces.
 The stocks of all the iron companies in the Birmingham district have increased in value by leaps and bounds within tho freely made that Tennessee stock will touch par by Christmas. It is the same with the railroads operating in the Bir- mingham district. Louisville and Nash vile advanced S5 a share yesterday. Some of the Georgia Central second in- come bonds have doubled in value in a few months. Southern railway stock has gone up, Seaboard Air Line Is advanc- ing, and indeed the purchasing public is seeking investments consequent upon the natural resources and abilities of the Birmingham district.
 I look for an era of prosperity during this fall and winter in the Birmingham district which will exceed anything we have ever known here. More money is seeking investment here now than at any time in years.
 Money which has been tied up and hoarded for several months past owing to fears of political changes, strikes and other causes, is now seeking investment, and opportunities for profit are on every hand.
 Indeed I do not know of one manufac- turing or business concern in Birming- ham which is not now profting. Though this Is not considered a cotton manu- featuring district. the Avondale mills have made a most remarkable showing, and l understand are soon to begin the manufacture of high grade colored goods, equal to those turned out by any of the New England mills. All the manu- featuring plants here are increasing their outputs, adding new machinery, develop ing the manufacture of finished material l of all kinds, and many new finished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
North Alabama Conference.

"The North Alabama Conference will meet on November 23 at Talladega," said Dr. R. F. Loyelady who is a lay-dele- gate to the conference.
 Bishop Wilson of Baltimore, one of the best known bishops of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church, will preside. This is the first time that Bishop Wilson has presided over this conferenee since 1886, when the body convened at Flor ence.
 From the indications this will be one of the most largely attended and most successful session of the North Alabama conference"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
At a Sorghum Mill.


 I observe that sorghum is now on ss'ie m and about the city, said geiilieii'''i, last evening. Tt seemed little unusual when I first saw sorghum offered Tor sale.
 Tn the districts where sorghum is grown the boys of the country coiisiuei that they are privileged to all they "sh'' whether the patch belongs to tien father or a neighbor. These little depre- dations are generally taken like the weather, a matter not to be remedied, and complaint Is seldom made, unisss the little marauders are unusually "aste1ul in their inroads upon the winters supply of this kind of molasses.
 But the season of greatest delight Tor the country lad is when the cane is con- verted Into syrup. This occasion affords numerous pleasures to the small boy. He can feed the mill, or drive the mule that turns the machine round or better still, indulge fully in the gastronomic joys Of cane juice and molasses in It's different stages of manufacture. Quite often a pan of juice has not been sufficiently cooked by nightfall and the fire in the furnace has to be kept burning Into the night, In order that the syrup will not be ruined. And then the youngsters are indeed happy if permitted to remain at the mill after dark. Even if there is no cane grinding and warm molasses to eat, a boy Is always glad to be out of the house at night-provided he Is not alone.
 NO doubt the children of Birmingham enjoy the cane bought from farmers, but they can never know half the joys il stands for until they have spent a day at sorghum mill"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16

because a single-track railroad can not carry and maintain there an army large enough to conquer Japan's fight ing strength. Kuropatkin's latest fail ure may drive this fact through the thick skulls of the Russians, and the battles at Yentai may. therefore, make for peace during the coming winter.