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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
New Hlnh School BuiIdInu.

The Board of Education has acted wisely in deciding to heighten the beauty of the city, and in having an eye to the future. The exterior of the new High school building as well as the interior is to be handsome, and the entire building will stand gen eration at least credit to it's builders and satisfaction to the people.
 IL is regrettable that the contractors are compelled to go to Ohio for pressed brick which could readily De manufactured here, but 20 long as the particular bricks needed are not made here, no one can reasonably blame the -.card of Education for selecting Ohio made brick A little more enterprise t needed in this valley in the direc- ton of bric,z making, that is all; and this will come in time.
 However, we are to have a hand some High school building, and when three grammar schools-two for whites and one for blacks-are built the city will be fairly well supplied with educa- tional facilities. The Board of Educa- ton is con- along handsomely and satisfactorily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
Iudae Pardee's Lame Defense.

Judge Pardee's defense of Judge Swayne is remarkable for it's evasions and it's partisan tone. He asks repub. licans to come to the rescue of a TO- publican. q do not think" he says, "a republican should vote impeach- ment against him." There is nothing highly judicial in this deliverance. It is frankly and openly partisan, and partisan opinions are rarely, if ever, Judicial. He asks "the northern breth- ren" to rally to Judge Swayne. This fairly represents the condition of the question, but it is remarkable that Judge Pardee should jump into the political bandwagon.
 But not less remarkable is Judge Pardee's complete evasion of the ex- rense account issue. This is really the burning issue in the case, and Judge Pardee cannot change the issue by concealing or at least evading it. If 2 federal judge has right to charge the government s10 day regardless of his actua' expenses, then Judge Swayne has not committed perjury ard larceny in making up his expense account. But if the law authorizes him to claim but his actual travelling ex- penses up to ten dollars day, then we have an issue that should be brought before the Senate and ally Investigated, both on account of the money involved and also on account of the law itself which a judge is ex- pected to respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
Even in Romo "the beautiful" fall
MAGMA CHARTA MYTH?

From the Boston Globe
 Sydney C. Tapp, the Atlanta, Ga. his torian, puts the astonishing question. Is the magma charter a myth? and what is worse he adduces number of argu- ments to prove t.
 This Is going too far. We have seen one cherished myth after another dis appear under the merciless hands of in- vestigators and critics, but what college youth, when bereft of everything else has not been ready to swear by magma charta?
 We are also assured by no less an au- thority than Prof. Edward Jencks of Liverpool that mag4.a charta is also a fraud, since it did mt enlarge the liber- ties of Englishmen, but rather restricted them.
 Thus our fondest traditions, one b. one. take unto themselves wings and fly away. Do leave us something, or by and by the youthful author of high school ora ton will find nothing to stand on but the Equator and Bunker Hill.
 What historic meddle- will ever be able to shake our faiLh in Bunker Hill monu- ment and what it stands for?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
VlRelNIA-cARoLlNA CHEMICAL.
The Output of Fertilizers Is on Large
 Scale.

From the Wall Street Journal.
 The stockholders of the Virginia Caro- lima Chemical company are in receipt of the following letter from President Morgan:
 "Our company has sold and delivered more fertilizers up to date of this fiscal year than it has ever done before; 1t has written contracts to date for the sale of more fertilizers, to be delivered between now and the close of the fiscal year, than it mas eveh done any previous year. We feel confident the sales this year will exceed any previous year.
 We are earnestly recommending the farmer to reduce the acreage to be plant ed in cotton this year. We believe that the acreage planted last year could only have been cultivated with the best sea- son ever known. We are recommending that the farmer try to make cotton at the least possible cost, believing that his prosperity depends not only on what price the cottton may bring, but upon what it costs him to produce it.
 Farmers who are getting the best re- suits and making the most money are using the largest quantity of fertilizers per acre, realizing that the cheapest thing to grow cotton with Is commercial fer tilizers. We have seen plenty of results where twice the quantity of fertilizer used produced sufficient cotton for the seed alone to pay the whole cost of the fertilizers.
 "Aside from the cotton crop, the better class of farmers use fertilizers on all crops which they plant, After having for years experimented with it. they realize that to make a satisfactory crop, and a profitable one, they must fertilize heav- fly; so that if the cotton acreage is de- creased, which we sincerely hope will be done, then they will plant this land in other erops"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
M'KINLEY AS EDITOR.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 It is a fact not generally known that Major Mckinley always had fondness for editorial writing. During the winter passed at Canton, after the Major had been elected President, he wrote several articles each week for Cleveland news paper A few of US, -n---- to forecast McKinley's policy after he became Pres ident, were put wise" and on one oc- cason examined the pencilled manu- script after it had left the hands of it's writer.
 That "copy" must be in existence some where about Cleveland. Some of it's would cast strange sidelghts upon MT. McKin- ley's Cuban policy. Prior to March 4, 1s97 he was decidedly averse to interfer- enee in behalf of the suffering revolu- tionists.
 I have the best reasons for knowing that a bunch of actual photographs taken among the ''reconcentrados" opened his eyes to the terrible fact that General Weyler was deliberately starving the non- combatants. And yet the late President never would have consented to go to war for Cuba had not the disaster mapped ta the Maine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
Mr. RoOseveIt's Southern Policy.

Judge Thomas G. Jones brings back from luncheon the announcement that the President entertains-frmly enter tains-a kindly and reasonable south ern policy. This, however, raises the question whether there should any more be a "southern" policy than a northern" policy, or a Pacific coast policy. or ev1l a Rocky mountain pol icy. Under the constitution there is no room for sectional policies of any sort. and the south no more needs peculiar and exclusive policy than the north or the Pacific coast does.
 The President never goes out of his way to ruffle public sentiment in Mas sachusetts or in Colorado, and there is no reason why he should rub South Carolina or Mississippi the wrong way. He knows as well what public senti- ment is in one state as in another. He is very alert end very intelligent, and he surely will not plead ignorance as to any state. Mckinley appointed not few negro~ to ofice-probably more than MT. Roosevelt has-but MT. Me Kinley never knowingly and unneces- sarily crossed public sentiment in any state.
 No one doubts MT. Roosevelt's good intentions, but there is room for doubt ing his tact and willingness to con slider the situation. in the concrete. He looss too much to it's abstract side. He sees what he thinks is right, and he does not stop to consider the entire situation as Ae would in a case arising in Massachusetts or Ohio.
 In short. southern policy is not needed at all. Simply extend the tact and consideration that is exercised in cases arising in Massachusetts or Col orado to South Carolina or Mississippi and all will be well. The customary northern policy Is good enough for the south, and that is all the policy we need down th.; way. And perhaps this is the meaning of the message that Judge Jones and Mayor Drennen and John Temple Graves and other great American travellers are bringing back to us from the heart of the White House itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

ers reduce acreage. Such advice has been proffered by all classes of people, but when a suggestion on that line comes unobtrusively from man of practical ideas, like MT. Morgan, whose interests are closely associated with cotton agriculture, t will receive thoughtful attention.
 We do not pretend to offer advice to our customers to hold cotton" says MT. Morgan, "bus we do intend to offer them every facility and aecommoda- tion in our power to hold their cotton, if in their good judgment it is best. Whatever inures to the benefit of the agricultural classes in the south is to our benefit; our interest is identical with theirs. We are more closely and intimately connected with the cotton grower of the south than any dozen other concerns combined"
 If all great corporations were con ducted on the high and liberal plane of the Virginia-C Carolina Chemical com pany, manufacturers and consumers would be closely bound togther. Pres ident Morgan sets an example that cannot fail to have an effect both wholesome and far-reaching.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
SPARTAN VIRTUE MAKES
 BOASTFUL MAN A BORE
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 N IL the virtues are good things,
 P and especially good are those
 stern ones that have descended from the ancient Greeks to some moderns, for they are better known nowadays by their rarity than any other attribute. Rare as they are, the modest, unassum- ing man, who boasts none of them to any appreciable extent, is unable to avoid in his walks and talks the loud, persis- tent, and aggressive possessor of one or. more of them. A Spartan virtue seems it's possessor a 44-caliber bore of the worst sort. Take the man whose supreme If not only virtue lies in the fact that he takes a cold water bath every morning the whole year round. You meet him in the car, in the street, in the course of business anywhere, and no matter what the topic may be at the start, the convre- sation is bound to include an account quite incidental, of course-of how on the frostiest of mornings he frolics in the ice cold water just as it comes from the hydrant. He will go into details, tell how refreshing 1t is, what glow Of warmth follows the icy plunge, how it stimulates him all the day, gives him vigor and vim, and so on and so on. No man can take a cold water bath on cold morning without telling everybody about it. Why he should deem the information so all-important and interesting can be ascribed only to the bath itself
 Then there's the man who walks down to his office every morning. rain or snow, in sunshine and in storm. The more dis tart his home from his office the more he will talk about it, and he will tell you that he has become so accustomed to 1t that the only time he can get an extrr thrill out of it is when the streets are deep with snow and the wind is blowing A hurricane He can sometimes be caught in his duplicity, and when you do encounter him on a car on bright and cheerful morning he is ready with so plausible an excuse that you are con- vinced it was written out at home and carefully committed to memory for just such an emergency. The cold water bath man has a distinct advantage over him there. for his mendacity Is safe from betrayal in the sacred privacy of his home.
 Heaven may forgive the man who rises at 5, summer and winter spring and fall. We never can. The early riser is not a criminal simply because the law does not designate his offense as crime. But it $ admitted that the law has it's defects. Nothing can approach the look
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
Interest In Music.

There has been great awakening In musical circles caused by the announce ment for Thursday night and Friday night respectively of "Tannhauser' and Paderewski," rema-l.ed a musician.
 We have had four leeture-recitals on 'Tannhauser' this geek and all of them have been well attended. I was present at three of these recital entertainments and was much impressed with the in- terest which the audience manifested
 'I enjoy light music now and then and even ragtime pleases me occasionally but 1t is music of the more serious kind that comes under the head of high art, and it is this high class music such as we will hear Thursday night and Friday night that has C harmonizing and uplifting in fluence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
Supplv of Water in Locust Fork.

The United States geological survey issued last year handsome pamphlet of 25S pages devoted to the water powers of Alabama. The volume was prepared by Benjamin M. Hall, who has filled it with interesting facts and figures.
 His figures relating to the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior river do not extend above Palos, but the flow of the stream at Palos does not great ly differ from it's flow at the mouth of Turkey creek, about twenty miles higher up tho Fork. At Palos the average monthly discharge of water is 2OOO cubic feet of water per second. This water comes from an area of 1920 square miles. Palos is the point where the Frisco railroad crosses Lo- cust Fork.
 The mouth of Turkey creek is di- rectly east of Blount Springs, about five miles. It is impossible to say what the discharge at that point is, but as but one considerable creek empties into the Fork between Palos and Turkey creeh it is safe to put it at 15O0 cubic feet per second. By re- ducing that number of cubic feet to cubic inches and multiplying the product by the number of seconds in day, and by dividing that sum by 291, we would have the number of gallons that flows in the Fork at the mouth of Turkey creek It is not necessary to indulge in so many fig ures. It is sufficient to know that there is plenty of water in the Fork at the mouth of Turkey creek.
 The time must come when water from some river will be brought by gravity to this city and district, for manufacturing purposes. and the sooner the needful canal is dug the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

of superiority on the face of the early rlser' He has found the only road to health or wealth. The books he has read before breakfast would, if collected in a heap, make the Congressional library look small But the greatest benefit is the exhaltation of spirit. You agree with him. + is something abnormal. You call 1t con- ceit or bigotry, according to your own idea of what 1t really is At any rate if is effervescent to an alarming degree and maddening in it's effect on all friends and acquaintances.
 There are some who would place in the first rank of this group that rugged hardy vigorous, full-blooded gentleman who can't breathe in a room unless all the windows and doors are open. The lower the pressure of steam in the rad iator, the lower the mercury in its tube. and the wilder the play of the winds over the roofs and around the corners the more insistent IS he that you are im- per1ling your very life by not occupying ar office wide open to every wind that blows
 Another aggravating specimen is the meek looking dried up fellow who crosses your pathway just after your visit to a dentist. He will innocently ask you if you took gas and trap you into an admis- sion that you did. You are his bound captive then. Take gas? How childish. He never took gas when he had eigh- teen pulled at one sitting. Just sat down and had 'em out Dentist said he was most remarkable man. Not a culver or a moan. Then, another time-but a sudden engagement gives you release.
 Oh, Spartan virtue Is a great thing. but it would be simply sublime if it's modern opponents and inculcators would just keep still about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

visiting in the city. He has many friends in this state who are pleased to know that he has a lucrative position with a large firm in Chicago.
 p. J. Still of wetumpka Is at tho Nor ris. H. B. Prospt of Fayette Is at the Mor- ris.
 L. C. Gray of Jasper is at the Hlllman. J. H. Walker of shelby Is at the Hill- man.
 c. M. Howard of Selma Is at the Hill man.
 c. S. Cameron of waukesha. Wis, is at the Colonial.
 J. B. Shields of Jasper Is at the Col onial.
 J. F. Gum of Indianapolis is at the Colonial.
 M H. Jackson of sylacauga is at the Metropolitan.
 ". B. Burton of Montgomery is at the Metropolitan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
ORIGIN OF THE MUTE.

From the London Chronicle.
 When the huff first came to us from France in the days of Charles K, no lady could have worn a sealskin muff, for black was decreed by the King to be the badge of the common people, and the court followers were restricted to the col ors. Muffs have gone through more styles than it would seem possible to invent for such a simple article of convenience. They have been long and narrow, and again large and round. One of the most curious styles was that of Louis XIV, called the "chiens manchors." because they were made to convey little dogs in.
 The huff when first introduced was the exclusive property of the nobility. These muffs were very small and consisted of single piece of velvet. brocade or silk lined with fur and the openings fastened with rich jewels. Such arrangements came in during the early part of the seven- teenth century.
 We now associate the huff only with cold weather but In the old days 1t was regular part of womans dress, and was carried at all times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
A Wise Policy.

President s. T. Morgan of the Vir- einia- Carolina Chemical company in his circular to the cotton farmers and cotton merchants, promulgated through tn, company's division sales managers a few days ago, proves himself to be far-sighted as well as liberal and pub lic-spirited.
 The offer which MT. Morgan makes to the cotton growers and merchants whose maturing paper the Virginia Carolina conn my holds to extend the notes six months from January 1 at the rate of 6 per cent interest, in order to enable farmers and others to keep their staple until prices advance is certain to be appreciated. not only by cotton holders themselves, but by the commercial interests of the south at large, for whatever helps the cotton Crower helps, indirectly, at least, the entire business community.
 Some farmers are so we'll condi- tioned financial that they can meet all their obligations promptly and hold their cotton Indefinitely, but the ma iority are not able to do so. To the latter MT Morgan's offer comes as a Providential blessing.
 After making his offer to extend the notes of the company's debtors. MT. Morgan suggests that the cotton grow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
THE CALF PATH.

By Sam Walter Floss. One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home, as good calves
 should;
 But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked tail, as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled, And I infer the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail OCT vale and steep, And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do. And from that day, o'er hill and glade, Through those old woods a path was
 made.
 And many men wound in and out, And lodged and turned and bent about, And uttered words of righteous wrath Because twas such a crooked path; But still they followed-do not laugh The first migrations of that calf. And through this winding wood-way
 stalked,
 Because he wobled when he walked.
  That bent and turned and turned again; This crooked lane became a road, Where many poor horse with his load Toiled on beneath the burning sun, And travelled some three miles in one. And thus a century and a half Men trod the footsteps of that calf. The years passed on in swiftness fleet, The road became a village street; And this, before men were aware, A city's crowded throuoghfare. And soon the central street was this Of renowned metropolis; And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf. Each day a hundred thousand rout Followed this zigzag calf aoout. And OCT his crooked journey went The traffic of continent. A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead. They followed still his crooked way. And lost one hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well-established precedent. A moral lesson this might teach Were l ordained and called to preach; For men are prone to go it blind Along the calf-paths of the mind, And work away from sun to sun To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, And out and in, and forth and back, And still their devious course pursue, To keep the path that others do. They keep the path sacred groove, Along which all their lives they move; But how the wise old wood-gods laugh. Who saw that first primeval calf. An. many things this tale might teach But I am not ordained to preach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Annlston ThrIvlnu.

"Anniston is feeling a great deal better noW than she was a short time ago." salo Capt. D. H. Smith yesterday. "The conal1ons there are much il proved over 'hose or the past three or four months, especially in the industrial line and we are feeling very much elated over the prospect of the Woodstock property be- ing operated soon to it's full capacity.
 The car-wheel works are purchasing all the material they can a.d are run ning regularly and overtime. so Annis ton is in an excellent condition. Condi- tons there indicate very prosperous year, and we feel that 1t will be the best financial year in a long time.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 | is very immodest for a girl to be overmodest about some things.
 Women seldom ever get so old they realize that other people realize it.
 The new year is not out many days be- fore 1t looks and acts like moth-eaten old dowager
 isn't doing her du- by her husband un- less she warns him that his best friend is trying to swindle him in business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
Lees Birthday.

The banks will be closed to-day in honor of the anniversary of Robert E. Lees birth. Everybody remembers when Christmas and the Fourth of July come, and every southerner should remember also when Lees birthday comes, but few there be who do remember the 18th of January.
 In spite of the fact that the papers have called attention to this being a bank closing day, many men with money to denosit or checks to be cashed will call at banks to-day and wonder why the doors are closed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

steadier and the greater will be our prosperity, for the lack of an unlim- tied water supply is the one deficiency of this otherwise richly-endowed dis 4z.s,A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

John D. Rockefeller seems to be on the water wagon, without any ice. He seems to think that what suits his ancient stomach should suit all other stomaohs. Stomachs and incomes are, however. different.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

It is not surprising that a loaded coal wagon passed over mans leg in Cincinnati without breaking it. Loaded coal wagons are always light weight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

Boss Niedringhaus lined up his sup porters without difficulty, and he will soon put on Senator Cockrell's toga. It will not fit him, however, in any respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

Cleveland club women have reso. luted against the bachelor, declaring him a menace to civilization. Not a word was said about Mrs. Chadwick, who is, or rather was, a menace to bank presidents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

Rojestvensky is still lingering in the Indian ocean under the protection of France. The French people will have to settle for their acts when this cruel war is over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

The United States has 320 brigadier generals on the retired list. This out does Governor Deneen's late sunburst colonels by large majority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19

The Rescue Home of the Salvation Army is @ deserving institution that should not be permitted to lag be- cause of lack of funds.